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Speaker 1: that app is and why it's so important? Yes? So

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Speaker 1: could there is a free mobile application for students. We

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Speaker 1: were really struck by the high mobile usage we all

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Speaker 1: see use teenagers and really everyone who are just glued

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Speaker 1: to their phones. And instead of making smartphones this forbidden

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Speaker 1: fruit that makes kids even want to use it more,

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Speaker 1: we said, why not focus on some mindful consumption rather

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Speaker 1: than mind lift. The students get rewarded for kindness but habits,

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Speaker 1: their grades and attendance with the currency that they could

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Speaker 1: use to go shopping. Now, now that sounds really clean

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Speaker 1: for you. Can you break it down a little bit

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Speaker 1: more when you say being rewarded? Okay, they were a

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Speaker 1: great attendance. And how do they participate with this app? Yes?

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Speaker 1: So students can all have the app. You just have

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Speaker 1: to be thirteen years or older to use it. We

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Speaker 1: have all the way up to college users and adult

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Speaker 1: learners too. They downloaded at an Apple App Store, Google

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Speaker 1: Play Store. They start earning right away. You get one

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Speaker 1: hundred could do cash just for signing up, and you

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Speaker 1: use these points that we call could do cash for

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Speaker 1: rewards like gift cards. We have scholarship information as well.

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Speaker 1: As once in a lifetime experiences like uh, celebrity meet

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Speaker 1: and Greece and corporate tours. Okay, how did this idea?

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Speaker 1: Because everybody has a good idea for that, because when

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Speaker 1: I met you, um, Dennis brownly introduced me to you,

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Speaker 1: UM a good friend of mine in New York City,

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Speaker 1: you guys would probably I think about it, two hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty five thousand people that participants. Where are you

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Speaker 1: at on that number now? Yeah, so we are a

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Speaker 1: little over half a million students and we are in

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Speaker 1: all fifty states. So we're really excited about that growth.

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Speaker 1: And I saw you. I saw you early in the

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Speaker 1: game for sure. Early in the game, I'm going like,

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Speaker 1: it's the problem out with your logan. You're just gonna

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Speaker 1: throw out that half million. I heard you pause too,

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Speaker 1: I'm about to tell him something you actually like, stop

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Speaker 1: back and got over half You said five hundred thousand,

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Speaker 1: you know, because everybody don't know. But when you used

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Speaker 1: were a half million, that's a whole bigger word. But

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Speaker 1: so how do you grow from the number I met

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Speaker 1: you at and you were growing fast then to the

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Speaker 1: number now? And how do you continue to funding? And

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that. Why were you are at software

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Speaker 1: soft by Software. I know what i'mnna tell you why

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Speaker 1: I got you on the car. First of all, to

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Speaker 1: promote your brand. Okay, First of all, you're a young entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: You're at millennial age group that is so popular, you know,

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Speaker 1: sol entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs, it's the dominant group to say, look,

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Speaker 1: I have a vision, I want to explore it. I

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Speaker 1: want to work for myself. That's who you are. That's

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Speaker 1: the person I met, that's the person I admire. So

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Speaker 1: just with this app, how did he get started? How

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Speaker 1: did it? How did this idea go from I got

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Speaker 1: this idea to actual application? Well, thank you. Definitely started

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Speaker 1: with the idea originally from my co founder, Trevor. He

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Speaker 1: got paid for grades growing up. His parents paid him

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Speaker 1: for aids, paid him for these, made him pay them

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Speaker 1: for Caesar below, which is kind of funny. We don't

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Speaker 1: follow that model, although I think our revenue would look

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Speaker 1: a lot better if kids were paying us for Teaser below. However,

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Speaker 1: Trevor's backgrounds and sociology, so he had this great idea

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Speaker 1: to say, why not reward kids for grades? Uh? And

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Speaker 1: it struck me and he wound up going to Princeton,

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Speaker 1: and he said, the kids that he grew up with

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Speaker 1: in the Chicago South Side where just a smart, if

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Speaker 1: not smarter than him and his peers. And he wondered

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Speaker 1: why he got the opportunity when they didn't. So we

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Speaker 1: met in my backgrounds in finance as well as international business,

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Speaker 1: and I wrote a the business model for it. So

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Speaker 1: it was a great Where did you go to school there?

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Speaker 1: Florida International down in Miami? Okay? Cool? Okay? So how

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Speaker 1: did you got to get this journey together? So he's

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Speaker 1: at Princeton, That's where you went to school. You far

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Speaker 1: to International, He's from Chicago, You're from where Philadelphia? You

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Speaker 1: guys all over the East Coast, Midwest, you know, down

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Speaker 1: in Florida going to school. He up there at Princeton.

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Speaker 1: So how did you guys connect to be able to

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Speaker 1: start this very innovative app called kold Zoo. I love

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Speaker 1: this how this story because we here constantly, especially in entrepreneurship,

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Speaker 1: how important it is defined equality co founder and a

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Speaker 1: lot of the times perfectionism leads to procrastination. Here people

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Speaker 1: are constantly looking for that co founder. Trevor and I

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Speaker 1: met at a Phillies game that neither of us wanted

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Speaker 1: to be at We're not big baseball fans, but um

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Speaker 1: mutual friends introduced us. Trevor told me about this idea.

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Speaker 1: We stayed in touch via just social media Facebook, and

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Speaker 1: then he told me about this idea of studying for

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Speaker 1: my masters and the counting, which feels like another life ago.

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Speaker 1: And then I wrote up the business model and we

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Speaker 1: started to say, okay, well this gets traction. Let's see

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Speaker 1: if there's some stickiness. And we piloted with local schools

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Speaker 1: who are using alpha numeric codes for the rewards. We

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Speaker 1: kept it simple, um, not because we were that smart,

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Speaker 1: but we were just that broke, being college students or

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Speaker 1: recent grads. And then once it started to pick up traction,

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Speaker 1: we wound up bringing in investment and doing pitch competitions

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Speaker 1: and grew from there. Wow, that sounds like something that

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Speaker 1: you really like. You said. They used their words granular.

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Speaker 1: You really get really authentic with who you because you

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Speaker 1: said some key things like stem also being able to

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Speaker 1: identify specifically who that who that potential person who wants

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Speaker 1: to get engaged with that particular product is involved. So

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Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a business side, there is a

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Speaker 1: motivational side, and there is an engagement side that you're

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Speaker 1: offering with Kodzoo. Correct, correct, definitely cool. I'm on the

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Speaker 1: phone with the CEO of kod Zoo as an apter ocasion.

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Speaker 1: Just an app, A very popular app. Over five hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand or a half million students on the platform and

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Speaker 1: it's over in over fourty six thousand schools. Logan, I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you for calling my show, and I

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Speaker 1: really I admire what you're doing you. I'm a fan,

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Speaker 1: so when they find I will be. I had my

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Speaker 1: staff contacting you because I want to get a media

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Speaker 1: kid from you, a sponsor media kid, so we can

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Speaker 1: move forward. Okay, already fantastic, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: the opportunity, and we will talk soon. Already just money

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Speaker 1: making conversations. We'll be back with more. Um, We're always

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Speaker 1: back with more. That's what we gotta do. I also

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Speaker 1: to talking about my neck. I got a sponsor. I

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Speaker 1: got a show sponsor. I'll be talking about that sponsor

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Speaker 1: in our next break. Thank you Logan for calling my show.

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Speaker 1: Money making conversations. Will be right back. Keep winning, y'all,

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making Conversation, Terry Dennison, Well, ballroom dance,

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Speaker 1: me to kind of take on a different persona right, right, right,

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Speaker 1: I didn't getting twirled around and all that. Well, first

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Speaker 1: he's the ball absolutely, So how did you get started

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Speaker 1: in that? I really, I really want people to know

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Speaker 1: that balance is important, because my balance now is baking.

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Speaker 1: You know, I love the bake. I'm a baking app

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Speaker 1: I'd like to take some sauce of lessons, maybe the

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Speaker 1: little ballroom. She happened to know somebody at the time

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Speaker 1: who that did that, so they she connected us and

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Speaker 1: that's how I got started. Awesome. Congratulations, believe me. I'll

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Speaker 1: say now, travel, what just tell me about the travel

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Speaker 1: part of your balanced life. Well, I have gone several

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Speaker 1: places in Europe and in the Caribbean. UM I hope

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Speaker 1: too in the next year or so to start traveling,

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Speaker 1: maybe to some of the other continents in South America Africa.

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Speaker 1: I went to South Africa. Gotta go Johannesburg, Durban. It's

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Speaker 1: on my list. Uh, it's it's you know. The interesting

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Speaker 1: thing about travel is that it's because we are only

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Speaker 1: told what we you know, TIV you can only give

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Speaker 1: you a certain amount of information and depend on what

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Speaker 1: Charnel you watch or what or what you can on

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Speaker 1: to be you could be slanted. I was. My eyes

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Speaker 1: were so open when I went to h Johannesburg and

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Speaker 1: Durban because I really didn't think the technology was there.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying that, I'm I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that because I'm being insulting. I just didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: It was like I was landing in Atlanta, Georgia. It

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Speaker 1: was like I was landing in Chicago. I did not

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Speaker 1: expect that because we was doing a live broadcast there

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Speaker 1: of the Morning Show, and I was worried the technology

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Speaker 1: would not be available to be able to do a

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Speaker 1: broadcast back to the United States. And I was totally wrong.

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Speaker 1: I was totally wrong. And so that's why travel ballroom

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Speaker 1: dancing ladies and gentlemen. Rushan mcgonald is recommending to you

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Speaker 1: find something else besides going to work eight or going

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Speaker 1: to work seven days a week or entrepreneur, you know

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Speaker 1: you want to be successful, but you also want to

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Speaker 1: have a balanced life. Now, let's get to the s

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Speaker 1: b A. What exactly is the SBA, Terry sb A

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Speaker 1: of course as the US Small Business Administration, and we're

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Speaker 1: a federal government agency and our mission is to support

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Speaker 1: the U. S economy through fostering the growth and creation

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Speaker 1: of small businesses. How that sounds really good? You've been

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Speaker 1: doing this since two thousand two, okay, in the state

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Speaker 1: of Georgia. Okay, I'm a young guy. I got an

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Speaker 1: idea for a business. Should I just come to you first?

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Speaker 1: Or that's too early in the game that you don't

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Speaker 1: want to hear me coming in the pitching ide business ideas? Right?

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Speaker 1: How how did I come to you, meaning the s

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Speaker 1: b A with my entrepreneur my small business idea. There's

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Speaker 1: a couple of ways. First, you can, of course, go

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Speaker 1: to our website, which is uh SBA dot gov here

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Speaker 1: in Georgia. It's for its last g A to see

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Speaker 1: specifically what we have going on in terms of training

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Speaker 1: and counseling resources. What we will normally advise people to

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Speaker 1: do is to go to one of our resource partners

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Speaker 1: such as SCORE, which is our volunteer partner organization. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about SCORE, because SCORE is experience. There's just

689
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Speaker 1: like a many people have been in business or former

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Speaker 1: small business owners, retired people who want to mentor you correct, correct, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's just let's expand on that, because what I want

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Speaker 1: to do. First of all, I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: for coming on my show. I feel that I established

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Speaker 1: this relationship in Houston, Texas, with with Tim and the

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Speaker 1: SBA in the state of Texas, and I feel it's

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Speaker 1: important because a lot of people miss out because they

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Speaker 1: don't know, and I didn't know, and I actually I

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Speaker 1: thought I knew about the s b A when I

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Speaker 1: opened my comedy club back inwo I went to the

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Speaker 1: SBA in Houston, Texas, but I didn't even take advantage

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Speaker 1: of the loan opportunity, of the mentoring opportunity. I just

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Speaker 1: went in got what I needed. And I should have

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Speaker 1: stayed and allowed these people to probably help me get

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Speaker 1: over some pumps I shouldn't have been getting over and

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Speaker 1: probably have smoothed my transition to a much more successful plan.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I wasn't successful, but I was

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Speaker 1: learning the jaw a lot more than I should have been.

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Speaker 1: So with that being said, Score, how does that help

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Speaker 1: me as a young as A as A as A

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Speaker 1: as a an established business or our startup? What SCORE

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Speaker 1: works with both startup and established? Uh? They are existing

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Speaker 1: business owners as well as business owners, and they have

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Speaker 1: that wealth of real world, firsthand experience on what it

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Speaker 1: takes to grow, to start and grow the business. They

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Speaker 1: can be that objective extra pair of eyes and ears

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Speaker 1: uh too as you share your ideal what it is

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Speaker 1: you want to do, to see if that's feasible. Okay, cool.

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Speaker 1: Now with that being said, I you know my whole thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm African American and I always try to because we

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Speaker 1: are always the underserved community, the last to get information

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Speaker 1: or just ignore the information. And so is that true

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Speaker 1: in the case of the SPA, that that that more

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Speaker 1: African American and more minority and more people of colors

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Speaker 1: should be taking advantage of the services. Well, I definitely,

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Speaker 1: and I think we've done. We've made a lot of

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Speaker 1: roads in roads over the last couple of decades and

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Speaker 1: trying to hit all the segments of the small business community. Okay,

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Speaker 1: because women are definitely the growing small business the entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: The female populations is like exploding right now. Cou in

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Speaker 1: fact here at Georgia. I think Georgia is like the

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Speaker 1: fourth of fifth fastest growing women business population. That's important,

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Speaker 1: and that's important. Why is that? Why Why would you

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Speaker 1: say that it's just it's just a level of independence

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Speaker 1: now or just a just a just a curiosity saying

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Speaker 1: we can do it, and we can we can make

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Speaker 1: it happen. Well, I think it's a matter of because

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Speaker 1: like you you, like you mentioned, it's because women accepted

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Speaker 1: and embracing the fact that this is an option for

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Speaker 1: them and they're you know, taking advantage of that. He's interesting.

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Speaker 1: An interesting fact that I got to say about the

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Speaker 1: from the s b A puts our Office of Advocacy,

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Speaker 1: the about businesses fail or closed before their fifth year.

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Speaker 1: Only about a third make it to ten years. What

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Speaker 1: do you see as some of the common factors behind

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Speaker 1: these stats? That's that's that's that's pretty scary. I think

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Speaker 1: some of it is, Like I mentioned earlier, the concept

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Speaker 1: itself in the beginning was not feasible. A lot of

748
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Speaker 1: times people kind of set their business in motion like

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Speaker 1: an old fashioned top. For those of us who remember

750
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Speaker 1: to pull, pull the string and just let it go,

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Speaker 1: and we don't go back to tend to the idea

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Speaker 1: and see how the market has evolved and changed, how

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Speaker 1: the competitors, what they're doing, What are some of the

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Speaker 1: industry changes that impact that business. And so what happened

755
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Speaker 1: is you slowly by slowly, slow and slowly, bit by

756
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Speaker 1: bit become uh obsolete without even necessarily knowing until it's

757
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: too late. Also keeping too narrow. And I say that

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Speaker 1: because here's the deal. If you're gonna open the business,

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00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: I understand you need parking. Okay, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: forget that. They did. They think it didn't open that

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Speaker 1: people can park anywhere. Guess what other people are competing

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Speaker 1: for those same spaces. And so when I that was

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Speaker 1: one of the main things I want to make sure

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Speaker 1: people understand. But it's secondly that the SBA has a

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Speaker 1: friendly face, and then they want to help. They want

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Speaker 1: you to win. There are no gimmicks down there, your

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Speaker 1: that they they understand that, they believe that. And I

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Speaker 1: just want to be one of the vorces that continue

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Speaker 1: to push the word out and let's say every three March.

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Speaker 1: If you have time, come on my show. So we

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Speaker 1: keep putting it that maybe you can show me how

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Speaker 1: to start a couple of little ballroom dancing steps. But

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Speaker 1: other than that, we're gonna dance our way to the

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Speaker 1: S B A and we're gonna party, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get some loans, we're gonna get some information, gonna meet

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Speaker 1: for the score, and we're gonna win. Terry, thank you

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Speaker 1: It becomes your motivation most of the time when you

850
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:40,479
Speaker 1: don't have motivation surrounding you, So you gotta you gotta

851
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: keep dreaming no matter what. But the other thing, too,

852
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: is you gotta plan. And that's one of the things

853
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: that you know, you taught me years for years. You know,

854
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,280
Speaker 1: you've got to plan for your success. It's not enough

855
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: to say I want, I want, I want. There are

856
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: a lot of people who want it to be. Let's

857
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: to say, as good as Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant

858
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: or Lebron James, but they wanted but didn't have the

859
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: desire and the inner strength to do something about it.

860
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: You don't become a Michael Jordan's without spending five hours

861
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: a day on a basketball court, just don't. You don't

862
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: become a Serena or a Venus without spending five days

863
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: on a tennis court. So if you're talking about business,

864
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: you don't become a Rashawn McDonald's, Steve Harvey and Oprah Winfrey,

865
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry without investigating and investing in yourself that's important.

866
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: So so when she comes to you because you a

867
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Speaker 1: little bit, like I was sing, a single daughter. She's

868
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: in college, I think two years older than your daughter,

869
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: and so I'm I'm famous behind the camera, you're visually famous.

870
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: How does that affect your decision making when you comes

871
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: to raising your child and also your decision making in general,

872
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: because you know, people can see you going a restaurant,

873
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: they can see you go in this particular story, they

874
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: can see the type of clothes that you wear. Does

875
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 1: that does that impact what you do in everyday life? Well,

876
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: it always has, even before the Grammys, even before all

877
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: of the accolades, because I was raised by parents who

878
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: said that your behavior will tell the world exactly who

879
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: you are, right, and so we should say that. Give

880
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: people a little bit background when you say your your

881
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: the church, let's go and go back to the church,

882
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: when you were saying, well, before I go to the church. Parents,

883
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: because my mother, my father, my grandmother, grandfather's uh, they

884
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: all instilled certain values in us. Number one, we we

885
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: are the best there is, but we're not better than

886
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: anybody else. And when I say that, it's you know,

887
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: you don't put your nose down on anyone, whether it's

888
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: the janitor or the CEO, because one day the janitor

889
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: may turn into the CEO. So you you respect and

890
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: love people. So that's why it's not hard for me

891
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: to hug folks when they come up to me. And

892
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: so what my mother and my father taught us is

893
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: that when you when you desire to do something, do

894
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: it the best of your ability. If you can't do

895
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: any better than you've done, then hey, that's okay. But

896
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: if you have better in you, you better do it,

897
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: and you better represent this house. And when you walk

898
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: outside this house, you better look like you're an atom.

899
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: You better sound like you're an atom, and you better

900
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: act like you're in if you don't. If you don't,

901
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear from us when you come when you

902
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 1: come home. So it started when I was a kid.

903
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: You know the way I present myself. Never go into

904
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: an environment without knowing what environment I'm walking into. I

905
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 1: never go into a room of amazing people without knowing

906
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: what those accomplishments of those amazing people. And it just

907
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: comes from that. My dad was an entrepreneur himself, while

908
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: he was coaching, while he was teaching history, while he

909
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: was doing all of that while he was getting his

910
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: master's with having five kids. You know, you it's there's

911
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: just this level of achievement that's in us. It's in eight.

912
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: So if I if I you know, if I walk

913
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: into a room and I'm like and I looked all down,

914
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: like I'm not expected to be there. You know, when

915
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: I walk into a room, I expect people to gravitate

916
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Speaker 1: towards me. Not because I'm Alonda Adams, a gospel artist,

917
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,919
Speaker 1: but because I'm Alonda Adams a humanitarian. Wow. Now here's

918
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: there's the interesting thing about your land the Aldam I'm

919
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: going back to Elonda album the Gospel Artist before we

920
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: get to humanitarian. Okay, because you know Michael Jordan when

921
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: he goes on the basketball court, you know he just

922
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: looked at everybody, go you know, I'm Michael Jordan's Now

923
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: you're on American Island. You know, just just you lock down.

924
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: This is just your arena, this is your room. How

925
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: do you feel because you know you can blow, you know,

926
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: you get carried up to the next level of them

927
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: notes As far as confidence, how did you balance that

928
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: You're knowing that you've God has given you and blessed

929
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: you with an incredible singing ability. But it has to

930
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: be a certain a motel. I don't want to say arrogance,

931
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: but confidence when you walk out there, you have to

932
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: have confidence and arrogance are two different things. Confidence is

933
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,399
Speaker 1: knowing that you have prepared yourself for the journey, You've

934
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: prepared yourself for the assignment, you are prepared for television, radio,

935
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Arrogance is I got this by myself.

936
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Speaker 1: So you've got to differentiate between the two. And you know,

937
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: sometimes people may see your confidence as arrogance because they

938
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: don't know the difference between the two. Well, I definitely

939
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: know the difference. I definitely understand that at times, you know,

940
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: you don't want to brag, no, not at all. You

941
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: just let your you let your talent and uh, you know,

942
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: and what is on the inside of you just shine

943
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: through and nobody can ever doubt talent. That's true. That's

944
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: true to say that, because every time I see you,

945
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: whether it was a celebration or gospel, like on the

946
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: American Ice started doing the singing the national anthem, I

947
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: just go, she knows she could, she know she can blow.

948
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: You know. It's just like when I see Lebron Jay,

949
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: I know lebron Ja. He's the best basketball player on

950
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: the court, and so he doesn't he doesn't have to

951
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: say it, but I know, Wow, that's the guy I

952
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: want on my team. And so if I'm putting together

953
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: a singing squaw, a singing squaw, you know, and you

954
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: know you want to pick a basketball team, you go,

955
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: I want I want that, dude, I want her. I

956
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: want here. You know, you know she first come over

957
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: trying to do that because the acknowledgement of what you

958
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: do is so incredible, and you don't get these accolades,

959
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: these accords because of the fact that you are people

960
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: just like you. It's because it's a competitive world. And

961
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: sometimes I have to that back when you're mentioned five Grammys,

962
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta we kind of forget, and I

963
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: I felt I became a victim of that too, because

964
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: your past, if what makes your presence and will will

965
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: dictate your future definitely, if you forget that success, are

966
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: you just kind of like humble enough to say, you

967
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: know it was are the blessings And I'm respectful for

968
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: those moments. I was just letting you know, in this

969
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: first break, I want to just talk about a lot

970
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: of Adams and then pack you did you did you

971
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: have on the community and let people here that that

972
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: school teacher that's in that natural school teacher in your

973
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know the educational side of

974
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,320
Speaker 1: you that has benefited so many people, not only on stage,

975
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: but also, like you said, the humanitarian side of you.

976
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,240
Speaker 1: Now let me this. How does want to purchase your products?

977
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: We're talking about the coffee and we're talking about that's

978
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: wake up with you land the right. Yes, well you

979
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: can go to the Landa Adams Live dot com and

980
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: that will send you everywhere. We are about to do

981
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 1: a big, big push on Amazon within the next within

982
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: the next three weeks. Yeah, we're gonna have commercials. We're

983
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,439
Speaker 1: gonna have all kinds of stuff, and also you're gonna

984
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: be able to purchase everything from the skincare to the

985
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: coffee to the handbag line. I mean, we have, we are.

986
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: We're just so excited. You know, God never puts people

987
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,240
Speaker 1: in your path for you not to learn something from them.

988
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: I've learned so much from you about not giving up

989
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: just because one door closed. There you go, there you go. Now,

990
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,359
Speaker 1: let's tell you something. I want to thank you for that.

991
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: And I wonder I appreciate it because of the fact

992
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: that I always believe that if you have a plan

993
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: and you do it consistently, then then everybody will understand

994
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: that you live, you walk a different path. I see.

995
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: The inconsistency is when people will say you're done, I'll

996
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: say that you, oh, you're not ahead of the curve anymore.

997
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: When I see you on the American Island, I go,

998
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: that's my girl. Yeah, because that's a brand bill, that's WHOA,

999
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: that's your lot. Because you got to stay out there

1000
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: in the front, in front of the ignorance. I always

1001
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: say my staff away, you want to stay ahead of

1002
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: the ignorance. You stay ahead of the ignorance. Guess what

1003
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 1: ignorance will recognize you and tell you that you're you're

1004
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: you're a champion, that you really are. And when I

1005
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: think about what you're doing with this, you gotta make

1006
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: sure I'm a part of the Amazon launch. That's what

1007
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 1: relationships are about. Don't don't don't let me slip past

1008
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: this and like, have me a commercial or put it

1009
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: in because I got I got a little fan club

1010
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: now two and forty thou members. I will send it out.

1011
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: I will send out your notice to say click here

1012
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: and buy, you know, put on social media money making

1013
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: conversation platform. That that's what this show is all about.

1014
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: Conversation is about giving friends, family, mentor Ritise the opportunity

1015
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: to come on my show and a lot of their

1016
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: brand to be shopped, talked about, discussed, and also give

1017
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: the information to other people that they can win too.

1018
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: That's the big is the key right there. My succes

1019
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 1: sess is not just for me and Taylor or my family.

1020
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: My success is for that young man or that young

1021
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: lady who says I don't know if I can do this.

1022
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: My success is for someone who has been trying for

1023
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: years and they're saying, well, you know, I know this

1024
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: idea is great, but nobody's listening to me. I gave

1025
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: an interview to Black Enterprise last year and I said,

1026
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 1: I have the privilege because some people would see it

1027
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 1: as a downfall or as you know, a you know

1028
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: something that that's like an obstacle. But I had the

1029
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: privilege of being told no at least four times. And

1030
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: the thing about no is that it's not permanent. No

1031
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,919
Speaker 1: just indicates that that person or that company or that

1032
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: bank or that uh financial person is not the person

1033
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be in relationship with you, because you

1034
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: already know money is a relationship and money can change.

1035
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: Money can change people's attitudes towards you. Well, all is

1036
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: that your London Live dot com go there? Three weeks.

1037
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: Three weeks, You're gonna be sending me commercials and I'm

1038
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: gonna put them in my newsletter and I'm gonna send

1039
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: it opecifically for your brand. You know, his family, that's

1040
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: how you treat family. And you tell your daughter a

1041
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:31,479
Speaker 1: shout out or how University campus, all of how University people,

1042
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: you know, she's uh you graduate of Texas University, correct,

1043
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: HBCU school. She's a legend graduate and I did my

1044
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: did my master's study at Howard University. That word team.

1045
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: I want to thank you Linda Adams for being on

1046
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,479
Speaker 1: my show. She's a friend, she's a family member. She's

1047
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,440
Speaker 1: one of the greatest gospel singers of all time. Thank you.

1048
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: Please listen and understand that I'm beyond your contact our

1049
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: attorney Riganderson give me that information. Okay is the best.

1050
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Speaker 1: As hosts of money making Conversations, Rashan McDonald is uniquely

1051
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1052
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Speaker 1: blueprint that drives listeners to realize their dreams and aspirations.

1053
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