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Speaker 1: of exponential living is so important. Awesome, Now, that was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Now let me share my little bit of story because

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Speaker 1: it's very similar to that, because in ninety four, you know,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I was on ABC's Me and the Boys.

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Speaker 1: Um show was a hit on ABC, but ABC counseled

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Speaker 1: the show. And so I always tell people that Robert

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Speaker 1: Townsend rescued my writing career and brought me on parenthood

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Speaker 1: and that enabled me to become an independent writer. Steve

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Speaker 1: brought me into television as a sitcom writer. But Robert

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Speaker 1: Townsend saved my career because he gave me a allowed

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Speaker 1: me to diversify. I wasn't under Steve's my brother, very

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Speaker 1: similar to what you just said with us. Now what

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Speaker 1: Steve came back on TV with Steve Harvey Show. That

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Speaker 1: was a tough decision for me to make. Do I

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Speaker 1: stay independent and try to build my resume and try

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Speaker 1: to build my resume this is important, or go back

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Speaker 1: under the Steve Harvey umbrella, which had been my only credit.

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Speaker 1: And that decision I made was to say, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: trust rou Sean McDonald just like you went, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: trust Sherry Riley. I'm gonna go out there and you go,

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Speaker 1: who showing your podcast yourself hundreds of hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 1: of dollars. Yeah, but I also wanted to build a brand,

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Speaker 1: and even back then when the word brand wasn't being

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Speaker 1: thrown out there, you understood that you had to you

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Speaker 1: had to build who you were first. And by building

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Speaker 1: who you were first, there's a high level of respect

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Speaker 1: in your relationship, which is gonna carry a lot further.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with Steve. Then, many years later, two thousand

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Speaker 1: and I started managing him and the rest is history.

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Speaker 1: But I started managing him because he saw the work

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Speaker 1: that I had accomplished without him. That's why sometimes you

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Speaker 1: gotta say no before you say yes. If you got

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Speaker 1: to step away in order to get the respect act.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at my resume and I'm able

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Speaker 1: to step away from him, now you look at my resume.

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Speaker 1: A body of work is not just a body of

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Speaker 1: worker just Steve Harvey. It's a body where it's a career.

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Speaker 1: And so when I look at Sherry's career, while I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to have on the show, her body of work

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Speaker 1: is a career. You know, when you start ludicrous, Will Packer,

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Speaker 1: Boris Kojo, Eric Parker, you know there are different The

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee first round draft pick. Come on now, came

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Speaker 1: from Buffalo all the way down to Atlanta to catch them.

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Speaker 1: Rise up. That's not people on your resume. That's just

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Speaker 1: a few of those people on your resume. That's why

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Speaker 1: I know it's important that we keep building this relationship

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Speaker 1: like that. Yes, And and that was so she you know,

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Speaker 1: on the back end, because I should try for five

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Speaker 1: years for me to still work with him, and he

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Speaker 1: finally one day, he finally got it, and it was

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Speaker 1: probably ten years later, and it was just what you said.

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Speaker 1: He was like, Sherry, the one of the reasons I

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Speaker 1: have so much respects to you beyond just our personal

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Speaker 1: relationship is exactly what he said. He was like, you

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Speaker 1: have never stood on my name to accomplish anything. He

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Speaker 1: was like, and you, of all people could, He was like,

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Speaker 1: you're the one person could, he said, but you never had.

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Speaker 1: And he was able to see the work that I

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Speaker 1: put into just being a woman of integrity. And that

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Speaker 1: was what was so key for me, is I really

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Speaker 1: wanted to always end this, you know, extremely challenging entertainment

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Speaker 1: industry to always stand for integrity. And that's why something

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Speaker 1: you said at the very beginning of this call means

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Speaker 1: everything to me. And you said your body of work

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Speaker 1: truly represents who you are, and that Rashaant, that was

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Speaker 1: what I committed to just being. You know, like I

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Speaker 1: said with my dad and his impact is in this

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Speaker 1: entertainment industry. I always wanted my integrity to walk in

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Speaker 1: the door before I did, and my body of work

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Speaker 1: to then represent that. And so thank you for that,

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Speaker 1: because you're not even knowing it said something so powerful

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Speaker 1: for me, and I appreciate that. I appreciate you, and

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Speaker 1: that's why I read your body of work because you're

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Speaker 1: more than the introl your body of work. And when

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Speaker 1: you're striving to let people understand why this this young

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Speaker 1: lady talking to me, Why Sean McDonald have on the

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Speaker 1: show because of our body of work, a lot is

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Speaker 1: effected me. It is a body of work that I

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Speaker 1: can share a story that is very similar to her change,

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Speaker 1: and that's a lot. You know, when you can start

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Speaker 1: just walking in the room and you affect so many people,

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Speaker 1: that means that when you're communicating with people, you have

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Speaker 1: an open understanding of how they can be successful too.

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Speaker 1: That's why I wanted you on the show. Tell people

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Speaker 1: how they can reach out to you to get the

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Speaker 1: Exponential Living book because I'm gonna have you on back

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Speaker 1: on the show to a t And I've already had

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Speaker 1: a side conversation that we're gonna talk during the Christmas break. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that I'm looking so forth to it. I am. My

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Speaker 1: website is sharing Hiley dot com s h E R

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Speaker 1: I R I L E Y. That's also my social

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Speaker 1: media handles Instagram and Twitter, Sherry Wiley dot com. And

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Speaker 1: the book is available everywhere e books, audio books and

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Speaker 1: heart Coovers souls so you can get it on audio

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Speaker 1: And thank you so much. I've definitely appreciated this conversation

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Speaker 1: and looking forward to our faith to face before the

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Speaker 1: top of the year. Right, invite you bry the all

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Speaker 1: see you meet my wife you know, and I bring

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Speaker 1: your husband and we're gonna far just gon be long

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Speaker 1: term sharing. I really appreciate you don't make money to

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Speaker 1: give in, Yes, appreciate you. Thank you for coming on

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Speaker 1: the show. Money Mike conversations. Be right back Leila Lee.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Leila a list. It's the boxers. We had those

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Speaker 1: boxing gluble zone. Leila leaves. Want to make conversation to

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Speaker 1: right back. Rachean McDonald, Hi, ra Sean McDonald. Fack, she's

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Speaker 1: a hole. Let me get right to her. My next

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Speaker 1: guest is a wife, mother, the daughter of the greatest

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Speaker 1: Muhammad Adli. She's also an undefeated world boxing champion and

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Speaker 1: fitness expert, a Cooper author, and the host of Homemade

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Speaker 1: Simple on own network. Please work with the money making

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Speaker 1: conversation later, I'll leave. Hello. How you doing this, Ali?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing wonderful. How are you doing? Or you know,

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Speaker 1: I see you on TV? You stay on TV, which

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Speaker 1: is a good thing, right every time I see Yes

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Speaker 1: said this curious, talented, you have a personality that's so engaging.

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Speaker 1: And so you have this new show and I you know,

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Speaker 1: I went online. I won't watched eight episodes of Wow,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. Yeah, eight episodes and and

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Speaker 1: uh and first of all, before I started just babbling

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Speaker 1: about the show, telling body from your perspective, what is

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Speaker 1: home made Simple? Two? Sisum three work Home Everybody and

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Speaker 1: his word Made Simple, where she's the host and just

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Speaker 1: on the Oprah Winfrey Network, is on Saturday at nine am. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so homemade Temples. The show has actually been on for

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Speaker 1: uh six seasons. This is seven seasons. I'm a new host.

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Speaker 1: Or we do as we go into people's homes. People

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Speaker 1: were very deserving. It's always like a backstory there that

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Speaker 1: we share, uh now with me being the host and

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Speaker 1: I going in with the designer and a carpenter and

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Speaker 1: we make over a room for them, surprising them. And

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Speaker 1: I also get in the kitchen kitchen with them and

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Speaker 1: show them how to cook um some recipes and holes

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Speaker 1: and recipes for their family. So it's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. So the show went from half an hour

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Speaker 1: to an hour, which gives us more time to actually

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Speaker 1: share some of the amazing stories of the cast of

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Speaker 1: the people that are on the show. Okay, as a fan,

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Speaker 1: as a producer, let me tell you what I loved

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Speaker 1: about the show. First of all, you know the show

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Speaker 1: have you crime? In the beginning, you know they set

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Speaker 1: it up by introducing you to the family, the Worthy family,

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Speaker 1: and you know that that approach is really cool because

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Speaker 1: it got me hoo reach on eight episodes well, I

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Speaker 1: guess what, you loved me. You got me hooked. You know,

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Speaker 1: you meet the family. I met the family young lady

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Speaker 1: with the cold cancer. Uh, the made the patio where

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Speaker 1: her husband was dead when they had all the all

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Speaker 1: the set up all those years they've been married forty

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Speaker 1: nine years, you know, he had died. In saw that show.

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Speaker 1: I saw the show where you know, they had the

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Speaker 1: kids and it was homeschool and they had one bathroom

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Speaker 1: and you know, the kitchen table and everything was the same.

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Speaker 1: I met the Bacon Bits, you know, I saw that show,

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Speaker 1: the Bacon Bits, and each one of these episodes, I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it because I was engaged with the whole process.

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Speaker 1: And one of another reason I enjoyed the show, Layla,

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Speaker 1: was the fact that your your designers, I know, Jonathan's

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Speaker 1: I think is consistently on the show, but your designers

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Speaker 1: were different, and it gave I thought a good point

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Speaker 1: of view changed for you and I wasn't looking at

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Speaker 1: the same people all the time. You think that's you

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Speaker 1: think that's a key to to to to the show

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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I definitely think it's nice to switch

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Speaker 1: up the designers because you know, for the viewers, it

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Speaker 1: gives them something different. You don't always know exactly what

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Speaker 1: to expect. You have your few constants that you can

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Speaker 1: depend on, but then something changes, you know, along ways

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Speaker 1: for people whose homes that we're doing, and we have

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Speaker 1: two carpenters, um, Jonathan and James, and you know, so

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Speaker 1: they switched back and forth. But I think it's nice

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Speaker 1: um to have different designers with different styles as well,

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Speaker 1: you know, and master them with the right family so

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Speaker 1: they're actually happy with what they get in the end,

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Speaker 1: you know, you were. I thought it was fun because

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Speaker 1: I felt that you would never you know, not saying

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Speaker 1: you would ever get bored, but it was like there

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Speaker 1: was always a different level of communication with these different designers,

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Speaker 1: and it kept energy up, it kept your curiosity up.

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Speaker 1: And also you can said, you know, I'm sorry, I

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Speaker 1: mean to cut you off now I'm saying, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was just agreeing with you, you you know. For me,

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Speaker 1: uh well, first of all, it was my first season

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Speaker 1: doing the shows. Every time we went to shoot, you know,

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Speaker 1: I said, okay, with want to be like you know,

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Speaker 1: because all the personalities are different, you know, so it

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Speaker 1: makes the show more fun for everybody, I think. And great,

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Speaker 1: now there's a couple of things about yourself, you know

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Speaker 1: in your credit. I wanted to talk about you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, being a fan of yours. I've known you

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Speaker 1: many years. You did the Parkers with me in the

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Speaker 1: episode when you was boxing, and I've always admired your

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Speaker 1: your your professionalism for one, what's always amazing. But when

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Speaker 1: I look at your resume now I was talking about

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Speaker 1: tips or management, managing your time. You want to see

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Speaker 1: the words wife, I see the mom daughter of the

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Speaker 1: greatest fitness expert, cookbook author, host of Homemade Simple. Can

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Speaker 1: we talk about you know, because this show I do

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Speaker 1: money making conversations about getting people tips to the secrets

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Speaker 1: of access and giving them their advice. When you see

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Speaker 1: a person as diverse and multilayered as you, how do

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Speaker 1: you accomplish all these things and basically stay safe? Well?

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Speaker 1: For me, um, you know, it really is about putting

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Speaker 1: your priorities in order. We'll hear that a lot because

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of things that I want to do,

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Speaker 1: and also I also have a podcast, um which I

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Speaker 1: added one more thing was called as you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of work girl. Now you dinner? Can you get

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Speaker 1: on my show? Can you come on my show? Late

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Speaker 1: now you're dealing with trying to book guests, schedule and

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Speaker 1: you know, editing and all this stuff. So then I thought,

643
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Speaker 1: what what have I done? What have I done? Now?

644
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Speaker 1: UM added one more thing. But I think it really

645
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Speaker 1: comes down to putting your priority in order. And for me,

646
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: it really started with UM. And I've been doing this

647
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Speaker 1: was very young, writing out my goals, my short term goals,

648
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: my long term goals, and then from there mapping out

649
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Speaker 1: the plan and how I plan to get there. And

650
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Speaker 1: that gets edited and changed along the way. And you've

651
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: got to have a good team of people around because

652
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: nobody that you see and the public is doing it

653
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: all themselves because it's just simply isn't enough hours in

654
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Speaker 1: the day. Um, And you gotta learn how to delegate,

655
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Speaker 1: you know. So for me, like I said, it started

656
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Speaker 1: with me though, you know, figuring out because I have to.

657
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: You get a lot of offers, you get a lot

658
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: of different opportunities, and I got to say yes to everything.

659
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: You will be all over the place right all right,

660
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: to choose the things that I'm passionate about right when

661
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Speaker 1: the going gets tough, and when the work gets hard,

662
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Speaker 1: I'm passionate enough about it where I'll be willing to

663
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Speaker 1: do the hard work that it takes because it's not easy.

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Speaker 1: You know, it never is. No no days every easy.

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Speaker 1: Every day I wake up, it's kind of like like, oh God,

666
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Speaker 1: how am I gonna get everything done? You know? And

667
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Speaker 1: I usually don't move on to the next day. That's

668
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Speaker 1: just a story in my life. But um, for the

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Speaker 1: most part, like I said, just knowing what I want

670
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Speaker 1: to be passionate about, you know, what my goals are,

671
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: and checking in with that list, you know from time

672
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: to time because you know, sometimes you know, there can

673
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Speaker 1: be confusion and you could be unclear and you gotta

674
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Speaker 1: cut me of things out or at night things and

675
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Speaker 1: you know, and that's how that's how I stay balance.

676
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: Now let me ask you this. Now you added and

677
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Speaker 1: where did your podcast? What exactly is your podcast? We

678
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Speaker 1: kind of brush through that real quick. So and what

679
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Speaker 1: your platform is at all? Is it what My podcast

680
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: is called Layla Ali Lifestyle. It's on podcast one and

681
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: it's it's also available on iTunes. But pretty much I'm

682
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: talking about my like health, wellness, parenting. It's it's a

683
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Speaker 1: holistic wellness, you know, trying to just be um the

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Speaker 1: best that you could possibly be. And it's very broad,

685
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Speaker 1: you know. So I have a lot of just informational

686
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Speaker 1: and inspirational conversations. Um. And so what I say is,

687
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Speaker 1: I'm on my quest to be the best that I

688
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Speaker 1: can be. So I'm taking my listeners along with me,

689
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Speaker 1: so I never come off to be I'm an expert.

690
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Speaker 1: I know everything, you know, I'm learning along the way.

691
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Speaker 1: I know a lot more about certain things and the

692
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Speaker 1: average persons. But you know, it's just a place for

693
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Speaker 1: people to come and share and grow and you know,

694
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Speaker 1: be inspired. And that's important. And when you when you

695
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Speaker 1: say those things about you, because you have to have information.

696
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Speaker 1: The thing I liked about this whole because you have

697
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Speaker 1: a book coming out of a cookbook coming out in January,

698
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: and then the show, this show used to be a

699
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Speaker 1: half hour and naming your cookbook is food for Life.

700
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Speaker 1: That is that when they added the hour, was it

701
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Speaker 1: part of the plan to bring your cooking in And

702
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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna trying I'm trying to get to with

703
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Speaker 1: that part of the plan. They have the book come

704
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Speaker 1: out in January. Because you know you're a planner. I've

705
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Speaker 1: about you. You know your planner. You don't you'll just

706
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Speaker 1: run about accident. Later, you got an accidental person now

707
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Speaker 1: ex playing people. How you put that together? And then

708
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Speaker 1: when we come back from break, we're gonna talk about

709
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Speaker 1: the actual book. But I know you're you're a strategist,

710
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Speaker 1: You're a life strategists, explained people. How that worked out? Well,

711
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Speaker 1: I'm a strategist and my business farmer, and Alobial Garland

712
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Speaker 1: is a strategist. So what happened is I had already

713
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Speaker 1: been working on this book for a while. There you

714
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Speaker 1: go plan. It was already slated to come out in January,

715
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Speaker 1: and I took I took a step back to the

716
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Speaker 1: one time I was hosting my coreter the shows, and

717
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Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I really cannot do the

718
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Speaker 1: things that I want to do that I'm passionate about,

719
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Speaker 1: like a book, while I'm posting all these shows. So

720
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Speaker 1: I cut back on the TV for about eleven months

721
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Speaker 1: focus on getting my book done. And then when I

722
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Speaker 1: was done, I looked at and said, oh God, like

723
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Speaker 1: I need a platform, Like I'm not really you know,

724
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Speaker 1: how am I gonna sell this book? You know, I

725
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: need to get back on TV. And I just had

726
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Speaker 1: a conversation with myself and with God, and I was like, man,

727
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: bring me an opportunity and so crazy. A few days later,

728
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Speaker 1: I get you know, Amber called me and says, you

729
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Speaker 1: know that I got called a call about I possibly

730
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Speaker 1: doing this show, which I wasn't that familiar with, and

731
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Speaker 1: they actually on season on the prior seasons. Even though

732
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Speaker 1: the thirty minute show they had some cooking, it wasn't

733
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Speaker 1: always consistent. I don't think that everything looks show, I'm

734
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Speaker 1: not sure about that, but they had different chefs come in.

735
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Speaker 1: It didn't really fit, you know, they kind of pop

736
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. So when they called me to do

737
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Speaker 1: the show, they weren't even aware that I had a

738
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Speaker 1: so when I was able to tell them, you know,

739
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Speaker 1: they already thought I'd be the perfect tone for them

740
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Speaker 1: exam thing able to tell them she actually cooks and

741
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Speaker 1: she actually has a cookbook, they were like what wow.

742
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Speaker 1: And then of course they gave us the opportunity, which

743
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: was amazing because it's not always that easy to get

744
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: network to let you promote your own personal stuff. Who

745
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Speaker 1: may actually we're willing and appreciative about you know, to um,

746
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry and say they were actually appreciative that I

747
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Speaker 1: have the book and willing to let me promote it.

748
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Speaker 1: So every single episodes and I'm canding my book. I

749
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Speaker 1: know if I do on their website saw the episode,

750
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: I already know. You know what's a business person that's like,

751
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: let's go, even come true, let's go, let's go. We

752
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: come back. We're gonna talk about that book, Food for Life.

753
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: We're talking more about homemade simple, Layla. I'm proud of you.

754
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing my show. We'll be right back

755
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: talk about you know, because you know I could bake Lala.

756
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Speaker 1: I don't know you know about that, but your boy

757
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Speaker 1: is a baker award winning baker. We're gonna come back.

758
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about more. Rashane McDonald late the Greatest, Hi,

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00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: Rashane McDonald. I'm back on the office later, Ali. So yes,

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Speaker 1: she's all the Food for Life, which is coming out

761
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Speaker 1: to Bleak January. Uh, we're hitting bookstores. I'll be one

762
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Speaker 1: day banner from you, Layters, so I can put it

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Speaker 1: on my social media. Eight percent of my social media

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Speaker 1: followers or female, and I'm sure they will be fans

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Speaker 1: of your cooking post baking pictures all the time on

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Speaker 1: my social media, So food is a big thing on

767
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Speaker 1: my social media platform. So please engage yourself in my

768
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: world when that book comes out. Okay, thank you appreciate that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because so tell us about you know, because I've seen

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Speaker 1: you cook on the show, and uh, the thing I

771
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: like about it is that you seem like a natural,

772
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Speaker 1: seem like you're not stumbling around in the kitchen. You know,

773
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Speaker 1: some people can just get out, you know, saying you

774
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Speaker 1: see some of these shows, go you know, you're just

775
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Speaker 1: doing this show because they gave you the job. You got. Look,

776
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 1: you can cook now, you can store out cook because

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Speaker 1: you know you do. You know you're throwing some salt

778
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Speaker 1: in there, so you know you you want to. People

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Speaker 1: don't menasure everything. You just know by Field that's a cook,

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Speaker 1: you know that, right. Yeah. Well the thing is I've

781
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Speaker 1: been cooking since songs about nine. Yeah, you're kind of

782
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Speaker 1: comfortable in the kitchen, you know when you've been cooking

783
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: for that many years. So, yes, definitely that's why I

784
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Speaker 1: was able to go on Shooting Network on Chopped and

785
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: win a couple of times and all that because trust me,

786
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Speaker 1: with the pressure that's on you when you're cooking in

787
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Speaker 1: the cooking competition serious two times, know how to go,

788
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Speaker 1: don't don't don't. Don't. Don't. Let's blow past that so quick.

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Speaker 1: You're a celebrity champ twice, okay, And I know about

790
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: the own competition, so that's not an easy show to win,

791
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Because they put a lot

792
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: of impromptu things, and they also asked you to get

793
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone on certain certain certain episodes

794
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: of cooking things like that you have to and you

795
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: pulled it off twice and that and I definitely out

796
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: of your comfort zone because you don't know what your

797
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Speaker 1: rest with your ingredients are and you're not in your

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Speaker 1: own kitchen, and then there's only a certain amount of

799
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Speaker 1: certain items, so you might have something all planned out

800
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Speaker 1: and then somebody else took something your need and you

801
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: know you gotta do it. You start over that alone.

802
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: It's very mental a lot of people. You gotta be

803
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: mentally strong, can't. You can't just know how to cook

804
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: because all kind of sort of things happen. You know

805
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,439
Speaker 1: that'll throw you off. But it was a lot of fun.

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00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've been cooking for for a long time

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Speaker 1: and the thing is that my cooking has changed over

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Speaker 1: the years, and I think just being an athlete, being

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Speaker 1: a mom and knowing what I know about nutrition, Um,

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Speaker 1: I try to take the foods that I love and

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Speaker 1: other people love and make them healthier. Um, so it's

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Speaker 1: not always you know, chuck me. It's easy. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to just cook with a bunch of butter and a

814
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Speaker 1: bunch of just putting whatever you want the food and

815
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Speaker 1: make it taste, you know. So you know you got

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Speaker 1: to compare well, you know, because you bake, but that

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Speaker 1: different My blood pressure king right here? Girl? Oh lord?

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Speaker 1: You know the thing is I don't bake. That's one

819
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: thing because baking, as you know, is a real science

820
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Speaker 1: to it, and you gotta have your measurements right and

821
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And I taught myself how to cook,

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Speaker 1: so baking, I mean, you could teach yourself how to bake,

823
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Speaker 1: but it's much easier when you have somebody to show

824
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Speaker 1: you some some basics, some basic But yeah, I never

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Speaker 1: and thank god, I don't know how to bake because

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Speaker 1: I love big goods. So if I knew how to bake, boy,

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Speaker 1: I would just be about seven the pounds. Well you know,

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Speaker 1: the brother just tell you. So you know, even like

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Speaker 1: you said, like I use non salt butter, Okay, No,

830
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Speaker 1: salt butter. I used two percent milk, so you know,

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Speaker 1: I tried to put that, but it doesn't even change

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Speaker 1: the taste of the food, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So so so when I hear you joked, I joked earlier,

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Speaker 1: but I also understand what you're saying is that you

835
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Speaker 1: can bake tradition. You can. You know you can. You can.

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Speaker 1: You have to ride out that that you know that

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Speaker 1: old You're gonna die when you forty recipes, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because of the fact that you just

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Speaker 1: piling that greasy and putting that LRD in that and

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Speaker 1: that and that in the greens and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So when you say make it a little bit healthier,

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Speaker 1: like I just gave a couple of examples of two milk,

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Speaker 1: I gave a couple of examples of no salt butter.

844
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Speaker 1: What example of moving your your recipes to a healthier

845
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Speaker 1: foremat but still maintaining the goodness of it and food

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Speaker 1: for Yeah, what I normally do is it's just there's

847
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Speaker 1: just some basic items that are just um things that

848
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Speaker 1: I would stock to pantry with. So I have healthier

849
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Speaker 1: oils that I would cook with. So coconut oil, avocado oil,

850
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: grape seed oil. Um, there's so many different oils that

851
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Speaker 1: you can cook with a high temperature. You can bake

852
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Speaker 1: with them. You know, Coconut oil has a very distinct flavor,

853
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: so it does change the flavor of certain things, so

854
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: some people would not want it. But depending on what

855
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: you're using for your spices or your seasoning, you can

856
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: cover it up and ask it really well. But just

857
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: things like that, Um, different flowers, you know, life flower,

858
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 1: almond flower, coconut flour, you know, Kenois flour, and then

859
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: in theo's ways that you can mix them where you

860
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: can really um, you know, get the textures that you need.

861
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: I add, I do a lot of attitudes like my

862
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 1: kids meals for example, like I'm making spaghetti, um, you know,

863
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: and I'm if I and I if I have you know,

864
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time. I'm not always

865
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: gonna just make my soft fresh. But I can get

866
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: a really good organic sauce and then I can take

867
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: vegetables and roast them really quickly, and then I blend

868
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: them in my blender and then put them into the

869
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: sauce so that the sauce actually has a lot more

870
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: fresh vegetables in it. And I'm talking about like zucchini,

871
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: you know, you're on your cellery, your garlic, all these

872
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 1: things that you know, kids aren't gonna eat. A lot

873
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 1: of they meet the nutrition from it. I don't even

874
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: take ground flax seed and put it in things that

875
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: I do bake and put it in like you can.

876
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: You can put that in your taco meat. They want

877
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 1: it to growth undetected, just to have that extra fiber

878
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: to keep us using the bathroom like we need to,

879
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: so we don't right right. And then I just stay

880
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: away from, you know, if I'm making mac and cheese,

881
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: even though I know some people like to add, you know,

882
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: a can of cheese, soup or things like that, I

883
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 1: try to stay away from, you know, adding canned items

884
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 1: and things with a lot of preservatives in the um.

885
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: So that's all just kind of bringing it back down

886
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: to the basic and focusing on cooking whole foods. And

887
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: you know, but like I said, even something as simple

888
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: as the oils, because a lot of time people don't

889
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: realize the oils will clog up, you know. And that's

890
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: very true. And I think that when I look at

891
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: your book, as she's on the cover, is a beautiful picture.

892
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: She's wearing white. Food for Life is on the top.

893
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: The book comes out of January twenty three. January twenty

894
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: they write that down. The book comes out, and so

895
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 1: can they pre order the book now later? Yeah? The book, Yeah,

896
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: it is available for pre sales, so people can order

897
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 1: it now, but they're not gonna get it until the

898
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 1: twenty three. And how would they go about? What? What? What? What?

899
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: What would they go Amazon? Go to Amazon, go to

900
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: Barnes and Noble, and then you just place your order

901
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: and then it will it'll let you know. And I'm

902
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 1: going to be still I'm putting together a pre sale

903
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: and centers. Okay, people who ordered the book they want

904
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: to send, they'll be sending in their poots to purchase

905
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna provide all the information and I'm gonna

906
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: give them my plan that I'm putting together right now,

907
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: which is going to be like a seven day you know,

908
00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: we book. You are a flad a look after the holidays,

909
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: everybody is ready to get back in order. You're gonna get,

910
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: including myself, resolutions come out. The book to be at

911
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: the top of the line with your resolutions. Now, with

912
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 1: that being said again, when when you get that plan together,

913
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: reach it. Tell your PR people, reach out to my

914
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: PR people so I can support you to my social

915
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: media because I know you know your strategist and you

916
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: don't win by last minute activity. And you noticed the

917
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: person year. This is when you're gonna grab people. When

918
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: people looking for that that opportunity to get their life right.

919
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: Why not Layla? Why not meat? Why a bo my

920
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: food for life? Come on over here, let me help

921
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: you out. So let me be, let me, let me

922
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: champ in your cars on that. Okay, I will definitely

923
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: will appreciate that. No problem I wanted. We're gonna wrap

924
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Speaker 1: this up right quick. I want to let everybody know.

925
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: On the phone. Laila Lee, she's the host of Homemade

926
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: Central Simple. Homemade Simple is on their own. That's the

927
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: Oprah one for network. It comes on Saturday nine am.

928
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: Chall Girl Out is a great show. I've watched eight

929
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: episodes this weekend. I binged eight episodes. It's it's just

930
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: the opening the show when they described the families is

931
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: so engaging. And then when Layla shows up with the

932
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: with the carpenter and the designer is sold and they

933
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: just walked through the whole process because the designer has

934
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: already met with them, so she kind of filling in

935
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: Layla on the experience before Layla gets there's really a

936
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: cool set up. And as a producer, I went, this

937
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,439
Speaker 1: is awesome. And then January just a new book out,

938
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: a cookbook because she won't chop celebrity chop twice twice,

939
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,720
Speaker 1: so she knows what she's doing. She's not just slapping

940
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: her name on a book. If you don't think she

941
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: can cook, watch Homemade Simple. She has show you she

942
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: cooks every Saturday, Food for Life. Layla, thank you for

943
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: calling me a podcast one you can hear show podcast one, Leila, LEI,

944
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 1: thank you for giving me time to let the world

945
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: know how great you are. Thank you so much. I

946
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: appreciate you having me on all of us to use

947
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: as well. And happy holiday every holiday. We talk soon,

948
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:08,959
Speaker 1: okay byeye Okay, thank you? Yeah? Were you there? Cool?

949
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making conversations. I want to say

950
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: hi to my boy mostly Garcia, Susan Johnson, my boy

951
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: r J. Sharon Nicholson as my sister. Everybody mostes you

952
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: should be in l A Man and Susan Johnson. We

953
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: met in Atlanta, briefly during the event you met uh

954
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: Leila Lesh. She is amazing and that book comes out

955
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: June twenty three. Food for Life Again. Watch a show

956
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: Homemade Simple on their own network as Oprah one for

957
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: network every Saturday at nine am. There is one an hour.

958
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: Our next guest is a strong business sense and leadership policies.

959
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: They have led him to become a successful capital investor,

960
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: entrepreneur and the first ever I repeat, the first ever

961
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: African American license medical marijuana cultivation farm and Clark County

962
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: in the valley. Please welcome to Money Make Conversation. Mr

963
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: Larry Smith. Hello, Hello, how are you doing the ball

964
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: you're doing? Larry? Come on, man, I'm gonna tell you something.

965
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 1: You're in a field that just exploding not there. So

966
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: how did they let an African American man get in

967
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: this loop? Because this is a bottle money being made

968
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: over there and everything has been cashed and carried. How

969
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: were you able to get into this area? You got

970
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: a lot of questions last, but I want to get

971
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: that qution off the top. Explain to everyone because you

972
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: have some companies that are some some states like Colorado

973
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: that that that have passed America Medical with marijuana. California's

974
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: another state, and then some states that you can't do it.

975
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: And then you have some athletes if they take it,

976
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: they get bad from the league if they smoke marijuana.

977
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: So you're navigating a real tricky course out there. But

978
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: you're in Nevada. You have a medical marijuana farm. Explain

979
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: to people what exactly is that when you say a

980
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 1: medical marijuana farm. So so, um, first of all, thank

981
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: you for having me on the show. Than you're working

982
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: as a on to be on here, and and uh

983
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: we we we basically filled out the paperwork. Man, we

984
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: want afraid. I mean, they make it seem like it's

985
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: so um, such a big task, and and and don't

986
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: get me wrong, it was. But but we filled out

987
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 1: the paperwork, We had the capital, the funding to do

988
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,919
Speaker 1: it ourselves, and we and we went ahead and put

989
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: it in And and don't be surprised in the next

990
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: three to five years that all fifty states are are

991
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 1: going on that route. I mean, obviously it's a financial

992
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: money maker for the states and the counties and and

993
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: and we're doing well in Las Vegas so far, in

994
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: the in the state of Nevada, so far awesome. I

995
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: know that and I'm gonna just tell you Larry's a

996
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: humble guy when he makes this statement, because it is

997
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: hard because like three years ago, I was approached about

998
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: investing in American medical marijuana process, but Chot pushed me

999
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: away of the fact that you know, banks weren't accepting

1000
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: your money and where you have to make the transactions.

1001
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 1: And it may have changed since then. You can educate

1002
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: me because at the time, you know, banks weren't accepting

1003
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: the money. But if you still don't accept it, okay, cool.

1004
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 1: And so when you made when you went and purchase

1005
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: the marijuana, you had to do it in cash, you know,

1006
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: And so you have to have bodyguards with you to

1007
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 1: protect you because you got all these large sums of

1008
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: money with you. And I was I just felt uncomfortable

1009
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: with that. So with a lifestyle like that, what how

1010
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: how how are you comfortable with that lifestyle with those rules?

1011
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: I feel so severe even though people making money off

1012
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: of it. Well, you know, it's one of those things

1013
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: that like, uh, you know, there's certain things that you

1014
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: just have to be very private about. So we don't

1015
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: we don't carry we don't carry cash on us obviously. Um,

1016
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: and we have a security team I actually hired. The

1017
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: irony about that is that I hired ex Metro police officer,

1018
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: that's right, and he's Wide officers and they kind of

1019
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: they take care of that for us. But so it's

1020
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: a very that's a you know, just like kind of

1021
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,439
Speaker 1: any other company in a certain way, the certain things

1022
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 1: you don't want people to know about. So we just

1023
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: keep we we keep that portion of it very private.

1024
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: On what we do with the funds um. Listen, you

1025
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: know that's once again there's a big stigma. Like listen,

1026
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,240
Speaker 1: cash is um. You know, you can spend your cashes,

1027
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: but the moment be cashing the banks, the banks stopnot

1028
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: your cap okay, don't get you know, but but you

1029
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: know the banks um, obviously they have an issue with it. Now. Um,

1030
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of banks to say, you know that

1031
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: they'll take it and then they then they close you

1032
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: down once you once they realize what's going on. But

1033
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: you know that that's the headache part about this business

1034
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: is that you know that the that you know how

1035
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: to pay your bills. But listen, we go in the

1036
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: Envy Energy and if the bill is seven thousand, we

1037
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: you know, we might take them seven thousand cash and

1038
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: they take it. That's the fun part. And the other

1039
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: irony invited this, and we gonna pay our taxes. We

1040
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: have to take that to the I R S and

1041
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: they take it cash. And when I've seen you know,

1042
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 1: I'm just getting started up, but I've seen companies going

1043
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: there with you know, half a million dollars in tax

1044
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 1: and you can take it. And that's an amazing part

1045
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: of your business. Because I commend you because there's a

1046
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: certain amount of strength and courage because first of all,

1047
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: not everybody is allowed to get into the game, and

1048
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: when you get out of the game, you know, that's

1049
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: a certain way you have to do business, and you

1050
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 1: have to be willing to do the business. And that

1051
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: literally to my first question, tell us about your entrepreneur journey,

1052
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: you know, to where you're at right now, because there's

1053
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: a lot of stuffs of courage they got you here.

1054
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: Just just break down some of the barras that you've

1055
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: had to break down over the years to be able

1056
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 1: to say, hey, I'm one of the few right now,

1057
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: one of the first right now. So so, you know,

1058
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: being in Nevada, um, you know, it's it's uh, it's

1059
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: a very interesting state. Um. You know, you know, you

1060
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,879
Speaker 1: look back at the mob days, everyone thinks that the mob,

1061
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: you know, they were in they ran the uh the casinos,

1062
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: which which back into day they did that control. But

1063
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,959
Speaker 1: there were some other people that I felt like really

1064
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: were in the the mobl I feel like, well, that's

1065
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: the Mormon's right in the mob. Let me you know

1066
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: the casinos back in the day. It's kind of interesting

1067
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: how Nevada's um shape um I was kind of taking force.

1068
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 1: But for me, I started off my entree entree spit

1069
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: very young. I was sixteen years old. I was betting.

1070
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: I was betting sports a sixteen. That was That's the

1071
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: funny thing about I was. I was literally going at lunchtime.

1072
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: I asked some friends, who's who's uh whose father was

1073
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: a professional gambler. So I got somehow I got attached

1074
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 1: to them, and I would leave at lunch and I

1075
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: wouldna make sports bets and you know, people arriving with

1076
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: your gambling, and I'm like, well, you know, the way

1077
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: I looked at it is I switched everything up and I, um,

1078
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: I took my It wasn't gambling to me, it was

1079
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: it was a business for me. I mean literally, I

1080
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: bought my first car from betting sports UM and I

1081
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: went on to create UM. You know, I'm considered probably

1082
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: one of the best UM sports UM handicappers in baseball,

1083
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,720
Speaker 1: probably in the country. And I did that just by

1084
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: by instead of taking the looking at this gambling, I

1085
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: created a business for it. So for example, I would

1086
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: I would start my betting on Monday, and if I

1087
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: started with ten thousand on Monday, by the time Sunday

1088
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: reached all the games that I betted, if I had

1089
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars, I made two thousand dollars for the week.

1090
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,320
Speaker 1: And in this a little overhead UM and and you

1091
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: know a lot of people take, oh your gambling, you're

1092
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: getting But people gamble every day and don't even realize

1093
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Like I'm looking at people like in

1094
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: bitcoin right now and they're putting their money in and

1095
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: they don't know where it's going. There, let's slow down

1096
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: many coin. I'm still trying to figure out what people

1097
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: investing in. Yeah, I don't even know the same here.

1098
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's a it's an

1099
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 1: imaginary currency, right, Yeah, absolutely, I put it in really quick.

1100
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: I made a couple I was I got rotson now

1101
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on where whereas I know

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00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 1: what the Chicago Bulls are gonna look like tonight, right,

1103
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,399
Speaker 1: all right, right, I have an idea how they're gonna

1104
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: be coached. You have an idea how to rate. I mean,

1105
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:43,760
Speaker 1: so so people look at things and they know you're gambling.

1106
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 1: But if you structure it right, then then then you

1107
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: can create a business for yourself. Because really, really that's

1108
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,399
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, like you're talking. You pay

1109
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: taxes because you are business correct and a lot of

1110
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: people act treat their stigma like if you're a gambler,

1111
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 1: that's something bad. But that's the business. And that's why

1112
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: wanted you to talk about your entrepreneurship journey because a

1113
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: lot of things that people do their are non traditional

1114
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 1: and that's a non traditional way to make a living.

1115
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 1: But the governors, the government still sitting there, they're gonna

1116
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: wear my money where my money right my absolutely, and

1117
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: you don't, if you don't pay, they're gonna shut you down. Absolutely.

1118
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: With sports betting is a lot different than than I'm like, like,

1119
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't play like craps a black jazz. Sports betting

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00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: is a little bit, a little bit differently. Well, we're trying. Yeah,

1121
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: I guess I would say sports betting is is. Um,

1122
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: they make a lot of money off of every year,

1123
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: and it's one of those things just um, it's uh,

1124
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: it's taxed. I mean, you know. And when I started

1125
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: doing was I started taking my winnings and I started

1126
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: buying houses in my old neighborhood, and I started rebuilding

1127
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. So so we would take the winnings from

1128
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: that and and go buy a house in the neighborhood,

1129
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: fix it up, put somebody back in there who used

1130
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: to live in the neighborhood and back in the neighborhood.

1131
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: So we started, thank you. So we started, you know,

1132
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: we started doing it that way. So that way we

1133
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: don't lose the money back. We don't just waste the money.

1134
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,959
Speaker 1: We're doing something with the money. As Dame Dash was saying,

1135
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: names with my partners in the cultivation, we we we

1136
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: basically flipped. We basically take it from one thing and

1137
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: investing something else. There's something that's something and especially in

1138
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: our neighborhoods, we wanted to we want to really clean

1139
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: up our neighborhoods and make our neighborhoods um um. Great again.

1140
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: Now with that being said, you know, I love the

1141
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: fact that you first of all, you started a six team,

1142
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: So that was a there was a there was a

1143
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: seed in you where who planted that seed in you

1144
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: to have that empowering ability to say I can do this.

1145
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 1: I'm a unique because that that's an important to start

1146
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: at that young age. Who who pointed you in the

1147
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: right direction. I'll be honest with you, it was the

1148
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: brothers on the corner because I didn't want to go

1149
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: on the corner. I was like, I gotta do something different.

1150
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: I always wanted to do something. I saw the reaper.

1151
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: I mean I saw people starting off on the block,

1152
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: hustling and and and for me, it was like, you

1153
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: know what, that's a dead end street. Actually it's a

1154
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: dead end like you just did. Even the early Yeah,

1155
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: you start you start seeing these guys. They looked there

1156
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: for a minute and then before you what what was he?

1157
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: Oh he got locked up. Oh he died. You know.

1158
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: So I was like, I don't want to that. That's

1159
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: that's like a no win situation for me. And um

1160
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: I um, I just I went into the sports book

1161
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 1: one they with my brothers and they and they were betting,

1162
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: and I didn't know what. I don't know what's going on.

1163
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: So I was, you know, I was playing basketball at

1164
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: the time, high school basketball, and I lived up and

1165
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,919
Speaker 1: I was like, man, the bulls are gonna destroy dinner

1166
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: the night. And he was like what And so I

1167
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: he bet it and the bulls end up restoring that night,

1168
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: and so like he was like, man, you know, you

1169
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: did pretty good. I said, you end up winning the ticket.

1170
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: And so the next day I went with him again

1171
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: and I started picking just little little subtle things that

1172
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: I thought were wrong that they put up there. And

1173
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: and really sports betting, and that's kind of what that is.

1174
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: It's it's really your opinion versus someone else's. And if

1175
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: you do enough research, like I said, you treated as

1176
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: a business and not entertainment. That's the that's the problem

1177
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: that most people do. They treat as entertainment and not business.

1178
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: But it's a bit. It's it's the black man's stock market,

1179
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: that's that's the way. Laugh. So but you seem to

1180
00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: have a natural instinct for making a decision, and that's

1181
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: what Betty is too, or being able to make a

1182
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 1: decision and and then not regret that decision. That you

1183
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: make and so so when you when you went into

1184
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: the cannabis business, the America medical marijuana business, Okay, that

1185
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: had to be a decision had to be made. Now

1186
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: you made the decision to get into it, what are

1187
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: some of the early roadblock that you didn't encounter? Have

1188
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: kind of like went, man, you gotta be kidding me. Well,

1189
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, we've always felt shouting ourselves, signing myself, signs

1190
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: of my partner. We always felt like there's always been

1191
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: a um you know, when you walk in the room,

1192
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: there's three hundred people in the room and you're one

1193
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,439
Speaker 1: of probably three or four African Americans in the room.

1194
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: We've always felt there's been like roadblocks to put in place.

1195
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: First of all, the first roadblock that they put up

1196
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: was the two hundred fifty dollar liquid assets that you

1197
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: had to have. Remember that, I think, and I think

1198
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: a lot of people what African Americans, well, we need

1199
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: to figure out what we need to understand. This is

1200
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: that that you know, they made it seem like you

1201
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: personally had to have that and that wasn't the case. Um,

1202
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: And what happens is that we as African Americans need

1203
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: to pull our money together for that two and get

1204
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: in and not be afraid. I mean, but you know,

1205
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 1: we've been smacked around so much in in in in

1206
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: in the marijuana business period that um that the we're

1207
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: so timid and shy, and I think that and that's

1208
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 1: why you see them stepping up and we're not. They

1209
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: don't get harassed like we do. So so so the

1210
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: biggest hurdles for us have been excuse, we we put

1211
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: up our own building, We designed it, we built it

1212
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: from scratch, and our only biggest hurdle we have was

1213
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 1: the power company. That was that. Everything else has been

1214
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: smooth sailing. Um. You know, we've represented the state of

1215
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: Nevada very well. Um obviously, you know, we we feel

1216
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: like we represent the urban black youth of American We

1217
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: wanted to show people that we can come in and

1218
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: do this on a very professional level and that you know,

1219
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: we're not You're not going to be the ones that

1220
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 1: are investigating us, or we're not gonna be selling pounds

1221
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: out the back door. I mean, I mean, you know,

1222
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very proud to say like in our

1223
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: in our building um of seventy six buildings, we had

1224
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: a zero demerit um one of four companies that get

1225
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: zero demerits meeting they didn't find anything wrong with our

1226
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: building and and and I'm I'm proud of those type

1227
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: of things because you know, I know they expect us

1228
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: to come in to do something goofy to because Americans,

1229
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 1: you know, that's absolutely, they get the information for seeing in.

1230
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: They get the information absolute, you know, absolutely, And you

1231
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: know it's always the darker message. You know that, absolutely.

1232
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,840
Speaker 1: You know it's just like, but we but we understand

1233
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: we represent something bigger. We understand I understand that I

1234
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: represent you. So when I go on my meetings, I mean,

1235
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 1: you may not be there with me, but I represent

1236
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that because you understand. You know,

1237
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: if a black person see some another person on the news,

1238
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: I might as well have shot that person too. And

1239
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: you understand that's roll that you play in life and

1240
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 1: being successful especialists, very uh intense business that you And

1241
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,720
Speaker 1: we've been right back with more. Larry Smith loving this conversation.

1242
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 1: Not in Nevada because I kind of loves Vegas all

1243
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: the time. So are you near Los Vegas? Larry? Oh no, no,

1244
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 1: we right, we did. We We smacked that in the city. Okay, cool,

1245
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: come with us. You will see me next time, I

1246
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: said at the Skylak when I come to town. Were

1247
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: right hap more Larry Smith talking about his career as

1248
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: a visionary and the man makes a decision, he sticks

1249
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: by it. I wanted to talk about that to my

1250
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: listeners because a lot of times we make decisions and

1251
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: we regret it. You can't regret something that was good

1252
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: for your life just because he didn't turn out. I'll

1253
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: be right back with more money Making Conversation with Larry

1254
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 1: Hides for Sean McDonald. I'm the host of Money Making

1255
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: Conversation on the phone. I got my man Larry Smith.

1256
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: He's the first ever African American licensed in medical marijuana

1257
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: cultivation phe and Clark County, Nevada. How you doing, Larry?

1258
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm gonna find my friend Larry. Before

1259
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: I left, I wanted to uh talk about decisions and

1260
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: I noted that your personality, I feel reason you're successful

1261
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: because you're willing to make a decision and stick by it.

1262
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't know how to do that.

1263
01:03:56,720 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: Can you tell them, um the value and U and

1264
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: making that decision and then sticking to it. You know,

1265
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: it goes back to the to the to the sports

1266
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: betting for me and and and you know when you

1267
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: when you're making a bet, it's a risk. So so

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Speaker 1: so you learned really quick in sports betting that that

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Speaker 1: those risks you make them quick, and you live by

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01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 1: them and you die by them. And so I think

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Speaker 1: the sports betting truly has helped me in business because, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't If I have a great feeling about something

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01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: or an intuition, I roll with it and whether I

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01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: want to lose, listen, I don't have any regrets about it.

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Speaker 1: Um I take the shot. I would. I would much

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01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: rather take the shot than not to take the shot

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01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: and to look up and go two years later, goo, man,

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01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: I should have did that, sir, you know, and that's

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01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: when you know win to lose. I mean, you gotta

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01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: take the shot. I mean, you can't win if you don't.

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Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't shoot, you know, you

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01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: don't shoot. Now, use the word intuition. You know a

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01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: lot of people use worth faith going out on you know,

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01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: I use word intuition. When when I hear the word intuition,

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01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: it seems like it's more to it than jest, just

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01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,439
Speaker 1: a just a just Uh's instinct. It means that you're

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01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: you're putting together You're put together a series of information

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01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: that you pulled together a real quick and go. You know,

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01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 1: somebody feel this is the right decision to make that

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01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,919
Speaker 1: that that's that's really important And how did you gain

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01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: that skill set? Because your intuition is tied to instinctive

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01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: information that you know how to pull together to make

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01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: that decision for the moment. Like you said, a lot

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01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: of people, you know, they take people days to make decisions.

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01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: It seems to me like it comes together rather quickly

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01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 1: for you. You know, what I'll do is, um, you

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Speaker 1: know a lot of times when people bring certain things

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Speaker 1: to me, I'll sleep on it and then I'll go

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Speaker 1: from that perspective. But intuition, I mean, you know, once

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Speaker 1: again we go back to being on the block. So

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Speaker 1: when I was younger, you know, you you you you know,

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01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: I would go sit in the corner and there would

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01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: be something you know, it's just something not right about.

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01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 1: Let's let me get out of here, right, you know.

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01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: And you know I always tell people you gotta listen

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01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: to that, and a lot of people don't listen to that.

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01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: Name leave the corner and you find out a man

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01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 1: that came over there and they shot. You know, you're like, okay,

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01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: we'll up on the second here. Like I was just there,

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01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 1: something told me to leave. How many dogs barking over there?

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01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: Why them dogs talking over there? Why then't barking to day?

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01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: Okay exactly. Yeah. So it's one of those things that

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01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 1: it's just listening to your in the self. I mean,

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01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: I always say that when you close your eyes and

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01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: you listen to, the soul knows that it's being aligned

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01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: to and I and I feel I feel like that

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01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: a lot of times that like we don't look, we

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01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,240
Speaker 1: don't trust ourselves. And that's another thing in in African

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01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: American culture, in business, we don't trust ourselves. Prime example

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01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: that is when um, when we started, they were trying

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Speaker 1: to go to Colorado. These guys are experts in this.

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01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 1: Why my partner, Sean, he's a you electrician, very smart brother,

1323
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: graduated top of his class, and here we are listening

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01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: to them when he had the answers. And that's sometimes

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01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 1: that and something kept telling me we don't need to

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01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: listen to them. We can do this ourselves. We don't

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01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: there's no need. We need to have a little bit

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01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: more faith you that we're faith in ourselves. We need

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01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: to trust in ourselves and believe in ourselves, and and

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01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: and and go win and lose, take the shot. But

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Speaker 1: the great thing about you, this is what I love

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01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: about you. You you you don't you don't deny the

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01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: natural instincts of street survival that you have been brought

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01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: up into. You know, I come from an inner city.

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01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with what you're talking about. And so,

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01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: but did you educated yourself in college? You have a degree? Okay,

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01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 1: so so you respect the process of higher education or

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01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:32,440
Speaker 1: extended education. And then but you don't deny you the

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01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: decision has to come through you. Now, would that being said, exactly,

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01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: how does the process of running American medical marijuana farm?

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01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: How does that get to the customer? How does that?

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01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: How do you buy stuff from you? How do you

1343
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 1: get stuff get distributed by you? Can you explain that

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01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,920
Speaker 1: process to my listeners? Yeah? So what happens is that

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01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: we actually take the cannabis and we grow it in

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Speaker 1: our facility, sir. And then what we what we do

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01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 1: is then we then we then we package everything up

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01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: in our facility. It goes through an extensive testing process

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01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: here in nevadom and then we take that, we take

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01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: that and then we sell it directly to the dispensaries

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01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 1: and the whole cell price and they go ahead and

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Speaker 1: sell it to the retail level. So so we we

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01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 1: can't sell it to anybody off the street. We have

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Speaker 1: to literally sell it to license dispensaries here in the

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Speaker 1: states of Nevada. Okay. So so when people have people

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Speaker 1: on my Facebook problem, we're gonna ride by that and

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01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 1: see Larry right right, ride by that and get shot.

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01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: That's what you go out, all right, So you know,

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Speaker 1: we just sell it directly to a dispensary. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: so that's how the process works. Now you now when

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Speaker 1: you were saying that, because it's really interesting and and

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01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: and the and the so, so you're your your process

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01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 1: and you grow it your processes. Then it's tested to

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Speaker 1: make sure it meets the standard, and then it's distributed.

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01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 1: Now do you have to get on the Can you

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01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: sell outside the state of Nevada? Are you just limited

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Speaker 1: to sell it and inside the state of Nevada? No? No,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see Jeff Sessions. So anytime you sell,

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Speaker 1: if you've got me crost line, that's trafficking at that point,

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Speaker 1: so we can't sell. We can't sell. Um, you won't

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Speaker 1: catch me on the news. You're not gonna catch I

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Speaker 1: love that. I don't know who listen to this radio show?

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01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:22,799
Speaker 1: All right, yo yo ya yoya, No, no trafficking. Everything

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Speaker 1: is done within the state. We have to stay within

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Speaker 1: the state of Nevada. As long as I stay within

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Speaker 1: the state, that then we can And as long as

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Speaker 1: they're a legal dispensary, UM, then then um that we

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01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 1: can sell. And then for us, our next step is

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Speaker 1: to go ahead and apply for the license to get

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Speaker 1: a dispensary, and then that way we're vertically integrated. We

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01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 1: can sell it to ourselves. And in that way, it's

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Speaker 1: another way for us to be able to not be

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01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 1: knocked out of the game, because I still feel like

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01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: they're still trying to keep it a good old boys network.

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01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 1: Is it's it's it's like all it's like r like

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01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:56,679
Speaker 1: you said, it's like oil, you know, you know, dude,

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01:09:56,760 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: that's when you can when you can control, you know,

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01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 1: the all prices, and eventually you'll be able to control.

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01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:05,599
Speaker 1: Like you said, this is gonna be nationwide. And when

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01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 1: that happens, they're gonna be controlling the prices. So that's

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01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 1: what I'm proud of the fact that you're able to

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01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 1: get in and start your battle now because they at all,

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01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:17,680
Speaker 1: they're not letting anybody in. They're not letting anybody in.

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01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: It's just like we encourage the African Americans to man, man, listen,

1395
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 1: pull your money together in your states, get your groups together,

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01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:28,480
Speaker 1: because that's all they did. I mean, these guys they

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 1: got groups together. They didn't somebody I know, some of

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01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: the guys here in Vegas who who literally were asking

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01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: me for money two months before, and I'm like, well,

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01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: hold on, how did he? How did he? How did

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01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: that happen? And you look up, he's in the group.

1402
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: He's in a group of ten guys who one guy

1403
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 1: put in seventy five, another guy put in one, and

1404
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: then before you know, they got there to fifty. And

1405
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: that way they can start the process. So, I mean,

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01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 1: we have to stop being afraid. We have to trust

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01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: each other, pull our money together and and and get

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01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:58,919
Speaker 1: this stuff. This is something that we're really good at anyway,

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01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: you know. And for there to come in and you know,

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01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,000
Speaker 1: for us for them to come in and and to

1411
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 1: dominate like they're doing. It's very discouraging. But the one

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01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: thing I can tell you is that we're not going

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01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 1: to let them o hustlers, especially you know, especially on

1414
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: on on this subject matter. I mean, it's something that

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01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 1: the African Americans have done. We've been aroused for it,

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01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,599
Speaker 1: We've been we've been put through the ringers for um.

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01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the article yesterday with

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01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: they the Georgia players, they had um less than a penny.

1419
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:25,720
Speaker 1: It was the size of a penny and they took

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01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 1: them to jail for it. So it has to stop them,

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01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: and we got to figure out how to get into

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01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 1: this control is a lot better. Let's talk about the strains,

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01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 1: you know, like the strains okay, and theeds a different

1424
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 1: versions of your product, correct, yes, okay, So yeah, so

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01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:43,559
Speaker 1: it's blain to people. So I'm just trying to educate them.

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01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: And I'm about this because I was so excited to

1427
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 1: get you on this interview because there's always been a curiosity.

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01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 1: But I know that let people know this is a

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01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 1: normal business. That that's why I want to break it

1430
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: down to this is a business. This is like selling

1431
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 1: just going down and selling cookies, open a bakery or

1432
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 1: opening a brandchside open the mechanics that you just having

1433
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: to open up a cannabis medical marijuana. Uh, that's that's right.

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01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 1: So so the strains are Um, every strain is different.

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01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: And once you get into it, and I wasn't into

1436
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: it before until you know, my partner came to me

1437
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,560
Speaker 1: and and broke everything down and I start doing the

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01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: research and start touring around and going to places that

1439
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: were already had already started and m and so the

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01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: strains are very important. The strange mean a lot. So

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01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: for example, you have strains that have people that can't

1442
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: sleep at night, and there are certain strains of cannabis

1443
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,240
Speaker 1: that will put you to sleep. There. There are certain

1444
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:33,320
Speaker 1: strains of cannabis. You know a lot of people don't

1445
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 1: understand that a lot of people would cancer. Sometimes they

1446
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 1: can't eat and that's one of the biggest problems to them.

1447
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 1: So they are strains that that that obviously make you eat.

1448
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: They are strains that will make you get up and

1449
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: move around and be active. Um, there's Sativa's so so

1450
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 1: so that I mean every strain that they're just not

1451
01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: just a name that they're just naming it. They actually

1452
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 1: do something. I mean, in our research and what what

1453
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:56,599
Speaker 1: what we prought us that was on is that we

1454
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 1: we hope, we hope that you know that you're just

1455
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: not smoking it for the fun of we we hope

1456
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 1: that there's a purpose for you you to be um UM.

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01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: In Hell, for example, you have people with lupus, I

1458
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,439
Speaker 1: mean they're strange and help with chronic um, chronic pain.

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01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:10,719
Speaker 1: I mean the government's have known all of these things.

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01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 1: They've always just kept it tight. I mean the government

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01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 1: literally has patents on on cannabis strains, so that that

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01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 1: should tell you a lot about you know, we've been

1463
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: kind of deceived, you know, so they know they know

1464
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 1: a lot um and and the strains are. For us,

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01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: we have a lot of high um certiva strains because

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01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 1: in Vegas that's what the kind of the market call.

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01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,640
Speaker 1: So people want to come here be active um. But

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01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 1: for us, it will always be medical UM. And we

1469
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 1: want to make sure that by it being medical that

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01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,639
Speaker 1: if you do have an ailment, if you aren't sleeping,

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01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: or you have chronic pain, and we can take that

1472
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: level of pain from a ten to or three that day,

1473
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: then we feel like we've kind of done our job.

1474
01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not sitting I'm not gonna tell you

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01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: that we're we're trying to cure cancer because we're not

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Speaker 1: at that level yet. Um. But but if we can,

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Speaker 1: if we can give you a better quality of life,

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01:13:55,840 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: and that it just matters. And don't let anybody tell

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01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: this is that you have your stoners, you have your

1480
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: guys that want to get high as a kite, but

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01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: you have there's a lot of people that truly use

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01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: this for medicine. We have um uh W when we

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Speaker 1: put them doing a production license here coming up the

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Speaker 1: next two months, and we have candies that that we

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01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: make that um that we feel like they'll be really

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01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: good for PTSD. And and all they do is they

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01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 1: relax you, They calm you down, You can drive, you

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01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:26,799
Speaker 1: can do everything, you can function. It has very minimal

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Speaker 1: um um T a c and it a lot of

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01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 1: CBD and and it does it just gives you a

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Speaker 1: very common effect or for someone who's normally antsy or

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Speaker 1: right or I contend you know, yeah, absolutely, yeah, from

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01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:39,639
Speaker 1: I go, I want to I want to talk about

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01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 1: it because it's been a nice journey talking to you

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01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: because the fact that you're you're so normal. And and

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01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: then when I say normal, that's because you're in a

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01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 1: very intense business, and that seems like an amazing level

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01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: of calmness to you. And when I say that because

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01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,719
Speaker 1: of the fact that when I look at your philanthropic side,

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01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:57,840
Speaker 1: I want to I want to tell I want you to, Tippy,

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01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,759
Speaker 1: why is that important that you're involved with the Latino

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01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:04,160
Speaker 1: organization that anger into agacy? Like you said early on,

1503
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 1: he was buying these houses back in the community, fixing

1504
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: them up and putting people. Why is that important? Lay?

1505
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 1: Why when it was driving you in that direction? Well,

1506
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, when I grew up,

1507
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 1: I played Um, I played basketball. I went on to

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01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:21,200
Speaker 1: play junior college, and I always thought me, you know,

1509
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 1: the thought was, man, I'm gonna make it big and

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01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 1: be able to get back to my community. And then

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01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, I started realizing you don't have to go

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01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:29,560
Speaker 1: play basketball the football to be an entertainer to be

1513
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,000
Speaker 1: able to give back to your community. And I just

1514
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 1: feel like that, Um, you know, my grandmother used to

1515
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,840
Speaker 1: always tell me that you never know when people are

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01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: watching and so, UM, I feel like that's the best

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01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: form of um invitation and flattery is that when people

1518
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: are watching you. So I wanted to show people that

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01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:47,599
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about anything anymore. I want

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01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:49,719
Speaker 1: to do. So when I said I wanted to start

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01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 1: buying houses and buying them and putting them back in

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01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: my neighborhood and building and doing them up, that's what

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01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: I started to do. Um. You know, as far as

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01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: giving to the community, there's a lot of stuff that

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01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: I do that I that I put out the look

1526
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 1: me in the stuff that I don't ever want to

1527
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: get out there. But um, it's one of those things

1528
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 1: that I wanted to show people that I don't worship

1529
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:09,599
Speaker 1: the money. I worship the people and and and and

1530
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 1: that's a big thing for me is like you know,

1531
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: sometimes we start everyone wants to make all this money

1532
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:16,639
Speaker 1: and it just sits there. So for me, I wanted

1533
01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:18,640
Speaker 1: to be able to, uh, you know, I wanted to

1534
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 1: I want to be able to do something that that

1535
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,559
Speaker 1: you're gonna really when I'm dead and going, you're gonna

1536
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 1: remember and you're gonna be able to pass it on.

1537
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 1: I want you to understand that that this money comes

1538
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: into your account and usually leaves right away, so it's

1539
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 1: not yours. So but there but there are but there

1540
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:34,120
Speaker 1: are things you can do to improve your community. There

1541
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:35,840
Speaker 1: are things that you can do, and all you have

1542
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,000
Speaker 1: to do is show them you can. You can, you

1543
01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:40,840
Speaker 1: can show I built the learning center in my neighborhood

1544
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:44,800
Speaker 1: and it's free, doesn't cost anything. Um, I pay for

1545
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: everything over there, and I wanted, I wanted. I don't

1546
01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: want there to be any more excuses in our community.

1547
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: It's free. If you need tutoring your math, it's free,

1548
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: if it's if you need English. If I mean it's

1549
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:57,000
Speaker 1: free that we we we we we we keep putting

1550
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,120
Speaker 1: a dollar value on things that we really don't have to.

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01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: If allow up pulled together and build those things and

1552
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:05,200
Speaker 1: let us stop depending on other people, the city of

1553
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: the county, the grants to start helping us, to start

1554
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: helping ourselves, I think as a people will be in

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01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:13,640
Speaker 1: a much better situation. So I just looked at it like,

1556
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: instead of me telling you what I'm gonna do, or

1557
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: let's talk about this grant that we're gonna do, let's

1558
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: just do it. No no no more, um no no

1559
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:21,600
Speaker 1: no more, no more talking about let's just do it.

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01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: We can do it. We don't we have enough resources

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01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: in our community. I say this because um, in our

1562
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 1: in our when we built our building, we hired all

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01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: African Americans to do the work. So we had a plumber,

1564
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 1: African actor plumber, we had African American drywall were African American. Um.

1565
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:38,640
Speaker 1: The only thing we didn't have as the concrete. But

1566
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 1: but we had our We were able to pay our

1567
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,560
Speaker 1: people from our neighborhoods that look like us that we

1568
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: weren't working, and they did a great job obviously. And

1569
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:48,439
Speaker 1: then you know, same thing with my homes. We we

1570
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: have people. You have people in your neighborhood, electricians, plumbers,

1571
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: and we just need to give them a chance and show,

1572
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 1: you know, the honorable and we can do the right thing.

1573
01:17:56,880 --> 01:18:00,200
Speaker 1: I have a segment on my social media got seven

1574
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:04,479
Speaker 1: hundred thousand followers called where a spotlight individuals who make

1575
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: a difference. I wish you'd do me the honor of

1576
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:10,640
Speaker 1: spotlight you so on Monday's, Um, you know, it's just

1577
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:14,880
Speaker 1: just tell your story with pictures. Um. You just your

1578
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: special young man. You're very specially man. I appreciate you

1579
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: allow me to tell some of your story because your

1580
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 1: story is way bigger than thirty minutes my friend, and

1581
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 1: I want to honor you by letting people learn more

1582
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:30,600
Speaker 1: about you. In on my social media format. So my

1583
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: my team will be contacting you or Dale and we're

1584
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna do something because that that that learning

1585
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: center man in the community. Brother, come on, the world

1586
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: just needs to know that somebody's out there caring because

1587
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: they want to spotlight this what you're doing over with

1588
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: G five, let's find like what you're doing over here.

1589
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,120
Speaker 1: Larry's speaking to the community. We talked to my friend

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01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 1: God bless you. Okay, alright, tax side, if you got

1591
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 1: any tax questions, it's the end of the year. You

1592
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 1: know anything you want to learn out a file. She's

1593
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:04,200
Speaker 1: coming up next. Start logging onto my Facebook with your

1594
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 1: tax questions because Laura Fus is coming up. It's end

1595
01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: of the year. She's my certified tax expert law fuse

1596
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 1: cool this ra Sean McDonald, I'm back my last break,

1597
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: last half hour. Should saying the laugh hals all, and

1598
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna be about taxes. Is about getting your life right, uh,

1599
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:30,680
Speaker 1: lining up, time management, all those good things. You have

1600
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: any question, please go to money Make at money Making Conversations,

1601
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:37,400
Speaker 1: put your put in the comments section and we will

1602
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 1: respond to him. Go to the at money Making Conversation

1603
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: in your Facebook section. Uh, see the screen right in

1604
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: front of you. If you put a question in, I'll

1605
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:48,240
Speaker 1: respond to you. I'll see my man pressing airs. Adrian. Uh,

1606
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:52,559
Speaker 1: I've been responded all the cracking jokes about this cultivation. Uh.

1607
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: Moses Garcia has been responding today sharing Ge Nickerson has

1608
01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: been responded today. Well, let me get my next guests online,

1609
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you something this young lady can tell

1610
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 1: the first time I brought on the show, she's with

1611
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: one of her business partners, but she talked so much

1612
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 1: I realized I can't ever bring home the show but

1613
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: by herself. So my next is a single mother and

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01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: the queen of time management. You'll find out why she

1615
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 1: went from bankruptcy to businesswoman. Please work on the money

1616
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:25,080
Speaker 1: making conversations. My most popular guests, Laura Fus, thank you

1617
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 1: for having me back on Good Good Lord. First of all,

1618
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 1: we get started. How's your mom? How's she doing? Get

1619
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 1: that love, get those prayers out there, every good. She's

1620
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 1: doing well. I appreciate that she's doing well. We're doing good.

1621
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:41,920
Speaker 1: Thank you. Until I said hi, you know, because she

1622
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 1: always said with Shine mcdowald, I'm gonna pray for that boy.

1623
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna make you. He's gonna get you that baby,

1624
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:51,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna get you there. He's well. The reason I

1625
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:53,599
Speaker 1: brought you on the show again it was tax time,

1626
01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: but also I wanted to bring out a couple of

1627
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:58,759
Speaker 1: things that that you do that I think it's important

1628
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 1: when people start talking about who I'm too busy, or

1629
01:21:01,320 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: they keep talking about their dreams and they say they

1630
01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 1: don't even have time for their dreams, and you seem

1631
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:11,880
Speaker 1: to have mastered the ability to do very significant jobs,

1632
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: basically be full time jobs for certain individuals. I just

1633
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: filed out the other day by Mary Kay Cosmetics. I

1634
01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 1: didn't know about Mary Kay, and so I got to

1635
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: start by my Mary Kay stuff from you, you know,

1636
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: so you know they know your boy. We start making

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01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: this Marrikay purchases, you know, because you know I'm in

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01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,640
Speaker 1: the business. I bout makeup and stuff like that for

1639
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:34,719
Speaker 1: when I do these shoots and everything. People a line

1640
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,880
Speaker 1: of men. You know, they have everything for men as well.

1641
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: I don't worry, I could I'm the mayor about what

1642
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm buying from. You know, what do you ever shot

1643
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: back from Maria, Hey, don't worry about I'm about makeup,

1644
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: make up coming up. This old face, this old face.

1645
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:52,080
Speaker 1: Thats the part you need to be covered up. When

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01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: I take you. I got you covered. You'll be my

1647
01:21:56,560 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 1: Mary Kay person from now on because it always because

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01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: I traveled so much. You know, you can't buy America

1649
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 1: in the stores, and you got to go to a

1650
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: representative to get the product. Because I went in to

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01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 1: Alta Alta and I went and I said, just laid

1652
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:10,679
Speaker 1: on a little too with Merrika. She said, we don't

1653
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:13,560
Speaker 1: say imric sir. I go, okay, I'm sorry. Let me

1654
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: get out of here. I'm looking like a crazy person

1655
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: right now. So you'll be here for me. So a

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01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:18,720
Speaker 1: couple of things I want to bring back. You know,

1657
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 1: a fact that you know you're you know you're you're

1658
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: you're in the death business. Just said this title out

1659
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,599
Speaker 1: like that, full time corporate career plus hours a week?

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01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:32,760
Speaker 1: How many hours a week? Forty plus hours a week.

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Speaker 1: That's write there down, y'all. That's forty plus hours a week. Okay.

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01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: She's also in the beauty salon business, full time service

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01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: law and they have a business supply store. How many

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01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 1: hours a week is that? Um? And that is one

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01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 1: good you know when you're a business owner that that

1666
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 1: could be all day, every day. Now I'm not physically

1667
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: at the salon because you sent my other three partners,

1668
01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:59,240
Speaker 1: but that's their full time careers. UM. But when is

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01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: your own business us your or call every day all

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01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 1: day there's no days off, but now dedicated hours. I'm

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01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: probably at the salon, you know, maybe five to ten

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01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:12,560
Speaker 1: hours a week. UM. And then events, of course, we

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01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: have events that we try to you know, be involved

1674
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: in the community. So normally if you look at my

1675
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:20,840
Speaker 1: Facebook page, your Instagram plage, yes, I'm out all the time, UM.

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01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: And that's just to promote all the businesses to our

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01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: other business just be Lauren. And then and we talked

1678
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: about now let's talk about your your your tax and

1679
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: financial business. Yes, so the tax business. Now, of course

1680
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 1: we are full well all year tax UM prepared tax

1681
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:46,600
Speaker 1: preparation service. We do bookkeeping, we do payroll. I just

1682
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 1: focus on taxes for individuals and small businesses, UM. But

1683
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: we are available all year long. And I think when

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Speaker 1: people are looking for tax prepares, you don't have to

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01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:59,639
Speaker 1: use me. Hopefully you do, UM, but let's make sure

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01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 1: that they're available that when you called them if you

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01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 1: need help. In October and November, someone answers the phone,

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01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:07,880
Speaker 1: they replied to your email, they get back to you,

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01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 1: because you could receive letters from the I R S,

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01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:12,640
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the year, and you

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01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 1: can't just have those tax offices that they're only open

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01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:20,679
Speaker 1: January to May or they do taxes at home under

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01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: and they might use turbo taxes at home and just

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01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: put self prepared and then when you have an issue,

1695
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,879
Speaker 1: you'll never find them again. So I also just caution

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01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: people about choosing their tax prepare wisely. But yes, so

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01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:34,640
Speaker 1: one day I focused on that a lot of years, um,

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01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,960
Speaker 1: January through May, and then I'm available all year long

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01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: um for other people who are maybe filing later, filing

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01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 1: with an extension. So so, like I would tell you, so,

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01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: I've never you know, I'm just I have a degree

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01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:48,680
Speaker 1: in mathematics. But I'm intimidated. I will tell you to

1703
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:53,840
Speaker 1: I'm intimidated when it comes to filing taxes. Why am

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01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 1: I intimidating? Why? And I'm sure's a lot of people

1705
01:24:56,600 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: out there, like me said, what's that big fear? Well,

1706
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: I think the big fear is everyone is scared of

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01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 1: those large numbers, and everybody has this big, huge, you know,

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01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: nightmare about the i r S. That if the I

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01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 1: R S sends you a letter where if you get

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01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 1: all and said, oh my god, and it is not

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01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 1: like that the I R S. My biggest thing is

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01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: if any if you do get any letter, now remember

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01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 1: the I R S is not going to email you

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01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 1: and they're not going to call you. So there are

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01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 1: people that send scams through emails and phone calls. They're

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01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 1: not going to do that. You will get a letter

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01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 1: in the mail from the I R S. And the

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01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: biggest thing is do not ignore the letter. That's when

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01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 1: you call your tax prepare or if you can't get

1720
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:40,400
Speaker 1: in contact with them, then you call me and say

1721
01:25:40,439 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 1: I need help. The biggest thing is do not ignore

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01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: their letters. If you communicate with the I R S,

1723
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: they will work with you forever. You could be on

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01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:51,280
Speaker 1: a payment plan um and they will certainly work with you,

1725
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 1: but you just have to respond. Do not ignore the

1726
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,559
Speaker 1: I R S. I'm gonna tell you as soon as

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01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: I see it, I don't I don't care. It could

1728
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: be could be one of the lottery winning letter in

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01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:05,120
Speaker 1: front of it, I'm knocking it out the way to

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01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: find out what the I R S want with me?

1731
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 1: Right And sometimes there's something small. I mean, sometimes they

1732
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,880
Speaker 1: just want more information. A lot of times it is

1733
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 1: not a big deal. And if you have a tax prepair,

1734
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:19,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna help you get it together. We're gonna write

1735
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: the letter, we're gonna mail it in, you're gonna call

1736
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, make sure they got it,

1737
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:25,640
Speaker 1: and it's done and over with. So the I R S.

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01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: We do not need to be scared of the IRQ. Okay,

1739
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:31,320
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying. Okay,

1740
01:26:31,360 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 1: big tim, I will ride it out. But I'm scared

1741
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: to death and I'm gonna need people like you and

1742
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: so so I'm gonna tell you make that part of

1743
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:41,639
Speaker 1: your campaign. If you're afraid, I'm the one to calm

1744
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 1: your fear. That should be your motto with taxes. Okay,

1745
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 1: that that's your moto. Don't don't, don't don't tell me

1746
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 1: they should be afraid. That's how you get their revenue.

1747
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 1: We should stay afraid. That's what I'm here for. I'm

1748
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 1: to calm your life. You need me in your life. See,

1749
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:57,920
Speaker 1: I gotta tun TV will be talking too much. I

1750
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:01,040
Speaker 1: gotta just change your whole format because you're just giving

1751
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: away money. Don't be afraid. Tell people they should be afraid.

1752
01:27:05,439 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 1: You need me. You need me because it's amazing because

1753
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 1: you've got some great things coming up that when we

1754
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 1: come back on the other side of the commercial break,

1755
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about your your Instagram live, your Facebook live.

1756
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:21,639
Speaker 1: We're gonna start talking about these campaigns because is about

1757
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 1: building your brand. It's tied that you've become a star,

1758
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 1: young lady, because your personality is amazing, it's infectious. I

1759
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:33,720
Speaker 1: truly truly respect and appreciate who you are as an individual,

1760
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 1: respect your business partners. I've always appreciated the supports you

1761
01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 1: gave us all those years that enabled awards. But more important,

1762
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 1: it's all about you, Lauren. We come back and we'll

1763
01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 1: talk about some of the campaigns that you have in placed,

1764
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: so people can show you how you're gonna help them

1765
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: and also let them know if they're afraid of the

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01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: r s, come to me. That's they're gonna be. Come

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01:27:55,080 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 1: to me. Hi the Sean McDonald, I'm back on the phone.

1768
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 1: I have the one and only the coein of time Management,

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Speaker 1: Shade out a d C. He's from bankruptcy. The business

1770
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Speaker 1: woman one of my most popular guests on money making Conversations.

1771
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:18,680
Speaker 1: Laura's still there, Yes, I'm here. Let's let's get some

1772
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:20,960
Speaker 1: questions here that you prepare that you felt that were

1773
01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:23,680
Speaker 1: very important for people to UH have you respond to.

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01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 1: As as twenty seven team comes to an end, is

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01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 1: there anything we can do to affect our taxes for

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01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 1: this year? UM? I would say so, we have like

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01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: two weeks left for this year, so if you want

1778
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: to change your tax situation, so of course, anything we

1779
01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:42,560
Speaker 1: can do is try to reduce our taxable income. And

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01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:45,520
Speaker 1: the way that we can do that is by increasing

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01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:49,439
Speaker 1: our itemized deduction, which would be to make donations to

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01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: a charity UM, and that everybody could go this weekend

1783
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:55,760
Speaker 1: and clean out your closet while you're on vacation next week.

1784
01:28:56,120 --> 01:28:57,880
Speaker 1: Just make sure you get it's a good will the

1785
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:01,840
Speaker 1: Purple Heart, get a receipt. UM. You can also because

1786
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: we can write off some of your doctor's bills, hospital bills,

1787
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: let me pay some of those bills before the end

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01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:10,160
Speaker 1: of the year if you're able to. UM. But the

1789
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:13,080
Speaker 1: biggest thing is you can still make donations. And then

1790
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:16,719
Speaker 1: if you're self employed UM, and you need to defer

1791
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: some of that income. Maybe you can wait till the

1792
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:22,160
Speaker 1: last week and December to send out invoices, so then

1793
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:27,280
Speaker 1: you get that income next year prepaired tax wise, you

1794
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: got to clean out the income or increase our ademized deduction.

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01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:33,840
Speaker 1: That's what I recommend for the next two weeks. Yeah,

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01:29:33,880 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 1: that's that's really important. You know, if you're self imployed,

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01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:39,160
Speaker 1: you cannot leave money in that account because they just

1798
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:43,600
Speaker 1: tax it just exactly exact. And that's that's important. Is

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01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 1: just is sometimes I actually will pay some accounts like

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Speaker 1: the first quarter of the upcoming year. That's a that's

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01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 1: a trick that I do. I called some of my

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01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:56,320
Speaker 1: cousin said, you mind me paying you for the first quarter?

1803
01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:59,719
Speaker 1: Are you paying you in January? Is to the December?

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01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:01,760
Speaker 1: Can I pay your early so I get this tax

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01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:03,600
Speaker 1: out and I can write the tax off now. And

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01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:05,719
Speaker 1: they agree with this. So that's that's that's a technique

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01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:08,120
Speaker 1: that I do right there. Now, what do we need

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01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:11,720
Speaker 1: to do to prepare to file taxes? What do we

1809
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 1: have to do for preparation? Because I think the biggest

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01:30:14,280 --> 01:30:16,639
Speaker 1: thing because so many people are going to be off

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01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:20,720
Speaker 1: during the holiday season, so just get yourself prepared, get

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01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:24,760
Speaker 1: yourself an organize, an organize like a file system or

1813
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 1: a file somewhere, because you know, all of those important

1814
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: documents begins to come in the mail in January and

1815
01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:33,160
Speaker 1: all the time when you come to me or your

1816
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:35,080
Speaker 1: tax prepare a lot of times they don't have a

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01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: W two. They're listening at ten ninety nine. So get

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01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 1: a space to cure place now and then just have

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01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:43,760
Speaker 1: a photo there so as they come in the mail,

1820
01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:45,639
Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything with it, just throw

1821
01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:49,000
Speaker 1: it in that photo. That makes my life a lot easier. Also,

1822
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:51,840
Speaker 1: while you're on holiday, if you were not diligent and

1823
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 1: saving all of those receipts, are putting them in an

1824
01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:58,519
Speaker 1: organized file system during the year begins to get those

1825
01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:02,759
Speaker 1: together because more so now um with all these different

1826
01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:05,559
Speaker 1: smart systems with the I R s, they do want

1827
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: to have receipts. We need to have receipts to back

1828
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:10,840
Speaker 1: up all of those itemized seductions. So that's a great

1829
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,720
Speaker 1: time where you're on holiday vacation to pull those out

1830
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 1: so then we're not having to file an extension for you.

1831
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:19,720
Speaker 1: When the IRS opens, you're ready to start filing. In

1832
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:22,760
Speaker 1: the January beginning of February, I guess I should say,

1833
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:25,840
Speaker 1: what's the mistake that people do this normally? I mean,

1834
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:28,640
Speaker 1: it's the same mistake they make all the time, you go.

1835
01:31:29,160 --> 01:31:31,559
Speaker 1: If I see this mistake one more time, I'm gonna

1836
01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 1: just I would say. The biggest mistake is thinking that me,

1837
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: their tax of prayer, is a miracle worker. Now I

1838
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:41,800
Speaker 1: am here and just like your tax pre prayer. Yes,

1839
01:31:42,040 --> 01:31:44,120
Speaker 1: as your tax p payer, I work for you. I

1840
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:46,680
Speaker 1: do not work for the i RS. I work for you,

1841
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,840
Speaker 1: and there I am there to advise and work through

1842
01:31:50,040 --> 01:31:54,879
Speaker 1: and you know, discuss your situation with you confidentially. Of course, However,

1843
01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 1: I cannot work miracles. When you come to me with

1844
01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:02,160
Speaker 1: your W two from last year and you made fifty

1845
01:32:02,200 --> 01:32:05,120
Speaker 1: thousand dollars this year and had no taxes, with hell

1846
01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:10,040
Speaker 1: and years and all kinds of deductions, there's nothing that

1847
01:32:10,240 --> 01:32:12,559
Speaker 1: I can do, you know. So, I mean, there are

1848
01:32:12,680 --> 01:32:16,360
Speaker 1: things that we can do, but for you, for the taxpayer,

1849
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:19,280
Speaker 1: and myself to be legitimate and not end up in jail.

1850
01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 1: There's only so much we can do. So the biggest

1851
01:32:22,040 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: thing is you know that everyone we have to pay taxes,

1852
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna work with you to minimize how much

1853
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 1: taxes you're paying, but you have to have taxes with

1854
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:33,759
Speaker 1: it all from those W two's, or if you're self employed,

1855
01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:36,559
Speaker 1: you have to pay tax on that money. So that's

1856
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:41,679
Speaker 1: the biggest mistake. The whole chick. Take the whole chick

1857
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 1: will yes, yes, I have quite a few times to

1858
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:48,840
Speaker 1: do that, and then they think I'm a real racal

1859
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:51,240
Speaker 1: worker because that's how I educate them and explain it,

1860
01:32:51,320 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 1: asked them to change it for the next year. They

1861
01:32:53,120 --> 01:32:56,560
Speaker 1: still don't change it for the next year. So that

1862
01:32:56,760 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 1: is the biggest mistake that people make thinking, you know,

1863
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:02,360
Speaker 1: that's a that's the issue as to why we're going

1864
01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:05,720
Speaker 1: to be and I'm sure we'll get to my live

1865
01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:08,880
Speaker 1: videos and what we want to work on in twenties. Okay, okay,

1866
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 1: we've transitioned to the live video. You you know, you

1867
01:33:12,280 --> 01:33:16,639
Speaker 1: smooth now, you smooth? Now, Lord, let's talk about these

1868
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 1: live videos here. Have you been doing them already? Well?

1869
01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:22,880
Speaker 1: I did for a long time. In seventeen we were

1870
01:33:22,960 --> 01:33:26,560
Speaker 1: doing tax tip Tuesday. Okay, there's all were fun, but

1871
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 1: of course you know that I talked way too much

1872
01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:32,120
Speaker 1: and I do get off track a little bit. So

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01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: this year I'm gonna try to be more focused on

1874
01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:37,479
Speaker 1: the topic we're supposed to be talking about, really talk

1875
01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:39,679
Speaker 1: so so to mask you how they work, Because because

1876
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,280
Speaker 1: I'm working with a very talented law you're here in

1877
01:33:42,439 --> 01:33:45,599
Speaker 1: Atlanta named or for Real for our law firm. Yes,

1878
01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:47,679
Speaker 1: I found her and I went and stopped her page.

1879
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: She's amazing. She's amazing. She gets like you know, I've

1880
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:53,320
Speaker 1: seen her get up to like three hundred thousand views,

1881
01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:56,640
Speaker 1: and she deals with family divorce situation, how to deal

1882
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:59,599
Speaker 1: with your children and everything. You know, she's found. She's

1883
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:01,960
Speaker 1: just she just an engaging person. And I feel that

1884
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,960
Speaker 1: you're an engaging person. But you gotta let people tell

1885
01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:09,280
Speaker 1: their story and respond to him. Though, Lord, you gotta

1886
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:12,080
Speaker 1: you can't be the star. Your information has to be

1887
01:34:12,200 --> 01:34:14,040
Speaker 1: the star. That's that's what we gotta work with you,

1888
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:16,960
Speaker 1: because you're so talented. I remember what I was watching

1889
01:34:17,040 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 1: Jay Leno when he first took over Johnny Carson, and

1890
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:22,040
Speaker 1: when he would come on the show, the guests were

1891
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,799
Speaker 1: just laughing at him. And then from then the executive

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Speaker 1: let's shoot for January night launch that's a Tuesday. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, and I gotta contact you over the

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