I know you love the biker chicks so I got another one for you today hailing from Yonkers New York a
long time member of The Forsaken MC a nightclub owner and I'm talking about shells the biker
chick and we get into it on this episode a Demons Row TV and oh yeah we ghostin baby
sets welcome to Demons Row TV the Holy Grail of MC culture where we cover everything motorcycle
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www.demonsrow.com and let's get into it Shellz thank you for sitting down with me thank you for
having me so I was so interested to sit down with you having your own spot the way you run
your own business it's inspiring and I you know women could look up to you like younger girls
could look up to what you're doing you know standing on your own it's not easy so tell me
how it started where did you get this drive from where'd you grow up so I'm from Yonkers
and um I've been bartending it for like years and years and years I was just like you know
what I need to get my own spot what really really pushed me to get my own spot is I was working
for somebody and I felt like they were like disrespectful and that was like the last show
up for me and I was just like you know what I'm done working for anybody anymore I would say the
next week I was signed I don't sign my lease got my keys everything and I said I'm never going back
I had a similar situation I was working in the hospital and there was this chick I don't want
to blow up but everybody hated her and when I came in they used to be like yo I'm so happy
you here this chick made three times what I meant the day that I heard what her salary
was I was like yo I'm out of here like I can't work for nobody you know some people are just
miserable you know no matter how much money they make or what's their status and like some people
just miserable you know so so what was it like growing up in Yonkers oh growing up here because
this is so crazy I went to Roosevelt High School in Yonkers graduated from there then I went to VSU
from VSU I went to NYU to get my Master's mental health therapist I had my Master's at social work
um but yeah because it's crazy you know it's just it's a jungle out here I'm gonna tell you A Plenty
story about Getty Square okay I remember um we got in trouble around my neighborhood around Gun Hill
and the cops grabbed the up and they're like yo we should throw you in Getty Square and leave you
over there and be like what is that and they were like yeah cause they were laughing and we're like
ah Yonkers you know we're from the Bronx Yonkers police says there was years later I went to Getty
Square okay there was a hundred people on this block 100 people here if he would have left his
nail we would have died people don't know y'all cause it's the real deal it's a real deal for real
I think people kind of just when they hear Yonkers like people that's not familiar with Yonkers that
gets like like somewhere far Upstate and that's really not the case because you could be in
certain places in Yonkers and literally walk over to the Bronx yeah you get what I'm saying yeah you
could be literally some places in Yonkers Mount Vernon is right there and there were shell is like
this little it's close to everything did you used to go to the Westchester County Fair I did okay
um that yeah some really good times there my friends family and stuff like that but
if it was dope so tell me how you got into the to the motorcycle culture
yeah that's a good question so my father he um he was a part of the black Falcons Club in
the Bronx and so I used to always see him on his bikes brought him his friends and stuff
like that and I always say when I get older I want to ride bikes so I started off doing like
riding dirt bikes and four wheelers and stuff like that in the backyard and um or I'm not in
the backyard industry my father taught me how to ride that's where I got it from then my brothers
I'm the only girl I have five brothers so I grew up kind of tomboyish yeah and um
all my brothers wrote I started riding the dirt bikes and I just say you know what I'm
gonna get me a bike and I've been riding bikes for about 10 years now wow yeah so
were your brothers like they're the ones that got you onto the bikes and all that
you said your father my father well see your handwriting his way kind of just inspired me
to just want to get bikes and then my brothers too same thing I would say they were inspired
for my father as well so were they in clubs is that how you got into the club um crazy thing
that I got was a candy in spite of the trike and I wrote that for maybe like a month or two and
I was like I don't want this or so then I got a Kawasaki at three six a three I'm sorry six
three six and I had um seen one of my homeboys and he kind of like was like oh I didn't know
you bought and you know come through come join Forsaken and that's how I got into a second
um through him shout out to Frenchie that's my best right now so Frenchie got me into Forsaken
and I was in forsaken for about seven years and um ended up leaving politics and everything like that
I just wasn't happy but I started my business and everything so it was just time for me to fall back
um so you had the business at the same time while you won so what was it like you know
like prospecting for forsaken like what was that for you with the mentality that you have the most
mentality prospecting was easy like I didn't have to do anything crazy or anything like that
um my Prospect and phase lasted a little longer because of my attitude and at the time uh Frenchie
was the president and I will always keep asking when are you gonna give me my colors when are you
gonna give me I'm tired of being a prospect and every time I asked he would prolong it yeah so I
was literally prospecting for about a year like four months when it only supposed to have been
six months oh but because of my attitude which humbled me yeah I had to wait you just brought
up something important and I never taught people and that's a very key thing when you're a prospect
you're never supposed to know us when you get fully patched I never brought that up on Amazon
you're not you're not and I just kept asking and asking and he kept tagging on another month
another month another month that's for landing me so long my Prospect phase so were you like
taking the tour and going to like all different events and stuff like that with the same thing oh
yeah for sure um that's one thing with the former president Frenchie you had to be outside he wants
you a part of the club um one thing about him I salute him as um when he was president because
monkey see Modi do um he didn't ask you to do something that he didn't do you know what I mean
so if he's telling you to come come to an event he was there so what was that Dynamic like being in a
club whereas co-ed is it a lot of drama like with relationships people day in falling out things
like that happened it didn't happen for me um I'm not interested dating any bikers in any bike clubs
um so you never dated anybody in your club or in another club never never so what is it bikers just
don't do it for you no you know the bike Community is so small I feel and the things that I've seen
you know guys talking they I feel like some of the guys in my Acadia than a female yeah I'll
call them I call them whole ass niggas that's what I call them um so that just kind of just turned me
off yeah and um yeah I'm not interested with the club did you do a lot of like out of state stuff
or was it more like in the five boroughs oh yeah we definitely did a lot of things out of state um
I've been to events in Delaware Virginia Boston we have a Boston well forsaken has a Boston chapter
um so plenty of rides up there um Philly North Carolina South Carolina so we've been around you
know so we did the interview with bad news here we have chosen a few here you you were
um cool with uh TG like you got a lot of respect from a lot of the big clubs like where did that
come from was it forsaken or was it after that or oh it definitely give props to forsaken
um because I've definitely that kind of brought in you know my horizons to the action the bike
club learning so much meeting new people um and then credits of myself if I'm a sociable
person you know and I like to go out to events I like to ride my bike I want to meet new people
um so yeah I gotta say and a lot of the guys that I've known already like uh my
homeboy gonna he's part of TG he was just in here the other day so I'm meeting new TG
um people and members and stuff like that so it's it's it's dope it's bike Life Is Life I
love bikes I love the atmosphere of being in the events going out of town meeting new people so I
enjoy all of it one thing I notice about you like you you're not dating any of these people usually
you know females have a relationship with club members because of somebody they dated or whatever
how do you navigate that because some of these young girls could learn from you like how do you
navigate being cool with certain people but not having to be in a relationship with them you know
well again like I said I have five brothers so I guess that's just a learned trait you know and
it just kind of stay away like you're in you're like you're there but you're not there yeah you
get what I'm saying like not every man you have to smile in his face and show your teeth to you
know what I mean yeah but um also be respectful and you know introduce yourself and just kind of
be Stern about you know what it is that that you expect yeah that's all so tell me about
being a club owner and what you're doing or a lounge how what's the proper way to okay so
um this is an event space okay and so basically I have events like every night and we have lots of
fun and people book the event space as well um I had a bridal showers Bachelor parties
um baby showers uh people come here just to do a photo shoot
um so I'm kind of open to all different types of events so being for yoga is what made you
land out here in New Rochelle oh Yonkers nothing lasts in Yonkers if you're a club owner of this
space owner it ain't happening let's start getting shut down people are while I know I'm gonna get it
shut down and also it kind of It Takes Me Away although I'm not too far but it takes me away
from my peers right I don't want anyone to feel like oh I know her so you know I'm I'm coming
in and like you know get call shells get shells and sometimes I go through that here but not as
much as I feel that I would go through it if it's in Yonkers that makes sense you know what I mean
so do you get a lot of youngest people coming in because they know they're not really not really
so what is it like navigating you know because you're doing this every day yeah it's a lot of
work um but I'm doing it like tomorrow is my one year anniversary June 2nd congratulations I'm
happy about that it was a lot it was a lot there was times I just wanted to just snatch my wig off
I'm like how am I gonna do this but um God has had a plan for me and then I'm just executing it
so where do you want to take it to with this are you trying to get more spots are you trying to
make this yeah so um my plan is to not only just have this spot is to get another big a bigger spot
um another one and they're just gonna franchise this whole brand nice
so what's the what's the the marketing strategy what's the brand name that the people know all
right so my legal mean is touched by Shell's event since I've gotten here my customers they started
calling the shell Shake Shack that's really not the name of it um but it's it has like a
catchy you know tone to it yeah shell Shake Shack so I just kind of went with that yeah
um but I want to open up another one I'm thinking maybe like White Plains um I'm definitely in
Manhattan somewhere yeah I just want to Branch off everywhere maybe even Delaware is like a
really good spot to um to start a business um no taxes or anything so where's the where's the like
10 years from now where are we sitting out 10 years from now I would like to have about four
more event spaces yeah I've been Queen I want to be that woman that you can go to like oh you know
what call shells call shells she has spots and yeah I want everybody and just know like you would
come here I'm Keen into all types of events well not all type of events not no crazy shit but yeah
um pretty much most events and um yeah I want to get it done I want to cater to my customers I want
everyone to have a good time um Safety First of course I want to make sure everyone is safe and
um just providing a stable environment good environment where they can have a good time
what about like kids and husbands oh yeah for sure I've had kids bodies here know what I'm saying for
you like kids I don't have any kids and I'm not married oh okay yeah well let me just this way so
I am divorced I was married and um yeah hopefully I'll get back out there soon yeah that's my main
concern right now is just you know getting the business together I mean whoever comes in you
know that there's a lot going on here so you got to make sure you bring something to the table
so is there anything else you want to talk to people before we get out where
they can find you uh definitely uh you can hit me on Instagram uh shells of gold
um if you're looking for the best space you can hit my Ig at Shell Shake Shack
um that's my IG for the event space or you can hit me up at my email njw914@gmail.com everything
will be linked in the description thank you for sending out thank you I appreciate your time