Speaker 1: If you're about to make a change in your life
Speaker 1: and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best.
Speaker 2: Feeling you can have because for the first time in
Speaker 2: your life, you'll make a.
Speaker 1: New decision that's going to be best for you and
Speaker 1: not what somebody told you to do.
Speaker 2: And that's when all bets are off.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, Rashaan McDonald.
Speaker 1: Our theme is there's no perfect time to start following
Speaker 1: your dreams. I recognize that we all have different definitions
Speaker 1: of success. For you and maybe decide to your jam
Speaker 1: it's time to stop reading other people's success stories to
Speaker 1: start living your own.
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Speaker 1: My next guest deserves a drum rolling, but I don't
Speaker 1: have a drum roll. During the month of May, she
Speaker 1: is celebrating her seventy sixth birthday. She has authored six books,
Speaker 1: including four that are cookbooks. I have one that came
Speaker 1: out in twenty seventeen, Deserts LaBelle So for Sweets the Scene.
Speaker 1: She has recently begin sharing some of her personal rights
Speaker 1: piece on Instagram, which I share on my at Rashaan
Speaker 1: McDonald Facebook. Please walk on the Money Making Conversations Grammy
Speaker 1: Award winning artists, actress, entrepreneur and founder of Patty's Good
Speaker 1: Life Patty LaBelle, Hey.
Speaker 3: You better talk well, you know, how are you, honey?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to thank you for inspiring
Speaker 1: me to and and where it'sbin said. I've been changing
Speaker 1: lives and giving people a voice that didn't have a
Speaker 1: voice in the fields of entertainment entrepreneurship. Thank you, Patty Label, Thank.
Speaker 3: You too, honey. Thank you so much. And I know
Speaker 3: you're gonna be that man that I knew you were
Speaker 3: from back in the day. And look at you now,
Speaker 3: you're still don't what you do.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about thank you. Let's talk about this food girl.
Speaker 1: Patty's Good Life. The live features eight hours. I know
Speaker 1: the feature eight hours because your boy was shopping this morning.
Speaker 2: I went to Walmart I live in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is what I got because I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: celebrating because you know, it's like, what's a cool way
Speaker 1: to give her a gift, to show that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about it, to show of love. So what I'm gonna do?
Speaker 1: I said, perfect, you know I'm gonna go. I went
Speaker 1: and bought him this morning. This was I bought.
Speaker 2: I bought.
Speaker 1: I found the macaroni and cheese. It's made well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody what it's made with the extra ingreen.
Speaker 1: It's made with cheddar cheese, Monoye jack cheese, and real butter.
Speaker 2: Then I got the beef risky stew that's.
Speaker 1: Tended to beef brisket and hearty sauce with potatoes, corn peas,
Speaker 1: and carrots. Then I also got the Southern style greens
Speaker 1: which is seasoned kale with a touch of hot pepper.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you something. This is what I
Speaker 1: really love. That you got black eyed peas, black eyed
Speaker 1: pien with smoked turkey, sweet onions, and garlics. Right there,
Speaker 1: I'm busting that box open because I also got some
Speaker 1: of your sweet corn bread. I got some of your
Speaker 1: sweet corn bread, and then you topped it off. Because
Speaker 1: I came back home, my wife said I didn't know Patty,
Speaker 1: because you know, she.
Speaker 2: Was saying I thought she just did pies. I said, no,
Speaker 2: Paddy got it going on. And this was opened her eyes.
Speaker 1: When I pulled out the Okra stew with oprah, tomatoes
Speaker 1: and sweet corn, she said, that's it.
Speaker 2: She would shut up. Patty got Okrah I said.
Speaker 3: Patty got Yes, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then you know you purchased and you're still
Speaker 1: doing the things that you want to do. The majoity
Speaker 1: you give to people, explain that, to explain that that
Speaker 1: that that love for you have a life, Patty on
Speaker 1: my show and tell people.
Speaker 3: I guess, I guess it's because of my mom and dad.
Speaker 3: They were both loving people outgoing the neighborhood and just
Speaker 3: made people feel like they wanted to smile instead of frowning.
Speaker 3: And with me, I noticed, you know, since I've been
Speaker 3: performing for fifty six years and I've touched so many
Speaker 3: people just when I hug them right, you know, or
Speaker 3: when I smile and say something positive to them, don't
Speaker 3: cast you enoughing to be a lister of people. And
Speaker 3: it's natural for me, It's natural, you.
Speaker 2: Know, which was always cool about you, Patty.
Speaker 1: Like I was interviewing Holly Robinson Pee in December and
Speaker 1: she was telling me I'm doing it. I'm doing a
Speaker 1: Christmas show with Patty the bill and it was like
Speaker 1: her voice dropped down and she was like it was
Speaker 1: a reverence, you know, like I do. And then you know,
Speaker 1: because I was girl, you go do something with. It
Speaker 1: was like we all joined in into tlevel of happiness.
Speaker 2: Girl, you're doing.
Speaker 3: Something with Patty, you know.
Speaker 1: And I like to believe I'm a successful person, and
Speaker 1: we all know Holly Robinson Peter's a successful person.
Speaker 2: But just to.
Speaker 1: Work with you, work with you means that there's there's
Speaker 1: something special that's about to happen, because your time means
Speaker 1: something to us, your treasure.
Speaker 2: Your treasure.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. And I really feel as that you're
Speaker 3: telling the truth because, as I said, I'm seventy six
Speaker 3: and I've been working for fifty six years. And whenever
Speaker 3: I go and say that, I get this great feeling
Speaker 3: from the audience that they're pleased to be with me
Speaker 3: that night. Now I'm going to give them something special.
Speaker 3: Nothing I do is pretend.
Speaker 1: Oh no, when you start flapping those wings, now, no
Speaker 1: flapping those wings, you know, that's like a signatshire for that.
Speaker 1: You know she's about to do her things. She's about
Speaker 1: to do her thing right. Those are the blessings of
Speaker 1: being able to where.
Speaker 2: Were you at?
Speaker 1: What song do you? What song do you like? What
Speaker 1: song meant something to do? You have that type of career,
Speaker 1: that type of brand. And the reason I bring that
Speaker 1: up because to become an entrepreneur in this level, you
Speaker 1: know where you where you can go in your store
Speaker 1: and like I said, I saw your face on the
Speaker 1: box on several boxes special Yeah, and I know where
Speaker 1: it started. You know, it started with the Sweet Potato Pie.
Speaker 1: So let's walk us through that step of being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: And when you when you go in the store sometimes
Speaker 1: and see your box, your face on that box, talker,
Speaker 1: tell us about that journey of being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: Patty, Okay, when when? Because I've always coaked all my life,
Speaker 3: and so at one point I said, this is my
Speaker 3: second love, singing is first, and I should do it
Speaker 3: and try to feed people.
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Speaker 3: No, I wasn't thinking about the money at the time,
Speaker 3: but I just knew how good my food was and
Speaker 3: I wanted people to say, well, can I have a second.
Speaker 3: And so it started with the supernet pies and all
Speaker 3: the sweet items m M that my mother made up.
Speaker 3: Watch my mother and my aunt make these certain items,
Speaker 3: and I gravitated to them cooking. Because I was a
Speaker 3: very shy kid. I stayed at home. I never went
Speaker 3: out and played with skids. I learned how to cook.
Speaker 3: So that's my gift and now that I want. When
Speaker 3: my babies were my grandbabies were in the store and
Speaker 3: their mother took a video of them and they were
Speaker 3: walking down the aisle said that's graab, my patty on suplicated.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, that made me feel like my babies
Speaker 3: are seeing my face. And I was in the store
Speaker 3: once and saw it, and it made me feel special, honey,
Speaker 3: just so blessed, so blessed.
Speaker 1: And you know the real interesting thing about it is
Speaker 1: that I remember, we won't go back to journey.
Speaker 2: How blessings. And if you're good, I would say, if.
Speaker 1: You treat people writing you're good people, then good things
Speaker 1: happen to you. Because when you put your sweet potato
Speaker 1: pie in the store, that young man decided.
Speaker 2: Decided, he decided to taste.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it while he was eating it,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you so, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: how big that got.
Speaker 2: I was in LA and it's a Fox.
Speaker 1: Executive, white guy, white guy, Fox executive, and we was
Speaker 1: talking about doing a TV show and he said, Rashan,
Speaker 1: have you seen.
Speaker 2: That Patty label video? I said, what you're talking about?
Speaker 2: He said, sweet Potato Pie video, that's what you're talking about,
Speaker 2: and he pulled it out. That's how deep it had gotten.
Speaker 2: That's how viral had got.
Speaker 3: James, I know, that's wonderful. He's one of my best friends.
Speaker 3: I didn't know him before that. No, I was shocked
Speaker 3: to seek the video of myself. I said, Dag, he
Speaker 3: got it like that. He likes that pie like that.
Speaker 3: I said, oh God, so we met and in that's history.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're friends forever.
Speaker 2: But that's that. That's that.
Speaker 1: You can't buy that because once he did, the pies
Speaker 1: could not stay in the store.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. That's true. And at the beginning when they
Speaker 3: went out, they were doing really well, but when he
Speaker 3: did that thing, they weren't even more. He said, thank you,
Speaker 3: dear Jane.
Speaker 1: Hey, pat Patty pat I went and got a couple,
Speaker 1: you know, I I but you had to call around,
Speaker 1: you know, you just couldn't like just walk in wald
Speaker 1: On and get right said, it's the patty pie. There
Speaker 1: is the patty pie. Swee pretend the pie. And they
Speaker 1: knew as soon as you call they knew, no, we're not.
Speaker 1: They'll be in this Friday Friday. And so you can't
Speaker 1: buy that type of market. And he gave it to you.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is that, you know, I
Speaker 1: always tell people, you know, once you get an opportunity,
Speaker 1: make sure you can deliver.
Speaker 2: And you delivered on the.
Speaker 1: Pie, the taste of the pie, the crust of the pie,
Speaker 1: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: You didn't cheat your fans.
Speaker 1: You didn't cheat me because you know black people, you
Speaker 1: know we can get hold of it.
Speaker 2: If I come on black people.
Speaker 3: I don't want nobody to beat me up.
Speaker 2: We spent a.
Speaker 1: Hard our money. She's just messing around that because they
Speaker 1: would not have bought it and drove. And the beauty
Speaker 1: of it, it happened at the right time doing that
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving run. Oh, it was just it's just all the
Speaker 1: stars lined up that lined up for your sweet potato pie.
Speaker 1: Now did you came back with the peach cobbler? Now,
Speaker 1: tell us about how did you get into this next
Speaker 1: line that I just mentioned the macaroni and cheese, the
Speaker 1: beef brisk.
Speaker 3: Is stewidd Because I'm always making dinner. I'm always looking
Speaker 3: for a certain thing to add to the chicken or
Speaker 3: the roast ham or something. So of course my size
Speaker 3: would have been like the green though macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 3: I've been making that forever and everybody loves that. And
Speaker 3: so I said, well, let's just put out a few
Speaker 3: items and see if people. Why is this way? I
Speaker 3: don't have to cook dinner. They don't have to buy deserves.
Speaker 3: I mean they have to buy a dessert spine, but
Speaker 3: they don't have to measure your own deserves. And it's
Speaker 3: easy for women or men like you used to buy
Speaker 3: and relax and not have to cook. Right, and all
Speaker 3: the food is good.
Speaker 2: Well, it's really reasonable.
Speaker 1: That's why that's I'm telling him, because you're bore about
Speaker 1: to start promoting.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be at the level of James.
Speaker 1: Now he did some astronomical you know this product is
Speaker 1: you know, people want to just.
Speaker 2: Go home, just put it in microway, put it in
Speaker 2: the oven. It's some great food.
Speaker 1: It's rare, and I guess it's a lot of food
Speaker 1: in this package.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm opening yet, but I know weight. I
Speaker 2: know weight.
Speaker 3: I went, I know you do.
Speaker 1: I just got some just a family serving and so
Speaker 1: and so it was so funny that I was because
Speaker 1: I'm an old school I'm from Houston, Texas and the
Speaker 1: country boar. I love buttermilk. I love I love for
Speaker 1: sugar my butter milk. And so you know when I
Speaker 1: saw that corn.
Speaker 2: Bread girl, I said, I'm gonna get this. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make me some corn bread.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put that sugar there, but I'm gonna crumble
Speaker 1: up this good old Paddy good like corn bread in there,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be my dessert on Sunday. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna let you know.
Speaker 3: I'm just don't you know you're gonna make that into
Speaker 3: a dessert.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, I'm just gonna have fun because of the
Speaker 1: fact that you have a you have. You're giving me
Speaker 1: a gift because you've been doing it all Like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just shift a little gear.
Speaker 2: Because you've been an.
Speaker 5: Advocate for adoptions, diabetes, cancer, HIV, AIDS, and many other
Speaker 5: causes and nonprofit initiatives. What drives that energy, Patty, I.
Speaker 3: Was born with this. I'm I'm a total giver and
Speaker 3: it don't cost me nothing to give what God has
Speaker 3: given me. So I give it and with a smile
Speaker 3: on my face and wait to be asked to do
Speaker 3: some more stuff because I'm that girl. You know, there's
Speaker 3: nothing that I can do for people. I can it
Speaker 3: all we.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate that. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Okay.
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