Sierra Gates, star of 'Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,' joins Cheddar News to talk about the new season, entrepreneurship, and love. 

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'Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta' is Back and Bringing the Heat

Welcome back to Between Bells, The new season of Love and Hip hop Atlanta and Love and hip hop Miami is back and this time it's turning hip hop culture on its head fans are in for a treat because VH one is dropping both franchises back to back on august 8th. This time, fans of Love and Hip hop Atlanta can expect the typical drama as cast members navigate their individual journeys, both personally and professionally, take a look. The family is back together, send out the kids, send out the kids, but will we tear each other apart? These men are just the path to success. Doesn't follow a straight line. Yeah. And earlier I said that we see our gate star of Love and hip hop Atlanta. We talked all about what fans can expect this season, Take a look. What are you most excited for fans to see on love and hip hop Atlanta especially as so many fans have seen you evolve since joining in season six. I'm super excited for um the fans to see my growth overall just from five years ago, Sierra to now, I think it's a huge difference. Absolutely. I mean, look, there's so many different franchises and so many different seasons. Why do you think Love and hip hop is so popular with people? I feel like with love and hip hop, um they allow us to be our un itself at our, in our purest form and that's what makes us so different from every other reality show we get, They show you know how we started and there. And they also show like our growth every season? I feel like we reveal something new that the world don't know. So that's what I love the most about, loving hip hop and by the way, what do you think it is about Atlanta that stands out amongst the crowd? Because I feel like you guys really bring it on Atlanta, I mean it's just Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia peach, what's hotter than Amen? I agree. Not Sierra, you are such an entrepreneur. You really how people boss it up in life. Talk about your third quarter, re up and the inspiration behind starting money Monster University here? Yes, so third quarter Rhea is a 30 day challenge that I'm doing to let entrepreneurs know like look, we have one more quarter in this year, let's stay focused, let's stay motivated, let's stay consistent and utilize this last quarter, It's not too late to reach your goal. So that is what third quarter really is and money, Monster University is just something that I started to help other entrepreneurs, like my stuff that's just trying to find a way that, you know, I don't really know where to start, where to go, how to start a business, where to go get their wholesale products from. I'm that girl that's like, alright sis, you can hold my hand, I'm gonna lead you the way I'm gonna show you everything you need to know on how to start a business all the way into how to finish one. Well, what's the best piece of advice for those entrepreneurs watching this interview right now, what was the best piece of advice to start a business and really flourish here to know that starting a business is not easy, you're gonna get a million knows things are gonna happen, hiccups bumps in the road, but you have to stay consistent, you gotta stay consistent, staying consistent is the number one thing to being an entrepreneur, you gotta work at it every single day. And I think the rejection thing is really so true because you're right, you're gonna be told no a million times all you're looking for is that one? Yes, yep, yep, and that one yes, will get you to your whole, to your next level, like it'll change your whole entire life, so that's why it's important to stay on your anger a game every single day, utilize these 24 hours that you have in the day, every single piece of those twirl, I tell people stay on it, do not let the day go by that you're not working on your project of what you're trying to do to become an entrepreneur. Absolutely, so it's er you and your fiance eric, you're planning that star studded upcoming destination wedding, we got to know, how has that process been going, what are the deeds here? I did not know that planning a wedding was so difficult, like I thought, yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot to plan a wedding, especially a destination wedding because people trying to figure out, you know, are they, are they able to come? I didn't know some people didn't even have their passports in different situations. It's a lot. It's a, it's a whole lot. I had a destination wedding also, the only good news is, is it trims the wedding list a lot, you know, buy a destination wedding. I heard that, I heard that, but for the most part, the people that matter the most did they come? Because I heard that you will be surprised who don't come right? Yes, those are the people, yes, those are totally the people that arrived. Like, oh, I was totally not expecting you to be here, but either way, congratulations, It's gonna be so exciting. But you've had such a journey with love and hip hop and your fans have really been rooting for you to find love. So what's different this time around that made you realize that eric was the one here. I feel like Sierra know who Sierra is as a woman now though, you know, previously in my previous relationship, you gotta remember, I got married, my first marriage was, I was 18 years old, 17, 18 years old, so I didn't know who I was the second time, the guy gave me the engagement ring, I was just coming out of my marriage. It was just like, I was still learning and growing and knowing who I really was and in this particular time I just turned 33 years old. I've grown to be a lovely business, beautiful young lady. Um I gotta, you know, give myself my own flower, but you know, I've grown to be this amazing person and I feel like I know who I am now and with that, I know who is right for me at this particular time and I can say this is the first time in a relationship that I let my guard down and that I was very vulnerable and I just allowed him to love me correctly. And I really feel like God, somebody that matches my fly that I don't have to question is he with me for money because he got his own money. Do he really loved me because he showed me every single day. You know what I'm saying? So I'm more open with this relationship. I love that and I love that you're being honest and vulnerable about it. What is it about? Eric though? I mean you mentioned that, you know, he's got his own money. That he shows you every day that he loves you. But really, what is it at the end of the day that you knew that this was the one because the way he loved me Laws and all, like, my last relationship, it was love, but it was a love with a price ticket or different things attached to it. But this particular love is free, it's vulnerable, it's innocent, it's bold, it's boastful. It's all of those different things. I can tell that he genuinely loves me, my flaws and all when I take my wig off, he don't care how I look, he don't care about, you know, anything that I had that I thought was the other relationships would be like, oh my God, you need to get this fixed or get that. He he loved all of that about me. So that's how I know it's genuine this time. So sweet. You're so incredibly nice. Er Star of Love and hip Hop, Atlanta, by the way, New episodes premiere august 8th on Vh, By the way, that wedding already sounds Yes, that's really elegant and by the way, totally good piece of advice. If you want to trim your wedding list down, have a destination.