hello hello and welcome to our show conversations with the lady to see what we bring guests on our so to talk about issues and topics that n joined the show hello hello and welcome to wash our conversations with lady to see where we bring a guest on our show to talk about issues and topics that matter today we have a lovely young lady entrepreneur for the land the paris it's sure haider williams of problem scholars thank you so much for coming we want to hear your journey of all the things that you're doing in the community to help make it a better place for the youth so welcome to the s go fund me to raise funds for girls promenades and first year of college needs so me i'm one of the designers and we design the custom gowns for the girls and make them like it's all as you know their work is on as and you know we shop with them we mentor them you know we get to know them like we really built relationships with them is not just like oh you know we're just doing a prom dress for you we're done with you know running with this is like where you are you know reach out as you can call us like that's the kind of mentor is my team and i are so this year we're doing four girls i'm doing two gallons and i have two other designers on board question one williams a mannequin and i have a list of maps she's from philadelphia area she's eveningwear ready  wear designer and she's doing one girl and we're doing it for girls and trying this year ok wow nice so how do you decide on which designers to bring on board with you which is something that you're reaching out to them or they're reaching out to you when they see the lovely things that you're doing in the community so now i've been getting designers that are that have been reaching out to me but essentially i reached out to the signers because the first year that i did promise skyler which was back in two thousand and fifteen was the first  very hard for me and i had two girls i didn't really have support because i didn't build the a big team right so i went to school with a lot of people who majored in fashion design and alyssa was one of the people and we spent a lot of time together i met  williams the first year to a prom scholar on my own after and i was telling him i was like wow i really wish that i had another designer to know to do the gals because there's so much pressure and one is just as you and they're calling you for everything so i built a team and i also have like my price president kiir henriques who she helps me out with the girls like she's not designer but she like works on the team doing all the things that we as a designer is have a hard right i'm doing right right ok so it's really building relationships yet building relationships not just with the designers but also with the young ladies that you're selecting so tommy how do you select begin with these for this well we go through application process through a school we give the school an application like we have an online version and we also have the paper format the students fill it out and based on applications we call the students in for an interview cause problems goes a process you know we have the events we have to make sure that students are comfortable or like being on camera because we do a video for each girl and we have to make sure that they're ok with that and their parents are ok with the process and understanding it's more than just prime you know it's meant to worship we're getting to know you you're getting to know us and you know we want them to come back and say hey what do you need help with next year we want a relationship so we can continue to grow as an organization right right i'm going to just stop for a minute just so we can just have a little team quote we will just pick up the conversation ok and there's a little bit of milk if you like milk or the sugar  and she came up here with no family and it was just her my dad and my dad or even he made some bad choices he had to he was that back he got he was locked up and sent back to live the bad choices that he won so my mom primarily raise me and a lot of things that she was unable to provide for me because of financial reasons me and i understood that and there are a lot of these parents have that struggle and i know what it's like to be a single mom or a single dad i understand that struggle and i say you know i want to create something that help people and my mom was like you know you start really building on your own design story like you know you want to build your own bread and i was like well i want my brands to be something that helps people go i came up with the prime scholarship and i was like well i want to help out with college because my first year of college in our school i spent over a thousand dollars within the first semester and all of the things that i had purchased so i said let me get let me make this more than just prop right these girls to be smart we want them to have plans for their future and we want them to come back you know come back and say hey we need help with that want them to be there and you know that that's like the journey and if there has been a rough journey yes you know support right getting the project correctly is the key right and i'm learning that now even now with us doing the events and it's hard doing things you need a lot of money you need a lot of support you need community involvement and it takes more than one person like you said to do here so it's great that you're building a team are most important to build a team that's passionate just as much as you are so that you know you can really come together and make some real differences in the world so do you do this in just one school or you select several schools before you know to get these four young ladies and is it always for young ladies every year actually this year and that's what got us started to do starting to do that now the school situation we want to expand we want to come to princeton we want to go to hamilton lawrence philadelphia area  we want to go to nurture is the new york we really want to expand and we want to build that team and build the concert because there are other designers they do this is that quite as organized or they may not have the team resources ri and we want to be there to provide that that for the right will give yours your girl that you select a scholarship towards her education will help you find here and make up for your for your student will help you find and get access to respond where you know will help out with all those things and we can all build and grow together around so all right so the application i just want people to understand like the nitty gritty of what you're doing so they can more appreciate and be willing to help so this application of online is a requirement is at least a two point five ok you know because i do understand that everybody's not going to be a perfect straight is bright but doesn't mean that they don't have plans to further their education right and some of these kids go t real thing right you know you know losing family members or family struggles at home having to work heaven pick of slack and grace my father yes i mean that they're not intelligent we require them to talk about their we are happy with who we've selected and they are happy with and from scullery right and i think it's a two way street so the same when you're passionate about helping them they need to be passionate about helping themselves as well and also even being able to give back to others so everything that they learn they can encourage others as well so i think it's a really wonderful thing that you're doing in terms of selecting them and putting criterium of our vets really important and it just as a lot about what you're doing you know you don't want somebody  well i just want to look pretty for the the product and get something furry but you're also mentoring them you're helping them to succeed in college as well and following them through and i think that's amazing song so now are you work trying to work with an organization that all have you been able to get in the organizations help you out that are mainly in business ok there's nurses have been the key to moving forward right direction other organizations i've been trying to connect with them and just like the right one right you know i've called around a few places and you know i'm still i'm very open to anybody with the help right you know like people suppressive just like reaching out to some of the season right we're just we're kind of just finishing up but we're still building relationships with different people we're in a relationship so i'm not going to say any more than i have to but it's really important not just for individuals but for entrepreneur as in our business people the more people that you can associate with and build that relationship and follow it through and just being as genuine as possible those are the things that really matter because you don't want to just you know you're trying to is go fund me you can just tell people to donate don't because on social media people see so much things go right over their heads you gotta make a direct connection with the war and i find when when you make a direct connection you get a better  response right because there's so many things on the internet and it's either it's like overkill to do when i i think we are we've been successful because of the event they're like oh i don't know like in their friends on facebook no they don't a lot of good but it's a lot of things that are not kosher right and so you have to be careful at the same time but it can become very overwhelming because it's a lot of people like you said reaching out like that when gentleman that committed that crime live and it was like oh my god you know but it's you know you have to be careful but like you said this fall about connecting when you have like a go fund me or anything like that it's not just pushing it out there you have to also pick up the phone you have to call people  base and talk in x because again connections are really the most important thing if you want to hear your voice they don't want to see some information coming across the screen on their on their phone or laptop you know so it's really important to go unarmed to that he was like yeah wow that's amazing so you know donna again the connections yeah donna went on i actually met her through a friend of mine actually owned that store before diana did and i loved her new right away for the fact that they're doing so much in the community not just you know putting in black products for the you know those in the community but they're also just pushing community they're pushing people come together the pushing education they're not just selling you any product that educating you on the product they're supporting other small businesses other entrepreneurs to come in put that thing from the shelf and educate us about it yeah and you know connecting she connected us i came and did you know say things for you so you can see what the party is going to be like and so you know she does that you know her and drew an arc that's what i love about them so it's good that you have these older people that are looking out for someone young they see that you're really passionate about helping in the community and for a gr i'm a print and textile designer and i design them resort nice so i love things that have like graphics and different textiles so when we do the proms color designs i always want the i want the sculler end of the designers have a band it's about them it's just encouraging them and maybe giving some some input on you think might be might work for them yeah yeah i think that's definitely yeah i'm sure who wouldn't want the advice of someone with a designer you know you've been doing it you've got a clear as well so you'd be surprised sometimes it's hard to do a report if i don't like it right i'm a i'm going to make that change right i'm a make i'm going to make it work for you right ok well it's your design to write so you have to  daughter and i'm talking about them but my sister with a passion high school and she was sewing for a while you know but i used to draw out things and sketch it but i just never did it i just like to throw stuff together on my own and it ends up working you know everywhere just to get to the city of china and they're coming from new york philadelphia you know different places and locally but and you know of course dan is going to be there on a panel on the phone shedding some light on us archer p director of mannequin and he is he's very amazing a lot of people don't know this but he's had to overcome many obstacles in many people's holing him that he can't do certain things because  has a disability but you know you would not you wouldn't you want know that he had it but for himself to be at the level that he is on is just phenomenal because that passion that drive and that worth ethic and we also have  one of our designers who alyssa map she's been in stores like lord and taylor you know she's won awards for her design aesthetic and you know she's she's phenomenal and she's work with very high end samples are going to be in the gift bag we're going to have jewelry and a gift get gift bags chiffon scarves we're going to have fabulous things for those fifty dollar gift bags i mean fifty dollars v i p guess and of course wine for everybody that's really you know when i have a quite a few friends from china there has been such and yes there we went there like years ago but i go back i know well thank you so much for coming on the show i can't wait to do this tea party with you on may the sixth so thank you thank you b