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Speaker 3: Yes, So we are here at the Baldwin and Cole

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Speaker 3: Coffee Shop and bookstore and we about to interview legendary

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Speaker 3: entrepreneur keyword city. Yes, yes, yes, I wanna do that introduction.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I mean it's been a minute. Man. We've

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Speaker 1: been trying to sit down with this guy for a

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Speaker 1: while just because of the value that he's at. It

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Speaker 1: now only unity, but to his city in anytime we

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Speaker 1: run into him, the level of hospitality when we talk

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Speaker 1: about Southern hospitality. This dude embodies it, man, and so

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Speaker 1: I got Larry Morrils with us, the legend himself. So

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us, my gun.

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Speaker 4: And I appreciate your sharing this platform.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: You know, we've been talking about it for a minute,

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Speaker 5: and it was just the honor just to be able

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Speaker 5: to be here and do this in New Orleans doing

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Speaker 5: a beautiful black weekend.

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Speaker 1: Were in your city, man, We're in your city.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, Man, thank you. Okay, this is dope.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've been watching what you've been doing for

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Speaker 5: a long time and just be sitting right here doing

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Speaker 5: this with y'all in New Orleans means a lot.

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Speaker 2: You just enlightened us. So I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: You could you can do the education of where we

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Speaker 3: are better than we can, obviously because you're from the city.

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Speaker 2: So can you let the people.

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Speaker 3: Know because this is going to go obviously on YouTube

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Speaker 3: and all that, So let the people know where we

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Speaker 3: are in the significance of this.

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Speaker 5: So when you told me he was coming to New Orleans,

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Speaker 5: and I got a good friend of mine named DJ

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Speaker 5: when he took over the spot. We met for years

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Speaker 5: back during the pandemic when he purchased this location, and

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Speaker 5: this was an iconic location. It was Jeans, poor Boys,

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Speaker 5: and it was dope to know that a brother got it.

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Speaker 5: And so when I found that out, I was so

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Speaker 5: happy because you know, this is a big piece of

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Speaker 5: real estate, you know, on the corner of New Orleans,

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Speaker 5: and it was just exciting that he got it. And

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Speaker 5: to watch him develop this bookstore, coffee shop, just this

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Speaker 5: ecosystem where we can come and read and just you know,

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Speaker 5: just just just joined, like just coming together, you know,

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Speaker 5: because there's a lot of different things he do over here.

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Speaker 4: I was excited.

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Speaker 5: So when y'all came in town, I wanted to know

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Speaker 5: y'all to come over here because he's a big fan

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Speaker 5: of what y'all do.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, man, let me connect the dots.

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Speaker 5: So I connected the dots and now we're here, and

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Speaker 5: it's dope to be able to just you know, connect that,

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Speaker 5: you know, connect that bridge, and you know, just be

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Speaker 5: able to be here.

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Speaker 4: So shout out to DJ. Appreciate you, brother, and coffee

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Speaker 4: is incredible. Man.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's been your story every time we

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Speaker 1: see you. You're always connecting dots.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: I feel like even with black you know, we we

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Speaker 1: you know, black was but you were like, you gotta

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Speaker 1: meet this guy. Uh, And we've had phone conversations like

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Speaker 1: growing up, is that to know your way? Like we

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Speaker 1: just got to show up to everybody because oh, is

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Speaker 1: that unique to you and your people.

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Speaker 5: I think I've been able to build my brand not

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Speaker 5: only by you know, being connected, but also connecting dots.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've learned that, like from a lot of

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Speaker 5: my mentors, Kenny Burns, Cannon Jasper.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people around me.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's like their friends and family become my

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Speaker 5: friends and family because you know, they will easily insert

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Speaker 5: me in conversations that I'm not in or rooms that

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Speaker 5: I'm not in. And so when I saw that at

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Speaker 5: a young age, my early twenties, I'm thirty two now,

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Speaker 5: it's just something that's just stuck with me, just connecting

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Speaker 5: those dots and being from New Orleans, like you know

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Speaker 5: that Southern hospitality, just bringing people to get up through hospitality.

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Speaker 3: So we gotta do the formal introduction. Larry Marrow say

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Speaker 3: your last thing correctly.

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Speaker 5: Man, you sound you sound like Wallow right now? You

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Speaker 5: don'd like bone marrow Man Wallow Instagram.

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Speaker 4: He was like Marrows I'm like.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow, what what?

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Speaker 2: What? What's the last name? Where does that come from?

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Speaker 4: Asked my daddy, who I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was like a New Orleans like no

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Speaker 3: type of no, I'm not for my knowledge, Well, Larry,

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Speaker 3: we actually met during the pandemic on Clubhouse. It was

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Speaker 3: a room where Meek Mill was in a bunch of

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Speaker 3: other people. That's when Clubhouse was going crazy and we're

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Speaker 3: talking about crypto. I forgot who who did the introduction,

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Speaker 3: but might have been, might have been? And then we

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Speaker 3: connected offline and we spoke a few a few times text,

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Speaker 3: had the phone conversation and then ever since then, like

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Speaker 3: we've just been tapped in. And he's one of these

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Speaker 3: people that always adds value, like he connects.

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Speaker 2: Us to people were in New Orleans. It's like what

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Speaker 2: you need?

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Speaker 3: That's such an un the rated value add like most

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Speaker 3: people always want to take, very few people give, but

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Speaker 3: it is better to give than received. And he I'm

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Speaker 3: sure it's in a position that he's in right now

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Speaker 3: because I know his spirit, like his spirit is like

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Speaker 3: how can I help? He's of service and this is

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Speaker 3: why he's connected with everybody like you see him what

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Speaker 3: fabulo is, like you said, Gillian Wallow, who don't you know?

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Speaker 3: Like I feel like every every person in the world

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Speaker 3: knows Larry and anybody that I asked, I'm like, you

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Speaker 3: know Larry, Like, yeah, of course I know Larry.

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Speaker 2: So when you.

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Speaker 3: Set this up, I thought that it would be dope

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Speaker 3: for us to interview you because you've given us a lot,

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Speaker 3: but we never actually had like a real sit down

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Speaker 3: conversation to cover your story.

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Speaker 2: You're young, and you're doing it on a high level.

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Speaker 1: Keep real with him though, Like every time we asked him,

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Speaker 1: like are you ready? I got some more things I

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Speaker 1: gotta do, yo. I got the more things I gotta do, yo.

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Speaker 1: So we finally got you here.

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Speaker 2: We know them to the corner.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, he's a restaurant tour he was in a

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Speaker 3: night is in a night life vibe, great collector of art, investor,

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Speaker 3: family man, father most importantly and husband and husband and

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Speaker 3: just a real big figure when it comes to the

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Speaker 2: So there's gonna be a dope conversation. So thank you,

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Speaker 2: thank you for joining.

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Speaker 1: I know you hate I'm gonna say, Larry's a legend man,

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Speaker 1: like you, really a legend man. And the crazy part

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Speaker 1: is that we knew about you before we even knew

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Speaker 1: who you were, because we just kept seeing these these

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Speaker 1: parties and they're like, yo, who I thought you were

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Speaker 1: a lot older. I'm like, Yo, this guy must be

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Speaker 1: established in the game. And then I think when one

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Speaker 1: night Shotty called me like y'all got Larry on the phone.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about trading, I'm like, I bet

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, yo, Larry a legend. Do we know that?

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Speaker 1: And I'm the first time I mention him, like yo,

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Speaker 1: you know you you that guy right, and you're like

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Speaker 1: nah Sheldon, Nah nah nah Man, but you are though,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And to be doing this

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Speaker 1: so young and to be helping people and being of

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Speaker 1: service at all courts is incredible. Whether we here in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, whether we're in Houston where we into three

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Speaker 1: or five, Like anywhere we go, there's a hospitality and

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Speaker 1: you could feel the love. Even when we walk through

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Speaker 1: this building today, it was like, hey, Larry, like you

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Speaker 1: like the hometown hero in a sense.

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Speaker 4: Man I appreciate that.

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Speaker 5: And it's because like yesterday, you know, me and Mano

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Speaker 5: met for the first time and we got a lot

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Speaker 5: of mutual friends, and Mano was like, yo, like like,

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Speaker 5: we're just meeting, but I've known you.

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Speaker 4: For a long time. He said.

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Speaker 5: Everybody speak about you, he said, fab everybody they.

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Speaker 4: Talk about you. And it's like, man, you're really a legend.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, you know, it's somebody who you know, I've

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Speaker 5: watched coming up and just to hear, you know, different

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Speaker 5: acknowledgements from people who come before me and you know,

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Speaker 5: been in the game for a long time and the knowledge,

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Speaker 5: you know, what I do down in New Orleans, which

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Speaker 4: You know, we're in the city.

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Speaker 5: Where it's about the culture and the food, but we

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Speaker 4: But you know, we're not in Hollywood.

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Speaker 5: We're not in Black Hollywood, Atlanta, we're not in la

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Speaker 5: We're not in Houston, h in these bigger markets with

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Speaker 5: have been watching what I'm doing and a knowledge of

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Speaker 5: what I'm doing, Man.

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Speaker 4: It's just like so inspiring just to you know, be

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Speaker 1: But on for the city.

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Speaker 2: So let's get into it. So you're a restaurant tour, right, But.

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Speaker 3: How do you get into the restaurant It's one of

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Speaker 3: the hardest businesses to get into. And you open up

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Speaker 3: successful restaurants at a very young age. But how does

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Speaker 3: that transition happen from you originally started with nightlife?

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Speaker 2: Right yep? So yeah, how does the.

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Speaker 3: Transition happen from night life to being a restaurant tour

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Speaker 3: How do you maintain successful restaurants when ninety restaurants fell?

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Speaker 5: I would say because I built my business from the

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Speaker 5: ground up, and it wasn't.

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Speaker 4: With my Like I wasn't born with money.

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Speaker 5: I didn't have it. You know, I worked, you know,

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Speaker 5: fourteen years old. People don't know I was working at McDonald's,

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Speaker 5: worked that finish line. I worked at check E Cheese Man,

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Speaker 5: I worked.

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Speaker 1: I did valet, I did.

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Speaker 4: My last jobs was when I was twenty years old.

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Speaker 5: I did I was, I was doing to vallet and

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Speaker 5: I was I was a lifeguard at Stalin's Park in

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Speaker 5: the Civil Ward. And a lot of people don't know

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Speaker 5: these things. Like I always worked, so I always had

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Speaker 5: those habits and I work, work, work, But you know,

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Speaker 5: of course I wanted to create my own you know,

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Speaker 5: my own things. So when I started at twenty years

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Speaker 5: old producing events I did. I did my first event,

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Speaker 5: made like eleven thousand dollars, and you know, I saw, like,

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Speaker 5: you know, you're twenty years old, you make eleven thousand

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Speaker 5: dollars from partying. I'm like, oh, okay, party every day,

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Speaker 1: You know, there's another part there too. You said that

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Speaker 1: You know, mothers and their sons is a unique relationship. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So let me ask you this. You can learn from

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Speaker 3: you said the reserves thing.

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Speaker 5: It was just knowing I couldn't go up in there

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Speaker 3: One of the things that most businesses don't consider, especially

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Speaker 4: And enlightens a low too.

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Speaker 5: Because I used to want a whole pie, but not

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Speaker 1: So when you're creating a restaurant, mom has the expertise

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Speaker 4: That experience or how did so for transparency?

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Speaker 5: So like with this industry, like my mom, like I'm

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Speaker 5: I'm like, yo, like we can do this, And you

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Speaker 5: are we gonna do it? How would we do that?

439
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Speaker 5: Like Manter, worry about that. I'm gonna figure that out,

440
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Speaker 5: so me, that's what I do. I figured things out,

441
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Speaker 5: So I'm figured. I started to figure out ways too,

442
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Speaker 5: you know, how can we expand but not you know,

443
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Speaker 5: break right, So you know, I came up with different

444
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Speaker 5: ideas and ways that we can expand it. I would

445
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Speaker 5: see all these locations, like I'll walk out here today

446
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Speaker 5: and I see something I wanted, I'm gonna go get it.

447
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Speaker 4: And that's just what it is. And I don't step

448
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Speaker 4: up no for an answer.

449
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Speaker 5: So it's like I came up with the you know,

450
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Speaker 5: the form like just to get on our food costs

451
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Speaker 5: and just I meet with my bookkeepers once a week.

452
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Speaker 5: We have meets once a week about our food costs,

453
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Speaker 5: about everything, and just understanding like you know, the margins.

454
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Speaker 5: Like you know in the restaurant industry, it's fifteen to

455
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Speaker 5: twenty percent profit margins. It's not a big margin, right,

456
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Speaker 5: but it's like you know, Morrows, I'm thirty percent. Why

457
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Speaker 5: because I'm maintaining the food costs, I'm maintaining the labor costs,

458
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Speaker 5: I'm maintaining the liquor costs, I'm maintaining you know, the

459
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Speaker 5: whole nine. So I think our collaboration was great, but

460
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Speaker 5: I dove a little deeper and just kind of showed

461
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Speaker 5: my mom and she's like, wow, Like I showed her

462
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Speaker 5: a bigger picture of what it could look like. And

463
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Speaker 5: now it's like, you know, the goal is not to

464
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Speaker 5: have one restaurant. It's not to have two, it's not

465
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Speaker 5: to have three, not to have four, it's not to

466
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Speaker 5: have ten, to have as many as we can have.

467
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Speaker 5: And I think, like I said, Tim and Fatita can

468
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Speaker 5: have five hundred, why can I have, you know, six hundred?

469
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Speaker 3: So correct me if I'm wrong. But I think another

470
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Speaker 3: reason why the other second restaurant was successful. By that time,

471
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Speaker 3: you had already developed a real buzz for yourself.

472
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, And so.

473
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Speaker 5: I think that's why the first one really because at

474
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Speaker 5: twenty eight, twenty seven to twenty eight, like I built

475
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Speaker 5: the bigger brand than twenty two. So it helped, you know,

476
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Speaker 5: all those relationships Drake coming through everything.

477
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well it's this is a business lesson for anybody.

478
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Speaker 3: It's a lot easier to build a brand on the

479
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Speaker 3: shoulders of an other brand as opposed to just starting

480
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Speaker 3: from the beginning. That's even one of the things that

481
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Speaker 3: we did with Early Leisure. So the original my original plan,

482
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Speaker 3: I was a financial advisor. My original plan was to

483
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Speaker 3: be a celebrity financial advisor. I didn't really think about

484
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Speaker 3: the media space. So it was growing my own personal

485
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Speaker 3: social media page and that got to like fifty thousand followers.

486
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Speaker 3: But then we see, okay, there's an opportunity to start

487
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Speaker 3: earn your lesia. But there was already groundwork that was

488
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Speaker 3: done on a social media aspect that had fifty thousand

489
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Speaker 3: followers a lot of people fifty thousand. So by the

490
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Speaker 3: time we started earning a lesia, now it's me saying,

491
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Speaker 3: all right, now we got earnrlesia. So one brand, which

492
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Speaker 3: essentially was built, helps build another brand.

493
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot easier.

494
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Speaker 3: Than just having no followers at all and just saying

495
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Speaker 3: earn your lisia is just possibve, Like what does that

496
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Speaker 3: even mean?

497
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Speaker 5: Everything's feeding each other right now, Like Larry Moore, events

498
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Speaker 5: is like the motor, like me being even producer producing

499
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Speaker 5: events is like the motor behind it all because I

500
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Speaker 5: built all these relationships up for the past ten years. Right,

501
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Speaker 5: open up a restaurant. I got Floyd Maywell to come

502
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Speaker 5: in town. He come and have lunch with me. I

503
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Speaker 5: got Mary J. Blige come in town, she come and

504
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Speaker 5: have lunch with me. She loved my mom, she love

505
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Speaker 5: her food. Got you know, all these people coming in.

506
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Speaker 5: So my brand, Larry Morrow events will help throughout, like

507
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Speaker 5: like push Morrows and then you know, Morrow's helped push

508
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Speaker 5: Monday trip.

509
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Speaker 4: I had Morrows, then I went to Treehouse.

510
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Speaker 5: I'm producing all these events and bringing you know, ten

511
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Speaker 5: times the amount of people, more people than I when

512
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Speaker 5: I was initially because now I got my own venue.

513
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Speaker 5: So when they come in town, they come by Morrows,

514
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Speaker 5: and now after that opened up Monday, they go by Monday.

515
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Speaker 5: So I've created this whole ecosystem and I just like

516
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Speaker 5: got a reservation manager. So it's like when people call

517
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Speaker 5: and want to book Morrow's and Morrow's.

518
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Speaker 4: Book, Hey, we can set you up at you know,

519
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Speaker 4: sun Shun.

520
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Speaker 5: Now we can set you up at you know, Monday,

521
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Speaker 5: and we can we can we can take care of

522
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Speaker 5: your whole trip. Were like a concier service now, so

523
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Speaker 5: we're controlling our environment.

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Speaker 1: So one part of of the restaurants business that always

525
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Speaker 1: gets overlooked is the hiring process. And you being a

526
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Speaker 1: young CEO, young restaurant tour when you're trying to find

527
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Speaker 1: the right people to work inside of your establishment. Talk

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Speaker 1: about that process, right, because they I mean a lot

529
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Speaker 1: of times they're not gonna care for it the same

530
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Speaker 1: way you do. Right, this is your basing, right, So

531
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Speaker 1: how do you keep retention inside of the space.

532
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Speaker 4: Well, so in this industry, unfortunate, you always have retention.

533
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Speaker 4: This is what it is.

534
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Speaker 5: It's a high value business. It's something that's going to

535
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Speaker 5: constantly get turned over. But you know, like anything in life,

536
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Speaker 5: you're going to find people, good people. Out of every hundred,

537
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Speaker 5: you might find one. I would say outside my mother,

538
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Speaker 5: you know in j C. Jc's my partner as well,

539
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Speaker 5: and I have theory theory. She's the CEO of my company,

540
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Speaker 5: chief operation officer, and basically she runs all my establishment.

541
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Speaker 5: She started off as an intern, started off working for free,

542
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Speaker 5: right around the time I open up my roles.

543
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Speaker 4: Working for free.

544
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Speaker 5: I didn't know how I was going to do it,

545
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Speaker 5: you know, like I wasn't in a position I was

546
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Speaker 5: in five years ago, So I didn't know how I

547
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Speaker 5: was gonna sustain it and like pay her due, do

548
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Speaker 5: all the things I wanted to do.

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Speaker 2: So she started working for free.

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Speaker 5: Then when I was able, I was paying one thousand

551
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Speaker 5: dollars a month, right now it's like then we started,

552
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Speaker 5: you know, we started to grow, and you know, she's

553
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Speaker 5: now one of the highest paid people in my company,

554
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Speaker 5: making six figures and running the whole operation. And she's committed,

555
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Speaker 5: like it's nothing that she wouldn't do.

556
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Speaker 4: You know, she really like as I make more money,

557
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Speaker 4: she makes more money.

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Speaker 5: She's like she's been a big help in like a

559
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Speaker 5: driving force and helping make this coming successful. Outside my mother,

560
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Speaker 5: myself and JC so shout out to her because you know,

561
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Speaker 5: I realized you can't you know, you can't do it alone.

562
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Speaker 5: You got to have a team. You gotta have a

563
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Speaker 5: solid foundation. And honestly, I'm only able to dream as

564
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Speaker 5: big as I dreaming right now because of what I

565
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Speaker 5: have around Me and Troy.

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Speaker 3: Were at a summit a few weeks ago in the

567
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Speaker 3: Hamptons and learned something that was very insightful.

568
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Speaker 2: So they were saying that Netflix Netflix right.

569
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Speaker 3: Netflix has an online an infest though that everybody should read,

570
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Speaker 3: and it like outlines their company structure, and they were

571
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Speaker 3: saying that they pay the most out of any streaming company.

572
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Speaker 3: They pay their employees the most, and the reason being is, like,

573
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Speaker 3: the theory is that one good employee is actually worth

574
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Speaker 3: two people. So I'd rather pay you more than what

575
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Speaker 3: other people will pay you because I'm actually saving money.

576
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Speaker 3: And if you, if you're an employer, you know how

577
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Speaker 3: dangerous one bad employee can be and how valuable wan

578
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Speaker 3: like one and good like they say one good a

579
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Speaker 3: few good men. One good employee can really change the

580
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Speaker 3: direction of your whole entire company. So that's extremely important

581
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Speaker 3: to always look at employees as an investment. Sometimes it's like,

582
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Speaker 3: and especially when you start, it can be kind of scary.

583
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Speaker 3: It's like, I don't even have enough money to you know,

584
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Speaker 3: really fund the business properly, Like how am I going

585
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Speaker 3: to pay somebody? But sometimes you have to take the

586
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Speaker 3: leaf of faith because that one employee, if you're paying

587
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Speaker 3: them fifty thousand or whatever, they could potentially bring in

588
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Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty thousand for you. So, but I

589
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Speaker 3: wanted to ask you a question in regards to what

590
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Speaker 3: you have mentioned the hospitality, So what's your part for

591
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Speaker 3: how many restaurants you currently have right now?

592
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Speaker 5: So currently I have Morrows, I have Monday, I have

593
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Speaker 5: sun Shun in the French Quarter. I have a Morrow's

594
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Speaker 5: State that's opening up in like two months. Downtown New

595
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Speaker 5: Orleans and I have a spot called Spicy Mango that's

596
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Speaker 5: opening up on Frenchman Street.

597
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Speaker 2: Andreo is a club, Yes, a club.

598
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Speaker 4: So five restaurants, one.

599
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Speaker 3: Club, five restaurants, one club. Yeah, so very impressive, by

600
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Speaker 3: the way, congrats Because they're all different type of.

601
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Speaker 4: Restaurants are different type. That's the hardest thing to do.

602
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Speaker 2: Talk about that.

603
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Speaker 5: Well, So I'm creating different concepts and like you know,

604
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Speaker 5: of course that's the formula to to disaster essentially, because

605
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Speaker 5: now you're trying to recreate a whole new situation. Like

606
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Speaker 5: we're using the same blueprint for everything. We're doing same system,

607
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 5: same everything, right, but you know, me creating different concepts,

608
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 5: it's like I got to hire new selves. I gotta

609
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 5: find new people to come help create this vision. So

610
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Speaker 5: so that's tough, and you know, that's just the route

611
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Speaker 5: I'm going right now. But my ultimate goal, like you know,

612
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Speaker 5: right now, we're working on morrowsh Houston for twenty twenty four,

613
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Speaker 5: and it'll be easier to go create a new Morrols

614
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Speaker 5: versus create these new concepts. Because I got staff, I

615
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 5: can move to Houston and you know, run it, you know,

616
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Speaker 5: and who who know who know the system versus you know,

617
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Speaker 5: going to create a new concept, new menu, new shells

618
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Speaker 5: and everything. But I'm learning that, you know what, Like

619
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Speaker 5: we were just talking about like retention and just paying

620
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Speaker 5: people more, you know, like you got to pay for

621
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Speaker 5: good help. And that's what I've been doing. So we're

622
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Speaker 5: not trying to get you know, at one point, like

623
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Speaker 5: you know, I was a little cheaper and was like, yo,

624
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Speaker 5: I can't afford to pay that, but I want to

625
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Speaker 5: pay that.

626
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Speaker 2: I want to.

627
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Speaker 4: I want to pay for good help.

628
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Speaker 5: I want to pay for good people because that's the

629
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Speaker 5: only way I'm gonna be able to you know, have

630
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Speaker 5: like be able to sleep at night and have any

631
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Speaker 5: type of freedom.

632
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Speaker 4: This one.

633
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Speaker 5: I have good people because if you don't have good people,

634
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Speaker 5: I gotta you know, watch over everything they're doing. So

635
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 5: you know, I'm building my foundation and whoever's part of that. Course,

636
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 5: like when I grow, we grow, I mean, when the

637
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 5: company grows, we all grow. It's not you're not You're

638
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 5: not limited, so we driving maybacks and Ferrari's like, you know,

639
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 5: the goal is to get you know, of we living

640
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 5: in houses. I want everybody to have the comfort of

641
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 5: in this industry is not known to like people like,

642
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,719
Speaker 5: are you crazy, Like why are you doing so much?

643
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 5: You want to be stressed out? I'm not stressed, you know,

644
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 5: I want everybody to have the quality of life. And

645
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 5: in this industry, not everybody has the quality of life

646
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Speaker 5: because of the.

647
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Speaker 4: Hours to take.

648
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Speaker 5: And you know, the average manager in the restaurant industry

649
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 5: working sixty seventy hours.

650
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 4: Right, that's a lot of hours.

651
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Speaker 5: So if you got a family, kids, and you know,

652
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Speaker 5: a personal life, like, how can you maintain your personal life?

653
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Speaker 5: So I'm like, you know what, We're going to build

654
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Speaker 5: our company on making sure everybody can have the quality

655
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 5: of life, not just the CEO, the people you know

656
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 5: at the top, know everybody. So right now it's a

657
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 5: lot tough for everybody's playing more roles. But you know,

658
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 5: right now we're all working together so that we can

659
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 5: all make sure that everybody can and you know, be

660
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 5: a part of this company, have freedom and make a

661
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 5: good living and be happy.

662
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's crazy because when Shotty was we

663
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: talked about that next situation. The next thing. We looked

664
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: at each other and said, wait, one good employees worth two,

665
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: but in our community, like one is worth like five

666
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: because they're doing so many multiple Roles. I want to

667
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: talk about the the position that you're in from leasing

668
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: these locations to ownership, right, because on top of it

669
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: being a location, it's also a real estate play, right,

670
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: So I talk about the strategy behind that.

671
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 5: So I don't own every location I have. I'm also

672
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 5: I'm in the process of buying some of them, some

673
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 5: of them leasing. But I think it just depends on

674
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 5: the location the lease.

675
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: Uh.

676
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 5: You know Tim and Fatita, you know, one of the

677
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 5: largest restaurant tours in the world. He says, Okay, the least,

678
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 5: you know, like like some buildings you just got to lease,

679
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 5: you know, because it's not worth what the you know,

680
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 5: it's not worth to buy it, you know. So Catch Hospitality,

681
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 5: you know, I've been since seen some of this space,

682
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 5: you know, like the amount of money they're paying. At

683
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 5: least you'd be like, what the hell, Like I never

684
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 5: knew at least could be designed. Yeah, they told me, Like,

685
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 5: you know, I was out there regional Catch Hospitality in

686
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 5: New York.

687
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 4: I spent five.

688
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 5: Days out there and they opened balcomed me with open arms,

689
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 5: created a whole agenda just to walk me through the process,

690
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 5: to show me a young aspiring restaurant tour.

691
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: You knowe my kids.

692
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 4: That is to Eugene shout, they are probably there right now.

693
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 2: He catches La La. What'd you learn from Catch?

694
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 4: Oh? So quick? Story quick started.

695
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 5: I was in La been to Catch twenty seventeen, went

696
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 5: with a friend, and I was saying, like, I want

697
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 5: I want morrows to be to catch the south right.

698
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 4: This is when I was about to open Tomorrows right

699
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 4: fast forward, you know.

700
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 5: But six years later, you know, I'm sitting down and

701
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 5: meetings with Eugene and his team. You know, they recently

702
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 5: sold their company for one hundred million dollars and you know,

703
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 5: just being able to see that.

704
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 4: But I've learned so much.

705
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 5: I've learned just even like how leadership just being just

706
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 5: like watching them operate leadership, and how to control just

707
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 5: your percentages, and just how starting to shift off for

708
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 5: the pre shift. Something as simple as a precift can

709
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 5: help save a lot of problems throughout the day, you know,

710
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 5: doing cups up before the shift starts. What's apprecif appreciate

711
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 5: if is just like a meeting before the shift, right,

712
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 5: a meeting that basically sets the tone.

713
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: For the day, saying that's like when everybody gets in

714
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Speaker 1: the huddle.

715
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Speaker 4: Man, no listen, listen.

716
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 5: I came back like, I was like, Yo, no sitting

717
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 5: down pre shift, Let's huddle up.

718
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 4: It's almost like you about to call a play. Let's

719
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 4: huddle up and let's have a quick meeting, right.

720
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Speaker 5: And it was so impactful that one of my services

721
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 5: DM me she was like, oh my gosh, appreciate was

722
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 5: so amazing.

723
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Speaker 4: It really motivated me and it inspired the staff and

724
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 4: helped us have a better day.

725
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Speaker 5: But one thing I preached in my staff is like,

726
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 5: you know, like I don't want nobody to be with

727
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 5: me being an employee of mind forever. If there's a

728
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 5: way I can help or knowledge, I can, you know,

729
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 5: pass down because a lot of people are like you know,

730
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 5: my age and people who are from New Orleans, part

731
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 5: of the community, and got a lot of questions and

732
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 5: I'm here to answer those questions. But I think you know,

733
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 5: one of my young man that works for me, he

734
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 5: was like, Yo, how can I learn from you?

735
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 4: And my words? My response was I said stay.

736
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Speaker 5: Close because because I invite you know, all them like

737
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 5: they they work at the spot, but then they come

738
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 5: to Treehouse, they're free bottles whatever they want. Like I

739
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 5: make sure my staff have a good time if they

740
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 5: want to go out whatever, But like you know, stay close.

741
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 5: I'm available, Like you know, I'm honestly too available at

742
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 5: times because I'm in every group message, I'm in every conversation,

743
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 5: you know when I don't have to be. But I'm

744
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 5: a part of, you know, everything that's going on because

745
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 5: I care about it, and you know, I wouldn't be

746
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 5: able to build what I'm building without people who believe

747
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 5: in me. And just even you know, whether it's a

748
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 5: server busser chef, you know, Ed shout out to Ed.

749
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 5: You know, it's been with us since day won. One

750
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 5: of our executive chef said, Moros. You know, he's been

751
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 5: a big help and them believing in me and me

752
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 5: believing in them has helped this.

753
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 2: Just what's the cups up? You said? The cups cups?

754
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 5: So it's like basically like when I went out there,

755
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 5: there was trying every dish before they open right, because

756
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 5: you can identify what's just off right and it's something

757
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 5: as simple as that. So all right, cool, we need

758
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 5: to cups up twenty minutes before the doors open up.

759
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 5: Whatever it's not right either eighty six it meaning get

760
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 5: rid of it.

761
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 2: Or you know it, fix it like it tastes testing.

762
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 5: It tastes testing, right, So just something as simple as

763
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 5: that would just help change what your day look like

764
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 5: because you're gonna save on food costs, things getting sent back.

765
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 5: You're gonna save in a bunch of different ways. And

766
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 5: like I said, it's low profit margins, you know, like

767
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,479
Speaker 5: the restaurant industry can't afford mistakes, right, but you can

768
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 5: if you manage it properly. But the restaurant industry is

769
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 5: one of those things that it can make you successful

770
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 5: if you utilize it properly. Cash flow, it can help

771
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 5: you go acquire real estate, it can help you acquire things.

772
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 4: You know, help with my p and ls.

773
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 5: At the end of the year, Like the bank look

774
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 5: at my p and ls and they see how much

775
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 5: cast flaw I got, and it's like it makes it

776
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 5: easier when I go acquire, when I go acquire what

777
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 5: a house, whatever, real estate.

778
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 4: It's just helped.

779
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 5: So that's how a lot of restaurant tours and people

780
00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 5: in this industry are.

781
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 4: Anybody with cash flow.

782
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 5: If you got cash flow and you stand on top

783
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 5: of your p and ls and you can show you

784
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 5: know you could, you can show you know the bank,

785
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 5: your numbers. It's like it help you to go acquire things,

786
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 5: you know. So that's another thing I use it for

787
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 5: because it's like it's helping build make me a stronger

788
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 5: person company, to just have a nice cash flow and

789
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 5: be able to look at things differently.

790
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, the P and l's is important. Man,

791
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: I'm thinking now, like when you're doing these real estate transactions,

792
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: the importance of credit inside of this, right when you're

793
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: going to get your lead, so you're trying to get

794
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: a new deal. So about that, because that that's something

795
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: that people are not looking at. Like when we talk credit,

796
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: most people think, oh I got to get a home

797
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: or I got to get a car. But you're creating

798
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: and businesses and almost like a hospitality situation where credit

799
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: is almost equally as important inside that and the effects

800
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Speaker 1: of it.

801
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 4: When you say credit to my credit lines, credit credit lines.

802
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: If you're going to get loan from the bank, if

803
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: you if you're trying to do a real estate deal,

804
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: how how does that work inside the real estate Well?

805
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 4: Now worked it works.

806
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 5: It works like you know, I mean to acquire anything,

807
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 5: you got to have, you know, you gotta have you know,

808
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 5: p and ls and credit.

809
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 4: You gotta have just like just credentials, you know. I mean,

810
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 4: so it allowed me. Like before.

811
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Speaker 5: I remember when I brought my first piece of property

812
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 5: and uh twenty five, I actually I sold my watch.

813
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 5: I had got this rolex. It was a bus down.

814
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 5: I ain't know nothing about no rolex, but I made

815
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 5: a lot of money for it. I'm gonna need that cash.

816
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 4: I thought I thought it was a.

817
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 5: Rapper back back when I was hanging with fab I ever,

818
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 5: I thought I was a rapper. So but you know,

819
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 5: when I realized I wasn't. I'm an entrepreneur, you know

820
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 5: what I mean. That's when everything started to change because

821
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 5: I was like living in my purpose, you know. And

822
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 5: I sold that watch. Had a friend of mine, I

823
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 5: won't see his name.

824
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: He bought the.

825
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 4: Watch for the same price I bought it, so I

826
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 4: got to shine with it for two years.

827
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Speaker 5: Sold it and I bought my first house thirty nine

828
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 5: thousand dollars cash to die Spencer.

829
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Speaker 4: I couldn't. I couldn't go to the bank.

830
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 5: I wasn't bankable, right, And I tell my staff, I'm like, yo,

831
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 5: look y'all want to keep your cash. Y'all need to

832
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 5: go deposit and show the government what you're making, pay

833
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 5: taxes on it, so that you can go acquire things

834
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 5: people think that you like, Like if you're in the

835
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 5: service industry, the thing is, I want my cash tips.

836
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 5: That's not going to help you buy house. It's not

837
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 5: going to help you buy a car. No, you need

838
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 5: to go depositive, show what you're making. Pay your taxes.

839
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 5: Now when you go to the bank, you got paperwork,

840
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And I didn't realize that.

841
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 5: And that's why I try to like these things that

842
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 5: I'm telling my staff, like I want I want them

843
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 5: to be knowledgeable.

844
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 4: Like it's not like, how do you get to the

845
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 4: next level? You got to pay the play.

846
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad you just said that, because

847
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about people who get the tips and it's like,

848
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm just put this under the mattress. Right, But you

849
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: do that long enough, then you can't show She laughed

850
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: that she put us under the mattress. He do too,

851
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: But right, if you don't put that in the bank,

852
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: then it's like when I'm trying to get a loan, world,

853
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: what's your income? You know what I'm saying.

854
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 5: So it becomes I think when you're not in the

855
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 5: financial position to go do what you want to do.

856
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 4: You need to show as much as you can.

857
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 5: But when you get in the financial position to do

858
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 5: what you need to do, such as like you know,

859
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 5: very successful people, they're trying to hide money, trying to

860
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 5: you know, buy buildings and different things for tax purposes

861
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 5: to not pay as much. So I think, you know,

862
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 5: it's different games. You got to play at different points

863
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 5: in your life. So if you're starting off and you're

864
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 5: trying to grow, you need to be showing what you're making.

865
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 4: You be paying your taxes. And it hurts because.

866
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 5: Honestly, I paid a large amount of money the other

867
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 5: day just getting caught up on things, you know, like

868
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 5: getting like my business took off so fast when I

869
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 5: was you know, just started producing events. I'm making money

870
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 5: producing events. I'm not paying no taxes. I'm not what

871
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 5: is the tax?

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Speaker 4: Like, what is that?

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Speaker 5: What is it?

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Speaker 1: What is it?

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Speaker 2: I'm so I'm two turned right, but I think about it.

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Speaker 4: But the average person, the average person, I thinking about taxes.

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Speaker 5: But so when I realized I couldn't buy that property

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Speaker 5: through the bank, I had to pay cast craziest thing

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Speaker 5: one hundred thousand dollars into renovation all my money, had

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Speaker 5: and it just threw it off, threw me off track.

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Speaker 5: And shout out to dis Spencer because she's the reason

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Speaker 4: Now, JC h was a financial advisor. He worked at

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Speaker 5: He told me, he said, why would you pay cash

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Speaker 4: Oh and he spoke to me and spoke to my soul.

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Speaker 5: And listen, like, getting all this advice is what changed?

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Speaker 4: Like me, you know, like I go to the bank.

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Speaker 2: You know, I just sold.

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Speaker 5: Two homes, Like like I sold one two weeks ago

902
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Speaker 4: Money, other people's money, and I didn't understand that at first.

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Speaker 5: But you know, like I sold like a house uptown

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Speaker 5: that's heavy, heavy, and I showed another one, you know,

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this.

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Speaker 3: You said something about a concier service, like if people

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Speaker 2: Talk about that, Well, I didn't.

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Speaker 5: But it's more so like you know, we're hiring different positions.

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Speaker 5: I think it's just like you know, identifying the positions

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Speaker 5: you need, and we decide we realized we needed like

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Speaker 5: our own reservation manager because we get like hundreds of

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Speaker 5: calls a day, right, and so we just need to

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Speaker 5: be able to manage it properly.

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Speaker 4: Cauld.

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Speaker 5: We missing a lot of leads, people calling for parties.

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Speaker 5: You know, we're missing a lot of money. So now

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Speaker 5: it's like we're going to probably see an increase of

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Speaker 5: ten to twenty percent, which matters by just you know,

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Speaker 5: incorporating the system, even though we're hiring new management position

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Speaker 5: is going to help us make more money.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: So I want I want to talk about women. You know,

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Speaker 1: you raised about women, grew up around women. Her COO

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Speaker 1: as a woman partner with mom, obviously a woman, Sue

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Speaker 1: Chung Sun Chum Sun Chung grandma name named after Grandma woman.

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Speaker 1: We saw the ribbon cutting, it was an emotional moment

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Speaker 1: for you, saw some tears. Talk about the importance of

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Speaker 1: and the role that women have played in the development

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Speaker 1: of the Marral brand.

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Speaker 5: Man, It's like somebody told me that the day they say,

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Speaker 5: well you're smart, the all women run, all women.

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Speaker 1: Working with That's the first thing I thought, and real talk.

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Speaker 5: Like my staff, everybody's woman, my mom, my grandmother, my sister,

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Speaker 5: my you know, like Theoria Macy, you know, my grandmother,

1013
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Speaker 5: just just everybody around me, you know, who play a

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Speaker 5: role a woman. And you know I was raising the

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Speaker 5: you know a mom, single parent household. My mom she

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Speaker 5: was you know, my father figure. You know my father

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Speaker 5: wasn't there. She played an important role in my life

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Speaker 5: and just helped me, you know, like you know, just

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Speaker 5: helped me, you know, navigate through life. And I'm blessed

1020
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Speaker 5: to like, you know, just not have had a short

1021
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Speaker 5: leash on me because I was able to go out

1022
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Speaker 5: and you know, become a man and learn from trial

1023
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Speaker 5: and error just in in my ecosystem as a kid

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Speaker 5: and so a mom. Man, I'm just so blessing, like

1025
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Speaker 5: just like now having my own family and you know,

1026
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Speaker 5: my fiance, he plays an important role in just making sure,

1027
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Speaker 5: like our foundational houses a home, which gives me, you know,

1028
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Speaker 5: the comfort to go out and do what I do,

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Speaker 5: you know, to make sure my child is you know,

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Speaker 5: well taken care of, and just you know, just being

1031
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Speaker 5: able to go do what I do, cause you know,

1032
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Speaker 5: it's not easy to balance you know, this work in

1033
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Speaker 5: personal life and family life, and like it's crazy. My

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Speaker 5: neighbor texts me, he said, yesterday morning, he knows Essence

1035
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Speaker 5: weekend and he was like, yo, man, I don't know

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Speaker 5: how you do it because like like you're gonna see

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Speaker 5: like I'm always you know, I'm always doing it. If

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Speaker 5: I go experience something without my family, I'm gonna come

1039
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Speaker 5: back and experience it twice.

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Speaker 4: It's more twice more with my family.

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Speaker 5: So like I told, like I had to go to

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Speaker 5: Africa for a business trip and I told I told him, like, yo,

1043
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Speaker 5: we want to come back, be going to experience this

1044
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Speaker 5: twice more, like we're gonna come here twice.

1045
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Speaker 4: Whatever.

1046
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Speaker 5: But you know, it's like understanding that balance because you know,

1047
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Speaker 5: without that, I wouldn't be able to do this, you know,

1048
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Speaker 5: so I make sure that, you know, I nurture all

1049
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Speaker 5: the components around me and just even not just my home,

1050
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Speaker 5: but my mother, my my team, Theora Macy, like they

1051
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Speaker 5: play big roles. So it's just you know, I'm blessed

1052
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Speaker 5: to have a strong group of women around me. And

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Speaker 5: I didn't really realize it that I had, you know,

1054
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Speaker 5: so many women working for me. But that's really running

1055
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Speaker 5: my company, like really running this company to help it

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Speaker 5: become successful.

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Speaker 3: The Tree of Life painting, let's talk about that. What

1058
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Speaker 3: is the significance of that? And there's a story with

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Speaker 3: Sean Carter.

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Speaker 1: God we might know.

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Speaker 2: Is involved in the.

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Speaker 1: Yard of Him.

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Speaker 2: Jay Z, what's the story Will Man?

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Speaker 5: So basically, so when Trehouse opened up, who wanted to

1065
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Speaker 5: create this painting? So with morrows, you know morrows, like

1066
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Speaker 5: people would line up. I would sit in front of

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Speaker 5: Morrows in my car and wise people get dressed up,

1068
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Speaker 5: come take a picture in front of sign. When we

1069
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Speaker 5: when we got that sign, I had the option to

1070
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Speaker 5: get this little wood sign or pay more and get

1071
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Speaker 5: this aluminum illuminated sign. I'm like, I want the wood one.

1072
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Speaker 5: I want the one that you know people could take

1073
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Speaker 5: pictures in front of little did I know that I

1074
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Speaker 5: would set myself up to create a photo drop. Everybody

1075
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Speaker 5: would take pictures in front of every celebrity you could

1076
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Speaker 5: think that will come and take these pictures.

1077
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Speaker 4: And so.

1078
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Speaker 5: It was a big hit and it helped, you know,

1079
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Speaker 5: you know, like circulate around social media. So I'm like,

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Speaker 5: you know what, when we go in the treehouse, I

1081
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Speaker 5: want a photo drop. I want somewhere for people to

1082
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Speaker 5: take pictures so we created that at Treehouse. And the

1083
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Speaker 5: way it came about there was a friend of mine,

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Speaker 5: Kendel Fran genius when it comes to you know, art

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Speaker 5: and just with what he does, he's a dope person.

1086
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Speaker 4: He was like. He came looked at it and he

1087
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 4: was like yo, Like I'm like, yo, look I want this.

1088
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 4: I want to paint here. I don't know what I

1089
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 4: wanted to be.

1090
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 5: So we just started pondering on our ideas and we

1091
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 5: was like, like, I want a picture at jay Z.

1092
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 4: But that also come from Theoria.

1093
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 5: She also mentioned something about like, you know, putting somebody

1094
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 5: like it was gonna do. Wayne was think about different

1095
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 5: people to put but we came up with an idea

1096
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 5: of like, you know, jay Z and turning his head

1097
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 5: into like a tree or something right, and it was ideal.

1098
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 5: We didn't really know it was gonna look the way

1099
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 5: it looked, so like I got the perfect person for this.

1100
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:11,959
Speaker 4: So he called Jerrn.

1101
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 5: And Gerrn came over, a dope artist, local cool dude,

1102
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 5: and we started to develop this idea. And so we

1103
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 5: all came up with this idea and then I told

1104
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 5: him like, yo, look like we're gonna take a picture

1105
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 5: in front of this, all right, both didn't take a

1106
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 5: picture in front of it. But after you know, we

1107
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 5: got the painting up went viral. He got fab and

1108
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 5: taking pictures in front of it. Everybody who come to

1109
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 5: the treehouse taking pictures in front of it, and a

1110
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 5: few friends sent it over to Emory's j and everybody

1111
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 5: and Jay.

1112
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 4: Wanted to buy it.

1113
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 5: And so he wanted to buy it to put it

1114
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 5: in a rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and uh

1115
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 5: so he pursed the painting and he put in a

1116
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 5: rock and roll Hall of Fame. And I went to Uh,

1117
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 5: I was in Cleveland for All Star weekend, and I

1118
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 5: went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and

1119
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 5: I saw this photo and had my name onside in

1120
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 5: the treehouse and uh, you know jerring Bee's and it

1121
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 5: was dope, you know, because you know, it's like, you know,

1122
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 5: what's happened in my life. I've been projecting a lot

1123
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 5: of things into the universe, and it's like it happens

1124
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 5: because of you know, just like just just knowing it will,

1125
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 5: you know, and and praying and just like being thankful

1126
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 5: for the opportunity and just everything that's going on. So

1127
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,439
Speaker 5: when whole like when I got to call like hold

1128
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 5: one to buy them, Like no, that's dope. And honestly,

1129
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 5: I didn't want to let the painting go, but it's

1130
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 5: it was bigger than me, you know, it was big.

1131
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 5: I would have felt like a sucker not, you know,

1132
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,959
Speaker 5: letting that painton fly because you know it's gonna help

1133
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 5: you know, an artist from New Orleans and you open

1134
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 5: up more doors for just all of us, you know.

1135
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 2: So did you speak to him directly or just somebody from.

1136
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 4: No, no, No, I spoke to this team. They reached

1137
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 4: out and we was going it was negotiating for like two.

1138
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 2: Months about the prices.

1139
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, jay Z, yeah I need.

1140
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: Did they ever pull up? I feel like I've seen

1141
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: the pictures was maybe it was Salon just toalant. Did

1142
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: anybody from the team pull up to the treeols prior

1143
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: to leaving the painting leaving?

1144
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 5: No, But it was like a big rollout, like it

1145
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 5: came video the whole thing. Because this was like because

1146
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 5: the paint was so big that like you couldn't just

1147
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 5: ship it, like they had to drive it to Cleveland.

1148
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 5: They had to come. Like so they came in. It's

1149
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 5: almost like who's in the funeral home?

1150
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 4: Like they came with big.

1151
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 5: Old boxes ship put it on and like just like

1152
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 5: wrapped everything up hundred times and just to ensure that

1153
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 5: it was safe. And it was like a whole production,

1154
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 5: and they recorded the whole whole thing shipped to Cleveland

1155
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 5: and they put it in his frame.

1156
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: And you thought you was gonna be a rapper, right,

1157
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 1: that didn't work, but you still ended up in the

1158
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Damn, look at God. Right,

1159
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: Let's talk about expansion. Man, the last time we saw you,

1160
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: we were having a great time in the city of Houston.

1161
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: Let's talk about where Marls was going. Are there more

1162
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 1: cities that you're looking to expand into? Obviously I'm gonna

1163
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: be biased that because we're in New York and there's

1164
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: no oysters like yours. So, like, what's the deal with

1165
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: expansion for the brand?

1166
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 4: So we're coming to New York for sure? Yes, that's like,

1167
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 4: you know, my relationship.

1168
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 5: With New York, like all like majority of my friends

1169
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 5: outside of New Orleans of from New York.

1170
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 4: Got some cool homies from there.

1171
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 2: Man, you got a lot.

1172
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 1: Of New York. Yeah, I mean once you got to

1173
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: pay attention to that, you know.

1174
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 2: But what's crazy?

1175
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 5: I was that kid, like you know, imagine like being

1176
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 5: raised in New Orleans and you're watching these movies like

1177
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 5: Paid Him Full and you're watching like I'm going to

1178
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 5: I'm in high school, Like yo, whata w'll be?

1179
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 4: I'm talking like I'm from New York. I'm like not

1180
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 4: from New York.

1181
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 5: But it was like, you know, of course, like like

1182
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 5: Justin Colembs, he always telling me how he's influenced by

1183
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,439
Speaker 5: cash money, talking about cash money.

1184
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 4: Come on, Justin Coles going crazy the word for word.

1185
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 5: And it's so dope to see because him being from

1186
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 5: the East Coast, being younger than me when he's thirty

1187
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 5: years old now, but being so influenced by all culture.

1188
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 5: It's like it's the same thing. So me viewing it

1189
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 5: from afar, it's like, Wow, I want to go to

1190
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 5: New York. Right twenty years old, I went to New

1191
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 5: York and I met my homiemail Carter, Lonnie and Lonnie Ray,

1192
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 5: my big brothers, and they exposed me to this whole

1193
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 5: ecosystem in New.

1194
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 4: York and showed me something I never seen in New Orleans.

1195
00:50:58,560 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 4: I was young.

1196
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 5: I was twenty years old, twenty one years old, and

1197
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 5: they out there like you know, they picked me up

1198
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 5: coloring in I'm not the coloring of the race and

1199
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 5: all that stuff, like just everything.

1200
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, what's like what these But it was allowed.

1201
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 5: Me to see something Penthouse, craziest pinhouse in Brooklyn Future

1202
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 5: and everybody would come and like shoot videos there, and

1203
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 5: it just.

1204
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 4: Allowed me to see something different than where I'm from.

1205
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 5: Like we're from the swamps, beautiful city, right, but we

1206
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 5: below sea level.

1207
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 4: You go to New York, it's a little different. You

1208
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 4: go to la houses off the hill.

1209
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 5: So when I started to travel more and see things

1210
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,439
Speaker 5: like that's when I just started to open up more

1211
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 5: and knew that, you know, these certain things were obtainable.

1212
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 5: So you know, my relationship with New York is like, man,

1213
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 5: like I love it. Like I tell my homies all there,

1214
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,240
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, I'm half Brooklyn half New ally because

1215
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 5: they like all my friends, y'all know, like, man, they're

1216
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 5: from New York.

1217
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 4: So we're coming to New York. We're going to Houston.

1218
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 4: We're going to Houston first.

1219
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 5: I don't know if I should be saying this, but

1220
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 5: we gotta roll Houston, Atlanta, New York, Miami. So for

1221
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 5: you know, so tomorrows I don't want Moorrows everywhere. I

1222
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,720
Speaker 5: want four Morrows. That's a game plan that can change.

1223
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 5: But I know I can accomplish a goal I want

1224
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 5: to accomplish by just getting four Morrows up throughout these

1225
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 5: cities and expanding. And like, you know, I can be

1226
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 5: at the wrong table discussion. You know some numbers, you

1227
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 5: know so that it's gonna happen.

1228
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,359
Speaker 3: So how is the what's the difference between the night

1229
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 3: life vibe and the restaurant Because you have a club,

1230
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 3: but you also have all of the restaurants. So a

1231
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 3: lot of people shy away from night life because of

1232
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 3: it's a lot of money, but it's a lot of

1233
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 3: problems we all know, like night life it's never a

1234
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 3: good combination with alcohol, more liability and.

1235
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 2: Two o'clock in the morning.

1236
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 3: It's just it's a it's a recipe for disaster.

1237
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 2: How are you able to navigate that?

1238
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 3: And what's your take on the differences between the restaurant

1239
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 3: industry and the night life industry?

1240
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 5: So if I can get you know, I mean at

1241
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 5: this point, like you it's not easy to sell a club, right,

1242
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 5: Like like I'm thinking of the big picture and what

1243
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 5: I'm trying to create I thought that I could with

1244
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 5: a club, right, So club is something that I love

1245
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 5: and like I want to own and I want to

1246
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 5: continue to do not be so involved in it, but

1247
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 5: because it helps, Like you know, me own the night

1248
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 5: life and you know, the profit margins are different, you know,

1249
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 5: being in that industry. Own the club is like I'm

1250
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 5: able to you know, have a different pace, Like I'm

1251
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 5: able to go at a different pace because the cast

1252
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 5: looaw is different.

1253
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 4: Right.

1254
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 5: So, but when you're talking about longevity, like night life

1255
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 5: is short term, you know, like you know, you got

1256
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 5: to get club at the club at the club at

1257
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 5: the club. Morrow has been running for five years. It's

1258
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 5: made five years April sixth, and you know it's consistent.

1259
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 4: You know, I go to sleep, I wake up and

1260
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 4: get money.

1261
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 5: You know night life if you know, it's not gonna

1262
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 5: be as consistent as a restaurant can be.

1263
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 4: So I switch to my game plan.

1264
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 5: I'm like, you know, I want more Morrows versus more

1265
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 5: treehouses because now I can create something that is sellable.

1266
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 4: You know, I can scale something up and you know,

1267
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 4: I can package it up and sell it. So that's my.

1268
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 5: Goal, Like my goal is to not let's say I

1269
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 5: wanted to sell my company, but to be at the

1270
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 5: table and to experience the feeling of if I want

1271
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 5: to like you know, like are you cool? Like I'm

1272
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 5: gonna package my whole hospitality Morrow's Hospitality and you know,

1273
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 5: potentially sell it to someone. But you know, I think

1274
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 5: I think that's one of the goals for the future.

1275
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 8: Are there are there other verticals inside of the hospitality

1276
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 8: group that you're willing to explore in terms of maybe

1277
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 8: merch or a product that Morrow's is going to have

1278
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 8: and now license to other people.

1279
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think it license anything. I mean I

1280
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 4: mean you.

1281
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: Said merch, well, yeah, merge cookbooks, recipes.

1282
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 4: I mean yeah.

1283
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 5: Well, like so like my mom she has uh my

1284
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 5: seasons and no different products coming out coming out with

1285
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 5: mercery coming out a bunch of different things. But outside

1286
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 5: of like the the seasons and different things, it's not

1287
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 5: gonna be much every licensed. I think there's going to

1288
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 5: be more. So you know, we're trying to package everything

1289
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 5: just to make it. We'll just scale it up, like

1290
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 5: you're trying to keep everything, you know, so you're looking

1291
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 5: at the exit already, well, just trying to come up

1292
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 5: with like something's like so I never had this big

1293
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 5: vision of like wanting to sell my company, and I've

1294
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 5: been projecting the number into the universe, like, look, I

1295
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 5: want to sell my company for this, right, so like

1296
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 5: one hundred million. Yeah it so my goal is one

1297
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 5: hundred million. So I'm projecting into the universe. I'm all right, cool,

1298
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 5: I got to figure out how to do this right.

1299
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 5: So it's not so much about selling it, it's more

1300
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,280
Speaker 5: so about setting goals.

1301
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: Right.

1302
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 5: So I set the goal of like I want to

1303
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 5: sell a company for one hundred million, and you know

1304
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 5: that's the game.

1305
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 4: That's the goal. Now, So my team around like, oh,

1306
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 4: we're selling this company for one hundred million.

1307
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 2: The value and that is that.

1308
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 3: Now you're reverse engineer it because a lot of times

1309
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 3: we're not even exposed to actually exiting company, so we

1310
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 3: don't really plan for that.

1311
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 2: But it's all right.

1312
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,280
Speaker 3: If I want to sell it for one hundred million,

1313
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 3: and let's say the multiple is a ten x multiple,

1314
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 3: it might be less than the rest of our dustry,

1315
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 3: but just using that as an example, now I have

1316
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 3: to bring in ten million dollars year in revenue, right,

1317
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 3: and now you reverse engineered at to say, okay, what

1318
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 3: do I need to bring in ten million dollars a year,

1319
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,479
Speaker 3: and now you're looking at a pathway to one hundred

1320
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 3: million dollars, or if you're looking at a billion dollars,

1321
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,879
Speaker 3: it's the same thing. It's just different multiple IRV Gott

1322
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 3: he told us something that was extremely insightful, and he said,

1323
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 3: you can't sell what you don't own, right, That's why

1324
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 3: ownership is so important. Can't sell what you don't own.

1325
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 3: That's elementary. But you'd be surprised how many people don't

1326
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 3: fully understand that, right, Because at some point in time,

1327
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 3: you might want to sell something, whether it's your music catalog,

1328
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 3: whether it's a restaurant, whether we talked about Squid Games.

1329
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 3: The director of that sold to his IP for one

1330
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand dollars and it made Netflix nine

1331
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 3: hundred million. You can't sell what you don't own, and

1332
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 3: you got to have a plan to sell because you

1333
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 3: never know.

1334
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 5: That's what Dave Grumman, you know, Dave Remmy, we had

1335
00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 5: a conversation one day.

1336
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 1: He owned to the whole city of Miami.

1337
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 4: He owns everything.

1338
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,919
Speaker 5: Live on a Sunday Komodo Poppy Steak, somebody I watched.

1339
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 5: I watched and he told me it was like on

1340
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 5: your IP because you're like we had these comm we

1341
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 5: had this conversation during the pandemic.

1342
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 4: I texted him like they he called me like what

1343
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 4: was up there? I mean he was like, what's up later?

1344
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 4: And he was just so.

1345
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 5: Eager to give me the advice and he was like,

1346
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 5: man on you, I p like unless you like you know,

1347
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 5: if you partner with a guy, like for real, you know,

1348
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 5: like this.

1349
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 4: Is before you open up the hotel, but you know,

1350
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 4: good day.

1351
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1352
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 4: So so, but.

1353
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 5: Like right now it's like the goal like like like

1354
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 5: my team is like I will go one morning.

1355
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 4: I'm like, y'all want to sell for under me? All right,

1356
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 4: it just came out.

1357
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 5: I don't know where it came from, honestly, and honestly,

1358
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 5: I've been projecting into the universe and I'm not saying

1359
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 5: I'm going to sell, but you know now it's like

1360
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 5: my team shout out at Theora, I see theory, et ceterac.

1361
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 5: This was my team right there. But yeah, she's she'd

1362
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 5: be like, yo, we're selling for a hundred me, you

1363
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 5: know what I mean. So now it's like when you

1364
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 5: got everybody like we're selling fun of me, and like

1365
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 5: everybody working towards his goal.

1366
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 4: It's like, how can you lose?

1367
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: It's better to make it even better when your dogs

1368
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: make it with you.

1369
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 4: But it's like it's like, you know, imagine.

1370
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 5: That that ball player in high school knowing he going

1371
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 5: to the pros and he gonna get.

1372
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 4: A big check.

1373
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 5: Ball he gotta do is stay focused. That's the feeling, like,

1374
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 5: you know, we gotta stay focused. We stay focused, we

1375
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 5: gonna see that check. You've always got the grind.

1376
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: Just twenty recently he became a father, right, talk about

1377
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: the impact that that's had on your mindset and your

1378
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: structure around business.

1379
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:27,959
Speaker 2: Man.

1380
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 5: Let me tell you, And this is being just transparent,

1381
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 5: Like this morning, my daughter, like when I woke up,

1382
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 5: like I was holding that She's like, Daddy, I love you,

1383
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 5: and like, man, like I was emotional. I just started

1384
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 5: like I dropped them tears because it was like I

1385
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 5: had a moment like man, it's just so it's like,

1386
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 5: especially during this weekend, like you know, so much has

1387
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 5: happened in the past few days of just like just

1388
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 5: me connecting and seeing people and like yo, telling me

1389
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 5: like how I inspired them and how this and like

1390
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 5: man like like I'm a big fan of yours and

1391
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 5: people from all over right, Like I walk in the

1392
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 5: Essence Fest yesterday for thirty minutes and people stopping me

1393
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 5: taking picture. She's like, Yo, you're a big inspiration. And

1394
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 5: so when I woke up this morning, I'm holding her

1395
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 5: and she's like, Daddy, I love you, and like I

1396
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 5: just started crying, like drop some tears because it's like,

1397
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 5: this is what I'm doing it for, you know what

1398
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,919
Speaker 5: I mean, Like everything that I'm doing is to build

1399
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 5: that legacy so I can create something for her. So

1400
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 5: it's like being a father has changed me. It's like

1401
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 5: been the game change and allowed me to just like

1402
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 5: see things differently. It gave my life purpose. It made

1403
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 5: me say, like you know what, like this ain't if

1404
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 5: I was to be gone today. I'm building something for her,

1405
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 5: for my family and for the woman around me.

1406
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 4: So it's had such a positive impact.

1407
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 5: Man, And not having a father has made me want

1408
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 5: to be a better father. So, like it can be

1409
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 5: emotional at times because it's like its Father' Day. Man,

1410
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 5: I experienced emotional experience during Father's Day. It's like, Damn,

1411
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 5: my father wasn't there. I never even thought about that

1412
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 5: on Father's Day, Like Damn, my father wasn't even there,

1413
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 5: and you know, like I'm here with my daughter and

1414
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 5: it's like such a beautiful feeling and it's like, damn,

1415
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 5: he wasn't even there. So I had like shot a

1416
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 5: tweet out and I'm like, I said, man, I still

1417
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 5: resent my father for not being there. It was just

1418
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 5: like an emotion that was going through me because it

1419
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 5: was like I never felt it. I never really even cared, honestly,

1420
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 5: And a lot of people like could relate to it

1421
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 5: because it's like, you know, it's like, you know, I mean,

1422
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 5: you shouldn't hold onto things like that, but for some reason,

1423
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 5: I'm not a person that hold grudges at all. I

1424
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 5: forget and forgive, but it's like I hold on to

1425
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 5: that for some reason because.

1426
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 4: It's like it's just it's just something that stuck to me.

1427
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 4: It's just it's still stick to me. It's just like

1428
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 4: I just.

1429
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 5: Kind of, you know, it's just a feeling of him

1430
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 5: not being there, but knowing that's such a beautiful thing,

1431
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 5: Like you give life, why not be there for you know,

1432
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 5: the kid or no person you bring into.

1433
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 3: The world, you know, So so let me ask you

1434
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 3: this as far as your journey is concerned. I know

1435
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 3: physical fitness is a part of it. Right, what's your

1436
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 3: routine because that's important. I think so many times like

1437
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 3: we run ourselves ragged, and it's like, as a business owner,

1438
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 3: you're only as good as the clarity of your mind.

1439
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 3: Extremely underrated when it comes to running a business. This

1440
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 3: is why you have to eat healthy. You have to

1441
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 3: avoid toxic relationships. I tell my guys all the time.

1442
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, if you're in a relationship issue, it's gonna

1443
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 3: affect your work no matter how focused you are. You

1444
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 3: can't be one hundred percent focused on something if you're

1445
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 3: in a toxic relationship. Same thing if you're not healthy.

1446
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 3: So what's your workout routine? I know that's important to you.

1447
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 5: So I wake up like every morning, well you know,

1448
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 5: of course not every morning, but even if I even

1449
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 5: if I get in late, like I got in that

1450
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 5: six am. I woke up at like non forty five,

1451
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 5: It's just like, you know, this is how I'm wired.

1452
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 5: Like I'm just used to at this point because I

1453
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 5: don't believe in getting it late, being excused.

1454
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 4: To start your day late.

1455
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 5: You know, So woke up at noin forty five, got

1456
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 5: in that six am, yeah, I'm tired, but I like,

1457
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 5: I get on my friends all day every day, like

1458
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 5: like to the point where I FaceTime at eleven o'clock.

1459
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 5: You're not answer it intentionally, not to my phone call

1460
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 5: because you know, I'm gonna go crazy, Like how we're

1461
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 5: gonna be friends?

1462
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 4: You waking up at eleven twelve? Like that's not like,

1463
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 4: that's not what That's not what success successful people.

1464
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 2: Do two o'clock is crazy, you know.

1465
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 4: So, so I'm on them.

1466
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 5: So I'm I'm tough on myself, right, I'm tough on myself,

1467
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 5: Like like I got in at five am and I

1468
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 5: went work out at eight am, like maybe a week

1469
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 5: ago into you like man, consistency and persistence was a

1470
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 5: person you know. Like you know, I just think when

1471
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 5: you want to be successful, you got to create good habits.

1472
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: Right.

1473
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 4: You cannot be.

1474
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 5: Successful and wake up at noon and expect to go,

1475
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 5: you know, make the best of your day.

1476
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 4: You lost so many hours of the day.

1477
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 3: I just want to say one thing with the follow

1478
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 3: up on that success leaves clues, yep, one of this.

1479
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 3: So were in Miami a few years ago, right, and

1480
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 3: Fountain Blue, you know, found Blue.

1481
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 2: You gotta drive like all the way up right.

1482
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 3: So we're driving them and this is like it's like

1483
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 3: eleven forty five, twelve o'clock at night. We just came

1484
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 3: from dinner, about to go to Found Blue, get dressed,

1485
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 3: and they're about to go out, right, So driving by myself,

1486
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 3: I'm in the car and I'm driving on the road

1487
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:08,919
Speaker 3: to Fountain Blue, twelve o'clock at night, and I see

1488
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 3: somebody running in the middle of the street, you know,

1489
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 3: Found Blue. That's kind of like almost like a highway,

1490
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 3: kind of like you know, I mean, it's like it's

1491
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,439
Speaker 3: a busy street, but they're like running in the middle

1492
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 3: of the street by themselves, running towards me. And as

1493
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 3: he as he gets closer, I see who he is.

1494
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 3: Who you think it was? Take a guess.

1495
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 4: In Miami, Falling Blue.

1496
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 2: Floyd Mayweather. He wasn't training for a fight.

1497
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 3: This is after he retired, by the way, when he's

1498
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 3: already in his forties, when he's already fifty and old,

1499
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 3: when he's already almost a billionaire. And when I saw that,

1500
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 3: I said, I get it, because nobody's ever going to

1501
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 3: see that. You're going to see him on Instagram with

1502
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 3: a million dollars of cash and fourteen million dollar watch

1503
01:03:55,680 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 3: and private planes, the discipline of the same thing since

1504
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 3: he was six years old to forty two when nobody's

1505
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 3: watching for no reason, because you become addicted to certain things, right,

1506
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 3: you could be addicted to the bad things, you predicted

1507
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 3: to good.

1508
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 2: Things as well.

1509
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 3: So when he's when I saw that, it was just

1510
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 3: so inspiring to me because I'm like, I understand why

1511
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 3: he's the best now, you know what I'm saying, Because

1512
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 3: he's doing this when he doesn't have to at an

1513
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 3: hour that nobody would ever be running at twelve o'clock

1514
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 3: by himself. And I'm just like, success leaves clues, like

1515
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like people that are successful usually.

1516
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 2: Have similar habits.

1517
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 3: And even when we met Akon and we asked him, like,

1518
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 3: what's some of the biggest lessons that you learned from, like,

1519
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 3: you know, hanging around billionaires and different things that nature,

1520
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 3: And he was like a lot of the billionaires, like

1521
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 3: they heavily are spiritual, no matter what their religion is, Muslim, Christian, whatever.

1522
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 3: He was like, that's a common denominator. Like you know,

1523
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 3: he keeps them grounded, It keeps them a bigger purpose,

1524
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 3: It keeps because It's like after you get a couple

1525
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 3: million dollars, you might think that your god, you know

1526
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 3: what I mean. But then it's like, if you're humble

1527
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,439
Speaker 3: enough to understand that all this can be taken away

1528
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 3: from you, your drive is going to be different, and

1529
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:13,600
Speaker 3: your purpose is going to be different because you realize

1530
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 3: that it's not just about you. You're here to actually

1531
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 3: help other people. So that has to come from a

1532
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 3: connection higher and bigger than yourself. So a lot of

1533
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 3: these different things, these are like intangible things that you

1534
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 3: really just can't pick up on your own. You have

1535
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 3: to have to see it firsthand. So I wanted to

1536
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 3: talk about that working out. I think that that was

1537
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 3: important because people, you know, they see success, but there's

1538
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 3: other things that anybody can do to actually get themselves

1539
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 3: to that.

1540
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 1: Jury that that that piece you just spoke about that

1541
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: waking up, Yeah, like that's that. I always tell people,

1542
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 1: that's that fatherhood lesson. Don't matter what time you're getting

1543
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: you come in at night, your kids waking up at seven,

1544
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 1: but see and they deserve to have you.

1545
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 5: I think I spent a lot of time preparing for

1546
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 5: what's to come because I know what's coming, right, So

1547
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 5: I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna get to it.

1548
01:05:58,920 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be the first one up.

1549
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to sleep late, I'm gonna work out,

1550
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be out with you, and I'm gonna wake

1551
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 5: up before you.

1552
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 1: You know.

1553
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 5: So all my friends, every single one, they know how

1554
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 5: I am when they wake up late. I swear I'm

1555
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 5: like a drill sawgiant like like like even with my

1556
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 5: evil with my fiance, like at one point, she used

1557
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 5: to wake up later than me, right, and I told him, like.

1558
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 4: Man, what's she doing.

1559
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 5: You can't be waking always like that. Man, I wake

1560
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 5: up in the morning. She gone, you know, I mean

1561
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 5: she out the bed working out, Like wake up before me.

1562
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 5: Now six am and she be out the door. And

1563
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 5: you know, it's just like it's about having people around

1564
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 5: that's gonna push you and not allow you to, you know,

1565
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 5: sleep on yourself, because you know, we all can be great,

1566
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:38,919
Speaker 5: but we just got to really put that projector into

1567
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 5: the universe, and you know, just have a nice ecosystem.

1568
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 1: You lead by demonstration, right, I wanted at this point,

1569
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 1: right because we've seen you and every time we see you,

1570
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 1: you got your day ones with you is that any

1571
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 1: point does survivors remorse kick in for you? Or has

1572
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: it kicked in for you? Right like I'm making it.

1573
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 1: And some of the guys that I came up with,

1574
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 1: they even fell off or I try to put them

1575
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,920
Speaker 1: in positions and it didn't work. Is that that happened

1576
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: to you throughout the course of building the b No.

1577
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 5: I think you know, everybody want different things in life.

1578
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 5: You know, everybody want different things. And you know if

1579
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 5: you're if you're one of my friends, you know, you

1580
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 5: know me, you know how I am. And I put

1581
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 5: in the group the group chat the other day with

1582
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 5: my homiess like ten of us, and I said, man, look,

1583
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 5: life is about helping one another.

1584
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 4: I said, if.

1585
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,760
Speaker 5: Any any of y'all need anything from me, let me know,

1586
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 5: Like maybe we need to sit down and have more

1587
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 5: round table talks. But that's what it's about, Like we

1588
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 5: can build our business off the backs of others because

1589
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 5: that's what we're supposed to do.

1590
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 4: Right, Let me help you helped me. Let's gratch each

1591
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 4: other back.

1592
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:34,439
Speaker 5: So I told them that, and it's like I'm here

1593
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 5: but because and the reason why I said that because

1594
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 5: the day before I saw a homie mind close friend

1595
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 5: of mine and his business, and he was talking about

1596
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 5: some of the struggles of his business. But I'm like,

1597
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 5: you're trying to do it all alone. No, I'm like, bro,

1598
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 5: I'm not successful because I'm doing doing this alone. I'm

1599
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 5: successful because I have a team around me that people

1600
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 5: that's helping me.

1601
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 4: Like, none of this was built by just by me.

1602
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 4: Through the good grace of God.

1603
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 5: I have a blessed I'm blessed to have a great

1604
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 5: team and a great support system that helped, you know, manifest.

1605
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 4: All these ideas.

1606
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 5: But it's not like it was a lot harder when

1607
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 5: it was just me, you know, coming up with the

1608
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 5: idea of trying to execute it.

1609
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 4: Do the whole No, do the whole thing.

1610
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 5: But now that I can come up with an idea

1611
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 5: and we can sit at the table and figure out

1612
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 5: how to execute it, it helps and it helps me

1613
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 5: accomplish and us accomplish more so. Now, man, with the homies,

1614
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,679
Speaker 5: it's like, I'm not because I think, you know, everybody

1615
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 5: got the same twenty four I push my homies.

1616
01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 4: I'm here, I can support you whatever.

1617
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 5: You need, and I always you know, let them know, like, yo, look,

1618
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 5: let's figure out how we can utilize each other.

1619
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 2: So before you rap, what's what's on the vision? Boy?

1620
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 3: You talked about you know the restaurants? Are you getting

1621
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 3: more into real estate? Do you what else do you

1622
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 3: want to do? Like what's your tenure plan?

1623
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 2: Looking like?

1624
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 5: Honestly, like, I'm not a person that planning out there

1625
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 5: for ten years is a long time. We gotta get

1626
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 5: the ten, We'll get the five first, you know, I'm

1627
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 5: thinking about today and honestly, like my game plan change

1628
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 5: every every day.

1629
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 4: They'll tell you all wake up one day and be like, yo.

1630
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 5: Look look we're gonna we're gonna I wanna buy this.

1631
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 5: Oh were not open up? No more restaurants, And I'm like, oh,

1632
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 5: look no, I want ten more. So it's like I'm

1633
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 5: a tough person to deal with because like a lot

1634
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 5: of like you know, I go off my emotions, like

1635
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 5: so some days I'm feeling like, man, let's go, let's

1636
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:09,600
Speaker 5: let's go get it. In the days I'm like, no,

1637
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 5: let's be strategic and figure out how we want to

1638
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:14,600
Speaker 5: do this. So I know the next five years the

1639
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 5: goal is to build this company up. Entertained some conversations

1640
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 5: to see if we want to sell the company. I

1641
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 5: know in the next you know, three to four five

1642
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,679
Speaker 5: years that we will be in a position to where

1643
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 5: in which we I feel like we're in a position

1644
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 5: now to what we have had conversations, but nothing that like,

1645
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 5: not the conversations that we want yet, you know, so

1646
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 5: I would say in the next five years to continue

1647
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 5: to grow this hospitality company. Uh, we're acquiring some of

1648
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 5: the real estate that we know what our businesses are

1649
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 5: because I kind of fell back off of real estate.

1650
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 5: Only real estate that I want right now is the

1651
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 5: commercial pieces that you know, we house all businesses. Uh,

1652
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 5: probably another kid, another kid grow this empire.

1653
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 4: We're about collaborations. Oh yeah, definitely collaborations.

1654
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 5: I have a few people that know I'm looking to

1655
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 5: collaborate with.

1656
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 4: I can't say who yet because you know, we had some.

1657
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 5: Conversations and we talk about collaborating and it's probably gonna

1658
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 5: happen in their future.

1659
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 4: Because of course, in order to go big, you.

1660
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 5: Gotta have, you know, take a lot of capital, you know,

1661
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:18,719
Speaker 5: so like you know, Catch Hospitality become Catch Hospitality because

1662
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 5: they were good. They had great people around them and

1663
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 5: people that were willing to invest in their dreams. So

1664
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 5: we've been able to build up this far, and at

1665
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:28,679
Speaker 5: some point we may say, you know what, let's let's

1666
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 5: go bigger.

1667
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: You know, do you ever realize I mean, I mean,

1668
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: it's tough right when you're doing the work. It's tough

1669
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:36,520
Speaker 1: to look in the rear view the path that you're trailblazing.

1670
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,680
Speaker 1: When I'm listening to it, I hear Dave Gruttman, that's

1671
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: a phone call, catch hospitality, that's a phone call. These

1672
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: aren't doors that have always been open for people that

1673
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 1: look like us. Do you realize the path that you are?

1674
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: You aware of it? Like sometimes you know, I mean

1675
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 1: because sometimes we get caught in the moment with moments

1676
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:54,120
Speaker 1: so fast we don't realize what we're doing.

1677
01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:55,639
Speaker 5: I'll be telling them like, man, look man, look what's

1678
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,720
Speaker 5: going on? Like I tell my mom sometimes I'm like yo, ma,

1679
01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,719
Speaker 5: like look what's going on? Like this shit is happening

1680
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:03,000
Speaker 5: right now. Look at what's going on. This is not normal.

1681
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 5: And I know for a fact, like just what we've built,

1682
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 5: the ecosystem, what we created, it's not normal. Man, it's

1683
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 5: not normal, Like you know, it ain't like you know,

1684
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 5: like friends come to a lot of my friends. Man,

1685
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 5: I'm thankful to have blessed people in my life and

1686
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 5: just people who care about what I'm doing and friends

1687
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 5: from all over who just like always remind me like yo,

1688
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 5: like because sometimes I just be like, you know, it's

1689
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 5: like regular, but you know you get reminded like, man,

1690
01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:29,680
Speaker 5: this is this ship is this is extraordinary. You know,

1691
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 5: this ship is for real?

1692
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

1693
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 5: So, man, it's just a feeling I get, man like,

1694
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 5: you know, like I get to I get the BG's

1695
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:39,719
Speaker 5: man like, get the bubble guts thinking about it because

1696
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 5: it's like I know what's happening, man, and like in

1697
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 5: my heart and my soul. Like I told my mother

1698
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:44,280
Speaker 5: the other day, I said.

1699
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 4: This is gonna happen. I'm telling you, I promise you.

1700
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 4: It's no way for it not to happen.

1701
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 5: You know, through the good rice of God. Man, we're

1702
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:50,760
Speaker 5: gonna be able to do all the things that we

1703
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 5: want to do in this lifetime.

1704
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:56,240
Speaker 3: I appreciate you, man, definitely, this was dope for us.

1705
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 3: You know, I connect with you a lot and ask you.

1706
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 3: You know, you always help invact fest anything that we need.

1707
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 3: You know, call and.

1708
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 2: It's never a problem. So I'm glad that.

1709
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:05,519
Speaker 4: You know.

1710
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 3: When we came to New Orleans, he was able to

1711
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 3: connect with you and it's dope conversation actually very insightful,

1712
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,600
Speaker 3: and it's great to hear from the entrepreneurs, you know.

1713
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:15,639
Speaker 3: For me, like that's something like I always just pick

1714
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 3: up information and I've just learned a variety of different

1715
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:22,040
Speaker 3: things just now actually just got some few ideas from

1716
01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 3: hearing you talk. And it's even better to do it

1717
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 3: in a bookstore, like it's interviewing an entrepreneur in another

1718
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 3: entrepreneur's establishment. It's very important, Like you know, our entrepreneurship

1719
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 3: is something that we need to highlight. We need to

1720
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 3: highlight more, you know what I'm saying, because it's like

1721
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:41,799
Speaker 3: that's the real engine to actually change things. Entertainment is great,

1722
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 3: but the vast majority of people are not going to

1723
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:51,799
Speaker 3: be successful as entertainers, and entertainment opportunity to change things

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01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 3: is limited. Yeah, like you can make you know, positive

1725
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 3: messages through your songs, different things of that nature, but

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01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 3: real change comes from business private sector because everything really

1727
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 3: comes down the money, like politicians, school.

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01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 2: Health, all of that.

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01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 3: So this is why it's like the entrepreneurs are really

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01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 3: the most important people in our community. So it's like

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01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 3: we need to celebrate them and champion them and telling

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01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 3: their stories and learn from them because it's important. So

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01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 3: I think what you're doing is not only inspiring and motivational,

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01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 3: but it's very important because we know New Orleans similar

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01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 3: to Chicago, where there's a lot of violence, there's a

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01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:34,599
Speaker 3: lot of you know, homicides. All of that stuff comes

1737
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 3: from poverty. Right, So it's like, if we can change

1738
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 3: the mindset of people and change how young people are

1739
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 3: thinking and give them opportunities and how you don't necessarily

1740
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:45,200
Speaker 3: have to join the gang.

1741
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 2: You can be entrepreneur.

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01:13:46,479 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 3: You can get mentored by an entrepreneur, you can work

1743
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 3: in this X, Y and Z restaurant, Like you know,

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01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:55,120
Speaker 3: you're changing people's lives by providing them jobs and providing

1745
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 3: them information and providing them you know, you never really know,

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01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 3: Like sometimes they take that for granted as well, Like

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01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:02,680
Speaker 3: you know, even where we're from, our neighborhood, like all

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01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 3: of the kids want to be entrepreneurs.

1749
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 2: Now. They all selling merched, everybody got a podcast.

1750
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 3: Everybody doing that, right, And that's because they saw us

1751
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 3: and they're like if they do it, I know I

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01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 3: can do it. So now we're the person they're not

1753
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 3: looking up to the drug dealer. They're looking up to us,

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01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:22,840
Speaker 3: So it's like giving them different opportunities. Nobody wants to

1755
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 3: be a negative person. But if that's all they see

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01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 3: as a viable option, then you're going to make that decision.

1757
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 3: But if you give them different options, then they have

1758
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 3: different things to choose from. So continue on the path

1759
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:38,520
Speaker 3: that you're on. Hopefully we can go to your restaurant

1760
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 3: before we leave here in a monkey but nah man,

1761
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 3: thank you again and telling people you know where they

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01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 3: can patronize your restaurants when they come to the city.

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01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 5: So tomorrow's twenty four to thirty eight. Saint Claud's right

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01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:59,799
Speaker 5: down the street, two minutes from here, Sunshine French Quarter

1765
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 5: hot spot, you know, right in the mix of everything

1766
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 5: to for the kid to Monday mid city Ship.

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01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 4: I can't remember address seven Beanville.

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01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 5: We got Morrow Steak on the way downtown, Spicy Man,

1769
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 5: go for Frenchman Street, Historic Trip. You know, we're right

1770
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:21,000
Speaker 5: at the forefront of it, Like you gotta pass me

1771
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:28,040
Speaker 5: before you go on Frenchman Me first. You so Treehouse.

1772
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:29,799
Speaker 5: You know, it's it's like a straight line because everything

1773
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 5: goes straight. You know, we got like.

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01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 4: Every part of the city, Central City to every every.

1775
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:37,679
Speaker 2: Part at your restaurant without Monday.

1776
01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:39,920
Speaker 4: You can get seafood gumbo at Marrows.

1777
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 2: Only on Monday. Gumbo Monday.

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01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 5: Monday is no point, no no, no, no Monday. But yeah,

1779
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 5: so like man, like you know, thank y'all for you know,

1780
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 5: sharing your playform legend.

1781
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. You know this is big man, because

1782
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 4: I watch you'll journey, watch y'all.

1783
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,040
Speaker 5: You know, do what y'all doing, man, Like I told

1784
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 5: you today, like like man italy like lids.

1785
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:06,679
Speaker 1: Purposes only like.

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01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 5: Man, don't listen, like you know, like I want to

1787
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 5: give you y'all, like give you all your flowers, because man,

1788
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 5: what you're doing, bro, like real talk, like y'all really

1789
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 5: inspiring the world. Like what you're doing, man, you'll playing

1790
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,439
Speaker 5: that y'all built and just connecting the dots and just

1791
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 5: invest fest and educating people and just showing people.

1792
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 4: Man.

1793
01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 5: It's like you know, like like me and Justin coins

1794
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 5: was having a conversation one day and I'm like, you know,

1795
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 5: right now, what's happening. It's a new age of you know,

1796
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 5: just entrepreneurs, just just individuals and like you know, they

1797
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 5: got the wholes, they got the puffs, they got the

1798
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 5: you know, the just all the people that came before us,

1799
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:42,720
Speaker 5: but they got you know, people that got to go

1800
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 5: feel those you know, those seats and generation. I believe

1801
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 5: you know what you guys are doing. You already got

1802
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 5: to see what your name on it, and so do I.

1803
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 5: So uh, you know, man, just continue to be a

1804
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 5: motivation for all of us, man, because I've truly been

1805
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 5: inspired by your journey.

1806
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 4: So thank y'all.

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 3: Thank you once again, thanks to the hospitality for ball

1808
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:04,640
Speaker 3: when it come bookstore and coffee shop. If you're in

1809
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 3: new wallets, make sure you're patronize. It's very tastefully done.

1810
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 3: I haven't been a bookstore on a very long time.

1811
01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 3: So you feel like I want to read a book

1812
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:14,719
Speaker 3: to get something.

1813
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 2: For sure.

1814
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 3: But that's important to literature, is important in the in

1815
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 3: the age of AI and the age of you know technology.

1816
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 3: Never forget to actually read. That's something that a lot

1817
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:31,560
Speaker 3: of people don't. They get the information just from Instagram

1818
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 3: and somebody's opinion and they take that as fact and

1819
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 3: it's very dangerous.

1820
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: Actually what you want to have something from put in

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01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:42,679
Speaker 1: the book.

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01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:47,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's that's something that I think that we're

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01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,600
Speaker 3: getting away from. So education is extremely important, not just

1824
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 3: the education that's provided for you from other people, but

1825
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 3: education that you provide for yourself. So you know, as

1826
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 3: the man they sat Ghana, they said, until the lion

1827
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 3: gets to tell his story, the hunter is always going

1828
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 3: to be glamorized something I'm kind of paraphrasing. We've been

1829
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 3: taught from the hunter's perspective. We've been we let them

1830
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:20,440
Speaker 3: tell our story for us. You know, these kind of establishments.

1831
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 3: There's a reason why, like, you know, the ancient library.

1832
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,560
Speaker 3: We went to Egypt, the ancient Library I believe was

1833
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:32,599
Speaker 3: in Cairo. They were saying it was the largest lib

1834
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 3: It was the largest library in the world at that time, right,

1835
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 3: and it was like it was burnt to the ground.

1836
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 3: Believe Alexander the Great burnt it down or one of them.

1837
01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 3: There's a reason why it was burnt because they were like,

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01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 3: that has so much information. It set the world back

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01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 3: thousands of years by them burning that library. But you

1840
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 3: burn the library, you raise the history and you keep

1841
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 3: people ignorant. Right, So this is an age of information,

1842
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 3: but it's also age of just nonsense because we have

1843
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:04,840
Speaker 3: so much access on our phone, but we have.

1844
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 2: So many distractions as well.

1845
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:10,960
Speaker 3: So it's extremely important not to always be distracted and

1846
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 3: actually take time to learn and to educate yourself. So

1847
01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 3: a bookstore, what better way to have this conversation of

1848
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 3: actually learning in the new age media, we're having, you know,

1849
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 3: a conversation like this in a bookstore. That're both ways

1850
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:24,799
Speaker 3: to educate yourself, whether you're listening to it, watching on YouTube,

1851
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 3: actually physically reading a book. Never forget that education is

1852
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 3: a lifelong journey and you can't just constantly distract yourself.

1853
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,880
Speaker 3: You have to at some point in time unplugged from

1854
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 3: the matrix and actually education here.

1855
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: And on top of that, I mean, if you look

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01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 1: at the authors on the shelves, black authors, right, and

1857
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: so we always talk about oppression and ignorance, right, but

1858
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: indoctrination is that last piece, and so it could be

1859
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:51,640
Speaker 1: looked at a negative connotation until you realize that we

1860
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to change the doctrine. And when we

1861
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 1: look at the authors out of the in here that's happening.

1862
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: We look at what we're doing, that's happening. We look

1863
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: what you're doing is happening. We're creating a new man.

1864
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:03,759
Speaker 1: So we're gonna keep going. Man, we got we got

1865
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 1: our role to play. You got yours and everybody that's

1866
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: in it. I think we ain't say shot out to them,

1867
01:20:07,040 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 1: but shout out to the studio audience that's it. Know

1868
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: your clap for yourselves.

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Speaker 3: Yes live studio orders. So thank you guys for coming out.

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01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed it. Larry always a pleasure in

1871
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:21,880
Speaker 3: my brother, And shou out to everybody that's watching this.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next week. Peace. Peace.

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Speaker 7: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

1874
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 7: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador

1875
01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 7: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with

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01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 7: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

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Speaker 7: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

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Speaker 7: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christine Noman, the United States

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Speaker 7: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

1880
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Speaker 7: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over

1881
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:58,600
Speaker 7: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you

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01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 7: were here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly

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Speaker 7: one thousand dollars a day. Imprisoned and deported, you will

1884
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 7: never return but if you register using our CBP home

1885
01:21:10,360 --> 01:21:13,759
Speaker 7: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

1886
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:18,839
Speaker 7: Do what's right, leave now. Under President Trump America's laws,

1887
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 7: border and families.

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Speaker 4: Will be protected.

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Speaker 1: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,