SPEAKER_06 1:48

What's up? My name is The Star, aka the Messenger from Greenville, South Carolina. I'm 38. I've been rapping since like I was 14 as the song go. Since like early 90s or the mid-90s, like 98. I didn't really start getting into it until like later on, 2004, 2009. Okay when I met my partner and we became a group. And ever since then we just been going on and just doing our thing. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_05 2:20

Like where do you normally perform at?

SPEAKER_06 2:24

So um we started performing like back in 2012 back home in Greenwood. We was at, we we did a performance at the gathering spot. It's a little nightclub at the time. Like at that time, I was I was wet, and I keep it real, I was rapping like worldly, I was doing like music like anybody else would. I was just rapping about music. Yeah, that was I was doing them club music, just so people know.

SPEAKER_05 2:49

Alsa is a great Christian rapper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Clean lyrics, lyrics hit the soul where they're supposed to. Yeah. I was listening to it, I felt it immediately when he came up. I already knew he was a spitter. That's me. I was like, wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

Oh, but um, you know, we've been doing our thing for we was a group, we've been a group for a while. It's actually three of us, me and it's another guy. We call him Quay, but before Quay wrote, you know, the rapper quay. Yeah, yeah. This was a long time ago, but we call him Kev, but he's also with us too. Shout out to him. Um he's here? Nah, he's not here, he's back home. Um circumstances, family. Understood, understood. Um, but we actually call ourselves the Black Diamond Squad, but uh, you know, as me as a Christian artist, I've always just been independent on my own, but I've also been with him. So he got me involved with it, so it was like, yeah. Uh but we've been doing it for a while since 09, like I said, and we've been running it since. And then it kind of broke away a little bit, you know, family get involved and stuff starts happening. You can't really be around each other, see each other, you can't really talk to each other that much because you got family to deal with in business, so it was hard to do music anymore. But me and him, young, my boy Young Back, yeah, we just kept going and going and going. We had to stop sitting. So yeah, that's that's really about what was going on.

SPEAKER_05 4:10

I got a question for you before we end. Where do you want to be in the next five years?

SPEAKER_06 4:15

In the next five years. I would I would say I want to be I want to be somewhere expanding with my career, to be honest with you. But like I was telling my partner, I want my own ministry. That's what I was wondering. I was I want to start my own ministry and you know, I want to continue to do my music, but I want to do my music through my my ministry through my music. You feel what I'm saying? Like that's that's how I want to reach people because my mission is to reach souls and to get souls saved and bring them to him. Because it's all about him more than anything, you feel me? It ain't about anything. You're on the right path. It ain't about all the the glamour, fame, fortune, none of that. I don't care about any of that. I just want to I just want to bring people to Christ. Yeah. To his glory. You know what I'm saying? Anything else don't even matter, man. That's the honest truth. And and and make sure, but I still I still want to remember my family's. I know, you're not making your family, yeah. I still want to do it. But God will provide. Yes, he will do his work. Yes, he will, he will provide. Like, and that's definitely one of my goals in life is to become something, you know what I'm saying? Because I've been doing, like I said, I've been doing this thing for a long time, but I want to make sure, you know what I'm saying, that I'm doing it for the right reasons. Not just for the wrong reasons. To show the right path, you put people on the right path instead of the wrong path. But I know everybody has their moments today because we humans, but you know, that's just how it is. But God always forgives, and you can always come back to him no matter what you've done wrong.

SPEAKER_05 5:46

I got a question before we finish. Because you tell people where they can find you in your music.

SPEAKER_06 5:51

You can find me um on all streaming platforms. I got uh United Masters. You you can find me on Instagram, D Johnson 0726. Um my rap name is the star d-a-s-t-a-double r. Uh you can find me on Facebook, Daryl G Johnson. That's D-A-R-Y-A-L G Johnson. Uh, Snapchat, Daryl Johnson, and TikTok uh D-John37. If you need my number, I get it to you too. Hey, A6 folk. No, I ain't gonna do it. Hey, you good?

SPEAKER_05 6:23

I appreciate you. Thank you for being on that Hill Top Glove Podcast, bro. Thank you, bro. This is DJ and What with the Hill Top Club Podcast. We're at an excellent networking event today, and I'm speaking with Genesis McNeil. Excellent. Speak up a little bit. You gotta be a little loud today because we got some music playing.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

Gotcha. Genesis McNeil.

SPEAKER_05 6:40

Excellent, excellent. What is it that you do?

SPEAKER_02 6:42

Well, currently I'm the author of a children's book. I'm a first-time children's book author of What Will I Be Today, and it's currently sold on Amazon.

SPEAKER_05 6:51

Wow.

unknown 6:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

Whoa, whoa. What's the name of the book?

SPEAKER_02 6:55

What will I be today?

SPEAKER_05 6:57

Alright, and what does it encompass?

SPEAKER_02 6:59

Sold on Amazon. Um, so my inspirational is my daughter. My daughter's name is Harmony, so she's the character of the book currently. Um, and it's all about for kids, especially black girls, dreaming, um, exploring all of the possibilities, careers they can be. Um, it's all about, you know, just giving them that confidence early on, um, so they can have the potential and want to be all that they can be. It's it's it's great out here. It's hard out here for these kids these days. So for kids to look at themselves in books and see that I can do that, it can be me, I'm all for it.

SPEAKER_05 7:31

Man, that's dope. That's super dope. Thank you. Are you from Columbia?

SPEAKER_02 7:35

I am. I'm from Columbia, South Carolina.

SPEAKER_05 7:37

Where'd you go to high school?

SPEAKER_02 7:38

Uh I went to AC Flora. Say it again? Went to AC Florida, go Falcons.

SPEAKER_05 7:43

Oh, okay.

unknown 7:44

All right, all right, all right.

SPEAKER_05 7:45

I have to ask you this. What what is your where do you see yourself in five years? What's your goal?

SPEAKER_02 7:50

In five years, um, honestly, I consider myself um the owner of my own nonprofit organization, um Youth Outreach Program here in Columbia, South Carolina. I'm gonna give back to the youth primarily where I come from in my neighborhood.

SPEAKER_05 8:03

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 8:05

You've been thinking about this for a while, huh?

SPEAKER_02 8:06

I have, I have, so I have things in play. Um, even though I started my first book, it's the first book um to come. Um I've already finished my manuscript for the second one. Um I just wanted to see where things were gonna pop off with the first one. I've really received great reviews thus far.

SPEAKER_05 8:22

Excellent. All right, so I gotta let you tell people where they can find you, your book, and if they want to book you or have you come on their show, how would they do that?

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Absolutely. So I like I said my name is Genesis McNeil, but on Facebook you can find me at Genesis Noel. That's G-E-N-E-S-I-S No L N O E L. Um, and the book is entitled What Will I Be Today? By me, Genesis McNeil on Amazon.

SPEAKER_05 8:47

Excellent, excellent. Is there anything else you want to say before you depart?

SPEAKER_02 8:50

No, I'm just glad to have you here with me today, um, just to express things as far as my book is concerned. Um, and much respect and blessings to you on your podcast and things to come.

SPEAKER_05 9:00

Same to you. I appreciate it. All right, thank you. You have a blessed one. Thank you for joining the Hill Top Club Podcast. Of course, ma'am. Hey, this is DJ and what, and we're live for the most popular podcast networking event here over on Two Notch Road, and I am joined by Dope Boy D Birch, CEO Birch Fan Records. I appreciate you joining us here at the Hill Top Club Podcast Table. Would you tell our audience a little bit about yourself and what it is that you do?

SPEAKER_08 9:25

Well, I run a record label where I'm co-CEO with my sister, Shea Birch, you know. Artist development right now, really marketing, promoting, helping artists get, you know, exposure, getting their careers on track, teaching them how to be professional artists is basically not just, you know, rapping and putting music out, but doing it professionally. Actual AR. Yeah, get them some real money, you know, uh registering your music so you own your music, putting campaigns behind it so that you can touch platforms. I done did like World Star, No Jumper, Off the Porch. I done, you know, I have been an artist myself, so I have them being through the routes, to know the routes. So now I just try to give back. I work with a group right now called um 843 Mile. We mostly in the PD area.

SPEAKER_05 10:17

Where are you in the PD area?

SPEAKER_08 10:18

Um Marion County.

SPEAKER_05 10:21

Shut the front door. Wait, wait, wait, bro. Wait, let me give you this. We gotta get you on the top. Guess where we from?

SPEAKER_08 10:29

Where y'all from?

SPEAKER_05 10:30

Marion County. You better stop playing with it, Jonathan Middle School. Okay, you're gonna be like, What are you talking about, bro? Yo, this made my day. How did you get here? How did you hear about this?

SPEAKER_08 10:41

Oh, well, um, me and most popular when I first met her, she was building a podcast, so I was like, okay, I'm gonna help you build a podcast. So we had a lot of talks and endurance, her career grew, my career grew, and we just stay in contact with each other when we go to events, we always network, yeah, help support each other to try to build brands up, you know. That's awesome. Yes, awesome. Well, I gotta ask you this.

SPEAKER_05 11:08

Where do you see yourself in the next five years?

SPEAKER_08 11:12

Um, music-wise, just to keep it on that tip, I'd be probably um negotiating a lot of deals for different artists. Doing business. Yes, doing the business.

SPEAKER_05 11:26

The fact that you said AR and you knew what an AR was and what it was supposed to do is amazing. That's amazing. You don't even know what that's a real thing and it's necessary.

SPEAKER_08 11:34

Yes, necessary. You gotta have the whole total packages. Um people don't even understand like the marketing, they don't even understand that this game is a gimmick. And you gotta be able to put the gimmick together and push the gimmick.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_08 11:47

And then you gotta take that gimmick and turn it into some money. Yep, exactly. So it gotta be a business at the end of the day, like whether you're dealing with universal or you dealing with Navy Federal. Both of them got some money. That's true. You feel what I'm saying? Navy Federal give it to you quicker than Universal will. Do you know how to work the music into a business to take it to Navy Federal and get them to back your catalog?

SPEAKER_05 12:13

You gotta say that to that mic. Because I want that. No, that was dope. I gotta we gotta get you gotta have you on the show for real. That's a fact. We gotta have you on the full episode. But before I get off, before we finish up, could you tell our guests where they could find you, how they can get in contact with you if they're in need of your services or if they want to hear your music?

SPEAKER_08 12:29

Well, on Instagram, I'm mostly mainly be on that. It's BirchFan Records with the underscore. Um, you'll see my off the porch picture up there. Um and you see any one of my artists or my cousins from Gino 843 to Carolina J to Int Man to Trip 5. You catch any one of them performing, then I'm somewhere in the midst behind the scene. I'll either Hollyboy, he's shooting the camera, so I'm Mary Way.

SPEAKER_05 12:59

Word. Well, I appreciate you being on the Hilltop Glove Podcast today. No, I appreciate y'all. Before you leave, I haven't got your Instagram information, but it's been a blessing.

SPEAKER_08 13:07

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_05 13:07

This is DJ Ann What with the Hill Top Glove Podcast. We're at the most popular podcast networking event, and I have the pleasure of speaking with Mr.

SPEAKER_07 13:15

Smith, aka Boss Money. What's happening? Ain't too much, man. Thank you for blessing the mic today. Oh yeah, oh yeah, appreciate that, man. Thank y'all for having me, brother. Could you tell our audience a little bit about yourself and what it is that you do? Mr. Smith, Boss Money is an entrepreneur, man. T L E entrepreneur, man. You know what I'm saying? Got a heating up company, got a liquor stove, got a chicken farm. Really? I DJ, got an entertainment company, we do music, we songwriting, we do it all, man. You know what I'm talking about? We get to it every day, seven days a week, man. What? All right. I like to hear that. I like to hear that. Gotta do it, gotta do it.

SPEAKER_05 13:49

Where do you see yourself in the next five years?

SPEAKER_07 13:51

In the next five years, I see myself expanding all the businesses I have now. I just want to grow them, grow them um, I ain't gonna say rapidly, but I want to grow them to the point where I can position like all my nieces, nephews, you know, generation, yeah, so I can have them line up to where they already can just drop in and run these businesses and get in where they fit in. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, so where are you from originally? I'm from right here, Carolina, man. So when you go to school, upstate you know, Lawrence Clinton area. I've been here in Columbia for a minute, you know, being Chuck Time. Yeah, you know, that's why I claim the whole SC, man. You've been there. I just claim it all, man. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_05 14:32

No, I'll say, no, I like that. I like that a lot because I tell people anything that's good for the state is good for all. So wherever you get it, as long as you're getting it the right way, blessings, blessings, blessings, blessings. That's right, man. What if what advice do you have to give to our guests who are entrepreneurs or artists that are seeking to make themselves more profitable?

SPEAKER_07 14:52

Uh my advice to anybody that's trying to do anything, I would just tell them, seek God first and let him tell you how to do it. You know what I'm saying? Seek God and He'll show you what you need to be doing. Now, see, we think we know what we're supposed to be doing, but we don't. No, we don't. And once you go to Him and get permission, and he'll show you your purpose and what you're supposed to be doing. Money. So that's that's that's that's how it worked for me. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 15:18

So it's been working well. Do you have a large family?

SPEAKER_07 15:22

Um I'm the only I'm the only uh boy as far as like I don't know, sisters. Yeah, but I got three sisters and myself. Okay, but I definitely have a large family. Like I was wondering, because the way you're talking, right? It's giving me that you have a large family.

SPEAKER_05 15:37

Large family. Because you have family values. I got six. You understand generational wealth.

SPEAKER_07 15:41

From one sister.

SPEAKER_05 15:42

Wow.

SPEAKER_07 15:43

You know what I'm saying? From one sister. So yeah, I gotta large. So you see the importance of group economics. Yeah, man. I can tell. And not only that, but you know, you just gotta educate them and set them up to win. You don't want to set them up to fail. You know what I'm saying? That's true. That's true. Like social media set them up to fail, man. You gotta guide these kids, man. You gotta guide the really need to guide your culture, you gotta guide your community. It ain't even the kids, man. Like saying the culture. Because the culture touched the kids.

SPEAKER_05 16:07

Culture lost, bro.

SPEAKER_07 16:08

Yeah, yes, it is. Too lost on the sauce. You feel me?

SPEAKER_05 16:10

Hey, I need to get you, we need to get you on a long form episode. Yeah, I appreciate your time. I don't want to take too much of it, but tell folks where they can find you and how they can get in contact with you if they need to.

SPEAKER_07 16:20

Listen, Mr. Smith, aka Boss Money, all platforms, uh, any social media, Apple, Music, YouTube, whatever you got going on, Mr. Smith, aka Boss Money. Hit me up. You know what I'm saying? Let's go. Let's get this business done. You know what I'm saying? Let's talk. Let's be an inspiration. Yes, sir. Let's encourage, man. Man, well, I appreciate you, man. Yeah, make sure y'all tag me in this right here.

SPEAKER_05 16:43

Please, yeah, we gotta tag you.

SPEAKER_07 16:44

Blessing. Blessing, my brother. Thanks.

SPEAKER_05 16:47

Hey, what's going on? It's DJ and Welt with the Hilltop Love Podcast. We're at the most popular podcast networking event. I have the pleasure of speaking with Black Phoenix. Excellent, Miss Black Phoenix is here with us. We're gonna chit chat a little bit. Um, if you can just tell our audience, what is it that you do?

SPEAKER_03 17:03

I am I do everything.

SPEAKER_05 17:05

I believe it.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

I do everything. I do everything. I am a model, printed, I'm international. I'm a brand ambassador for like four brands. Um, I'm a teacher.

SPEAKER_05 17:18

Wow. Wait, wait, when do you do it? Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm a mom. Whoa.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

I'm a wife. Whoa. I'm in a social club.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Whoa.

SPEAKER_03 17:27

I'm in a sorority.

SPEAKER_05 17:28

And you also make more hours of the day from scratch?

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Yes. Yes. I think I think it comes from the hours I'm supposed to be sweet.

SPEAKER_05 17:37

Oh my lord. So you go around the clock.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_05 17:41

Pretty much. Whoa. I gotta ask this. Alright, what's your sorority?

SPEAKER_03 17:45

Um, a Zeta.

SPEAKER_05 17:46

Go ahead. Y'all Zetas do be nice. Y'all the sweetest. They are the sweetest. My fault. I have a bunch of family members, they dealt us. They can be angry to hear that part. But y'all do be the sweetest. I ain't gonna lie, y'all the sweetest. Um, what is your five-year goal?

SPEAKER_03 18:00

By what?

SPEAKER_05 18:01

What is your five-year goal?

SPEAKER_03 18:02

My five-year goal in life.

SPEAKER_05 18:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

My five-year goal in life right now is to I want to get signed to an agency.

SPEAKER_05 18:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

Like, I'm doing a lot. I kind of want to get paid for some of the things.

SPEAKER_05 18:15

I was about to ask, yes.

SPEAKER_03 18:17

I have three babies. And I'm gonna assume they're gonna need more stuff.

SPEAKER_05 18:21

You know, they keep growing. They get growing.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

They keep growing. They have school, they have activities, yeah. You know, so we have a house, you know, I want to keep adding to the house.

SPEAKER_05 18:32

Do you live here locally?

SPEAKER_03 18:33

Yes, I do. Um, I'm right off Pawnee Grove. Okay. Okay. I'm in Columbia. I'm in Columbia, but I model in a lot in North Carolina. All right. So I'm in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Atlanta. And like I said, um, I'm international, I modeled in Mexico.

SPEAKER_05 18:49

Yo, how is that?

SPEAKER_03 18:50

It was crazy.

SPEAKER_05 18:52

Why?

SPEAKER_03 18:53

It was because we were on a boat.

SPEAKER_05 18:57

On a boat, on a boat.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

We were on a boat. It was my first cruise.

SPEAKER_05 19:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:01

And I could feel every move that boat was making.

SPEAKER_05 19:04

Do you have uh do you have bad sea legs?

SPEAKER_03 19:07

Apparently. Oh Lord, did you take some dramatine? I did, it didn't work. Um, it did not work, but you could not tell when I was on that runway.

SPEAKER_05 19:16

You was hitting it.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 19:17

Go ahead, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 19:18

Of course.

SPEAKER_05 19:19

Yes, ma'am. I like you. You are together, girl. I like this. Um, so quite hey, it to our guests, right? Our audience that listened to our show, one of the big things we do are explain ways in which you can seek success. With as much as you do, and this is one of our biggest questions. How do you manage your time?

SPEAKER_03 19:41

With a calendar.

SPEAKER_05 19:42

Oh, I like that. A little pragmatic stuff. So you use a calendar, a real physical calendar, or do you also digitize it?

SPEAKER_03 19:48

It's on my phone.

SPEAKER_05 19:49

Go ahead with your bass hole.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

It's on my phone. Um, we have a shared calendar, me and my husband, I do too with my white bill. We do so much, so I'm like, I was writing it on a whiteboard, and I was like, you're not reading this board.

SPEAKER_05 20:03

So that's what happens. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 20:06

He's always on his phone, so we it's an app called Time Tree.

SPEAKER_05 20:10

Time Tree.

SPEAKER_03 20:11

Yeah, so once I put whenever either one of us puts something on the calendar, it automatically pops up for the other person.

SPEAKER_04 20:18

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

So I have I write everything down. Or I'm gonna forget.

SPEAKER_05 20:23

Yeah, I believe you.

SPEAKER_03 20:24

I write everything down. And that, I mean, you have to do that. You have to be motivated within yourself. You have to have the willpower. And when it gets hard, you just have to tell yourself to keep going because it's going to get hard. You're going to get tired. I get very tired. Like, like I said, I have three children, have a full-time job. I'm pretty much modeling full-time.

SPEAKER_05 20:45

How do you teach? I just have my phone. I gotta get that in before.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

Well, that's my job. That's my job.

SPEAKER_05 20:50

You go in with the same energy every day?

SPEAKER_03 20:53

No. I love the honesty. Thank you, thank you. No, I do not, but I go in with a plan. Like, if I'm tired, we We're gonna find a way through it. Yes, yes. In the days that I'm not, we do a lot.

SPEAKER_05 21:05

Our audience has to hear this because I always like to tell them that the people that they see that are successful, they don't always have 110 days, 110% days. Some days it's 65%, but we balance it out. You give a little bit more on days that you can, and it ends up making me up at 100%.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

Exactly. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 21:22

So I like to hear that. You're a very honest, truthful person. I can tell you like that. That's the only way to be. Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_03 21:26

That's the only way to be.

SPEAKER_05 21:27

Do you have anything you would like to tell our audience about yourself outside of what I've asked before you give your social media?

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Um I think I've told pretty much almost. You got anything upcoming? Anything? Uh I have I do have a show, Mental Health Awareness, next weekend. What's the date in the time? Uh June 28th, Sanford, South Carolina, 2 p.m.

SPEAKER_05 21:50

Awesome. Um Is there a charge to get in?

SPEAKER_03 21:53

Yes, there is. Um when I get my social, you can DM me, I'll give you the ticket information because we are selling tickets. Um but you know, mental health is so prevalent, and I just love the fact that people are actually paying attention to it now. Yes. So it's um this show means a lot to me.

SPEAKER_05 22:08

Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, you gotta have some good mental health.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Exactly, exactly. And this show is promoting good mental health or mental health awareness for because you know, some you don't know what's going on and you find out too late.

SPEAKER_05 22:24

That's true. Well, could you share how people can get in contact with you or how they could see your products or services?

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Yes, you can um contact me on Facebook, uh Black Phoenix the model, Instagram BlackPeriod Phoenix period the period model. You have to put the periods in there or I'm not gonna pop up.

SPEAKER_05 22:47

Periods.

SPEAKER_03 22:47

I am on TikTok, it's under Tony Mahom uh Tony Blue7, though.

SPEAKER_05 22:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

Yeah, Tony Blue7, you know, from my from my Zetas, you know I love blue, that's my favorite color.

SPEAKER_05 22:56

I know I'm about to say I see them glasses, I see the frames. Now, is where do they contact you about the tickets? Which which location do they need to go to?

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Facebook.

SPEAKER_05 23:05

Facebook, okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Flyer is up with the ticket information on it, or you can just contact me directly.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Before you leave, I want you to stop my brother Skip and give him the information so that we can go ahead and this is DJ and what with the Hill Talk Love Podcast. We're at the most popular podcast networking event, and I have the pleasure of speaking with Mahogany Blonde. Excellent. Give them a little volume because I'm worried about them over mahogany blonde. Perfect. Now, um, before I begin, would you be able to tell our audience a little bit about what it is that you do and why are you here today?

SPEAKER_00 23:37

Well, I am a plus size model. I've been modeling for about 10 years. I think it's been about nine or ten years. Um, I've Been everywhere to model. I've even modeled at Mohegan Sun um Casino in Connecticut.

SPEAKER_05 23:53

So that's where we're from, New Haven all day.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Stand up. I'm originally from Baltimore, Maryland. What Maryland? Say it again, Maryland. Yeah, be more stand up. Yes, I went to Benedict College. Wow. Yeah, yeah. I went to Benedict College 99 to 2003 where I got my bachelor's in social work.

SPEAKER_04 24:13

Dope.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Yeah, yeah. And I do mental health counseling. I link people to different resources in the community, and I'm very community oriented. Just last month I put on a mental health awareness festival. Okay. We had over 230 people there.

SPEAKER_05 24:28

Wow, where was it at?

SPEAKER_00 24:30

It was in Camden. I live in Camden.

SPEAKER_05 24:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

So I'm just, I'm here. I have a one son, he's 15, and he's he's awesome. He actually just performed at Carnegie Hall with 300 other kids. I'm from all over the world. So yes, yes.

SPEAKER_05 24:48

Oh. Now you live locally, I would assume.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

I live in Camden. In Camden. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:53

So you make the drive.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:55

I appreciate you making the drive. I really do.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Anything from a girl.

unknown 24:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:59

Now who who is it? How how are you? How did you get involved with this? Who are you in contact with?

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Well, again, I've been modeling for a while.

SPEAKER_05 25:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

So when people see me and they want me to come out and show out, I usually come in to support. So I came to support New Noob. That's my girl. And so, you know, I check in on her and see how she's doing, and she asks me to come. And I said, I got you, girl. So mahogany will come out of retirement.

SPEAKER_05 25:23

Hey, hey. Well, I've been asked this question, obviously. I've been asking this all day. But where do you want to be in five years?

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Where do I want to be in five years? Lord have mercy.

SPEAKER_05 25:38

I always like asking that question.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

It's hard when you when you're older. I know that's I still wanted to ask. So that's hard when you're older. Yeah. Um, five years. Enjoying life to the fullest.

SPEAKER_04 25:51

That's what I wanted to hear.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

That's the main thing. And that's that's that's our problem now. We don't enjoy.

SPEAKER_04 25:57

No.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

And and just enjoy life. By that time, my son will be off to college, and I just want to travel. Content. Well, I do that now, but I can travel minus paying for two people.

SPEAKER_05 26:08

That's what I would see. Desire, see, get a plan in five years. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Yes. Um, but that's that's really about it, and get my Porsche that I want.

SPEAKER_05 26:16

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

If he goes off to college, I'm getting my Porsche.

SPEAKER_05 26:19

That's your gift. That's a sending gift. Yep. Send off.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

I just bought a pickup truck, but I really bought it for him.

SPEAKER_05 26:25

Oh, he's a lucky, he's a lucky boy. Lucky boy. Question, where have you been in the world that you would like to go back to?

SPEAKER_00 26:37

Uh, I would say I don't really have a place that I would like to go back to because I go to the Bahamas every year. Okay. I've been to Jamaica. Um, but it's places where I want to try to go. Like my next place is I want to go to Paris. Um, I'm looking at that. Probably when my son graduates, that's going to be his trip.

SPEAKER_05 26:58

Gotcha. Can I take him with you?

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Yeah, that's his trip. You a good mother.

SPEAKER_05 27:03

Oh, boy, spoiled.

SPEAKER_00 27:05

That boy's spoiled. Well, when you have straight A's, he gets it. He gets it. Straight A's and he knows, and he's he's actually an upper bound at Benedict.

SPEAKER_05 27:14

Really? Yeah, yeah. Go ahead, trio programs. I was a trio program alumni.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

Yeah. And he's on the marching band, jazz band, concert band. He sings and he acts.

SPEAKER_05 27:24

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

So he's a triple threat. Just like his mother.

SPEAKER_05 27:27

I'm about to say he raised an excellent child.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

He gets it from his mother. So, you know, I'm here and I'm always open for contacts. Mahogany Blonde is my Instagram.

SPEAKER_05 27:38

I didn't even have that ad.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

I got you. Good, sister.

SPEAKER_05 27:42

Oh, that makes me feel good. Well, I mean, is there any tips or advice you would like to give to our audience before you depart?

SPEAKER_00 27:51

One tip is stay true to yourself. Learn who you are if you don't. And own it.

SPEAKER_05 27:59

Dang, I ain't gonna say no more than that. I appreciate it, DJ and what and our esteemed guests. Mahogany Blonde. Thank you so much for joining us. We're at the most popular podcast networking event, and I have the pleasure of speaking with Call of the Network, man. Yo, yo, yo. Jocelyn Stand Up. Shout it out, man. We're so happy that we ran into the day, man. Yo, you don't know who you know until you run into somebody outside. Crazy. And I'm not gonna lie, it's a small world. I want you to tell folks, um, especially that listen to our podcast, what it is, what is it that you do?

SPEAKER_09 28:32

I'm an artist. I try to put them down from the beginning. I'm an artist, I'm a former manager and founder of award-winning, five-time award-winning label, long time coming entertainment. Um also um podcast, those who watch radio 13 years running, 16. I'm award-winning, other side podcast. Let me shout my co-host on there. Let me not do it right. You know what I'm saying? Those who watch radio, shout out to Rock Famer Jay Brown, other side podcast, shout out to Jay Brown, DJ Classy C, 17 Star, she was over one of these right there. 17 star, Ali Shaman, the Food Talk Podcast, shout out to Arya the Motto and J Bive. You know, meeting to the bosses, there's so many people I ain't got mess up, so it's a lot of Columbia in that. But yeah, shout out to Meeting the Bosses, and Full Circle Podcast with me and my sister Deidra coming soon. And then we got the Meeting of the Mind as well, networking event, artist showcase. We got one uh tomorrow, you know what I'm saying? Um, Dorchester Road, Jungle Bar and Grill. Yeah, feature artist trillion cutter, feature model, PC Boo. You see that? Y'all better come out here. Rock fame, and Rainbow Vixen, you know what I'm saying? So y'all come out, Jungle Bar and Grill. If y'all can't make this one, I know it's short notice. I'm I'm a realist. The next one we got, July 13th. There you go. Yeah, and that's the media edition. So I want, I'm gonna hit everybody that's at the circuit and see if they want to come. I don't know if we can set no tables though, but at least get on the microphone and speak.

SPEAKER_05 29:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:58

Yeah, so yeah, that's basically me right there.

SPEAKER_05 30:00

Yeah, man. Just having a blast. Man, y'all don't realize how much this guy does. But hey, could you tell our guests um what advice you would have for them if they're interested in creating podcast slash interview type radio?

SPEAKER_09 30:15

Have tunnel vision and don't listen to the naysayers. Because people go, I always remember that line in the Will Smith movie with his son. Um God uh what was it called? Oh my god. When with Jaden when he was all broke up.

SPEAKER_05 30:29

The old movie with Will Smith's son with Jaden when he was little. And they were little, I can't remember the name of it. And he was like on his last five dollars, he had to give it away to the guy who's trying to make it as a as a businessman.

SPEAKER_09 30:40

The one, um, but anyway, that movie. And his son, they were poor. Yeah, pursuit of happiness. Pursuit of happiness. Yeah, I couldn't get it out. Pursuit of happiness. But yeah, when he said a line about people gonna tell you that you can't do something because they're afraid they can't do it. So, yeah, so just you know what I'm saying, just keep pushing. If you believe in yourself, that's all that matters. Because you hear people's stories, they be left field, you know what I'm saying? Like Diddy, even though that's not a good example these days, he started off as, you know, an intern. Look how he became before you know he went crazy with the money. Before he had the problem, but all the people's careers he changed. No, you're right. Maybe Black Rob. You're right, you know what I'm saying? Lou, he, you know, because of all the other stuff, business-wise, he was doing this. He was putting people on. Yeah. Biggie, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, I'm just saying, he started as an intern. That's right. So he got fired because he was too ambitious. And look where the, you know, look how he looked before the three years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was all rocking. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Where where do you see yourself in the next five years? Um, I wanted to live off some of this, whether it's the podcast, whether it's the event, whether, you know what I'm saying, meeting the minds, whether it's um being a uh artist, uh being an uh AR, because I do AR now, like bring people to the label now. Um yeah, I just want to be able to live off it financially success. I want me to the bar meeting the minds to be um the Apollo of Charleston, South Carolina. I want these podcasters to be drink champs, uh Breakfast Club. So my goal is to take everything to the next level. Long time coming entertainment to be like rock nation. So yeah, that's my goal with everything. Just to take it to where, you know, my you know, my daughter also models and act, she's nine. So eventually she can just slide right in there and be like a spot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:26

So just to create that financial, you know, that longevity. Awesome. And another question for you. Um can you tell our guests, our audience, where they can find you, okay, what your socials are, how to get in contact with you.

SPEAKER_09 32:41

The easiest thing I'm gonna do, I'm gonna give my number, just don't call me after 10. I'm a happily married man. Um 843-530-0064. Again, 843-530064. Call us the network, man. Shoot me a text, book you on the podcasters, uh, get you to come speak at the meeting of the minds. There's so much different platforms. You know, network with you, tell you about other stuff. I don't gatekeep. So if I know about something, whether it's something to do directly with me or whatever, I'm gonna be like, hey, it's like this young one of the young man is performing today. Um, met him yesterday at a Saturday at June. Yeah, that was yesterday. June. No, yeah, what was that? Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, god dang. Yeah, days flying. Met him Thursday at a Juneteenth event, and I told him about this, and he's performing today. So yeah, just you know, if I can help you anyway, I'm not gonna hurt you.

SPEAKER_05 33:28

Yep. Awesome, awesome. Well, thank you for joining us today. Yeah, we're gonna have you on a little long page, and then we're gonna get on your own. You better know it. We're coming down to the chuck. Yeah, man. Let's go. Yeah, boy. I appreciate y'all, man. Awesome. Thanks. This is DJ Mwell with the Hill Top Glove Podcast. We're at the most popular podcast networking event.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

And I have the pleasure of speaking with the Total Care Package, and that's K-A-I-R.

SPEAKER_05 33:53

What? Go ahead, which bass hole. I ain't messing with that.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

I ain't messing with that. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 33:59

Well, could you tell our audience a little bit about yourself? What is it that you do?

SPEAKER_01 34:03

Well, in every day I'm a home health aide and I work part-time because you know, in the society, you gotta have a little extra. True. So, as far as my passions, sing, model, um, photography, like, just love and art and culture. So I feel like modeling gives me a chance to show with others what they can be capable of. Awesome.

SPEAKER_05 34:29

And do you live locally?

SPEAKER_01 34:31

I do. I live in Columbia.

SPEAKER_05 34:32

Okay, go ahead, Columbia Stand Up. Did you go to high school here?

SPEAKER_01 34:35

No.

SPEAKER_05 34:36

Where are you from?

SPEAKER_01 34:37

I'm from Chesterfield. What? How'd you get here? An hour and a half away. And for those that don't know, they're gonna be like, Chesterfield.

SPEAKER_05 34:45

Yeah, I know they are. I know they are.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

Like 45 minutes out of Florence, Darlington, South Carolina.

SPEAKER_05 34:50

Yeah, we know that area. That's what I said. What you say, you gotta tell people. Because they act like if they don't know what it is. I'm like, come on, you roll by it. You roll by it.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

I'd be surprised when they do.

SPEAKER_05 34:58

Yep. Um, big question for you. This is the question I've been asking everybody today.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 35:03

Where do you see yourself in five years?

SPEAKER_01 35:05

In five years, I see more publications, okay, more calendars. Um, I don't know if I want to go back into the contract deal. Working with individuals is what I'm focused on. So in the next five years, I see myself working with photographers, and what I want to do is I want to come in and be the muse of what they want to create through their artistry and art.

SPEAKER_05 35:27

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

You never know what masterpiece may come out.

SPEAKER_05 35:31

You're right. At least you know what you want to do. That's the main point. That's why I'm asking this question of everybody today. It doesn't matter who you are, what it is that you do. Um, what advice would you have for our audience about those who have a daytime gig but also want to balance it with something that is their love?

SPEAKER_01 35:48

Well, I mean, honestly, time off. It can, you can put it any way you want. The money, you're always gonna need the money.

SPEAKER_04 35:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

And if you are not there anymore, they replace you. So you gotta care for yourself. So at the same time, what I say is you need a mental day. So look up the events, look at the practices, and just schedule those days off. Take time to do something that could encourage you or something that you love.

SPEAKER_05 36:17

I like that. That was pragmatic. That's what people need to hear. That's so simple, but people don't even think about using that time for themselves. And they'll take PTO and throw it away. Come on. Well, before I get off with you, I want you to be able to tell folks if you can, where can they find you on social media or how they can they contact you for your services?

SPEAKER_01 36:36

Okay, so social media, Facebook, and IG is the same. The total, that's K-A-I-R package. And as far as phone number to contact me, um is 843. And I forgot it that quick. Y'all see that?

SPEAKER_04 36:53

Go back, go back!

SPEAKER_01 36:54

6885. There you go. We're winded over there, hiccup, okay?

SPEAKER_05 36:59

Well, I appreciate you so much. Are you modeling today?

SPEAKER_01 37:02

I am.

SPEAKER_05 37:03

Excellent. So we'll get to see you all soon.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Yes, we have a um the gala theme, mint gala theme.

SPEAKER_05 37:10

So what's the theme?

SPEAKER_01 37:13

You can't tell us. You can't tell us. Okay, I was about to say you can't tell you. That's all I can give you.

SPEAKER_05 37:16

You can't tell us yet.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Who we are. That's all I can give you.

SPEAKER_05 37:19

Well, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for joining us. Y'all have a blessed one.