1 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: is the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. And in case you didn't notice, 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: I'm not broke. You know he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 2: It's what he likes to do, it's what he likes 8 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: to share. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: Now it's time to hear from my man, Rashan McDonald 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: money Making Conversations. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 3: Here we go. 12 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 4: Hello, I'm Rashan McDonald's hosts a weekly money making conversation 13 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 4: masterclass show. The interviews and information that this show provides 14 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 4: off for everyone. It's time to stop reading other people's 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 4: success stories and really started living your own. My next 16 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 4: guest is here Spate. He is a sickle cell warrior 17 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 4: and when he was diagnosed, he was told he would 18 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 4: not live past eleven years old. Today is a circle 19 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 4: sell survivor. Hollywood television writer co host popular Steve Harvey 20 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 4: Morning Show hosts his own show in Atlanta every Saturday, 21 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:05,199 Speaker 4: and it's a. 22 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 3: Touring stand up comedian. 23 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 4: He started his foundation called Keere's Hope for Sickle Seales 24 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 4: survivors and hosts his motivational podcasts Living Your Life. Success 25 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 4: is part of his future. Please welcome the Money Making 26 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 4: Compensations masterclass here space. 27 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 3: How you doing care? 28 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 2: Hey, mag how you doing rather well? 29 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 3: Carry? 30 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 4: You know it's gonna be a journey, because I want 31 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 4: to make sure people who walk away with this interview 32 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 4: understand that people can tell you expectations, people can try 33 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 4: to predict your future, but it's really balls down to 34 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 4: the people around you and also what you want to 35 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 4: get out of life over the effort that you want 36 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,199 Speaker 4: to put into your dreams. Start me off with being 37 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 4: told of being aware that you wouldn't live past eleven 38 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 4: years of age. 39 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 5: You know, when I go back to that part of 40 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 5: my life, MAC is always a difficult thing because my 41 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 5: parents are young. They were young parents. They're twenty years old, 42 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 5: and here they are at thirty one. And then a 43 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 5: doctor had the nerve to tell them that, hey, listen, 44 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 5: don't plan a future for them. I mean literally, don't 45 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 5: plan a future. He's not gonna make it past eleven. 46 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 5: Now I'm seven at this time, you know, I'm seven 47 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 5: years old, So he's thirty seven years old. So now 48 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 5: they think about the next four years, we're gonna start 49 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 5: planning the funeral. 50 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 2: And at that time, they didn't really know what civil 51 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 2: cell was. 52 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 5: They had no idea about what it is to be 53 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 5: a parent, having a child with six sel and for them, 54 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 5: it was devastating. For me as a child, not knowing 55 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 5: what death meant, it was just for me, it was 56 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 5: like another day. They told me, listen, we're gonna have 57 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 5: to make some changes according to your life. 58 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 2: And then when I. 59 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 5: Passed eleven and I made to fifteen, I'm scared at 60 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 5: this point because I'm supposed to be out of here, 61 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 5: and then now you look at me today, I'm still here. 62 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 5: So I never believed in the mantra of hey, this is. 63 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: It for you. 64 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 5: And I didn't know at eleven years old that was 65 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,119 Speaker 5: going to be a definition for my life, like hey, 66 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 5: you'll never make it. 67 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: It really didn't have an effect. All I had is chance. 68 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 2: That's all everything I did was based upon chance. 69 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 5: I'm gonna take the chance because you already told me 70 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 5: that I wasn't gonna make it past eleven. Now here 71 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 5: I am at thirty nine. I have a career, I'm 72 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 5: doing this. But I also realized one thing, Mac, there's 73 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 5: somebody coming behind me. 74 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:29,959 Speaker 2: They gonna tell the same thing too. 75 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 3: Talk to me about that. 76 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 4: Because you're sickle cell, you have sickle cell disease, a 77 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 4: lot of other people out there would come, people who 78 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 4: may see the disease, that might illnesses that might be terminal, 79 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: and they might go, hey, man, I'm looking for the 80 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 4: exit plan. I don't have a future. 81 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 3: Now. 82 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 4: They're different stuff. You went past elevel and you was fifteen. 83 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 4: Did you play sports in high school? Was you a 84 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 4: social high school? How was you and how truly? 85 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 2: I was playing sports and my dream was to play 86 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: in the NFL. That was my dream. 87 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 5: And I was a running back out of Texas. I 88 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 5: was ranked and I was this, it's really good at football. 89 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: I loved it. I love the strategy of football. Loved 90 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: the game of football. And when I was playing that 91 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: doctor told. 92 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 5: My mother when I was eleven, and my number in 93 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 5: high school was number eleven because I wore it with passion. 94 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 5: Everything I did was based upon the number eleven because 95 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 5: that's the number. 96 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: Y'all told me. So we needed eleven yards. I'm finna 97 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: get these eleven yards, right. Everything didn't matter. 98 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 5: But did I just say, Well, I got kicked off 99 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 5: the team in high school my senior year, the year 100 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 5: I had the scholarships that were up for me to 101 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 5: go play collegeball, and they took it from me. And 102 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 5: the thing about that was it hurt me so hard. 103 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: I cried. 104 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 5: I cussed the whole coaching staff off because I've been 105 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 5: in this one program. And then one player comes in 106 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 5: and tells the team doctor that I have six sell 107 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 5: and they snatched me off of it. So now they 108 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 5: didn't just take me off because I had sickle cell. 109 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 5: They took my future too. That's how I felt. They 110 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 5: took my future. And the thing about it was, I 111 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 5: made a decision at that moment in my own mind 112 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 5: that I would never let single cell take another thing 113 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 5: from me. Nothing will ever be taken from me based 114 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 5: upon my habit of having sickle sell. 115 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 2: The team doctor told my mother, he. 116 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 5: Said, well, we're only doing this out of side of cautions. 117 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 5: My mother stood in there and my father was sitting there, 118 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 5: and my mother said, why would you take something from somebody. 119 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 5: You wouldn't want to take it from your children. It's 120 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 5: my child. He said, well, he could possibly die. Mother 121 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 5: said this, and this is why I take the chances 122 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 5: that I take and the things that I do, and 123 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 5: how I respond. She said, if he does die, he 124 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 5: died doing something that he loved. 125 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 3: Right. 126 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: That was so important to. 127 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 5: Me, which propelled me to the next point of my 128 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 5: life because I started doing stand up at. 129 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 4: Nineteen, right, nineteen years old years old, nineteen ninety nine. 130 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 3: Who inspired you as a stand up? Who inspired you? 131 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 5: It was so many man at that time. Man, you 132 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 5: got to think about what was happening. Death, comedy, jam 133 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 5: was happening. See, my parents were the parents that let 134 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 5: me do what I wanted to do because I had 135 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 5: sils some time. 136 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: But I was watching death Jam, I was watching everything. 137 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 2: I was watching. 138 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 5: Marden, I was watching Eddie Murphy. I saw Richard Pryor 139 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 5: with my grandmother when I was ten. 140 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: So I knew it was always in my future, you know. 141 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 5: I saw Steve Harvey, I saw Bill Bellamy, I saw 142 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 5: Martin Lawrence, I saw a Lavelle Crawford, I saw Sheryl Underwood. 143 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 5: I was going back to high school doing their sets 144 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 5: in the comments before we had started class. 145 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 2: Did y'all see what this fool said? 146 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 5: And that was my thing, And so it was always 147 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 5: interwoven into my car. I pretty much knew about fourteen 148 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 5: this is what I was gonna be doing, right, because 149 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 5: it was in me too hard. 150 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 2: It was just in my character too hard. I was 151 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 2: always doing the church plays. I was not only doing 152 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 2: the church play. I was five. 153 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 5: Characters in the church play because there was nobody more 154 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 5: talented than me. 155 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: So I was Lazarus was I was. I was the 156 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: wise man. I was everybody. I was punch as Pilot. 157 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 5: I was everybody in the church play because I would 158 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 5: go back there change. 159 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 2: I was the only person in the church with a 160 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: quick change booth. I go change, come back out our 161 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: demonic man. I was everybody in the church play. It's 162 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 2: like what talented he could play all these characters at 163 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 2: one time. 164 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 4: Now in the past stand up comedy. That's an extreme 165 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 4: from your lifestyle. You know, as a person who has 166 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 4: sickle cell. You know sickle cell. If you watch the 167 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 4: commercials on TV, they always talk about the pain, They 168 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 4: always talk about the struggle. They always talk about the 169 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 4: time limit. You know, it's that old number one hundred 170 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,559 Speaker 4: thousand people. It's been around for fifteen years. One hundred 171 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 4: thousand people out sickle cell. We all know that's not true, 172 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 4: and we want to make those changes. But as you 173 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 4: start going off that stand up comedy ladder start, people 174 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 4: start looking at you different, your parents start looking at 175 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 4: you different. How did you start to feel when you 176 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 4: start making people laugh and then it started inspiring you 177 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 4: to say I can. 178 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 2: Do this too. 179 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 3: Correct. 180 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 5: Yes it was, you know, going up to stand up 181 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 5: ladder was for me with nothing but another challenge is 182 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 5: what it was. But it was something that I knew 183 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 5: at the point I had the gift to do the 184 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 5: challenges that I was facing at that point in time 185 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 5: in nineteen wasn't good. At nineteen, I just had about 186 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 5: three or four jokes. 187 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: That's it. That's all I could do. 188 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 5: But I worked at it. The first time I got booed, 189 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 5: I knew then it didn't deter me. I just went 190 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 5: home and started trying to be better. I started watching 191 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 5: other professionals do it. I said, okay, cool. Then I 192 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 5: started getting to know these guys. I started to hang around, 193 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 5: and then I started learning, and then I was started 194 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 5: letting my pen write, and then I started learning how 195 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 5: the things that I need to talk about are not 196 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 5: the things that other people want to hear. 197 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 2: You just start telling your story, right, and so then you. 198 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 5: Started thinking about You know, Mac, when when when I 199 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 5: first met you and we were doing the auditions for 200 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 5: Comic View. Crazy situation in the world because you were 201 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 5: selecting talent back then, were talking about in two thousand 202 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 5: and one, right, yes. 203 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm telling you. 204 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 5: I'm sitting there and then I'm sitting here and a 205 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 5: lady comes up to me and she started talking to me, 206 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 5: and you already told me just sit down, shut up, 207 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 5: cause I tried to introduce myself to you. 208 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 2: Sit right, hey, man, I know who you are. Sit 209 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 2: down right here. 210 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 5: You may be sitting next to you. Then ladies are 211 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 5: talking to me. I didn't say nothing. The lady starts talking. 212 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 5: I said, ma'am, you need to go away, and you 213 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 5: trust me out. Would you like somebody talking when you 214 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 5: all stayed and I didn't even do nothing because you 215 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 5: were specifically there to see talent, right, and then I 216 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,599 Speaker 5: was going through this ladder. So then you gave me 217 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 5: the opportunity that was. 218 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 2: The year on Comic View. 219 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 5: I gotta stand in ovation on Comic View for the 220 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 5: jokes I was doing. And Mac, you didn't even stay around. 221 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: You had left. You was done. 222 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 5: You are knew what you had put together, and so 223 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 5: then I knew. Then I said, I can really do this. 224 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 5: Nobody had to applaud me. I was looking for the applause. 225 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 5: I looked for the pat on the back. No, you 226 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 5: really could do this. 227 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 2: Y'all left me in that moment. Let me have that 228 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 2: moment and said, no, what you have it? You can 229 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 2: really do this. And that's when I knew. 230 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 5: At that point in time, at twenty three years old, 231 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 5: so know what I was going to be faced with. 232 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 5: Just like everything else I was doing, there are challenges 233 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 5: you can always overcome with the right support of people. 234 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: Did you position yourself to be two thousand and two? 235 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 4: You know you met me? It was a comedy comic 236 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 4: view edition and then you're on tour. What just people 237 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 4: listening watching the show, listening to the show. What did 238 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 4: you put in place? What did you How did you? 239 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 4: How did you make that happen? 240 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 5: First of all, I was long enough to listen, m h. 241 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 5: First thing I had to do was listen understanding that 242 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 5: I didn't get in the way. I never I knew 243 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 5: I was talented. I never let it get in front 244 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 5: of what I was. My end goal was and I'm 245 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 5: still the same way today. I was able to listen 246 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 5: to the people who are already there. They're already in 247 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 5: the position that you're trying to get to. So I 248 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 5: remember when y'all had the UH, when y'all had the 249 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 5: New opp, y'all had New Opp, y'all had the. 250 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 2: Exhibition for all the networks, and. 251 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 5: Y'all brought us down there to do right right, I 252 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 5: wasn't even yeah, I wasn't even doing comedy. 253 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 2: I was just acting right now. 254 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 5: I remember mister Harvey sitting in there in audition one 255 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 5: day when we were rehearsing, and he said, hey man, 256 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 5: good job. He said, I don't know you, brother, he said, 257 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 5: but I'm gonna see you again. I'll never forget when 258 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 5: he said that. He said, it's not me to make 259 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 5: you nervous. It's that red light on that camera. It's 260 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 5: gonna make it nervous. If you can overcome that, you'll 261 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 5: be fine. Now ten years later, you hired me on 262 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 5: this show. See see, he said, I don't know. See 263 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 5: I went out before he hired me on the show. 264 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,559 Speaker 5: I remember James Thomas called me and said, hey man. 265 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 3: Barber James Thomas, his barber. 266 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 5: Yeah, his barber, Jay Thomas said, hey, man, miss, I 267 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 5: want to know you want to come on the road 268 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 5: and open up for him. And I'm thinking at this time, 269 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 5: I'm nobody. Do you know how many people you got 270 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 5: to go through to get to me? 271 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 3: Right? 272 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 5: It's a list of people, mm that you got to 273 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 5: talk to before you even get to my name. 274 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 3: Right. 275 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 5: But the fact he saw something, I just remember two 276 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 5: thousand and two. Now we're in two thousand and nine now. 277 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 5: And then I go to Miami and I opened up 278 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 5: for him and mister Harvey came out and he said, brother, 279 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 5: great job. 280 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 2: That's what I'm looking for. I need that young energy. 281 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 3: Mm hmm. 282 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 5: I remember Mac, you called me and said, mister Harvey 283 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 5: want to hire you on this morning show? 284 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 3: Mm hm. 285 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 4: And I'm sitting there, Steve har Steve Harry Morning, National Platform, 286 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 4: National Prep Dog. 287 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 2: Is that Is that a big enough red light for you? 288 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 3: Okay, you talked about that a big enough red light 289 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 3: for you? 290 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 5: Hey, man, I just remember what I was doing, man, 291 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 5: I was watching college football, right, and you asked me, hey, 292 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 5: mister Harry Wondo, can you come meet him at his 293 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 5: ranch tomorrow? So I turned that TV off, started packing 294 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 5: bags I would get Saturday I just had directions to 295 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 5: the ranch, right and. 296 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 2: Then he told me what the mission was. And then 297 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: that's when the journey really started. See everything else was 298 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: just prep Right now. 299 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 5: I'm actually on the mission and the journey and my 300 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 5: career just catapulted. 301 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 6: Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more 302 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 6: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making 303 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 6: Conversations Masterclass, hosted by Rashan McDonald. 304 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 4: From that one that one moment, you know, when I 305 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 4: think about this and think about the journey of what 306 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 4: you're dealing with and overcoming the odds, you know people, 307 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 4: but then meeting people who can care less about sickle sale, 308 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 4: you know, that wouldn't that wasn't introduct you into the 309 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 4: conversation about are you sick? 310 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 3: Are you healthy? Do you you know? 311 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 4: It's like if you allow that to be your calling card, 312 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 4: if you allow that to be your opening statement, if 313 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 4: you said something. 314 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 3: Like, hey, I want you know, if you said I 315 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 3: want you to do I want you to do. 316 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 4: The comedy tool, you didn't say, hey, by the way, 317 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 4: I got sickle sale. 318 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 319 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 4: That was, you know, and that's what a lot of 320 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 4: people will tend to do. They want to put a 321 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 4: roadblock in front of their dreams. Unnecessarily. Some information should. 322 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 3: Not be shared. 323 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 5: Correct, correct, It does not even have to be shared, 324 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 5: because I made it a point, because I wanted to 325 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 5: leave with me right, not what I have. My introductory 326 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 5: will always be me. See, I don't need the pity party. 327 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 5: You give me a microphone, you put me on a 328 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 5: state with anybody. I go toe to toe with anybody. 329 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 5: I don't care who it. 330 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 3: Is, right right, right, right, right, dude. 331 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 5: I've never ever thought that I can never be the 332 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 5: funniest person in the room. I never thought that I 333 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 5: never operate like that. Now has that gotten me in trouble? Sometimes? 334 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 2: Yes, because people fear your talents. That's just what it is. 335 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 5: See, I never take a day off from my talents. 336 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 5: My goal is I don't care who the headline is. 337 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 2: Did you see me? I've never said did you see me? 338 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 2: Because I have civil sale. 339 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 4: As we go through the process of developing your career, 340 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 4: you came in as an actor where you're nineteen, you 341 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 4: want to be a stand up comedian, then acting to go, well, you, 342 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 4: I don't want to say what we're acting where you 343 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 4: know we're doing road plays or what were you doing 344 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 4: out there? Yeah, get to build your acting career. 345 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. 346 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 5: About about five years of my career was doing stage plays. 347 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 2: Uh huh and uh you know who Jack with the names? 348 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 5: We know, Gerald of Vert, I mean, I mean Essence Atkins, 349 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 5: Miguel Nunez, Carl Payne, Patrese Lovely. I mean, it's so 350 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 5: many of us, man, it was so many of them. 351 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 5: I met him, Robin Gibbings, there were will be on 352 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 5: the road for nine months, you know, right, and so 353 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 5: Essence like you see these people, man, and these are 354 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 5: people that you developed friendships with, right, you know? 355 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 2: And I mean. 356 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 5: It was it was a different life for me because 357 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 5: in the plays I got to do standing. 358 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 2: My character with a set in the place. Always was a. 359 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 5: Want to be I don't care you could tell me. 360 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 5: I was a ups driver, but his dream was to 361 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 5: be a stamp and and then man on the road. 362 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 5: When I was doing these plays, man, I had to 363 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 5: earn everything. 364 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 2: Man. I was not only just doing the plays. 365 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 5: I was driving the cast to the show, taking them 366 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 5: back to the hotel. I was selling the programs and intermission. 367 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 5: I was acting in the play. I was doing the introductory. 368 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 5: I was doing everything, man, and I wasn't making but 369 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 5: eight hundred dollars a week. 370 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 3: That's a nice amount of money. Now week what what? 371 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 2: Well? 372 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 4: You know, we we were putting you up right, they 373 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 4: were putting you in the hotel, right. 374 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in the hotel man. 375 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 4: No no, no, no, came. 376 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 2: Out to eight hundred. He we all, we all brought 377 00:17:54,000 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 2: a lot of buffets. These black people, don't I wasn't the. 378 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 3: Hall of Renaissance to know right right right right right 379 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 3: right right right? 380 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 2: How do what's see? At the same time, it came 381 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 2: to challenge because they said I couldn't. 382 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 4: Do Let me ask you that because now you're really 383 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 4: speaking a conversation that because we're about to go to 384 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 4: another conversation regards to you being the brand ambassador for 385 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 4: UH and Dory. 386 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 3: You know. 387 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 4: But before that, Junior, I did Steve Hardy Morning Show. 388 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 4: I was there on tour. I saw you, I saw 389 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 4: you do beat is coming for you? 390 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 3: Where was the circle sell disease? What was all these 391 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 3: these these these prices that pop up? 392 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 2: Max? 393 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 3: Why am I seeing this? 394 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 2: There was one time you saw you just didn't know it. 395 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 2: I didn't tell you. 396 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 5: Mm hm, Like I said, I always introduced myself first, 397 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 5: and didn't when we the next year when we did 398 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 5: come to view in l A. And they didn't air 399 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 5: that one, but I was on stage. I was in crisis. 400 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 2: D I came up after Mark Curry and I was 401 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 2: on that show. 402 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 5: I was in a full fledged sickle cell crisis, and 403 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 5: I still tried to go do it. 404 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,239 Speaker 2: You walked by me, you said, you can't go out 405 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 2: there with that man. You can't do that. And at 406 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 2: this point in time, you got to stand now. I 407 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 2: have no insurance. 408 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 5: So I spent a majority of my twenties and early 409 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 5: thirties chasing my dream with no insurance, and that crisis 410 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 5: was happening. And yet I still told you in the beginning, 411 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 5: I would never let sickle cell take nothing from me. 412 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 5: Good dad is in different. I meant that it already 413 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 5: happened to me. I was not gonna let it happen 414 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 5: at a moment in my life. Well, this could change 415 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 5: my life. It didn't work out at that point in time, 416 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 5: but the crisis was happening. But I never showed anybody 417 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 5: when I was going through it. I was a shamed 418 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 5: to talk about it myself because I didn't think people 419 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 5: would understand. 420 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 2: Everybody would look at me like, oh, he just weak. 421 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 2: He's just weak man, don't look. 422 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 5: At That's why the challenges that I'm faced with, I 423 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 5: have to take them as they come because I'm not weak. 424 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 5: I'm not that I am talented. But society wants to 425 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 5: tell you, because you have sickle cell, we have to 426 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 5: keep we have. We have to treat you with kids, gloves, 427 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 5: we have, we got to you know, we have to 428 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 5: take care of you. 429 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 3: So now you're gaining popularity. 430 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure you can tour by yourself, filling 431 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 4: up comedy clubs and still become being a powerful ambacheldor 432 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 4: or advocate for people with sickle cell. Because you have 433 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 4: sickle cell? How did you become an ambassador for Indari? 434 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 4: And what is in Dorry? First of all? 435 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 2: And dirry is a medication. 436 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 5: It's a powder that I take every morning and it's like, uh, 437 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 5: giving you a boost of art to feeling normal. H 438 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 5: you know I have I have not had the issues 439 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 5: I have with my sickle cell because of in Dari. 440 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 5: I just lived my life. Now now I feel like 441 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 5: I really have a shot at just feeling normal, right, 442 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 5: you know, because I do have the chronic pains, the 443 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 5: chronic fatigue. 444 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 2: I do have that. 445 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 5: I struggle that and I keep a heavy schedule. But 446 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 5: in Dari will give you a boost to feeling like, 447 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 5: hey man, he's you feel normal. 448 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 2: You feel like this is. 449 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 5: This what normal people walk around feel like all the time, 450 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 5: Like you just got to the party. 451 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 2: That's when I darted. 452 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 5: So I had met doctor Abart. He came on the 453 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 5: morning show to promote in Dark and he said, hey man, 454 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 5: I want to get you on this drug, and I 455 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 5: did so. Then after that they saw the benefit for 456 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 5: me having sickle cell, being on the platform that I have, 457 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 5: and then they say, hey man, we want to get 458 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 5: this drug out here and we want to help other 459 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 5: people like you have the success that you're having on 460 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 5: the drug. I said, I would love to, and it 461 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 5: growing to a really great business deal for both sides 462 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 5: to actually change the world in what we're doing. And 463 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 5: I didn't want to take the deal because you're gonna 464 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 5: pay me some money to just say all taken Dark. No, No, 465 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 5: I didn't want that. What I wanted them to do 466 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 5: was if I do this, then you have to commit 467 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 5: to giving me this. 468 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 2: You have to give me y'all. 469 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 5: As a business to help me, help y'all get this 470 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 5: out here, because we have to go out here as 471 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 5: a unit. And they believed in it. They believe in 472 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 5: their drug. And doctor Nahara said, Yes. I love his passion, 473 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 5: I love his testimony. I love the way he talks 474 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 5: about it. I love the way he represents the success. 475 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 5: I love the way he talks about how he wants 476 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 5: to succeed and how he wanted to bring others along. 477 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 5: That's what made the deal good for us, right, and 478 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 5: then so we started living your life. So when I 479 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 5: started doing living your life, that became because they sickle 480 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 5: cell community didn't have that. 481 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 2: There's no way. See. 482 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 5: I started thinking about when I'm no longer here, can 483 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 5: a kid with sickle cell turn this own look at 484 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 5: it and they have a road map to success for 485 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,239 Speaker 5: their own life. That's what I was thinking when I 486 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 5: started living your life. 487 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 4: Junior here, Junior space here, Space straight out of Houston, Texas, 488 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 4: Traveler of the World, based in Atlanta, Georgia, going on 489 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 4: one year married to. 490 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 3: Your beautiful wife, living the life, living your life. I've 491 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,959 Speaker 3: lived my life living your life. 492 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 4: But more important, I just wanted to down man, and 493 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 4: I felt that your story is motivational, and I wanted 494 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 4: to share with my money making Conversations master Class audience 495 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 4: because a story has been told that when people tell. 496 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 3: You you're not supposed to do it, don't do it. 497 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 4: You've been told all of your life not supposed to 498 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 4: do that, and you've been doing it and you've been very. 499 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 3: Successful and you continue. So it's the future. 500 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 4: I got the Award Show, I got the Steve Hard 501 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 4: Morning Show, I got is it acting? 502 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 2: Yeah? 503 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, man, you know, like you know, I'm in 504 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 5: the process beyond switch. I'm in the process of planning 505 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 5: my comedy special. 506 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 2: Uh same time. 507 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 5: Yes, I want my own sitcom because I want to. 508 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 5: I want to showcase that part. 509 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,199 Speaker 3: You look like you're twenty two. I'm just telling you're 510 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 3: younger looking. Do you can throw out that for it 511 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 3: if you want to. But you're a young looking dude. 512 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 2: Man, I ain't be good to you. 513 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 4: Sickle Seal will be good to you, okay. 514 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:44,239 Speaker 2: Man, God, I've been way better. Man. Yeah, man, I 515 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 2: want to. I want to do allose things, man, Like 516 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 2: you know, I'm in the process right the sitcom, man. 517 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 5: I have so many aspirations on that endeavor, you know, 518 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 5: And you know I really want to show people with 519 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 5: single cells say hey, man, you can be successful as 520 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 5: I am, not maybe in my field, but in whatever 521 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 5: fill you in and that's the goal. 522 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 2: That's what we're reaching for. 523 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 5: We'm driving for and ma'amo tells some man until there's 524 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 5: no more breadth than my bike, I have done everything 525 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:15,719 Speaker 5: that I said I was going to do. 526 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation Magical Class. 527 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 2: And man, thank you for having me. 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