Speaker 1: What's up this way up at Angela Yee And it's
Speaker 1: a special Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I'm here with my partners Stacey Tisdale.
Speaker 3: Happy Wealth Wednesday everybody, and today we are going to
Speaker 3: get you connected because we have the Master Connector herself,
Speaker 3: Nicole Harmon Pond. Yes, she is the founder and CEO
Speaker 3: of the Master Connector Agency. She's a Wall Street executive,
Speaker 3: and we are so excited we're going to learn all
Speaker 3: about connecting.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I want to start off with how you
Speaker 1: even conceived of this because when I first met Nicole,
Speaker 1: she was always connecting people. Like we said, she's a
Speaker 1: Wall Street executive, so she has a lot of corporate
Speaker 1: people that she works with, but she also has a
Speaker 1: lot of talent that she works with, a lot of creators,
Speaker 1: and so for a lot of times you've been bringing
Speaker 1: people together.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, this is a whole agency.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And she's right like as and I met and
Speaker 4: I you know, connected you with her connected everybody.
Speaker 5: That was my life.
Speaker 4: I always connecting the Master Connector. So I've been at
Speaker 4: Wall Street for twenty years and through my whole career,
Speaker 4: I was always connecting people. If you say, hey, I
Speaker 4: want to be on the radio, I'm like, oh, I know,
Speaker 4: can you put my friend out here? Or if you
Speaker 4: say you're in the food business, I know a couple
Speaker 4: of restaurant owners. So I would always connect people all
Speaker 4: the time, but I never knew what I should do
Speaker 4: with that and my whole life, people always said you
Speaker 4: need to start a business because you know so many
Speaker 4: powerful people, not just like you said in the industry
Speaker 4: on Wall Street and corporate.
Speaker 5: But I said, well, what does that mean? How do
Speaker 5: I start a business?
Speaker 4: And I don't have a product because most people have products,
Speaker 4: right like they'll have they're selling shirts, or they have
Speaker 4: makeup lines. I was like, what does that mean to
Speaker 4: start a business without having a tangible product?
Speaker 5: And God gave me a vision.
Speaker 4: He said, You're going to curate a room that you're
Speaker 4: going to bring together your network. Your network is filled
Speaker 4: of corporate executives, industry leaders, influencers, CEOs. So thirty days
Speaker 4: after you gave me the vision, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going to curate a room.
Speaker 5: It's called in the room where the deals are made.
Speaker 4: So I create a space where I bring together corporate executives,
Speaker 4: industry leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, everybody that's doing their thing in
Speaker 4: their field, and I feel like we each need each
Speaker 4: other because when I would go to corporate events, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't see my industry friends there, and when I would
Speaker 4: industry event, I wouldn't see my corporate watree friends there.
Speaker 4: So I wanted to bring us all together because I
Speaker 4: felt like business could be done in these rooms, and
Speaker 4: we need each other to get deals.
Speaker 1: Done, and it all complement each other a lot of
Speaker 1: the different things that we do. It's like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: Angela's looking for you know, this investor for one of
Speaker 1: her businesses.
Speaker 2: Let me see if I could connect it with this person.
Speaker 1: Or this person's trying to get a guest speaker to
Speaker 1: do X, Y and Z, Well, let me see if
Speaker 1: I can help them find the right person, because you
Speaker 1: also know everybody's bios.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And also what I noticed is, like corporate executives,
Speaker 4: we need industry leaders. We need people that are out
Speaker 4: on the community to help push our products, to get
Speaker 4: the information out there, to say how wonderful we are.
Speaker 4: Because every brand wants to be the brand of choice.
Speaker 3: Talk more about that, because when you hear about these rooms,
Speaker 3: you think, oh, that's just for big shots. The corporate
Speaker 3: America needs community people as much as community people need
Speaker 3: that opening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, You're spot on the corporate executives.
Speaker 4: We need industry leaders, influencers, people out in the community
Speaker 4: to talk about how good our products are. Every every
Speaker 4: corporation wants to be the corporation of choice. So if
Speaker 4: you have somebody out there and you're doing a business
Speaker 4: and they're coming to your events, they're like, oh, I
Speaker 4: went to way Up, I had a beautiful experience and
Speaker 4: greeting me with water.
Speaker 5: They took care of me, right, So we all want people.
Speaker 3: To don't get we don't get water water. Don't be
Speaker 3: putting that out there.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, like when you when you have
Speaker 4: a good company and people are out talking about your business,
Speaker 4: it helps you helps business succeed.
Speaker 5: It's all about word of.
Speaker 4: Mouth as well as influencers and industry people need corporations
Speaker 4: because we can help with funding, we can help with sponsorship,
Speaker 4: we can help with broaden your connections, we can help
Speaker 4: with business acumens.
Speaker 5: So both entities need each other.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting too, is monetizing something like this
Speaker 1: because I feel like sometimes we don't realize the connections
Speaker 1: that we have that we bring to the table is
Speaker 1: something that can be monetized. Sometimes we do things just
Speaker 1: as a favor, like let me introduce you to this
Speaker 1: person and hook it up.
Speaker 2: And then now they go on and do a deal.
Speaker 1: But maybe you're not benefiting from that at all, But
Speaker 1: you made the initial introduction that made it happen.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And and Andy, who you just had up here or
Speaker 4: she was one of the first people to show me
Speaker 4: my worth in connecting people. So somebody reached out to
Speaker 4: me that had a conference and they said, Nicole, can
Speaker 4: you help me with some powerful women.
Speaker 5: To speak at my conference.
Speaker 4: At first I was like, I know a lot of
Speaker 4: powerful but that I had to figu out the right
Speaker 4: people to be a part of.
Speaker 5: This conference is a huge conference.
Speaker 4: And I reached out to three people and I asked
Speaker 4: them all their fee, and I got everybody their fee.
Speaker 5: Okay, what's your speaking fee? What's this?
Speaker 4: What's just charges? Doing all these deal transactions and helping
Speaker 4: just my friends. I didn't even think about me getting paid.
Speaker 4: So Yandy said, well what's your fee? And I said,
Speaker 4: what do you mean? She said, how much are you charging?
Speaker 4: I mean, what's your fee for getting me booked to
Speaker 4: do this, and I said, oh, I don't charge fee.
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm connecting, you're my friend, Like I'm putting
Speaker 4: you in this room. I'm giving you this opportunity. I've
Speaker 4: always led with how I can help people, how I
Speaker 4: can get them opportunities. I never thought about little old me.
Speaker 4: And so she said what's your fee? And I said
Speaker 4: what does that mean? And I said what do people charge?
Speaker 4: She said, you can do anywhere between ten to twenty percent.
Speaker 4: I would say ten, because you're new at this. I said, okay,
Speaker 4: so you're gonna give me ten percent, I'll take it right.
Speaker 4: So and so she gave me ten percent, and every
Speaker 4: deal that I got her from more she always gives
Speaker 4: me ten percent of her deal and it's just from
Speaker 4: getting her in the rooms. And then I said, oh,
Speaker 4: so people get paid for this. So she opened my
Speaker 4: mind up to that, you know, getting paid for my connections.
Speaker 2: Right, it's like a booking fee.
Speaker 4: It's a booking fee, and if a deal is made,
Speaker 4: then I get ten percent of that too, because I'm
Speaker 4: putting I'm giving you opportunities. And that's the important of
Speaker 4: being in the right room, because you can meet somebody
Speaker 4: that can grow your network, your net worth, your business
Speaker 4: just by being in the right room and being introduced.
Speaker 3: So if I'm listening to this, it's like, this sounds
Speaker 3: like it's for you know people at a certain level.
Speaker 3: One it's not. And two they can actually work with
Speaker 3: you when you have a service that people can actually
Speaker 3: subscribe to. Yes.
Speaker 4: So one, I created the in the room, so it's
Speaker 4: it's an event that I host in person.
Speaker 5: But people wanted more. They're like, well, how did I
Speaker 5: get in contact with you?
Speaker 4: You've been on wallhet twenty years, you have so much
Speaker 4: business acumen, you know so many people. So I created
Speaker 4: a membership. So the membership is ninety nine dollars a month.
Speaker 4: And people are telling me the.
Speaker 5: Price is too cheap. But that's where I wanted to start.
Speaker 3: And wait, wait, wait, wait, where is it? Where do
Speaker 3: people go to get it?
Speaker 5: So ww dot the maasterconnector agency dot com.
Speaker 3: Okay, back to ninety nine dollars back Yeah, So.
Speaker 4: On my website you can book a ticket to the
Speaker 4: person events and then you can also book the membership.
Speaker 4: With the membership, you meet with me monthly on zoom
Speaker 4: and I have experts in their field come on to
Speaker 4: talk to you about every area of business. I have
Speaker 4: someone talking about trademark, of someone talking about personal branding,
Speaker 4: elevator pitch. Your elevator pitch is so important when you
Speaker 4: meet people getting to the point of what they need
Speaker 4: to know. I talk to people about the keys of networking,
Speaker 4: the art of networking. I have a huge network. People
Speaker 4: always ask me how I know so many people, like
Speaker 4: everybody knows everywhere I know.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, yeah, you know my homegirl Nicole yea.
Speaker 5: All the time, Thank you so.
Speaker 4: And I think that comes from like doing good business right,
Speaker 4: Like you don't want people to say your name.
Speaker 5: You're like, oh yeah, I know Nicole.
Speaker 4: Like no, I've always level integrity, do good business, and
Speaker 4: leave with how I can help people.
Speaker 5: But the membership.
Speaker 4: Every month I have experts coming on talking about their
Speaker 4: field and how they can help you increase your business.
Speaker 5: I always say your network, your network, and your business.
Speaker 3: Wow. A lot of people when they hear things like this,
Speaker 3: you're gonna introduce them to partners, potential mentors, and they
Speaker 3: go into these rooms and they think about, Okay, what
Speaker 3: am I going to get? What am I going to get?
Speaker 3: But You're like, flip that script a little bit and
Speaker 3: think about what you're gonna bring ring.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's one of the top keys to networking. I
Speaker 4: tell people all the time, lead with how you can help.
Speaker 4: These rooms are powerful rooms. I had CEOs in this room.
Speaker 4: I had venture capitalists, people that had multi mayion dollars
Speaker 4: willing to invest. I had executive c suite and above
Speaker 4: decision makers, meaning that you want a job, you can
Speaker 4: go straight to them. I call it the cheat code,
Speaker 4: meaning that you're talking to the person that you don't
Speaker 4: have to go through the PR the admin, the behind
Speaker 4: the scenes people, through the red tape. But I tell
Speaker 4: people lead with how you can offer help to someone,
Speaker 4: because a lot of times, I want to say, ninety
Speaker 4: percent of the time, if I meet Angela, I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I want to be on your radio show?
Speaker 4: Versus what are you working on? What are your GOALRO
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five? How can I add value?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 5: What is your plan?
Speaker 4: I always leave with value with people. Anybody I met.
Speaker 4: Everybody can say that when they've met me, Yeah, like
Speaker 4: how can I help you?
Speaker 5: Right, It's like, what are you working on?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: You want to speak on JP? Okay, you want to
Speaker 4: speak on a platform. I'm gonna see who I know
Speaker 4: on that platform. So I always have with value and
Speaker 4: I think that comes back to your fold because always
Speaker 4: leaved with how you can help versus what can I
Speaker 4: get from you?
Speaker 3: And it's so important for our community to get into
Speaker 3: these rooms. We don't have access to this route these.
Speaker 1: Ass and we do make such a big splast when
Speaker 1: we are in these rooms.
Speaker 2: I think people are really excited.
Speaker 1: You know, Nicole's had me out of some of her
Speaker 1: networking events also, and it's always been like I walk
Speaker 1: away with a whole bunch of different new connections. I
Speaker 1: even meet people who are like, oh, I reached out
Speaker 1: to you on LinkedIn, I didn't hear back, but here
Speaker 1: you are in person. Yeah, And so it's like a
Speaker 1: real life LinkedIn vibe in the rooms. I mean, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's just incredible because it's all people
Speaker 1: who I think when you go into rooms like this,
Speaker 1: it's also important because these are all people who are
Speaker 1: very ambitious. Because it's one thing to want to do something,
Speaker 1: it's another thing to get out and do it. And
Speaker 1: so all these people are there for the purpose of
Speaker 1: trying to grow whatever it is that they want to do.
Speaker 1: But also there's people in the room that want to
Speaker 1: help you grow whatever it is that you're trying to do,
Speaker 1: so that's equally important. And it's interesting because I know
Speaker 1: Yandy and you, like you said, have work together closely.
Speaker 1: And I was with her earlier and she was talking
Speaker 1: about just the feeling that people are having right now
Speaker 1: who are business owners, who are entrepreneurs, who are creators,
Speaker 1: how right now they're feeling like, Ooh, what's the government
Speaker 1: about to do for us?
Speaker 2: We have to figure out how to.
Speaker 1: Make things happen more on our own because they're not
Speaker 1: going to be looking out for us. What do you
Speaker 1: feel like is the sentiment around that right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I always say work with people that celebrate you. Focus
Speaker 4: on people that focus on you. Don't like, look for
Speaker 4: your tribe, look for people that light up when they
Speaker 4: see look for people that want to help you. And
Speaker 4: I tell everybody that go where you're celebrated, not where
Speaker 4: you're tolerated. And I think right now even more so,
Speaker 4: like I'm building this community of powerful people that have
Speaker 4: seats at the table to help us all grow our network,
Speaker 4: our network, and our business. And I stand on that
Speaker 4: because everybody that's in these rooms. I want to say,
Speaker 4: ninety percent of these rooms haven't seen the table, which is
Speaker 4: important and a lot of us don't have access to that.
Speaker 4: I always tell people the last event, the first event
Speaker 4: I did, I had the mayor come up talk to
Speaker 4: take thanking me for lunch of my business in Atlanta
Speaker 4: and Land. I had the old mayor of Atlanta in
Speaker 4: the room as well. I had CEOs in the room.
Speaker 4: I had executive from Fortune five hundred companies. I had influencers,
Speaker 4: I had famous people, I had real estate.
Speaker 5: Like the room had a caveat of people that you
Speaker 5: just don't.
Speaker 3: Normally want to entrepreneurs.
Speaker 4: And entrepreneurs, yes, successful business owners and new business owners,
Speaker 4: and you just don't walk into a room that has
Speaker 4: that caliber of people of different backgrounds. Usually if you
Speaker 4: go to a certain function, it's always you know, sports,
Speaker 4: entertainment or music or finance or law.
Speaker 5: Like this room had everybody in there.
Speaker 3: And playing off what Angela was saying about how people
Speaker 3: are feeling like it's we really got to come together.
Speaker 3: You had an event right after the election November seventh
Speaker 3: that kind of lived that home for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so what's interesting because I had the event
Speaker 4: November seventh. The election was the number fifth, and so
Speaker 4: many people were like, they don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 4: come because their mood was just not.
Speaker 5: Where they wanted to need them. I need a moment, right.
Speaker 4: I had the chairwoman of Black Lives Matter come to
Speaker 4: my event, and she's in that space right like you're
Speaker 4: fighting for us on the front lines every day. And
Speaker 4: she said, nicoll I wasn't going to come to this event,
Speaker 4: but when I tell you, I thank you for coming
Speaker 4: to this event because it was the room was so
Speaker 4: warm and welcoming. Everybody was there to help. Everybody knew
Speaker 4: they were there the network, so the guard was down.
Speaker 4: And she said it was just so powerful and pactful
Speaker 4: being around all this black excellence all at once.
Speaker 5: I needed this.
Speaker 4: She needed that room's public first spirits and she made
Speaker 4: some dynamic connections for what she's doing.
Speaker 5: So I think one havn't even I know.
Speaker 4: November seven was a gamble, right, I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be celebrating and I was like, okay, well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: but the energy in the room, the power of the room,
Speaker 4: all the black excellence in the room, everybody loved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I feel like we can be discouraged right now.
Speaker 1: I know it was a big story about Walmart and
Speaker 1: how they're getting rid of their whole many companies, yes,
Speaker 1: so many companies are and obviously Walmart's a huge one, right,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people who have initiatives or they
Speaker 1: had funding set aside and now everybody's like, oh, ain't
Speaker 1: got I do that nowhere, right, And they're also even
Speaker 1: trying to make it illegal for you to even you know,
Speaker 1: give grant money yea to you know, people of color,
Speaker 1: to black owned businesses.
Speaker 3: To one penalized colleges and universities, right.
Speaker 2: And so it's a different world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of that going on, and I
Speaker 1: know it can feel like a discouraging time, but I
Speaker 1: think it's even more important that we have things like
Speaker 1: this and things like the Master Connector who can actually
Speaker 1: still help navigate through a system that even if you're
Speaker 1: trying to make us not able to do things or
Speaker 1: put obstacles in our way, we're still able to get
Speaker 1: it done with community.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, get it done with the community. It's called
Speaker 4: the Connectors community. And like I just said, I know
Speaker 4: a ton of people. So if you're working on something,
Speaker 4: do you feel subscourverage you reach out to me, especially
Speaker 4: if you're a part of my membership, because we also
Speaker 4: have Slack channel where you can communicate or I put
Speaker 4: in exclusive events that are happening, or I say, how's
Speaker 4: everybody's day going? If I found out opportunities and so
Speaker 4: it's good to have someone that a I have a
Speaker 4: seat at the table, but also have the networks to.
Speaker 5: Help you in your business or whatever you have going on.
Speaker 3: So you got me. I know everybody out there right
Speaker 3: now is listening and they're going to go to the
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Speaker 3: Subscribe ninety ninety nine dollars a month and just take
Speaker 3: me through. So I subscribed. I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: What do I get for my ninety nine dollars a month?
Speaker 5: Sure, exactly.
Speaker 4: So our first class is on December ninth, so you
Speaker 4: want to subscribe before December ninth. Right now, we're giving
Speaker 4: out free credit repair to the first five members that
Speaker 4: sign up. So if you sign up in their first five,
Speaker 4: you get the free current repair, which is one thousand
Speaker 4: dollars service. So we're giving that away for free as
Speaker 4: part of the membership and being on the way up
Speaker 4: and then with the service. So the first meeting, we're
Speaker 4: gonna do goal setting for twenty twenty six. So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna meet with all of my members and write down
Speaker 4: what your goals are. And that helps me understand who
Speaker 4: you are as my key member in my community, what
Speaker 4: you're working on, and then I start to go through
Speaker 4: my role indecks in my network to figure out how
Speaker 4: to get you from point A to point B.
Speaker 5: Each month, I have people coming on to.
Speaker 4: Talk about different areas of business and how to be
Speaker 4: successful in your business, whether like I said, that's marketing.
Speaker 4: I have a good girlfriend that does marketing, and she said,
Speaker 4: when people start their businesses, they don't think about a
Speaker 4: marketing budget. But if you don't have a marketing budget,
Speaker 4: how do people know.
Speaker 3: What your business is exactly?
Speaker 4: And so like little things like that, so so many
Speaker 4: is being dropped in so many aha moments that you
Speaker 4: would get from being in this community. It's access to
Speaker 4: information that we just don't know that we don't know.
Speaker 3: I have been you're marketing for people too.
Speaker 4: And marketing for people. Yeah, and then you're a part
Speaker 4: of a community, so we're all in this together. And
Speaker 4: it's like, I have this going on. We promote each
Speaker 4: other's businesses, which I think is important, but it's just
Speaker 4: having those experts come on every every month to talk
Speaker 4: about different areas of business.
Speaker 5: Trademarking.
Speaker 4: You had somebody up here talking about trademarking, talking about
Speaker 4: personal branding. There's also what a lady coming on talking
Speaker 4: about the five areas of business. Shout out to my
Speaker 4: girlfriend Candae. She's talking about the five area business that
Speaker 4: you need to succeed. So every month you'll be on
Speaker 4: and then you also get access free access to the
Speaker 4: in person events. So the in person events are ticketed,
Speaker 4: but if you're a member, you get free access to
Speaker 4: the free general mission access to the in person events.
Speaker 3: You have a big one coming up in markets.
Speaker 5: Huge ones et so Eric Thomas.
Speaker 4: He is the highest paid, number one motivational speaker in
Speaker 4: the world. This man changes lives. Anytime I mention his name,
Speaker 4: someone's like, he saved my life. He changed my life.
Speaker 4: He is like the amazing profit. He charges a lot
Speaker 4: of money to show up anywhere he goes, and they
Speaker 4: pay it because he's valuable the gyms that he drops.
Speaker 4: He's going to be our guest on March fourteenth in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: The tickets are on the website right now. There's a
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Speaker 4: I'll put that up for twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, look at us saving people money, saving people.
Speaker 4: Money, Wealthnesday, saving people money. But Eric Thomas is a
Speaker 4: big deal. So you want to be in this room
Speaker 4: to hear. I'll be interviewing him here, interviewing him to
Speaker 4: figure out how he became the most highest paid person
Speaker 4: to speak, right, Like, everybody wants to get paid their value,
Speaker 4: So how do you get that? So he'll be dropping
Speaker 4: gyms on that. He'll be dropping gyms on just changing
Speaker 4: your life.
Speaker 2: So that's our that's exciting. That's really because he's going
Speaker 2: to be coming up after.
Speaker 5: Oh so we got another surprise. Guess you might know.
Speaker 5: We might know where' stay. Your name is Angelia?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, if he have the famous Angela Yee coming in November,
Speaker 4: that's gonna be just do that. Well because it's her show,
Speaker 4: right know, I'm gonna be there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yes, loving Angela is so people.
Speaker 4: She's the sweetest person and she's on the ready, but
Speaker 4: she's like a mini mogul, right, and not to put
Speaker 4: her business out there, but every time I'm talking to her,
Speaker 4: she's working on so many investments that are getting her money.
Speaker 5: And I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: Not all of them yet, but we're working on it.
Speaker 5: But you but you're still but you're still.
Speaker 4: Remember we were like, Okay, I can't go to Shanelle
Speaker 4: this because I got to buy our property. I'm like,
Speaker 4: that's dope, right, because that's that's that's the part of
Speaker 4: where you're putting your money into things that are gonna
Speaker 4: make you more money versus things that are gonna appreciate.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So all of them chel bags, they wear something later,
Speaker 2: they don't do that.
Speaker 5: They do said, I get he.
Speaker 3: Coming give the gift the gifts right right.
Speaker 5: Someone was like, this is investment.
Speaker 1: But it does make you realize when you're investing in
Speaker 1: things and you're looking long term, it does make you
Speaker 1: think like, Okay, I can stop buying all these other
Speaker 1: things because you see the bigger picture for what it is.
Speaker 1: And it feels exciting when you're able to like do
Speaker 1: those things and spend money on these investments and you know,
Speaker 1: little fun things like yeah myself, yeah, But it also
Speaker 1: makes you realize when you have to sacrifice all of that,
Speaker 1: how unnecessary it can be, you know.
Speaker 2: And so that's something that I've learned, or I tell myself.
Speaker 4: Anyway, now you're learning it because you tell me, you're like,
Speaker 4: okay'm I gonna do this, I'm gonna get this.
Speaker 5: I'm like, that is so relist.
Speaker 2: And I've been on no vacations.
Speaker 3: Financial securities, freedom. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I want to ask you, Nicole, because you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people have wanted you to start this business.
Speaker 1: It's been something you've been why did you decide finally
Speaker 1: like now is the time?
Speaker 2: How did you know?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: It was God. I give all glory to God. It
Speaker 5: was God. And literally they say God talks to you
Speaker 5: in your dreams.
Speaker 4: Yes, since man was waking me up every day at
Speaker 4: three o'clock in the morning, like you can't talk to
Speaker 4: me during the day.
Speaker 5: Like everything, I'm.
Speaker 4: Tired, and you would say, like you're gonna create this room.
Speaker 4: My whole life, everybody's been telling me to start this business.
Speaker 4: But again, I didn't know what that looked like, what
Speaker 4: that meant, because I didn't have a tangible product. So
Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, how do I start a business because
Speaker 4: I know Edge, Yee or ye, and you're all these
Speaker 4: phenomenal people. And so he said, you're gonna create this
Speaker 4: room to charge you be in this room. This room's
Speaker 4: gonna add value. The sole mission of this room. What
Speaker 4: I want to happen is they came to the Master
Speaker 4: Connector Agency and it changed your life. It impacted your life.
Speaker 4: I always say, meeting the right person could change your life.
Speaker 4: Be in the right room could change your life. So
Speaker 4: this whole thing is to help my community build their
Speaker 4: network and help them grow their business, their network and
Speaker 4: their net worth. And I give networking tips at the
Speaker 4: event so that people that are shy, like you know,
Speaker 4: stand office.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, Well with the.
Speaker 1: Com people, I always say, that's really tough for them
Speaker 1: to go into a room full of people that they
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Or you may feel a little uncomfortable. You may feel
Speaker 2: like do I belong here?
Speaker 1: And so even being able to approach someone is not
Speaker 1: an easy thing.
Speaker 3: We have at Ashley and Nicole who said that she's shy.
Speaker 3: You never guess it, but she's shy. So she every
Speaker 3: time she goes to an event, she's like, you're gonna
Speaker 3: talk to three people?
Speaker 5: That's smart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, picking a number.
Speaker 4: People also even call me and said with the confidence thing.
Speaker 4: They're saying, Nicole, you're around all these powerful people, or
Speaker 4: you're on the wall street. I don't belong in that room.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you belong in any room that you go.
Speaker 4: And when you get in there, you leave with a compliment.
Speaker 4: Everybody loves the compliment.
Speaker 5: That's the first icebreaker. Oh I love your hair, I
Speaker 5: love your shoes, I love your bag.
Speaker 4: And then if they say okay, thanks, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: are you from around this area?
Speaker 5: Then you figure out where they're from.
Speaker 4: You try to find a common piece to keep the
Speaker 4: conversation going, and then leave with that value. You can add,
Speaker 4: oh what field are you in? Oh I'm in I'm
Speaker 4: in let's say restaurant business.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I love to cook this.
Speaker 4: Or I know somebody that will love to try your food,
Speaker 4: or I know somebody that could be a food critic.
Speaker 2: Right, figure out how you can find those coffee company.
Speaker 2: I love to have my coffee in your restaurant.
Speaker 5: Exactly right, exactly in case everybody.
Speaker 3: Angela has a coffee company and she's gonna be at
Speaker 3: the conferences Connected.
Speaker 4: Agency November and November, Angela will be there. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just finding those finding those common pieces. But I
Speaker 4: want to create a room that I'm impacting and helping
Speaker 4: my community. That's the best thing that I could do.
Speaker 4: Now we do networking bingo, which is fun. My girlfriend
Speaker 4: Bass puts it on, so you walk around and try
Speaker 4: to fill your bingo cut out and you win a prize.
Speaker 4: So that's another way to encourage people to network because
Speaker 4: I tell people when they come in these rooms, I
Speaker 4: have executs is that are vice presidents and above in
Speaker 4: this room, but you don't know what they look like, right,
Speaker 4: so people will run to the Angela ye'es or the
Speaker 4: y andes or the etis because they know what they
Speaker 4: look like. But I'm like the person, get offer your
Speaker 4: job and a success story from my last event, I
Speaker 4: had a CEO of a major company there and they
Speaker 4: didn't know who they were, but they were a CEO
Speaker 4: and they talked to them and now they have an
Speaker 4: interview next week. So yeah, they have an interview next
Speaker 4: week to potentially have a job that's going to change
Speaker 4: your life, make an impact in their financial you know, stability.
Speaker 3: So and I love this one as you're talking it doesn't.
Speaker 3: It always matters what's going on in the external world,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter as much when you're in these
Speaker 3: communities and getting it done together in the world. The
Speaker 3: world is going to change all the time around you.
Speaker 3: But I love how you're just bringing people together in
Speaker 3: a safe.
Speaker 5: Space and a safe space.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know this ET event and Angela event
Speaker 4: is going to sell out. This space only fits two
Speaker 4: hundred people. To get your tickets fast.
Speaker 3: Not only can you see Angela, but you can get
Speaker 3: a twenty percent Yes this county who see Angelo by
Speaker 3: putting in way up.
Speaker 2: It's aren't still Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's eased first and then will et.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well okay, we'll be starting to waitless it be.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, everybody's like you on some special this
Speaker 4: thing is gonna blow up. I'm like, I'm here to help.
Speaker 3: So that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Master connector is the master Connector.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of you know, just like
Speaker 1: I said, monetizing these connections. I think Steve Stout was
Speaker 1: one of the people who really was great at doing
Speaker 1: things like that because he would he would kind of
Speaker 1: match up different people with different corporations and help them
Speaker 1: understand the value of you know, because understanding the value
Speaker 1: of who certain people are. Also, sometimes people try to
Speaker 1: not give you your value of what you're worth, and
Speaker 1: the co will fight for that for you and be like, well,
Speaker 1: this person gets this, but this person deserves to have X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z. Well, I don't know if you know
Speaker 1: their number. It's like, it's nice to have people speak
Speaker 1: for you even when you're not in the room that
Speaker 1: can really advocate for you.
Speaker 3: And that think how much time we spend as entrepreneurs
Speaker 3: trying to meet that person or trying to get to
Speaker 3: that person the phone calls, the emails.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why people like your tickets are so cheap
Speaker 4: one hundred dollars to meet a CEO.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I'm keeping it that way. They're going
Speaker 5: up the right, they're going up. But it's the facult
Speaker 5: you said, it's cutting off the red tape. It's I
Speaker 5: call it the cheek call.
Speaker 4: You're in the room with the decision makers that offer
Speaker 4: you opportunities, and Angel's right, I do fight for my people,
Speaker 4: like I say, like, well, this is her value.
Speaker 5: I'm yes, fighting for stagey too.
Speaker 4: But pay people there will pay people their value because
Speaker 4: people work hard, right, and don't try to discount somebody
Speaker 4: or because they're my friend.
Speaker 5: No, this is what she charges, this is what her prices,
Speaker 5: this is what she deserves.
Speaker 1: So just like the budget needs to says, she was
Speaker 1: talking about that and working with different corporations and saying,
Speaker 1: this is what my price is, because a lot of
Speaker 1: times people do try to low boil you or do
Speaker 1: try to say, oh, everybody's line is that, well, we
Speaker 1: don't really have a budget right now, but we don't
Speaker 1: have X, Y and Z right now. If you know
Speaker 1: somebody's price is their price, you know she's not.
Speaker 3: And she always really leans in, don't be afraid to
Speaker 3: say no.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, cheese prices.
Speaker 4: And when I tell you this is the highest pace mere,
Speaker 4: his prices is like seven figure.
Speaker 5: It's high, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, whoa, okay, but it's worth it, Like I know
Speaker 4: it's his work. He's literally changing impacting lives. So I
Speaker 4: think that's the well congratulation.
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Speaker 2: Yes, she's she's had this in her mind for a
Speaker 2: while a while.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right right, I connect.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. We appreciate you and we
Speaker 2: honor you.
Speaker 1: You know, anytime you call me, it may take me
Speaker 1: a moment, but when I get back, it's always a yes,
Speaker 1: and it's always I.
Speaker 5: Have can track my friend down. I'm like, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Calling me, like ten oh two. I'm like, girl, I'm
Speaker 2: on the air.
Speaker 5: Call her opportunity. I'll call her opportunity. I'll call it.
Speaker 5: Was like, how could I help you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always good.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5: Happy Wealth Wednesdays Wednesday. Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 4: Blessed for the friendship Angela and Stacy a person my
Speaker 4: new friend.
Speaker 5: And shout out to my girl Ebney.
Speaker 4: She's in the corner over there, but she flew in
Speaker 4: to support me and she's a part of my team.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Ebony. Yes, I have an amazing to get around.
Speaker 2: I feel good.
Speaker 4: Yes, she comes with she works. She comes just like yeah,
Speaker 4: you walk and you see Ebne, you like, I feel like.
Speaker 5: I could do anything. Like she's the best energy person
Speaker 5: to have around you.
Speaker 4: And I would say gold people that celebrate you, and
Speaker 4: she celebrates me in the company.
Speaker 3: So thank you for celebrating our community and doing what
Speaker 3: you do.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: It's way up. It's a wealth Wednesday.