Jemmalyn Hewlett
~ Entrepreneur ~
Poolside Cooking/WeCare Salon
Interview Questions:
Jemmalyn's Interview Questions for Copa Style Magazine:
1. Where are you from?
2. What schools have you attended?
3. Have you always possessed an Entrepreneurial 'Spirit?'
4. How many businesses do you own and how did you establish each one?
5. What is you philosophy on business, communication, and success?
6. In your opinion, why is generational wealth so important?
7. What requirements do should possess above all else when interacting with your customers?
8. Is their any advice you would like to share with anyone who wishes to establish a business?
9. In your opinion, what makes the "Poolside Cooking" show so popular?
10. What does the future hold for Jemmalyn Hewitt and her world of business?
Thank you Jemmalyn!
Rodney Wayne Branche
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Copa Style Magazine
http://www.CopaStyle.com
Phone: 202.706.8855
Jemmalyn's Interview Questions for Copa Style Magazine:
1. Where are you from?
2. What schools have you attended?
3. Have you always possessed an Entrepreneurial 'Spirit?'
4. How many businesses do you own and how did you establish each one?
5. What is you philosophy on business, communication, and success?
6. In your opinion, why is generational wealth so important?
7. What requirements do should possess above all else when interacting with your customers?
8. Is their any advice you would like to share with anyone who wishes to establish a business?
9. In your opinion, what makes the "Poolside Cooking" show so popular?
10. What does the future hold for Jemmalyn Hewitt and her world of business?
Thank you Jemmalyn!
Rodney Wayne Branche
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Copa Style Magazine
http://www.CopaStyle.com
Phone: 202.706.8855
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Tell us what got you started drawing the idea of running a business? How do you start to get to the day? Okay, well, I'm gonna tell you the reason why I started with this. The reason why was because I was tired of being broke. Okay, so that was my why, in 2011, I was working at Eastern Virginia medical school as a biller. And I remember going to a friend of mine asked her that I wanted to start a medical transportation business. And
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I remember her telling me what I remember her telling me back saying, you don't have no experience, you have no degree.
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You have no money, because you just asked me for five hours last week, and your credit score up. So my answers are for bad in the business didn't work out. I guess I'll just go back to me. And
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so I proceeded. Okay. So from there, I did start medical transportation than when I started, I started with no vehicle, like, I didn't have my own personal vehicle. So I remember, you know, usually when you only make a certain amount I was making 24,000 a year at that time, okay. $550 every two weeks to be exact. Okay. I remember getting 40 $500 back from my earned income credit chip. So what I did was I took me 500 drove to New York, okay, because they wasn't selling wheelchair vans that low in this area. So I had to go on Craigslist. That's what Craigslist was hot. I went on Craigslist, found a vehicle for 240 200.
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drove there, got the van, drove it back, and I started my transportation company.
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What I did was by the end of the year, I had a fleet of 15 bands. Within
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within three months, I had people actually coming to me, wanting to me to show them how to start a transportation company. So it really started with medical transportation on from there. I remember transporting to group homes, taking them to day support. So that's kind of how I got into the group home business. I started off in 2014 no 2013 with my first group home, had my second group home by 2014. From there I opened up a week care training services. weekend training services was a training center where we provided CPR first aid and medication certifications. Most of my staff that worked in my group home had to be med certified or CPR first aid certified. So instead of me going out there looking for instructors, I decided to open up my own company and we we do our own instructing. So I hired contractors that was licensed to be able to teach to teach for CPR first aid and medication certifications. Okay, from there. I opened up we care Salon and Spa. Okay, now we care Salon and Spa came about because I wanted to provide spa services to individuals with developmental disabilities. So in my group home and supportive in Home Services reprobed we work with individuals with developmental disabilities. So my thought at the time when I opened the salon was to provide that service on Mondays I didn't know nothing about the salon business don't do hair, don't do nails. But me my daughter was able to get the salon up on today the salon we have about six stylists we have a nail tech a massage therapist. We have a walk by bar area where we could do complimentary wine and beer. We have the last check in the massage therapists so so that's what it is today. Now in our in our salon and spa. There I opened up weekend salon cafe. Now we care salon cafe came about because every time I walked in my salon, it looked like a cafe. So I've seen people coming in they're trying to sell food or stylus was over booking. They couldn't really get nothing to eat. So I figured you know I came to them. I said What do y'all think about having a cafe to the salon? They was like Absolutely. So I opened up weekend salon cafe next door towards the law. So in our cafe, we provide
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free delivery to other barber shops and hair salons as long as they're within the four mile radius of the cafe. Because I knew with it when it took when people when the stylists and barbers couldn't get that get that food. So I wanted to provide that service to a lot of the barbershops and salons in the area. But we also have a full bar in there we do breakfast all day. You know we have people that now open back on weekends we do Saturday brunch which is our kids brunch on Saturdays on Sundays we do our Sunday brunch so it's doing lovely ever since we open it back up we started back up last weekend it's been doing well
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and then from there I opened up oh we characters for now we care Juice Bar came up and out
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from a friend of mine that actually was trying to franchise it useful. Now at the time, I don't do franchise I told him I'm gonna give you my money every month. If the business wasn't doing good. So I told him either I buy it out, okay, or I would just fall back so
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I bought it out. It was called reageerde
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For I started off on last row, we rented there up until the pandemic, it slowed down a little bit, a lot of businesses in that area was closing. So all I did was move we care to score to Timberlake shopping center on Holland road. I'm going through a little bit of construction and revamping it a little bit so it shouldn't be back open in about another three weeks. But my daughter Ashley is taking over that business. So that's we can choose.
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And then lastly, I have poolside cooking. Now, cooking came about during the past. Okay, so somebody sent me You're all sad because they wasn't making no money there was losing money. During that time, I was able to figure out how to make some money. Okay, so, full side cooking is a cooking show that airs every Saturday at 11:30am or still channels guy. Okay, so the show started. The first episode aired on May 6 of 2020. June, so June actually, actually basics. Okay, so we already been up in our first year. Okay, so within a year we've already cut 42 episodes, is now airing in two states, Virginia, and Atlanta, Peachtree TV, they're on Mondays at 11am. We're on Roku and Amazon Fire. So that's not bad for somebody who don't produce.
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The caucus Joe came about, it's doing very well. It's already hit. We're over at Red walls. We're at 10,000 views a day.
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We're nationwide. So we're just you know, we're just I'm just taking it all in all the blessings. And I'm just happy that we're able to still keep moving. Because I always tell people, the biggest thing in business is anybody can open a business, but the biggest thing is to keep it. So I just thank God that we're able to keep our businesses through the pandemic. Okay.
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You know, so it's just a blessing. It's a blessing. It's a blessing to be here today. To talk. It's a blessing that I was able to still work at myself. I call
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Matt back. I was actually waitressing just a while ago, before I came home, okay, so we go right on this, okay, we go
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through what it takes to keep your business open. Okay.
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I notice, right.
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You know, that story. That's the first time I got a chance to really sit down with you. You told that story blew me away, you really blew me away. So I decided just before the show, you check on the Facebook, I'm gonna pull up some of the Facebook pages. And I came across a statement
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about this area in the Philippines.
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I was actually born in my mother's Filipino and now I left when I was a baby. My father's may have his military. So I left off. But because he was in the Marines, we were stationed in Japan. So we was able to go back to the Philippines and I was able to stay there for about eight months to see that side of the family.
Unknown 8:08
So yes, wow. Okay. Tropical Philippines. Yes. Interesting. Interesting about like your
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Instagram page.
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You have some ice pops up in some nice photos of him. Looks like we have a lot of fun with both sides. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We want to showcase, you know, everybody in the community with with the cooking show came about. It was just it wasn't about just putting one chef out there. It was putting different chefs in the area. Okay, so I'm going to showcase anybody that has a restaurant or was a kind of catering business. We want to put them on the show. Not only that, but our guests, we wanted to put guests that was actually doing something in the community. So you know, we didn't offer rail was somebody that was doing something that can be whether it was a business owner, a nonprofit organization, a politician that was on for real, you know, so it was very important that people was recognized and noticed in our community that was doing stuff on that show.
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Wow, wow. I really liked this picture. I think this camera is when his
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neck, you know, every
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cafe restaurant, you always see Sunday brunch, but what about our kids, you know, because I'm big on building generational wealth. So I have a grandson that's four years old. So it's about teaching. Okay, it's about him watching what we do, because we are the example we are the role models for the jet for the next generation. So it was very important to provide something like chance brunch in our cafe because that gives time for the families, husbands wives, mothers, fathers sons, for them to come together as a family and enjoy a brunch at a restaurant. So kids brunch was a success last week. We had a lot of people that showed up
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And show without, they would supplement the community shout out, they supported kids brunch, and I love it. I absolutely love it, it comes up, we do that every Saturday, from 9am to 3pm. Right there at our cafe.
Unknown 10:14
Wow, what's been the most challenging thing to overcome?
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in this business? The most challenging, I would say, because it wasn't the business itself. I think the challenges was, you know, when you're opening a business, like the ones I'm open, we don't have a business where I'm just working by myself, we have we put people in place. So I think the challenge was putting people in place that actually can see your vision. Okay, you they are the face of the company. So it was, it was, you know, it was just trying to find that right person to be able to duplicate what you're wanting them to know, to what people you want people to see. So I think challenge was getting people trained and getting to understand what you do. So that way, when somebody walks through that door, they was you know, they knew that was weak here. Okay, so it wasn't the business itself. Like we can all learn the business. Like, if I can figure out how to run a cafe and I don't cook, it was nothing for me to go in there and, and put somebody in place and make sure they understand what it was about. Okay, so that you know, there was a challenge. When it was done, all you do is put the people in place, that you know that seeing the vision and the ones that did we know, we just keep it moving.
Unknown 11:31
On a phrase I heard you say once when I was researching some of the things that you've been interviewed on before,
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this started out
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stars until he finished building, you know, what does that mean? conceptually.
Unknown 11:47
When I first started the business, I took a lot of sacrifice, okay, simply because when I started, like my girlfriend said, I didn't have no experience, I had no degrees, I had no money. And my credit was tore. Okay, so I felt like the odds was against me, okay. So when you're building, you try to do everything you can to build without having to spend. So a lot of stuff with sacrificing, sacrificing, going out to eat sacrificing shopping, just sacrificing just to get into where it needs to be. So that way later, I can go back without having to feel like I can, I didn't know that I couldn't afford something. So it was about just putting all my money into the business until I got it to where it was.
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So just it was just building one thing that I can say that I learned specially through the pandemic is that when your backs against the wall, the first thing you think about when you do start making money is that you have backups. Okay, so my backups at the time when I started running businesses, was to be able to run multiple businesses. Now, it was easy for me to do it because every business that I opened was not in my field, all I did was delegate and put people in place that love to do those things. So it was easy for me to run seven businesses because I was delegating, putting the business up in place and just, you know, setting people up in there that love to do those things. So, you know, it wasn't hard to do that. But at the same time, I kept putting back into the business. So everything that was generating in, I applied it right back in so that way we can make more. So when the pandemic hit, it didn't hurt me because even though I had to close for Dale, temporary, I still had three that was still up and running. So I was actually still generating. So. So usually, you know a backup can be putting a savings account in place. We're having multiple incomes, you know, whatever your backup is, you know, start working on it down simply because nothing is guaranteed. working a job working for somebody else is not guaranteed. or working your own company, everybody thinks just because you got your own business that it's going to work out. It might not. So you're taking the chance when you're running a business, which means that you will always want to have that simply because not nothing's guaranteed. But let me tell you what is guaranteed me making sure that I have backup so that we have one to go down you have to knock me down seven times.
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So just make sure you have that backups when you go into business because like I said, you know, that helped me through the pandemic. And it also helped me when something wasn't working. So I'm not big on wins a business go down to shut it
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up. I'm more like that's what we got to figure out how to re evaluate. And that's just what I did
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is to seikos Mr. Powell, the beach brother show loves highlighting empowerment. And Patrick goes to many places I feel more consistently empowered with my Jetta for instance, like on its own Volkswagen
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ways you can empower yourself with the vehicle 100 value abused out by their offices. How important
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It is the mentality of the business owner, and what it can mean for communities.
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Value empowerment and
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similar empowerment? Well, you know, it's about coming together like wanting to do you know, what we do, you know what starts with your mindset, like, I wasn't able to do what I was able to do, if I wasn't surrounding myself around people that was doing it. So it's very important that once we, once we become a student, that we become a teacher just teach, there's a lot of people that's in business that want to know the business, okay, whether it's something that I'm doing in my field or anything, and a lot of people don't want to tell them that. So it's very important that we give information to the next person. I mean, personally, that's how I feel like my blessing, okay. So I'm just big on making sure the next person know, because that's how we're able to take it to the next generation is by giving information showing and teaching, you know, guiding, leading, you know, motivated, all that's important when we're trying to make business, like we cannot run a business by itself, we actually need a team. So it's very important that when people wants to do it, you know, just give the information,
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given the information and lead, you know, in order to be able to lead, you definitely have to follow, you know, follow
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fundamentals, and surround yourself around people that is doing those things, because that's going to be your best learning experience. Me personally, my best learning experiences when I asked you was, when I was making those mistakes, when things was going wrong. You know, a lot of people in business, the first thing they think about is, you know, they're scared to go into business or running a business. Now, you know, being broke was hard. So I don't know what your heart is. But you know, it takes a lot. You have to, you have to want it when you're going into business. And you have to stick with, you know, so you know, surround yourself around people that do want to get as much as information as you can. And there's people out here that's willing to give you that information, just know who to go to for
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another interesting sort of phrase that I heard you say in one of your videos,
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when you're
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building a great business owner out of your daughter, as well, to the monitor to the manager, monitor that boss, what's the difference between the manager,
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she, when she started with the company, I was just starting medical transportation, she was working at Harris Teeter, she was a sophomore in high school. And I remember her coming to me, she was like, Mom, I want to work for you. She just made employee of the month at Harris Teeter. So the first thing I told her was I was like, Okay, I said, you know, you know, you know, of course I wouldn't want to work with me. Now in her mind, she's thinking that she's, you know, working a job, but in my mind, I was pregnant. Now I wanted to prep her because eventually, I needed her.
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Okay, so my goal to her was not to go with her into a management position and just learned this, I had to put her in different positions. So that way she understands business, there's more to it in business to just understanding the business itself. There was painful, there's taxes, there's a county, there's, you know, you're dealing with customers that, you know, customer service, there's a lot that just the business itself. So I needed her to understand all of those positions, so that eventually she can run her own. So I wasn't, I didn't want to put her in a manager position. Maybe that's what it was going to be for her. I needed to put her in a position because eventually she needed to be her own. Okay, and that's what she's doing. So she ends up
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being supportive in Home Services. She's ready and ready to run the gym.
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She's
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been tagging on the salon and the cafe. So she had to learn to multitask. Okay.
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It wasn't just one business, she had to focus on it. She had to switch her marketing
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understand all the business, okay. And, and understand that that complaining is the whole bag. Oh, God, tell her don't put too much energy and complaint. What's your energy on figured out how to fix it and keep it you know, because we run too many things to where we don't have time for like our bad days or good.
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Okay, our our negative is our positive. So it's very important that she understood that her attitude was what's going to get her to the next level. Okay, so I need her to have a nice app to the same way that the same attitude when she was excited about opening up. I need her to have that same attitude when things went wrong.
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So it was very important that she had that right in order to run.
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So
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she's building it, you know, I was able to teach her. And now we're able to go into the next generation, which is my grandson.
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So when he's able to see all those things, because me growing up, I've got senses, what I see what my sister's working two, three jobs. And at the end of the day, they still grow. Not only that, but the whole day we spend time with your family. And that's just not what I wanted. So you've got to remember, there's two types of people, you've got one that wants to run the company, and you've got more than once to be deployed for your company. I just decided to quit the company because I want to be able to build more and have more income, which means that I had to know I hadn't, I had to know how to multitask and if I put myself in place where I can overlook it, that will give me more time to kind of put myself in a position to understand each business. So you know, do understand that you know, no one what you want, and then execute.
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Now, before you tell us tell us as much about what's right.
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For your business reaches.
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Raj is greater than
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the state of Virginia how many senators
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tell us how you can get to know more about
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well, we can definitely grow in what I provided, supportive in Home Services, and
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We have an office here in Virginia Beach and I went to office in Richmond. Okay, so we provide that service. When I opened poolside cooking. We have a
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office here in Virginia Beach that plays on Channel, Scott Horton and we have now a location in home in Atlanta. So what are you gonna learn about me? If I would do what I would do but my sister would say don't play with the business. You can run the business. You
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means a run. So I'm about building I'm about you know,
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I don't
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you know, I'm all the
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Tell us what got you started drawing the idea of running a business? How do you start to get to the day? Okay, well, I'm gonna tell you the reason why I started with this. The reason why was because I was tired of being broke. Okay, so that was my why, in 2011, I was working at Eastern Virginia medical school as a biller. And I remember going to a friend of mine asked her that I wanted to start a medical transportation business. And
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I remember her telling me what I remember her telling me back saying, you don't have no experience, you have no degree.
Unknown 0:35
You have no money, because you just asked me for five hours last week, and your credit score up. So my answers are for bad in the business didn't work out. I guess I'll just go back to me. And
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so I proceeded. Okay. So from there, I did start medical transportation than when I started, I started with no vehicle, like, I didn't have my own personal vehicle. So I remember, you know, usually when you only make a certain amount I was making 24,000 a year at that time, okay. $550 every two weeks to be exact. Okay. I remember getting 40 $500 back from my earned income credit chip. So what I did was I took me 500 drove to New York, okay, because they wasn't selling wheelchair vans that low in this area. So I had to go on Craigslist. That's what Craigslist was hot. I went on Craigslist, found a vehicle for 240 200.
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drove there, got the van, drove it back, and I started my transportation company.
Unknown 1:32
What I did was by the end of the year, I had a fleet of 15 bands. Within
Unknown 1:38
within three months, I had people actually coming to me, wanting to me to show them how to start a transportation company. So it really started with medical transportation on from there. I remember transporting to group homes, taking them to day support. So that's kind of how I got into the group home business. I started off in 2014 no 2013 with my first group home, had my second group home by 2014. From there I opened up a week care training services. weekend training services was a training center where we provided CPR first aid and medication certifications. Most of my staff that worked in my group home had to be med certified or CPR first aid certified. So instead of me going out there looking for instructors, I decided to open up my own company and we we do our own instructing. So I hired contractors that was licensed to be able to teach to teach for CPR first aid and medication certifications. Okay, from there. I opened up we care Salon and Spa. Okay, now we care Salon and Spa came about because I wanted to provide spa services to individuals with developmental disabilities. So in my group home and supportive in Home Services reprobed we work with individuals with developmental disabilities. So my thought at the time when I opened the salon was to provide that service on Mondays I didn't know nothing about the salon business don't do hair, don't do nails. But me my daughter was able to get the salon up on today the salon we have about six stylists we have a nail tech a massage therapist. We have a walk by bar area where we could do complimentary wine and beer. We have the last check in the massage therapists so so that's what it is today. Now in our in our salon and spa. There I opened up weekend salon cafe. Now we care salon cafe came about because every time I walked in my salon, it looked like a cafe. So I've seen people coming in they're trying to sell food or stylus was over booking. They couldn't really get nothing to eat. So I figured you know I came to them. I said What do y'all think about having a cafe to the salon? They was like Absolutely. So I opened up weekend salon cafe next door towards the law. So in our cafe, we provide
Unknown 3:58
free delivery to other barber shops and hair salons as long as they're within the four mile radius of the cafe. Because I knew with it when it took when people when the stylists and barbers couldn't get that get that food. So I wanted to provide that service to a lot of the barbershops and salons in the area. But we also have a full bar in there we do breakfast all day. You know we have people that now open back on weekends we do Saturday brunch which is our kids brunch on Saturdays on Sundays we do our Sunday brunch so it's doing lovely ever since we open it back up we started back up last weekend it's been doing well
Unknown 4:35
and then from there I opened up oh we characters for now we care Juice Bar came up and out
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from a friend of mine that actually was trying to franchise it useful. Now at the time, I don't do franchise I told him I'm gonna give you my money every month. If the business wasn't doing good. So I told him either I buy it out, okay, or I would just fall back so
Unknown 4:58
I bought it out. It was called reageerde
Unknown 5:00
For I started off on last row, we rented there up until the pandemic, it slowed down a little bit, a lot of businesses in that area was closing. So all I did was move we care to score to Timberlake shopping center on Holland road. I'm going through a little bit of construction and revamping it a little bit so it shouldn't be back open in about another three weeks. But my daughter Ashley is taking over that business. So that's we can choose.
Unknown 5:24
And then lastly, I have poolside cooking. Now, cooking came about during the past. Okay, so somebody sent me You're all sad because they wasn't making no money there was losing money. During that time, I was able to figure out how to make some money. Okay, so, full side cooking is a cooking show that airs every Saturday at 11:30am or still channels guy. Okay, so the show started. The first episode aired on May 6 of 2020. June, so June actually, actually basics. Okay, so we already been up in our first year. Okay, so within a year we've already cut 42 episodes, is now airing in two states, Virginia, and Atlanta, Peachtree TV, they're on Mondays at 11am. We're on Roku and Amazon Fire. So that's not bad for somebody who don't produce.
Unknown 6:22
The caucus Joe came about, it's doing very well. It's already hit. We're over at Red walls. We're at 10,000 views a day.
Unknown 6:32
We're nationwide. So we're just you know, we're just I'm just taking it all in all the blessings. And I'm just happy that we're able to still keep moving. Because I always tell people, the biggest thing in business is anybody can open a business, but the biggest thing is to keep it. So I just thank God that we're able to keep our businesses through the pandemic. Okay.
Unknown 6:54
You know, so it's just a blessing. It's a blessing. It's a blessing to be here today. To talk. It's a blessing that I was able to still work at myself. I call
Unknown 7:02
Matt back. I was actually waitressing just a while ago, before I came home, okay, so we go right on this, okay, we go
Unknown 7:11
through what it takes to keep your business open. Okay.
Unknown 7:16
I notice, right.
Unknown 7:21
You know, that story. That's the first time I got a chance to really sit down with you. You told that story blew me away, you really blew me away. So I decided just before the show, you check on the Facebook, I'm gonna pull up some of the Facebook pages. And I came across a statement
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about this area in the Philippines.
Unknown 7:49
I was actually born in my mother's Filipino and now I left when I was a baby. My father's may have his military. So I left off. But because he was in the Marines, we were stationed in Japan. So we was able to go back to the Philippines and I was able to stay there for about eight months to see that side of the family.
Unknown 8:08
So yes, wow. Okay. Tropical Philippines. Yes. Interesting. Interesting about like your
Unknown 8:16
Instagram page.
Unknown 8:18
You have some ice pops up in some nice photos of him. Looks like we have a lot of fun with both sides. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We want to showcase, you know, everybody in the community with with the cooking show came about. It was just it wasn't about just putting one chef out there. It was putting different chefs in the area. Okay, so I'm going to showcase anybody that has a restaurant or was a kind of catering business. We want to put them on the show. Not only that, but our guests, we wanted to put guests that was actually doing something in the community. So you know, we didn't offer rail was somebody that was doing something that can be whether it was a business owner, a nonprofit organization, a politician that was on for real, you know, so it was very important that people was recognized and noticed in our community that was doing stuff on that show.
Unknown 9:12
Wow, wow. I really liked this picture. I think this camera is when his
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neck, you know, every
Unknown 9:21
cafe restaurant, you always see Sunday brunch, but what about our kids, you know, because I'm big on building generational wealth. So I have a grandson that's four years old. So it's about teaching. Okay, it's about him watching what we do, because we are the example we are the role models for the jet for the next generation. So it was very important to provide something like chance brunch in our cafe because that gives time for the families, husbands wives, mothers, fathers sons, for them to come together as a family and enjoy a brunch at a restaurant. So kids brunch was a success last week. We had a lot of people that showed up
Unknown 10:00
And show without, they would supplement the community shout out, they supported kids brunch, and I love it. I absolutely love it, it comes up, we do that every Saturday, from 9am to 3pm. Right there at our cafe.
Unknown 10:14
Wow, what's been the most challenging thing to overcome?
Unknown 10:20
in this business? The most challenging, I would say, because it wasn't the business itself. I think the challenges was, you know, when you're opening a business, like the ones I'm open, we don't have a business where I'm just working by myself, we have we put people in place. So I think the challenge was putting people in place that actually can see your vision. Okay, you they are the face of the company. So it was, it was, you know, it was just trying to find that right person to be able to duplicate what you're wanting them to know, to what people you want people to see. So I think challenge was getting people trained and getting to understand what you do. So that way, when somebody walks through that door, they was you know, they knew that was weak here. Okay, so it wasn't the business itself. Like we can all learn the business. Like, if I can figure out how to run a cafe and I don't cook, it was nothing for me to go in there and, and put somebody in place and make sure they understand what it was about. Okay, so that you know, there was a challenge. When it was done, all you do is put the people in place, that you know that seeing the vision and the ones that did we know, we just keep it moving.
Unknown 11:31
On a phrase I heard you say once when I was researching some of the things that you've been interviewed on before,
Unknown 11:39
this started out
Unknown 11:41
stars until he finished building, you know, what does that mean? conceptually.
Unknown 11:47
When I first started the business, I took a lot of sacrifice, okay, simply because when I started, like my girlfriend said, I didn't have no experience, I had no degrees, I had no money. And my credit was tore. Okay, so I felt like the odds was against me, okay. So when you're building, you try to do everything you can to build without having to spend. So a lot of stuff with sacrificing, sacrificing, going out to eat sacrificing shopping, just sacrificing just to get into where it needs to be. So that way later, I can go back without having to feel like I can, I didn't know that I couldn't afford something. So it was about just putting all my money into the business until I got it to where it was.
Unknown 12:31
So just it was just building one thing that I can say that I learned specially through the pandemic is that when your backs against the wall, the first thing you think about when you do start making money is that you have backups. Okay, so my backups at the time when I started running businesses, was to be able to run multiple businesses. Now, it was easy for me to do it because every business that I opened was not in my field, all I did was delegate and put people in place that love to do those things. So it was easy for me to run seven businesses because I was delegating, putting the business up in place and just, you know, setting people up in there that love to do those things. So, you know, it wasn't hard to do that. But at the same time, I kept putting back into the business. So everything that was generating in, I applied it right back in so that way we can make more. So when the pandemic hit, it didn't hurt me because even though I had to close for Dale, temporary, I still had three that was still up and running. So I was actually still generating. So. So usually, you know a backup can be putting a savings account in place. We're having multiple incomes, you know, whatever your backup is, you know, start working on it down simply because nothing is guaranteed. working a job working for somebody else is not guaranteed. or working your own company, everybody thinks just because you got your own business that it's going to work out. It might not. So you're taking the chance when you're running a business, which means that you will always want to have that simply because not nothing's guaranteed. But let me tell you what is guaranteed me making sure that I have backup so that we have one to go down you have to knock me down seven times.
Unknown 14:11
So just make sure you have that backups when you go into business because like I said, you know, that helped me through the pandemic. And it also helped me when something wasn't working. So I'm not big on wins a business go down to shut it
Unknown 14:27
up. I'm more like that's what we got to figure out how to re evaluate. And that's just what I did
Unknown 14:35
is to seikos Mr. Powell, the beach brother show loves highlighting empowerment. And Patrick goes to many places I feel more consistently empowered with my Jetta for instance, like on its own Volkswagen
Unknown 14:52
ways you can empower yourself with the vehicle 100 value abused out by their offices. How important
Unknown 15:00
It is the mentality of the business owner, and what it can mean for communities.
Unknown 15:06
Value empowerment and
Unknown 15:09
similar empowerment? Well, you know, it's about coming together like wanting to do you know, what we do, you know what starts with your mindset, like, I wasn't able to do what I was able to do, if I wasn't surrounding myself around people that was doing it. So it's very important that once we, once we become a student, that we become a teacher just teach, there's a lot of people that's in business that want to know the business, okay, whether it's something that I'm doing in my field or anything, and a lot of people don't want to tell them that. So it's very important that we give information to the next person. I mean, personally, that's how I feel like my blessing, okay. So I'm just big on making sure the next person know, because that's how we're able to take it to the next generation is by giving information showing and teaching, you know, guiding, leading, you know, motivated, all that's important when we're trying to make business, like we cannot run a business by itself, we actually need a team. So it's very important that when people wants to do it, you know, just give the information,
Unknown 16:11
given the information and lead, you know, in order to be able to lead, you definitely have to follow, you know, follow
Unknown 16:18
fundamentals, and surround yourself around people that is doing those things, because that's going to be your best learning experience. Me personally, my best learning experiences when I asked you was, when I was making those mistakes, when things was going wrong. You know, a lot of people in business, the first thing they think about is, you know, they're scared to go into business or running a business. Now, you know, being broke was hard. So I don't know what your heart is. But you know, it takes a lot. You have to, you have to want it when you're going into business. And you have to stick with, you know, so you know, surround yourself around people that do want to get as much as information as you can. And there's people out here that's willing to give you that information, just know who to go to for
Unknown 17:05
another interesting sort of phrase that I heard you say in one of your videos,
Unknown 17:12
when you're
Unknown 17:14
building a great business owner out of your daughter, as well, to the monitor to the manager, monitor that boss, what's the difference between the manager,
Unknown 17:24
she, when she started with the company, I was just starting medical transportation, she was working at Harris Teeter, she was a sophomore in high school. And I remember her coming to me, she was like, Mom, I want to work for you. She just made employee of the month at Harris Teeter. So the first thing I told her was I was like, Okay, I said, you know, you know, you know, of course I wouldn't want to work with me. Now in her mind, she's thinking that she's, you know, working a job, but in my mind, I was pregnant. Now I wanted to prep her because eventually, I needed her.
Unknown 17:58
Okay, so my goal to her was not to go with her into a management position and just learned this, I had to put her in different positions. So that way she understands business, there's more to it in business to just understanding the business itself. There was painful, there's taxes, there's a county, there's, you know, you're dealing with customers that, you know, customer service, there's a lot that just the business itself. So I needed her to understand all of those positions, so that eventually she can run her own. So I wasn't, I didn't want to put her in a manager position. Maybe that's what it was going to be for her. I needed to put her in a position because eventually she needed to be her own. Okay, and that's what she's doing. So she ends up
Unknown 18:43
being supportive in Home Services. She's ready and ready to run the gym.
Unknown 18:49
She's
Unknown 18:51
been tagging on the salon and the cafe. So she had to learn to multitask. Okay.
Unknown 19:04
It wasn't just one business, she had to focus on it. She had to switch her marketing
Unknown 19:16
understand all the business, okay. And, and understand that that complaining is the whole bag. Oh, God, tell her don't put too much energy and complaint. What's your energy on figured out how to fix it and keep it you know, because we run too many things to where we don't have time for like our bad days or good.
Unknown 19:40
Okay, our our negative is our positive. So it's very important that she understood that her attitude was what's going to get her to the next level. Okay, so I need her to have a nice app to the same way that the same attitude when she was excited about opening up. I need her to have that same attitude when things went wrong.
Unknown 20:00
So it was very important that she had that right in order to run.
Unknown 20:08
So
Unknown 20:10
she's building it, you know, I was able to teach her. And now we're able to go into the next generation, which is my grandson.
Unknown 20:24
So when he's able to see all those things, because me growing up, I've got senses, what I see what my sister's working two, three jobs. And at the end of the day, they still grow. Not only that, but the whole day we spend time with your family. And that's just not what I wanted. So you've got to remember, there's two types of people, you've got one that wants to run the company, and you've got more than once to be deployed for your company. I just decided to quit the company because I want to be able to build more and have more income, which means that I had to know I hadn't, I had to know how to multitask and if I put myself in place where I can overlook it, that will give me more time to kind of put myself in a position to understand each business. So you know, do understand that you know, no one what you want, and then execute.
Unknown 21:19
Now, before you tell us tell us as much about what's right.
Unknown 21:26
For your business reaches.
Unknown 21:30
Raj is greater than
Unknown 21:32
the state of Virginia how many senators
Unknown 21:36
tell us how you can get to know more about
Unknown 21:41
well, we can definitely grow in what I provided, supportive in Home Services, and
Unknown 21:46
We have an office here in Virginia Beach and I went to office in Richmond. Okay, so we provide that service. When I opened poolside cooking. We have a
Unknown 21:55
office here in Virginia Beach that plays on Channel, Scott Horton and we have now a location in home in Atlanta. So what are you gonna learn about me? If I would do what I would do but my sister would say don't play with the business. You can run the business. You
Unknown 22:11
means a run. So I'm about building I'm about you know,
Unknown 22:16
I don't
Unknown 22:18
you know, I'm all the
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