# Overcoming the Odds: Revolutionized scalp care with her innovative Braid, Loc & Scalp Refreshening Wipes. Tress Clean.

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 6 Aug 2024, 26 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 Kiyana Pearson. Kiyana Pearson is a dynamic entrepreneur, scalp specialist, and innovator in the natural hair care industry. As the founder of Tress Clean, the first Black woman-owned hair wipes company, Kiyana has revolutionized scalp care with her innovative Braid, Loc & Scalp Refreshening Wipes. A graduate of Morgan State University, Kiyana's journey from Baltimore, MD, to Miami, FL, inspired the creation of a groundbreaking solution to a universal hair care dilemma. Faced with the challenges of maintaining her signature braids in Miami's relentless humidity, Kiyana's quest for innovation led to the development of Tress Clean’s Rinse-Free Braid, Loc & Scalp Refreshening Wipes. Drawing on her cultural identity and expertise in protective hairstyles, Kiyana identified a need for convenient, effective scalp and hair refreshment. Through meticulous research and development, she crafted a product that embodies her commitment to quality and holistic haircare. Tress Clean’s wipes are now a household staple, empowering individuals within the braid and loc community to maintain their styles while nourishing their scalps. As a recognized Scalp Care Specialist, Kiyana blends tradition with innovation, offering solutions that prioritize moisture, anti-fungal properties, and follicle protection. Her dedication to providing exceptional products underscores her mission to redefine haircare norms and empower individuals to embrace their unique beauty with confidence. #SHMS #STRAW 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

[0:05] Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
[0:06] Speaker 2: I'm Rashawn McDonald, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass,
[0:10] Speaker 2: where we encourage people to stop reading other people's success
[0:13] Speaker 2: stories and start planning their own. Listen up as I
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[0:21] Speaker 2: ask them how they are running their companies, and speak
[0:23] Speaker 2: with dog profits who are making a difference in their
[0:26] Speaker 2: local communities. Now, sit back and listen as we unlock
[0:29] Speaker 2: the secrets to their success on Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
[0:35] Speaker 2: The interviews and information that this show provides off for everyone.
[0:38] Speaker 2: It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and
[0:41] Speaker 2: start living your own. My next guest is a graduate
[0:44] Speaker 2: of Morgan State University that's in Baltimore, Maryland area. She
[0:47] Speaker 2: is revolutionized scap care that's haircare with her innovative braid
[0:52] Speaker 2: lock and scap refreshing wipes as WPS wipes. Please welcome
[0:57] Speaker 2: to the Money Making Conversations Master Class. Keana Pearson, Canada.
[1:01] Speaker 3: Say your name correctly, you did, thank you.
[1:05] Speaker 1: And y'all was in the room. Canopias and canopis because
[1:09] Speaker 1: I know it's important to get the name. My name
[1:12] Speaker 1: is was Sean McDonald, the lawd and Merchant. I mean
[1:15] Speaker 1: people have said my name right before, they said it
[1:16] Speaker 1: right correctly.
[1:17] Speaker 3: Now the friend, I understand, and thank you so much.
[1:20] Speaker 1: For having me great. First of all, Morgan State University.
[1:23] Speaker 1: Why Morgan State University, my friend HBCU.
[1:26] Speaker 3: Grand Well, I come from a family who embodies black culture, okay,
[1:33] Speaker 3: and so I have an older sister who was searching
[1:37] Speaker 3: for an HBCU herself. So once it was time for
[1:41] Speaker 3: me to pick my college, I remember going around to
[1:44] Speaker 3: the different HBCUs and I knew that I wanted to
[1:50] Speaker 3: stay close to home. I'm a mommy's girl, and so
[1:54] Speaker 3: for me it was either Howard Morgan copping State or
[1:58] Speaker 3: at the time you had her journal, Douglas. And I
[2:01] Speaker 3: knew more than was for me. Once I crossed that bridge,
[2:04] Speaker 3: I said, you know what, go there, let's do it.
[2:07] Speaker 3: Let's do it.
[2:08] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, go do it. You know, like you know,
[2:12] Speaker 1: all ideas happen, you know, sometimes they come to you spontaneously.
[2:16] Speaker 1: Sometimes you've just been kind of like living the life
[2:20] Speaker 1: and you kind of like figure that out, figured out
[2:22] Speaker 1: what you're doing. Your product that deals with braids, to
[2:26] Speaker 1: deal with locks, that deals with maintenance, that deals with Cleaniness.
[2:30] Speaker 1: How did this idea come about? And give everybody the
[2:32] Speaker 1: exact name of your product?
[2:35] Speaker 3: Okay, so my product is braid Locking scot Refreshening Life.
[2:40] Speaker 3: The company itself is trust Clean. And this wasn't actually
[2:44] Speaker 3: a quick get rich skin you know. This wasn't like
[2:47] Speaker 3: an episode of Martin where I came into some money
[2:50] Speaker 3: and I was forced to start a business. It wasn't
[2:53] Speaker 3: like real spoons, you know, right. I wasn't forced to
[2:58] Speaker 3: start a business. I never sought out to be an entrepreneur,
[3:02] Speaker 3: especially in the hair care industry.
[3:04] Speaker 1: Why you say, especially in the hair care business, what
[3:07] Speaker 1: is such a competitive what is it?
[3:10] Speaker 3: Yeah? It's oversaturated, right, It's an oversaturated market. It's dominated
[3:15] Speaker 3: by non black males targeting black women, which is a
[3:19] Speaker 3: problem in itself. So again, it wasn't something that I
[3:23] Speaker 3: sought out. This was actually to fulfill a personal hair
[3:27] Speaker 3: care need for myself. I remember years ago hugging a
[3:31] Speaker 3: coworker and I wouldn't forget that smell. I remember the
[3:37] Speaker 3: smell of her hair. There was an odor, and so
[3:40] Speaker 3: after that point I was extremely conscious of what my
[3:44] Speaker 3: hair smelled like, and so I tried many products that
[3:48] Speaker 3: this really wasn't living up to their claims, and so
[3:53] Speaker 3: I realized in order to get rid of it.
[3:56] Speaker 1: So, how were you taking care of your hair before
[3:58] Speaker 1: you had the product? You had that moment, WHOA, don't
[4:02] Speaker 1: smell like hers? So what were you doing the first
[4:06] Speaker 1: of all, before you became conscious and aware of that
[4:09] Speaker 1: that's not the smell you want to put off? What
[4:13] Speaker 1: were you doing to take care of your hair? And
[4:14] Speaker 1: what hairstyle were you wearing at the time? All were
[4:17] Speaker 1: still wearing.
[4:17] Speaker 3: Always braids, always braids. So braids is a part of
[4:22] Speaker 3: my lifestyle. I also come from a family of block wearing,
[4:28] Speaker 3: and so at the time, there weren't a lot of
[4:30] Speaker 3: products out there specifically for braids and lops. You know,
[4:35] Speaker 3: we had refreshing sprays, and for me, the idea of
[4:40] Speaker 3: masking a scent by putting a fragrance on something it
[4:44] Speaker 3: was a no go from me.
[4:46] Speaker 1: You know, It's like not taking a shower and putting
[4:48] Speaker 1: on the right right you know, girl, while you putting
[4:51] Speaker 1: the job, wear about it. I put the diorder in,
[4:54] Speaker 1: I take a jour later. Okay, really, okay, okay, exactly right.
[5:00] Speaker 1: I understand exactly what you're saying now, And so.
[5:03] Speaker 3: I realized that in order to you know, get rid
[5:06] Speaker 3: of that odor and to make sure that I was
[5:10] Speaker 3: in the presentation that I wanted to be, I said,
[5:13] Speaker 3: you know, Bud, you've got to cleanse your scalp on
[5:15] Speaker 3: a daily basis. And so, once I realized that I
[5:18] Speaker 3: needed to cleanse my scalp on a daily basis and
[5:21] Speaker 3: needed to find something that was quick, that was actually effective,
[5:26] Speaker 3: I created a prototype and I started using natural products
[5:31] Speaker 3: and I would put them in different types of whites.
[5:34] Speaker 3: That necessarily wasn't what I wanted. So I created what
[5:37] Speaker 3: I wanted.
[5:38] Speaker 1: Now, did you go to a like sometimes they have
[5:40] Speaker 1: these loveliest love chimp scientists or food scientists or people
[5:44] Speaker 1: that you can go to and they can help you
[5:46] Speaker 1: develop your product. Or you just did all this in
[5:49] Speaker 1: your kitchen.
[5:50] Speaker 3: I did it all in my kitchen.
[5:54] Speaker 1: I go girl, You go girl, Thank.
[5:56] Speaker 3: You very much. I'm a pat myself on a back
[6:00] Speaker 3: tested the product for two years to make sure that
[6:02] Speaker 3: it's safety was up to par, make sure that its
[6:05] Speaker 3: shelf life was going to hold up right, and we
[6:09] Speaker 3: did it.
[6:10] Speaker 1: So when you I'm not trying, not trying to get
[6:13] Speaker 1: into your product, but you know, I get a lot
[6:16] Speaker 1: of people on the show, and I really admire entrepreneurs,
[6:20] Speaker 1: you know, sitting in that kitchen grinding and becoming scientists,
[6:25] Speaker 1: you know, and trusting their thoughts and becoming a guinea
[6:28] Speaker 1: pig or family members becoming a gifting pig where they're
[6:31] Speaker 1: eating proud or eating their food, or in this case,
[6:34] Speaker 1: the hairstyles. So as I'm just gonna talk about I've
[6:38] Speaker 1: worn when I had hair, I had you know, my
[6:40] Speaker 1: hair braided up. You know, I was trying to look good.
[6:43] Speaker 1: And so the whole purpose of getting in a shower
[6:48] Speaker 1: and just kind of running water, that's not the way
[6:53] Speaker 1: to go about doing it, not just defeating the purpose
[6:56] Speaker 1: or trying to So that's where we are running into
[6:59] Speaker 1: a problem of maintaining that look but also a refreshing smell.
[7:04] Speaker 1: That's what you're talking about here with your product.
[7:07] Speaker 3: Correct exactly. So when it comes down to braids and locks,
[7:11] Speaker 3: of course, we want to protect our timely, costly investment.
[7:15] Speaker 3: You know, it costs so much, it takes so long
[7:17] Speaker 3: to actually get the silent cell. We want to make
[7:20] Speaker 3: sure our style and our crown is always on points.
[7:23] Speaker 3: And so you see people running from rain because they
[7:27] Speaker 3: don't want our hair to start frizzing up, and so
[7:30] Speaker 3: when it comes to washing it, it's also time consuming,
[7:33] Speaker 3: you know, not the washing itself, but drying it. You
[7:36] Speaker 3: have to make sure that it's properly dried or then
[7:39] Speaker 3: there's a new smell on top of it that milduy smell.
[7:42] Speaker 3: And so we don't want to submerge our hair as
[7:44] Speaker 3: often because we really don't even have the time, right
[7:48] Speaker 3: we know, we're parents, we have careers. Sometimes we're working out,
[7:52] Speaker 3: or we're just leaving a restaurant that's not properly vented
[7:56] Speaker 3: or moving to the next place, and so sometimes we
[8:02] Speaker 3: don't have that time to actually wash it. So my
[8:05] Speaker 3: product was created for a busy lifestyle when traditional washing
[8:09] Speaker 3: wasn't an option.
[8:10] Speaker 1: Right now, in your credit it said the first black
[8:14] Speaker 1: woman owned hair wipe company specifically designed for braids and locks.
[8:19] Speaker 1: Let's talk. Let's go back to that first black one
[8:21] Speaker 1: on you know, we know how dominant black women are
[8:26] Speaker 1: in the hair care business. How are you the first?
[8:31] Speaker 3: So again, and it's still that the concept of wiping
[8:36] Speaker 3: your hair to consent is completely deal. Really, Oh yeah, I'm.
[8:42] Speaker 1: Not saying that. I'm not saying that in disbelief I'm
[8:44] Speaker 1: just saying this like you know, that means there's a
[8:47] Speaker 1: section of this industry that sells us products that push
[8:51] Speaker 1: a lifestyle on us but don't care about the end results.
[8:55] Speaker 1: That's what comes out of my mind. Where you are
[8:58] Speaker 1: a person who lived the lifestyle, care about it, and
[9:02] Speaker 1: then the light bulb went off that you can design
[9:05] Speaker 1: something that works and will benefit the masses, which is
[9:08] Speaker 1: the black community. Is am I right in that direction?
[9:12] Speaker 3: You're absolutely correct?
[9:13] Speaker 1: Okay, okay, do you get mad when I do that?
[9:17] Speaker 1: Did that make you mad?
[9:20] Speaker 3: It didn't make me mad because again, I wouldn't be
[9:23] Speaker 3: here if we didn't have that dilemma. So when I
[9:31] Speaker 3: actually was looking for some whpes myself for my hair,
[9:35] Speaker 3: I found wipes, but more so for women of other cultures,
[9:41] Speaker 3: so they had Sarrem wipes. So it wasn't necessarily to
[9:45] Speaker 3: cleanse the scalp and yushing the hair file holes. Oh oh,
[9:51] Speaker 3: big time, big time. You know, we create so many
[9:56] Speaker 3: of our own issues when it comes down to the scalp, know,
[10:00] Speaker 3: the separag demotitis, the dryness, and the dandrus. We use
[10:04] Speaker 3: so many products, so the excessive oil and dirt build up. Uh,
[10:10] Speaker 3: we use a lot of edge control. We got a
[10:13] Speaker 3: baby hairs down.
[10:14] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know about that, the baby hair.
[10:16] Speaker 3: Okay, now those that creates issues.
[10:20] Speaker 1: Now, now Trust Clean, that's Trust Clean, t R E
[10:23] Speaker 1: S S. Clean. How does the name trust because that's
[10:26] Speaker 1: a that's a that's a tongue twister for me, Trust Clean.
[10:30] Speaker 1: How did that title of the business product come about?
[10:35] Speaker 3: Well, you know, trust is usually equated to your hair, yes, okay,
[10:41] Speaker 3: and so of course I wanted to make sure that
[10:43] Speaker 3: we were focusing on what the product was for cleansing
[10:48] Speaker 3: your hair. So I put them all together and it
[10:51] Speaker 3: was like, while I that was my.
[10:56] Speaker 1: While I you know, well, you're in the room where
[10:58] Speaker 1: you did the while I hope you didn't do that
[11:00] Speaker 1: public while I don't.
[11:01] Speaker 3: Job listen I do while I in public. I have
[11:04] Speaker 3: meetings in my head wherever I am, I'm like, listen,
[11:07] Speaker 3: don't you see me in the meeting.
[11:12] Speaker 1: Trest Clean stands out in the twenty six point one
[11:15] Speaker 1: billion dollar natural hair care industry by focusing on natural,
[11:19] Speaker 1: non toxic ingredients. Now, you know, it's really interesting how
[11:24] Speaker 1: the none you know, the natural hair industry has exploded,
[11:28] Speaker 1: you know, because of you know, recently, you know, Congress's
[11:32] Speaker 1: Players laws. Laws have been passed where you know, women can,
[11:35] Speaker 1: especially women of color, can wear their hair to work
[11:39] Speaker 1: and not be stigmatized or stereotype by the employer or
[11:43] Speaker 1: their supervisors, and which is allowed for this industry to
[11:47] Speaker 1: really take off. And have you to am I correct
[11:51] Speaker 1: in my assessment that that has really benefited and also
[11:54] Speaker 1: created a need for trust cleans.
[11:57] Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we are have that stereotype that braidsen locks
[12:02] Speaker 3: are little maintenance, unkeptain, unprofessional. So of course they did
[12:07] Speaker 3: create laws, the Crown Act, to allow us to eventually
[12:10] Speaker 3: start wearing our braidsen locks and our professional lifestyles. And
[12:14] Speaker 3: so I again wanted to make sure that I had
[12:17] Speaker 3: a way to have the maintenance enough on a daily basis.
[12:24] Speaker 1: No, man, as you can because you said, Rau Sean,
[12:26] Speaker 1: I've been a brave person all my life. Correct, correct? Okay,
[12:31] Speaker 1: talk to me about your journey and this lifestyle, because
[12:35] Speaker 1: I'm sure you know other people have said, assume, uh,
[12:39] Speaker 1: stereotyped you. Have you felt that you were placed in
[12:45] Speaker 1: uncomfortable situations, whether by employees or employers or your coworkers
[12:51] Speaker 1: or because of your hairstyle.
[12:55] Speaker 3: Oh of course all the time. Wow, so a few
[12:59] Speaker 3: times I would embrace my natural hair and I would
[13:02] Speaker 3: wear it straight. Sometimes I would wear weeds prior to
[13:07] Speaker 3: only wearing braids, and of course you would have the
[13:10] Speaker 3: comments of them, oh, I like your hair better when
[13:13] Speaker 3: it was curly. Oh I'm like your and not curly
[13:16] Speaker 3: in regards to my natural hair. In regards to me
[13:19] Speaker 3: wearing you know, a weed, let me.
[13:24] Speaker 1: Just say that, right, right, right.
[13:27] Speaker 3: Because they thought it was more polished, okay, But I
[13:30] Speaker 3: didn't allow that to overcome me. I embraced who I was,
[13:33] Speaker 3: and of course, moving to Miami, I didn't really have
[13:36] Speaker 3: any options. It's hot, it's hot.
[13:38] Speaker 1: Well, I'm from Houston, Texas. I know by humidity. Now,
[13:42] Speaker 1: you know Miami is like that's like, that's like a
[13:44] Speaker 1: vacation down there. Used to got humidity on lock you
[13:50] Speaker 1: got that cool breeze or the Caribbean coming at you
[13:53] Speaker 1: across the state. You got that heat coming out of
[13:55] Speaker 1: that gulf. But you know, I really I have six
[13:58] Speaker 1: sisters and so I'm very familiar with hairstyles. And I
[14:03] Speaker 1: have a single daughter, and so she doesn't wear braids.
[14:08] Speaker 1: She said, my dad, my head is not shape for braids,
[14:10] Speaker 1: which is true, everybody's head not shape for braids. Well,
[14:12] Speaker 1: just let y'all know that. She reminded me several times
[14:15] Speaker 1: when I told her, Hey, what you try to breaking dad,
[14:18] Speaker 1: that's not my head. Okay. So and so she went
[14:21] Speaker 1: to Guy and say, see, I am not a braids person.
[14:24] Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry, baby, I won't ever ask you
[14:26] Speaker 1: to wear braids again. And so, but there are industry
[14:29] Speaker 1: out there of natural hair. When we come back, we're
[14:31] Speaker 1: gonna talk about some more quachs by empowering yourself. The
[14:34] Speaker 1: entrepreneurship we're going to talk about. We talked about the
[14:37] Speaker 1: experience of being an entrepreneur, making the difference in the community,
[14:40] Speaker 1: and her future goals and the expansion. Don't go nowhere.
[14:42] Speaker 1: We're talking to Keanu Pearson's Trust Clean. That's t R E. S. S. Clean.
[14:47] Speaker 1: It's the name of a product. And we're going to
[14:49] Speaker 1: learn more about her being an entrepreneur because I want
[14:51] Speaker 1: you to understand that you have a dream, you might
[14:53] Speaker 1: be sitting on it. If you listen to how she
[14:56] Speaker 1: created her dream, you might be the next person I
[14:59] Speaker 1: interview on Money May Conversation Masterclass.
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[15:31] Speaker 1: I told them, I tell them that it's a journey.
[15:34] Speaker 1: It's a conversation with people who are dreamers, people who
[15:38] Speaker 1: had an idea and pushed aside, people who told them
[15:42] Speaker 1: they couldn't accomplish that tax pushed aside, and they says,
[15:45] Speaker 1: pushed aside, people who didn't see them as a person
[15:49] Speaker 1: who can create that concept or develop that concept, a
[15:52] Speaker 1: push beyond that concept. As me every day in my life,
[15:56] Speaker 1: I push past knows so many times. As a kid,
[15:58] Speaker 1: I push past know so many as an adult, I've
[16:01] Speaker 1: been told so many times, you're not going to accomplish that. Rashon,
[16:04] Speaker 1: it's never been done before. Rashon. While you're doing that, rashon.
[16:08] Speaker 1: And so when I crack the mic and I talk
[16:10] Speaker 1: to you and I interview people on this show, it's
[16:13] Speaker 1: just an extension of me telling you that I am
[16:16] Speaker 1: a possibility because I made it happen. I'm not an idea.
[16:20] Speaker 1: I'm accomplishment. I'm not a goal. I am a substance.
[16:25] Speaker 1: And so when you put all those things together, I
[16:27] Speaker 1: wanted to make a conversation. Masterclass is your show. And
[16:30] Speaker 1: if you're sitting around dreaming or that an idea that
[16:36] Speaker 1: maybe you think can work, write it down, Get with
[16:40] Speaker 1: somebody and run it past them that you trust, not
[16:45] Speaker 1: somebody who are nacier. There's a lot of people out
[16:47] Speaker 1: there tell you what you can't do. A lot of
[16:49] Speaker 1: people out there tell you shoot down your ideas, don't
[16:52] Speaker 1: believe in you, That'll never work. Who do you think
[16:55] Speaker 1: you are? Where you're gonna get the money? Who gonna
[16:56] Speaker 1: buy it? Oh that's easy to come out of somebody mouth.
[17:00] Speaker 1: What it's hard to come out of people's mouth is
[17:03] Speaker 1: go for it. What you need from me, I'll help
[17:06] Speaker 1: you out. I believe in your dreams. My interview I'm
[17:11] Speaker 1: having right now is that person HBCU graduate. She just
[17:14] Speaker 1: told you she worked for people made her uncomfortable. She
[17:18] Speaker 1: wouldn't allow her to be herself, change the hairstyles sometimes
[17:22] Speaker 1: to be comfortable, make them comfortable. That means she was comfortable.
[17:25] Speaker 1: So that's what she created. She created something called trash
[17:29] Speaker 1: clean that not only allows her to feel comfortable in
[17:32] Speaker 1: this booming natural hair care industry, but it also makes
[17:37] Speaker 1: you feel good. Did did I wrap you up in
[17:39] Speaker 1: a nutshall? Right there?
[17:42] Speaker 3: In a nutshell?
[17:44] Speaker 1: Because you know, you know it's you know, it's it's
[17:46] Speaker 1: so many people out there that you know, trash clean?
[17:49] Speaker 1: Who gonna buy what you're gonna practice that, who gonna
[17:52] Speaker 1: make it? I get so sick of these people who
[17:55] Speaker 1: tell you what you ain't gonna do, but don't lift
[17:57] Speaker 1: her hand or a dollar to help you get to
[18:00] Speaker 1: the end.
[18:01] Speaker 3: W Well, that's true. And actually I did want it
[18:07] Speaker 3: past my family the moment the idea popped in my head,
[18:11] Speaker 3: and I did have that moral support from them. Of course,
[18:14] Speaker 3: I still had to do it on my own because
[18:16] Speaker 3: my family have families of their own, you know, you.
[18:20] Speaker 1: Know, and nothing wrong with that, you know. I will
[18:22] Speaker 1: tell you when I was I started out my career
[18:24] Speaker 1: as a stand up comedian and I used I used
[18:27] Speaker 1: to tell the jokes to my nephew and my oldest sister.
[18:31] Speaker 1: I told them jokes to them till they told me
[18:33] Speaker 1: to stop telling them jokes. And I went on stage
[18:36] Speaker 1: and told them the people who didn't know me, and
[18:37] Speaker 1: they laughed. But I had to get my start somewhere.
[18:40] Speaker 1: And I got my start from my oldest sister and
[18:42] Speaker 1: her son who is my nephew. And so you got
[18:45] Speaker 1: to start somewhere. And so when I hear this product
[18:48] Speaker 1: called trust clean, you know, it's a journey. It's not
[18:51] Speaker 1: something that you know you started out to do. You
[18:54] Speaker 1: don't come from a family or entrepreneurs or designers or
[18:59] Speaker 1: engineers or people who got patents. You know, you're just
[19:03] Speaker 1: an idea person. And that's why it's important that I
[19:07] Speaker 1: do this show for people like you, so you have
[19:09] Speaker 1: a voice of reality. Now, how do they get in
[19:12] Speaker 1: touch with you? Or go what website? Can they go
[19:15] Speaker 1: to see your product? And if it's so, maybe even
[19:17] Speaker 1: purchase your product.
[19:19] Speaker 3: So we have our own website, it's simple, it's trustclean
[19:24] Speaker 3: dot com. You can also search for trust clean on Amazon.
[19:31] Speaker 1: Now, when you talk about this product, packaging means something.
[19:36] Speaker 1: Did you have any help in the design? Did you
[19:39] Speaker 1: have what did you now? You know, I know you
[19:41] Speaker 1: said you made it in your kitchen and all that stuff,
[19:43] Speaker 1: you know, and got it up. Where did you start
[19:46] Speaker 1: bringing in the other people to get it over to Amazon?
[19:49] Speaker 1: To get it on website to get the ship in
[19:52] Speaker 1: the packaging and all that stuff. Tell me about that
[19:54] Speaker 1: whole concept, because we can't make this be a willa Okay.
[20:00] Speaker 3: Ironically it was a while. It is trying to do
[20:07] Speaker 3: everything on.
[20:07] Speaker 1: My own, Okay, you're independent.
[20:09] Speaker 3: Literally done everything on my own. I built my own website,
[20:13] Speaker 3: I designed my own packaging. Like I said, I was
[20:16] Speaker 3: my own chemist, I'm my marketer, my CFO, I'm the founder.
[20:21] Speaker 3: I have done everything on my own. I literally just
[20:24] Speaker 3: started advertising, which is crazy because my sales went crazy
[20:30] Speaker 3: all on word of mouth. Wow, and also of course
[20:33] Speaker 3: maybe some SEO on Amazon.
[20:35] Speaker 1: But you know, you're a money made conversations masterclass. Now
[20:38] Speaker 1: you know some more word of mouth. So I'm so
[20:40] Speaker 1: Rashan mcdonag gonna put a little push there too, because
[20:42] Speaker 1: I got a lot of natural haircare people who are
[20:46] Speaker 1: out there, so I'm gonna take a little care. I'm
[20:48] Speaker 1: gona take a little credit for that too. But that's
[20:50] Speaker 1: also part of the process because so many people they
[20:53] Speaker 1: have a product and they think this like people just
[20:56] Speaker 1: gonna automatical open the door. They're gonna come in and
[20:57] Speaker 1: start buying the food and start buying your product. You
[21:00] Speaker 1: have to help putting the word on. How did you
[21:02] Speaker 1: start telling people about your product?
[21:05] Speaker 3: So I created sample okay, and so I would beat
[21:12] Speaker 3: the street. I would go out there with my samples.
[21:16] Speaker 3: I would let everyone know, you know, who I was,
[21:20] Speaker 3: exactly what the product did, how it could help them.
[21:23] Speaker 3: And honestly, I just started on a whim wow. And
[21:27] Speaker 3: I would have a lot of people supporting, not necessarily
[21:30] Speaker 3: family itself. I did have some family support, but most
[21:34] Speaker 3: of my consumers came from all ironically, all over the world.
[21:40] Speaker 3: We had Canada pop in, we had the UK pop in. So,
[21:47] Speaker 3: like I said, although I want to say, oh, I
[21:50] Speaker 3: hired all these people, I did this advertising, I didn't
[21:53] Speaker 3: do this. I didn't do that. So right now I'm
[21:56] Speaker 3: actually in the process of hiring some people to help me.
[22:00] Speaker 3: Help now. I didn't realize my business would actually be
[22:03] Speaker 3: as big as it is.
[22:05] Speaker 1: Well, I love talking to you because it's like, you know,
[22:08] Speaker 1: you're an individual, you know, and uh you you know
[22:12] Speaker 1: you're the last person gonna raise your hand for help.
[22:13] Speaker 1: I can tell that right now, that's your person out
[22:19] Speaker 1: right right right, And so now now you got to
[22:22] Speaker 1: put together that how I got to scale the business.
[22:24] Speaker 1: That's the next step scaling the business, and then that's
[22:28] Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna have you on the show in
[22:30] Speaker 1: the fall, because by then you're gonna Rashaan, let me
[22:34] Speaker 1: tell you about my staff, because because you know, you
[22:38] Speaker 1: if you know, if you want to grow something, and
[22:40] Speaker 1: then you don't want competition to you know, step in
[22:43] Speaker 1: front of you because you didn't scale your business, because
[22:45] Speaker 1: that's what happens to people steal your ideas or still
[22:47] Speaker 1: a version of your idea, and you an original concept creator.
[22:51] Speaker 1: That's what this whole business is about. But I just
[22:53] Speaker 1: love the fact that that's that's why I just love
[22:56] Speaker 1: the fact you said, Rashan, I'm getting calls from all
[22:58] Speaker 1: over the world about this product because guess what, this
[23:01] Speaker 1: is a product that's needed that nobody ever addressed. That
[23:05] Speaker 1: is what's so amazing to me. Yeah, congratulations for being
[23:11] Speaker 1: a dreamer. I'm turning to Caut She's the founder of
[23:14] Speaker 1: trust Clean, the first black woman owned hair wipes company.
[23:18] Speaker 1: She has revolutionized a scap care with her innovative braid
[23:21] Speaker 1: lock and scap refreshing wipes. As we close it out,
[23:24] Speaker 1: tell everybody how to get in touch with you, kell,
[23:26] Speaker 1: I want to tell you I enjoyed this call. You're
[23:28] Speaker 1: the most independent minded entrepreneur person I've ever interviewed on
[23:33] Speaker 1: this show. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
[23:35] Speaker 1: It just lets me know that, Hey, if you got
[23:37] Speaker 1: an idea, don't wait on anybody, go do it yourself.
[23:40] Speaker 1: That is my calling from you, and I am blessed
[23:43] Speaker 1: to have I had a conversation with you. But as
[23:45] Speaker 1: we close out, tell everybody about your website and your
[23:48] Speaker 1: future plans for trust Cleans.
[23:51] Speaker 3: So my website again is trustclean dot com. You can
[23:55] Speaker 3: also check out our reviews on Amazon by fearching for
[23:58] Speaker 3: trust Clean. Then check out Braidlock and scot Professional White
[24:02] Speaker 3: and we'll pull up. So again, my consumers, they're always
[24:06] Speaker 3: in my inbox, They're always in my DM. Why can't
[24:10] Speaker 3: I purchase this right now and get it? Why can't
[24:12] Speaker 3: I go to Walmart? Why can't I go to my
[24:14] Speaker 3: local beauty supply store. So that's our next steps so
[24:19] Speaker 3: that you can actually get it when you need it.
[24:22] Speaker 3: Although my customer service is pretty good, I'm out there
[24:25] Speaker 3: packaging and doing everything myself, and I get them out
[24:29] Speaker 3: extremely quick. So a lot of people are always so
[24:32] Speaker 3: surprised that how quickly they get it. So that's exactly
[24:36] Speaker 3: how you can find us. And yeah, I am independent.
[24:40] Speaker 3: I wasn't afraid to start, stop, start over. My goal
[24:44] Speaker 3: is to just keep going as of right now.
[24:47] Speaker 1: Cool you awesome, awesome, and good luck on Trust Cleans.
[24:52] Speaker 1: And I want to as I close out the show,
[24:54] Speaker 1: I want to thank another dish everybody for listening to
[24:56] Speaker 1: another edition of Money Making Conversation mass a Class hosted
[24:58] Speaker 1: by me Rashn McDonald. Thank you to my guests as
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