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Pinky Cole

lines on the record: 68
first: 2023-03-23
most recent: 2023-03-23
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I wasn't eating the food. Like, so I was selling something that I wouldn't even consume. But when I had the restaurant, I had people coming and supporting. But it wasn't just for the food. I believe it was also for the experience. Like it felt like you were in Jamaica when you came to my spot. I had the Jamaica music booming. It was colorful in there. It felt tropical and light and airy. And I had a Jamaican at the cash register. You know, like it was that. So I thought it was successful at the time. I made money. You know, I was just learning how to be a restauranteur and a business person legitimately.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It had like 65% of the gear. I had to upgrade and do all of this stuff, right? And I got that space. And what I realized is, I don't know about business, but I'm going to try this thing out. That was like practice. That was like pitcher's practice. And when I opened it, guess what I had? A line down a block.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So working as a television producer is very eventful. While I was working on the show, a good friend of mine who had a restaurant in Harlem told me about a property that was available for lease. I could take over somebody else's lease. And I'm like, okay, I don't know the first thing about restaurants, but I like to eat. So like this is a recipe for success.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so when I was working at Jeremy Kyle, I used to always do these things. I've always been like this super conscious thinker, right? So I think that I was going to do a savings challenge. Don't ask me why. Now that I think about it, sound a little bit crazy, but. I used to do is I used to live off five dollars a day like I was that like disciplined but now that I think about it I'm like oh that was a little extreme but I was learning discipline it wasn't just about saving money I was like discipline was the name of the exercise Almost like somebody that goes to work out, right? Like you go to work out, and that muscle memory got to come back. Like you got to keep that. So you got to work out. You got to do the same thing over and over again, even in the moments when it don't feel good.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Did your research guy? I love it. Yeah, I've always been a big dreamer. And I was laughing just now. I get so excited about this that I'm like, let me tell you how life was for me. Yeah. So I packed up my bags. I duffled bag, a suitcase, and a Bible. And I moved to Los Angeles, California. So when I was in LA, my sorority sister, she told me that like, hey, I got an opportunity for you. You need some money. I'm going to help you out. And I'm like, okay, cool. She was like, I'm going to get you the job as a production assistant. Now, I have never gotten an internship before, right? I have never worked in TV before. Like TV, what? I don't know anything else about TV at this time. But literally, that's how it happened.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Got into a fight. And I was the aggressor in the fight. And I feel like I'm having therapy. But I was the aggressor in the fight. So I got put out. But I wrote the superintendent. And they gave me another chance. Like, I literally got a second chance at life. And when I got to college, it literally was a transfer of skill set. So that character, the organization, the maturity, I just put that in my books and I put that in the experience on campus.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I don't know what I was thinking at the time, I'm gonna be honest. It's interesting because this is a part of the story that I don't often tell. But I got kicked out of high school. And after I got kicked out of high school. I was expelled from all Baltimore City public schools.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, do you hear what I'm saying to you? Yes. Yeah. I remember one time specifically. Me and my mother were in the living room in the house that I grew up on, counting money. It was more than her paychecks, sitting on the floor counting money in a shoebox.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we would have between like eight to a thousand every party. Wow. They would stand for hours just to get into my party. You going to Pinky Parties? Oh, Pinky parties be lit. Like, let's go to Pinky Parties. And I had everybody coming. And I'm like, I built a movement. I know how to bring people together.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was before Facebook and Instagram. This was like you print out some flyers And you have them cut. I would go to the place in Baltimore that printed obituaries. So we would send them the design and they would put it together and make us flyers. And then after school, every time a school let out, we would literally post up at the school and pass out flyers. Was a DJ. It was people dancing, having a good time in bottled water. That's it. No decorations, no frills.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did it at a recent center, my first one. But let me tell you what I did was. I would call the local recreation centers and I would pretend I was an adult. So I would say, hi, this is Miss Pinky Cole. Like I'm 14 years old calling myself Miss Pinky Cole. So like. When I tell you, like, the hustle was in me since my early teenage years. And I would have these parties and the whole entire city would come out to my parties. I was the youngest party promoter.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So my mother was a musician, right? So she would always play throughout the city. So she had a lot of friends and she would rehearse in the basement. So like we always had like people over. Like we were just the house that had everybody coming over. Like it was a through house for the right reasons, obviously. I had a couple parties as a kid and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to have a recreation party and I'm going to charge people to get in. And I'm going to sell bottled orders for a dollar.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So all I recognize my mother for it, mostly for, is hard work and being consistent with hard work. Like I have never seen my mother be lazy. Like she works hard when she's at home. She works hard in the world. She's a lead singer of a reggae band and has always been since I was a kid. So she would do like all the weddings, all the local events. So my mom became like a local celebrity, right? I watch her do all of these things with so much grace. So one time she worked at McDonald's. Then she worked at the bank and then she worked at another bank. And currently she's been at the same company for about 40 years. So I've watched my mom commit to causes that she cares about.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, obviously, I wasn't born to see it, but like I hear so many great stories of my father. He tells me all of these stories of how he was like a top shotter. And I'm like, so I get submitting to know that my father had this level of energy and confidence as I'm the man. Like that level of confidence I admire because I know where I get it from. You know what I mean? And he was just a businessman. Was it always legal? No, but at the time, you know, I don't know what his psyche was when he made decisions to do what he did to take care of the family. But I respect him for who he is as a man.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And even in the midst of his circumstance, he still said, you know what? Like, I'm going to make sure that I pass this down to my child. So, you know, he taught me life from behind bars.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know that's an interesting question. So, when I was a kid, I could remember going to Hagerstown and just up Maryland. See my father, and then when you enter a room, you sit around a six inch table and you get to talk to your loved one. Like I grew up doing that So, did my father do a good job at like doing the best that he could by raising us by way of the prison system? Yeah, like he would call me. He would tell me to read so many books, rich dad, poor dad. He was teaching me about stocks. He was telling me that I'm going to be an entrepreneur and things that I could do to set my life up. Like he was doing that from jail. So it was definitely a life that was A roller coaster ride, to say the least, but I realized that I learned about resilience through my dad.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She was like the earth mother, and my mother has hair that touches the ground. And she's about like. My mom is five nine, and her head drawer eggs on the ground. She's been growing her hair for almost, what, 50 years now? So she has locks of love.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I tell a funny story about how I marinated in the womb of a vegetarian. Like I've never seen my mother wear earrings. I've never seen her wear makeup. She's a very holistic, natural woman. Yeah. So I grew up under the wing of that kind of woman. So you could only imagine the traits that I got from my mother growing up.”
2023-03-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT