WEBVTT - McMillions feat. Tarji Carter

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<v Speaker 1>Hoping, and we talk back where we encourage you to

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<v Speaker 1>hustle hard, laugh louder, and always keep it cute. So

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<v Speaker 1>grab your coffee, cocktail and crown, because it's about to

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<v Speaker 1>go down.

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<v Speaker 2>We're just too unapologetically black women with an opinion. Who

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<v Speaker 2>talks back?

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<v Speaker 1>What's up, y'all with your girl a j holiday?

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<v Speaker 2>What's up TAMVM, y'all is tam VAM. I love y'all

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<v Speaker 2>so so very much.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all believe that ship doing it?

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<v Speaker 2>I do believe it that a little bit, I'll be

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<v Speaker 2>believing it a little bit, just a little bit, I do.

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<v Speaker 2>I love this soone. I love you too. Girl. You

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<v Speaker 2>think I love you?

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<v Speaker 1>I know you love me? Okay, but yeah, uh.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh okay, I love it too. I love God all

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<v Speaker 2>the gosh.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody loves me.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like George, I love everybody else who Georgie and

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<v Speaker 2>mother ass? Oh you're mad at him? How was your weekend?

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<v Speaker 1>It was good? Great, y'all? How was your weekend?

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all? Me and AJ bonded this weekend in a weird way.

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<v Speaker 1>Not no gay ship, because y'all know Tammy Bean on

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<v Speaker 1>some gay ship. I don't be day for real. I

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<v Speaker 1>just be playing what's a regular ships, y'all.

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<v Speaker 2>AJ got us Bobo tea on the way back from

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<v Speaker 2>Atlanta and she put whole milk in it. Don't tell

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<v Speaker 2>nobody this because it's embarrassing, but we had the dookie

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<v Speaker 2>together together at the same time in the bathroom, not

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<v Speaker 2>in the same stall, but at the same time.

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<v Speaker 1>No, but the worst part, we live a simmer okay,

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<v Speaker 1>from from Atlanta to Thomasville, and that's the exit, like

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<v Speaker 1>that Dicky exit right before Augusta. So, y'all, we was

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<v Speaker 1>in Atlanta this weekend for the Black for the third

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<v Speaker 1>annual Black Effect Podcast Festival, which was wonderful. We'll get

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<v Speaker 1>to that in a minute. Right after we finished talking

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<v Speaker 1>about this shit. So what that's about an hour and

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<v Speaker 1>a half two hour drives. So we lit a simmer

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<v Speaker 1>for a little while, because y'all, I love boba tea

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<v Speaker 1>and temm be like you eat drinking that shit with

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<v Speaker 1>the little balls in the bottom. But I was so

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<v Speaker 1>excited that this place was so open down the street

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<v Speaker 1>from the hotel we stayed in, and I forgot to

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<v Speaker 1>put my little traditional order and I do not drink

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<v Speaker 1>whole milk, okay, So because I already has spent like

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<v Speaker 1>eight dollars a piece on these drinks. I'm like, we

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<v Speaker 1>drinking this whole milk to day, bitch. When I tell y'all,

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<v Speaker 1>we had a wine and window down between flarts, man

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<v Speaker 1>and not kill each other, y'all. It was so bad.

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<v Speaker 2>And then so we had to use the bathroom at

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<v Speaker 2>this place, right, and then only had two stalls, and

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<v Speaker 2>this hispanic lady came in mid poop, right, yees, she

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<v Speaker 2>had to go real bad because she was like fuck,

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<v Speaker 2>fuck fuck fuck, and she was pulling on the doors.

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<v Speaker 2>And then we started laughing because what you're gonna do with.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen, this is how considerate I am, even in the

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<v Speaker 1>midst of shit. I'm still considerate. I'm trying to push, y'all.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to push this shit out, like because I

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<v Speaker 1>want this lady needs the bathroom, like she probably had

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<v Speaker 1>to pee real bad. And mind you, we chose this

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<v Speaker 1>bathroom because we were next door to Loves, which we

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<v Speaker 1>went in there and got ice and got gas and shit,

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<v Speaker 1>we was like, man, it's a newer bathroom over here.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a newer gas station. Let's go Daddy to take

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<v Speaker 1>these shits. It's cleaner. But y'all know, Love's probably got

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<v Speaker 1>like twelve stalls in that bitch. So we go to

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<v Speaker 1>someplace that only had two stalls, and we feel so bad.

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<v Speaker 2>For that lady. But I'm not doing that because I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not giving myself no heroy trying to be courteous as

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<v Speaker 2>someone else.

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<v Speaker 1>I definitely could have got a HEMMI fucking around.

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<v Speaker 3>Me.

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<v Speaker 2>And then we heard her husband come into the bathroom

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<v Speaker 2>or a man she called a man in there, and

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<v Speaker 2>he was speaking and I guess he would say, like

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<v Speaker 2>sound an argument, yeah, because he was probably saying, what

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<v Speaker 2>the fuck you want me to do?

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<v Speaker 1>Like I can't make these people.

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<v Speaker 2>Come out the stall. So yeah, we bonded. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>the Black Effect Podcast Festival the third annual. It's so

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<v Speaker 2>much fun. It's like a family reunion. You guys, you

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<v Speaker 2>really really need to pull up next year if you

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<v Speaker 2>did not come this year. We had so much fun.

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<v Speaker 2>We got to do interviews women on the street, so

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<v Speaker 2>we just talked to people that were in attendance and

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<v Speaker 2>got their perspective on relationships and things of black culture

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<v Speaker 2>and things like that. It was so much fun and

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<v Speaker 2>the weather was perfect, was a good.

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<v Speaker 1>Day for that. It was a good day. But you

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<v Speaker 1>know what, y'all know, I don't really like Atlanta like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm looking for Black Effect to take this show on

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<v Speaker 1>the road. Okay, I would love to see maybe it

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<v Speaker 1>in Charlotte next year, some other black ass city. Why not?

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<v Speaker 2>I like Atlanta, I like, I mean, I mean yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I like Atlanta. Maybe a different location in Atlanta, perhaps

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<v Speaker 2>with more like stadium seating kind of situation where they

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<v Speaker 2>have like rooms for each podcasts, like theater rooms for

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<v Speaker 2>each podcast and like, I don't know, something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I think Atlanta be having too much

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<v Speaker 1>shit going on on one any given Sunday. So it's

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<v Speaker 1>like people picking and choosing what they want to do,

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<v Speaker 1>Like why not hit up a new city? I would

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<v Speaker 1>love to see it someplace else? And shit, Charlotte, we

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<v Speaker 1>talked back, definitely hitting the stage again. I don't will

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<v Speaker 1>fuck who say what?

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<v Speaker 2>Right? Yes, y'all we really had a like we had

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<v Speaker 2>a meeting today because we are getting our live shows together.

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<v Speaker 2>I know y'all be in my DMS asking when y'all

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<v Speaker 2>gonna see us in person. Y'all want us to come

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<v Speaker 2>to your city, so we'll be coming to a city

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<v Speaker 2>near you. Real, real soon, so stay tuned for that.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get in the sins.

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<v Speaker 1>What we got going on this week? Man, did you

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<v Speaker 1>know Flomillie was pregnant?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did I not know that? Like I really really

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<v Speaker 1>like her too, I did not know. So she she

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<v Speaker 1>welcomed a brand new baby on a twenty fifth.

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<v Speaker 2>Her first baby to her baby boy, I just love you.

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<v Speaker 2>I just love how the girlies are not letting motherhoods

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<v Speaker 2>stop them from Like there was a time where motherhood

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<v Speaker 2>was like the end of a career.

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<v Speaker 1>But not no more, no carler ship off. Cardi B

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<v Speaker 1>set shit off. Cardi B said, I'm having my kid.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember her being on the Breakfast Club and she

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<v Speaker 1>was telling Sharla me and her goals and what age

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<v Speaker 1>she wanted to have her kids buy and she started

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<v Speaker 1>no matter what she was performing, pregnant at all? That

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<v Speaker 1>should I would not. I would strongly advised against, like

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<v Speaker 1>torquing on your knees with the baby bump, but hey whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>the young girls is doing it. But shit, yeah, you

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<v Speaker 1>can do both. You can do both because having a

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<v Speaker 1>child is just a part of women's lives. So why

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<v Speaker 1>your life or career stop just because.

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<v Speaker 2>So congratulations to Fu Millie. Eh, what else happened? Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>Beyonce started the first leg of her Cowboy Carter tour

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<v Speaker 2>and Blue Ivy was on stage with her, looking like

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<v Speaker 2>Beyonce circa two thousand and six. She looks so big

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<v Speaker 2>and grown now.

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<v Speaker 1>I know she looked like both for her parents. She

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<v Speaker 1>like a nice little blend. Yeah. And then Roomy made

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<v Speaker 1>her debut on stage. Happy.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, she's been waiting on her moment and she just

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<v Speaker 2>that just touched my heart that Beyonce had her on

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<v Speaker 2>stage as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Were we not just talking about that this weekend? And

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<v Speaker 1>what was my I'm like, yeah, if okay? People so

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<v Speaker 1>mad at Kanye about what Kanye put on social media, right,

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<v Speaker 1>but people have noticed things right about these two other

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<v Speaker 1>kids we don't see And if it were me, right,

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<v Speaker 1>that would be an opportunity for me to have like

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<v Speaker 1>some type of advocacy for children with possible autism. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to say they have it, but I love

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<v Speaker 1>to see that she, you know, had her daughter out

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<v Speaker 1>on stage. Because it's nothing to high, you know what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying, Like the shit is way more prevalent. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if scientists or whoever the doctors are finally

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<v Speaker 1>just maybe it's just the umbrella term. I believe, right,

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<v Speaker 1>you just don't know what the fuck is up. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just the umbrella term. But I'm so happy that she's

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, embracing, not to say she wasn't embracing,

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<v Speaker 1>but people wanted to know why we don't see these

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<v Speaker 1>other two kids, right, and you are a celebrity, so unfortunately, right,

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<v Speaker 1>you don't get a break with this type of shit.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I was happy to see her,

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<v Speaker 2>and I you know what, I wasn't going to like

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<v Speaker 2>try to go to Cowboy Carter because I just finished

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<v Speaker 2>playing off the last Beyonce tickets, like just recently they

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<v Speaker 2>got their last bit of my money. So I said,

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't gonna buy tickets, but f in the footage

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<v Speaker 2>online and make you want to go, don't it.

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<v Speaker 1>No, I'm good. I hadn't been to a Beyonce concert

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<v Speaker 1>since two thousand and eight, and my ticket was one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty dollars, and that damn they had front

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<v Speaker 1>row tickets.

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<v Speaker 2>Damn. I listen, I have floor seats to the last

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<v Speaker 2>show and it was a thousand, So one thousand dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>I need one hundred and fifty dollars tickets, because I

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<v Speaker 1>know in Europe when they in these other countries, that's

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<v Speaker 1>how much them niggas paying. Why is it inflation when

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<v Speaker 1>it comes to this project called America. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>pay what they pay.

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<v Speaker 2>Me too, dude, did you google that? Because I think

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<v Speaker 2>their tickets are high too in Europe. Yeah, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a big Europe. So whichever country they end up in, right,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not all of them ain't gonna be no damn

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<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars for no damn tickets. They're they're not having

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<v Speaker 1>it like we be accepting of all that shit. So

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<v Speaker 1>they they price scuog over here because people go to

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<v Speaker 1>actually find a way to pay it after paying a

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<v Speaker 1>Beyonce ticket is fucking wild to me. Yeah, that's I

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<v Speaker 1>just paid it off, and I know I ended up

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<v Speaker 1>paying double just to pay it.

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<v Speaker 2>Off, all right. So anyway, Terrence passes on Marvin Gay.

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<v Speaker 2>So Terrece Howard sat with Bill Mayer for an interview

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<v Speaker 2>where he revealed that the late Quincy Jones approached him

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<v Speaker 2>for a movie on the life of Marvin Gay. Terrence

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<v Speaker 2>said that he turned down the role after Quincy confirmed

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<v Speaker 2>rumors that Marvin was gay, so he was gonna have

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<v Speaker 2>to do some gay scenes and he wasn't with it.

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<v Speaker 1>Why do you got to put that in the movie though?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did I wonder if Terrence actually reviewed the script

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<v Speaker 1>and saw that he would be kissing a man in

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<v Speaker 1>a movie, because if that was something that's not going

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<v Speaker 1>to be in a movie, like you can go ahead

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<v Speaker 1>and play.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's what it was.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he said that he he is not the

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<v Speaker 1>biggest part of who Marvin Gaye was.

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<v Speaker 2>Why is that in the movie Marvin Gaye was gay

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<v Speaker 2>the whole time he was telling they wouldn't last name

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't even gay. He's Marvin Williams the whole time. Why

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<v Speaker 2>would even be a part of the movie. For listen,

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<v Speaker 2>I would love to go see a Marvin gay movie.

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<v Speaker 2>I would love to be in a Marvin gay movie

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<v Speaker 2>The Toxic King. But Terrence Hart, well he was gonna

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<v Speaker 2>play Marvin Gay I wouldn't want to see him as

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<v Speaker 2>Marvin Gay.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like how that's not a good Uh, it's not

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<v Speaker 1>a good match. That's not a good casting as as

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<v Speaker 1>I'm concerned. Who could play Marvin Gaye?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? You know who? I would like to see play

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<v Speaker 2>Marvin Gaye because he already down for the gay the

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<v Speaker 2>gay roles. What's his name? He played on the shy.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, what is that guy's name? I know exactly who

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<v Speaker 1>you're talking about. I was thinking la Keith Stanfield, like

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<v Speaker 1>la Keith would probably play Marvin Gaye.

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<v Speaker 2>He could play a Marvin Gaye too.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just thinking about aesthetically because that's why Terrence Howard

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<v Speaker 1>to me, wouldn't be a good yeah fit for Marvin

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<v Speaker 1>Gaye role.

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<v Speaker 2>What's going on?

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<v Speaker 1>My I need to stop?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, Uh, he's stupid.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I don't know that guy's name. I forgotten. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>moving on, So this past weekend at the live show

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Black Effect also Good Mom's Bad Choices podcast. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so they recently relaunched under the Black Effect family brand

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<v Speaker 1>and they did the live show. They so they hit

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<v Speaker 1>the stage this past weekend and uh, Draca which I

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<v Speaker 1>thought this girl name was Draka the whole time. So

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<v Speaker 1>we just found out this weekend her name is Draca. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>Kevin Gate's ex wife, which I thought they were still married.

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<v Speaker 1>So they asked some like really probing questions, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>during this podcast interview. This past weekend and she kind

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<v Speaker 1>of passed on all the questions. But surely thereafter it

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<v Speaker 1>came out that they actually got a divorce or somebody

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<v Speaker 1>filed for divorce. I even saw headlines that he was

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<v Speaker 1>married to Brittany Grinder now Britnaney shit, Brittany Ry Britney Rinner.

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<v Speaker 1>Now can imagine that he was with Britney Griner. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I think should be beating his ass up with him.

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<v Speaker 1>Damn long long ass arms. Yes, it says rapper Keavin

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<v Speaker 1>Gates has discussed his life through his music since he

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<v Speaker 1>climbed the music charts with his twenty thirteen song Satellites.

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<v Speaker 1>His artistry resonates with his fans, who relate to his past,

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<v Speaker 1>including time in prison, and his future, which has evolved

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<v Speaker 1>him meeting a few special someones. So so, allegedly he's

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<v Speaker 1>been with Brittany Renner. They started dating in twenty twenty two.

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<v Speaker 1>Really yeah, supposedly anyway, But it says that Kevin Gates

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<v Speaker 1>and Draka's romance ended November twenty twenty four, so just

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<v Speaker 1>last year. So when did she file for the divorce?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm confused. Are they divorce? Are they still separated?

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<v Speaker 2>But what I do know is when she walked her

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<v Speaker 2>ass on that stage, I was like.

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<v Speaker 1>Damn, we was just talking about her ass last week.

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<v Speaker 1>She's fine.

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<v Speaker 2>She is beautiful, very flat, boody, sitting out skinning, pretty smile, beautiful,

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<v Speaker 2>real energy, good energy. Like yeah, so shout out to Draka.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I don't know what Kevin Gates got going on anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>We said he was in Aquarius last week, and that

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<v Speaker 1>just says it all. Okay, lead them niggas alone. They

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<v Speaker 1>don't got it all.

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<v Speaker 2>I aspire like to have her life where I live

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<v Speaker 2>on my farm eating fresh fruit that.

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<v Speaker 1>I grew and a nigga paid for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah that part, don't leave that part out. I want

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<v Speaker 2>some chickens and stuff though, and some cows, but I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to tend them. I want to have farm hands.

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<v Speaker 1>No, I think I would want to do it myself.

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<v Speaker 1>I would want to in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Garden, but not the chickens and the cows.

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<v Speaker 1>I love the animals.

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<v Speaker 2>I definitely want to tend the cows.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, I would.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you been in a cow pasture before?

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<v Speaker 1>I have stinks real shitty, yes, yeah, but I still

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<v Speaker 1>would want to. I would want to. I have mine

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<v Speaker 1>went and stink, Yes, it would you know, it wouldn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna keep it.

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<v Speaker 2>Supposed to smell like a cow. If you do anything

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<v Speaker 2>to make it smell like not a cow, it's probably

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<v Speaker 2>not healthy.

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<v Speaker 1>So washing the cow wouldn't be healthy.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, washing the cow. But you can't oversh it, you

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<v Speaker 2>dry it out.

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<v Speaker 1>You're trying to wear the cow hide.

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<v Speaker 2>We just want milk, we want No, I'm gonna cook

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<v Speaker 2>that motherfucker.

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<v Speaker 1>See, I'm not trying to eat my animals between me

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<v Speaker 1>and you raising them to murder them.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, someone we're gonna eat someone. We're gonna they're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>be for milk and someone gonna be for food. No,

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<v Speaker 2>but yeah, I aspired to that lifestyle honestly. So shout

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<v Speaker 2>out to Draker cluse bombs for Draker. Hey that who

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<v Speaker 2>said that? Is that Charlamagne. All right, y'all, we got

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<v Speaker 2>a special guest on this week and she's gonna drop

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<v Speaker 2>some jewels about franchising and helping us understand how to

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<v Speaker 2>get this money on because we need it. So y'all

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<v Speaker 2>stay tuned. We'll be right back, all.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, y'all, Welcome back. Okay, So today we're talking about franchising,

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<v Speaker 1>ownership and building real well through business. Our guests Tarjie Carter.

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<v Speaker 1>She's a founder of founder and CEO of The Franchise Player,

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<v Speaker 1>and a leading voice for minority franchise ownership. She's on

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<v Speaker 1>a mission to help more entrepreneurs break barriers and own

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<v Speaker 1>their future. We'll be covering everything from funding tips to

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<v Speaker 1>mindset shifts. Okay, welcome to the show.

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<v Speaker 2>Tarji, Hey, Tarji Girl, Hey, Tam Bam.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you for having me.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, y'all, we was at the podcast Festival. If y'all

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<v Speaker 2>missed it, sorry y'all wasn't there. It was lit, and

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<v Speaker 2>it was a good place, yes period, and it was

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<v Speaker 2>a good place to meet like minded people. And we

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<v Speaker 2>saw this bad being standing at the table, and then

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<v Speaker 2>we got to talking to her and found out that

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<v Speaker 2>she was smart and she had some information that she

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<v Speaker 2>could because you know, sometimes they'd be pretty and stupid,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, but she's actually pretty, very smart, so she

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<v Speaker 2>had some information that she could share with us and

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<v Speaker 2>with y'all. So thank you girl for coming on.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you for that. I was just trying to be

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<v Speaker 3>cute and low key, but yeah, you know, there's a

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<v Speaker 3>little substance there too. But you all were so kind.

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<v Speaker 3>You're right. It was lit. I had never been was

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<v Speaker 3>my first time there, and so I didn't know what

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<v Speaker 3>to expect. But you know, a friend of mine brought

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<v Speaker 3>me as his plus one and he said, do your thing,

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<v Speaker 3>and so I just went up and talked to everybody.

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<v Speaker 3>For the most part, you know, I had on my

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<v Speaker 3>franchise player hat, and that opened a lot of doors

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<v Speaker 3>for me, because people really don't they're not talking about

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<v Speaker 3>franchising right now. Everything that we hear on a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of these podcasts and on television and radio is about

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<v Speaker 3>you know, investing in real estate, the stock market, and crypto,

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<v Speaker 3>which is all great, but no one's talking about franchising.

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<v Speaker 3>So I've been working in this space for almost twenty

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<v Speaker 3>years now and I've learned a lot, and so just

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<v Speaker 3>want to take everything I've learned and bring into our

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<v Speaker 3>community so that we can start having the conversations about

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<v Speaker 3>franchising and then teaching people how to get into it

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<v Speaker 3>the proper way.

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<v Speaker 1>So what inspired you to get into the world of franchise.

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<v Speaker 2>A fluke?

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<v Speaker 3>It was a total fluke. I knew nothing about franchising

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<v Speaker 3>and until I started doing it as a child. I know,

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<v Speaker 3>probably just like you all, you would go to McDonald's

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<v Speaker 3>or Burger King or what have you. And no one

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<v Speaker 3>ever told me I could own a franchise. I didn't

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<v Speaker 3>understand the concept until I started working for a company

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<v Speaker 3>called Carbo ice Cream, which we're not going to shout

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<v Speaker 3>out a bunch of folks, but just wanted to give

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<v Speaker 3>that name. So I started doing that. And then that

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<v Speaker 3>was back in Dosh two thousand and eight. And interestingly enough,

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<v Speaker 3>I had just come off the heels of being the

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<v Speaker 3>executive assistant to Tyler Perry, so talk about like just

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<v Speaker 3>a crazy shifting career, and I was working at a hotel.

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<v Speaker 3>The president of the company was staying at my hotel

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<v Speaker 3>and we just developed a rapport and he honestly just

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<v Speaker 3>offered me a job. Wow, And just because I'm the

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<v Speaker 3>type of person that loves a challenge, I said, yeah sure.

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<v Speaker 3>And when I did it, I thought, what did I

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<v Speaker 3>get myself into? It was a lot to learn, and

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<v Speaker 3>it was like learning like you know how they say,

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<v Speaker 3>like drinking out of a fire hose. It was just

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<v Speaker 3>like that, like everything was coming at me so fast.

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<v Speaker 3>But you know, I appreciated the challenge. I learned so much,

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<v Speaker 3>and then from there it just went on to to

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<v Speaker 3>go from company to company, learning more and more every

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<v Speaker 3>time I moved around.

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<v Speaker 2>So wait, when you were working with Tyler period, how

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<v Speaker 2>long ago was this was you all full to in

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<v Speaker 2>industrial and the trailers Back in the day it was.

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<v Speaker 3>I was stupid, Uh, north Side Drive. So there was

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<v Speaker 3>a small building and then we went to Crog Street

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<v Speaker 3>and then you know, there were a few moves after.

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<v Speaker 2>That Industrial then because where the hose was at, no,

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<v Speaker 2>that way, he was really in the church.

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<v Speaker 3>I think I missed that era and that was a

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<v Speaker 3>while ago.

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<v Speaker 1>Somebody from a taller period movie though I ain't gonna

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<v Speaker 1>lie ye already.

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<v Speaker 2>It was like a microphone right here at the top

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<v Speaker 2>of that way.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh. Yeah, he's come a long way with

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<v Speaker 3>those wigs, for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry to interview. That's okay, keep going. So you

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<v Speaker 2>said you went on.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So I went on to just learn everything that

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<v Speaker 3>I could, and just throughout my career, I just noticed

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<v Speaker 3>that at the ownership level, there just weren't a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of people that looked like us. And I thought, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>every time I would go from company to company, I

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<v Speaker 3>would talk about, you know, we need to be more diverse,

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<v Speaker 3>we need to get in front of different audiences and

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<v Speaker 3>for whatever reason just was never a priority. So I said, well,

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<v Speaker 3>I can keep going from company to company complaining, or

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<v Speaker 3>I can do something myself. So in twenty twenty three,

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<v Speaker 3>I started a company called The Franchise Player, where we

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<v Speaker 3>basically provide education, opportunities and resources to our community to

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<v Speaker 3>learn about franchising, the resources to get access to capital,

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<v Speaker 3>have access to industry professionals such as like construction, real estate, design,

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<v Speaker 3>market planning, everything that you're gonna need to have access

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<v Speaker 3>to to be successful in franchise ownership. And then we

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<v Speaker 3>do events also. So in twenty twenty three, I also

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<v Speaker 3>launched The Franchise Game. Along with my two co partners,

0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.919
<v Speaker 3>Dalen Golf and Dessi Brown Junior. We founded the Franchise

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<v Speaker 3>Game and then it's a whole day of a conference,

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<v Speaker 3>a symposium and trade show where we bring in industry experts,

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<v Speaker 3>so existing franchisees that own anywhere from one unit to

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<v Speaker 3>one hundred units. We bring in all the professionals within

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<v Speaker 3>the industry, some of the best minds and voices in

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<v Speaker 3>franchising to teach the local community and others that fly

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<v Speaker 3>in from all over the country about how to do

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<v Speaker 3>it properly, and then we had a half day version

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<v Speaker 3>of that that we call the scrimmage that we take

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<v Speaker 3>around the country. So we had most recently we had

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<v Speaker 3>one at the University of North Texas in March. We

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<v Speaker 3>also did a scrimmage at Morehouse College in October of

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<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty four. So we take those scrimmages around the country,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, it's kind of like a plug and play.

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<v Speaker 3>We can take those anywhere there's a need to learn

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<v Speaker 3>about franchise ownership.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, So so why franchising over like starting an independent company.

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<v Speaker 2>Why would you recommend that?

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<v Speaker 3>That's a great question. I'm so glad you asked that.

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<v Speaker 3>So with franchising, you you basically hit the ground running.

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<v Speaker 3>So think about it this way. If I open Targi's

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<v Speaker 3>doing a shop, it might take me three weeks for

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<v Speaker 3>someone to walk through the front door.

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<v Speaker 2>But if I put you know how to you don't

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<v Speaker 2>look like you know how to cook Tarji.

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<v Speaker 3>That's so I'm like, yes here.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you're so pretty, you look like you don't being

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<v Speaker 2>nobody kitchen cooking.

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<v Speaker 1>That girl, you throw down.

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<v Speaker 3>I throw down and I make a mean reservation. I

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<v Speaker 3>could do both at the same time, but franchising it's

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<v Speaker 3>so for example, if I started targi's doing a shop, right,

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<v Speaker 3>I have to do everything. I have to figure out

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<v Speaker 3>a recipe, figure out location right, how do I get

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<v Speaker 3>people through the door, how do I market? Where do

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<v Speaker 3>I put the stores? How do I negotiate my leases?

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<v Speaker 3>With franchising, if you invest in the right franchise, they're

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<v Speaker 3>gonna have all of that support in place for you.

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<v Speaker 3>So when you pay your franchise feed, really that's like

0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:13.000
<v Speaker 3>your entry fee. That's like the cost of entry that

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<v Speaker 3>you pay at the door, and then you pay additional fees,

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<v Speaker 3>ongoing fees for the additional support, the ongoing support that

0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:21.840
<v Speaker 3>you receive as a franchise owner. So for example, they

0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:25.640
<v Speaker 3>have like an internal database of marketing materials that are

0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:28.399
<v Speaker 3>already creative for you, approved by the brand. So you

0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:30.840
<v Speaker 3>just take a piece of material, you put your personal

0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:33.480
<v Speaker 3>information on it, or your store whatever it might be,

0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:35.920
<v Speaker 3>and then you use it, right versus you having to

0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:37.520
<v Speaker 3>figure out, well, let me go on to Canva and

0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:41.320
<v Speaker 3>create this flyer. And so there's a marketing department, there's training,

0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:44.959
<v Speaker 3>there's operations, construction design. So imagine having to wear all

0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:48.680
<v Speaker 3>of those hats five years in, five hundred thousand dollars later,

0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:51.000
<v Speaker 3>you might not have anything to show for it because

0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:52.720
<v Speaker 3>you're going to make a lot of mistakes along the way.

0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:55.040
<v Speaker 3>So when you get into franchise and you're really taking

0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.560
<v Speaker 3>advantage of all the mistakes that they've already made, and

0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.000
<v Speaker 3>they've gotten it to the point where it can be replicated.

0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.280
<v Speaker 3>So the way that they grow the brand is they

0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:06.199
<v Speaker 3>bring qualified franchise candidates in to help them grow the

0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:09.800
<v Speaker 3>brand using their own money. So the brand pays. You know,

0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:13.119
<v Speaker 3>they reap the benefits of collecting royalties, but they're also

0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:16.000
<v Speaker 3>offering a ton of support that you wouldn't get if

0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:17.440
<v Speaker 3>you had an independent concept.

0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:20.720
<v Speaker 2>Now you said, if you pick the right franchise, what's

0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:21.800
<v Speaker 2>the wrong franchise?

0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:25.440
<v Speaker 3>The wrong franchise? Oh my gosh, where do we start?

0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:28.240
<v Speaker 3>So a lot of things to look for. So is

0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:32.480
<v Speaker 3>the brand healthy? Do you see like this concept popping

0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:34.600
<v Speaker 3>up all over the place? Like are people talking about it?

0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:38.480
<v Speaker 3>Are they on social media? What are they doing in

0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:41.240
<v Speaker 3>terms of sales? So? Are their numbers high enough where

0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:43.919
<v Speaker 3>it makes sense? Are the profit margins large enough for

0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.399
<v Speaker 3>it to make sense? I will tell you this, I

0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:53.040
<v Speaker 3>highly recommend coffee and chicken. Right, profit margins on coffee

0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:56.119
<v Speaker 3>are amazing. You can google it. I can't really make

0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:59.119
<v Speaker 3>any earnings claims because I do work with a coffee company,

0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:01.960
<v Speaker 3>but if you google profit margins or a cup of coffee,

0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:04.080
<v Speaker 3>you'll see what I mean. And then chicken is the

0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:07.920
<v Speaker 3>fastest growing protein in the world, so people are always

0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:10.439
<v Speaker 3>gonna eat chicken. People are always gonna drink coffee. And

0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:12.920
<v Speaker 3>I think about brands that did well during the pandemic,

0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.119
<v Speaker 3>during the during the recession, you know a lot of

0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:19.399
<v Speaker 3>brands had locations, but unfortunately, if you didn't have a

0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:22.600
<v Speaker 3>drive through, you were almost dead in the water. Right,

0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:25.240
<v Speaker 3>So just thinking about like those types of concepts that

0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:28.440
<v Speaker 3>did well during the pandemic and the recession is really

0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:31.040
<v Speaker 3>a way to kind of like gauge when a brand

0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:35.880
<v Speaker 3>is a good investment or not. And do you go there? Right,

0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:37.640
<v Speaker 3>you can always trust your own judgment.

0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:39.800
<v Speaker 1>You you're most of those I don't go to most

0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:44.199
<v Speaker 1>of the places that I would like coffee, Like, I

0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:48.320
<v Speaker 1>don't eat Starbucks. I don't drink Starbucks, but I understand

0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:53.040
<v Speaker 1>why I'm having a Starbucks location would definitely be lucrative though,

0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:55.040
<v Speaker 1>So I don't have with it to make money.

0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:57.480
<v Speaker 3>And that's the whole point. Just because you don't you

0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:00.080
<v Speaker 3>don't participate, right, Like I don't smoke weed, but but

0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:04.520
<v Speaker 3>I would buy into a cannabis business, right, you should.

0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:06.520
<v Speaker 3>But the money reside that's where I want to go.

0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:10.080
<v Speaker 3>That's that's the way to think about it. So just

0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:12.359
<v Speaker 3>because like you know, a man might be like, oh,

0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:14.160
<v Speaker 3>I'm not gonna I'm not gonna invest in a shoe store,

0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:16.280
<v Speaker 3>women's shoe store. But you know how many how much

0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:18.720
<v Speaker 3>money we spend in the shoe store. Right, you have

0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:20.600
<v Speaker 3>to think about it differently. It's not about what you

0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.840
<v Speaker 3>would do or what you would consume. Because I know

0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:24.280
<v Speaker 3>a lot of people that on ice cream shops that

0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:26.760
<v Speaker 3>are lactose intolerant. It don't matter, Like the money is

0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:27.359
<v Speaker 3>still greening.

0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:30.360
<v Speaker 2>So we gonna fuck my stomach up every time. I'm

0:27:30.359 --> 0:27:32.479
<v Speaker 2>gonna tell you right now, coffee is gonna mess your

0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:32.960
<v Speaker 2>girl up.

0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:35.520
<v Speaker 3>Oh well, we don't give you know colle What about tea? Right,

0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:38.000
<v Speaker 3>there's tea. There's like Boba Tea. There's companies that have

0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:41.359
<v Speaker 3>stuff like that, and they have other other drinks like

0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:45.080
<v Speaker 3>you can have a vanilla bean whatever whatever. Like a

0:27:45.119 --> 0:27:49.720
<v Speaker 3>lot of these brands are are understanding that most generations

0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:53.080
<v Speaker 3>younger than younger than me, but most generations are drinking

0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.440
<v Speaker 3>their calories versus actually sitting down and feeding a sandwich.

0:27:56.640 --> 0:27:59.520
<v Speaker 3>So when you think about there's a famous donut concept

0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:03.040
<v Speaker 3>that changed its name because they were they were more

0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:05.720
<v Speaker 3>of a beverage company than they were a pastry company.

0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:09.320
<v Speaker 3>So they dropped the last word, kept the minking there

0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:14.159
<v Speaker 3>we go, there, we gotta let but they dropped it

0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:17.360
<v Speaker 3>because you know, people eat donuts, but I mean when

0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:20.720
<v Speaker 3>they go to this, to their restaurants or their stores.

0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:24.760
<v Speaker 2>People looking for coffee, Yeah, yeah, fast, And I didn't

0:28:24.800 --> 0:28:26.760
<v Speaker 2>even notice that. You're right, Like that's one.

0:28:26.680 --> 0:28:30.120
<v Speaker 1>Of those Mandela effect things, because twenty years from now

0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:32.520
<v Speaker 1>people will be like that was never there, Like, yes,

0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:34.679
<v Speaker 1>it used to be Dunkin Donuts and I was just

0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:40.280
<v Speaker 1>dunking exactly. So doing some a little research last night,

0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:42.880
<v Speaker 1>I just saw a lot of negative things about franchising,

0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:46.480
<v Speaker 1>like how people all like end up upside down taking

0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:50.360
<v Speaker 1>on franchise as a as a business, a startup type situation.

0:28:50.400 --> 0:28:53.240
<v Speaker 1>You know, you're buying into something else, but you still

0:28:53.240 --> 0:28:57.560
<v Speaker 1>have to have the business acumen right to make it successful.

0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:01.080
<v Speaker 1>So what's some of like the biggest myths about franchising

0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:02.360
<v Speaker 1>that you often have to correct.

0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:04.040
<v Speaker 3>Well, first of all, they didn't reach out to me,

0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:08.200
<v Speaker 3>so that's probably why they went wrong period, right, But honestly,

0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:10.120
<v Speaker 3>like it's the research, right, there's not a lot of

0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:13.479
<v Speaker 3>information in our community about this. So when I when

0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:16.320
<v Speaker 3>I started to do this, I looked around me and

0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:19.600
<v Speaker 3>there really weren't many people that look like me getting

0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:23.160
<v Speaker 3>into more House college or getting on we talk back,

0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:25.760
<v Speaker 3>like looking for ways to get this information in front

0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:28.080
<v Speaker 3>of our community. So it starts with that. A lot

0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:30.840
<v Speaker 3>of brands, you know, they have certain conferences they go

0:29:30.960 --> 0:29:33.720
<v Speaker 3>to every year. There's a list of conferences that every

0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:36.040
<v Speaker 3>brand goes to for the most part, and that's where

0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:38.800
<v Speaker 3>they go. So that the value that I think I

0:29:38.880 --> 0:29:41.360
<v Speaker 3>bring is getting in front of audiences that most brands

0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:44.280
<v Speaker 3>won't get in front of and for whatever reason, and

0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:48.480
<v Speaker 3>so the information just isn't reaching our community. And so

0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:51.760
<v Speaker 3>people hear about franchising, they think it's you know, get

0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:56.120
<v Speaker 3>rich quick, and there's nothing further from the truth or there,

0:29:56.200 --> 0:29:58.280
<v Speaker 3>you know, they think that the brand is supposed to

0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:01.440
<v Speaker 3>build the store we'll say store case. Since we're using

0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.960
<v Speaker 3>restaurants as an example, the brand is supposed to build

0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:07.520
<v Speaker 3>the store and make them successful, or they want to

0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:11.640
<v Speaker 3>be absentee. So being absentee means basically, I'm gonna build

0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:14.160
<v Speaker 3>a let's say, a restaurant for two hundred fifty thousand

0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:16.040
<v Speaker 3>dollars and I'm gonna put it in the hands of

0:30:16.040 --> 0:30:19.720
<v Speaker 3>a seventeen year old high school student. It doesn't make

0:30:19.800 --> 0:30:22.160
<v Speaker 3>much sense. And so when you have that mindset that

0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:24.360
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to build this and not have anything to

0:30:24.400 --> 0:30:26.200
<v Speaker 3>do with it, you might as well just make the

0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:28.520
<v Speaker 3>check out to me, because it's a waste of money

0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:31.000
<v Speaker 3>and it's a waste of time. So I think you

0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:31.920
<v Speaker 3>know I.

0:30:31.960 --> 0:30:34.440
<v Speaker 1>Talk about the right management in places, what you're saying.

0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:35.600
<v Speaker 3>You have to put them. You have to have the

0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:37.640
<v Speaker 3>right management, but you have to understand before you even

0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:40.280
<v Speaker 3>get into it, like understanding what it is and what

0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:44.360
<v Speaker 3>it isn't and having a realistic understanding of what you

0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:48.080
<v Speaker 3>can potentially receive from being a franchise owner in that business.

0:30:48.200 --> 0:30:50.840
<v Speaker 3>You have to know to ask the right questions because

0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:53.280
<v Speaker 3>you know, if you don't ask the question and you

0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:56.160
<v Speaker 3>don't get the answer, you know nine times out of ten,

0:30:56.200 --> 0:30:57.960
<v Speaker 3>soone can come back and say, well, you never asked that.

0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:01.040
<v Speaker 3>Or if you're given the information to read and you

0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:04.479
<v Speaker 3>don't bring in a franchise attorney to read your disclosure document,

0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:08.080
<v Speaker 3>you might be signing your life away. You don't know

0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:10.400
<v Speaker 3>what's in there until you either you or view it

0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:13.360
<v Speaker 3>yourself and you understand the language, or you have a

0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:16.000
<v Speaker 3>franchise attorney take a look at it, because again, that's

0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:19.080
<v Speaker 3>what they're focused on, franchise law. That's what they do

0:31:19.160 --> 0:31:21.200
<v Speaker 3>day in and day out. So you know, if you

0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:22.800
<v Speaker 3>have a sister or a cousin or a friend who's

0:31:22.800 --> 0:31:25.360
<v Speaker 3>an attorney, but they're not a franchise attorney, they might

0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:26.760
<v Speaker 3>be able to help you out, but they're not going

0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:28.200
<v Speaker 3>to be able to help you in the same way

0:31:28.360 --> 0:31:30.560
<v Speaker 3>that a franchise attorney is. And some people say, well,

0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:33.160
<v Speaker 3>why would I waste the money on a franchise attorney. Well,

0:31:33.200 --> 0:31:35.840
<v Speaker 3>if you pay I don't know, twenty five hundred dollars today,

0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:38.760
<v Speaker 3>it could save you two hundred and fifty thousand dollars down.

0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:39.880
<v Speaker 1>The line, right.

0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:44.080
<v Speaker 2>So I noticed you said like, well, their first mistake

0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:48.440
<v Speaker 2>was they didn't come to me. Now what how's your

0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.480
<v Speaker 2>approach different from traditional franchise consultants.

0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:55.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. So, because I've worked inside of these companies for

0:31:55.120 --> 0:31:57.120
<v Speaker 3>so long, I know what the brands are looking for,

0:31:57.200 --> 0:31:59.800
<v Speaker 3>what they're not looking for. I know a lot of

0:31:59.840 --> 0:32:04.760
<v Speaker 3>the the language that's spoken that the average person isn't

0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:07.760
<v Speaker 3>going to understand. But the way that my company works,

0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:10.640
<v Speaker 3>we work with folks who want to get into franchising,

0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:12.800
<v Speaker 3>may not know where to start, may have never even

0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:16.040
<v Speaker 3>heard of franchising before. So we take them through a

0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:21.960
<v Speaker 3>full education process, a vetting process. We do discovery, discovery calls,

0:32:22.000 --> 0:32:25.240
<v Speaker 3>discovery days to help them understand what it is. And

0:32:25.280 --> 0:32:27.719
<v Speaker 3>then we help them find the right brand. So we

0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.360
<v Speaker 3>start with the list of ten, narrow it down to three,

0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:33.200
<v Speaker 3>then to the one, and so we help them get

0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:38.080
<v Speaker 3>access to capital, put together their infrastructure. So brands are

0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:41.600
<v Speaker 3>looking for a certain formula when it comes to a

0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:44.200
<v Speaker 3>candidate or a candidate group, so we help them put

0:32:44.280 --> 0:32:46.320
<v Speaker 3>all that together. Plus I have access to a database

0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:51.240
<v Speaker 3>of over two hundred and fifty potential operating partners. So say,

0:32:51.280 --> 0:32:54.000
<v Speaker 3>for example, you know Lebron James doesn't need my help,

0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:56.400
<v Speaker 3>so we'll use him as an example. Lebron James wants

0:32:56.400 --> 0:32:59.440
<v Speaker 3>to get into Duncan, but he's still playing ball, so

0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:01.240
<v Speaker 3>he needs somebody that's going to run the operation on

0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:03.320
<v Speaker 3>a day to day basis. I have over two hundre

0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:07.280
<v Speaker 3>and fifty people who have worked enfranchising ten, fifteen, twenty

0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:10.120
<v Speaker 3>years that are looking for an opportunity like that to

0:33:10.200 --> 0:33:12.160
<v Speaker 3>set the business up so that when Lebron is ready

0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:15.040
<v Speaker 3>to retire or forced to retire, he has something to

0:33:15.040 --> 0:33:17.160
<v Speaker 3>walk into the next day. So I help with the

0:33:17.320 --> 0:33:20.600
<v Speaker 3>entire infrastructure. And then my commitment to the brand is

0:33:20.640 --> 0:33:22.440
<v Speaker 3>I'm never going to bring them a cold lead. So

0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:24.920
<v Speaker 3>when I bring someone to them, they know I'm serious,

0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:26.680
<v Speaker 3>like it's coming to them with a nice neat bow.

0:33:27.360 --> 0:33:30.840
<v Speaker 3>They meet the qualifications, they have access to capital, and

0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:33.560
<v Speaker 3>they're ready to now go through with the internal process

0:33:33.600 --> 0:33:37.120
<v Speaker 3>with the brand. Most other consultants will say, oh, hey,

0:33:37.520 --> 0:33:41.280
<v Speaker 3>I met Tambam at the conference on Saturday. Here's her

0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:42.360
<v Speaker 3>name and number caller.

0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:47.160
<v Speaker 2>But you send you bring them in a bowl, like

0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:49.720
<v Speaker 2>everything ready to go by the time they get to them, okay.

0:33:49.840 --> 0:33:51.400
<v Speaker 3>And the reason for that is because I've been in

0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:53.640
<v Speaker 3>their shoes on the brand side, and I know that

0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:56.240
<v Speaker 3>a cold lead is going to waste six months of

0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:58.120
<v Speaker 3>my time, so I don't want to. I want to

0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:00.560
<v Speaker 3>serve as a bridge to not just the brand, but

0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:06.680
<v Speaker 3>also to my clients and helping them almost guarantee an

0:34:06.680 --> 0:34:08.600
<v Speaker 3>approval by their brand of choice, because again, I know

0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:10.560
<v Speaker 3>what they're looking for. I know, I know the holes

0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:12.640
<v Speaker 3>they're looking for. I know, you know, some brands are

0:34:12.640 --> 0:34:14.400
<v Speaker 3>looking to get to a know and some brands are like,

0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:16.640
<v Speaker 3>how can we get to a yes? And so I

0:34:16.760 --> 0:34:19.160
<v Speaker 3>do the research and my team we do the research

0:34:19.200 --> 0:34:21.200
<v Speaker 3>to make sure that the brand is a good fit.

0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:23.640
<v Speaker 3>So someone might say, hey, I want X brand, but

0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:25.360
<v Speaker 3>we might do a little bit of digging and say, okay,

0:34:25.400 --> 0:34:27.680
<v Speaker 3>did you know this? Did you know that? Did you

0:34:27.719 --> 0:34:29.560
<v Speaker 3>see this in the news? Like that sort of thing.

0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:31.680
<v Speaker 3>So we're everything that we do is through the lens

0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:34.319
<v Speaker 3>of how does it affect our community and how does

0:34:34.320 --> 0:34:35.120
<v Speaker 3>it make us better?

0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:36.760
<v Speaker 2>So you basically need the plug.

0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:40.239
<v Speaker 1>She's like the liaison, so you're aside from the franchise

0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:43.680
<v Speaker 1>player also does like education right to the public and too.

0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:47.360
<v Speaker 1>But you guys also like are the liaison between the

0:34:47.440 --> 0:34:50.400
<v Speaker 1>franchiser and the franchisee also, so that.

0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:53.840
<v Speaker 3>We're that rage. So when we do our franchise Game conference,

0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:56.799
<v Speaker 3>we have brands that come and exhibit So last year

0:34:56.840 --> 0:34:58.520
<v Speaker 3>we had about twenty and we do it at Young

0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:02.520
<v Speaker 3>Young Brands headquarters and Alice, Texas. So they own like

0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:06.320
<v Speaker 3>Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, Habit, Burger Grill. Not a plug,

0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:09.400
<v Speaker 3>but to say, like they believe in what we're doing

0:35:10.080 --> 0:35:12.560
<v Speaker 3>enough so that they they brought us in and they're

0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:14.839
<v Speaker 3>a partner with us to make sure that we have

0:35:15.200 --> 0:35:17.080
<v Speaker 3>a great space to do it. And they just really

0:35:17.120 --> 0:35:19.759
<v Speaker 3>believe in what we're doing and why we do it.

0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:22.239
<v Speaker 1>So, who's some of your clients? Like, can you tell

0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:26.120
<v Speaker 1>us anyway? Like can you share a successful client story like.

0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:27.880
<v Speaker 2>That made you very proud?

0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:31.759
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? So I had this one client. He's a Stanford grad.

0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:33.279
<v Speaker 3>Can I say his name?

0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:34.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

0:35:35.200 --> 0:35:38.920
<v Speaker 3>So, damon done. He is a retired NFL player, went

0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:48.120
<v Speaker 3>to Stanford. Very smart, he's married. Yeah I know, but

0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.280
<v Speaker 3>he came to me when I worked at a brand

0:35:50.440 --> 0:35:53.160
<v Speaker 3>and uh, he he was going to buy a network

0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:55.600
<v Speaker 3>of stores and super smart. I mean, probably one of

0:35:55.600 --> 0:35:57.920
<v Speaker 3>the smartest people I've ever met in my life. And

0:35:58.800 --> 0:36:01.560
<v Speaker 3>he knew he knew the business side, like the numbers

0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:03.320
<v Speaker 3>and all of that, but he didn't know operations. He

0:36:03.360 --> 0:36:06.120
<v Speaker 3>had never worked in a dunkin. I mean, for God's sakes,

0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:09.080
<v Speaker 3>he was, you know, with his background, like he never

0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:11.560
<v Speaker 3>worked in a dunkin or anything like that. So I

0:36:11.560 --> 0:36:12.799
<v Speaker 3>said to him, I said, well, it's just do me

0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:15.480
<v Speaker 3>a favor. I see that you can do it, But

0:36:15.520 --> 0:36:17.799
<v Speaker 3>do me a favor and just go spend some time

0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:20.279
<v Speaker 3>in the operation and come back to me and let

0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:22.600
<v Speaker 3>me know what you think after that. Because the business

0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:25.200
<v Speaker 3>plan he presented to me had nothing about operations in it,

0:36:25.440 --> 0:36:27.719
<v Speaker 3>and I know the brand, and I knew that if

0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:31.120
<v Speaker 3>he didn't have that operations experience, he probably wasn't going

0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:33.719
<v Speaker 3>to get approved. So he went down. He spent a

0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:38.839
<v Speaker 3>whole week with the current owner, and he came back

0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:41.239
<v Speaker 3>and he said, man, I was about to fall on

0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:44.280
<v Speaker 3>my face, huh, I said, yeah.

0:36:43.640 --> 0:36:43.880
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:46.040
<v Speaker 3>But he went and he learned so much. He worked

0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:48.440
<v Speaker 3>from open to clothes for like a week or two,

0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:51.640
<v Speaker 3>can't remember exactly because it's been a while, but he

0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:54.399
<v Speaker 3>came back and he rewrote his business plan. Next thing,

0:36:54.440 --> 0:36:56.920
<v Speaker 3>you know, he bought a network of five stores, ends

0:36:56.960 --> 0:37:01.520
<v Speaker 3>up closing two and then just recently sold his network

0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.600
<v Speaker 3>and he had about forty locations. So in a very

0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:07.960
<v Speaker 3>short period of time, because he went in and did

0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:10.520
<v Speaker 3>the work to understand the operations side of the business.

0:37:10.920 --> 0:37:12.880
<v Speaker 3>He was able to scale and then he ended up

0:37:12.920 --> 0:37:16.759
<v Speaker 3>being the keynote speaker for our first franchise game in

0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:21.440
<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty three. My my keynote caught COVID and Damon

0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:25.440
<v Speaker 3>was coming to speak on a panel and I'm like,

0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:27.399
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna cry. You know, I don't know what to do,

0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:28.880
<v Speaker 3>he said. He just jumped and he said, what do

0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:30.920
<v Speaker 3>you need me to do? I said, I need you

0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:32.799
<v Speaker 3>to be my keynote. And he did it. He walked

0:37:32.800 --> 0:37:35.160
<v Speaker 3>in the room. He flew on from Seattle that morning

0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:39.760
<v Speaker 3>into Dallas and uh, the keynote went in the corner

0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:42.399
<v Speaker 3>with his notes and uh. And and I say that

0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:45.959
<v Speaker 3>to say, like my not to toot my own horn,

0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:51.319
<v Speaker 3>but my, my, my, My reputation enfranchising is pretty clean, right,

0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:52.680
<v Speaker 3>Like I'm I can pick up the phone and call

0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:55.680
<v Speaker 3>pretty much anybody because they know if I call, I'm

0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:58.640
<v Speaker 3>not calling with anything foolish. I'm calling because there's an

0:37:58.680 --> 0:38:02.080
<v Speaker 3>opportunity to can be mutual beneficial and I probably need

0:38:02.080 --> 0:38:04.200
<v Speaker 3>a favor. So I have a lot of folks that

0:38:04.239 --> 0:38:06.520
<v Speaker 3>are willing to help me out as I'm continuing to

0:38:06.520 --> 0:38:08.560
<v Speaker 3>grow this I even had a boss of mind not

0:38:08.600 --> 0:38:12.760
<v Speaker 3>too long ago say to me every time I open LinkedIn,

0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:15.600
<v Speaker 3>I see you. He said, I'm so proud of what

0:38:15.640 --> 0:38:19.080
<v Speaker 3>you built from nothing. And to me that was like

0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:21.839
<v Speaker 3>the ultimate compliment because he knows when I first started,

0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:24.440
<v Speaker 3>I didn't know anything about franchising, right.

0:38:24.719 --> 0:38:26.839
<v Speaker 1>And the thing about this even like when you're when

0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:30.720
<v Speaker 1>you are ready to retire, right from the franchise player,

0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:33.000
<v Speaker 1>you literally would be able to have something you can

0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:36.880
<v Speaker 1>sell his whole book of network in contexts, context like,

0:38:36.960 --> 0:38:39.000
<v Speaker 1>that's the whole business you can sell to somebody else.

0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:42.720
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, Yeah, I see the future.

0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:46.960
<v Speaker 2>Your success your success story. You said he was a

0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:50.640
<v Speaker 2>former athlete, which means he had the capital. What about

0:38:50.680 --> 0:38:54.640
<v Speaker 2>people who might not necessarily have the capital. What would

0:38:54.719 --> 0:38:56.920
<v Speaker 2>you suggest would be a good route for them to

0:38:56.960 --> 0:38:58.400
<v Speaker 2>go to get into franchising.

0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:00.759
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'm gonna back up just a second. He he

0:39:00.800 --> 0:39:03.719
<v Speaker 3>was a retired NFL player, but he also had a

0:39:03.800 --> 0:39:07.480
<v Speaker 3>company that he worked for that backed him, that helped

0:39:07.520 --> 0:39:11.200
<v Speaker 3>him to get into uh into the franchising space. But

0:39:11.280 --> 0:39:15.880
<v Speaker 3>for folks that don't have that access, I always suggest

0:39:16.000 --> 0:39:18.120
<v Speaker 3>we needed, we need to do a better better job

0:39:18.160 --> 0:39:21.480
<v Speaker 3>as a community of leaning on each other and pooling

0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:24.840
<v Speaker 3>our resources. I've seen it so many times with every

0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:27.520
<v Speaker 3>brand that I worked for. You know, different ethnic groups

0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:30.560
<v Speaker 3>come together and they pull their resources. One time, I

0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:34.120
<v Speaker 3>had a group of twelve people on the documents. It

0:39:34.160 --> 0:39:36.560
<v Speaker 3>was a family, and they wanted everybody to have a

0:39:36.600 --> 0:39:39.760
<v Speaker 3>piece of the pie, you know, whether it was one percent,

0:39:40.200 --> 0:39:43.400
<v Speaker 3>three percent. Some people only had you know, minimum, you know,

0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:45.840
<v Speaker 3>dollars in the bank, but they wanted them in on

0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:48.239
<v Speaker 3>the deal so they can learn the business and then

0:39:48.360 --> 0:39:51.160
<v Speaker 3>from there they can grow either collectively buy more, or

0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:53.640
<v Speaker 3>they can break off into smaller groups and buy. So

0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:56.480
<v Speaker 3>I would say, you know, look around your your sphere

0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:58.440
<v Speaker 3>of influence. Who are your friends, Who are your family

0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:02.120
<v Speaker 3>members that you trust? Who or physically responsible? Who might

0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:04.400
<v Speaker 3>be interested in making an investment, but don't want to

0:40:04.400 --> 0:40:07.000
<v Speaker 3>do it all by themselves. So now you know, say

0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:09.800
<v Speaker 3>the franchise fee is forty thousand dollars and the buildout

0:40:09.840 --> 0:40:14.000
<v Speaker 3>is five hundred four hundred, right, So now now you're

0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:17.279
<v Speaker 3>each putting in ten thousand dollars versus one person doing

0:40:17.280 --> 0:40:20.400
<v Speaker 3>forty thousand, right, And so you're not just pulling your

0:40:20.640 --> 0:40:22.640
<v Speaker 3>liquid cash, but even your net worth. So if you

0:40:22.760 --> 0:40:24.640
<v Speaker 3>own a home and you own a business. Right now,

0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:28.480
<v Speaker 3>you're pulling all of that strengthening your case to become

0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:31.880
<v Speaker 3>approved by your brand of choice. And then you also

0:40:32.440 --> 0:40:36.239
<v Speaker 3>are pooling your human capital. So maybe someone's good with

0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:38.920
<v Speaker 3>real estate, and somebody else is good with human resources,

0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:41.799
<v Speaker 3>and maybe somebody else has an accounting background. Now you're

0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:45.840
<v Speaker 3>bringing this whole team together versus one person trying to

0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:48.359
<v Speaker 3>meet all of the qualifications that the brand is looking for.

0:40:50.880 --> 0:40:53.160
<v Speaker 3>So that would be my recommendation to just think about

0:40:53.200 --> 0:40:57.839
<v Speaker 3>who is in your circle that we're in a partner. Yeah,

0:40:57.320 --> 0:41:00.600
<v Speaker 3>and again you can buy one, right, there's some brands

0:41:00.600 --> 0:41:03.360
<v Speaker 3>that will you start with one. You buy one a

0:41:03.480 --> 0:41:05.799
<v Speaker 3>year and you evaluate it. Hey, what are we doing here?

0:41:05.840 --> 0:41:06.400
<v Speaker 1>Do we like this?

0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:08.920
<v Speaker 3>Do we not? You can either continue to grow from

0:41:08.960 --> 0:41:11.640
<v Speaker 3>there if the brand has a room for growth, or

0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:15.080
<v Speaker 3>you can say, you know what, I'm tapped out, let's

0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:16.719
<v Speaker 3>sell it. And you have the right to do that.

0:41:21.280 --> 0:41:23.560
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So like when somebody starts their own business, now

0:41:23.560 --> 0:41:25.240
<v Speaker 1>you can they can put together a pretty good business

0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:27.480
<v Speaker 1>plan and go to a bank and possibly get a

0:41:27.520 --> 0:41:33.000
<v Speaker 1>business loan. Do banks traditionally give business loans for franchising?

0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:37.520
<v Speaker 1>You know, banks prefer to offer loans for a franchise

0:41:37.560 --> 0:41:38.680
<v Speaker 1>and established business.

0:41:38.840 --> 0:41:42.240
<v Speaker 3>It's approven business model. It's really hard to get loans

0:41:42.320 --> 0:41:48.120
<v Speaker 3>for restaurants specifically, and so you know, there's a list

0:41:48.160 --> 0:41:51.640
<v Speaker 3>of approved brands that the banks look at to make

0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:55.040
<v Speaker 3>sure that they're you know that they're they're healthy, right,

0:41:55.080 --> 0:41:58.759
<v Speaker 3>that the brand is healthy, it's growing, it's profitable. No

0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:01.560
<v Speaker 3>bank is going to loan lend to anyone if that

0:42:01.640 --> 0:42:05.600
<v Speaker 3>particular franchise isn't profitable. So a lot of startups. You know,

0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:08.239
<v Speaker 3>you might have a challenge with a startup, and by

0:42:08.239 --> 0:42:12.240
<v Speaker 3>startup I mean any like less than twenty units currently

0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:15.200
<v Speaker 3>open and having been open for a length of time

0:42:15.239 --> 0:42:18.279
<v Speaker 3>at least five years. So the bank looks at all

0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:20.280
<v Speaker 3>of that. So they're going to have you put together

0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:22.600
<v Speaker 3>a business plan. The brand is going to have you

0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:24.360
<v Speaker 3>put together a business plan as well, But the business

0:42:24.360 --> 0:42:27.520
<v Speaker 3>plan for the brand is more so about the operations.

0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:30.160
<v Speaker 3>How do you plan to operate, how do you plan

0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:34.200
<v Speaker 3>to market against your competitor, like, how do you know

0:42:34.239 --> 0:42:36.560
<v Speaker 3>the local market? All those sorts of things. There is

0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:39.680
<v Speaker 3>a section for financials, but the bank is really more

0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:42.040
<v Speaker 3>so focused on the financial piece. How do you plan

0:42:42.080 --> 0:42:45.600
<v Speaker 3>to pay this back? The brand that you pick is

0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:49.840
<v Speaker 3>really going to help to either get you alone with

0:42:50.000 --> 0:42:55.200
<v Speaker 3>the lending institution or SBA, or it's going to be

0:42:55.280 --> 0:42:57.920
<v Speaker 3>something that's going to, you know, unfortunately lead you down

0:42:57.960 --> 0:43:00.359
<v Speaker 3>the path of just kind of not being to get

0:43:00.400 --> 0:43:02.920
<v Speaker 3>access to capital. So that's why it's really important to

0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:04.560
<v Speaker 3>choose the right brand.

0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:08.400
<v Speaker 2>All right, So are you ready for our lightning round?

0:43:09.320 --> 0:43:12.640
<v Speaker 1>Okay? Yeah, let me ask one more thing, right, just

0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.200
<v Speaker 1>an example, So me and Tammy, we only got twenty

0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:21.640
<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars right what? Right? But you know, because obviously

0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:23.839
<v Speaker 1>we got m's in a bank. Okay, So but if

0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:30.600
<v Speaker 1>we if we had a small investment amount right right now,

0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:34.239
<v Speaker 1>what is one of I know, you said coffee ice

0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:38.440
<v Speaker 1>cream or you said coffee and chicken. Sorry, what would

0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:41.720
<v Speaker 1>one of the best franchise be like if somebody wanted

0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:43.799
<v Speaker 1>to try and do something like that this year with

0:43:44.080 --> 0:43:46.000
<v Speaker 1>minimal investment.

0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:48.440
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I'm gonna have to have to back up for

0:43:48.560 --> 0:43:52.239
<v Speaker 3>just a second. So okay, the franchise fee is is

0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:54.960
<v Speaker 3>the small upfront fee that you pay. That's the only

0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:57.920
<v Speaker 3>upfront fee that you pay. So would it be that

0:43:57.960 --> 0:44:01.040
<v Speaker 3>you only have it for that's your total investment that

0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:03.719
<v Speaker 3>you have or is that just what you have right now?

0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:06.000
<v Speaker 1>To put us Well, what would be a minimum for you? Like,

0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:11.759
<v Speaker 1>what would a minimum investment franchise be? Like, maybe it's

0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:14.640
<v Speaker 1>not twenty thousand, So if there's smallest investment is one

0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:17.120
<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand dollars, what is a what is usually a

0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:18.480
<v Speaker 1>franchise fee?

0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:21.560
<v Speaker 3>So a franchise fee can range anywhere from ten thousand dollars,

0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:23.400
<v Speaker 3>it can go as high as ninety thousand dollars.

0:44:23.560 --> 0:44:23.800
<v Speaker 1>Got it.

0:44:23.840 --> 0:44:25.759
<v Speaker 3>Oh, there's a coffee company that I work with right now.

0:44:25.840 --> 0:44:29.120
<v Speaker 3>Their franchise fee is just twenty thousand dollars. So that's

0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:31.719
<v Speaker 3>the only upfront fee that you pay. Then you have

0:44:31.800 --> 0:44:34.400
<v Speaker 3>to qualify to get the loan unless you have the

0:44:34.400 --> 0:44:36.320
<v Speaker 3>money to pay for it. So there are some service

0:44:36.320 --> 0:44:39.160
<v Speaker 3>companies out there that don't require brick and mortar, so

0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:42.440
<v Speaker 3>there's no equipment, there's no signage, just you know. So

0:44:42.520 --> 0:44:44.359
<v Speaker 3>it depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking

0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:48.040
<v Speaker 3>to do coffee, right there's obviously no home based coffee

0:44:48.080 --> 0:44:51.480
<v Speaker 3>business in most companies. Before you start a food truck

0:44:51.880 --> 0:44:54.080
<v Speaker 3>because some people say, well I just do a food truck,

0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:57.319
<v Speaker 3>usually you need at least one brick and mortar to

0:44:57.360 --> 0:44:59.480
<v Speaker 3>have a food truck because you have or a commissary.

0:45:00.560 --> 0:45:03.920
<v Speaker 3>Depends on the brand. But I would say the twenty

0:45:03.960 --> 0:45:08.120
<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars is doable from an upfront franchise fee perspective.

0:45:09.400 --> 0:45:11.919
<v Speaker 3>I don't know a lot of franchises that you could

0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:15.360
<v Speaker 3>do for that amount, right, So, for example, coffee company,

0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:18.600
<v Speaker 3>fifteen hundred square foot space is probably gonna cost you

0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:23.040
<v Speaker 3>somewhere between three hundred and four hundred thousand dollars to

0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:27.719
<v Speaker 3>build out. And that includes your equipment, fixtures, furniture, your

0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:30.560
<v Speaker 3>point of sale system, You have to go to training,

0:45:30.600 --> 0:45:32.879
<v Speaker 3>so you have to have your.

0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:34.880
<v Speaker 1>So this loan comes from the franchise.

0:45:35.200 --> 0:45:37.480
<v Speaker 3>Nope, it comes from the bank, bank, bank or the

0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:39.480
<v Speaker 3>Small Business Association s BA.

0:45:39.600 --> 0:45:40.239
<v Speaker 1>Okay, got it.

0:45:40.600 --> 0:45:45.480
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Most franchise brands don't offer financing. They usually have

0:45:45.560 --> 0:45:48.480
<v Speaker 3>these third party lenders with whom they have relationships, so

0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:51.040
<v Speaker 3>they can say, hey, this bank knows what we're looking for.

0:45:51.800 --> 0:45:54.520
<v Speaker 3>You know, we have twenty forty to fifty franchises that

0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:57.040
<v Speaker 3>have used them in the past. You can go that route,

0:45:57.080 --> 0:45:58.719
<v Speaker 3>or you can say, listen, I have my own bank.

0:45:59.400 --> 0:46:01.560
<v Speaker 2>You know I'm gonna yeah, because they're like, we're giving

0:46:01.640 --> 0:46:03.400
<v Speaker 2>you everything else, we ain't giving you no money.

0:46:03.719 --> 0:46:07.560
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because there's there's some laws that really like govern

0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:10.399
<v Speaker 3>all of that. The Federal Trade Commission has this thing

0:46:10.440 --> 0:46:12.200
<v Speaker 3>called joint employer and I won't get in all that

0:46:12.200 --> 0:46:15.000
<v Speaker 3>because I'm not a franchise attorney, but it kind of

0:46:15.120 --> 0:46:17.919
<v Speaker 3>it kind of lends itself to that. So the brand,

0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:20.320
<v Speaker 3>there's only certain things that the brand can do based

0:46:20.360 --> 0:46:22.640
<v Speaker 3>on what the Federal Trade Commission allows them to do.

0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:26.640
<v Speaker 3>But that's all technical, that's not the fun stuff. But

0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:30.160
<v Speaker 3>as far as like just getting the loan, you can,

0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:32.840
<v Speaker 3>you know, my my suggestion is to always start talking

0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:35.359
<v Speaker 3>to your bank early, as early as possible, to say, hey, listen,

0:46:35.360 --> 0:46:37.600
<v Speaker 3>this is what I'm thinking about doing. What do I

0:46:37.640 --> 0:46:41.120
<v Speaker 3>need to do in preparation to get approved for a loan? Right,

0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:43.279
<v Speaker 3>so maybe it's six months from now, it could be

0:46:43.360 --> 0:46:46.040
<v Speaker 3>next year, but at least you start having those conversations

0:46:46.040 --> 0:46:48.640
<v Speaker 3>and your banker knows that you know, these are some

0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:50.920
<v Speaker 3>of the goals that you have lined up for yourself.

0:46:52.800 --> 0:46:56.080
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, that's something. This is some good tea.

0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:59.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, this is stuff.

0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:02.200
<v Speaker 2>Want to get into the lightning round, all right, this

0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:05.320
<v Speaker 2>is real quick. All right, Your first franchise you ever.

0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:07.680
<v Speaker 3>Loved an Tiens.

0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:15.160
<v Speaker 1>That's the I love that goddamn sweet won up pretzel everything.

0:47:15.440 --> 0:47:17.440
<v Speaker 1>I can wait in ten minutes for that thing. They

0:47:17.520 --> 0:47:19.120
<v Speaker 1>never have them ready, like we're.

0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:20.840
<v Speaker 2>The one that got the hot dog in it.

0:47:21.000 --> 0:47:23.200
<v Speaker 3>They do have a hot dog version. Yep. They wrap

0:47:23.239 --> 0:47:26.960
<v Speaker 3>them around the hot dog like that tie between them

0:47:26.960 --> 0:47:27.520
<v Speaker 3>and cinnabon.

0:47:28.400 --> 0:47:31.960
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, for you as a first the franchise you

0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:34.920
<v Speaker 2>love are the flavor of the ship, the brand.

0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:38.680
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, all right.

0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:40.240
<v Speaker 2>Your favorite business.

0:47:39.840 --> 0:47:46.040
<v Speaker 3>Book, self Made by Nelly Galan self Made.

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<v Speaker 2>I've never read that one.

0:47:46.960 --> 0:47:48.160
<v Speaker 1>No, I gotta put that on my list.

0:47:48.160 --> 0:47:50.759
<v Speaker 3>It's the former president of Telemundo. It's very interesting. I

0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:52.400
<v Speaker 3>met her in person. Changed my life.

0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:54.760
<v Speaker 2>Okay, alan in that to the queue.

0:47:54.840 --> 0:47:56.680
<v Speaker 1>So if you want to be successful, you got to

0:47:56.680 --> 0:47:58.960
<v Speaker 1>have them daily rituals, right, So what's one thing you

0:47:59.080 --> 0:48:00.640
<v Speaker 1>must do every morning?

0:48:00.880 --> 0:48:04.279
<v Speaker 3>Every morning, before I do anything, I pray ay man.

0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:06.600
<v Speaker 3>That's the first thing I do. Yah.

0:48:06.680 --> 0:48:07.799
<v Speaker 2>Can I tell y'all what I do?

0:48:08.000 --> 0:48:08.640
<v Speaker 3>What do you do?

0:48:09.280 --> 0:48:11.200
<v Speaker 2>I like to go in the mirror and I say

0:48:11.200 --> 0:48:14.120
<v Speaker 2>to myself ten times, I love you, I love you,

0:48:14.560 --> 0:48:16.840
<v Speaker 2>I love you, And I just point at myself and

0:48:16.880 --> 0:48:18.680
<v Speaker 2>I look myself in the eyes and I tell myself

0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:22.520
<v Speaker 2>ten times that I love myself every week. Yeah that's

0:48:22.560 --> 0:48:23.120
<v Speaker 2>pretty cool.

0:48:23.120 --> 0:48:24.600
<v Speaker 3>I'm not to try it tomorrow morning.

0:48:25.000 --> 0:48:25.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah at it?

0:48:25.600 --> 0:48:27.200
<v Speaker 1>We are you trying not to forget or something?

0:48:27.480 --> 0:48:30.279
<v Speaker 2>No, I just want to be very loving to myself

0:48:30.320 --> 0:48:32.160
<v Speaker 2>first before the rest we forget.

0:48:32.520 --> 0:48:35.200
<v Speaker 1>We forget sometimes mm hmm. All right. So what's a

0:48:35.320 --> 0:48:37.720
<v Speaker 1>dream collaboration? It could be a brand or a person.

0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:39.759
<v Speaker 3>Mm.

0:48:39.800 --> 0:48:46.680
<v Speaker 1>That's interesting, Shaq, Shaquille and Eil got all these franchises.

0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:48.920
<v Speaker 1>When you beat when you want to be up in

0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:49.600
<v Speaker 1>his business?

0:48:49.760 --> 0:48:52.000
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so Shack, that's actually a good one because you know,

0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:57.040
<v Speaker 3>Shack started his new concept. It's a chicken concept, and

0:48:57.080 --> 0:48:58.759
<v Speaker 3>I would love to work with them one day. I think,

0:48:59.200 --> 0:49:01.280
<v Speaker 3>you know, he has a really could understand the business.

0:49:02.200 --> 0:49:05.640
<v Speaker 3>He's been very protective of his brand, So I think

0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:08.319
<v Speaker 3>he would be a great person to collaborate with. I mean,

0:49:09.040 --> 0:49:12.000
<v Speaker 3>rip to Junior Bridgeman, he would have been another one

0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:14.600
<v Speaker 3>that I would have wanted to collaborate with because he

0:49:14.760 --> 0:49:16.839
<v Speaker 3>was really a giant in a franchising space. But yeah,

0:49:16.920 --> 0:49:17.799
<v Speaker 3>Chak would be a good one.

0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:22.439
<v Speaker 1>So like this right quick? So Shaq, do you really

0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:24.520
<v Speaker 1>think Shaq is handling the day to day of these

0:49:24.560 --> 0:49:28.279
<v Speaker 1>franchises he's involved with or he right now he's just

0:49:28.360 --> 0:49:31.160
<v Speaker 1>representing the brand. So is it that the more money

0:49:31.200 --> 0:49:33.320
<v Speaker 1>you have, you really don't have to be that hands

0:49:33.360 --> 0:49:36.080
<v Speaker 1>on with a franchise. I just put people in place

0:49:36.120 --> 0:49:36.800
<v Speaker 1>to do the things.

0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:39.440
<v Speaker 3>That's a great question. So I think in the very

0:49:39.480 --> 0:49:42.600
<v Speaker 3>beginning he was very instrumental in like creating the brand.

0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:45.360
<v Speaker 3>But he's brought in a team of folks who handle

0:49:45.440 --> 0:49:48.840
<v Speaker 3>the day to day business. So from my understanding, and

0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:50.279
<v Speaker 3>I can't I don't want to speak out a term,

0:49:50.320 --> 0:49:52.759
<v Speaker 3>but my understanding is that he invested in it and

0:49:52.880 --> 0:49:56.600
<v Speaker 3>was really involved in creating the menu and just the

0:49:56.680 --> 0:49:59.799
<v Speaker 3>overall model itself. And so now, I mean, he has

0:49:59.840 --> 0:50:01.680
<v Speaker 3>so much going on. I think he was even on

0:50:01.760 --> 0:50:05.520
<v Speaker 3>a set on a board for another franchise organization for

0:50:05.560 --> 0:50:06.920
<v Speaker 3>a while, so he has his hands on a lot

0:50:06.920 --> 0:50:08.480
<v Speaker 3>of things. So I don't think he has a time

0:50:08.760 --> 0:50:11.840
<v Speaker 3>to do all of that and beyond television, but I

0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:15.160
<v Speaker 3>think he's still very close to the business to make

0:50:15.200 --> 0:50:18.359
<v Speaker 3>sure that it's healthy and it's doing well financially.

0:50:20.040 --> 0:50:28.680
<v Speaker 2>All right, One word that describes your franchise journey difficult difficult.

0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:29.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was.

0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:33.440
<v Speaker 1>It was. Enfranchising is not easy, or building the franchise

0:50:33.480 --> 0:50:34.680
<v Speaker 1>player is difficult.

0:50:34.800 --> 0:50:37.640
<v Speaker 3>Well, I think just me going through all the working

0:50:37.680 --> 0:50:39.400
<v Speaker 3>for all the different brands and all the things I

0:50:39.400 --> 0:50:42.600
<v Speaker 3>had to go through as just a black woman enfranchising

0:50:42.920 --> 0:50:45.319
<v Speaker 3>there's not a lot of us there. So I can

0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:49.160
<v Speaker 3>look across a room of thirty five hundred people and count,

0:50:49.360 --> 0:50:52.319
<v Speaker 3>you know, maybe ten people that look like me. So

0:50:52.480 --> 0:50:54.440
<v Speaker 3>that's a little bit challenging when you're working in an

0:50:54.480 --> 0:50:58.600
<v Speaker 3>environment where culturally you don't see any reflection of yourself.

0:50:59.400 --> 0:51:01.719
<v Speaker 3>So that was really difficult for me. And then you know,

0:51:01.800 --> 0:51:03.759
<v Speaker 3>sometimes you know I was I was very lucky along

0:51:03.800 --> 0:51:06.400
<v Speaker 3>the way to meet a few people that offered to

0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:08.759
<v Speaker 3>just you know, give me some assistance when I when

0:51:08.760 --> 0:51:11.600
<v Speaker 3>things got difficult. But you know, I didn't really have

0:51:11.719 --> 0:51:14.319
<v Speaker 3>like a mentor A lot of what I learned has

0:51:14.400 --> 0:51:17.839
<v Speaker 3>been through trial and error, which you know, looking back

0:51:17.880 --> 0:51:20.160
<v Speaker 3>on it, I guess it makes sense, right. That's that's

0:51:20.200 --> 0:51:23.160
<v Speaker 3>how you remember things, is sometimes when when you learn

0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:26.279
<v Speaker 3>the hard way. But yeah, it was difficult, but I

0:51:26.320 --> 0:51:29.879
<v Speaker 3>will say that I I wouldn't change a thing looking

0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:32.400
<v Speaker 3>back on it, I wouldn't change one thing because it

0:51:32.480 --> 0:51:33.640
<v Speaker 3>made me who I am today.

0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:37.160
<v Speaker 2>So let me ask you this. If someone was interested

0:51:37.239 --> 0:51:40.279
<v Speaker 2>in getting involved with the franchise player, how much is

0:51:40.320 --> 0:51:42.920
<v Speaker 2>that like what they have? Wouldy'all own a percentage of

0:51:42.960 --> 0:51:45.880
<v Speaker 2>their business? Like what do you would? You know? Which'll

0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:49.480
<v Speaker 2>want me?

0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:52.160
<v Speaker 3>So, So, the way that my business model works is,

0:51:53.000 --> 0:52:00.160
<v Speaker 3>you know, there's there's there are levels right level, soll

0:52:00.280 --> 0:52:03.480
<v Speaker 3>entry level. We do have an online course. It's actually

0:52:03.520 --> 0:52:08.160
<v Speaker 3>on sale right now for tax season. So if you

0:52:08.200 --> 0:52:11.080
<v Speaker 3>want to learn like what franchising is or is it

0:52:11.120 --> 0:52:12.959
<v Speaker 3>like this is a seven week course, you can buy

0:52:13.000 --> 0:52:15.440
<v Speaker 3>it and go at your own pace, go at your

0:52:15.480 --> 0:52:17.920
<v Speaker 3>own pace, which is stretched out over seven weeks, or

0:52:17.960 --> 0:52:19.520
<v Speaker 3>if you're really serious about it and you want to

0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:21.719
<v Speaker 3>dedicate like a couple hours a day, you can get

0:52:21.719 --> 0:52:24.319
<v Speaker 3>through it in seven days. It's just really teaching you

0:52:24.400 --> 0:52:29.120
<v Speaker 3>the fundamental So imagine spending fourteen hours with me just yapping.

0:52:29.960 --> 0:52:31.640
<v Speaker 3>You know you can do that, or you can you

0:52:31.680 --> 0:52:33.680
<v Speaker 3>can hire me and say, hey, listen, I want you

0:52:33.680 --> 0:52:36.080
<v Speaker 3>to help me from soup to nuts and we can

0:52:36.120 --> 0:52:38.319
<v Speaker 3>do that as well. Or we can figure out you know,

0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:40.080
<v Speaker 3>if you say listen, I can do it on my own.

0:52:40.120 --> 0:52:42.000
<v Speaker 3>I just want to figure out what the right brand is.

0:52:42.280 --> 0:52:44.080
<v Speaker 3>We have a solution for that as well.

0:52:45.400 --> 0:52:48.239
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so y'all get your coins together, because if you

0:52:48.280 --> 0:52:50.120
<v Speaker 2>want to go from soup to nuts, we charge you. You

0:52:50.120 --> 0:52:51.000
<v Speaker 2>got to have some money.

0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:53.600
<v Speaker 3>But if you go soup to nuts and you sign

0:52:54.160 --> 0:52:56.200
<v Speaker 3>you buy a franchise within ninety days, you get a

0:52:56.200 --> 0:52:57.000
<v Speaker 3>portion of that back.

0:52:58.840 --> 0:53:01.400
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So what do you what do you say about

0:53:01.600 --> 0:53:05.400
<v Speaker 1>getting into like today, right now today, getting into franchising

0:53:05.560 --> 0:53:09.080
<v Speaker 1>knowing what we know about these the tariffs and all

0:53:09.080 --> 0:53:13.000
<v Speaker 1>the things that are happening right now. I mean, cause

0:53:13.000 --> 0:53:14.440
<v Speaker 1>I feel like they're going to affect like, you know,

0:53:14.560 --> 0:53:20.400
<v Speaker 1>retail stores first, grocery stores. You know, the franchises have

0:53:20.440 --> 0:53:23.520
<v Speaker 1>to get their products in. So is this a good

0:53:23.560 --> 0:53:25.880
<v Speaker 1>time right now to start start a franchise?

0:53:26.120 --> 0:53:29.560
<v Speaker 3>It's the best time. And I say that because you know,

0:53:30.000 --> 0:53:32.000
<v Speaker 3>if you look back at the recession, you know that

0:53:32.080 --> 0:53:33.919
<v Speaker 3>was a great time to buy real estate right when

0:53:34.280 --> 0:53:36.160
<v Speaker 3>you just got to you got to follow a balancing dollar,

0:53:36.560 --> 0:53:39.080
<v Speaker 3>right so figure out where where does a dollar lead

0:53:39.120 --> 0:53:40.480
<v Speaker 3>in all of this. So it's a lot of noise,

0:53:40.480 --> 0:53:43.440
<v Speaker 3>a lot of distraction. You know when you think about

0:53:43.960 --> 0:53:46.000
<v Speaker 3>as a community, like how do we survive all of this.

0:53:46.360 --> 0:53:48.680
<v Speaker 3>The only way to survive is to change our tax bracket.

0:53:49.239 --> 0:53:52.680
<v Speaker 3>And so the Federal Trade Commission has read earlier right period.

0:53:53.520 --> 0:53:57.080
<v Speaker 3>They have laws in place that protect franchisees, the franchise oors.

0:53:57.520 --> 0:54:01.000
<v Speaker 3>These same laws don't protect independent business owns, and they

0:54:01.040 --> 0:54:06.319
<v Speaker 3>also don't protect employees at corporations. Right, So get your

0:54:06.320 --> 0:54:09.359
<v Speaker 3>friends together, let's buy a little something, and let's work

0:54:09.400 --> 0:54:12.600
<v Speaker 3>it to make sure it's successful. The tariffs. You know,

0:54:12.640 --> 0:54:14.560
<v Speaker 3>I think there's a lot going on right now. I

0:54:14.600 --> 0:54:16.440
<v Speaker 3>don't know if you looked at the headlines today, but

0:54:16.560 --> 0:54:18.560
<v Speaker 3>you know there's a lot of this going on. The

0:54:18.640 --> 0:54:23.040
<v Speaker 3>dust is going to settle, right, because it's above us

0:54:23.080 --> 0:54:26.400
<v Speaker 3>at this point, right, it's the billionaires, right making a

0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:29.000
<v Speaker 3>lot of these decisions, and eventually the dust is going

0:54:29.080 --> 0:54:32.600
<v Speaker 3>to settle. Cash is is going to be king. And

0:54:32.719 --> 0:54:35.000
<v Speaker 3>so when you think about franchise ownership, I'm gonna leave

0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:36.160
<v Speaker 3>you with this. I don't know if we're done or not,

0:54:36.239 --> 0:54:38.319
<v Speaker 3>but I'm gonna leave you with this. So when you

0:54:38.360 --> 0:54:42.200
<v Speaker 3>own a franchise, you can then buy the real estate

0:54:42.640 --> 0:54:45.879
<v Speaker 3>right by the real estate commercial real estate, you put

0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:47.640
<v Speaker 3>the franchise in it. So now you own the real

0:54:47.719 --> 0:54:50.399
<v Speaker 3>estate and you own the franchise, and then if they're

0:54:50.440 --> 0:54:53.120
<v Speaker 3>publicly traded on the stock market, of course you're going

0:54:53.200 --> 0:54:55.200
<v Speaker 3>to buy stock. Right, So now you're in it from

0:54:55.239 --> 0:54:56.160
<v Speaker 3>three different angles.

0:54:56.719 --> 0:55:00.840
<v Speaker 1>So it's not just McDonald or for example, Donald's biggest

0:55:00.880 --> 0:55:03.560
<v Speaker 1>industry is real estate. It's not even the burgers anymore

0:55:03.560 --> 0:55:05.200
<v Speaker 1>at this point. Yeah, they're a real estate they own

0:55:05.560 --> 0:55:06.040
<v Speaker 1>real estate.

0:55:06.560 --> 0:55:10.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I mean the real estate, the stock, the

0:55:10.320 --> 0:55:12.719
<v Speaker 3>actual business itself. And then even if you decide to

0:55:12.760 --> 0:55:15.479
<v Speaker 3>sell the business, right you still own the real estate

0:55:15.480 --> 0:55:17.200
<v Speaker 3>and whoever goes in there is gonna pay you. So

0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:19.960
<v Speaker 3>just depends on how much you have to invest and

0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:23.120
<v Speaker 3>ultimately what your goal is, Right, are you looking to

0:55:23.320 --> 0:55:26.319
<v Speaker 3>exit your current career, are you looking to just have

0:55:26.360 --> 0:55:28.200
<v Speaker 3>an additional revenue stream. Are you looking to buy a

0:55:28.200 --> 0:55:30.960
<v Speaker 3>business for your kids. It really just depends on what

0:55:31.000 --> 0:55:33.000
<v Speaker 3>you're looking to do. But my thing is when it

0:55:33.000 --> 0:55:37.040
<v Speaker 3>comes to athletes and celebrities, like, eventually, you're not going

0:55:37.120 --> 0:55:39.480
<v Speaker 3>to be an eighty year old rapper, right, Like, eventually

0:55:39.520 --> 0:55:41.399
<v Speaker 3>you got to know some of.

0:55:41.320 --> 0:55:43.759
<v Speaker 1>These niggas be pushing it to the limit.

0:55:45.239 --> 0:55:49.520
<v Speaker 3>If they decide they don't want to right, right, you

0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:52.000
<v Speaker 3>can have this business like if you if they started

0:55:52.000 --> 0:55:54.360
<v Speaker 3>something this year, right, and they decided to retire in

0:55:54.400 --> 0:55:57.440
<v Speaker 3>four years, this business has been working for four years

0:55:57.800 --> 0:55:58.719
<v Speaker 3>creating revenue.

0:55:58.800 --> 0:55:58.960
<v Speaker 1>Right.

0:55:59.000 --> 0:56:01.640
<v Speaker 3>And so you're looking at a lot of these companies,

0:56:02.120 --> 0:56:05.840
<v Speaker 3>these chicken companies, they're they're bringing in revenue wise, some

0:56:05.840 --> 0:56:08.799
<v Speaker 3>some are close to two million dollars, if not more, right,

0:56:08.880 --> 0:56:11.600
<v Speaker 3>some are doing even more than that. For someone looking

0:56:11.600 --> 0:56:15.759
<v Speaker 3>at get started, you know, into franchising that's green, that

0:56:15.880 --> 0:56:18.400
<v Speaker 3>really doesn't even really know where to start. I always

0:56:18.480 --> 0:56:22.080
<v Speaker 3>recommend getting into like a snack concept because when times

0:56:22.120 --> 0:56:24.040
<v Speaker 3>are good, people eat junk food. When times are bad,

0:56:24.080 --> 0:56:26.840
<v Speaker 3>people eat junk food. And it's not just our community.

0:56:27.000 --> 0:56:29.719
<v Speaker 3>Like people you go to go to one of those restaurants,

0:56:29.719 --> 0:56:33.960
<v Speaker 3>a Cinnabon or Antiens, right, the dough doesn't discriminate everybody's

0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:37.839
<v Speaker 3>everybody's eating it, right. So start with something small, start

0:56:37.880 --> 0:56:42.680
<v Speaker 3>with a menu that is less complex, and that's how

0:56:42.719 --> 0:56:45.160
<v Speaker 3>you get to understand what a franchise business is, how

0:56:45.200 --> 0:56:48.560
<v Speaker 3>it operates, and you get to start small small investment.

0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:51.359
<v Speaker 3>Start with one. Figure out it's something, if it's something

0:56:51.360 --> 0:56:53.960
<v Speaker 3>you want to grow, and if you do, then continue

0:56:54.000 --> 0:56:55.840
<v Speaker 3>to grow with that brand or bring in other brands

0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:58.160
<v Speaker 3>and if not, like I said earlier, you can you

0:56:58.200 --> 0:56:59.160
<v Speaker 3>have the options out of.

0:57:01.040 --> 0:57:03.160
<v Speaker 2>Oh my girl, this was so good. This is such

0:57:03.160 --> 0:57:06.800
<v Speaker 2>a good information. Listen, we are gonna take a commercial break,

0:57:06.840 --> 0:57:08.239
<v Speaker 2>and then when we come back, you got to give

0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:09.960
<v Speaker 2>us a dumb bitch story, Targan.

0:57:09.640 --> 0:57:10.760
<v Speaker 1>Because we're so childish.

0:57:10.840 --> 0:57:15.600
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god. Okay, very education on information, and we

0:57:15.719 --> 0:57:17.440
<v Speaker 2>still got to get a dumb bitch story from you.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, I got you dumb bitch stories so dull because

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<v Speaker 1>we've all been a dumb bitch at least once or twice.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, so let me explain to you what dumb

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<v Speaker 2>bitch story is? Okay, all right, So basically it's a

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<v Speaker 2>segment on our shore. We talk about relationships a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>so you have to share a time you got played

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<v Speaker 2>by the opposite sex or same. We know people are

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<v Speaker 2>yeah or same depending on what you're into.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so yeah, I know I live in Atlanta. But no,

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<v Speaker 3>all right, okay, I got so mad. I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 3>figure out which one are you married? No? I'm married?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, Mary, So you got the stories, girl, welcome to

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<v Speaker 2>the team. Ain't none of us got on the.

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<v Speaker 3>Ring two years old? I got all the stories Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>how old fifty two girls?

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<v Speaker 1>Shut up? Look good girl, it's what.

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<v Speaker 3>Y'allot on crack either.

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<v Speaker 1>Period. Hold on, Wait a minute, wait a minute. When

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<v Speaker 1>these motherfucking fifty ye old bitches, it's too fine, I

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<v Speaker 1>hear right, Okay, yeah, do get offending when people like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you look good for forty, Like what was I supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to look like? I feel like you might. She you

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<v Speaker 1>probably are what a fifty year old supposed to look like.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, people just be living hard lives.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I know my mom was fifty. She looked fifty

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<v Speaker 3>to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but when you when you when you kids, and

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<v Speaker 2>you think of fifty, you think like fifty is old.

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<v Speaker 2>But then now that you forty, fifty don't sound old

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<v Speaker 2>and it don't kids, and it don't look old to

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<v Speaker 2>me no more.

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<v Speaker 3>Like oh they keep me.

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<v Speaker 1>The way you said you got two grandkids, so you

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<v Speaker 1>do have kids.

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<v Speaker 3>I have one son.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah your story, girl, give me that fifty yel dumb

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<v Speaker 1>bitch story.

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<v Speaker 2>You can share it from any time except at high school.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't tell us no high school ship.

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<v Speaker 3>Played by dude? Right, mm hmm, okay, I got one.

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<v Speaker 3>So I went on this website like this dating app

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<v Speaker 3>and I met this guy was really nice, nice looking guy,

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<v Speaker 3>and we went on two really good days. The first

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<v Speaker 3>day we went to a Payton SIP class we took

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<v Speaker 3>he took me to a nice steakhouse. And then the

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<v Speaker 3>next time we went to like a cooking class, which

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<v Speaker 3>was real nice.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm like checking for him, checking him.

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<v Speaker 3>Next thing, ye know, this dude like ghosted me. Like

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<v Speaker 3>I would be talking to myself in the in the text,

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<v Speaker 3>like hello, are you there?

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<v Speaker 2>There?

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<v Speaker 3>Are you there?

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<v Speaker 2>So we never said that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So it turns out he was in town for

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<v Speaker 3>like working on a project, a work project or whatever.

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<v Speaker 3>He was only here temporarily and he was just trying

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<v Speaker 3>to line up some cucci while he was in town.

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<v Speaker 1>So he was married and he didn't get the kouchie

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<v Speaker 1>after that second date he.

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<v Speaker 2>Got.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, I figured it out eventually, But yeah, that was

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<v Speaker 3>like I was, that was light though.

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<v Speaker 1>That was light work.

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<v Speaker 2>That Nigga might be dead, was.

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<v Speaker 1>Definitely married and get something while he was in town. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>there's something hopping on the apps. Hopping on the apps

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<v Speaker 1>while they in town, right quick?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>And I was so you liked him. I wanted you

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to give him some cucie.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, this depends.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you give him the couchie and he disappeared?

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<v Speaker 3>But from the second day, and I don't know what's

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<v Speaker 3>happening in these day in streets, but you know it

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<v Speaker 3>didn't it wasn't for me. But I felt like a

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<v Speaker 3>dumb bitch texting myself in the group want to chat?

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<v Speaker 2>It was how many?

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<v Speaker 1>How many? How many text messages you send him? Like

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<v Speaker 1>a lot?

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<v Speaker 2>Are you okay? Like everything?

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<v Speaker 1>Like I hope you all can't you know all of that,

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<v Speaker 1>like you were worried.

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<v Speaker 3>I was initially, and I was like, oh, I got ghosted,

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<v Speaker 3>Like I don't get ghosted often, But.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you google obituary to make sure that Nigga wasn't dead?

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<v Speaker 2>For real?

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<v Speaker 3>I told you I don't even remember this guy's name,

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<v Speaker 3>so if he did, that's all I got for him.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, that is fucked up. That is you thought

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<v Speaker 1>she thought she had one right quick, Like you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you have a couple of good dates like that, man,

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<v Speaker 1>this might be my husband.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I've been there.

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<v Speaker 1>They got a husband, He was.

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<v Speaker 3>Cute, all the things, and.

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<v Speaker 1>That was it.

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<v Speaker 2>I got ghosted like that too real there, Yeah, but

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<v Speaker 2>we went on a lot of dates. I didn't give

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<v Speaker 2>up no ass either though, girls, So we're on the

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<v Speaker 2>same page.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, yes that's not really ghosted then you know what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying, Like, I feel like, did you lose anything?

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<v Speaker 1>You got some good little time and lit some blow food,

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<v Speaker 1>Like you ain't lose nothing if you ain't get that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but it's still I'll take one. And that's why

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<v Speaker 2>for their life.

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<v Speaker 1>Long as possible to the real niggas show up, you

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<v Speaker 1>got the whole couchie until the real niggas show up.

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<v Speaker 3>Ladies. You see the difference with me, I got I

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<v Speaker 3>have like six brothers, so I put stuff together real fast.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm like this this isn't adding up, and I'm believe

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<v Speaker 3>I'm a leaver, so I'll leave real quick. But leave.

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<v Speaker 1>You see, that's.

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<v Speaker 2>Leave them up too much. They don't be wanting to

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<v Speaker 2>talk to.

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<v Speaker 3>You exactly exactly. Like you know, you pick up on

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<v Speaker 3>mannerisms all that kind of stuff. They're like, oh she's smart,

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<v Speaker 3>yeah yeah, so and they try all these different things.

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<v Speaker 3>But I'm like, I'm like, I'm very observant, but this

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<v Speaker 3>time I didn't pick up on it. I was just like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>I wonder what kind of RINGM just kidding to picking

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<v Speaker 3>out the rings.

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<v Speaker 1>All right.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell everybody where they can find you, where they can

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<v Speaker 2>connect with the franchise Player.

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<v Speaker 3>All right. So I'm on LinkedIn the franchise Player, also

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<v Speaker 3>on Instagram at I am the Franchise Player, and at

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<v Speaker 3>I am Targi, and then also a website, the franchise

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<v Speaker 3>player dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>Are there any programs of webinars or events that you

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<v Speaker 2>want to promote real quick?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, So we have the Franchise Game. It's August fourteenth

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<v Speaker 3>and fifteenth and Plano, Texas, and I would love to

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<v Speaker 3>have folks from everywhere come and check it out. It's

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<v Speaker 3>a great way to learn about franchising, meet some of

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<v Speaker 3>the best folks in the industry, and walk away with

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of resources and some really good connections. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>August fourteenth and fifteenth, at Young's headquarters in Plano, Texas.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, they gonna find that, yeah, I told her when

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<v Speaker 1>they can find that on the player on the franchise

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<v Speaker 1>Player webs right right, Okay, got it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's all I'm gona come and give me a husband

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<v Speaker 2>out there. That's what I'm gonna come get. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>even care what y'all talk about is there some husbands

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<v Speaker 2>out here.

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<v Speaker 3>There's a lot of husbands franchise. I don't know if there's.

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<v Speaker 2>Somebody else, but you know, not not nobody else.

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<v Speaker 3>There's gonna be a lot of husbands in there, a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of smart guys, a lot of guys with your

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<v Speaker 3>good head on their shoulders. So it's definitely worth coming through.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I'm joking. I would come for the information as well,

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<v Speaker 2>not just getting a ring, y'all, but y'all.

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<v Speaker 3>Pull up my personal guests. If you decide you want

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<v Speaker 3>to come, you on my list. Thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>This was wonderful.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you for coming on. This was great information also

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<v Speaker 2>fun at the same time.

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely all right, y'all. So y'all enjoyed this episode. Y'all

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<v Speaker 2>I love y'all. I didn't say it, and I want

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<v Speaker 2>to remind y'all that y'all are loved by me so

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<v Speaker 2>very much. Remember speak now, I don't know. I never

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<v Speaker 2>hold your capital, so you could get a franchise

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