Episode 11
Breaking Barriers The Rise of a Minority Woman in STEM
In this empowering episode of La'Quita's Toolbox, I sit down with the remarkable Charmeyce Buck, CEO of Shalom Analytics and Consulting.
From her early days in Atlanta to her successful career in Houston, Charmeyce’s journey—armed with degrees in chemistry and forensic science—is a testament to resilience and determination.
We delve into Charmeyce's experiences as a young, Black, Christian woman navigating a field often dominated by skepticism and non-believers.
Her candid discussion about overcoming doubt, discrimination, and character defamation will resonate deeply with anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in their profession.
Key Insights from Our Conversation:
- The power of divine timing in launching a business
- Navigating challenges in male-dominated STEM fields
- The importance of integrity in scientific research and business practices
- How faith can be a driving force in professional success
Join us as Charmeyce shares her incredible story and offers valuable lessons on breaking barriers and thriving against the odds.
Connect with Charmeyce:
Website: https://www.shalomanalytics.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charmeycebuck/
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Transcript
Welcome back to another amazing episode of
Speaker:Laquita's Toolbox. I am your host, Laquita
Speaker:Manley, and we are having a fantastic day
Speaker:in the lord on this Wednesday. We in the
Speaker:studio today, y'all, and I have another
Speaker:amazing guest in studio with me. I know
Speaker:you will be pleased. So those of you that
Speaker:are not new to the toolbox, you know the
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Speaker:want to miss any of the tips, tools and
Speaker:strategies that are going to be dropped in
Speaker:today's episode that are designed to help
Speaker:you grow both personally and
Speaker:professionally. But before I introduce
Speaker:today's guest to us, let me take a moment
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Speaker:the meat of the podcast. I see. I almost
Speaker:went to church right then, but I ain't
Speaker:gonna say that it was just in my throat
Speaker:right there was like on my tongue. I
Speaker:wanted to say something. Everybody in the
Speaker:pews know when they hear the speaker say
Speaker:that, they don't really mean it. It's just
Speaker:an protocol. So if you know, you know.
Speaker:Cause I'm not gonna take it. If you know,
Speaker:you know. And if you don't, don't even
Speaker:worry about it. Don't even worry about it.
Speaker:I tell you what, ask your favorite
Speaker:christian friend. Like I said, if you
Speaker:know, you know. But look, y'all know we
Speaker:always. I always have a guest on that's
Speaker:doing some fabulous, fabulous things in
Speaker:their life and in their business journey.
Speaker:And that pattern continues with today's
Speaker:guest, Miss Sharmis Buck. And I'm just
Speaker:going to give you a little bit about Miss
Speaker:Sharmis and then we're going to jump into
Speaker:a conversation where she's going to tell
Speaker:us a whole lot of it about herself.
Speaker:Charmese is originally from Atlanta,
Speaker:Georgia. She now resides in the Houston,
Speaker:Texas area. She earned her bachelor's
Speaker:degree in Kemp street from Hampton
Speaker:University in 2014 and went on to obtain
Speaker:dual master's degrees in forensic science
Speaker:and criminal crime scene investigation
Speaker:from Stevenson University. Currently,
Speaker:Sharmis is pursuing her PhD at Texas
Speaker:Southern University, as the CEO of Shalom
Speaker:analytics and consulting, LLC, she
Speaker:embodies the company's mission, where
Speaker:peace meets passion. That's her company's
Speaker:mission, where peace meets passion. She's
Speaker:a devoted servant of God. Sharmis is
Speaker:deeply committed to ensuring that people
Speaker:experience a profound encounter with Abba,
Speaker:truly embodying the father's business and
Speaker:heart. Welcome to the show, Miss Sharmies.
Speaker:Welcome to the show, sis. Thank you, thank
Speaker:you, thank you, Laquita. You want me to
Speaker:call you Laquita or Doctor Molly because
Speaker:you have so many titles. We can call you
Speaker:Bishop. We can call you so many things. It
Speaker:is your show. Look, listen, we could just
Speaker:rock with Laquita. How about that? Okay.
Speaker:Thank you so much for having me, Laquita.
Speaker:It is a blessing and honor. Woman of God
Speaker:says to be on your show, and I am. I'm
Speaker:just. I'm just blessed by this. So I am
Speaker:good. Excited. I don't know. The Lord is
Speaker:just gonna move. Like, that's just what he
Speaker:does. It is. We start, he comes in, and he
Speaker:shifts that thing to his direction. So
Speaker:this is something for somebody today. And
Speaker:I pray that you get the meat and discard
Speaker:the bone and you have something to eat for
Speaker:the rest of the week. See, there you go.
Speaker:Right there already. Listen, this is gonna
Speaker:be real good today. It's gonna be real
Speaker:good today. Look, I've been wanting to get
Speaker:you on this show for a long time. And see,
Speaker:you know, now is the right time. Now is
Speaker:the right time. It's the perfect time.
Speaker:Because I tell you, when I first met you,
Speaker:you and I were part of a program that was
Speaker:designed to help us, as minorities,
Speaker:understand the purpose and the power of
Speaker:minority certifications, of why it's
Speaker:important as minorities that we receive
Speaker:those certifications to help us tap into a
Speaker:different realm of a deeper realm of
Speaker:government contracting. Let me say that I
Speaker:want to say a different. Give us a deeper
Speaker:understanding of the power of government
Speaker:contracting and the power that each one of
Speaker:the certifications possess. And it's an
Speaker:open door that we have. And a lot of
Speaker:minority businesses don't know that it's
Speaker:there, or they do know what's there, and
Speaker:they don't understand the process that
Speaker:they need to take to get there. And so
Speaker:that's how we met. But then I learned
Speaker:about what you did, and I was like, my
Speaker:God, thank you. Look, I need her on the
Speaker:show, because I can't say that I have
Speaker:never. I've ever. Not that I haven't met,
Speaker:you know, black men or black women that do
Speaker:what you do. I will say, I have not met
Speaker:black men and black women that do what you
Speaker:do. And they doing it for themselves, not
Speaker:as a part of someone else's corporation.
Speaker:And so we go keep the wind, go keep the
Speaker:listener just hanging on by a string.
Speaker:Like, what she do? I'm about to let her
Speaker:tell you what she did, because when I told
Speaker:my husband and my son, my son was like,
Speaker:oh, see, I hold y'all. Listen, listen. In
Speaker:a couple weeks, when I come up there, I
Speaker:may have to just roll on up with that
Speaker:pound cake I told you about. So tell Ben,
Speaker:get ready for some lemon pound cake. Yeah,
Speaker:bring it on break. Don't. Neither one of
Speaker:us need it. Me nor him. But we don't eat
Speaker:it with great joy, okay. With every bite
Speaker:and a little vanilla ice cream, I'm
Speaker:thinking about you. Listen, I brought my
Speaker:niece back from Atlanta, and so she's been
Speaker:quick. Ooh, Mimi, can you make this? Can
Speaker:you make this? Can you make this? I said,
Speaker:okay. Like, here we go. And I was proud of
Speaker:myself because I made breakfast and dinner
Speaker:yesterday and still study and did
Speaker:everything. I was like, okay, holy spirit,
Speaker:I thank you for that consistency. I am
Speaker:definitely looking forward to us getting
Speaker:together. Got some ideas, possibly, if it
Speaker:fits your calendar in my head. We're gonna
Speaker:talk about why you here. But look, I know
Speaker:that these two little cackling women just
Speaker:won't get to the point. My bad, my bad. We
Speaker:gonna get there. We only, like seven
Speaker:minutes into the. Into the podcast, y'all.
Speaker:So just hold tight. This the intro. And
Speaker:again, if you know, you know, this is just
Speaker:the intro. If you don't know, don't worry
Speaker:about it. This is the intro to the show.
Speaker:Oh, go ahead and tell us to more get.
Speaker:Like, let's get to the meat of what you
Speaker:do. And at Shalom analytics, what is
Speaker:Shalom analytics? And why did you think
Speaker:that it was? Now was the time when we met
Speaker:to birth this amazing, this amazing
Speaker:business. Okay, so shalom analytics and
Speaker:consulting. We are analytical consulting
Speaker:laboratory. And what we do is we service
Speaker:the pharma, cosmetic and agriculture
Speaker:industry, as well as corporations,
Speaker:government agencies, and educational
Speaker:institutions. And we help them with
Speaker:business strategy, growth strategy, as
Speaker:well as pitching and conference
Speaker:preparation. And we also help clients with
Speaker:formulating products so they can get onto
Speaker:the market and they can expand their
Speaker:business. We're all about kingdom
Speaker:connections and kingdom growth, because
Speaker:nowhere in the bible did the Lord talk
Speaker:about us being in debt. He always sent you
Speaker:to somebody that had exactly what you
Speaker:needed to go to your next. Yes. So for me,
Speaker:I see I am the catalyst to help people go
Speaker:to their next, but also people are the
Speaker:catalyst to help me go to my next. And
Speaker:that's all about kingdom networking and
Speaker:kingdom building. The time for birthing.
Speaker:Shalom. Shalom analytics and consulting
Speaker:came to me in prayer. Like I asked the
Speaker:Lord, what is it you want me to name this
Speaker:business? And in prayer, he gave me
Speaker:shalom, analytics and consulting. And
Speaker:after he gave me that, literally, I'm
Speaker:about to pull the book down. I began to
Speaker:study a book with my ministry. I'm on the
Speaker:prayer ministry at church, and I'm also on
Speaker:the deliverance ministry there. And so one
Speaker:of the books that we were reading was by
Speaker:Apostle John Eckhart, and it is
Speaker:deliverance in the spiritual warfare
Speaker:manual. And so as soon as I began to read,
Speaker:now, normally, I'm going to be honest,
Speaker:I'll go straight to the chapter instead of
Speaker:reading the introduction. But the Lord was
Speaker:like, no, go here. It's something that I
Speaker:have for you. So, as I begin to read, he
Speaker:breaks down the word shalom, because we
Speaker:know that shalom means peace, right?
Speaker:Right. So that's where the tagline peace
Speaker:means precision came from. And so he said,
Speaker:rest is peace, shalom, and prosperity. So
Speaker:hold up, Holy Spirit, what you're doing
Speaker:here? He said, peace is an all inclusive
Speaker:word that encompasses prosperity, safety,
Speaker:health, protection, fruitfulness, and
Speaker:abundance. According to the hebrew
Speaker:definition, we can substitute the word
Speaker:prosperity with shalom, peace. So in that
Speaker:moment, I, like, lost it, because I said,
Speaker:holy Spirit, you were too good. So you're
Speaker:letting me know that my business will be
Speaker:prosperous, it will be safe, because I
Speaker:abided in you, and this is for you to get
Speaker:the glory. I will be healthy, the business
Speaker:will be healthy. It won't lack any holes.
Speaker:There won't be any lepers in it. It will
Speaker:just be flowing through, as the Holy
Speaker:Spirit has called it. And there will be
Speaker:completeness, and not only completeness
Speaker:for me, but for the community, because
Speaker:everything that we do is for our community
Speaker:and to create that healthy ecosystem. And
Speaker:so, literally, that is how shalom
Speaker:analytics and consulting was birth. It was
Speaker:through prayer. And so the time of
Speaker:launching was literally a perfect timing,
Speaker:because me and my prior partner, which I
Speaker:love to death, we went our separate ways,
Speaker:which that happens along the way. It does.
Speaker:It was in the middle of that transition,
Speaker:and I was like, lord, okay, I'm gonna
Speaker:finally step out and do it. Like, yes, I
Speaker:will say I delayed in birthing this and
Speaker:pushing it out, but I realized I birthed
Speaker:it at the right time because there were
Speaker:things hidden inside of me that were
Speaker:residue from prior seasons that if I
Speaker:allowed to, if I was, if I birthed it at
Speaker:that time, that residue would have bled on
Speaker:it. And so I realized even though I
Speaker:delayed it, it was delayed for the proper
Speaker:timing, because everything happens within
Speaker:the Lord's timing. See, right, there you
Speaker:go. We're going to unpack a couple of
Speaker:things. Come on, I'm here. We're gonna
Speaker:unpack a couple of things. Let's. You know
Speaker:what? You know what? Yes, we will unpack a
Speaker:couple of things. Now, we might not unpack
Speaker:it all in this one podcast, but we're
Speaker:gonna do our best. Praise the Lord. Look,
Speaker:because you said something right there
Speaker:that's really key, and we hear it a lot of
Speaker:times in the christian community, delay is
Speaker:not denial, but in your humanity, we can
Speaker:feel that delay is the end. It's the end.
Speaker:It's like we missed a connection. And so I
Speaker:love what you're saying. As business
Speaker:owners, as believers, we can't delay in
Speaker:doing things intentionally, purposefully.
Speaker:Don't let laziness or fear things like
Speaker:that prevent you from doing some stuff.
Speaker:But the Lord is so wonderful that even
Speaker:when we do that, he always has a way for
Speaker:us. Like, okay, you got it together now
Speaker:let's move forward. Don't think about what
Speaker:would have, shoulda, coulda. I love your
Speaker:perspective right there, where you
Speaker:understood that some pet parts of your
Speaker:past, or say, past seasons that you needed
Speaker:to heal from, you needed to grow from, you
Speaker:needed to learn from. Like, there were so
Speaker:many things in that seas, in that place in
Speaker:your life that you could not bring into
Speaker:this new place in your life. Because in
Speaker:this new place in your life, on a personal
Speaker:and professional level, those things from
Speaker:your past, in my book, I call it
Speaker:unlearning. You know, you had to unlearn
Speaker:those things that don't serve you anymore.
Speaker:They may have served you and served you
Speaker:well in the past, but being able to be a
Speaker:forward thinker, a visionary, one that
Speaker:heeds the voice of the Lord and moves with
Speaker:intention, then you realize, okay, first
Speaker:of that maturity level, let me recognize
Speaker:that these things no longer serve me, and
Speaker:I need to take my time and deal with them.
Speaker:And while I'm dealing with them, I'm
Speaker:continuing to write out the vision, I'm
Speaker:continuing to plan. Like, what do you do
Speaker:while you're waiting? You weren't just
Speaker:waiting. A lot of people feel like waiting
Speaker:or indecisiveness. Sometimes people feel
Speaker:like that's indecisive, or again, like I'm
Speaker:just delaying and I should be doing, no,
Speaker:maybe you shouldn't. But we. It's key that
Speaker:we know the difference in here. I think
Speaker:you're really blessing people right there,
Speaker:and I don't think that I know you've
Speaker:really blessed some people right there.
Speaker:Because in this entrepreneurial space on
Speaker:television, on social media, and all of
Speaker:these different things, all we see is the
Speaker:bright, the beauty and the glory. When we
Speaker:go to the pitch competitions, when we go
Speaker:to the networking meetings, when we are
Speaker:going to the and I groups, like we're part
Speaker:of different groups, rarely do we hear
Speaker:about the behind the scenes. Sometimes
Speaker:people give us full transparency, and
Speaker:that's a blessing. But oftentimes all we
Speaker:see is the end result of their back end
Speaker:work. Yeah. And what I hear you saying
Speaker:here very clearly is you took the time to
Speaker:do this, the. The self work. Yeah. So that
Speaker:the charmise that's on this podcast today
Speaker:is fully equipped and fully capable, fully
Speaker:healed. Yes. From those things that now
Speaker:you have a clear mind, a clear focus, a
Speaker:clear vision, and a roadmap. Yeah. To get
Speaker:to that level of success. Let's talk about
Speaker:that a little bit. You know, how did, how
Speaker:did you come to that place where you
Speaker:realize, you know what, this is what God
Speaker:is calling me to do, I'm going to do it.
Speaker:But I know now is not the time. I need to
Speaker:work on me. Like, how did you get to that
Speaker:place? Oh, that's a good question, woman
Speaker:of God. Literally, just prayer, fasting,
Speaker:but seeking the elders. And the word says
Speaker:that we must seek the elders for wisdom.
Speaker:Come on. And so literally, sometimes they
Speaker:would just give me one word and I would
Speaker:take that word to God and. And go into
Speaker:prayer. And I'll never forget there was
Speaker:one time last semester when I was in the
Speaker:middle of this transition, and I'm talking
Speaker:about, I'm sitting in class doing my best,
Speaker:trying to focus, and all hell is breaking
Speaker:loose in my life, and I'm in warfare, but
Speaker:I'm trying to focus in class, and I'm
Speaker:talking about tears are piling up in my
Speaker:eyes and I was like, lord, I cannot break
Speaker:down in this class. Like, I have to focus.
Speaker:And in that moment, because I surrendered
Speaker:and called on him in the middle of class,
Speaker:like, just internally having this
Speaker:conversation, he literally spoke to me and
Speaker:prophesied to me and was like, prophesy
Speaker:over yourself. And I wrote everything on
Speaker:the paper. Like, I have a paper over my
Speaker:paper so people wouldn't see what's
Speaker:happening. And I'm literally writing
Speaker:everything the Lord is saying. And in that
Speaker:moment, there was a release that happened
Speaker:in the middle of my class. And so once I
Speaker:got home from class, I went back over and
Speaker:I reread it, and he's like, you're the.
Speaker:You're the forerunner. You're the
Speaker:trailblazer. You. I have everything you
Speaker:need. Like, you just need to stay in my
Speaker:presence, and I'll give you the strategy
Speaker:going to give you the design, the things
Speaker:that, as we said before, we use prior.
Speaker:It's not working in this. And so even
Speaker:along this new journey with him, where
Speaker:it's just solely him and me, because I've
Speaker:even put him as the CEO of my company,
Speaker:it's Jesus. And I said, supernaturally and
Speaker:in the natural, and there is a line to me,
Speaker:and I said, I'm just the vessel that you
Speaker:are using, so you can do whatever you want
Speaker:to. And that's even a prayer I say when I
Speaker:do my communion, the bread, I say, this is
Speaker:your body. And I exchange my body for your
Speaker:body. So that means you can break it,
Speaker:shape it, bend it, molded, do what you
Speaker:need to do. Oh, my. Exactly. That's a big.
Speaker:When I take the blood, I take the blood. I
Speaker:said, I exchanged my DNA for your DNA. So
Speaker:anything that is not in me, that is in me,
Speaker:that is not of you must come out. And
Speaker:anything that will hinder me from doing
Speaker:the things you have me have called me to
Speaker:do, take them out. Just as you curse the
Speaker:fig tree, prophetically curse those things
Speaker:inside of me and remove them and replace
Speaker:them with your fruit. Come on, Lord, I
Speaker:want to bear the fruit as the trees do. A
Speaker:revelation where they produce monthly.
Speaker:Come on. Takes a whole new level of
Speaker:courage. It takes a whole new level of
Speaker:faith holding level, a whole new level of
Speaker:trust in the Lord. But those are the
Speaker:things that he is seeking. And so in this,
Speaker:um, it has also caused me to learn how to
Speaker:properly surrender to him. Come on.
Speaker:Because if I surrender to him and show him
Speaker:that I trust him, I'm forcing his hand to
Speaker:move, because he will not let his child go
Speaker:without. Mmm. That's good. That's good. So
Speaker:that is how we got here. And then also
Speaker:knowing and obtaining this wisdom that I
Speaker:must maintain my deliverance, the enemy
Speaker:will come back and knock and see if you
Speaker:will open that door. If there is a wound
Speaker:for him to enter in and he'll bring seven
Speaker:more. But I use to go back to where I once
Speaker:was. Come on. That's real good. So it
Speaker:causes this walk, and this journey of
Speaker:entrepreneurship is the road of the narrow
Speaker:place. And not a lot of people can come,
Speaker:but only the people that he places. But we
Speaker:got to even discern that. Okay, are you in
Speaker:me with this season, or are you with me
Speaker:with this lifetime? Come on. And so
Speaker:everything that I do, I'm like, all right,
Speaker:lord, what you want me to do about this?
Speaker:How do we go about this? Like, lord, help
Speaker:me produce consistency in this area,
Speaker:because I realized that consistency is a
Speaker:form of stewardship. Say that again very,
Speaker:very. Say that again very, very loud. And
Speaker:when you say that, I got something I'm
Speaker:gonna add to. I ain't taking nothing away.
Speaker:Oh, yeah. Just, you know, I'm an amen in
Speaker:it. And you put a thought on it. Because
Speaker:he's been dealing with me like, he's been
Speaker:giving me revelation on stewardship,
Speaker:because we always think of stewardship as
Speaker:financial. He's like, no, stewardship is
Speaker:everything how you're stewarding. Your
Speaker:mind, your ear gate, your eye gate, your
Speaker:time, your health, your clap. Button on
Speaker:this thing, because I need to clap, and I
Speaker:need the thing to do to clap so I won't
Speaker:hurt the people. Come on, talk about it.
Speaker:Listen. And so that's why I have been
Speaker:asking, lord, help me to be consistent in
Speaker:this area. This is a new dimension that
Speaker:I'm stepping into. But I need to produce
Speaker:consistency, and the only way I can
Speaker:produce consistency is by being in that
Speaker:secret place with you. And I realized that
Speaker:the secret plate, each secret, each time
Speaker:we go into the secret place, it requires a
Speaker:new level. Come on, now. And so that also,
Speaker:it goes into pruning. Everybody's like,
Speaker:oh, we're in a season of pruning. Yes,
Speaker:this is true. But also, pruning happens
Speaker:daily because we are not the same as we
Speaker:were yesterday, 5 seconds ago, or even 1
Speaker:second ago. I mean, a natural body does
Speaker:it. Like, we lose dead stuff all the time.
Speaker:Dead skin, hair, follicles. We can't see
Speaker:it. At least I hope y'all can't. You
Speaker:shouldn't. Oh, my God. But you shouldn't
Speaker:be able to see it. But it's happening, and
Speaker:it's happening for the right reason. Like,
Speaker:we need that to happen. Yeah, we need that
Speaker:to happen, to stay healthy and to renew
Speaker:and refresh. So if the Lord does that in
Speaker:our physical body, he's created our
Speaker:physical body for that how much more? And
Speaker:his word talks about it. We have to renew
Speaker:our mind daily. Look, your girl over here,
Speaker:the host of this show, I tell it's like,
Speaker:lord, I gotta renew my mind every moment,
Speaker:every day, because sometimes the things
Speaker:that I want to do, I don't. And the things
Speaker:that I should be doing, you know, the
Speaker:things I shouldn't be saying or do, I find
Speaker:myself doing. Oh, girl, listen, you're not
Speaker:the only one. Like, I'm quick to say,
Speaker:lord, your children acting ghetto. Like, I
Speaker:need you to lay hands and not me because
Speaker:they might unholy. And I just know what
Speaker:I'm saying. We love the Lord, and we're
Speaker:talking about the things, the tools that
Speaker:God has given us through his word and
Speaker:through his precious holy spirit so that
Speaker:we can accomplish the mission, so that we
Speaker:can achieve the goals and we can reach the
Speaker:heights and the depths and all that good
Speaker:jazz that he's created us to be. And
Speaker:you're definitely laying a great
Speaker:foundation. You've definitely been giving
Speaker:us some amazing tools for the listener.
Speaker:Like, I hope y'all been taking notes
Speaker:because the woman of God has said some
Speaker:things I ain't even got to. We ain't even
Speaker:halfway unpacked the first question
Speaker:thought we had. Let me be clear, we have
Speaker:not halfway the first question because,
Speaker:you know, just, just to recap, you know,
Speaker:some of the. One of the things that
Speaker:Sharmis has shared with us today is how
Speaker:she got to the place where she recognized
Speaker:that there were things in her past, old
Speaker:mindsets, relationships, collaborations,
Speaker:you name it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:There's old things in her past that could
Speaker:not go with her on this journey that she
Speaker:was going to embark upon with bringing
Speaker:Shalom analytics and consulting into a
Speaker:reality. As a professional. In her
Speaker:personal life and in her professional
Speaker:life, there's things that she just had to
Speaker:let go. She had, first, she had to
Speaker:recognize that she needed to let it go,
Speaker:then do the work to let it go. And in her
Speaker:journey of doing that, she sought the Lord
Speaker:in prayer. She journaled. Well, let's just
Speaker:keep it at that. Like, she sought the Lord
Speaker:in prayer, she dark she journal. And that
Speaker:was an important thing that she did there
Speaker:as well. She consulted the elders. I was
Speaker:watching a podcast on tvN. I can't
Speaker:remember the name of it, actually. It's
Speaker:not. I was not watching tv and I was
Speaker:actually watching YouTube, but it was on
Speaker:there and on this particular show. Why? I
Speaker:can't think of the name of the show.
Speaker:Anywho, Jackie Hill Perry was talking on
Speaker:this particular episode that I was
Speaker:watching. She was talking about the
Speaker:importance, importance of younger
Speaker:generations, that is us younger
Speaker:generations learning to take heed to the
Speaker:wisdom of the elders. And yes, we may be
Speaker:technologically, you know, more advanced
Speaker:and, you know, the times and the things,
Speaker:but the scripture tells us there's nothing
Speaker:new under the sun. We might do it in a
Speaker:different way, but principles are
Speaker:principles, and they don't shift. And I
Speaker:think every generation is guilty of it,
Speaker:where we look back at the generations
Speaker:before us and deem them stupid or behind
Speaker:the times, and our way is bigger and
Speaker:better and, you know, more advanced. And
Speaker:she said something really great there.
Speaker:When the question asked, how did she get
Speaker:to where she was? That was one of her
Speaker:answers. Like, she had to get to a place
Speaker:where she sought the wisdom. She received
Speaker:the wisdom, and she began to act it out.
Speaker:And that's what you said there. You sought
Speaker:the wisdom of those. And be clear,
Speaker:sometimes elders don't necessarily mean
Speaker:older than you in age. It can mean someone
Speaker:with more experience than you with doing
Speaker:what you're doing. They are already at a
Speaker:place in their careers or in their
Speaker:business that you are trying to get to.
Speaker:Yes. That they can give you some wisdom on
Speaker:how to get there. Yes. And no matter how
Speaker:off putting it, he found sometimes a large
Speaker:majority of the time, they're right. Yes.
Speaker:And they can actually help us not go
Speaker:through some of the fiery trials that we
Speaker:found ourselves in. Listen, that's so
Speaker:true. And I can't. I cannot tell you how
Speaker:many people the Lord literally sent to me
Speaker:and literally said, you just needed to
Speaker:know the process. And I was just like,
Speaker:yes, lord, I hear you. Like, he sent so
Speaker:many people to confirm me, and he sent me
Speaker:back to a dream and that he gave me a
Speaker:while ago. And what he told, I was like,
Speaker:okay, lord, like, I have to surrender. And
Speaker:that takes a level of courage. And I
Speaker:realized I don't have that courage, but I
Speaker:need to get that courage. So that's when I
Speaker:went to my apostolic covering. Like, I
Speaker:need you. Like, I need to pull on you. And
Speaker:let me break that down for those of you
Speaker:that are unchurched. And it's okay to be
Speaker:unchurched, you know, this wisdom applies
Speaker:across the board. Because the beautiful
Speaker:thing is this world revolves on
Speaker:principles. Yes, there are certain
Speaker:principles. If we follow those principles,
Speaker:we're just going to have good success.
Speaker:Bottom line. And when she says her
Speaker:apostolic covering, think of on that as
Speaker:those that are in authority in her life.
Speaker:And so maybe we could say her executive
Speaker:coach, if you will, somebody that you have
Speaker:paid a lot of money to, to help you
Speaker:through this. You know, that you're. And
Speaker:we all understand that sometimes we need
Speaker:coaches in different areas of our life,
Speaker:not just one coach. You know, you'll have
Speaker:coaches for different components,
Speaker:different aspects of your life, and
Speaker:different parts of your business. You'll
Speaker:have coaches. And so when she's saying
Speaker:that, and even when we're saying elders,
Speaker:just think of those as coaches. People who
Speaker:have gone through the training, they've
Speaker:gotten the certifications, they have all
Speaker:the certificates, and they have the
Speaker:experience, and they also have the net
Speaker:income and gross income in their business
Speaker:to say, I know what I'm talking about. So
Speaker:think about that in those terms. What
Speaker:shamise is saying. She sought out the
Speaker:right people to give her wisdom in the
Speaker:right areas of her life. She sought out
Speaker:the right people to give her wisdom and
Speaker:strategies in the right places through
Speaker:different aspects of properly setting up
Speaker:her business, when to set it up, how to
Speaker:set it up, you know, the different
Speaker:marketing strategies, all of these
Speaker:different things. We all have to have
Speaker:someone. And so if we could do, you know,
Speaker:metaphorically think about it in those
Speaker:terms, because I don't want. I don't want.
Speaker:I want to make sure we don't lose any of
Speaker:the listeners. Like, what they talking
Speaker:about. Yeah, no, that's. That's so good.
Speaker:And you. You're helping me. Um, especially
Speaker:when I encounter those that are not
Speaker:church. And I think in today's society,
Speaker:when we're around so many people that are
Speaker:church and when we encounter the
Speaker:unchurched, sometimes we don't have the
Speaker:proper language to relate to them. Hey,
Speaker:you see it this way. Like, it's this way,
Speaker:but we can break it down this way. So you
Speaker:can see that it equates to the same thing
Speaker:because at the end of the day, we want
Speaker:them to have an encounter with Jesus like
Speaker:we had. That changed our life. Right,
Speaker:right. And you're absolutely right. You
Speaker:know, I have to admit that that wisdom
Speaker:came from my husband many years ago. See?
Speaker:Come on, Ben. Come on. I was not very
Speaker:receiving. Let's be very clear. Let's be
Speaker:very clear. I was not receiving what he
Speaker:was putting down because my little self
Speaker:was offended deeply because what you
Speaker:saying? What you talking about? And
Speaker:basically what he told me, he was like,
Speaker:you need to learn how to have a
Speaker:conversation with people. I talk a lot, so
Speaker:I was not computing what he meant. Like, I
Speaker:have conversations with people all day,
Speaker:every day. I talked to strangers you don't
Speaker:want over there, don't talk to people.
Speaker:What did we. Cause it wasn't coming
Speaker:together. So I was offended. I'm like, you
Speaker:get mad at me for talking to people, now
Speaker:you telling me I need to. What are we
Speaker:saying here? Okay, so he said it. For
Speaker:years, I didn't get what he was saying. He
Speaker:didn't get why, didn't understand what he
Speaker:was saying. So we was at an impasse. I
Speaker:wasn't changing. And one day, it just hit
Speaker:the both of us in a heated fellowship. For
Speaker:those of you, they're like, high
Speaker:fellowship, heated. Don't let your mind go
Speaker:there. We were in an argument. That's what
Speaker:we were in an argument. We were having an
Speaker:argument. It was wrapping back to that.
Speaker:And we realized that communication is
Speaker:vital. It is key. We learned from our
Speaker:previous pastors that proper communication
Speaker:is the cure to all confusion. And we
Speaker:weren't communicating properly. Like, in a
Speaker:way that he wasn't communicating to me in
Speaker:a way that I could, and I wasn't. So I
Speaker:wasn't receiving. Like, he wasn't saying
Speaker:anything in malice. He was just saying,
Speaker:you need to shift. You missing something.
Speaker:You. You are missing being able to connect
Speaker:with a lot of people because you don't
Speaker:know how to talk to people. And I was
Speaker:offended, but when I understood what he
Speaker:meant, I was able to receive it, and he
Speaker:was right. So basically what he was saying
Speaker:is, sometimes as believers is what you
Speaker:said, sometimes as believers, you know,
Speaker:it's like the high in high school. You got
Speaker:your clicks. Sometimes as believers, we
Speaker:spend so much time with not just other
Speaker:christians, because they're different
Speaker:denominations in Christianity, you know,
Speaker:we do, everybody do things a little bit
Speaker:different, but we spend so much time with
Speaker:the people who do and say what we do and
Speaker:say that, you know, our slang, our lingo.
Speaker:So that's how we talk to everybody. And
Speaker:you got people over there scratching their
Speaker:head like, I don't even know what you
Speaker:talking about. And at this point, I don't
Speaker:want to talk to you anymore. Like, yeah,
Speaker:and you have what they need. So I had to
Speaker:become intentional about making that
Speaker:shift. And so, especially in business,
Speaker:what, like, so for me, it took several
Speaker:years for me to process and accept that I
Speaker:should be speaking and teaching,
Speaker:facilitating courses outside of the
Speaker:church. It took me a long time because I
Speaker:could not process how to do that because
Speaker:there are some things that I want to say.
Speaker:You know, like at the top of the podcast,
Speaker:there's some things that I want to say
Speaker:that just don't translate. Mm hmm. It just
Speaker:translate into. To the secular or to non
Speaker:believers. Absolutely. So. And I was like,
Speaker:I don't want to have to take that much
Speaker:energy. Let me just be honest. I don't
Speaker:have to take that much energy to be
Speaker:talking in, thinking through, you know,
Speaker:several filters of what it is I want to
Speaker:say to make sure I hit the mark and not
Speaker:offend nobody. Make sure I can say it in a
Speaker:way that could be well received. And then
Speaker:I had a revelation, like, you can do it.
Speaker:Others have gone before you and done it.
Speaker:You can do it. It doesn't have to
Speaker:compromise anything. That's it. It's just
Speaker:a way that we're gonna reach more people.
Speaker:And so, Tada. Here I am today, you know,
Speaker:but it's a process. You had to. We had to
Speaker:think that through, like, I imagine, in
Speaker:your field, because. But for the short,
Speaker:like a short synopsis of who. You're a
Speaker:scientist. Yes? You are a scientist. Yes.
Speaker:And you are in a field that is not
Speaker:dominated by christians. No, it's not. I
Speaker:mean, you like the pink elephant, you
Speaker:know, pink, purple, polka dotted elephant.
Speaker:So not only are you young, black, female,
Speaker:ain't you a Christian in a community of
Speaker:largely not just non believers, but people
Speaker:who, you may find yourself in some places
Speaker:where people think your intelligence
Speaker:doesn't cut the mustard because you are a
Speaker:Christian. I gotta remember the first time
Speaker:I heard that. I'm like, that has got to be
Speaker:the most. The dumbest thing I've ever
Speaker:heard. But people believed it with a
Speaker:passion. Like, the first time I heard that
Speaker:was I was in England. And a lot of
Speaker:european culture is very humanist, their
Speaker:belief system, very humanist. Not to say
Speaker:there's no christians over there or
Speaker:anybody of any faith system, because when
Speaker:I say humanist, that means they don't.
Speaker:They don't care whether you're a
Speaker:Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim, Hindu.
Speaker:They believe all us are crazy because we
Speaker:believe in a higher power. We believe in a
Speaker:God of sorts, or many gods. They think
Speaker:it's just me, me, myself, and I. And I
Speaker:made this wonderful. And so you find
Speaker:yourself, I think, and jump in here in a
Speaker:minute and tell me if I'm wrong. How do
Speaker:you function in that, like, and create a
Speaker:conversation that, yes, I deserve to be
Speaker:here, not because of any of my minority
Speaker:marks. Yeah. You know, that ain't why I'm
Speaker:here. I'm here because I'm an intelligent
Speaker:scientist. Yes. So there's a couple
Speaker:things, actually. Um, and I wanted to say
Speaker:this as you were talking about relating to
Speaker:people when I literally told. I just told
Speaker:one of my sisters this and anything, you
Speaker:know, we speak, we also have to partake
Speaker:ourselves, and it's also giving people
Speaker:grace and mercy and then also meeting them
Speaker:where they're at and not forget to come
Speaker:from. And so I feel like sometimes we lose
Speaker:a moment of where we come from because we
Speaker:don't want to deal, keep dealing with that
Speaker:past. But that past is how you help bring
Speaker:people forward. Like, we have to reveal
Speaker:our skeletons. Right? Right. Only way. And
Speaker:so, for me, in this journey, I've always
Speaker:wanted to do. I love science as a kid, and
Speaker:originally, I wanted to be a forensic
Speaker:pathologist, and I saw live autopsies on
Speaker:adults. I'm like a kid at the candy store,
Speaker:face on the screen. Ooh, it's their brain.
Speaker:Is this. This? Is this? But I look over to
Speaker:the left, and I see two children under the
Speaker:age of two getting an autopsy. And that's
Speaker:when my heart posture changed, because I
Speaker:said, lord, I cannot separate this. And I
Speaker:love children too much. And I asked the
Speaker:guy who gave us the tour, and he said, not
Speaker:to sound morbid, but they're just a piece
Speaker:of meat. Yes, I get it. To be absent from
Speaker:the body is to be present from the Lord.
Speaker:But that's still someone's child at the
Speaker:end of the day. And I know because I have
Speaker:a big heart and I love children, I would
Speaker:not be able to disconnect, connect. And so
Speaker:the Lord reminded me of how much I love
Speaker:science and doing research, because I did
Speaker:research for the homeland security at FDA
Speaker:and undergrad at Hampton. And so I was
Speaker:like, you are right. I love the lab. So
Speaker:that's how I got there. But people. Yes.
Speaker:When I walk in the room, I get. People are
Speaker:intimidated by my height, my size, the way
Speaker:I look, which is fine. And then also, they
Speaker:downplay, like, oh, she's just a black
Speaker:woman just coming in, maybe trying to see
Speaker:how she can get her way in. Like, these
Speaker:are things that I've heard. Like, I've
Speaker:been called the. I was called before the
Speaker:company rehab. Wow. The company rehab. And
Speaker:the thing was, I was not even sleeping
Speaker:with the man, nor did I ever see myself
Speaker:even doing anything with the man. He was
Speaker:just a great friend, and he's also
Speaker:married. I don't. I don't play with God,
Speaker:nor do I play about that. Right? I learned
Speaker:a lot of skill sets from him. And, like,
Speaker:me and him are the best of friends now.
Speaker:And so, much to the point, he'll call me,
Speaker:hey, how you think I should do this with
Speaker:this instrument? Or how should I go about
Speaker:this? And I was like, that's such an honor
Speaker:for someone who taught me. Now they're
Speaker:seeking me for the same knowledge. Come
Speaker:on. Knowledge, right? So, um, literally,
Speaker:every time I walk in a room, people, I get
Speaker:that. I get downplayed. I get sized up.
Speaker:But it's when I open my mouth, I sift them
Speaker:in, like, oh, you're so intelligent.
Speaker:You're so smart. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker:Like, I know my stuff, but it comes from
Speaker:me studying and then also, um, me. Just
Speaker:keep pressing forward. That I had. There
Speaker:has been times I will never forget. I
Speaker:cried my eyes out one time before going to
Speaker:work because I was like, I'm tired of
Speaker:people defaming my character. I'm tired of
Speaker:this. And then you're overworking me.
Speaker:You're not paying me. And these are some
Speaker:of the things that we go through in the
Speaker:minority community. And even with all
Speaker:these degrees. Come on. You are
Speaker:underpaying me. You're not paying me
Speaker:enough to live, but yet you want me to
Speaker:work all these hours. You're not giving me
Speaker:overtime. You want me to supervise people
Speaker:and teach people what I know, but yet
Speaker:you're bringing them on, and they're.
Speaker:They're paying them more because they look
Speaker:like you. But what about me? Right? And so
Speaker:it was through all those scars that I
Speaker:obtained, and I realized that was laying
Speaker:the foundation for now. Yeah, it gave me
Speaker:every single key. But literally now, I
Speaker:walk into each room with boldness and
Speaker:confidence and authority, and I do not let
Speaker:it faze me. And that was something that
Speaker:literally took a while to get to because
Speaker:I've never paid attention to it until,
Speaker:like, you know, how you sit back, you
Speaker:actually discern I. The things prior and
Speaker:the things now. And I was in a conference
Speaker:room for a conference, and the theme that
Speaker:year was forensic science. Little did I
Speaker:know that the gentleman who was hosting
Speaker:that particular talk in the room would
Speaker:soon would be my professor for my master's
Speaker:program. And so, literally, I went there
Speaker:to present my research that I had been
Speaker:doing for the homeland security at FDA.
Speaker:First time ever doing it. And I'll never
Speaker:forget the question that he asked. And he
Speaker:said, how do you determine the striations
Speaker:on a bullet? That's all he asks. So
Speaker:everybody's going around. You got people
Speaker:from John Hopkins, you got people from the
Speaker:University of Maryland. They're like, oh,
Speaker:you'll put it in a computer. It'll be this
Speaker:this and this and this and this. And. And
Speaker:literally, I looked at my professor, black
Speaker:woman in stem, sitting next to me. So I
Speaker:looked at her, and I was like, okay, I'm
Speaker:gonna answer. So I raised my hand. He
Speaker:points at me. I said, no, you need a
Speaker:comparison microscope. You take the
Speaker:projectile that was taken from the scene,
Speaker:and you take your standard and you compare
Speaker:it with the comparison microscope. And if
Speaker:your striations match, you have a match
Speaker:with the bullet. If they don't, then that
Speaker:means that that bullet was not shot from
Speaker:that gun. I. Gun. And literally, his mouth
Speaker:dropped on the floor, and he stopped
Speaker:everything. Everyone in the room turned
Speaker:and looked at me. And literally, he was
Speaker:like, how do you know this? Like, come on,
Speaker:sis. I said, chemistry major. He was like,
Speaker:that makes sense. But he said, that's the
Speaker:right answer. That's the answer I was
Speaker:looking for. So literally, after that
Speaker:session was over, he got my information,
Speaker:and we stayed in contact. And literally,
Speaker:every person in there, I'm talking about,
Speaker:I'm in a room full of white people. Maybe
Speaker:there's five of us that are blacks. And
Speaker:literally every single one walked up to me
Speaker:and shook my hand and said, you know your
Speaker:stuff. I am so afraid of you. Like, oh, my
Speaker:gosh. And I was just like, thank you.
Speaker:That's an honor. But I haven't. Ever since
Speaker:then, I have been encountering that so
Speaker:much. But also, I've realized our field,
Speaker:people who have the money and they don't
Speaker:have the background, so they're just like,
Speaker:let me just create this business and put
Speaker:bodies in there, and y'all will run it.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the Lord is like, no
Speaker:more. I'll never forget a lot of
Speaker:businesses. Businesses. The owner of the
Speaker:business is nowhere near as intelligent as
Speaker:the people that run the business. And they
Speaker:are thousand percent okay with that
Speaker:because they didn't want to be hands on in
Speaker:the business in the beginning. They just
Speaker:realized that it's a lucrative field, and
Speaker:I want in so that I can make money. So
Speaker:they're. Their wisdom was, create the
Speaker:business and do just what you said. Hire
Speaker:the people who are more than intelligent
Speaker:than I to make sure the business don't
Speaker:fail. Absolutely. And they care about the
Speaker:revenue. And that is something that
Speaker:bothered me, because behind every sample
Speaker:is a client that you should care about. Mm
Speaker:hmm. I cannot tell you the things that I
Speaker:have encountered. The lack of integrity.
Speaker:People have had so much to the point where
Speaker:I stood up to the VP of the company and I
Speaker:said, no, enough is enough. We're not
Speaker:doing this. I'm stepping over your
Speaker:supervisor. I'm stepping over this. I am.
Speaker:I refuse. My name will not be on it
Speaker:because my name carries weight. And so he
Speaker:lived. Yes. He lifted me. I was like, did
Speaker:you really just say, I'll say it again.
Speaker:I'll say it again. We're not doing this.
Speaker:Like, why? If the facility sent in the
Speaker:samples improperly, why are we sitting up
Speaker:here trying to run the results and then
Speaker:try and match it to the patient to be
Speaker:like, oh, we ran it. Nope. Tell the
Speaker:facility they messed up. And it was a new
Speaker:technician who wasn't paying attention,
Speaker:who accidentally threw the requisitions
Speaker:away, and those samples cannot be ran. I'm
Speaker:not going to forge anything, because if
Speaker:something comes back and say, hey, this
Speaker:person actually had cocaine in their
Speaker:system, and they've never been cocaine
Speaker:before, you now have an open door for a
Speaker:lawsuit. Yeah. And so, no, like, I. It got
Speaker:to a point. No, I'm not doing this. I'm
Speaker:not working here no more. I'm not doing
Speaker:this. I'm taking my hands off. And so
Speaker:seeing the lack of integrity in our field,
Speaker:dealing with the character defamation, and
Speaker:just everything that has been endured,
Speaker:that's what helped also birth this. But
Speaker:just literally just letting stuff be ducks
Speaker:like water to a duck's back and letting it
Speaker:roll off my back. Let it roll off. Listen,
Speaker:he called me to be bold and courageous.
Speaker:Bold and very courageous. Listen, so I
Speaker:don't. I don't have fear anymore. Yeah.
Speaker:People have doubted me. I still encounter
Speaker:people that doubt me. But it's okay. I'm
Speaker:here on the father's business. And when
Speaker:I'm on the father's business, we not
Speaker:friends until his business get done. And
Speaker:once his business get done, we. Then we
Speaker:can laugh. We can Kiki, we can do all
Speaker:that. But as for me, right now, I'm on an
Speaker:assignment and a mission, and don't you
Speaker:hinder it. Come on, now. Don't get in the
Speaker:way. Don't get away. Look, y'all, this
Speaker:episode is getting real good to me. It is
Speaker:real good. It ain't getting real good. It
Speaker:is real good. But we go. I got a few more
Speaker:things I want to ask you. But I'm a save
Speaker:it for the next time. I'm a save it. I'm a
Speaker:save it for the next time, because I know
Speaker:for a fact there will be a next time. So I
Speaker:just want to recap Miss Sharmees book. She
Speaker:is the founder and CEO of Shalom Analytics
Speaker:Consulting. And at Shalom Analytics
Speaker:Consulting. Go ahead and let us know again
Speaker:what Shalom analytics and consulting does.
Speaker:Because you cover several spaces from
Speaker:agriculture, cosmetics, pharmaceutical
Speaker:services, consulting services. You provide
Speaker:a lot of services. Yes. So hold on,
Speaker:because something dropped in my spirit. I
Speaker:had to stop. Sorry, y'all. Oh, we lord.
Speaker:Oh, yes. We do service the agriculture,
Speaker:cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industry in
Speaker:providing formulation, formulation. That
Speaker:was real country. Excuse me. Formulation
Speaker:and testing, analysis to help you get onto
Speaker:the market. You can come with a
Speaker:formulation, or we can formulate from
Speaker:scratch. And if you have any products that
Speaker:need testing, we can work it out. Work out
Speaker:your package from stability testing, shelf
Speaker:life testing, your raw materials, the
Speaker:impurities, water activity and things of
Speaker:that nature. That's on the analytic side.
Speaker:And for consulting, we work with
Speaker:corporations, government agencies, and
Speaker:HBCUs for growth and strategy, as well as
Speaker:pitching and conference preparation. And
Speaker:right now, respectfully, I have been
Speaker:working heavily with the HBCU in helping
Speaker:their business students in business plan
Speaker:business, pitching how to network
Speaker:properly, and just ensuring, like, your
Speaker:business is ready to go. And you are your
Speaker:business wherever you go, once you start
Speaker:it, your image is your image, as well as
Speaker:conference preparation, because within the
Speaker:STEM field, we do have national
Speaker:conferences, and they do award those
Speaker:students money who present their research.
Speaker:So it's all about imparting boldness and
Speaker:imparting a person, helping a person
Speaker:identify their identity within themselves.
Speaker:I love that. I love that. Look, y'all,
Speaker:we're gonna find out more. Cause I got
Speaker:questions, especially with the
Speaker:pharmaceuticals and the cosmetics. We
Speaker:gonna answer these questions next time. We
Speaker:gonna answer these questions on the next
Speaker:one. Because I'm thinking about, you know,
Speaker:those small entrepreneurs and independent
Speaker:entrepreneurs that have been making these
Speaker:amazing things in their home, and now it
Speaker:blew up. And now it blew up. You know,
Speaker:when should they consult you? Before the
Speaker:blow up. After the blow up. Like, you
Speaker:know, people sell heavily on social media,
Speaker:and, you know, we're shifting more and
Speaker:more to being conscious and aware of the
Speaker:toxins and the chemicals and a lot of the
Speaker:everyday products that we use. And so
Speaker:people are really just going back to their
Speaker:roots. Like, that's how I see it. These
Speaker:are the things that people were using to,
Speaker:from whether it's homemade deodorants and
Speaker:soaps to, you know, ink shirts and all
Speaker:these. These are the things that we were
Speaker:doing before the pharmaceutical industry
Speaker:blew up and then bled over into the
Speaker:cosmetics and all of these other things.
Speaker:Like, I want some cute lipstick,
Speaker:eyeshadow, all of that stuff. But it did
Speaker:not always contain things that could kill
Speaker:me one day, absolutely. Actually used to
Speaker:just contain the colors from some roses.
Speaker:You wanted it red, I don't know, red, and
Speaker:made it happen. Like, you know, so, you
Speaker:know, you know, working with. When should
Speaker:someone in that space come have a
Speaker:conversation with you? So, in all
Speaker:actuality, it. It doesn't matter. You can
Speaker:start with me at the beginning, because
Speaker:we're in. In. There's a statistic. There's
Speaker:57% of Americans have had at least one
Speaker:idea for a new product, but yet only two
Speaker:in five ever take that step. And that's
Speaker:actually a statistic I drop every time
Speaker:that I pitch. So I can help turn your idea
Speaker:into a thriving reality, or you can bring
Speaker:your idea that's already thriving and you
Speaker:want to tweak it so it can be global. So
Speaker:you can come to me at any step. If you
Speaker:have been working on stuff at home and you
Speaker:already have a formulation and you just
Speaker:want me to test it, we can go that route.
Speaker:Or if you have gotten recommendations from
Speaker:clients like, hey, it's too oily, or it
Speaker:doesn't last as long, we can tweak your
Speaker:formulation. Or you may say, hey, I'm good
Speaker:on this formulation. I just want to test
Speaker:get on the market. But there are other
Speaker:things that I want to start within my
Speaker:business, such as makeup or lotion or an
Speaker:oil, like, can you formulate it? And we'll
Speaker:go from there. And, hey, go forward. So at
Speaker:any stage that you feel necessary. But you
Speaker:do need a chemist for any product that you
Speaker:make that you need to get on the market,
Speaker:whether it's a beverage, whether it's a
Speaker:sauce, whether it's a spice, whether a
Speaker:solution or anything, like, you need to
Speaker:work with a chemist. And hence shalom.
Speaker:Analytics and consulting. See, that's what
Speaker:I'm talking about. We're going to talk
Speaker:about this some more, because, you know, I
Speaker:love gardening. Yes. And I have not yet
Speaker:tested my soil, and I need to. I know
Speaker:that's a thing. So for a lot, a lot of
Speaker:home gardeners, like true home gardeners,
Speaker:we're not trying to get it to the market
Speaker:or anything like that. I'm just really
Speaker:trying to improve the taste of my
Speaker:tomatoes. That's all I'm doing is trying
Speaker:to improve the taste of my tomatoes, and I
Speaker:need to know about the source. So is that
Speaker:something that the home gardener can say,
Speaker:hey, because I know, like, we get these,
Speaker:wherever we order the test from, we're
Speaker:going to send it off, they're going to
Speaker:send it back to our local university it's
Speaker:always a cost. Okay, fine, that's a cost.
Speaker:But is that something that you guys do as
Speaker:well? Yes, we can, we can start, we can
Speaker:test your soil. See you coming back.
Speaker:Because now I got questions. You will come
Speaker:back. You gonna cover for our, you know,
Speaker:independent stylist who is creating her
Speaker:best conditioner, her best hair growth.
Speaker:Other barber, he done created his best
Speaker:conditioner and beard oil and all that
Speaker:good stuff because, you know, now having a
Speaker:beard down to your ankles is the thing. So
Speaker:you coming back and we go talk about how
Speaker:your company is having a great impact on
Speaker:helping the micro and small business
Speaker:owners get the wins, helping them grow,
Speaker:helping them scale, helping them lay great
Speaker:foundations. So look, before I let you go
Speaker:and go keep asking you all of these
Speaker:questions that I said was going to be on
Speaker:the next podcast, go ahead and leave us
Speaker:some information. One, how can they, how
Speaker:can the listener reach out to you and
Speaker:contact you? You. And two, let us know
Speaker:what you got going on next so we can
Speaker:support. All right, so you can actually go
Speaker:to my website, which is WW dot
Speaker:shalomanalytics.com. it's all one word.
Speaker:And to contact me, if you scroll down to
Speaker:the bottom, you'll have, there's a contact
Speaker:box and you'll get my, you'll see my email
Speaker:and phone number and you can also shoot me
Speaker:an email through that contacts box and we
Speaker:will connect things that I have going on
Speaker:right now. Literally, I have landed
Speaker:another client, which is the big win for
Speaker:me. Thank you. I'm working on going after
Speaker:certifications right now with new
Speaker:business. So just keep me lifted up in
Speaker:prayer and I'm asking the Lord what's was
Speaker:next because I'm out here getting these
Speaker:clients and then I'm just trying to pivot
Speaker:and go as he says, go. So you might see me
Speaker:at your next conference as a vendor. Stop
Speaker:by, pick up a card. If you need to have a
Speaker:one on one session because you got a
Speaker:product, let me know. I'll drop my
Speaker:calendar link on the website which I got
Speaker:set up and you can book either, you can
Speaker:book a 30 minutes session and then we'll
Speaker:go from there. I always offer one free 30
Speaker:minutes consultant session. After that you
Speaker:must pay because time is money. There it
Speaker:is. It's very valuable. It is very
Speaker:valuable. Listen, woman of God, I
Speaker:appreciate you so much. Looking forward to
Speaker:our next, to our next podcast episode with
Speaker:you, we're going to dive deeper into some
Speaker:things. Look, Laquita's toolbox audience,
Speaker:we appreciate you guys, thank you so much
Speaker:for tuning into today's episode of
Speaker:Laquita's Toolbox. You guys be blessed and
