 Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one. Yeah, we gon' talk Man so Makita cookies. Oh, yeah, so family business. That's a family business But I mean, you know how we always do man We always talk about because we know how long that family that business been in you guys's family It's been 22 years. It'd be 23 years. Okay. Let's go back and then we'll go up, huh? Yes, but we want to know a little bit about you not only just about the business as well So tell us about how was it growing up in in a household with entrepreneurs? Cuz your mom and dad entrepreneurs, how was it as you being a child growing up in that atmosphere? Well, it didn't it didn't really start off like that. You know, I'm 38 years old You know, my mom was a hard-working woman, you know, they both made my dad They're both in the medical field actually. Oh, that's what they were doing before. That's what they were doing before and You know Makita's just came you know with my great-grandmother she was the One of the cooks in the the city Memphis City school system So that's how we got the recipe and my dad went with it, but Growing up, you know, it was mainly my mom working hard my dad working hard Going to school just make sure my grades were good. We didn't really give Makita's until I was like 14 15 years old What inspired them to do that? Actually Makita actually that was my cousin. She died of leukemia when she was six, you know So my parents decided to open up a business in her honor, you know And we already had the recipe and no one no one else had that recipe, you know, everything changed, you know Throughout the school system, you know, so When they found it, you know with my great-grandmother, you know passing on it was just like me and we need to do these Because no one else is doing they always hear about people especially not here by the road You know watch movies and hear that this recipe was passed on from generations and generations Well, I've never actually met somebody who have said that, you know what I mean. Yeah, so I think that's pretty cool Yeah, yeah, she worked really hard in the school system. So I mean Man, it's it's been it's been an experience, you know dealing with a lot of you know a lot of strong You know wielded women in my family a lot of powerful women from generation to generation, you know So to be able to be the one to carry that name and to carry that legacy. It means everything to me I'm completely blessed. How many siblings do you have? I actually just have two other siblings I have an older sister to me cause shout out to my sister to me cause and I have a younger brother So he's the only boy. He's down. How does he man? That's the prince He owns the throne. I just want everybody. How does he he's 26? Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's 26 and he has three beautiful kids I love him so much. He's the only one with kids all girls. It's one girl and two boys Okay, I just thought that all these girls coming down in Yeah, yeah, so yeah 15 you remember when to be in this first start off Did you because I we've been here for 15 years and and our kids, you know, they grew up in this store Shout out to my son. He's somewhere in here, but he didn't really, you know, these kids they didn't want to participate I forced it up on them. I gave it to him I injected this this this whole culture onto them of working having your own business and and and they was they was fighting it They didn't you know, they they see their friends working for companies. They want to go work for another company They don't want to work at the place. What we've had seven stores here in Dallas and and and it's just like Trying to convince my children has been the hardest part of now my younger kids they grew up in it But yeah, my older kids they kind of was like you when you started and they was like, okay I see what he doing, but I don't know if this for me. So how was it for you? Just embracing? No Man, I'm such a hard worker. I wasn't I wasn't looking into being in the family business. I work Extremely hard man. I've had I've had so many jobs. I can't even man from Walgreens to Man What is it one of those furniture places? I can't remember. I think it's Renna Center family dollar And I'd been so many everywhere my the post I was was the last stop. That's what I you know I was I would shoot I've been wanting to be a part of post I was for a while It's easy just put mail in the mail box, you know But before you moved around to all those different places you had to work at a shop and you know the basics of how to run that shop Yeah, yeah, as much as you didn't want to be there. You still have to be there Cuz you didn't like it. I ain't like you as I say as long as you live on the old roof You have to do what we say. Yeah, it was certain times. They made me go That's what we do But at the end of the day when you did get older when did you learn to did you re-embrace it? Cuz a lot of times like I ain't gonna lie I got to put him on the spot my son when he was 18 shot out to that boy over there He told me I'm going to the NFL. Oh, yeah, well, I had a store in the country. I say man What we gonna do with the store? He's a dad. I'm going to an NFL nigga. What? So and we had to close the store down, but anyway down there So yeah at 18 he count but now he embraces it again. So when did you get back to saying, okay? I still can walk cause you to do that. Yeah, it was probably Maybe around maybe four or five years. Okay. Yeah and what caused me is because I saw how hard my parents were working and You know, it comes the time when they need somebody to step up, you know And I've had you know a two-year degree in Southwest and things like that So I did them, you know the marketing and management account So I was actually already blessed to be in a leader role I mean I was always brought up to be a leader never followed So I mean my parents when I saw how hard they were working and I knew it's probably it's almost about that time For them just cheer they been doing so much and you know, who better to step up my brother, you know He he got the tools, but I don't think he's just ready just yet. You know, it's gonna take some time So they look, you know, they look to me. So I was like for sure, you know And I just I quit the post office like that same day She told me that she really wanted me to come aboard. I said I bet say legion. I say no no And I just put my two weeks in and told him I was gone. I started working for my family Here we go