Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: We're the bosses in the South Making.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: Money moves Turning dreams into streams yeah.
[00:00:04] Speaker A: We never lose Columbia's finest building from.
[00:00:07] Speaker C: The ground Flipping stacks to billions we.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Wear the crown Bosses of Columbia we're.
[00:00:12] Speaker D: Running the scene Flipping small town hustle.
[00:00:14] Speaker C: In the big time green welcome to the bosses of Columbia. We are a group of entrepreneurs who have come together to build in our community. The way we came about, if you're wondering, is that, you know, we all hang out together, we party together, we have fun together. And I figured why not us build and grow together financially. And so we all decided to come together and build together and that's what we are doing. We are working to, you know, real estate, other businesses. We work in our community.
And so now that you know a little bit about us, I'll tell you a little about bit about myself. I am Camille Ware. I am originally from New Orleans, raised in Los Angeles. I moved to Columbia back in 2012 and I am a real estate agent. But I am more than a real estate agent. I am a real estate broker. I own my own brokerage, love where you live realty in Columbia, South Carolina. And now that you know a little bit about me, I I would like for you to meet the rest of the cast.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Hey, how you doing? I'm Maurice Giles, AKA Mo.
I am the owner of Giles Asset Management Enterprise. I am also the CEO of Mahogany Seafood and Cocktail Lounge. I'm originally from Orangeburg, South Carolina, raised in Georgetown, South Carolina. And I am a boss of Columbia.
[00:01:46] Speaker D: Well, me, I'm Elizabeth Madison, AKA Liz, originally from Mobile, Alabama.
So I'm a resident of Columbia, S.C. now.
I'm an army veteran. I served 21 years in the army and I retired at Fort Jackson. So I made Columbia my home.
I'm an accountant by trade and I work with veterans every day. That's my job here in the military world. I work with veterans, retired veterans and serving those who serve. Basically when I'm not working with veterans, I am an entrepreneur by by trade.
I have my own tax business as well. I do several other things as well with my own LLCs, getting government contracts and other contracts. That's what I like to do. That's where the money's at in the current market.
And along with that, I decided to be a boss Columbia because money with other people bringing their money together makes more money. So that's a little about me.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: And my name is Yolanda Arrington. I am on another crooks media platform, the Very necessary podcast. So you all may know me from there.
I am the Jill of all trades, and that's what makes me the boss of Columbia. I can do it basically everything under the sun. You name it, I've done it. And if I haven't done it, it's on the list to do.
So I'm Nurse Pretty by day, and I'm Glodine Fauntleroy by night.
Because it's past my bedtime, I decided to venture out with these young. They not young, y' all, these young entrepreneurs and do some business and make some money and have some fun in between.
So I hope you follow along with us as we go on our journey of entrepreneurship and just showing you how, you know, getting together with your friends and making some money can be a great thing when you do it right and when you do it with the right people.
[00:03:59] Speaker D: Absolutely.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:04:02] Speaker D: A lot of people talk about it a lot. You know, like, what if we do this? What if we do that?
Why not do it instead of just talking about it? You know, if you don't have friends that you want to make money with, what's the point of being friends?
[00:04:15] Speaker B: It's easier to talk about stuff, but not you Think about it. How many times have you ever planned a trip with your homegirls? Oh, the trip sound good to start out, right? Then when it's time to put the money on the table and make some arrangements, that's when everybody start hemming and ha. And, yeah, something came up. I mean, but that's like that with business. That's why you gotta be with your tribe, who's on the same page as you. So look, this what we doing. This when I need you to show up, I need you to have your money this day.
[00:04:46] Speaker D: Yep. And do it.
[00:04:47] Speaker C: Yeah, do it.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Just do it.
[00:04:49] Speaker D: Cause you waiting. It ain't nothing gonna happen.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Life is not a dress rehearsal.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: That's my model. Just do it.
[00:04:55] Speaker D: Yeah, we ain't Nike, but we gonna do it.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: That part.
[00:04:59] Speaker D: That part.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: So what you think, Ms. Creative?
[00:05:03] Speaker C: I mean, I gotta think the same thing. You think, because we all sitting here, right? We are all bosses of Columbia.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: So she's gonna be very modest because she. I get used to y' all, but I already know y' all. But my friend is. Is like one of the smartest people I know. So whatever she calls me about and wants me to be on board with shit, I'm already there because she's always talking about making some money. And that's my favorite motherfucking thing in the world.
[00:05:31] Speaker C: Aw, thank you.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: The best conversation in the world.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: Yes. I Mean. Cause if we ain't talk about money, we wasting time.
[00:05:38] Speaker D: That like.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: No.
[00:05:40] Speaker D: And she modest right now, right?
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Yeah, she's very modest.
[00:05:42] Speaker D: She's not quiet.
[00:05:43] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: But when she gets into the groove of it and she get to know y' all, like I know y' all, y' all beware.
[00:05:51] Speaker D: Cause she is a ball of energy.
[00:05:53] Speaker C: One thing that I had promised myself was that I was going to be a little laid back today, relaxed or whatnot, and let you all talk. Because for one, Liz says she's a public speaker and she likes to speak publicly. But I haven't seen that just yet. Because when we're out and about at different functions, it's always me who's socializing and talking and like entertaining everywhere.
[00:06:17] Speaker D: Because I'm more introverted. You're more extroverted. So being a teacher is different than being introverted. Extroverted. So by trade you can learn to be a good speaker and teacher. Because I was a drill sergeant, so I had no choice but to be a good trainer.
[00:06:36] Speaker C: Okay?
[00:06:37] Speaker D: And having thousands of people, children, 18 year olds, come in and train during the summertime to have life saving skills, they can't afford to not learn what they're doing, okay? So you have to learn how to teach them in certain ways. So being shy in front of people is just not a thing.
[00:06:55] Speaker C: Okay?
[00:06:56] Speaker D: So being confident in front of people and speaking is one thing, but me being friendly with everybody, like being out in public is just not me. That's just, that's just who I am. I don't like everybody until I know them. Basically. I'm just not a. A friendly person in general, put it like that.
[00:07:12] Speaker C: And I'm totally opposite.
I like everybody until I don't like them anymore. So, yeah.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: And so I'm the mix in between Liz and Camille because I'm the intro extrovert. Like, I could do people sometime, but not too much. She's gonna be like super friendly. I'm gonna be on the outside.
[00:07:33] Speaker C: Like, see, I'm super friendly. And I think that's where people get me twisted at. Like, you know, they take my kindness for granted, right? Our weakness or whatnot. But I'm either one. I'm either all the way here with you or all the way there with you. Like, there's really no in between. Like you say you're in between. Like, when I like you, I like you, but if I ever stop liking you, I'll never like you again.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: It's to the death with her.
[00:07:57] Speaker D: I don't, I don't I'm not that. I don't get to that point. Like, I might be cool, but I'm. I'm kind of to the back. I don't really like people like that unless I know them. Basically.
Yeah, I'll give them a try, but if I see something that I don't like, I kind of fall back.
[00:08:15] Speaker C: Yeah, she's not like you, Yoshi. You like. You kind of like. You pick up on vibes, and you just don't like the people you ain't. You don't really be giving them a chance.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Why should I like you if the vibe is off, like you a demon.
[00:08:28] Speaker D: I try to give people a chance that I try to give. I'll give them a chance to make me not like them. Put it like that.
[00:08:34] Speaker C: What about you, Mo?
[00:08:35] Speaker A: You're giving a chance, giving them a chance. I used to be like that. Now I'm learning not to like people, period.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: But you're right.
[00:08:42] Speaker C: And.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: And that's.
[00:08:42] Speaker C: I don't see that in you, Mo, because you. You seem to like people to me.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Like, that's what you think.
Oh, I'm sitting there reading you.
[00:08:50] Speaker D: Well, that's. That's.
[00:08:51] Speaker C: And that's your business. You are in the people's business. We're all in the people's business.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: People come from more so than anybody.
He's. Because he's, like, constantly, you know, groves of people on a daily basis. So, like, you are more so with your clients. So you probably got, like, one or two people at a time. The. The biggest. The biggest situation with you would be maybe at closing when it's like, what, seven people around the table?
[00:09:21] Speaker C: I'm always marketing to people. So when I'm out, no matter where I'm at, I'm always marketing and people. I can be in a line at the grocery store. I can be at Burlington Coat Factory. I can be at Mahogany. I'm always marketing to people, so I'm always at work. Just like Mo is at work.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:39] Speaker C: I'm always at work as well.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: But when you're talking to somebody, so when you're at Mahogany, you're. You're talking to people. So now you're talking to one person at a time. You're in a room full of people, but you're talking to one person at a time on an individual basis. He's walking around his club. All eyes are on him.
So he's not.
[00:09:58] Speaker C: When I'm there.
When I'm there.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Okay, ma' am.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: Yes, ma' am.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: No, all eyes are on him. So he's so he's working and he's peeping the scene the whole time. And this is every night he's in his club.
Hats off to you, brother, because I did that and it keep. It's very stimulating.
Over stimulating at times.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: So many different emotions and personalities.
[00:10:33] Speaker C: I wouldn't want to do it.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: Right.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: You got something you're going to take home with you. Some things that you want to leave there. Sometimes you don't even want to go to work.
[00:10:41] Speaker D: Yeah. I think you can get highly scrutinized.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:44] Speaker D: Based on your business. So you have to be open and kind of friendly.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: I gotta be open and friendly times.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: I can't do that because everybody in the club want his attention. Oh, this your spot. Let me talk to you for a minute. The ladies on them, the men on them, the employees. So they like.
You gotta decompress when you go home.
[00:11:08] Speaker D: Yeah. And like with me being an accountant, I don't have to talk to people on the phone. I just look at numbers and they gonna tell me what I need to know. I don't have to talk to people unless I have a question about something.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: And what numbers do?
[00:11:22] Speaker D: They don't lie.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: Numbers don't lie.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: And me with patient care, like I literally am. I'm one on one with my patients, so. But after talking and dealing with sick people for eight hours a day, people think that I'm being extroverted or mean or, you know, standoffish because I don't answer my phone after 3:00. I'm tired.
I've had enough. I don't wanna talk on the phone. I just wanna be by myself in my own little world.
[00:11:51] Speaker C: I get it.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's a different vibe. Especially with. So you better be taking you some vacations or something.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: That's the problem. I don't have time for myself.
But I am planning to do a whole lot of traveling this year.
Hopefully.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: I hope that you plan on traveling with the bosses. Cause you know, we plan on traveling with the trip.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: Well, we gotta do a trip or two. We doing one or two. This.
[00:12:17] Speaker C: That's the plan.
[00:12:18] Speaker D: Oh, I'm a travel agent, so I can book all those. That's. That's my. I forgot about that because I've been too busy.
[00:12:25] Speaker C: Well, listen, have y' all ever heard about the Pineapples on a cruise?
[00:12:29] Speaker D: Yeah. Upside down. Pineapple.
[00:12:30] Speaker C: The upside down. Why are you looking so surprised?
[00:12:33] Speaker A: I'm listening.
[00:12:34] Speaker C: Okay, so on the cruise ships there are people who place pineapples on their doors. Like, you know, in upside down, that means they're swingers. Okay. Yeah. And other swingers will go and knock on their door and I guess they'll get together and I didn't learn this until I was going on a cruise last year.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: So your pineapple was upside.
[00:12:56] Speaker C: No, I didn't have a pineapple.
No, I was upside down, but my. I didn't have a pineapple upside down. Okay.
[00:13:05] Speaker D: I heard they stopping that, though. I heard that the cruise ships are stopping those really? Being hung on the doors.
[00:13:10] Speaker C: The cruise ships are stopping everything.
But that's for a whole nother podcast.
[00:13:17] Speaker D: Yeah, I heard that.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: Really?
[00:13:20] Speaker C: So if they stop that, I mean, even if they were to stop that.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: Right.
[00:13:23] Speaker C: They gonna come up with something else, you know, creative.
[00:13:26] Speaker D: They have whole cruises like that though.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Really?
[00:13:28] Speaker D: Swinging cruises.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: A swing cruise.
[00:13:30] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:13:31] Speaker C: Out of here.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: It's just like the resort. It's a cruise.
[00:13:33] Speaker C: I be feeling like I'm under a rock.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: A big rock.
[00:13:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I know.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: I'm the one under the rock.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: I am clearly under a rock.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: I think be the most outgoing one after a couple of drinks.
[00:13:49] Speaker C: You're just going, she's not. I promise you.
[00:13:52] Speaker B: I promise you. I'm not.
[00:13:53] Speaker D: No, I don't care.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: The sex talk I want to hear now is me and this rich in the bed. Like, how much money we going to make? Where you taking me? What you about to buy me? What we about to do?
[00:14:07] Speaker C: We about to get on the plane tomorrow.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: Different.
[00:14:09] Speaker C: I'm like, what we going to build together? Yeah, that's what we talking about.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: So, like, mine are more.
I want more goal oriented conversations with my mate. Like, we focused on. Like, to me, when I talk about money with my significant other, that's what makes me come.
Not penetration.
Like, oh, we gonna have as much.
[00:14:32] Speaker C: We gonna do all of this.
[00:14:33] Speaker D: Oh, yes.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: And it's just a level of maturity when it comes to that, to be honest with you.
[00:14:48] Speaker C: Who is not money motivated, immature.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: If you got somebody that ain't on the same wavelength as you as in the building and making money and doing this, it's boring.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: It is.
I agree with that.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: Nothing.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: I agree.
I agree with that.
[00:15:06] Speaker D: Oh, it's gotta be. It's gotta be full circle for me.
[00:15:08] Speaker C: Like, yeah, it has to be a balance. It can't be just about no money. Like, I want to have fun with my person. I want to be attracted to my person. I want to be sexually attracted to my person. Like, it cannot be about. We just gonna be in the. I don't want to talk about money in the bed. I just don't.
[00:15:23] Speaker D: But they can't. They cannot be poor. I'm sorry. Because we not.
[00:15:27] Speaker C: So I don't want to talk about money in the bed. Let's talk about money over coffee in the morning. But when we're in the bed, we.
[00:15:34] Speaker A: In the bed when we get up.
[00:15:40] Speaker C: That's what I said once we up. Huh?
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Sometimes the conversation of money is what. What gets you.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: That's how we say we saying that. That's what turns us on.
[00:15:50] Speaker C: Okay, yeah.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: With you, you rather go than talk about.
[00:15:55] Speaker C: First of all, let's be clear. Let's be clear. Your girl ain't getting nothing. Okay, but let's be clear. I'm more of an emotional person.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: And I'm not your ears.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: Excuse me.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: You got nobody whispering.
[00:16:06] Speaker C: You know damn well when. Mo. Hello. Listen, wait, wait, hold up, cuz. We talk about it all the time, okay?
Do we not talk about it?
[00:16:15] Speaker A: You gonna give nobody a chance to.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: Cuz I don't want that right now in my life. Like what? What?
[00:16:23] Speaker A: I'm just saying, you know, you got to get out. You got to.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: I don't want to.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: You're waiting on this guy.
[00:16:29] Speaker C: Who said I'm. Wait. Let's change the subject to the bosses of Columbia.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: It's part of being the boss.
[00:16:34] Speaker C: But no, but I'm not waiting on anybody. I'm not waiting on break you.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: When you're in the business that we're in.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:16:42] Speaker C: At the end of the day, I'm not.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: Judgment. Yes.
[00:16:47] Speaker C: It's not a distraction. I'm not distraction. I'm not distracted.
I'm not.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Yes, you are.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: No, I'm not.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: If you.
[00:16:54] Speaker C: You cannot tell me.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: You just said that a few minutes ago.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: Did I say I'm distracted? Did I say I'm distracted? Yes. I mean, I can't do what I'm supposed to do.
Are you in love?
[00:17:06] Speaker A: To be honest with you, I'm in love with the money.
[00:17:11] Speaker C: Everybody knows I'm in love with the money.
Are you dating Mo?
[00:17:19] Speaker A: I am. I am dating. But the thing is, just like we was talking about certain.
[00:17:26] Speaker C: You want to talk about what we were talking about on the way here.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: Certain conversations turn you on, you know what I'm saying?
If you ain't talking about nothing, you ain't got nothing going on. I ain't paying you no attention.
And that's just it, you know what I'm saying? I need you to have goals, morals, and you got to have that go get a mentality.
[00:17:46] Speaker C: Okay? Right. And I've never dated a Man who didn't have the gold, but that's what I'm getting.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: And I'm not saying that you're thing. So therefore it's distracting you.
[00:17:55] Speaker C: No, it's not distracting me.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: Go back and get your man.
[00:17:59] Speaker C: Can we move on?
Can we move on?
[00:18:03] Speaker A: All right, let's move on. Let's move on. Let's move on.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he did bring up a very significant point. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna. So we do these questions on my other show. So, like, well, there'll be, like, hypothetical scenarios. So if the man in the black trench coat just walked up to you today or tomorrow and said, hey, I understand you're in a relationship with somebody, but if I give you the amount of money you need to have the monetary freedom away from your job, life, whatever, but you got to give up that love, because I feel like that love is a distraction. Would you do it?
[00:18:42] Speaker D: No, because I might not like him.
[00:18:46] Speaker C: She answered the question.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: No. Okay, so this is you giving up the now. He's not saying he's going to be the significant other, but he's saying, I'm going to give you the money to afford the life that you need. But I don't want this person that you're dealing with in the way because I feel like it's going to be an issue later on down the line. So you got to pick.
[00:19:07] Speaker D: But my money is not an issue for me now.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:19:11] Speaker D: Neither is my person.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:19:12] Speaker D: So I don't have. I'm not. I'm not worried about it.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Okay. So you don't have to make the decision. That's good. A good way to be.
Amen. Liz.
[00:19:20] Speaker D: Oh, I ain't talking to nobody that's poor at all.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: And I concur.
I totally agree with that.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: So, mo, that baby, a woman ain't no man with no trench coat.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Okay? So the women with the trench coat.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: Well, you already know the scenario is changing. The gender is changing.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: In the scenario they got the viewers need to know our lives. So mo is how many days a week you're in your club.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Seven.
[00:19:49] Speaker B: Seven. So you express earlier, you don't have time for breaks and vacations and different things like that.
Now the lady in a trench coat has walked up to you. She said, I'm going to give you all the money you need to invest in your businesses to where you can have a manager run your businesses. You don't have to be there every day, but you got to give up this woman you with so love. You can't have any attachments to anybody. You willing to do that?
[00:20:15] Speaker A: I'm going with the woman.
I'm going with her.
[00:20:20] Speaker D: The woman in trench coat.
[00:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah, he. He not saying the woman he with. Yeah, yeah.
Okay. So same question applies to you. You ain't got to sell another house a day in your life, but X that you got on your brain, and anybody else, you can't have that. But this is the money to afford the life.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: I'm not going with the money.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: You're not going with the money.
[00:20:44] Speaker C: You could just stop asking the question.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: Okay, well, because if that was the case, we got a two for two. Because I'm going with the man with the trench coat.
[00:20:54] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm not going.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I got to go.
And it's not. It's not a bad thing.
[00:20:59] Speaker C: I don't. I don't want a bad thing.
[00:21:02] Speaker B: Yeah, no, we got two for love, and then we got two for the money.
So, I mean, that's a good balance.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: Gotta go.
[00:21:11] Speaker D: But like me, if you ain't what I want, I cut you off anyway. So that's the thing.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: Pretty good situation.
[00:21:18] Speaker D: I'll cut somebody. If you do the wrong thing one too many times, you gone. That's it. It ain't no more explanations. That's it. I'm done.
So I. I don't need nobody to cut somebody off me.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: All right, so anything else you want them to. To know about you? Family, like. Okay, so let's talk about bosses and family life, because I know about Camille and her family. I know about a little about Liz and hers. But we don't know anything about your family life.
Mo, I know you have some children.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Oh, man, I got five kids.
I got four girls, one boy.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: I got twins that's graduating this year.
So life right now at this moment is kinda.
Kinda hectic. Trying to get these kids going into adulthood. You know, two of them are the adults. I got two that's graduating that's gonna be adults. And then my baby girl, she's 15, who is truly a boss. All my kids are bosses, but my baby girl is truly a boss.
And I guess they learned that from just being around me and being in the atmosphere that I be in, because that's what I had to take the Matt. It wasn't. No, oh, we going and have fun and do this and do that, which we did.
But to have that fun, to do this and do that, we had to go make this money.
So they had to look at that. They still going through that. And I don't know with my son, he always been laid back and he don't care about them, he don't care about none of that. As long as he can be with his friends, have some fun, play basketball, that's what he wants. But eventually he gonna need that money, you know what I'm saying? And you know, life ain't always about money, but you can't be no boss without it.
[00:23:28] Speaker D: You can't live without it.
[00:23:30] Speaker A: You can't live without it. It spells power. Power.
It's spells freedom.
It's just everything. And I want them to have it all, you know what I'm saying? I don't want them to have to work hard.
Let's go ahead and have generational wealth now.
[00:23:55] Speaker D: I do want them to work hard though.
This generation does. They think this money comes easy. That's what they.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: Well, but that's the thing. We working hard for it, right?
[00:24:06] Speaker D: Yeah, but I want them and they're.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Going to see and do the same thing that we're doing. So it's hard work.
It's hard work maintaining money.
It's hard work trying to hold on to that thing, man versus when, you know, when you have to talk, everybody coming for you, everybody want that easy money suing you. Everybody wants you not to have nothing. Everybody wants you right down there where they at, you know what I'm saying? And it's hard to stay up here and try to keep. Teach your kids to be humble at the same time, you know what I'm saying? So family, I'm big on family, especially my kids.
Relationship wise, I'm three years, divorce, four. Oh yes, divorce or whatever.
Me and the wife, ex wife. We wasn't on the same page with raising the kids and what we wanted to do future wise, you know what I'm saying? And it's not a bad thing.
We just wasn't for each other at that moment, you know what I'm saying?
If it was maybe later on after we done learned about each other, sure. If not, I'm fine with that too.
But at the end of the day, I just want to make sure that the kids them all right and her. Because you was a chapter in my life, you know? Yeah.
[00:25:34] Speaker C: So I'm the oldest of nine kids, three girls and six boys. We were raised in Los Angeles, California, in the Crenshaw district.
I moved away from my family in my mid-20s and moved to Jersey. From Jersey. I moved to here with my then fiance. I have a daughter and a grandchild.
I do have a sister in Colombia and my mother is In Colombia with me as well. My niece and nephew, my daughter's boss.
A boss of Colombia.
[00:26:12] Speaker D: And cash him handsome.
He has rosy cheeks.
[00:26:17] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:26:19] Speaker D: Well, as for me, I have three kids.
A 25 year old boy.
My daughter, she's almost 15.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: 25 year old man.
[00:26:32] Speaker D: He lives with me. So boy, he's my boy. He's always my little boy.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: You always be a baby. There you go.
[00:26:38] Speaker D: So he's always my baby.
And then I have a nine year old little boy.
So yeah, my kids are so spaced out. So yeah, sometimes I was like what in the hell was I doing? I was free. I could have been free right now. And then I have a four year old granddaughter.
My, my son, he works, he, he's pretty laid back.
He doesn't, he's not a go, go.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: Get it right now.
[00:27:08] Speaker D: He was spoiled most of his life. Put it like that. So he, he's not, he's just, he just doesn't.
He's a very spoiled son. Put like that.
When he was younger I was in the military. He was there with my parents when I was deployed and stuff like that. So he was the only grandchild for a very long time.
So he's very spoiled child.
My daughter, she does cheer. She was doing dance and today she made her high school voice varsity team. Yeah. Yes. So I'm very happy about that and she's very happy.
So we'll see how Westwood does this year with her on the cheer team. And my 9 year old only thing he care is about Roblox and basketball. So they get a lot of my money and I'm about to invest in Roblox.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Yes, I was just about to say that. Yes, boss.
[00:28:00] Speaker D: They take a lot of my money, but other than that, that's about it.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: Well, I am a widow of nine years and I loved my husband dearly. He was very influential in me becoming a boss.
So shout out to him.
And I have a 24 year old daughter who has been with me every step of the way in me growing into the woman I am and the boss that I am. So when I had my salon, she was there as my little receptionist on the weekend helping me clean up. Like she knows how to do everything under the sun as far as admin duties in the salon. Then when I had my bar, she was my bartender, my little housekeeper, go pick up liquor for me. Everything under the sun. So I'm hoping that my influence on her over time will cultivate her into some type of entrepreneur. Cause that thing don't like to work.
Not no regular job.
She's a millennial. She's a Y N. She like that fast money. She, like, hustle money.
So just to work a job, it don't work out too good for her. Now will she hustle and she go in there and work and make a couple hundred dollars? Oh, yeah, she like that.
So I'm hoping one day she'll own some type of business where she can have the financial freedom that I didn't know about. At 24, all I knew about was working a job, and then I had to grow into the knowledge of, hey, black women can literally own their own business and have the freedom and make their own way and make the rules for themselves. So I just want that for her. I want that for all of our kids, honestly. And I think, you know, we can be great influences on them just based on what they see.
[00:29:49] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: So. Yeah.
[00:29:52] Speaker C: And not only our kids. Other kids in the community working with other kids, you know?
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Well, with us being bosses, that's one of our responsibilities.
[00:30:01] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: Is out there doing the community service and stuff like that.
We have the fun and we have the games and stuff like that. But then we got to get serious and take care of the community, because at the end of the day, we don't make this money from nobody else but our community.
[00:30:20] Speaker C: Absolutely. We were recently at the autism event, and we have the senior citizen event coming up. What is that, next Monday?
[00:30:28] Speaker A: That's actually May 19th.
[00:30:29] Speaker C: Yeah. And then on another note, we have Mo's Birthday party on June 7th at.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Birthday party.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: All white with a splash of Sprite.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: How she gonna turn her face up at your stuff?
[00:30:47] Speaker C: I did not like that idea.
[00:30:49] Speaker D: Okay, okay, okay.
[00:30:51] Speaker C: But it's not my birthday. But I am letting him know because it was originally supposed to be all white.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: We're gonna have us a good time, though.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, Absolutely. Always a good time.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: And I got. I got a couple of surprises for y' all not doing. With my birthday on top of. As the year go on, we got some things we can do. Like, you're saying that you can get us to Mexico or whatever.
I got.
I got some deals coming up on.
[00:31:18] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Some private jets and even yachts if we. If we need to put our hands on it.
[00:31:24] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:31:24] Speaker A: I think I know some people.
[00:31:26] Speaker D: We can have a yacht party.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Almost definitely. We're doing a yacht party, remember?
[00:31:30] Speaker C: Yeah, we. We discussed the yacht party. You and I discussed the yacht.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: We'll have a yacht party before the summer's over.
[00:31:36] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: Y' all better get y' all some friends. Just doing some big things so y' all can enjoy with.
[00:31:42] Speaker C: Can I ask a question?
If you. You had someone who was coming to Colombia. Let's talk about Colombia, because we are the bosses of Colombia. And they asked for a recommendation of a restaurant. What restaurant would you recommend to your friends first?
[00:31:58] Speaker A: It depends on what they're eating.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: To.
[00:32:02] Speaker A: Be honest with you.
Downtown, I' ma send you the holes.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: No.
[00:32:09] Speaker A: You don't like holes?
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Hell, no.
[00:32:11] Speaker C: He.
He'd say, okay, where he's gonna send his friends, but why?
[00:32:18] Speaker A: And also send mine to.
To bourbon.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: I love bourbon.
[00:32:23] Speaker B: I like bourbon.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: Of course, if you want to have a good little vibe, little good time.
[00:32:29] Speaker C: Come into Mahogany's, of course.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: Nah, I mean, personally, if I'm coming in to do business, you know, friends and they're doing business, and we're going to sit there and we're going to chop it up for a nice, quiet meal that we can sit down and talk. Not saying that hall's quiet. Our bourbon's quiet, because you got all the distractions around you.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: I had. I just. I just interrupted you, and I shouldn't have done that. But I've had, like, three bad experiences at Halls, and I'm like, what is the fuss about halls? Because I'm sorry. It ain't been hitting. Not one time. I've been there. So what you got? But I just feel like everybody just blows it up so much. Like it's just, like, the thing to do. But maybe I hit him on a bad night. Y' all going out the halls three times in a row, right? There you go.
[00:33:14] Speaker D: I'm good.
[00:33:14] Speaker B: Well, see, I was invited by other people. That's something. But that wasn't my first choice.
But I'm going to say, out of all of the restaurants, that. And. And baby, I'm. I'm an eater. I. I eats. I'm a greedy girl, so I know about fine dining. Now, if I really want to go and have something good to eat, I go to Charlotte, then my spots up there. Yeah, yeah. But if I'm gonna be in Columbia.
[00:33:40] Speaker D: Hold on, hold on, hold on, ma' am.
[00:33:43] Speaker C: Yeah, and we better not ask Halls for sponsorship.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: Well, hey, what better than a critic to tell you, y' all have some bad nights, Y' all need to get y' all shit together. Okay, so. But I would say Al's upstairs.
I'm a side B kind of girl. I like this. That don't nobody else like. And nobody really knows about owls upstairs. But, baby, that's a spot, honey, I.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: Saw it on TikTok.
[00:34:08] Speaker B: You did.
[00:34:09] Speaker A: Yeah, but you're just like me. I go to places that a lot of people don't know. We got a lot of hidden gems in Colombia.
[00:34:16] Speaker C: So with that said, I'm about to. I'm about to tell you. If I had someone coming to town and they wanted to do breakfast, what's the name of the. The spot you invited me to?
[00:34:26] Speaker A: Oh, breakfast at Ruiz.
[00:34:28] Speaker C: Yeah, that would be my one.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: He's number one over there when it comes to this brunch thing. He's beating out the competition, which is right across the street.
[00:34:38] Speaker C: And what's the name of it again?
[00:34:40] Speaker A: Breakfast at Ruiz.
[00:34:41] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:34:42] Speaker C: And if I wanted seafood, of course, and a vibe, it would be Mahogany.
[00:34:47] Speaker A: Yeah. I think we got probably about the best seafood in town, so.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: I love the seafood. Egg roll, by the way.
[00:34:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, we got you Gotcha to the night, too, and stuff.
Liz, what you like?
[00:35:00] Speaker D: I don't. I don't really eat downtown and stuff like that.
[00:35:04] Speaker A: Well, it don't have to be downtown. We're talking about Colombia bringing people to Columbia, period.
[00:35:08] Speaker C: Yeah, we're bringing people to Colombia, and.
[00:35:10] Speaker D: They want wings at Mahogany. I'm telling you, I love their wings.
[00:35:14] Speaker A: Yeah, she's on the wings. I can't get off nothing else.
[00:35:17] Speaker D: I love the wings.
That's just it for me.
[00:35:20] Speaker C: I love the seafood rice.
[00:35:24] Speaker D: Yeah. I always have to order the wings.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: When I go, and I'm not used to, like.
How would you phrase Mahogany? Is it like a bar and grill? Is it like a lounge? Bar lounge. Like, how would you do it?
[00:35:39] Speaker A: At first, it was supposed to be a grown and sexy spot, as in a lounge and, well, a cocktail lounge.
But, you know, we people, you know what I'm saying?
I love my people, but we just think that we could just wear whatever and anything. Oh, my God.
To a spot.
[00:36:06] Speaker C: So when you say where, whatever, what are you referring to?
[00:36:09] Speaker A: Everything from slides, house, shoes.
[00:36:13] Speaker D: Oh, my God.
[00:36:14] Speaker C: Have you seen someone with a bonnet and behind me.
A bonnet?
[00:36:19] Speaker A: Not exactly. Unless they come to pick up food.
[00:36:22] Speaker C: That'S still out the house.
[00:36:25] Speaker A: You're right. You're right. I've seen them with the ass cheeks hanging out under the.
Under their. Their. Their skirts and stuff. You know what I'm saying?
[00:36:33] Speaker D: If you come to a spot, they.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Don'T care if you're coming to a spot to try to eat and enjoy something you want to be looking at nobody wearing, period. You know what I'm saying?
[00:36:41] Speaker C: But you know what? And that's why I can't respect the Some establishments and their dress codes, like Champagne, they're coming out. You know, they're just opening their.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: You know, actually, I would suggest champagne, too.
[00:36:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: I haven't eaten yet, but I have.
[00:37:00] Speaker C: Been on the inside, and it's gorgeous.
[00:37:02] Speaker A: Talk to the owners. Them. I know the owners. Them, from what I saw on Tick Tock the other day with the big tomahawk steak coming out with the gold flakes.
[00:37:12] Speaker D: That's my favorite.
[00:37:15] Speaker A: It looks simple as I want to be. And I'm glad we're talking about it. So I think we need to try them out next week.
[00:37:20] Speaker D: I love them.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: So my friend's birthday is on the.
And I think we're going to Champaign on the 17th.
So. Yeah, we should make a date for y' all to come.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Actually, when me and her was over there at Champagne. Oh, I'm sorry. When me and Camille.
[00:37:39] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:37:40] Speaker A: Boss lady was over. Oh.
[00:37:43] Speaker B: Y' all see what we're dealing with now, right?
[00:37:45] Speaker A: Yes. When we was over there last week and we was talking to Ladies Shout out the lady, one of the owners of Champagne, we was talking about doing some filming out there and going up there and having our meetings and enjoying dinner.
[00:38:02] Speaker C: And she said yes, and she said yes.
And it's really nice. It is really, really nice.
[00:38:08] Speaker B: So we got a date. We got an outing. Yeah.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
And that's where my 50th birthday party is at. It's the day party out there.
[00:38:15] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: After party at Mahogany.
But besides that, I do feel like it's our job to bring people awareness and bring people here to Columbia. We call ourselves bosses of Columbia Capital City. This is the Metro, the capital city.
[00:38:32] Speaker C: And that's why.
And that's why I wanted to bring that conversation back to Columbia, you know?
[00:38:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:38] Speaker A: Because Charlotte, I love Charlotte. That's my place. That's my go to place, too, because there's so much things there. But we're bosses of Colombia, and we're gonna make. We're gonna bring awareness to these people.
We'll bring them here.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: And another thing I want you to do as a entertainment establishment is start bringing some entertainment to Columbia. Like we used to have people who used to come here and do shows.
[00:39:04] Speaker A: Well, I'm working on that now.
[00:39:05] Speaker C: I just think that. I mean, people come, but are people coming out for them? Are people gonna come out for people?
[00:39:16] Speaker B: We never know until we try it.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: But the thing is, we would travel again to Charlotte, to Atlanta, to Augusta to go see these certain people. And don't get me wrong, when they do bring stuff here, we Got people that come from all over South Carolina or the next state over to Columbia, too.
I seen it. Because I got people that's coming from out of town calling me every day. Hey, Mo, we're gonna be in town for such and such. We coming by your spot. You know what I'm saying? So I hear it all the time.
[00:39:45] Speaker C: Yeah, Mr. 803 freshman was there the other night when I was there.
[00:39:49] Speaker A: Yeah, 803.
Big shout out, though. 803 fresh.
[00:39:54] Speaker B: Well, yeah, he's from Wagner, so it's not hard for him to come right now.
[00:40:00] Speaker C: Yeah, but he has a busy schedule.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He popping.
[00:40:04] Speaker C: He is definitely popping. Did y' all say he's popping?
[00:40:07] Speaker A: Trap. Dicky is popping.
Mahogany's popping.
It's popping.
[00:40:16] Speaker C: Did y' all see the vice president, Kamala Harris, doing the boots on the ground dance?
[00:40:21] Speaker D: I did.
[00:40:22] Speaker C: Y' all haven't seen it. You saw it?
[00:40:24] Speaker A: South Carolina fireman.
[00:40:26] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:40:27] Speaker D: And they need to capitalize on that. I mean, he got something it doesn't like. My problem is with Columbia. Why? Why malls can't stay open, why stores can't stay open?
[00:40:37] Speaker C: First of all, that's not just Colombia. That's kind of all over right now because of Amazon and other places like that.
[00:40:45] Speaker D: When it first started opening when I got here.
[00:40:47] Speaker C: Oh, I know.
[00:40:47] Speaker B: It was great.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:50] Speaker C: But they. They used to be at one. Okay. So.
Because they want to charge too much for leasing. It's very, very expensive. And what you want to do is you want to get people in there first, you know, and then if you want to go up later on.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: But yeah, well, let's hold that conversation for the next show because. Because you said Sand Hills. I got an idea for y' all.
[00:41:14] Speaker D: There is definitely more to come, but this is a great episode. So y' all got anything y' all want to put out, y' all social.
[00:41:22] Speaker B: Media handles to the creator?
Tell them about all. He says. Yes, well, yes. Give us all your social media handles, Mr. Mojo.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: Oh, man, I ain't big on the social media handle. I have my kids, them handling that stuff, and I need to. So by the time they come back to this again.
[00:41:41] Speaker B: Okay, cool.
[00:41:43] Speaker C: You can just follow bosses of Columbia on all social media platforms across the board. Bosses of Columbia. And even though Mo is not a social media person you can meet, you can learn more about him on those platforms.
[00:41:59] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:42:00] Speaker D: What's your personal? You want them to follow your personal as well?
[00:42:03] Speaker C: You can follow me at Camille Ware and across the board, me.
[00:42:10] Speaker D: Mine is 3BG CEO on Facebook.
No, not on Facebook. Don't follow me on Facebook. That's my personal page on tick tock IG and on YouTube. 3 BG CEO on all platforms.
[00:42:25] Speaker B: Look mine up.
Look. Because I don't know, I think I'm Nurse Pretty on TikTok and Instagram and on my Facebook. Yoshiolanda.
