In episode 67 of The Kitchen Table, Ken Baden interviews Cory McGhee, a young entrepreneur, also known as Flawless Breezy, as he shares his journey of starting a clothing brand, owning a photography and recording studio, and balancing a full-time job. They dive into the challenges and successes of running multiple businesses, the importance of networking, and the impact of community work.
Tune in to learn more about Cory's creative journey and business endeavors!
TIMESTAMPS
[00:03:08] Entrepreneurial Journey from Modeling to Clothing.
[00:06:16] Community Work and Giving Back.
[00:13:34] Good Vibes Only Clothing Brand.
[00:16:46] Dressing to Feel Nice.
[00:21:34] Local Recording Artists.
[00:22:27] Full-time Management and Helping People.
[00:26:17] Future Plans and Aspirations.
[00:30:38] Entrepreneurial Ventures of the Mayor.
[00:35:21] Dealing with Online Haters.
[00:38:15] Entrepreneurial Goals and Motivation.
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Welcome to the Kitchen Table, a podcast about where business is done. So pull up a chair and join your host, Ken Baden.
All right, welcome back to another episode of the Kitchen Table Podcast. I'm Ken Baden, and I am joined, actually, this is a third or fourth time we've had somebody local from the Maryland area, a young entrepreneur. And what's the name of the clothing brand? GVO. Actually, I'll let you introduce yourself and all your stuff, because you've got way too many things. I was going to say, but now he found out he did like five things.
Yeah, my name is Corey McGee. I go by Flawless Breezy on everything. I'm an artist. I own a photography studio, recording studio, clothing brand, which I'm wearing now.
It's called GVO good vibes only and that's what I knew you from so a friend of mine will is Always actually Sean I let me correct myself Sean is always I don't know, way too swagged out in the gym. You know what I mean? Like, he's always, I mean, Sean is a- He got the shoes, the mentality. Yeah, man. Which, I don't mean that in any way disrespectfully. I love Sean to death, but I always give him a hard time. I'm like, bro, you are way too put together. Every time you come in here, man, you're just like, what? I guess that's the gym these days, man, right? I guess.
But he, what I can say, he got that work ethic for it because a lot of people just want to look nice in there and don't do nothing in the gym.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, work with him. You can't even walk out your legs hurting.
Yeah, he he he has the build to back it up. But to that point, I approached him and I complimented on one of his outfits. I guess it was yours. Yeah. So he said you have a local spot here, an actual like a brick and mortar. Do you have like an actual building?
Yeah, in Annapolis.
109 Gibraltar Avenue. What'd you say it again? 109 Gibraltar Avenue.
And can people just go in Monday through Friday?
Yeah, I'm open every day.
Really? Yeah. And you're working full time still as a?
Yeah, I'm a manager of stale processing at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
You're open every day with a brick and mortar. I gotta hear, so let's back all this the way up. So typically how we start the show, And I'm really intrigued, man, because I think we've had Andy on, Ryan on, the roof strategist. We've had folks with a couple million followers. And then we've had the mayor of Annapolis on. and my favorite have been guys that are like, just come up and like, I loved hearing from my guy out in West Virginia who just got started, you know, knew he wanted to cut grass at like nine years old and has this great story of being an entrepreneur. How did you start? Cause you got a bunch of things, so we'll knock them off one at a time. Like how did you get into, you've got that entrepreneur spirit for sure, right? Cause you're in a few things. Yeah. Where did that come from? How did that get started? Take us through that story. What does that look like?
So I started off, I started off modeling actually. So I did a little bit of modeling, but I've always been into clothing. So the first thing, like I always, I'm like, okay, I've noticed I'm spending way too much money on clothes, buying other people's clothes when I could just, okay, create my own. I can create my own clothes while I keep buying everybody else's clothes and I can create my own. I started out of my trunk, and then from there, it grew so much, I turned my basement into a storage unit, basically. And then, at the same time I started the clothing line, I started doing music. So then the music started doing well. And then, it's like, okay. I think I need a store now, because I'm running out of space. I got a storage unit, my whole basement is turned into my store, so I'm like, I need a store now. After it grew there, then I opened the store, but... And you've got a photography studio that that's where that is? Yeah, the photography, it's a three-in-one. The front area is the whole store, then my studio is a 20x20. Recording booth is like a 10x12.
You've got a recording booth in that building?
Yeah, so like a whole band can fit in my studio. Like a six-piece band. And then I have a photography studio also in there.
So...
How long did it take you to put all that together?
With the city of Annapolis? It's hell. With permits. Permitting process. So good thing I'm like, I do a lot of community work, like my nonprofit. You got to get Gavin, man. You got to get, we got to get you. That's my, I have Gavin's number. Okay. That's my guys too, but like I'm, I'm connected. Like I, my process probably was a little faster than some people. Okay.
It still was a long still was a long process.
So when I got my building, of course my spot They actually helped me find this spot.
They found a spot for me to city that you've got Gavin's number See we didn't talk to him because I got it I had him on the I had him on the podcast and all of my guests know I have a I have a background I don't know why I even stutter saying that man. I've got a brain knows I've got a back and I talk about every episode It's a big part of my brand but I have a Pardon packet that I found that one of my old attorneys put together for me, but a governor can only pardon you Yeah, he's not the governor. However He's the mayor and he's good friends with and really supports the new governor And my wife thought it was important that we wait for the new governor to get in because he's a little more compassionate to those situations given, at least she thought he was. And I mean, full disclosure, man, I feel like I got a good case for it. I mean, if anybody's turned things around. You know, hell, last year we donated, what, 10 grand to the Just for Kids charity, a roof to a veteran in need, you know, employing people. I don't know why I'm going on this long run out.
No, it is, trust me, we all got backgrounds, and we all have been through the same thing, so it's understandable. As you grow, you do better. And like you say, you transform. Like me, I'm so cool with them because I do so much community work. And I have my event every August. Tell me what you do. I give over 200 school uniforms away every year in August to all the kids right before school. Do you brand? No, I just go buy them from whoever's selling them. So I usually partner with them. The city usually help me get the location so I might not have to pay to rent the Pitmoyer Center or something like that. But I usually partner with them and I got friends that I usually meet. So we do events like Everybody have like a specific event that they do. Like my friend Mo with Superior Future, he does Christmas every year. He might give away all bicycles and toys. And we got like Aaron and stuff. They all got like different kid events and stuff like that too. You or Aaron? No, it's a girl named Aaron. Her non-profit called Grand Mayor's Touch.
Wow. And do you have a specific non-profit or you just give? See, I looked into doing one. That's why I already know, like, the real 501C3.
It's a process.
See, all of my friends, theirs are legit. Mine, there's no Deer Beats Club. But I definitely haven't made it official. It's not a real 501C3.
Yeah, I haven't made it official. 3C or C3 or whatever.
70% done, but like I don't I don't be trying to do all that. I'd be sending my assistant to do that I hear you brother.
Trust me. We actually told my CPA a year ago like oh I want to do because I wanted to I wanted to name it my grandmother like the Betty Walker because we were gonna give these roofs away one a year to a client need, not just like a veteran, but just a client need, somebody that we knew, like somebody that wanted a roof, that couldn't afford it, that was, you know, one of our reps kind of put their name in a hat and was like, man, this lady was super cool. She just couldn't afford it. But man, she had kids, whatever, whatever the situation was. And that's what we really wanted to do. I love giving to the veterans, but I like the idea of like really personalizing it. And we did give one away, but we couldn't write it off the way, you know, you would have a true nonprofit. Not that that's why you do it. I'm just saying it certainly helps, but. To be a real true one, my CPA was like, look man, that's way too much work right now. Why don't you, why don't we get things easy and smooth and then we can circle back to that in a year or so.
I know a lot of people, they recommend like, you can, cause you can actually like hire a lawyer or somebody to do all that for you. Who wants to spend all that money? You already got to pay to make it official. Then you want to pay somebody to do it for you. And it's so much. You need a treasurer. You need a whole board. So you got to find out people you actually trust even beyond the board and all this type of stuff. It ain't many people you can trust. I was just getting ready to say it.
So and with that type of anything there's not a whole lot of people like you said, how are you? I'm 29 29 very wise for your 29 years, man. So all right, so You know take us back to you you start with modeling. Yeah, then you think I like the clothes part of this. But instead of repping someone else's gear, I'm just going to start making my own. Start making your own. I mean, like, do you literally, like, I mean, what goes into the design factor? Because it seems like I'm looking at, like, your outfit right now, and it's like, but I can't even comprehend, like, what goes into. The process? Yeah, like, even making those. I mean, are you, like, having to, like, are you down there, like. Oh, I'm not stitching.
Right, right. No, I have a manufacturer that.
OK.
So everything made from scratch, boy, I have a manufacturer.
OK. So you find, and that's probably what most people do, or is it?
Most people, it depends how big their brand is.
Yeah.
Ken Baden
So most people, like locally, they're not doing it. Right. Because it's, like I say, with vendors and stuff like that, it's minimum order quantity. So I might have to order 100 pieces of this specific color, no other colors. So a hundred each of each specific color because they have minimum order quantities. So it all depends. So most people you might can buy blanks locally and then go to like a store. There's shops here that do like embroidery and all that type of stuff. It's just way more expensive to do it locally.
Cory McGhee
Right. Yeah. I mean, I would imagine. So I've got a tailor and we've talked about before. Mean I've you remind me and me and now like I'm always like I want to do a brand I want to do but I got to really watch that because I'll go a little I'll go, you know, they call it you might need you.
Ken Baden
That's it, bro That's how I am if I if I'm gonna do it, I do it big. Yeah.
Cory McGhee
Well, that's the problem I'm gonna do it big I get right now with PCR right like we have a lot of people counting on us here and and I'm still very involved and I've pulled back and pulled back and gotten back in and as of recent I've had to get back back involved a little bit more especially in the sales side which is good it's a good thing but you know it's it's just it's command so much of my time and that the other businesses I've just kind of had to put on hold. I mean, we still do this, but you know, it's more after hours or it's at lunch. You know, we're not going to interrupt a day if at all possible to make sure we don't do this.
Ken Baden
And that's, that's how, like, kind of how I am right now. Because the majority of stuff I do all by myself is like, it's hell. So it's like, I just started reading this book two days ago and it said, like, most people are so focused on the goal instead of looking at, like, the Basically the process like in so it's like every the book if you don't mind me atomic Atomic habits. Yeah, so I just gifted me that book.
Cory McGhee
So atomic habits is a good one.
Yeah, so I've been reading it and I'm like Well, maybe I'll have been thinking like this versus like cuz I'll be trying to make big steps big jumps versus you could take little steps that can get you to the same, you know, same result.
Oh, yeah. Well, no one wants to do that
Everybody just want to get to the top first, but I try to teach people like like I didn't even get there that fast like it took me time shoot it took me I didn't open my store until What I'm only going to go for two years. Mm-hmm
And has that been going good or has that been steady, slow, up and downs?
Up and down. It all depends. If I bring in new clothing, it does well. But my clothing basically pay the bills. Photography studio does well. Recording studio, it's hit or miss. When I was open, well, I had the space for two years. Matter of fact, I've been open for one year. I had the space for two years. permitting and all that stuff. And I built everything from scratch. It was an empty building, so we had to do the walls, the floors, everything. All new equipment, all branding, everything.
Wow. Yeah. And that was not cheap? Hell no.
Not at all. And I was like, so basically like my hands were, I'm like, hands tied behind my back because I bought, I helped my mom buy her house at the same time as I opened the store, so. So right now, I'm fighting back right now.
Right, now you're fighting to get the return on that investment.
Yes, 100%, trying to anyway.
Well, we're going to make sure that this gets out there as much as possible. Tell us about the clothing brand. Tell us about, you know, what is it if you were pitching your store, if you're pitching any of these services?
Yeah, so for the clothing, it's more so Of course, the name of it is Good Vibes Only, so it's all geared to anything positive. Anything that I do, I want to incorporate kids into it, because I have kids. I base most things that I do off of kids. Anything that I do non-profit-wise, or anything that I'm teaching as far as in the studio, it's because I know there's a lot of things that I didn't get a chance to experience when I was a kid. So if I can create this environment for all these other kids to come to, So they can experience stuff that I'm experiencing now and they can experience when they're young too. So like I come from, like I say, I'm from the hoods that they just went on these hood tours too. So I ain't have nothing. So I'm started from nothing. I'm probably be the first one in my family to do something like this, so.
And that's GVO, Good Vibes Only? Yeah.
Is there a website? Yeah, gvosound.com.
And GVOsound.com is the same place to go to for the clothing. You can get everything, yep. So GVO is a brand that is all-encompassing. It's music, it's photography, and it's clothing. Clothing, yeah.
But the clothing, as you said, is kind of what's more... The clothing built the building.
Yeah. And that's the same stuff I saw Sean wearing. Yeah. And you got a lot of gym gear?
Yeah. It's more, like most of the stuff I like, You know, I wanna get in, it's crazy, I wanna get into that stuff.
Or this, okay.
Cause I like to dress nice, that's what I do. I just came from work, that's why I put on my jumpsuits, but this is what sells. Yeah. Cause it's not about, like I always say this, it's not about the audience, it's about your audience. So my audience really likes sweatsuits and short sets and I have like dry fit shorts and dry fit tees and stuff like that too, but I wanna go into that lane soon. But I gotta build up the audience for that type of stuff. This lane?
Yes, 100%. And I can introduce you to our tailor, which you probably already know all that stuff. He does have folks where he buys cloths and stuff. I have no doubt you'd do great. Honestly, I think it's a unique... I have a few friends that have their own tailor now. It's not wacky. the demographics that you're looking for, I would think, are gonna be your entrepreneurs, your mid-20s to 40s. Maybe even 50s, man, because now 40s are weird now. You got your mid-40s. The 40s dressing like this. I know. And you got the mid-40s looking like Andy and Ryan and all these dudes that are like, that's the pinnacle of their success. Yeah. But they don't, I don't know. They don't dress like, it's just like, they, they, they like, they're making enough money.
They're like, man, I ain't gonna dress like that.
I like looking nice. So it's really not about like, they're like, who would want to do? I'm like, well, I, I like dressing like this. You know what I mean? Like I've been homeless brothers. So like, yeah, I like dressing like this. I like putting cufflinks on. I like wearing a nice one. I like dressing and feeling nice. There's something to be said about like, who was it I was listening to the other day and it was about, not battling depression, but it was like just committing to being a better version of yourself. And one of the things he was saying, it was like, look, we can commit to changing now and like getting up, get up early, go out and enjoy life and go out and dress up, even though you got nowhere to go, dress up, get up. It was Huberman, I think, Andrew Huberman. He was like, you know, get up, shower, put yourself together, try, do your hair, dress up, even though you're not going anywhere, like really, and see how you feel, you know what I mean? By just really taking care of yourself. And I couldn't agree more, man. And so I think this would be a great look for you, but I totally get what you're saying. You're appealing to your audience, your demographic, which is smart. So you have a lot of, you do have, short answer is, you do have a lot of workout gear? Yeah. Yeah. That's what Sean's always wearing. Yeah. And I'm talking about a friend of mine, Sean, which is how we got hooked up, but Sean has some really cool gym gear. So if you are in the Annapolis or the Maryland area and you want to inquire about the gym gear I'm talking about, check out Good Vibes Only or GBO Sound, or come in the store, check it out, check out his photography studio, his music studio. So what's up with the music, man? You said you do music?
Yeah, I do music. What kind of music? All types. What's your main genre? I mean... Like alternative, like pop, rap, a little bit of everything. I could do it. I could do it.
Alternative pop and rap are three very different categories to me.
No, I say more so alternative because it's like I listen to all pop music, but I rap. So like I kind of combine them.
Is there somebody you can compare to? No. Myself, I have to say. I don't know.
I love that. I mean, I would let you hear, you know, if you want to hear something.
Yeah, for sure, man. I mean, I used to, not many folks know this about me, but there was a time where I sang in a country band, but that's not what I wanted to do. It was just like, I sang for a friend of mine that was a friend of a friend that was interning at a studio in Waldorf. And he had some stuff he wrote. It was good stuff, really. But he was like, oh, I need somebody to sing on it, which he sang on it. Then he got me to sing on it, but whatever. Get back into it.
I enjoy it, man, but it's not.
Yeah, I enjoy it.
For me, it's just more of a pastime thing, man. We did it and did the shows and stuff. And I sang with this guy that was popular here in Baltimore called Ronnie Dove. I love you Ronnie if you're still I say if he's still alive because he was older at the time but knowing him and he might still be around and he was still singing it was like early 80s bro and he was like early 80s not I wasn't alive in the early 80s but like he was like older right like he was singing with Elvis oh Johnny Cash bro like and he apparently had a couple top five whatever's but came back to good old Maryland and then just did the I don't know, Moose Lodge Circuit for the rest of his life. And like, that was his deal, man. And there should be a movie about that guy, man. But I sang with him for a little bit. I worked at a state farm. And he heard my song that I recorded because my state farm agent, his son and I were friends. He gave one of the CDs. Look at the CD. It's making CD time. And he let Ronnie hear it. Ronnie was like, I'm going to make you a star, honey. He called everybody honey. And obviously, I didn't because I
That's because you quit.
Yeah.
You probably would have made it though. Yeah.
You never know. Yeah. Oh, I quit, but I mean, I quit on a lot of things. I quit on life in general. I just went nose dive, knee deep into drugs and alcohol. So, I mean, that's what happened.
But you turned it around. I saw that, man. 100%, man.
It makes for an interesting story, nonetheless. But that's what I'm talking about. I have a healthy appreciation for music. And I know... It get me through the day.
Music, like even like everybody is pushing me to make music again. I haven't dropped music in three years, but I'm more so focused on the business side of it. But then it's like, OK, you're you're paying all this money on your your rent monthly and you're not even utilizing your space. I'm like, That's what I built it, but that's what I built it for, for me, because I fly to Miami, these places to go record. Back then, I'm spending so much money to record, so it's like, OK, why not open your own so you can record for free? You don't, or not necessarily, well, it pays for itself.
Right, you get somebody to record in there, and you're paying for your recording for free. Yes. Do you get any other good local recording artists in there?
Yeah, a couple of local. I've had some, a couple of bigger people in there. I've had, I get booked a lot for podcasts. Who else? Rodney Byrne, he came record his podcast there. Who else? A couple of other people. Jalen and The Senator. Yeah, Jalen and The Senator record there. My man Cold TV, he always book it out for that. A lot of people I don't know. I get a lot of voiceover work too. this one like this one teacher and like this a lot of these students they did they do like an animation thing like it's just all voiceover they make the song sing about positive stuff and then they i don't know who like creates the actual cartoon it's dope though so that's cool shit man um it's very interesting and you still do full-time management still i have no choice Not that I want to but no I'm at my job. I'm good at my job. So like I Every time I want to leave but I enjoy helping people so it's like sometimes I get caught up in just being they just to help other people because if I leave I'm in my mind place don't go to shits so hmm, but And what was it?
I mean, I know you it's like like nursing is what I have in my head, but it's not what is it?
I do still processing. So I don't so anything that I Has to do with cert like the surgery so the supplies the end sterile processing.
Yeah in my head I was thinking like nursing or something, but yeah, okay, so anything they got to do with this.
Yeah clean and sterile stuff for the surgery Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I appreciate that you care about that.
Yeah, I mean, I'm Yes, we're
No, I mean, like, look, man, if you've ever had a surgery or something, man, like, you're gonna wanna make sure that the person who's in charge of sterilizing your stuff gives a shit.
Yeah, so I like, I go on mission trips doing this for free, too. Like, we do surgeries in, we did Philippines, Guatemala, a little bit of everything.
How do you, I just, the stores open, do you have somebody working at the store during the day?
Sometimes. It all depends. Like most days, I know the hours that people do come to shop. Majority during the day, everybody's work hours. So some days, like my engineers be there. So my engineers know how to run the register. So if my engineers is in the back in the recording studio, there's doorbell access. So ring the doorbell, somebody lets you in and you can shop. But I go there every day after work at 3.30 anyway, so. Wow.
Come by and see this young man's store, man. I mean, we need to come in there and do a little episode or something from the actual store, if you'd be inclined. Yeah, that's dope. Yeah, I'm with it. Come in there and do that. We just need to support, you know, local businesses, man. The small local businesses are the backbone of this fucking economy, dude. 100%. You know what I mean? Like they are, they're the backbone, they used to be. Small businesses are truly the backbone of the American economy, in my opinion. And what I do, a lot of people pop up and, you know, they're roofers tomorrow, right? Like, because they learned how to sell it or they learned how to mess someone's roof up. It's disappointing, but it's the truth. And that's not what we do. We work very hard to, you know, that's why we're in multiple states and we do things the right way, but we know what we're up against. We're up against people that don't. What you do is admirable, man, because it's a lot, it's more, you know, art driven and it takes a lot of, I don't know what else to say. You know what I mean? He does. You know what I mean? Like, hey, you know, I want to go do this. I'm going to go do this. And it's either going to work or it's not. But the fact that you've been fighting to do it, to get off every day and get to your shot, man, that's, I love that stuff, man. I would love to see that take off. So much so, I think, like I said, we need to go do an episode there. And it's dope shit, man. It really is. I mean, I've seen Sean in his gear, man. I really like it. You could pull this off too, I really do. And you strike me as the kind of young man that could pull off just about anything you put your mind to.
That's my goal. If I see something I want, I'm going to do it. I'm not a person that says, oh, I'm going to try this and I'm going to actually do it.
What's your future look like? What's the next two years? What's your two, three year plan?
Two, three year plan?
Right now, I'm focusing on marketing for the actual studio.
The studio, the recording studio? The recording studio.
Not the clothing? Not the clothing. The clothing sells itself. So I'm more so trying to focus on the marketing of the studio. Get the studio booked out as much as possible. My goal is to at least have 56 hours a week booked out. And then, honestly, I want to build one from the ground up. Not to say that's in two, three years, but in the next 10 years, man, maybe. I know I want to get a building, because right now, I'm attached. You want to build a building from the ground up? No, just not attached to anybody, like buy a house and convert it or something like that. But not attached to anybody.
You want to own a building that you're recording in. Yes, like right now, I'm attached. I'm attached to two people. Yeah, I hear you, brother. We're trying to buy our own as well.
That's our next goal.
Yeah, so I'm attached to two people on both ends. you know, be away from everybody.
So it's more about the privacy or is it more about owning the building that you're in?
Both. And it's more so being connected to people and with music. Yeah. you might get complaints on their side or complaints on their side. Which I got pretty good neighbors, so I don't really deal with that, but if somebody wants to record early, which most rappers don't record early. If you want something like the older bands and stuff want to record early, but we can't really like record super early, excuse me, because y'all too loud and that, but everybody knows this is what my business is. So it's like, if everybody was cool from the beginning, they know what my business is, it shouldn't be It shouldn't be no problem. But I mean, I understand because you have clients too that's coming to your spaces, but... Yeah, that's tough, man.
So that makes sense. You want to make sure that you've got a space where you can do your music and you don't have to worry about none of that.
Yeah, it's 100%. Right now, I'm in a good area, though. Like, where I'm at is a good area right off of West Street. We're next to all the food. Two minutes from the mall. Safe. I mean... Yeah. It's a great area, but... Yeah.
Somebody on each side. Yep. Annapolis is a strange place, man, that like I love Annapolis. I'm so happy to live here. They're building it up so much like everybody me. But I used to come up here and I had a very I told the mayor this. I know he was like. Cause I used to come up here and come up to Annapolis for very different reasons and only those reasons. So like, I didn't know other than like those places like Bay Ridge, Robinwood, Newtown. Those are the places, the only places I knew. And they're like, what do you come up here for?
I'm like, uh, it was closer than Baltimore. It saved me a long drive.
These are the only areas you know of in Napa?
You haven't been downtown? There was one spot downtown too, but that's the weirdest place. There's one spot downtown around the Shell area and it's a little teeny, it's a little teeny project spot, but it's so small. But it's downtown and it's like behind everything. I don't know, it's like they tucked the projects away in this one little, it's so weird. And it's just like, I didn't even know it exists, but that one spot, but anyhow, that's where I had been downtown too. It's just all the places you're probably not supposed to be.
All the places you shouldn't be at.
Like, what are you doing there? But again, that was my past. And I know when I was telling the mayor that and he was like,
All right. All right. You want it. All right. Then you want to be telling me that?
I mean, yeah, it's like it was, uh, I didn't give him a backstory. He didn't tell. Yeah. He didn't tell him anything about what I used to be like, but, oh, you ain't give him no backstory at all.
He just came in.
He got, he didn't know any about it, anything about it until once we were already on air. And he was like, all right.
But he was cool about it. No, he, he, he pretty cool guy.
He was, uh, I mean, he could, he was a very good sport and he was like, and I mean, even then he was like, What am I doing here again? You know what I mean? Like, it was funny. I mean, honestly, I'm like, I don't know, brother. I don't know how you got here, but. But you're here now and we're here. Right. We're rolling with it. But, you know, frankly, I was like, no, this makes sense because, you know, what I know of him outside of the fact that he's a mayor, he's an entrepreneur.
And he owns restaurants down there.
And he was like, well, yeah. And that's where we started too. So I'm like, don't downplay that. But he has to kind of. He has to, because the mayor, he got it. He's not supposed to have it. Well, and he doesn't. He does everything above board. But he's like, well, my partners manage all this stuff now and everything. Because I could see that. Because it's like, you could give yourself all the permits. You give yourself all the whatever. You know what I mean?
So I'm like, I get it. And don't have to go through no processes.
Get it or whatever. It's probably a bunch of shit.
You know, Annapolis is hell It's a lot of bro to put us put a sign up right there They charging you to put a sign there to put a sign on front your business to bro Literally everything in Annapolis you get charged for mm-hmm 100% and then you got a thing my friend It's Alderman. He works. He works directly with the mayor. So I'd be complaining to him me like I Well, we do. We do need this stuff. We need the money to pay for the roads and stuff. I'm like, well, why my road is the worst road out here.
Right. Right. Yeah, I hear you.
It's crazy.
Yeah, it is. Well, you know, I don't know, Mayor bucks, he's got a lot of really cool plans. I hope he needs to see them actualize before he rolls. But I do love Annapolis. And I love getting a chance to sit down and meet and hear the stories of young entrepreneurs like yourself. Where can we find you? I know you mentioned already in the beginning, but can you shout out again? Where can people find you watch more of your content and then more about the business?
You can find me on literally everything. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google. Flawless Breezy 2 Wise and business is GVO Sound Studios. On Instagram is gvo.sound.
And check out... That was the music?
The music on YouTube, yeah.
Flawless Breezy for literally everything. Flawless Breezy. I gotta check it out. And then the GVO music? Yeah, GVO Sound Studios, yep. So that's covered everything?
Yeah. I'm interested in checking out the music, man. I'll let you know what we think. I guess you can't really tell if it's terrible. You know what I mean? Can't be like, hey, well, I listened to it and I hated it.
No, tell me if it's horrible.
No, I'm sure it's not, man.
I'm going to check it out. But do check out his store. Do check out his music. Let them know what you think.
Yeah, let me know. Because if your stuff suck, I'm probably going to tell you. But sometimes, these days, I keep things to myself. Some things are better, you know, left unsaid, unless it needs to be said.
Yeah, and trust me, I get it, man. We're still putting out content left and right and left and right and left and right, but I'm just getting to the point where every once in a while there's troll-like comments. I'm just like, honestly, man, you're just moving the algorithm, but I don't even know why I'm taking the time to respond because most of my mentors and coaches are two, three million folks. I'm like, dude, I call them algorithm movers.
Yeah, for some reason, I like the negative comments, too. I like them because it brings in You gotta think, for every negative comment, I know you sharing it also. So it's just bringing in more people. I mean, it's publicity for us. I mean, good promotion. Whether you think it's good or bad, the next person might think it was good. Like, maybe you were tripping. This is good. Sure, I hear you.
Yeah, I mean, I wish I could say that I was that way about it, because I'm not. But I'm trying.
I'm working on it. I guess it all depends what they're saying, also. Because some things will make me respond, and then I look at myself like, But then again, you were there and I'm like, why am I going to respond?
That's the point, man, is if I bet if you took a second, my problem is I don't usually take a second. Go off. I like it though. Yeah, just go off. Just go off. I like it. And I'm like, I should probably not do this. And I'm like, fuck it. Do it. I'll do it anyways.
No. You got it. Like with me, it all depends. It depends. If they say, especially if they say something so stupid, I got to respond because it's like, bro, you don't even make sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you going off on everybody anyway, so fuck it. We going off.
Yeah. There's a few times where I'm like when my wife's in turn and she's like you really I'm like It is what it is Yeah, when you're gonna do but you know, we'll keep making content and we're gonna get there one day one way or another so like if you Haters just move the needle. Mm-hmm and We're not gonna stop and I'm just gonna keep making content. So either take it in and enjoy it or move the needle for us anyhow. But in truth, the real reason I don't think give a shit is that hopefully you're listening to this podcast. Well, you're you enjoy the podcast, right? Like, I'm enjoy the content, you appreciate the fact that we try to bring real, actionable strategies or entrepreneurs or people like yourself, like, hey, you know, interesting stories and opportunities and Again, actionable stuff from real entrepreneurs that have been there, done that, man. We got some influencers that come in here, but they all are offering free, open, and available, like, hey, here's what I went through, here's what I did, here's how I did it. That's how I've learned. I'm starting to write a book. I'm gonna really write it, but. You should, you have the story for it. I am, we'll see. Ironically, it's not about that, but my story will be in it, but then I'm gonna write the book on the story. But before that, I got a book before that. It's all good. I got a bunch of things. Told you, I got all kinds of things.
But... It's the best way to be, have a lot of things loaded.
But it's about, I believe that relationships and networking make the world go round. So it's heavily to do with that. And I mean, if you actualize that, It's who you know. You know how they say it's not what you know, it's who you know. Look at you, man. You were friends with the mayor, put in there with the mayor. You're probably, if I had to guess, one of the reasons why we got hooked up with the mayor. Maybe? I don't know.
Jalen.
Not Jalen.
Jalen connected, too.
Jalen. Bottom line is, you know, that's why he came on the show. Now it's like, all right, cool. Well, man, that'd be great if I could talk to him about this. And again, man, I'm not asking for a favor, but it would be wonderful if he would be so inclined as to put a little word into the old governor. You know, you take a little peep at the packet. Yeah, take a peep at the packet, man. See what we can do about this pardon. Anyhow, man, that's my point is if you do not work on networking and take opportunities to meet new people and expand your circles and your networks, you won't get those opportunities, right?
And I may not, you know, that may not. That's more so my thing. Like recently, like this year, I probably, this is probably my fourth podcast. So a lot of people have been inviting me places at first. Some places I just wouldn't go. And obviously I'd be too busy to do it. I got four kids too. So I got kids, I got the business, I work. So it's like, it's hard for me to get out to a lot of these places. And I also travel a lot. So now I'm trying to, like right now I'm in a period where I'm trying to relax and then really get back trying to get my system back together figure out how to fix the system and then I mean, of course, I'll get to the goal once I get there, but My goal, but my goal is to stop working a nine-to-five But I would I would still continue to do it for free like Mission Network. Mm-hmm.
So that's my goal That's a beautiful thing brother man that would ultimately be like doing it just because you care. Yeah, I It's beautiful man. I love it. I love your story. I love you know if you want to reach out reach out to him I'm sure he'd be more than happy if you're somebody who wants to get into the music or the photography or clothing space and entrepreneur ism, then reach out. I'm sure he'd be happy to answer some questions. The fact that you're doing all three is impressive, man. It really is. I flat out only knew that you were doing the clothing for sure, because I had seen it. But I'm really impressed about all of it, man. Keep going. I'm really looking forward to see where this goes. And I'm looking forward to doing an episode in your store. Yeah, for sure. We'll make sure we come out there and do that. All right, my brother. Well, thank you so much for stopping by. Thank you for having me. You're very welcome.
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