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Speaker 1: ros Sean McDonald. It's important to understand that everybody travels

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Speaker 1: For these two gentlemen on my call today started in

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Speaker 1: Grievous and Mikale Piles. There two HBCU Grass and Fraternity

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Speaker 1: for nat Level who found it quickly while attending Clark

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Speaker 1: Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia in two ten. The company

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Speaker 1: that operates out of Miami, Florida, and while and while expanding,

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Speaker 1: growing the culture of drinking responsibily. That's always important, please

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Speaker 1: working to money making conversations. NEvAr Grievous and Michael Piles Piles.

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Speaker 1: That's your name, right, you did? You did? Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much so as to be well, you know, grieveous. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you guys were concerned about liquor delivery. It's talk to me.

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Speaker 1: I'll started the ball well actually quickly suceptualized. In eleven.

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Speaker 1: It was right Michael I graduated from clark Man University,

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Speaker 1: my cow, myself, nobody wanted to make the liquor delivery.

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Speaker 1: And we just thought, what if we had a website

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Speaker 1: We can call what the lit circuit deliver alcohol to us. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is in two thousand eleven, before its times, before

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Speaker 1: I live out here in Miami. We operate and headquarter

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Speaker 1: So now we're a full transparent Allline is a marketplace

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Speaker 1: for beer, wine and spirits. Now you know he did it?

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Speaker 1: but also Black History Month. It was it was actually

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Speaker 1: a strategic for us to pick in February because once again,

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Speaker 1: you know, we always want to illuminate the fact that

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Speaker 1: a bootstrap, self funded organization. And this day and time,

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Speaker 1: and so we want to pay homage to the people

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Speaker 1: like Dr Martin Luther King into all of the great ancestors.

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Speaker 1: You know that that led the way for us to

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Speaker 1: be able to have a business in a platform like this.

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Speaker 1: What is it important? You know? We uh one man,

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Speaker 1: If you don't understand what each month means, you have

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Speaker 1: you know, you have a Father's Day, got Mother's Day

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Speaker 1: coming up, got Easter, and one of those days in

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Speaker 1: a marketing has to be a tool you used to

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day, Father's Day, Black Music, Moth in June, all

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Speaker 1: those days means something. So now, strategically, when you guys

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Speaker 1: look at strategy? Like like I said, like you just

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Speaker 1: told me Black History Month. I just talked to Navarre

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Speaker 1: about the Valatives Day. So real, there's two things going

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Speaker 1: on there. You locked strategically in Black History Mond, but

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Speaker 1: you're taking advantage of the relationship. February is also known

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Speaker 1: as a relationship month. So how do you look at

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Speaker 1: strategized and moving forward? You got Miami on lock. You're

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Speaker 1: about to move to Atlanta, Old stomping grounds or fraternity

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Speaker 1: brothers are gonna come to your aid or alumni alumni

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Speaker 1: from from that whole Spellman More House, Clark, Atlanta, It's

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Speaker 1: gonna come to your aid. What's the what's the future

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Speaker 1: of Quickly in the southeast part of the country. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: that that's a that's a wonderful question, and it was

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Speaker 1: actually you lead right into where I wanted to go

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Speaker 1: with the relationships. One of the biggest differentiators for a

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Speaker 1: Quickly versus our competitors is that we are a lifestyle brand.

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Speaker 1: What that means is we go the extra mile to

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Speaker 1: truly connect with our customers and our brand partners and

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Speaker 1: our account partners in a very local and organic way.

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Speaker 1: We don't operate like just a corporate business. Even though

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Speaker 1: I have a corporate background, you know, that's not who

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Speaker 1: we are. We came from the HBCU World Clark in

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Speaker 1: Landing University, where our bands were. You know, you go

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Speaker 1: to homecoming to watch the band, not necessarily the football game, right.

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Speaker 1: We come from the background of having that flavor, that coolness,

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Speaker 1: that slag, and that's how we brand the company as well.

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Speaker 1: So to answer your question, and from a strategic standpoint.

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Speaker 1: We're always looking at how can we transcend just the consumer,

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Speaker 1: the normal corporate consumer interaction and truly differentiate ourselves from

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Speaker 1: our competitors. Well, one of the main ways we do

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Speaker 1: that is by having the shoot your shot campaigns, which

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Speaker 1: resonate with people whether you're in a relationship or single

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Speaker 1: like my man in the bar. You know. We we

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Speaker 1: also look at the calendar, like you said, Roshan in

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Speaker 1: every quarter, we're looking at what's going on, you know,

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl? What what are things that can connect quickly

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Speaker 1: on a real visceral level with our customers because that's

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Speaker 1: the thing about the alcohol industry, and that's why we

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Speaker 1: love it. Alcohol brings people together, whether you're celebrating, whether

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Speaker 1: you're commiserating, you know, whatever you're going through, you can

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Speaker 1: have a libation as long as you're doing it responsibly,

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Speaker 1: and we want to be a connector for that in

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Speaker 1: a in a responsible way. I love because a quickly

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Speaker 1: is not about color. You know, you know, you can

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Speaker 1: every month, you know, uh st Patty's Day. Okay, that's right,

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Speaker 1: that's on your that's a great liquor drinking muk okay.

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Speaker 1: And so that's what I love about it when you

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Speaker 1: look at the diversity and the and the potential explosion

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Speaker 1: of this business, especially COVID. A lot a lot of restrictions,

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Speaker 1: the curb side lifestyle, the touchless delivery, contact delivery, that's

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Speaker 1: people are seeking. Now. I know when I get my

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Speaker 1: car washing, I just drive right on the I just

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Speaker 1: hit my credit card. I don't let nobody come in

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Speaker 1: inside my car no more. And we know that lifestyle

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Speaker 1: it's not going to change, you know, with the vaccination

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Speaker 1: raid and even after you get vaccinated, they tell you

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Speaker 1: of procedures are gonna be It's it's I'm just I

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Speaker 1: just want to say congratulations, you know, because a lot

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Speaker 1: and you guys are saying at the cups of a

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Speaker 1: great idea, not just a good idea, a great idea.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just letting you know I developed money making

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Speaker 1: conversations because to me, speaking to YouTube or like you're

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Speaker 1: the stars. You always see your people on the big screen.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you make, you pay taxes, you employ people,

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Speaker 1: you keep this company moving, and more important, as black men,

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Speaker 1: you make us proud and don't stop hanging out in

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Speaker 1: chime with Noval. You know, no, but thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversations man. But again, I'm very honest.

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Speaker 1: I have like one point six million people I controlled

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Speaker 1: So I extend that free charge. It's not about me

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Speaker 1: trying to grow your brand and also give you a

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Speaker 1: that and I've created this platform to mentor people, and

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Speaker 1: you guys because I'm excited. I want you to grow

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Speaker 1: as big as you can. And if you take one

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Speaker 1: which you say. Man, thank you, because if we're just

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to say, you know, first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for taking the time to speak

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Speaker 1: with us. You know, I have seen your your your

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Speaker 1: like Steve Harvey and Stephen A. Smith, And it's just

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Speaker 1: amazing to be in a position to speak to such

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Speaker 1: an accomplished and decorated brother like yourself. So thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for this platform. You know, we're at the

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Speaker 1: point in this company where we're trying to grow this

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Speaker 1: thing big, you know, like I said, we're trying to

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Speaker 1: grow a legacy with quick Lick. And even though we've

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Speaker 1: and aggressively looking for investor partners to invest in this

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Speaker 1: next level. Not just in Atlanta, we want to go

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Speaker 1: We want to cover the whole Southeast. We want to

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Speaker 1: this year. So we have dreams of grandeur and people

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Speaker 1: like yourself, I can't think enough for giving us a

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Speaker 1: Closing you not wrap up, I mean, I mean he's

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Speaker 1: like I'm beyond greatful. It allows at his platform to

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Speaker 1: we'repotually growing looking at this man Tampa, Atlanta and like

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Speaker 1: I said, we're gonna pre see round looking for funding.

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