WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.279 --> 00:00:05.240 I want you to take a moment to think about 2 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.240 how many women you know who are not only mothers, 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:14.599 but are also raising the standards in their industries, their communities, 4 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:18.399 and their culture. Candy King is one of those women. 5 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:23.120 She is the founder and CEO of Carnival by Candy, 6 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:27.559 a brand dedicated to all things Carnival and making women 7 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:33.679 feel confident. Her products are innovative and beautifully made, but 8 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:39.520 what makes Carnival by Candy extraordinary is the intention behind it. 9 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:45.679 You see, Candy is not just designing stockings and other accessories, 10 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:52.520 She's designing experiences. Her story is a reminder that building 11 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:58.320 a brand isn't just about strategy. It's about intention. It's 12 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:03.359 about vision that's rooted in something deeper than profit, a 13 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.239 desire to be of service to your culture, your family, 14 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:12.400 and yourself. She's not just creating space for Caribbean creatives. 15 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:19.079 She's showing us that excellence and authenticity can coexist. In 16 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:23.400 the midst of an already powerful dialogue, Candy and I 17 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:28.200 realized that we share a cool connection. Both of our 18 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:32.359 mothers were flight attendants for Air Jamaica. Now, if you 19 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:36.879 know anything about Air Jamaica, you'll remember their iconic slogan 20 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:41.400 soaring to new heights, And as I sat with that 21 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.359 moment afterwards, it struck me how fitting it was for 22 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:51.079 the women we are now and the women who raised us. 23 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:56.079 Candy is now charting her own flight path, not through aviation, 24 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.760 but through artistry. Even her daughter's name Chorus, speaks to 25 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:06.000 a form of artistry. In music, a chorus is what 26 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:11.520 brings a song together. It's what echoes, what repeats, and 27 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:17.280 in Candy's life, it symbolizes something deeper, the harmony between 28 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:24.360 womanhood and motherhood, creativity and clarity. This episode is about 29 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:28.199 that balance, about what it means to lead with ambition 30 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:33.719 and intention to build something royal in its essence and 31 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:39.039 rooted in the rhythm of who you are. So grab 32 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:43.000 your tea, coffee, or a glass of wine and let's 33 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:50.400 Talk the Things. Hello everyone, Welcome back to Let's Talk 34 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:55.840 the Things, where we discuss personal growth, travel, music, beauty 35 00:02:56.199 --> 00:03:00.759 and wellness while encouraging you to live fearlessly and fabulously. 36 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.520 I'm your host, Ash and this week we are talking 37 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.080 to Taints with a woman who has taken the business 38 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:12.719 of carnival and turned it into a vehicle of culture, empowerment, 39 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:19.479 and Undeniable Caribbean pride entrepreneur, television host and CEO of 40 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:24.400 Carnival by Candy Candy King. Hi Candy, how are you? Hi? 41 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.080 Ash? I'm so excited to be on your podcast. Thank 42 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.319 you so much for having me. I am doing it 43 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:30.360 just fine today. 44 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:36.520 That's great. Thank you so much for being here. So 45 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:37.560 I'm really excited. 46 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:38.879 Let's go me too. 47 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.000 So, for as a first time guest, I should say, 48 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.080 and for persons that are listening for the first time, 49 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.560 we begin each episode with our listener's favorite segment, and 50 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:59.120 it's called datna Sound safe? So so, Candy, I'm going 51 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:03.159 to read messages or social media posts that listeners sent in. 52 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:05.680 And if you think it sounds crazy or a little 53 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:08.800 bit concerning, you just say that notes sounds safe and 54 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.719 explain why. And if you agree, you say you agree 55 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:13.280 and explain why sounds good? 56 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:14.280 Okay, all right, so. 57 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:17.360 Don't worry, it's not scary, just. 58 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:20.480 All right. 59 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:24.920 So the first person said, my son found me crying 60 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:29.519 in the kitchen. He wrapped his arms around me and whispered, mummy, 61 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.959 is it because you're fat? Now I'm crying for two reasons, 62 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.439 you know, so none So for she. 63 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.759 K's and I mean, can't blame them right because they 64 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.439 haven't as called it, and as you grow up you 65 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:56.040 kind of learn and get to what's appropriate and what's 66 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:56.839 not appropriate. 67 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.720 So there's a little bit of very true, very. 68 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:04.759 True, half and half half. I agree, okay. The next 69 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.000 person said, don't tell me you miss me, tell me 70 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.040 you're outside with doubles. I agree. 71 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:16.399 I agree. Very safe love language like come on, yes, 72 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:18.639 tell me whatever you know. 73 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:21.480 I like, absolutely, I'm in the group. 74 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:29.519 Okay. 75 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:35.199 The next one, the person said, what is a luxury 76 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.279 that most people I should say? The person asked, what 77 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.839 is a luxury that most people don't realize is a luxury? 78 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:47.839 And the person answered friends. Having actual friends, not familiar acquaintances, 79 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:52.279 real friends one of the best hacks for a fulfilling life. 80 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:56.680 Absolutely agree, actual and factual. I live by that. I 81 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.199 have had friends since high school. It's something that I 82 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.839 love to talk about that they've seen me through every season. 83 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.040 We've seen each other through all our seasons where knowing 84 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.680 motherhood together coincidentally, it's great. It does enhance my life 85 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.120 in so many ways. Just social literally yesterday that the 86 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.560 quality of the relationships in your life is what determines 87 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.160 like how happy you are and how long you live 88 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:22.600 and things like that. I one thousand person believe that. 89 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:26.000 So yes, I agree, Yes, that is very safe. And 90 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.480 I think what you just said is so true the 91 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.040 quality of relationships, right, because you'll see some people and 92 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.959 they have like so many friends, but they're not really friends, 93 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:38.240 if you get what I'm saying. Like they have a 94 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.439 lot of people show up to their birthday party, but 95 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.439 can they call those people having a hard time? Or 96 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:46.759 can they tell them their secrets? You know, I feel 97 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.199 like people don't understand the value of friendship and same. 98 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.399 I have friends from high school still, some friends even 99 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.439 from prep school, you know what I mean. So I 100 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:57.879 think like we can call on you know who you 101 00:06:57.920 --> 00:06:58.279 can ye? 102 00:06:58.879 --> 00:06:59.480 Absolutely? 103 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.560 Yeah, absolutely, Okay, that one sounds safe. All right? Two more, 104 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:08.560 This one is hilarious. The person said he blocked me 105 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.800 on everything, so I applied to his job and I'm 106 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:12.879 starting next week. 107 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:17.680 That let's sound safe. That's sound safe. That sounds very toxic, miss, miss, 108 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.759 that sounds very toxic. Let's not go there. Let's just 109 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:21.319 let by. 110 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:26.600 Yes, yes, don't try to force things. Please, it's not 111 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:31.000 that serious. It can never be that non at all. 112 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:33.360 Please, we have to learn to let go, and this 113 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:34.319 is one of those things. 114 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:36.639 Let it go. 115 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.480 Yes, the only thing we're supposed to be chasing, ladies 116 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:44.000 is our dreams. Please not not the man, not them, 117 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:48.639 let them come to you. Exactly exactly. That's wild, though 118 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:51.040 not applied for his dream crazy. 119 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:54.759 I mean, I don't. Okay, Like as a species, I 120 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:55.839 don't we do that. 121 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:03.000 Yeah, but we're what we're doing better, We're sure sure, sure, okay. 122 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:07.120 Last one in this segment, the person said, you'll find 123 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:10.240 me where there is peace, where there is joy, where 124 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:14.360 there is reciprocity, where words of protection are spoken over me, 125 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:17.959 where I'm celebrated for growing and wanting better for myself. 126 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.000 This is where I exist. 127 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.759 Absolutely, this is where we bloom, This is where we grow, 128 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.800 and this is all. I love that. That sounds very 129 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:28.399 safe to me. I'm here for the reassurance, for the 130 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.240 words of affirmation, like, yeah, I love that. 131 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:36.039 That is how we grow. Yes, the relationships as well, Yes, yes, 132 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.320 And just like what you said, you know, it's important 133 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:42.679 our environment too, we surround ourselves with and just being 134 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:44.919 somewhere where you're valued. I think that says a lot 135 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.840 about how you see yourself too. Exactly. You know, so yeah, 136 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:50.200 that one sounds very safe. 137 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:52.480 So that was fun. 138 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:55.159 See I told you, it's always frightened when I say that. 139 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:01.639 I was sure, sure, Oh no, it's good, just you know, 140 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:04.279 just to loosen it up a little bit, something fun. 141 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:06.279 That worked. 142 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.159 Now let's talk the real things. You are someone that 143 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.080 I've really been looking forward to talking to, not just 144 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:19.519 about business, but about purpose and just all of the 145 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:23.080 amazing achievements you've accomplished as a woman in the male 146 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:29.120 dominated carnival industry. So let's go back to younger Candy. 147 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.600 Take me back to your prep school days in Jamaica. 148 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.720 What kind of little girl were you and were there 149 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.639 any early signs of you wanting to build something on 150 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:40.120 your own? 151 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:44.799 Absolutely not, I age. I was not one of those 152 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:47.080 people that knew what they wanted to do in life 153 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.240 or had any idea or I don't think it's something 154 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:53.039 my parents pressured me for either. So it wasn't really 155 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.320 on my book my radar until I was grown up, 156 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.320 and then I had to decide at some point, which 157 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.039 I still I mean, the story about how I ended 158 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:04.279 up in Cannibal is quite accidental, even though I've loved 159 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:06.840 it since being a child. So I mean growing up, 160 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:10.480 I would have seen my parents play Jamaica Cannival, which 161 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:12.200 was fun. We would me and my cousins would go 162 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.960 out on the roadside to watch them pass. And even 163 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:16.639 at that time, it was just a thing to do 164 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.000 on that day, no real interest. But when I became 165 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.679 of age, now, I guess sometime in high school and 166 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.639 I was able to jump Cannibal for my first time. 167 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:29.879 I think maybe it would be a little after high 168 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:31.600 school and trying to remember if I was sixteen or 169 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:37.919 eighteen when it happened, But you know, I wanted to 170 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:39.799 experience it because it was something for us to do. 171 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.039 Was very cool at the time. Everybody wanted to be 172 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:43.759 a part of it. And I did it for the 173 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:46.480 first time, and I wouldn't even sat arrest this history 174 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.080 like we enjoyed it. We continued to jump here after 175 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.519 year I went to college. That kind of put us 176 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.840 spoke in the wheels because I was at home to 177 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:58.320 jump Cannibal. But I remember just even as a little girl, 178 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.120 like I said, I had no clean for carnival. I 179 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:02.399 was just being a kid. 180 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.159 No, I was just being a kid, right right. 181 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:07.320 I remember being very outspoken. I have a brother and 182 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:11.519 our parents would describe each of us as like this 183 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.080 is the old spoken one, like this is a little 184 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.279 shy one. And I was not they one. So I 185 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:20.320 was spoken one. I was a social butterfly. Yeah, you know, 186 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.480 everybody said I was a chatterbox. All my report cards 187 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.480 came back with the chat too much as potentials, but 188 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.320 just too much that kind. 189 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:28.000 Of thing that was me. 190 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.879 Yeah right, you know I used to be so nothing 191 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.440 to do with carnival or even business. I mean, even 192 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.399 as I got older, I kind of saw myself in 193 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.919 a corporate environment, working my way up. I was not 194 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.720 beaten by no entrepreneurial book. 195 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.639 I never wanted to be known. 196 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:47.000 I never want myself that did so hard. So yeah, no, 197 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:50.440 I never wanted to do. It's completely by accident. 198 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:52.480 But in terms of my child. So what is the 199 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.919 story then, because it's so strange to me, like you've 200 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.799 done so much. I just exacted you to have that story. 201 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.360 It's so interesting. So I would have had a corporate 202 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.600 job when I first I went to school in Ohio 203 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:06.519 for four years, I got my degree, I came, I 204 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:07.759 moved back to Jamaica. 205 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:12.879 I got a corporate job. I was working. I was comfortable, 206 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.080 it was fun. I enjoyed my job. I thought I 207 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:16.720 was good at my job, and I. 208 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:19.120 Knew once I had enough money, which is this was 209 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.480 my first real stable, corporate job. Now that I wanted 210 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.919 to try to go to Trinidad Cannibal because you know, 211 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.000 I would have seen people gone. It looked really fun, 212 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.679 but it's also really expensive, so not a girl job. 213 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.519 I'm like, Okay, can you know, spend the morney I 214 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.240 got to Cannival. So I went to my first cannival 215 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:40.320 in two thousand and eleven or twelve of one of those. 216 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:44.240 And the year after I went, a couple of people 217 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:45.519 are like, boy, I didn't want to go, but they 218 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:47.519 don't know how to go. And I had a girl 219 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:49.600 who had helped me at the time to like get 220 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:52.919 a costume and tickets for parties and stuff like that, 221 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:54.519 and I was think, it's apressive. If I never have 222 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.000 her in Trinidad to help me, what would I have done. 223 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.759 But since I had gone and kind new the ropes 224 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.039 and met a couple of people, I helped other people 225 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.720 the following year. By the second year, I was seen 226 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:07.360 im a boy, you know, as a matter charge, and 227 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:11.879 people are because it's works and its work and in 228 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.279 the beginning, I just wanted it to be supplemental income. 229 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:16.320 I was like, my goal was like to get thirty 230 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.720 help thirty people to get to cannival. And I said 231 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.279 to myself, boy, that would have been great supplemental income 232 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.600 based on what I'm earning in corporate. I just did 233 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:26.200 this once a year, I get a little you know, 234 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.759 side money, and I'm good to go. That job ended 235 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:34.519 up making me redundant, and I was like, well, this 236 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:36.840 just going half a work. So I didn't have a 237 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:38.919 job for a while. So I was just kind of 238 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.559 winging it with the carnivals. But it blossomed, it bloomed, 239 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:46.039 it continued to grow. People wanted to go to other carnivals. 240 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.360 So after Trinidad, I had trainees that wanted to come 241 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.360 to Jamaica, and then after that they wanted to go 242 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.279 to crop Over and it I just built up an 243 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.480 audience of people who wanted to travel to different cannivals. 244 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.399 I realized that, you know, it's kind of a niche, 245 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.720 but there are people who carnival hop. There's a really 246 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:06.159 yeah like industry hair. So that's how I first got 247 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:10.360 started doing that. I did have other jobs, corporate jobs, 248 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.519 even in between, because I was sure. I was like, 249 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.039 I mean, look good, but you know my parents rested, 250 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:17.639 like we need to get a serious job. You know, yes, 251 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.799 my parents, yes, And so you know I didn't have 252 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.360 the confidence at the time either. You know, I've still 253 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.120 you know, needed to be guided and very much. I'm like, 254 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.559 you know, I started to do other little things that 255 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:34.080 doubuild the media for a bit, had some other jobs. 256 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.600 Right, I remember you were hosting a show. Yes I was. 257 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:37.919 Yes, I was hosting. 258 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:40.639 Access TV. 259 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.120 Yes, yeah I did. And those things are things I'm 260 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.120 still passionate about to be stayed. But boy, I can't 261 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.080 of all just kind of come compact over my whole life. 262 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.120 And you know, I still do it where I can. 263 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:54.480 I got to the other day, which I hosted an 264 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.120 amazing show, but I was still in Cannibal. 265 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:58.480 Yeah. That's that's really. 266 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:01.879 Ultimately how I got started my advice. Every time I'm 267 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:04.039 talking to other entrepreneurs, like how did you start, and 268 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:05.639 I'm that boy, I still had a foot. 269 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.279 In corporate and that's really what it was. 270 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:11.240 Like. I had other incomes at the time because I 271 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:14.120 just was not sure. Sometimes the money was good, sometimes 272 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.679 it wasn't. Monster great, monster, h you know what I mean. 273 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.919 So that's how it goes. Yeah, I still had a push. 274 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.559 In corporate somewhere. There was some stable income at all 275 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:31.159 times as I went along. After that, we started a 276 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:35.399 band in twenty sixteen here in Generica. 277 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:37.960 That went really well for a time. 278 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:42.440 But like most entrepreneurs, some things work out, some things don't, 279 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:44.080 and this was one of the things that did not 280 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:48.039 work out for me. It was very hardbreaking in a life, okay, 281 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.080 but it's just one of those things that, yeah, you 282 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:51.399 just have. 283 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:53.639 It just didn't work out. Yeah, it didn't work out. 284 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.039 I was okay with it. And then the pandemic hit. 285 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:04.440 Girl. Oh yes, that's food right. Yes, that must have 286 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:06.480 been so hard, just for the industry exactly. 287 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.000 Entertainment was completely dead. We could not gather, we could 288 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.840 not go to carnival, we could not do anything. It 289 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:17.240 was a really difficult time. Thank god, I had a 290 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:23.120 really amazing partner who's not my husband. Yes, I got 291 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:25.919 pregnant started a family in that time, and I'm so 292 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.360 blessed that I was able to afford to do that. 293 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.720 I'm actually glad it happened in the pandemic because it 294 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.240 afforded me the space and the time, especially the mental 295 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:38.720 capacity to really like doning on being a mom and 296 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:43.440 even learning things. Yeah, I mean, because girl, let me 297 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:47.399 just tell you that, you know, and it was wrong, 298 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.639 I can well imagine because it was also very lonely. 299 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.919 But me with notice, I mean, people used to send 300 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:57.200 to me all the time, like my my child was 301 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.399 talking early A lot of the pandemic babies, we're doing 302 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.799 a lot of crazy things much than people would say 303 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.480 that their children would have done them or whatever. But 304 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.240 it's because we had the space and the time to 305 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:08.880 like be with them all the time. 306 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.960 All the time. Yeah, we were with them all the time. 307 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:15.039 And you see the difference that that makes when you 308 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:19.799 are present and fully present with your children and your family. 309 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:23.000 And yeah, so that's those are the positive things that 310 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.759 I would have taken out of the pandemic. But yeah, 311 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:31.599 continued in Carnival and right before the pandemic though, is 312 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:33.519 when I would have thought of the kind of a 313 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:34.920 accessories idea. 314 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.240 So yes, yes, I thought that was so brilliant. 315 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.799 Yeah, that's really what changed life. That's really that was 316 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:45.920 the idea. Yeah, man, the only one I was a 317 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:50.880 catalyst that was that was so I would have thought 318 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:52.920 of that right before the pandemic and then the pandemic 319 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:57.119 and then I was just like more mom. But right 320 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.920 after the pandemic I had to really pick things back 321 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:05.119 up by rebranded. I came back really really strong with 322 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:08.200 uh well, I rebranded the company. So initially, when I 323 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:10.319 used to help people to get to carnivals, I call 324 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:13.039 that Carnival by Candy, But when I thought of the 325 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.559 stockings and the accessories, I named it stocking by Candy 326 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:18.599 because you know, well, Carnival by Candy was something else 327 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:21.319 and I can't. I had kind of shut down that 328 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:24.400 concerge side of the business because the reality was it 329 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:28.920 was I guess, like way too much stress and like 330 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:29.839 not enough money. 331 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:30.640 Wasn't making me like. 332 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.039 Wealth you know what, I like, I want to do 333 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.240 from when they were were like you put in it 334 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:41.000 was great supplemental income, but like scaleability just was not 335 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.000 really there for me. And there are a bunch of 336 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.000 ways I thought that, wow, if I did this and 337 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.319 I did that, I could scale. But it just came 338 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:52.200 back to when you're doing a service based thing, it's 339 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:54.720 your time and it's like there's only twenty four hours 340 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:57.519 in a day to get me. It's like yeah, so 341 00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:59.839 it's like I felt like it was almost like two 342 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.000 hard to scale because it required too much out of me. 343 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.680 But when I thought of like the stuckings, I'm like, butt, 344 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.440 this can sell wellness, you know what I mean? Yeah, this, 345 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:13.119 this can sell all time a day. 346 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:14.200 You know what I mean. 347 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:19.200 Well, I'm skill. I don't have to about this is brilliant, No, 348 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:23.359 it really is. I'm so like pushing products on people now, 349 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.599 I'm like, find a product. Everybody, find a product. Yeah, product, 350 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.319 because it changed my life. I don't know, everybody's experience 351 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:31.119 is different because they're different. Because there's a lot of 352 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:33.759 people in service based industries that are thriving and doing 353 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.240 well and wealthy and have scaled their business. Is just true, 354 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.680 that's true, but it just was not working for me 355 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:40.640 at the time. I'm like, I look like a prop 356 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.400 of all of my time, my mental energy, and I 357 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:45.759 you know, like I felt like I could only do 358 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:47.400 so much with the twenty four. 359 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.759 Hours in the day. And I have talked about all 360 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:50.519 sorts of stuff. 361 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.680 But when it's like, I don't know, I thank god 362 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:54.640 every day that he planted that stucking idea in my 363 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:59.480 brain because girl, it was transformative or so brilliant. 364 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:02.599 Yeah, and like that's a transformative I think for a weeks. 365 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:06.160 Yes, it was for the industry, and I love plain 366 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:09.680 like because people I think it's like like sucks, Like 367 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:11.839 you can just buy and sell sucks from any supplier. 368 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:13.480 You're fine, and you just sell sucks. You know, you 369 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:15.960 go downtown this it sucks. It's so it's different. So 370 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:19.119 I actually went ahead and got all the protections that 371 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:25.039 I needed for my stockings. Yeah, and that's really what 372 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.839 made the difference because actually when you have an idea, 373 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:30.839 it's really important to protect the idea. And I am 374 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:34.640 an for this because in the we don't do it, 375 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.440 we don't do it, we don't believe in it. I mean, yeah, 376 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.799 it's under utilized. Service gypoy is up there, just I 377 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:42.559 don't know if they're gathering industry or what. I know 378 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:45.039 people do it, but you know, you think it's for 379 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:50.920 something company or it's for some corporates. Protecting ideas, protective designs, 380 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:55.039 protect the things that you create. And I created something 381 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:59.400 and I am really proud of it. But immediately as 382 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.319 I thought of that idea, I didn't want somebody else 383 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.759 to do with somebody who had more money. I had 384 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:07.640 a better network than me and then when you get 385 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:12.559 I didn't want that, So yes, it was very important. 386 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:14.759 You know, it was real and it has happened, and 387 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.200 there have been a lot of copiers. It's one of 388 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:18.039 the greatest. 389 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:22.599 On a second, because this is definitely a thing. I 390 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:25.400 had Printon Omar from ja on here a couple of 391 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.480 weeks ago, and they said the same thing. They talked 392 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:31.599 about importance of having things done on the business side 393 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:34.279 because somebody was literally trying to sell their product at 394 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:36.200 a trade show and I'm like. 395 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:40.599 What these people are bright, And you know, when you 396 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.200 gets into like fashion and designing, it even gets more 397 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:47.039 difficult because the laws are not as even straight. 398 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:52.200 They're not that stockings something exists for that already. 399 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:54.400 So I did It's not actually a patent because I 400 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.240 didn't invent stockings. I put a design on seconds. So 401 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:01.319