Monique Rodriguez
speaker
1,123 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Mar
Monique Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's just a part of who I am.
So what about you?
Oh, wow, you were two hours from Memphis?
Because you started as a stylist.
Yeah, that's amazing. Isn't that crazy? Yeah.
It's who you are, too.
I mean, that's me too, but I say I just clean up well.
It was really fun. Yeah, and I was hoping that you was coming to Paris, but I know you're such a busy lady. I know. Because I was like, I was planning, I was like, we're going to have so much fun.
You're not coming? You're like, no.
Parents will always be there.
So Chicago gets a bad rap.
it's really a beautiful city, right?
It's where I'm from, it's where I grew up. I feel it's what built the character and the grit inside of me, right? Yeah. I feel that the best entrepreneurs also come from Chicago because Chicago is a different breed. If you can weather the below, Zero temperatures.
And still come out on top, you know, and wait for the summer and spring time to come. You're going to be all right in life.
But outside of, you know, the weather, it's a beautiful city, right? The skyline, I feel like we have the most beautiful skyline in the entire country. But, you know, there are some rough parts. I think with any city, any major city you go to, like there is going to be some rough parts. And, you know, I was...
I don't know if I was fortunate and I can say fortunate, but I was able to see both sides of Chicago. You know, I talk about this a lot in my book, how I grew up and, you know, what I've experienced with my dad. And that was the rough side of Chicago where, you know, I was around
drug addicts and prostitutes and at that time back in the day it used to be called the low-end and that's where like the projects were yeah, and I was able to see Different people from different walks of life like I didn't grow up in the projects But I was around the projects and down there because that's where my dad, you know would purchase his drugs So I feel like it just it has taught me to be a well-rounded individual.
Yeah And to learn how to manage and be in all different rooms and settings and work with all different walks of life. Because, you know, that's how I grew up. I know how to be with the best of them and I know how to be with the lowest of them.
It's resilience.
Yeah, like, I know how to pull out Southside Monique. I try to keep her back there.
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