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Speaker 1: about career and financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, overcoming the arts,
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Speaker 1: is a different She performed America the Beautiful at the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I watched it. I was slapping like my gun.
Speaker 1: She is a former school teacher, an HBCU graduate, and
Speaker 1: a proud mom. She is a Grammy winning, a Grammy
Speaker 1: Award winning gospel superstar who is abundant with love, faith
Speaker 1: and wisdom. She is on the should to talk about
Speaker 1: her Erelanda Adams handbags, her Eulanda Adams bath and beauty line.
Speaker 1: Please welcome back to Money Making Conversations, my friend Landa Adams. Hello, Well,
Speaker 1: we're happy to have you on the show, and my
Speaker 1: listeners love you. They they the ones that don't know
Speaker 1: you become fans of yours and uh and just show
Speaker 1: you how much I you know, we want to talk
Speaker 1: about Delonda Adams handbag in a minute. But this week,
Speaker 1: every nine Am I sent my my newsletter out to
Speaker 1: my fans. I got over ninety thousand fan club members
Speaker 1: and your and your link was the most clicked link
Speaker 1: in the newsletter. And for the handbags. And they're beautiful too,
Speaker 1: by the way, there are amazing handbags. Tell us about
Speaker 1: that right quick.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you know, I am a girly girl.
Speaker 2: I grew up with a girly girl as a mom,
Speaker 2: and a girly girl is a grandmom. So my grandma's
Speaker 2: were girly girls. So uh, we always met the handbags,
Speaker 2: the scarves, the gloves, the shoes, everything was you know,
Speaker 2: you had a you had a specific thing that with
Speaker 2: a specific thing. And you know, the the older I got,
Speaker 2: the more prosperous I got. I was able to buy
Speaker 2: some things that you know, cost a little money. And
Speaker 2: then I'm started figuring, I'm like, no, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm given all these people all this money. What about
Speaker 2: my fans? Because people always ask me who are you wearing?
Speaker 2: Who is that buy? And I started thinking, now my
Speaker 2: fans can't buy a All of my fans, I'll say,
Speaker 2: can't buy a six hundred dollars bag. But what if
Speaker 2: I could give them the same quality and the same fashion,
Speaker 2: the same design, the same classic styles at a fraction
Speaker 2: of the price, and then they could take a piece
Speaker 2: of Yolanda home with them or you know, ship it
Speaker 2: to a loved one or whatever. And that's pretty much
Speaker 2: how it happened. And of course, you know, we are
Speaker 2: surrounded by amazing people who do all types of things.
Speaker 2: You know, there's no sense of me trying to reinvent
Speaker 2: the wheel if someone has already done it. And that's
Speaker 2: one that's one of the things that you have taught
Speaker 2: so well. When you know someone who does something, merge
Speaker 2: with them, you know, uh, you know, do a joint
Speaker 2: venture or something like that with them so that you
Speaker 2: come you both come out on top, right. And we
Speaker 2: talked to the manufacturer and they were like, oh, of course,
Speaker 2: we love you and we think that that would be
Speaker 2: a we would have a great synergy there, because synergy
Speaker 2: is very important. You know, both sides are doing something
Speaker 2: that makes both of them happy and making money at
Speaker 2: the same time.
Speaker 1: It really is about that. You know. Let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about the collection, because I got it pulled off, because
Speaker 1: I got I got six sisters and I'm gonna buy
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy I'm gonna tell you somebody I didn't.
Speaker 1: I just want to announce you you will get a
Speaker 1: little little surge from the McDonald now because the clutters
Speaker 1: are outstanding, the cross bodies outstanding, the everything bag is outstanding,
Speaker 1: the leather handbags, the oh the neon bags are beautiful,
Speaker 1: you know, and the toach, the shoulder bags, the satchels.
Speaker 1: It's just the wallets. It's just how much involvement that
Speaker 1: you have in the whole putting together the collection. Yolanda, Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm always hands on because I want no Number one.
Speaker 2: I want to know what my customer is getting right.
Speaker 2: That's the first thing. They will never put out a
Speaker 2: product that I don't use and carry myself. When you
Speaker 2: see me show up to anything, whether it's a red
Speaker 2: carpet or whatever, if I have a bag in my hand,
Speaker 2: it's a YA bag.
Speaker 1: Love that Ya bag. I love that.
Speaker 2: There you go, see me going to church, it's the
Speaker 2: YA bag. If you see me, you know, out having
Speaker 2: dinner with a bag. And again, I know that the
Speaker 2: quality of these bags are so amazing because these the
Speaker 2: manufacturer is the same guy who does bags for Burgdoff
Speaker 2: does bags for Macy's and Bloomingdale's and all of those places,
Speaker 2: So that was definitely important to me. Next was the
Speaker 2: design and the fashion flair. Be on point with what's
Speaker 2: out there right now, because I want anybody saying, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I like her bags, but you know they're
Speaker 2: like about you know, would or nice in the nineties. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: we are on par with what happens during fashion Week
Speaker 2: every twice a year, so you'll you'll never see you know,
Speaker 2: unless it's a classic bag like the tailor bag, like
Speaker 2: the Boss Lady bag that you know, those are classics
Speaker 2: that can you can get them at any time. You know,
Speaker 2: those are great. But I am not going to you know,
Speaker 2: as flowers are in, Like, I am not going to
Speaker 2: not have bags without flowers.
Speaker 1: We know, the thank you. You know. Here's the beautiful
Speaker 1: thing about I'm talking to Ulanda Adams. Everybody knows her
Speaker 1: from her career as a singer, but I've known her
Speaker 1: as a motivational person as an entrepreneur. That's the side
Speaker 1: of her we always speak about when she comes on
Speaker 1: one amazing conversation because of the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: and I love when you throughout the word y a bag.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's that's branding to the max right there,
Speaker 1: breaking it down, making the initials mean something, and like,
Speaker 1: the quality is what I'm just looking at it because
Speaker 1: of the fact that I know I can see you
Speaker 1: walking with that bag and looking normal, looking like it's
Speaker 1: part of your style. That's what I loved about it.
Speaker 1: And that's why when I'm looking at it now, I'm
Speaker 1: going wow, you know, but I don't feel like intimidated.
Speaker 1: If a person who wasn't Eulanda Adams with this bag,
Speaker 1: they would look natural and they would look dressed up
Speaker 1: or depending on what they want to want to satural
Speaker 1: they want the water they want while they want to
Speaker 1: shoulder bag, door throw over all these different options really
Speaker 1: makes for like a people, A person really can actually
Speaker 1: buy the collection.
Speaker 2: Yes, they actually can. Yeah, and it's reasonable enough that
Speaker 2: you can buy more than one. And it's you know,
Speaker 2: if you want the higher end bag, we have those,
Speaker 2: but we I refuse to make them higher than you know,
Speaker 2: a certain amount, because you know, I just think I
Speaker 2: want to be cognizant of where everyone is in their
Speaker 2: life and so where a person cannot afford a thousand
Speaker 2: dollars bag, a five hundred dollars bag, a two hundred
Speaker 2: dollars bag. They can go to the website and they
Speaker 2: can They can look at it and say, whoa this is?
Speaker 2: This bag looks similar to that twelve hundred dollars bag.
Speaker 1: Right and look at good looking.
Speaker 2: Good yes, and nobody would know the difference.
Speaker 1: The thing about it is that that's why when I
Speaker 1: brought to on the show, I want to make sure
Speaker 1: people know I'm engaged. I'm not just bringing you on
Speaker 1: the show to talk about it. And I like to
Speaker 1: believe I grew up with six sisters. You know, I
Speaker 1: have a sense of that fashion of what my sisters
Speaker 1: wore or ware, and I've been in the entertainment business
Speaker 1: of a sense of what that price line that you
Speaker 1: and then then I've entertained everyday people and that's what
Speaker 1: this calls about, everyday people being able to reach it
Speaker 1: to their budget. But when you go to the website,
Speaker 1: when you go to that and watch these bags, you're
Speaker 1: gonna buy something. I'm gonna tell you, if you don't
Speaker 1: want to buy something, don't go to the website because
Speaker 1: it's gonna pull you in like they pull your boy in.
Speaker 1: And now I'm six deep with my sisters, here's.
Speaker 2: One of the things that you have always been so
Speaker 2: brilliant in and you've always taught me that you always
Speaker 2: find the price point that thatches the people who follow you.
Speaker 1: You know, I.
Speaker 2: Love ten thousand dollars bags. I don't own a ten
Speaker 2: thousand dollars bags. I think that, you know, I'd rather
Speaker 2: have ten thousand dollars worth of stock, right right, right.
Speaker 2: But you know, my thing is how many of my
Speaker 2: fans and family as I call them, would really invest
Speaker 2: because that's an investment in ten thousand dollars as opposed
Speaker 2: to let's say, sixty nine to ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, I have to agree. And long as you're
Speaker 1: going to stop people like people out that buying these knockoffs,
Speaker 1: you're spending more on bad knockoffs than you would for
Speaker 1: a quality YA bag.
Speaker 2: There you go, There you go. And you've always taught
Speaker 2: there's more security in numbers than just the you know,
Speaker 2: the branding, and we know branding is awesome. We know that, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I would rather have I would rather sell ten thousand
Speaker 2: Ya bags at their price than to sell two at
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. We're on the same page.
Speaker 1: With Money Making Conversation. Speaking of Yourlanda Adams London. Let
Speaker 1: me describe this. We're going to transition to a next
Speaker 1: product that she's she's out there selling us an entrepreneur
Speaker 1: over the years. It's called Simply Yolanda. It's a bath
Speaker 1: and body collection. Let me read this. Through the creation
Speaker 1: of the Simply Eulanda collection, she aims to improve the
Speaker 1: lives of others by improving the skin through products from
Speaker 1: high quality, not what I say high quality in greenings,
Speaker 1: as Landa says, my passion for creating this line stems
Speaker 1: from the same passion I possess when creating music. Is
Speaker 1: all about being spiritually, emotionally and physically. Well.
Speaker 3: Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Balance, you have to have balance in your life.
Speaker 2: Our our largest organs, there's our skin, and it's usually
Speaker 2: the part of us that we do not take care
Speaker 2: of the most right, you know, and that's from the
Speaker 2: top of your head to the soles of your feet,
Speaker 2: as they say in the church.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, you know, it's really about you know, we
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money when it's too late for
Speaker 1: our skin, you know. And and one of the things
Speaker 1: I want to talk about for some reason. Early on,
Speaker 1: and when I was in high school, I you know,
Speaker 1: I understood my face, so I understood you know, all
Speaker 1: these skin understood, you know, poores and getting dirt out
Speaker 1: of my poors, washing with cold water, washing with warm water.
Speaker 1: Warm water opens your pores, cold water ice closes your pores.
Speaker 1: And it starts with care, and it starts with spending time.
Speaker 1: And again we come into a product bathroom, your bathroom
Speaker 1: body collection where guess what the price point is very reasonable?
Speaker 1: Talk about that.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. As I got older, I realized
Speaker 2: that my skin and my body were changing. You know me,
Speaker 2: I am a health nut. I have always taken care
Speaker 2: of myself nutritionally, spiritually, and physically. And I found that
Speaker 2: the products that I was using they were costing a
Speaker 2: lot of money, and I was not seeing the results
Speaker 2: that I wanted. So I got with a friend of
Speaker 2: ours and I said, you know what, I've been thinking
Speaker 2: really hard about creating my own bath and bodyline. You know,
Speaker 2: that was what we had the kindles at first, and
Speaker 2: it was like, oh my gosh, if you do that,
Speaker 2: I will be a part of your teens. And we
Speaker 2: got with a scientist who was privy to some of
Speaker 2: the really higher in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and skin suticals
Speaker 2: and all of those things that nurture the skin, and
Speaker 2: I told them, hey, this is the thing that we
Speaker 2: have to do. We have to cleanse the skin, but
Speaker 2: we have to leave a seal of moisture in there
Speaker 2: so people don't have to continually use the souf flay,
Speaker 2: you know, over and over and over again during the day.
Speaker 2: Because people don't have that kind of time. They get
Speaker 2: in the shower, they get out of the shower moisturized,
Speaker 2: they're headed to work or headed to wherever they're going
Speaker 2: to life go. And so you know, I know all
Speaker 2: these influencers are doing a lot of things right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, but they're at home in front of cameras.
Speaker 2: So there are real people, more than eight billion in
Speaker 2: the world, that have a whole bunch to do that
Speaker 2: really don't have that kind of time. And I said,
Speaker 2: so I need I need a body wash. I need
Speaker 2: a body soou fla, which is a moisturizer, and I
Speaker 2: need a body oil because there are some people who
Speaker 2: can't do you know, the soufla for whatever reason, but
Speaker 2: they can do the oils. And I said, I definitely
Speaker 2: need a price point where all my people can get it.
Speaker 2: But it has to be so amazing that they'll come
Speaker 2: back each and every time. And we have the love
Speaker 2: and the chocolate that have been I mean, we've been
Speaker 2: doing the body line since twenty twelve, right, we.
Speaker 1: Know it's really interesting because I'm gonna talk to the
Speaker 1: men here, okay, because we all jump out there with
Speaker 1: the elbows as she and the ankles look like cracking
Speaker 1: on our you know, we don't. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you this. I look really bad. The other day
Speaker 1: My wife had to check me where you're going? Where
Speaker 1: are you going with no socks? Where are you going
Speaker 1: with no socks? And so and so that's what Let's
Speaker 1: let's go back to the body all, okay, So us
Speaker 1: have you know we our skin. God gave us our bodies, okay,
Speaker 1: and we all it's gonna naturally deteriorate, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to naturally deteriorate fast if you take care. If
Speaker 1: you take care, that's right, And that's what this that's
Speaker 1: what this call is about. That's about It's about taking
Speaker 1: care of you and and you have a product from
Speaker 1: a stylish standpoint, you go out there from a fashion standpoint,
Speaker 1: take care of your budget, take care of your look.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about the physical side of you when
Speaker 1: you're walking out there, how you wash down, how you
Speaker 1: put all on your face. Like I have a ball head.
Speaker 1: So you know, I slapped that body all on my head. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. And so because that's what it does
Speaker 1: for me, Because I was walking out the door, you know,
Speaker 1: I would just shave and and then put a put
Speaker 1: a tie and white dry off the tie. But guess
Speaker 1: what it would kind of like start looking like it
Speaker 1: was cracking up there, you know, until I started putting
Speaker 1: the body all on it. I'm just being honest with you, Landa.
Speaker 1: I use your products because your products make me feel
Speaker 1: better and look better.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. And that is you know,
Speaker 2: that's our intention. Our intention is not just you know,
Speaker 2: to be in your life for just the sale. You know,
Speaker 2: we want to know how you feel about it, because
Speaker 2: that's one of the things that we say. It just
Speaker 2: feels better. You know. I knew that as we move
Speaker 2: into these these times where the sun is is hotter,
Speaker 2: it seems like the sun seems like the former climate.
Speaker 2: It stays with us longer than the winter and longer
Speaker 2: and fall. You know, you have to have something that
Speaker 2: combats that. And so when men are like, well, what
Speaker 2: about a men's product, Well, that's what the chocolate is for,
Speaker 2: you know, the chocolate men. You know, and I have
Speaker 2: some brothers who use Love as well, because they say
Speaker 2: it reminds them of, you know, a softer kind of
Speaker 2: smell that they don't have to worry about whether it
Speaker 2: will clash with their cologne. Chocolate is not going to
Speaker 2: clash with your cologne. I wanted to make sure that
Speaker 2: you could layer this product product, smell good, feel good,
Speaker 2: nourish the skin, cleanse the skin, and then you know,
Speaker 2: and get out there and do your thing in the world.
Speaker 1: Well you're doing that. That's That's why I'm just letting
Speaker 1: everybody know that, just because you're on a line that
Speaker 1: says female products, Okay, these products are available for everybody,
Speaker 1: especially men. And we'll and we're all Wren's out there searching,
Speaker 1: Stop searching. Just go to Jana Adams. She got it.
Speaker 1: She got product over here that allows you to take
Speaker 1: care of you. Like I said, you know the elbow
Speaker 1: where where men fail. We fell on that elbow. We
Speaker 1: fell on those ankles, and ankles we die and the
Speaker 1: tod we forget the all up our toes and that's
Speaker 1: why we get bad. That's our told look bad in
Speaker 1: the summer. Summer's coming. Start getting those toes right by
Speaker 1: getting the right product and your line. I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring you on the show just to talk about that
Speaker 1: because of the fact that I support you. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to You don't have to ask me
Speaker 1: if you want to, if you would not have done
Speaker 1: my interview today, and I just you know, this is
Speaker 1: inspiration for me. I get somethings in you when you
Speaker 1: when you do it, as well as you get something
Speaker 1: We both kinship. But I have to support things I
Speaker 1: feel fit African American uh budget. I feel that makes
Speaker 1: them look good. But I get tired of us going
Speaker 1: out there buying products that don't that don't suit your budget,
Speaker 1: buying knockoffs, buying products that look extreme. But you can
Speaker 1: buy a collection of you can buy a collection of
Speaker 1: your handbags, you can buy a collection of your products,
Speaker 1: and you can keep winning. That's you know, that's a
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of what you're doing with your brains.
Speaker 1: Have you have you taken to like everybody's doing these
Speaker 1: Instagram lives? And have you have you done like a
Speaker 1: little store yet live online? Yet? Have you done that yet?
Speaker 2: You know whereabouts? You know, I have the I have
Speaker 2: the the Oprah thing. I had a bunch of things,
Speaker 2: you know, And and I am very protective of my
Speaker 2: social family. I don't want to, you know, be out
Speaker 2: there just to be out there. I want, you know,
Speaker 2: I protect my people. And when you know, when the
Speaker 2: pandemic started, I talked to all of my manufacturers. I
Speaker 2: talked to all of my distributors. I'm like, listen, I
Speaker 2: need a portion of this money to go to, you know,
Speaker 2: feed the hungry. I need a portion of this money
Speaker 2: to go to cooking for kids. I need a portion
Speaker 2: of this money to go to so on and so
Speaker 2: on and so on and so so. When you buy
Speaker 2: any ya product or simply Yolanda product, you are with
Speaker 2: the purchase of these things, you are actually feeding people.
Speaker 2: You are actually providing water, You're actually providing clothing, actually
Speaker 2: providing assistance to the homeless folks who don't have what
Speaker 2: you have, so you know it's always been and that's
Speaker 2: another thing that you have always taught us as well.
Speaker 2: Have a good cause surrounding your brand. Don't just take
Speaker 2: take take, be in the position to give, and I
Speaker 2: am so thankful that I am in the position to give.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Let's uh. I want to make sure that I
Speaker 1: get clear of what I'm asking you to do. I'm
Speaker 1: asking you. Have you considered just going live with your
Speaker 1: bags and your daughter? Is that going to happen? Because
Speaker 1: I want to promote it because I just see this
Speaker 1: as a you know, qvc YA bathroom body moment, because
Speaker 1: that's what people are accepting. That that the specially African
Speaker 1: American community or in tune. We're going online. We understand
Speaker 1: the online process and we know you have a reputable name,
Speaker 1: so if we buy what you are offering, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get it. I want, I want, I want to hold
Speaker 1: you in ther longer. You know again, I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring you on the show to talk about your y
Speaker 1: A are your Londa Adams handbags which you can get
Speaker 1: online right now, or you can go to my newsletter.
Speaker 1: The Bathroom Beauty Line, which is simply your London, which
Speaker 1: is amazing. I use it. I use it for my head,
Speaker 1: I use it for my ankles. Your boy be you're
Speaker 1: London up now. I gotta go on Live today and
Speaker 1: buy some bags for my sisters so they can start smiling.
Speaker 1: All right, my friend, you be safe and thank you
Speaker 1: for thank you, thank you, thank you. You A little
Speaker 1: bump in there because of your handbag knows your boy
Speaker 1: out here promoting you. Okay, snatch out right, all right.
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