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Law Have Mercy!
Law Have Mercy! isn’t just about the law anymore—it’s about life, business, health, and everything that sparks curiosity. Join Personal Injury Attorney Chaz Roberts as he dives into candid conversations that mix legal insights with lifestyle tips, entrepreneurial wisdom, and personal growth. From breaking down complex legal issues in simple terms to exploring the challenges and triumphs of health, business, and beyond, Chaz brings his unique perspective and passion to every episode.
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Law Have Mercy!
From Trailer Park to Amazon Fortune: How To Make Money While You Sleep w/ Morgan Rainey
Rethinking financial security in today's economy means exploring opportunities beyond the traditional 9-to-5. Morgan Rainey's unlikely journey from North Louisiana trailer park to successful entrepreneur offers a refreshing blueprint for anyone feeling trapped by limited options.
"I did everything in the right order, like society tells you—go to school, get a good job, you'll be happy. But I wasn't happy," Morgan explains. This revelation led her to experiment with selling items on Amazon, starting with just $0.25 books from Goodwill that she'd flip for $20. These modest beginnings, built on $7-8 profits per sale, eventually snowballed into a business generating $5 million in Amazon sales.
What makes Morgan's story particularly powerful is how accessible her methods are. Without requiring massive capital investment or specialized skills, she and her husband created multiple income streams that allowed them both to quit their jobs within two years. Their success wasn't about getting lucky—it came from consistently providing value through straightforward, authentic content that resonated with everyday people.
Morgan reveals how stay-at-home moms in her community are making $1,000-$3,000 monthly by simply reviewing Amazon products they already own. "Our average student, who does this less than 30 minutes a day, the average mom, they're usually making around $1,000 to $3,000 extra a month," she shares. This passive income strategy doesn't require fancy equipment, specialized knowledge, or even a social media following—just a phone and willingness to be authentically yourself.
Perhaps the most valuable insight Morgan offers isn't about making money, but about redefining what wealth truly means: "The money is nice, but the time freedom, the ability to never have to ask somebody for time off work, the ability to take your parents on their dream vacation, the ability to stay at home with my dogs when they're scared of thunder because I don't have to go anywhere—that, to me, is rich."
Ready to explore how you could create your own passive income streams? Visit Cajun Ventures on social media or visit parishagency.com to learn about working with Morgan's team.
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All right, whenever you are ready. Ready, yeah, if you want to clap one more time. Hey, chaz. Back again with another episode of Law. Have Mercy. On today's episode I have Morgan Rainey. She is the owner of Cajun Ventures. I hope you like making money, because that's what we'll be talking about. She can talk about side hustles, retiring from your 9 to 5 job. She's an expert in Amazon. She's a social media marketing guru. That's a mouthful, but I just found out she doesn't actually consume social media, she just posts. She's a true rags to riches story. She's going to talk about traveling and making money while you travel. It's going to be a super beneficial episode for all of you. If you're interested in making money and you really hate your job, listen in, morgan. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let's just start from the beginning. We talk about rags to riches. How did you end up in this world?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a crazy story. So I grew up. I don't come from money at all. I was raised by a single mom in a trailer park in North Louisiana and I did everything in the right order, like society tells you go to school, get a good job, you'll be happy. But I wasn't happy and so I decided. One day I saw this video pop up and it was about people making all this money on Amazon and of course I thought that must be a scam. Like that seems way too good to be true. I listed this book before I went to bed, woke up the next morning and it sold. So then I told my husband uh, we didn't figure out how to ship this and then it was just kind of on from there. So it's just a crazy world and it's a massive opportunity, so I'm excited to share it with y'all today.
Speaker 1:Cool. So Amazon has been around for quite a while. When did you first enter into the Amazon world? How long ago was that?
Speaker 2:So I think it's been about nine years now. We've been doing it full time for eight years. After one year, I quit my job. After two years, my husband quit his job to come full time. So yeah, and Amazon sales numbers have gone up every single year, despite it being a pandemic, so it's one of the most reliable sort of sales that you can make without building your own brand and website.
Speaker 1:And so you started by making money. I guess you were selling products on Amazon.
Speaker 2:Yes, we were super broke. So we would go to Goodwill during our lunch breaks and we started with books because at the time it was like four books for one dollar and we just we would sell a book for that we paid twenty five cents for for twenty bucks. So our business was built on a couple, you know, seven, eight dollar profit here and there. So it just didn't take a lot of money to start, which was a blessing for people who don't have a lot of money to start.
Speaker 1:Now, was that when Amazon was only selling books, or did you just find books as the most profitable Books?
Speaker 2:was just literally the cheapest thing for us. We couldn't afford to manufacture anything and get a bunch of products. So books it wasn't just books that we sold. We would sell anything that we bought brand new. You could get it pretty much anywhere. So if I find something for like 75% off and I can sell it for a profit, that's basically what we did.
Speaker 1:And that was the early days. And then at some point you evolved in your strategy of Amazon. Were you storing all kinds of boxes of goods and shipping it from your house? Was it going to a fulfillment center? How did that work?
Speaker 2:How Amazon works is you just ship all your products to Amazon's warehouse. So then, whenever a customer orders, like right now, if you shop on Amazon, like 60% of items sold on Amazon come from small business owners like us is the crazy thing 60%.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of people think it's all coming from Jeff Bezos, but it really is coming from a lot of mom pops. I mean, we've ran our business out of our garage literally, and so it just allows you to send all the stuff there and then they fulfill it two-day prime for you. So we have a little bit of inventory at our house, but you don't need a lot of room since you're sending the products to them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I bought some Amazon stock for my kids um several years ago and it's done well. I didn't get in at like the best time, but it was still. It's gone up. You know, I don't know a hundred percent, 200%, but if you think about it, like, based on what you're saying, this dude's making money coming and going, like he doesn't even have to have the inventory, he's just getting it, storing it, shipping it and making it easy to buy.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's kind of the same as Uber, airbnb. You don't actually have to own that industry, you just need to connect people to it.
Speaker 1:That's a good point, and Airbnb is bigger than all the hotel chains combined and they don't own any of the real estate.
Speaker 2:I think, as business owners, we can all learn a lot from their business model.
Speaker 1:We did One of the things. I went to a law conference not to bore anybody about law, since the name of the podcast is Law of Mercy, but I went to a podcast and they said, hey guys, your competition is actually, it's not the law firm down the street, it's Amazon and Apple. And I was like, well, what does that mean? And Apple and I was like, well, what does that mean? Now I understand. Pushing one button has changed the consumer's expectations of your service or product because they've made it so easy to buy or consume, and so I've always had that in mind, like the digital aspect of it, like how can I make things simpler and easier and where's my one button purchase?
Speaker 2:My husband and I always say that Rule number one of business make it easy for people to give you their money.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so. You start selling these products and then, at some point, your business evolved.
Speaker 2:Yes, so after five years, I mean, we still were living at the same house. I was still driving a Honda, even though we had done $5 million in Amazon sales Damn, it was crazy. So nobody really knew. My husband, brooke, and I were scared to say it out loud because most of my life I was a broke waitress. He was a sugar cane farmer, then he worked in the oil field industry. So we were making more money before we got out of bed than we were going to do at our jobs. We before we got out of bed than we were going to do at our jobs we hated all day.
Speaker 2:So at that point it was this was still a side gig. Well, after one year is when I quit my job. Two years, he quit his job, so we were full-time at this point and we kind of were like, okay, what are we going to do? Because we didn't want just to rely on this one income stream because it's so dangerous. A lot of people are scared to start a side hustle, but you relying on that one income stream at your job is much, much more risky than actually starting something that is your own. And so that's when our business did kind of evolve to see other ways that we can make money from it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to just touch on that. That's an excellent point, and especially Brooke, who I've been friends with for a long time. We used to play softball together. He's in the studio too. No one really thinks about it like oh it's risky to do a side venture or a side gig or whatever. Quit your job. No one is promising your job tomorrow, especially in the all field where Brooke was working.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and everybody in South Louisiana can relate to that. You know you are, your job could disappear tomorrow. Your job doesn't care about you. You know, take those days off, take time to enjoy yourself, because I mean, if your job disappears tomorrow are you going to be okay and if not, you should do something about it today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good point and and I'm always thinking, I know you guys think ahead. I'm thinking of artificial intelligence, like how many jobs are going to be replaced, or driverless vehicles. I mean, the trend is going to be less and less labor force.
Speaker 2:And I'm thinking how can I use AI to make more money and grow my business and help me do less work?
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely All right. So keep on, keep on telling me down the path you get into. You get into coaching, but also, I guess, before that, you had to learn how to do, was it reviews?
Speaker 2:Well, I think back in 2020,. Um, so we told everybody you know we broke, my husband's going to quit his job, we're going to get a sprinter van and we're going to travel. So once we said that we had to do it, cause we'd already said it out loud for like a year. So after he did that, we love Gary Vee.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, I love Gary Vee.
Speaker 2:He's the reason we got on social media at all. He's like everybody get on TikTok, you can make a lot of money and grow your business. So I posted every day for almost two years and we didn't make any money from social media. I just couldn't figure out how to monetize it. I'm posting consistently, but I didn't really have a niche. I was kind of just posting random videos about myself and that's when I learned you know, if you want to turn this hobby of social media into a business, you need to provide value to people and you need to do it for free at first.
Speaker 2:So what I started doing I started a YouTube, a TikTok, instagram, a Facebook and we started posting tutorial videos of. We started with how to make money on Amazon. So we just literally started by showing like softwares that we use to find products online that you can resell. And that's whenever I kind of started following this guy who made a ton of money with affiliate marketing. And if you don't know what that is, it's basically when you click a link you know top 10 gifts for your mom, you click one of those links and you go buy that product, the person who made that link gets paid a commission. To put it simply, basically.
Speaker 2:And so all these apps we were using had affiliate programs. So we go sign up for their affiliate programs and every time somebody would watch my video and sign up with our link, we make like a lifetime commission every single month if they're paying for that software. So that's kind of was the first way we realized okay, here's one way to monetize it. Then we realized these companies will pay you to post that video too. Okay, cause I'm making the video for free, I'm not charging for a course, anybody can go on my YouTube and we have hundreds of free videos. We used to go live every single Wednesday, consistently.
Speaker 1:What's the website?
Speaker 2:All of our social media is called Cajun Ventures.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So we have all these videos that we just were. Literally I would just do a screen recording and you'd see my face and I'd be like here's step one, and I think a lot of people teach Amazon very complicated, where the ordinary person gets very overwhelmed and, like I said, I'm from the trailer park. We just kept things very simple. We're like step one, step two, step three and people like you to speak to them in a third grade level and dumb it down Like I'd rather over explain than under explain, and that worked really, really well, because I had all these gurus in Lambos and I'm here in my Honda CR-V and proud of it it's the nicest car I ever had at that point in my life and we just were like normal people from South Louisiana.
Speaker 2:My husband was a sugarcane farmer, you know, I was a waitress, so like we're not, we're just the average person, and so I felt like if we could figure it out, anybody could figure it out. So that's just how we started sharing and slowly over time, we were just like posting phone videos. We didn't know how to edit videos, we didn't know how to do anything at that time, and our following started growing Like TikTok blew up. Then this blew up and the next thing we know we had like 700,000 followers in our backyard in Louisiana, which just shows you the power of social media, how literally anybody who's broke today doesn't have to be tomorrow if they're willing to put in the work.
Speaker 1:And when you I'm just interested from the social media component you went and you were giving away things for free, and that's the Gary V method, right, give them for free. Would you have changed anything back then? Would you have tried to monetize earlier? Or you think you had to go through that process to learn and to get better on camera, better value propositions? Would you do you have to go through the fire?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wouldn't have changed it, because I think it's very, very important when you're building a community to offer before you ever ask for anything. So if I provide, so, even how we collect emails to this day, before I say, hey, give me your email, I'm going to make some sort of free lead magnet that's actually going to solve your problem you're having and provide you value. So you give me a reason to get your email. So everything you do like if you just show up and you have zero followers and you're like, buy this, buy that, like you're, that's not going to resonate. You're just going to appear very, very salesy and I don't think it's anything wrong with selling your product and your service.
Speaker 2:But there's a way you need to go about doing it. Where people see it as this is a problem I have, this is a solution and it's like just like capitalism A buyer that buys a product and is happy with it. This is a great transaction for the seller and for the buyer and that's kind of how we saw our business. So we've been very, very successful and I'm very thankful that we started that way, because now we really appreciate it. I would have skipped just posting random videos and gone straight to pick a niche. I think a lot of people are just all over the place on their social media. One day they're posting about their dog, the next day they're posting about how to edit video, and it's like your dream customer might not be interested in both of those things. So just pick one and stick with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm, actually I've been more involved with social media than the average person. I think that's fair to say. Right Lace? What do you think? And so even my YouTube, as much experience as I have. What we're doing right now is taking the Law have Mercy and Chaz Roberts Law and kind of splitting it up, because as much content as I put out, they really don't know. Okay, is this just a podcast? Is this a law page? And so I'm trying to like separate those two worlds. So I'm even more niched up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love that and you know I looked at your YouTube today and I saw like your best video you ever did was things you need to know before marrying somebody from out of the country, which my dad's wife is from Columbia, so I was like going to send him that link, but it's too late now, we talked about it the immigration.
Speaker 1:The same lawyer was on the podcast before you and we talked about that. That's funny.
Speaker 2:So what I would do, like what we did, and I think the reason Brooke and I became so like our things performed so well is we didn't really care about what we liked. We would go look on our YouTube like that and I'd see, oh wow, that video did best. Let me make more content like this, so like we have one video on an airplane with an old man and it's gotten over 50 million views.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:And we repost it all the time and it always performs well. So, like people love airplanes, people love old people, people love stories, and you just need to focus on things that people are going to share, like what do you share with somebody? What made you share that? It usually made you feel something, or it taught you something, or maybe it's something your friend needs to know. So I think, if you focus on those things, that is what is going to help you grow your business the most.
Speaker 1:And the. The, let's say the old man video wasn't specifically related to what you do on on the Amazon aspect. You still like it because it brings eyeballs to what you do. Do.
Speaker 2:Yes, and it kind of was about he was a business owner and his advice was, you know, to start your own business.
Speaker 2:If you, if you're not happy with what you're doing, change it. So it kind of resonated but, yeah, you could go viral for something totally opposite your niche and it's not really going to get you followers, it's not really going to make you any sales. So there is a fine line because, like, I want to post stuff that I think will go viral, but I'm like, is this really going to resonate with my target audience? And I think we all struggle with that, you know, because nobody really knows what's going to do well, until you put it out there and see. But that's the beauty of social media. It's not like you have to pay to run an ad, to split, test and see the performance. You can just put it for free and I think a lot of business I don't think a business should be allowed to complain about business being slow if they're not posting at least one piece of content every single day, because it is the fastest free way to grow your business.
Speaker 1:I could call you Mo right.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:All right, mo. So I had my son did a walkout. Have you seen this? I love it, okay. So my son dressed as this is when Joe Burrow was at his height he dresses up in a full suit and pulls his carry on and I put a little caption on and said how my six-year said how my five-year-old goes to his football game. It went ballistic.
Speaker 1:I woke up in the morning, I didn't really see much on Instagram, but on TikTok I opened and it was 50,000, 100,000, whatever views ESPN. And then, just for the next two to three days, every time I'd pick up my phone, there was another 15, 20, 30, 40,000 likes. Then I started getting BroBible, I mean all these different companies. I got scared because he's a kid and so I kind of put a wet blanket on it. All right, that was two years ago. Millions of views, 38 million views. And then there's a lot of people that hijack your content, by the way, and just repost the same video under their thing, like Jay Shetty even posted it. That kind of is annoying too. I mean, they give you credit, but still, who's really going to click on your thing?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:This past fall. Two years later, it's on freaking NFL game day. What was the site? The big high school site reposted it and then Game Day picked it up on Sunday. Sunday morning I'm in California and it's on NFL Countdown Live. Two years later, have you had any pieces of content? Well, first of all, there's a couple points there. Number one is you can't monetize everything, right.
Speaker 2:I think an agent could monetize that yeah, how um a jersey company put a certain jersey on him, sell them that as an ad. Let them we have for our talent, so we represent. Well, we'll talk about our talent agency later. But um companies will pay every month just to run ads to your video. Like you don't, you can just post whatever you want, like Like we give our talent, our goals for them to have, like creative freedom, do whatever they want, and we charge monthly just for people to run ads to things. But I mean what you're saying. That shows you the power of social media. You know, be careful what you post, because but I mean also that's awesome at the same point, because you can get somebody out there for free, just like that.
Speaker 1:For free.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you point because you can get somebody out there for free, just like that for free, yeah, but you definitely do need to be careful when you're posting. You know like do I want everybody to see this? Yeah, but that was a cute video it was a cute video I don't think it hurt anything no, because he's wearing headphones.
Speaker 1:He's where I thought I thought bows would come around and try to do something. Right, because joe burrow was also at bows but he had sunglasses on, so kind of covered his face, his headphones were on and he's just a cute guy. You know, he's just very cute kid.
Speaker 2:He is cute. So like if you'd want I'm not saying use your kid but like you know, if you want to, how you could do that. Same style video is like him walking into a courtroom, so that's how you can see. Hey, this perform really well and like that's just football, like courtrooms's even more unique.
Speaker 2:Like how many kids are going to be dressed in a suit going into court, and it could be something that people like really love. I can't think of anything off the top of my head but, like you know, a lot of people right now are supporting getting people to be able to stay in the country and it could be something like you know going to represent my whatever your target niche audience, whatever their problem is and like have that like you're their solution.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So I think that's a way you can kind of see like, hey, this did well, let me try this and see.
Speaker 1:That's really cool. I it's so funny man, how, how that blew up. And have you had any videos two years later blow up like that, like where it was it?
Speaker 2:it might have caught wind at one point, but years later it caught wind I don't think we ever had anything like go on tv like that, which is fine with me for what we're promoting, I guess. But I mean we have videos we repost from five years ago and if they went viral, then they usually all still go viral, because it's the same kind of things that people are and they're usually things that are just shared a lot how many shares you got in that video yeah, tiktok, I don't think penalizes you for reposting.
Speaker 1:I think youtube's algorithm is a little smarter. I think we've we've tried to repost things and it got the this.
Speaker 2:It caught that it was a repost or something you should just like change it a little bit, like either rewrite the words on it or change the length or change the song, just kind of trick him a little. But yeah, I have noticed instagram because, like we haven't even filmed any content in months, we put repost the same things. And now I've noticed, like you kind of got to change it up or they're catching it yeah but that's social media. It's going to change tomorrow again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you noticed the TikTokification of social media, meaning it's not as much community base or it's not as much your friend or your community or your follower base, it's more like what is interesting to people gets pushed out more. Oh yeah, for sure it used to matter more about your followers, right, but now it's like.
Speaker 2:Now, I mean, we literally teach people how to grow social medias for a living, and you can yeah, for sure, and it used to matter more about your followers, right, but now it's like I mean, we literally teach people how to grow social medias for a living and you can have zero followers and have a video, get millions of views, and I see that as very powerful, because in the past, you had to spend years growing a following to reach people. Now you don't need to have any followers. You see these kids making these get ready with me videos and they are going viral just for being themselves and being funny, and they start with zero followers.
Speaker 2:I think the world is craving authenticity because, like even in our niche make money online. I'm sick of seeing you can make this much money from your phone, because it all looks like scams to me and we create content like that. So there's a fine line where I feel like the more vulnerable, the more real you are. People resonate with that and I think that really has helped us in our businesses not trying to be perfect, not trying to put on a perfect image, just like being authentically yourself. I think a lot of storytelling right now is going viral. People love to hear your story, what happened to you during the day. So I think that's far more powerful than having some perfect, aesthetic, fake life like they liked in the past and like I'm down. I like that. I like seeing people's struggles Like cause you, you're, like I'm not alone in this. I think that's powerful, even as a business owner, to share mistakes you've made, you know, maybe with previous clients, so that like hey, I've made this mistake, so like I'm never going to make it again, just being real.
Speaker 1:Just being real. I'm trying to do more front, facing videos after a workout or just when I'm in the morning, when I look like shit and it's just. I am who I am. But something's on my mind, my heart. There's going to be probably, you know, 200 people I went to high school with. That's going to think what the hell is this dude doing? This dude's what is? He thinks he's an influencer or something and it's like. I know I got some haters out there too, but you know, in a way I have kind of an obligation to do that right.
Speaker 2:Like haters is just a prerequisite of success. It means you're doing something interesting, like you can talk about other people doing big things. Or you can do big things and get talked about but at the end of the day, like what are they doing?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I've never gotten hate from anybody putting themselves out there to help anybody do anything, and so you know Gary Vee said this and we get a lot of hate online. I am a blonde woman with a southern accent talking about money online. Okay, it just comes with the territory. Everybody's like. You know your husband is rich, daddy's money this, and you know I feel sympathy for anybody in such a bad place that they're leaving hate to total strangers online Because like what a bad like I. I go on their page and I'll comment your dog is so cute, I love this outfit. Like those people need love the most because they are hurting. So you just have to get a thick skin and realize it's not about you. It's not about you, it's stuff they're going through. So you just can't let hate bother you, because it is what it is.
Speaker 1:I love that you are there in your life, because when Luke's video first went viral, a lot of people were like, oh, daddy's trying to prop him up for his law firm and all this, he's rich and this and that, and he's trying to get clout for his son, and just the most vile ugly things you could ever read who's mad about a cute kid. I'm telling you man.
Speaker 2:What? What is wrong with people? You know we have a friend of ours. We've been helping him grow his floral business. Believe it or not, you can even get hate about flowers, I mean they will hate about anything I'm serious kid and flowers.
Speaker 1:We are doomed dogs even get hate yeah like a dog how did you get to this, this level of peace where you're totally accepting? Did you always have that or did it? Did you grow thick skin?
Speaker 2:you talk to the right people um, I know, and I mean, I'm not perfect by any means yeah, it still probably messes with you sometimes.
Speaker 2:For sure. I think success has made us lose a lot of friends, a lot of people that we thought really mattered in our life. And seeing how like it's crazy, brooke and I talk about this People treat you totally different based on where you are at in your life when they meet you, people that met us, like when we were broke, handle our success totally different and like we haven't changed. Our life has changed a lot, but like we're still the same people that we always have been, people who've met us since we've been successful, just totally different. Like it is night and I'm sure you, being a lawyer, like you can get that and it's not that you're a different person.
Speaker 1:Same dude.
Speaker 2:You just worked really hard and things have changed in your life.
Speaker 1:And if you're not leveling up at every stage of your life. I mean, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2:Actually our business mentor. I used to always respond to every hate comment and I really did let it get to me and he said like you know, that's trailer park level. That's trailer park level. That's trailer park behavior. You're in the penthouse now Like you have to quit worrying, like you're not going to help your followers just sharing hate comments. You're going to help them by providing value. So like you just can't dwell upon it. And honestly, on social media you get paid per every comment, engagement view and, as they're typing comments, your videos playing in the background. So hate literally pays our bills.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I was at a BNI conference and our mutual friend, daniel Baroos was there. He's sitting in the back and Daniel had been viral for a long time. This is still a couple years ago and my speech was about this viral video. I said it's really kind of messing me up because I don't know where to really take this thing. It's, it's, it's you know this when you have a viral video, it comes at you fast. When espn is knocking at your door and you don't know, like what, nflcom, all these, it comes at you fast, especially with a with me dealing with a kid, and I was kind of disheveled and I was like man, I don't know, this is, this is what's going on. And daniel's sitting in the back and he's like hey, he raises his hand. He's like hey, f them haters. They're just feeding you algorithm. Literally, let them. The more they talk negative, the better. It's just feeding the algorithm. It's going to get you more views.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's why marketers spell words incorrectly, that's why they do weird things in videos. So people will comment on it. People are very predictable. You can basically know what people are going to comment on just by doing something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they get the dopamine hit of people liking their negative comment.
Speaker 2:I pin the worst hate comment. Ah Because then your people are going to defend you. The people who are not your people, they're going to go comment in your videos.
Speaker 1:Damn. Let's drop a bomb on that one. Pin the worst comment.
Speaker 2:Hey, you want to act like that and I'm going to shine a spotlight on it.
Speaker 1:Let's pivot a second. I want you to tell me, I want you to talk to our stay at home moms, our people that hate their jobs. Tell them how to make some money.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so stay at home. Moms are actually some of our most successful clients, so the easiest way to make money online in 2025 without a lot of money to invest is definitely being an Amazon product reviewer.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So basically, you sign up as an Amazon influencer. It's free. You can Google it If you need help. We teach people how to get approved in about a week. You do not need a large social media following. You don't even have to post your review videos on social media and basically how it works. You make like, let's say, I love this microphone. I'm going to just take a phone video and say, hey, I got this microphone. Here's what it sounds like whenever I use it. I love it, but it could be like your pots and pans. It what it sounds like whenever I use it. I love it, but it could be like your pots and pans. It could be literally anything. You post it on Amazon and when you shop on Amazon, do you see those review videos? Yes, so if you watch a review video and you buy that product, that person makes a commission. Don't have to post a video anywhere, don't have to drive any traffic, and so we kind of-.
Speaker 1:Do I click on the video to then buy it? Do I click on the video to then buy it? That's how it knows that I bought the product from that video.
Speaker 2:It'll be like the last video that you watch and there is like a required watch time. You have to watch some of them for like 30 seconds. So we teach our students like how to get that watch time, how long to make your video. It's kind of a science to it.
Speaker 1:And what products to review. Probably right.
Speaker 2:Everything is commission-based. So, like different categories where you know, now we've sold over 6 million on Amazon. So we just took our same strategy we did for selling products and applied that to reviewing products and it was powerful. I mean, when we started reviewing our first two years, we made over $200,000 doing it on the side.
Speaker 1:Damn.
Speaker 2:So, and it just was crazy, we were having days where we're making like over a thousand dollars, which that's not normal. We went hardcore, we, and we were also documenting it on our YouTube. So of course we wanted to have great numbers. But our average student, who does this like less than 30 minutes a day, the average mom um, they're usually making around000 to $3,000 extra a month. Like making $100 a day, which is $3,000 a month, is very feasible on Amazon, very, very doable. So, of all of our income streams we've done, this is by far the easiest, the most beginner-friendly and you don't even have to buy anything. You can just start with all this stuff at your house. You don't even have to buy it from Amazon to review it on Amazon. So, like you will never find an easier business model.
Speaker 1:So if you have Amazon products at your house currently, you can go grab one of those Amazon products. Post a review, right?
Speaker 2:Well, you have to be approved as an Amazon influencer.
Speaker 1:but yes, so once you're an Amazon, what is?
Speaker 2:it. Amazon influencer is what it's called.
Speaker 1:And then you just go around your house looking for Amazon products and then you do a video review, post it, and then you could get commissions off of that. Exactly, and that's mailbox money.
Speaker 2:Literally, we have, like, not posted a video in two months and we're still making like thousands of dollars a month from old videos. So that's the crazy thing.
Speaker 1:Damn it.
Speaker 2:And then, like all these businesses who are on social media, a lot of them are driving traffic to products for free when they could just like make a list like hey, here's products every lawyer needs. And then people go buy that, shoot it out in an email blast and like it just thousands. Like we had a dog trainer come to our house. She sent us this email with all these items we needed to train our dog and none of them were affiliate links. And I'm just like she is leaving.
Speaker 2:So much money on the table for and you don't even have to drive traffic. But if you are, if if somebody's like I love that outfit, where did you get it? Oh, I got it from Amazon. Let me send you the link. Like you could just be making money.
Speaker 1:I got it from Amazon. Let me send you the link. Like you could just be making money and so if you want it to go hard, that's 30 minutes a day. If you want to go hard and do five, hours of videos.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's like any business the more you put into it, the more you're going to get out of it. We do have students, like on Amazon prime day, who made over $700 in a single day. And we have students like one of our students, cameron. He was making $10,000 in the span of like two to three months when he first started and on Amazon Prime Day we had like 27 students make over $500 in one day.
Speaker 1:Damn. So let me okay. I'm too ugly, I'm too fat, I got too bad of a Cajun accent. Tell me I can't do this.
Speaker 2:People love accents. That's funny. You say that because many of our students English is their second language, so they were very nervous about their accents. And people love accents. You actually get more watch time. Think about when a video pops up and it's like a British accent, like you're kind of mesmerized by it because it's different, and that's another problem. Our average student who does really well is the average joe the uglier you look, the better the video performs. I swear. I swear because we have dressed fancy and it did terrible. We did a professional camera and then, like we just got out of bed, had like pimples on our face. They loved it.
Speaker 2:It's too staged they love, they don't, and that is why we got a lot of hate from other reviewers when we started teaching this. They were teaching everybody to make perfect videos and we taught them. Hey, little Cajun old lady, I want you to grab your favorite gumbo pan and I want you to just show them as you make it and be real, be authentic. And we teach our students literally be weird, be weird, be eccentric, be. And we teach our students literally be weird, be weird, be eccentric, be different. That's how you're going to get the top spot and it works every time, damn.
Speaker 1:Okay. So how does it? How did okay? You told us kind of the, the, the method. How do we learn this? You, you have courses on this, or are you teaching people? So?
Speaker 2:we have like online courses and an online Facebook group that our students can get into, and we actually made a promo code for you. If anybody is interested, you can just go. Our social media is Cajun Ventures. Our link is there and if you use the code CHAZ, it will actually take $50 off. But it's all online and I'm telling you, it is so beginner friendly that anybody can do it. We have students in their seventies who think they are terrible at technology, yet they figured it out.
Speaker 1:What percentage of your students are um have a daytime job, and how many of them are.
Speaker 2:I mean we don't really have that data. A lot have quit their job to go full time, but I would say the majority probably do it on the side because they're just like doing stuff around their house. But we have had many students whose, like husband, have lost their job and their income from the review videos were able to pay their mortgage, pay all of their bills for the month. This is a full-time business. Like I said, we made 200K our first two years. So if you go hard, you can easily get to five to 10K a month, which I think is pretty good. You know when it usually takes a small business years to make a profit and you're doing it within 30 days. But most people have this as a side hustle just because they don't want to rely on their one income stream.
Speaker 1:How much equipment do you need?
Speaker 2:Literally you just need a phone, that's it Is audio good enough on a phone. You can use a phone audio. I mean they have cheap mics on Amazon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the lavalier mics are like yeah, like 20 bucks, 20 bucks yeah.
Speaker 2:But a lot of our students don't even use mics, so it's not like a YouTube of people back because they're like I don't have money to invest in all this. We have students making a lot of money just sticking their phone in a coffee cup because they don't even have a tripod, and just filming themselves Because people see it looks real and they're like if they see somebody who looks perfect, they're going to think the company made this video.
Speaker 2:They're trying to sell me this and we tell our students to tell them if there's anything you don't like about the product, because they need to know that, because if they return the product you don't get to keep the commission. So we're not telling people to lie and recommend products they don't actually like. We want it to really be authentic and real.
Speaker 1:Do you teach people how to sell products on Amazon?
Speaker 2:Or you don't do that anymore. We have taught a lot of people.
Speaker 1:But we are focusing mainly on the review videos, just because it's so much easier and so much easier to scale. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Are there any other side?
Speaker 2:hustles that you're interested in. Right now. We have a lot of businesses, we we have real estate properties, we have a talent agency, but we are really trying to real estate is hard right.
Speaker 2:Well, we just have long-term rentals, so he handles all of it. So I don't think it's that hard. It's not hard for me, I just find the house and he handles it. That's probably our most passive, you think, and we have a lot of silent real estate investments too, but we're really trying to focus on our passive income, businesses, which is basically anything online that's digital, and then our talent agency.
Speaker 1:And the reason why you want to do passive is so you can travel and enjoy life.
Speaker 2:And even just enjoy life in my house. I don't want to work as much. We're just. Our hands are in so many bowls. It's like we can only give 25% to each project, and I'd rather be able to give 100%.
Speaker 1:How does that feel whenever you're in Costa Rica or any other foreign country? Didn't y'all just go on a trip somewhere?
Speaker 2:The Maldives and Singapore.
Speaker 1:And so you wake up, you lean over, you check your email and you're like I made this amount of money. Cool, let's go surfing.
Speaker 2:It is crazy. I mean it does kind of get you spoiled because now, like every day, I'm like I feel like I need to make $1,000 every day, which is just, you know expectations I set on myself. I used to make $400 a week and I survived, but it is pretty powerful of a feeling to know like this work I did already is like still making me money. We have YouTube videos we posted five years ago that we've never talked about since then, that we still get emails probably three to four times a week. You've made a sale from this and like that is pretty awesome. Having days like yesterday we had like a $6,000 profit day and just seeing like what we made in a month, that you can make that in a day, is just life-changing. The money is nice, but the time, freedom, the ability to never have to ask somebody for time off work, the ability to take your parents on their dream vacation, the ability to stay at home with my dogs when they're scared of thunder because I don't have to go anywhere that, to me, is rich.
Speaker 1:That is. That is the rich life. We have another mutual friend, chastity lady, in the bathroom blown up. She's killing it. You have started a influencer marketing agency. Is that the proper way to say it?
Speaker 2:Just like a talent agency.
Speaker 1:A talent agency.
Speaker 2:We just connect influencers with brand deals.
Speaker 1:And so she was killing it, but not completely monetizing to her potential. And so tell me about that, how you came along and helped with that process.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so random. So I was actually at Red's in the cold plunge and that's whenever I met Daniel, which I kind of knew Daniel. He was friends with my husband, but just as an acquaintance, and they just started and we started talking. We went and hung out with them and we thought she was making a ton of money because she was getting millions of views. She had millions of followers, millions.
Speaker 1:Millions.
Speaker 2:But we've learned several years ago millions of followers does not equal millions of dollars. The ability to go viral doesn't mean that you're monetizing it to your fullest potential. But obviously we saw so much potential in her. She's like asking us well, how do I, how do I? You know she still was working her job part time, making $20 an hour. And I'm just thinking, man, you could do one brand deal and and make what you're making in a month. And so, like we just love help, like our passion is showing people their potential and helping them monetize it, and so we started this talent agency for Chastity. I wanted to do it for years and the opportunity just kind of came and I was kind of trying to step back from one business and we have so many students that make review videos that we already like. We have the perfect storm because we have all these sellers wanting review videos and TikTok and Instagram videos for their products. I have all these influencers that want to get paid to make videos. I'm like we need to connect them somehow.
Speaker 1:It's the same thing, just on a different platform.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, so, uh. So we started representing Chassie last November and I actually I worked the first month for free because I'd never did it before. I'd only gotten brand deals for us and you know I didn't want to make a promise that I first told her you need to go sign with the talent agency. I was like you need to go sign with somebody big, I'm sure they'll all want you. And then we were just like I was like okay, I'll try, I'll try. And then like it blew up. It blew up very, very quickly and it's just like the art of negotiating as a lawyer I'm sure you're very familiar and like getting contracts signed and just like knowing your worth and making sure that people pay for it. She's been able to like go to Atlanta and do whole video deals.
Speaker 1:A cold plunge yes. Ironically.
Speaker 2:Yes, and she'd never been in one. I know it was like full circle moment, right. I was like I guess I know your price to go in the cold plunge now. But yeah, she's been killing it and it's really, really exciting just to see the potential. You know, in one week she made more than she made all last year. Wow. So it's just crazy the possibility.
Speaker 1:If you but you got to remember she was consistent for five years posting when she wasn't making a lot of money Right.
Speaker 2:So, like she laid the groundwork, the consistency is what it takes Cause if she didn't do that, I wouldn't be able to sell her to brands. She wouldn't have the views and the engagement.
Speaker 1:And she did something unique that no one else was doing.
Speaker 2:And she wasn't trying to be salesy. So again, that's why her following was so loyal, because she wasn't trying to shove anything down their throat.
Speaker 1:And I think that's important. Did you get her a deal with Snoop Dogg or one of his brands?
Speaker 2:Yes, we got something with one of his gin and juice. But we had this crazy strategy. When we first met, I was like man, I'd really like to get something with Snoop, was like man, I'd really like to get something with Snoop because. And so we got a different deal and we pushed to use one of Snoop's songs because, like, trying to get ahold of his team is impossible. Like I had sent so many emails that were just going into the void. And then we get this video to go viral for a different product Um, it was like a drink and it was to the song gin and juice and then we got a response from them once that went viral and they usually just want us in free product and that's where kind of our job comes in.
Speaker 2:Like you know, gifting products is really nice, but that's not going to pay our bills, so that's whenever we start negotiating. So she's had like a lot of awesome opportunities and like every day it's just just something different and we just have to be very picky to protect her brand because we don't want to just agree to everything you don't dilute it yeah, exactly yeah and then.
Speaker 1:Uh, also there's clothing and merch sales, that kind of thing oh yeah, I mean she, we, my husband built her website.
Speaker 2:She launched her merch, which she's been wanting to do for years. She's done like diamond ring deals. She's gone purse. It's just crazy.
Speaker 1:I was in New York for the New York Marathon and there was a top secret concert that was to take place and no one would say we're in Times Square, we're going to Back to the Future Broadway play, and then so we stuck around and they said it's a really big star, right, but they couldn't tell us. And we're sitting there and then, all of a sudden, all the lights go black, all in Times Square and there's lightning bolts, and it was a Fortnite Redux concert and Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice came out and sang, and my son my younger son is a huge, huge Fortnite fan, so that concert was broadcast live on every single person that plays Fortnite. We just happened to be there. Needless to say, when we got back on Tuesday, he was the bell of the ball at his school. I, like Snoop Dogg, it was a cool concert. How are we doing on time? So, mo, are you still looking for, uh, influencers? Are you looking to help people?
Speaker 2:Yes, we are actively looking because we want to hire our first full-time talent agent, hopefully by next month, but we need more influencers and able to do that. So we are looking for anybody. We don't want anybody who's barely posted any videos. We need somebody who kind of has a consistent track record. I love to represent the underdogs, the black sheep, the people that maybe have been counted out before.
Speaker 2:I love feel-good, happy creators because I can sell a lot of brands. Anybody who can make a song go viral is very, very appealing to me, and anybody who does TikTok shop. I have tons of deals that like I'll get for chastity, but they're they really can't afford her. They're looking for smaller creators. So we'd like to evolve and also we're looking for local companies or any brands that want to increase their sales and visibility. Our talent agency represents both. We have products and brands that are looking for influencers and we have influencers that we just find deals for. It kind of works perfectly, because one product might not be good for one but I could have somebody else that I could pitch the deal to. So we just started in the past couple weeks reaching out to some people. Do you know what is our website to apply for that?
Speaker 1:parishagencycom parishagencycom. Yes, our talent agency is called parish talent agency and it's parishagencycom so do you have in mind the products that you want to sell and you look for the influencer, them to meet that. Or do you say, hey, if I, if there's an influencer with a following and they're good, I'll figure out what products or services I can sell?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could kind of do both. Right now we're just building our relationships because, I mean, we just started this in November. So I do have contacts that have done deals with Chastity before, but usually I'm going to cater it to like what you know, is it a dog niche? What is your niche? Because one thing might be great for Chastity but it would be terrible for somebody else and I want my influencers to be able to get like 100% creative freedom because they know what goes viral. So I think that's really important.
Speaker 1:I know we talked earlier. You don't consume much, but are you looking at local influencers, people that you see around, maybe Brittany's cooking or the Cajun accent lady?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just talked to her today. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:How? How Do you look at some of them and say wow they're missing something.
Speaker 2:A lot of them that I reach out to instantly. A lot of times I'll say no, and then I'll have to tell them how much money some of my influencers have made. Then they immediately say yes they're interested. Some trusted, some still want to represent themselves, but a lot are still working full time. So I know, if they're still working full time, they have potential to make more money.
Speaker 2:I think a lot are not making barely any money and maybe they don't want to admit that. But, like, if you admit it, then you can get help to make more money. Um, so yeah, I have been reaching. I mean I would love to support South Louisiana, like I'd love to keep it local. Not that I'm opposed to anybody from anywhere else. I just want somebody who's hardworking, who, like, is hungry. I want somebody who's hungry to, like, change their situation in life, because I know that we have the tools and power to do it. And if you're already posting these videos, you might as well be getting paid for them.
Speaker 1:That's exactly right. Look, I was talking to Gerald about this and Gerald's a good guy. I don't know if you ever met him.
Speaker 2:I met him in the cold plunge with Daniel that day. Okay, gerald's a super guy. I've reached out to Gerald too, but he manages all his own deals.
Speaker 1:He's a little more sophisticated because he's in the industry. But I said, gerald, when your videos go viral, what is it about the South and Louisiana and obviously I have a very Southern accent too, and he's like man. There's something about this area that appeals everywhere.
Speaker 2:Because we're different.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We're different, we're just bred a little different. Down here Some dogs, people talk different. We're different, we're just bred a little different down here Some dogs. People talk different. When my husband goes on, they love his accent. Our captions cannot pick up what he's saying at all, but they love it.
Speaker 1:St Martin Parish represent baby.
Speaker 2:I think it's because we're real, we're authentic. You go to the grocery store and everybody's going to talk to you and life is different down here. That's why, you know, all of John Weatherall's videos about Mardi Gras go viral, because you just don't see that in normal everyday life. But it's normal to us.
Speaker 1:It is completely normal and I think we actually talked about John's videos Like you don't see, like 65 year old women like backing it up on the barricades in other areas of the law, I mean. That's why, like when the Saints are winning, when LSU is winning, that is a national if not global phenomenon.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, exactly. And you know, like we just did a deal with a local King Cake company and he, immediately after the first video went live, he immediately texted me. I want more videos immediately because that's how much his sales were spiking. So, like, it's powerful to know like we can help a small business. I'm not saying that business is struggling, but like, if they are struggling, this might be a way for them to actually move some products and get some brand visibility, and maybe they just don't know how to do it. You know we've had a lot of businesses reach out to us just asking, like you know, can you help our business grow Because they don't know how to? And I find that really exciting to see a business that's maybe been struggling and you get this one video that gets more views than they've gotten in two years posting their own content. That's powerful for a small business and nobody would have ever heard of them if they didn't reach out from this one person, which is crazy.
Speaker 1:It's amazing to see, when things go viral, how quickly a business can just blow up.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and it's like the marketing dollars they spend on radio ads, on TV commercials. You can spend a fraction of that cost on a local influencer because people are really not listening to the radio like they used to. They're really not watching TV commercials. Most people have streaming services. So if you want to reach people, everybody is glued to their phone. Like when I see something on their phone I'm nosy. I kind of like, look which platform are they on? But I can usually tell by like their age what it's going to be. That's where you reach your consumers on social media.
Speaker 1:What would be your advice to someone who wants to become an influencer? Maybe they're not there yet, maybe they don't have the following yet, but they think that they want to become an influencer. What would be your advice to them?
Speaker 2:I mean, remember, everybody starts with zero followers, so don't be hard on yourself. I would figure out what is a niche that you like, what is something you can talk about or do every day and not get tired of, because that is the hard part, because you want to resonate with your audience. Then I would go, consume content that is in that niche and see what is hitting millions of views, what is performing well and you don't want to copy their videos, but you want to recreate those topics in your own style. If it worked for them, it's probably going to work for you, especially if you make it be a little bit more unique. So I think consuming from that regard, you know, as far as like research and just post daily, like your first 200 videos are going to suck, but they're not going to get better until you put in the work. And then I want you to look at, like all your videos after that week which one perform the best. Make more videos like that. If none of them perform well, you need to change what you're doing, but just keep practicing. I mean, there's millions of YouTube videos chat, gpt, pretty much anything can help you get better at it. But you're not going to get better until you start and stay consistent at it.
Speaker 2:But I think building a community is really, really important. So, you know, show up, post at least one story every day, get people to engage with it. Focus on content that people like. If you don't create something and you don't want to go binge watch it because it's that good, you probably shouldn't even post it if it's not providing any sort of value to anybody. Because, I mean, you know, social media is a full-time job if you're serious about it with your business. So if, like, you want to turn it into a business, just stay consistent. How chastity realize these bathroom dance videos are what people loved. They love it because she's being weird and she's being authentic and she has a big personality and I think that that's really important. Like we have one of our friends' girlfriend. She does like food, food, eating videos. Her videos go viral. So like it doesn't really matter what your thing is, just like, hone in on it.
Speaker 1:So I should keep posting videos.
Speaker 2:Yes, of course you have a whole podcast studio. Why would you not?
Speaker 1:Okay, here's some advice I'm going to ask for myself. Should I continue to do the podcast style videos as my bread and butter, or is that going to wear out the audience that they see the same thing? Is that an expectation from people, right, because that's now my style, or should I mix in other stuff?
Speaker 2:I would just look at your analytics. Like what video? Like I saw your best performing video got like 2.5 million views on Instagram and it was somebody else talking about, I don't even remember what it was, but like that did. Well, I think videos that are helpful, like as a lawyer, like if you're in this situation, do this, like I think those things get shared and saved a lot. So like I would tell you the same thing. You know, go type, you know personal injury lawyer, you know whatever the niche is and see what is performing. Well, how do I make this style, my own podcast style? Inner videos can do great, but it's kind of like what are they saying is like, if it's a random topic every week, is that going to resonate with your audience? I don't know. So I guess you just have to figure out, like, what's your goal with your social media.
Speaker 1:Damn Damn. Well, if that was a rhetorical question, I don't know the answer to either. Or if that was a literal question, I don't know the answer to it. But thank you so much for all that information.
Speaker 2:What I mean by that is, you know, is your goal to get more local clients? Is your goal to make sales of a product that you can ship anywhere Like? Whatever your goal is, you need to do activities that make that happen.
Speaker 1:I love it. I think I covered everything. Was there anything that you wanted to cover that we didn't? I think we nailed them. Yeah, I went one by one. Okay, I'm gonna wrap up and you tell me okay, all right, mo, well, I learned a lot. You brought a ton of value. I hope people follow you at Cajun Ventures and sign up for your course and make some money. Is there any place? I think we covered where to find you. Just give us that one more time.
Speaker 2:You can look on any social media and search Cajun Ventures, and that is where we are at.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Thank you, and now y'all go make that money.
Speaker 1:Go make that money. Yeah, you're about to edit those.
