Entrepreneurial Empire
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🚀 Bridging Beauty and Business: Christopher Herring & Teresa's Entrepreneurial Journey 🌟
Ever wondered how international beauty trends and global business intersect? Esteemed guests Christopher Herring and Teresa, known as the Estee Bestie, bring their wisdom to the table in this episode of Entrepreneurial Empire. Teresa reflects on her 27-year journey in the beauty industry, sharing her role as an educator and her venture with Evolve Medical Group. Meanwhile, Christopher discusses his leadership across various chambers, including his work with the Global Chamber, while giving us a glimpse into their personal connection and upcoming marriage. Together, they paint a vivid picture of fostering strong business communities through collaboration and shared commitment.
Join us as we unlock the secrets of self-reliance and entrepreneurial spirit, especially in challenging times like the pandemic. Through personal stories, we illustrate how encouraging skills beyond formal education can lead to community upliftment, as seen through the inspiring tale of a young pastry entrepreneur in Uvalde, Texas. We also touch on the importance of cultivating purposeful lives and relationships, emphasizing transparency, mutual support, and spiritual connection. This holistic approach is extended to skincare advice and tips on timing cosmetic procedures for optimal results, ensuring both personal and professional growth.
Dive into the future of health and beauty technology with us, as we explore regenerative care and educational initiatives by Evolve Institute. We highlight leadership challenges at the local level, discuss potential candidacy for San Antonio's District 10 city council, and the need to empower young people and small businesses. This episode is a call to action for equitable development and inclusivity, addressing historical challenges like redlining. We wrap up with expressions of gratitude in entrepreneurship, encouraging gradual progress and community support, as we continue to build our entrepreneurial empire together.
Welcome to the Entrepreneurial Empire podcast. This is the place where you can find business and career strategies, techniques and real life success journeys of individuals who have built their businesses to the million dollar revenue mark and beyond. I'm Jacqueline Hernandez, life coach and business development consultant. I have worked with startups, fortune 100 companies, network marketing, direct sale organizations, churches, nonprofits and government agencies all to become the authority experts in their industry, lead with people and scale their revenue. Let's get started, all right. Welcome back to Entrepreneurial Empire. Today we have our famous guest here out here in San Antonio, texas. We have Christopher Herring and we have our Estee Bestie, Teresa. Thank you for having us on.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1:Yes, ok. Well, we're really excited about the conversation that we're going to have here today. We got global chamber, we got political conversations going here, we have, you know, sexual orientations going on here, so we're going to talk about it all. So I tell you, if you are listening in right now, buckle your seatbelt. We don't want to be responsible for anybody falling out of their seat today. Okay, be ready. Yeah, we stay ready, stay ready.
Speaker 2:International beauty is a good thing.
Speaker 1:Exactly, global business. Okay, so I want to talk about Estee Bestie over here. You've been named that by all of your customers. She runs a successful business out here called Evolve. Tell us a little bit about Evolve.
Speaker 3:I'm actually part of Evolve Medical Group and actually joined the team about a year ago, and I've had a long run with the beauty industry. How many years 27 years Dang.
Speaker 2:I've been an esthetician for 27 years.
Speaker 3:I've been an educator for 16 years and I was actually named beauty guru of San Antonio, so it's not really about my customers, but you know I was blessed to be able to be recognized by my craft, my skill and so, yeah, it's been a great run 27 years okay, you know, 27 years and still going and thriving, right right right going strong, but not only in that.
Speaker 1:You're definitely evolving right. No pun intended, right.
Speaker 3:Well, you know I started in the industry um, I was self-employed, I went and started my own business and so I actually started the Beauty Spot, which is now my education company. But I did work for a cosmetic company for 17 years and so I did makeup on stage and I was a platform makeup artist, and so I taught marketing and retail and sales in nine different states and I was actually an international educator for that company, which are based out of Beverly Hills, and so I did that for 17 years.
Speaker 3:And so we talk about international beauty. That's where we get it from, because I did international education.
Speaker 1:And you are international. I am Right, right, absolutely Okay. So, chris, let's hear about a little bit about your global chamber. How long have you been involved?
Speaker 2:Well, global Chamber. We're going on our 10th year in 2025. I became the executive director about six years ago. I actually had a couple of different chambers that I've led, starting out with the Alamo City Black Chamber of Commerce, and then I was asked to lead the state's African-American chamber, or TAC, the Texas Association for African-American Chambers of Commerce, and in those two instances, I was basically advocating for black-owned businesses. We had 260,000 businesses across the state, so I would go, you know, back and forth from every small town to every big city, and before that I was in the United States Air Force. So I did 20 years where I got, I guess, my leadership skills and was able to hone leadership management. I also started a company when I was in the Air Force. Secretary Ron Brown, who was our US Secretary of Commerce, was a mentor and told me to start my business while I was in the Air Force.
Speaker 2:Okay, he says your business is going to gain some time. And he says time is important in your business. And I became members of Chambers as I went across the Air Force career and then, when I did apply for my very first position to be the president of the Alamo City Black Chamber, they thought it was a no-brainer and that's kind of how I got started.
Speaker 1:What great direction.
Speaker 2:Now I'm in an international market with Global Chamber, which is truly a blessing. We have a virtual platform, we're in 525 cities around the world and I happen to be one of the top sales persons, I guess you could say for Global Chamber, recognized for promoting entrepreneurship, business and helping to cultivate really what we need in every city, which is a strong economy.
Speaker 1:So entrepreneurial empire right. Oh absolutely Right.
Speaker 3:Can I just say that that's how we met. Okay, through the Global.
Speaker 1:Chamber of Commerce Through the chambers.
Speaker 3:Through the chambers I was actually a member back in 2013. 2013. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, so you know?
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we want to definitely put it out there this is fiancé, so we're going to get married soon. So you guys are already a power couple, though.
Speaker 3:Well, a lot of people already usually ask because they know us separately. Yes, already usually asked because they know us separately. Yes, right, because we do a lot of networking and we do a lot of marketing with different companies. And so I came from the West Chamber of Commerce and he was part of the animal and we actually kind of connected there and so, god, I hadn't seen him in such a long time and so we could reconnected this year, and so there we go well.
Speaker 1:I can tell you, the first time that I met you guys, the energy and the synergy that's between the two of you guys I literally thought you had been married for like 25 years. So I think I love that, that.
Speaker 3:You know, you guys just have that love between you that nobody can come between he's you know what, and the great thing is that we know each other and we know when it comes to business and personally, and so I think it kind of caught a lot of people off guard because you know he's at a lot of networking events and so am I, and so it just works out great. We balance each other really well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, I think that when we did find out that we had a lot of things in common for instance, I was on the West San Antonio Chambers board for a number of years before actually moving into the Alamo City Black Chamber seat, and so I had a chance to meet the citizens of San Antonio on the west side, and it was a great orientation I think that when we finally did come together this year and we started exchanging stories, we did not know that we knew each other from back in 2013.
Speaker 3:We didn't know.
Speaker 2:And so that was a funny thing. And then, when we talked about all the things in which we had in common, the things in which were goals in our lives, relationships and what those things meant, and we found that we had a real strong cord for each other and something that I thought was inseparable from the first time that we had our first conversation and it hasn't changed from today.
Speaker 1:Yes, okay, so you guys have children, but they're already grown. So now you guys are just doing what you're good at, which is international beauty and global business. Beauty, yes, right, and connecting businesses and helping them become thriving businesses. Absolutely, that's amazing. Okay, so let's I want to actually say my son was in the Marines, he served in the military and he always makes fun of me because he's like if you would have joined the military, you for sure would have been a lifer. But you said you did 20 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I retired over at Randolph Air Force Base. I was actually my very last position. I was the CAG or the Commander's Action Group. I was in charge of the Air Force Marketing and Air Force Recruiting Service and so many of the skills in which I obtained in the United States Air Force I use today. I was in charge of the diversity program. I worked for President Bill Clinton. I was the White House chairman for his One America initiative. I worked for Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library. I was his protocol officer. I served President George Bush in South Dakota where he gave his historic Homeland Security speech and I was his his everything to pull that that speech off with bringing him into South Dakota with all the political dignitaries associated. The Air Force always kind of put me in the, in the spotlight and I was blessed. I think it was like in 20, it was like 2000 and something where I was named one of the 10 outstanding young Americans.
Speaker 1:What? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So like 600 people have been honored by the USJC's. I was. I was one of those out of the long history of that organization and I'm also kind of some would say, a protester in some ways. Where my acceptance speech I actually told the Jaycees that people like my father and, at the time, my father-in-law, all should have been able to receive that award and in their history they had discriminated against people of color. And I just gave an account of my dad's life and told his story of why he was deserving of it and they were like, oh, at the end there was an author, um, of the book called it. Do you remember that book?
Speaker 2:yes, um, he was actually a recipient of the same award oh wow yes and he took us uh, dave pelter, uh, dave pelter, uh the, yeah, the child the child called it oh the child called it right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:yes, and so Dave Pelter was an award recipient and he took me out on the town. He had a nice, I think it was a Hummer and gave me like $500 and said, hey, let's turn up. And so we had a great time. But I learned that you know, there's a lot of responsibility with recognition and it's important to be able not only to receive but be able to give back. And it's important to be able not only to receive but be able to give back. And I really appreciated Dave Pelzer for being able to give back, because he didn't have to come out of his pocket to give the 10 recipients $500 each.
Speaker 1:And he just did so out of the kindness of the heart. Oh, so all 10 of you guys received that.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes, but I got a chance to chill with them.
Speaker 1:So that was special. So you got something far beyond the $500. Well, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And you know, when I look at the history of the USJCs, I was able to represent the United States at the international competition on the world stage. I didn't place first for that award year but I was able to come back and I've even helped, like the San Antonio JCs, to form and to lead and to volunteer. And so President Joel Ingaloo, who's my good friend, who is also in Global Chamber, he was leading the organization so I was able to give back to something that had acknowledged my work over time.
Speaker 2:So it's always good when those things happen. There's so much work that we have to do together, though, to make America the best.
Speaker 1:I love what you said. Right there, though, you said there's a big responsibility with recognition and receiving awards. You know you definitely are giving back, and at a very high level as well, so with your knowledge or mentorship, and just even within the global chamber of commerce as well. Now what you're doing in this position. You know I love that we were able to give you an award at our yes event when we launched our nonprofit entrepreneurship services.
Speaker 2:The Texas Titans Award he is a Texan Titan.
Speaker 2:Yes, man, you know the naming for that recognition titan. Yes, man, you know the, the naming for that recognition. Uh, it was powerful. Um, the social media response was outstanding. I'm very grateful to you. I'm very grateful to, uh, desiree serna martinez. Yeah, no, she's a non-profit guru, and she is. It was also for me that night that you gave me the recognition. We also were able to bring Teresa's daughter to come up from Uvalde to talk about her business. Yes, and maybe I'll just segue over to you. You can talk about, you know, samantha.
Speaker 3:It was actually a great opportunity.
Speaker 2:And Foxy Cakes. Yes, Foxy Cakes.
Speaker 3:She's doing so great and she's such a young entrepreneur. And it was great for her to see that there is a lot of encouragement, and so it really did open her eyes a lot. So thank you so much for inviting us out there. Yeah, such a great experience. And seeing him get awarded my daughter was just her eyes lit up like wow, they're out here. You know, promoting and encouraging young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs means a lot.
Speaker 2:If I can just jump back in, I think another part of our story that's special is the fact that when we met and then we met our respective children and so forth, and the children have taken on to us. They treat us with kindness, love, respect, but they're also listening and they're also learning, and so when we talk about you know even the responsibility we have as a couple. Never did we think initially that it was going to be about the kids, but it has emerged that we become a very strong-knit family because of the interest that they have, the passion, and I really like the way that Teresa has instilled that entrepreneurial spirit within her family, because I think it's the same blueprint that so many kids need today. I mean, she's very practical and you know, for years, I would say that in America we've always pushed, you know, for kids to go to school, to go to college to get a degree and then to go out to corporate America, get a job, work for a company for a number of years. But that model is broke.
Speaker 1:Self-reliance is where it's at Right Self-reliance, right, self-reliance, right. How do you use your skills, how do you use your talent and how do you produce? You know something that's in society, that is a need in society, with those skills and talents, and how do you, you know, rub two red pennies together and make your own income? We've talked about that a lot, about how we've come a long way where everybody is reliant on getting a job or reliant on doing what other people are telling them to do, instead of reliance on themselves and their skills and their talents, their entrepreneurial spirit.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, I've told my daughters because I have three daughters and they're young adults and I tell them that you have to always have a backup plan. You know, I think it opened up a lot of people's eyes during COVID.
Speaker 1:Yes, it did and when things shut down.
Speaker 2:Yes, it did.
Speaker 3:I will say I'm very happy and grateful that I was an essential worker.
Speaker 2:I was an educator.
Speaker 3:I was working for a school at the time and being able to pivot Right.
Speaker 1:I feel like a lot of people don't know how to pivot these days, right I?
Speaker 3:don't miss a step, because not only am I an educator, I will never let go of my skill trade, of what I do, and so because of that, we're able to fill orders of skincare products, hair products, I mean, deliver them and deliver them, or they were picking them up Right. And so, you know, I tell my daughters like you, you, yes, they've gone to school, things like that but you have to have a skill trade. Yeah, my middle daughter really took to it and she's she's doing her own thing out there in.
Speaker 1:Uvalde, and I see her cakes is blown up everything that she's doing. Oh my gosh, I'm like we need it over here now me that she's.
Speaker 3:She started her own merchandise of pastries. Oh my gosh, I love it. Oh, yes, from mirrors to jewelry boxes Okay, all looked like pastries, and so I love that. She pays attention a lot to what I tell her. You know, because she's a young adult she's 26 years old and she recently had a very successful Hello Kitty event in Uvalde.
Speaker 2:The Hello Kitty and Friends Festival.
Speaker 3:Right, and she had over 70 vendors and food trucks and this is a 26-year-old putting everything together.
Speaker 2:Hey, over 1,000 people. And let me say this, you know so, historically I think Uvalde will be remembered for the mass shooting that happened at the schools? Yes, and you know, every time we would drive down to see the kids and so forth. It's sad and for once I saw a community that had smiles on their faces.
Speaker 2:That had a sense of hope they came together starts to look at where they are and where they want to go. They have memorialized the victims in such a way that they're on buildings and they're at the community parks and they have memorials and it's such a daily reminder that it's so difficult for them to pull themselves up and out of the spirit of what happened. And every single time that something happens in America that's negative, with gun shooting or violence, where do they go? They go to Uvalde.
Speaker 2:And so the community is always being it's like a wound, it's always being disturbed.
Speaker 1:Freshly opened.
Speaker 2:Freshly opened and that's one thing that, when I looked at the work that Samantha and Foxy Cakes is doing and Juan, they are really lifting the spirits of a whole community and we predicted when she did this that the city was going to call afterward, because the city called her the very next day.
Speaker 1:Okay, what did they say? You can tell the story. What did they?
Speaker 3:say I don't know if I should say one. No, tell me, tell it. Well, you know they were. You know she did this all by herself and she did find somebody to help her that was doing some of her marketing things like that there in the town, and so she originally had set this up at the convention center. Something kind of went awry that it didn't go the way they wanted to. They gave her her deposit back because they weren't going to be able to host her there the whole convention center shut down.
Speaker 3:I mean, everything that could go wrong went wrong, and I told her let's step back.
Speaker 2:Of course that happened.
Speaker 3:Let's go ahead and see what we can do, because she's like I have at that point I think, like 50 vendors and you know I love that she. I try not to be a pushy mom of like, kind of just standing over her hovering.
Speaker 1:A hover mom. A hover mom.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, yeah, you know that's what my kids call me.
Speaker 3:I love that she always reaches back to me because she is the main one who kind of went with me when I would travel and she was always about business, always. You know, when I was running my salon she was always there and so you know she reached back out to me and what do you think? And I said, hey, what other options do we have? Have you talked to the people in the city? She was like who do I reach out to?
Speaker 2:So we started.
Speaker 3:Googling who can we reach out to? She did end up talking to the city manager and was like what can I do? What is my other option? Because I'm not going to cancel it. I was like there's where the main memorial is at, oh my gosh. And going back to what Chris was saying about, anytime we go down there, there is that memorial there, and for us to see so many children in that area playing and smiling and laughing and then they had the Hello Kitty in costume.
Speaker 2:It brought so much joy and I think, if I can say this on camera.
Speaker 1:You know what God has a purpose and God has a reason for everything yeah, and God is good.
Speaker 3:And I told her you know what, for some reason it had something happened the convention center, that they shut the convention center down, but they brought you into a place better yeah and she was able to bring food trucks in. She was able to bring all that together and it went so well that the city reached out to her and asked her if she can join the board. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Of course they said yes.
Speaker 3:When she told me she texted me this and I was like call me. And she's like I'm busy and I'm like you need to call me, and so I was like tell me. You said yes, please tell me. She said yes, I said yes oh, yes, she said on one, on one condition one condition and I told her wait, she gave them a condition. What did you say? What was your condition? She goes only if my husband can come along.
Speaker 3:Just one, oh my gosh and let me tell you, I know, I knew at that point that she got it, she understood yeah they work as a team yeah and going back to what Chris was saying, how we work as a team and they're seeing that.
Speaker 3:I think it's very that's that example ship that you're showing young very important for young adults that we come as a partner, we work as a team and he is so supportive. I love my son-in-law, so supportive. Come as a package. He's the one who spoke at yes. Yes, he's the one who said she's she's shy. He is out there and promoting her and I love it and he's the one who took the mic. That was like let me go ahead and speak for her. And that's my son-in-law. I love him to death and I always give him his flowers anytime I can, because I'm very proud that she went ahead and put that condition on Like we come as a team. So if y'all want me on the board, he's coming along and yeah, it's going. It's great, I'm excited and you know.
Speaker 1:I can see that um, they've been paying attention yeah, they definitely are paying attention to the two of you and where you guys are headed, and which brings me to a segue here where you guys are headed. Let's talk about where we're headed here.
Speaker 3:I will tell you a big announcement. There has always been a purpose behind anytime we do anything in life. Right, we're not out here, you know, just living life living life?
Speaker 1:not at all.
Speaker 3:You're living life with a purpose absolutely, and I have three daughters and he has daughters himself. Yeah, that you know we um, we're here for a reason and we're not um, you know we're here for a reason and we're not playing house. Can we say?
Speaker 1:that You're not playing around.
Speaker 2:No, no. So you know, we have children and families in which we do need to set a great example. So we got engaged relatively soon in the relationship. And when you know, you know, and people said, hey, you know, know, isn't that moving a little fast?
Speaker 2:no maybe for you or people that don't know where they're headed right so, right, you know, we we came up with this concept of, uh, longevity um we both wanted a relationship that had longevity and with that as being our goal, and I know some couples would probably say, oh love, let love be the goal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, love goes, comes with the goal of longevity. But you have to know how to withstand and you have to be very transparent in that relationship. You have to be very visible, you have to be very open, you have to expose things in which you were never exposed to a person to be able to get to and to achieve the progress I think that we've been able to achieve. So that's been our secret. We're sticking to it. We remind each other of what that looks like, and so we've gone through all the processes now to cement the deal. But every day we think about our kids and how it reflects on our kids, our grandkids, and ultimately, I hope that I'm like her number one fan. Uh, in terms of what she does and how she goes about her business. Uh, vice versa, she's my number one supporter and uh, we're very prayerful about it.
Speaker 2:Uh, you know, it'sa, it's a it's. It's not only a of physical union, but it's a spiritual union. So we have to line up with god and, uh, that hasn't been any problems with doing that.
Speaker 1:Well, I want to go back to how you were so excited about your son-in-law, juan, and I definitely have to say Chris, I see him being that example for Juan in so many different ways. But let's talk about Evolve, because Chris is like your walking billboard, he is your biggest promoter. I mean, hire him for marketing because he's already doing the job and, you know, really exciting.
Speaker 2:Can I get a job? You're hired.
Speaker 3:You've got a position, you're hired.
Speaker 1:And you know you are doing amazing things out of there. But I do want to emphasize I recently had the opportunity to not only get a facial but list the things that I actually got from there. You should get the facial. The hydro facial actually got from there so I was facial, the hydro face. I got the hydro facial right, right.
Speaker 3:So we originally had you come in right, we did the hydro facial and it's so funny what's a hydro? Hydrofacial. So this is I like going back to my teaching ways. Right, I like to give people a visual and so, when it comes to hydro facials, it's what they call the Rolls Royce of facials, yeah, right, and it was by the best.
Speaker 3:It exfoliates, it helps to purge the pores, it helps to, you know, cleanse the skin really well. And so for people to understand more of a visual what that is, I always tell them have you seen carpet cleaning? And I know Madi, you know Madi there and Miss Sandra, like, what do you mean? I tell them think about carpet cleaning. When I first came in, how can we really explain what a hydrafacial is? And if you think about carpet cleaning, they throw soap in, scrub it around and vacuum everything out. Think about that for your pores. Yes, right Now you get a visual of what it is right Exfoliating and cleansing your skins and purging your pores from oil, dirt, debris.
Speaker 1:Makeup, you know, and not only for women, for men too, because but you said something that was that caught my attention when I was getting the facial. You said how do you take like, how do you clean your face from the oil and the debris? And it's like, right, people throw water, yes, water and oil doesn't mix yes.
Speaker 3:And when I tell people that Duh mix yes. And when I tell people that duh, oh my gosh, when I tell people that they're like oh, I didn't think about it.
Speaker 3:Yes, oil, water doesn't mix, and so oil removes oil. And so, in the process of being there at evolve, I'm an educator and so I always tell people. You know, sometimes people want to relax and not receive information, but for the most part, people are asking questions tell me, tell me, what are you putting in my skin? Why are are you doing this? And oil removes oil. I specialize in problematic skin. People have rosacea, eczema, psoriasis and so being able to treat those type of skin conditions is very important to me, because I am a person who grew up with cystic acne.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh Right, right.
Speaker 3:And so that is my specialty. This is why I specialize in people who have beautiful skin, and it's great and all, but we're here really trying to change lives, yes, and they're giving me the platform for it.
Speaker 1:When I was there also, you said something that really caught my attention. You said, after you get a facial a hydro facial specifically it's very important, if you are getting Botox, to do it after Right, do your.
Speaker 3:Botox afterwards. Why is? That Well and we have so many great packages that are evolved because understanding skincare is so important. They go hand in hand. Yes, right, first thing we tell people is the best thing you can do is stay hydrated. Yeah, right, and if you hydrate and mind your business, you'll live for a long time, right? So I always tell people hydrate and mind your business. But that's usually one of my beauty tips to people right, stay hydrated. But you know, when it comes to Botox, your fine lines show more when you're dehydrated.
Speaker 2:Yes, would you agree?
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely, you're dehydrated and your skin looks like it's cracking yes, right, and so we want to stay hydrated. So what we do is we'll do a hydro facial, hydrate your skin and then you will go in with botox because you'll use less units.
Speaker 1:Yeah, botox, so that was the part that got me less units. Everybody right, don't?
Speaker 3:waste your units and if people are not telling you that, your technicians, your injectors are not telling you that well, they're getting you with the extra units, that's it's money there. Yeah, right, but overall, what we want to do at evolve is not only educate you, but provide all these services you know, okay, so tell us what services you provide there, um when the med spa, laser, lipo body contouring, we do infrared red light therapy as well, which we have the the cocoon yes, it's all that right it's a fitness pod.
Speaker 3:It is great for detoxifying, it's great for infusing tissues muscle as well. Any tissue tears, muscle tears, and so they have Manny Pacquiao, who's a spokesperson. Wow, actual technology we have there, okay so. I do facial treatments, micro needing derma planing. We're a medical spa so we do a lot of invasive treatment. Yes, hair restoration.
Speaker 1:Oh, so you're not just surface level? Oh no, yeah, treatment, yes hair restoration.
Speaker 3:Oh so you're not just surface level, oh no. No, yes, this is a medical, in-depth okay. Not only micro kneeling in the face, but also throughout the body. And so, for people who don't know what micro kneeling is, they're small little needles that cause a little bit damage into your subcutaneous level and that helps to regenerate collagen elasticity. Yes, and so not only does it help to get rid of fine lines, but pigmentation scarring as well. Yeah, and so you know, evolve is a overall wellness center because it is a weight loss center.
Speaker 1:Yes, and so you do semi-glutide as well. Is that correct?
Speaker 3:Semi-glutide trizepatide, which is the compound of Ozempic. Yes, right, and so a lot of people think that it's only weight loss. It's not. Semiglutide has been known to help with premenopause and menopausal hot flashes and cold sweats, yeah. So this is what we're doing, and Chris and I actually are looking forward to doing a class for for women women overall health.
Speaker 1:Yes, when it comes to premenopause and menopause and we talked about you coming into the Center Club and having a seminar for women it's such a taboo topic?
Speaker 3:No, it's not. Women want to talk about it afterwards but when they're going through it. I cannot get women. Women are like I'm going through it and it's bad. There's so many things you can do.
Speaker 2:It's so horrible. Now I'm probably one of the very few people who this you will ever see that will say as a man, I went through menopause.
Speaker 1:Yes, and what are the statistics on that I want.
Speaker 2:It's very low. It's so people who go through various forms of cancer treatment, and I had cancer, stage four in fact, and you know God is good, I'm here. And he preserved my life, but I do know that for something good and great and great and a relationship right that has a purpose.
Speaker 2:And so when I went through my own journey and became almost like a 97 year old man in my shuffle and I experienced the hot flashes and the cold sweats and it's the most horrible condition that a person can ever go through. And so when I met Teresa and she says, hey, I have this goal of trying to help women to eliminate or to reduce this thing called premenopause, that I was like really. And so I think that she definitely is on something great. Evolve has some of the best. Technology is on something great. Evolve has some of the best technology. They have some of the best people that can help to emerge technology and health and create beauty. And so I'm committed. And so whenever we go out you know I can actually now it's funny we go out I can say to people as I'm looking at them.
Speaker 2:I can tell them. I'm like, hey, you know you may want to come by the Met Spa. Why?
Speaker 1:Because I'm looking at maybe Now he sees the fine lines.
Speaker 2:Fine lines or a belly that may not be removed, you know. And so they have the technology now to be able to put the technology on an individual that will help them to have reps for their abs or to do a non-invasive type of facelift, or maybe they want to get a little boost sexually so they have testosterone. I mean there's so many things. But these are not taboo conversations, no, they are not.
Speaker 2:And we try to help couples, especially couples, to see that if you're in a dead relationship, within your relationship there is hope you both have to believe that there's hope.
Speaker 3:Rejuvenate it, give it a boost. We have such a great relationship, there is hope and you just have to you both have to believe it. You know we have such a great we. We just actually joined. Uh, we brought on two great people onto our team there at Evolve, and so we have Rodney, which does a regenerative care. I think y'all met him recently, on Monday. He talked about the veteran.
Speaker 2:The veteran that served in the Army and the Air Force and he worked in the medical career field.
Speaker 3:So yeah, he does regenerative care. You know, we see so many people I don't know if you have experienced this a lot, but people with the sciatica, my goodness, oh gosh, and they hurt themselves. That's a big thing though A huge thing.
Speaker 3:I feel like I know like seven people off at the top of my head that have, and usually they're getting massages or they're getting stuff just to kind of hold them off. The great thing that Rodney does is regenerative care, and so he works with being able to pull your labs and see what's going on, and so we're trying to find you, and that was another thing you we talked about.
Speaker 1:you can't get care with you unless you do the labs Absolutely.
Speaker 3:We have a whole medical board.
Speaker 1:Yes, so everything has to go through that, so it's not just some like come in and we're going to diagnose you with what we think it's actual, factual, based on your labs.
Speaker 3:We have a physician on hand. Not only a physician, but we also have nurse practitioners there, which is Joyce, you met her as well. Nurse practitioners there, which is Joyce, you met her as well. With Joyce coming in, not only is she helping us with that, but we just opened up our Evolve Institute, which is our school.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's what you were saying, right, right.
Speaker 3:So this was my whole reasoning behind coming with Evolve because I want to continue my education and giving education because I've been teaching for 16 years. I just again wanted to get away from corporate America and have my own baby here, right?
Speaker 2:So this is my, this is our baby of me continuing the education journey that I have.
Speaker 3:But now we have such a great team, yes, such an amazing team. We have so many things to offer. We do Botox classes I love it Lip fillers, we are doing classes for microneedling, dermaplaning and, with having Rodney there, with the regenerative care, we have now these new technology which you were able to sit on. I was going to ask you about this chair Right.
Speaker 1:So, oh my gosh, let's talk about the chair. So what was your pitch on the chair?
Speaker 3:Your pitch on the chair was better sex. Well, right, because. And the reason why that was my pitch.
Speaker 2:That was my pitch. Now the actual billboard has right, you're right.
Speaker 3:The actual pitch is incontinence and sexual health. Yes, more importantly, incontinence. But I'm just saying the camera, I don't have a problem with that. No, you know, I, I don't. I didn't have children naturally, and that's usually a main thing that they say for women who have had natural childbirth. Yeah, um, they usually suffer from incontinence because, you know, your, your bladder is a little bit weaker.
Speaker 1:Yes, right, and I've had four kids, naturally, and one I had a cesarean. But even having the four kids, it's like if I go on the trampoline I'm I got to go empty my bladder.
Speaker 3:And it's not only for women, it's for men as well, yeah, and so because of this technology, it it helps to tighten, and we're talking about 1200 Kegels 12 and 28 minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right. So I got my 1200 Kegels Right Right, and then we took it for a test drive.
Speaker 2:Hey y'all kids have fun with that and even with I was like y'all kids have fun with that and even from a male perspective. So when men have any type of erectile dysfunction and those types of things, there are apps where men can do Kegel exercises and so forth and there's a whole education associated with sexual function function. But again, the pelvic floor, which is the machine that you were sitting on is exercising that pelvic floor through Kegels also makes men have better circulation.
Speaker 2:And so men I always say hey, come into Evolve, come sit down on that seat, because if you're paying for prescriptions and you're paying for over-the-counter solutions that haven't been working, then this technology uses, this electronic magnetic technology that basically stimulates and you will have a good time.
Speaker 1:It's literally the hot seat. It makes you hot. That is the hot seat it is Actually.
Speaker 3:I need a sign that says the hot seat at the door. The hot seat, yes, but with that technology it came with so much more technology, because it's not only the chair. We have the same technologies used for the face.
Speaker 1:Put them on the hot seat.
Speaker 2:Go ahead, we're going to put you on the hot seat.
Speaker 1:But we are moving in a whole different direction here, something that you are going to take on and are you ready to announce that?
Speaker 2:Are you talking about political, Political?
Speaker 1:yes.
Speaker 2:I mean we've already got the high speed of the relationship. Yeah political.
Speaker 1:Where are you guys going?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I think that sometimes you have to look at what you've been called to do. So, I believe, just like you do with YES, about empowering our young people.
Speaker 1:Absolutely with yes about empowering our young people.
Speaker 2:I believe entrepreneurship, small business advocacy, support of the people in our city of San Antonio is so important. So I've considered talk to so many people veterans and family members in District 10 about running for city council. Why is that important? I think it's important because for me, when I look at city council and I look at some of the decisions that have been made, I'm not necessarily certain that we have really empowered our small business, our mid, to bring in big companies and to think that the solution for a city that's been in poverty for a lifetime.
Speaker 2:We are on the bottom of the, or top of, the poverty list of America.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:And when we look at the segregation that has happened in San Antonio, there's really been no one that has even said hey, this is a problem, how do we fix it? And I know that city managers charge with making our city effective, but I also know that when you look at the city of San Antonio, compared to other large cities around the United States, we are municipally driven, meaning our government runs our city. Wow, in places like Houston and Chicago and New York, the cities do not drive the economy. It's the business community that drives the economy, and so we have it inverted here.
Speaker 1:Can you dissect that a little bit, unpack that what you just said right there.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean. So, if you think about the origins of San Antonio, there's probably five companies that come to mind that were the foundation of San Antonio. I would submit that we still have maybe six or seven companies that are still the foundation of San Antonio. Those are the ones that get all the requests for all the grants and all the you know. Give to this organization, give to this organization, and they are wore out. San Antonio's profile has always been small and mid-sized businesses, mom and pop or mom or pop businesses, and so when we look at those areas of San Antonio that I would say continue to have this economic discrimination, which is like the south side, the west side, the east side, these are the sides where the banks.
Speaker 1:That's a whole lot of sides. Well, of course South side, west side, east side 75% of our city.
Speaker 2:And so when banks were redlining, we know that historically that happened. That's fact.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And when gentrification is now happening.
Speaker 1:Wait, can you tell our viewers what is redlining?
Speaker 2:Yeah, redlining is when you build certain neighborhoods for certain people. You don't allow certain types of people like, say, blacks can't live on the north side, so that was actually in deeds. Like Mexicans can't live on the north side that was actually in real estate deeds.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So you alienate populations, and then you give certain areas the best of your infrastructure, while you leave the other places behind, and so, it's no kidding, you'll find places on the west side that still have flooding on certain streets or no sidewalks on the east side Because the infrastructure is not up to date.
Speaker 2:Right, and so the council members are constantly fighting the battle of getting basic infrastructure that should have been there all along, and so, when we talk about equity and getting people caught up to the standard, there's so much poverty that has existed, that is generational, and so the work that YES does is so important, because you're breaking the poverty issue?
Speaker 1:Well, we're definitely bringing to the table. Is you know that generational gap of poverty? We're addressing generational poverty you know, and really giving people not just purpose but the know-how, the knowledge you know, bringing that knowledge, because a lot of people like to gatekeep as well, and that's a big thing that I've seen and witnessed.
Speaker 2:And so in District 10, you would probably say that that's not the 75% of the sites that I talked about. You have to run where you live. So, being that, I think that the economic force of San Antonio is in District 9 and 10, it would be great to be at the table to help those discussions and also to bring companies that are really emerging.
Speaker 2:We have so many companies I think are underperforming, and so Global Chamber has been important, because one of my jobs is to help the business community to see the making global local is a reality, and so I work with the United States Department of Trade and Development Agency to promote this making global local, which means that any business can go global.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:If they know how to go about it, and that's kind of what we do in the global chamber. So my work across the state of Texas I was just last week in Austin for Austin Tech Week had a great opportunity to talk to the tech community there. San Antonio has been wonderful since I've been on board with Global Chamber to help to promote the business of our international community. We're one of the most international communities around the United States and so we have some strengths that we can build on. And then, jacqueline, I'll probably ask you to be my campaign manager. What?
Speaker 1:do you think about that? I'm saying yes, yes, yes, and hold on, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, because campaign manager News here.
Speaker 3:You heard it first.
Speaker 2:Yeah we joined forces to support our youth and.
Speaker 1:I'm excited.
Speaker 2:I believe that parents will be energized Again just being partnered with the Esty.
Speaker 2:Bestie and seeing her model. And again, I just want to also bring a conclusion to what I said about college degrees. College degrees was a good thing if they produced the jobs that were going to pay the young people the amount of money that they need to pay for their education and get ahead. But college degrees for so many black and brown children especially, has not panned out to what they thought it was going to be. And which goes back to. I remember Dr Adina Lawson from St Phillips College, who gave a speech and she talked about how she has all the degrees but, she also has certain skills that her mother made sure that she could be a great seamstress.
Speaker 2:So she says, if everything failed, I still can go back to my house and make a dress or make some jeans or make something that's going to enable me to be able to have money in this economy. That's where we need to go back to making sure that our children not only like are bilingual in language, but they're bilingual in business. They have a heart for not only education, but a heart for something that they can do with their hands.
Speaker 1:They're able to change lanes if need to be.
Speaker 2:Exactly right, there you go.
Speaker 1:Wow, ok, well, you guys here, you guys heard it. Here he is. Chris Herring and Teresa are coming in hot District 10. Well, yes, I can't think of anybody better to be in that role than the two of you guys. Really, you know giving and pouring out into the community. So I mean you guys are already doing it on a daily basis.
Speaker 2:Hey, with you and your husband, we're. It's so we and we have a lot of work to do, but I know that we also have the heart for the people of the city. That's why you're doing this phenomenal podcast.
Speaker 1:So thank you for having us on. Thank you.
Speaker 2:And I think the best is yet to come. I believe that we take faith walks every day, and I think the faith that we have, the size of a mustard seed, can move mountains, and so the mountains of poverty bringing hope, bringing love, showing relationship, accountability and what that looks like. Oh, I'm just fired up. Are you fired up?
Speaker 3:Absolutely. I'm ready. She's in the hot seat. She's your campaign manager.
Speaker 1:Sounds great, All right. Thank you so much for coming on today, Chris Teresa.
Speaker 2:Thank you. You guys are amazing. Thank you. She rolled the R. You heard that Baby steps yes, baby steps.
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