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Hi, welcome to my podcast, Jewelry is your side hustle with Sugar Gay is where and I'm

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sure gay is we're in today we have somebody really fun who I'm going to get to know and by the end

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of this time she's going to be my new best friend because I already like her and her name is Mila

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Marie and welcome to the show Mila Marie it's very nice to have you yeah everybody's giving you a

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warm welcome yay you hear the crowd is going wild thank you bestie I'm glad to be here I

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seriously I tell everybody that and I mean it and it's kind of cute to see who you know like 10

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years later I'll get phone calls and they didn't want to say their name like oh I thought you'd

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remember me it's like really good but I know that voice that's a true story okay so take it on let's

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hear about you introduce yourself what are we talking about you today how's your day where are

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you okay well today is a beautiful day I'm in Houston Texas which we got our first snowstorm

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in century uh last week so that was big fun it was a big snowstorm too yeah I think we have like

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four inches four and a half yeah we're going to paralyze the city I'm sure I'm from Houston so

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in generation so I know that but yeah I had a few snow days growing up but four inches is

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significant I know we have footprints we have did you make a snowman did you try I made snowballs

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to throw them at my 17 year old but and I had to force her out the house she she wouldn't even come

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I was like girl you would never see this man so we had we had some fun I really enjoyed that it's

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pretty and it's quiet and it's you know it is what it is I even heard I talked to somebody this week

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in the on the coast of Alabama they're like the snow came up to where the waves were it was like

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snow and then the ocean yes I wish I could decide it was beautiful it was gorgeous I couldn't believe

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it I just ran outside I was like it actually happened you know being from Texas you know

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the weather changes every 10 minutes like we'd be electricity stayed on that was the other good thing

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yes oh my goodness that was the best part it's like we get to have fun and be comfortable at the same time

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okay so tell me about your work because I don't really know that much about you

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okay so I'm a CEO I have my own business um I do property preservation it's in real estate we um do

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um we restore uh bacon homes or um bake foreclosures and things like that

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um so it could be anything um so but as far as me I've been on the block season nine what was your season

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I always get it wrong is that crazy season 14 I think people had to like say you weren't on that one

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you were on ours I'm like it was a very good education I was actually in a good joiner of things

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right absolutely I think that was really what I was texting with somebody that was in my group that I

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saw something I thought oh he needs to see this and we're texting back and forth I'm like did you ever

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watch all the episodes he goes no but it was a great learning experience on my same year my husband

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does not want to hear see all that again but I really should watch it did you watch all yours

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not all of them but I did it's like it because being there like the experience was was everything

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but it was everything all at once so it was all this education you meet a new people there's

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to film in 24 hours a day and you know you're just trying to make sure you're not looking so I have

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this habit of chewing my tongue and out my biggest fear is looking at why is seeing myself chewing my

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tongue on tv like I can't control it it just happens and it it looks so crazy you know um but I did

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watch some of it I'm still working my way through it um it was an awesome experience and just look

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at all the connections we've made doing that like that was amazing yes and coming from Houston which

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is a huge market you have to have a lot of the blockers there right right right I think so I

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I know we we tried to get together multiple times I don't think I had in my season I think I was an

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old one from Houston but not from Texas I think everybody was from Dallas and San Antonio but

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you know we still say hi from time to time I've really connected with uh Clara in um in Baltimore

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so I'll be going back out there soon um and then I have um um just a lot of different people that

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we still kind of keep in contact with I was at Houston this weekend if I would have known you

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I would have come to see you for sure like we should have brunch lunch or something something

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I was just here I was there for a party and I was like I don't know so many memories you know seven

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generations of being in Houston I'm like oh I just gotta get a home but I would have stopped to meet

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you I would have been like hey block sir right with sister Mel another fun thing about me is

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I have a new company called We Wow houses where we're you know trying to get rid of debate for

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boring boxes so it's uh one of the people from Magnolia and Waco and their husband has a construction

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company and I'm the creative so if you ever need a creative like oh my god girl that's fine that's

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my genre so it's the absolutely making good paintings and coming up with ideas like we

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work together on a project that'd be fun that would be fun that would be fun so yeah okay so yeah

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I love we best friends I don't forget well you're thinking oh my god that's like we could work together

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seriously but I know for real I love I love love love your energy I really do um it's contagious I love

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it um so yeah well did the blocks um a writer I did my first book it was um and it was a real

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book it was in uh Christian Church Grove now my second book um it's a fun it's a fiction it's um

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based on the true some true events but it is uh my first fiction novel and I am so excited about it

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and it's uh oh I just love it so much it takes you through a range of emotions and what's it

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even your book it's called The Vanishing the vanishing and it's actually um it's thought

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the pre-sell on March the third so we're getting ready we're gearing up for that we have a lot of

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things in the works as far as promotion for that and I am so excited about it like it's it's it's

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amazing so we should do a cross promotion because my book just came out in January just this beginning

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of this month and and it's uh it's on Amazon so I self published it but it was like no AI I wrote

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it myself 880 thousand words so I get it like yeah they come up to the learning curve like there's a

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lot to do to publish a book yes I published the other way too with a regular publisher and it was

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hard like it's a AI I check it off your thing you are an author like dead forever forever forever

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forever it's an amazing experience because just the craft that type of but that type of art it's

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just it's a different form of it like I always say like my penis my voice because of things I

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can't say I can write and it comes out and you know you feel it and you just want to bring people into

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that world that was kind of my idea with um the vanishing because you know it was such a it it evolved

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off of the situation of parental alienation so it's based on a true story however um I couldn't

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write I couldn't write that story right because I didn't want to bring anyone into that world

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like that world so one of my friends gave me this genius idea he was like my love why don't you just

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go fiction and I was like because I was tussling to get it out and I was like hmm okay I chewed on it

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a little bit and I was like okay you know and it just came out and when it came out it was so amazing

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I mean like you really can rewrite your story you really can you know that's the good thing about

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art and writing that form that art form it's like you can write your own narrative

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but welcome to my world is what people say in their head it's like read what I'm writing so that

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you can experience experience it through me so I love writing I definitely understand where you're

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coming from for sure right and the good artists can really draw a person into that like I'm a

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avid reader as well so I read a lot of books I love reading books so like you know the way that um

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I love being drawn into the picture you know and I try to create that as an author um so my readers

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can be really drawn in you know and be interested and excited about what's going on you know so

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it's a mama bear book though it really is it's like um so the woman her name is Tami Miller

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now she gets a call from the school um informing her or asking hers that is she aware that um her

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child was withdrawn from school by her ex-husband and it pops up like immediately right so she's like

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no you know I had no idea so she goes um to her ex-husband in his new wife's house and is vacant

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like it's completely vacant and so you know she runs down to the police station and they're

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they basically shoot her off like you know like you know people have the right to home school

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their children and this and that the other and so she that goes back and breaks into the house

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and she finds evidence that they could be in a cult. It gets spicy right away and that's why the

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mama bear kicks in like she goes and she finds her daughter and you know and she she she breaks

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into the cult and you know I'm not giving too much away but it is so it's good it's funny because at

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the same time like she's scary like she's not a fighter you know at the same time but she's not

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gonna leave her her baby in there you know so then she has her best friend that she's dragging along

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and then she has her she she hired a private investigator and um the relationship between

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her and the private investigator is funny because he's basically telling her the whole time like

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go like you can't be doing this you know she's following him around and stuff like that he ends

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up like being her sidekick so it is a very very uh you know it's actually full of rage emotions

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the end is surprising I'm not gonna give away but it's a very good story it's funny to me

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it sounds like it'd be a good movie that's you know everything everybody keeps saying hey this is

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a movie like this is you know this is a movie it's not a story this is film I can absolutely see it

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um in film or one script so here's a hint to you I taught a private lesson last week in chat

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cheeky tea and I'm like oh you know six months ago I tried this it didn't work let's try it one more

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time and so I attached my you know my word file of my book and I'm like okay turn this into a

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screenplay for me etc etc I you know gave it all the prompts it was like it happened it wrote it

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in front of my eyes so it's easier than it seems to go from the book to the screenplay now I didn't

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go back and edit it or even read it but it was just like a demonstration to show her it was like

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it knows exactly the format that is required for a screenplay so give it a try like it didn't do all

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80 000 words but it did the first chapter just so that I could see it and it was like yeah oh this is

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so easier now because I've written screenplays before and it's all slog so that was nice do you

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know so have I my I actually started in theater my first art form is theater I've acted since I was

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a kid like since I was five years old me too I get that I totally get that because we have that same

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thing like I get it I used to love I was a little shoemaker in some little thing I don't even know

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how it all was but I think my mother put me in drama because she knew that girl's drama drama drama

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right I love drama I tell you um all through high school even after high school I did a stage

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like a couple gospel stage plays that I went in and then the most recent thing was the blocks but

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we were not acting on there that was real life that was real life it was going back to the blocks

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it was really fun like I have to say and um recently I just found out looking at my dad's

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obituary which led me to my grandfather's obituary which mentioned in it that my grandparents were

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buried my great grandparents were buried in the Osage cemetery right there in Osage so I was like

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why didn't I know that before like I could have gone and visited their graves I'm like I knew that

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they were near there and I was thinking about them the whole time I was there but I missed opportunity

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like dang are you glad I'm back?

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No I ain't time to sing I got other things to do my fish are frying you know like seriously

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I did get a lot of customers or clients I still work with making jewelry and creative things for

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some of the blocksers like I've got the little astronaut and made a mold of him so I can do

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him in any color and blah blah blah so I do have a lot of that in my collection or you know blocks

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things and QR codes that you could bring and you know it was a it was a really great time like

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what was your favorite moment like what was something that you'll always look back and go yeah that

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was pretty good the rap party because everything else was like oh my goodness like I think the

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first two days was like it was like we were easing our way in but day three kind of like tour our

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heads off and you know that's when a doubt came in I was like oh my gosh can I do this like it was

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just it is always funny it's like everything was cool but we got some funding it was like

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now I understand this you know but I just appreciate all the effort that West put in making sure that

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we had the information that we needed um and just making connections I said the rap party but it's

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really spending time with the new family that we had become because it wasn't like any other reality

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show I've ever seen like it wasn't on drama nobody was fighting it was like we were all we were in

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a competition but we were working together to help each other like figure it out you know and I think

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when um the winners won we all appreciated that like we all agreed yes like go and that that's the

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good thing about blacks like it didn't create it there was no like animosity and we're able to like

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keep relationships I love the blacks you know I totally get that I totally get that and and we're

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talking about tranches is what we were talking about when you're talking about like it that was

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really hard like I didn't really get all that either but definitely West Bergman who is the villain of

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um all these reality TV shows the other side right which is like a bear and uh he's just

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sorry you know we're so happy for him like it's it's good for him yeah he is a teddy bear he's a

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he is a teddy bear but yeah um he's very smart he's very smart and like I believe in vision and

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I'm glad he believes in ours like he's just an amazing person and all the people that came to the plots too

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just so many amazing people um Devin Schubert he's an amazing guy um Tora Styles Esther oh my

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goodness it's like so many Phoenix uh Ollie it's just so many people they are a family now I get it

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like I totally get it like this is exactly how I feel too when I got up on the stage the one time

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and I knew I was going to blow it because you know it was a lot like when you stumble you're out like

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so I'm like I'm like took the stage over I'm like okay we're not going to talk about that we're going

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to talk about me and I'm going to tell you that I am here to meet you you you you you and I just

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gave him this whole the whole group my sales pitch of why they needed to know me I'm like I don't

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think that made the show but it made my show it made me happy how do you hear about your book oh no

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well it's my book is this is about you at this show so I'm focusing look I'm impressed I just love

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your personality I'm like losing well my book is a Clifie book that takes place in Africa and it has

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a hopeful ending but it's called heat and dust and it's uh it's it's got some legs on it too I

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think it would make a great screenplay like you know these are things that we imagine and we

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they just come out into our little lives and I really enjoyed writing it I can't write wait to

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write the next book of maybe it won't be fiction maybe the next one will be something totally

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else so I've written two books before that are DIY jewelry so you know jewelry's that's pretty good

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it was pretty good I don't know why I'm like but I'm like I guess it's because it's like been a

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couple of years so I'm like I'm moving on to the next thing like that's all behind me now so heat

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and dust is out there to the world we'll let it's have its life and then we'll cross promote our

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books because they have good female protagonists and good stories that are you know kind of have a

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hopeful ending and you definitely have had you've dipped into some of the topics that I'm familiar

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with and you know things that are the cults and the husbands hanging in and taking your

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I I can so relate I could just blew my head up going oh yeah I blip through

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and so we'll talk about that later but yeah because I mean it's truly art it is and I'm

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glad we have this medium to help us like get that stuff out. I totally agree so on your what is your

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your Facebook or how do you communicate with people tell me about that journey for you.

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Okay so my Facebook is Kingdom Diamond on Facebook on what is it Instagram is Queen Marie to you

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and um that's where I communicate with people through Facebook Instagram my email is uh

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mylahollisatgmail.com. We'll list all that in the description so people can find you because it is

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you know such an important part of this to find and follow and be social with you and interact with

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you so where will your your book be available. It will be available on my website but just lunch is

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a little bit before the book so and also the full merchandise that we have to go along with it

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is nice that we've designed a whole shebang. Who's designing it for you? Me.

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So what are you doing are you doing hats and t-shirts like what are you doing?

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T-shirts, hoodies, um oh wow the uh yoga pants yes and they're gonna have vanishing on it?

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Vanish mode, vanish mode all right baby. Well I'm taking Zep bound for it to lose weight and I

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feel like I'm slowly disappearing so that that could be so appropriate for all the people that

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are trying to lose weight. Right. Slowly vanishing. Yeah vanish mode that's right that's what my daughter was

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like oh mom you should do the yoga pants because like and you put the the vanish mode on the stomach

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part yes she was like yeah I'm like that but yes it'll be learnable live shortly before the book

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um is ready to pre-sell we just got a few kinks to work out on our website. So you didn't do it

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through Amazon. The what the um the products? The book. The book yes okay so it will be through

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Amazon also when it actually launches but the pre-sell will be on the website. I almost think

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that there's like another video behind all that or another thing behind all that it's like how we

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do all of this because you know it was all new to me like I had to do a lot of research to figure

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out how to do it all and it took me some tries and you know like just finding the game the image

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going and you know like all that kind of stuff it's a lot of work. It is it is and then I'm a young

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I'm young and not really like hip to technology so it is a lot of work and I want to be hands on

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with everything because I have a certain vision so I will be helpful certain things but just

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putting it all together oh my goodness we're gonna get you hip to technology if I can do it and I'm

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an old lady you can do it because I've been doing all this for a long time so it is accumulation

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knowledge like my next group of books which I'm doing right now are coloring books so just kind

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of like because I'm a visual person so blah blah blah but I don't know anything about it so I'm

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gonna have you know the last part of it is you know putting the book together it's a little bit

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trickier you know so I'm learning from other people and trying to figure out what the best

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sellers are and what they use for their hashtags and yes all of that which is love it I absolutely

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love it. Tell me about your house business your real estate your real estate agent. No

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no ma'am um so we're basically contractors we just go in and um do whatever we specialize in

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roofs um we have a team that's been doing room replacements for about 30 years so they've been

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trusted me you know with their talent and we just we just rocking and rolling so um we specialize

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in roofs but we do floors we do it our drywall paint everything um and we usually so most of our a

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lot of our work comes from the bank so what they do when they when the house when the home's going

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to foreclosure we go in we inspect the entire property and then we give estimates like everything

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that needs to be done and then they send us back approvals and we go in and do it so we our job our

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uh goal is to get it the the property up to par to be placed back onto the market or we to convey

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back to the hood so that is that is what we do. But boy to get hooked into that is a gold mine.

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I mean yes and it's like it's so much work to do but it's it's like it's like it's always work

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because the economy is horrible right um and then but you have to wrestle with the banks and stuff

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so that's where the issues go um but I love it I love what we do um and I love just building it

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like I love going from what it started as to what we were able to do like the the amp product it's

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amazing. Yeah so houses that are under foreclosure they probably have some repairs to do and maybe

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cleaning out to do and just getting it up to like putting all the light bulbs back in and

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whatever we have to do and cleaning everything so is that kind of right is that what you're

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doing? Yes yes we go in we clean it out we do inspections of the whole thing we go back we um

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there's holes in the wall we fix those like whatever it takes to get it um up to par with

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the lady yeah yeah we do it a lot of roofs because uh you know trees fall around. Oh my

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god you know my son had that they they just moved they they sold their house just just closed at the

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beginning of the month but yeah the whole neighborhood still in their area and spring valley still has a

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lot of blue tarps from um well that was the summer in July when the derecho came through and then the

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hurricane came through and all that so yeah I get it like it's really it's really a thing so I get that

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I wonder if I had oh yeah I don't know if that recorded that so yeah um I get it the Houston

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is really did you know that Houston is the number one place the the location itself for

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lightning strikes? Teague Texas which where where I grew up we had a ranch in Teague Texas is the

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number one for electrical strikes for that little tiny place but Houston overall has got more

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electrical than anywhere else in the world that's all. Oh wow. Maybe it's the U.S. but seriously I

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don't know what it is about Houston but it's got a lot of electrical engine like happening there

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and that's kind of scary to find out it's like have you always lived in Houston? Yes my whole life

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my whole life. Where did you grow up? I grew up like northeast Houston northeast side of Houston

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uh 610 Homestead area. Like Galena park like that area? No man but not far from Galena park um like

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Homestead um 59-ish tip mill. Yeah oh okay I I lived for a while in Pasadena. Okay yeah it's not that

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far from Pasadena maybe 20 minutes because you what that's it in I think maybe 20-minute drive is

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right right down the road. Yeah yeah we're the same I yeah I grew up in more of a lived there for

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many years so yeah. 12,000 years ago come to Austin. I love the memorial area I mean I'm in

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Cyprus now which I love it because we got a slice of the country so. Yes because of the beltway you

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can get anywhere I was just talking to somebody this weekend that lived in Cyprus but she worked

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in the west side of Houston and I'm like oh is that hard to go because yeah it's the beltway now

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I'm like oh yeah I forgot. Right. The outer outer beltway you know whatever. Yeah oh 99 yeah yeah 99

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do take me everywhere um I love it out here because we have like it's like it's not too crowded um so

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you do get like um somewhat of a city vibe but then there's all this empty country land you know

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drive a light down there's a crowd and you know and there's a goat you know like wow so it gives

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you that country feel it's quiet you know my children uh well my my daughter I love her school

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um she goes to Bridgewood High School and you know it's just a nice community I love it out here.

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What's your next project we're kind of I've got a few more minutes left tell me something new you

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got coming down the what's coming up besides your book and merch which is so exciting I can't wait to

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see that. What else are you gonna be doing like where where where are you what's next. So I actually

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I'm actually in another book too it's called to the women in a waiting room it's a devotional and

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it's of course about um like how your experience is when you're waiting on anything to happen like

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your faith and everything in the situation so I think that was perfect timing um I just went back

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to school at thirty six so I'm excited about that um just to probably my business um major

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underneath business finishing my I actually started my degree some years back so I'm going to finish

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um that and just continue to build my businesses and you know continue to write I'm I've actually

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been writing the series for a very long time but now that I got the vanishing out that series seemed

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to be flowing it was like you know all that stuff was you know how your creativity get blocked so

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now that is actually flowing that is my real art you know vanishing kind of like same life but this

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is my art like so I'm there I'm just living and loving and enjoying every day I'm just like you

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I woke up this morning saying it's so full of joy and I posted something on Facebook that was a

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queen song but it was like I'm so happy now and I'm like that's so me like I gotta like get that of

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course instantly I got knocked off Facebook because uh I was copyright for the music but I still put

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the words in there too I'm like yeah like seriously like it was it was fun to feel that this morning

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when I heard that song and then I had to listen to it over and over because it like really listen

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it really motivated me today to really feel like yeah I'm really happy now like things are going great

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so that's so much fun to have that as an experience our time is almost over I don't want to cut it off

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at some weird spot one last thing that you want to say and then everything will be in the comments

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below as far as your links but is there anything else you want to tell everybody? Well thank you

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for just having me here on your platform I really enjoyed my time with you thank you for sharing

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your audience with me um and so everybody um I just dare you to hope be on despair whatever you

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want to do you can do it no matter what um you know take some time and indulge yourself in your art

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and just make the best out of it whatever it is I think this is the only thing we can do for ourselves

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right now absolutely besides guerrilla warfare maybe but besides that which that's a book I'm writing

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it's gonna be arrested oh that's right you gotta write you gotta uh you gotta work it through that

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pen that's where my norm de plume is gonna come in I'm gonna write it under your name

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well I would love to meet you and anybody that's in the Houston area I hope that you will reach

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out and any other blockers that want to be on this show please reach out to me it's fun to get to

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connect with all of y'all and just relive all those great times that we all are still moving

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forward it's been almost a year now a year for you almost right not quite but um and then we're

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we're all still in this gang together and like today I really feel like if I was in Houston I

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would have looked you up and we would have nice little coffee somewhere and just like hash it all

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out and just kept talking it's a great conversation to have with you today and just remember we have

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a lot to be great for we are very blessed people we're very lucky and life is good life is meant

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to be good so that's the good part well and one last thing one last thing get it in what else you got

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don't forget to follow you and follow me at kingdom diamond on facebook queen memory to you on ig

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or facebook is fine um and keep look out for the updates and the launching of the website and also

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the great merchandise that we have in store love y'all so much I'm pretty sure I should be making

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some jewelry for your collection I love it like maybe it's going up to the light and it vanishes

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you know I love that I love that I absolutely love it I don't know if I can make that happen but it'd

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be fun to try wouldn't it you know so it's it's a great word vanishing you know it's a great

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visual word yes did you see the cover joss you got it right there with you how do I

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do you have it let me find it oh I might not have enough time we only have a minute but we'll put

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it okay send me a picture and it'll be in the picture we'll add it below people can see it that way

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feel yes okay well I really had a great time with you again this is jewelry stars by not not

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but jewelry stars is my tv show sorry about that jewelry is your side hustle and it really is about

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the grit uh and also the tenacity that we have as entrepreneurs because we're a whole different

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mindset than a lot of the people out there but we need the other people out there to really support

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us because it's a yin and yang like if you don't have those skills that you can support us by

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buying our books or sharing our content or just giving us a thumbs up or a google review and I'll

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do that for you uh let's you know like those people are needed too so it's a it's a community that we

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form we're the creators we have something to share with you we want you to participate in what we've

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got because yeah that makes the world go around so much better and so much more fun but it's

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going to stop we got 10 seconds almost so thank you very very much and it's great to see you and

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thank you very much