Let's Talk with Leaha & Rhonda November 18, 2023

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Leaha Crawford and Rhonda Nolen are business consultants that discuss the current struggles of small business owners and entrepreneurs. Each episode covers steps necessary for smaller businesses and business owners to grow and prosper.

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Hi, my name is Leah Crawford.

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And I'm Rhonda Nolan.

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And you're listening to the let's talk with Leah and Rhonda show for

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all the beautiful entrepreneurs out there. This is for you. Good morning. Las Vegas. Leah. How are you doing on this beautiful Saturday morning?

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Hey, you know I love this type of weather. It's not it's not too hot. It's not too cold. Yeah, I can wear jacket if I want

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to. Yeah, how about the boots?

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I can wear the boots if I want to beautiful thing that you know, and I can still wear my Birkenstocks everything is that type of weather? Because in a minute I'm I had to put my Birkenstocks up you know, and but no, it's it's nice. And everybody's getting ready for Thanksgiving. Somebody asked me if I was cooking. You will know what you want. Oh, sorry. But I am so I'm gonna do really Am I Am. I Am. I Am. I Am. I'm gonna do Turkey turkey wings. Nice. Some macaroni and cheese. Yep, some greens. There's been no me and I see here. So we have something to nibble on while I build my itinerary for that day because we do want a whole bunch of drop bys. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I got to go get my Tupperware at the same time because I'm gonna have a hole for refrigerator full of them clean the refrigerator. I have a whole refrigerator full of food.

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Are you gonna grill or smoke your turkey wings on the grill? Well, I'm

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gonna do it the old fashioned way. I'm going to actually I'm going to actually bake them. Okay, okay,

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are you gonna do on the other the traditional way? I'm going

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to do it the traditional way. Okay. Okay, so it's going to be very very interesting. Very interesting how this turns out but I know it's gonna be because I can't

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I can't use don't love to cook.

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Right? If you want to know what though I'm one of those. I like to pretty kitchen. I had a pretty hitch you

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will be in there cooking because it motivates you a beautiful kitchen motivation.

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You want to know what a beautiful environment Yes, I think motivates you. And it doesn't have to be expensive, right? Just a clean, well kept environment and I think it brings about a different a different energy. Yeah, I agree with you on now. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. How about you? What are you doing?

Speaker 3 2:44
Well, you know, I manage the cooking my mother does. Yeah, well, you know what I make? I make the macaroni and cheese. Oh, she lets you do Yeah, yeah, make the macaroni and cheese. She barely lets me make that. She doesn't really want anybody to make anything. She wants to make everything but but she but she doesn't have a simple Thanksgiving dinner. Like I've been asking him for the last couple of years. Can we just have the simple dinner with you know, just the basic Turkey, the potatoes, the mac and cheese, the greens? And she's like, No, she has to make all these vegetables and you know, grilled asparagus and grilled zucchini and all of these desserts and cobblers and stuff so yes, she goes all out. This is her thing. Christina. She loves to entertain. So you know. Oh,

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wow. So then what are you going? So she don't let y'all cook. No, no. Let you cook. How many people did she invite over?

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This? Probably about 30 people in the building? 30 people? Yeah. 30 people in the building? Wow. Yeah.

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So you guys still have the big family? Yes, we do. Family and friends, family and friends. Okay. So when you leave, I mean, so you gotta go home. Yeah. So

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after, you know, we the 100 black men of Las Vegas on Wednesday will be passing out food to the community. So as soon as we complete our community service, then I will be on a plane and on my way back to Detroit

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on your way. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. All right. So yeah, and we can we can talk about that and put that out there but talking about cooking y'all. So this weekend in the city of Las Vegas. Men are going to be cooking I like it. Men are going to be cooking and we have the pleasure of having the founder of that org in the bill den. Welcome to our show, sir.

Speaker 4 4:24
Welcome welcome. Hello, hello. Well, hello Leah and Rhonda how's everybody what's up let's let's talk family Let's talk.

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LJ LJ I had to I've known about you for years because I've known about Master mindset. Okay, but in and around the community. You guys do some great work. But men who cook because that's something that's something different

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right man cooking. Yeah, man, man cook and my mentor told me that the women serve us all the time. And we're not very highlighted. We're not very vocal. We're not very, you know, dramatic when it comes to us serving because it's kind of it's emanate especially when you're doing it for women when we know that child experts at it but every man has is a master at something right? Whether it be that grill whether it be that macaroni and cheese that chili, and this event is a fundraiser for mastermind says this is opportunity for men who don't necessarily have to be formal chefs, which you know that one man that you go to for that peach cobbler, whatever it is. Right? Right. So this this event is the opportunity for those individuals to be able to come out put that dish on display for the entire community, while raising funds for for great for great organization. You

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want to know what's so funny, though, because when men get in the kitchen and get the cook and they get real territorial. Oh, yeah, they get real big. You can talk to them.

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This is our fourth year. This is our fourth year we wanted it to be a fun fundraiser for the community. And every year I have to play referee and separate two or three people who's arguing over who make the best. And it'd be crazy dishes. It'd be crazy dishes. Who makes the best banana pudding cheesecake. It's like I've never even heard of banana cheesecake. And I got two people in a room that's arguing with each other and wants to challenge each other and who wants the best. Who makes the best so I can see this. You're getting real competitive. We have firefighters involved this year. They're doing their southern fried chicken and night chili waffles with chili syrup. They already getting fancy with it. Stop

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stops.

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I say what I said I was

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with chili. No, no, no, no, no, no.

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It's going to be chicken and waffles with a chili syrup. What? Chili? Sir, go with it. Again, these are firefighters. And I mean, you see him in the grocery store all the time. You know, it no doubt in my mind that they know how to move around the kitchen. We all know that they're competitive. And we all know they think they better than everybody. Right? So I'm just saying that as a 13 year law enforcement officer, I have to work with them all the time. Here they mouth. What are they good people, they're good people. They got a lot of swag about them. And I can appreciate that competition. Competition man for the event is good for the community. We know that the chefs are coming with it. And we know that again, although the firefighters may not be former chefs right before most chefs, chefs. I hear my accent is distract come on but But you already know what you get. And you know what you're getting when those guys show up on my organization. We'll be doing a barbecue. We'll be doing a smoked brisket.

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Smoke Are you gonna smoke? Yeah,

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we share organization. My

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organization is mastering my says las Las Vegas. I'm the co founder, we will start in 2017. Okay, well organization that's comprised of law enforcement officers, military veterans and entrepreneurs in the community who identified a need within the community when it came to youth, that our children with me and left behind, we talked so much about the coding and robotics and how those bacteria feel well, he's going to eliminate a lot of jobs. But somebody still has to build these robots, right still has to code them. I mean, that's a code that requires us to update our phones every every month or so. Right? So you're still jobs that exists in everything. And even when it comes to nursing and first responders and those career fields. We all know a police officer, a nurse, and an accountant, engineer. So why not identify those people in the community and put together our own fun supplemental style educational programs for youth so that we can make it fun and environment and at the same time, give them the education to say okay, this is how you apply this education. As soon as you leave the door, right? This is this is what Algebra Two thought you wouldn't ever use. This is why it's important to be able to identify and find variables, right? That's what the x is for. Right?

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So I'm gonna y.

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That's the y. That's the why that's why is there right, so. So for us to be able to relate that information to the children and for them to be able to see people that look like them that's actually operating in that career field and making it look cool. That's what organization was always about when you started what did you find when you started in? 2017? Oh, wonderful.

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So let's also let's learn a little bit about you who are you? Okay, so

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I'm LJ I'm LJ Edmondson. I was originally born in Jacksonville, Florida. I graduated in 2002 When I joined the Air Force.

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Thank you, sir. You

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know what, and you know, I think the Air Force for allowing me because I, although I wanted to go to college, because that was the thing to do. I had no money, right? I have no money. And I was taught at school, like by 12th grade was that finish line? And it was like, I got it, right. It's like running those laps in school. And he's like, all right, I just gotta go a little bit farther. And Coach says, All right, two more laps. He like, you know, I am built for this, right? So that's what school was for me. But I looked at the military as an opportunity to say, well, even if these six years are the worst years of my life, I'll get out I'll be 24 I'll have a trade. And then maybe I'll transition in society as an adult with some skills and that'll give me an advantage and ultimately, that's what it did. I went in Air Force as a MP as most people would know, we call it a security forces back in my day, and I learned law enforcement I identified that I was good at it, you know? It was some struggles, but at the same time I was alone. I was all the way and Malstrom in Great Falls, Montana, I was alive Raisin in the sugar bowl right. But what I learned how to live alone, I learned how to how to take care of myself as an adult and not have mommy and daddy and then build some confidence. And that kind of gave me some confidence and some some life exposure as a man that transition. Well, now the scary part was, I got out in 2008. And I said, I'm going to the highest police department in the nation. I don't care where it is. And I have had it narrowed down to Metro North Las Vegas and a Police Department in Washington. Washington State of Washington State Washington State. Hey, I was fresh out of Montana. I was down to go anywhere. Right. You know, I went from Florida, Montana. Everything was a game. I can make it anywhere. Yeah, you sure? Okay. All right. So, so I said, Well, there's two departments in Las Vegas. So I'll give it a shot. I came up pack a pack my last belongings up. And I came down here and gave it a shot. And this is why I've been every since it's been a very rewarding career. But that's who I am as an individual. That's how I ended up in Vegas. And I will tell you, the scary thing is if you do the math from 2002 to 2008, that was my six years of military service. I come to Vegas in 2008. And in Vegas was not very kind to the citizens in 2008. Yeah. A tough year. Right. So

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So here, I think it's kind of let's see you that's that that's that recession, man. And it was rough. It

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was rough. It was rough. So So thinking that you've been through the worst thing in your life, and then you come in here in the middle of the recession, and this is rough. And you're like, Man, I gotta figure it out. But ultimately,

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houses were cheap then. Yeah, houses dropped them. Yeah, that's,

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that's when the price Yeah, yeah. 2007 2008.

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But I'm brand new and no job. So. So I was stressed. How long

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did it take you to join your organization? Well,

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my department. So I got here in October of 2008. And I was in the academy, September of 2009. Okay, so a year, so you had to wait a year? Yeah. In the thing about it is when I came in, in test it, like during that time, you know, the stigma of law enforcement was very different in 2008. Everybody wants to be a law enforcement officer, especially if you're a military veteran, because during that 2007 2009 window, that's when you had the troops that was discharged and from nine of the 911. Right, so when you kind of do that math, you had a lot of people that will say, All right, I'm done. Now, but what's next? Right, right, you know, so but so law enforcement was it was kind of what we did. You know, we felt like we transitioned well, so I say all that to say when I went to finally get my call for for Metro, they were the first ones to call when we tested it to Cashman, and it was over 3000 people there. And I mean, they all look like they was fresh out of a magazine. They all look like they was fresh off the off the set from GI Joe. Like Power Rangers. It was competitive. It was intimidating. But ultimately, I made it I made my 13th year adulation. Yeah, thank you. Shoot, it's been tough, right? But, uh, but and I say that with being a black man and in the career as well, because every time something inappropriate happens, so every time there's an uproar, then now you have to be the subject matter expert for all your friends and family, you know? So

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because you because your family looking at you cross, like you want to know your family. I mean, you got a lot of stuff that happened during those times.

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Right. And it was even some negative things I will say about my organization during that time, too, you know, you how are you going to trust one of them, you know, to to educate your children, it's like, my kids are here, right? My, when I started the organization, my son was five, you know, so you know, he's 11 now. But um, so it's like, no, my child is here, front row. So that was that took some maturity that took some maturity, you can't say whatever you want to say you can't respond, however you want to respond, because not only are you trying to protect your own brand in your own organization, but you're trying to show the maturity and the trustworthiness to parents that, that they can trust you with their kids. But at the same time, you still have to be respectful to the way you pay your bills also, right? So you just can't talk crazy to everybody and get on the internet and start reading. And so in at the same time, it taught me compassion, you know, usually we the argument, well, I'm not gonna say we but sometimes, and the majority of the time, the people that's the loudest is usually argument arguing from a place of bias, with a whole lot of ignorance attached to it. And we have to be sensitive to that. They don't know what they don't know, but they know how they feel. We gotta be careful how we address that. Even with that being said, that's one of the reasons why I was so adamant about working with you, because I ain't got time to argue with no grown folks.

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And you tell everybody, Frederick Douglass said it best and that was a long time ago. It's easier to raise strong children than to repair broken men, right? Yeah, and I'm a firm because Rhonda will tell you my passion is Children, because I'm like the adults, I was like, get your head down.

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And when you listen long enough, you can hear the trauma, you can hear it, you can hit a trauma that hasn't been addressed because the first thing they do is relate to a negative story that I have as well. Multiple of them. And so I get it, I

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get it, but you had to heal from that and build emotional intelligence models auditing, you know, active listening. Yes, just different. A different skill set, especially when you're dealing with naysayers. Yeah. And you're dealing with people that are coming at you from all different. No, they have a whole bunch of negative things to say, and you have to have grace.

Speaker 4 15:32
And you know what, and even with dealing with those folks and navigating through that, that they told me, they do right. But even what you know, seven years isn't that long, but it is that long it is and it's difficult to survive and maintain that long. Even when you look at this fundraiser this man who cooked it started in a small Middle School cafeteria right and now is now is now we got all the ball rooms and CES and Charleston campus. Wow. So that's humbling to be able to do something from to grow it because even a lot of those folks that was that was so loud, you know, they in the cooking, or making the do or are they just done faded to black? You we don't we don't know what it you know what, what as an organization will still operate in and we're still contributing, we're still being positive, we were still staying true to our mission. So to us, that's humbling. You know, it's like what you're gonna be mad about.

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I'm cooking. But you want to know what the when you think about it food, a good meal. And I know for me when I go home, and my sister and her husband and my cousins come over, and we're cooking that meal, and just the whole process the laughter every it's just, it's just an amazing environment. It's

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therapeutic yesterday, you know. And one thing that I've noticed, I've kind of picked up, picked up on people that really like being a chef. I mean, being in the kitchen. They're usually even for me. Nine times out of 10 If I'm in the kitchen, I'm trying to duplicate something that my grandma made. And even even when I'm cooking, I don't necessarily know what she put in it. But I noticed both tastes like

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you know what I suppose stuff

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a secret. I can't give you everything. I can tell you the basic stuff on it. But I can't eat but

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y'all want to know what you know what gets me about that? Because I remember my grandmother being in the kitchen. And we would ask her, and she will always leave out in ingredient right? And I'm telling her so so you know you're not gonna live forever. So you just want me to stop not not to have the same food. Can you? Can you have the blessings and slowly but surely she would give it to us. But I just giggle when I hear that. I'm like, so

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let me tell you what a friend of mine did. This isn't I live in Chicago. She made this fabulous. Fabulous bean dip. Right? She would not give anybody the recipe. Right? Not. You ask her she was like, no, no. So then I said, Well, how about you make some for a party I'm having in my house. She said, Have you buy all the ingredients? I'll make it for you

Speaker 2 18:04
guys, I mean good food. Good food is food. It's like food for the soul. Yeah. food for the soul is therapeutic. Yes,

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Las Vegas if you want to come out and support mastering mindset. It's a nonprofit organization that raises money to provide services for our children. Join them on the 18th tonight. Oh, that's right. At CES N West Charleston campus, that 6375 West Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada. 89146. As you heard him say earlier, they have several rooms is going to be full of food. So if you're a foodie like me, you'll get a chance to walk around and sample all the fantastic food from the men who cook and

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the thing that we're gonna dance to right. Oh yeah, we're gonna dance and we gotta dance off

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the couch. Listen, listen, I want everybody to understand the men who cook all of the tables are spoken for. We're just waiting on the folks that the people eat. Right, right. We just told me yeah, we're talking to the people who eat right now. Hey, November at 4pm Tonight, tonight at 4pm West Charleston, CSN West Charleston camp and students student ballroom. But again, we're not just going to be smooth, easy and mushy and stuffy and just walk on tables and nibble. We're going to have a live performance. We're going to have a live DJ, we're gonna have Mr. E. C. Adams if you've never heard of EC Adams, you are missing out. He is a hometown hero here. He is a Las Vegas celebrity within his own right. He had on several shows within the city on the strip and out of the country. Great headliner. But you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna bust a couple of two steps you're gonna burn some calories and you're gonna eat some good food and and this is a beautiful networking event. Last year, the governor showed up right there Second year that we did it Teddy Teddy Riley from BLACKstreet shoulder. Wow. So you never know we always have somebody in the building. I will say he was our sibling, man. But I think he stepped down because he's wants to pursue another position if I'm allowed to say that, if not, I'm sorry, CH but yes, you can't say that. But while he's participating, and he always comes out of nowhere with some secret chef that we've never heard of, and then homie gets all kinds of business because like, man, we didn't even know you existed in the city, some new marketing and if you've ever if you know about Shawn Dale and some new marketing, he has a you know, he builds businesses and he helps entrepreneurs, but this year, he's working closely with somebody in his family met somebody in his family who's starting a catering company, and you know, Shondells putting his orange on it, because he always wears orange if he's putting his name on it. You know, he come in swinging, and he's been to all of them. Well, all of them, except one. He missed one last year because it was on his birthday. But he knows the bar set high, and nobody wants to be the guy with the weak dish.

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So this won't be fun. Like it's gonna be a good time. It's going to be a good are you entering a dish? Brisket. Yeah,

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I'm doing this for the listeners for the listeners. That's a good question, though, because we talked about that off air, but But uh, listeners, I'm doing a smoke brisket. I'm doing a smoked brisket and I'm doing something called a beef roll. So with the beef roll, it's like a it's a big hunk of beef. It's like a muscle. It's like a brisket. So don't think of it like ground beef. But when you smoke it and cook it slow. It shreds in the texture is quite similar to like a port port.

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That's fantastic. If I need to contact you for more information, where can I contact you, you can

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email me at info at mastering ma STR ing mindsets, m i n d s ets.org.

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It's a very good cause. Because when I when I look at some of the classes and programs you offer the children who have tutoring for math you have. And that's a serious because math is everything. And sometimes we don't do well in that area. And so we need an extra help in math. So ladies and gentlemen, if you have some children that need a little extra help with their math, mastering minds and get them into the tutoring program, and

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this was the thing, like the beginning of the school year is always a little slow. Right? Nobody don't need no help to begin another school year, the first two quarters, nobody needs nobody in January, January, when that third quarter report card come out and my phone go ringing off the hook. And out of respect for my tutors. You know, we try to compensate them as much as we can, whether it be gas or whatever that looks like or whatever supplies because a lot of them. A lot of my tutors are very effective online. And like there are so many different gadgets and so many pieces of equipment that that makes it easier for the child. So I try to make sure that our children have those things. In addition to that we've sponsored youth to go on HBCU tour with Pastor Wes. In addition to that we do coding and robot robotics classes. That'd be one of the things that we start in the first quarter after the holidays, we'll be introducing something called a robo master. And I'm sure my, my email will be blown up very soon. I want to give a shout out to another group of chefs. They're called the African diaspora of Las Vegas. They are a group of people that are originally from the continent that live here in Las Vegas. They're so excited to be involved. They set for our brothers and sisters and for all of you in Las Vegas, who have not had the opportunity to go to Africa. We are going to bring the continent to you. Oh fans that are bringing their operating six different tables managed by six different countries. Wow. With six different traditional dishes from that country. Wow.

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Absolutely love it. Well, I mean, again, it is tonight. from four to eight CSN West Charleston campus. It's on Charleston, I'm sorry UCs and West Charleston campus 6375 West Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada 89146. It is in the student union building. You want to eat you go on dance your network. I mean if you're new to Vegas has a lot of people are new to Vegas. It's a good place to come out. Meet some people eat some good food and just are connected.

Speaker 4 24:19
If I can say one more thing, I will need this detail out. We will be doing a raffle for Tomb Raider tickets. The Raiders versus the Minnesota Vikings. The Raiders versus the Vikings. We'll be doing a raffle you'll be doing you'll have opportunity to to win some tickets right to

Speaker 2 24:33
go to the writers game. So I mean, for some people might be out of reach. But hey, those tickets might be yours. They could be they could be yours. But you get to taste a variety of food and not just the plain old dishes or like I said for Thanksgiving. I'm doing something I'm doing the traditional. Very good. We're gonna keep it real simple. He wouldn't keep us keep it cute. But you get to taste

Unknown Speaker 24:55
a variety of food who's gonna be

Speaker 2 24:58
and then you can network Are you can you can talk and you can dance. Are y'all gonna do that? To me line dance so that you know, that's my, that's my favorite. I need to talk to the DJ, make sure we can you wouldn't want some line dance. You

Speaker 4 25:10
way too cool for me. I don't even know what that is you say? You started off talking about Birkenstocks or something. I don't know what that is. But a DJ is pretty hip though. DJ MBZ.

Speaker 2 25:21
Is that's my baby. And Bz. J and B. I know and

Speaker 4 25:26
I will be dead wrong if I don't acknowledge the beautiful lady aka Yeah, all right. favorite comedian. Might be a little biased. We might share the same name the same address and the same address, you know, children children, and I might be a little biased but man, you know, when Lady AK has the mic is a movie.

Unknown Speaker 25:46
That's okay. You have a one fan.

Speaker 2 25:49
And that's, that's amazing thing. You know, you get to family. Yeah, family community coming together to cook. All right. So again, tonight, four to eight CS in West Charleston campus, Rhonda, I think we need to go, I believe that I'm going to make an appearance. I'm not gonna make an appearance I'm gonna eat. So I'm gonna eat a little bit. I'm gonna dance. I'm gonna eat a little bit more.

Speaker 3 26:14
I've been in the past I've been in the past. And I had a fantabulous time before had some great food. Saw some great people. I didn't get any dance again before. But it seems like I may meet some dancing tonight. So I may have to jump in there. And do a couple steps.

Unknown Speaker 26:29
I'm sure I'm sure if you start that line down. Somebody joins Oh,

Speaker 2 26:31
I'm sure I got it. Because most of them I do most. That's my she knows most of what I do. And people I dance I didn't whenever I go out and you can always see me in the middle of the flight when they go to a song. Yeah. All right. Well, it's been a pleasure having you on our show. Likewise. Thank you for accepting the invitation.

Speaker 4 26:55
Thank you for talking to me. Let me talk to you. Oh, absolutely. You

Speaker 2 26:59
know, and I look forward to Yeah, I mean, I'm sure this is gonna be the first of many will be there with you this year. And we'll be there. I'm gonna be the next question. I like the because you've never been to this. And the funny thing is, I knew about it. Because I know I was at 100 Academy. I was working at 100 Academy. So I knew about the event. But you know, I'm one of those. When you're at work, you want to go home.

Speaker 3 27:20
And that's the last time I've been I think it was to ninth 2019 It was at the 100 Academy and I went somebody invited me and I said only let me check it out. And I enjoyed myself.

Speaker 4 27:29
It looks so different, in a good way. Like it. You'll see it looks like it went from elementary child to like your young teenager growing

Unknown Speaker 27:37
right. So the thing about it is

Speaker 4 27:40
humbling. Yeah, you know, the community has really supported us. The feedback has always been positive. And I want to continue to make them proud of the city proud. My vision is for this event to be just as popular as New Year's or any other event that Wow.

Speaker 3 27:55
We did it when we don't have sparkles and stuff. Yeah, pretty stuff. And listen, Las Vegas, you can donate to mastering mindsets, and help children in Las Vegas, you can go to their website and make a donation. And you can come out have some great food tonight. So if you can't make it tonight, you can still make a donation to the organization come all about the kids too. That's

Unknown Speaker 28:14
that's what we do. We love the kids

Speaker 4 28:15
we love. I'll tell you at about 830 Tonight, the hashtag men who cook Las Vegas will be going crazy and you and you will wish you was there so you can't find out what happened. Hashtag men who cook Las Vegas fantastic

Speaker 3 28:28
Las Vegas. Thank you for listening to the show you've been listening to Let's Talk with Leah and Rhonda. I'm Lea Croft. And I'm Rhonda Nolan. And we've enjoyed speaking with you today and we'll see you next week.

Speaker 2 28:38
I see you tonight last night and we will tell an Breezies Halloween and we'll see you.

Speaker 3 28:42
I'll see you tonight but Las Vegas. We'll see you next Saturday morning. Have a great night. Bye bye

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