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Speaker 1: Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: christ Rna Hazel and this is the Keep It Positive

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Speaker 1: Swedish Show. Welcome to Keep It Positive, Sweety, the place

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Speaker 1: where we heal, grow and learn together. Everybody wants the bag,

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Speaker 1: but today's conversation isn't about getting it. It's about what

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Speaker 1: you build after you have it. Joining us are creators

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Speaker 1: of Earn Your Leisure and the founders of Investfest, one

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Speaker 1: of the world's largest financial literacy festivals. I am so

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Speaker 1: glad to be sitting with Rashad Balal and Troy Millings.

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Speaker 1: Today's guests have become two of the most influential voices

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Speaker 1: in financial education. Rasha Balau and Troy Millings are the

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Speaker 1: creators of Earn Your Leisure and founders of Investfest, one

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Speaker 1: of the world's largest financial literacy festivals, bringing together more

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Speaker 1: than fifty thousand entrepreneurs, investors, and change makers each year

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Speaker 1: right here in Atlanta. Through culture, conversation, and community, they've

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Speaker 1: helped redefine what wealth building really looks like for a

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Speaker 1: new generation. Certainly, please give a very warm welcome to

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Speaker 1: the founders of Earn Your Leisure, Troy and rashide Hi.

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Speaker 2: Guys, how y'all doing good?

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Speaker 3: How are you feeling good?

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: I got y'all in the building.

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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful building.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much. We got some new

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Speaker 1: digs and happy to have you guys here. And before

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Speaker 1: we get started, I like to kind of loosen things

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Speaker 1: up by playing a little game. Y'all down, let's do

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Speaker 1: it all right, let's do it. So it is called

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Speaker 1: worth the investment? Is this worth the investment? So the

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Speaker 1: first one is college. There's a lot of going back

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Speaker 1: and forth on this. Right now, it's worth.

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Speaker 2: The investment if you if you invest wisely, that's good.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think it's just a yes and no answer.

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Speaker 2: It's a okay. It's a few difference layered the conversation

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Speaker 2: what are you? What are you majoring in? That's vitally important.

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Speaker 2: Most people are majoring in things that are not going

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Speaker 2: to beneficial for them.

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Speaker 1: Talk about it.

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Speaker 2: So if you're just getting a liberal arts degree nine

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Speaker 2: times out of ten, that's not gonna be helpful for you.

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Speaker 2: That's one thing. Another thing is like, are you going

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Speaker 2: tremendously different. Yes, you're going to a private school or

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Speaker 2: or you're just going because of the vibe like the

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Speaker 2: So that's vitally important to think about as well. And

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Speaker 2: then also I think about there's an educational component to it,

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Speaker 3: About it as an educator. So for all the reasons

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Speaker 1: Good, that's good. What about side hustles? Are they worth investment?

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Speaker 2: A side hustle? Like what give an example?

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Speaker 3: So the income determines if it's a hustle.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't agree with side hustles. I think

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Speaker 2: Are you doing it for if you're not going to

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Speaker 2: it might it might not be something that's replacing your

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Speaker 2: This is a side hustle, This is just something I'm

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Speaker 2: you can have a hobby, but a hobby and business

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Speaker 2: So side hustle to me, that doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 3: I would change the terminology decide interest, Right, what are

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Speaker 3: purposeful for me, right, still rooted in education. Just changed

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Speaker 3: Sometimes people are sitting in that moment and like why

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Speaker 1: That is so true.

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Speaker 2: Even the word side. I feel like anything related to

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Speaker 1: That's so true.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, what's that? Keep it positive?

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Speaker 3: What's that? Give us a definition? Please?

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Speaker 2: You know, if you want to do it, if you're

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I don't like this. You know, you got a meal

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Speaker 2: and then it's like you got turkey and you got sides,

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Speaker 2: Like you know what I mean, They're not good. I'm

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Speaker 3: But I'm because that's good. I like what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I think that was kind of how I worked this

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Speaker 1: If this is getting you to where your purpose is,

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Speaker 1: I want to know, is that worth the investment? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But more than just investing in the companies, I

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Speaker 3: think investing in the education and investing in the place

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Speaker 3: to look at it from that standpoint in totality, because yes,

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Speaker 3: because we can see that technology is going to lead

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Speaker 3: we'll be pretty good. But bigger than that is this

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Speaker 2: That's so good.

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Speaker 1: I love that. What about you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. But you have to network from I

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Speaker 1: I had to work and he saw the work and

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Speaker 2: Like network the right way, Like see how you can

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Speaker 2: with you know, ask first. That's very selfish way to

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Speaker 2: work out absolutely well. Like you well, if you looked

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Speaker 2: truth is nobody really cares about you, unless they're like

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Speaker 2: gonna be honest with you, if you just met somebody industry,

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Speaker 2: you don't care about them like that. You don't have

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Speaker 2: should somebody have a deep rooted interest in your future?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: So it's like, if we go on network, let's see

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Speaker 2: need help with something. I'm going to leave with that first,

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Speaker 2: because it's the lower of reciprocity, Like the more you give,

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Speaker 2: the more you'll get. And you have to network with

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Speaker 2: But it's important how you look at the mentorship.

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Speaker 3: And that's on a like one on one basis or encounter.

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Speaker 3: A lot of my mentors I never met in real life.

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Speaker 3: I watched their steps. I watched Tyler Perry build this.

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Speaker 3: And so mentorship comes in different forms, like what you

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Speaker 2: Like I said, me and him already had a relationship.

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Speaker 3: my spiritual gift. I really believe that. So how do

436
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,640
Speaker 3: we combine that? Well, I did that for fourteen years,

437
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 3: he's doing that for fourteen years. We had already walked

438
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 3: in that path. The other businesses that didn't work. I

439
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 3: never looked at the misfailures. I never had an expectation

440
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 3: on them, like, let's create something together and let's see

441
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 3: what we can build. What I learned from it is,

442
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 3: outside of being a brother and a friend, how he

443
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,919
Speaker 3: is in business. Yeah right, so I know you know

444
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 3: his dedication to something when he has his mindset. I

445
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 3: understand the commitment to it. I understand the sacrifice that

446
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 3: comes with it. If we can carry those intangible traits

447
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 3: to the next thing. We're going to be successful. And

448
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,359
Speaker 3: so when we started Earn Your Leisure, I remember that

449
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 3: the message that somebody put in the DM, where's the

450
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 3: rest of this episode? We were like, what y'all got

451
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 3: a podcast? And we were like, we never listened to them. Yeah,

452
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 3: so we had to sit down and figure out how

453
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 3: do we create it? And once we started creating it, okay,

454
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 3: here comes the value add he had already built up

455
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 3: community that was interested in it. And so the first

456
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 3: thing I remember seeing, all right, we're putting this out.

457
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Speaker 3: We're going to jump off this cliff. And it was

458
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 3: like January of twenty nineteen, let's see if we can

459
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 3: get one hundred people to listen, all right, Well, and

460
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Speaker 3: like the first hour was one hundred people. First week,

461
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Speaker 3: let's see if we can get two thousand people to listen.

462
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 3: All right, we got twenty one hundred. Okay, let's see

463
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Speaker 3: what we can do better. Next week. Let's see if

464
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 3: we can do better. And by I think probably the

465
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 3: tenth week, we got a message in the DM saying that, hey,

466
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Speaker 3: you guys are in the top ten in the podcast charts.

467
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: Wow, And I.

468
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Speaker 3: Remember thinking to myself, there's a chart for podcasts, I

469
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 3: just know, like Billboard, right, and then you see the

470
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 3: emojis up there, like, oh, we got something here for sure.

471
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 3: Let's keep going with it, not really figuring out here

472
00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 3: comes the media company a part, But how can we

473
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Speaker 3: keep out added value, keep getting people's attention, start to

474
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 3: become part of people's weekly regiment. Yeah right, because once

475
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,719
Speaker 3: we can start doing that, now we can start building.

476
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 3: They know every Thursday this episode is coming out. They're

477
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Speaker 3: looking forward to it. They can't wait to see it,

478
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 3: they can't wait to listen, they can't wait to see

479
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 3: the clips or repost it or start implementing some of

480
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 3: the information that was being given. Then it started to

481
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,880
Speaker 3: be okay, what's next. Let's go touch our audience. Let's

482
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 3: look at the analytics, let's go figure out where people

483
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 3: are listening. All right, we saw Atlanta is an area,

484
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 3: La is an area, Miami Philly. Let's treat this like

485
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 3: what we saw when we were growing up in music,

486
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 3: when people couldn't figure out how to reach their audience,

487
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 3: they go to them. So let's go do some pop ups.

488
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 3: Let's go touch the audience. Let's get some feedback from that.

489
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 3: And then it just kept spiraling. Okay, what's the next

490
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 3: thing we could do? What's the next thing we can do?

491
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 3: And then obviously the empire started to build. Let's get

492
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 3: some merchandising, because people number one will look at you

493
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 3: for an hour. What if you had a message on

494
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 3: your shirt? What if it was assets of liabilities? Right?

495
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 3: And so now that became a slogan that became synonymous

496
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 3: with us. Yes, earned your leisure was the brand, but

497
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 3: now they have this message that goes along with it,

498
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 3: and so you know, it just became the next thing,

499
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 3: the next thing, and to what you see.

500
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Speaker 1: Now, it's amazing. I love that you talked about you

501
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: see how it's impacting people and people responding saying this

502
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: is I'm using these I'm utilizing the principles that you

503
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: guys are teaching us. At what point did you realize

504
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: you were doing more than creative but you were also

505
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: responsible for the information that you guys are putting out.

506
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Speaker 2: At the beginning, you just definitely, you know, always looked

507
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 2: at as a media company. You know, even on Instagram page.

508
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 2: It wasn't like we were pointing out articles here, yes and

509
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 2: different things. So it wasn't just clips of like content,

510
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: so you know, and then you just evolved, You just

511
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: learn as you go. But that was always the framework

512
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 2: of like creating a community, yeah, earn your leisure. Like

513
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 2: I said, even the beginning Instagram page, it was never

514
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 2: just to promote the podcast. It was always you know,

515
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 2: unrelated stuff like you know, we talk about business articles

516
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 2: or highlight somebody else or show something like. So it

517
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 2: was always more of an ecosystem than just a show.

518
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

519
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Speaker 1: No, I love that. I want to know what was

520
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 1: one of the biggest decisions or most difficult decisions that

521
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: you had to do to protect the vision in totality

522
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: that you look back out now and it may not

523
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: have been easy to make them, Mom, but you're like,

524
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad we made that choice.

525
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Speaker 3: Hm.

526
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Speaker 2: I mean you you know, you work with some people,

527
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 2: then you don't work with the person like you know,

528
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 2: you gotta some people. You know, you don't have a

529
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 2: lasting relationship with every single person. Sure, so that's important.

530
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Speaker 2: Somebody is not operating at the highest level possible, or

531
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Speaker 2: if somebod.

532
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Speaker 1: Who was the one to let them go? Is you?

533
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: You seem like you the bad guy.

534
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:58,360
Speaker 3: You like, you gotta go, surprise, Let's keep this positive.

535
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 2: You gotta do it.

536
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 3: Somebody's got to do it.

537
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 2: You gotta do it.

538
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's business. It's a part of it.

539
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 2: It's just business. You can't you can't. You can't let somebody, Hey,

540
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 2: you can't let somebody incompetent ruin your vision and be.

541
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 2: You can't let somebody that's a cancer spread. You got

542
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 2: to cut the cancer off.

543
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a word.

544
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Speaker 3: That's so good. Yeah, I think that that. Yeah, when

545
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: I listening to it. Yes, the most difficult part was

546
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 3: putting people in position that they weren't qualified for.

547
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: And we often do that because we want to believe

548
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: in people and they want to work so bad. And

549
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: then you get in any like you.

550
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 3: Grow up together. You come up together your friends, and

551
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 3: you want to make sure that your friends win and

552
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 3: you want to see them be successful. But everybody's not

553
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 3: meant to be in those positions, like you said, if

554
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 3: they're unqualified. And it's funny when when when Tyler Perry

555
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 3: came to invest Best, that was his message. Yeah, and

556
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 3: when he said it, it resonated with me so strong,

557
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 3: like wow, it's like, you can't bring them up to

558
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 3: this level of success. They'll suffocate, they will. You're actually

559
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 3: harming them by bringing them on this journey and so

560
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: let them live their own journey. Keep doing what you

561
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 3: have to do, keep your core together, and the people

562
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 3: who are meant to be for you will come into

563
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 3: your life and you can continue this thing going. So

564
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 3: that that is That was that was difficult, and it

565
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 3: still is because you still have relationships. Like you said,

566
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 3: we're a close knit community. So we grew up with

567
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of people that are watching

568
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 3: this that you know, came on the journey with us,

569
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 3: had time with us, are no longer with this. So

570
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 3: that's been the most difficult.

571
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can understand, and whole Harley whole hardly agree.

572
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: As a businesswoman, that is hard when you bring on people,

573
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: especially people you know that came up with you. It's like, oh,

574
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: we're going to do this together. And then you get

575
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: in the thick of it and it's like okay, and

576
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 1: you kind of see it, and sometimes they see it

577
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: before you do. They're like, okay, it is I really

578
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: ain't cut out for this. So it makes it easier,

579
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: you know. But when you have to make that decision,

580
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: it's just time to put you a big well for me,

581
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: put a big penny. It's like let's do it. But

582
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: that is always hard. I don't think it ever gets easy.

583
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: It's always a hard thing to have to do.

584
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 2: When and then also, never give somebody something that they

585
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 2: don't deserve, because that's a lesson. It's extremely harmful because

586
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: you would think that a person would have appreciation for

587
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 2: something because they're like I technically I know I'm not qualified,

588
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 2: but I don't deserve this. I know I didn't work

589
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: hard for it. But what appens is that a funny

590
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: thing happens when you get people something that they don't deserve,

591
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 2: they think they deserve it.

592
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: That's you.

593
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: Know, people like that, that's good.

594
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: That is a fact, that is so true that entitlement comes.

595
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 2: And title, that's the word. That's the worst. That's the

596
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 2: worst thing, that's the worst.

597
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.

598
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. You start to start, you start trying to create

599
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 3: different positions and different titles, and at the end of

600
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 3: the day is like, why are we doing this?

601
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Seriously? Yeah, literally, I'm like me because

602
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: you do you start making up different positions like now

603
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna let's try this. It's like we're gonna You're

604
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: not gonna do this because I can tell us a little,

605
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: it's a lot. So we're gonna try this, but it

606
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: does like you kind of try to figure it out

607
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: and shift it around, but sometimes it's just not a fit.

608
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: And you gotta you gotta trust that. Does a relationship

609
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: keep going on outside of work, Okay, you can still

610
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: be friends, we can be cool, but I mean, and

611
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: that's on them if they want to continue relationship. Sometimes

612
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: people's feelings get hurt and they don't want nothing to

613
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: do with you after you could them let them go

614
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: from a job. It is tough, yeah, but at the

615
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's the brand that you've built.

616
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: You have to honor that. And if you're operating excellence,

617
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: you can't how you talk about, you can't have people

618
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: that aren't pulling their apart. You gotta make sure that

619
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: everybody is pulling their weights.

620
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 3: And if they were truly friends, that they want you

621
00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 3: to succeed.

622
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And I've been lucky to have that where

623
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: I've worked with friends and then when they lead it,

624
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: it's like we're still good because like they're no, like

625
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: I still want to see you in So I've been

626
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: blessed in that area. I want to ask you this.

627
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: I know a lot of times when we're looking to

628
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: what we think is successful before we're actually successful, we

629
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: have a different vision or I think I thought of

630
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: what it is. What did you think success was before

631
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: you became successful? Now that you are, you look at

632
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: it totally different when you're like, no, this is I

633
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: know what success is now and it wasn't what I

634
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: thought it was back then.

635
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: Was what I thought, so funny.

636
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 3: Exactly how I dreamt.

637
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: I like the Big Show online where he was like,

638
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 2: if you ask me how I feel, I'm gonna just

639
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 2: tell you it's everything that I expected. That's really what

640
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 2: I really used as far as writing books, traveling. Of course,

641
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 2: you can never like fully know or fully appreciativery little thing,

642
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 2: but the idea of this, the whole reason why we

643
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 2: started this whole thing like that was that was the vision. Yeah,

644
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 2: I could speak for myself. I can't speak for Troy,

645
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: but that was my vision, Like I really thought about, damn,

646
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 2: we want to travel the world and write a book

647
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 2: and do interviews. And it was pretty much.

648
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 3: This is interesting. And I'll speak for both of us here.

649
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 3: I think us being successful, especially to our community, isn't

650
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 3: a surprise. I think they've watched us since we were teenagers.

651
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 3: They've watched us as young men, they watched us as men, fathers,

652
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 3: or it's not a surprise to them. They knew, They

653
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 3: kind of saw that this would be the route for them.

654
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 3: So like being successful, it was already in our brain.

655
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 3: It wasn't an option that we weren't going to be.

656
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 3: What was the route? He had visions for himself. I

657
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 3: have visions for myself. I thought it would be in education.

658
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 3: It kind of still isn't as he thought it was being.

659
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 3: It still is in finance. The path we didn't know.

660
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 3: The idea, the mindset of it was always there.

661
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now we talk about working with friends I want.

662
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: But visualization is very important before because that's something that

663
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: I'm a firm believer. I'm a very firm believer in that.

664
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 2: Like I said, I was just like the Kanye West

665
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: thing when he was like before I had it, I

666
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: closed my eyes and imagine, yes, and I feel like

667
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: that's powerful, like like all of these things, Like sometimes

668
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 2: it's like almost day because like now that's my favorite rapper. Yes,

669
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: Like to the point I named my son not here.

670
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: Wow.

671
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 2: And then we develop a relationship with nos, We have

672
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 2: dinner with him for six hours and all of that.

673
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 2: But these are things that it's like I feel, I

674
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: really really really firmly believe and like manifestation and like

675
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: visualize it. That doesn't mean that you just sitting in

676
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 2: your room and do nothing. Like I just think that

677
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 2: that's going to be like the pathway to success. It's

678
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: just dream all day. But stay positive. You can't, that's right.

679
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 3: Keep it positive. This is this is this is interesting.

680
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 3: As we were, as early leisure was turning in to

681
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 3: what it is, my mom showed me a letter that

682
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 3: I wrote in third grade. I still have it like

683
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 3: it was nineteen ninety one. That might have aged me

684
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 3: a little bit, but in the letter, it was me

685
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: telling her that I'm going to be a millionaire, and

686
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 3: when I've become a millionaire, I'm going to build a

687
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 3: big house, and I'm going to build her a big

688
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 3: house right next to it. So at nine years old,

689
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 3: I'm thinking I'm going there.

690
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: The vision.

691
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, the path is it going to

692
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 3: be in sports? Because we love sports, we love entertainment.

693
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 3: I'm not that great at writing rhymes, so that wasn't

694
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: going to happen. Can it be in education? Okay, let's

695
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 3: see what that path goes. But at nine years old,

696
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 3: it's a writing in my mind. I'm going to be successful.

697
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 3: I'm going to be a millionaire.

698
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's happening for sure. I love that. I love

699
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: that you both saw it. And I'm big on visions too,

700
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: like seeing things as a kid. I knew that I

701
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: was going to be doing what i'm doing, not podcasting,

702
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: but I knew I was going to be acting, singing.

703
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to be an entertainer. And

704
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: my parents were like girl, but they were like, this

705
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: is what you want to do. Well, make sure you're

706
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: in dance class. We're gonna put you in the choir.

707
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: They gave me the tools I needed to be able

708
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: to develop the skills for it. But it was also

709
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: something that I saw as a kid and I just

710
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: always knew and it was nobody. I don't care what

711
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: anybody said. They could say, oh, I'm not sure you

712
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: can do that. I'm like, I can, Yeah, Oh I

713
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: don't really like that, And I was like I do.

714
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: Like it didn't matter what anybody thought.

715
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 3: The moment didn't surprise you, It did not surprise me.

716
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: No. Somebody asked, we did something the other day here

717
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: at the studio for influencers, and they asked are you

718
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 1: basically are you surprised at where you are now? And

719
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: I'm like no, like this is something I always saw

720
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: for myself, and I'm big on writing things down to Actually,

721
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: in the third grade, I wrote Oprah and my very

722
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: first job here, Oprah and Tyler had worked. They were

723
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: working together on the Have and Have Nots and he

724
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: was doing shows for the own network. So she was

725
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: literally one of my first bosses when I moved here

726
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: and now I've had like multiple conversations, hung out with

727
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: her plenty of times. But as a kid, I got

728
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: denied going to the op Winfrey Show. I was like, Hey,

729
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: I used.

730
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 3: To have to tape Oprahnfrey Show at four o'clock every

731
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 3: day for my mom or your mom. Yeah on that

732
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 3: VC yes, And if I missed it, it was an issue,

733
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 3: No big issue, an issue.

734
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite shows, like after school

735
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: I could not wait. Yeah, but no, I'm with your

736
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 1: mom on that. That was gonna be a problem.

737
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 3: That's a problem. It's a problem.

738
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: I love that. So you two have been friends for

739
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: a long time. We talked about working with friends and

740
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: giving friends opportunities. I want to know how you all

741
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: have protected your friendship and doing business together, because a

742
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: lot of times we see friends go into business and

743
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,720
Speaker 1: then the friendship just is done because it doesn't last.

744
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: How have you protected that and what are some tips

745
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: that you can give other people who are going in

746
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 1: the business together.

747
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 3: I think the two words that come to mind that

748
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 3: trust and respect. I respect them to the highest level,

749
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 3: and I trust them to the highest level right outside

750
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 3: of business, like if I needed somebody to be around

751
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 3: my family if something happens to me, I know that

752
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 3: they're gonna be taken care of it and gonna make

753
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 3: sure that the understanding our strengths and our waitnesses. That's key.

754
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 3: And sometimes you see strength in other people and you realize, oh,

755
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 3: I'm not good at that, And you could look at

756
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 3: it a few ways. You can say, Okay, I want

757
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 3: to be as good as that person, or in my case,

758
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 3: I looked at it as he's great at that, Let

759
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 3: me find something else to be great at because if

760
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: I bring that asset with his, we are really a superpower.

761
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 3: And so understanding that, you know, having dialogue, making sure

762
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 3: that communication is there, checking in on each other, you know,

763
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,879
Speaker 3: outside of work. What people see, how you're doing, how

764
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: you doing, Like, how you're feeling okay, Like I know

765
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 3: there's some stress going on, You good? How can I help?

766
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 3: Just pouring into each other in that way which people

767
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 3: don't see.

768
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: It's so important, so especially as black men, because nobody's

769
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: checking on y'all. Y'all are taking care of everybody.

770
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,720
Speaker 3: I think that gets overlooked. This is something that's happening

771
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 3: with two black men. Yes, instead of that, we're going

772
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 3: to do something together and have been pretty much together

773
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 3: for thirty years. Now, where do we see that?

774
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: Yeah?

775
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 3: Right, So, like we understand the magnitude of that, We

776
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 3: understand the responsibility of that, We understand the people that

777
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 3: are watching just look at us and say, you guys

778
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 3: are our mentors. You are the blueprint on how to

779
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: do it. Yeah.

780
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like family, family doesn't break up,

781
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 2: Like it's impossible. If family breaks up, it was never family.

782
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 2: So you could have you know, a disagreement, or you

783
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 2: could even go separate ways like you know sometimes in life,

784
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 2: like you know, it doesn't mean that you hate it,

785
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 2: but what you see online, like you know, people was

786
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: best friends, they was business partners. Now they slammed each

787
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 2: other every chance that they get in, they telling their

788
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: the deepest secrets and you know, to me, like, I'm like,

789
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 2: to me, you was never family. I can't do that,

790
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 2: Like that's like your mom, Like now you're gonna go

791
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 2: online just start slammer in your mom because you don't

792
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 2: like it. You got disagreement in the moment, like that

793
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 2: question that that to me is questionable about your character.

794
00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 2: So I think too much is built around too much.

795
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: It's just built around not knowing how to de escalate

796
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: situations because a lot of times it's not even that serious.

797
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: A lot of situations just broken up just over not

798
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 2: knowing how to communicate properly. You know, it's like not

799
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: knowing how to ask for you know, what you want

800
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 2: to ask for, or just saying I don't agree with this,

801
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: or you know, just really like having an uncomfortable conversation

802
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 2: coming back apologizing about something, Like you know, a lot

803
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 2: of things could have just been avoided if you think

804
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 2: about it's not even that serious. But they'll go to

805
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 2: the end of the world to try to publicly slander

806
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: up a person. And it's like who benefits from that?

807
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 2: So you know, it happens all the time happens in

808
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 2: this space you see. Podcaster is like breaking up. You

809
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 2: see music people break up. You see like you know

810
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: all the time people you know, people break up all

811
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: the time. And like I said, there's ways to break up.

812
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: There's ways to break up if that's needed. But we

813
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 2: need to learn what we as a community. We need

814
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 2: to learn better conflict resolution skills, absolutely, and we need

815
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 2: to understand governance, respect governance, Like we gotta have better

816
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: ways of dealing with each other because it is problematic,

817
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 2: like we can't even work together. How we're going to

818
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 2: change anything, like in all real and like really really

819
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: affect real change. We can't even come together and not

820
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 2: you know, break up after eighteen months.

821
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: Right, that's so true. If y'all can give me a

822
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: quick story and there's.

823
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 2: No benefit in it, that's the last thing. As far

824
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 2: as just from a pure selfish standpoint, nine times out

825
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 2: of ten, it doesn't work out when you break up

826
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: very few people the band breaks up, and then you're

827
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 2: more successful. It happened once in a like you got Beyonest,

828
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 2: you got Michael Jackson outis right. Most of the time.

829
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 2: Most of the time you make less money, you become

830
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 2: less successful, you get nobody cares about you anymore. It

831
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 2: doesn't that's it doesn't work. So it's like, just from

832
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 2: a pure selfish standpoint, it's actually better just to keep

833
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: the band together. Like you, if you're getting thirty percent,

834
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: that thirty percent, I'd rather take thirty percent for twenty

835
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 2: years than one hundred percent for eighteen months, because that

836
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 2: when people break up, they're like, I could do this

837
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 2: on my own. I'm a bigger star, I got a

838
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 2: bigger name, and then it's like, all right, now you're

839
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: on your own, and then your run is eighteen months.

840
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 2: But if you had a nice, consistent run for twenty.

841
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: Years, yeah, it's different.

842
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 2: Nobody's complaining. So that's important for people to understand. Like

843
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 2: before you, before you in that relationship, if all else fails,

844
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 2: just think from a selfish standpoint, it's nine it's not

845
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: going to work. Ninety percent chance is not going to work.

846
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 2: So you're better off just working it out all vision.

847
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: I feel like that's some relationships to like and relate

848
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: like not just platonic. Like sometimes it's like work it out,

849
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, because you get out there and you're like,

850
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: just look it up, it's crazy.

851
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, that real well hits you.

852
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: Listen, right, you trying to run back home? Right, that's

853
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: what they think.

854
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 3: Are still folded right.

855
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: It's hilarious. You talked about disagreements, and I want to

856
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: know if you could tell us like a story time

857
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: that may be funny now, where you had a disagreement

858
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: on something but it actually ended up benefiting the brand,

859
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: where you're like, man, I'm glad we got through that,

860
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: but that was a heated moment.

861
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 3: I don't know they're heated moments. Like I said, I know,

862
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 3: I'm so well that I know how I'm a pro

863
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 3: something that there's a disagreement and we don't. The interesting

864
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 3: part is that we don't agree most of the time. Really.

865
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 3: I think people watch it and they think, oh, these

866
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 3: guys think alike. But in real life when people around us,

867
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 3: we debate back and forth most of the time.

868
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: Now, are y'all real New Yorkers When you have because

869
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: New York is allowed, you don't even seem like you

870
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: raise your voice.

871
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 3: He gets love, Yeah, But I mean that's how we've

872
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 3: always spoken to each other. That's how we communicate. And

873
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 3: I think again, it goes back to the respect. It's

874
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 3: not like, oh you lost that debate. It's just like, oh,

875
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 3: that was good, all right, let's can't wait for the

876
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 3: next one. Yeah, But you know, if there is a

877
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 3: disagreement and it's something that needs to be spoken about,

878
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,479
Speaker 3: it's going to be between me and him. It's gonna

879
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 3: be a phone call. That's something like I'm pulling up

880
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 3: to your house. Let's have this conversation, and let's see perspective.

881
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 3: Let's look at this perspective. We'll go back and forth

882
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 3: because I guess we both have that stubborn trait like

883
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 3: I want you to hear my point. I want to

884
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 3: hear my point. But are we listening to each other? Right?

885
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 3: It's one thing to be heard, but are you listening?

886
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 3: And it's usually resolved. There's never been something that is,

887
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 3: oh I hate you, don't talk to me. Ever, again,

888
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 3: I don't think there's been a time where it's like

889
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 3: I'm not speaking to him, you know, so, because there's

890
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 3: a respecting.

891
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: But then also I think that it's not really too

892
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,479
Speaker 2: much of like there is a level of governance because

893
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: it's like we have different roles and responsibilities. Like he's

894
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: a numbers guy, he handles the money, he handles operations, people, analytics,

895
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 2: variety of different things. We at other people too, like ab,

896
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 2: he's here with us. We got you know, we got

897
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 2: a team. We got a whole team. It's not just us,

898
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 2: it's a whole team. Different people have different delegations and

899
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 2: different things in that nature. And me, I'm a creative,

900
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 2: so I'll give everybody credit. Like, because I don't think

901
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 2: people stepped on people's toes too much, I can speak

902
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: for me. I don't feel like my toes get stepped

903
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 2: on too much. Like I feel like if I have

904
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: an idea, I have a pretty good track record, and

905
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 2: I feel like as long as I communicated successfully, it's

906
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 2: not really too many times where they'll be like, no,

907
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 2: you can't do this. It's pretty much never that. That's

908
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 2: never really the case. So I don't think that it's

909
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 2: ever been a situation where it's been like a full

910
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 2: fledge like this is the way that we're going. Oh no,

911
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 2: this is the way that we're going, and then it's like,

912
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 2: you know, there's not really too much of that because

913
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: I think people people know their strong suits, people know

914
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 2: what they're best at, people know what they're responsible for,

915
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: and you gotta have some trust, got to trust the

916
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 2: process for sure, you can't. You can't. It's not going

917
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 2: to work. Like if your job is to do something

918
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 2: and I'm telling you like, no, this is I'm telling you,

919
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 2: this is what I want to do. Well, that's not

920
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 2: your job anymore. That's my job. I've essentially taken your job.

921
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 2: So I feel like that's helped us too, because it

922
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 2: hasn't really been It's not too much like really like

923
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes it's things, but for the most part,

924
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 2: if we want to get something through, it's not really

925
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 2: an issue to get it through.

926
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 3: It's gonna be you a phone call. I'm great what

927
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 3: he's said because when people look at it, they see

928
00:44:58,080 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 3: the creative part and then it's like, well, how do

929
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 3: we get it done?

930
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: Yeah?

931
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, So like who's like, we got to source of

932
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 3: those ideas? All right? Great, I could say like, let

933
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 3: me go be creative, let me try, but I'm like, oh,

934
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 3: he's great at that. Yeah, let's see if we can

935
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 3: get these ideas done. Because if he comes up with

936
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 3: the idea and we can execute on it, now we've

937
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 3: got something right that the world gets the benefit from. Yeah.

938
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: No, for sure, for sure, speaking of something that the

939
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: world benefits from, you all are not just pouring into

940
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: today's like to what people are doing now and entrepreneurs

941
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: that are working now, but you're also pouring into the future.

942
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: This year it invests fast. You guys have junior high

943
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: school students, high school students that you're pouring into. Let's

944
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 1: talk about that. I think that's very important. I'm really

945
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: big on making sure that we pour into the youth

946
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: because they are our future. Tell you more about that.

947
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of one of those things where we

948
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 3: wanted to go back to where it all started. You know,

949
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 3: people see invest Fast and they think, wow, this is

950
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 3: for adults and I have to have money, and you know,

951
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 3: are my kids allowed to come? And you know, we

952
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 3: kind of looked at as an opportunity to educate the youth,

953
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 3: which is where it all started again, making sure that

954
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 3: they understood the principles behind entrepreneurship, business networking. And so

955
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 3: when the idea came about was how do we do this.

956
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 3: Do we create a separate event or do we make

957
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 3: it something inside of something that's already existed. I think

958
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 3: the opportunity presented itself when we looked at the calendar

959
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 3: and said we got to you know, investst moved up

960
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 3: a little bit this year. You know, Atlanta schools are

961
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 3: going back. At the same time, we're now doing investmentest

962
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 3: So the opportunity said, okay, well we've done this. We've

963
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 3: brought kids from our community down, we brought kids from

964
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 3: you know, the Bronx in Brooklyn down. Why are we

965
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 3: leaving out the greater Atlanta region. Don't they need opportunities?

966
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 3: Don't they need ideas? And so we've created a pretty

967
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 3: much a mini investments where they're going to have panels,

968
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 3: we have a pitch competition, and we're looking to inspire

969
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 3: a generation that is going to you know, be very

970
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 3: different than ours. Yes, right, the social media, the creator economy, AI,

971
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 3: all that is prevalent in their in their environment. Now

972
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 3: are they getting education about it? So we're bringing experts

973
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 3: in the same way for investments. We have speakers and

974
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 3: like I said, we have some really good, good ideas.

975
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 3: In terms of the give back, I don't want to

976
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 3: give everything away, but it's going to be definitely a

977
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 3: give back because it's important. Once they see it, they

978
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 3: can't unsee it, all right, and so let's let's let's

979
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 3: put them in an environment where they can see it. Now,

980
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 3: go back to their school, go back to the community.

981
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 3: Number one, inspire, but aspire to be something. They might

982
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 3: see somebody on the stage and that's exactly who I

983
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 3: want to be. I.

984
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you feel about it? Excited about this?

985
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 3: Yeah?

986
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: For sure. It's just you know, every year from investments,

987
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: we add something there, so just in general, we just

988
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 2: add something. So we added the pitch competition a few

989
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 2: years ago, we added Friday programming, a few years ago,

990
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 2: we added workshops. So this is the first and it

991
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 2: grows every year too. So first, yeah, it was just

992
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday. Now it's Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, wow,

993
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 2: Thursday with the kids. So it's just becoming like a

994
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 2: whole week of activities.

995
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: That's amazing. And this year you are expecting like over

996
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: fifty thousand or is it more than that?

997
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, per day, So we had like twenty five No,

998
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 2: it's like twenty Last year it was twenty five thousand people.

999
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 2: But you know how festivals calculated, they do it per day,

1000
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 2: so over the course of the weekend, it's like you

1001
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 2: do that number, then you tie two whatever it is.

1002
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,280
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, we're looking at that same range

1003
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five thousand people per day. Yeah, four hundred vendors.

1004
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: We got the kids event on.

1005
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 1: We do we gotta move in the invensments. Okay, he's

1006
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: a venus. I'm like, wait, okay. I'm like, we got

1007
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: some stuff we can say.

1008
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 3: We go overcord that conversation.

1009
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 2: We still got a few left, so let's get you out.

1010
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: Make it happened in no I remember the first time

1011
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: I went. I came through the back and then I

1012
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: went out to see what was going on. It was

1013
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: so overwhelming though, it was like a sea of people.

1014
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, Like I didn't know

1015
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: the magnitude of what you all had built until I

1016
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 1: saw it myself. And Keanu Watson is a really close

1017
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 1: friend of mine, and every year Morning Investments I gotta

1018
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,439
Speaker 1: speak and I was like okay. And when I went

1019
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: with Tyler, I was like, this is bananas. I was like,

1020
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: this is insane. So you guys have moved the dates up.

1021
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: What's the dates for this year?

1022
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 2: August seventh through August ninth.

1023
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 1: August seventh through the ninth beginning.

1024
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 2: The beginning of August, and we have vi P Night.

1025
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 2: This year is different. It's black. Todd Galla oh nice.

1026
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1027
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 2: I love gallery honoring t I honoring Jamaine Dupree, Keisha

1028
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 2: Lamb's bottom.

1029
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: I love all them. That's amazing. I love have you

1030
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: giving back to this performing? Listen? Our ticket is still available?

1031
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: Can people still come the club? Get your tickets?

1032
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 2: Listen.

1033
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: That sounds like a good time, and I've I feel

1034
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: like we're at the age where we want to get.

1035
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: We want to have our grown and sexy nights, put

1036
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: our tuxedos and our gowns on, you know, and be adults.

1037
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 2: I like that.

1038
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: I love it, but also learning and being able to

1039
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: take something with us and apply it because I think

1040
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: now more than ever, people are thinking differently about money.

1041
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: They can thinking different about wealth no matter where they

1042
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: are in their life. A lot of times people thought

1043
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: that if they had to be millionaires or having six

1044
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: figure job salaries to actually build wealth. But now we're

1045
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: teaching people you can start where you are, and I

1046
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: think that's very important. So I love what you guys

1047
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: are doing. We're definitely gonna I'm putting it on the record,

1048
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to get a booth. All right, okay, perfect?

1049
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: Now I want to be a part of it. So

1050
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: thank you. Guys so much for sitting down talking with

1051
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: this before we close. Is there anything else that we

1052
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: need to be on the lookout for where we can

1053
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: support you? You know you got the podcast invest Fast, but

1054
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 1: is there anything else that we can support?

1055
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 2: Thank you for having us you invest Fast. You know,

1056
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 2: there's still a few vendor booths available, still some tickets available.

1057
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: So there's one less available, one last because yeah, y'all

1058
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: better hurry up.

1059
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's just a it's just a magical moment

1060
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: every year. It's just to host it and be a

1061
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 2: part of it. And man, the networking opportunities is amazing,

1062
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 2: you know, to learn so much from so many high

1063
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 2: powered individuals just to be in a room. It's just

1064
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 2: it's just a great energy, it's a great feel, and

1065
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 2: it's life changing experience. So Hoighy would encourage people to

1066
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 2: do that. Go to invest Fest dot com and then

1067
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 2: earn your leader. You can check us out on all

1068
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 2: social media platforms. On YouTube, we have content that we

1069
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 2: put out pretty much every day. We have three shows

1070
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 2: and we're always doing something. We have a book called

1071
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 2: on you Just Have to Be Rich, So check that

1072
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 2: out if you're if you're you know, looking for some

1073
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: reading material. It's it breaks down everything that we talk

1074
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 2: about in story form and it goes from A to

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Speaker 2: Z and financial planning journey. Nice.

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Speaker 1: We have to add that to our Sweie Social Club

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Speaker 3: In addition to the youth something that would happen, we

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Speaker 3: also have curriculum HM and so we're going to be

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Speaker 3: sitting in the curriculums academy because one of the things

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Speaker 3: we knew about being in school is that no one

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Speaker 3: taught about financially and so where we saw a problem,

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Speaker 3: here's a solution. And so we're going to be debuting

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Speaker 3: it here in Atlanta. So if you're in a school

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Speaker 3: district in the Greater Atlanta region or in the state

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Speaker 3: of Georgia, you know, definitely get us up about that.

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Speaker 2: we have. That's nine o'clock on Wednesday, and that's a

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Speaker 2: that's more edgy.

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Speaker 1: I like that. After hours, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: After hours for sure, late night, late night show.

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Speaker 1: Check it out. Now, where can they find that?

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Speaker 2: Lesia?

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Speaker 1: Okay, all leisure listening platforms, media company. There you go,

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Speaker 1: get into it a part of the platform. I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love it. A lot of people come to invest

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Speaker 2: fast and you know organically you just you meet people, right,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of people meet significant others. So we

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Speaker 2: wanted to just for yeah, we wanted to foster it

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Speaker 2: in a more structured way. So then we got a

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Speaker 2: singles lounge for single people that's looking to meet. So

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Speaker 2: if you if you're a woman and you're looking to

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Speaker 2: meet an intentional man that's ambitious, right, mindset, finances in order,

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Speaker 2: guy's investments right.

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Speaker 3: Like folios looking great.

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Speaker 2: Life insurance, taking care of all the things. And then

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Speaker 2: if you're a man and you're looking for you know,

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Speaker 2: a woman that got a head on her shoulders, that's

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Speaker 2: about a business that's you know, doing the right things, focused,

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Speaker 2: prayed for this moment. It's no better place. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're definitely excited about that.

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Speaker 1: I love now y'all vetting the people or.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we partner you know, you know Kendrick g Yeah,

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Speaker 2: she's gonna be she's hosting it. She's hosting it, Okay,

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Speaker 2: so it's gonna it's gonna be fun too.

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Speaker 1: She's so much fun.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a vibe.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I might have to slide into this. See what

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Speaker 1: y'all got up in there?

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Speaker 3: Research and development? Of course, this is all research.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Now, that's fire. I love it. Was

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Speaker 1: that side.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know what. I always wanted to do the

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Speaker 2: singles lounge thing, but talking to Kendra and she was like, Yo,

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Speaker 2: why don't we do this? And it was just like,

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Speaker 2: you know what, we should do this. Yeah, So I

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Speaker 2: gotta give the credit to Kendra. So she's the one

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Speaker 2: that she's the one that actually told me about it,

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Speaker 2: and when she proposed it to me, it was a

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Speaker 2: no brainer to everybody just says like, yeah, why not,

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Speaker 2: that's just perfect. So I shot out to kendred Man.

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Speaker 3: She's incredible. She hosted a pitch competition a few years

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Speaker 3: ago and it was like a gap in between presenting

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Speaker 3: and she kind of just like improv too, started doing

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Speaker 3: it and we were watching the backstage like that's genius. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that's fire, come up, tell me about who are you

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Speaker 3: looking for? And then the participation for the audience, we

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Speaker 3: were just standing there like that's something. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Her energy is so good. That's I love that you

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Speaker 1: say every night Thursday through Sunday Sunday, are you still

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Speaker 1: in here? But I was just trying to was saying,

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Speaker 1: I gotta see the gotta see what's coming through the doors.

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Speaker 2: Every Yes, you got on Sunday all all the eligible

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Speaker 2: bachelors and didn't make a decision at the at.

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Speaker 3: The something you know.

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Speaker 1: Sunday, we don't know.

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Speaker 2: You have your draft. You gotta have your draft card.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 1: Going to something that is so good. All right, we're

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Speaker 1: definitely checking that out.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Okay, we're definitely checking it out. I

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Speaker 1: love that. Guys. I just want to say, I know

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Speaker 1: this is our first time really sitting down and talking.

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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of y'all. Just listening to your journey,

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Speaker 1: seeing everything you've been able to accomplish, and then even

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Speaker 1: hearing how you all speak on conflict resolution, on how

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Speaker 1: you handle business, how you handle people. I can tell,

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Speaker 1: and I don't quote me if I'm wrong, but I

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Speaker 1: can tell you've done the work. Like it sounds like

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Speaker 1: two men that have probably gone to therapy, have talked

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Speaker 1: to people who have community, and I can tell by

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Speaker 1: the way you handle yourselves. I'm like, these are two

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Speaker 1: guys that can know how to put the ego aside

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Speaker 1: and really be brothers. And it's good to see. I

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Speaker 1: really love seeing it.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, thank yes, thank you guys so much. Make sure

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Speaker 1: guys check out investments this August seventh through the ninth.

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Speaker 1: If you're in Atlanta. If you're not, just catch a flight.

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Speaker 1: Drive it's not far from a lot of places pull

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Speaker 1: up on them. It's a few vendor boots left, minus one,

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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna get one and get your tickets, get

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Speaker 1: your black tied ladies, get your gowns, and come on

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Speaker 1: and have a good time. It's gonna be fun. I'm

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Speaker 1: excited for you guys. I hope this year is bigger

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Speaker 1: than ever. Thank you so much, Yes, thank you. This

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Speaker 1: conversation reminded me that wealth isn't just measured by what

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Speaker 1: you accumulate. It's measured by what you build and what

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Speaker 1: you teach. Thank you both for your honesty and your leader,

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Speaker 1: And thank you to everyone listening. If this conversation encouraged

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Speaker 1: you or inspired you to be sure to subscribe, leave

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Speaker 1: a comment, and share this episode with someone who is

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Speaker 1: building something bigger. Than themselves. And don't forget, the Sweeti

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Speaker 1: Social Club is officially open. If you've been rocking with

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Speaker 1: us and you want to be even more connected with

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Speaker 1: the kids family, this is for you. Follow us on

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Speaker 1: Instagram at Sweetie Social Club and until next time, you

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Speaker 1: guys already know, keep it pausa Sweetie