April 15, 2025 • 22 mins
Today on the show, Loren talks about business! The business that shouldn't be touched by some, such as Tyra Banks opinion on who should star in the Body Guard remake, and what it takes to build and sustainable business, which included the latest the owner of Slutty Vegan, Pinky Cole speaking on how she lost and revived her business. Loren also gets into the "Tweets in the Streets", that included Wallo changing his life and becoming a millionaire podcaster and more.
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Jewys.
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I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
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You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
came in hot.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
What's up y'all? It's Lauren L. Rosa.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm your homegirl who knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. Now today this is a very special episode
of the Latest with Laurna Rosa.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
But Tanisha, my manager is here. Patrick is here.
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Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yesterday y'all heard Patrick debut his WDAS voice for the
first time. Anybody that don't know about WDAS. WDAS is
a radio station and it's all about like smooth jazz
and I don't know why Patrick get on this podcast
and start talking like he trying to put you all
the like sleep subtly and soothingly like he's doing like
a I don't know, like a what's the little muck
(01:31):
bang things called the mpr asmr asmr Yeah, he be
on here like yeah, because I agree, Lauren, how you
feeling like that is not how he be talking and
regularly y'all, Like, I promise you that it's not. I
don't know what it is about these cameras. Maybe when
these cameras come on, Patrick, get the acting real unusual
(01:51):
you right, I'm not used to alarm light it's no
light or no camera over there? Will you don't gotta
be used tonight? Well, welcome Welcome guys. This is the
latest with Lauryn de Rosa, your daily dig into pop
culture in all the conversations that shake the room. Now,
as always, before we get into things, just a little
(02:13):
grinding checking.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Patrick, how you feeling today?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Feeling smooth?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You feeling smooth?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
God, not smooth?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Wed, we ain't gonna be a here a word you
gonna say today? Not you feeling smooth? Why are you
feeling smooth?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I'm feeling smooth.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'm just liking how we just tackling things and we're
just like moving forward with purpose and I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Okay, I like that too. Tanisha, how you feeling today?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Amazing?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Amazing? Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So Tanisha has been rocking out with me for a
very long time, and I told a story all the
time about when I was like ready to leave my
job and she got to the point where she was
just like, girl, you either gonna leave her you not
let me know what you're doing. I'm'a support you either way.
And I was like, okay, back and call. And then
I was like, oh, just left the job.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And she was like okay, cool. So now we gotta
figure this out.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So we've been like you know, strategizing my career for
some years together. And she is in town because we
are doing a live conversation hosted by Charlemagne at you
know iHeart in celebration of the podcast, but not even
really in celebration. I've already partied about that. More so
so people can come out, they can get to meet me,
get to, you know, see me in live conversation about
(03:18):
the podcast, about my goals for the podcast. And I
think that this is this event is coming at a
good time. I'm excited. We're gonna have a ton of
media there, a ton of like you know, different clients
of the station and of Black Effect, you know, the
people with the coin.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But I'm just excited.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think I'm excited for people to come and like
really meet me and get to, you know, feel the
energy and all that in person. But yeah, so Tanisha
is here. Patrick gonna check your feeling smooth, So you
ain't gonna be able to hear nothing he talking about.
He's gonna be mumbling all night. But we're gonna get
into the latest. With the first topic. Lately, Tyra Banks
has been in the news. So I saw this headline,
(03:53):
I was like, it's no way. They had to misquote
my girl. They had to misquote my girl because there
is no way that Tyra Banks got on Beyonce's Internet
or Beyonce's wherever. This show stream a TV show she
was talking to Jenna Bush for. She was talking to
Jenna Bush on Today with Jenna and Friends. Now on
this show, Tyra Banks was guest hosting. This week, Tyra
(04:17):
Banks and Jenna start having a conversation about remaking The
Bodyguard because recently it was announced that The Bodyguard is
going to be remade. It'll come from Warner Brothers, so
it's gonna be like the whole thing now. I'm not
even gonna hold y'all. When I saw the original headline
just of the movie being remade, I was like, we
don't need this, And I've never felt like that, Like
(04:39):
I've always been one to kind of feel like, Okay,
if they want to remake it, I'm down to see
what the new version could be. But honestly, I'm more
of like, let's continue the story, but you can't continue
the story Whitney Houston is not here, so of course
this would have to be a remake. So for those
of you guys who do not know have not seen
the movie, and if you have not or do not know,
(05:00):
I be with you made it forced be with you
because I don't know where you've been at. But The
Bodyguard centers on a former secret service agent who is
played by Kevin Costner, who is hired to protect a celebrity,
Whitney Houston.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
From a stalker. Now during this time when they're doing
little dance.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Back and forth, when you know Whitney Houston is at
the height of her career in this movie, they fall
in love and it is a very like it's like
a super like romantic like super Oh my god, he
came and he saved me.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
But it's a big movie film. Whitney Houston in this film.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
For me watching her singing this movie, you can talk
to me about a movie soundtrack after this, because it
wasn't just songs are placed in you know the cute
actress who was also a singer is gonna sing it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It was Whitney Houston during this film.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
She actually landed two OSCAR nominations, and it featured Whitney
Houston's a cover of Dolly Partons I Will Always Love You,
which I'm gotta say nothing else. If you don't know
about the movie The Bodyguard. If you don't know about
nothing else, I don't have to say anything I don't.
I shouldn't have to describe background on I will always
love you. If I have to do that, this really
might not be the place for you. Okay, so come
(06:07):
back next week. But in saying all of that, and
the reason why I say that is because Tyra Banks
is having this conversation with Jenna Bush for Jenna and Friends.
And you know, sometimes I think we get on these platforms.
When I say we, I mean us, the colors, us people.
We get on these platforms, and some of the things
we say, I don't know if we don't understand, Like
it's not even a responsibility thing. It's just like a girl,
(06:29):
ain't know where you would have said that if one
of us was sitting right there next to you, because
what are you even talking about? Tyra Banks gets on
this platform and they're talking about the remake, and they're
talking about the casting because you need a very strong
woman singer, actor person to lead Whitney Houston Kevin Castle
like their romance and the dance that they did throughout
(06:50):
this film was it was so effortless. The feeling you
felt with all of that soul and all that music
and all those notes coupled with this great story and
it's amazing acting. And y'all know what Tyler Banks did.
Tyra Banks got on this platform and she said, I
think it'd be Taylor Swift because of the business and
commerce art. She would freaking sell like crazy. But okay,
(07:12):
I'm just gonna be real. I'm a black girl. And
it was Whitney Houston as a black girl, Kevin Costner
as a white man. What if we flipped it and
it was Taylor Swift and Idris Elba hot.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I don't understand, Tyra. We were all rooting for you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
There's no way that she believes that in her heart
to hearts, I know that, you know, Tyra's been in
his business for some time. She knows you know what
to do and what to say and how to maneuver
to get the people going and pick up the headlines.
But there's no way. I don't know about y'all, but
I don't want to see Taylor Swift nowhere near the
Bodyguard remake at all. It's not for me, not at all.
(07:53):
I do not want the kids bought version of the bodyguard.
I don't think that Taylor Swift is bad at what
she does. I think Teyler Swift is a powerhouse. She's
Teller Swift. She does it amazingly well. Lead a bodyguard alone.
Don't let this give you no ideas, because I've seen
the headlines picking up. Don't do it now. I do
(08:13):
know that here maybe she was just trying to play
into this. One of the directors, his name is Sam Ritch,
So Sam Ritch. He's a director that also directed a
lot of things on Taylor Swift's Aras tour. Now, I
know that the Aras tour was like a huge tour.
They did the whole film that also hit theaters and
it's whole like crazy. And I'm again I'm not taking
away from Taylorswift, but soever, I think she's really talented.
(08:36):
And y'all know, if y'all listen to me on a
breakfast club, I'm not a Tellerswift fan. I am not
a swiftye. I only know like shake it off, to
be honest with you, But I know she's talented and
I understand what she's doing, and I respect the powerhouse
and Tyra Bank as a black girl.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'm so confused how you.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Could even like knowing what witt in Houston was in
that role for us and knowing just kind of like
the feeling like I'm literally having a feeling right now
thinking about that movie like that is how that movie
makes you feel.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It won't happen with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I don't know if you've seen it, Tyra Banks, but
please go watch Taylor Swift swag surf at the Chiefs
Game and Nat will tell you right there why she
should not be doing this movie as a black girl.
I am signing off because I can't even believe that
we just had to even talked about that. Now, next
up in the latest our next topic. This conversation actually
(09:27):
has been going on for some time. But Pinky from
Slutdy Vegan. So, for those of you guys who are
not familiar, there's a business called Slutdy Vegan is a
huge business that the brand has grown into one hundred
million dollar brand is owned by a black woman named
Pinky Cole who is from Baltimore, but she has been
living and based in Atlanta for years now. They have
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fourteen locations. She's everywhere. She's in Georgia, she's in New York.
She's a ton of places.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
This brand, I feel like, has become definitely a huge
trend on social media. A lot of people I know
flight into Georgia, into Atlanta, and when they go, there's
a huge tourist attraction. Even if you're not vegan, you
want to try some slutty Vegan's food because it is
so trendy, because it is the thing that I just
everybody's doing. Everybody's talking about it now. For the last
couple of months. I didn't even notice this until she
(10:16):
said it. She sat down or earned your Leisure and
she talked about, you know, being off the grid for
the last couple of months, and she talked about the
fact that she had lost her business. She had had
to sell her business so that her business could be restructured,
and then she had to buy it back. Now when
she posted this video first announcing that she lost the
business and brought it back, she posted it on April
(10:37):
Fool's Day, I will say I have not seen a
slutty Vegan ad. I had not seen her on Instagram.
I had not anything interact interaction wise was sludy Vegan
in a while. But when she posted this video, it
did what it needed to do because I stopped and
I watched it, and she was talking about the fact
that she had lost her business had to get it back.
But more importantly, she began to go into the real
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struggles that she had been facing as a business owner.
And that got me. That really got me because for me,
I think, you know, all of this is real fly
and it's real cute, and I love being here with y'all,
but business on a back end and understanding that that
is one of the things for me that as an entertainer,
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as a producer, production company owner.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You know, we do clothing, we do a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I am always trying to like learn, and as you grow,
there's so much more for you to learn and so
much more for you to like keep afloat. So to
see a black woman whose business I know has been
making money for some years get on here and tell me, like, yo,
I messed up, I'm like, first of all, it's bold
as hell for her to admit that loudly, But secondly,
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I want to know what happened because I might mess
up too, and I need to know what's going on.
And that's all this interview was about. So Pinky from
Sludy Vegan. In this Earned Your Leisure interview, she talked
about at one point being so focused on being the
face of her business the mask got of her business
to get out, kiss the babies, you see me everywhere
of her business, that the back end was not strong.
(12:09):
Being the face is a whole job. But running a
business is not like a kumbaya. Lets just goes in.
I do yoga all day. Oh I'm cute. It's like
real work. I tell people all the time. Like when
people are like, oh my god, I want to quit
my job and be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Why and what's your why? First of all? And what
have you learned from that job that you're about to lead?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Because when I tell you, going to every inch of
project management, organization, delegation skills, everything in your life is
going to depend on that. Being an entrepreneur is harder
than working a job for somebody. I don't care what
nobody's saying. Y'all disagree with me. If y'all want to
tweet me at Laura la Rosa, you know, post on Instagram,
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let's talk about it. Because being an entrepreneur and having
a figure all of this out on a fly and
you know, figure out finances when you do it, and
like the right people, and like she said, bringing the
right people along and along the way you find out
the right people that you thought was right people not
the right people.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Like it is not the easiest thing. When you go
to a job, you go to work. You go to work.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You get along with who you have to because they're
gonna be there every single day, regardless if you do
or you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You don't know a lot about overheads.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Maybe maybe you managing a cute little budget, but outside
of that budget, you don't know nothing else. Use know
the money that was giving to you, you don't know
how it got there. You don't know where it's coming from,
the next quarter, the next turn. Like none of that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
You go, you do what you do, and you go home.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
When things mess up, it might internally be on you,
but in the public it's on that business. When you
become an entrepreneur, all of that flips sometimes. It is
the most nerve wracking thing ever to be the face
of anything. And on top of it, you got the
business on the back end. So when she's saying, you know,
it's like a marriage. When you do you bring in partners.
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I feel like even about team members, people talk about
marriage in a way of like, okay, like I don't
know about y'all, but I don't believe in divorce. I
feel like, if we together, we're gonna figure this out.
We're gonna work through what we need to work through,
because I am very confident in myself that the person
that I choose to marry is going to be of
quality and of you know, just that cloth of like,
we're gonna grow together, it's going to make sense. We'll
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get to where we need to get to. It's not
gonna be perfect at the time, but we'll get there.
Those are the type of things and the type of
people that I look for in business. Can we grow together?
Are you willing to be taught? Are you teachable? Do
you want to learn?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
What do you bring the table? Are you teaching me?
Can you level things up? Can you hit the ground running?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But one of the biggest things that I heard her
say was there was a level of like ego and shame.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
She was trying so hard.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
She's swim and swim and swim and swim and swimming,
and eventually she starts drowning, and she don't want to
admit it to nobody. So she's doing everything she can
to save this business, y'all, and it's not working. It's
not working. And that was a like It's been so
many different times where like, I've been so prideful that like,
you get to a point where you waste the money,
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you wasted time, you ain't getting no sleep for real,
and if there's so much that you have to learn
from this. One of the smartest things I heard her
say on here was that her and her husband, her
husband is named Deir Kay's. He has a cheese steak
restaurant and like they it's like a fleet of trucks
and different things in Atlanta. And one of the things
that she said was they're creating Hayes Hospitality Group.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In this Hospitality group, their plan is to bring together
a bunch of different business owners within the same conglomerates
that they are that they're involved in, and use each
other's resources. So you know, we all go in on
certain things, we all put up money for certain things.
That's making overhead cheaper, that's making it where eventually Hayes
Hospitality will have all.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Of these resources so other business.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Can come to them and grow and y'all, y'all when
I say, we as black people get in our own
way so much about us growing. What she's talking about
doing is exactly what LVMH does for Offenite, what a
lot of these like labelers do for these brands when
they when they level them up, they give them the resources,
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They connect them with other brands, They give them money
and backing and just a home to deconstruct the business,
build it back up again and up it up it
from level one to like five. We don't have a lot.
We don't even have a lot of that. We don't
not that I know, we don't have that at all.
So when a jay Z goes and he sells a
title or you know these hair brands that y'all get
(16:32):
mad at when they sell part of the company and
things of that nature because they want to level up,
and you guys get upset about it. The reason why
they do this is because they need these resources. Like
what she's talking about creating is amazing and they need it.
They need it to sustain everything. About what she's saying,
if pulled off, well, she already brought the business back.
But hey, Hospitality Group, it pulled off, well, this committing answer.
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There's so many people's problems, especially that capitalism conversation, because
I remember.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I forget what jay Z was doing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's always jay Z, though y'all love giving jay Z
shit about being a capitalist, and it's nothing wrong with capitalism.
The issue with capitalism is that we don't all have
a hand in it, and I get that. I feel
like anything that's very scarce to a certain group of
people always looks like something bad.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Whether you're black, white, red, yellow, I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But there's nothing wrong with taking something that you made,
that you created, putting money, resources and support around it,
and making it bigger.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Like literally, there's no point in running around being a face,
kissing the babies and doing all this. I'm not only
here yelling at y'all about this for no reason because
I'm gonna do my own solf. You'll call me what
y'all want to call me, but I've been calling everything
under the sum. But I'm trying to tell y'all when
I get to a certain point of business, when y'all
start calling me a sellout and a capitalist chef's kiss,
but I appreciate what she's doing so, make sure y'all
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go and check out the unger Leisure sit down Pinky Cole.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I thought that it was so informative.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, guys, after we run through the latest, we always
hit the streets.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
For the tweet.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Be outside, we outside, we outside outside.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Of tweet every other page.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
So today there was a video that Art of Dialogue
posts it of Wallow. Wallow is at a speaking of it.
And if you if you're not familiar with Wallow to
sixty seven, he is a motivational speaker now New York
Times bestselling author. He was locked up for it was
I don't even know how many years, like double digits.
He came home, figured it out through social media and
built this whole empire of inspiration, conversation and podcasting. So
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Wallow speaking to the people, and he's given like some
real game. He was like there for twenty years. He's
given some real game about supporting black business and why
he doesn't just support a black business because it's black.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Us. Oh I'm black black. Nobody gives a fuck about that.
Kill that shit. Even you've got a good business or
your dough all that shit though, nobody want to hear that.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Shit, that's a hustle. Support me because I got a
black business. Is your restaurant, Clayton, it's a food good.
Do you got consistant cooks? It's a material you shit good?
Stop doing that.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Oh, you're support the white people that don't support consistency.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So let me just say Wilo is one of my
favorite people in the world. When he talks to you,
he talks to you with so much intention and so
much like he sees it for you.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Now, whether you take it or not up to you.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
This video is going viral right now because a lot
of people feel what he's saying. But there are a
lot of people who are not happy with what he's saying.
And when I retweeted this, I say, yo, I feel
everywhere he's saying and I'm a business owner.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Now people are upset because they're like, well, Wailoa, that's
not fair.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You, as a person that did twenty some years in
jail from the city of Philadelphia, that had to work
to get yourself together, should understand that we don't come
with we don't we not equit with the same resources. Bro,
It's not fair the playing field. It's not fair. Let
me tell y'all something I come from the house of
None of that even matters, because the nobody come and
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to save you. Whilow is now New York Times bestseller.
He is a million dollar podcaster, and he is one
of the biggest most inspirational voices, I would say in the.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Country right now.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And it goes and it spans not just with Black communities, like, yes,
he speaks to us, but there's people are invested in
this man in his life. And he did it with
twenty years coming home record all of that. He figured
it out. Nobody's coming to save you. You know, today
we talked about a lot of times. We just talked
about the Tyra Banks and I'm emotionally tied to the
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bodyguard I am.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I feel like as a community we are.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
We talked about Pinky coal and just you know, building
business and being so emotionally tied to a business that
you don't even want to admit when you messing up.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You want to act like it's not happening. Walla gonna
give you game.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But like the way he summarizes life is just so
eloquent and so beautiful even though it's not. He set
a curse words and yet at us and everything. But
what he's saying is that you cannot there's the emotion
of things, the look of things. It can't overpower realistically,
what is happening realistically, tell usselves. Don't mean to be
in no damn Bodyguard movie. Somebody out there right now
who is tied to what Pinky Coat is building with
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Sludy Vegan, It's like, Yo, I'm so happy she was
honest about that. I know I am, because no, I
can be better in business. Somebody out there is listening
to Wallow and being like, yo, look he right, am
I black owned business. I need to start relying on
the fact that I'm black owned and supporting black people
or expecting black people to support me no matter whether
it's good or it's bad. We all look at levels change.
(21:37):
You talk about this new levels and new devils, Things change,
things transition. Ain't nobody coming to say if you figure
it out. This has been another episode of the Latest
with Laura l Rosa. I am your homegirl that knows
a little bit about everything and everybody. And at the
end of the day, like I always tell y'all, y'all
could be anywhere talking about all these things with anybody,
but y'all are right here with me, and every single
(21:58):
time you choose to do so, I appreciate you guys
so much. Now, the next episode after this one will
be a bonus episode because again we will be in
live conversation with Charlemagne, celebrating and talking about the podcast
and what to expect and all those good things, So
make sure you're listening to that, and then we'll be
back again with a regular episode. But thanks for tuning in, y'all.
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Jewys.
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I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
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You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
came in hot.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
What's up y'all? It's Lauren L. Rosa.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm your homegirl who knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. Now today this is a very special episode
of the Latest with Laurna Rosa.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
But Tanisha, my manager is here. Patrick is here.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yesterday y'all heard Patrick debut his WDAS voice for the
first time. Anybody that don't know about WDAS. WDAS is
a radio station and it's all about like smooth jazz
and I don't know why Patrick get on this podcast
and start talking like he trying to put you all
the like sleep subtly and soothingly like he's doing like
a I don't know, like a what's the little muck
(01:31):
bang things called the mpr asmr asmr Yeah, he be
on here like yeah, because I agree, Lauren, how you
feeling like that is not how he be talking and
regularly y'all, Like, I promise you that it's not. I
don't know what it is about these cameras. Maybe when
these cameras come on, Patrick, get the acting real unusual
(01:51):
you right, I'm not used to alarm light it's no
light or no camera over there? Will you don't gotta
be used tonight? Well, welcome Welcome guys. This is the
latest with Lauryn de Rosa, your daily dig into pop
culture in all the conversations that shake the room. Now,
as always, before we get into things, just a little
(02:13):
grinding checking.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Patrick, how you feeling today?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Feeling smooth?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You feeling smooth?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
God, not smooth?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Wed, we ain't gonna be a here a word you
gonna say today? Not you feeling smooth? Why are you
feeling smooth?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I'm feeling smooth.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'm just liking how we just tackling things and we're
just like moving forward with purpose and I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Okay, I like that too. Tanisha, how you feeling today?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Amazing?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Amazing? Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So Tanisha has been rocking out with me for a
very long time, and I told a story all the
time about when I was like ready to leave my
job and she got to the point where she was
just like, girl, you either gonna leave her you not
let me know what you're doing. I'm'a support you either way.
And I was like, okay, back and call. And then
I was like, oh, just left the job.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And she was like okay, cool. So now we gotta
figure this out.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So we've been like you know, strategizing my career for
some years together. And she is in town because we
are doing a live conversation hosted by Charlemagne at you
know iHeart in celebration of the podcast, but not even
really in celebration. I've already partied about that. More so
so people can come out, they can get to meet me,
get to, you know, see me in live conversation about
(03:18):
the podcast, about my goals for the podcast. And I
think that this is this event is coming at a
good time. I'm excited. We're gonna have a ton of
media there, a ton of like you know, different clients
of the station and of Black Effect, you know, the
people with the coin.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
But I'm just excited.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think I'm excited for people to come and like
really meet me and get to, you know, feel the
energy and all that in person. But yeah, so Tanisha
is here. Patrick gonna check your feeling smooth, So you
ain't gonna be able to hear nothing he talking about.
He's gonna be mumbling all night. But we're gonna get
into the latest. With the first topic. Lately, Tyra Banks
has been in the news. So I saw this headline,
(03:53):
I was like, it's no way. They had to misquote
my girl. They had to misquote my girl because there
is no way that Tyra Banks got on Beyonce's Internet
or Beyonce's wherever. This show stream a TV show she
was talking to Jenna Bush for. She was talking to
Jenna Bush on Today with Jenna and Friends. Now on
this show, Tyra Banks was guest hosting. This week, Tyra
(04:17):
Banks and Jenna start having a conversation about remaking The
Bodyguard because recently it was announced that The Bodyguard is
going to be remade. It'll come from Warner Brothers, so
it's gonna be like the whole thing now. I'm not
even gonna hold y'all. When I saw the original headline
just of the movie being remade, I was like, we
don't need this, And I've never felt like that, Like
(04:39):
I've always been one to kind of feel like, Okay,
if they want to remake it, I'm down to see
what the new version could be. But honestly, I'm more
of like, let's continue the story, but you can't continue
the story Whitney Houston is not here, so of course
this would have to be a remake. So for those
of you guys who do not know have not seen
the movie, and if you have not or do not know,
(05:00):
I be with you made it forced be with you
because I don't know where you've been at. But The
Bodyguard centers on a former secret service agent who is
played by Kevin Costner, who is hired to protect a celebrity,
Whitney Houston.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
From a stalker. Now during this time when they're doing
little dance.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Back and forth, when you know Whitney Houston is at
the height of her career in this movie, they fall
in love and it is a very like it's like
a super like romantic like super Oh my god, he
came and he saved me.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
But it's a big movie film. Whitney Houston in this film.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
For me watching her singing this movie, you can talk
to me about a movie soundtrack after this, because it
wasn't just songs are placed in you know the cute
actress who was also a singer is gonna sing it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
It was Whitney Houston during this film.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
She actually landed two OSCAR nominations, and it featured Whitney
Houston's a cover of Dolly Partons I Will Always Love You,
which I'm gotta say nothing else. If you don't know
about the movie The Bodyguard. If you don't know about
nothing else, I don't have to say anything I don't.
I shouldn't have to describe background on I will always
love you. If I have to do that, this really
might not be the place for you. Okay, so come
(06:07):
back next week. But in saying all of that, and
the reason why I say that is because Tyra Banks
is having this conversation with Jenna Bush for Jenna and Friends.
And you know, sometimes I think we get on these platforms.
When I say we, I mean us, the colors, us people.
We get on these platforms, and some of the things
we say, I don't know if we don't understand, Like
it's not even a responsibility thing. It's just like a girl,
(06:29):
ain't know where you would have said that if one
of us was sitting right there next to you, because
what are you even talking about? Tyra Banks gets on
this platform and they're talking about the remake, and they're
talking about the casting because you need a very strong
woman singer, actor person to lead Whitney Houston Kevin Castle
like their romance and the dance that they did throughout
(06:50):
this film was it was so effortless. The feeling you
felt with all of that soul and all that music
and all those notes coupled with this great story and
it's amazing acting. And y'all know what Tyler Banks did.
Tyra Banks got on this platform and she said, I
think it'd be Taylor Swift because of the business and
commerce art. She would freaking sell like crazy. But okay,
(07:12):
I'm just gonna be real. I'm a black girl. And
it was Whitney Houston as a black girl, Kevin Costner
as a white man. What if we flipped it and
it was Taylor Swift and Idris Elba hot.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I don't understand, Tyra. We were all rooting for you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
There's no way that she believes that in her heart
to hearts, I know that, you know, Tyra's been in
his business for some time. She knows you know what
to do and what to say and how to maneuver
to get the people going and pick up the headlines.
But there's no way. I don't know about y'all, but
I don't want to see Taylor Swift nowhere near the
Bodyguard remake at all. It's not for me, not at all.
(07:53):
I do not want the kids bought version of the bodyguard.
I don't think that Taylor Swift is bad at what
she does. I think Teyler Swift is a powerhouse. She's
Teller Swift. She does it amazingly well. Lead a bodyguard alone.
Don't let this give you no ideas, because I've seen
the headlines picking up. Don't do it now. I do
(08:13):
know that here maybe she was just trying to play
into this. One of the directors, his name is Sam Ritch,
So Sam Ritch. He's a director that also directed a
lot of things on Taylor Swift's Aras tour. Now, I
know that the Aras tour was like a huge tour.
They did the whole film that also hit theaters and
it's whole like crazy. And I'm again I'm not taking
away from Taylorswift, but soever, I think she's really talented.
(08:36):
And y'all know, if y'all listen to me on a
breakfast club, I'm not a Tellerswift fan. I am not
a swiftye. I only know like shake it off, to
be honest with you, But I know she's talented and
I understand what she's doing, and I respect the powerhouse
and Tyra Bank as a black girl.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'm so confused how you.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Could even like knowing what witt in Houston was in
that role for us and knowing just kind of like
the feeling like I'm literally having a feeling right now
thinking about that movie like that is how that movie
makes you feel.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It won't happen with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I don't know if you've seen it, Tyra Banks, but
please go watch Taylor Swift swag surf at the Chiefs
Game and Nat will tell you right there why she
should not be doing this movie as a black girl.
I am signing off because I can't even believe that
we just had to even talked about that. Now, next
up in the latest our next topic. This conversation actually
(09:27):
has been going on for some time. But Pinky from
Slutdy Vegan. So, for those of you guys who are
not familiar, there's a business called Slutdy Vegan is a
huge business that the brand has grown into one hundred
million dollar brand is owned by a black woman named
Pinky Cole who is from Baltimore, but she has been
living and based in Atlanta for years now. They have
(09:47):
fourteen locations. She's everywhere. She's in Georgia, she's in New York.
She's a ton of places.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
This brand, I feel like, has become definitely a huge
trend on social media. A lot of people I know
flight into Georgia, into Atlanta, and when they go, there's
a huge tourist attraction. Even if you're not vegan, you
want to try some slutty Vegan's food because it is
so trendy, because it is the thing that I just
everybody's doing. Everybody's talking about it now. For the last
couple of months. I didn't even notice this until she
(10:16):
said it. She sat down or earned your Leisure and
she talked about, you know, being off the grid for
the last couple of months, and she talked about the
fact that she had lost her business. She had had
to sell her business so that her business could be restructured,
and then she had to buy it back. Now when
she posted this video first announcing that she lost the
business and brought it back, she posted it on April
(10:37):
Fool's Day, I will say I have not seen a
slutty Vegan ad. I had not seen her on Instagram.
I had not anything interact interaction wise was sludy Vegan
in a while. But when she posted this video, it
did what it needed to do because I stopped and
I watched it, and she was talking about the fact
that she had lost her business had to get it back.
But more importantly, she began to go into the real
(10:59):
struggles that she had been facing as a business owner.
And that got me. That really got me because for me,
I think, you know, all of this is real fly
and it's real cute, and I love being here with y'all,
but business on a back end and understanding that that
is one of the things for me that as an entertainer,
(11:20):
as a producer, production company owner.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You know, we do clothing, we do a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I am always trying to like learn, and as you grow,
there's so much more for you to learn and so
much more for you to like keep afloat. So to
see a black woman whose business I know has been
making money for some years get on here and tell me, like, yo,
I messed up, I'm like, first of all, it's bold
as hell for her to admit that loudly, But secondly,
(11:46):
I want to know what happened because I might mess
up too, and I need to know what's going on.
And that's all this interview was about. So Pinky from
Sludy Vegan. In this Earned Your Leisure interview, she talked
about at one point being so focused on being the
face of her business the mask got of her business
to get out, kiss the babies, you see me everywhere
of her business, that the back end was not strong.
(12:09):
Being the face is a whole job. But running a
business is not like a kumbaya. Lets just goes in.
I do yoga all day. Oh I'm cute. It's like
real work. I tell people all the time. Like when
people are like, oh my god, I want to quit
my job and be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Why and what's your why? First of all? And what
have you learned from that job that you're about to lead?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Because when I tell you, going to every inch of
project management, organization, delegation skills, everything in your life is
going to depend on that. Being an entrepreneur is harder
than working a job for somebody. I don't care what
nobody's saying. Y'all disagree with me. If y'all want to
tweet me at Laura la Rosa, you know, post on Instagram,
(12:56):
let's talk about it. Because being an entrepreneur and having
a figure all of this out on a fly and
you know, figure out finances when you do it, and
like the right people, and like she said, bringing the
right people along and along the way you find out
the right people that you thought was right people not
the right people.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Like it is not the easiest thing. When you go
to a job, you go to work. You go to work.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You get along with who you have to because they're
gonna be there every single day, regardless if you do
or you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You don't know a lot about overheads.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Maybe maybe you managing a cute little budget, but outside
of that budget, you don't know nothing else. Use know
the money that was giving to you, you don't know
how it got there. You don't know where it's coming from,
the next quarter, the next turn. Like none of that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
You go, you do what you do, and you go home.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
When things mess up, it might internally be on you,
but in the public it's on that business. When you
become an entrepreneur, all of that flips sometimes. It is
the most nerve wracking thing ever to be the face
of anything. And on top of it, you got the
business on the back end. So when she's saying, you know,
it's like a marriage. When you do you bring in partners.
(13:59):
I feel like even about team members, people talk about
marriage in a way of like, okay, like I don't
know about y'all, but I don't believe in divorce. I
feel like, if we together, we're gonna figure this out.
We're gonna work through what we need to work through,
because I am very confident in myself that the person
that I choose to marry is going to be of
quality and of you know, just that cloth of like,
we're gonna grow together, it's going to make sense. We'll
(14:20):
get to where we need to get to. It's not
gonna be perfect at the time, but we'll get there.
Those are the type of things and the type of
people that I look for in business. Can we grow together?
Are you willing to be taught? Are you teachable? Do
you want to learn?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
What do you bring the table? Are you teaching me?
Can you level things up? Can you hit the ground running?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But one of the biggest things that I heard her
say was there was a level of like ego and shame.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
She was trying so hard.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
She's swim and swim and swim and swim and swimming,
and eventually she starts drowning, and she don't want to
admit it to nobody. So she's doing everything she can
to save this business, y'all, and it's not working. It's
not working. And that was a like It's been so
many different times where like, I've been so prideful that like,
you get to a point where you waste the money,
(15:03):
you wasted time, you ain't getting no sleep for real,
and if there's so much that you have to learn
from this. One of the smartest things I heard her
say on here was that her and her husband, her
husband is named Deir Kay's. He has a cheese steak
restaurant and like they it's like a fleet of trucks
and different things in Atlanta. And one of the things
that she said was they're creating Hayes Hospitality Group.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In this Hospitality group, their plan is to bring together
a bunch of different business owners within the same conglomerates
that they are that they're involved in, and use each
other's resources. So you know, we all go in on
certain things, we all put up money for certain things.
That's making overhead cheaper, that's making it where eventually Hayes
Hospitality will have all.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Of these resources so other business.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Can come to them and grow and y'all, y'all when
I say, we as black people get in our own
way so much about us growing. What she's talking about
doing is exactly what LVMH does for Offenite, what a
lot of these like labelers do for these brands when
they when they level them up, they give them the resources,
(16:11):
They connect them with other brands, They give them money
and backing and just a home to deconstruct the business,
build it back up again and up it up it
from level one to like five. We don't have a lot.
We don't even have a lot of that. We don't
not that I know, we don't have that at all.
So when a jay Z goes and he sells a
title or you know these hair brands that y'all get
(16:32):
mad at when they sell part of the company and
things of that nature because they want to level up,
and you guys get upset about it. The reason why
they do this is because they need these resources. Like
what she's talking about creating is amazing and they need it.
They need it to sustain everything. About what she's saying,
if pulled off, well, she already brought the business back.
But hey, Hospitality Group, it pulled off, well, this committing answer.
(16:54):
There's so many people's problems, especially that capitalism conversation, because
I remember.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I forget what jay Z was doing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's always jay Z, though y'all love giving jay Z
shit about being a capitalist, and it's nothing wrong with capitalism.
The issue with capitalism is that we don't all have
a hand in it, and I get that. I feel
like anything that's very scarce to a certain group of
people always looks like something bad.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Whether you're black, white, red, yellow, I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But there's nothing wrong with taking something that you made,
that you created, putting money, resources and support around it,
and making it bigger.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Like literally, there's no point in running around being a face,
kissing the babies and doing all this. I'm not only
here yelling at y'all about this for no reason because
I'm gonna do my own solf. You'll call me what
y'all want to call me, but I've been calling everything
under the sum. But I'm trying to tell y'all when
I get to a certain point of business, when y'all
start calling me a sellout and a capitalist chef's kiss,
but I appreciate what she's doing so, make sure y'all
(17:53):
go and check out the unger Leisure sit down Pinky Cole.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I thought that it was so informative.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, guys, after we run through the latest, we always
hit the streets.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
For the tweet.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Be outside, we outside, we outside outside.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Of tweet every other page.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
So today there was a video that Art of Dialogue
posts it of Wallow. Wallow is at a speaking of it.
And if you if you're not familiar with Wallow to
sixty seven, he is a motivational speaker now New York
Times bestselling author. He was locked up for it was
I don't even know how many years, like double digits.
He came home, figured it out through social media and
built this whole empire of inspiration, conversation and podcasting. So
(18:36):
Wallow speaking to the people, and he's given like some
real game. He was like there for twenty years. He's
given some real game about supporting black business and why
he doesn't just support a black business because it's black.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Us. Oh I'm black black. Nobody gives a fuck about that.
Kill that shit. Even you've got a good business or
your dough all that shit though, nobody want to hear that.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Shit, that's a hustle. Support me because I got a
black business. Is your restaurant, Clayton, it's a food good.
Do you got consistant cooks? It's a material you shit good?
Stop doing that.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Oh, you're support the white people that don't support consistency.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So let me just say Wilo is one of my
favorite people in the world. When he talks to you,
he talks to you with so much intention and so
much like he sees it for you.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Now, whether you take it or not up to you.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
This video is going viral right now because a lot
of people feel what he's saying. But there are a
lot of people who are not happy with what he's saying.
And when I retweeted this, I say, yo, I feel
everywhere he's saying and I'm a business owner.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Now people are upset because they're like, well, Wailoa, that's
not fair.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You, as a person that did twenty some years in
jail from the city of Philadelphia, that had to work
to get yourself together, should understand that we don't come
with we don't we not equit with the same resources. Bro,
It's not fair the playing field. It's not fair. Let
me tell y'all something I come from the house of
None of that even matters, because the nobody come and
(20:08):
to save you. Whilow is now New York Times bestseller.
He is a million dollar podcaster, and he is one
of the biggest most inspirational voices, I would say in the.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Country right now.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And it goes and it spans not just with Black communities, like, yes,
he speaks to us, but there's people are invested in
this man in his life. And he did it with
twenty years coming home record all of that. He figured
it out. Nobody's coming to save you. You know, today
we talked about a lot of times. We just talked
about the Tyra Banks and I'm emotionally tied to the
(20:39):
bodyguard I am.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I feel like as a community we are.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
We talked about Pinky coal and just you know, building
business and being so emotionally tied to a business that
you don't even want to admit when you messing up.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You want to act like it's not happening. Walla gonna
give you game.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But like the way he summarizes life is just so
eloquent and so beautiful even though it's not. He set
a curse words and yet at us and everything. But
what he's saying is that you cannot there's the emotion
of things, the look of things. It can't overpower realistically,
what is happening realistically, tell usselves. Don't mean to be
in no damn Bodyguard movie. Somebody out there right now
who is tied to what Pinky Coat is building with
(21:16):
Sludy Vegan, It's like, Yo, I'm so happy she was
honest about that. I know I am, because no, I
can be better in business. Somebody out there is listening
to Wallow and being like, yo, look he right, am
I black owned business. I need to start relying on
the fact that I'm black owned and supporting black people
or expecting black people to support me no matter whether
it's good or it's bad. We all look at levels change.
(21:37):
You talk about this new levels and new devils, Things change,
things transition. Ain't nobody coming to say if you figure
it out. This has been another episode of the Latest
with Laura l Rosa. I am your homegirl that knows
a little bit about everything and everybody. And at the
end of the day, like I always tell y'all, y'all
could be anywhere talking about all these things with anybody,
but y'all are right here with me, and every single
(21:58):
time you choose to do so, I appreciate you guys
so much. Now, the next episode after this one will
be a bonus episode because again we will be in
live conversation with Charlemagne, celebrating and talking about the podcast
and what to expect and all those good things, So
make sure you're listening to that, and then we'll be
back again with a regular episode. But thanks for tuning in, y'all.
(22:19):
I'll see you in my next episode. And when you're
listening to this, tweet me instagramming screenshot and let me
know you're tuned in.
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