 Big shit. It's a unique hustle nigga. Big shit. Big shit. Big shit. Name another podcast like this. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy E-CEO and I'm here with the lovely, amazing, intelligent, beautiful, that one who holds me down, man. Mr. Mako, what's going on? The official. I'm here. Hey man, we got a special guest in here today. She really don't need no introduction. Go check a TikTok out, right? Go check out what she's done in the city, man. She in Dallas, Texas, though, Lush's Barbie is in the building. Hey, another Dallas, Texas check. Hey, what part of Dallas? Oaklel? Oh, no, I'm not from North Dallas. I'm not from North Dallas. Yeah, La Colina. I live in the downtown, I live in the Los Angeles. No, you're right. From no downtown. Nobody was not born downtown. I wasn't born downtown. Well, what the hell going on? I mean, because people are going to be like, you ain't from downtown. Where are you from? As soon as you drop, where are you from? Where are you from? You can go check out the truth. I went to DeSoto. Hey, that's going to be the highlight. So, you went to DeSoto, man. So, we want to go back and just try to understand who Lush's Barbie really is. We want to understand, like, before Lush's Barbie. Is that how you always see it? You want to understand that? Before Lush's Barbie. Yeah, like, yeah, coming up with you. Who were you? Man, coming up, I've always been the person that's been the class clown. I always wanted to entertain, but I've always been about business. I'm talking about candy girl at school. I mean, from back to when. I want to know when you come from a single parent home. Oh, man, you want to go back, back. Okay, okay, okay. Let's take you back. All right. So, growing up, I would say that definitely ended up being a single parent home. I came from a, you know, it started off the perfect family. And then my dad, he ended up committing suicide in my front yard when I was eight years old. Wow. So, from there, it kind of. Did you ever find out why? Yeah, it was just a very, it got real abusive in my household. And my mom is actually writing a book about it. And I'm excited about that because it's a lot of stuff that I don't know. Right. Because I was so young. Yeah, I had a lot of questions. But then you're grown now and you've never read just turn around and ask your mom these questions. I didn't know what to ask. Um, recently I'm pushing her to write a book. So I actually got her sitting down and she's becoming an author now because I'm like, I got so many questions, but I don't know what to ask. And it's a touchy topic because that was her, her. But it's been so many years you would think that she, not say get over it, but being able to open up about it right now. I think it was one of those things that not knowing what to open up about because it was one of those things like my whole family felt like I already knew what happened, but I'm so young that I don't, I don't know. All I know is I woke up one day, he's in my front yard. That's it. You know, did you see his body? My mom did. My mom seen him, seen it happen. I just seen the aftermath. I seen her going to the ambulance. I seen. So you didn't see him? No, no, no, no, no. She showed you from all of that. I've seen everything, but no, she kept me from that. But what did she say to you? Like when all of that was done and cause you know how anything traumatic happens, the parent have to come to the child and say, okay, let me sit you down. You know, you're not going to see your dad anymore. He's not going to be here. You know, what did she say to you? That part, I don't remember. That's why it's one of those things I don't really know. Yeah. Because it's even certain situations that I'll bring up and it be like, nah, that's not how that happened. It happened a different way. That wasn't your mom and dad fighting. That was your mom, your dad and your grandma fight. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, whoa, but it's a certain part, especially like my dad's side of the family, they feel like I already know what's going on. But now I'm figuring out that it was crazy stuff. Yeah. Are you the oldest one? No, my brother's oldest. So my brother has a lot more experience. How much older is he? We're six days and six years apart. Okay. So he definitely know a lot more and you've never just turned to him and cause he's sibling compared to your mom. Yeah. Was he in the house of design? Yeah. He never really turned to him and asked him. Recently we've talked about it, but it's more than things that he'd be like, it's a lot that you don't know. And I'd be like, whoa, what? Tell me. And I'd be telling my mom about my mom. That's why now when she was reading me like pages of the book that she's writing, I was like, wait a minute, what? Like what's going on? And it's one of them things that my dad was going through a lot of mental issues and was telling my mom, but they were, they were going through divorce and he had a whole nother family and he shot his girlfriend and it's a whole situation. He shot it? The same day? Yeah. Did he kill her? No, he didn't. So he shot her, then came over there. He was coming to do something to himself for you. We don't know. We don't know. He just came in the yard and did it. And he was standing in the yard? Yeah. And my mama, he was talking to my mama through the window and she said that once it happened, it was one of them things that you really didn't know what was going to happen in that moment. Was he trying to do anything toward her? Was he arguing her? Tell her to get out? No. He was actually saying you got to help me and that's what I recently found out because he was in the way she's telling me the story and that's why I'm so glad that she dropping it because he was telling her for months like, man, you didn't do nothing. You're my best friend. Like everything I did was wrong and he was also telling her like, I don't want to be here no more. And she was reaching out to try to get him help and nobody was, you know how people, especially in our culture, just like from the south and everything. Yeah, he ain't gonna do nothing. He's gonna be all right. He good. But he was somebody of what they would say now a high value man. He had a real estate company. He was an engineer in the Air Force, 34 years old. You know what I'm saying? How many kids did he have at that time? Two. So me and my brother. Okay. So he had a whole nother family. So the something I did he have kids at all. No, she had kids and that was his girlfriend. But it's crazy because now he was with your mom at the same time. Yeah. He was the next door neighbor sister. That's the crazy part about it was the next one. That's not that crazy. I mean, you hear this stuff all the time and people, you know, things happen, man. We're not perfect people. And that's the whole game. Like, and we do need counseling, some of the things that pass down from our ancestors affect our mental. So we got to stop acting like it's stuff that we didn't get help for. And then you go to the Air Force or whatever. Who knows? Was he in the military? And he was in, was he active? All this stuff matters, man. What happened. Yeah. And, and, but it's, it's, and I, I love the way that like just being from the south, because like most of my families from Arkansas, like a lot of my family in Arkansas, but we spread it all out. But, you know, I feel like with the older generation too, it's one of them things like, I hate to say what goes on in this house stays in this house. Right. Because it really, now I'm an adult and I'm really lost on what, like that part of me. But it really doesn't, because when people are arguing, especially if it comes out and they're outside arguing, the whole neighborhood is seeing it anyway. So it's really not staying in the house. They don't really know the specifics of what's going on. But, you know, oh, you see that they're arguing, they're fighting. It's not really staying in the house. And most of the time everybody else knows, except for the people in the house, like the kids and, and then you get other people in the family that think you already know. And, and that, that's one of them things that now I'm like, I begged her, hey, write this book. I don't care who get mad. So you never saw the abuse? Did you see him beating on your mom and all, but he never touched y'all? No. No. Were you a daddies girl? Yeah. From what I remember, like I said, I was eight. That's probably why they try to shelter you from a lot of things that I want you to always think of him in a sort of good light. You know what I mean? Yeah, but I struggled with that for a lot of years where I was just angry because then after that happened, I'm thinking of it like, man, like, Was it your fault? I wasn't, not even that. I thought of it more so of like, man, I didn't understand suicide. I didn't understand mental issues. I didn't understand that. So I, I felt like that's selfish. Like, you know, you had kids like you, now I'm going to see people at a school and they're going on the father daughter dances. And that's something I'll never experience. How did that affect you? With relationships with men for a long time, it was one of the things that, okay, you're going to leave anyway. You know, like you're going to eventually leave. So it really don't matter how this relationship go because the one man in my life literally is never coming back. What's the longest relationship you've had? Longest relationship, like three, four years. Did you, were you ever abused by any of your boyfriend? No, because that's a trigger for me. Yeah. That's one of the things if I see any, if you get loud with me, I'm like, I don't know. We got to go. But then how some people get fall right back in the same situation that, you know, they grew up seeing and end up in that same abusive relationship that they saw their mom or daddy in. All at some time. It's totally opposite. It goes opposite where they, it just totally goes away from what she's doing. Yeah. It's one of the things that it's, it's more than a red flag. It's a whole stoplight. It's one of them things that if I see any, any form of it, because the type of abuse that I've seen in the household was so traumatic that it's one of them things that I'm like, nah, I can't. But did you see your mom heal from it and move on to even having another relationship? I've seen her in other relationships. She's more of a person now that she is, if she was walking the room, she gonna light up the whole room. You would never know that she went through anything. Did she have any type of? Counseling. No, not just counseling. You know, y'all call it counseling. I call it a encounter with God. Oh yeah. She's a very spiritual woman. So that, that, that, you know, I don't really, the counseling thing I think is overrated. I think you need to be connected to God. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, I don't play with it. Y'all can play, bounce around the subject of how you can go here. But God is my counselor. So I don't, you know, the Holy Spirit and all that stuff is real for me. Yeah. He made a broker, broken her physically, but he never broke her spiritually. Yeah. And, and she, she said to me recently, and, and this is what she's saying in the book, is that even after all this happened, even after everything, she's still like her main prayer was that he go to heaven. Like that, that, you know, I'm saying that the love is just that everything be wiped away. So that, that keeps me grounded is how spiritual she is. And definitely keeping God the, the highlight of our life in general, because seeing somebody come through that, I know God is real. You know, and, and the thing you got to understand is to be done went through that. She's went through a lot and, and that, that, that what don't kill you make you stronger or my strength is perfected in weaknesses, policy and first Corinthians. Like this is the thing that we do. We stretched and pulled to different places to where we can help somebody else. That's, that's, that's the way it go. But then, okay, since your brother's older, how did it affect him during school time and all of that? Um, he had a rough patch in school, just as far as always fighting, you know, getting kicked out of school, but he put it into sports. He also put it into like wrestling and, and UFC and stuff like that. So I think more for him, it was more of an anger thing because, and I can't speak from a man's perspective because that's a whole different story. And because he was older and he saw, you know. Yeah. And he's not a person that is very vocal about that type. It's one of them things that I remember when I was younger and I wrote about this day. And I think this is one of them things that it's so touchy for, especially my mom with writing on the fear of with the truth coming out. Because I remember writing, I think I might have, it might have been like maybe a couple months after my dad passed. And I wrote a story about the worst day of my life. And I wrote exactly what I remembered from that day. And this was a school project. Yeah. And he got upset and ripped it up and he was just mad. Your brother. Yeah. My brother was so mad. He was just trying to deal with it. Because he wanted it to stay at home and not get out in the public. Yes. And so one of those, and that's why now it's one of those topics that if he brings it up, we'll talk about it. But it's never been like, okay, let's sit down and figure out how this really affected you, which I know that it does because it affects me. But it's one of the things that I always remember back to that day and be like, the way that he dealt with it. But does he have a relationship with God? Yeah, he does. And that's the thing. I mean, well, then he's still, there's still some cutting and some crooning that need to be done. Because when you start to forgive on the next level, you have to let things go. And you understand how the important skills of letting things go and it affects you if you don't. So therefore, if he's still holding on to something, he's still healing in those areas. So he's still hasn't healed all the way up because in order to heal all the way up, you have to be able to totally let things go. Right. And in a way to where you can help others with the things that have wrapped themselves around you. Right. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah. And I can definitely see the transition over the years and him getting older and trying to be more accepting and more open about, you know, just just the way that things happen. And I learned a lot from him, too, just across the board in business. When it comes to anything street, that's the person. So that that's that person. I'm glad that I do have a brother to be able to step in for that male figure. You know, I have my grandfather as well. But somebody that's close that I can see. Okay, this is what this is what a man's supposed to do. And this is what a man not supposed to do. Because without that, I think for a woman losing her father, that's something that a lot of women, like you said, they fall back into a situation because now you don't know the difference of what's right and wrong. Let's just, Barbie, we never would have thought that you went through all that. Oh, yeah. Just looking at you on the outside, you cover it up very well. Yeah. You know, because at the end of the day, we all got stuff that we, if we start. You don't walk around with with the scars written on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you don't. You don't. But at the end of the day, we know they're there. Yeah. That's letting our our culture and our people. I just really know. I already know when I bump into somebody, you hiding something. Yeah. You got something that you're trying to cover up. And I wish it was more open. I wish, especially with mental illnesses in the family and the things that don't go on. I always said that I wish that what goes on in the house stays in the house. I wish that was some type of panel. I wish that was something that was open for people because like you said, that's the best people connect to pain, you know, and a lot of people will look at me and like, you know, you, you doing this, you got the numbers, you doing this, you know, you don't deal with anything. And it's like, it's days. I don't want to leave the house. But it's getting better than what it used to be because that scene was so true back then. Now, yes, it's somewhat, but not as much because people are more being vocal. Yeah. People are more talking, especially I'm going to always go back to that Me Too movement because once that started coming out to me, more people started talking about issues. Right. Whether first it was that abuse and then now it's more mental health. Right. People are talking about mental health and it takes platforms like this. Right. That people are coming on to talk about telling their stories and then people on the other end listening to you and being like, I need to speak about it because holding it in causes reactions down the line that like for your father that, you know, it happened terribly, but he ended up taking his life because of him holding in, right, you know, situations every day and not even just holding because he was pleading for help, but people didn't know how to handle it. So it's just avenues because I've heard people come to me and say, hey, you know, yes, we have problems, but I don't know where to turn. And as much as it's on social media, it's on the news, but they still feel like they don't have it at a rec center down the street, not in their area. Right. Everybody's going to pick up the phone and call somebody and say, hey, I need to talk to such and such. This hotline is XYZ. Yeah. They want to walk down the street to this rec center or go to the doctor or go to wherever, but they don't feel like it's so accessible. And a lot of times if people have the resource, what I've noticed is like it's it's one of those things that I and I've heard this in my own family. I heard this from different people in their family, like therapy and things like that are really like, well, you ain't going to know therapy. Why are you going? You know, they make it seem like a such a negative thing to do, especially if a man talks to somebody, especially for a man. That ain't the same as it used to be for a lot of people. But it's still there a little bit. It's changing it. It's changing a lot because people are crushing off of that. It's really a cliche of something that's really popular now where to say it on these platforms where mental illness is a big deal where you people love to say it. It's the thing that everybody's loving to say. I don't know if they're doing it. It's like they saying it. Like I get it, you know, but they definitely saying it is everywhere. But the people that have the pain and they speak about it, it's for the public. It's perfect because people can relate in the comments or that, but it's the families that you have to deal with on them being like. The bad thing about the word mental illness, which I do get and I do, I do agree with you in a lot of different ways that people are using as a crutch because everybody goes through mental problems, but they're calling everything mental illness, which everything, you know, growing up, you think about when somebody said mental illness, you crazy. You need medication. You need to be at the tarot state hospital or wherever some, you know, none house gets, you know, help. But now they're making such a broad umbrella saying that, okay, you went through your daddy pass. So you're suffering from mental illness. You need to get help. But it's not even, you just need counseling. There's a difference between mental health where you need or mental illness and mental health. You know what I mean? Because here, mental illness, you need some medication to balance off whatever that's going on in your head that, you know, needs to keep you, you're schizophrenic, you're this, you're that, whatever. Compared to I went through trauma. I need to know how to deal with this trauma. I need to know how to let it go. I need to talk about it to somebody. So I need to know how to not be like this person. I need to know how not to carry this baggage into my new relationship that's coming up. You see what I mean? There is there, there is a difference. It is. Let's talk about, let's just bother me. Okay. Let's talk about some, we, we, we definitely tackled that enough. Yeah. Okay. I want to talk about your, just your experience on who you are for is on your social media platforms, how you're developing your brand. So that people understand what you're doing today so that they can tap into who Luscious Barbie is only, you know, because who but Luscious Barbie is far as on the social media platforms and stuff, the brand that you're pushing is very important for us to get out to the people that watch this channel. And before you answer that, make sure you tell your mom that before she releases that book, she needs to come on here and we'll talk about it. Okay. So that to get our, you know, to get our listeners geared up to go purchase that book and see what it's all about. Because I think now when she's writing it, it's one of those things that she has to relive it, but she has to say it. You know what I'm saying? I don't think it's something that she's ever said because when she read it to me, I was balling. I was like, what do you mean? You know, so it's going to be really good, but I will tell her that. But Luscious Barbie, man, oh man, I started my brand Luscious Barbie by doing exactly what I've always wanted to do. I run my mouth wanting to talk all the time. But I'm a person that I'm a hustler to the bone. I'm a person I will, every job that I worked at, I will see what somebody had on. I'm coming back on Friday and I'm selling you everything he was wearing through the week. That doesn't really work in a nine to five setting because you can't turn that into your business. I've tried to open boutiques. I've done so many different things. But when I, in 2016, I started Let's Talk Dallas. Okay. I was doing internet radio at Fishbow. So I had a show there for about three years. I'll interview artists. I wanted to highlight Dallas. The reason why I wanted to highlight Dallas is because every time I would type in on YouTube, anything about Dallas, it was always negative. It was always the beef. It was always, but it was people from other cities telling our story. And I'm like, there's an amazing artist in Dallas. There's amazing restaurants. There's a lot of places to go. So I started doing that and then the ratings were good sound as far as audio, but I wanted to go more visual. So I connected with a friend. I started doing more visual interviews. And then I got into red carpet. I got into where I'm traveling Vegas, South by Southwest every year doing street interviews, interviewing everybody that you know. And then I was still working. The thing about it was I was still working a nine to five job trying to do everything. So this, the most recent job that I was working in 2019, I was doing, I was working at this company. I'm not going to say that name because I don't like y'all. I was working at this company. I'm a licensed cosmetologist as well. So I was selling wigs online and I was selling them mainly to people with cancer and alopecia or high level clients like attorneys and people that are willing to spend $17,000 on wigs. I was really doing well there. But the whole time I'm at this job, I used to watch TED Talks every day on how to quit my job. Like every day. I mean, faithfully, I will go to work. I will watch breakfast club in the morning when I sit down at my desk, do some emails and I will listen to TED Talks all day. Just the motivation of just letting off the guaranteed money. It was the money that I was addicted to because I would make money on the side. It was good money. I would make money in commission. I was always into sales. The money was like, I can't let this go because then how am I going to pay my bills, right? But I would always tell people, go for your passion, quit your job. But I would never let go. But you were talking about that. And so that was miserable to me because now I'm in a box. I'm seeing other people branch off and do what they're taking my advice. But now I'm stuck on a paycheck, right? So then one day I wake up, I get a call from this job and they say, you know, this is just not working out. I'm like, what's not working out, girl? You got a relationship problem. Let's talk about it. Like, wait, I'm here for the tea. She was like, no, we love you. You know, your personality stands out. We just feel like we're in your way. I'm like, blew me away. I'm on my way to work. I'm like, am I way? Like, wait, like, wait, wait, wait, hold on, wait. You must be good friends with them for them to even say that. She was like, I said, am I getting fired over the phone? Because now I'm confused. Am I getting fired over the phone? She said, we just want to save you the gas. Okay, appreciate that. But I'm ready to flip over some tables at this point because I'm preparing to quit. I'm not preparing to get fired. Like, but I manifested that I had put that in my life. Like, I really knew that I was not going to get up and leave that job ever. I literally would be still there if they wouldn't have fired me. So luckily, I'm a person that whenever I'm out, if I go drink or do anything, I come back home and I do vision boards. So I go back home and I'm sitting there and I'm really lost because now I'm praying. I'm like, please come to me. What will I do now? I looked at my vision board and said, go to LA, go network. Your life depends on it. So I'm like, okay, who do I know in LA? I hit up my cousin, knew one cousin out there, one auntie out there. I haven't seen this on my dad's side. I haven't seen them since I was like six. But I'm like, hey, can I come visit LA? They say, yeah, come on. It's crazy how things start happening. It was blessings coming right after that because right after I got fired, somebody that had scammed me and I didn't even know a girl that I lived with in like 2015 for like a week, she put the gas bill in my name and somehow the city of Dallas sent me a check for $2,000 and out of nowhere in 2019. And the girl called me and was like, hey, it's a check from the city of Dallas. I don't know what it is, but just come pick it up. I went and picked it up. I used that and went and visited LA. I went out there and that was just like, oh man, come out here. You know, you're gonna love here. You can live your dreams. You want to be in front of the camera. You want to be an actress. So of course I come back here, pack up my stuff within two weeks, I moved to LA. Not knowing nobody. I tried to live with my family that didn't work out. I ended up moving with some strangers that I met on a set of Insecure. And it's crazy because it positioned me to where I am now. And that's why this is an important part of the story because while I was out there, I had no agent. I used the app backstage. I literally was driving- How did you get on the set? Because it was an app called Backstage and I was just networked. Everywhere I would go, I was networking with people. People, the jobs that people didn't want, like sitting in the audience clapping, they got paid $50 an hour. I'm there every day. I'm driving an hour and 30 minutes to go make $50 and you don't get the check for two weeks. I'm out there in a truck. Gas is $4.50. So I'm losing. I'm taking all type of losses, but I had the access to go to the beach. I would go to the beach and just write. I would just map it out, right? I met people. One of my best friends, Jarabra O'Shaun, shout out to him. He was a person that took me to the mansion parties and he's been signed to the labels. He was a part of recognition. So he had a circle. He introduced me to so many different people, but I would go set to set. But what that did for me and I didn't even know it is, the people that wouldn't share my videos, let's talk Dallas, wouldn't listen to my podcast, wouldn't come on a radio show, couldn't interview all these artists. Now they see me. Is that Lush's own, Love Me Hip Hop Hollywood behind Marcus Euston? Is she in another episode? Every time people sending me, tagging me, then they see me on MTV Crack Me Up with all of the cast of Wildin' Out. Then they start seeing me on Insecure. They start seeing me. I did Let's Make a Deal, did a pilot for, I can see your voice on Fox. So you are behind the scenes on all of those. You didn't really never get like a leading role? I did. What hasn't aired yet is, I can see your voice on Fox. I did a whole episode. I was the Gospel Goddess and that's with Charlemagne and God. And Robin's Day. When is that coming out? I don't know. In LA, they really just pay you and like, hey, figure it out. If it come on, you'll catch it if not. I did a show on Eat Network, a fashion emergency. They're bringing that show back. I don't know when they're gonna drop it, but I did a whole episode of that. So I'm excited to see that. They took me from like a street interviewer to a news reporter. So they transformed me and made me look like a news reporter. So that was fun. But all this happens and then the pandemic comes. And I'm like, I don't know LA like that. Like that. But what it did for me in Dallas is the respect level changed. Because now people see that you actually went for it. You actually took your own advice. Now I'm seeing you making rules. Yeah. They like, you got an agent? Agent, I just went out there and grind. But in LA, I was such a breath of fresh air. I would hear that all the time. I walked into, people would hit me up on Instagram. Hey, can you go do interviews at the SP Awards? What is that? I didn't even know what the SP Awards was. I'm used to doing South by Southwest. I don't know what that is. I get in the room and all I had is my phone and my selfie stick. And I'm so like how you said when we before it came on, making yourself uncomfortable. Because I was like, okay, how am I going to make this work? Because it's Darius McCrae, Albusounday, it's Amon Joseph when Snowfall just dropped. And I go in there and I'm, hey, y'all good? Y'all had a drink? Get some edibles back there, y'all. Y'all straight? Everybody good? And they're like, who are you? Because you're not from LA. That's it. So where is this hospitality coming from? People don't even speak in LA. I get that all the time. Yeah. And I'm like, y'all, I got a hot seat back here. I'm going to be asking y'all, what's your porn name? I'm going to be asking y'all kind of crazy questions. It was a line of celebrities that I had always watched and seen. They lined up to find out who I am. Wow. That's God. You know what I'm saying? So it was one of the things I was like, okay, you got it. And then every time I would be on set, I would be talking to the director. So I'm talking to the cameraman. I'm getting that number of people like, oh, you ain't supposed to do that. That's against the code. I'm like, well, I'll be Merry Christmas, Halloween in the family. And I would get more opportunities. Building relationships. Yeah. I did a play. But they don't want you to do that at all. They don't want you to do that at all. That's against the policy. They're like, you can get black. Well, I'm like, well, I mean. I'm going to get black, because it's going to be me. You're going to buy me at least there and know my name. I mean, that's really it. And how I started doing comedy. I started doing comedy by when they would ask anybody in the audience can sing. And I would be like, me, I get up there. Once I get the mic, the mic is my comfort zone. So you can sing? No, not at all. But she just make them think she's a- When I get the mic, now the audience, because I'm on the set of Neighborhood and Tashina Arnold is behind me. Instead of Tashina, that's my audience. The audience that I'm standing in front of, that's who's hearing me. But I know they can hear too. So I would be like, my name is Luscious. Y'all say, hey, Luscious. Everybody in the audience, hey, Luscious. Now I know they hear me, right? So I would be like, OK, the house on the left is red. The house on the right is blue. Where is the White House? If y'all get it right, then I would tell the audience, warm up comedian. If you get it wrong, everybody get some candy. Because I know everybody's complaining about they hungry. He would get it wrong. Everybody get candy. Now they, go Luscious, go Luscious. You know, every time I did that, the next time I came, I said something else. And Cedric and Tanya was like, Luscious, what the hell are you talking about today? And I was like, they hear it. That's it. So then I went from a $57 day. So the next one of the producers reached out and said, well, hey, how about you do a background position? That's changed my day from driving an hour and 30 minutes for $57 to now it's a $300 day. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So that changed it. And from there, I did plays. I did all of that. But when the pandemic happened, it's another obstacle that I'm like, man, OK, I got to go back home. I got to go where I know. When I get back here, I really didn't know what I was going to do at that point. You know what I'm saying? I'm kind of just like, oh, man, now I'm back at square one. I didn't quit my job. Now I don't want to go back to work. I didn't realize how to hustle without the guaranteed money. So how did you overcome the pandemic? Oh, man, once I got back here, my niece had started showing me TikToks. And I'm like, I don't know how to do no TikTok. I got my first TikTok video still up. I'm doing a renegade dance. I'm really trying to figure it out. Can't do, can't do no dance. That's it. But then I did a video of my first video of another Dallas Texas check, which is another Dallas Texas check. What I do now is let's talk Dallas. I've been working on it since 2016. It's never changed. The formula is the same. I changed the name and I made it more trendy. And I did the first video of just, you know how before, I was trying to be professional. And I wanted people to come in and do the right type of interviews. And I wanted to have the questions and all of that. But I did a Sweet Georgia Brown. And I said, if you pull up at your barbecue place and it's not pie holes in the parking lot, I don't want it. If it's not grease splatter and all over the back of the building, I don't want it. I don't want to go in there if you can't say, um, and they say we ain't got that. You know, and when I did that, it went crazy. So that made me understand that sticking to the original formula is what I really need to do all along. And then I just went from there. Every video, every place I will go eat, every place I will go do, I will do a review. And now, I mean, I created the hashtag another dollar sex check, it's at 7.1 million views now. The followers are organic. Everywhere I go, people stop me. I've brought so many businesses through the pandemic because a lot of the business owners would tell me, man, we were about to close. We didn't know what we was going to do. And you did a video and people start coming in here. People start getting the food. They start telling, and that's how I started it. While people, I would make the people say, luscious since you. So when I go and I talk to the business owner, now they like, so you luscious. Now I turn my whole platform into advertising agency. And it's been up for them. Do you get free food everywhere you go? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This week, I've gotten soap. My refrigerator is so many to go boxes. I can't eat all that food. And my body is telling me now, like, girl, you keep on. Yeah, but you're doing the right thing helping people for sure. For sure. Take some of that food and go hit them streets. Be the homeless. Oh, yeah. Start, you know what, here. Be the homeless, yeah. Tell them exactly where you got it from, you know, whatever. Be the blessing. Yeah, when I have it in the car, everybody I see on the street, I'll give it to them. But I do need to. I want to put together a whole, because it's so much food that restaurants get rid of. Get rid of. That it's like, they just really need that person. They need it. To just come in and say, hey, I'll take it to them. Yeah, like, what time do you close? Yeah. I'll come get cases. If you don't want to give me the containers, I'll go buy the containers. You just put them in there. Because nobody wants to just give away their containers that need it for their business. Buy some containers, and that could be a non-profit. And be like, hey, put the food in here, and I'll take it and go dish it out. Oh, yeah. And then it's just, what's the most uncomfortable situation that happened when you was up in LA with a celebrity that made you feel like, dang, I messed that up? Or, man, I killed that. Either way, I don't care. With a celebrity? Um, I would say, uh, does directors count? Yeah. I would say being on set and being a Black plus-sized woman was the most uncomfortable situation on any set that I worked on. But I mastered it because just being my authentic self and knowing how to not be afraid of missing opportunities. Because if I'm on set and they saying, well, can you make it more urban? Like, can you say, oh, I'm like, why would I say that? Yeah. That's Cardi B thing. Why would I say that? Well, can you be more, like, Lizzo? Can you be more confident, like, Lizzo? I'm very confident. You know, like, Lizzo, you want me to get naked? What are you, like, what are you saying? So those situations were so uncomfortable about me voicing it. And that's what a lot of people are scared of, the voice, because you're going to lose the dollar. It's going to happen. They're going to be like, well, I mean, if you don't do it, there's millions of other people. Exactly. That industry does that. And that opportunity is not for me. How do you feel about Monique in the way that she... That's exactly who I was thinking about. The way that she... Spoke out. ...responded, spoke out, the way that she took on everything that she had to deal with in that limelight. Yeah. I think it was the way that she did it and the weight, because if you've been... And that's with influence in anything. If you've been accepting something for so long and not saying anything about it... It boils up. Once you say something about it, that's going to be the main question. Well, why are you waiting to now? And that's with everything, with the me too, with everything. Well, why now? Why now? And it's like, it's never a great time to say how you feel. But I think that's why it was so much backlash about it, is because it's like, well, if this is going on, now that you've already reaped all the benefits from it, now you have to be willing to walk away from that money and the benefits that come with it. It depends. I think if you're the first one who comes out with it, then they're going to jump on you even more. But if someone came out with it before you and then you came out, it's like the me too movement and the people came out afterwards, they're like, well, I built up the courage because of this person. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? And make it easier, yeah. Right. Well, let me know how people can get a hold of you. Like, if they're trying to get you to advertise for them, or what's the best way on Instagram or any platform that they can get a hold of you. Instagram, you can contact me at Sweet Life for Lushes, TikTok, Sweet Life for Lushes, www.anotherdallassexycheck.com. You can catch me there. Click the link in the bio on any of my social medias. I have a form there ready for you and just go in detail on what you need as far as promotion. I do all businesses. It just does not have to be just food. I've done restaurant salons. I also do social media marketing. So if you need your page or anything done like that, I do tutorials where I teach businesses how to work the TikTok platform within your niche. So I kind of go in and do the whole brainstorming. But the best way to contact is Instagram or TikTok. Also, I know you link with Ricky Booker. Oh, yeah. Shout out to Ricky Booker. I wanted to shout him out and just... What has that... How have you helped his situation or dealt with his situation in restaurant? Man. Just that production scene. That relationship built from me doing a TikTok and bringing a lot of business. And then he actually seen that I was not just about the talk. I was about the business too. And from there, it went from TikTok after TikTok to now I'm one of the writers, a producer of the TV show in the kitchen with the breakfast brothers. I'm also the announcer of the show. I'm basically the field agent in the restaurant. So now our relationship is very close. I definitely appreciate everything that he's done because he understood and seen the vision and actually believed in me. And that's one of those things that I feel like everything is about a co-sign. Of course, you're going to be co-signed by God all the time. But in a lot of places, all it takes is that one person to actually believe and he is that one person. Well, he's showing up, got some good... What was them waffles? Them little red velvet chicken and waffles. I love that one. Can we try it both? But a red velvet? I might go over there. Hell, tomorrow morning. Have you tried the fried rice? Oh, no. I had some catfish fried rice the other day. The rice is amazing. I went to Benihana and got mad because it didn't taste like breakfast. I'm about to go back. I might go tomorrow, you know what I mean? The catfish fried rice? He going to be there tomorrow, you think? Call him. I don't know. Oh, yeah, make sure he pull up. Yeah, I'm coming through that car. You got to go earlier than the church crowd. Yeah, I know. We got to get over there. If you call him, you'll be good. Yeah, you're going to be going to take care of me. Definitely try that. Have you tried the grilled peanut butter, the fried peanut butter sandwich? Uh-uh. I think. Did I? Peanut butter and jelly. Yeah, I did. I didn't like it. You didn't like the peanut butter and jelly? It tastes... You have to pair with some anything. I think you brought me some lamb chops. Lamb chops, I did. What? I'm saying we're good. Lamb chops, man. Let's get off this, man. Hey, man, I'm hungry right now, man. Y'all niggas roll for that. Hey, man, thank you so much for coming on Boss Shop, man. Thank you for having me. Is there anything that we left out, anything we missed, anything you want to highlight before you get off this show? Shout out. Is somebody you want to beef with? Dallas, y'all, look out. Lush's Barbie got something to say. Oh, yeah. Another Dallas sexy shake, y'all. I just want y'all to know that I'm the original, the creator, all of that. It's my full-time business. I have all of my paperwork done on another Dallas sexy shake. So y'all can keep using it if you want to. You can switch it up. You can em a tatty. You can do whatever you want to, but baby, just know it's another Dallas sexy shake. Let's go. Hey, man, we love you. God loves you, man. Love you, Barbie. Thank you so much for coming and being a part of Boss Talk 101, where the bosses talk. Howl at your boy. It's a unique hustle. It's going down, and we are. And we are. Oh, okay.