Girl Stop Playing

Back to another episode of the Girls Stop Playing podcast.

It's your favorite home girl, Corrielle, here to encourage you to stop playing with your potential

and start working for what you want in life and in love.

Y'all already know that I believe you can make the money and you can get the honey. You can have it all as long as you are willing to work. And it's my goal to bring you the information and the conversations that help you do just that. This week's episode is brought to you by, it's really brought to you by me because y'all need to buy my new book, y'all.

It's called Nobody is Coming to Save You. I'm going to link it below, but it is full of inspirational

short stories from black women just like you who pulled themselves up, discovered their

purpose, and figured out how they could save themselves without having to wait for somebody to come along and save them.

Speaking of this new book,

I have one of my co-authors in the studio today,

Ms. Casey Cooper.

She is a trucking federal contractor,

the CEO of the Compass Circle,

and Homegirl is out here getting to these coins. So we got to get into it. Welcome, Casey. There you go. Thanks for having me. I am so excited we were able to get into this. This, of course, for people who, you know, follow me on Instagram have been keeping connected with me. Y'all know, Casey, we've done things together in the past. And anytime I have an opportunity to bring you on my platform, it's my pleasure to do so because, well, because you are amazing. But also because the industry that you're in, the access to the information that you have, I feel like black people have been late to the party on this conversation. So get your notebooks out because this is going to be a good one.

So I mentioned that you are in the trucking space. You're a federal contractor. How did you get into trucking? Because when we hear trucking, like my brother's a trucker, my nephew's a trucker. It's always a man that I think of. So how did you get into the space? So I got into trucking because when I was 15, I used to have any machines, right?

And so I think of. So how did you get into the space? So I got into trucking because when I was 15 I used to have any machines, right? And so I would go to Costco and get my merchandise and fill it up. And so early on, I learned that I don't have to be the one making the money. So I got about 25 and I was like, you know what? I think I'm going to just buy a truck. It just was like an ep epiphany and I did buy a truck and I put a driver in it but I ended up having to drive

so it didn't go quite as planned it worked out later right yeah but I mean that's kind of where

the thought came from so you bought a truck you put somebody it, things happen like they always do.

It didn't necessarily work out. And instead of you saying, okay, let me just hire another driver. You said, I'm going to figure out how I'm going to do this. Yes. So did you end up driving in the sense of just going to get your truck or you got on the road and like started taking loads? When I was purchasing the truck, I was at DMV getting my permit.

Because I knew somebody has to learn how to, like, move this thing. road and like started taking loads. When I was purchasing the truck, I was at DMV getting my

permit because I knew somebody has to learn how to like move this thing. And then I drove for

four years on and off. Shut up. I did. Did you? What was that like? I didn't know this.

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