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X Mayo is back for Episode 3 of The Dough with a guest who gets real about the G.O.A.T.s of entrepreneurship: Black women. Joining her is Jazzi McGilbert, the founder of Reparations Club in Los Angeles. The Rep Club is a bookstore that centers Black and queer authors and creatives. X and Jazzi get into the dirty details of running a business that’s all about community, and how to ask for what you’re worth.

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SPEAKERS

Speaker 3, Jazzi McGilbert, Speaker 6, Speaker 8, Speaker 7, X Mayo, Speaker 2, Speaker 5, Speaker 1

Speaker 1  00:12

If you could open a storefront in Salt Lake, what would it be?

 

Speaker 2  01:34

Probably some type of bookstore. But I don’t know. I’ve never thought about that.

 

Speaker 3  01:37

I’ve always wanted a Hangout, drop in coffee shop.

 

Speaker 5  01:40

I think I would really enjoy a goat storefront. So like, goat cheeses, goat soaps. Whatever else there is, anything that allows me to, like, make a profit off of having many goats. I think would be really, really awesome.

 

Speaker 6  01:57

What’s stopping you from doing it?

 

Speaker 7  01:58

Well, I’m in college. I’m a full time student, so I don’t have that much time for it, and I also don’t feel very passionate about selling things. I’m pretty anti capitalist. I’d rather have something that fosters more community than just like money exchanges.

 

Speaker 8  02:14

I have a life I have to support as someone who’s normally a risk taker. That’s just a risk that, for some reason when it comes to money, I’ve not been willing to take.

 

X Mayo  02:22

Welcome back to another episode of The Dough, I’m X Mayo actor, writer and now aspiring goat entrepreneur. Yeah, you heard that. Aspiring goat Okay, baby, we gonna have everything in the store. This is the show where we talk about making your wildest money dreams come true. And yeah, it might be scary to start your own goat Empire, but I’m here to tell you it can. I’m overthinking all the possibilities at goats RS, we talking goat wigs, goat rugs, goat sour cream, goat yoga. Okay, I’m gonna talk to my business manager tomorrow about it. Belva, get on the line. America has fucked us over enough, and now I want my 40 acres and a goat, damn it. But hold up let me come down. Just I talk about goats, I get excited. Okay, today, we’re not just talking about that kind of goat. Okay, we’re here to talk about the goats of entrepreneurship. Yes, black women, okay, black with a capital B, okay, did you know that black women are the fastest growing group of business owners in America? Though it’s not all rainbows and butterflies. We have to deal with all kinds of crazy bullshit to make that happen. Yes, I got some statistics for that ass, 61% of black women use their own money to fund their startups, because they’re less likely to receive capital elsewhere, and once they do open up their business, black women typically earn less than any other business owner out there. That’s unbelievable, because we’re the fucking best, truly the best. In this episode, our guest is an example of how to make that shit work, how to start a business and make it successful, not just for yourself, but for your local community. Jazzi McGilbert is the founder of reparations club in Los Angeles. It’s a concept bookshop and community space that centers black and queer authors and creatives. They host dope ass events, and Jazzi has got insights on how you can feel a need in your own community and get paid at the same damn time. You want to get paid, right? And you also want to go, goddamn because when I start my store, I need everybody to come down and support black women. Don’t be talking about, I support black women because you listen to Beyonce, okay, you need to go buy this goat, amen. That’s what I saw. Hi Jazzi, welcome to The Dough. Oh my god, I’m so excited to talk to you.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  04:45

Hi.

 

X Mayo  04:46

Okay, so we start off every episode asking guests where the hell their money went this week. And one of my producers told me, you’re a Taurus. Hello, that is my is it not my rising? It’s the setting, what’s the other one is? You’re right.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  05:00

I’m from LA. I should know this. Okay, you have your rising, your sun and your moon, and then a whole bunch of other things.

 

X Mayo  05:04

Okay, my moon, is a Taurus, and two of my besties are Taurus, so I love you, Taurus the Bull okay.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  05:11

Wait, what’s your sun sign?

 

X Mayo  05:13

Leo.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  05:14

Of course.

 

X Mayo  05:16

Oh, hello, yes um, okay, so you’re a Taurus top tier, and that is a sign of luxury. So where did your money go this week? Did you do? Is it a champagne bubble bath? Did you buy pillows that are $500 like, what did you do?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  05:31

I am the type of tourist who stays in the house, and so I spend a lot of money on food and also pillows. I am a pillow snob.

 

X Mayo  05:41

Same, yeah, I research them. I want data, I have Google Sheet graphs. I need to know, and my pillows go off.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  05:49

I feel so seen.

 

X Mayo  05:50

Yes, okay, cool so your book and retail shop officially opened in 2019 congratulations. And in 2024 it has now become a major cultural hub covered by media like the LA Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post. So your brick and mortar hosts, karaoke, author talks, queer game nights and so much more. So was this always your vision? And where did the inspiration for the reparations club come from?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  06:18

So I was always a very bookish kid. I am an introvert. We talked about the Taurus thing already, but I’m a homebody, and so books were my friends. Books were bookstores were my babysitter. I had a single mom, so she would drop me at the bookstore and pick me up after work. So I think that was in me somewhere. But I also never thought I would own a bookstore. I think the inspiration for the store came from, I mean, it was born out of grief and death. My mom died nine months before the bookstore opened, and I was not planning, thank you. I wasn’t planning to open a bookstore before that happened. That wasn’t a dream of mine, because I didn’t really know that I could have that dream. So I think the inspiration really was my mom’s passing and reorienting. That’s like a that’s a hard loss everyone who’s gone through it will tell you, and so you just kind of it shakes your worldview. You have to reprioritize your life, do things that you deeply care about. And for me, that was community that I was really needing at that moment, and so that’s what I built first, and the books kind of came right after.

 

X Mayo  07:28

Okay, lovely, oh my god, Jazzy. I love that you’ve turned, well, I don’t want to say turned your grief, but I guess utilize that as the catalyst to create something that’s so community oriented. And I’ve heard about this so much I cannot wait to come. I The name alone. I was like, Excuse me, queen, so good. So how did your upbringing influence your journey to entrepreneurship?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  07:52

I think my business acumen comes from having a single mom. I think anyone who has a black single mom will tell you, you know how to make $1 stretch. You know how to work hard. You know how to center your people, too. And so I just grew up watching my mom, who was a legal secretary, work really hard. She ran that office. Might as well have been a paralegal, but she really knew how to make things function. And when she got home, she was starting her other full time job, which was raising me and a lot of my family as well. So she raised my two cousins, who are like siblings to me, and I just watched her work hard and get things done with nothing.

 

X Mayo  08:33

So you said you watched your mom work so hard. Why was it important for you to work for yourself?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  08:38

Because I watched her work so hard for someone else, and so I don’t know where all the money she helped make went. It was not into her pocket. I know that. You know, my mom passed away from cancer. She had ovarian cancer. It’s actually peritoneal cancer, but long story, she was still even during her cancer treatment, she was still going to work. She was still doing so much, and she felt such a responsibility toward her work that she felt bad having cancer, I think, and just watching her go through that, you know, I don’t think her work loved her back, and I wanted my work to love me back. I wanted my work to be for me. I wanted it to be fulfilling. I wanted it to both support me, support my community. I just needed it to be more intentional and not just kind of go into the void. And so, yeah, having work that loved me back was very.

 

X Mayo  09:29

Wow, Jazzi wow, we have to take a second. I think I have to get that tattooed. I want my work to love me back. Wow, never even looked at it from that lens.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  09:42

I didn’t until that second. So yeah, I think it’s important that, because I am fulfilled by work.

 

X Mayo  09:49

That’s good.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  09:50

Thank you, I do, for better or worse, identify as a workaholic, but I feel really good about the work that I’m doing. What I like to sleep more, yes, but I don’t feel like it’s worthless. I think it has a lot of value.

 

X Mayo  10:06

100% and why did you choose the name Reparations Club? I feel like I know, but I want the people to know.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  10:11

You tell me, what is it? What does it mean to you?

 

X Mayo  10:14

It means like, the only motherfucker we don’t get our shit is if we make it and create it and give it to ourselves. So why else ain’t nobody else gonna give it to us well, you know what? You know what’s gonna do it a black woman, period, and she gonna help everybody and not live in the binary, if you are he, she, they, if you are queer, undecided. This is for everybody. This is a club. This is a hub that’s what I get from the name. But I could be wrong as to why you named it.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  10:44

You are not wrong. I don’t think there is a wrong answer there the name. I think the name chose me, to be honest. But I had a group it was the group chat. My group chat girls, we all had like, these various wins in life, and it was almost like a little, a little tongue in cheek. I got us these nameplate necklaces, gold nameplate necklaces that said reparations. I was just like, we are all getting something we deserve. And when I was like, naming the shop, I was sitting on my couch and couldn’t think of a name, and was just kind of playing around with the necklace, and I was like, you know what that? That sums it up. That’s what I want. It’s a mantra of sorts. I think the name does the work of sort of keeping the calling the right people into the space and keeping the wrong people out. And so sometimes I did not think the name was as controversial as it seems to be to people, but I like the reaction you had where it’s empowering, it’s revitalizing. That’s what I want the name to do, and I think it does that so.

 

X Mayo  11:43

I think it’s affirming, and I think too it also puts me in a place of abundance, and also there is racism and white supremacy and systemic shit that needs to be altered, burned down, and built again with us in mind. But that may never have, or we may not see that until then, I had to live on this thing called Earth. So I’m going to plug into whatever joy and whatever community that I can. So I’m just, like, reparations club absolutely like it helps me to live in a healthy dulu, right? Like, it’s not naivete, you know, I’m very clear. Period, yes. Okay, so you talked about your mom. What’s your mom’s name? I want to honor her.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  12:28

My mom’s name was Joyce. Everyone called her Niecy. I called her mom.

 

X Mayo  12:31

Yes, Miss Niecy. May she rest, she’s here right now.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  12:34

Oh, absolutely.

 

X Mayo  12:35

Um, Miss Niecy passed away shortly before you opened in 2019, did you ever talk to her about this, like, about your dream and our entrepreneurship in general, like, wanting to do something for you.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  12:46

We didn’t talk about this explicitly, but I remember her talking about at the time. I don’t know what year it was, but I’m going to age myself by saying that she was talking about opening an internet cafe. At some point, she was like, I want to have an internet cafe where we can have, like, open mic nights, and we can do this and we can do that, but we never pursued it. We never got there, but I do remember as she was getting sort of disillusioned with her work, that was what she was turning toward. Was like, I want to own something. I want to do something for myself. I want to fill this void that I see in my community. And it just never happened, but we did talk about that in passing, but no, I think she thought I was gonna have a magazine at some point or be a lawyer. She definitely thought that at some point. I’m a Taurus, so I’m stubborn. I can argue, but yeah, I did not see this in my future, and I don’t know that she did in this way either.

 

X Mayo  13:34

All right, y’all, let’s take a quick break. When we get back, we’re talking how to navigate the highs and the lows of running a business from Queen Jazzi.

 

X Mayo  15:56

So let’s get into how the rep club went from this idea to the cultural hub it is now, so how did you get the funding to open the reparations club?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  16:29

It was my mother’s life insurance policy. So I’m like, I can kind of laugh at it in hindsight, but I call her my angel investor. She left us.

 

X Mayo  16:39

Shut the fuck up.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  16:41

We gotta laugh through the pain acts. We gotta laugh.

 

X Mayo  16:43

No Jazzi, I am a comedian. And write jokes for so that I love a hard joke. And listen, if you started crying, I wouldn’t have laughed, but I would have texted my group chat like this. Just so funny. That is very funny. That is that on the website that your mom, it’s not on the website that is an opportunity miss that is hilarious.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  17:05

Yes, so my mom was my angel investor. She left a small life insurance policy. I looked it up the other day. I started replub with I think it was $20,000 so my business plan was, if I sign this one year lease, can I pay the rent for one year? That was the plan. And so I was just like, cool, if no one comes in here and no one buys anything, I will lose that $20,000 and I will bounce back from that. And so that’s what we started with. That was the plan, okay? And the rest came later. But again, I know how to stretch $1, I really do

 

X Mayo  17:43

Yes, shout out to miss Niecy. How was that first year business?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  17:47

First year was interesting because of that lack of a plan, people would come in. We always had, like, products, but it was a very artsy looking space, and so people were always asking me, can I buy things? Can I buy this? And I was like, All right, that’s a little confusing. So people were coming and hanging out. We were having parties, we were having events. And so building that community was where it started. And then once we had this community, the rest came later. So I was like, I am not a money driven person. I just need to make enough money to keep the thing afloat and to kind of execute my vision, which can get a little expensive sometimes, but that was my goal, was just to keep the thing going. And so we’ve hit that goal. It’s sustainable now. I didn’t want it to disappear in a year, but then the pandemic happened, and we were forced to close. But even the way that all worked out, it’s kind of crazy. It sounds made up when I tell the story, but our lease was up pretty much the same month that everyone went on lockdown. We had just had a flood in the space, and we had lost a ton of inventory, no. And I was like well, okay, that’s it, but if it’s meant to be, it’ll be we didn’t have a website at that point, someone put us, and I wish I could trace, trace the person who did it. First put us on a list of like, independent bookstores. To support those lists started circulating. Somehow we landed on, like, Oprah’s list of black bookstores, and we turned on our website. We just, like, turned on a template, and the orders were sort of flooding in. And this was we were sitting at the intersection of being a black owned bookstore, a bookstore in general, an independent business. So people were really turning toward all of these things so all of these things that had maybe been negatives for me in the past, they kind of became positives for a minute, things have changed quite a bit since 2020 but we really rose to the occasion, and we were delivering books by hand. When people were like, sanitizing their doorknob that era, we were throwing books like, out of the car window, like newspaper delivery boys.

 

X Mayo  19:55

Wait, shut up, like you wanted a newsy.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  20:02

Flinging them out the window.

 

X Mayo  20:03

And that’s and that’s when it was just vibes with the mask. People took diapers and duct tape. Everybody was just you. We was all getting creative. Just MacGyver in this shit. That was a crazy it was. It was a wild time, I would say that. And the Popeyes of 2020, 2019 that was the chicken sandwich, yeah but so it’s also so funny, too jazzy that you mentioned, like, when people coming in, like, everything’s so nice, and they didn’t want to touch it, and was like, can I buy things? It’s such a black ass thing. It is because, you know, when you come into place, it’s like, don’t touch this is where we just sit and we don’t eat nothing. We don’t touch nothing. It’s just like, and, you know, black people, when you got nice, like, yes, nice because you ain’t touched it, just look at and that’s it, that’s so interesting.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  20:48

That was not going to keep us in business, so when we.

 

X Mayo  20:51

No.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  20:52

I knew that if it was meant to be, we would find another space. And then we finally did right as the world was sort of reopening, we opened into our current location.

 

X Mayo  21:03

What year was that?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  21:04

Oh, I don’t know. What year did we come outside? I’m bad with time. I’m time blind.

 

X Mayo  21:08

2021?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  21:09

2021 that sounds about right, yeah, 2021 yeah. And so when everyone’s coming back outside, we had, you know, while we were inside, I was building this new space. And so it happened pretty seamlessly, and I think exactly how it was supposed to for us. And so books took over. That was the thing, and that has continued to be the thing, but we still have a lot of events and so many community engagements, like we do Saturday morning cartoons, where we just have, like, cereal and watch cartoons, and it’s just like, it’s a good point.

 

X Mayo  21:40

Let me tell you, Animaniacs could save America.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  21:45

Absolutely.

 

X Mayo  21:46

Okay, so you reopened, you know, 2020, you guys kind of took a hit. It was kind of kissing it the way that you guys stopped when, like, the world stopped. So how do you plan for the future of your business? Is this now, like, your full time job?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  21:57

Oh yeah.

 

X Mayo  21:58

You still, like, you know what? It’s just me, one person.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  22:02

And then, nope, not just me. It takes a village now, and I’ve had to learn how to manage people, and people have had to learn how to manage me. And so I’ve got an amazing team now that is growing all the time. You know, I remember making my first hires and just not really knowing how to do all of that, they don’t. I mean, I didn’t go to business school, I dropped out of college, but no one taught me how to do all this, so I’m just figuring it out as I go. But I’m happy to say most of the people on our team have been with us for a long time, and everyone, there are a lot of people who have been a part of this journey.

 

X Mayo  22:37

I would say everyone that comes in is a part of it, you know.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  22:39

Absolutely.

 

X Mayo  22:40

It’s like a piece, a piece of it, for sure. And I just want to thank you so much, Jazzi. Because one thing, and I can say this candidly, because it’s us, that sometimes what kind of is disappointed within our community is when we have certain things like this, and then it’s not financially accessible. So then you wonder, who is it for? Because I know, you know social media, Tiktok and Instagram, what have you believe that every black person is just, you know, you know out here, why a sale bag red bottoms, and even then, some of them paint them. It’s not real, it’s not I, especially when it comes to books, I’m so grateful that you are making this to be accessible to all of our community, thank you.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  23:23

Wow, I have had that experience. I don’t go out of the house often, but I’ve started every time I do. I’m just like, that was a lot of money I spent to do nothing, and so I love that most of the events that we have have some kind of free access point to them. So when we have author talks, yeah, you can buy the book, but you don’t have to. I just think we need, you know, you hear a lot of talk about third spaces, and I really do think we embody that. It’s just people just come. People have come. Sometimes it gets a little crazy, but people have come, taken off their shoes, brought their own tea kettle in the shop, and they treat it like their living room. And I do love that.

 

X Mayo  23:59

No, it’s a vibe I everyone I know loves, loves the space. It does feel. It does feel kind of like this is my only reference point so forgive me, because there might be a better one. But it does feel like, in the Black Power movement, we had these hubs, right, like we had these speakeasies that, if you know, you know, right like, so it definitely does feel that way. And I was so happy because jazzy you as a black woman, I’m sure you can agree when I heard the name, I said, Is this a white because you know how white people love to take our shit, like, and this is red. I’ve been to so many shit that was so hip hop based. I’m like, Oh, this fucking music is fire, this thing, yeah? And they were like, yeah, that’s, that’s the owner, and it’s somebody that looked like, who made apple? What’s his name?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  24:50

Steve Jobs.

 

X Mayo  24:50

Steve Jobs, yes, yeah, yeah. I was just like, I know so I am, I was so grateful. I was like, Oh my God. And it’s a black woman who, thank you, Jesus. It was just, I really, Man, we need more third spaces for us, by us baby. So while we take this break, I want you to think about what your third space would be for your community. I know I’ll be thinking of mine and how to incorporate some goats and you didn’t even buy one last time. Shirley, yeah, I’m looking at you. Talk about support black women, I’d be on people.

 

26:35

Okay, let’s get back into it so Jazzi. What are some things that you wish more businesses would do or get right?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  27:34

I wish more businesses would kind of stop trying to market community and actually, like, build one. I think that’s something.

 

X Mayo  27:41

Say that, Jazzi.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  27:44

Barely on social media. It’s an esthetic yeah. And I’m like, we’re real cute, but at the end of the day, you can take the social media away, you can take the esthetics away, and the people will still be there. I picked up. He was a customer. He’s now a friend. I picked him up from the airport last night. I’m like, that is community to me, I’m like, I rep club is the airport friend. But that’s important, that we know where people are. We know what they’re going through. And, you know, we sell things because we do, unfortunately function under capitalism in a way where, you know, for us to keep the space open, we got to sell some books. We got to do some things from time to time, but the goal is to just stake our stake our claim on this little corner in LA, because the spaces for us are disappearing left and right, and so I just want to have a place that people feel seen in, feel comfortable in. And, yeah, building community is my biggest advice. They talk about it like it’s a trend, like community is a buzzword or something, and I think people forget what that really means and what that really looks like. My other advice would be, hire black women, pay them, listen to them and give them power. I think black women are like, truly the best period. But definitely, I think, I mean, it’s not a competition, but it might be. I just think black women, you know, we have turned this trauma. I don’t think it’s for great reasons that we are so good at what we do, but we are, and I think people just need to hand over the reins sometimes, and yes.

 

X Mayo  29:13

Or all the time, yeah, yeah. Because I think black women, we need power in our positions.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  29:19

Absolutely.

 

X Mayo  29:20

It’s time out for that, so when people want to make an impact, like, you have Jazzi, where do they begin? How would you what advice would you give someone to start?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  29:29

What advice would I give them to start? I heard some good advice on Tiktok the other day, and I think it’s something that I do in practice, which is, like, break small rules every day. I think that’s important, okay, yeah, it was from, like, to tell I can’t remember who posted it. I’ll find it and send it to you, but it was from through, like, an anarchist lens of, just like, you have to break these little rules every day, so that when there is a big rule in front of you that needs to be broken, you’re not scared to do it. And so just like not giving into the status quo every day, and just I’ve just stopped accepting that this is the way things have to be. And then my other advice is just starting on your corner, starting whether that’s your little corner of the internet, whether that’s a physical corner, doing what you can with what you have like if I had waited for someone else to do this, I don’t know if it would have happened. I just started with what I had, which was not much, and here we are talking to X on the podcast.

 

X Mayo  30:28

Yeah, I know we’re so blessed, and we’re so thankful here at lemonade for you, but Jazzi, I do want to say too. I think that before we can get to starting, I think we have to have a belief in ourselves. And I think that comes back to community, right? Like, does somebody told you you could do it. People told you that you were beautiful, you know, people told you that you’re so smart, because you got to have that foundation. So I would say to, like, plug into whoever gives you that, because then you’ll feel unstoppable, and so what advice do you have for people who want to say, Fuck the man middle finger to the system and start their own business?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  31:07

I think this business was the first time that I just went for it. I didn’t question myself too much. I didn’t I just followed, followed that spirit. And so I know my mom used to say that, like, if it feels like you’re swimming against the current, you’re probably going in the wrong direction. And there was a lot of things like that in my life that like, felt like, these vanity metrics, these status symbols, that I really just wanted people to like. I wanted to fit into a mold. It wasn’t an option for me. And so this was the first time that, I think, because of that grief, my guard was kind of down, and I just went for it.

 

X Mayo  31:40

Absolutely, yeah. I feel like my grandmama said, Eat the meat, spit out the bone, so I can learn child from anybody. What was the most helpful advice you received when you embarked on this journey as a black woman entrepreneur?

 

Jazzi McGilbert  31:54

I think some advice is especially if it’s a white person, they always have more than they’re telling you they have. You’re almost always being lowballed.

 

X Mayo  32:06

Hey, I gotta write that today.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  32:09

I think you can ask.

 

X Mayo  32:10

I gotta write because, okay, love I want my work to love me back and with a white person.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  32:17

If they’re offering you a more, even if they’re offering you nothing, ask for something. I literally just last week, they were offering me nothing to do something. And I said, look, even if you offered me a $5 Cheesecake Factory gift card that would show me that you value my time a little bit. And they found they found something. They found a little something. But from the people who have it, the people that you know have it, get it, get and then, yeah.

 

X Mayo  32:43

love that.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  32:44

I get asked to do the craziest things for free, and I’ve just started saying no. And I want every black person, every person, to feel empowered to say like, Yo, this does not work for me, so that we can all hold the line for each other. I think that’s really important.

 

X Mayo  33:02

Okay, so we’re now, towards the end, very sad. I would like to know if you can tell people where they can find you and the Reparations Club these days.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  33:11

Yes, so you can find Rep Club on Instagram and Tiktok. We are @reparations.club and @repclub on Tiktok. Our website is rep.club. No.com, just .club. Where else can you find us? And you find us at the bookstore, yeah, we’re in South Central.

 

X Mayo  33:31

Yeah, I love and Miss Niecy. She’s here with us right now. She’s following us everywhere, and she’s her energy and spirit is all throughout the reparations club. I can’t wait to come. Thank you so much, Jazzi for joining us. It was truly a pleasure talking to you.

 

Jazzi McGilbert  33:45

Likewise.

 

X Mayo  33:46

And I can’t wait to come by. Kick my feet up and Reese and Toni Morrison. And there you have it, ladies and goats, if you really want to say fuck you to the man. There’s a way to do it without selling your soul. And I know after this conversation, I’m taking two things with me, your work can love you back and always ask for what you’re worth. Then add text to that bitch. Matter of fact, throw in that $5 gift card to fucking cheesecake, okay? And for my fellow dreamers, as Jazzi said, start small, start with what you have. Find your corner and begin building your community. That’s what’s most important, because if you wait for someone else to do it, what you want to see may never happen. So I’m challenging you to tap into the community that’s already around you, holding you up and make that shit happen. And shout out to Jazzi’s angel investor, Miss Niecy. I know she is so proud of her now let me go get my goat shit organized while y’all wait for the next episode of the dough. There’s more The Dough with Lemonada Premium subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content like more sage advice from Jazzi McGilbert, subscribe now in Apple podcast.

 

CREDITS

The Dough is a Lemonada original. I’m your host X Mayo. This series was created in partnership with Flourish Ventures. This series is presented by the Margaret Casey Foundation. Our producers are Claire Jones, Rachel Pilgrim and Tony Williams. Kristen Lepore is our senior producer. Mix and Sound Design by Bobby Woody. Original Music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Jackie Danziger is our Vice President of narrative content. Executive Producers include me X Mayo, Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. Help others find our show by leaving us a rating and writing a review. You can follow me on IG  @80dollarsandasuitcase and Lemonada @lemonadamedia across all social platforms, follow The Dough wherever you get your podcast or listen ad free on Amazon music with your Prime membership, thanks so much for listening. See you next week, bye.