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Speaker 1: when they started Rockefeller records. You know, they named their

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Speaker 1: company after this legacy, you know, white family because they

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Speaker 1: didn't know of a lot of black familacies that had

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Speaker 1: black families that had generational wealth and had legacies like

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Speaker 1: the Rockefellers. So that always stuck with me because at

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Speaker 1: that time, you know, didd he was coming up with them,

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Speaker 1: and even Russell Simmons hadn't had kids or been married

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Speaker 1: to Camor and yet so they named their company after

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Speaker 1: this rich wife family, and I was just like, that's

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking about that and how my parents

431
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Speaker 1: always talked about legacy. Now through hip hop, you have

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Speaker 1: these wealthy families that have second, second generations as wealth.

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Speaker 1: So I just you know, when you know, I was,

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Speaker 1: I had hired you know, Angela's sister Vanessa Simmons for

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Speaker 1: a movie I produced called Dysfunctional Friends, and how that

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Speaker 1: came about, uh, you know, then the Chevy Company reached

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Speaker 1: out to me. They wanted me to create sort of

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Speaker 1: like a web series for their site because a lot

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Speaker 1: of these brands now trying to really get into content

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Speaker 1: and so they exactly so, so I came up with

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Speaker 1: a with a web series called Celebrity Closet Raid and

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Speaker 1: I reached back out to Vanessa to have her do it,

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Speaker 1: because you know, they have these you know clauses that

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Speaker 1: have like hundreds of dollards of dollars worth of close

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Speaker 1: and she couldn't do it at the time that she

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Speaker 1: was pregnant, but she said, you should do my sister

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Speaker 1: Angela because she has you know, quarter million dollars and

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Speaker 1: shoes in a closer. So I hired Angela to do

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Speaker 1: this show and then we you know, we became you know,

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Speaker 1: good friends, and um, you know, she was looking to

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Speaker 1: get back in the reality TV and so we both

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Speaker 1: you know, set out to uh try to get her

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Speaker 1: a show, and then we were unsuccessful on that. And

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Speaker 1: then that's when I came up with the idea to

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Speaker 1: you know, I was like, well, how about we doing

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Speaker 1: with all of the legacy kids. Let's go get Romeo.

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Speaker 1: Let's go get Romeo mask the p I had just

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Speaker 1: produced a movie car a Girl Like Grace that Romeo

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Speaker 1: was in, and uh, you know, I went back to

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Speaker 1: Damon Dash, who I had who I did my first show,

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Speaker 1: and now his son was grown Boogie, and uh it

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Speaker 1: really was just me calling relationship relationship exactly. That's what

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Speaker 1: Driver did as well, you know everything, Like like I said,

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Speaker 1: everything that I do, I just wanted to have a

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Speaker 1: meeting behind it and wanted to be something that's positive

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Speaker 1: and allows people to think about things. You know again, um,

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Speaker 1: the things that you've accomplished in your life and will

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Speaker 1: be accomplishing. You're saying all the right people, Rich Paul,

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Speaker 1: one of top agents in that Lebron camp, Eva du Vername,

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Speaker 1: you know, Amari Hadreck, Megan god Ken, you have buyers,

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Speaker 1: all these great names, uh franchises on we TV. You're

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Speaker 1: doing it, my friend. I'm glad I got to see

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Speaker 1: you in the beginning because to see your journey has

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Speaker 1: been awesome. Hey man, I really appreciate that, Roshane. It

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Speaker 1: means a lot of Yeah, I'm just I'm just here,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know a lot of things I'm working

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Speaker 1: on and you know, got a ton of projects coming

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Speaker 1: you know, coming down the pipeline as well. But I'm

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Speaker 1: just trying to stay employed, man, and you will be

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Speaker 1: employed and keep winning again. If you need me to

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Speaker 1: promote any of your projects, just let me know, just

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Speaker 1: contact with my staff. Okay, Rich, thanks a lot. I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate appreciate you chance to hang out thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: As host of Money Making Conversations, Rashan McDonald is uniquely

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Speaker 1: positioned to provide a step by step, easy to understand

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Speaker 1: blueprint that drives listen is to realize their dreams and aspirations.

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Speaker 1: Until you do the business plan or incorporate or actually

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Speaker 1: create that product or start selling products, the universe doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to deal with. Money Making Conversations is an innovative

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Speaker 1: platform that delivers financial literacy to help everyone with their

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Speaker 1: brand success. It's good to have a money make a

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Speaker 1: conversation with somebody that makes money. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: about the host of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's

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Speaker 1: a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand plus

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Speaker 1: social media followers are female. He's a two time Emmy

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Speaker 1: Award winner, three time n double a c P Image

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Speaker 1: Award winner, sitcom writer, stand Up Comic, former, IBM executive,

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Speaker 1: and has a degree in mathematics. More importantly, Rashan McDonald

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Speaker 1: will use his business and celebrity relationships to empower small

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Speaker 1: businesses with information to succeed. HI This Rashan McDonald is

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Speaker 1: a great day to be Rashane mcdonnald. When he have

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Speaker 1: guests like this, you're listening to the money making conversation.

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Speaker 1: My next guest, longtime friend, longtime actors, longtime radio person.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even see radio in her credit. That's what

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Speaker 1: That's what I messed me up a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: didn't see radio in their credits. But due to the

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Speaker 1: New York Times best selling author, fashion and cosmetic mogul,

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Speaker 1: who's president in the film and TV industry, is rapidly growing.

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Speaker 1: When I met her, she was in eighteen years old

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. She was doing midday radio and Steve Hardy.

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Speaker 1: Now we're doing morning drive on eighty two point three

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Speaker 1: to beat. She can currently be seen this summer on

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Speaker 1: Stars Network number one hits Your Power Please Walk on

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Speaker 1: the Money Making Conversations. La La Anthony. Hey, it's talking

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Speaker 1: to you girl. You're fantastic, great, thank you for calling in.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Um, First of all, I gotta go

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Speaker 1: back when I first met you in Los Angeles, and

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Speaker 1: you're just so naturally gifted. But you always always got

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Speaker 1: the impression because you always said that you wanted to

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Speaker 1: be bigger, you wanted to do more. You always felt

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Speaker 1: that you were bigger to radio. What was the drive

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Speaker 1: because you because you was hired from Atlanta to do

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Speaker 1: radio in Los Angeles, which is that's cross country, okay,

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Speaker 1: And that's a lot of emotions, that's a lot of

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of things that you know there's

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Speaker 1: no guarantees, but you made that decision. I want to

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Speaker 1: I want the listeners to hear what drove you at

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Speaker 1: that early stage, which makes you the success you are today.

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Speaker 1: I think, I think to be successful, people have to

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Speaker 1: understand you have to be willing to take risks and

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Speaker 1: be willing to, you know, push fear out the way.

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Speaker 1: I could have let fear get in the way of

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Speaker 1: being moving to l A at nineteen years old and

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Speaker 1: not knowing anybody actually even been to l A when

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Speaker 1: I moved there. I mean, in my world, you can

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Speaker 1: only dream about a place like l A. You weren't

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Speaker 1: traveling there, so I never been there before and just

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Speaker 1: got off the plane and moved there. But I had

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Speaker 1: to let fear out the way because I knew what

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Speaker 1: my goal was. I knew I wanted to be successful,

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Speaker 1: and I knew this was the start of achieving that goal.

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Speaker 1: So I just chomped it up there what I had

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Speaker 1: to do. And I feel like you know, it always

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Speaker 1: decisions and so we met. You know you always can

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Speaker 1: you give. I always talk to you about everything, everything

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Speaker 1: and looking at you and and and Steve Harvey. You

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Speaker 1: know that motivated me too because I would see all

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Speaker 1: the amazing things you guys were doing and not just

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Speaker 1: being on the radio, and like at that time and

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Speaker 1: even now, you know, people want to put people in boxes,

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Speaker 1: like if you're on the radio, that's all you do.

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Speaker 1: If you're a producer, that's all you do. If you're

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Speaker 1: on TV, that's all you do. And Steve was one

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Speaker 1: of the first people along which you know, your help

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Speaker 1: to break those barriers and show people you can do

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Speaker 1: a lot of different things and be great at it.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I wanted to do. So it just

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Speaker 1: taught me at an early age not to put myself

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Speaker 1: in a box and be able to accomplish different things.

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Speaker 1: And then the first big break out of radio was

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Speaker 1: MTV H and I remember you used to shine. I

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Speaker 1: got an audition. I mean, you call me. I think

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Speaker 1: I think they liked me. What you like? Do you know?

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Speaker 1: I'm overre hustling with Steve? So I really couldn't couldn't,

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Speaker 1: couldn't get into a world. But I can go go

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Speaker 1: for a girl, go for it right now. You always

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Speaker 1: gave me the confidence and that's something I'll never forget

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Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for. That's why when I even

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Speaker 1: heard about the interview, I was like, do you know

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Speaker 1: how far back we go in my career, especially in

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Speaker 1: the early early stages. Yeah, the MTV audition happened and

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Speaker 1: I booked that job, and then I moved to New

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Speaker 1: York and started, you know, hosting prlan m HM. And

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Speaker 1: that's the thing that always and I would text her

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Speaker 1: sometimes when a CEO TV what it was on b

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Speaker 1: ET and just so your articulation and your intellect was

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Speaker 1: always especially you used to do the social media boards.

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Speaker 1: You was just round and I would text us the girl,

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Speaker 1: are you crazy? That is too good? I would just

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Speaker 1: text her, I don't know, you know, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: because it was just it was just you, just a

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Speaker 1: naturally gifted person and you just and everything came off

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Speaker 1: so easy, and I know it wasn't easy because you

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Speaker 1: put your work in. That was the one thing I

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Speaker 1: want to let everybody know. One of the most hard

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Speaker 1: working individuals is on the phone right here, because she

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Speaker 1: puts her time and she's willing to give the hours.

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Speaker 1: She's one of the people that you know I was.

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Speaker 1: I was running the people go what it takes to

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Speaker 1: be successful, and people always asking me about when I said,

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Speaker 1: people always say I want Steve Harvey's career because they

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Speaker 1: want me to manage them. I go, well, okay, let

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Speaker 1: me just let you know I'm a workaholic. Rashan McDonald's walkerholic.

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Speaker 1: Now Steve Harvey is a workaholic too, because I never

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Speaker 1: had to see on the phone right here, Love Anthony

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Speaker 1: is a workaholic. So so it's like they don't they're bed.

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Speaker 1: It's just there. The rest. It's not there to lay

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Speaker 1: in and you don't even and we don't even use

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Speaker 1: we don't even like like we should be rescued fairly

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Speaker 1: even rest. It's just hard work. And sometimes people don't

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Speaker 1: understand that. They see certain things, it looks so easy.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, I want to do that too, and

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00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: no one really understands the bullets went into you that

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Speaker 1: are put behind it, like it's not easy. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I always say it sounds so cliche when you

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Speaker 1: say hard work pays off, but it really does. Because

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Speaker 1: one thing about me. I just know hard work and

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Speaker 1: I'm watching it even now. Just continue to pay off

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Speaker 1: in my career and I'm not gonna stop. I know

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Speaker 1: you're not. And I'm gonna tell you this the compliment

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Speaker 1: when I saw your uncensored you are. You are beautiful,

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Speaker 1: You're articulate, You're smart. And I tell you something when

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Speaker 1: they when they put you in these roles of being

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Speaker 1: a daytime talk show host, you have to have layers.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, you have to have experiences. So

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00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 1: when guests come to you with emotional issues, you have

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Speaker 1: to be able to talk to them. You can't look

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Speaker 1: at what the producer what I was saying, that what

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Speaker 1: I say that you able to relate? You will? You will?

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Speaker 1: You were everything last night. So so what was the

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Speaker 1: goal or that you were trying to accomplish when they

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Speaker 1: approach you to do Uncensored for TV one. I think

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Speaker 1: for me, it's just allowing people to see who I

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Speaker 1: am as a person, even though I do feel like

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00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: people know that, but just the inside glimpse of my

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Speaker 1: life and how I started and how I made it

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Speaker 1: to where I'm at today. And for me, it's more

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Speaker 1: of an inspiring story for young women out there who

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Speaker 1: are trying to achieve goals to look at, you know,

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Speaker 1: the struggles are are different things I've been through to

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Speaker 1: get to where I'm at, and just to inspire people

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Speaker 1: to say, you know, you could do the same thing.

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Speaker 1: None of us were born with a silver spoon in

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Speaker 1: our mouth. We all worked hard and came from humble

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Speaker 1: beginnings and made you know, great lives for ourselves and

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Speaker 1: just telling other people like, you can do this too,

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Speaker 1: you can achieve these goals. And more so for me,

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Speaker 1: it was motivating and inspiring to people out there and

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Speaker 1: just gave people an inside look at, you know, my

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Speaker 1: life and how how I did I did and how

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, because continue now that that's really

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Speaker 1: cool because when I was when I was watching it,

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Speaker 1: like I really love the interaction between you and your son.

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Speaker 1: That was like, oh, you know, you know, produce I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't produce a mode right there. She needs to talk

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Speaker 1: show right there, right there, right there, look at look

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Speaker 1: at it right there. Every mom in the country. She

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Speaker 1: got the soccer moms right there, she got the regular

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Speaker 1: moms to single mom, she got every mom and that

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Speaker 1: moment right there, and then said at the age you're

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Speaker 1: lot of people have tried to lock that age group

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Speaker 1: that you control right now, and I'm just learning, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, you got all the right people

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Speaker 1: around you. If the offer comes to you, go for

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Speaker 1: a girl because you're ready. Yeah, well, Roshan, I'll be

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Speaker 1: calling you like I did in the past. What am

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Speaker 1: I supposed to do? Because that's that would be a

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Speaker 1: new field for me and something I know, you know,

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Speaker 1: So I'm just appreciative to have people like you in

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Speaker 1: my corner no matter what. And it's time. It's really

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Speaker 1: it's time because like I said, you know, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about some of the other things you're doing, but

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Speaker 1: before we transition to power in the clothing line and

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Speaker 1: and the other shows that you're doing. I experienced, you know,

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Speaker 1: emotional tragedy in my life with the hurricane hit Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 1: And then basically, you know, that's hurricane country, just like

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is hurricane alley sometimes and but what it

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Speaker 1: did to my city was devastating because you know, you

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Speaker 1: have you know, you have the black neighborhood, you have

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Speaker 1: the white where the white neighborhoods got flooded this time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the white neighbors got to up this time. So that

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Speaker 1: really knocked the city for a loop because they nobody

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Speaker 1: expected that, you know, because our high end neighborhoods of

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Speaker 1: Memorial and River, well guess what they were underwater. And

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Speaker 1: so when I saw what happened to Puerto Rico, can

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Speaker 1: you just let everybody know, walk us into the emotion

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Speaker 1: that you were tied to that situation there when the

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Speaker 1: hurricane hit. Yeah, it's definitely emotional. I mean, my families

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Speaker 1: from Puerto Rico. I still have family in Puerto Rico,

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Speaker 1: and you're just watching this happen and you know you're

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Speaker 1: not there, so you feel helpless. You're just watching and

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Speaker 1: you can't get in touch with anyone. You're calling, phone

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Speaker 1: lines are down, you're emailing, you're not saying as sponsors.

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Speaker 1: You don't know if family members are alive. Are they okay?

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Speaker 1: Like those are some of the you know, hardest days

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Speaker 1: of my life, just waiting to just get a answer

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Speaker 1: yes and no, anything, just just something like that's so hard.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, luckily all my family was okay,

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Speaker 1: and I did get those responses, but what's even more

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking is how we watched out, you know, the United States,

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Speaker 1: and our president kind of handled Puerto Rico became like

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Speaker 1: if you're thinking, then you know, you never saw anything

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Speaker 1: else about Puerto Rico on the news or anything. If

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Speaker 1: you go to Puerto Rico, now, yeah, San Juan, which

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Speaker 1: is the main town, looks somewhat like itself, but go

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Speaker 1: a couple of miles up into you know, some of

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Speaker 1: the towns still it's just horrible. Like there's still places

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Speaker 1: with no electricity, there's still places with no running water,

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Speaker 1: and you just would never know that. It's all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, Puerto Rico just got forgotten about. So I'm

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Speaker 1: here to continue to bring the word out into the

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Speaker 1: needs of Puerto Rico, continue to raise money, do what

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Speaker 1: I can. Um. Spike Lee actually call me over the

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Speaker 1: weekend and we're planning something together in Puerto Rico. So

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Speaker 1: just continuing to keep the spotlight on it, because if

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Speaker 1: we're just going off of television, you would think Puerto

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Speaker 1: Rico's back in tip top shape and and doesn't need

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Speaker 1: a thing, And that's just not the case, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to make sure I brought that

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Speaker 1: up in our interview, because this is bigger than a movie.

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Speaker 1: You're in a TV show I'm producing, because this is

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Speaker 1: real life. Is real life. So your mom, she's beautiful,

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Speaker 1: your mom on H one, you will be hosted. This

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Speaker 1: is what you do, La, La, this is what you do.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about hosting Uh, Mama Mothers Stay Special on

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Speaker 1: VH one. Yeah, so I did it last year, were

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Speaker 1: doing it again this year, myself and Anthony Anderson, And

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Speaker 1: it's is getting like Steve Harvey now you know that, right,

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Speaker 1: And we always I mean, he's such a funny guy,

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Speaker 1: like we have so much doesn't even feel like work.

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Speaker 1: We're over there just cleaning it. But to do the

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Speaker 1: show and honor moms out there and single moms and

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Speaker 1: working moms and just really show love to the moms

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Speaker 1: is a great thing. And you know, we have other

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Speaker 1: celebrity guests who honor their moms, but then we find

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Speaker 1: moms like in the military we want to honor and

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Speaker 1: just different moms all over you know the world. And

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Speaker 1: it's just an amazing kind of pull your heart strings

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Speaker 1: thing to be a part of. And I'm happy to

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Speaker 1: be hosting it again this year. And that's important because

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that you know because all right,

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Speaker 1: encompassing you. Like I said, I just want you to

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Speaker 1: understand who we're talking to, who I'm talking to, and

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Speaker 1: who you're listening to. A young lady who's very aware

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Speaker 1: of her brand and very aware of her fan base.

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Speaker 1: What you're doing is multiple streams of income and that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a that's and making money while you're sleeping.

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Speaker 1: That is the goal here. You at that right age,

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Speaker 1: the eighteen to thirty or four millennial group will follow you.

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Speaker 1: I want everybody to know how powerful you are as

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, how you're winning in the in the world

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Speaker 1: and and and just in the world of information. The

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Speaker 1: fact that you still like like you, like you identified

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Speaker 1: love for Puerto Rico, and and you're divorce of Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 1: Now you're divorce for women all over were saying, okay,

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Speaker 1: you want to wear some denom James I got you.

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Speaker 1: I got you, Okay you hosting mother Day Dear Mama

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Speaker 1: on Mother's Day May seven. I got you single mom.

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Speaker 1: I got you Military mom. I got you working mom.

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Speaker 1: I got you traditional Mam. I got you, celebrity mom.

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Speaker 1: I got you, Poe Mall. This is what we do.

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Speaker 1: So you keep winning, girl. I'm so great you took

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Speaker 1: time to talk to Roshan McDonald. Feel good on the planet.

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Speaker 1: Her will well, Girl, you keep winning. You are a star.

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Speaker 1: I feel so good to be able to look through

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Speaker 1: the over the years to see the journey you've taken. Um,

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Speaker 1: Stay blessed, Stay blessed. I love you. I gotta say

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Speaker 1: that I love you. We keep winning. This is Lila Anthony.

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Speaker 1: She is a beast entrepreneur. Beast that is thank you,

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Speaker 1: bye bye. As host of Money Making Conversations, Rashan McDonald

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Speaker 1: is uniquely positioned to provide a step by step, easy

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Speaker 1: making conversation with somebody that makes money. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you about the host of money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: He's a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: will use his business and celebrity relationships to empower small

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Speaker 1: businesses with information to succeed. Hi for Sean McDonald. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to money Making Conversations. My next guess. Let me

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Speaker 1: just tell you history with me. Over twenty years, I've

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Speaker 1: been doing this young man. He's entertained audiences and film

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Speaker 1: He's a true social media influencer who continues to dominate

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Speaker 1: executive producer, DJ, philanthropist, and children's book author. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations the incredible Nick Cannon. What's going on,

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Speaker 1: sir Nick Cannon? My man, I'm just going back real

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Speaker 1: far when we first met, when I was still on

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Speaker 1: the Jamie Fox Show and used to send in my

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Speaker 1: office and used to tell me you want to be

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Speaker 1: a guy who created multiple stream of income, and you

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Speaker 1: And you've been doing it, my frank, absolutely, man, you

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Speaker 1: because of the fact that let's let's let's tell everybody

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Speaker 1: you know, you kind of got your first you Sago,

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Speaker 1: So he's right down from Los Angeles. So you came up.

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Speaker 1: I went to Los Angeles and your first break really

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Speaker 1: I mean as a teenager like obviously, you know, doing

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Speaker 1: I started naming like you know, the keening and chails

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Speaker 1: and even hang out on the set, you know, like

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Speaker 1: and Steve Barber Show. And that's when I kind of

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Speaker 1: that's always was the case, you know. And your first

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Speaker 1: So that was probably the first time I was ever

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Speaker 1: started this drum line. Come on, I'm gonna talking about

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Speaker 1: a stall. You know, you know you carried that movie? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know that was WILLI Smith movie. Okay, Nick, that

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Speaker 1: was Will Smith movie. We're talking about talking about drum line, dude,

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Speaker 1: But they said you are the man. You are the man.

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Speaker 1: You know. It was such a time movie. The reason

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Speaker 1: fact that you've grown through that whole millennial generational process

846
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Speaker 1: where you grew up with the iPhone, you grew up

847
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: in the internet generation, you know emails or you know,

848
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Speaker 1: I grew up in I was born with a rotary

849
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Speaker 1: dial telephone. You know what I'm saying. So you know

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Speaker 1: that just you know, you know when when when when

851
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Speaker 1: the when the television shows went off When I was

852
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: growing up, you know, they went off at midnight and

853
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: you heard the flag and in the national anthem. You know,

854
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: today technology used to go off for real, one off.

855
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 1: You know what we're gonna do not go to bed.

856
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,439
Speaker 1: You're gonna go to bed board. You're gonna go to bed.

857
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 1: And so you grew up in a twenty four our

858
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Speaker 1: world or twenty four world? How did that? How did

859
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: that affect you? Knowing that because I see it in

860
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: your brand, and we're gonna talk about those layers, but

861
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: I do want to get a good sense of what

862
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: incredible which is your company divisions that flow out of

863
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 1: that tell us about that. Really it's uh endless possibilities

864
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: more than anything, like you said, like you live in

865
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Speaker 1: a twenty four our world and everything that your seniord tips,

866
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Speaker 1: there's nothing that you can't do. There's nothing that you

867
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: can't put your mind to, and just the ingenuity just

868
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: based off of your creativity is so prevalent in this

869
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: generation and in the mindset they don't believe there's any

870
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: any limits, which is cool. So to be able to

871
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: approach business life just from a highspect of whatever I

872
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: put my mind and I'm gonna make it happen, it's

873
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. And that's the and that's the really

874
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: important that you say that because of the fact that

875
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't pursue opportunities out of fear

876
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: they've have changed, and that's not that's not your m O.

877
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: You don't you know, we all have, we all questioned.

878
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: I said, I don't wanna tell people, you know, nervousness

879
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: or when I feel uncomfortable. I used to work uncomfortable

880
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: in my my vocabulary. When I talk about change, I

881
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: always say that's a good thing for me. When I'm uncomfortable,

882
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: I'm about to veer into another direction that's really gonna

883
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 1: be good for me. Because if you stay comfortable, you

884
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: know you you can subject to the failures are being comfortable.

885
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 1: But when you have multiple streams of income, like you're creating,

886
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: then you also know there's a lot of uncomfortable zones

887
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: that you go into question yourself, like like the whole

888
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: creation of the Wild and Now, which is a legendary

889
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: um production that you created as a young man. A

890
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: young man and I talked about that creating process, and

891
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: then then I have one a hiatus for six years.

892
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,760
Speaker 1: It was on MTV and with the MTV two nights

893
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: back on MTV. Yeah, I mean, honestly, to your point,

894
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 1: that's a perfect example of how one idea that nobody

895
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 1: believed in, that nobody understood it and I had to

896
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: invest my own money against my agent and my managers.

897
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: Everybody said, don't do it, is not gonna make sense.

898
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: And what is an improv hip hop comedy show? And

899
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: so I've rented out a comedy club in l A.

900
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: Got all my friends together and you know, you know,

901
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: people that nobody had ever heard of at the time,

902
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: from Cat Williams, d Ray David's, Kevin Hard Come on, uh,

903
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: all these people that I was just trying to hook

904
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: my friends up with jobs and now these guys are

905
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: multi millionaires today. Um. But yeah, and then you know

906
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,959
Speaker 1: we cut to two hundred episodes later. Like you said,

907
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: it's just a brand that doesn't stop because it speaks

908
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: to a generation and again and even in that world

909
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: of comedy is just showing that it's a new form

910
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: of comedy. It's a way that people can be free

911
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: and loosen. Now even you know, with the online generation,

912
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: were creating stars out of them too, and you know,

913
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: elevating the branding and diversifyance on that many different verticals

914
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: from gaming to two restaurants to touring. I mean, use

915
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 1: the biggest comedy tour last year and we're going out again.

916
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: You know, in the Arena this year. So we're telling them,

917
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: don't let's Steve Harvis here that talking about you the

918
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: biggest comedy tour, you know, not this year, last year.

919
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't define a comedy now. But now

920
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 1: that's that's awesome. Go. We're gonna talk about a couple

921
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: of things because you went into the Wild and Out,

922
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 1: and we talked about exploring the other areas. Restaurants, food. Okay,

923
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: you got a big Wild and Not restaurant you opened

924
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: into Miami and then San Diego. But the Miami one

925
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: is opening first. Tell us about the vision, tell us

926
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: about his opening. Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to open

927
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: up first, uh, hip hop sports bar chain. And you know,

928
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: we're kind of going after that that that Hooters and

929
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: Dave and Busters business, because we're gonna have you know,

930
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: shade and drinks. Yeah, and you know the same thing

931
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: we do. We're doing Wayne's tacos and waffles because but

932
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: but it's kind of cool when you think of everything

933
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: you see and love from the television show is now

934
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: going to be live and living color right there to

935
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: where you you know, to be the While and Out

936
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: girls and in all of the games, the men you

937
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: will be named after some of your favorite people on

938
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: the show and games that we play. So it's really

939
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: just creating a whole three sixty experience off of a

940
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: brand that's already been uh tried and tested, and it's

941
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 1: also promotable. The thing about it, I like the fact

942
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 1: that you know for a fact now that you're about

943
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: to capture an audience that's going to have a spending

944
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: power for at least another twenty years. That's the beauty

945
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: of listening to you talk, you know, because people always

946
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: know that that economics and television and growth is always

947
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: determined how long is your audience able to buy? How

948
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: long are you able to purchase? If you're you're capturing

949
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: that oh because well because that's MTV two and MTV audience,

950
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,280
Speaker 1: that means you're going all the way down to eighteen

951
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: and you're capturing that thirty four. So that audience at

952
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: twenty years gonna be thirty eight and fifty four, So

953
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: you gotta you got a legacy. Their kids are gonna

954
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: come in there, so you building a brand. So we

955
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: got were started in Miami. Then we're gonna go to

956
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: San Diego, which is your hometown, which is great to

957
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: go down there making making everybody proud of you on

958
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: an idea that everybody said, what are you doing food exactly.

959
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 1: And then once we expand from San Diego, our next

960
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: flight is Los Angeles a few months later. Will be

961
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: open in Los Angeles by the end of the summer,

962
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: right on Hollywood Boulevard. Then you know, uh, New York,

963
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: um Atlanta, and then Las Vegas over the one that

964
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: we want to have open all by the end of

965
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: UH and every one of those home run cities, brother,

966
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: every one of the home run cities, they're your audience.

967
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: You talk about New York, you know, just opening New York,

968
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 1: it's going to be a beast. Vos Vegas is perfect.

969
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: Hollywood Boulevard for Los Angeles is also in Miami. That's international,

970
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: which means that the brand that MTV is for you international.

971
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: So when we come back, Nick, I want to talk

972
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 1: about your tour that you know you're setting the records for.

973
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: I want to talk about uh, you know, the TV shows,

974
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: the comedy specials, and also your brand, your you know,

975
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: your your college student. Now you know I got a

976
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: degree in mathematics, so I'm proud that you're going back

977
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: to college. Howard university. But more importantly, you're just a

978
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: special young man is changing the world. And that's what

979
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I always encourage everybody to tap it to

980
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 1: the philosophy that money and and currency is energy and

981
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: and really when you can come from a place of

982
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: positive energy and think about energy that's self generating, You

983
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: generated your your own generator. So to sit around and

984
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: just wait for someone is an old fashioned way of thinking.

985
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 1: When you feel like you may not have a dollar

986
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 1: in your pocket, but if you generate, if you if

987
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: you realize your inner energy to create your wealth, it

988
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: will be ongoing forever. Three is like my ideas of

989
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: my other things that are invaluable. My happiness has been valuable,

990
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: and it goes back to putting out that positive energy

991
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: because money doesn't make you happy, but happy makes you money.

992
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: Nick I can say it better. You know, from Jamie

993
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 1: Fox to now. That smile. I always love that smile

994
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: because behind that smile is pure genius, working, pure entrepreneur status, working,

995
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: You're making it happen. Proud of you, proud of your business.

996
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: Let me know about the restaurant open, so I can

997
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: show my ugly face down there and grab me some

998
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: of those waffles. Definitely let me nobody going to you.

999
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 1: Definitely gotta let me know what open, because you know

1000
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,800
Speaker 1: it gonna be packed. All those people will be wild

1001
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: it out. He's got it. He's a superstar in entrepreneur

1002
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: You're a superstar in life. He's a superstar dad. Ladies

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