1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: My next guest is world renowned. Last year, the Mayor 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: of New York City and first Lady awarded the Brooklyn 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: Navy with her own day in New York City. She's 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: co host of The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club has 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: transcended hip hop and pop culture become a popular staff 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: for both rising and established politician, community activists, and business leader. 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club guest lists have ranged from Hillary Clinton 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: to Jennifer Lopez, to Dave Chappelle to stephen A Smith 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: and everyone in between. In her spare time now, she 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: has her book club called Angela Ye's book Club, her 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: running club Run with Yee, and her Wealth Wednesdays series 12 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: with f natural expert Stacy Tisdale. Finally, please welcome to 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations. Angela Yee sound really amazing, welling, Well, 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: you know the thing about it, the Angela is that 15 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: you know you you you you in the in the 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: era of social media and branding, and and you know, 17 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: women dominate radio listenership. You know, if you ever show, 18 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: unless you're doing sports, that's where men dominate listenership on sports. 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: Ham and I produced so many fantastic morning shows, and 20 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: I know the value of a female and the position 21 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: it on the show, you only there were two very 22 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: dominant men. What do you feel your role is on 23 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. I think, uh, and we are very 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: clear about what our roles are. But for myself, I 25 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: would say that my role is the person that brings 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: the facts I know when they get there earlier than 27 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: everybody does the research, presents the stories, and does probably 28 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: the most prep from when we have interviews. I'm also 29 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: the one that bring the bag in when things get 30 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: off track. So yeah, as the person that the same one, 31 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: well you know so, but you know that's really funny 32 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: because you know when I look at live service, you're 33 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: kind of not saying on that show. You know. You 34 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: know what's funny is I still am kind of like 35 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: the Barbara Walters on the service because my experiences are 36 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: nowhere near as crazy as the lady's experiences on there. 37 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: I'm probably uh the one that is say that all 38 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: the time, and people also say when Angela doesn't tell 39 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: us her experiences, and I always look at it like 40 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: when I'm here every single thank you guys knowing me 41 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: from the Breakfast Club. I'm trying to learn more about 42 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: other people. But I also feeling like I have always 43 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: been somewhat conservative when it comes to my own sex life. 44 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: So if I want to be honest, everybody is not afreak. 45 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: A lot of people are conservative. Also absolutely love to 46 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: learn about new things, absolutely, you know, and that's why 47 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's called fantasy. You know, you have a 48 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: fantasy and you can't have a reality. And so when 49 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: i'm you know, I try to reach out, and you know, 50 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: when guests come on my show, and especially unique guests, 51 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: like because you all unique guests, because we know, I 52 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: don't I don't mention that that's that amount of all 53 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: activity of book club. You know, obviously in shape, you running, 54 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: you know, because I'm sure if you run in front 55 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: of me, I'm not gonna catch you, you know, especially 56 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: I keep up with you for New York Block. After 57 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: that we all got something. I bet you if you 58 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: started running. That's a little bit like every few days, 59 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: like I ran with people that their life who have 60 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: asked everything. And I've seen people like that. One of 61 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: my really good friends from college now she run a marathon. 62 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: Before that she had asked I never ran a day 63 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: in her life. The old crowd. That's amazing, and you 64 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: no because let's let's I can't go to detail because 65 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: I'm on free radio to rest your radio with your 66 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: lift service show. But you know you got on there. 67 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: I'll see Stephanie and Loreale on the show. Now are 68 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: they are? Is that your team? U? How does that? 69 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: How does the makeup? And then you have to guess, 70 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: you know, you know they come on the show and 71 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: you're their teasers. You're you're trying to pull out the 72 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: nuggets of sometimes shock or information. Like you said, I 73 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,839 Speaker 1: saw you know, Chelsea Handler episode and now so when 74 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: you were on that episode, you admitted, I'm not trying 75 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: to be open. That's never been my goal. You know 76 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: what I loved about it, and I always tell people 77 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: in my intro is about you know, you out there 78 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: writing your own story, and that's what impresses me. And 79 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: this is just tell people why that's important that Angela 80 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: you tells her story first. Well, I think we are 81 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: very diverse human beings. Sometimes people think we're so monolithic 82 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: as black women. They think if you're a journalist that 83 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: automatically you went to be Oprah. We all respect Oprah 84 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: of course, like there's no denying what she did and 85 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: what she's created. Is amazing her whole empire. But that 86 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that's who I'm modeling myself after. And there's 87 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. I think that people would think, oh, 88 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna be the next Open, and that's not always 89 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: what it is like for myself. I could never be 90 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: the next Oprah because that's just not the lane that 91 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: I'm in. I've never been. Uh, I've never done interviews 92 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: like she has like I do sometimes to have a 93 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: gairy emails. I come from serious satellite radio and as 94 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: you know, it was very unsensored. I was on a 95 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: hip hop station that was very dominated that it was 96 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: like males that listen to keep it around. Like that's 97 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: how I started doing radio. I've always been like when 98 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: I started, I was the only woman on the station, 99 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: you know and say forty five. So for myself, that 100 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: just never is alain that I could even see myself 101 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: being and just coming from this whole hip hop that's 102 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: not open. You know, well, I would tell you this. 103 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: You know, I have a gift. You know, I see 104 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: talent and I recognize where they're gonna go. You know, 105 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: this is just you know, like I said, one thing 106 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: I know this about you is that you're you know, 107 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: you're a person who re events yourself. You know, you know, 108 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: and then you understand multiple strings of income what I 109 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: just mentioned, and so so what you're doing now is 110 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: just a version of what you're doing now. And as 111 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: you mature, you know, your values change, and you know, 112 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what the next ten years, but it's 113 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: gonna be a different Angela Yee in ten years, because 114 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: that's just you. You know, you have a clear understanding, 115 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: Like you already admit certain things. I'm conservative, rashan, you know, 116 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: conservative things start taking over and they started directing you 117 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: where you want to go with your brain. And this 118 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: is what this is all about. Your brain, you know, 119 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: because you carry I always tell people, you know, you care, 120 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: a certain group of people you with you for twenty 121 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: years and they have value for twenty years. That's who 122 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: you go out and tell advertising I'm eighteen to thirty four, 123 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: I'm eighteen to four to nine. That's that's the number 124 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: they want twenty five to four the night. So you 125 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: carry those folks for twenty years, you know, you you know, 126 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 1: along the way, you reinvent yourself to hang on to 127 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: them and also sometimes to be relevant to a younger 128 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: group so you can care them with you. And so 129 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: when I look at your brands, you know, and you know, 130 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: I see real estate investor and and then are you 131 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: a homeowner? Yes, so I do have right now for residences. 132 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: Well that's that's a that's that's like that's I said 133 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: a homeowner, not you said four residencis are you just 134 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: right my house in Brooklyn that I live in out right? 135 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: Because I just paid off the mortgage that was my 136 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: first day. So it's it the thirty year mortgage or 137 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: fifteen year mortgage that you paid on. It started off 138 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: as a thirty year and then I refinanced it um 139 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: two years ago to make it a fifteen years just 140 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: to get a lower rate. And you know when I 141 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: did that because the rates had dropped, that also meant 142 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: that I wasn't even paying much more than I was 143 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,119 Speaker 1: paying already just to make it a fifteen year instead 144 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: of a thirty year because of the rate drop. And 145 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: then I had made a promise to myself there by 146 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: my birthday, I want to pay off my mortgage that 147 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: I did it. We know, something's really interesting because that 148 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: gets to your your wealth winds that believe that's right, Uh, 149 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: that you do. We are wins. This we do with 150 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: uh Stacy Tisdale because people need to understand that because 151 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: I did the same thing with Mike. You know, I 152 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: have two homes. I paid all both from once in Houston, 153 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: once in Atlanta. In the first home, I had a 154 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: thirty year mortgage and then uh, and so when you 155 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: go to fifteen, it's really not that big of a difference, right, Yeah, 156 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: you're rest Actually it's really the percentage to you know, 157 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: what your interest is. So once that instant drops a 158 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: point and you'll be surprised how much that can shave off, 159 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: and you're paying less interest from the beginning of your loan. 160 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: So it just really makes sense. But for myself, I 161 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: think people would tell you it's not a good idea 162 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: to pay up your mortgage. People will tell you all 163 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: kinds of things what they do, what they tell you that. 164 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: People are just silly out there. They will tell you 165 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: don't pay off people. I remember God said Mike, I'm 166 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: sorry for cutting because I gotta be mad. Somebody told me, 167 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: don't don't pay it at all. What are you talking 168 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,679 Speaker 1: about do when you make a certain amount of income, 169 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: I'm taking property tax, don't even apply anymore property text 170 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: on the go up to a certain if you gotta 171 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: find me in the hall, leave me. Property tax don't 172 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: cover five million dollars. You're stopping in that one million 173 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: dollar range. So everything else the government is gonna take anyway. 174 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: So that's why, that's why I really value you, know, 175 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: your finding your financial literacy campaign. Talk to us a 176 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: little bit about that, because you know so much to 177 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: talk about this. I'm gona tell you, like Angela, that's 178 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: gonna be our first conversation and I'm just gonna expose 179 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: my listeners to you. But you got so much going on, 180 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: So let's talk about to find actual literacy. You know 181 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: you you, you know you. You You've been recognized by 182 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: with a Day in New York City. You know you're 183 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: the popular club. You gotta you know, you get a 184 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: hundred thousands of one point five million views on your 185 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: lip service show every time and airs you know you 186 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: got you. What's the goal? I think, as to her 187 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: this ideential literacy part. I do this thing called rock 188 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: Wednesday's once a month for stacy, and that's actually at 189 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: my juice bar, because I have a juice bar in 190 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: Brooklyn called Juices for life and we do that there 191 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: because when I first opened that Juice bar, it'll be 192 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: what four years in September since we opened this juice 193 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: bar with Stops Pea from the Locks, And when we 194 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: first got the Juice bar, I got this space in 195 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: Brooklyn for us that's amazing, Like it's a beautiful space, 196 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 1: it's nice and open, it has a backyard. And my 197 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: goal was always I wanted this to be a place 198 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: where the community can come in Best Guide and yes 199 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: it's been Best Guye and have events. It's on Malcolm 200 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: X Boulevards, and for me, I wanted to be something 201 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: that's also caters to our community, the core people that 202 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: are from the Best Side, that are from that neighborhood, 203 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: so they feel like this is for us because there's 204 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: so much sense of fake gentrification going on, so many 205 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: businesses coming in that aren't trying to make us still 206 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: not welcome to be in those businesses. So I wanted 207 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: it to be a place where it's not get your 208 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: stuff and go, it's more time in sit down and 209 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: have a meeting. If you need to say all day, 210 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: we got the TV. It's a little lounge area and France, 211 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:27,719 Speaker 1: what do you want to do. If you want to 212 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: have a baby shower here, you need to have ant 213 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: We said, all kinds of things up for people. So 214 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: I started was Wednesday because I wanted to have something 215 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: that with free for the community. There was also empowering 216 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: them to know that they can be successful and can 217 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 1: make money, and can be homeowners and can have great credit. 218 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: Now here's the thing about it, how times changed. Because 219 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: you know, are a little background on me and July 220 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 1: moved to New York and ad eight to be a 221 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: stand up comic. I wanted to be the next next, 222 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: you know. And Eddie Murphy was hot out there. Richard 223 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: prov of course was always hot. And I remember all 224 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 1: took the subway and I got off stop. Okay, I 225 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: thought I was in another country. You know what I'm 226 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: talking about. She went up with no juice ball back 227 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 1: right now. And it just shows you how that whole 228 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: community has moved itself forward. And how did you know? 229 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 1: You know, that's why you have a basketball team there now, 230 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: you know. And I always say, the interesting thing about 231 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: New York is that is that everybody, you know, Manhattan 232 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: gets all the hype, okay, but Brooklyn's his own city. 233 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: You don't even have to leave. Bro have a great person. Stand. 234 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: They asked you what you from. You don't say that, 235 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: you say Brooklyn, I'm saying we're pride though, Well I 236 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: like I like her, she got pride, but you don't 237 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: for the Brooklyn nets. Also, no, no, no, no, let 238 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: me interview you. Okay, don't you be jumping the head. 239 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: That's my question for the next break. Okay, I got 240 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: all that down here. I had to go there. You 241 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: know you, you know, you know good, just what you do. 242 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: But we're gonna come back on the next break. I 243 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: got a lot more to talk to you about, Angela. Angela, 244 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: I am a fan of yours, and I also know 245 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: that I just want to let you know that keep 246 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: doing what you're doing this whole multiple the multi stream, 247 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: multiple streams. We didn't come being able to understand that 248 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: the community comes first. That's your brand. And also the 249 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 1: fact that you are female. That represents being you and 250 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: being strong and being having a voice. That that delivers 251 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,959 Speaker 1: a message that's equal for everybody. That's important and I 252 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: want you to maintain. We'll be back with more money 253 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: making conversations with the star of the Breakfast Club, Angela. Yea. 254 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: This was Sean McDonald, and you're listening to the money 255 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: making You're listening to money making conversation. I'm talking to 256 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: a guess. I'm trying to figure out how she had 257 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: time to call my show. I really, you know when 258 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: I when I started looking at the credits, you know, 259 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 1: and all you know, first of all, when you when okay, 260 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, Okay, you're just busy the social life. Yeah, 261 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: you know, you're dancing at your party or your dating 262 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: of what's going on. I don't know that side of you. 263 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: I just got because you're so busy. Can you can 264 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: you can? You can you sneak a little information in 265 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: on money may conversations about that balanced life? Absolutely? You know. 266 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: The fortunate thing for me is even though I do 267 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: a lot of work, a lot of what I do 268 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: is fun and so I do end up going out 269 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: like Frank they just passed. I have like birthdays coming up. 270 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: I have to go to Miami, I have to go 271 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,599 Speaker 1: to New Orleans or going to l A. I have 272 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: two parties in New York. So there's a lot of 273 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: things that I have to do. But that's a great 274 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: time for me to catch up with people. So my 275 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: friends know if I want to see Angela, I might 276 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: have to come in one of these events that she's doing. 277 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: But fortunately most of the time they're good, fun events, 278 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: so they enjoy it. And a lot of my friends 279 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,719 Speaker 1: and people I grew up with, so they're not the 280 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: ones that go out a lot. It's like an event 281 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: when they go out. For me, going out and work 282 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: for them it's fun. So I love the fact that 283 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: I can go to Essen Music Festival and my friends 284 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: can come out there and meet me, and they can 285 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,599 Speaker 1: all come to the parties for free stytles and have 286 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: a good time. For me, it's worked, but for them 287 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: it's like this is amazing. This is so much fun. 288 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: And I love that. Like I love that I can 289 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: have access, Like you know, I go to the NETS 290 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: games and I could bring a friend with me or 291 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: a couple of friends. We could be in that people 292 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: to see other people appreciate it. Well, you know, it's 293 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 1: really interesting because uh, you know, I'm a I'm a 294 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: kind of a loner guy. You know, I just go 295 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: out there and I built my brand and by myself 296 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: in the sense that I had nobody around me, and 297 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: I had my friends, uh from college at floor m 298 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: in from town and I'm a remember of making five Afternity. 299 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: So they played with me and uh, and then they 300 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: walked into my house and they were stunned. It went, okay, 301 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: you live here, and to me, it was like a 302 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: normal normal And it was for the first time I 303 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: had people that were really appreciated what I had accomplished, 304 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: and I never had had that because usually, you know, 305 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: my world is like this. So when I hear what 306 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: you're saying, I gotta I got to experience that. So 307 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna hook up on the super Bowl 308 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: at my house in Houston, and you know he's gonna 309 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: Maria Taylor from ESPN. She's gonna do an event and 310 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: my and my on my property for her for her 311 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: for her girl program, a girl's program, And so I 312 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: told one of them, bring your daughter down and you 313 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: can hang out spending right. So so I'm catching up 314 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: with that part of of what you're doing. And I 315 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: admire that you're saying that you're doing it because I 316 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: was just out there grinding. And that's one of the 317 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: things I talked about on the show, is that what's 318 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: your balance life when you stop, when you when you 319 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: start remembering, there's other things out there besides the hustle. Yeah, 320 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: you know. My best friend just over Christmas break was like, 321 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: you need to read this book, the Centralism. I think 322 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: it's what it was called. Look, I've been so busy, 323 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: I haven't read it yet. But she was telling me, Angela, 324 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: you say yes to too many things, and it is 325 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: just you're not ever going to accomplish the things that 326 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: are the most important to you because you're spreading yourself 327 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: so thin. And she was telling me, if somebody has 328 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: to do something and you think, okay, yeah, don't do it. 329 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: But if you think, hell, yeah, that's what I want 330 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: to do, then that's what you should do. And only 331 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: do those things and stop committing over committing yourself to 332 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: things that don't make your spirits say yes absolutely one 333 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: thousand percent. So now there's something that I'm working on 334 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: because I do spread myself really thin. Every time something 335 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: I feel it was a good opportunity comes up, I 336 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: feel like I jumped at it. But I also a 337 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: good at having boundaries aspires. If I have advocations of 338 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: my family and my close friends, that always takes precedence 339 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: over everything. Okay, cool, So I want to get to 340 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: some of the business that that I want to make 341 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: sure we promote the fact that your owner the press 342 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: juice businesses online at www dot drink fresh Juice dot com. 343 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: What exactly is that? Okay, so I started that business 344 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: about a year ago and that's like a deliberate press 345 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: juice business or organic n nermo begin But we are 346 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: now restructuring that business. We brought in some other additional partners, 347 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: so that's something that we are looking to be vaunting. 348 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: That was the first lesson for me in a business 349 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: that didn't go as our plans from the get But 350 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: I think that was a really valuable lesson for me 351 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: because it was a huge undertaking and I financed most 352 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: of it, pretty much all of it, so it was 353 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: a big financial commitment for me. But I think we 354 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: didn't have the management team in place that we needed 355 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: to have to make it successful. So it was a 356 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: matter of us just humbling ourselves to being like, if 357 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: this has to work, this is what we need to do. 358 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: And that was a new experience for me because we 359 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: just f I worked out great, it feels well. Everything 360 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: else I tried to do it hasn't been issues like that, 361 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: and this is the first time, but want a failure. 362 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: It's more like, okay, I see what working. What didn't 363 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: work for now a time for me to figure it 364 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: out moving forward. Absolutely. So, you know you said something 365 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: really important in your conversation. You were saying, you know, 366 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: basically you was trying to do it all by yourself. 367 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: What is the YE team? Who? Who are the YE team? 368 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: You're supporting people that you know are key because I 369 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: you know, I remember I was managing Steve Harvey. I 370 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: had a team. I had like people or when you 371 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 1: poured down like four people, I counted, you know, and so, yeah, 372 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: I definitely don't have that many people, right and so 373 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 1: and then you know, then happen when I started Brandon 374 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: building my own brand. I was doing it by myself 375 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: and was confused, you know, because I couldn't. I couldn't, 376 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: I couldn't make it happen. Then I just started calling 377 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: on people who understood who are who I was and 378 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: could be. That's important. They have people who envision you 379 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: can do more because you can't have people around. They go, 380 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: you're gonna do that too. You can't ever have those 381 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: people around. You're gonna do that too, those you That 382 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: means they're worried about work. See, you can't ever have 383 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: people around you they're worried about what. Oh the people 384 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: right there that they put up stop signing in a minute. 385 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: Oh I'm tired. Oh that's early. Anybody around you talking 386 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 1: like that, Please fire tomorrow, angel, because I'm that they 387 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: got they got to built this story. You know, I'm hungry. 388 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: I'm hungry to look at it. We're gonna take care 389 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: of all that. But please don't tell me about to 390 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: say a story, because if I don't make money, we 391 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: ain't gonna feed your home. Girl. Okay, I understand that process. 392 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: So so I always say that to individuals when I 393 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: when I because you're sharing some nuggets with me because 394 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: of the fact that you're younger than me and you've 395 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: already admitting. Okay, I made a mistake, but it didn't 396 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: kill me. Okay, Look, ra Sean, Uh, you know, I 397 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: hang out with my friends. I got my entre, I 398 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: shared my blessings. Rashaw wasn't doing, but h doing now. 399 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: And I appreciate respect, okay, because I'm learning for people 400 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: that work for me. I always work work with me 401 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: and for me, I always tell them, you eat what 402 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: you killed. So whatever you bring to the table. That's 403 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: how you get your money. As she was what you killed? 404 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: Is she a little violent? A little violent little woman 405 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: on the phone, little Brooklyn night there, I'm sting best 406 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: stop back in that you got off the train with 407 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: the gun. Now, let's talk about some some of sometuff. 408 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: You're trying to break some news on before in the 409 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: first break before I had it now, New York City, 410 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: New York Public Library, Ambassador. See what was really killing 411 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: me is that your range? You know, you know the 412 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: book club. You out there running past the library, stop 413 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: and go in the library. You're drinking juice. You order 414 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: juice on live. You're going on the radio telling people, Hey, Charlottegne, 415 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: you're talking too much. Dj I can come down, come down. 416 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: You got a life, girl five five days a week, 417 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: four hours a day. But I love this show four 418 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: or five hours. Oh lord. She gets there an hour 419 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: and a half earlier, so she could be prepared because 420 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 1: she knows she gotta pumped the brakes on something. You're right, 421 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: that's the population is key as spared as possible. So great, 422 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: you're great. So let's talk about your being ambassador and 423 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: ambassador for New York City New York Public Library, which 424 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: is a beautiful If you ever go to New York, 425 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: just sitting on those steps, it's like it's one of these. 426 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: I've lived in New York eighty eight to ninety and 427 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: then I moved back. I was always going in and 428 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: New York death coming to jam in two and then 429 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: I moved back up there with Steve and I relaunched 430 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: WBLS in two thousand five to two thousand seven. So 431 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: every time my move kept going back up there, my 432 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: economic status kept getting back better because the first time, 433 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: the first time I lived there, I was showering a 434 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: bunch of people. Yeah that sounds like jail. Oh yeah, 435 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: you know what, you know what you want dropping those 436 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: soap you're looking at you getting in early. Okay, I'm 437 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: gonna get in the five o'clock get my shower on 438 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: lifestyle light broke. You didn't go in and get your shower, 439 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: you go over. We're just gonna be a little filter today. 440 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: I ain't going in there, not in the group. So 441 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: now you did New York Public Library and bassador, let's 442 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: talk about that. Yeah, it's the first time they've ever 443 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: had a New York Library Public New York Public Library 444 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: Ambassador and they chose me. So the way that that 445 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: works is I helped promote a lot of things they 446 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: have going on because at the library it's not They 447 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: have a lot of services that are free if they 448 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: offer for people too, and it's an amazing place. Like 449 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: I grew up always going to the library. So for myself, 450 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: I'm a reader. I read books all the time, and 451 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: I already had a book club, so it's just a 452 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: natural cynatey. But I just started a book club last year. 453 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: We started this. We've been talking about it for a 454 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: while for the public schools in New York. So what 455 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: we're doing now is we're trying to get kids to 456 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: bed more. So now many of these young adult novels, 457 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: and we're doing these clubs with the high school to 458 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: teach kids that reading is cool. I know a lot 459 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: of times here there on social media, they're reading Twitter, 460 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: they're reading Instagram, but they're not really reading books. They 461 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: be Are you familiar with the pencil program up in 462 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: New York? Are you familiar with that program? The pencils? 463 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: The pencil programs about literalitiout If you don't mind, I'd 464 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: like to connect you with them. You know, because you 465 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: can get to come out because you'll teach a person 466 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: of principle for the day in the school and the Brooklyn, 467 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: the different boroughs and stuff like that. I remember whenever 468 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: I had Steve up in two thousand five s Harvard 469 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: back and he was he was part of the principle 470 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: of the Pencil pro it called Pencil p E n 471 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: c I L Program. You sound like you're perfect based 472 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: on everything that you're doing, you should be involved with that. 473 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: So I work with your people because you said you're 474 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: you're you're you're uniquely special because of the fact that 475 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: you you give back so many different ways. And then 476 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: all the fact because I know time, I know, I 477 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: know I'm telling something y'all to do a morning show. 478 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: You know you already start shutting down earlier. You know 479 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: you might, you might go crazy one day, but you 480 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: really shut down the rest of the days. And the dude, 481 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: she's trying to do because soon as she gets off 482 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 1: the clock, she's going and doing all this other stuff 483 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: because she knows how one doos closing really fast before 484 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: she has to slow down because yeah, now you're right, 485 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: And a lot of the stuff I do, it's free, 486 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: like the new York Public Library. All those all that 487 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: is not anything I get paid for, nothing financial from it. 488 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: My own book club, nothing financial, the running club that's free. 489 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: I just want to encourage people to do anything. And 490 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: if I can be the person that inspires somebody to 491 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: come out and run for the first time and they 492 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,959 Speaker 1: start running, and see people become friends and set their 493 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: own running clubs with each other for the time that 494 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: we're not meaning that means a lot to me. We 495 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: do the Wealth Wednesdays, that's free, and we give away 496 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: free Duciers, got the Douce far during that time. Just 497 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: things like that because I love to see other people's 498 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: success stories and then they can come back and say, 499 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: I'm inspired when I came to the Google event at 500 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: the Juice Bars, and that's what me me want to 501 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 1: go and start this business and you do add we're 502 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,440 Speaker 1: to promote it or small Business Services in New York. 503 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: I met the commissioner at the Dukes Bar, and I 504 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: went to the Small Business Services and got training certifications 505 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: in all these classes that was free, you know. So 506 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 1: I love those success stories based off of somebody being 507 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 1: inspired by coming to something that I did. Wow, let's 508 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: talk about one of the last honors of first ever 509 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: Global Ambassador for Diversity and Inclusion and community Engagement for 510 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,199 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment, which includes the Barclay Center, Webster 511 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: Hall and the Brooklyn Nets. Yes, so, and this all 512 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: happened by Treys thanks to my good friends. He's my 513 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: good friend now more reasan that at We had a 514 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 1: meeting with him and when we first met, he thought 515 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: that I was like, way younger than what I was. 516 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: And so we sat down and then and he was 517 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: just like, I'm doing away about you. You know what, 518 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: We're gonna do some business together. And he is, you know, 519 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: the head of Diversity and including for BFC. So Lady 520 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: Harney called me a few days later and he was like, look, 521 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: you know, we want to make you the ambassador, the 522 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: first ever global ambassador, and we want to worsten with 523 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: to you because a lot of the people that play 524 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: for the Nets or in the office and everything, they're 525 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: not from Brooklyn and it is important for a sports 526 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: team like that and for an organization like that to 527 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: have really heavy tides in the community that they're in. 528 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: And so that's really what my role is moving forward. 529 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: And they have the ownership. It's been amazing. Well, you 530 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: know it's it was amazing that you know, you had, 531 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: you know, forty minutes from me to talk to me. 532 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: That's amazing. You're you're a little busy. Gave it. Listen. 533 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: I hope that people get inspired to but you know, 534 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: listen to this. I hope people are like, oh, I 535 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: got to join her book club or you know, you know, 536 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: I got a little social want to come out and 537 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: do those things. I got a little social media. So 538 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: how do you post your bookload? Do you post it 539 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: on your on your social media? That's how they know 540 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: about it because I like to share your posts. If 541 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: you put me in the loop because it was five 542 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: of the followers are female. And our next um book 543 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: clause that's gonna be at the Spy Tuesday, and that 544 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: is with styles K's wife. I do a style. She 545 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: has a book out and that's based on her daughter. 546 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: Her daughter actually committed suicide. This is powerful. So so 547 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: my only thing I gotta come to a close here 548 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: with my my good friend, my running buddy, my talking buddy, 549 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: my reading buddy, and my eating buddy. We got to 550 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: run together. Hey okay, so you see, let's get you 551 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: in pencil first, you're gonna run and get your in 552 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: pencil that we're gonna do. We're gonna run, run and 553 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: get you in pil pencil. We're gonna change some kids. 554 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: You're gonna run over there and eat and get some juice, 555 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 1: and you know you even run over there and the library. 556 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,120 Speaker 1: And then we're gonna maybe if the season that we're 557 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,959 Speaker 1: gonna yell they get some nets. That's that we are 558 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: gonna run together. We're gonna post some videos. I love, 559 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: I love, I love, I love, so get that, get that, 560 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: get that flyer to me so I can posted for Tuesday, 561 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: so I can let people know. Everybody already know I started. 562 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: I was not being facetious. You are world renowned. Don't change. 563 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: And again I want to say just it's quick thank 564 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: you for supporting HBCU campaign that Stephen A. Smith and 565 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: I put together. I don't know if you know this, 566 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: but uh, you know, we registered twelve hundred students on 567 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: the spots for HBCU schools. Four hundred and fifty seven 568 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: of those students receive scholarships full and partial. That total 569 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: three point nine million dollars. Oh yeah, that's so amazing. 570 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: That was part of this don't just say y'all those 571 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: videos when viral was you guys were key placement for 572 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: us when we went on the show, and just you know, 573 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: just let young people know this at value that like, 574 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: and We're gonna do it again, which means that I'm 575 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: coming back for you, miss do it All things, do 576 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: it All to come on down and just talk to 577 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: these young people because because a lot of people on 578 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: board now to really make it right, you know so, 579 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: But again, thank you for your time. Angela. Appreciate you. 580 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: You will be hearing from me. Remember Pencil. I gotta 581 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: get you involved with Pencil. It's the biggest program in 582 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: New York City about literacy and your brand needs to 583 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: be associated with it. Okay, I agree with you. Thank you, 584 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. We talked soon about