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Speaker 1: said something nice about Rashan McDonald your book. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: saying some really great things about your book. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not telling your story, your recovery story. Because your story

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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the abuse when you when you

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Speaker 1: that you was able to overcome and you and that's

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Speaker 1: you that I want to I want to hear that story.

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Speaker 1: I want to read that story because step by step, uh,

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Speaker 1: But the first part of that book, young lady, is

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Speaker 1: And with that came the abuse. That came the verbal abuse,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to tell the full story, but it was. Um.

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Speaker 1: to this day, well why didn't you just walk away

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Speaker 1: mentally be ready, financially be ready. And it wasn't that

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I cannot endure this any longer.

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Speaker 1: This is not the life that God Um has for me.

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Speaker 1: This is not how I was raised. This is not

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Speaker 1: they have to see this, Because, as we know UM,

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Speaker 1: Nor did I want my son to be in a

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Speaker 1: hands on another woman. So I had to get out

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Speaker 1: of that situation and I had to get out of

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Speaker 1: it quick and you did and I did. I did,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't easy as it sound. I asked numerous times. Okay. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's why I want more from you, and I want

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Speaker 1: that story told more extensively because it sounds easy in

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Speaker 1: your book. You know what I'm saying, because because of

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Speaker 1: the fact that you know now, I know that's a

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Speaker 1: very painful part to to relive, you know, and the details,

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Speaker 1: the steps. But I think that and I honestly feel that,

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Speaker 1: because that's when that's why I wanted you to come

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Speaker 1: back on the show, and we got to come back

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Speaker 1: and bring you back again, if you don't mind talking

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Speaker 1: hop artists, but Darren to do what had never been

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations. She's my good friend

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Speaker 1: mc light. Hey, Hey, good morning. I had a lot

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Speaker 1: to say about gmc you know and see see all

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Speaker 1: good things because you're you're really one of those people

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Speaker 1: that you know, you're so talented and you're so nice.

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Speaker 1: Let's get that out the way first. And you're you're

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Speaker 1: always making a difference in the community, and it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like you kind of you you know, you need

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Speaker 1: a Rushan mcdonalod. They're barking for you, telling everybody how

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Speaker 1: good you are, how special you are, not saying you

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Speaker 1: don't do it because I see you posting on social media.

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Speaker 1: You're doing your thing. But then you know, other people

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Speaker 1: have to say to you. That's why it don't sound

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Good well, I got some more things I

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Speaker 1: I love about you and UM and we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: some things together and that's in uh, you know, giving

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Speaker 1: back to the community. Why is that so important to

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Speaker 1: mc light Oh goodness, UM, it's just the godly thing

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Speaker 1: to do. You know. I feel like it's so crazy

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Speaker 1: when we have UH team meetings and you know, getting

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Speaker 1: that is mc light. But then we're able to garner,

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Speaker 1: to the people who need it. And you know, one

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Speaker 1: of our initiatives is education. Our signature initiative is hashtag

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Speaker 1: educate our men, but one of our primary focuses with

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Speaker 1: our hip hop sisters foundations education. So being able to

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Speaker 1: give back in that way is you know, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's God said, it's a cool thing about her. She

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Speaker 1: does what she says. I'm gonna site three examples. You

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Speaker 1: can google who because that's a lot of about the Internet.

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Speaker 1: They can find out you're lying real fast. Just say it.

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Speaker 1: And Steve Harvey show. She just came on my show.

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Speaker 1: Steve was holsting, I was acutive producing. She awarded a

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Speaker 1: student on that show a fifty thousand dollars scholarship. Okayen

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Speaker 1: m c light presents a new scholar, Jaden Johnson, with

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Speaker 1: a fifty thou dollar scholarship on the red carpet of

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Speaker 1: the seventeen sold Trained Music Awards. Correct, and just recently

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Speaker 1: I posted on my social media. Then I turned around

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Speaker 1: saw she posted on hard Soship media too. My owner shop,

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Speaker 1: my my owner. Short student awarded a four year mc

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Speaker 1: light scholarship, becomes the first black woman to earn a

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Speaker 1: degree in astrophysistics with a with diploma from the University

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin at Madison. That's just three examples. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: we have we have four young men in school right now,

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Speaker 1: and from what we understand from President kimbro down at

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Speaker 1: Dillitt University, looks like he may be valedictorian. We are excited. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: four point oh through his whole existence there at Dillard.

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Speaker 1: So so this, this is, this is something that you've done.

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Speaker 1: How did it? How did it all come together? You know,

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Speaker 1: because we all know that, you know, I was doing

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Speaker 1: the Neighborhood Awards, and I had the staff, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, Steve and I you know, were out in

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Speaker 1: the front of everything. But you don't do these things

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Speaker 1: by yourself. Who are to keep people in your life

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Speaker 1: that keep you moving forward. We're gonna get to the

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Speaker 1: mc light, the the superstar on stage the Pine. That's

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Speaker 1: why I put all that out front, the entertainment side,

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Speaker 1: because I wanted to we we talked about we're gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that, We're gonna talk about the

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Speaker 1: app and all that, but I really wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: about this side because a lot of people don't know

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Speaker 1: about it, because you know, sometimes that doesn't make the headline.

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Speaker 1: The goal the sole lot of events, the television appearance

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Speaker 1: of those making make headlines. But like you just said,

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Speaker 1: we have four students right now, young men at Dealard University,

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Speaker 1: and one of them got a four point oh m hm,

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Speaker 1: and they're all doing well. Uh. One has an internship

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Speaker 1: at Goldman Sacks up in Seattle, another one has an

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Speaker 1: internship in Los Angeles at Toyota. Another one is doing

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Speaker 1: coding for Google, so they're kind of moving him all

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Speaker 1: around during this summer, and the other is working at

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Speaker 1: home with his dad and his construction business. But nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: they are all extremely busy and doing well. So who's

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Speaker 1: the key person that that that that pushes you, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you're like, I tell everybody MC like one of

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Speaker 1: those people, she do what she do, man, she just

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Speaker 1: drift right back in the shadow who keeps pushing you

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Speaker 1: out there. That's a young lady to stand it is now,

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Speaker 1: you know she's not at all. Yes, for sure, it

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Speaker 1: is Dr Lynn Richardson. And you know we met through

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Speaker 1: Russell Simmons many moons ago during the Get Your Money

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Speaker 1: Right UH Time era of eight SAND which is the

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Speaker 1: Hip Hop Summit Action Network, which she still stands as

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Speaker 1: CEO of Dr Benjamin Chavis. And she called me up

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Speaker 1: and asked me, did I want to start a foundation?

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Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, why not? And I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: Four months later, we had five or one C three

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Speaker 1: status and we had to one hundred thousand dollars scholarships

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Speaker 1: to give away at the University of Wisconsin Madison. And

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Speaker 1: the and the truth is, you know, I've given my

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Speaker 1: celebrity to many foundations over the years and it's been great,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a collaborative effort, but nothing nothing beat

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Speaker 1: starting your own, you know, starting your own foundation and

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Speaker 1: being able to collaborate with others as a full fledged,

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Speaker 1: you know, working foundation. Now, I was looking at some

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Speaker 1: of your advisory board numbers to your foundation, Faith Evans

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Speaker 1: LETTU see Jada Pinkett Smith, Chili Uh Sheryl uh Salt,

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Speaker 1: Melinda will use a lot of names here now, Kelly Price, Board, Malcolm,

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Speaker 1: Jamar Warner and Kenny Lattimore as a Melanie, Fiona, Dr

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Chavis, Russell Simmons. This is this is uh, this

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Speaker 1: is a lot of this is a lot of people

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Speaker 1: that that that that consistently I do are busy, yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and those are what we call our ambassadors. And when

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Speaker 1: we call on them to show up, you know, for

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Speaker 1: a an address of some sort of press conference, you know,

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Speaker 1: to talk about the next the next scholarship that we

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Speaker 1: have to give away. I mean we've actually been on

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Speaker 1: that red carpet as whole train, I think six years

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Speaker 1: in a row giving away fifty dollars scholarships and usually

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Speaker 1: we have two people that we're giving them to, and

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Speaker 1: so we may call on a board member to come

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Speaker 1: and help us celebrate and present those scholarships on the

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Speaker 1: red carpet. And so they all have been uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: hand selected and we are honored to have them. Good.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about a couple of entrepreneur things where we

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Speaker 1: get out of here. The m C Light app what

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Speaker 1: is that? And how do you use them? Well? The

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Speaker 1: M c Light app is available for androids and iPhones.

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Speaker 1: It's free. It is where you find me. So it's

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Speaker 1: all the music that people may not hear in various places.

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Speaker 1: You will definitely be able to get it on em

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Speaker 1: C light and be able to stream it. And I

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Speaker 1: released new music all the time, so I make it

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Speaker 1: specifically for the fans. And then also the schedule is there.

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Speaker 1: You can see where I'm going to be. If you

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Speaker 1: want to come out and listen to some good hip

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Speaker 1: hop and you know, and show your support and dance

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Speaker 1: and and just be in the company of some good folks.

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Speaker 1: You can see the schedule there, I think, and pictures

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Speaker 1: and video. It's just uh, welcome into the MC like

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Speaker 1: world on your phone. Now, does the does the scholarship

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Speaker 1: part of pereio app as well? Or just atain there's

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00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: actually a link. There's actually a link that goes to it. Yes, okay, cool.

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Speaker 1: Now what is the Beauty, Brains and Business Tour? What

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Speaker 1: is that? Oh? Yeah, this is all for the Entrepreneur's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: It's an intimate conversation. You know, we come into your

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Speaker 1: city and we uh we pick up space. That's uh

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Speaker 1: that lends itself to a real serious but lounge scenario.

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Speaker 1: And so we've done many of them across the nation

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Speaker 1: and it's been really it's been really awesome, and we come,

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Speaker 1: you know, full force, and we have about I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe thirty five to seventy women. They're a little bit

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Speaker 1: smaller and intimate than what we're accustomed to do it.

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Speaker 1: But now with this particular forum, it lends itself to

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Speaker 1: people really getting answers to their questions. And it's a

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Speaker 1: room full of entrepreneurs, women who have owned their own

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Speaker 1: businesses for some time, and then you have those who

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Speaker 1: are just beginning, and it's a great place to network

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Speaker 1: and meet people, but also to get information that can

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Speaker 1: help your business. Well, I know your voice is being

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Speaker 1: heard because you are a real power player on LinkedIn

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Speaker 1: and LinkedIn. If you're not familiar with that, that is

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneurship where people are seeking opportunities employment. They put

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Speaker 1: the resume. It's not where you you show you your

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Speaker 1: side profile and you're behind You don't do that on LinkedIn.

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Speaker 1: You know that ain't on linked on LinkedIn you and

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Speaker 1: that lets me know that that that there's strong validation

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Speaker 1: to your brand in the entrepreneur world because you're such

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00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: a power player on LinkedIn. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta use

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Speaker 1: all your social media and especially when there's a business

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00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: aspect to it. It's just another tool to help you,

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00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, reach out and get connected with like minded individuals. Well,

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00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: my friend, you know you're doing so much in the community.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to announce the world that I'm part of

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Speaker 1: the mc light team and we're gonna do some special

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00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: things together. Um, your website. We want to start about

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00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: your website, and also we already mentioned downloading the m

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00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: c light app on Android or your iPhone. Go to

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Speaker 1: Google play Store or go to the Apple Store as

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00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: well and get that m c light app. But your

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Speaker 1: website tell us anymore in the music you're dropping, so

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00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: we can let their breast. Oh yeah, I'm actually headed

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Speaker 1: to shoot a video today for a song called Anything

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Speaker 1: that Warren Campbell produced. Enjoy Star and a v are

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Speaker 1: featured on it. So we're shooting a video for it today,

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Speaker 1: which is exciting. And then I'm in the studio all

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00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: week with Warren trying to finish up this album to

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00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 1: get it out to the people. You know, Uh, I'd

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00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: love to do it by fall time, so you can

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Speaker 1: check me out of them like dot com. Get the

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00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: app at you know, emc light app is what it's called.

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Speaker 1: Anything that has to do with the foundation and the

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Speaker 1: wealth experience. You could go to Hip Hop Sisters dot org.

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00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: And if you're feeling froggy and you want to give

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Speaker 1: to the organization for our signature initiative hashtag educate our Men,

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Speaker 1: go to Educate our Men dot org. Awesome, mc light,

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Speaker 1: Thank you and we're gonna talk soon. Keep winning, Keep winning, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. All right, We'll be right back with

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Speaker 1: to see you on Monday night brewing. We're talking about beers, y'all.

847
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: We they brew beers for weeknights, balance flavor for ales

848
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: that pair well with food. Um. Interesting, We're gonna have

849
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: an interesting completely or not. Uh. The idea for Monday

850
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: night brewing grew out of a small Atlanta Bible study.

851
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: We started brewing beer together on Monday nights as a

852
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: way to get to know each other. You go to

853
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: the website. They got written right there on the website.

854
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the truth. As they started building this

855
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: up and started building their brand. Monday Night Brewing Craft Brewery.

856
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: The CEO CEO in my studio right now on Monday

857
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: Night brewing, Jeff Head, please work on Monday night. My

858
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: money making conversations like maybe I've had a couple to

859
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: too many beers. It's it's a joint and privilege to

860
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: be here. Get this straight. Please walcome the money making conversations. Heck,

861
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: same times the time. Absolutely, it's pleasure to be here.

862
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: Can't wait now. No, I'm from Houston, Texas, and I

863
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: know in Houston, Texas, craft brewing is huge. Is like

864
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: it's like it's a niche market. And sometimes if you

865
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: enter this business, you know, everybody sees the big commercials

866
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: on TV. You hear the bids, they hear the millers,

867
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: they hear all that. You know, Corona, the little feet

868
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: down there on the beach. You see those big commercials.

869
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: But if you really go on the store, you can

870
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: be mind blown at the options that you have seen.

871
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: Many options. There's so many options, and it's blown up

872
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: in the last probably fifteen or twenty years. Years ago, uh,

873
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: there were just a handful of options, and they were

874
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: a handful of big craft berries that had been around

875
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: for a while who really set the stage for what

876
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: has been an explosion over the last ten years. Even

877
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: in the state of Georgia where we're based, the number

878
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: of crafferies has tripled just in the last five years,

879
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: and that's pretty representative, you know. I think it's a

880
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: couple of things. First, it's just a broader trend in

881
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: food and beverage of local and craft and so people

882
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: want something that feels authentic, that they can connect to,

883
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: that feels connected to their community, into their uh, to

884
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: their kind of their people in their neighborhood, and so

885
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: that I think is a big part of it. Secondly,

886
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: there's just people are getting better at brewing. They're making

887
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: really really good beers innovating. America in the United States

888
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: is really the center of innovation for beer right now.

889
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: And for a long time it was belgiumant was Europe,

890
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: it was always around the world. And what what what

891
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: we Americans have done with craft beers? Throw all the

892
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: rules out the window and just be creative with with

893
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: all kinds of different different parts of the brewing process.

894
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: So so let me let's talk because you you're only

895
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: here for two breaks. So part of the show's education,

896
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: part of it is building communicating about your brand. Now

897
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: is it technology? Is the reason that so many individual

898
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: beers are being created and being sample is the technology? Now?

899
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: Is is the same system? It's it's beer is beer

900
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: is basically the same process that has been since monks

901
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: walked out with big vats of barley water in the

902
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: middle of the forest and let wild yeast from the

903
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: air come in and turn that sugar water into alcohol

904
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: and carbon dioxide. Not much has really changed. Now we're

905
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,439
Speaker 1: better at making sure it's we know what we're doing

906
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: and and and processes are consistent. But it's basically the same.

907
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: It's really been driven by consumers and by innovators, by

908
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: people who have done really creative, interesting things and make

909
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: beer that just tastes really good. I'm a start with

910
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: the basic question what makes a good beer? That is

911
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: all in the eye of the beholder, my friend. It's

912
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: like where you look at the shilf. If you see

913
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: so many options, so you know. That's absolutely and the

914
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 1: great thing about craft beers. We always like to say,

915
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: even within our our bery, when you come to our brewery,

916
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: you will find anywhere between fifteen and twenty different beers

917
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: on tap. We always like to say. At our brewery, yep,

918
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: we have two facilities to brewis and both of them

919
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: you can find fifteen to twenty beers. It's on tap.

920
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: And we always tell people we will find a beer

921
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: you like you just we we all it's always our challenge. Okay,

922
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm kind of confused now, Okay, you just

923
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: small time right. Oh, you know, we're we're dropping the

924
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: drop of a boat relative to them. We will make

925
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: over a hundred different beers this this year, so now

926
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: we have a handful of them that that are the

927
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: vast majority of our sales. So about six beers for

928
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: us make up about seven percent of our total sales.

929
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: And then we have a lot of fun with the

930
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: other stuff because that's our pipeline that gives people a

931
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: reason to come and visit our brewery. Um, and it

932
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: gives us new ideas and research and development. For this

933
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: is the fun conversation because I think everybody who's listening

934
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: to this call is going to be educated. And if

935
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: you don't drink beer, I don't drink beer, So not

936
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: because I don't like to, I just don't drink it,

937
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, So nothing negative. I just want to put

938
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: that out there now, the fact that you say that,

939
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: do you have you try to create engagement. I always

940
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: felt like beer is like a love affair. You know,

941
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: people you know, you know, you know you'll see a

942
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: female at the game swigging a beer. You know they're

943
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: going to ball, you know. If it feels like that's

944
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: a very conference zone for people to interact with. Absolutely,

945
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: And that's the reason we started the company because we

946
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: felt like beer is a leveler. It takes it takes

947
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: walls down betwe people. And so we actually have a

948
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: purpose statement that we uh that we talk about at

949
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: every meeting we do internally, every meeting I have with

950
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: the wholesaler with an account and our purpose statement is

951
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: that we exist to deep in human relationships over some

952
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: of the best beer in the country. So it starts

953
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: with relationships. We want to be a place where people

954
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: deep in relationships with each other, and so that's played

955
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: out in really small ways in our business. But we

956
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: think are really significant. So for example, when you come

957
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: to our tap room, uh, you won't find you'll find

958
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 1: some little tables of four or five tiana seat tables,

959
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: but you also find big, long picnic benches because we

960
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: wanted to force strangers to sit down next to each

961
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: other and have a conversation and get to know each other.

962
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: And beer is this this thing. If you're a CEO

963
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: or you're you know, a dock worker, or you're a

964
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 1: waiter or you're you know, the manager of a restaurant,

965
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter when you sit down with that beer.

966
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: Every hand there's something or you're you're, you're, you're, you're

967
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: just human beings. And we love that. My dad was

968
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 1: a beer drink. He had he drunk the legendary perhaps

969
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: Blue Ribbons Award winning award winning My dad, boy, he's

970
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: drunk it us a paps Blue Ribbons to day right now.

971
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: So I'd know about some beer drinking, but I cut

972
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: you off earlier. He was telling me about beer is

973
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the beholder. What makes a good beer? Yeah, yeah,

974
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 1: so there's some there's some basic principles of of making

975
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,240
Speaker 1: a good beer. So there are there are certain uh,

976
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: there's I think balance is a is a big one. Um,

977
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: you know you want to you want a beer that's

978
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: gonna gonna have a little bit of sweet, a little

979
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: bit of bitter. You there's all kinds of but there's

980
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: you almost made me, won't make me want to sell? Hey, balance,

981
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm telling you. You get just just

982
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: that one little drop on your tongue, and uh, it's glorious.

983
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: It's glorious. And then the best part is after you

984
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: have one or two, then you get down a conversation,

985
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: you get talking about real life. That's where the fun

986
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: really starts. Yeah. Now, now, now you know you have

987
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: these you have tap and then you have this like

988
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: some beer foam up and all that good stuff. What

989
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: does all this? What? What does this? It's kind of

990
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: like a world. Did you guys have That's what I'm

991
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: just enamored with this whole conversation, because beer is like

992
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: a world. You know, It's like you know, it's you know,

993
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: you you have the big Viking. Look you know that

994
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: big moub did you find them? And then you have

995
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: this young lady with this nice beer. Did she SIPs all?

996
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 1: That's a that's a range. Yeah. Well, and the reality

997
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: is you get you come to our So we have

998
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: a tap rim down in southwest Atlanta. Uh we call

999
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: it the garage. And in the garage, So in the garage,

1000
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: but you'll find is people from all kinds of different

1001
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: walks of life. So and you'll find, uh, you know,

1002
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: you'll find the mom with their with their baby and

1003
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: a little baby carrier, drinking a you know, drinking a

1004
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: you know, a nice strong impression imperial stout and uh,

1005
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: and you'll find uh, you know, you find another group

1006
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: of you know, younger folks hanging out and drinking some

1007
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: sour fruited beers. So there's just all things for everybody,

1008
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: for everybody. And we're always surprised that the things that

1009
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: people don't let that, those stereotypes, they blew up pretty

1010
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: quick once you actually get people exposed to different kinds

1011
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: of things. They just don't know what they want. You

1012
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: mentioned them earlier. You started a business with friends. Yes, okay,

1013
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: that could be good. That could be because one day

1014
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: you got to talk to your friends a little bit different.

1015
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: How does that balance work for you? We have been

1016
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: just so blessed in this because I think I say

1017
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: this about marriage too. I totally understand why marriage can

1018
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: be really hard, and I totally understand why business partners

1019
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: can be really hard. I'm really fortunate that is actually

1020
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: a huge asset for me, both my marriage and my

1021
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: business partners. So the biggest thing we did is we

1022
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:28,879
Speaker 1: learned to be really open and honest with each other

1023
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: from very early on, and to fight clean. So we

1024
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: fight about things, we argue about things, but we do

1025
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: it in ways that don't attack each other. UM. We

1026
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 1: really try to stay open minded about UM where our idea,

1027
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: whether that our idea might not be the best one,

1028
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: and we trust each other a lot. So the three

1029
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: of us have very different backgrounds professionally. Jonathan is a

1030
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 1: marketing guy, Joel's really got an operations mind, and I'm

1031
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: more of a finance and strategy guy. And so and

1032
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: I love I love building culture. I love building culture.

1033
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: I've got a lot, a lot to learn about it,

1034
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: but but but I love it. And So one of

1035
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: the things we've learned too is to defer to each

1036
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: other in our areas of expertise UM, while not being

1037
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: afraid to speak our mind UM. So communication communication, communication

1038
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: UM and humility UH and acknowledging what you're good at

1039
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: and acknowledging what you're not UM has been incredibly helpful.

1040
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: And I'd say we're better friends now than we were

1041
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: when we met each other fifteen years. The business is

1042
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: about seven years old. We are celebrating our seventh anniversary

1043
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: UM in UH in just a few weeks, the August fourth,

1044
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: the weekend of the fourth and fifth. Absolutely absolutely right

1045
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: down at the garage award. Let you know what, I'll

1046
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: bring you some alerts. Okay, and I might maybe maybe

1047
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 1: how about you could use some of the beer as

1048
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: an ingredient in one of your we can get I

1049
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: I I used to win chili cook offs in college.

1050
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: Oh Chilian beer is there? You go? I used beer.

1051
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: I should a little small bill of life Beers. That's

1052
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: never use water in my beer in brisket. So so

1053
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:57,959
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come get some of your beer. I would

1054
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:01,399
Speaker 1: make some of my award when we get pull you over.

1055
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 1: You know something I've lied I have. You've had beer,

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