Ep. 23 | Trial by Fire & Faith ft. Donnii P

Ever taken that heart-stopping leap from the "safe" embrace of a steady job into the wild unknown of entrepreneurship? Donnii P has walked this thrilling tightrope, and in this episode she shares the raw truths of her journey. From her first viral moment to life-altering transitions, last paychecks and more, we're peeling back the curtain on what it means to bet on yourself, and why sometimes, the best meetings may just happen over daily commutes and sushi. Building a business from scratch is no small feat—it's a mix of grind, grit, and sometimes pure guesswork. Listen as Donnii P reveals uplifting stories of career pivots!

Podcasting isn't just about the airwaves; it's also about forging connections that can spark a business revolution. In this episode, we delve into the art of using this platform to build relationships that can catapult careers to the next level. From navigating virality to discerning the right time to charge for your craft, we unpack the delicate dance of valuing your worth. Ready to be inspired, learn from our mistakes, and maybe even chuckle at the absurdity of entrepreneurship? Tune in and join our journey through the entrepreneurial gauntlet.

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Transcript

Tasia Marie: 1:30

Hey there, live, live. What's up y'all? It's your girl, tasia Marie. What an amazing guest today.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:37

That was a crowd.

Tasia Marie: 1:39

That was a crowd.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:41

Oh, thank you, Give me some clouds. Yes, donnie P is in the building.

Tasia Marie: 1:46

Yes, hey, yes, this is dope. This is a very special episode for us, like, because we're doing, we're having guests this season and Donnie is, like, our first official guest and it's dope. Yes, you ready, yes, yeah.

Donnii P: 2:07

Do you guys be nervous?

Tasia Marie: 2:09

Not really. No, okay, a little bit for me, do you?

Aliya Cheyanne: 2:13

I love it Really.

Tasia Marie: 2:16

Like my faces. Yeah, because you know I can't control my faces, so when I watch it back I'd be like did you just say that yeah.

Donnii P: 2:22

Well me I don't care, I'd be off the rip. I love it, yeah, sometimes I'd be nervous too, though Sometimes I'd be like fuck it. It is what it is.

Tasia Marie: 2:29

I just don't see Donnie getting on there, I do.

Donnii P: 2:35

I remember my very first podcast was Bulture Podcast, my homeboy Mikey. I was on his podcast and, granted, it was no visual, so it was just us. In his living room he had a set up that was super cute. I thought it was like the most professional thing and.

Donnii P: 2:48

I was so fucking nervous this was right before I went viral Like literally I was sitting on his couch and I was going viral as I was sitting there. Oh, that's wild. This is when I first made it to. Yeah, I made it to. This is when I was on Spiritual Word and I was getting so many notifications and I was like what the fuck? Is this? It was the Be Some Own thing.

Aliya Cheyanne: 3:08

It was they tried to put it together and say I said she stole, my content.

Donnii P: 3:13

You know how wow, and I was so nervous there.

Tasia Marie: 3:15

You was making it Like we got family in Canada and Texas and I saw them like our cousins Ebony and Tiffany, Like I saw them like that yourself, and I was like what the fuck?

Donnii P: 3:30

Oh, it's Donnie, how the hell she know her. She met time now. I was like, okay, I know her Right.

Tasia Marie: 3:36

Yeah, I was so nervous yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 3:42

Shout out to the living room setup because that's what we got, yeah.

Donnii P: 3:46

And that's why I met. I'm gonna look at it.

Aliya Cheyanne: 3:50

We got to start from somewhere. Speaking of knowing people there's no reason to be like you're so dope, but speaking of knowing people. So the first place I saw you actually was I don't remember exactly like what the context was, but there was a clip from tonight's conversation that had gone viral and I remember the topic was. But I remember sending it to Tasia and I was like like listen to this, check this out. And before she even listened to it, she was like, oh shit, that's Donnie Right, like what you know. You know what I'm talking about.

Donnii P: 4:27

So how do you know each other? How do you know each other?

Tasia Marie: 4:31

No, we literally met each other on the metro, like going to work every morning, getting on at the St Well, you was getting on at Anacostia, yeah, and then hop on until uh, what was the Green Line transfer point? Was that Metro Center? Um, no gallery place on the farm plaza wanted it to yeah, there you go, cause I was coming from Minnesota so I always had to transfer to the Green Line and then we ended up getting off at the same stop. Georgia have pet work Like yeah.

Tasia Marie: 4:57

And it was like we were seeing each other for quite a while. And I know, one morning we was going up the escalator and Donnie turned around and I was like I like and ever since then, like we was kicking it hard, Like we used to be out to get sushi yes, I went with it.

Aliya Cheyanne: 5:15

Everything we did a line to assistance.

Donnii P: 5:18

Yeah, we did a line to the office. Yes, we did a lot. It was a long street.

Tasia Marie: 5:26

It was like we were the, and then with uh, bonnie Sue was like three amigos.

Donnii P: 5:31

Yeah, that was my dog. That was my dog, she cool, she cool, but yeah that's how we met. We met on the train and then you know, now we're going to go to the train, Now we're here. Still cool.

Aliya Cheyanne: 5:42

Right, that's so cool.

Donnii P: 5:43

Yeah.

Tasia Marie: 5:44

Fast forward. We met in different entities because when we met I was doing security at the high school. Um high school Um, you were a dental assistant and you were actually the one that told me, like yo, you could teach, you could teach at a charter school. I thought it was so cool.

Donnii P: 6:06

I was like oh, I know somebody who went to Howard's. I went for a second, but I know somebody that got a degree. Fuck you silly.

Tasia Marie: 6:16

I know a smart people. Come on, airplane you silly. I'm a phone Shit. Go ahead. Oh man, I love it. Hey, that's like this girl was like she was in an interview and they started shooting outside her house and she was like uh, okay, bitch.

Donnii P: 6:32

And the person doing the interview was like are you okay? I don't know if she got the job.

Tasia Marie: 6:37

I don't know if she got the job, I'm just gonna go to the next one. All right, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.

Aliya Cheyanne: 6:48

No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.

Tasia Marie: 7:06

I'm going to talk about going from that nine to five to entrepreneurship, cause, like you really do your own thing now. You don't work for nobody, you work for yourself, I do. And that is the ultimate goal, like yeah, so we just want to kind of break that down. So tell us about your journey from working a traditional nine to five job to become an entrepreneur. Like don't, don't forget all your steps, please. Oh, I'm not.

Donnii P: 7:31

I remember the last check yeah, yeah, I had 19 jobs. I had 19 jobs. I've never resigned. I've never put it two weeks ago to say I've never been like promoted, and then I always been fired yeah, and then Everything. Yeah for sure.

Donnii P: 7:53

My last job, I was working in the pediatric office in Tyson's and I was getting my lashes done Sorry, my lashes in mind now, but I was getting my lashes done by my homegirl at the time, to Wana, and she she was in dental too. She had stayed in the field, I had left one over to the medical side was doing IVs out in Tyson's and I was getting my lashes done by her and I was like, bitch, do you still work in dental? She was like girl, no. I was like, really, do you really make money doing this, doing lashes? She was like, yeah, I made $500 more a week. I didn't know what that was, it just sounded good. And I was like when I? When I was done getting my lashes, and I was like, do you train? This was February 2018. I was like, do you train? She was like, no, not yet, but I will, and when I do, I'll let you know.

Donnii P: 8:44

She was transitioning over to a new sweet, a new location. So she was like when I get my sweet, I'm a definitely be training. And I was like, well, I got my deposit, now what's up? She was like I gotta get my space first and I'll let you know. And then March came. I have asked her like hey, have you figured out because I know you move like what you're gonna do, which you gonna do about training? I didn't know shit about lashing, like literally nothing. It was not something that I had on my radar like I want to be a lash sack one day. I just took her saying the fact that she made $500 more a week and was like I want to do that, how can I do it? And then, march, she sent me a flyer and it had four dates on. It was two for April and two for May. Mind you, I had no experience in this shit. I didn't know nothing about it in my mind, I said okay my job's still working.

Donnii P: 9:33

I said, okay, I'm gonna take the class of March. I mean in May, because it was four of two in April and two in May. I said I'm gonna take the course in May, I'm gonna train all of June. I'm gonna quit my job in July. I had in my mind Don't know shit about that's just what I was gonna do. So I was like, well, I'm gonna shoot for the May class. She was like okay, cool, keep me posted.

Donnii P: 9:50

April the fourth I ended up getting fired and I called her and I was like you got a class on there for April 18th. Can I take that class? Do you have any space available for me to wanna? She was like I got one more slide. I said but here's the thing I only have my money for the deposit. Can I pay you because you got to pay? You pay the deposit ahead of time and you pay the balance once you get to the training. So I was like the training is on Wednesday. I get paid Friday, can I? Just, I really want to take the training. Can I pay you to rest on Friday? So she was like yeah, trust you, we're homies. I know you're gonna give me my money, so I'm not really worried about it. I want to take that training with so much confidence and being the best motherfucking lash tech. It was the worst motherfucking one in there, the fucking worst one.

Aliya Cheyanne: 10:33

I'm telling my cock came in there. It was like six of us, I think it was like four or six of us.

Donnii P: 10:38

I was like, yeah, I'm gonna be able to do this. I got it. Oh yeah, show me I'm good because I'm such a quick learner. I was like, oh, couple times, I got it. It's cool. Hardest fucking thing. Worst thing, I was probably the worst training there. Um, but uh, yeah, I will call her every fucking day after training, like how come my lashes don't look like yours? I'm doing what you telling me to do in a man. Again, it's not working.

Donnii P: 11:03

She's like Donnie you remember I've been doing this at this time because she's eight years in and I'm six years. She had been doing it for two years, so it looked like different for her because she's a lot more experienced and I'm still I'm a working at this. So I was calling her every, every, every fucking day. She was like bitch, you're fine for the long, the amount of time, and I only been doing it for like a few days. If you pray, like a week or something.

Donnii P: 11:26

I was like I really want to learn, I really want to know how I can get like you. Like what do I have to do? Like what am I doing wrong? My lashes are sticking. And she called me one day and she was like come up to the shop, I got a, I got a client and I want you to lash her, but I want to see what you're doing wrong. So I went and she told me she was showing me as I was, that she was like nope, this is you got doing like this, okay. And I'm like okay, cool. And I felt like okay, I got it. I went home and I lasted my Took me like three hours.

Donnii P: 11:53

But I last and I got through it and I posted a picture of it and people started hit me up like, oh, you do lashes now, oh my god, how much you charge. And I was like, oh shit, I wasn't expecting people to Hit me up like, okay, so on, how much do I charge? Because you charge in a hundred, like I can't charge that much. She was like, just start off small, do $50, let people know you're new, you still trying to learn, and Just be patient with you, like if they want to come cool. So I'm selling everybody I do. I just want to $50. It's gonna take me like two and a half three hours. Just hold me down. Please, please, please, don't get through this. Yeah and like right, we will get through. It May take until next Easter, but we gonna get through. We're gonna get through. You gonna have a set at some point.

Donnii P: 12:37

So people started like a couple of people was like two or three people. They would, they would book appointments. And then it was a really, really, really difficult time for me because I had no fucking money and unemployment was playing with me. They was taking a precious time. I'm not an employment work.

Donnii P: 12:52

They don't take they precious time when I say I did not have no money, the only money that I had was the money that the check that was given to me when I got fired no, my last check, which was probably like 1500 dollars it was, it was something small and I had gave 500 of that to her and I still had to pay my own personal bills. Bro, when I say that was the most stressful fucking time for me, I did a lot of crying, like you know what fuck it, I'm gonna just, I'm about to just give up and I just never gave up and I never, any time I got fired from a job, I would be writing home on Craigslist, like sending my resume out, like I'm gonna find me a job in two weeks. I get a beat, nothing for me to find a job, because I had to condition Like it's cool.

Donnii P: 13:34

I'm a fine job. I never look for a job like and I don't. I just just never did. I gave you that message yeah right For sure.

Donnii P: 13:44

So started on lashes. May comes around and I hit her up she's pregnant, she's going to maternity leave in June. No, in May, yeah, june, she's going to maternity leave in June. And I called her and I was like she had like a two room suite and I was like, so what you going to do with that other room? She was like, well, I didn't want to run it out to nobody, but I trust you and if you want to come, you can. She was like I'll charge you $75 a week because I know you still kind of new and you get your clientele up.

Donnii P: 14:13

And at the time I had probably like maybe four clients a week and I remember I was sitting on the bed with my daughter and at this time unemployment started coming through and I was still getting a little child support check which was like $300 or something two weeks. I was feeling cool about that. I said, all right, if I get the child support check and if I can get four clients a week at $50, that's $200. I could put that. Now we have seven and I got the unemployment check coming, which was $400 every week. I'll be good, it'll help cover my bills and then meet me by my supplies and my sweet rent. So she was like you could come.

Donnii P: 14:51

But then I still was getting real discouraged because I'm like it's still taking me like two and a half hours, it's taking you an hour, like what the fuck am I doing wrong? And when she went on maternity leave she was like oh, by the way, you'll be seeing some of my clients. And I was like Tawanna, I can't do that. You take an hour, I take two hours. She was like they know, they know, I'm going to give you all my easy ones. And I was like Tawanna, I can't do it. She was like well, if you're not going to do it, you can't stay here. I was like, oh, my god. But that was her pushing me to do it. And with that, with her pushing me, I was seeing some of her easy clients. I got my time down.

Donnii P: 15:25

I was able to take more pictures, posts, increase my prices a little bit. I went from like $50 in May August come around, let me say July came around I went up to like $75. I was like OK, cool, my clientele is starting to grow. I go from like four clients a week to now like eight clients a week. I was feeling good. I was like, ok, cool. And one day I had prayed. I said, god, if this is for me, I said you make it transparent and show me. I was at the shop one day from 8 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night and I had made $700, right? And I called her and I said bitch, I made $700 today. She was like, see, don't it feel good? And I was like I ain't never going back to work.

Aliya Cheyanne: 16:06

And I put myself.

Donnii P: 16:07

I upset myself. This was my first time ever setting a goal. I was like I want to make $500 a week. When I made $500 a day, I was like, ok, I'm not going to get this $500 a week. Here we are July now and I was like it was nothing for me to make $500 in a week. I got to up to Annie. I got to do that 1,000. Now I got to really challenge myself. Just try to get 1,000 a week.

Donnii P: 16:30

Clientele started to grow because now I got my time down back and the quality of my work is getting better. So I called her we talking. I think probably like September comes around and I say how you feel about me training. She was like I think you'll do good, give it to the top of the year. Do like January, You'll be good at training. I said OK, nope, I gave myself till December. I had got a flyer made in November of 2018. Now now I'm down to about 12, 15 clients a week. I'm good. I'm making some good money. I'm making like maybe like $15, $1,200 a week. I have the $1,200.

Donnii P: 18:02

I made a flyer and I said, right. I said, well, let me post it and see if people really going to fuck with it. My class was for $500 a person, the group training and it was a six-hour training. Four people booked the training like quick, within like the first two, three days. I was like, oh my god to one. If people really are booking, can you help me? She was like I'm going to help you with your manual. We're going to go over it. I'm going to show you how to do it, you'll be fine. From December of 2018 to probably like December of 2019, I trained every single month. I trained like over 125 girls and at that time I said, well, if I can make $2,000 in one day, I know I can make $2,000 in a week. I got you. Then that top of the year came February of 2019, I was like I'm going to get my LLC. I ain't no shit about LLC businesses Ended up getting that coming up with Life Alash, which is the brand name to the lashes.

Donnii P: 19:04

And then I just kept going and then I put myself I was like five years I'm a quick Economy crashes. Now we, at 2018, I made my first. I want to say my first six, eight months of working, I made $100,000. I ain't never even seen it. Wow. No, I mean $100,000. I was like bitch.

Tasia Marie: 19:22

And if that ain't God's plan, right, raw, right.

Donnii P: 19:26

The following year I was like I had never been on a plane. I was 31 years old, never flew anywhere. I started a 50-state tour. Right, I said I'm going to go somewhere every single month. I went somewhere for 11 months straight.

Donnii P: 19:40

Covid comes brings it to a slow halt, so I had to stop the tour. Covid comes, I want to say end of 2019, early 2020. September 2019, I decided to have a boutique. I used to get online and just show little pieces of stuff that I would wear and I would always say, oh, it's the Deets for me, it's the Deets. Like I'll have a pair of socks with some fucking donuts on it and I'll put the outfit together and I'll show people like it's the Deets, it's just the little Deets, that's it. And I was like you know what? I think I'm going to come out with a boutique Because last year it started to become a little slow. So I had to figure out how I was going to pin it. Man, because the world was sent in as big-ass frenzy when COVID first hit that you couldn't even be in close proximity. You had to be six feet away. People were scared to go to a appointment. So I was like, fuck, my money Might be a little bit rocky, what can?

Donnii P: 20:36

I do, and then I came out with the boutique. I invested so much money into that shit. My first week I had made like five bands. But when you invest five bands in it and you make five bands and you look, you don't have no problem. I didn't profit, like my first year too, because I was still learning the business. I didn't know shit about manufacturers. I was just getting close from Ali Baba. I didn't know nothing about like fashion goal and the fashion district and different wholesale sites that I need to go to. Boutique took off. It did really well for a couple of months. Covid hit.

Donnii P: 21:11

I said 2020, what else I want to do? I did a show 2018 with Lonnie B. It was a comedy show and I didn't like the feedback that I got from some of the people I'm not going to put their name out there, but it kind of made me feel small for real and it made me step out of the comedy room. I was like I ain't about to fuck with it. 2020 came. I said you know what? People don't want to fuck with me and people don't want to put me on shows and book me and believe in me. I'm going to create my own land. I'm going to have my own comedy show. I'm going to do it.

Donnii P: 21:41

I took $1,500. I was on the phone with my homeboy, simon. He said what's your budget? I said I got $1,500 budget. $1,500 budget that includes VINU and me paying the comedians. He helped me get my VINU. That's when we started doing Hangers 2020, just before they had their major renovation and I had my first comedy show. I sold 150 tickets at $20, 150 tickets and then another 100 at the door. We was 253 people came out to that show and I was like, yeah, this for me, I ain't never going back to work. I ain't never going back Fuck it.

Donnii P: 22:11

Now we're here Confirmation. I started talking shit on social media. Always been talking shit, never expected to go viral. And in 2020, it was when I went viral I was like is this for real? This is the spiritual world Y'all ever heard of that? You heard of that Because they posted it and this a lot of people just saw this.

Tasia Marie: 22:28

Yo Nah spiritual world and my post said it didn't. I was like yo.

Donnii P: 22:32

I had 6,000 followers at that time and all I wanted to get was back then you had to have 10,000 followers to do the swipe up thing on Instagram.

Tasia Marie: 22:40

I said I just want you 10,000 followers.

Donnii P: 22:42

Just please, give me 10,000 followers so I can do the swipe up for my boutique Ended up going viral. I want to say, in like two months I probably had maybe like two, three months I had a 100K. I was like, wow, this is insane. And then I went viral so many damn times five, six, seven times now and now I'm just capitalized on that.

Donnii P: 23:06

Then I just was like OK, once I get to year five, year six, we'll last year, I'm not going to do it, no more. I didn't want to do it. Business started to get slow anyway because economy took a major hit when COVID came, that's when I made the most money, because you got to understand yeah, sva, ppp, we had STEMIs, we had the government giving people an additional $600 a week for unemployment. People had money to spend when that money stopped in June of 2020,.

Donnii P: 23:32

yes, people are working, they're working remote, but they ain't spending any money. They just spent all their money. Now they got to try to figure out how to fuck. I'm going to pay my bills now because I ain't got no money because the government was giving me this money.

Aliya Cheyanne: 23:45

Now they not.

Donnii P: 23:46

I got to figure out how to get this money so people will stop had stopped getting their lashes done because they started doing DIY lashes Like anybody, save me some money. So people wasn't getting their lashes done. I took a major hit to the boutique People wasn't spending them, buying shit. I had a whole lot of merch and it wasn't moving, so I didn't care to restock it because I was like I want to restock it and it doesn't move. Like I said, people were saying I had no money.

Donnii P: 24:10

And I was like I got to figure out what the fuck I'm going to do next. Make a tip time. Ended up making a tip time. It's like you go viral. One platform, tiktok, was like a real hot thing back in 2020, when it first like really, really, really started to blow, starting on viral one tick tock, and then I just was like I ain't, I don't want to do lashes no more.

Donnii P: 24:30

I gave up the blue tee. I didn't want to do lashes no more and I was like I'm gonna see what it's like to Be a become a full-time content creator. I was like, let me sit. Yeah, I was able to save up my first 40 grand. I was like I can do it. Fuck it, I'm gonna do it. Just be a strictly a full-time content creator and then that's just what it's been for the last thing year or two full-time, strict.

Aliya Cheyanne: 24:57

Listen, congratulations, can we, can we take a minute, though, to just talk about all of the things that you hit? I listen to so many things about Entrepreneurship and starting businesses, and you literally hit so many things that All the experts share. Right, pivoting like Learning a new craft that some of them talk so much about. It's not that what you want is unattainable. You have to sit down and really think about money in a different way and what I heard you saying in all of that was like really Adopting a mindset of prosperity.

Aliya Cheyanne: 25:34

Yeah like even making your first hundred thousand and saying like I never had that before. Like or even sitting down and hearing your mentor and your friend be like I'm making an extra five hundred dollars a week, I don't have that. Now I'm gonna get that. Like, yeah, there's so much power in that Perspective and your mindset it's hard. Even just the seed of pivoting people don't talk about how hard it is only you only see the between yeah and then the end.

Donnii P: 26:01

You don't see, like that middle part we get a struggle.

Donnii P: 26:04

Yeah, where you get broke, yeah, where the fuck you like. Where the fuck is my money gonna come from? When you go from saving right 40,000 now you look at your county got 20,000 to me as it was a lot of money back. Then. Scary like damn, it's scary with the fuck, I'm gonna do like I don't. Then when you lose everything, like I lost it all I lost my job, I lost wasn't getting no money 20, 22 come, 23 come. I lose my house, have a house, fire you know what I mean.

Aliya Cheyanne: 26:31

Like you saving all this money.

Donnii P: 26:32

You like, oh shit, it's lit cool. I had all these plans, tried back traveling and I had prayed and asked God. I said I want to move, but I want you to make it transparent and I want you to show up for me, baby. When I say you showed up, when I say he showed up and showed out whole house, when I'm fine, I said come on, I know you're not talking about this. Wow, I know you ain't I know you and I know I said I wanted to move, but I know you right.

Aliya Cheyanne: 26:56

That's not what I meant.

Donnii P: 26:58

I asked and I think they're like that was fine, that was definitely a blessing in disguise, because I do believe that he does not remove without replacing. Because I had the house fire and then three days later my neighbor, she had moved out of her house a couple houses down. She moved out of her house and I called her. I said hey, listen, it's your house, it did. Your landlord rented out to anybody because I need someone to stay, have to stay with my I'm buoy. For about three days until we just had to figure it out and she was like, yeah, I'm gonna call my landlord and see, she called her landlord and landlord say I just gave it to somebody, but my homeboy has a house as two doors down from that that he's running out. My homegirl she said a homegirl, his, the landlord's homegirl, had a house and it ended up being this.

Donnii P: 27:43

And now we hear and I'm kind of grateful, I still the two, two doors down, I'm still Two doors down from the house. But like I just I just lost everything. And then we was able to give it back, get it back. That's why I just be like, right, I'll be so humble when shit be happening. I just realized it's, it's gonna happen. I lost the shit and I know I can't be able to get it back. It just comes with just having the faith and all the results are there, even when you can't see them. That's the big part about it, because you know your faith is being like tested, doing those times, and you just be going to give up.

Donnii P: 28:13

I ain't no cross so much in my fucking life. I remember I cried nine times one my fucking day when that fire came, cuz I didn't know I had been saving all of this money and it's like, okay, now I got to take the money and my friend hit me up at a hundred and ninety six thousand followers at the time, or Instagram. She said you should do either a go from me or you should just, you know, get on there and talk about your fire. Donnie, people won't donate to you. And I was like I don't want to do that. I don't everybody thinking I'm begging, I'm like another person on social media. She was I know you don't know the impact that you have on so many people. Those people really donate to you. They will really fuck with you. I was like, alright, I'm gonna make a video show on the house. And I did a voiceover and I told I said I'm only keeping it up for 24 hours, that's it.

Donnii P: 28:53

I don't want to like. I'm one of these begging, ass fucking people and I was telling people, if you want to donate, you can, but only donate a dollar, only a dollar, that's it. And I'm only keeping this post up for 24 hours because I don't want people to be number one. I ain't one of my fucking business. But I Was like I just I just ain't one of you, think I was begging. I want to say the first one the first four hours, 20 grand came in, just all in cashups everybody.

Donnii P: 29:20

Mr Credit himself wallow. So many people said me cashups like just people, just like y'all. I see what's going on. You don't know how much of an impact that you have made on my life. People used to hit people was hit me up like Donnie. I know you said all you want is a dollar, but I don't get paid until Friday. I do hair. Can you want to pull up? Can I pull up? A lot of barbers, as you know your father. If you need his haircut, I want to donate 50, but I know you said a dollar, but I don't really have it right now. Can I bring you some clothes?

Donnii P: 29:48

Museum, which is my cousin's boyfriend, my cousin's baby daddy is the owner of museum. He came by dropped off a bunch of shit from museum. Like yo, y'all, like family. Wow, you know, sam, we want. If y'all need anything, let us know. I got so much love but that's in the post down. I'm fucking shit. I don't want nobody thinking I'm gonna be back for money, but it's just dope. Just to see how many people just really genuinely fuck with me. I was like yo, this is dope. Yeah, hello, we're here.

Tasia Marie: 30:12

What's extra dope is like you're still Donnie P From when we first met. Yeah, like I said, the same.

Aliya Cheyanne: 30:21

Nothing's changed.

Tasia Marie: 30:23

Yeah, no seriously, and that's what makes you even doper, because some people get that fame and it goes straight to the oh yeah.

Donnii P: 30:29

And they just like yeah and I've experienced that too with some creators, like I've seen creators in person and I'm like damn you fucking rule the shit. Like what the fuck? Simmer down, cuz it ain't that deep, like just be humble, cuz it's like you make yourself more relatable about me. Anyway, stay true to you, stop being so snappy. But money change people and clout so yeah, I just.

Donnii P: 30:51

It ain't change you. No, I promise. I always say true to you. Remain humble because, just like I got, it Easily be taken away from me in an instant, hmm, so I tried to just be humble with everything and be super grateful.

Aliya Cheyanne: 31:04

So yeah, yeah, but you know she was hard.

Donnii P: 31:07

This is our. My friend had to close her doors at Buoy Town Center. She had a store called stephan pretty because the economy got it got rough. Her over here was $19,000 and she had to go back to work. So wow, but I was like, yeah, bitch, better you than me, cuz I ain't going back to work.

Tasia Marie: 31:28

That's right.

Aliya Cheyanne: 31:29

No, that's right, Not doing it. Oh my goodness, I've seen an uptick of that too. Oh Sorry, go ahead, not going good, I've been seeing an uptick of that too. On tiktok too. Some creators are like well, I tried this entrepreneurship thing for the last few years and you know it ain't panning out. And it doesn't always work for everybody. Let's talk about the work?

Donnii P: 31:47

Yeah, you gotta go back to work. You got to go back to work. Yeah, just what it is. Can I come work at your store? Give me a couple more dollars, like because, bitch, I know what the fuck yeah it happens.

Donnii P: 32:01

I'm gonna be having to go back to work. Yeah, that's the reality of addition Ain't always peaches and cream. You see, I only had a boot right, I'm just taking it one day at a time and I'm grateful like all right, we won't just happen. And I was like I'm gonna do things and make a million dollars, I don't give a fuck, I'm gonna do something. Right, I got both fast going with her, I'll do anything. I got Amazon. Hey, I got tiktok Money. Then now tiktok got the tiktok shop where you can shop one. It's the bomb. We're gonna be in a major chokehold.

Aliya Cheyanne: 32:29

And you can commission off of it.

Donnii P: 32:31

Mm-hmm, when you buy stuff and you know I promote the stuff, I actually buy the shit and I like about shit I like and I promote it, get paid for that. Yeah, mm-hmm, I'm starting out going on the R&B vibes the thing that I do every month yeah, and I just started doing a DMV showcasing the call me back showcases, where you know. I just wanted to the shine some light on some of the DMV creators here. It's a lot of dope talent in the area and people just sometimes need to platform and I think I just think it's dope if we all just come together and just support each other. We live in this perhaps in a barrel Type of people have that mentality people wants it, you win until you start fucking winning.

Donnii P: 33:44

Then it becomes a problem. Yeah, people don't want to show up for you, like and support you the way you think that you're supposed to be supported. And people think that because I have a large following, I'm every time I have an event is gonna be successful. I had a fucking free event. A free, free oh, you do show the fuck up, but reserve your ticket. Hundred and sixty six people war tickets. 21 people showed up, but I was telling people that like you follow was don't always equate to money. We would all love to capitalize on that, but and I sat there and I was like damn. I want to cry like shit. But now this is a part of the role pains and I want to share my experience that it ain't even always about the fact that I have such a big platform. 100,000 phone was on tiktok. That doesn't mean all 500,000 followers. I hear in the DMV people are everywhere.

Donnii P: 34:30

That's the board me so I just keep going. My friend was like bitch, I would cry to never did another event. No, I'm gonna keep doing an event because I have to figure out Like, what mistake not to make. And free is what I will never do again. Like people you know, you know, look different. I'm like that is Christmas and I'm giving up. I'm giving away money for early Christmas water party. Hey, like the morning we're fucking jaw at Bitch. Really, look like a staff man. What is it? Oh man, did the DMV show? More people showed up. I was grateful. It's about 40 50 people in there. It's cool. It's cool. Get together. Yeah, look at the gap. I'm looking together. Yeah, yeah, what in the family reunion? But it was a good year, but I, but I, but I feel like you have to build the momentum and you got to give people something to expect and it's not gonna happen. I used to be like I got. The follow was people should come out and support everybody, not gonna support you.

Donnii P: 35:29

People, just don't right, I said right who really fuck with you and who really don't fuck with you.

Tasia Marie: 35:35

But you just.

Donnii P: 35:35

I ain't gonna stop. I don't give a fuck, you sure, if you sure, if you don't, you don't. Was for me Gonna say, it was not only was.

Aliya Cheyanne: 35:41

Yeah, if it happens happens. Yeah.

Tasia Marie: 35:44

I.

Aliya Cheyanne: 35:48

Know that's right. Yeah, yeah.

Donnii P: 35:53

Like that was an intro, like that's all, because literally, yeah, I might ask a few questions here and there, like, yeah, just to kind of give the audience something to know about the guests, but other than that, yeah, like one question will go into something Totally different, to the point that I only got to go back to what I thought I was gonna ask. It'll create more questions in my head like okay, okay, so that's, what do you think about this? What do you thought, some, that we just literally sitting and just talking? So I just used the intro, so that is a great question.

Tasia Marie: 36:45

Oh, like Aliyah was like we should do a pod right, and it was me, her and her best friend at first, micaela. So for the first two seasons we were tree things right. Just trying to do a play on the password, because all of us come from Jamaican parents. Yeah, and we did those first two seasons like we locked it down, what we do. Eight or nine episodes, oh nice, each season, yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 37:11

Yeah, like 10 a season, yeah.

Tasia Marie: 37:13

Yeah, but that first season I feel like it was more of us just shooting the breeze, Like we had topics, but it was more of us just casual conversation.

Donnii P: 37:24

Yeah.

Tasia Marie: 37:24

But if it wasn't for Aliyah, I wouldn't be on this platform. No lie, really. Why'd you say that?

Tasia Marie: 37:32

Because I never thought of me as a podcaster, Like even looking into going into my next realm of or my next chapter of what's next, like I really want to dive into this content creation shit, but also, like I posted today on my page, I was like in between wanting to be a content creator and still wanting to keep a secret life Like not even a secret life, but just a fucking private life, like you know me, I'm a fairly private person Me yeah.

Tasia Marie: 38:01

I thought the problem would be dope as shit. Yeah, I like podcast.

Donnii P: 38:03

I think it's dope and then people will try to discourage you from doing it because they'd be like it's so many podcasts, everybody OK podcast yeah At this point. Podcast is the new radio. It's just what it is. Practically it is OK. Yeah, it's just a new video radio with visual. So, yeah, just do it. What's the worst that can happen? I ain't worried about shit. I just bring my podcast back. We're going to have a good time, and it's just. We're going to make the best of it.

Donnii P: 38:28

And it's just that. On that, on that, on that. And I used to be one of the people that used to look at the numbers I used to be looking like. Oh my god, I only got 10,000 people. My friend, be like bitch, I got 10 views. Fucking you talking to me, right, that's rich.

Tasia Marie: 38:41

That's why I'm listening. I asked you to come on the pod and you was like, yes, off the mat. I was like, oh, this is amazing, because some people look at you and be like hold up, you ain't even got enough followers. I had that happen to me too.

Donnii P: 38:55

I've had that happen to me too.

Tasia Marie: 38:56

When my dad came that's kind of big.

Donnii P: 38:57

I hit him up, I was like yo. This is when I first thought of my podcast, my bird the first season. I was like yo, I would love to have you on. And he was like well, let me look at your numbers first to see. And it's like now he would fuck with me. He hit me up and was like let me get a seat at the pod. I always keep receipts. I would never fuck with you. I would never circle back and get you Fuck. No, because you shit it on me on my rise.

Donnii P: 39:20

Like you got to be mindful of the people that's on the rise, because you don't know, somebody might pass your ass and you shit it on them.

Aliya Cheyanne: 39:27

Or people will.

Donnii P: 39:28

I'll reach out to people in the area. Like just some of the bigger people in the area, Like, come on, I would love to have you on the podcast. They immediately start talking about money. Now, I'm not saying you can't charge, However. I just feel like for me I don't always charge people Because I don't never know who the front is in their audience that I could possibly network with. That can give me an opportunity. It's not even always about money it's about building business relationships with people.

Donnii P: 39:53

That shit ain't always about people Like. But some people I get it. You want to, because I do charge some people. But I feel like if you have a bigger platform than me, I'm not going to like I plan on going on. Don't call me White Girls podcast, I'm not going to charge money. We never even discussed money. She didn't even discuss money for me Because she was like Donny, because I fuck with you so hard, I'm going to do the shit for free Because I don't know who in your audience and she's still trying to come up too, Even though she's a lot popular. She's still trying to build her brand too. So it's not always about fucking money and I think people get that so confused Like they want to charge for every fucking little thing and it's like, just because you feel like I'm this little fish in this big pond, you don't know who the fuck I know who watching, yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 40:34

Like you don't know where this shit can take you.

Aliya Cheyanne: 40:36

So, yeah, I think that's so true. I think, for me, I really fell in love with podcasting during the pandemic, like what else were we going to do? Everybody was finding new avenues of things to get interested in, and I listened to a couple that really resonated with me and I was like, oh, I can do this. I love to talk, I have opinions Smart, I have a voice I want to share. I love my sister, my best friend. We can all do this together and it was a fun project. For me.

Aliya Cheyanne: 41:08

It's kind of evolved into an art form. Really, something I think about, teja, that I haven't verbalized to you is I kind of feel about podcasting, the way you feel about your art. This is my interest, my passion project is something that's fun to me. So I really love your words of encouragement, donnie, because there are a lot of people who you know every industry is saturated in its own way, but I'm also just like that doesn't mean that everyone has the same voice, yeah, and just because there are a few you know, baby things that go viral, that are negative, it shouldn't deter anyone else from wanting to get involved. So I think that's great. I feel like you've dropped so many gems that are encouraging for anyone who's thinking about entrepreneurship who wants to pivot in their career Like.

Aliya Cheyanne: 41:57

Whatever the case may be, I would love to ask you, though you know, I'm sure there are many things, but if there's something that comes to mind to you now, like something you've learned in your experience that you wish you kind of would have known, maybe when you were first getting started, is there something you think of. Yeah, not giving the fuck, not caring.

Donnii P: 42:22

Just literally not giving the fuck, because at one time, I used to be on social media, one of those people that would compare myself.

Donnii P: 42:28

Like damn, I'm supposed to look like this and that's why I'm not as far as I would love to be, because I don't look like those girls. You see, a lot of people that came up behind you and you feel like you're better than them and they have this look and it's like I don't really have that look. And then I just had to realize number one bitch, you have a very much so unmatched personality. A lot of these bitches don't have that, so they have to dress it up, they have to conceal their selves so much by looking a certain way the BBLs and all this and the makeup and all of that type of shit. But I just drank a cup of fuck it. Yeah, I just stopped giving the fuck. What's the worst that can happen? I give the fuck up every day. What is the worst that can happen? Not doing it is the fucking worst that can happen. That's it. You not doing it.

Donnii P: 43:10

You would look up five minutes from now you would be like, damn, I hate that same idea in my mind. If I would have just did that shit, I probably would be lit right now. I'll be a lot further. Just do it Like what the fuck is the worst that can happen, and just don't worry about what people say.

Donnii P: 43:23

My first viral moment it was really triggering to me and it was scary because it was so many people had eyes on me and it was so many negative comments. I was like fuck these people calling me this and talking about this and doing that. And then one day somebody real big was in the comments and said don't read the comments. And I never really read the comments Because I feel like the way you feel every day is a choice, brandon we all are human.

Donnii P: 43:50

Some things are just inevitable. You're going to feel a certain way, you're going to have those days, but I feel like the things that you are in control of, that shit is a choice. So if I sit here and disperse so much of my energy and time, looking at so many of the negative comments is going to tear me from. Who the fuck? I am, bitch. You're in the comments section. I had to realize, bitch, you're going to notice me before I notice you. If I ever see you, I don't give a fuck about what you say, I just don't care, and I just think. That's just. I don't give a fuck, I just don't care, just do it. And then what's the worst that can happen? Nothing. You're just not doing it. If it don't work out, ok next.

Tasia Marie: 44:24

Move on, yeah, comparison is the thief of joy I'm telling you. But no darling, you are speaking to a n***a soul. Right now, though, you're going to drop some gins and some truthful shit. That needs to be heard. Everything happens in perfect timing for real, for real, yeah, for sure, for sure.

Donnii P: 44:41

Because I wanted this a long time ago. A long time ago I wanted this for me, but then I was like that ain't my stuff. Be like damn. Why is it not happening? It's just not your goal. And I had to realize that.

Donnii P: 44:51

It's just not your goal and I had to realize God was creating a lane specifically and destined for me. Just sit tight, just hold tight. You do all these people. You see them coming up. Your time is coming and I know he's still kind of creating that lane specifically for me Because he might know, if you get into this industry you ain't going to be ready for this shit. So I kind of continue to build and work on you Because you be careful what you ask for, because I'm going to fuck around and put your ass there and you're going to fuck around and lose it.

Donnii P: 45:21

Or because you're not being patient. So it's just that I can learn to be patient and having faith and not getting discouraged. Trust in the process. Yeah, it get hard though Sometimes you want to be like God damn, I've been doing this shit for six months. It's nothing Like fuck. Why am I working? What am I doing wrong?

Aliya Cheyanne: 45:38

It's just it's not your goal, it ain't your goal, and that's.

Donnii P: 45:41

OK, so you got to be patient, divine timing is real.

Aliya Cheyanne: 45:44

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Donnii P: 45:46

Absolutely, and another thing too.

Tasia Marie: 45:48

it sounds real cliche, but scared money don't make money Just start with things. You had your last check and you still took it. And you invested in yourself essentially, and that's what a lot of people are here to do. I'm not going to lie to you. Right now I'm untethering from the traditional nine to five and trying to. I literally I feel like I've been free falling, I've not been working and it's really been. A tough ass spot. Oh yeah, that shit get dark, that shit get scary when you trying to figure out where the fuck this next dollar gon' come from and you don't know what that shit look like.

Donnii P: 46:26

that shit get scary, especially if you want to have people who don't ask for shit that you don't want to ask for help. That is me, that's me. Hey, I'll be down to my last penny before I ask my fuck for some help.

Donnii P: 46:37

I will count some more to my last penny and I will not ask, and that's the thing, like the last thing I ever wanted my fucking to do is to tell me if it wasn't for me the one you mean, cause you know people be real quick If it wasn't for me, you would duh bitch. That's why, the fuck, I asked you, cause I knew you had the fucking money. You think I'm asking you the fuck? You don't have the money. Bitch you, fucking duh. You right the fucking, the fuck. It be with you, stupid. You visit comedy cause I was the head of the city, cause you been wanting for me. Duh, you think I'm asking the motherfucker who don't have it. I asked you, bitch, cause I knew you just got paid and you got it. Do you got it? Fuck? I don't know when I'm a paid fuck, it might be never, I don't know. Fuck.

Aliya Cheyanne: 47:18

but Right never, that's real.

Tasia Marie: 47:21

That's for real, that's real though.

Donnii P: 47:23

I ain't for myself and it's like once I got in that position I said all right, I like your hair, I like how it feels, it feels good, it look different. I get to experience a little things. I get to add garlic butter to my steak. If I want, I can supersize my meal.

Aliya Cheyanne: 48:09

Yeah, I'm almost in that place where I can when I booked my first first class flight.

Donnii P: 48:13

I don't want nobody talking to me. Don't nobody talk to me. I'm on first class bitches. But it's like when you expose yourself, when you expose yourself to a certain type of lifestyle you like it, it feels good. You try to figure out how the fuck I can stay here. I got to stay here. I got to figure out how I'm gonna stay here, cause I like it, it feel good, it's cozy, it's warm. I got the luxuries of getting up every day and doing what I love to do and that's so important to me. That's the luxury of being an entrepreneur. You get up and you do whatever you do with the fuck you like to do. If you feel like dealing with people, you have that option.

Aliya Cheyanne: 48:48

You don't want to deal with nobody.

Donnii P: 48:49

You have that option. Nobody can take that shit away from you, can do nothing with it. It's just my shit and it's good to get up every day and be like someday it's awful like fucking crazy constant. It get like that. I was like I don't feel like doing this shit. It happens.

Tasia Marie: 49:01

Man Fuck it. Look, I just started my little. Get Ready With Me videos. I literally dropped three and. I was just like I don't feel like getting ready with the world no more.

Donnii P: 49:10

Yeah, you see I ain't getting. No, get Ready In A Minute. I'm not like something like that You're a darn yeah.

Tasia Marie: 49:16

I woke up. I just woke up. I just don't want to create, but as a creator, and as creatives. We go through those periods, yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 49:26

You see now this period.

Tasia Marie: 49:27

Now I just feel like I've not been in a creative space. Yeah, and that's just really fucking me up, because I create, yeah it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. Sometimes, you got people.

Donnii P: 49:41

You got to kind of step away from it.

Aliya Cheyanne: 49:44

Like step away from it. Yeah, so you can get it back.

Donnii P: 49:46

It happens to me multiple times. Sometimes I get up and I be like I don't fucking know what to talk about. I don't have nothing. I don't have nothing for the people today. I'm sorry you better, yeah, soak up the content that you got from me last week. Figure that out. That'd be the thing, uh-oh. I didn't did, I didn't hit something. No we see you, we hear you.

Aliya Cheyanne: 50:05

OK, ok yeah.

Donnii P: 50:08

My goodness. But what is it you?

Aliya Cheyanne: 50:11

going. It's rough, yeah, especially like holding on.

Tasia Marie: 50:15

I'm getting ready to drop and I'm just like keep having to remind myself scare money, don't make money.

Aliya Cheyanne: 50:22

Because I got to put in.

Tasia Marie: 50:24

And it's not like I have vendors or anything Like the shirts that I'm going to be making. I'm making them all myself, literally getting the fabric, sewing everything. Keep putting my logos on it, like I don't know if you see in, like my little stay wet, like wild, emotionally intelligent, thriving, like it's my little play on mental health, but it's funny, showing up and doing my Get Ready With Me videos, like knowing in the back of my head I'm just like I don't want to do this shit. But I also want to make sure that I'm creating content to help build the following and build those follow words.

Tasia Marie: 50:59

Sometimes it really feels like you just working in vain.

Donnii P: 51:02

Yeah, and then sometimes, like I remember when I first started doing my podcast, I was actually being like damn, certain people don't support me. I used to take it so fucking personal Because it's like damn, my show, my y'all's. But then I had to realize support A comes in different forms, so it doesn't always look like somebody purchasing something for you.

Aliya Cheyanne: 51:19

Because one of my homegirls.

Donnii P: 51:20

She had started doing makeup and I didn't really care for how she does makeup. But I will support you in other ways. I will repost you, I will buy you some business cards, I can get you some product. It looks different. Then I had to realize with my boutique you have to figure out who your target audience is, and that shit takes a while.

Tasia Marie: 51:40

Because, just like.

Donnii P: 51:41

I like something. Everybody else is going to be liking that shit sometimes.

Tasia Marie: 51:44

So exactly. So, drop that. That's just figuring out who your audience is. I'm glad you said target audience, because that's the part that really sends me for a loop every time I think about it, Like what's your target audience? What's your target audience? I'm like, uh, millennials.

Donnii P: 52:02

I don't know, big girl, I don't know.

Tasia Marie: 52:05

Right. People who like dirty verbiage, like stay wet. Right, I did the stay wet to like that in Tysus conversation. Like I was on the plane coming home the other day and like everybody was looking at my sweater like stay wet. Like, stay wet. What the fuck? What does that mean?

Aliya Cheyanne: 52:25

Right.

Tasia Marie: 52:26

And like the whole purpose of it is to like it's like Engage that conversation. I'm sorry you hear vice parking at me right now. Yeah, who is my target audience? You'll find that we figure it out. You, just, you just know what you say.

Donnii P: 52:44

Whatever you say, the most of all, all the time, that's your target audience. You know that. Okay, every time I make a sweatshirt, if I make sweatshirts and t-shirts, t-shirts a little bit slow, maybe people just don't want to see t-shirts, maybe people just want to see hoodies. Or when I make the specific color, it sells out fast. But I really like black. But anytime I put a white shirt up there, the white shirts go. Or if I put shirts up there and they'll really do Thing and I put the crop tops up there, it kind you can kind of filter out. Like for a long time I I thought that my target audience was going to be like the agi daddy. That shit ended up being like stay at home mom. Yeah, people in my celebrate audience like to be sets Quick shit and I see like dang, why my little bookies ain't buying my shit. And it's like bitch, they're not your people. Bitch, staying in fucking lanes.

Donnii P: 53:33

You're trying to back over here, you over there, trying to wear hoochie mama shit Bitch. They don't want to see that. Shit Bitch. They want a two-piece set. Every time I would drop a set, I would drop a cute dress and that shit. When I move, let me drop a two-piece set. All them bitches was moving like a motherfucker. They move, bitches moving like hotcakes. So it's just about finding out who your target audience is, and something it's not gonna be you just know that they ain't gonna be him.

Aliya Cheyanne: 53:59

Might not be friends either.

Donnii P: 54:03

You may have a friend that might support a few, but not, maybe not all. But no bitch, it's gonna be people that you just do not know.

Aliya Cheyanne: 54:14

I said like damn my cousin's right.

Donnii P: 54:16

Buy my shit. That ain't your fucking target audience. Bitch, I don't want about that shit and that's okay. They're not your people yeah that's cool. You're not for everybody.

Aliya Cheyanne: 54:25

So gotta find your niche, yeah for sure, and it's your target audience, all of that.

Donnii P: 54:29

Yeah.

Aliya Cheyanne: 54:30

Um, I love what you were saying before, just about having control over your time. That's like a big thing for me. We did an episode recently about living our dream lives and that's one of the things I said like I want freedom and control over my time. Like I want to wake up in the morning, spend my morning how I want to do it, not answer to anyone else. So, oh, one day we gonna get there. We're gonna look back at this. Tasia and I, we like we put the work in exactly Just take a lot of patience.

Donnii P: 54:59

But sometimes I'd be like People would be like just pray about it. No, I just be like bitch. You think I'm sitting in my fucking home now praying about it? Bitch, I'm waiting for the prayer to be fucking answer. Are you dumb? Be positive like you think I'm in this, bitch being negative. You think I'm being fucking negative? Bitch, I'm trying to be. How do you be fucking positive when shit is fucking going funky? How do you like going life?

Donnii P: 55:21

Yeah deviate your brain to think positive. Bitch. I am crying. I'm on the fucking floor trying to figure out how to fucking make it. I'm trying to figure that little piece of me out.

Donnii P: 55:31

Then I can move on to try to be positive, like that's the reality of this shit like me and my best friend was having a conversation earlier today and she was feeling so fucked up about some shit she said about a nigga. She was just talking about how she, she, she missed the nigga. She was like she was having a conversation with her other friend. Her other friend was talking about Her man and what her and her man was doing, and my best friend is trying to get rid of another dude, but she's like every time she talks about her friend it makes it reminds me of my guy. I was like, well, how the fuck is her talking about? Her nigga reminded you up a nigga you ain't supposed to be fucking with. I'm like you gotta be real with yourself. She was like all right, I'm gonna be real with myself.

Donnii P: 56:08

I miss him, I want to fuck him. He's very toxic and I think that's what people need to understand be fucking real with you, be beyond, be fucking real. But you missed the dick, the nigga and his shit, all of that. But that's okay too, because how many of us have stayed in relationship? It means like that, right, a lot of us have stayed and been around people we ain't had no fucking business being with. We're gonna stay too fucking, but it's just like be real. If you want trouble back and go get some dick, that too is okay. When you come in, when you get off the phone, I'm not gonna judge you. I'm gonna be rooting for you, bitch, because I'm gonna probably be that girl. That be me sometimes, bitch, I don't fuck with her today. Today I might go. I'm talking to my life baby.

Tasia Marie: 56:49

I know somebody that would be like that.

Donnii P: 56:54

I'm okay with saying that, like I'm, I'm still Girl why the fuck yeah? That's who I call. Guess who? Guess who came up here? I know I'm stupid.

Aliya Cheyanne: 57:06

So we all have those stories, I guess, in our own way, our own version.

Donnii P: 57:11

Yes, like damn, I should have never took his dumb ass back. I'm dumb as shit I'm. I'm already be. You're gonna be here to listen to me too, right? Good, good, because I need somebody listen. At least you know, yeah, at least you fucking know.

Aliya Cheyanne: 57:24

But I think, if people say shoot themselves there.

Donnii P: 57:26

Be all right, be real with yourself, like what the fuck is the worst I can have. In my honesty, nothing, nothing. I don't give a fuck, I don't care. I'll tell you Listen.

Aliya Cheyanne: 57:35

I'm trying to get fucking out I might, and on that note, authenticity goes a long way.

Donnii P: 57:46

Okay, okay, I'm lying about that part, but we didn't use yeah, I think. I think I don't think I'm ovulating, I think, bitch, you just know I didn't oh, like just real well, hopefully, no, I'm not saying y'all, I was asking, but I'm saying, like those are saying in general, like hopefully, yeah, but you know, when the grass you, everything should just happen.

Aliya Cheyanne: 58:26

Shit happens. It's just, you know, I just being honest with yourself. Yeah, that's important because that's the only way you can identify what you want, how you gonna get there, whether be right relationships, professional career, like whatever. Being true to yourself, like that's where it starts like. And we've been having some real honest conversations with ourselves and like Each other about, like, what's happening now, where we're trying to go with this podcast, with building our business idea, which is actually to have the prolific hub like a space for creators. So, um, I'm just absorbing everything you shared from your experience. Thank you, um, this has been so wonderful for us. It's going to be wonderful for our listeners, so we can't thank you enough for and I appreciate it.

Donnii P: 59:13

Thank you for um having me on.

Tasia Marie: 59:19

Little Talking about entrepreneurship, like you're the first person that came to mind. I appreciate it Okay.

Aliya Cheyanne: 59:26

So I did.

Tasia Marie: 59:27

I hit a few other people up too. Um, but my mess. My messages have been left on red, oh yeah.

Donnii P: 59:33

You can get a lot of you know it happens.

Tasia Marie: 59:35

There's that. Yeah, I'm just Shoot for the stars, aim for the moon, that's right.

Aliya Cheyanne: 59:40

That's it Right. What's aligned will work out Well. Thank you, Donnie P. Oh, my god, this is so good. Thank you so much for joining us. No problem.

Donnii P: 59:54

It was, though it was, though Don't forget to bring us on your pod. Yeah for shop facts, no for real.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:00:00

Yeah, but before that, where can the people find you?

Donnii P: 1:00:06

I am Donnie P, I am, I am don in in IIp. Okay, and then Donnie P on tix. Talk is the page that got 500 000 followers, because it's like seven fake pages out there of me.

Tasia Marie: 1:00:22

Yeah, that's wild, yeah people don't know this, all your videos will be like. This is my only page page.

Donnii P: 1:00:28

Yes and do you know what's crazy is? People will still steal that video and post it.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:00:34

On Donnie P to them or yeah, out now.

Donnii P: 1:00:37

They got like four thousand followers. I'll be in the comment section like this is not the real page, but they'll still keep the comments and shit up there or it's one page out. They got a hot dog over emoji over top of the. I am Donnie P. This is my only page. Damn, I said so. We even watermarking it. Doing it that way don't fucking work, fuck it. Have fun doing it.

Tasia Marie: 1:00:59

Yeah, I could do with it. I don't get that's how you know you've made it. When people are facts, you start getting the fake pages.

Donnii P: 1:01:06

Like people are fucking insane. Okay, yeah, I'm not fucking weird, but I appreciate you, I Right.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:01:16

We'll definitely link your accounts in the show notes so the people can find you, and we can't wait to reconnect again. Absolutely for sure.

Donnii P: 1:01:26

Yes, all the future endeavors that's gonna come.

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:01:31

Yes, thank you so much, and thank you all for tuning into the political podcast. We will catch you in the next episode. How do we get out?

Tasia Marie: 1:01:40

Yeah, just wait for the end.