the classic they later and say it's a sleeper the ears are the P is for feat depit the monea Fel she came me know2 hello hello hello everyone and welcome back to my channel it's your girl Shen shamon and we're back with another stories time of course if you read the title then you know better than I do what the story time is about I got so many stories I don't know which one I'm going to share today but I do know that I have to take this hair out for sure because my scalps is like no my new grow
th is like what it looks so so crazy I'm like kind of embarrassed to be even showing it like from a distance it probably look like my hair looks nice but when when you get up close you're like girl it been like 3 months past due and it only been a month and a half so that or you got my hair growing super fast like my edges look crazy everything look crazy but I got them I got them so I don't care as long as I got edges I don't care cuz some people don't you know I I got I got Ed but I don't got
smooth skin obviously I see j844 that scared me I'm not going to lie oh my [Music] tablet but we going to just close that it scared me I'm not going to lie it really it really scared me because like why you decide to call me when I'm making my video so I'mma grab my notebook and then we're going to see um what story time I honestly think I want to talk about my my small business like I just been having a lot of trouble lately all right so I've been having a lot of trouble with my small business
lately like from going from wigs to Shopify and it's just like you know um trying to have a clothing let me get to some scissors hold on right so what I was saying was like having a small business is like really really hard for me um I think the hardest thing is actually growing my small business it's like no matter what I do it's just so hard I'm baldheaded so I could cut my braids like that but all right so that's not the topic we're going to use today not going to talk about the small busines
s even though I want to because I'm so freaking depressed like no lie I'm so freaking depressed like every day it it's hard especially when you work so hard and you thought you did a good job and then you see Zero sales you were like I thought this was going to be the one like I thought when I launched this one it was going to be the one I I did everything right you know I played everything by the books like why is it not right what you know things things happen you know I'm supposed to switch m
y topic but it look like I'm stuck on this topic I need to turn my TV up I was watching TV so yeah come what the okay it it look like I got a small TV but that's a real 55 in TV but it look mad little it look like a little 32 in back there but um what I going say so yeah so if anyone all right so basically this is like an introduction video I'm going to introduce myself introduce my business give you a little few story times about my business about the first business that I opened up with uh if
I'm not mistaken when I first opened my business it was in um was it 2021 I believe it was 2021 because that's the year I lost my dad and when I rebranded my brand and um Crown gifted I I launched my business on July 29th 2021 and I lost my dad in August so I do remember that it was was 2021 so U and then I think that was like a big drop too because when I all right so I first opened my business it was in like May 2021 and it was called um lovely creation but then like a month later I changed it
to shamon secret shop in like June I switched it but then like a lot of people look like that name is not catchy what's the secret shop is it a scam is that the secret and it was just like you know that was like blowing my mind so you I was like you know what I'm going to switch my name one last time and it's going to be gifted not Crown gifted it was gift my my business name is gifted to this day is still gifted but however when I chose gifted gifted.com wasn't available so my clothing website
became Crown gifted and I launched that and it was okay but I feel like I lacked cells because I had eyelashes and clothing and lip gloss and bracelets and nose rings and just so many different things in one store so when people came it was like a big confusion to them like what is going on here I see shirts here and Rings here and tongue rings over there and it was just like a big mess like it was just so much like for on that really support me yes they came and they brought but the ones that
had no clue who I am was like I don't trust it enough you know to to buy anything so I feel like that was like a big dump like it it messed me up in a long run hold on so from with that being said my SD card is running out of space I got 3 minutes left but we going to talk this 3 minutes and then I'm going to get my other SD card because we going to use every minute on this thing I need to put my iPad on a charger because that's what I'm going to use to edit but see I told you I'm baldheaded so
yeah even if I cut my hair I don't even care but when did this come out all right we're gonna go with this stud where creative freedom makes abute back to what I was saying so after oh my God it's too loud all right so after that bus business when um I'm like I'm going to close this business down it's overwhelming and it's just too much and from there I end up having so many problems I'm going to say that for another uh story but I had so many problems with the apartment I was living in um with
the landlord with everything and it was just like becoming so much it was like a big stress on me so I I completely just closed the business down and I'm like when I move with which I did I am moved I'm in a new spot now I've been here for almost a year so I decided you know when the time was right I was going to reopen my business so now I open my business but this time I do not want to do the same mistake so I only open with eyelashes for right now and it's called gifted lashes um I'm going to
I don't know if I can because they said I'm new to YouTube so I don't know if I could link the link down below but for anybody I put it on the screen it is called gifted lashes.com that's it All Lashes are 645 no matter the limb style color you know it's all 6:45 oh no 6:49 um I always have deals I always have sales so just make sure you sign up for notifications so now with this new business I opened up I literally opened up on Christmas Day and today is uh the 29th December 29th so 4 days lat
er and I only made one sell and it hurt it because like while I was promoting so many people like it so many friends like un like it so many people say they going to support so many people are sharing so many people whatever and then when I launch all them people go miia you know or you hear stories like oh I get paid next week and I'm going to shop oh I was on your website it looks nice or things like that like it it's like very discouraging and it's like at this point what am I doing wrong rig
ht so I don't really remember where I left off at but I think we left off saying that it was very discouraging uh it makes me think like I'm doing something wrong or maybe business is not like they say business is not for everyone so I started to think like maybe business is not for me should I just quit but then I be like if I close my business down and just stop that mean I'm a quitter and like I don't I don't I don't know how to explain it maybe I'm just not trying hard enough you know so I f
eel like just try harder like go harder like don't give up and just keep going harder and harder and harder like if this is not working figure something else out if that's not working then figure something else out like something has to work like if I give up I would never know like I don't know maybe it's just me but I know it's business is not for everyone and it's definitely not for the week because I'm barely I'm like I'm I'm like I don't know what to say I'm sitting here stuttering because
I really don't know what to say I really want to get this hair out and wash my hair because it itch not even going to lie it really itch cuz my scalp itch my scal dirty I have like bad scal to where like my scal would turn white I just got off topic but like I feel like we having like a FaceTime call tell you the true so yeah I kind of Hur it look at that it's so nasty I feel like I cut my hair here I had to look I had to yeah cuz a lot just falling like all right so I don't even know what to sa
y I really just like another thing that's too that's discouraging is having a YouTube channel like it's a lot of discouragement like I'm about to sign into it and see how my vide is even performing because like I don't even think I got any views like and it it it be hurting because I shared it to my social medias and it's like I got one view as of right now and I post this two weeks ago and I I got no subscribers like so it it it's discouraging when you do your best and you you don't see nothing
like no no nothing you just don't see nothing and you try your best that discouraged you so much but the only thing that I can say is for anybody that's trying to do YouTube anybody that's trying to do a small business anybody that's trying to go viral on any social media platform just keep going like whether you get views or not just keep going because one day you're just going to blow up out of nowhere and you're going to be like wow this what I've been waiting for whether it takes you a year
whether it take you three years W hopefully it it doesn't but it may take you a year it may take you 3 years it may take you 5 years I promise you this camera really got one more time to do something and I'm freaking done but luckily I do have backup batteries um that are charged because soon as it died I was able to just flip it another battery but now I don't even remember what I was talking about and it keep happening first the SD car I had to switch the SD car and then the battery died it's
like there a lot of things that just make you want to just be like you know what forget this video or you know what I'm done or it just make you want to give up but just keep going for anybody that's trying to start a YouTube anybody that's trying to start a small business anyone that's trying to do um what is this uh social media content or be a influencer whatever you're trying to do it don't even matter if you're just trying to become the manager or become trying to come a supervisor or you'
re trying to just graduate whatever you are trying to do no matter how much I'm going to say the devil try to discourage you or try to make you feel like you're not enough keep going because whatever God have planned for you it's going to be for you can't nobody change what God has planned for you can no body change God's how can I say this God's timeline but God not you not the devil not your parents nobody what God has planned for you will be for you so if me being um a YouTuber or a small bus
iness owner and and whatever else whatever God has planned for me it will be for me I feel like if I have to walk work harder for it then I just have to work harder some people get it easy some people don't we may be the people that don't get it easy or we may be the ones that we think it's hard but it's actually not hard we just don't have the knowledge so I say study everything you want to become a business owner study how to be a business owner you want to be a YouTuber study how to be a YouT
uber study what you have to do learn what you have to do because if you're anything like me and you just just hop to it this lighting is really getting me mad because I keep going bright and then not bright and but if you just hop into trying to be a YouTuber and you just post a video you don't even know what you're supposed to be saying you don't know what you're supposed to be doing you just posting videos so of course that's going to be a little harder and and another thing too is a lot of Yo
uTubers when they start YouTube it's because someone around them already have those subscribers and have that YouTube that they already built so the next person that starts a YouTube they already going to have subscribers like this because the person that they are associated with when you're not associated with people that has small businesses and people that have you know um subscribers or followers or things like that it's going to be a little bit harder and if it is work hard just do it if yo
u got to work hard hard work hard because at the end of the day once you accomplish what you have to accomplish and you become what you want to become you will feel a lot better about yourself knowing that you actually really did it on your own well not literally on your own because you did it with God everybody does it with God if you did not know like you cannot do anything without god without God is nothing is possible like everything is possible with God so as long as you keep your faith in
God and you keep your faith in yourself you will overcome anything I done been in so many predicaments where I thought it was the end of the world and no it's just the beginning like it's not the end of the world just because I got one view on YouTube don't mean that I won't have a million one day that one will be 1 million one day it may not be today it may not be tomorrow it may not be next year it may not be this year but hey I'm going to have one million views one day on YouTube because I kn
ow I have faith that's gonna happen I don't know how fast I don't know how slow but I know it will happen the key word is will happen you know as long as I keep going you know I have to have faith in myself and faith in God so you don't have no faith I believe you need to go somewhere and and you know eat the faith up because you need Faith so I'm discouraged about a lot of things a lot of things like um I I know know I'm not the only one I am a mother right and I feel like sometimes I do that w
rong I feel like my parenting skills are wrong but then my kids love me to death and they tell me that I'm the best mom ever they keep making me best mom think and I keep feeling like I could do better but then I'm like this whole time I am my own hater like I'm the one that's discouraging myself I need to stop discouraging myself and look in the mirror and be like girl you got it girl you could do it girl this is your time I need to look in the mirror and have that hold on I think my dude here
all right so I'm back all right me all right so I'm back and I got the Starbucks cup my sister brought me the Starbucks cup and I love this cup I want to show you guys so bad but I'mma show you guys I'm using it as my tripod though right now but hold on you guys see it yall see the hole in my wall let me clean the camera I think that's what that lighting is my my uh lens are dirty all right you guys should see me a lot better now I cleaned the camera but the light is still like so annoying like
whatever but um I be always forgetting one of the hard I was seeing but today is the December 29th I need to get my hair out washed and braid it back up for New Year's Eve cuz I'm going to church and I'm going to church twice on New Year e I'm going at um service start at 10:30 a.m. in the morning well obviously a.m. is the morning so I don't have to say in the morning if I say a.m. so 10:30 a.m. I'm going to go to service until 1:00 p.m. and then is it 1 no it's 12: so it's from 10:30 a.m. to 1
2:00 p.m. and then we going back at night at 10:00 and we're going to bring in the New Year's at church this is going to be well my first time in my adulthood or adult years to go to church on New Year's Eve um growing up I did go to church on New Year's Eve but if you ask me anything about it I do not remember anything because as a kid I cared less about being at church I did not care about being in there but I could tell you when I did do Bible study I do remember some things you know about Bi
ble study some things that they told us I remember but I still don't have the full knowledge I should have had because I did not pay attention and some of those are regrets because I wish I would have paid attention if I knew how real life was you know as a kid growing up I had no idea that life would be this serious I actually learned that life was real just two years ago when I lost my dad and I'm like wow like I don't know like me losing my dad made me realize like like life is real and life
is short and he didn't even get to see my kids grow up so you know I look at life so different now everything I take Serious like I take I take everything serious I could tell yall just like 5 years ago I had that attitude like oh well oh well oh well and then what oh well oh well oh well everything was oh well and then what because I had this thing like okay y'all know that song old enough to no better but younger nothing I give her yeah that was me I was living that slogan out like living that
that RSE out because I'm young oh well what's going to happen they be like oh you going to go to work late oh well oh you going to quit oh well I get another job oh well oh well oh well now I'm like I ain't quitting my job they going to have to fire me if they don't want me there like and that's another story time I have too like I'm not quitting my job to go find another job because somebody at my job don't like me if you don't like me you going to have to deal with me until they find a reason
to fire me but it's hard to fire me because I do my job I'm not that little kid no more that's just going to come to work and sit around and eat chips and candy and sunflower seeds and chew gum all day no I'm at this age or this time in life where I take everything serious my small business my YouTube my kids the education my education my walk with Christ everything is is I take Serious and that's why I feel like a lot of people or not even just a lot of people me myself I Shi Shimon like me ca
n't give up and have no choice but to keep going like no matter how hard it is you know I have no choice but to keep going because like I'm at that point of life where it's I don't have time to play games like I don't I can't play games I can't have that old I I'm telling you 5 years ago if I would have started my business and I seen that I'm not getting no sales I'm telling you I would have been like you know what F this bu um business F these lashes throw all this in a garbage that would have
been me now I'm like no something got to give if I need new lash boxes then I'm going to get new lash boxes if I need to redesign my website I'm going to redesign my website but I'm going to figure something out until I get it right like and and I have to get it right because like I can't fail like if you have a small business a YouTube um uh Instagram Tik Tok whatever it is that you doing because it seem like this world 2024 is about to be all social media like if you got a n of five you're not
regular I have a n of five but I'm still trying to do my social medias as well with my Nai it is not manageable but I'm making it happen like I feel like me working so much is causing me to lack on social media and once I lack on social media my likes go like this you know like I was I was going from uh when I first started moving you know I did take like a little vacation so I was home every day every day so I was able to post good morning every morning I was getting I'm not going to say I was
getting thousands of likes but I say I was getting at least uh on Instagram with the good morning post at least 20 people told me good morning back and to me that's a lot of people I don't know what about y'all but to me 20 people saying good morning back on Instagram is a lot um people liking my thing I would say I'll get anywhere from like 10 to 100 likes on Instagram and still to me that is a lot and then um on my Facebook page I used to put more as well I get over 100 likes and like 300 com
ments saying good morning on on my Facebook the only one that I did not get a lot of love on was Tik Tok I got the most love on Facebook that's why I mess with Facebook and um yeah like I got Tik Tok I got Instagram I got Facebook Snapchat and YouTube that's it and I get the most love on Facebook like it's crazy cuz a lot of people say Tik Tok but it's hard for me to grow on Tik Tok and I could tell yall that one of the things is because I feel like you have to have a BBL you have to have 40 in
wig what chips I don't have do chips baby oh my chips in the living room call my door okay all right so my biggest thing is the reason why I can't go viral on Tik Tok is because it's about dancing and I don't dance you know and it's about like um you have to be very consistent with Tik Tok and with a n of five for anybody with a nine of five that's consistent on TK Tok like I don't know what 95 you got but uh you know props to you salute to you like congrats to you but I work overnight so during
the time that I need to actually be right back all right so once again I am back um where would I leave on okay yeah so Tik Tok for me to be consistent on Tik Tok I'm going to have to quit my 95 and actually work in all day long with Tik Tok it like once I'm at work I can't oh well not even just work I got kids a lot of them too I don't have just one child two or three I have four okay and that's a lot of kids for me and they all two years apart and when I'm not working I'm taking care of my ki
d so it's hard to have extra time but the extra time like right now I had to stop for multiple reasons I had to stop because my camera died I had to stop cuz the SD card was full I had to stop because my daughter randomly likes to cry and it's like well she's the youngest so of course she cries for like everything but you know whatever I do have another story time I really want to talk about my manager she hates me so my next video it will be about her and my super Riser hate me too because I be
lieve like he wants to be you know a little girl but he can't because his family would disown him or something so it's like he takes his anger out on me or something I really don't know what the true reason is but I know like he hates me him and her they sit there and they try to make my life miserable they cut my hours just a whole bunch of things you know like but I'm going to tell yall step by step in my next story time and I feel like this story time is more about this is not even a story ti
me at this point like how is this a story time and it's it's more like a Face Time call and I'm just venting to you guys and just letting you guys know like it's it's not easy and it will never be easy and for the ones that got it easy is because they either was born rich or they associate with rich people that's the only way it's easy but if you're like me and you're starting literally from the bottom not like Drake bottom you know not Drake bottom but when you starting from the bottom we're no
t talking about the B the bottom where Drake Started from we talking about like the actual bottom like I don't know how to explain it but when you start with nothing and you grow to something that's a big accomplishment like I don't have no family or friends that has a small business I don't have no family or friends that's on YouTube I don't have no family of friends that's creators I don't have that so I'll be the first in my whole C Circle I don't I'll be the first in my circle to be a YouTub
er a small business a content creator and a mother of four and all that all in one I'll be the first so because if I'm not mistaken not of all my mom and dad kids I'm the only one with four kids like and I'm not even the oldest that's the bad thing like but I got four darn kids and I don't regret it at all because if it wasn't for them man I don't know I like a lot of things that happened to me in life my kids helped me and God helped me so I feel like God sent them here to give me the extra str
ength that I need to get through a lot of these things and I call them my blessings you know so each one of them is here for another reason I would never know the real reason but they all of them here for a different reason you know I got three girls and one boy so everybody's here for a reason and um I think I'm going just start editing this video and once I'm done taking my hair out I will be making another video but my hair will be out once all right so so if you watch this video obviously th
is video will be up first I don't know what I'm going to title it you guys will know before me I got a lot of braides to go so off camera I'm about to get all these darn braids all right so yeah I feel like I only took out like six Brides just now I think [Music] so look who's calling [Music] me hello up BR hey [Music] baby later the Thea Felicia she came for me twice I didn't once you know I'm
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