🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 In this second part of the interview, Dannay sits down with Paul Orfalea, the Founder of Kinko’s for an exciting game of Push or Pivot! 🛠💼 Paul drops even more business wisdom in this episode, sharing invaluable lessons like knowing your value and understanding when to cash out, just like he did when he sold Kinko’s for a cool $2.4 billion! 💰💡
One of the standout moments? Paul shares a legendary quote from McDonald’s Founder Ray Kroc: “If I saw my competition drowning, I’d put a water hose in their mouth.” 🧯🔥 Talk about fierce competition! Plus, he dives deep into how technology is shaking up businesses, and the importance of adapting before it’s too late.
Don’t miss this episode, packed with insights and lessons from a true business giant! 📈📊
Watch now and let us know your favorite takeaway! And if you’re serious about business, you’ll want to tune in.
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Vintage lovers — this one’s for you!
@muchloveday takes you inside Clothes Heaven — Pasadena’s fashion treasure chest that’s been setting style trends for 40+ years!
Founded by Larayne, Clothes Heaven is home to Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Hermès, Pucci and so many more iconic brands. Every rack is history you can wear.
Dannay sat down with Larayne, explored the shop, and found so many fashion gems you have to see for yourself.
Want the full story?
Watch the complete tour on YouTube at FreeMynds Studios!
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Catch What’s Haute? Live every Friday — where @muchloveday brings fashion to your screen every week!
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At Bryant Temple our work extends beyond the walls of the church. Our fellow YPD’er Tamia is getting help with job placement at Inspire Together a 501 (c)3 non profit that helps not only with job placement for young adults but housing and food with dedicated caseworkers on staff. @inspire2together
Our kids need to feel supported and it is our job to take those extra steps to provide them with the resources they need
Bon Jour Ma Babies!!! 🤎✨
People ask me all the time… “Why do you teach people how to cook Creole food?” 👀
Truth is… I just love cooking.
I love seeing somebody take that first bite and say:
“Now THAT’S good food.” 😮💨
And growing up, food meant more than eating.
It meant family dinners.
People sitting together.
Laughing at the table.
Talking about life.
Making memories.
These days everybody’s moving fast… but I want to pass down the kind of cooking that brings people back together again.
Because over here, Ma Babies, I don’t measure much 😂 I cook from love, feeling, memory, and flavor.
And I’m sharing it so you can bring that same feeling into your own home 🤎
📺 Want more authentic Creole cooking, stories, and recipes? Head over to YouTube and subscribe to My Creole Table
And if you’ve tried one of our recipes already…
👇🏽 Tell me which one and how it turned out!
Because at this table…
**we don’t just cook — we pass it down.
🙏🏾✨ COMMUNITY. CULTURE. CONVERSATION. ✨🙏🏾
We were honored to welcome Mayor Karen Bass and local leaders to Lonell’s Soul Food Cuisine for an important conversation about Los Angeles, community, and the future ahead.
Moments like this remind us that Lonell’s has become more than a place to eat.
It’s a place where people gather.
A place where conversations happen.
A place where leadership, culture, and community can sit at the same table.
Mayor Bass shared something that meant a lot to us — how important restaurants like Lonell’s are to neighborhoods like ours and how spaces rooted in community matter. That means everything to a small business built with faith, sacrifice, and love.
Making it through our first year has already been a blessing. And to see leaders, neighbors, and supporters walk through our doors reminds us that we’re building something bigger than a restaurant.
To Mayor Bass: thank you for taking the time to visit, support local business, and pour into South Los Angeles.
And to our community: thank YOU for helping make Lonell’s what it is becoming.
🍗 Good food.
🎤 Karaoke Wednesdays & Saturdays | 6PM–9PM
🎷 Live Jazz Fridays | 6PM–9PM
🎬 New episodes of Play Son dropping
Come for the food. Stay for the culture.
📍8501 S. Vermont Ave • Los Angeles
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Happy 10th Birthday to my son, Millard Walton V — Mansa.
Before you were ever born, I already knew there would be a Fifth. Growing up as Millard Walton IV, watching my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, I understood early that a name could carry history, responsibility, and love all at once.
Three days before my birthday, you entered this world. And on my birthday, your mother and I walked out of Hollywood Presbyterian carrying you in our arms. I thought I was bringing my son home, but really, God was walking me into the last piece to the start of my legacy.
Years ago, I told your mother I wouldn’t cut my hair until she gave me a son. I imagined we’d grow our hair together for years and get our first cut side by side one day.
Life happened differently.
You started asking for a haircut like mine because you said, “You’re my hero.” I told you if you still felt that way at 10, we’d do it.
And here we are.
Your first haircut wasn’t just a haircut to me. It was a moment I’ll carry forever. A reminder that while I’ve been watching you grow, you’ve been watching me too.
Mansa, you are funny, creative, athletic, kind-hearted, and full of light. You love music, water, sports, and dreaming big. And this year, I’m finally giving you what you’ve been asking for since you were 5 — the chance to start building your own show and your own voice.
Son, one day when you read this as a man, remember this:
You are not random.
You are not small.
You were loved before the world ever met you.
And before the world ever knew your name, me and your mom was already praying over it.
You are Millard Walton V.
But more importantly… you are Mansa.
A king in training.
Happy Birthday, son.
I love you forever.
— Dad
🎬🍗 EPISODE ONE: “THE INTRODUCTION” 🍗🎬
The plan was simple…
Cover the ribbon cutting.
Celebrate Lonell’s making it through Year One.
Get some clean interviews.
Introduce the team.
Easy, right?
Yeah… until THIS man walked in acting like he already owned the restaurant. 👀
I asked him his name…
He said:
“LJ.”
I said:
“What that stand for?”
This man looked dead into the camera and said:
“Lonell Junior.”
🚨 Yeah… the ribbon cutting almost became a family reunion.
In Episode One, y’all meet:
🎥 Isabel — helping us take Lonell’s social media to the next level
🍗 Chef Lonell — trying to celebrate a major milestone
🤦🏾♂️ And LJ… who seems VERY eager to tell Lonell something that probably should’ve stayed off-camera.
The only problem?
We still gotta get Lonell away from the ribbon cutting before this gets completely out of hand. 😂
Welcome to:
🎬 “Lonell’s Cuisine: PLAY SON”
Not every family recipe was planned.
👇🏾 WATCH EPISODE ONE NOW
Tag somebody who would absolutely pull up acting like this 😂
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Some people look at the next generation and see a problem.
Rev. Dr. Dwaine A. Jackson, Senior Pastor, sees purpose.
“If a young man walks into church with his pants sagging… greet him first. We can work on the rest later.”
That’s wisdom.
That’s shepherding.
That’s Christ.
Because Jesus never waited for people to look perfect before He loved them.
“Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you…” — Romans 15:7
In this first chapter of Measure of a Man, Pastor Jackson reminds us that the future of the Church will not be built by pushing young people away—it will be built by listening to them, involving them, and loving them enough to meet them where they are.
The tattoos don’t scare God.
The questions don’t scare God.
The generation doesn’t scare God.
And maybe the Church grows again the moment we stop asking young people to become us… before we first show them they belong.
This is bigger than ministry.
This is legacy.
Because the same young people we ignore today will one day lead the Church tomorrow.
🎬 MEASURE OF A MAN
Faith. Service. Legacy.
Presented by Temple Network.
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Some people will protect a lie… even when the truth is standing right in front of them.
But God has never needed deception to fulfill His purpose.
“For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.” — 2 Corinthians 13:8
In a time where truth is often traded for comfort, we still need leaders willing to stand firm, speak clearly, and walk faithfully.
Truth may be challenged.
Truth may be delayed.
But truth will always outlive the lie.
Continue to pray for and support Rev. Dr. Dwaine A. Jackson as he prayerfully pursues the calling to serve as Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The journey continues. 🙏🏾
