# Entrepreneur: Created Full Bloom platform to help you overcome adversity, rejection, and negativity, Paris Fletcher.

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 16 Jun 2024, 27 min.

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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Paris Fletcher. Paris founded Full Bloom to remind others that having a clear sense of self is imperative when facing adversity, rejection, and negativity. The teachings, resources, and guides shared on Full Bloom are created to foster that process of clarity and healing. Whether you are absorbing Paris’ inspirational TikToks or finding comfort in our website, we hope Full Bloom inspires and motivates you to bloom into the best version of yourself. Full Bloom is on a mission to help you bloom into your best self. We know all too well that self-reflection and inner growth are challenging. Full Bloom invites people to lean on the company for the support they need throughout every stage of their lives. Our ultimate goal is to provide guidance, resources, and the strength of a supportive culture to help you see and shine people's authentic light. Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: If you're about to make a change in your life
[0:03] Speaker 1: and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best feeling you can have.
[0:08] Speaker 2: Because for the first time in your.
[0:09] Speaker 1: Life, you're making a decision that's going to be best
[0:12] Speaker 1: for you and not what somebody told you to do.
[0:15] Speaker 2: And that's when all bets are off.
[0:17] Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, Rashawn McDonald.
[0:22] Speaker 1: Our theme is there's no perfect time to start following
[0:24] Speaker 1: your dreams. I recognize that we all have different definitions
[0:27] Speaker 1: of success. For you, it may be the size of
[0:29] Speaker 1: your paycheck. It's time to stop reading other people's success
[0:32] Speaker 1: stories and start living your own.
[0:34] Speaker 2: Keep winning.
[0:39] Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Rashawn McDonald, like I said. And like she said,
[0:43] Speaker 1: I do host Money Making Conversations Masterclass every week. The
[0:46] Speaker 1: interviews and information that this show provides are for everyone.
[0:50] Speaker 1: It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and
[0:52] Speaker 1: start living your own. My guest owns Full Bloom. She's
[0:57] Speaker 1: on a mission to help you bloom into your best self.
[1:01] Speaker 1: Full Bloom invites people to lean on the company for
[1:04] Speaker 1: the support you need throughout every stage of your life.
[1:09] Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass, Paris Fletcher.
[1:13] Speaker 2: How you doing, Paris?
[1:15] Speaker 3: I'm doing so good.
[1:16] Speaker 1: How are you?
[1:17] Speaker 2: Where are we located at, Paris? Where are you living
[1:19] Speaker 2: these days?
[1:20] Speaker 3: I actually live in Douglasville, Georgia. I'm from San Diego,
[1:24] Speaker 3: but I moved to Georgia last year, so I'm here now.
[1:27] Speaker 2: San Diego. Good food over in San Diego now. I've
[1:30] Speaker 2: been there.
[1:30] Speaker 4: I know.
[1:31] Speaker 1: See, I know I'm going to hit that good food button, boy.
[1:34] Speaker 1: I tell you, San Diego. You want to eat, you
[1:37] Speaker 1: go to San Diego. They got some restaurants waiting on you,
[1:40] Speaker 1: especially seafood.
[1:41] Speaker 2: Absolutely.
[1:43] Speaker 4: Yes.
[1:43] Speaker 3: See, I will say I'm allergic to shellfish, so I
[1:46] Speaker 3: don't really dabble in the seafood world, but, you know,
[1:48] Speaker 3: they do have some great options and great food.
[1:51] Speaker 2: They do.
[1:51] Speaker 1: So if anybody's traveling, you know, the West Coast, and
[1:55] Speaker 1: you hear San Diego... Go down there and try out
[1:58] Speaker 1: those great restaurants you got down there.
[2:00] Speaker 2: So what brought you down to Georgia? Was it family?
[2:02] Speaker 2: Was it a job? Was it education? Tell me, Paris. No.
[2:07] Speaker 3: So what brought me to Georgia, my fiance is originally
[2:09] Speaker 3: from Augusta. And I met my fiance in L.A. when
[2:12] Speaker 3: we were both doing the entertainment thing. And, you know,
[2:15] Speaker 3: his family's out here. His parents are a little older.
[2:18] Speaker 3: So we wanted to come out here, settle out here.
[2:21] Speaker 3: So if they ever needed us, if they ever needed him,
[2:23] Speaker 3: we could be closer to just be there for them
[2:25] Speaker 3: of any assistance that they might need. Good.
[2:28] Speaker 1: So let's talk about the entertainment thing, you know, the
[2:30] Speaker 1: entertainment thing, you know, like, you know, so obviously like myself,
[2:35] Speaker 1: you know, I, I dabbled into entertainment, standup comedian, thought
[2:39] Speaker 1: I'd be the next Eddie Murphy, Bill, you know, Richard Pryor. And,
[2:44] Speaker 1: you know, but in the end I realized that my
[2:46] Speaker 1: true calling was, you know, producing, you know, being able
[2:50] Speaker 1: to see talent and brand products or talents and build
[2:54] Speaker 1: those ideas and, create change. And so that was my shift.
[3:00] Speaker 1: What was your entertainment talent that drew you to Los Angeles?
[3:04] Speaker 3: Well, so I grew up as a competition kid. I
[3:07] Speaker 3: had been dancing my whole life and it just seemed
[3:09] Speaker 3: like a natural progression to get into the dancing professionally.
[3:14] Speaker 3: And it's something that I love to do, something that
[3:16] Speaker 3: I always knew. So originally when I turned 19, I
[3:20] Speaker 3: went out to LA, I got an agency and within
[3:24] Speaker 3: two months of signing with that agency, I was touring
[3:26] Speaker 3: the world with an artist dancing worldwide, you know, backup
[3:30] Speaker 3: dancing and everything like that, which was such a blessing. Um,
[3:33] Speaker 3: I was in college at the time, but it was
[3:35] Speaker 3: like a once in a lifetime chance. I'm like, you
[3:36] Speaker 3: know what? I'm just going to put that on hold.
[3:38] Speaker 3: I'm going to drop out and do my thing and
[3:40] Speaker 3: see where this could go. And from, from the tour,
[3:44] Speaker 3: when I got back, um, I started doing TV shows
[3:46] Speaker 3: and commercials. And then from there I got into acting.
[3:50] Speaker 3: I'm naturally from commercial, um, from the commercial world, from dancing,
[3:53] Speaker 3: and started taking acting classes, loved it. And then from
[3:57] Speaker 3: the acting classes, I started doing some shows here and there,
[3:59] Speaker 3: had a co-star, a couple co-stars, and then, you know,
[4:03] Speaker 3: just started doing the whole thing, you know, the commercial, acting,
[4:07] Speaker 3: and then doing the... Didn't quite make it in the movies,
[4:10] Speaker 3: but I was so close, you know, I was paid
[4:12] Speaker 3: in a veil, on a veil for all these different things,
[4:15] Speaker 3: which is amazing. I love entertainment, but similar to you, I...
[4:20] Speaker 3: I just for me, I just felt like I needed
[4:24] Speaker 3: to do something more. I had always my whole life.
[4:26] Speaker 1: Let's talk about let's talk about the transition because of
[4:29] Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, you know, there was success
[4:33] Speaker 1: for you in entertainment.
[4:35] Speaker 4: Yes.
[4:35] Speaker 2: But there was also a lot of frustration. OK.
[4:39] Speaker 1: You know, I know because that was in my lane,
[4:41] Speaker 1: because anytime you can walk in a room and you see.
[4:44] Speaker 1: You go in for an audition. I'm just telling everybody
[4:46] Speaker 1: how it works. You know, you go in and they
[4:48] Speaker 1: tell you, come in for an audition. You walk in
[4:49] Speaker 1: the room and there's 50 people and none of them
[4:51] Speaker 1: look like you.
[4:53] Speaker 2: Right.
[4:53] Speaker 1: So right there, you don't know what they want. And
[4:56] Speaker 1: that's the part that frustrated me. See, I'd like to
[4:58] Speaker 1: know that I got a shot at something. But then
[5:03] Speaker 1: I had some friends who worked all the time, but
[5:07] Speaker 1: I wasn't working. You know, I was working as a stand-up,
[5:09] Speaker 1: but I wasn't working as a commercial artist. actor or
[5:12] Speaker 1: a theatrical actor, theatrical actors, sitcoms and movies and all
[5:16] Speaker 1: that stuff in theater. And so that's the part that
[5:20] Speaker 1: I went, I cannot allow industry to dictate me based
[5:25] Speaker 1: on how they feel or how I look.
[5:28] Speaker 2: That's the part that frustrated me.
[5:29] Speaker 3: Right.
[5:30] Speaker 4: Yes.
[5:31] Speaker 2: Yes.
[5:31] Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on that? When you hear me
[5:33] Speaker 1: talk like that, Paris?
[5:35] Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. I mean, it's like looking in a mirror.
[5:38] Speaker 3: That's how I felt. You know, and I will say
[5:42] Speaker 3: I love the process of auditioning when I was doing
[5:45] Speaker 3: it consistently. I love going into those rooms, even though
[5:47] Speaker 3: I was nervous, so nervous. There's just something about it
[5:50] Speaker 3: that just this adrenaline rush that just it felt good.
[5:53] Speaker 3: And I love people. So going into these scenarios where
[5:56] Speaker 3: I'm meeting different casting directors and whatnot, I love making
[5:59] Speaker 3: those connections. And I always had a great time in
[6:01] Speaker 3: the room and always had pretty much that I can't.
[6:04] Speaker 3: There's been those auditions where I just bombed completely and
[6:07] Speaker 3: just lost all of the lines that I had. But
[6:10] Speaker 3: pretty much all of the auditions that I did, I
[6:13] Speaker 3: felt good connections with the casting directors. And, you know,
[6:16] Speaker 3: I was given those directions. So I will say that
[6:20] Speaker 3: I have had very positive experiences with auditioning. However, things
[6:26] Speaker 3: like you, I just.
[6:29] Speaker 3: I would get so close to these auditions being on
[6:31] Speaker 3: avail for months and just knowing that this is my
[6:34] Speaker 3: big break. I'm going to do it. I'm going to
[6:37] Speaker 3: be a movie star. They end up going with like
[6:39] Speaker 3: a name or celebrity or someone that has more followers
[6:42] Speaker 3: than you, just things like that. And it just really
[6:44] Speaker 3: started to kind of, it starts to kind of wear
[6:48] Speaker 3: on you a little bit, you know, and starts to
[6:49] Speaker 3: dim your light a little bit. And me, I find
[6:52] Speaker 3: so much security in, like just in knowing, and I
[6:55] Speaker 3: know that we're not always in control of our lives
[6:57] Speaker 3: and everything like that, but for the things that I
[6:59] Speaker 3: can control, I want to be able to control and
[7:02] Speaker 3: knowing that it's up to me, whether rather than it
[7:05] Speaker 3: being up to this casting director, that's just like, you
[7:07] Speaker 3: know what? Your eyes aren't brown enough, so let me
[7:09] Speaker 3: go with this other person.
[7:10] Speaker 2: Right.
[7:11] Speaker 3: Just whatever it is.
[7:12] Speaker 2: Oh, my God. You're bringing back horror stories, Paris. Stop. Stop.
[7:17] Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
[7:18] Speaker 1: You're too tall. You're too dark. We want a bald
[7:21] Speaker 1: head dude.
[7:23] Speaker 2: Yes. Oh, my God. Can you dance? Can you sing? No,
[7:26] Speaker 2: I can't sing. Can you play an instrument? No, I
[7:28] Speaker 2: can't play an instrument. Oh, can you do voices? No,
[7:32] Speaker 2: I can't do voices. Okay, next.
[7:33] Speaker 4: No, no.
[7:35] Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
[7:35] Speaker 3: I can only be me.
[7:36] Speaker 2: I can only be me. And guess what? Me wasn't
[7:38] Speaker 2: getting booked, Paris.
[7:40] Speaker 1: And so I went, okay, I became a very successful
[7:42] Speaker 1: writer in Hollywood and started producing television shows and managed talent.
[7:48] Speaker 1: And so now I'm on a show called Money Making
[7:49] Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass. So, Paris, you have a brand called Full Bloom.
[7:54] Speaker 1: That's Full Bloom. F-U-L-L Bloom. Tell us about that.
[7:59] Speaker 3: Well, F-U-L-L Bloom. So what happened, it's interesting how it
[8:03] Speaker 3: kind of played out. But I started Full Bloom about
[8:06] Speaker 3: three years ago now. But how I started it, when
[8:09] Speaker 3: the pandemic happened, I was working with a casting director
[8:13] Speaker 3: and I was actually working on a show. And it
[8:15] Speaker 3: was amazing because I was actually one of the leads
[8:18] Speaker 3: on that show. But then it just never ended up
[8:20] Speaker 3: coming out because of just, I don't know, the producer
[8:25] Speaker 3: pulled out or something like that. So anyways. When the
[8:27] Speaker 3: pandemic happened, the casting director that had booked me for
[8:31] Speaker 3: that show reached out to me and said that there
[8:33] Speaker 3: was an opportunity. And, you know, this platform was trying
[8:36] Speaker 3: to diversify, so they were onboarding creators. And I was
[8:39] Speaker 3: initially onboarded to this platform to, you know, just kind
[8:43] Speaker 3: of share my story with other people, just to provide
[8:45] Speaker 3: inspiration and motivation for whoever. And so I got.
[8:49] Speaker 1: On this platform.
[8:50] Speaker 3: I started posting videos. I'm like, okay, well, you know,
[8:52] Speaker 3: there's nothing else to do. We're in a pandemic. Everyone's
[8:54] Speaker 3: just home doing nothing. So let me just do this.
[8:57] Speaker 3: And I was posting affirmations, journal prompts for people to
[9:02] Speaker 3: use as a resource because we just had so much
[9:04] Speaker 3: time in that moment to just sit with ourselves.
[9:07] Speaker 2: So let me slow down.
[9:08] Speaker 1: Because you're a fast talker, Paris. I know you've been
[9:10] Speaker 1: told that before. You can talk fast.
[9:13] Speaker 3: My mom's from New York.
[9:14] Speaker 4: Okay.
[9:14] Speaker 1: You said San Diego. So I'm trying to work with
[9:17] Speaker 1: that San Diego speed, okay?
[9:19] Speaker 2: Okay.
[9:20] Speaker 1: Now, California speed. Now, you started, this was a platform, right?
[9:26] Speaker 1: And it was a motivational platform, I'm assuming, because you
[9:28] Speaker 1: talk about affirmations and videos.
[9:30] Speaker 3: It wasn't, not necessarily. So the platform was TikTok. So they,
[9:36] Speaker 3: at the time, were more so known as, yeah, they
[9:39] Speaker 3: were known as like the dance platform, you know, like
[9:41] Speaker 3: everyone's just on their dancing. But they were looking to
[9:44] Speaker 3: diversify their content because they wanted to be, and now
[9:47] Speaker 3: they are more than just a dance platform. People go
[9:50] Speaker 3: there for a number of things.
[9:51] Speaker 1: So it was a dance platform that they brought you
[9:55] Speaker 1: on and they wanted to diversify the content.
[9:59] Speaker 2: Yes.
[9:59] Speaker 3: So they not, I won't say that they were strictly
[10:03] Speaker 3: a dance platform, but that's what they were known for.
[10:05] Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
[10:08] Speaker 3: So they just wanted to just bring more to the platform.
[10:11] Speaker 3: So it just had just different niches and genres, if
[10:14] Speaker 3: you will. And so I was onboarded as, you know, Motivation.
[10:19] Speaker 3: And I started posting videos and I started with affirmations
[10:24] Speaker 3: and then journal prompts so people, like I said, could
[10:26] Speaker 3: just have something to do with all the time that
[10:29] Speaker 3: we had on our hands during that time in the pandemic.
[10:31] Speaker 3: And I didn't realize how many people actually needed that
[10:34] Speaker 3: because self-development, journal prompts, self-discovery, that's something that I've always
[10:39] Speaker 3: been just within my own journey, I've always done because
[10:43] Speaker 3: it was just so necessary. Something, an outlet for me
[10:46] Speaker 3: in the entertainment industry to always come back to self
[10:48] Speaker 3: because you can get so lost in all these, you know,
[10:51] Speaker 3: the judgment, all those things. So anyways, it resonated with
[10:56] Speaker 3: a lot of people when I started posting on TikTok.
[10:58] Speaker 3: And I grew my following from zero. I'm now around
[11:02] Speaker 3: 200,000 followers on TikTok. But it just became something that
[11:07] Speaker 3: people just, like I said, it resonated with them and
[11:10] Speaker 3: something that they looked forward to. And so I built
[11:14] Speaker 3: my following or my community based upon, you know, self-help
[11:19] Speaker 3: and wellness and, you know, like I said, inspiration, motivation.
[11:24] Speaker 3: And so with that being said, my journal prompts and affirmations,
[11:28] Speaker 3: it just always played over so well with people. And
[11:31] Speaker 3: I had people reaching out to me saying like, this
[11:34] Speaker 3: is amazing and you don't understand how much you have
[11:36] Speaker 3: helped me within my own journey. And I just want
[11:39] Speaker 3: to say if Let's say if you sold these prompts,
[11:42] Speaker 3: I would totally buy it. And in my mind, I
[11:45] Speaker 3: never thought about, you know, creating a resource for anyone
[11:49] Speaker 3: to just to buy. And I'm like, you know what?
[11:51] Speaker 3: That's actually a great idea. Maybe I can put something
[11:53] Speaker 3: together and, you know, we'll see what happens. So I
[11:57] Speaker 3: started Full Bloom on my company so I could just
[12:00] Speaker 3: have a name and have a business.
[12:01] Speaker 1: Why Full Bloom? Why Full Bloom? Why is that the
[12:04] Speaker 1: name of your company?
[12:06] Speaker 3: Full bloom. I, I love plants and I just feel
[12:10] Speaker 3: as though we are just journeys, journey-wise and just, just life-wise.
[12:14] Speaker 3: It's just so similar to plants, you know, in a
[12:16] Speaker 3: way because plants are just, you know, you have to
[12:19] Speaker 3: put it in the right environment. You have to give
[12:20] Speaker 3: it the right nutrients. You have to give it the right,
[12:22] Speaker 3: you know, just, you know, the water, just to take
[12:25] Speaker 3: care of it in a way to where if it's
[12:27] Speaker 3: not in the right environment, it's not going to thrive.
[12:29] Speaker 3: And so within people, ourselves, our lives, if we're not
[12:33] Speaker 3: in the right environment, the right headspace around the right people,
[12:36] Speaker 3: we're not going to thrive. And so if we're in
[12:38] Speaker 3: the right environment and nurturing ourselves in a way that's
[12:41] Speaker 3: just empowering us, uplifting us, and just giving us like
[12:45] Speaker 3: putting good and positivity into us, we're going to thrive
[12:47] Speaker 3: and we're going to bloom into like the most beautiful
[12:50] Speaker 3: versions of ourselves. And so I just thought full bloom
[12:52] Speaker 3: was perfect because it just, it just encapsulates all this stuff, everything,
[12:57] Speaker 3: you know, that, It's just that I believe in and
[13:00] Speaker 3: I know to be true. So, full blown. And, yeah,
[13:05] Speaker 3: that's the name. That's the name. But I created a resource,
[13:08] Speaker 3: a guided journal called Back to Me, The Journey Back
[13:11] Speaker 3: to Self. And it's just over 365 prompts for over
[13:16] Speaker 3: a year. And it's just a prompt a day that
[13:18] Speaker 3: people can use. And then you also have a space
[13:21] Speaker 3: for affirmation. So, you can write a positive affirmation. But it's...
[13:24] Speaker 3: things like that to just really nurture your relationship with
[13:26] Speaker 3: self and go on that self-discovery journey, find that self-love,
[13:30] Speaker 3: taking care of yourself, self-care, all those things. And I
[13:34] Speaker 3: created that guided journal about three years ago. And, you know,
[13:38] Speaker 3: it has just, it's history now. Like it's like the
[13:41] Speaker 3: rest is history.
[13:42] Speaker 1: So you're saying that has become a moneymaker. That's what
[13:45] Speaker 1: you're saying, Paris?
[13:47] Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't like to think of it like that.
[13:49] Speaker 3: Come on, come on, parents. You're on my show.
[13:52] Speaker 2: Money-making conversation masterclass. You're right. You're absolutely right.
[13:56] Speaker 3: You know, you were out.
[13:58] Speaker 1: There dancing, you know, and, you know, it was COVID hit.
[14:01] Speaker 1: And now you have 205,000 followers on TikTok.
[14:05] Speaker 2: You have 3.5 million likes.
[14:08] Speaker 1: And that's important to understand that because that's called engagement.
[14:12] Speaker 4: Yes.
[14:13] Speaker 1: Now, the inspiration behind this, when you look at social media,
[14:17] Speaker 1: two things are very popular on social media, food and inspiration.
[14:23] Speaker 2: Okay? I know because I'm involved in both of them. Food.
[14:26] Speaker 4: Okay.
[14:26] Speaker 1: People want to know how to cook stuff, and they
[14:29] Speaker 1: want to know to be inspired and motivated and uplift.
[14:32] Speaker 2: What do you think you're– we're going to go to break.
[14:35] Speaker 1: Paris, when I come back, I want to get into
[14:37] Speaker 1: more details about you as an individual, your inspiration. and
[14:42] Speaker 1: the patterns, and this is about money-making conversations because so
[14:46] Speaker 1: many people are out there doing this, and people have
[14:49] Speaker 1: told me about setting up subscriptions and books, and I'm
[14:52] Speaker 1: going to tell you, I don't know. And hearing you say, Rashawn,
[14:56] Speaker 1: I didn't know either, but guess what? I'm doing it,
[14:58] Speaker 1: and you should slow down and do it yourself. We'll
[15:02] Speaker 1: be right back with more money-making conversations. I am talking
[15:05] Speaker 1: to the creator of Full Bloom, Parrish Fletcher, and I'm
[15:08] Speaker 1: the host, Rashawn McDonald.
[15:18] Speaker 4: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
[15:21] Speaker 4: with Rashawn McDonald. Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations
[15:30] Speaker 4: Masterclass hosted by Rashawn McDonald. Money Making Conversations Masterclass continues
[15:36] Speaker 4: online at MoneyMakingConversations.com and follow Money Making Conversations Masterclass on Facebook, Twitter,
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[15:45] Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Paris Fletcher. She found it full bloom
[15:48] Speaker 1: to remind others that having a clear sense of self
[15:51] Speaker 1: is imperative when facing adversity, rejection, and negativity. That happens
[15:56] Speaker 1: a lot in our world. How have you, I wouldn't
[16:00] Speaker 1: say bottled it, but how are you using that and
[16:03] Speaker 1: twisting it and making it positive for people who need
[16:05] Speaker 1: to hear what you.
[16:06] Speaker 2: Have to say, Paris?
[16:10] Speaker 3: You know, I just, me, I just, They're my honest
[16:16] Speaker 3: truth of my journey and what I've been through. And,
[16:19] Speaker 3: you know, that's where... What I started with my social media,
[16:24] Speaker 3: like my TikTok and everything like that, I've just always
[16:27] Speaker 3: been so honest with what I had gone through. And
[16:29] Speaker 3: we talked about the entertainment industry, but just all the
[16:31] Speaker 3: things that I had to deal with. And I won't say, like,
[16:35] Speaker 3: just the rejection that happens, and that's just the natural,
[16:38] Speaker 3: you know, circumstances that you go through within the industry.
[16:41] Speaker 3: Like I said, it just starts to wear.
[16:43] Speaker 2: On you a little bit.
[16:44] Speaker 3: And sometimes... when I was going through it, I just
[16:47] Speaker 3: really started to question my, um, my talents, my skills, myself, like, man,
[16:52] Speaker 3: am I not talented enough? Am I not pretty enough?
[16:54] Speaker 3: But then what I found for myself, just always, like
[16:57] Speaker 3: I said, journaling, just, you know, knowing my strengths, knowing
[17:00] Speaker 3: my weaknesses and owning that and just loving every aspect
[17:04] Speaker 3: of myself and just really being able to have a
[17:07] Speaker 3: clear sense of self with what has kept me so
[17:11] Speaker 3: mentally strong, um, and motivated to just, you know, regardless
[17:15] Speaker 3: of what I pursue, it's just a matter of what
[17:18] Speaker 3: I'm putting into it and how I view myself. And
[17:21] Speaker 3: I've just brought that to my platform and just it
[17:24] Speaker 3: resonated with people. And I think when we're talking about inspiration,
[17:26] Speaker 3: people are looking for inspiration. I think the biggest thing
[17:29] Speaker 3: is people are looking for real people that they can
[17:33] Speaker 3: see and say, okay, I can do that too. And
[17:35] Speaker 3: so with social media, you know, there's always this facade that,
[17:39] Speaker 3: People will post all of their wins and never their losses.
[17:43] Speaker 3: And it comes off so disingenuine. And when you're finding
[17:49] Speaker 3: people that are able to post all aspects themselves, and
[17:52] Speaker 3: I'm not saying you have to post your whole life
[17:54] Speaker 3: and put your whole life out there because I don't
[17:55] Speaker 3: even do that because it's my life and there still
[17:58] Speaker 3: needs to be some boundaries within that. But I give people...
[18:03] Speaker 3: just my losses as well, you know, because I'm human
[18:06] Speaker 3: just like everyone else. And so when people are able
[18:08] Speaker 3: to see that and be like, okay, but how did
[18:10] Speaker 3: she bounce back? And she was able to bounce back.
[18:12] Speaker 3: So that inspires others to do that too. And so,
[18:14] Speaker 3: you know, that's, that's how I kind of pivot and
[18:17] Speaker 3: use my story to inspire others.
[18:20] Speaker 1: Now, now part of that is journaling, you know, these journals.
[18:25] Speaker 1: How did that become the thought process? Was it something
[18:28] Speaker 1: you was doing personally and now you're sharing the philosophy
[18:32] Speaker 1: of with your followers and anybody who other people recommend
[18:37] Speaker 1: to buy your journals? Because it's hardback and it's also digital, correct?
[18:43] Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So like I said, that's
[18:47] Speaker 3: just something that I just have used throughout my whole
[18:50] Speaker 3: life and that has always helped me within, you know,
[18:54] Speaker 3: sometimes within my own mind, there's just so much going
[18:56] Speaker 3: on and journaling has always been a tool to just
[18:58] Speaker 3: kind of let it out, you know, letting my thoughts
[19:00] Speaker 3: out and really, With the guided journal that I have,
[19:04] Speaker 3: a lot of us, we have these thoughts, but sometimes
[19:07] Speaker 3: we have these questions that we don't even know what
[19:09] Speaker 3: to ask ourselves and what we want to even try
[19:11] Speaker 3: to figure out within ourselves. And so this guided journal
[19:14] Speaker 3: is a really great tool because it gives you a
[19:16] Speaker 3: prompt a day, questions that you probably wouldn't even think
[19:19] Speaker 3: to ask yourself, like I said, and it's just there.
[19:22] Speaker 3: And it allows people to have a deeper level of
[19:26] Speaker 3: reflection and And allows them to just look at so
[19:28] Speaker 3: many different aspects of their life within themselves, within their
[19:31] Speaker 3: friend groups, within, you know, whatever it is, their own career. Like,
[19:35] Speaker 3: are you happy? Like, is this something that maybe that
[19:37] Speaker 3: you truly wanted to pursue? Or is it something that
[19:39] Speaker 3: you kind of felt not forced into, but just kind
[19:43] Speaker 3: of guided into, if you will? Like, for me, I know,
[19:45] Speaker 3: you know, I, my parents wanted me to be like
[19:48] Speaker 3: a doctor and that wasn't something that was, that I
[19:51] Speaker 3: was truly interested in, you know, entertainment was always there
[19:53] Speaker 3: because it's what I knew and it's what I love.
[19:55] Speaker 3: And so it just allows people to just kind of
[19:58] Speaker 3: think of their life from so many different angles. And
[20:02] Speaker 3: it's just, it's, it's a helpful tool and it continues
[20:05] Speaker 3: to be a helpful tool. And that's why I continue
[20:07] Speaker 3: to just, the journal itself is just so successful. Right.
[20:11] Speaker 1: You know, when I think about it, I'm joining this
[20:13] Speaker 1: protege program for my company. And I realized that I'm
[20:19] Speaker 1: not a person who writes things down. And they force
[20:22] Speaker 1: me to, you know, basically journal things every month. They
[20:26] Speaker 1: ask me what I'm doing, what I'm doing, what I'm doing.
[20:28] Speaker 1: And then I have to tell them what I'm doing.
[20:30] Speaker 1: And what I've discovered is that I'm better for it.
[20:34] Speaker 1: And so because it forces me to think about the process.
[20:40] Speaker 1: Think about the experience of what I'm going through. And
[20:43] Speaker 1: then it also, I believe, enhances my communication with my employees.
[20:48] Speaker 2: So what you're.
[20:48] Speaker 1: Talking about, really, I'm doing, but I'm doing it from
[20:51] Speaker 1: a corporate standpoint, but it's enhancing my overall relationships with
[20:57] Speaker 1: the people that I communicate on a daily basis, which
[20:59] Speaker 1: are my employees, as well as my clients. And so
[21:03] Speaker 1: those affirmations and those motivation tools that you have really
[21:09] Speaker 1: can be applied in that entrepreneurial.
[21:12] Speaker 2: Space, correct? Absolutely.
[21:15] Speaker 3: Absolutely.
[21:16] Speaker 2: Absolutely.
[21:17] Speaker 1: Now, with that being said, entrepreneurs, you are an entrepreneur.
[21:24] Speaker 1: You started a business. Did you have a budget? Did
[21:28] Speaker 1: you have an idea of what type of revenue you
[21:31] Speaker 1: was going to generate?
[21:33] Speaker 2: Or you just, you know, jumped out there on faith?
[21:37] Speaker 3: I winded it. the entire way. I continue to wing it.
[21:41] Speaker 3: You know?
[21:43] Speaker 2: Come on, Ferris. You're my motivating queen.
[21:47] Speaker 3: You know, I just, I just say it. It's just,
[21:50] Speaker 3: I'm being honest, you know, when I started the business,
[21:53] Speaker 3: I had the vision for it.
[21:54] Speaker 4: Right.
[21:55] Speaker 3: But with being new to business completely, it just, you know,
[21:59] Speaker 3: when you try to go to banks with just, you
[22:02] Speaker 3: have a vision, but not necessarily not having the financial just,
[22:07] Speaker 3: I guess, record, if you will, to just show like, okay,
[22:11] Speaker 3: I'm looking for a loan for this much. I entertain that.
[22:14] Speaker 3: I went to my bank that I've been banking with
[22:16] Speaker 3: for years and immediately they're like, you know, you have
[22:19] Speaker 3: to show this much income revenue within your business within
[22:22] Speaker 3: the first year and we can give you that amount.
[22:24] Speaker 3: And it just wasn't feasible. And so I used my
[22:28] Speaker 3: own funds, what I was comfortable with putting into the business.
[22:33] Speaker 3: And I was just like, you know what, This is
[22:36] Speaker 3: something that I truly believe in. And if I believe
[22:38] Speaker 3: in it, like I said before, like it's just, you
[22:40] Speaker 3: have to be confident within yourself and within whatever it
[22:43] Speaker 3: is that you're doing and know that it's a good
[22:45] Speaker 3: quality product. And I can't stress quality enough because I
[22:50] Speaker 3: paid more than certain people would, you know, for their
[22:54] Speaker 3: first product initially, but I am such a firm believer
[22:56] Speaker 3: in you. If you can speak behind your quality, then
[23:00] Speaker 3: people will appreciate it. So anyways, I put my money
[23:03] Speaker 3: into the business. not really knowing what was going to happen,
[23:08] Speaker 3: but I knew I had two things. I knew I
[23:10] Speaker 3: had a really good product and then I knew I
[23:12] Speaker 3: had a really good community and that it was a
[23:14] Speaker 3: resource that people were looking for. And so I was
[23:17] Speaker 3: going to leverage my community, not just my community, but
[23:20] Speaker 3: just my platform that I had and just use that
[23:23] Speaker 3: to market my product. And so, you know, within a
[23:27] Speaker 3: few months of me just putting it out there, I
[23:29] Speaker 3: sold out and I'm like, okay, Let me just make
[23:32] Speaker 3: sure that wasn't a fluke. And, you know, I tried
[23:37] Speaker 3: it again and it happened again. I'm like, OK, this
[23:39] Speaker 3: is something we have something here. And so I just
[23:42] Speaker 3: continue with the money that I make from the product.
[23:46] Speaker 3: I just just try to double up every time with
[23:48] Speaker 3: how much inventory I'm able to get in.
[23:50] Speaker 2: Which it is.
[23:52] Speaker 3: Initially, I was bummed out because I wasn't being able
[23:56] Speaker 3: to get a loan.
[23:58] Speaker 1: From a bank.
[23:59] Speaker 3: But I think in the long run for me, from
[24:01] Speaker 3: my vision for my business, it was beneficial because it's
[24:05] Speaker 3: all within my hands. I put this into the product
[24:10] Speaker 3: in my business, and so I'm not having to deal
[24:12] Speaker 3: with these crazy interest rates. And just what I'm making
[24:16] Speaker 3: from the product initially, I just put it back into
[24:19] Speaker 3: my business. And like I said, I keep trying to
[24:21] Speaker 3: double up my inventory to just continue to make more revenue.
[24:26] Speaker 3: So like I said, I winged it and I did
[24:29] Speaker 3: the best that I could. I reached out to people
[24:30] Speaker 3: when I had questions and gained as much knowledge as
[24:33] Speaker 3: I could and just used that and it's been working
[24:36] Speaker 3: extremely well. And yeah, sometimes I think a lot of
[24:40] Speaker 3: us think we need to have the full package before
[24:42] Speaker 3: we actually pursue something. But I am the proof that
[24:48] Speaker 3: sometimes all you have to do is just Just start.
[24:51] Speaker 3: And I am such a believer. If you take the
[24:54] Speaker 3: steps and you're working hard and trying to get as
[24:56] Speaker 3: much knowledge as you can, that the resources and the
[24:59] Speaker 3: people and what you need will find you along the way.
[25:01] Speaker 3: And it's going to work out. And, you know, that's
[25:04] Speaker 3: my story. I'm sticking to it.
[25:06] Speaker 2: Well, guess what? It's a fantastic story. How can we
[25:08] Speaker 2: get in touch with you, Paris?
[25:11] Speaker 3: You can find my website online at fullbloominspo.com. And then
[25:17] Speaker 3: you can find my business on the social media platforms
[25:22] Speaker 3: at Full Bloom Inspo.
[25:27] Speaker 2: So F-U-L-L-B-L-O-O-M-I-N-S-P-O.
[25:29] Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show. Your interview was
[25:30] Speaker 1: very motivating and uplifting. And really, thank you. Because your
[25:35] Speaker 1: honesty helps us out. It allows us to say that
[25:38] Speaker 1: every plan is an original thought. And if you don't
[25:41] Speaker 1: let no one tell you your thought can't happen, But
[25:44] Speaker 1: you have to believe in it and you have to
[25:45] Speaker 1: put in the time. And that's what you told us
[25:47] Speaker 1: on your interview, doing your interview. Thank you for coming
[25:49] Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
[25:51] Speaker 2: You money maker, you.
[25:52] Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
[25:55] Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
[25:56] Speaker 1: This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass
[25:59] Speaker 1: hosted by me, Rashawn McDonald. I want to thank you
[26:02] Speaker 1: and all my guests that come on the show today.
[26:04] Speaker 1: And thank you, our listening audience. Join us next week.
[26:07] Speaker 1: And remember to always lead with your gifts.
[26:10] Speaker 2: Keep winning.
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[26:18] Speaker 4: Making Conversations Masterclass. Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushawn McDonald
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