Texas mom who won $165,000 on 'Deal or No Deal' says this was the key to her success via CNBCMakeIt
The pressure was rising, the chances of winning six figures were getting more remote, and La'Sherrie Butler-Hogan, a Texas mom of two, was feeling worried under the bright lights of the "Deal or No Deal" stage. Then she broke out into song. And it helped her win $165,000.
So when pressure began to mount during the game, Butler-Hogan went back to what kept her grounded growing up: singing. It has"really helped me through my whole life," she says. And singing helped during the game, too. "I was afraid because I didn't want to come back home with nothing. There was a lot of excitement, a lot of fear, but I wanted to make sure we got what we came for. I wanted to win on some level," she says."I didn't want to come home with $5 or $300. I didn't want to come home without anything. I needed to ... make some financial changes."
"In my mind," Mandel tells CNBC Make It,"if I showed up for 10 minutes and somebody said, 'The banker is now offering you $15,000'? Deal. You're handing me $15,000! There's a chance I could tank on the next couple of openings, there's a chance I'll never see the million dollars."Butler-Hogan isn't bummed that she didn't win $1 million."Well, of course, I would've loved to have won more," she says.
Her business isn't the typical bakery."I'm called the 'singing cake baker,'" Butler-Hogan says."I do 'Happy Birthday' when people come in. I sing a very long note to 'Happy Birthday'. We're about putting the 'C' in cake customer service. We believe our customers are first and we do pretty much whatever, whenever and however they want it done.
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