Still I Rise with Gocha Hawkins-Haynes
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
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4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Season 2 Episode 8 | This week I sat down with my longtime friend Gocha, who has been through a lot and has turned her life around. Gocha is a walking testimony with a story to tell and spreads positivity wherever she goes. She's turned her trials into triumph, becoming a successful entrepreneur, opening a few restaurants and now even franchising them. God has had his hand on her and will continue to keep blessing her. I hope you enjoy meeting her!
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This episode discusses sexual abuse. Viewer discretion is advised. |
| 0:06.1 | If you or someone you know is experiencing sexual abuse, please call the National Sexual Assault |
| 0:11.1 | Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. Hello and welcome to this episode of Keep It Positive, sweetie. |
| 0:28.6 | Today I have with me one of my really, really, really, really, really, really, really good friends, |
| 0:34.6 | Gosey. You guys may know her from Gosey's breakfast bar, Gosey's tapest bar, or even when she did hair back in the day. But she is here today. We're going to have some girl talk. I'm so excited to have you here today. Oh, thank you. You don't have to say back in the day like I'm 59 years out of the day. But you are a restaurateur now, honey. Yes indeed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Of course. No, I'm excited because you really have a story to tell. Oh, God, do I? You do. And I like to highlight women, essentially successful women who have like made a name for themselves, doing it the right way. But to show, because a lot of people see us and they only see the light and like, oh my gosh, she's a boss. She's doing this. She's doing that. But they don't see everything that it took to get to where you are today. Absolutely. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I say that all the time when it comes to social media, you know, people only show the positive, you know, things that they're doing. They don't, you don't get to see the grind and how, you know, all the hardships that they had to get, you know, you just see the glorified part. Exactly. That's so real real so I like to give them insight which |
| 1:45.5 | makes us more relatable people can see it's my god I'm just like her and I can do |
| 1:49.6 | it too that's most important part seeing that they see themselves in us but also |
| 1:53.8 | know that they can do it as well whatever that is that you want to do so yeah so |
| 1:58.5 | let me see we met I want to say probably around 2000 and, I want to say 14, 13 or 14. |
| 2:05.9 | I think it was more 2012. |
| 2:09.4 | Was it 12? |
| 2:10.0 | 2012. |
| 2:10.2 | Wow. |
| 2:12.2 | Goodness gracious. |
| 2:14.1 | Time has been flying. |
| 2:15.1 | Oh, for sure. |
| 2:15.9 | Time is flying. |
| 2:16.7 | I used to wear my hair short like, O'Shea. |
| 2:18.8 | Oh, God. |
| 2:19.8 | She would cut my hair for me. |
| 2:21.8 | You would cut my hair up until the first restaurant. |
| 2:24.8 | Yeah. |
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