Monique Idlett : Undercover Billionaire on Discovery Plus

SPEAKER_01 0:04

This is the Beyond the Story Podcast, a show that goes way beyond the story. And now, Sebastian Frost. Monique, I let what's happening. Welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Thank you. Oh my goodness. How about being in Miami right now and we're doing this virtual?

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Hey, 2021, y'all.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

The world of uh, well, con is constant, they say the world's constantly changing. Oh, yeah, I'm a firm believer of these these past couple of years. So such an interesting story in how you and I connected. We actually met probably five years ago at a PGA tour here where you were getting a donation for your foundation, and uh the PGA was trying to make golf fun and entertaining and bring that evening element on there, and had the opportunity to uh to meet you and Tim very, very briefly. I was there as media, and then I'm watching a new show a couple weeks ago called Undercover Billionaire, and there's three entrepreneurs on there. And I thought, wait a second. First of all, she's in Miami. Second of all, I think I've met her before, and third of all, like I just like how she rolls. I I wonder if I can connect with her, and here we are. So the power of social media. So thanks so much for accepting my my LinkedIn uh invitation and and getting back to me here because uh I can't wait to dig in here and tell your story.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

Yeah, thank you for having me. And it's so when I saw the picture, I was like, oh my gosh, I so remember this day. Um, it's so interesting because uh I actually answer all of my DMs.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

I noticed that.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Yeah. People are like, Monique, you're not gonna be able to do that much longer. But I'm like, you know, I just I just know how important it is to be able to answer someone. It could be that one difference, that act of kindness that can make the difference of what they're trying to do in life. And so I try to stay as open as possible to you know responding to the messages within reason, within reason.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

Yeah, they're exactly. You've got to mitigate the crazy a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Um I get a little of those too.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

It comes, it comes with the territory. And I have, I've uh I don't know if you know who Gary V is, but uh I've known him for a while. Yeah, me too. So I met him when I first started, probably 11 years ago, and that was one of the first things he taught me. He said, Always have time for people, Sebastian, no matter what. And now we run into each other. Well, when live events happen, and he's the keynote and I'm the MC. And there's always the client always wants to offer security and whatnot, like because like you're gonna get mobbed, and he's like, I don't care. I welcome mobbing. And he surely does. Most people are like, okay, yeah, sure, let's get security because it gets a little crazy. But and I think there's a tremendous amount of value of being, you know, being available, you know, to a certain extent and being able to uh lift as you climb, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Yeah, I mean, I think that we're we're reaping, we're suffering and seeing the consequences of people not doing that. Um, and so I think that it's a beautiful thing to see more of a conscious people creating business models and sharing information and resources because that's just as important as any financial capital. You know, people need access to information. And um, I've always made it, you know, my objective to always be of the people for our communities. Um, I was that little girl, you know, and someone had to show me kindness for me to be able to get to where I am today. Right.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

I remember that too. I I always think about that as I continue each each step of the journey along the way when you get that message of, hey, I'm just getting started. Can I ask you a question? Hey, I'm just curious about and try to always find that. Never never forget where you came from, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:45

That's right. And, you know, I always look at it from this perspective. I don't feel like I know everything in life. And I feel like the same way I had interesting ideas as a young person, I love to keep myself around young minds. I think they are so intelligent, they're so forward-thinking, and they're in the everyday mix of all of the new information. So it's a it's a mutually beneficial relationship, and I like those type of relationships.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Yeah, I I check in, I check in with my 19-year-old frequently just to find out, you know, what's lit.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

She's like, Dad, don't ever use that word.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

Don't say that, right? That's what my kids say, moms. Stop moms.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

And I'm not I don't know what to tell you. I'm just woke. And she's like, okay, well, we're gonna have to have a conversation about words not to use, dad, because they're just not cool. So my podcast is all about telling people stories, and I I I always like to start at the beginning, as close to the beginning as possible. Not to necessarily the beginning of life. That's a long story, but I always like to start right around like post-high school, because I think that's when we're starting to figure out or a general idea of what we think we want to do on here. So if we back up to high school, um, what happened after graduation? What did your path look like initially?

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Oh man, you know, my path initially looked like on scholarship to a HBCU, you know, maybe maybe FAMU I was gonna take the scholarship from or Howard, and ended up um becoming pregnant and had a child at 18. And I chose to stay close to my mom, and I ended up going to Ohio State for undergrad. Um, but there was an important thing that happened during that summer where I met who became one of my best mentors. I was 18, just graduated high school, and there was a job fair happening for fifth third bank for professionals. And here I go, you know, being one of the first ones there, and I'm waiting for a little while, and then all of a sudden, within 30 minutes, there's like a couple hundred professionals, like three-piece suits, briefcases, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm in the wrong room. And I remember calling my mom and saying, Mom, there's no way I'm gonna get a job with Fit Third Bank. Um, there's all these mature professional people here. And she gave me two options. She said, you either stay there and do the interview, and the worst thing that can happen is they say no, or you come home and don't do the interview, then you have to deal with me. And I was like, whoa. And so I ended up sitting in my car until the very end of it. And I didn't want to lie to my mom. So I went back in with like three minutes left, knowing that they would just be like, yeah, no, we're done. They were like, oh, Monique, we've been calling your name. Now we only have one manager left to interview you and let me see if she's still available. This beautiful, gorgeous woman walks out. I mean, I was like, oh my gosh, I want to be her. And she was so kind. She ended up doing the interview. We sat and talked for three and a half hours. She hired me. She ended up becoming my mentor. Um, and during college, she also started a startup for another, for someone else, for business people, and she ran it and she hired me. So the two of us were on the floor building up a startup. We didn't know anything about it, but literally the two of us did this by ourselves. And so that was like my that was my intro into professional woman. And it to this day, she now works for me. She works for me at my company. And it's just a this is why it's so important how you treat people, how they remember you, how you interact with them. She was in my wedding, I was in her wedding, and we circled back, and she she is literally my chief operating uh officer for my companies. And it's just been such a blessing. So that started that. And then from college, I was recruited by USA Today and was given four different options of a city to move to. I felt like being stationed in Atlanta would bring like a new opportunity for me. And it ended up, you know, being the most amazing thing because not only was I starting my executive leadership at a brand new, you know, number one company, but also is when I also got to start my own company while I was an executive there. And that rolled me out into the music industry, which then changed my life forever.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

So walk me through that. So, what'd that look like? Yeah, I was that that's what I'm saying. How did you transition into the into the music world? Because that's not an easy world to break into.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

No, and so I was in Atlanta in the early, um, I think I got to Atlanta like '96. And the music industry was just starting to like pay attention to the South from an urban perspective. LA Reid had his label there, you know, Laface and et cetera, et cetera. And so here I am, a young executive at a number one company, and I had all the top clients nationally. So the Turners, the HBOs, the NFL. And I'm super young, but super, super aggressive with what my career path, what I'm saying I want. And I saw a gap in between my clients and their and their agency of records with the talent that they were partnering with. And I saw this as an opportunity to teach the talent that they were actually brands. And so it ended up being where I had corporate clients, but I also started having athletes and entertainers, and I was teaching them their brand identity. And through that, I started getting a lot of music clients. And I was at something, a music festival in Jamaica. And that's when I met my ex-husband. And from that day, he and I um we just partnered and we built mostly music groups together. Wow. So I was doing the business, he was the creative.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Amazing. Wow. When 1996.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

So, and then so and then how long did the music are you still involved in the in the music space or is that so you know, I I was the co-founder and acting CEO up until about three years ago when I fully launched Rain Ventures, which is my tech fund. Um, and how that happened is I was in a I'm super innovative and I like to disrupt. And I was feeling not as challenged in the music industry. Um, I had this major corporate background as my exercise to get information. And I was feeling like the the music industry was a little behind on innovation. And so I went back and got my master's about nine years ago. And when I was getting my master's, I actually met my now business partner who was brought in to teach us alternative investing. And I got so angry to know that Tim and I were so financially successful, yet we were never offered the startup investment for like really cool companies. And that puzzled me why we didn't have access to that, even though we were paying all of these fees for financial advisors. And so I started becoming super active, involved in investing, and then realized we have a bigger problem here. Women were receiving less than 3% of funding from the VC world, and then people of color were receiving less than 1%. So I made it my personal mission to change this. And that's how I'm I've always been able to pivot because I like to solve problems. Um, and I believe in all things equity and equality. And I was like, wow, if I didn't know this and I find myself to be super intellectual and super engaged on the educational side and access to high-level executives, I'm sure a lot of people don't know that they have alternative investing outside of starting a restaurant or funding their cousins, you know, product line. And so I just became super, super um savvy on the seed stage investing. And now we nine years later, we have a $50 million fund. Um, Bank of America, you know, announces our anchor. We have high-level net worth people like Russ Carson and Ed Zimmerman, you know, who are who have believed in our fund. And so now we have offices in New York and Miami. And that's, you know, that's my love. And that kind of led me to the next phase of undercover billionaire.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

Gosh, what a story. But I and I'm gonna commend you not only on on the path that you've been on, just constantly blazing that trail, but like you said, disrupting the trail as we're blazing it, because it can always be better, and there's always gaping holes in the trail that need to be filled that not everybody sees. And for you for you to be the visionary to be able to see that and also see the deficit, and saying, wait a second, how in the at what point did this this become a level playing field? So um I just wanted to commend you on that. That the disruptive disruptors are are are what make the world go round. I I think of I think it was a Steve Jobs quote that you know, people that think they're the people that think they're they're crazy enough to change the world are usually the ones that do.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Yeah, I mean, I think I I I lead with faith over fear, and I am a human being first, and I see people, and I believe that you know, we're currently suffering from a lot of unconscious capital being deployed. And I think that this is a time such as now to start transitioning into more conscious capital where where we're reminding ourselves that we are human first and we have more alike than we do indifference. And so I lead with love, I lead with faith. Um, and I, you know, I did the undercover billionaire challenge, knowing that our nation needed healing. And maybe if I could be representation for the underdog, for the person of color, for the black women, then maybe we can start some healing and looking at things from a different perspective versus victim. And um, you know, I'm I'm still I'm still going through the emotions of man, this was the most difficult thing that I've ever done in my life. And I know people look at TV and they see a lot of, you know, scripted reality, but this show was truly a docuseries. And it was really hard. You know, I was dropped in a city that I did not know where I was going. I could not have my real identity. They took my credit cards, my phone, my computer. They take everything from you.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

Everything's familiar.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

And they literally just drop you and they're like, okay, what are you gonna do now? You have a hundred dollars and you got 90 days to turn it into a million-dollar business. The craziest thing ever.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

I I I just tell people just that line about the show, and they're like, that sounds like an awesome show. I'm like, sounds like? No, it really is. Like, if you or have any any inkling of I I think I'm an entrepreneur, I want to be one, like, make sure you watch that show because uh I just sat there and it was just that's why I was saying the the rash of emotions that showed up as I continue to come back to going, she she she doesn't have to do this. Like it really shows your heart and it really shows your passion uh for for people and for and for what you're doing, and then being able to have the amount of success that you've gained uh and still be focused on. We were talking about our buddy Gary V a few minutes ago, and Gary's always been speaking of the VC world, I mean he's he's he's he's he's been talking for years about that bubble bursting eventually because a lot of it's you know, a lot of it's bullshit. I mean, as far as the stuff and the ideas and the things that are actually happening, and that everybody's just you know getting another round of funding and going and living that you know Instagram lifestyle, and that's gotta, you know, it's gotta end. But but but more importantly, it's dangerous.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

You know, it's really dangerous when we're bringing companies to IPO that have years of negative revenue and serious debt. And so for me, you know, it's important that we teach entrepreneurs that creating a business that makes seven figures is just as successful and just as needed as these once-in-a-while unicorns. And I think that we kind of just go straight to Z in every, especially with digital media now, and no one understands how vulnerable and how hard it truly is. It's a real process. And even once you make something successful, now you got to keep making it successful, which becomes an even a bigger challenge. And I think that we're we're leaving all of these details out of the conversations based on filters and 60-second clips. And this is the hardest thing you will ever do outside of being a parent, is raise your raise your company, nurture your company.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

It really is. It is not, it is not for the feigned at heart. And I think we're living in this we're living in this entrepreneur era where everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, but I don't think people really understand the work that's involved with that process, the emotional toll that's involved with that process. But more importantly, at least in part of my journey, and I'm sure you've experienced a lot of this too, is I might I felt a very strong um pulling on my heart that I I needed to continue to refine who Sebastian was as a human being, because it doesn't matter what I'm building or where I think that I'm going, that if I don't become a hundred percent my authentic self and show up in the world as that, whatever I end up building, I'm just gonna end up ruining. And that applies to business and personal and you know, relationships and in the in the whole nine, but keeping focused on on becoming who you need to be, because once you've arrived and you've had a tremendous amount of success, you've lived this. You you still need to be a good person, and you've got to have your heart and mind in the right place to say, okay, I've arrived now what? Because it's not everyone says, yeah, I'm you know, you're we're everyone's working for something, but okay, well, what happens when you get to the something? That's right. You reach that plateau. I mean, there's only so many vacations and things and stuff that the that life can bring with success on there that I think the true joy comes from being able to to pour that back in and and really you know start that process you know over again. So, how did how did the opportunity get presented to you? I mean, I mean it probably wasn't hard, but I know that there's you know, there's a lot of entrepreneurs out there, a lot of successful people out there. So um, how did that cross your desk?

SPEAKER_00 17:56

So I was contacted by the um talent agency and the production company. And originally my thought was, oh, I'm curious about this, but yeah, no, probably not. And I sat on it for a little while. And right before COVID happened um in November, I actually went, or February actually, I went on a life-changing trip to Machu Picchu, and I hiked Machu Picchu, and I sat on top of that mountain for hours, and it was rainy season, but it didn't rain. And sitting up there and just praying and just being present to like this, just this beautiful area, you could just feel it. I mean, you could if you were present, you could literally feel the peace, the spirituality, like everything. And I just said, you know, God, I just want to be the best version of myself, and I want to continue to leverage my voice for the voiceless, however that may look. And then um COVID happened, and actually on March 13th, I was at the production office in LA, and I remember how the the owner, the CEO, Angus James, he took a phone call in regard to the nation about to shut down. I'll never forget it was March 13th last year. And he said to his staff, the the thing that made me actually say yes to the show. He said, I want you all to not panic. The nation is gonna start slowly shutting down over the next couple of weeks. Get your things. Yeah, right. I'm listening to all of this happen live, right? He says, get your things, go to the grocery store, but do not over shop. Be mindful of the people you don't know that will have to get the same necessities that you need. Be kind and be thoughtful. And he and I was like, that's the type of person I want to be in business with. I don't know what I'm signing up for. And trust me, no matter how much information they give you, it does not prepare you for what you signed up for. I promise you that. And but what I what I loved was that is the leader. And if that's what the leader of the production company is and who he is, then this is who I want to be in partnership with, good or bad, because I know he leads with kindness and thoughtfulness. And that was the that was my reason why. And you know, I also considered the fact that Discovery Network has a very specific demographic. And I thought, what a time as such is now to maybe educate them on maybe some biases that they don't even know that they have. Um, and maybe I need to be the example of what a black woman, a person of color, just a woman, a human can also look like um through a very challenging. I mean, listen, that it was the most difficult thing I've ever done. To have a crew of people who cannot help you, who are not guiding you, but constantly asking you, so what are you gonna do about that? What's gonna, you know, like I'm a I'm not a reactive person, so I like a moment. Well, you don't get a moment when there's camera crews all around you. And so it was really difficult, but I made that decision being based on we need some healing. We are so divided and we have so much more alike than we do different. Like, literally, that's what my thought process was.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

I just thought that from the get when you got there, because it was like, oh, yeah, let's find out what you're gonna eat and where you're gonna live. And I'm and you're like, I'm going to the church. I'm like, great place to start.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

Literally.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

But I I saw I saw your heart pretty quick because it was like, well, you, Pastor, you got me this hotel room for a few days. Like, I'm gonna come stuff envelopes and do whatever I can do to like like your humility and appreciation and humbleness through that process. And I thought, well, she's this if we're building a foundation and paving a way to a million bucks in 90 days, this is exactly you know the the where to start. So I I haven't seen I are all the episodes out? I think I've seen like five.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

So basically, there's seven. This week will be eight episodes. Up on Discovery Plus. Then we're, you know, we're we just are finalizing our post-edit ADR stuff. You know how that stuff goes. And then it gets repackaged up on Linear with Shark Week or something in the springtime. So we're really excited about it. It's amazing to see how many people just want guidance. And, you know, they look at this show as mentorship and as alternative viewpoints, right? Like there's four of us who've ever done it. And all four of us did the challenge differently. Um, all looking for the same results to positively impact a community, create jobs, create a business model. And, you know, we're competitive, so definitely want to reach that million dollar valuation, you know. Um, my approach was I don't, I can't ever go into any community not talking to the community. I can't be a taker. It has to be, you know, something of reciprocity. And how can I be of support and help to them? Because I'm absolutely going to need the community too. And I'm hoping that the audience sees that. That know your neighbor, ask your neighbor how they're doing, see if they can help you, see if you can help them. Oh my goodness, what a contagious model, you know?

SPEAKER_01 23:13

Gosh, it totally. Well, I mean, from you connecting with the mayor and political people and people from the church. And next thing you know, you've got a freaking board of directors and investors ready to hear you pitch and at least give what they have. And I I could see it in their face, and I could read their body language that these individuals were not here because this was a television opportunity. These individuals were here because they believed in Monique Ailette. That's what they were.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

But they thought they were believing in Monique Linnae.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

That's correct. This is correct.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

You know what's so interesting is a true story. Literally, I wasn't in Tacoma for 20 minutes when I met Pastor Christopher. That is a true story. Wow. And that man and his kindness set the tone for how I would be able to naturally move throughout Tacoma. He said to me, he could not believe that I said, Well, you've helped me, thank you. How can I be of service to you? He said, You know, Monique, no one's ever done that. But literally, my give back was the reason why I was able to meet Tawana Nobles, who then I actually was able to live with for a few weeks.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

I remember that.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

Yeah, like I did not, people were like, Oh, you had to know her before. I did not know Tawana. I live, I'm folding the papers, and every time I folded it, it fell on her name at the line. And so I kept asking him about her, like, who's this Tawana girl? And he's like, You need to meet her. I want you to meet her. He forgot to give me the number and I DM'd her. I DM'd her and she, I created a Monique Line page. I wasn't allowed to show my face, but I put up like health stuff or something. I had eight followers, and she responded back immediately.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

So your cover was never blown the whole time. I was one of that too.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Never the whole time. Listen, when you get to the to the last episode or the episode before the last, when you see my reveal, you everyone will understand how emotional and real that journey was at that reveal. I was an emotional mess. I had been lying to people for 90 days.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Right. Wow. Wow. It was fun to watch Grant Squirm too.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

I was watching his like Grant Cardo.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

I actually just ran into him on the street a couple weeks ago, and I didn't even know about this.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

He's a great guy.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

I didn't even know about the show then. And uh we were literally chatted at a stoplight for a couple minutes on here. Oh, wow. Seeing this drive by communication. Well, I see this G Wagon and it says 10X, and success is my responsibility. And I'm like, this is either like a fanboy or it's Uncle G. Um to see like, and then he got COVID in the middle of it all, and like to see him like squirm through it all, but still, again, another individual is part of the cast there didn't have to do anything. Uh, but uh you know, great.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

And we didn't we didn't know that other people were filming.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

That's what I was gonna ask you.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Did you guys know you were other no I can I can tell you, I prop, if I think back, I'm so glad they didn't tell me another woman was filming because I would have been like, you know what? Go have at it. We got an example, you know, like we don't need two women. Right, right, right. But you know what? I'm so grateful that I did. I have I have, you know, root it, we created rooted, and we really believe in this company, and we're excited to be building it out. And more importantly, I have life family members now from Tacoma. Like I'm actually going there on on, I get there on Sunday. You know, this is I'm there once a month now.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

I thought about that too. I thought, you know what, this isn't, this, this isn't just the show on here. I mean, first of all, you're building a business and a brand, but those are carefully cultivated relationships from a very, very deep emotional place because you start from a place of you know non-transparency to having to reveal the transparency. But hey, listen, it had to happen because, you know, TV, but look at the impact that took place. So let's talk about rooted for a minute. So that was the whole concept of being able to spend 90 days to create a business. And you found you know a gaping hole within um specific communities that don't have healthy choices as far as juice bars and healthy food options on there. And you said, wait a second, if I can tap into this community and leverage what I'm passionate about and what things that are part of my life, what does that look like? So let's chat about that for a second.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Yes, you know, oh my goodness. I think day one, I was in Hilltop and I it just felt so comfortable to me. Historically black community, um, lots, but lots of inclusion. All types of people live there. And it that was beautiful to me. And but I kept asking everyone, well, where do you get your juice from? And where do you and they're like, well, this is pretty much a food desert. And then I found a food desert on the east side, and I was like, you know, this is kind of crazy, right? Healthy options straight from harvest is actually our human right. Not quite sure when marketing and the manipulation of marketing for capitalism, you know, really, really did such damage that people are eating things that are giving them deadly diseases now. And so I was like, you know what, I can't do a brick and mortar, right? Because now you're talking about, I mean, Tacoma was shut all the way down when I got there. And so I decided, you know what? If something like this ever happens, I would never want a business model to be impacted by it. And how do we do it? Well, you know what? We're gonna be on the go and we're gonna reimagine the ice cream trucks. I love that. And we're not gonna make it a food truck where we have to prep food and all this stuff. We're gonna, we're gonna prep it, put it on, and we're gonna go to people. We're gonna be accessible to all, and we're gonna do away with this myth that certain income certain zip codes and incomes don't want healthy options and can't afford it. Yes, they can. They're spending $30 a day at Starbucks, guys. Come on. They're buying cases of Gatorade. Yes, they can. You're not talking to them and you're not treating them like they they have options for this. And so that's what we did.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Amazing. Amazing. So how's it going? So so it ends up, it ends up becoming a business that now it's it's another another uh feather in your hat of of passion projects and successful.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

Just getting started, you know. It's literally, you know, you do this for the challenge, but when it's all over, you you know, this is a this is real, right? You know, and so all all I can all I could focus on on day 91 was, oh my God, I just created this crazy business model. Now I have to make sure it works.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

I love it. You'll have to get, I want to try some. You have to get me some product on our. Try some juice on the air here. I get a little thirsty during these interviews every now and then. Well, that that that was an absolutely brilliant idea. And more important, I just saw how it impacted the community and it just filled a void that needed to be filled, but it also set an just an incredible example of what is possible. And you're right, changing this conversation, changing the narrative of what we have been conditioned to believe or see. And, you know, while this pandemic has been extremely unfortunate and nothing short of batshit crazy, it has been a tremendous amount of blessings and things like this that have that have that have opened up on here.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

So wow, it's just so I'm a glass is half full, girl, and I don't really sit long in problems. I think that that's a dangerous space to see. I think we should be aware of problems, but focus on solution only. Um I think when we operate like that, it it takes us out of feeling sorry for ourselves or feeling defeated. Um, you know, once you start solving one problem, then you just take a step to the next problem. And that's what I want for entrepreneurs and just anyone, you know, to just know that you just can't give up. Like every day should be your focus of gratitude and knowing that we all have the same hours in the day and we have to maximize them.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

Amen to that. Absolutely. I think about the meme when you said glass half full. It's like for those of you considering whether or not the glass is half full or half empty, I just sold the glass, signed the entrepreneur. I absolutely love that. So uh for those of you want to connect with Monique, make sure you look her up on Instagram. You can follow her and follow her ventures uh that that she's that she's involved with. She's got her hands in fire. Doing work that matters is the consistency that you're getting from Monique's story and what's happening here. All of her relevant links and anything uh pertaining to connecting with her further, learning about Rooted, the the brand that was birthed out of this show, and of course being able to check out Undercover Billionaire on Discovery Plus. Yes, they do give you seven days for free, so you can get in and binge if you want, but I promise you you're gonna want to continue to watch after those seven days. It's worth the five or six bucks a month or whatever it is. I'm a huge fan of it. But Monique, thank you so much for your time.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

It's been uh and thank you for reaching out to me. Um, this is what it's all about, man. We have to reach out to each other. You know, I believe in the collaborative effort, and together we can do this all. We we can make this world a better place for sure.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

I really agree with that. I really agree. And it's an absolute pleasure to now call you a friend and be connected with you. So thanks again for your time. Friends, if you're listening here, make sure you connect with Monique. Make sure you check out the show too. You will be inspired. Maybe uh every day as an entrepreneur is not inspiring at all. So maybe you need to take the day off, binge watch undercover billionaire, and I guarantee you that if you don't get inspired by watching Monique's story and the rest of the cast members that are on there, you might need to check your pulse on here. Monique, thanks so much. Come back again to the show, will you?

SPEAKER_00 32:17

Yes, of course. I can't wait. And we'll we'll take shots together.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Hey, don't threaten me with a good time. All right. All right, friends, that's a wrap for uh for this episode of Beyond the Story. We'll talk to you guys soon. Thanks so much for tuning into this episode of the Beyond the Story Podcast. Be sure to appreciate it. If you haven't done so already, make sure you're subscribed to the show. This way you'll get updates as new episodes become available. If you feel so inclined, please leave us a review. Be sure to appreciate it. Signing off from the podcast, launchlab.com studios. We'll talk to you next time.