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Speaker 1: I had to start creating a life for myself. And

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Speaker 1: can help heal people. I can talk to people and

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Speaker 1: to see that. It's not crazy, it's it's it's you

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Speaker 1: know what. I what I consistently hear in your brs.

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Speaker 1: which I love. And I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm a

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Speaker 1: so I know when I know what you felt like,

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Speaker 1: I would laugh you by the Africa. I know when

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Speaker 1: discovered it. And but when you find out about it

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Speaker 1: does put you everything in perspective. And I like to

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Speaker 1: believe that one of the greater levels of perspective is

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Speaker 1: to say, you know something, I'm gonna do what I

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Speaker 1: want to do with my life because it's the only

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Speaker 1: one I have. I like it as one of the

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Speaker 1: driving forces to your passion right now and why you're

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Speaker 1: successful now and opening up the CBD store. What was

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Speaker 1: some of the obstacles of opening new leaf Number one? Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't don't you do that to me. Let me say,

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Speaker 1: when I decided to do this, I wanted to have

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Speaker 1: a business partner. I did not want to go into

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Speaker 1: brain is very challenging. And so I was talking to

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Speaker 1: many people and everybody's like, Oh, that's dope, that's what's up.

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Speaker 1: That da right, But no one wanted to put no

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Speaker 1: money in. People like to reap the benefits. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to, but they don't want to go through the work.

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Speaker 1: And so I got tired of trying to sell my

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Speaker 1: somebody to give me confirmation that this was a go.

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, God, I'm gonna need you to

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Speaker 1: be my business partner. I'm gonna need you to assist

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Speaker 1: me with this because this is my first rodeo and

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Speaker 1: I need your assistance all all through it. I need

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Speaker 1: you to cover me and the blood as I continue

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Speaker 1: to move forward because sometimes I don't know what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: And when he when I had to talk of God,

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Speaker 1: I felt it he told me to go. I literally

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Speaker 1: felt like I heard a voice of that move like,

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Speaker 1: go do what you gotta do, and I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna make sure you're okay. And when I tell you,

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Speaker 1: I decided to make that leap and things started to

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Speaker 1: fall into place. Now, let me tell you, I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make it seem like it was easy,

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Speaker 1: because I remember coming into this building that I chose

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Speaker 1: and having to paint walls due the floors, and I

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Speaker 1: was crying while I was doing it. My back was

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Speaker 1: hurting everything in me. I was everyone who said that

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Speaker 1: it was gonna help. Some people didn't show up, you know,

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Speaker 1: um having to get contract. But you know the thing

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Speaker 1: about it is that it didn't stop you though, that

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Speaker 1: that that here's the beauty. Let me ask you this, Okay,

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Speaker 1: can you buy your product online? Yeah? Okay, cool. So

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Speaker 1: can you do me a favor? Okay? Because I'm a fan.

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan Jack Quis Channing's um, because I've been

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Speaker 1: going through I saw you featured in Essence, I saw

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Speaker 1: you featured in E R Web. You know, you've done

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Speaker 1: a great job of promoting your brain and being on

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Speaker 1: my show is another angle of getting the word out

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Speaker 1: that that I commend you on that because people don't

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Speaker 1: know about your business and guess what, people can't buy

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Speaker 1: your business, Okay, And so I have a newsletter I

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Speaker 1: give out every Friday at nine am. It goes out

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Speaker 1: to eighty thousand followers. I like to put a nice

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Speaker 1: little online ad in there. It's free of charge as

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Speaker 1: part of the whole thing of why I created money

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Speaker 1: making conversations. So if you don't mind, give me a

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Speaker 1: band of ad and so I can start promoting your

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Speaker 1: branding and help you and let you know you got

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Speaker 1: a friend on Rushan McDonald's willing to build your brand

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Speaker 1: for your charge. Is that cool? That means that means

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Speaker 1: so much to me. And blessing your way, that really

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Speaker 1: means a lot to me because I really want people

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Speaker 1: to start healing, and it's not even just about being

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Speaker 1: a black owned business. I want people to start to

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Speaker 1: be able to just think for themselves and pay attention

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Speaker 1: to what they're put in their body. Because when people

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Speaker 1: start to find out how these medications are approved to

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Speaker 1: the FDA, they'll start to actually read the ingredients inside

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Speaker 1: of their body. Right. Because I love that. I love this.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like a green mean like green brown

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking at images on the various ads and

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Speaker 1: things like that. I just I love what you're doing here.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that you don't have to have

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Speaker 1: a prescription to buy your product. I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that I have some good friends who are doing this

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Speaker 1: as well. But you know, you're one of the few

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Speaker 1: females who have cracked that glass ceiling to go out

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Speaker 1: there and do this on your own. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do my best. I got six sisters, so I gotta

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Speaker 1: help out. Want more Little Cis. Okay, I'm gonna throw

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Speaker 1: you in the Little Cis mand wagon. That cool. That's

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Speaker 1: perfectly fine with me. Perfect I appreciate you, and so again,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation, Miss Jennings.

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Speaker 1: And again, you are special. Your motivation is on point,

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Speaker 1: your honesty is off the chart, and your authenticity is

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Speaker 1: a blessing. Okay, I appreciate that, and I'm sending you

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Speaker 1: nothing but love and blessings, and I pray that God

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Speaker 1: keep you covered as well you and your family. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. We talked soon, Okay. If you want to

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