SPEAKER_01 1:45

Welcome back to the Hilltop Globe Podcast. Today we had the privilege of speaking with the inspiring LeShea Norton.

SPEAKER_03 1:51

Hello.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Hello, everyone.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Hello. How are you doing? Wonderful. How about you?

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Doing good, doing good.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

So you're a native of North Charleston.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Correct. And you're a former teacher, educator. Yes. And you have an awesome new business or project that you're working on. Yes. And could you tell us the name of that business?

SPEAKER_03 2:14

The business is Wonderland Mobile Grocery. It's a grocery store on Wheels that serves locally sourced products, produce, and essentials to underserved communities here in South Carolina. Our initial location where we're starting at is in North Charleston, since I'm a native of North Charleston.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

But yeah. Cool, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Awesome. So with that said, I know one of the things that you um that um Warner Land talks about is you guys provide um educational workshops on holistic living. And of course, that obviously ties into your background. But um, with that said, you gotta tell us a little bit about your story, how you ended up where you're at today.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

Okay, well, initially I was an educator and I grew up um in North Charleston, and I was one of the generations, probably the first generation to experience like the food food desert experience. Um and didn't even realize what it was. I remember growing up and my grandma sending me down the street to like the local corner store to grab fresh vegetables, as she would say. Um vegetables, and that disappeared. And then we had like this uh large chain grocery store, and it was there for a while, but somewhere in my teen years it disappeared. Um, I was always concerned with uh injustices, and so my idea of solving it was education because I was always told that education can change everything. So that drove me to be an educator. Um, while I was educating, I did that for like 10 plus years, and somewhere in between, like the passion for it started dwindling or dying, or I would say the passion to do larger scale work was calling. Um back in like March of 2018, I had like a really horrible accident where I broke my neck, but it allowed me to have time um to sit, to reflect, and to make the changes that I wanted to make but didn't know how to make. Um, during that process and for a few years, because it took some time to recover, um, I started thinking about what I wanted to do because I know education wasn't it. Um, when the pandemic hit, a lot of things shifted for everyone, and food access was one of the big concerns. Very true. Um, my grandmother still lived in one of the communities where I grew up where access was very limited. And from seeing and knowing that, it started making me like, hey, let's do something different. Like these other people come into our communities, um, they put up shop, they have these local corner stores, but they do not invest back into the community. Um, they don't even invest in the stores. Like as soon as you walk in the store, it's like, why would I want to buy anything from here?

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Um, a six-ex t-shirt.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

Oh right. You get you can get anything there, but you can't get fresh veggies. Yeah. You can't get coconut water, you can't get spring water.

SPEAKER_04 5:02

No.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Um, and so those things were like right there festering. Um, in addition to that, I had family members that were dealing with different chronic illnesses, such as like high blood pressure, pre-diabetic, and then my grandmother, who's very dear to me, she was diagnosed with cancer. Um, from helping those other individuals with um less, I guess less threatening uh chronic illnesses change their lifestyle and change their diets. I did a lot of research. Okay. And I found out that 80% of the chronic illnesses that we incur is due, is strictly directly related to our diet and our lifestyle. Um, with that being known, I wanted my grandmother to stay around. Um and so I made a deal with her hey, let's do this challenge where we have a plant-based lifestyle at least for 30 days to see how we feel. Grandma made it to about two weeks. I made it the entire 30 days. Yes, grandma's like, yeah, I'm too old for this. I don't want to do this anymore. But I stayed the journey. And then staying the journey, um, I noticed how different my body felt. Like I didn't have headaches, I didn't have digestive issues. And I suffered with migraines for years, digestive issues for years, going to different specialists, all types of things.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

So, question. Um, what was the challenge? What was the specific challenge?

SPEAKER_03 6:20

It was just trying to change our diet to be plant-based because I know that in changing your diet to a more plant-based diet, that it helps to rectify the damages from other contaminants that's in our body. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

And with that being said, um, now how how detailed no meat? Were you doing no dairy?

SPEAKER_03 6:39

No meat, no dairy. Um, just really sticking to like fruits and veggies as our uh diet. Starch, of course. I like rice and grits. But more things that come from the ground, not animals. No animal byproducts, no animals. Okay. Um, did really well, felt great, wanted to celebrate. Let's go get a milkshake. Worst decision ever. I was sick for a week. For an entire week, I was sick. Um, and from there, I was like, yeah, I don't want to do that to myself. Like, why would I want to poison myself? Why would I want to continuously poison myself? And so I made a decision to stick to that lifestyle. I'm not strictly vegan, I'm more pescatarian. I am a native of the South. I love seafood. Seafood. Um, but I try to make sure that most of my diet is more plant-based than um anything else.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

Man, so I know I just want to ask this question, and I know you talked about a food deserts. Could you could we just elaborate a little bit more on what a food desert is just so that folks who are listening they can understand what that is?

SPEAKER_03 7:40

Okay. Food deserts are locations that do not have access to fresh, healthy foods. Um, I like to use the word food apartheid when it's a deliberate action or systematic um stance where they do not have these uh outlets for individuals to get fresh fruits and veggies.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Like closing the piggly wiggly downtown and then opening the publics over on the other side of town near the housing area where the market is more expensive, and people who live over there probably work at the Citadel.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

Correct. Wow, that's a good definition. I can put that down.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Correct. And it usually refers to like it's like a three-mile radius. So you're supposed to be able to either walk or use some kind of um unpowered transportation to get or get a bus to be able to get there and back. And if you can't do that within three miles, you're in a food desert.

SPEAKER_04 8:28

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

Yeah, like so. For example, like I remember back in the day um over on I guess it was on North on the Rivers, where they used to have what was the grocery store. When Dixie, yeah, like that's what I think about. When I think about food desert, I think about that. When he used to Wendix now is not there.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

Yes, and that's where I where we would shop. Um, Wendixie actually, and when they close it, it's been over 20 years. They still have not placed another grocery store there. And there are many other grocery stores that are planned to close.

SPEAKER_02 8:55

Wow. And I know just to elaborate on something, because I know some of the history um of the region, just so that the audience know, a lot of that is related to economic flight. So there used to be a base over there, and when that base was there, the community that was there was economically viable. And I had to learn this, and this is crazy when you talk about food deserts, but grocery stores have an actual um algorithm that they use to determine whether or not they will move into a um neighborhood. And it's based on the median income levels. And so you can tell by the median income level in a location when you see a certain store. All right, people here make about this much money a month a year. Um, so I know like food line, it's they have to, we're looking at they must sell, I think it's like a little bit over like between a million, three million dollars in sales a year, and they're looking for median income to be somewhere above between 20 and 60. Uh, Publix, they want five to ten. You gotta have people make it between sixty and ninety before they will even decide to set up shop.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

So that's accurate. That's very accurate. I've been dealing dealing, not dealing, but with talking with individuals and policies and trying to figure out like why we didn't have a grocery store.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Yeah, yeah. And those were the reasons for the reasons. They aren't like we aren't mean, we aren't being mean about it, but we can't make money. That's what they'll tell you. And until they can do that, they will not open up a store.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

And it creates those and I just find that um I find it a lot of things, but I will say this. Uh, in those communities, and I've done the research, like in North Charleston alone, they spend about 16 million dollars in retail yearly, annually. Retail? Retail. 16 million in retail just in North Charleston alone.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

So the money is there. Um I just don't understand the connection.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

How does the how does the grocery store not go there? And that's where it gets to the point where you called it apartheid, because that's when you have a dedicated or a how you say a a system that is attempting to make sure that certain commodities are not available based on some kind of social demographic situation. Um, because I doubt that you will see that occur um in Mount Pleasant. I doubt that they would disallow a grocery store from opening um down there because for per se they what they were saying to say this they're making too much money, so I won't open a food line. That's never gonna happen. The food line will still open, right? Even though that's not their normal economic base, you're still gonna get a store. So I definitely agree with you. And I I lived over um in the east side across from where the Piggly Wiggly was. And as somebody who lived there and in the population, and uh going to the um to the uh meetings, the the neighborhood association meetings, I saw the drastic effects when that store shut down. Everybody were trying to get up King Street to go to the food line that was over there because that was the only um food option, unless you want to go down to the Harris Teeter down on East Bay. But a lot of those people didn't feel comfortable going down there for you know different reasons, and so they wanted to go someplace in their community. And the cool thing about that Piggly Wiggly, and it was there for such a long time, and it was the flagship stores, number one, was that everybody would go to it, and so there was a sense of community around the store and it being there, and you could get your South Carolina grown fruits and vegetables. Um, you could get fresh-made food out of the deli and et cetera. Just things that you would need to make sure that you weren't just eating junk.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

That's correct. Uh yeah, my grandmother loved that Piggly Wiggly. It was so communal, like everyone, all it was the same people that was working there. Yeah, yeah. They know your names, they knew your faces, they greet you. And that's the experience that we want customers to have when they come to Wonderland. Um, I did a lot of research, like this idea came into conception about 2020, like I said, around a pandemic. I intentionally did interviews and surveys within the communities that I already knew I wanted to serve to ask questions and to figure out what it is that they want. Because another part of having a grocery store is making sure that it's culturally relevant food available for the individuals that's coming in. And it was so breathtaking just to hear the response from the older members of the community remembering food trucks that would come through, and not your traditional food truck, but the person that had the station wagon or the pickup truck. And you could get your fresh fruits and vegetables, all of that's disappeared too. Um, also them having a place to come and convene with one another, to socialize, to talk, and it being a hub, all of that disappeared with those things being removed. So um we're making sure that we add in those elements and pieces in Wonderland.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Beautiful. Speaking of which, what kind of um fruits and vegetables do you do you offer or were you looking to offer that would be, you know, related to the community?

SPEAKER_03 13:57

Um, well, I know that we love collards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carl's is a big one. Um, onions and peppers is always in a meal. Yeah. Uh there are a lot of different things. And then what I've discovered is that the demographics are changing in some of the areas that we are serving. Um it's a higher high Hispanic population. Yeah. And I actually like Hispanic food. I love cactus, I love um mushrooms and tacos and some of the other non-traditional dishes. So making sure that we have things like that, like tomatoes, and they use a lot of fresh products inside um their cooking. They cook from scratch.

SPEAKER_04 14:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

Um, so making sure that we have those. And what we're doing is we're connecting and partnering with food hubs, farmers on a big scale, and small farmers to make sure that we have a diverse inventory and fresh local produce so it reduces the travel time. It reduces like it's literally farm the table.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

So I got a question about that. Um, because like I say, you do the mobile grocery store. So when do you do the purchasing, or at least like how does that get done throughout the week? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

Well, it's a process, it's a process, and I'm still learning because we're still new. Yeah. And um it's based on the needs of the community and what we are seeing in trends. Okay. Um, we're definitely working on it.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

It's it's hard to because I would figure that's one of the the the biggest, I think, hurdles to getting that stuff to people, and because of course what's going on, you're hearing us talk about it um consistently throughout the political realm and even just economically, just basic economics within South Carolina. But getting food to people at an affordable price, yeah, without spending a lot of money on transport and distance. So, for instance, like if you can get something from closer by, it's gonna be cheaper because, first of all, you don't have to spend a lot on fuel to get it to the location, and then the the smaller, the smaller the distances from the um the purchaser to the grocer also helps with the cost because now that person doesn't have to drive far to get to it, and you don't also have to go far to get to them. And what's cool about you being mobile is literally roll right up into the community, right?

SPEAKER_03 16:15

And that's the thing, like we want to take any barriers that has been associated with being act um accessing fresh food and education away, and so that's why we go directly into the communities. Uh, we want to be that community hub where they know that on Thursday between 10 and 1, we're gonna be there and that they can come and shop and get whatever it is that they need, even if it's education, um, because you also want to educate the people. We understand that some of them do not access or eat fruits and veggies because they don't know about it, they don't understand, or they don't even have access to it. And so we're eliminating all of those barriers and making it a friendly environment. Because even when you go into like traditional grocery stores, it's hard to find someone to ask them questions, even like where something is at.

SPEAKER_04 17:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:03

Um, and we want to eliminate all of that.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Excellent, excellent, excellent. Well, and I know one of the things I want to ask you is have you seen since you started um I'm wondering um have you seen maybe some of the changes of the impact in the communities that you do serve?

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Yes, yes, yes. Uh there's a lot of support. Um, people are rooting for it, people want to support it. Um, individuals are being more conscious. Um, my friends are sharing my numbers with other people so that they can ask questions or they're asking me the questions to forward the answer to them. It's almost like we are um being in a place that's trusted to get access to the food, but also to the education and the knowledge. And that's so important.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

I think that's very important because knowledge is power. Um, and I guess it's just building on just talking about the educational part of it, right? Um being that you're trying to get people proper food, the whole attitude are what you eat. Obviously, with a lot of these places in food deserts, and you're going to those little corner stores and you're eating little Debbie snack cakes, you're drinking Fanta, you're eating Slim Jems, whatever chips are there. Maybe they have a banana for sale, right? Yes and but yeah, you can buy all your tobacco products, you can get all your wraps for your cigars. Yes. You can get all the you can get all the the natty lights that you want, the ramen noodles, the ramen noodles, the ramen noodles. Um, you can get all of that. Um, but you aren't being given the food that you need to power your body properly. Could you just explain how the you are what you eat is so important in what you're doing, and just explain the fact that the importance of focusing on that. Um, and like I said, going back to when you did your trial run with veganism, trying to figure out how that worked and how the effects of it.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

Yes, you it is so important for us to understand what it is that we eat. Like, I am so conscious about it that it doesn't matter what it is, I'm gonna flip it over and I'm gonna read those ingredients. Um, if the ingredients are words that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm gonna look it up. Or usually I just put it away because nine times out of ten is trash. It's trash, it's trash. I'm gonna just be honest, it's trash. Right. And when you actually go look at how some of these ingredients are being used, you'll be like, what? Like in cereal, mini cereals, um paint thinner.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

The same chemical that's used for paint thinner is placed in our cereals and brands that we love too.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

Nah, bro, I can't even eat certain cereals no more. I learned certain things, hurt my feelings.

SPEAKER_03 19:40

Yeah, so it's very important to look at that. Um, some of these ingredients that we're putting in our bodies are full of parasites. Yep. These parasites are controlling our thoughts, they're controlling our minds, they're controlling our emotions, and they're controlling our bodies. And explain it.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

All right, so those people don't think you're crazy. No, no, she's right. Like, not in the sense like, all right, you got pinky in the brain up there, but the sense that the parasite forces you to crave.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

Right. You're craving the sugars, you're craving the high sodium, you're craving things that are not of you. Um, once, like going back to me, detoxing. Yeah, during that 30 days, I actually detox. Okay. During the detox, I'm removing the parasites, I'm removing the worms, I'm removing these things that had control over me. And that's why naturally, when I went and wanted to celebrate with a milkshake, my body rejected it. I was sick for a week, like literally sick, like all types of things sick, just couldn't get it together.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Was this a milkshake that came from the golden arches?

SPEAKER_03 20:33

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Yes, I know that was bad.

SPEAKER_03 20:37

Well, no, golden arches, I've been stopping eating from them for such a long time. When I found food in the car that wasn't like decomposing, yes, and even with our fruits and vegetables, we should be conscious of that too. Um, think about it. Back in the day when you left like a piece of food on the ground, the ants and the bugs would devour it. Now, when you leave certain fresh produce and fruits, especially from these larger retails out, the animals don't want it. They go around it. And if the animals don't want it, that's a clue. They are very in tune. Yeah, something right. And I even want to push the envelope a little bit more. I like to say we are what we consume versus we are what we eat. Because consumption isn't just about what we take in our diet, it's about all of our five senses. What are we consuming through our visual? What are we consuming in our auditory? What are we putting in our mouth? What is our skin consuming? What are we feeling? Um, a lot of things transfer into our skin. So even the individuals that like to use like this really good smell good products, what are they putting in all the way?

SPEAKER_02 21:37

That's what my wife preaches, man. I can't even wear smell good products unless they they gotta be safe, not they gotta can't have any colors in them. The the fragrances have to be natural. And I get it.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

Because the dyes are linked to like ADHD, infertility, um, different cancer diagnoses, along with um what is it? Like when we pick these things, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

I'm not even gonna get on black. I'm gonna tell you something. Just because you're talking about this, I have to bring this up because I heard this this week and it kind of hurt my feelings. Cause braiding hair. They did a test on braiding hair. And there's only with benzene, um, lead, yeah, um, other heavy metals. There's one braiding hair that you can use that's free and clear of all that stuff. But and I'm just like, these are women who are trying to avoid the creamy crack, and the braiding hair is just as bad.

SPEAKER_03 22:29

Yes, that's why my hair is natural now. Like I did it in May, and it was a decision that I wanted to make, but I was a little hesitant about it. But I actually like it. This is our crown, you gotta protect your crown. You're right. I I'm even cognizant about my shampoo. Like, I don't use shampoo, I use black soap to cleanse my hair. I use rose water, I use natural oils, coconut oil, johoba oil, things of that nature. Like, I I even make my own toothpaste.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

I do not think her breath don't smell bad, her hair smells good, just so y'all have it. It worked. It worked.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Thank you. Because there's been studies and more recent studies where fluoride is linked to decrease in IQ. Fluoride is in our toothpaste, fluoride is in our drinking water, our public drinking water. I don't drink the public drinking water. Got a filter. I drink spring water. I even stay away from the filter water, to be honest. If you do, if you you can go Google it yourself or YouTube it, it's many individuals that have done tests with the waters. And you can see like where they're at on the scale, and it's horrible.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

So, what do you do with water? Yeah. What do you do with water? Like so, like, so what do you do to prepare your water, make sure it's safe for you to drink?

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Well, I usually use spring water or um you also can like boil your water, which will give it like a distilled process. Distilled water is really good. I cook with those two. I don't usually the most I do with uh The regular Tat Waters wash, which I speak into my water because words are power. Yeah. So I speak what intention I would like into my water. And we roll with that. And then I use it to like wash dishes, clothes, things of that nature. My plants don't even like the water.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

It does should work. I was about to say, yeah, plants don't like that.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

Yeah, my plants don't even like the water. Like I um got a rain barrel last year and I started watering the plants with that. It was a drastic difference in the production. They don't even like the cat doesn't even like the water. You know what you do, right?

SPEAKER_02 24:18

So what I didn't realize this was occurring. But animals, if you give them water from the tap, they will not drink it within the first couple hours. They leave it alone. And like, why are they doing that? And this is just normal research done. They allow the heavy, like the the stuff that's in the water, whether it be whatever chemicals that may be in the user to treat it, they allow it to be filtered out to evaporate. That is where they'll try to touch it. And I was like, yo, this is crazy. So again, like you said, they have a sense that tells them not to use it. And I got in this whole kickabout water. I was back, this had to be 2010. I was actually like watching some videos about water electrolysis. And I tell everybody about this thing, I'm crazy. But you can use electrolysis in a water to test it, and then what it does is it separates all of the different particulate matter so you can see it. And they were testing bottle waters with it. Um, they were testing tap waters with it and stuff. And the colors that were coming out black, blue, pink, all these. And they were telling you what these were, like different mites, dust particles, um, dirt, chemicals, and etc. And so from then I was like, okay, everything has to be filtered down twice, three times. You gotta get a pr a specific type of filter to actually do it. I use a zero water filter and then and or distill your water in order to have it clean so that you can drink it, and your body doesn't have to then deal with all this other stuff which causes the ill diseases and illnesses.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

And then the crazier part is with those waters being contaminated, um, our bodies don't necessarily absorb it. So now we dehydrate it. True. And speaking back to the animals, like I have a cat and a dog, and when we use water from out the tap, they wait a very long time. My cat can see me just put fresh water down, and she will go find a natural source, like a rain puddle, and drink from there before she drinks out the bowl.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

Yep, smart, man. It's smart. Um, so obviously, it's very important for us to take care of our own. Um, and this is just something I know this is not even a question on it, it's something I want to know. Um, how important do you think it is specifically now with the environment that we're in, for us to first of all support our own, finance our own, and then make sure that we are as a community and a collective aware of what we need in order to be better as a whole. Because I don't think people this is what's really cool about what you want. Who's that?

SPEAKER_01 26:44

Then we'll start back on that question zero question five. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

All right, because he was making that noise. All right, you ready? Two one. All right, so with what you're doing, it's very important for, in my mind, with what we're looking at today, and the political atmosphere and economic atmosphere, for communities to be able to support each other directly. I mean, one-to-one. And like you said, with education, but also economically, the importance of buying from each other and making sure that we are in control of what it is that we are bringing into our communities for consumption. Whether that be through um media, um or music, not allowing the corporate people to say this is what you can talk about on songs, um, and even with the food we eat to realize, hey, I don't need McDonald's to be a big part of our community. Instead, I want to have local groups, local businesses like your own to impact us. How important is that to you now with what you have been seeing current event-wise and et cetera, in our country?

SPEAKER_03 27:57

It's very, very important. Um we as people, we spend the most money. And that's really important. Oh, yeah, we reball. We spend the most money. Um for many different things. And a lot of times we just don't invest in our health and wealth in the ways that's best because for one, some of us do not know. And then some of us just choose to do what we what the media is telling us is the norm. Um, I can say that I've been very blessed to have a supportive village of individuals around me within the communities, helping me to make this dream or once a dream, a reality. And not just for myself, but for others. Um it's just so important because it the economy is unstable. We don't know. Um, part of some of the education that we want to do is helping people to learn how to start gardens at their home so that that way they can have food available right there. We're not depending on a system. Because what I do know is that when we depend on a system, at any moment that system decides to change things like how they have in the past with grocery stores, it's gone. Then what? We don't need to prepare for things at the moment that it's happening, it's about being prepared before.

SPEAKER_04 29:11

Correct.

SPEAKER_03 29:11

And if we actually start coming back and doing communal things, because I feel like COVID helped us to isolate one another and to stay separated. And I feel like we, as a culture of people, haven't come back to like actually communing, sitting down with one another and being intentional and having intentional conversations like how we are having here. Like no one's attached to the device.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 29:34

No one's in the phone. And when you go out into the world, you see a lot of that, like a lot of disconnection. Um by us investing in ourselves, we learn to trust ourselves. When we trust ourselves, then we can align and have discernment to trust others.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Man, you put that word. It's not about harming anybody. No, it's about making sure that you're accountable to each other. That's how I always like to look at it. And I guess to wrap up today, we want to make sure that you get a chance to, of course, get your shameless plugs in. One of the things I was talking to you about before we started, please shout out who made this cool thing you got on each.

SPEAKER_03 30:12

My really cool friend Brianna White, she made this shirt. Um she does subliminations and all type of stuff like that. And she made the shirt. I just really wanted a shirt to get my brand out there. Um, one of my other girlfriends, she always told me that I was always in my brand colors. And I was like, well, why not have a branded shirt? And so she did this, it has my name because a lot of people get my name wrong. So we have it, Lachea. So it's much called you Lache, don't they? They call me Lachey, Latasha, Latoya, so many other things. Yeah, yes, yes. That's why the name is there. So that way you can see all the letters. Why don't you see the letters? Then you know how to spell it. But um, I love my logo.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

It's dope logo. Um, yeah, good color scheme, too. Yeah, thank you. Life colors, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

Yes, and uh you can find us on Facebook, YouTube, um, Instagram. We also have a website, www.wonderlandmobilgrocery.com. There, individuals, if they want to work and collaborate with us, whether that's given us a place to um pop up and park our vehicle, sponsoring a neighborhood, sponsoring um educational courses or just volunteering and helping out, you can go to our website and fill out the form under our community partnerships. And we're always looking for partnerships with different people, different individuals. I feel like when we have these authentic conversations, you realize that you're so rich around you, yes, and that you can tap into that network to create your net worth.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Yes, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

Yeah, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:41

And question, just to make sure we're clear, the um for Instagram, Facebook, etc., they're looking for what?

SPEAKER_03 31:47

Wanderland Mobile Grocery. So Wonderland Mobile Grocery is what we have across everything. Um, it's at Wanderland Mobile Grocery on YouTube and on Instagram and Facebook, it's Wonderland Mobile Grocery. It's all one word. Please make sure that your uh device doesn't auto-check and change it to Wonderland because it's Wanderland with an A. And the Wander, it was intentional behind the name. Wander means to walk about aimlessly. Um, we don't want individuals walking around aimlessly, so our land is the place for people to come, and wherever we're available, you can come to our land, and you don't have to be aimless about health. So we take the wander out of healthy living.

SPEAKER_04 32:23

Oh, that's your tagline.

SPEAKER_02 32:25

That's smooth. I like that. I like that. But um, we're gonna wrap up on this episode. Do you want to wrap up? You never wrap up. Yeah, wrap on today.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

All right, so so this has um been another um incredible episode of the Hilltop Glow Carcast. And we want to thank our guests, um, the incredible LaShea Norton. Thank you for um joining us and sharing all the amazing things about Wonderland Mobile Grocery.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

Thank you, and thank you, Hill Talk Podcast, for um allowing this spot. Thank you. I really do. I love to see you.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

Please come back. Please come back. Definitely, especially if you got something to go on, let us know what's happening. We'd love to support. Um, as always, like to say, I'm DJing What? Skip, Mike, Tamaya, of course, our Steam Guest, LaShia. We thank y'all so much. Until the next time. Peace. Peace.