i believe is june not really the whole year is almost over yes oh my gosh so i wanted to just talk about you know some of the great things that you're doing i love to support young people you like my daughter my daughter your picture last month it almost looks like you  i'm originally from philly i grew up here my whole life i went to school in new york i study every size in marketing communications if i t that's the fashion institute of technology in new york while i was there i did a few projects with different companies where i was blogging for ideas some a fish and this and music but i really found was there when i was working for a marketing company and we were doing events and  showcases we will always have like up and coming artists not perform and i really fell in love with those up and coming artists because i felt like they were still draw and like you can really see their passion in their words and everything that they did was truly from the heart  and i feel like you know they are more relatable than the people who've already made it because they're still on their grind right on the bay i started my dream but my dream isn't finished and so that's how i just started getting into you know keeping up with like up and coming artist and i played around with a bunch of different companies writing for different fashion blogs and fashion websites for a while but i wasn't truly happy and when i was doing i got really got bored with it right so was like you know as started a couple of my own blogs and same thing happened was all fish in focus and that's what i was interested in and at that time i saw it but i didn't never stuck to any of it so i stopped writing for a couple of years i would say like two or three years and then one day like i had a problem it's really just came to me like in the jury and i woke up and i'm like i want to write about female entrepreneur but  specifically want to write about blix email i'm not a minority one of them being because i feel like black women are so smart and how and in we are really like the backbone of this country even though people don't give us our credit for it like we are the ones who put in their work and once we like set our minds and something we can create you know the moles like beautiful ideas and make them like into something physical and real so i started writing about black female entrepreneurs specifically up and coming one right at the time big two you know i just love seeing people who are trying to make it and it is much easier for me but we met at the head of it and we just instantly clay and followed each other and we just kept supporting each other and i feel like there is so genuine versus like you're trying to walk up to you know a kerry civil war you're the smith who have already made together a lot more than they do today examine to me especially our culture our culture so you know we got to do a whole lot more than we do it now especially like you're saying people that have already made it they don't always i'm not saying generally but sometimes they don't really reach back that's a long time you know and i am very attracted in the i think young people are attracted to me as well definitely they just open up to me i had another young man here from trenton he is author he's a illustrator and he was a much he was amazing and we still wear actually made up a coffee some size or what fourteen depending on what he wants and we just have a great conversation like how are you doing i've introduced him to people he's introduced me to people and it's a great look i'm fifty six he's about twenty six too so you have them that i love that genuine connection and it's funny like i always tell people if you see me half the time i look a mess and so i'm just trying to do what i gotta do want to do what i got to  felt like this like warmth come over me like i just had to embrace her because i'm like oh my god like somebody i didn't recognize like that was like a first but it was you know see in there somewhere actually be right there i was like who needs those reminders to restore so when i'm posting it is like you know here's some sit for blogging for opening up a business now i'm trying to get more so and doing the research for people right you know so they you don't you don't a fire calling you have to go back to school for him and it to me like you you know you can learn is so much a lottery information and then to you don't have to pay five hundred six hundred dollars for a class for some of this stuff to do you know because sometimes people do try to get over owing you you know they pay prices or whatever you know not to say you can't charge which you don't want to charge but i'm saying if the information is out there and it's free just go look for it and some people you know you don't want to look for it that's what i'm here for i'm going to give you this information in the polls all you've got to do is read it ten fifteen twenty minutes sometimes of your day if you want to go back to it you can write but you know love i just be in there person that can put this information out there for people to be able to access and then once you do you know start your business i'll write about you i reach for you i'll put you on instagram page you know so you can get exposure and i love meeting new people i'm like i used to be so shy by doing this like i had to step out of my comfort zone like i'll go to events now i'm by myself nobody with me i just went to a vent for the pop ups for and in the right place to meet the person who started it up to that then it was we never met a day before they we never spoke again before they i don't think we were even following while they were before that and we connect  business you can't you can be some of my friends that i met as entrepreneurs they were shy too like i would always speak up you know for them about their business but now i see them like wow look at them they speak in up and  what you have to really be that person where you have to be friendly and just go and talk to people you know like you said by yourself you got to just go and do it because nobody's going to come out and reach and reach out to you they have to be you know you've got to stand out and just reach out to people  especially when this black women and they get there and you know we actually are supporting each other as much as we like to screen women support and women like is not really there like people like this  become obsessed with and like if i can help you in any way possible i'm here to help if i can give you advice on something that i went through or somebody i know right directly has that information about me and that's similar to which are going through then i'll give you that like for free service like that different yeah you recently began do a social media management freelancing for i worked in social media management back in college and i kind of shot away from it for a while because it is a lot of work and people  really realize how much work it is like what i had when i tell people like ok you know this is a fee for you get that well why i mean if you really want me to break there how much hi i'm about to spend on this for you then you'll e you know take that and do what you need to or not hire me because i know folks to me like i love being on social media right it is very time consuming you know between all the different platforms and some people say well you know you should really work i was really consistent with it in the beginning but i have to personally get back on there and likes start changing how i use my twitter but no asil like you say you have to use every single social media especially as a business person somebody who owns a business you have to trade you have to hit every single client because your you know twenty three year old client may not be on facebook but your thirty six year old client is right so why would you you know so someone just because you i don't like their platform or because you're not familiar with their platform you have to use it and market yourself to every individual pretty much like you have to be able to know who your target audiences and now a days for most of this stuff are are like like sixteen year olds up until like twenty nine thirty you're wearing the same outfit  clothes and the like but you've got to know how to talk to them right you know i gotta know how to follow and you gotta sleep to them differently on different platforms because i can post pictures on instagram all day but only face even though you increase the word the letter count right we still aren't really in all of it because we're accustomed to to send it right it is like something that you can see scorsese like is you've got to know how to market say every three thousand followers your instagram has two hundred right when you try to partner with somebody let's say you try to partner with a brand who uses mainly instagram rise they're going to look like well why would a partner with you and you know are like  platforms aren't this thing right they have three thousand people in instagram but only two hundred or facebook they're looking like well you know we really don't use their so you know it doesn't make you make sense exactly it doesn't make sense for people to work with you when you're not hitting it on everything they play it for yeah so you got to know who your market is and also to an on the partner with people you got to know how they market so i of course i like to like for me i started following a lot of bloggers and i saw like how they're instagram and like how their facebook accounts look their numb like ok well i see this as like they're you know they're steady right and you know like when you look at the page and there's a lot of yellow because that's you know the color and then there is like black and white mixed and so they are too but when you look at their page if you were to just take a picture of let's say three six this i don't know i don't even know was on their facebook and the one that put our own thing up post anything since two thousand and seventeen so i'm a work in progress myself too but you know those platforms you gotta really gotta get put that at the top as a feature because when you come to my website you type in hey boy girl dot com those i like the first things that you see is people right so you can to get an idea like ok this girl was this girl who's this girl who are you writing about that right so i do do the profile features carnage is you know talk to interview gather information about whoever i choose to write about i'll ask them some questions i can just build a piece on them and then also to just going off of what i've seen or whatever research on them and build together piece i have got in so much love for just doing their like and for people to be featured on the website and then they share it with like their friends and family like their friends and family kind of get to be like oh look at look at them be in awe but yeah like that's my favorite thing to write about and i like that feedback from into and i like how that makes women feel like someone took the time out to talk about me today like that's an amazing feeling away and it's not going to notice like that's a special feeling how you but also to write about like my life so i'll document like when i go to different events i'll post about the events i'm starting to get more into travel now so r blog ok so this was just like me just free writing like you know talking about something i wrote about the competition between dominican hair stop hair salon and them black oh marilyn and why so many black women go what is it that keeps you going back to a place where you now have this information that all of a he or your hair is damaging that's not going to help him grow why do you still go to a place that doesn't necessarily cater that was my first cultural piece that i wrote and you know did you get a little flare up about that no no i mean i think because this is something that people wanted to talk about but nobody really you know hey i'm doing the put it on yeah so i when i was asking people like well what makes you go to a dominican hair salons they're like oh because it's cheap is and you're in the now and i was like you know what when you go to a book so i know wh happened there that you're just like i just can never just like it takes too long and it always takes in the hairstyle is his you know added to and i was like oh ok i mean i've been there you know where i felt the hairstylist had added to it but also to like i try to be as positive as i can when people so even if somebody you know i come across like at the grocery store none of my hairstyles h like yeah yeah i know because i have i used to go to a hair salon where i would be in there from like ten in the sick room like i was worried in an ear and i was just waiting to get my hair that but you have to understand like some stuff does to my sisters and i was like you know tell me what you think about it so you know i can they use their and then i transitioned into other thing ok i do do product reviews the you know there's if anyone wants this i mean the products you've got to do is just d m me i'll tell you where to send  it and when i do my product reviews it's like i'm not getting paid for it is right i'm just speaking effects like if i liked it i liked it if i did it you might like it i have i won't say anything i will say i'm completely positive  the time because i might have a negative experience i know other people might not know i'm still going to promote it because guess what you reached out to me you have something you believe in i mean like you are but somebody know this might work for you you know be as positive without being for you that's my thing like trying to be positive in every single way possible also not going to fake you all and i'm not going to pretend like you know things