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All right, Yeah, it's way up at Angela Yee, Lindsay Granta.
What would I do without you here?
Today?
We're gonna push through.
I am recovering from last night. I was outside, We was outside.
You had a beautiful event and you should be celebrated for that.
Well we'll talk about it, but thank you to say Les for hosting us last night and Casamigos or if they were calling it, because it was all women empowerment dinner that we had so good times. But it is also a both Wednesday today. So I have the founders, the owners of Cloudy Donuts joining us, and they're actually a couple, all right, we love that for them is Zodie and Derek Falcon Cloudy Donuts. They're vegan donuts and yes they're amazing. They Yeah they're healthy donuts if you want to say that, but they are. They're delicious and they actual. He brought us some new treats that they're doing. It was like a blueberry Look at Dan speaking to the mic. Dan he loves talking about food.
He's like shaking his head. Blueberry lemon cake. Yeah, it was amazing, something new, something new.
We like food anything that's in my mind that sounds healthy, that's really sugary, yes, or maybe not really sugary.
I mean there's levels of you know, you could eat healthier snacks, yes, or dessert. So I'm a big snacker me too, and I got some in the closet here. All right, Well, let's start the show off with some love. Let's keep the positivity go, and let's shine a light eight hundred to ninety two fifty one fifty Call us up.
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And it is a happy Wealth Wednesday, and it's time to shine a light now, Lindsey. Unfortunately you're leaving us after today, I know, but I want you to shine a light today.
Okay.
So I want to shine a light on an organization out of North Carolina called Black Sel. Colin and I do the production work for their annual summit where they really highlight social emotional learning for adults Black adults.
And black children.
Oh, and they tell you about the importance of really understanding your social well being, your mental well being in order to proceed through all the things that you're doing in life. And we didn't even know that was a thing. You know, we talk about therapy and that's a newer conversation, especially in the black community. But to have kids who understand these skills at like starting ten years old and having these.
Curriculums implemented in school.
And she's trying to take it more than North Carolina worldwide, countrywide, and so we really want to support her organization. Go to black sel dot org and check it out. I like that we might need that in this room.
Some social media, yeah.
You think so?
Yeah, you can just express yourself and that's important to do, Yeah, because a lot of people don't because sometimes we're not to right. It's my business, yeah right, just keep the rug, keep pushing. All right, Well, big Chris, who do you want to shine a light?
Oh?
I want to sign a lot of my pilot. So I went to Hondora's Friday and we were flous on Delta. We was flying from Atlanta to Honduras and we was over Panama City.
The country, and.
Our flight lost contact with air traffic control, and uh, you know, every time I ever heard that, it's always been in the movie and they find the plane twenty years later.
No, I know, but I was started.
But we had to turn around and fly back to Miami with no contact with air traffic control.
But our pilot did what he had to do.
He drove back off of memory, you know, off of memory. Ain't no street, tars or nothing in the.
Sky, no more.
But I didn't cut.
We got back to.
Miami, they gassed the plane back over about an hour, air traffic control was back online, and then he got it to Honduras safely.
Well, all praise to God and to the pilot. He deserves a standing ovation. Yeah, well, thank you so much for calling us up.
We're here.
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So much in the news. I don't know. I mean, we got busby, we got a lot of drama. Yeah, you know, but let's start with Tony Busby.
I want to get your opinion as an established journalist.
I like it too serious. I like this, it's way up.
She's like to talk like they Angela Jean, like they Angela Jean, and.
She's spilling it all. This is yea t way.
It's way up with Angela Yee. I'm here and oh, this is where you get to really put your journalism skills up here, get serious news reporter, say serious, Lindsay Granger's hair with me, and we're gonna talk about Tony Busby and this yet uh, he withdrew after the court revealed that he cannot practice in the Southern District of New York.
And so what this means? What you know what this means, Lindsay.
Okay, So basically Busby was not allowed to practice in the Southern District of New York. And Jay Z started this whole firestorm and told the people, the powers that be that he's not allowed to practice. And so now he withdrew himself from the case and people are scolding him, the powers that be, like, hey, why did we not know about this?
And he said in the error of judgment.
He's trying to blame it on the error of judgment and also say he's being attacked by famous people.
Right.
Yeah, he said that famous opponents are targeting him, and so that's his explanation.
And just say, you Buzzby represents one hundred different accusers in this ditty case. So now we're at a point where all these accusers are now attached to what is becoming his public legacy and people looking at him as what Jay Z called him a one eight hundred lawyer.
You remember some of these accusations.
So before this trial startline set up for Pa to be able to call in and let them know. You know, he was trying to get more and more people. So he did withdraw from fifteen and then they said he just moved to withdraw from seven more lawsuits against DIDNY. After a judge called him out for this, he said he is going to wait to appear in court until such time as he is admitted to practice in the district and his client will continue to be represented by Curious Law. So what does that mean for the people who have filed That means they have different representation and he's still trying to be able to.
Yeah, I think he's practicably trying to fight back, but doesn't want to say too much because he doesn't know how this is all going to turn out. He knows that probably what he anticipated was going to happen through this jay Z civil suit didn't go the way it planned. So I think that he now realizes that he's going against much more powerful people than he probably thought, and so he doesn't want to say too much. But he wants the trial to still go on because what I think happens with accusers is that sometimes it gets lost in the shuffle of whatever is happening. So if he's in some drama, now everyone's story is looking like a false story because it's attached to Busby, and so smartly he wants the case to go on with different representation, and he's going to try to join back in when and if he can.
Now ken did he potentially walk free because of this is their potential for that because these are technicalities, it's not necessarily because I think also publicly people are gonna now doubt these accusers because a lawyer of what he did, knowing that he wasn't able to practice in the Southern District of New York Federal Court now it makes it look like he's shady.
Yeah, I mean, the court of public opinion is real. All the jurors are going to be people who live in or around New York. So you have to remember that even though they're not swayed and they get asked tons of questions to get them off a jury, these are still real, actual people that have to believe that did he did it beyond the shadow of a doubt. And that's a hard thing to prove, right, and it's until proven guilty. So you know, we're gonna see what happens. But I think this definitely damages a little bit of the credibility. On top of that, some tea I just heard is that possibly did He's already talking to Trump's team about a party.
Ooh.
I can't tell you the source, but I did hear that he's already having that conversation yesterday, and so I think that's why Diddy has been lately.
And yeah, broke and Kanye has been you know, Team Diddy as well.
So I don't know what's going on there. We'll see, Oh my gosh, imagine that it wouldn't be out of bounds for but I.
Wonder how Trump would feel about that because remember did he went really hard against Trump previously, not this time, but before and it.
Didn't Well, I think it's like intentional, what's what's the relationship?
So what does Trump get out of it?
Right?
And I think that we had to dig into that as journalists. It will be the benefit of Trump. I don't know what that would be.
All right, Well, listen breaking news and when we come back about last night, we'll talk about what we did last night. We was together.
It's way up.
So about last night went down.
It's way up at Angela Yee and Lindsay Granger has been here with me for these two days I have. It's a pleasure when you're here and everyone loves you. And last night we went out.
We did to say less. I had a great time. Thank you for inviting me. I'm happy I was in.
So we were at say last last night and we did this. They offered to so they have a menu for Women's Month, and I'm the chicken lo mate on the menu.
We all got to pick like our favorite dish.
You are amongst some other awesome women too that all got honored from New York.
Yes exactly.
Andie Martinez Cardi b. It was a lot of us that got it was all New York. Notori who came out last night. Notori's from Jersey, but she lives in Brooklyn, so she was there last night as well. You know, I love Notori. But we had a dinner. It was like how many people, you think, like twenty five of us?
Probably twenty five, Yeah, about.
Twenty five women. Casamigos sponsored it, and they have a new jalapeno flavor.
I was drinking so many of those. I don't know how I'm here amazing. Listen.
I went home and did shots of it afterwards. So shout out to don't roll your eyes, Dan, I've seen you.
Judge it. Judge Judy over there. I know, like calm down anyway.
But I want to thank everybody who came out, because what I really wanted to do was put a room together people who may not all necessarily know each other, but can benefit from each other as far as relationship. And I got a lot of text messages today of people saying thank you so much. I met so many incredible women in that room.
And you stood up and told everybody, hey, mingle, quickly say who you are. But this is intentional I keep good people around me. I think some of the couple of times when we spent time together and you're like, listen, I keep I'm grown woman.
I keep good people around me.
Yeah, that's the point where I have like associates, fake friends.
And I was so glad when I saw you would be guest hosting because the dinner, I was like, oh good, She's got to come to the dinner. So I'm happy for that. But you know, shout out to Rashida Jones.
Was there, Yeah, president black woman president at MSNBC, just left and doing.
Our own thing right now.
Yes, I was happy she came. And y'all used to work together, did so seeing her on this level is just it was awesome too. And so many women who were like leaders in their field. Hers who was there, who opened her own shop, who used to work with you.
I'm so proud of her. She does still do. She does bookings for me still so still yeah, she still does. She has her own hair salon in Brooklyn. But you know, like I said, Natory came out. Morgan, who is the EVP of Player Operations for the Place Is Association for the NBA. You know, we had my girl, Tiera who manages Kohler, which is the person that helped me with all of my bathroom. It was just nice and I think we should all be doing that, Like let's put people together, mix them up in the room and everybody have a chance. And Jordi door from Lip Service, she came out, yep. Yeah, just had a good time.
And I think it's on purpose. When you have friends, you got to tell people.
Got Tracy from Epic. She's a vice president over there, so yeah.
You no shortage of shouting people out like this is a boss right here.
Yep.
It up because people, you know, we tend to downplay ourselves as women like core and we got to really like lean into all of the things that we have going on and chance because y'all men do it easily.
Yeah Easy'll be exaggerated. We got the men in the room all looking down the sideways our house.
You know what I'm saying.
They need a demotion, all right, But anyway, I had a great time me too.
Thank you for coming to nine to two fifty one fifty eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty.
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Eight hundred fifty one fifty yere, anonymous, it's a no judgment zone.
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It is a judgment free zone. It's way up at Angela Yee, Lindsay Granger's here with me. Last time you were here, somebody told us a secret that they smoked crack on the weekends only on the weekend. Well, let's hear what we have today. It's a no judgment zone. What's up, anonymous?
Call it? Tell us your secret.
So me and my daughter's mother were in court right now for like custody and whatnot. Little does know after mom, like right.
After we split up, my gosh, So if she ever found that out, she'd probably take me for even more custody or tried me for even more child support.
So well, what I learned is that doesn't really matter in a custody case. All that matters is how you are as a father.
But you are a mother, I mean, but that's easier to say when you've got a Caucasian child's mother and y or a black yourself.
What went through the process of events? Yeah, like, I'm going to go with the mom. You know that's a choice.
And was the mom you like that before that?
So her mom actually went to prison for ten years before having sex with a minor.
Oh wow, yeah, I'll be a minor.
Wow, mandatory ten.
So and she's a white woman, she's a white woman.
Were you even attracted her? Or was this like a get back both?
What's the update with you and maybe mama in court? Yeah, I've heard a beef with baby Mama, but this just seems like top level beef.
Well it's actually, uh, it's going to good in my favor. Honestly, she's actually in contempt right now because she won't follow the core order by giving me my daughter's social Security number so I can file as.
It dependent on my taxes, is ye okay, Well just remember it as a kid involved, So we want to try to make this as amicable as possible for the child's sake.
Absolutely, absolutely, Well, thank you for sharing with us.
It's a no judgment zone.
As you can see.
I appreciate it.
All right, Well, good, I hope you feel better. Thank you? What's that eponymous color? How are you?
I'm signing yourself?
Good? Me and Lindsey, want to hear your secret.
It's no judgment, my daughter CDL.
So he's supposed to been delivering fright, insaid. He was delivering up and down the East, and every time I would have sex with him, I kept getting So my daughter was like, your partner has more than one partner. So the last time we had sex I didn't go and get it cleaned up right away. I went and tex for him and I let him oh.
Over his mouth, Oh my god, So are you still with this dirty d?
No?
I want to say he is very nasty because he put that yeast all over his face.
He had to know like it.
I know.
He was like what is this?
And I was like, I don't know.
You tail me.
That's how you let him know that he was there? Wrong. Well, he's very nasty. Maybe should have kept him.
No, I'm kidding.
No, no, no, he's married.
He's married. Now you ain't never got with him since? No and no more yeast infections.
No more everything cleared iod.
That's just like the Tony Braxton song. He wasn't mad enough for me, You marry him like she over there making bread. Okay, I'm sorry to his wife.
Yeah, all right, well glad you didn't have to get get on that minustat no more than all right, thank you for calling you too. All right, well that was tell us a secret. How do you feel about that today? I was crazy, didn't disappoint no one good last time. And when we come back, we have your yee te and we're gonna talk about Monique versus Tyler Perry.
I thought they made up.
I wish that they would like it's like a righterway, just say sorry, Mon't he just bring down a temperature?
But I thought he did say all right, we'll talk about it. It's way out.
She's about to blow the lid off this pot.
Let's get it.
Angela's feeling that yee tea, Come and get the tea.
It's way up at Angela. Yeah, it's me and Lindsay Granger having a good time. We're doing it all right, let's get into this yee te Let's do some nice things first. Jonathan Major's and making Good got married, according to her reports.
Congratulations.
Yes, there was a small private wedding at their home, and so he proposed while they were in Paris, and he got her parents blessing, and now they're married.
I feel like it's like when you're a celebrity and doing it that way, it's such like anti the system, Like I don't want this big old thing.
I really just want to be married to this person. So I respect that.
Yeah, you know, sometimes people have a wedding later dance producer dance planning his wedding right now.
In the mouth he's, oh, we'll never be able to go to that bally.
Yes, my bad, okay, and that's going to be The wedding is a lot. It was like a couple of days of act three day wedding. Yeah, I'm excited for you were coming to two of the days.
I've been anxious every day about it.
Okay, all right, now let's get into this Monique Oh man. I had some issues over Tyler Perry's Angie Stone eulogy. Now, a lot of people were like, you know, shout out to Tyler Perry. He said such amazing things about her. A lot of people have been talking about Angie Stone did not get the credit that she deserved while she was alive.
Here's what he had to say at her eulogy.
To think that this woman was in the business for all of these years and there's a difference between performing because you want to and performing because.
You had to.
All of those years, all of those songs, all of that money that was old to her, Where.
Is it all right? Well?
Monique then did a full letter open letter to Tyler.
Perry, probably the fifth one, and she.
Said, we would like to give our heartfelt condolences to Angie Stone's family and friends. Sister Angie, we stand on the shoulders of the elders and ancestors like you, so please know that your fight inspired us to write this letter, and that the fight doesn't end with your passing, as it is only beginning. And then she said, dare Tyler Perry. It struck me and my husband Sidney as poignant. Poignant she's talking about the eulogy, but also made us reflect. She said, one you expressed anger over Angie's mistreatment, yet you labeled me difficult to work with despite never having worked with me. She also said, we have audio of you admitting you were wrong. She said, you asked where's the money? She said, well, where's my public apology that you promised in twenty sixteen. You mentioned being tired of us not receiving the benefits we deserve, Yet you asked me to promote Precious for free without a contract or compensation. She goes on listening to things and she said, I hope your words at Angie's funeral inspire you to correct the wrongs done to my family and me.
It just got to be time and place. Yeah, not piggybacking off Angie Stone's funeral. That was a good eulogy. But I also understand when somebody is virtual signaling that you actually have beef with, you're like, yo, that is fraudulent. And so I understand that her beef is with Tyler Ferry and seeing him get all these accolades from being a great person and talking about a black woman in that way.
But just take us out of the group chat.
Because I feel like Tyler Perry's been getting so much recognition for how well he pays his actors and the people that worked for him.
We talked about it yesterday.
He helped pay off this woman's mortgage when she's eighty five years old, was about to get kicked out. Now, he did apologize, She said, they have a phone recording of him apologizing, but he's never apologized in public.
Here's that recording.
Did you not just say it was wrong Tyler to say she was difficult.
For not doing something that she was not contractually obligated to do.
Did you not say that you would feel that that was wrong?
All my misses out how it happened to, yeah, I will let bolder to move off when I get.
Back out over the front, or added when.
I will talked about it.
So he never did that. He never went on a press tour and talked good abo. So she's frustrated because that was a recorded phone call, and.
She's also gone on stage and went hand apologized for Oh, she did apologize well for telling y'all to s my Oh, yeah, that was the ecology.
I find Tyler Perry to be a good person based on the volume of stories that talk about things that he's done to change, particularly black women's lives. So I hope that they could just sort it out here. I can't find understand why she would be the only black woman that he.
Has, And I do know people that can be amazing to other people, but maybe they did something to you that wasn't I know that. All right, Well, that is your Yet when we come back, we have under the radar stories that are not necessarily in the headlines.
They're under the radar, but you need to know about them.
It's way up in the news that relates to you.
These stories are flying under the radar.
All right, his way up with Angela. Yeah, I'm here with my girl Lindsey Granger. Listen.
Were still both recovering from last night. I feel like we're trying keeping the energy up though.
All right, So let's get into some of these under the radar stories. Donald Trump has another executive order.
H He's repealing President Lyndon B.
Johnson's nineteen sixty five Executive Order on non Discrimination in Federal Facilities in federal contracts, which is ridiculous.
Right, So in other words, we can have segregated facilities.
Yes, on federal contracts.
So if the government is organizing any type of work, they're gonna be segregated facilities. Now, obviously, people who work in the government on federal contracts are not going to do this.
And you have to remember, what.
Is the point of this, What is your point?
Because he's trying to be Trump is trying to just be anti what he's calling woke, an anti diversity, equity and inclusion, which makes no sense because I think that they weaponize that term to mean something that it doesn't like. Wokee was created because people are awakened to how black people have been mistreated in this country. Diversity, equity, and inclusion was created so that we can all be on equal playing field and have an opportunity to compete properly. And so Trump is just doing what Trump is doing. It's just trying to appease some racist base of his.
Because yeah, I just like so in other words, now you can say, Okay, this is the black people who what are fount and this is the white people who are doing that.
And also the Civil Rights Act in nineteen sixty four is still fully implemented. So don't think that any business out there can just go straight up segregation style. Again, right, this is only federal contracts, which is also ridiculous, and they still have to abide by the law of the land, which is the Civil Rights Act.
So I don't know how this is going to conflict.
So these segregated segregated facilities include waiting rooms, work areas, restrooms, washrooms, restaurants, time clocks, locker rooms, parking lots, drinking fountains, entertainment areas, and so, in other words, you can now be segregated based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
That's what Who was calling for this, like somebody I don't know. Have y'all talked to anybody that was like, hey, I needed a different water found Hey can we have separate body of saf separate backroom?
Was like, why is this on the list when this.
Is so stupid? Are eggs still expensive?
There's a lot of list of things that Trump needs to get in order. I'm only buying brown eggs from now on.
Annoying, all right, but you know people, legal experts are saying changes to contacts with the federal government are significant, and so this is just I don't even understand this.
That's like, how can we, like, I don't know how to seriously have a conversation about this. Besides the fact that if federal contracts start going through, you starts seeing separated and segregated.
It's just a basically all right, well that is you're under the radar. We have the Way up mixed at the top of the hour and on a Wealth Wednesday, we have the founders of Cloudy Donuts, Zodie Jewel and Derek Falcon joining us.
It's way up, they say.
The rooms from industry shade to all of gosp out. Angela's spieling that.
All right, it's Angela and Lindsay with the eighty here we go. All right, let's get into it. So first and foremost, email Shamper versus Tianna Taylor. Now Tiana Taylor's legal team once em Shemper locked up for contempt. They're claiming that he deliberately stealed documents about their divorce to the media.
You saw when that happened. Yeah, And I know that.
Everybody was up in arms because they're starting to learn who got what. And I think Tianna Taylor feels like that's damaging her image in certain ways. And they agreed on a certain settlement and it's not being abided by. But jail time seems extreme for your child's father.
Yeah, And she also felt like at that time, it's not just a coincidence that the timing of that news coincided with his newly released rap song. So she was like, basically, he's using this drama to promote what he has going on, and it looked like when you see what she got, you know, she talks about like, you know, the cars and all of that.
She said she got.
The mayback that she purchased came after Emon crashed total and abandoned her Rolls Royce and never replaced it.
She was awarded for properties.
Emon was awarded three, including the Miami condos she says he originally gifted to her, but we only saw what she got right when those were leaked.
So Colin and I were talking on our ride here this morning and he was like, I want to explain something to you. I know you love Tianna Taylor and her music, but the math a matham with the money that Emon Shumpert made in his career and whatever Tiana Taylor makes. He's like, I don't know our salary, but listen, if you split things in half, it should be more going to Emon. But I understand, like, you guys have kids together, people need to be in houses. Like that seems like a fair split. I don't know why she would care.
People do know about what she got, Well, she just said it made her look bad, basically, right.
Well.
Emon Shumpert's attorney, Steven C. Steele, said in a statement to TMZ Sports that he denies the allegations that he recently dropped nuggets about their split to media to drum up interest in his new rap music, and he denies that he may have leaked any information which may have served at the basis for the multiple news reports preceding the trial of this matter.
So and she's asking for her ex husband and child's father to be in jail for twenty days. I don't want to see anybody that I'm with and have children in jail.
Right. That's a little.
Yeah, I think that's you know, a lot, it's a lot.
Yeah. What are your kids gonna say? Can sie dad today? I don't know, he's locked up?
Yeah, because as and I want to say this, we never want to be responsible for putting a man in jail unless he puts his hands on you or something like that. But but for this.
For spilling the tea, yeah, I mean, and it didn't really work that well.
I don't know.
Who's blassedy minds. I wasn't mad at her. I'm saying, who's blastedy Man's music right now?
No, No, it wasn't mad at her settlement, Like neither was thinking about it. I was like, okay, okay, girl, you know getting married people.
You guys got it.
You know what, and let's get ahead. Speaking of married people, I want to talk about this because we discussed earlier. Megan Good and Jonathan Majors did get married over the weekend. I had a small ceremony. Well, he went on the Sherry Show and here's what he had to say. He spilled the tea about their wedding.
I said to me yesterday, I said today he might be the happiest day of my life.
I love that one was so much. So how it happened. I asked to follow the first and he was that, that's cool.
My mother came, my mother pastor, my mother married us yesterday.
Her mother was there.
Did you hear that voice? He's like shaking. That's like real, you get the happiest of his life. He was crying and everything. Oh my gosh.
Who I saw them at? Where was at Essence Festival? Not this last month, but the year before that. They both were there together and she was doing a panel and everything, and they really do seem like they're very.
Much in love.
I know. At first people thought it was a publicity stunt. Remember that I was one.
Of those people in the beginning, But I am people Some people and then I obviously saw. Oh no, they really really like each other and to each other, and I'm happy to see them happy.
Right, People get divorced all the time and got to go through I'm a divorce story to it.
Oh no, people get I mean because she was in public relationships. So a lot of people are like, oh god a y'all doing it a lot. But it's like people are supposed to move on. This is natural supposed to happen. You're supposed to find happiness.
Well, congrats guys, And when we come back, ask ye eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty any question. Me and my girl Lindsay you are here to help you out. It's way up.
Relationship or career advice. Angela's dropping facts.
This is what's up his way? Yea, But Angela yee, And I'm here with my girl Linday Granger, and it's time to ask yee and we have dominic on the line.
What's your question today?
Okay?
Well I was you on the day.
Yeah.
She posed a question like if we wasn't to work, would I come to her wedding if she.
Was to get married?
What?
Oh?
Okay, So if things don't work, out would you come? You don't even know her.
Like that, right, So I told her whether you were joking or not, or whether it.
Was just a hypothetical question, you don't ask that question and expect to get a solid answer.
This is a whole hypothetical. Now, you don't y'all deep in the weird hype. Now, now what is your question for us?
The question for y'all was just like, what is it?
Like?
What is that?
I think that I've been asking this question by women before.
Like you know what I mean?
Don't nobody see a future with you? But they like you to come to the wedding.
Hey, no, no, I.
Always thinking people people make jokes or something like that.
I always think, like fifty percent of you actually thought about this. It's like fifty minute serious. So she asked you this real ain't gonna work out, so like you might be.
You seem like you give good gifts. So I would take it as she ain't.
That into you, like you give good gifts.
That is a strange question. Nobody's ever asked me that.
I think sometimes if a girl is like uncomfortable, she might make an awkward joke.
But that's like kind of maybe she's getting married. Wait, she wants to invite you? She trying to feel the temperature. Maybe she already is engaged.
Does she? Does she normally ask weird questions?
Or is this a one off?
Yeah?
Does she always asks like weird questions?
You'd be would be some just like Red.
She might just be a random person.
I know some random people that just like will just say some weird play this world.
Yeah, okay, And you.
Gotta either like that quirk about a person or if it annoys you, maybe that's not it.
Yeah?
Yeah, So but but if her husband did say that you could come to the wedding, would you go.
I'm not pulling up to this seem like he's.
Still answering the question.
You like this conversation? You were along together? No, but you better accept that quirk.
Haven't we seen movies with girls pulling up to the with we ain't never seen movies pulling up no girl with See.
You really thinking about this? I think you liked this conversation. I think you like this.
No, I thought it was interesting.
Yes, see, and so you actually kind of like this? Are you going to continue talking to her?
I don't think it was no breaker?
Okay?
You feel me well, then that's all that matters.
I think it was weird.
Though you feel you should ask person, you should ask her some weird questions too.
She don't got that in my body.
About a weird bone in his body.
All right, Well then y'all are a good balance for each other. But thank you for calling.
Hey, I appreciate you.
Okay, you don't know that he ain't got a weird bone in my body? All right? Well that was asking eight times to nine fifty one fifty. If you couldn't get through, leave a message. We can always answer your question that way. And when we come back, it's a Wealth Wednesday. We have the owners of Cloudy Donuts joining us. That's gonna be our girls, Zodi two Jewel and Derek Falcon. There are a couple, but they also have an amazing story about how they got started and their journey into really opening up multiple stores.
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What's up? His Way up with Angela? Yee on a Wealth Wednesday. So Stacey Tisdale is here and we have the partners from Cloudy Donuts here, Derek Falcon and the amazing Zodi too Jewel. Thank you for joining us, Thank you for having us.
Thank you guys for having us.
Very appreciate it.
We meant about three years ago and you were one of the first people to try our product. Not knowing me, you gave us a shot. You tried to donut backstage and we reposted.
It that one viral that was at King's Dinner.
Yeah, yeah, remember that.
So I wanted to thank you for that.
Well, I'm appreciative because these are vegan donuts and sometimes people think vegan.
Is nasty, but it's incredible.
I always tell people, once you start trying things like this, you won't want artificial flavorings or anything like that, because when things are fresh like this, it just tastes better.
Honestly, it's how could you give them something in a traditional form but with a non traditional approach.
Now, at the same time, this is also a love story.
Do you want to yeah this?
So, now, how did you guys end up teaming up?
Because some people also listen, you guys are anomalies because some people will also tell you do not go into business with your significant other. But I guess has been working out great, so talk to me about that.
So Derek and I met in twenty eighteen at a music festival in DC. That's where I'm from, Derek and Baltimore. We've been together ever since. And then I'll let you chime in to talk about the conversation we had when I came onto the brand.
So I was teaching, and then.
You yeah, I went over the number. So she was working, and she told me what she was making a week, and she was catching ubers to our job, and then she was paying for like her lunch, and I went over the numbers and I was like, Zoe, so you know, like you basically met like three hundred dollars a week after all of her expenses.
Right the teacher's more.
Yeah, teachers don't make a lot of money.
So I was like, yo, quit the job.
I'm gonna pay you that.
I can pay you more than that.
And then after she quit the job, I was like, look moving with me and we could work more hours on it. And then I mean the brand grew.
Manifold Derek builds the world and I bring people into it.
Okay, that's and I think that also works in business when people have different roles. Yeah, sometimes you can't have two people doing the same thing.
I would say to like women that are listening to this or you know, significant others that are working with their partners, to understand and trust your partner in the role in which you're in, because we have found ourselves in spaces where me being a woman.
Of service, I'm just trying to help.
So I'm thinking like, okay, let me step off base so I can help with this and help with this. And that's how riffs can come a currently, like they can arise that way because you're not staying in your lane, but trusting the role and the position is definitely a way in which I think can work really well.
For black people.
I tell us, you know, I always say enough is enough because we don't have enough. And what I mean by that is like, if we continue to do the things that we're doing, we're gonna keep getting what we're getting and we already don't have. So how do you now change the narrative? And I think it specifically can start with a two income household, mutual sweat equity until the person has the best plan. So I always believe that no matter what household you in, the person that's in charge of the business should be the person who's the smartest with the best plan. It's not about being a man or being a woman or any thing like that. So by the time I had Mint Zodi, I had two restaurants, in a food truck, I owned a building.
So I always looked up to like ownership.
Zodi, too, Jewel and Derek Falconer.
Here it is a Wealth Wednesday with my co host Stacy Tisdale. When we come back, we have more with the founders of Cloudy Donuts, including putting their donut shop in a neighborhood like Brooklyn Heights. We would consider that reverse gentrification because there are no black businesses there.
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What's up? His way up with Angela Yee. I'm here, Stacy tis dill is here. It's a Wealth Wednesday and we're talking to the founders the owners of Cloudy Donuts Zodi Too Juwel and Derek Falcon. Zodi, you guys have the Cloudy Donuts in Brooklyn in a neighborhood that nothing there is like black owned, and so talk to me about that decision, just because I know when you guys first it that.
People were like, why, yeah, would you want to put it there?
Yeah.
As I started to do my research, I learned that we were the first black owned food and beverage business in Brooklyn Heights. And part of learning that was because one of our neighbors, who have been living in the neighborhood for over sixty years, came in and Derek and I were in the store. We were like unpacking boxes we hadn't opened yet, and she thought that we were the mover.
Yeah, I'm sure, And it was.
Really important that I learned through dark to understand the difference between like a black owned neighborhood and a black occupied community. That's when we started to open our eyes to understand, like, what we're doing here is what I call reverse gentrification. So it's all about bringing our black owned business into affluent communities, apps and of color.
But I wanted to bring a level of authenticity to the neighborhood too. That also, you guys show white folks sometimes that low listen. I could do the same, and I could do it better. I had a product that was dynamic, they had a built in audience at kids and people who liked what we got. But it's really about shaking it up. See the thing about it in America is this, no matter how good you are, you still black. So then your mindset is like, Okay, let's put the store wherever we want to put it. That's sell whatever we want. So and that people who would has let them come whenever and however they want to come.
That's freedom.
Right now, I'm here with Stacy's and we are talking to the owners of Cloudy Donuts, one of my favorite places to eat, Zodi and Derek.
Where do you want entrepreneurs to take away from that?
So I speak for specifically for black people, for white folks, it's twenty twenty five for us as nineteen twenty five. When it comes to our entrepreneurs, we have to move from a space of fearlessness. Don't be afraid to take a chance and make a choice. You gotta live with it. They gonna hate you either, way, whatever you do, if you give it your all, it it'll give you everything you want.
Black people are an incredible study and resilience. Where does this resilience come from? I know it's in our nature. We're all doing. What do you do to remind yourself that you are resilient that you can share with our audience.
I feel like that it has to be an extremely huge why right. I mean some days I get on Zodea nerves, you get on my nerves. And we got collective goals, but will help us make it as a couple, it's independent goals. Well, Black people have to understand is it's not gonna always be about a passion or a certain amount of income.
It's going real.
They boiled down to, like, yo, what type of life do I want to live? And how do I see myself? And nothing else?
It matters. Yeah, not white opinion, our black opinion.
Now would nobody say, because at the end of the day, if you stay focused on that journey, bro, you're gonna get where you gotta go. It might be a different road that Drake Road in the Nipsey Hustle road was two different roles, but when you saw.
Them at the end of that road.
You've seen two successful brothers and I think like we are consumed.
We're focusing on the next man road.
Stay in your lane and how can people find you on social media?
So you can find us Cloudy Donuts all thing Cloudy Donuts. There's two handles we have in both Cloudy Donut Truck and Cloudy Donuts with an S. You can follow me personally to learn about my neo entrepreneurship experience through a woman's perspective at ZOD two that's my name, and then the Brown Collective. You can find us there and that's what you'll learn a lot about the seven Streams, which Derek will be dropping soon.
So thank you.
Yeah.
And on Teamwealth Wednesdays dot com we're going to be pro following them in our newsletter and if you could remember all those handles.
We got you, we got you well. Thank you so much for joining us.
You can watch that for interview on my YouTube channel because you know it's a Wealth Wednesday. And when we come back, you guys have the last word.
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Listen, we convinced Lindsay to come back tomorrow. Yo, oh my god, I'm supposed to leave tonight. Now we're going to leave Friday. I love that for us. I love it too.
But again, thank you to the founders of Cloudy Donut for joining us today. That's Derek Falcon and Zodi too, Jewel.
I love that. I love a couple that can work together.
Me too than you in the in the middle of the thick of it, so I know that it's hard.
I appreciate that.
Thank you that you travel with your man and your kid and y'all really make it do what it do.
We trying and we just want to be an example.
I think to seeing things for politics in the world and life. To see seeing people like you on the radio that matters makes little people dream about things that we're doing.
Yeah, yeah, yay. Well, listen, we appreciate you guys for joining us today as we always do. What is it way, Yes, Wealth Wednesday, It's wealth Wednesday. It is wealth Wednesday. Some people will tell you how hard it is to like work with their partners, but for some people that is the ideal situation when you could be together and like, you know, it's nice to be in a relationship just sit at home, watch TV, not care about nothing else and not feel like you gotta be outside.
I mean, you see you and your man kind of work together a little bit. Yes, yeah, to be irritated. Y'all have two different style.
But what I do like to do, though, is when and I want to travel more.
So that's why I want to make sure. I want to sort it out for you. We're going to organize it for you. Yes, yes, yes, leased the way you like.
I like beaches, I like sun everything that is not New York.
No.
All right, but listen you guys, we love you so much. This is your show, so of course you have the last word.
I just would like to share my secret. I'm my friend. We've been friends for about four years now, and whenever one first out together, she was texting my boyfriend behind my back. I found out, got it. I never told her, But I just recently, about a couple months ago, met her baby day for her first time is they're together, but she cheats on him and I tell him every time. I tell him everything. If she wonders how he begin or where he begetting a diperation from maybe me.
I want to sign a light on myself.
As a single mother of FI with three adult children battling depression, I get up every day and it doesn't touch them.
They don't know what I'm going through, and it's hard.
To keep this smile on my face, but I do it.
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