Chantay Skrine of Sweetay's LLC | BOBs in the 'Burbs Ep. 6

Summary

This episode of BOBs in the 'Burbs is such a dose of wisdom and inspiring as well. The episode is enough to stir the entrepreneurial spirit within you! In this conversation, Chantay Skrine, the creative behind Sweetay's in Johnson City, New York opens up about her business journey, love for cooking, and the community support she treasures. 

Amid the convo, Chantay shared her power anthem that makes her feel like a blessed person daily. So whether you are just starting as an entrepreneur, or you’ve been in it for years, this episode has all the wisdom you need to navigate through your journey.

Show Notes

In this episode: 

• How Chantay Skrine's passion for food led her to create her culinary business.
• How Chantay’s business in Johnson City, New York gets major love from the community, boosting her network.
• Using Facebook as the main account and creating eye-catching content with Canva, while preparing to grow her video presence and connect with even more people.
• Chantay's audience and customer base growth through word-of-mouth or referrals
• Ready to soak up wisdom and good vibes? Chantay recommends 'The Purpose Driven Life' by Rick Warren and her power anthem, 'There's a Blessing with Your Name on It' by Norman Hutchins.
  

To keep the convo going, find Chantay on:

• Facebook: Sweetay's LLC 
• Instagram: @SweetaysLLC
  

Transcript

Ashley L. James
Hey, My People, this is BOBs in the 'Burbs a podcast for table talks with Black-Owned Business leaders who are shaking things up in suburban communities and using social media to help them do it.

I am Ashley L. James, founder and social media consultant of ALJ Digital. On this episode, I'll be chatting with Chantay, owner of Sweetays, and she'll tell us how she uses Facebook to sweeten the world one treat at a time.

Ashley L. James 
Hi Chantay how are you? I'm doing well, thank you. So happy to have you here today. feeling?

Chantay Skrine
Hi Ashley, how are you? Well, thank you for having me.

Ashley L. James
Give me a glimpse of your journey, background, and inspiration for getting started.

Chantay Skrine 
Well, I've been cooking for a long time. I've been cooking with my grandmothers in the kitchen ever since I was a child, ever since I was little. We used to cook for the churches and stuff like that. So I've grown a passion for food from a very young, besides the fact that I like to eat, but from a very young age, you know, I've learned and loved food.

When I was 16, I graduated from Gateway Job Corps with a culinary arts certification. And my GED at that time, later on I went and got a degree in culinary arts and one in business as well. I've always wanted to own my own business. I always wanted to cook for people, always. I've always have cooked for people growing up.

Chantay Skrine 
I was a cousin that knew how to throw some things together. Even if it was little things, you know, we would throw them together and make a meal. Like we'd have a feast messing with me. So, but I've always loved, I've always loved to feed people. I started this business in 2021 from my home, from my kitchen and at my home, started making cakes and cookies and candy apples. I got a home processing license, which enabled me to do that from home. The following year 2022, we branched off to the CCE where I currently am still, I go to the farmers market there, I sell my products at the farmers markets there, as well as use their commercial kitchen to produce my products. We also have our food in the Taste of New York stores here in Broome County and as well as the Welcome Center.

and the Southern Tier Welcome Center. Like we have soups, roasted nuts and stuff that's there now and salads like a potato salad, macaroni salad, those kinds of things.

Ashley L. James
You got a little bit of everything.

Chantay Skrine
Absolutely. We do chips. I mean, I do custom cakes. I do donuts. I mean, pretty much everything. Being a chef, I just have a vast love for food itself. So it's kind of hard to kind of keep me contained with like making just one thing. So that's why I'm always doing something else. They're like, you're always doing something. I can't help it.

Ashley L. James

Yeah, like just continuous innovation. I like it. Yes, so beautiful. Okay, so how did you decide that you didn't want to just cook food for people, but you really wanted to make it into a business per se? 

Chantay Skrine
Absolutely.

Ashley L. James 
Because it seems like both of those things were kind of there the whole time. You talked about wanting to cook for people, but then also wanting to own a business. But how did you decide to take it from just doing, just cooking casually to cooking as a business?

Chantay Skrine
Well, I've been in this area for 20-plus years. I used to work at the diner. That's like maybe three blocks from my house now. I had went in there one day, the lady, she, you know, that she had bought it and she needed help. So I was like, you know, if you ever need help, just let me know, I'm across the street. You know, I cook, you know. And she wanted to sell the place after she she brought me in. I helped her out really well, whatever, but she sold the place. And the person that I started working for, we literally just took the place from the bottom. Like once we made New York State, made that diner the number one diner in New York State.

I knew it when people would line up at the door we had to go buy the kids' cards with like one, two, three on them, just so we could give to people so that they could wait. People used to go across the street to the park and wait a half an hour, an hour to get a table. We had to expand the building. Okay, we had to go through the wall to create another dining area space.

I have a lot of followers now. I have a lot of my old customers follow me now and come see what I'm doing now because they know me from the diner. But once I knew, I love to work and I love to, but making all this money for somebody else, I need to be making it for myself.

Ashley L. James 
And I'm done. Yes, I'm with it.

Chantay Skrine
Right, right exactly. I said well you you got something going on here girl You better lock in and when I started with the cakes now baking was I could bake a cake, you know But like as far as cake designs and all that stuff. That was not something that I was like an expert at

Ashley L. James 
Thank you. So how did you start getting your inspiration for that?

Chantay Skrine
You know, it was a friend of mine's having their baby's first birthday and she had seen the cake and she was like, could you make this? I was like, I don't know, let me see. And I wound up not even charging her for the cake. The cake came out beautiful, but I felt that I was like paying it forward kind of thing for me at that moment. Like, cause I don't know, you know, this is my first time. You know, I want to be, you know, giving and.

Ashley L. James

Yeah.

Chantay Skrine 
And just from there just went crazy from there just went boom. I started making cakes I was finding out that I knew how to do things that I didn't even know I knew how to do. This is how I knew that it was a blessing because I didn't know that I could design cakes the way that I do. I didn't even know I had that gift. So that was something that as I was working, you know and kind of learning like I tell you YouTube and Google what?

Ashley L. James 
Yay! Yeah. YouTube University.

Chantay Skrine 
YouTube University myself to death girl, okay. But I'm gonna figure it out, you know I'm one of that kinds of people that if I see it being done I can duplicate. You know what I'm saying? I go get the ingredients or go get whatever it is that I need and I'm gonna put what I remember what I saw in front of you.

Ashley L. James 
Hahaha. Yes. I love that because that's how you create those opportunities to stand out from everyone else that is everyone else that's running a business that's similar to yours, like that's how you make it unique. That's how we know it's Sweetay's and that's not anybody else out there. Yes, that's right. Wonderful.

Chantay Skrine 
That's right. I'm one of a kind baby. Yes, ma'am.

Ashley L. James
You touched a little bit on where you're operating from. Can you talk more about the name of your suburb and then what it's been like owning a business there?

Chantay Skrine
Well, I'm currently located in the Southern tier. Well, Johnson City, New York considered the Southern tier New York like right out of Binghamton. We have Binghamton University here, which is a really big college here, so it's pretty much like it's Geared a lot towards college kids because it's a college town, you know, it's got but there's still a lot of you know residentials and families growing here like i've been here 20 plus years. I've been able to
to grow tremendously. Like I got my first car here, bought my first, apartment here. You know what I mean? So I really grew here. You know, I really grew my kids here. They were birthed here. So this has become home. Originally being from Brooklyn, you know, but in my early twenties, this was a quiet safe haven for me.

Chantay Skrine 
Like I came from the hustle and the bustle of New York City, you know, the hood of things. I like to call it the hood of things, you know? From the hood of things and being able to come here. When I first moved here, like literally you could sleep with your door open. You know, I wouldn't do that now. But no, that's not that I did it, but you could do it. You know what I mean? Like this was one of those things like nobody would bother you. Like people would just, you know, it was just right. 

Ashley L. James 
I'm sorry. Oh wow. Yeah, I know. I feel like nobody, none of us do that now. I don't know why we do that.

Chantay Skrine
Girl rent was like $300 for a two-barrel apartment. Right, but we already know that was 20 years ago. That's 20-plus years ago. But being a business person here, I have to say it's tremendously beneficial. I mean, I have such a networking system.

Ashley L. James 
Wow, that's a huge difference from where it is today

Chantay Skrine
My resources are amazing. I work with the Cornell Cooperative Extension. I work directly with the Chambers of Commerce. I'm doing things with them. It's been amazing. We have the Southern Tier Incubator here. And they help you with everything from everything. From everything you could. They did an accelerating course. Again, that's Sulamina. They had a 607 between her and the Southern Tier Incubator. They do a
like crash discovery courses for you to kind of like wean out what you know, your customers, and how to find them, right? I mean, they gave us tremendous opportunities and things to use to utilize, to help us become successful. So I cannot, this place is amazing here and they have embraced me and my business tremendously.

Ashley L. James
Yeah, and really figure out how you want to move forward as a business. Good. I love it. Okay, so speaking of those resources, I can only imagine that that's really helped you grow as a business. What are some of the accomplishments that you've had because of the great foundation that you've created for yourself?

Chantay Skrine
Well, we've been, Sweetay's has been the business of the week for the Binghamton Chamber of Commerce. We've gotten the New York State Empire Award from the Senator, Senator Webb herself. We've gotten, we've won the CCE's Cornell Cooperative Extension's.

Food, what is the name? The Fresh Food Face Off. There it is. And what that is, because I work with the farmers market as well. I'm there every week. What it is, is that they give you a meat, or unless you're a vegetarian,  they give you a meat, a pork or chicken, and then you have to, they give you a hundred dollar stipend and you utilize it to purchase items from other vendors at the farmers market.

Ashley L. James
Oh, okay. That sounds good!

Chantay Skrine 
So you can grab tomatoes or fresh fruits or vegetables or maple syrup. Some people have, they sell liquor, some people sell wine. Like whatever you think that you're gonna use to put into your dish that you can grab from a local vendor. So it kind of supports the local vendors as well as embarks on the creativity of the chefs that partake in the event.

Ashley L. James
Oh, man. Yeah, that was really cool.

Chantay Skrine 
Yeah, we won best chicken last year.  I'm kind of waiting to see what they're going to give us this year. I don't know if we're going to get pork or beef or whatever they're going to give us, but whatever it is, I'm coming for another plaque. Hopefully anyway, to God, that's God's grace on my life. Like whatever he decides, that's for me to have, so shall it be.

Ashley L. James 
Yeah. I know that's right. Yes, that sounds like a lot of fun. And a great way to show off!

Chantay Skrine 
It is. It is. It's coming back this year. It's going to be a good time. I love working with the CCE. They really do a lot of good things. The Women of Food event is coming up. We did last year. That was the first annual. This will be our second annual, which highlights women that utilize the commercial kitchen that I utilize as well.

Chantay Skrine 
So it's about four or five of us that rents the kitchen space. So what we do is we come together and we bring, they sell tickets and stuff and people come out and sample all the food. So this year they're gonna have, it'll be all of us, you got like me, you got like a Barrique, Catered and Soul. You got a couple of different vendors doing different things and then you have dessert vendors and stuff and then you come out, you pay one fee, they have like wine tastings and.

It's a really good time. It's a really good time. Yes. Listen, they're speaking my language. Hello. Come on, girl. Come on. I'm right here in Johnson City, New York. We'll lock you in, girl. You do? Let's go. I would love to have you here. I would love it.

Ashley L. James
It sounds like a good time. Got wine taste things, food taste things, a little bit of everything. Or exactly, yes, mine too. I'm like, how do I go? 

but I mean, I get a plane ticket. I didn't even know I was gonna have to buy a plane ticket today. 

Chantay Skrine
Come on to johnson city. We'll show out for you. Well, i'ma show out for you girl. Thank you.

Ashley L. James 

I love it. Oh, you're the best. OK. All right. So let's head into the social media side of things. So tell us about what platform is kind of your main platform that you really enjoy.

Chantay Skrine 

Well, right now I've used a lot of Facebook. Facebook is my main social media outlet, I could call it. That's where I post all my reels and post all my food pics and things of that sort. I do utilize Instagram, because everything I gotta have them linked. So everything that's on my Facebook kind of feeds into my Instagram.

Ashley L. James 
Okay.

Chantay Skrine
So that's good. Like with social media as far as like I said, of Sula Mina Burns of 607 Support Black Business. She has a great platform here for the Southern tier and black owned businesses here. Like it's one place you can go and seek out.

from anything that you need to know, from something from a cake being made to construction work, to real estate, to anything that you can think of. And if you want to support a black business, you can go on that page and look it up from hair, people to do your hair, if you want to buy a plate.

Ashley L. James 
Yeah! See you.

Chantay Skrine 
There's a little bit of everything going on there. So that's a great platform that, one of the social media platforms that I'm able to utilize through Facebook. So that's amazing.

Ashley L. James
Yeah, so it's basically a Facebook group, and then everybody can talk to everybody within it. And all that kind of thing. Very cool.

Chantay Skrine
Yes, absolutely. You become a member and then you have to like utilize it. I've made a lot of money and met a lot of people as far as you know new customers and stuff like that through that platform. Word of mouth has been amazing.  Like I said, I was a chef, I've been out here cooking for a long time. So people know me and know that I can throw down girl. I could throw it down. So they come but where social medium is concerned, Facebook is really my main outlet.

Ashley L. James | Host 
Okay, and so when you are using Facebook, are there any tools that you use to help you create your content there?

Chantay Skrine 
Well, just pretty much like the reels learning how to create videos. I'm trying to learn how to create more video content.  I'm going to get my 10-year-old to put me on to some things because I don't do too much. I want to get into the tick-tock scene a little bit more and Instagram.

Ashley L. James 
I'm just doing those out of tune.

Chantay Skrine
Making more videos. My thing is more video content for me. I want to go live more and I want to make some live cooking shows like virtual cooking shows and stuff. So we'll see some things are coming up. I don't want to speak too much, got to let it happen first and then see you know what i'm doing.

Ashley L. James
Yeah. Can't give it all away . I'm with you. Okay.

I know you talked about kind of in a pre show you talked about Canva a little bit. You talked about some of the ways you use canva.

Chantay Skrine 
Yeah, I do. I do. You're right. I use Canva a lot. I use Canva to make flyers for events or different things. I use it to make menus. Well, looking into using it for a cookbook. It's such an amazing platform that you can do spreadsheets like

PowerPoint show, pre-presentations, a little bit of everything. Canva is amazing, and they charge me for the full, so I'm utilizing the package. They have a lot of things, a vast variety of things, from flyers to documents.

Chantay Skrine 
You can create anything. Videos, short videos. I wanna learn how to use that portion of it. Cause you can make reels, Instagram posts, and all that. I haven't used it to make an Instagram or Facebook post yet, like social media posts. Not yet, but it's coming.

Ashley L. James
Exactly. Yeah, all right. Everything in due time, you know.

Chantay Skrine
Right. Yep. In God's grace, I tell you.

Ashley L. James 
Absolutely. Amen.

Chantay Skrine
All of his grace.

Ashley L. James 
Cool, okay, so when we're talking about building your audience on Facebook, are you using some of that word of mouth to help do that, like to help drive people onto Facebook, or are people able to find you on Facebook and then they find you in real life, like in Johnson City? How did that kind of go for you?

Chantay Skrine
A little bit of both, I would have to say. A little bit of both because I have people calling my phone that I've never, I don't know, which is good, but they see all my information on Facebook and they know people that know people. And this town is a little bit big, but it's small. You know what I mean? So it's a tight-knit community, right? So it's real easy for the word of mouth. Like, who was doing? Sweetay's Sweetay's, I've heard about you. I'll be like, you did? I didn't know.

Ashley L. James 

And you're quite close to me.

Chantay Skrine 
But it's a great thing. I'm not knocking it. I'm not knocking it at all. Facebook has been tremendous. Being my primary source for advertising, for customers, and all of that. I wouldn't be as far as I am, as far as I got almost about a thousand followers on my business page. So we're getting there. We're getting there, you know?

Ashley L. James
Yeah. There it is, continuing the growth.

Chantay Skrine
Right.

Ashley L. James
I see that you're like really big with community. That's clear for you in person as well as online. So what is some advice that you would give the next generation of Black business owners?

Chantay Skrine 
I would give them the advice to follow their dreams. Follow your dreams. Don't give up on yourself. You know, you have to believe in you in order for anybody else to believe in you. Okay? You have to believe in your vision or nobody else will. You know, Google, utilize Google and do your research. Whatever it is that you're planning to do.

Ashley L. James
That's right.

Chantay Skrine 
Try to look for the ins and the outs, the good and the bad, so that you're not surprised if things go left. You know, just really.

really just step into it, just step, just step to it. And things going, sometimes they might get hard, you know, and don't be afraid to walk into a door that, you know, some or should embark on, or something that you've never embarked on. Because sometimes doors open that you didn't even know that you were gonna walk through, but they were designed, they were there for you to walk through, cause we don't sometimes, we don't see things from that perspective, but we have to remember to just walk by faith sometimes not by sight because I tell you sometimes things don't look as they seem and then you get on the other side and you're like, oh I had that the whole time I had that I don't know. I don't know what I was worried about.

Ashley L. James 
Yeah, kind of like the story with the cake and making the cake for the little girl's birthday. Yeah.

Chantay Skrine 
Exactly. See, you never know.

Ashley L. James 
That's right. You kind of just make yourself do it just so that you can get through it and then figure out how you feel about it.

Chantay Skrine 
Yes. Right. And tap into your local community's resources. A lot of the time, we don't realize that there are resources out there, geared toward what you're trying to do, or somebody out there. And don't be afraid to ask for help. You know, like we all got a trial and error, we all make mistakes, but we all want to be successful too. So we got to help each other. 

Ashley L. James 
Yes, that's true. Yep, and the thing I want to add to that is when did we all get the idea in our head that we had to do it all by ourselves? Like that bootstrapping mentality, that's been going on for so long and it's why you're struggling. Like you know you can help, it's okay to get help. Yes.

Chantay Skrine 
That's so true. You know, well, especially in the black community though, because we've had to do it ourselves. So it's kind of hard now to allow people to come in or allow, because you're so headstrong on what you want to do. Or you can do it yourself. I've done a lot of this by myself. I've had my mom, she'd come and help me every now and then and my kids from now and then. But majority of the work that I do.
is about to lonesome. So you just gotta stay strong, lock in. If it's your real goals, your real dreams, and what you want, you're gonna have to blood, sweat, and tears, and that's just it. That's it, because it's not gonna be worth holding on, or keeping, or even building, if you don't put the groundwork in, or if you don't scrape your knee, or you know.

Ashley L. James 
That's true.

Chantay Skrine 
Get it burned or whatever it is that you know you gotta put the time in. Yeah, that's it.

Ashley L. James
Learn those lessons. Yes, so true. Okay. All right. Let's have a little fun. Okay, so let's talk about something you've read, watched, or listened to that's got you going lately.

Chantay Skrine
Listen? All right, let's do it. Well, like I said, I've been reading a book called "The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren. And I just like the book itself because it helps you to kind of evaluate your life and what you really wanna do and God's purpose all in that, his purpose and his plan and just trying to be on that path to be in your purpose, because everybody has a specific purpose in life.

Now, some people miss it, some people grasp it, you know what I mean? But we all do have a purpose. So finding that purpose and living in that purpose, that's one of the books that I'm reading. I like to listen to T.D. Jakes in the morning and Sarah Jakes in the morning. I like to, when I wake up or get my mind situated for the day, get a word for the day.

Ashley L. James 
Yeah, I like that. It gives you a good frame for the day. Like, start on a high note.

Chantay Skrine
Right, because life has a way of being a roller coaster. Okay, and you can go from a very good day to a very bad day in the blink of an eye. So if you can kind of gear yourself or set yourself up for success from the gate, you know at least mentally, because your mental governs everything that you are.

Ashley L. James
Very quickly. Yes. That's true.

Chantay Skrine 
So if your mind is not right, you're not going to be right. What you're doing ain't going to be right. How you doing it ain't going to be right. So your brain, you got to be right up here. You got to get the brain right first. And then everything else kind of fall into place. And I believe that every day, that's why you used to give us our daily bread. Our daily bread is our daily word. So,  I don't say I wake up every day and listen to it.

Ashley L. James
That's right. Yeah.

Chantay Skrine 
I might be in the middle of the day and decide I'm gonna turn. It all depends on, you know what I mean, where I'm at, how I'm feeling, how my levels or emotions are for the day. And then I'll figure it out. I may listen to it.
I like my R&B, so you might have Usher, Keisha Coles, and Mary J. Blige going on. I like feel-good music. I grew up in a house with DJs. Like my grandfather's a DJ, my uncle was a DJ. We had crates from the floor to the ceiling, down the hallway of nothing but crates of records. Okay, so I grew up singing in the church choir. I love to sing as well. So you'll catch me doing a little bit of everything.

Ashley L. James
Yeah.

Chantay Skrine
I do hair, girl. I do this and this and I do a little bit of everything.

Ashley L. James 
 I like the idea of kind of starting your day with inspiration. That's something I incorporate too, even for my kids. So when we're on our way to school, that's the first thing we listen to a gospel song to kind of set the tone for the day. And I've talked to my kids about this before. It's just like one of the reasons why we start the day off with gospel, is just so you can kind of take those uplifting messages and take that throughout your day. You don't know what you're gonna encounter while you're at school.

Chantay Skrine
You have to. That's it.

Ashley L. James 
But I hope that the way that you react to it is a positive way and that you know that message that you started your day off with is something that can help you do that. So yeah, we get into the other side. So you know, you said what? Yeah, but yes, we do get into that.

Chantay Skrine 
Right. There you go, good, exactly. You nailed it, exactly. Because we need those words. We need that. We need that out here in this world these days, because there's a lot of nonsense going on that our kids are subject to, we're subject to. But we just got to stay strong. So you got to keep your faith. If you don't have that, you ain't got nothing.

Ashley L. James
Yeah, 100% Yeah, that's true. Kind of keep that mental right. I mean, inspiration that however you can get it, man, I got to seek it out.

Chantay Skrine 
Exactly

Ashley L. James 
Yeah, but we do we get into the fun stuff, some more of the fun stuff too. Little R&B, little rap sometimes, whatever.

Chantay Skrine 
 I like Meek Mill. I mean, I can go from, from Brooklyn. I'm a Brooklyn girl. I can listen to, I can flow from, I like Jadakiss. I can recite just about all the lyrics to anything that I say I like. I know every word of it. But it's all depending on, right, that's who, that balance. Like it's, it's gotta be a balance in life. Like, gotta be. It has to be, everything, everything.

Ashley L. James 
Yes. That's right. It's balance. It's balance. How do I look at everything?

Chantay Skrine
And everything in moderation, you know what I mean? Because if you don't use it in moderation, it becomes a habit, it becomes who you are. So little things here, little things there. But depending on the mood I'm in, I might go for Meek Mill. You know, so I could be like, okay, I need my father right now. I'm human. You know, you get what I see.

Ashley L. James 
You get what you see? Yeah. You got it. You got it. You're good, girl. All right, cool. Nice. Okay, so just to take it up a notch. So what's a song that's kind of like your anthem right now? Like what should what should we add to the Work It Out playlist for by ALJ Digital

Chantay Skrine 
Norman Hutchins.

Ashley L. James 
Norman Hunchback, okay, what song?

Chantay Skrine 
"There's a blessing with your name on it". 

Ashley L. James 
Yes, I like that. Shoot, that's exactly what I'm feeling.

Chantay Skrine
That's the kind of song you need to listen to when you wake up in the morning. So that when you go out, I got chills. Because when you go out and you tapping the cement you know? So you gotta feel that that God got a blessing for you. Like it's something there for you. Like I said, sometimes you don't see your purpose. You don't see it, you know, but you gotta ask him to come in and show you, you know.

Ashley L. James

Yeah. Ask for that guidance .

Chantay Skrine
And he will, he will reveal his purpose for your life. You just got to ask.

Ashley L. James 
 Yes, and be intentional about it.

Chantay Skrine 
There you go. He's intentional. Hey. Never fail me. All Things Are Working For My Good. That's this other one. "All things are working for my good". And that's one of those songs.

Ashley L. James
Yeah. We gotta know it, you know?

Chantay Skrine
The meaning to that is like, all things are working for my good. So even when you're going through bad times or you things don't seem like they're going your way or things just seem like, not going to where you expected them to go or even bad, you know, that they're working for your good. Sometimes we got to go through some things to get to some things. We got to go through some down times or go through some heartaches. It was never promised to be easy. So we're gonna have to go through those things and come out on the other side.

Ashley L. James
That's right. And maybe the whole purpose of that was to prepare you for what's next.

Chantay Skrine
You can't go out here and fight battles if you ain't never been in a battle. How you gonna be a warrior and you ain't never been a war

Ashley L. James 
That's right. I mean, exactly. It's not just about the training. You got to go through some stuff first. You got to have some experience first.

Chantay Skrine 
Right, so you, gotta go. That's right. That's why nobody that they never can't talk to me about nothing. Until you had that experience or learn something from it. So now you could tell me okay. Well, listen, I put my head when I run around a corner like that. So you don't go around a corner like that because you go you don't say you gonna bump your head. So Unless you can tell me that like a show. Listen all things are working for my good because God is intentional. That's when you said intentional. That's what came to my head because he is intentional. He really is.

Chantay Skrine
I've walked through doors that I've never, I had no clue were gonna open, you know, or had, I didn't even know that they were there. You know what I mean? Kind of thing. And he's just been like, fling, fling. And I'm like, you're a door. And I wanna thank you for opening your door to Sweetay's okay? Yes, you are, you are a door. You were.

Ashley L. James
That part, yeah. Of course, yes.

Chantay Skrine
Something that I didn't know even existed until you inbox me. What I mean, I didn't know BOBs in the 'Burbs was a thing now. I am so humbled by it, so look at that again. A door that I had no clue was gonna open and I again, thank you for your door.

Ashley L. James
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate you saying it. Oh my gosh, that touched me.

Chantay Skrine 
No, it's from here. It's from all from here, honey. All from the heart.

Ashley L. James
I appreciate you. I do. Well, let's keep the good vibes going. Let's end on the last couple of good notes here. So, where can people find Sweetay's online?

Chantay Skrine 
Well deserved, babe girl, well deserved.
Well, We're on Facebook at Sweetay's S-W-E-E-T-A-Y' S-L-L-C. We also, have our website www.SweetaysLLC.com. And we're on Instagram @Sweetay's as well.

That's about it. As of now, we're gonna be speaking nationwide soon.

Ashley L. James
Okay, that's plenty. So I'm perfect. Right. I love it. That's right. That's the first step. Okay. And then before we close out, what's one thing that people can do right now to support your business?

Chantay Skrine
Speaking of to existence.
Please come and follow Sweetay's LLC on Facebook. I will be loading up all different kinds of things and where we'll be at and all these upcoming lovely summer days that we're about to have. So stay tuned, because we're gonna be doing classes, we're gonna be doing some things. So just stay locked in with us. Like us on Facebook and Instagram, and help us sweeten up the world one treat at a time.

Ashley L. James
Yes, can't wait. Yes, that's right. I love it. Okay, well thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate you. This has been so fun.

Chantay Skrine 
I appreciate you. You gotta get that plane ticket. Yeah. Or I could come to you, come your way. I ain't never been there before. I ain't never been to that place. Nashville, yes, I would love to come eat my way through your town. Like, I love food, so I'm coming to eat and hear music. Like, Nashville got good music.

Ashley L. James
Yes, I know, so we could meet in person. That'd be great. Hey, yes, come on down Nashville. It's very nice from what, you know.

Yes, they have plenty of hope. Yes, I love it. I love to host you. Yes, put some dates on the calendar. I love it. All right. Well, thank you so much. You have a great rest of your day. I appreciate you.

Chantay Skrine 
Yes, we both just gonna have come here then. That's it? This sounds like a plan. You're so welcome. Thank you.

Ashley L. James 
Thank you. Bye.

Ashley L. James 
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