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Thank you in advance and we love you. Hey man, what's going on man, today we've got a very special guest in here today. She don't really need no introduction man, she's one of the dopest, one of the coldest females that I've met since I've been doing this podcast. She's family too. She's been on this show several times. You may have seen her looking beautiful all around the internet because she is a model. She is everything and then some Taylor, Simone is in the building. What's going on? Hola, my loves. How are you? Hey, what's going on man? It's nice to be back. Man, listen man, we've been waiting on this one. This has been the one we've been really anticipating man, trying to figure out just like, hey man, what the hell is Taylor up to because she's been busy. Hey, I've been all over the place but in a good way. Man, you know, I just, I get excited, you know, your hustle has always been something that I could appreciate. Like I remember like coming down there, you know, to the salon and basically doing skits and everything. Do y'all remember the first time? Oh yeah, I was cutting up. You were so mad. No, because I did not want to be there. I didn't want to be massage bar. I hadn't been back. I hadn't been back. I had been back. I hadn't been back. You did come back. You got up and you left me. No, I did not for no massage. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. I did again. Yes, you did. No, that was you and nobody else. That wasn't me. No, you came back. You came back twice. No. Yes, you came back twice. No. The first time though. I never came back. Y'all lying. I'm upset. What's going on? You was complaining and then you got up and you said, I like this. Step, I think you're thinking about when we was in Vegas. No, you came back twice. You came back twice. You came back and got a massage twice. I sent my daughter. I have not been back down there. You can massage so many. You're trying to get me mixed up. Oh my God. I put it on everything. You came back. No way. You were just so relaxed. You don't remember. No. You were asleep. No. You were back up. You was in the middle of talking shit and you said, I said, I said a lot of people down there from Charles to White. I'm cool with all of you. Who was it? Ronnie. Bubba Dub. Bubba Dub. Gutter TV. Gutter TV. Gutter TV. Gutter TV. Gutter TV. Gutter TV. It was a bunch of them. You sent a lot of people to me. But at the end of the day, it's cash. All of them. Cash. Yeah. It's been a bunch of them come down that they love the, hey, the treatment man, the way you guys treat people, make them feel good about coming to Dallas, especially out of time as they come. You know what I mean? PGF shop, didn't he come? Yeah. I was actually in Atlanta. He texted me. He was like, why you didn't tell me you was down here. I was down there for business. And I forgot I got you next time. I talked to him a few days ago. And a lot of people know I'm still cool with them. I still communicate with them. They'll come to my events, things that I have. That's hard, man. Let's get all the way into business. Yeah. Because the last time you were here, we weren't able to get in like a hundred percent like what we wanted to. So I know you're born and raised here in Dallas, right? Troublede, yes. What part of Dallas were you born and raised in? Pleasant Grove. Pleasant Grove. Yes. Okay. Yes, you are. With your mom and dad or single parent household. What was that? So I would say my mom and my stepdad raised me. My stepdad, that's my daddy. Like I'm his take months to for life. Like he's been there since I was six months. My biological dad, y'all know I met when I was 27 and he passed away at 30. Right. But I was, I mean, it was still impactful. Right. Like my dad still made a very big impression on my life. So you was 30, right? Yes, I was 30. So when I met him, I was 26 going into 27. Right. My child, but hold on, I want to go back before you get, start getting into your father though. Because as a child growing up, when you, six months, your stepdad was there, did your mom ever tell you that that was not your father? My mama didn't tell me until I was 11, that wasn't my dad. But you know, I was a very, I was a smart kid. So you started figuring out, yeah. I was like, hold on, you chocolate, my little sister chocolate, that can't be my dad. And your mama, not that light. My mom, yeah, my mom's not that, I was the brightest one in my family. Right. I was a little white babe, a little white, red-haired child. So I'm like, the math ain't mathy. You know, I was gifted and talented. So did you ask as a kid? I never asked, like for a very long time, I assumed that my older sister's dad was my dad because he was light-skinned. So I just never asked. I would just be like, you know, I'm not going to disrupt nothing. But you know, like my, I think I was 11, my mom was like, well, this is your biological dad. And I was like, what? And then I found out that wasn't my biological dad, come to find me. So she told you somebody else was your biological dad? The person she was engaged to come to find out it wasn't. So hold on. So your stepdad isn't the person that, I mean, so you said she left him and moved on to somebody else? So my stepdad and my mom got divorced when I was like 11. She started dating this guy, the guy that she started dating was the person. She said that that was your dad. That was the person she was engaged to. But it turned out when I was 26, and I met my biological dad, it turned out he wasn't my dad. She thought he was my dad. Oh, so she didn't know? Yeah. She didn't know. So when I, when my biological dad found me on Facebook, he was like, I'm your dad. And I was like, how did he know that? I guess the crazy part is, is he was kind of watching me for like two years. And then like his mom, she lived a literally walking distance from where I grew up in Pleasant Grove, where I learned how to drive and all that other stuff. Like I would literally drive on her street. I used to go to Blanton all the time and be at the park or the pool or the rec and I think one, I think what he told me was his best friend, her daughter was my best friend in high school. And I think one day either I was around them or he seen a picture of us and he was just like, who daughter is that? And that's when my mom came into play, like conversations about my mom came into play and he knew that he messed with her. Yeah. And he knew what they dated in high school. And I guess they rekindle, you know, you know how they did. But why didn't she ever think that that could have been his? I don't know. Maybe she thought because I look like, you know, the guy you look like you look like your daddy. Yeah. But I mean, if you're not side by side, you will never really know. So like, I guess she kind of just thought like this. But the crazy part is, is like my sister, me and my sister was having a conversation one day and I really believe like when you belong somewhere, you belong somewhere, you're going to feel it. And I used to tell my sister, I can't belong to this family. This family, I cannot belong to this family. Like it's just too much stuff going on that I just don't feel like I'm connected. And like me and my sister were talking. She was like, yeah, mom used to date this guy. And she was like, his name was Zach. Like she used to date this guy. And I swear you look just like him. But, you know, out of out of nowhere, he just wasn't around anymore. And I just, you know, but you look like him. Couple years later, he pops up and I go to my sister. I said, what'd you say that man's name was? And she was like, Zach, this man's name is Zach Portia. This man's name is the name that you told me. He got sandy red hair and his baby picture looked like my baby picture. So what are y'all hiding? So. So did you ever take up a test to make sure? We took a paternity test because I had told him, I was like, I'm not your daughter until it's proven. Right. And it came out. I was his. Well, how did that make you feel like to find that out after all this time? I was real mad at both of my parents. I remember. I remember. I was pissed. I was like, y'all, because what happened was what I think happened was is that by the time it came to fruition that I could possibly be his, they already had two separate lives. They already had their own things going on. So they didn't want to disrupt their lives. So they figured it was OK to disrupt minds because I wasn't old enough to understand. And so for a long time, I was mad because I was like, y'all took the option like the choice away from me. Like y'all took my identity away from me because for a very long time growing up, I struggled with my identity because I was like, where do I belong? Because I didn't feel like I belonged to the guy that I thought that was my dad. Well, like we we literally beefed all the time. Like I just did not like him. Why did it why did it matter though? Why couldn't you just create your own identity and just keep it pushing? Because I feel like it's important to know where your roots come from. And when I met him and we started to have conversations and I started to hear about everything that he did, I was like, dang, you do everything that I do without me even knowing you. So that means it's like we're connected, regardless. You know what I'm saying? So like I'm really big on understanding where my roots come from, understanding why I do things certain certain ways, why I'm trying to change certain things, how to change generational curses and things like that. And you won't know that until you understand where you come from. Like my family, my dad derives from Black Wall Street. Like my great, great grandfather was a dentist during that time. And so it's just like that means a lot to me because it's like, OK, I knew growing up I was supposed to do something in business. I knew I wasn't supposed to work for nobody because I would quit every job. I would hustle and make money. I was literally known as, OK, she's going to quit this job today, but she's going to have another job in three days because I was me. Or I'm a hustling and I'm a figure out how to get it. And I always knew I would literally have breakdowns like I'm not supposed to do this. But see, like me the entire time I just knew I was like, I'm supposed to create my own, my own, you know, world, my own income, my own, I'm supposed to make a different impact. So when I met my biological father, literally all the pieces just started to come together unknowingly and I started to understand my roots. I started to understand why my mind thinks the way that it is, why I am the way that I am, why I move the way that I move. And it just it clicked for me. And I would say, like from meeting him to now, it has been crazy for me. And he would tell me he was like around five years straight. You never have to work another day in your life. And the five years literally probably started six months after I met him. It started in twenty nineteen. I met him like twenty eighteen. I want to say no. No, I met him. February, twenty nineteen. And five years is actually this year for me. And I'll be thirty three. So it's my Jesus year. Wow, wow, man. It's just good to have you on the show, man. Have you back on the show? You are one of the highlights for me, like I said, since I've been podcasting and just to see you and developing business and the way you run around and always moving and shaking. It's motivation, you know? So thank you. You know, you you when you first came on here, you you came. The name of the salon was Touching Skin. We're going to get into that. Before we get into that, I want to talk about something in her past, though. So growing up with your mom changing multiple husbands, you know, and seeing all of that, did it affect your life because being a female in that way? Well, I didn't grow up. So I didn't grow up with my mom, like having different men around me. So my stepdad was the prime figure in my life. And so that was something like even my mom and my stepdad. They're best friends to this day. And I kind of like idolized that because I don't feel like if you if a relationship doesn't work, you shouldn't have to be sworn enemies. So I appreciated that in them allowing us to see that. Now, when she did speak, like get back with the guy that she thought was my dad, I think it was more so. Just trying to what is, you know what I'm saying? Like if something happened and you break up with somebody and then you kind of just end and don't even talk it out. Then sometimes you wonder, like, what if what could happen? Like this is she thought I was his daughter. So why not try, you know, why not try to see if we could be a family? I wish you wouldn't make that choice. But I mean, I understand. So it didn't really affect me. One thing it made me look at for my own life is that I don't want my children to ever grow up and feel like, dang, I can't go see my dad or I want to go be with my dad or my parents don't get along or things like that. I wanted them to always grow up and kind of like a open communication, stable environment. Like me, I live downtown, but I drive to Carrollton every every day to take my kids to school. But they've been in the same district since they were three. Right. So they've grown up with the same friends. My son literally goes to my youngest son goes to school with teachers that knew him as a baby. And now he is in the fourth grade. So the reason why I ask you that, because I know that when, you know, some children or some kids, when they go through, when the parents go through different relationships like that, sometimes molestation and all of that come into play. So that's the reason why I was asked. I didn't know if you've ever experienced any of, you know, molestation and all of that as a child growing up. Never experienced my mom. She she made sure that we were taking care of and we protected. Like she had one boyfriend and me and my sister didn't like what we tell her about the hell that nigga, like for real, for real. Like we would no mercy. But by the sound of siblings, well, on my mom's side, I have two sisters and then I have a stepbrother. So on my dad's side, I have four other sisters. We shouldn't talk about them. But, yeah, like we we didn't have to go through that. And by the time she dated this one dude that we didn't like, I was well, I was like 17 by this time and my little sister was like 15. So it wasn't really too much that we we were cognitive enough to kind of know certain things and be like, bro, don't talk to me like that. Like I'm going to call my daddy type stuff. So it was we had to go through too much. So OK, so moving forward. Now running your business, the first business that you went into was touching skin back then. Yeah, OK, so the first business actually was real estate. I started wholesaling. OK, that was the real first business and I made a good chunk of change on wholesaling. And then I went into touching skin, touching skin was a spot. So I've been a licensed institution for going on 10 years now. So it's time that we opened it. I think I was like right at five. And so it was really just something that took off by accident. It really took off by accident. It went from one room to two rooms to no, one room to three rooms to seven rooms. But you had a passion for it. You loved it. Yeah, I absolutely loved it. I love talking to people. I love telling them about their skin, telling them about self-preservation, taking care of themselves. I loved everything about that. So it wasn't hard to grow it because I made sure that I was in the right rooms with the right people. And, you know, but how do one make sure that they're in the right room to write people, because you have people out here to try to start businesses and stuff like that. But how do they get into those rooms? Where do they go to meet the right people to get into those rooms? I feel like when you are showing up as your authentic self, you're going to automatically be put in rooms and those people are going to be drawn to you regardless. So when you go into a networking event and you're trying to be something that you're not, people don't. They don't they don't smell the bullshit. But when you show up and you like, look, this is what I do. I want to learn. I'm not where I want to be yet. But this is important to me. People are going to automatically be drawn to you and be like, you know what, I want to help you. I like your passion. I like your hustle. I like this and that. So for me that I always tell people, like, don't show up as somebody you got to remember because if you got to remember them, then you're not going to know what to do the next time you encounter that person again. But you told me this or would you act like that? So I was like, just be you. So when you were growing, touching the skin, it was very important for you to be to go to mixers and networking events. So running a business, you have to be successful. Yes. Yes. You have to. You have to put yourself in front of a diverse crowd. You have to put yourself in front of people that are just like you, as well as people that are doing better than you, as well as people that are doing good, but they've hit a stump. You have to make sure that you are around all type of people so that you can learn like a full circle of things when it comes to business. And that's what I did. I would go to, you know, mixers for real estate to talk to people and be like, hey, you could offer this to your clients who close on the house. They can come and you can get a massage and a facial for them as a gift. I will find ways to include myself into what they had going on. You know what I'm saying? So you have to find your way to make make people feel like you are worth the risk. And that's what I would do. I would be at all type of events. We literally did an event for every year, the firefighters have like a bike riding event where they ride across the country, somehow, some way we talked to somebody that was like, hey, we want you to come out and massage the firefighters. It was a completely free ordeal that we that we took on. We didn't ask for them to pay, but we ended up making like six hundred dollars because they were tipping us and we had a really good time. And those people still recommend other people to come to us now. Right. So back to touching skin. So when you were doing touching skin, you had a partner. And who was the partner? Voldemort. You're part of because you were on this interview. Yeah. The Boston podcast went on with Selima, which was your podcast, which was your partner, right? And how long were you in business with her for? We were in business together, I want to say, like two and a half years. We were friends for maybe five years, four or five years before that. Before that. OK. And then we went into business. We open touching skin. She was my business partner, maybe like she did host. She did the whole selling with me, too. Right. So we were in business together, maybe two and a half years, no more than like three years. OK. And sadly, it split. It broke up and. Y'all are talking terms or I don't even know who we talking about right now. OK, not talking terms. Yeah, not at all. OK, with all your experience, because I'm sure could always look for the positive and negative because there's a reason why you end up together and open the business. What was the positive side of running the business with her in the first place? I think the positive side of running the business was that I wasn't having to figure it out alone. That was the positive side. Like like our friendship was truly beautiful before we kind of hit the stump. Like we were both going through the same struggles. We were both enduring the same things. And so I really had somebody that I could go to and talk to and be like, OK, this is what we're going through, but how do we get over it? So two heads are always better than one. Right. So that was the positive side. The negative side I would say was, you know, when you go into business with somebody, y'all got to be on the same page, meaning it has to be about the purpose and not about the money. You know what I'm saying? And so you have to make sure that you analyze all aspects of that person because as you grow, things are going to get difficult. And money truly can't be the root of all evil if you don't have a solid foundation. So I feel like the negative was that we both had two completely different goals and we didn't know how to merge them together. Right. So that's crazy. Let me let me hear what would you do if you could if if you didn't knew what you knew now going into that situation, what would you have done different? Um, I probably wouldn't have done anything different. The only thing different I probably would have did was got an attorney and made sure that we settled the payout with a lawyer and not a dissolution for her. Because in the end, I felt like, you know, I lost more because I dealt with everybody saying, well, I think you can do it. Like everybody knows you. Like you have the you have the background, you have the power. Like you have the image. Like it's going to be easy for you like you can start over. Yeah, like a lot of people because ultimately I was just like, fuck it. Like if we're not going to do it together, we're not going to do it at all. Like I don't care about this. Like if we're not going to do it together, you're going to lose and I'm going to lose too. That was ultimately my mind. Like I'm not going to pay you out this money and you be able to do whatever you want. No, we we've been everything is going. But then I dealt with a lot of people just I would say people hyped me up and was like, you this, you that, like you got it. Like you you know how to talk to people. You know how you got the personality. You got the everybody know you as touching skin anyways. And I wouldn't say they hyped me up. I would just say they kind of pulled me out of a box that I didn't know that I was in. How hard was it picking that business up where it stood when she walked away like that and moving forward, you know, and going through those times where you had to be that person to be the not only yourself, but the part that she played in the business. It was hard. It's still hard. I'm still getting things together. And I just told somebody the other day, I was like, they have all these seminars for businesses, all these seminars for networking and how to grow your business and financing. But I never went to a workshop on how to overcome losing a business partner like some of the trials and tribulations that you go through. Some of the negative annotations you have to get rid of because a lot of people look that they were like, a lot of people thought I was the bully because I had a bolder appearance and personality. So a lot of people are asking me, well, what did you do to her? Why did you bully her out the business? I was like, I ain't bully no grown ass woman that's older than me. I don't know business. Like I didn't do that. Like she made the choice to leave. Yeah. Y'all had a great chemistry, man. I ain't going to lie, man. She you and her together. That was a great time for me. Everybody says it. Everybody know y'all. Whether you guys knew it or not, it was a special thing. The way that you know, the yin and the yang and to be real with you. You it was some good times in there. And I knew that during that time. Yeah, of course, y'all hit a roadblock and, you know, bust a tire or wreck the car and total it out or whatever. But at the end of the day, there were some good times in there for me. And see, I don't negate that. Like we had really good times. But one thing that I will say is that sometimes when you have certain people around you, they will talk you into looking at the reality in a in a skewed way. You know what I'm saying? So you have to be careful who you keep around you. And I felt like that was that's what happened. Now, granny, I thought she I have a very bold personality and sometimes I could be a little bratty. But if I love you and you, my friend, and we like, you can sit down and talk to me, you know what I'm saying? Like it's not difficult. But when you got other people on your ear, like the biggest thing that I felt was she had other people on her ear. I feel like she had people that was like, well, you can do this. Like you can be you can be that and you can do this. And I'm like, we can do that together. Like, why not do it together? And I felt like it got to a point to where she was just like, I want to do it myself, like I want to see how I can grow myself. And by the time I mean, it hurt when she walked away. Did you try to talk off the ledge? I did try to talk off the ledge. We actually had a meeting and then a week or two later, she was just like, I just want to go on and do it by myself. And then I started to it wasn't until she left. I started to see you were planning this before you even had a conversation. And then we had a shady mentor. Like he he wouldn't know good. He was a shady mentor. And he was I get from that, that he remained friends with her and you and him kind of stopped talking. So that's how that's how it's coming off to me right there. Now, he remained friends with both of us. Oh, OK. But the thing that happened was I was always the one putting my foot down. So even when he would mentor us, I was like, that don't sound right. Like, why is you in our facility hitting on our employees? Move. But so you are you so you and him and our friends any longer? No, I got rid of him. What happened? I mean, so he was your mentor. Yes, he was our mentor, but he was also a shady mentor. Yeah. But as he mentored you, what did you I mean? How did how did what did you get from it? What did you learn a lot from it? OK, so I did learn quite a bit. I'm not going to take that away from him. I learned quite a bit. But I also learned that his way of mentoring, it had a lot to do with mass manipulation. So as long as he was able to dangle certain things in front of you or give you a certain reality that he could help you achieve and kind of hold you by your neck, that was the only way you were going to achieve it. He couldn't do that with me. But how do you hold someone by? I have an example, because I have a mentor, right? So this is an example. So he had, I don't know if it was his girlfriend or what he was doing. If he was tricking on the girl, I don't know. He had her working in the shop. Oh, that's what I'm saying. I had a mentor, but mentorship doesn't mean you come to my business. I look at the business you've established, hold on. And my mentor has passed away now. But the guy that I looked up to, he probably didn't even know that he was my mentor because I never told him that, but we would have discussions or he would talk to me. But I never I never I just looked up to the things that he had accomplished. But I couldn't understand, you know, some I would ask him and he would tell me he would share information with me. But as far as that go, now, you guys are going a little step further for me. Like an advisor. He's in the business with you. Right. So that's not that's not that's not the best way we can call him is an advisor then, not what you think in the beginning. I looked at him as a mentor and then he became an advisor for our company. But the way that he was advising was not beneficial. Was he getting paid by your company? He ended up getting paid. So we started to pay him like a thousand dollars a month, maybe like the last six months before we we actually separated. But what ended up happening was what you're paying for. His advisor in the company. So he was a consultant, right? In the beginning, he started out as like a mentor. Then he transitioned over, I guess you could say, into a consultant or an advisor. Scam artist. Thank you. He is his last name was Crook, too. Oh, Lord. OK. Anyways, but, um, literally, he had somebody I don't I wouldn't say working on us that he was talking to the girl. Like he was literally like trying to, I guess, take care of her. Like some sugar daddy stuff, because he wouldn't have to track me. But, um, he had her working in the shop and he was being real disrespectful to her. Like when I say super disrespectful, like she would show me some of the things he was saying. He will talk to her stupid, like all kind of stuff. And one day I was Captain Sabahoe. You're not going to talk to my employee like that. Do that shit at home. You're not doing that here. What do you say? He he tried to come back and me and I was like, look, you got one or two options. You could shut up because I pay you. You're on my payroll. That's your employee. Yeah, you're my employee at this point. Or you can bounce. Oh, what's this guy? At least 50 something. Acting like that. Yes, like I don't want to know his name. But I already gave you the last name. I don't want his name. Rewind it. The last name I gave it to y'all. So he's in Dallas. Yeah. And I guess, you know, the one thing I can say is, man, did you the crazy part is that I did. I did. I did. Like, OK, so my accountant was tied to him. Like money was taken out of my head to him. How he hired your accountant. Yes, he hired my accountant, which is why I ended up like when I bought out my business partner, I had to throw so much money into changing accountants, marketing material, finances. Like, I mean, not finances. Like, like who did my finances taxed up? I had to throw so much money into that because he was so heavily tied into it. He was able, like still to this day from my LLC, I still have problems with trying to do certain things because on my credit, it had my first name and her last name. I'm like, what the hell? So him, like it was a lot. It was a lot. So when I gave him his options, I was like, you can just shut the fuck up and get your money and my your business, because this is my business. You're only supposed to advise it. You're not in it. Stay staying your lane. So I'm telling you, you don't talk to my employees like that while they're on the clock. Do this shit at home. He decided he was going to he was going to quit. Deuces, I'm not going to chase you. The only the only people I chased are dead. So many. I'm not chasing you. Like for what? I could find a whole new person. Wow. That's that's that's I hate that you went through all of that. And and so I don't because I don't know I don't hate that I would do anything. I learned a lot. I get it. I get it. But but at the end of the day, it's a lot. You know what I'm saying? Like, like I remember you going through that. I remember all the times you going through emotional, you know, pretty much times where it could have it could have very much took you out. But you stood strong. Yeah, I was ready to fight. But what I hear a lot, even with the situation that you went through, because you would say that, you know, people would tell you this, you know, you can do this on your own, you can do that, whatever. Is that a lot of times in life, we look to other people to help us. Validation, validation and stuff like that. But you really don't need that. All you need, you know what you can do. And validation from other people sometimes can either pull you down or pull you up. But if you always a person that always need other people to help you and tell you not financially, but just mentally get in your head, I don't think that's a good thing either. See, and I think at that time, though, I didn't know I didn't need that because everything that I had did to that point was with somebody. You know what I'm saying? Like everything that was built was with somebody. So I went through a transition of I need to make everybody forget about her. That's literally how Taylor Simone came about. I was like, Taylor, I was literally sitting there with my son. My son's like, Mom, your middle name's Simone, like the T and the S. Like it's the same. I was like, you are my child. You smart as fuck, bro. So like that's literally how my name came about. Because in my head, I said, y'all think I'm the bully. I'm not the bully. Like I wanted my friendship. Like I wanted there was a way we could have still been able to be friends and disilute the like not be business partners. But that's not what happened. So for me, it was just like make them forget about her. And I think I accomplished it. Wow. I mean, definitely love the way the since I've been going down there. Even when you was by yourself, it looked like the business thrived even more for his appearance. So it seems like you did a lot of different things. Reconstruct it, reevaluate it and move forward. And I commend you for that. You know what I mean? So first people, I'm talking about this one for a while at the end of the day. I mean, why not? But I don't care. I want out of smoke. Well, you're I really don't think it's a smoke thing. I think when you when you sit down with the right people, you know what I mean? When you sit down with somebody who really like like, I love Lema. I ain't going to lie to you. She good people, too. We took her out just like we just took you out last night. Not the same way. But it was with a difference. But no, we can't make comments. But at the end of the day, we took you out. We take her out. You know, we love you all, man. And and like I said, you you stood strong. You you stayed at the business. And I think that's that's something that kind of connected us in a different way because we we already were coming down. And she moved on to do her own business as well. Two totally different kind of businesses. No, it's the same name. What really? I don't know. I just was the old name. Old name. Is that why you switched the name? One of the big. Yeah, one of the biggest reasons why I switched the names because I was like, I didn't want the negative tied to it anymore. So the original name was touching skin. The new name is T and S Med Spa, T and S Med Spa, tranquility, nirvana and serenity, which means like total, total peace, like eternal peace. That's what all three of those words mean to get the eternal peace and in Med Spa. So I'm moving more into the medical field. But you had to go on just a second. So you had to go get a different DBA, different stuff and just redo every single thing just to get that start over. Start over. I don't want to be attached to anything that had any type of negativity towards it. Any type of, you know, bad comments or personas. And I hated when I would literally this is a funny story. So I was at an event, I was talking to a photographer and mind you, this photographer knows me like he knows me. So he was like, yeah, there's this girl. Like, I really think that y'all should do business together because she is like so dope and she's a massage therapist. Her name is she she goes by like lima-lima. I just busted out laughing. He was like, what did I say funny? I said, Russ, what? What? As long as you've known me, but he knew us together. He'd seen us together like that was how he met. I said, as long as you know me, he's like, Taylor, what did I say? I said, do you not know I used to have a business partner? He was like, yeah, I knew you had a business partner. Like, I don't know what happened. But I said, the girl you named was my business partner. He said, oh, I say, yeah. So like the reason I did the name change was because I wanted to get away from stuff like that. It would be people that would be like, we did a class together. We literally had to do a whole class together. I remember that. So people came up to me. They was like touched, touching skin. Y'all know each other? No, I don't know her. Stop talking to me. Like it would it would get annoying because it's like I'm having to explain things that I didn't want to explain. I'm having to bring up, like talk about conversation, have conversations that I didn't want to have. And it was like people were always having these conversations with me because they felt like they could talk to me about it. And now they think and I mean, because I'm like, get out of my face. I don't want to talk about this. There ain't none of your business. Stop talking to me. Well, your spa was a celebrity spa at first. And so it wasn't having nothing to do with the medical side. And then once he split, she started doing she was doing more of like medical massages and stuff like that. That's there. Well, we still did medical things. So we still like work with doctors, post-op and all that other stuff. OK, it just our name wasn't advertised like that. But we still did those services. That's what I was wondering, because I know when she moved on, that's that's was mainly her focus to deal with just that side. So when you switched it to be like med spa, that's why I was wondering, yeah, it's so I switched it to do more like laser services, tattoo removal, Botox, those type of things. So we added the actual medical services on to it. But we were already doing those services like lymphatic massages, body contour. I remember that we were already doing those services. It just wasn't advertised in the name. OK, cool. So moving forward. So it's now, as I said, TNS medical med spa. OK, and how is the business going? It's going good. I mean, things are a little slow. But I mean, it always picks up. I mean, we're going through a recession right now. So everything is pretty much slow, like funds are slow for most individuals. But it's good, like everything. It's we're still a celebrity spa. I mean, the celebrities be on the line, baby. And you have two locations to when I say two locations, didn't you have another section? Another business, the beauty part that you have beautiful, like stylist, nail person in there, too. So I have a makeup artist. I have a lactation, a braider. There's two cosmetologists in there. There used to be a lash tech. She's not in there anymore. So any lash techs if you need a space, come see me. Yeah. So they're all in the same location. What's the address? They're to 14 on on Batham Jean Boulevard. Two forty five and two fifteen. There's two different suites, but. But they're right across the hall from each other. OK, that's tough. Any more additions later on? I know you're always looking to expand. Yeah, so I have a big project going on right now to actually become a part of the facility that I'm at. So I'm excited about that. What you mean, elaborate? Can't elaborate on it. I can't tell y'all just yet. But OK, I'm always doing something. I'm always scaling. Like my goal is to open up a school by the end of the year. I'm looking for investors to assist me with a like a mobile project that I'm working on, like a mobile RV project. And I already have like all my plans and stuff together. Literally, I have everything laid out to make TNS a brick and mortar, a travel company, and then an educational portion. It's just it takes time. Like when you're a woman, one woman show, you have to do things in steps. And then I also have my life and my kids life. Right. So I'm just taking things like day by day. Would you ever go in partnership again? I'm actually talking about that with someone now. Really? Yeah. I would think after what happened that you be like, never again. OK, so the thing is that I have a different outlook on it. Like, I know the different stipulations like to think the conversations we need to have protocols need to be put in place. Different contracts need to be put in place. You can't go into business with somebody based on a friendship. And I'm learning that I don't want to own 100 percent of anything because if I'm able to own a percentage of something and it still make me money, then I'm good with that because I can be a part of 15 different things and 10 percent of 15 different things and still make over $20,000 a month and only have to minimally invest my time and my knowledge into that. As long as I put the people in place to run it so that it functions the way that it's supposed to, then we're good to go. OK, well, I just like I said, you you definitely a business guru. Yes, the millennial culture, you know how small change in the visual aspects of what a millennial moment consists of. Let them know a little bit, you know, because I teach that to. Well, let me just ask you this, you know, being, you know, you're a very attractive woman. I mean, you know, like, like to be, you know, you see all the things going on in the news, you know, Cassie just went through a lot. Her MP did he did, you know, nobody will bow out me. I'm just saying I'm just saying. I mean, you know, I know you're thugging at you from the grove. I get it. Nobody will bow out of money by everything. But I just I mean, do you feel like you're single, right? I am. But do you feel like like like being a beautiful woman like you are? Do you feel like you intimidate some of these guys? Hell, yeah. You know, like, like, is it hard? I mean, you're you're a successful business woman. Yeah. And now you got guys who have to step the game up to even approach you. Yeah. So how do you deal with that? There's a saying like Lotto has a song with Queen Najee. And she says an independent an independent chick is the insecure niggas trigger. And I learned a long time ago that the more independent I am, the more outspoken I am. It can either make me or break me when it comes to people approaching me or people, you know, trying to pursue me. So one thing that I did learn is that the men of some type of stature like with a certain amount of money, a certain amount of like visibility in the community, they wanted to control me and they wanted to. I was supposed to sit down and shut up. Didn't happen. The men who were up and coming or those type of things, they kind of went with the punches, but then they would be really, really insecure about certain things. So I think right now because I'm newly fully single. I think right now I'm kind of just learning how to. Not date because I don't be dating, but I'm learning like what I like and what I don't like. And I'm creating my boundaries. I don't think, you know, I've had boundaries. So now being where I'm at in business, the way that I am moving, how I move and around the people that I'm around, I'm creating boundaries. And a lot of men don't like it. Well, let me just say this, you know, being a mother of two children, you know, and then then dating, trying to figure it all out, you know, I don't even be trying to work life balance, all that good stuff. What is this get off? I'm just saying, what are you? How do you? How do you do you want to ever get married? Um, like you married again. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I really don't know. I mean, I think and I literally just have this conversation with somebody else. I think that I'm really scared of a relationship because, you know, I was in a relationship for a very long time. And, granny, I still love my my it's hard to say it. So I still love my ex-husband. That's my best friend. I talk to him all the time, but I think that I'm just scared of a relationship. So I don't really give it my all. I don't even really be paying attention to these people that be falling at my feet. Because when they be falling, I'll be like, get your ass up, get up. Why'd you get up? But, um, I don't know. Honestly, I don't even put my energy and my time into that. I just feel like anybody that is for me or supposed to be with me or be in my circle or supposed to have my time is going to organically happen. They're not going to have to force it. I'm not going to feel like somebody's trying to change me. I'm not going to feel like somebody is jealous of me or anything like that. Because I know the people that I've tried to talk to, I've gotten into a I would say maybe this is a defense mechanism. I'll just bring them into my world. So I'll be like, OK, we're going to go to this event. You want to come with me? Like, and we won't go to the event like as a couple will go to the event. Like, we cool. I just want you to see like my environment. Right. Yeah, I want you to see how people interact with me, like how people perceive me how I want you to be good. That could be to me in my head. That could be good, because then if it's somebody who especially could be a prospective partner, because being the person that you are and dealing with all the people who are some men can be jealous, seeing the interactions that you are doing with other men or women, you know. So that's like a trial basis to see how they respond when they see you with certain people and if they get jealous, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you know that I don't know if I want to take the next step. Exactly. And that's that's exactly how I do it, because I somebody asked me the other day, they was like, you know, a lot of people like, why you don't never say who you know? I said, for what? Like, why I need to know who I know? Like, why it's it's why I don't have to post it. I don't have to like just know that I know these people. And I was like, but then again, like when talking to somebody, I don't want to have to tell them, like, yeah, you know, people be on my ass, like, and I'll be paying on their mom because then it comes off like I'm bragging. Well, it comes off like I'm being cocky and that's just not me. So sometimes I just feel like, let me show you instead of telling you so that you know, this is what what comes with me. And it's not something that I choose for it to come with me. It's just a part of the environment that I'm in. You know what I'm saying? With something you said earlier, you said that the more successful you are, is the more outspoken you are and the more independent you are. But then some people or some men can feel like, OK, do you do you know how to still be humble or submissive or men or country because sometimes some women can get so successful, like, no matter who the man is, like, they don't know how to be submissive to that man, like, I make more than you. You know, that sort of thing. And it can it can it can cause some friction with a relationship. And see, I can argue that because I feel like the right man is going to make the right woman want to be submissive. That's just the truth. Like if you are the right man for her and you check off all the boxes, you all check off all the boxes for each other. There's no such thing as all boxes. Well, you know, eight out of ten of the boxes. OK, then she's going to want to be submissive. She's going to care about your day. She's going to care about if you ate, she's going to care about how your week is going, how work is going, the way that she could help you grow and be better in your life. Like she's going to care. If you're not that man, you're not going to get that out of her. Like you're not going to get this off her error. So you have to be the person that is supposed to be aligned with her. So if God didn't put you in her space to be that alignment, she's not going to be submissive to you. That's just how I feel. But like for me personally, I just I don't feel like I'm in the mindset or the mind frame for any of that. So anybody that try to talk to me, I just feel like I'm going to have you punch in walls because I'm not where you want me to be. And I'm not looking for a relationship. So if you're looking for a relationship, but you think you're about to change me, I'm going to do the exit stage lift because you're not going to get any of that from over here. I have a question, another question. But with this question, if you don't want to answer it, we'll cut this part out, but I'm going to ask this part. Go ahead. Because I know that earlier, you said that you scared of relationships, right? But you being scared of relationships because I know you date girls. Yes, I do. Is that one of the main cut that out? Because I mean, I get 50 million questions. Yes. Oh, OK. I date females sometimes. But is that one of your main reasons for dating girls is because I don't want to deal with the guy thing trying to grow a relationship with a guy. So this is my easy way of let me go play over here until I'm ready to know because there's actually been some girls that I really, really like, like I really, really, you know, try to be in a relationship with. But I think for me, it has been easier to date and women because I carry a lot of masculine energy. And that's when I say masculine energy, I just mean maybe I'm a little bossy, I'm a little assertive. And because within the business world, I've had to be dominant and really just call the shots and make shit shake that when it comes to like talking to women, it's kind of like, oh, I already know what you want, because I'm a woman. So you just want me to be nice to you and talk to you and tell you that you're cute and buy you flowers. That's easy. So that's all women want? Most most of them. I mean, that was me summing it up. That was me summing it up. But all you want. I mean, for for most women, it's just like, no, you're a woman. So that's all you want from me. That's not all I want. But I'm just saying, like, I know I'm a woman. Right. So I know what I want. And I know what most women want. And I know most of our characteristics. So it was just kind of easy. But then again, on the flip side, I understand what these men go through because these bitches be crazy. So I'll be like, I mean, I don't know who's worse. Men are women because the women that I've actually talked to has had me pulling my hair out like, why, why am I doing this? Like, what? Why? So it's just like, I don't know. I think sometimes it's easier for me to talk to women because I don't have to. I can still be myself and not have to dumb myself down because I know what the woman wants. But a lot of times with men, it's like they're trying to control me. They're trying to tell me what I want or how to do it. Or literally the conversation I told you about earlier, like, what response did you want? Because I can tell you what you want me to tell you, but you don't want to hear what I want, what I'm telling you. Did you have that conversation with your kids and let them know that, hey, I do date? No. So I did not. I don't think my youngest knows because I hide it very well. I don't let my kids around anybody that I've talked to. But I haven't really talked to anybody. And I feel like a lot of the people that I did try to talk to, they were kind of just like a, I didn't want to be by myself or alone, but I wanted to see if I could date or I wanted to see, you know, like what it was that I was missing from being married or understand that because I do feel like with me and my ex-husband being when we were separated, we're divorced now. Me kind of going through that transition, it kind of made me look at him a little bit different, but in a positive way to kind of understand like the boundaries that I didn't have, the things that I wanted, the things that I should have worked harder on. Yeah, so you do see some of your faults that you could have done better in order to make it work. And he may not ever understand it, but I feel like those are things we had to kind of go through in order to be able to be friends now. And so like we were literally just at his one of his movie premieres. And we know a lot of we're part of the same groups. So people were just like, Taylor's here. Oh my God, Taylor's here. And I'm like, y'all ain't got to whisper out here, you motherfuckers. But we were me and him were joking. We were laughing and people were just like, are you and Taylor going to get back together? And I just kept telling everybody, look, we're working on being friends. I don't know what the future holds, but we've been together since I was 19. I'm 32. He was 21 when I met him and now he's 35. I'm like, y'all got to understand that people change drastically. And so for me, I think going through that phase and trying to figure those things out, it helped me realize a lot about myself. Like I'm very nonchalant. Like it's it's so bad that you would be like, I'm a fighter because you could tell me like I don't like you. And I'm like, OK, was was I supposed to care? I was didn't and move around. I want to touch on some current events. Megan and Nicki Minaj. I need to hear your opinion on that situation with the lens that is gone to where as people are trying, you know, they have to amp up security at the cemetery at where Megan's mom is buried because, you know, it's in fear of some of the fans. Nicki fans going and really, really defiling her mom's, you know, grave because of the whole beef. What you think about the whole situation? OK, I don't even. Why are they beefing? I mean, I've heard the raps, the I've heard that. But what is the why are they beefing? What what what did Nikki do to make? Because I feel like Meg before everybody, to be honest. I'm sorry, I'm not a Nikki or Meg fan. Well, you know, all I can tell you is they mentioned Bunn being Pimp C. You know, and it wasn't about them. That's all I care about. Don't mention. I'm not listening. Don't mention Pimp and that I really can't really. I mean, I really can't get into their why they're beefing or why they're they're two ladies. And they, you know, both of them are very successful. I just I say we all can win. You it doesn't matter, you know, but Megan Eels from Texas. But I saw. And I'm just going to be honest with you. Like I told LeKiki yesterday, you can't certain niggas, certain people can't do no wrong, not in the hood. You know, we can fight amongst each other, but I promise you this. But is this two parts that we'll tell a roof off if you get us pissed. No, but I'm dying in L.A. Listen, you cannot. You can argue with you. Know how it is with family? You can argue with your sister. Yeah, but nobody else can come in here. I mean, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm mad at her now. But Nick, we are trying on you. But is this true that with rap beef comes with rap? I agree with that. I agree. I think it's a part. I think it's a part of, like, the promotion. Like, that's that's you got to think they're doing that to promote. You think it's something they play, but it can't go far. Take too far where people. At the same time, I'm not going to even lie. Like I don't keep up with Nikki and make like that. But some of the things that I have kept up with me, it can be a bully. But Nick can, too. Both of them can be a bully. They both, they both beast mode. Right. But I feel like one for Nikki. I'm just like, you talk about being the queen and on the throne. When she threw them jabs, you should have just looked down on her and be like, bitch, I was your inspiration. Move along. That's what she said that. She said that, you know, if it wasn't because of me, you wouldn't be where you are. Then she should know she should have said that and not made because I don't even lie. They rap that she made. She had a few punchbars that I was like, oh, not the Tory and all them people. But it wasn't that good. But Meg made the comments before talking about Nikki's husband and all of the stuff that he's been going through. I mean, that's not nothing new. People have been talking about her husband since forever. So why Tory stuff isn't new out there. So it's just like, why, why even bring like she's here. Nikki is here. Megan is trying to be where Nikki was. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, you already know people are saying I don't agree with that. I think I think makes coming around a crowd a lot coming up just fine. She's doing just fine. But Nikki, when she first came in the game, I kind of remember her and she the way she had to look him. Yeah, I mean, you know what I'm saying? So it's just the same thing going around like a hula hoop. I mean, I can see that when people change these positions and other people get the limelight now. And it's not as much of a Nikki show as it was at first. It was a bit at first there was nothing but Nikki. Now you got all these people. You got a lot of a lot. Yeah, a lot of you got a lot of spices. You're a lot of what you don't like spice. Yeah, I don't like spice, but I love a lot of you got a lot of you got a lot of what you got. Sexy rate of stress. What? Yes. She's what about a gorilla? Gluck. She grew on me. She cool. Like she real. Like, but I spy. Sexy rate. They trash. Why don't you like what about Scarlet? You heard her? I heard a scarlet. But I never really listened to her stuff. She really in New York, man. Yeah, I never really. And she she's she's not that sure in that body today. So it's not because of their personalities is because of their music. You don't know their music yet. Like I'm a I'm a lyrical person. Anybody knows me. They know I'm like. Are you spitting bars? No, not that. I spill other people bars. I repeat that. You've been a car. I repeat the bar with you. I have car concerts. Like everybody knows that. Like me and karaoke. What's your favorite bar? Hmm. Give me a bit. I want to hear it. Bar. My favorite. OK, so so. I guess this is I guess this would be a rap but he paying song off of his epiphany album. Um, what's the name of the song? Go ahead and spit the bar. I want you here. You always try to make some atmosphere. She don't even rap. She said she's going to come. So I want to hear what she's doing. You know what? If I did you like it, you wouldn't do that. I don't want to know the words. Um, it's off the epiphany out. OK, it go like. What's it? OK, how I start. Oh, I'm nervous. I don't know. They say, um, what is it now? You know, the girl, some, some, some, some. He was like, baby girl, let me teach you this. I could touch you how I want to. Maybe let's see how the lame niggas won't do. I don't know what you're going to do. I'm a heavy head. You can put on every dress if you want to. Shadi, I'm going to put it on you. Oh, you got it. I'm going to put it on my songs too. Hold on. This the fast part. You got me thinking of me and you and the drinking and the sipping and the patronage. We would have been to God and all. That's my song, y'all. That's my song. That's my song. Like that one. And then, um, I love like Lotto, Lotto and Cardi B are two of the people that I've watched, like from the bottom come up. I remember watching Cardi B on Love and Hip Hop. And she was basically telling everybody, you don't got to support me now, but you going to be watching me later. And she did everything that she said. So those two even Lotto, she was on, uh, what is it? Rap game, which main to pre. She go hard. She go hard. Like her raps go hard. I literally almost fainted when I met her in person. And I was just like, she was like, girl, you look cute. I said, me? I look cute. Me? Girl, you just don't know that I like girls sometimes. You just stop. Wow. You better stop it. Don't do that. Don't do that, Alyssa. Don't do that. Wow, that's crazy. But yeah, like I'm a lyrical person. Like I like to listen to the words. Like the beat is cool. But I like to hear what you're talking about. And I don't feel like ice, ice spice. Don't be talking about nothing. Sexy red, all she talk about is six. This is all she talk about. And I'm like, girl, at this point, you're pushing it up. It need a price tag. Just put it on there. Like as much as you talk about it, it's no. But like Meg, Megan's cool. She tells stories. I love Cash Doll. Cash Doll is a very story type person when she rap. Now, Sweetie, Sweetie is good. But there is one song, Sweetie have that I will always, that will always be my theme song. It's called Icy Girl. What people don't realize is that that whole song is a manifestation of your life. No, it's just period. She's saying, can't stop, won't stop, get guap. 10 white toes and them tourist flip flops. Medicare's and pedicures, I'm always tip top. Some, some, some, some, some. What she say? There was a specific, a specific, if you go listen to the song, the entire song is just manifesting. And she was like, she say something like, never had an RIP shirt. I'm trying to put money like in the bank and not on bags. Pretty much like, I don't need the weed. I'm trying to invest it, like be on a beach and invest in my money. And that's the whole song. And I remember listening to that song before it made mainstream and people was like, why you keep listening to this song? I said, listen to the words. Listen to the words. The words are literally telling you what she wants out of life. And she got it. Like that's, that will forever be my theme song. It's called Ice Girl. Wow, man. Listen, man. Thank you for coming on the show. I gotta wrap it up cause we gotta get you over there too. But anyway, how can we get a hold to you if they trying to reach out? You can follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok at I am, I am Taylor Simone. Let me see. My email is I am Taylor Simone at gmail.com. You can go to my website, www.taylorsimone.com. If you want to come to the spot, it's tnsmedspot.com. All the information is on there. If you have business that you would like to talk to me about or book me for something, you can call or text this number, 470-952-3964. They put a blow it out. I ain't gonna answer. Only text. Yeah, they can call it. They can text it. I'm gonna just look at the phone ring and be like, if it's important, they'll leave a text message. They'll leave a text message. They'll leave a voicemail. Nah, like. You have to do that. Everybody get my business one. That's right. I got one last question. And this part is because, you know, everybody look at you as a business woman. Everybody look at you as touch and skin or TNS Med Spa or so forth. And they put you on his pedestal. But I know you be modeling and you be wanting to be ratchet sometime and you want to be all, you know, tell me about, cause this Taylor Simone is supposed to be like your alter ego. Tell me about who this Taylor Simone and how ratchet can this Taylor Simone get? Oh, it gets ratchet sometimes. Okay, so I have a word. I like to tell people I'm supposed to ratchet. But I'm also 32, I'm still loading. So I'm not gonna stop living my life because other people have these expectations of me. I'm still meeting the expectations that they have. I'm just doing it in my own way. And one thing that I feel like people follow me for is my transparency and my authenticity. Like I'm showing you how to make your dreams happen, how to be a boss, how to do everything that you want to do out of life and still be true to yourself. And I think that's why people fool with me. That's why people like being around with me because I'm not pretending to be somebody else. And so sometimes it do get a little ratchet. Like I do like going outside. I do like sitting in a car listening to my rap songs with my windows down and blasting my music and throwing up the imaginary gang songs that I think I'm a part of. I like that. Like I have fun with that. Like I like being able to be me. I mean, I have 50 million tattoos. I have blind locks. Like I like being able to be me. And I think for people who are trying to be like in the entrepreneurial world or run businesses, it's comforting to them because they're like, look, she did it. She made it. My company hit over a million dollars already. Like, and I did that being myself. I can go into the whitest of the white rooms or the hoodest of the hood rooms. And they still gonna love me because I'm gonna be the same person in whatever room that I'm in. And I'm gonna be able to branch the two because they trust me and they trust my opinion and all that other stuff. So they can be like, yeah, come on, let's do it. So I don't have a problem. Like I don't have problems with that because I always show up as me. And I think people appreciate that. Wow. Thank you so much, Taylor, man. We love you over here at Bossa 101. And I wanna try to get you on here quarterly this year. What's up? I'm ready. I mean, I wanna bring you into this world so people can really understand the way that the business is going and developing. And we definitely gonna have you back on the show if you'll come. Yeah, I'm always here. Man. You can't get rid of me. Man, check it, man. Hey, man. Listen, man. It's been another great segment of Bossa 101 with a Bossa song.