Devale Ellis
speaker
540 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Devale Ellis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
Then be a partner.
But you also realize that the uncomfortable conversations you're having isn't because that person just wants to be defiant. It's because y'all grew up differently. And I learned that my father-in-law never discussed with my wife finances. He was the breadwinner. Well, he wasn't. Well, this is another thing. My wife's mom was the breadwinner.
Jamaican woman came over, became a nurse, director of nursing. She made over $150,000 a year.
Her father was a CNA. CNAs aren't, you know, they aren't licensed. He made about $45,000. But all the money they got collectively, he bought property in the 80s and 90s.
So here, he wasn't the type of man that made a lot of money on a salary, but he had the mental fortitude and the vision to buy multiple properties and put all of their kids through college with the properties he bought and the equity within that. So watching that, watching my dad, I say, okay, it's my job as the man to make sure that we have a plan financially.
But I don't want my wife to feel like she's a child in the house. And she got to come to me every day and be like, babe, I want to get a nun. Here's your salary based on what you make. Here's my salary based on what I make. My salary goes to the kids.
Like, I just don't, I don't, like, I ain't going to lie, my wife bought this.
You want to hear a funny story? Funny story. 38th birthday. My wife says to me, she's like, hey, baby, get up. We're going to the mall. I'm like, the mall? Like, it's my birthday. Why the fuck we going to the mall? Like, we go to the mall. We go to the jeweler. She goes, get whatever you want.
This is my wife now. I love her. Now, mind you, I'm the breadwinner.
And when I tell you I felt like a bad bitch in there, I was like, ah!
I got this watch. I got this bracelet. I got this necklace.
And I was like, is this too much? Is this too much? And she was like, no, get it all. Ah! She's like, get it on. And then she went and she got me this because I don't buy jewelry.
So she got me all of these things.
She got me all these things and she bought it for my birthday. This is why I wear it because I want people to know. She got me all of these Van Cleefs. I didn't know what a Van Cleef was.
She told me about Van Cleefs and Cartier bracelets and stuff. But I'm like, man, you get to do what you want to do as a woman.
That's got to make you feel empowered. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because she make her own money. Period.
Now, that's the fact. If a woman come to me, I'm going to be like, listen now. Listen, I'll smash. Good luck, girl. Can you get me an A.P. Ice style? Maybe. Good luck.
Come get your ass.
That's hilarious. I'm expensive. I'm a bad bitch. I'm expensive.
The shoulder. That's my wife about the shoulder. I be in the bed with the shoulder. I throw that shoulder in it.
Showing 341–360 of 540 · page 18 of 27
← Previous
Next →