Adora Crystal Evans: From Self-Development to Media Powerhouse and Visionary Leader

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Speaker 1 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged, and we've got a brilliant person for you today.

Speaker 1 She's a media powerhouse, a champion for women entrepreneurs, and the mastermind behind the Diva network.

Speaker 1 As the executive producer and host of Dining Divas Texas, we're going to talk about Dallas in a moment, and Destination Divas TV. She's redefining collaboration and empowerment in the industry.

Speaker 1 She's a visionary, she's empowering, she's innovative. She is Adora Crystal Evans.
Adora, how you doing today? The crowd goes crazy. And the crowd goes wild, right?

Speaker 4 It's always so fun, right? Do you feel that way when people read your bio?

Speaker 1 You know, I introduce people how I wish I got introduced, so I try to give everybody at least a little something, something.

Speaker 4 Thank you, thank you. That was fun.

Speaker 1 Good stuff. So, we were talking offline when I'm a huge follower of beyond social.

Speaker 1 So, I need to apologize to you and the world.

Speaker 1 Adora is a Dallas Cowboys fan.

Speaker 1 Die Hard. Yes.

Speaker 4 Well, I would say by blood. I'm not diehard like I watch blood.

Speaker 1 Sounds like an excuse.

Speaker 4 True.

Speaker 1 It's not an excuse. It's not an excuse.

Speaker 4 I don't say that I watch all the games, but if you ask me dallas is my team all the way all day yes okay yeah i'll give you that fault you know you can't be perfect everywhere you're perfect everywhere else you know that's one fault that you have it's okay i love it i love it we'll always we'll always have this banter and it'll be awesome probably our there you go when you're here next week i hear

Speaker 1 I am in Dallas next week for a couple of days, so that'll be awesome. I won't go visit the stadium.
You know, a little secret, Adora. My mom is also a diehard.

Speaker 4 Yes, she knows. So this is just rebellion.
That's all that you're doing.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 I'll let you have that now.

Speaker 1 There you go. There you go.
So, Adora, before I get into the now, I want to talk about your because

Speaker 1 that thing that's deeper than your why.

Speaker 1 That thing that's like your purpose. And I know for a lot of people, your because changes over time.
So if I were to say, Adora, right now, 2025, what's your because? What's your purpose?

Speaker 4 I love this question. I really do.

Speaker 4 And it's funny, in my 20s, I spent a lot of time wondering and wanting to make sure I was on the right purpose. I don't know if you remember the purpose-driven life and everything was all about.

Speaker 4 And in your 20s, I don't know if it was this way for you, but for me, I was so confused because I was very curious. And,

Speaker 4 but the funny thing is, my because hasn't changed. Even in my 20s, I always wanted

Speaker 4 to

Speaker 4 be a part of elevating women financially, spiritually, emotionally,

Speaker 4 physically, and

Speaker 4 sovereignty for women. And I always saw that in collaboration with men.
So it wasn't sort of the feminist type of movement, nothing wrong. I think everyone holds their mantle and it's beautiful.
But

Speaker 4 even at 17, I was saying some version of that. And I just had it in different packages.
Maybe it looks like this. Now it looks like this.
So I've, there's a through line for me.

Speaker 4 And now at 46, I look back and can go, wow, I was saying it at 17. I was saying another version every year that that hasn't changed.
So it's really nice to be at an age where I go, I'm, I'm right in.

Speaker 4 You know, I'm, I'm right in the center of where I'm meant to be.

Speaker 1 There you go. And not a moment older than 26.

Speaker 1 I'll take it.

Speaker 4 Listen.

Speaker 1 So tying in your because and your purpose, right? So, you know, you were

Speaker 1 founder, creator of the Diva Network. Like, tell me about how that came along.
Like, a lot of times we have ideas, right? We have thoughts.

Speaker 1 And a lot of times we put one foot in front of the other and then something happens and that idea goes away and we start working on something else.

Speaker 1 But you kind of redefined resiliency in starting the network. So, tell us a little bit about the purpose of the network, and more importantly, how did it become an actual thing versus just the idea?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I love that. So, first of all, I had 20-something years in self-development, and so I was one of the first Napoleon Hill certified leaders.

Speaker 4 I was

Speaker 4 had spent a lot of years in different ways working in that industry, and I kept happening into media. So 23 years old, I read Think and Grow Rich.

Speaker 4 It was a breakdown moment in my life that those breakdowns to breakthroughs everyone talks about or lots of people talk about.

Speaker 4 And Napoleon Hill had interviewed all these successful people. So one of the many things that I wrote down.

Speaker 4 was that I wanted to interview successful people because that seemed to work out for him, but I wanted wanted to be paid for it and so at 23 without even finishing the book I went from working in a nightclub to producer for Pat Summerall Productions on the Discovery channel where I was interviewing CEOs who were revenuing 10 million or more as part of my process of producing a show and wasn't even done with the book yet.

Speaker 4 So I really

Speaker 4 that only strengthened my belief in what's possible when we get an idea in our, or we're exposed to new information that unlocks something.

Speaker 4 And that was such a quantum leap for me. I literally could not believe, but I could, but I couldn't believe where I was sitting and what I was doing and how it happened.

Speaker 4 That because I didn't go apply, someone called me and said, hey, there's a job ad in my 20s. It'll help you.
I trusted that person. I had no idea.

Speaker 4 I just got an ann Taylor suit, tried to look older than I was, you know, be very mature, pass the psychology test. Then I found out and landed in what I had written in my vision board.
And so

Speaker 4 that kept happening to me. So, what I learned there opened, I was already a connector.
So, there are a lot of connectors. I don't know, do you feel like you're a connector?

Speaker 4 I feel like you're a connector.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 4 there are a lot of connectors in the world, but that job specifically gave me

Speaker 4 the ability to speak to very high level, busy people in a succinct way to understand how to deliver a win-win message fast. Because with CEOs, you have to deliver it fast.
And that skill set

Speaker 4 up.

Speaker 4 what I did the rest of my life, I became not just a connector, but really able to connect at every level so the highest levels when when i need to and so that kept opening these different doors but i kept happening into media i ended up in 2006 do you remember when the peace signs came out again Yeah.

Speaker 4 Okay. So I worked with a designer who we were the reason that happened.
We dressed Cher, Katie, Perry, Rihanna, all, yeah. And I, even then, my celebrities were the authors.

Speaker 4 Like I could name off the author of almost any book, but half the celebrities we were dressing, I was looking them up.

Speaker 4 And I was there for the peace signs, and the global movement, and the glorious fashion, and all of that.

Speaker 4 Again, that was a moment where I happened into media. I helped with the movie The Secret, brought a couple of those people in there.
I was a senior writer for Fashion and Art magazine in Egypt.

Speaker 4 But in the pockets between,

Speaker 4 I was doing like with the, there's a woman, Elaine Hendrix, who was the stepmom in Parent Trap.

Speaker 4 You remember the Schizo Wizard? She's been a bunch of other things. But she and I had a company in LA before the peace signs, Girls Gone Gorgeous, Beauty Inside Out.
Right.

Speaker 4 So I was always doing this in between. So even when I was in media, my vision was, one day I'm going to help all these women the way that I've been helped by the authors, speakers, teachers.

Speaker 4 And I'm, you know, I just always had this vision. So, speed it up, I'm working as a president of the Napoleon Hill Institute.
I had already produced events with Les Brown.

Speaker 4 Him and I did an event in Atlanta together. And

Speaker 4 I had worked with, I did a Think and Grow Rich tour with Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Bob Proctor, all the legacy names. Actually, Bob was on the new psychology of winning.

Speaker 4 He already passed away by Think and Grow Rich, excuse me, for that. So Think and Grow Rich tour,

Speaker 4 I realized, wow, I have all these legends and way makers in the industry, all men over 70.

Speaker 4 You know, I'm like, they're my incredible mentors. But I went, I need, where are the women on this? I need more women.

Speaker 4 So I was introduced to Christine Curran, which I need to say, by then I had already written a book, Majestic Money, the 30-day femme manifesting game, the Rich Queen movement, all this stuff.

Speaker 4 But now I'm the president of Napoleon Hill Institute doing these events. Christine and I fall in love online in front of everyone on this virtual event.

Speaker 4 Six, eight weeks later, we did a Think and Grow Rich Mastermind in St. Lucia and we filmed it.

Speaker 4 That kicked off Destination Divas,

Speaker 4 where once a year we would do a mastermind.

Speaker 4 And for me, Mick, still, it was my fun thing, my glitter party, my,

Speaker 4 but over here I was very serious about the transformation of the planet with, and I, and I was making the right moves. I was with the right people, with the biggest brands, you know.

Speaker 4 And the Divas started, because we were doing these masterminds, Christine started elevating what she expected out of her cast. She wanted them to participate in self-development.

Speaker 4 We created a no gossip policy. We started, and the divas that started coming in wanted more self-development in between.

Speaker 4 And so Christine said, why don't you start your women's empowerment movement over here?

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Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 at first, I was like, that's my fun glitter party thing i'm already on you know what i'm already doing these big things but as i kept experiencing when i would get with the women

Speaker 4 the quantum leaps that were happening because we move different you know we're on set in some of the most serious moments and the way we break tension someone starts dancing and then everybody's dancing and then boom we're reset right or we're taught oh I love your hair.

Speaker 4 I love, you know, we're, we're built different, right? Then, and so

Speaker 4 what happened out of that joy as the base with very driven entrepreneurial women sitting with some of the greatest entrepreneurial minds and business owners on our TV show is that we all started experiencing quantum leaps and like never before.

Speaker 4 All very connected women doing things, but it just, and I really believe it's because of the joy

Speaker 4 at the center, because we were in an environment that is built for women by women, you know. And so, um, I know I've given you a lot there.

Speaker 4 I could land the plane, but is there anything you want to say or ask before?

Speaker 1 Yes, so we're going to unpack and unplug a lot in there because here's what I've heard you say it several times.

Speaker 1 you you've referenced it several times about leading here's what adora is not going to say about herself so i'm going to say it for her adora is one of the top five leaders in the world and and i truly mean that from my soul so adora with you and leadership was there like a pivotal moment in your career that kind of shaped your approach to leadership because like i know i have had that moment but i love to hear like what was that moment for you that's like ah I get it now?

Speaker 4 You know, I think there have been lots of mini moments, but I can tell you there, right now I'm in the center of a whole new leadership

Speaker 1 leap.

Speaker 4 And part of that is

Speaker 4 as I cast this vision with the Diva Network, which the Diva Network for us, is a community

Speaker 4 where people can get connected and acts driven, inspiring, visionary, authentic leaders get connected to the right people, ideas, resources, collaborations that will have their vision not only be birthed, but live and thrive and collapse time, right?

Speaker 4 And I believe that when

Speaker 4 we get behind visionary leaders, every person, God's given them a vision for a certain people, for children, for tribes, for babies, for marriages, for sex lives, for I mean, people, for art, for people have visions for the world.

Speaker 4 And then when we get behind that, we're taking care of the world. We create a ripple of effect.
And so, what I've realized because we're global now and we're going into the continent of Africa.

Speaker 4 Let me let me give you that.

Speaker 4 So, isn't that, I'm going to tell you, Mick, this has been kind of crazy because Texas, Florida, California as the main shows in a country where we say for English press one, for Spanish press two,

Speaker 4 you would think Latin America and the Latin market is where we're going next.

Speaker 1 It's where we're going third.

Speaker 4 But what happened is as we opened the Diva network and started bringing people in

Speaker 4 In our room of 30 initially, a third of the room, people who had never met each other before, were all from Africa, doing something major in Africa, or had a heart for Africa. So they started saying,

Speaker 4 let's take this to Africa. We're ready to go to Africa, right? And so by community, it got, we went into Africa first.
And very quickly, just in the pre-conversation, I realized.

Speaker 4 Even though this is my vision that we impact the world and it moves me to tears, it moves me greatly that we have the opportunity to go there and to experience and

Speaker 4 elevation and sisterhood and all that.

Speaker 4 I realized very quickly

Speaker 4 that movement had to be led by African women who know what is going on, what the narrative is, what is needed.

Speaker 4 And then we, me, I'm the supporting role and the sisters here and the men who support us, we support that.

Speaker 4 And so, our first meeting with 71 influential people on the call from the continent of Africa, everywhere from South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, like all over,

Speaker 4 we had two African women open it. I went in the middle, two African women, and they sang this anthem that's really known in South.
They taught me Ubuntu.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it was, it was just chills on chills on chills. And

Speaker 4 it really was like less of me. That's how I feel more of this.
And so leadership for me now is how

Speaker 4 it's, it was always about my story to help other people's stories unlock theirs.

Speaker 4 But now it's more how do I unlock and position well other leaders in a shared vision because we're all dreaming this dream in a different way of a better world for our children, of safety, of freedom, of collaboration, of economy, of thriving, of, you know, expression.

Speaker 4 And so this next leap for me is, it's already happening, but it's got to go even further than I've ever gone in

Speaker 4 really. just positioning leaders very well and then driving the vision, but also hearing well the collective vision.
You know, it's more community and group brain than

Speaker 4 like the lot of years before, a lot of people go through this where you get your story together and you share it. And then there are lines of people going, me too, me too, me too.

Speaker 4 And that was profound. But where it is for me now, is her story, her story, his story, right? More of that, more than ever in life and more listening,

Speaker 4 which is interesting.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love that completely.
You know, and the second thing that you talked about

Speaker 1 is the power of mentorship, right? So like for me, you mentioned Les Brown. Les Brown is one of my mentors.
I talk to Les five times a day. Literally, he just sent me a text right now.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Les and I spend a bunch of time together.
So, can you discuss the role of mentorship in your journey and its importance in empowering women and also empowering leaders?

Speaker 1 Because I personally think this is where our society is missing the mark.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of business mentors. There's a lot of influencer mentors.
Like, if you're not making $100,000 a month, I can show you how to do that.

Speaker 1 If you're not doing, like, that's all great, but we're not teaching people the right thing.

Speaker 1 And so, I personally believe as leaders and also i think for you too with with women like really mentoring um this next generation but i'd love to hear your your take on that well i love that you uh talk to les so much and that you presence the different types of mentorship in the way that it's offered

Speaker 4 And I want to talk both to men and women, as you said. My top mentors, many of them have been men, amazing men that opened doors for me, showed me ways of communicating, showed me things that

Speaker 4 I could apply and quantum leap in life, right? So, and a mentor

Speaker 4 really

Speaker 4 is

Speaker 4 the most important thing. One thing that I love, Jim Rohn said it.
I remember being 18 in a boarded up home with no electricity and on a Walkman radio, battery operated.

Speaker 4 I heard Jim Rohn say, get a mentor. And he said, if you cannot find one, the library is full of them and you can go for free.
And now we live in a world that podcasts, online, live, all of that.

Speaker 4 And that can be confusing when there are so many people, so many options. So a real mentor,

Speaker 4 when you're with them, it's not just what they're going to tell you

Speaker 4 and what they, the advice that they give or the book that they wrote. It is what you catch in their way of being when

Speaker 4 they're not thinking necessarily about what they're passing on to you, if that makes sense. So Dennis Whaitley, one of my, he's like a dad to me, was a mentor to Les even.
That's how I met Les.

Speaker 4 There are so many books and he is very well known to the people he's known to.

Speaker 4 But what has impacted me most over the years about Dennis is his consistent

Speaker 4 year after year, day after day, showing up

Speaker 4 kind

Speaker 4 and really being kind to people. Even Les Brown had a story of being nine years old and giving his first speech and,

Speaker 4 you know, this guy going crazy and he couldn't see and it was Dennis standing ovation you know just started the roaring ovation so you know mentorship and is more what you catch in the relationship and how who they are between the lines as much as what they can tell you to collapse time and to open doors.

Speaker 4 And it is one of the most important. You become who you hang out with.
So you always want people that are further and farther along and that represent where you want to be.

Speaker 4 Because if you're just hanging out with people at your level, you're going to stagnate.

Speaker 4 Maybe you get to be the duck that's a little higher, the goose that's a little higher, but it's always going to be at a certain standard. So mentorship 100%.

Speaker 4 Now, with the Diva Network, what I've realized is

Speaker 4 that I didn't anticipate, Mick, is that I knew we would impact men through, because we're women that love our husbands, our children, our business partners, our babies.

Speaker 4 What I didn't anticipate is when men would come into our environment, just like we got the privilege of going, I got the privilege of stepping into a business structure created by wonderful men.

Speaker 4 Until one day I was sitting, and you know, the mad stunt man, he sang, I like to move it, move it. You remember it? Okay, so he was on a Diva Network call.
He's written a song for us, by the way.

Speaker 4 I'll have to send it to you.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's very cool. But

Speaker 4 he was on a call and he started crying. And then I could see in the Zoom, you know, you see all those thumbs.
I'm like, Sean is here and he started crying here. Jimmy started crying here.

Speaker 4 And I have no intention to like, hey, I'm going to make you cry, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 But what it is, is that when healthy men come into our environment, one impact seems to be they get connection to their heart or to their vulnerability and there are other ways we're impacting too but that's been very cool

Speaker 1 so i want to take mentorship a step further another place you were going earlier

Speaker 1 and again adora's not going to give herself credit so you know i said she's one of the top five leaders i know she is one of the top two connectors that i know Her and Damon John, I think, are the two greatest connectors that we have on earth, right?

Speaker 4 Thank you, that's

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Speaker 1 So, Adore, for the listeners and viewers,

Speaker 1 how important

Speaker 1 is networking and fostering strategic partnerships?

Speaker 1 Because again, I think that's also something that's missing because it's real easy to grab your phone and do things on social media, but getting to know real people

Speaker 1 will never get old.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's so true. So, for me, community and relationship is the most important

Speaker 4 investment of our time. When you get to the end of your life,

Speaker 4 I've been told by my guys that are 90 to 78, 80, and they're looking, what they say, peering down the hallway.

Speaker 4 And they're friends that have passed on when

Speaker 4 they're four or five people that you very likely will want around you. And that's about it, right? So

Speaker 4 the relationships that we invest in, that is always going to be, when it comes down to it, the most valuable thing.

Speaker 4 When you think of your best moments, even if it was achieving some kind of award or doing something, there was someone looking at you and you were receiving something from them and that.

Speaker 4 that mattered or it meant something, someone you impacted, some

Speaker 4 contribution you made and you were seen by someone that you wanted to be seen by. So, and then when you look at, you know, here in the U.S., we went through wildfires, unexpected in LA.

Speaker 4 We went through a new president. We've seen all kinds of things happen globally,

Speaker 4 whether it's fires and we saw celebrities like Mel Gibson lose every, you know, normal people. In that moment, it's going to be a person.
a relationship that says, come stay at my house.

Speaker 4 Here's where the water is.

Speaker 4 Here's, so it doesn't matter if it's disastrous or it's exciting like AI is coming let me show you a better way to use chat GPT let me show you where the money is flowing in the marketplace right now let me tell you why you want to be online right or whatever club it's going to be a person that tells you that it's going to be a relationship that gives you the fast track to that.

Speaker 4 So relationships matter so much.

Speaker 4 But one thing that I think is really important is a lot of times people think, okay as a connector you certain connectors they're awesome at acknowledging everybody's birthday and sending out postcards and gifts but even

Speaker 4 if you are

Speaker 4 being a connected person so meaning present you're in the grocery store eye contact acknowledging the human being that's feet are probably pounding because all day they've been swiping and they've got whatever

Speaker 4 fruit juice, meat juice on their hands. You know what I mean? And they're serving.

Speaker 4 And I know there's less of that now. We can serve ourselves at those workouts.

Speaker 4 But the eye contact, if you just notice what happens when you make eye contact with someone and they sometimes I've seen people get startled.

Speaker 4 They're in this sort of like, hey, and then I look at them and say, hey, and they're like, it's almost like, whoa, you see, like, hi how it could be as simple as busy today

Speaker 4 happy to be and and just that connection uh is life so

Speaker 4 so first of all being a connected to your life and reality person and the moment that you're in and the humans that are in your life taking that moment and maximizing that will go very far.

Speaker 4 And I, you know, I gave the example of the peace signs or the and that woman, when I walked into her studio, I was not looking for a job. I didn't even know she was sitting there.

Speaker 4 I was going wild over the designs on the phone. Someone was late.
She takes down her glasses. Hey, sit down.
I haven't heard someone talk about my designs like that in a while, right?

Speaker 4 And we connected. So being a connected human, first of all, is huge.
But then to the strategic alliances

Speaker 4 and creating core connections that really will move the needle.

Speaker 4 You only need one to four, you know, major connections that can really collapse time and being able to move your vision, your life forward. So I know I went down a tangent different than you.

Speaker 4 than we started, but it's a way of being first that will give you a better quality of life life anywhere.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 4 sometimes you're in rooms and you don't know who's looking at you. You like that designer.
I didn't even know.

Speaker 4 But because I was being connected, we connected and it created this whole new leap. So

Speaker 4 you can have the right strategy, the right script.

Speaker 4 And if you're a connected person,

Speaker 4 then when someone meets you and they like you and we like each other, Mick, I already like you. You've hyped me up so much, right? And I like your energy is soft.
It's fun. We have our cowboys banter.

Speaker 4 We've got our stuff going. When you like someone, then you want to know what are you up to? How can we play together? What can we do? Right? Like, what?

Speaker 4 So that's why I'm saying be a connected person first. It's not something you people feel it when you flip on to agenda.

Speaker 4 Like, oh, I have a target and I know what I want from you and it feels a certain way so

Speaker 4 but then yeah networking is the number one everything I do everything major that is in collaboration and connection anybody who looks back can go oh yeah that was a collaborate like right now diva network is a collaboration with dining empire we have a collaboration with Napoleon Hill things coming out.

Speaker 4 You know, it's, it's just a fast path. And it's right now is the fastest way.

Speaker 4 So there used to be a phrase, I don't know if you ever heard this, Mick, where they say, if you want to go fast,

Speaker 4 go alone.

Speaker 4 And if you want to go far, go together. Go together.
We've heard that. But I think in today's day, if you want to go fast

Speaker 4 or you want to go far, you go together.

Speaker 4 It's true. I mean, you just, it collapses time.
You bring your resources.

Speaker 4 I bring mine you've everything's lighter the load is easier everybody wins um it's just it's the way in any economy to to move faster it's why you see starbucks collaborating with target it's why you know

Speaker 4 um

Speaker 4 oprah with weight watchers you know what you know you see it happen a lot

Speaker 1 No, totally agree. Totally agree.
So let's talk a little bit briefly on the dining divas TV. So talk to us a little bit about that, what you've got going on there.

Speaker 1 And most importantly, because I talked to Christine about it, when does Mick get his own show?

Speaker 1 I've got a smoker. I've got a flat top.
You know, guys who smoke sounds like a good show to me.

Speaker 4 I think that's a great, I love, I love smoked food. By the way, I really do.
Yeah,

Speaker 4 so I think that's a great show. Christine's in charge and Foo Boo TV, but you know, we've got the opportunity.
So are you far down that track?

Speaker 1 Hey, we're going to talk about it. I think.
I need you to nudge her for me.

Speaker 4 I will. I will nudge her.

Speaker 4 I will nudge her.

Speaker 4 You may have to wear a Cowboys jersey.

Speaker 1 No. No.
But then I'm not going to have the show. You know,

Speaker 1 contract negotiations ended that quick. That quick.
Okay, Mick, one more.

Speaker 4 Not on this show. Would you wear it on any occasion?

Speaker 1 So I got a custom-made one. I took my mom last year for her 65th birthday.
We went to the Cowboys game, the home opener. So I got a custom jersey that I have not worn since then.
And I never will.

Speaker 1 You got me one time. You missed me last year, Adora.
Okay.

Speaker 4 Well, dang it.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 4 Well, the show is not contingent on that. I just wanted to see what your buy point was.

Speaker 4 You know, some people hold, like, have a really strong, and some are like, whatever, I'll put it on.

Speaker 4 So that's fun. I know you're

Speaker 1 so you wear a Patriots jersey. I'll consider wearing a cowboy.

Speaker 4 Oh, you'll consider. I'm not doing it for consideration.
It has to be a swap swap. Then it represents world peace.

Speaker 4 I mean, it could be, oh, I'm leading by going first, but no, I'm not going to do it there.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to do it there. I don't know.
See, I don't even know who my favorite cowboy would be to wear a non-custom jersey.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't know i could wear a custom jersey i'll wear a custom cowboys jersey okay okay and and my name on the back will be adora made me do it

Speaker 4 i love that there we go i love that it's awesome yeah so dining dining divas you want to know about the collection of shows that we have as well

Speaker 4 so it's been really cool because when we first started Christine had Dining Divas, the original show out of Florida. And

Speaker 4 you know, has received lots of awards from mayors and different

Speaker 4 for what she brought to the hospitality industry there.

Speaker 4 And then Destination Divas kicked off where we started going to different destinations. And that is a total blast.

Speaker 4 Columbia was one of my favorites. New York, we've had so many great experiences.

Speaker 1 You haven't been to the Carolinas.

Speaker 4 My feelings are hurt, But whatever, well, you know, that's because you didn't invite us properly, but

Speaker 4 so it the destination ones have been really, really fun. Those went on Travel Channel, and then, like I told you, things started really expanding as we were growing and expanding.

Speaker 4 So before it was We TV

Speaker 4 and

Speaker 4 Travel Channel. Now we have the partnership with Fubu TV for us by TV.
And then we're going on to Google, Apple, Prime, Roku, all of that.

Speaker 4 And we have Dining Deba's Texas, the Florida Original, California, New York, and Destinations. And so each show

Speaker 4 has its own flair,

Speaker 4 you know, because they're different leaders and they're amplifying different parts. I look at the

Speaker 4 Texas as its own character. And so I really agree.
I really, it is, right?

Speaker 4 And so even though Texas is vast and you can find anything you want here, like most states nowadays, I really play, we really play up in Texas.

Speaker 4 I'm wearing more cowboy hats and boots than I've worn in my whole life. We're playing up some of the values like faith, family.

Speaker 4 veterans, American-made, you know, even though we could go all over the place, I just think Texas is a great state to represent those kinds of things. So, in our episodes, we've had lots of,

Speaker 4 you know, good old country boys and pray and women and prayers. And we went to one vineyard where they sing the national anthem before they, you know, have their concert at night.

Speaker 4 So, again, there's a lot more than that available in Texas, but because I don't know of a better state to represent that part

Speaker 4 of faith, family, veterans, I'm just really leaning heavy on it. And, you know, California is a different vibe, Miami is a different vibe, Destination, Diva is a different vibe.

Speaker 4 What's always in common is that it's the host are businesswomen. or they have a non-profit, they're driven women, and we're showing the the best of, you know, the best of Texas.
So

Speaker 4 there's always a great food scene or for

Speaker 4 usually some dancing. Sometimes, you know, the experiences are different, whether it's a helicopter ride, horseback riding,

Speaker 4 but med spas, that kind of thing. And then we always get to talk with.
the owners and the creators. How'd you create this?

Speaker 4 What, and really tell the story of, like you, you're bringing out my story, bring out other people's stories.

Speaker 4 Really,

Speaker 4 I'm gonna, we're in a world where for me, it's really important to align with brands.

Speaker 4 And the brands are built by people that have some core values. And I want to flow my energy and exchange my energy, including my money and what I wear and what I, with brands that I align with.

Speaker 4 So it's fun to tell the stories.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love it.
So I'm going to put you in the hot chair, ask you a couple of rapid fire questions. Let me sit up.

Speaker 4 Let me sit up. Let me hydrate from my jar.
Hold on.

Speaker 1 Let's go. From the mason jar.
The mason jar, like my grandma. Let's go.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 You ready? I'm ready.

Speaker 1 Can Adora cook?

Speaker 4 Oh, select. Yes, I can cook.
Do I cook a lot? No, but can I cook? Yes.

Speaker 1 All right. So when Adora cooks, what's your go-to meal that you're cooking? Like when I I come over, what you making?

Speaker 4 Oh, well, hopefully I'd have a conversation with you first. But my go-to favorite, it's going to sound weird.
It's sweet potato lasagna.

Speaker 4 Right? Which is why I would talk to you first.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Sounds interesting.

Speaker 4 Surprised. Sounds confusing.

Speaker 1 And somewhat sounds like it could be a good thing.

Speaker 4 It's delicious. My 14-year-old daughter, very favorite thing, and she's a very picky eater.
It's delicious, but it's different.

Speaker 4 And some people can't get over their eating sweet potatoes, but most people love it, or they like it.

Speaker 1 Okay. And I think they love it.
Does Adora like barbecue?

Speaker 4 Barbecue is my second favorite food.

Speaker 1 What's your favorite?

Speaker 4 Middle Eastern food.

Speaker 1 Okay. Mediterranean.

Speaker 4 I love the veggies, you know, all the veggie options. I'm a meat eater, but I love great vegetables.
And so Middle Eastern people do that, right?

Speaker 1 Cool. So my follow-up to barbecue then, because only you can answer this question, because I know you're going to tell me the truth.
You ready? Yes.

Speaker 1 What region has the most overrated barbecue? And why is it Texas?

Speaker 4 Oh, it is not Texas.

Speaker 1 It is not Texas.

Speaker 4 Texas is not,

Speaker 4 it is not overrated. We have the best barbecue because we do it a lot.
We do it all the time. We have a lot of cattle.

Speaker 1 Just because you do beef. okay you do beef ribs okay so what brisket

Speaker 4 everybody does brisket no everybody you just talk about it more no i've had brisket in other places and i've had some i've had some okay but the sauce how tender it is

Speaker 1 see folks like me will tell you when you have to over sauce the meat

Speaker 1 your barbecue skills ain't all that strong just gonna throw it out there texas okay talking to the sauce

Speaker 4 it's on the side but i love the different flavors

Speaker 1 no i'm talking about

Speaker 4 all of texas i know have you had a brisket uh baked potato like the baked potato with the shred brisket on top see then i don't know what you're doing go ahead it's because i don't like brisket but it's okay

Speaker 4 okay that's okay it's okay where do you think the best barbecue is before you throw this next question at me the carolinas all day long why

Speaker 1 all day why because we do it right

Speaker 1 we understand how to smoke correctly we understand that you don't need a ton of sauce that it's all in the rub right like we do things right in the carolinas we'll see we'll see when you have your show come check it out

Speaker 1 yeah we're gonna have a battle of the regions and it's gonna be us

Speaker 4 and i know a couple barbecue people here that are really about it so we'll that would be great to smoke out

Speaker 1 we'll see We'll see what happens. We'll see.

Speaker 4 We'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 Now, if you could leave the listeners and viewers with one tip on self-improvement, leadership, whatever it is, the floor is yours. What's the one tip you're going to leave everybody with today?

Speaker 4 Well, number one

Speaker 4 was given to me by Tony Robbins, which is that constant and never-ending improvement, committing to that.

Speaker 4 That is

Speaker 4 wave on wave. I am so grateful that

Speaker 4 20-something-year-old version of me committed to that.

Speaker 4 Because when you're committed to growth and development and really growth, which means you've got to get in different rooms, you've got to get around different people.

Speaker 4 You got to find different mentors. You got to question

Speaker 4 who you've been. Because no matter how great it is,

Speaker 4 this is the end unless you...

Speaker 4 in order to go to a new level or the next version of you have to leave behind a lot of the greatness that represents what you are now to move to that next level.

Speaker 4 So growth is addictive once you start catching that vibe, but it gives back in legacy. It gives back in your children having a different life and your life being different, better, greater quality.
So

Speaker 4 that's it. Commit to constant, never-ending improvement.

Speaker 1 Amazing answer. Dora, i know you're so busy and you took time out of your day to to bless us with your your time your presence so i can't thank you enough for that where can people find and follow you

Speaker 4 oh on social adora's groove at inst on instagram i love to dance always have so adora's groove is that instagram we have diva all the diva connections are in there from diva network to the texas show to the florida show you can find there.

Speaker 1 Jointhiva. The upcoming Carolina.com.

Speaker 4 Yep. What show?

Speaker 1 The Carolina show. The upcoming Carolina show.

Speaker 4 Yep, all in there. Also, jointhedivas.com is a great place I can join for you to come check out being in our community.

Speaker 4 Every Tuesday, we have a speaker sharing something for elevating your ability to connect, get ahead in business.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love it.
Adora, you're the greatest.

Speaker 1 You really, really are.

Speaker 1 I appreciate you.

Speaker 4 I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 If we could just get you a better football team and better barbecue, you would be almost perfect.

Speaker 4 There's no good place to go. You know, we can agree to disagree on that.
I know when you're eating

Speaker 4 barbecue in your jersey that says Adora made me do it and it's Cowboy's star, that

Speaker 4 we'll both have a shared moment. But

Speaker 4 in the meantime, this represents world peace right we can agree to disagree Mick

Speaker 4 thank you I just want to thank you so much for having me on today for being a person that really

Speaker 4 one you made me feel really welcome at ease and connected and I know the level of work that you're up to and how you're impacting people and and investing your own time and not just for me today but for your listeners and I know that comes from a heart of contribution and service.

Speaker 4 And it's awesome. And so thank you.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much. And for all the viewers and listeners, remember your because

Speaker 1 is your superpower. Go unleash it.

Speaker 4 Go unleash it.

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