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The podcast hosts introduce themselves and discuss their interests and experiences. They talk about football and their opinions on the game. They also discuss sports betting and the conditions in the American justice system. One host shares her expertise in helping families navigate the justice system. Another host talks about her entrepreneurial journey in starting an herbal products store. She discusses her passion for natural medicine as an alternative to pharmaceutical drugs and shares her personal experiences using her own products. Good morning, good morning. Welcome and welcome back. Well, I guess I should just say welcome to the first day of our podcast. My name is J.B., and I'm here with my two of my favorite ladies, Lili and Chantel. Ladies, we're super excited. I'm happy that we're here. How's your Sunday going so far? That's right. You're kind of a football fan, aren't you, Lili? Oh, my goodness. You sound like a real football fan. I act like a football fan, but I don't know anything about sports at all. What did you say, Chantel? I like football parties. I like doing the screaming and eating the nachos and the wings, but the game itself is just kind of ridiculous to me. Well, that's all I have to say about football in a nutshell. Let me tell you why. Okay, it seems like they don't play as hard as they train. So when they get out there on the field, it looks like they're purposely messing things up. They purposely run into each other, and I don't like that. So the game is like – oh, they're not trying to kill each other? Okay. That's my bad. I was looking at it all along. Are there a lot of people that do sports betting? Like, is that a super popular thing? Okay, okay. And good thing you don't live in North Carolina. Like, you live in frickin', you know, Alaska. So no worries there. Miss Chantel, how has your sunny Sunday been going? I assume it's sunny where you are. And where are you located, if you don't mind sharing with the audience? New Orleans. Okay. Nova. Oh, my goodness. Sometimes a cry is all you need. Was it like a happy cry or like just a release cry or – that's good. That's good. Well, hopefully at the end, by the end of this show, you'll be having a release cry of joy or something maybe. I'm going to have to let him call and call him back. So what are we talking about today, ladies? It's our first show. We all came together behind the scenes, and we said, you know what, the world needs to hear our voices. All right, here we are. Episode one. What do you want the world to know? I'm putting you both on the spot. What do you want the world to know? You have us covered on the parenting front. You're a single mom at that. So, yeah, we're just fur mamas, but you've got us covered on the parenting track, and you're a single mom. Okay. Okay. All right. But you're doing it, though. You're making it happen. You're making it work. You're doing the doggone thing. Love that. Say that again. And if I may say so, I've been friends with Ms. Chantel for a very long time. She is an excellent source of just motivation. If you ever need someone on your team to cheer you on and make you believe you can do it, she is the person to have in your corner. So, I think the audience will definitely get that from you as well. You're like a super-duper motivator. You're like a hype girl, almost. I love that. Ms. Lilly, over to you. What is your expertise? What is your genre? Tell the world about yourself. What do you think the world needs to know? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Wow, that is quite noble work. That's huge, especially in this country. Yeah, I can't even imagine. Like, I know you and I have talked about the nonprofit that you run before, and I can't even imagine where a family would start with trying to help out someone who's in that situation. Like, the justice system just seems like such a huge, undefeatable monster. So, to see someone like you, like, that's just, you know, taking it on and doing that for your husband, I'm sure that's going to be very motivational and inspirational to a lot of people. What's the hardest? No, go ahead. Go ahead. What's the hardest part about being in that line of service? Yeah. Wow. There's so many things about our justice system that is super irritating when you do think about it, and that wrongful incarceration is one thing for sure. But even just for the people that are, I guess, rightfully in there, the conditions don't have to be as hellacious as they make them. Like, there are certain things that they do in the American justice system that I feel like just makes people crazier. It absolutely just makes people more animalistic, more crazy, more, you know, living off that instinct. And I don't think that they're doing that without knowing that that's what they're doing. It's like on purpose that they treat people that way, you know. I've seen some prisons and I'm pretty sure they're not in America. I could be wrong, but I was watching a documentary about prison systems around the world, and I know that there are some that actually do have, like, rehabilitation programs, even work release programs where they'll allow certain prisoners to leave for the day to work to provide for their family. But, of course, they have to go back to the prison at the end of the day. And I'm sure that's just like for certain levels of crime or whatever. But if you look around the world, you'll see that other countries have figured out how to make better use of their prison system than what America is doing. Thank you. Wow, that's really incredible work that you're doing, like to even take take the time to prepare people like that. And it's going to make a huge difference in our society. Like, imagine the work that you're doing 50 years from now that, you know, keeps growing. It's going to have a huge impact on our society in a major way. So my hat is off to you, Chica. I love that. No, I mean, listen, that's part of why we came together. I know the three of us are very, you know, positive women. We have a lot of positive impact on people in our lives. But we've all also been through things or are currently going through things. And I think that part of the way that we serve other people is sharing. So, and I guess with that introduction, it's my turn. Speaking of bag of shit, I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. I'm going to talk a little bit about what I do. And I guess with that introduction, it's my turn. Speaking of bag of shit, no. Okay, so that leaves me. I am JB, of course. I, what do I do? I drag my friends together and make them do podcasts with me for one thing. Let's see. Okay, so I recently became an entrepreneur. And I run an online herbal products store where we make our own herbal teas, hair oils, bath soaps, Yoni steam products, beard oils, performance pills, organic soap, cold-pressed juices, and the list just keeps growing and growing and growing. That was a very big step for me to make this year. I mean, anyone who's an entrepreneur can attest to that. It's not a step for the weak or the meek, but it required me to quit my full-time job. And, really, I just got to a place where I was wanting to serve the community better, wanting to serve myself and life better and other people better. And I was tired of doing things that I felt like I couldn't put my heart and soul into. And the job that I left was a pretty decent job, but I didn't, I just couldn't put my heart and soul into it. So I had been over the years getting more and more, just falling more and more in love with nature, spending more time outside, studying more about plants and trees and roots. And I started my own garden this year. I started a greenhouse and a grow house. And all of those things snowballed into me just having this so much of a love for nature that I decided to become an herbalist, which is what they call someone who's knowledgeable in how to make medicine and things like that out of herbs and flowers and roots. So I'm currently in school for that, and that is what motivated part of what motivated me to start my company, which is called Ifeotito Wellness and or IOW for short. And I just wanted to help people know that there is an alternative, a natural and super healthy and safe alternative to the pharmaceutical drugs that we're so used to taking that are doing so much damage to us currently. Like, I'm so tired of hearing those commercials that are like, you know, if you've taken this medicine, you're eligible for a lawsuit. And then right after that commercial, it's another new medicine commercial. Like, take this for your, if you have headaches, but it could cause you to collapse the lung and you could have a loose butthole from now on. And you might need to break wide again. Right. I'm so tired of it. Like, if there's one thing I can leave in the world, it's just a better system of medicine. But that's what my company is about, and that's what I spend my days doing is just researching products, making recipes, brewing up stuff in the kitchen and taking these things myself as well. Like, I haven't always lived the life of wanting to be a podcast host and an herbalist. I like to be much more of a heathen for sure. And in my older age, you know, I'm looking at wanting to maintain my health. I don't want to be someone who's on pharmaceutical drugs. I don't want to be someone who's in and out of the doctor every other month. So I had to think of real sustainable ways that I could maintain my health too. So I use my products myself and I just think of more ways to leave a good mark on the world, you know. Yeah. It's been going well, so I definitely use things like I try to be real specific about what it is I want to fix on myself, like I'm working on thickening up my hair. Years of certain habits of stressing out or having a habit of being anxious can definitely thin out your hair over time. So I'm thinking about my hair, using hair oils that have star anise, rosemary and this herb called horsetail. And I really do see my hair actually thickening up, which is kind of wild to me. Like you can read about this stuff in school and read about other people's experiences. But when you really start seeing an herb have a positive effect on you, you're like, holy crap, this really works. It really actually works. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah, I'm going to have to give you a free sample of some hair oil for sure. That hair oil is the truth. Yeah, I'm going to get both of them. Chantal, I sent you some free hair oil in your package. We just have to get your post office to give you your package. And then I will definitely get. You know. But that's not how you order. I know it is. Give me a try to get out of here. That's crazy. Hopefully, they'll get that package to you soon. And you guys can come back on the show and let everybody know how the oils work. And it's like the thing I love about herbalism is you can literally Google any of the stuff like I went vending at the stockyard that's here in town. Stockyard is like an open air flea market that runs every Friday. And so when I was vending out there with my hair products and my teas and my herbs, like I would tell people, you can Google the name of the herb that I'm talking to you about and you'll see the benefits that I'm telling you that it has. So it's not like a product where, you know, it's not fact checkable. You can fact check the things I'm telling these herbs do and see for yourself. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty incredible. There were a lot of people. Let me tell you. OK, let me tell you what is the most interesting. Interesting. I'm going to try to say this without being offensive. The most interesting thing to me was looking at people's spending habits. Like watching what tables people stop at and the color of those people's skin and what they what turned their head versus what did not. And I will just say, I mean, I'm going to say it like it is. Black people have a tendency to be at least in this area, have a tendency to be more pulled and tempted by things that are colorful, that are very highly processed and that don't have a lot of information on the bottle. Like when I would stop people at my pool and people would stop at my table and I would start telling them about ingredients and the benefits I could see in their eyes, like just the interest would be glossed over. Seriously. But now I see them go to another table where this guy selling hair or selling body oil. There's no label on these bottles. They're just really colorful, like pinks and greens and blues and oranges. And they're lining up in droves at this man's table. And I'm not speaking about black people spending habits in a negative way, but it's it's you have to learn what pulls a consumer and what doesn't. So the difference from that one Friday when I noticed that in the Friday that I went back is that I added those cold pressed juices and made sure that they were very, very colorful and people came right over to the table. I sold out of those cold pressed juices and I didn't waste a lot of people's time trying to tell them all the benefits that were in those products, because that's not what that crowd is there for. Now, at a different crowd like at the farmer's market where people are there more for handcrafted goods and for that artist, artisanship that goes into something, that audience might be more interested in why hibiscus is good for your hair or how calendula helps you to lose weight. They might be interested in the fact that I know that information, but at the stockyard, that crowd, they couldn't care less. They could not care less. Yeah, for sure. For sure. I just think it's based off like you said, it's habits. It's how we're used to shopping right now. We're just starting to get into a place where we're looking at the labels before we buy things. But usually we just go. We look for the coloring. We look for that label that we're used to seeing and we grab it and we put it in the basket. That's how we shop. So it is. It's a different experience to ask somebody to wait and listen to me, tell them a story about why my products do what they do. But, yeah, it's definitely it's getting better every time I go out. So I love it. I think it's it's going good. Yeah. And oh, my goodness, I'm having such a good time talking, you know, I don't want to end things early. We're at about twenty five minutes, just about. And I have to tend to my crazy plumbing issue that I have going on this morning, which I didn't tell you all about. But I'll share that really quickly. I decided I wanted to take a bath this morning, a nice hot bath. So I always turn my bath water on and then I'll actually boil water on the stove to make my water even hotter in the tub. So I can sit in it longer. I'm getting all my bubbles. I'm getting. Wait, what? Like as hot as possible. Give me the hottest water you possibly can. If I don't have boils on my skin when I come out, it was not hot enough, OK? No, this is how I do my bath. So I get all my I put my like herbs and stuff in the bath and my son and get the water just right and start turning off the hot water. And it's not turning off. I'm just turning the knob and turning the knob and turning the knob. And I get it all the way through. You can't turn it anymore. But the water is going full force. Like it's not turning off at all. Like, oh, you thought, oh, you thought, OK, you thought I could not get this water off. I messed with it for like 10 minutes and then I was like, OK, I got to at least not let the tub overflow. So I started draining all my beautiful bath water out of the tub. And I was like, I'm not wasting this bath. I jumped in there, got like five minutes of a good soak before the water went out of the tub. And my water is still literally running right now in this moment. It's been running for the past two hours. And my landlord is actually calling me. He probably has somebody that wants to come over here and fix it. So. Thank you. But this has been a good first show. What do you guys think? Can I count on you all to come back next Sunday? Yeah, I think it was great. It went great. So to the audience, thank you very much. Thank you very much to everyone who's tuned in today. Again, I'm JB with Lili and Chantel and we are just three ladies out here, you know, chopping it up. So if you like what you heard today, be sure you join us again next Sunday. Same time, same place. We'll see you soon. Bye.
