1 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's to show that she 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: advice on many occasions in indication didn't notice, I'm not broke. 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: decision makers. It's what he likes to do. It's what 7 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: he likes to share. Now it's time to hear from 8 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 1: my man, Rashan McDonald money making conversations. Here we come. Yes, 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: money making conversation. That's right, Rashwan McDonald is here. You 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: know what he is. The thing about money making conversations, 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: it's growing. The popularity of it is uh off the charge. Now. 12 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: My next guest is a Grammy and Billboard Award winning artists. 13 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: She is also a Southern girl, a business woman who 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: wears many many hats. She's the most stream gospel artist 15 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: in history and had the top selling gospel album of 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: in twenty and eighteen. She promotes her own tours, which 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: I love to hear. We got to talk about that 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 1: always being intentional and showing her platform and sharing her 19 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: platform with others. She's over one million Instagram followers and 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: over one hundred million streams of her performances. Please walk 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: up the money making conversation, Tasha called Leonard, Hey, that's 22 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: a lot of lot, that's a lot, that's a lot. 23 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: Why thank you for having me here? First of all, 24 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: it is honored for me because of the fact that 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna share information to my listeners and on and 26 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: the people who view me on my Facebook page about 27 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: why it's important to be a businesswoman as well as 28 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: a talent, because a lot of people, I think the 29 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: really uh that old you know statement that you know, 30 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: we're just in here for the the art has changed. 31 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: We're in here for the business and the art. Yeah, 32 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: and it has, so try to change that or it 33 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: was just always there, but social media just helped to 34 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: get there faster, you know what. I I believe both. 35 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: I I believe it was always there. I've always been. 36 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: My brother used to have his own going joke when 37 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 1: I was I was very young, and he would saying, 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: you are the richest person I've ever seen with no job. 39 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: But I always found a way, even when I was younger, 40 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: you know, to to make a means for myself outside 41 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: of what my parents provided. I felt that it was 42 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: very important, um that I do something to provide for myself. 43 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: And it started at a very young age. But I 44 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: will say this um with social media back when I 45 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: released my first independent project, but a lot of people 46 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: still asked about to this day. Honestly, you know, I 47 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: did it all. I I started my own website, I 48 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: put my own record on tune Core. You know, I 49 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: did all of the groundwork and I will forever um 50 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: respect those days. I believe that I am able to 51 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: do what I do now because I did the groundwork then. 52 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: And so I put that album out on my Space 53 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: at the time, it was my Space, YouTube and iTunes, 54 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: and that album just really blew my mind. I didn't 55 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: think so many people would respond, and so honestly, yes, 56 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: it's it's dual. I am. I've always had like this 57 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: entreprepreneurs thing on me, but also social media helped me 58 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: to push and to market my brand. It's really interesting 59 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: because a lot of people used to worry blessings faith 60 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: going out on faith, but it's also about effort and 61 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: also believe it in yourself and this is your vision. 62 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: Because a lot of people can tell you you're washing 63 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: your time. And I know I've heard that a lot 64 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: of my career. And I'm sure if people have told 65 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: you you looked this way, nothing's gonna happen for you, you 66 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: you talked this way, nothing's gonna happen for you. And 67 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: why you put that on my don't nobody know you? 68 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: Don'tbody know you? And so and so. Isn't it amazing 69 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: that you you you put your music, you're notknown artists, 70 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: and hustle got it out there called on favors? And 71 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: what did happen when you start seeing the views the plays? What? 72 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: What was that? What was running through your mind when 73 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: that was happening? You know what? And I think I 74 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: have to go back to something you said, because that 75 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: is so true about having faith. Yes we have faith 76 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: with the Bible also says that faith without work is dead. 77 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: You can have faith all day, but if you don't 78 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: get up and do something, it's gonna be them. Um. 79 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: So I appreciate you for saying that. But when I 80 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 1: started seeing more and more people purchased the album, be 81 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: interested in the album, post about the album, it actually 82 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: gave me more courage to do more. You know, when 83 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: I started seeing people and how they were being blessed 84 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: by what they heard or you know, what they saw 85 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: from me. It gave me a love the ammunition I 86 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: needed to say, Oh, I need to get up and 87 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: do a little bit more, because I'm the kind of 88 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: person you know, when I read that scripture that says 89 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: faith with our works is dead. To me, that says 90 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: get up and do something. So the more I see 91 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: the faith working for me, the more I want to do. 92 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: That's the kind of person I am. So I you know, 93 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: they used to say this thing in church back in 94 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: the day, Um, you take one step of God to 95 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: take two. So I'm always about taking that first step 96 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: and letting him do what he does, you know, after 97 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: he sees me operating my faith. So that's just the 98 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: way I think. So my response to people being blessed 99 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: by my album at first when it was it gave 100 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: me all that I needed to keep doing more works. 101 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: And I think that's important for you to say that 102 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: because I always tell people that. First of all, you 103 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: absolutely correct when you say by doing it yourself, you 104 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 1: understand how far you're willing to push yourselves and also 105 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: how far you want to challenge the people who say 106 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,359 Speaker 1: they want to do the same thing for you. You You 107 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because you have that it out 108 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: the way personality. Excuse me, I do that. Don't worry 109 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: about it. That's how fairst you're gonna move. That's how 110 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: fairst you're gonna move. Okay, cool, I got this, I 111 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: got this, I got this. And that's important because it 112 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: gives you the conference to say, I know how this 113 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: is the how this is done. I know how much 114 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: effort needs to be put in it for me to 115 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: be happy. Now, if you're not gonna good effort in 116 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: to make me happy, that means that you satisfy and 117 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: you reach your satisfied, satisfying point in your life, then 118 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: guess what I'm done with. You can somebody that's coming 119 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: in the room, because that allows that that business had 120 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: of yours to come on board. And I I tell 121 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: you sometimes I always admire people like you who who 122 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: get it at such an early age, you know. And 123 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: I admit that I am talented. I will admit that 124 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: I see things uniquely, uh dough, a unique mirror or 125 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: glass or a window, and and and I'm able to 126 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: figure out things a lot faster than most people. But 127 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: I didn't understand who I was early age. I just 128 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,679 Speaker 1: knew people just people just told me I was talented, 129 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: and people just told me that he stopped doing that. 130 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: You're gonna be better than that. Stop that, stop being stupid. 131 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: Stop you know you're going to be better than People 132 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: just protected me and told me just you know, it 133 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: just kept me alive. And then but your brother said, hey, 134 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: he knew you, he knew he had a passion to 135 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: be different. Absolutely, Ye who pushed you? What? Well under this? 136 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: I know it's all starts with the parents, But did 137 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: you see something where you're inspired by something? What? What 138 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: drove you? Wow? I actually came from a family of 139 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: just ambitious people. You know, they're very talented. My entire 140 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: family things that play instruments. You know, they're educators. They 141 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: believe in education and doing what you're calling to do. 142 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: So I had a family. It's good to have a 143 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: family unit of people. And then that doesn't necessarily have 144 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: to be blood. But the Rock tell people all the 145 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: time the round your piece yourself around people. Some of 146 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: them may know who you are before you know who 147 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: you are. And I always want to surround my people 148 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: myself around people who know more than me if, as 149 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: somebody told me the other day, if if you know 150 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: the most in your circle of friends and you need 151 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: to get some new friends. If you didn't do gospel music, 152 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: you you're some You're gonna be somewhere successful. You always 153 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: shut it down. This is what I think, you know, 154 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: I don't care if that ib am real estate uh broker? 155 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: You gotta do because you you got that, you got 156 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 1: a sense of the work ethic, you know. And then 157 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: and then I also you understand relationships. You also understand 158 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: that I will not walk into the room and be 159 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: the smartest person by something I don't know. Yes, correct, 160 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: you have to Sometimes you gotta learn to be quiet 161 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: and listen. You know. Sometimes we just try to talk 162 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: too much and prove how smart we are. But sometimes 163 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: you need to walk in the room and be quiet 164 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: and listen. I'm they used to call me, even at 165 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: my labels. They say she's like a sponge. I will 166 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: sit down and soak everything, you know, to see how 167 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: it's gonna help me become who I'm supposed to be happy. 168 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 1: But he said this the other day, I'm gonna leave 169 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: this or haven't done everything I was supposed to do. 170 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: I am that's me right there with Sean McDonald. With 171 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: Sean McDonald, we're gonna be right next to each other. 172 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: We're gonna be gray by gray baby, and we're gonna 173 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: say on that done it all, both of them, done 174 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: it all, both of them. That's gonna be all that's 175 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: gonna be written on all stones. Right there, Let's talk 176 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: about this next time. I got six sisters. When I'm 177 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: passed away, but I'm always have six sisters. Their look curvy, 178 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: they look curvy. I'm gonna just say I love the 179 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: look curving, you know, and so you got this life 180 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: for curves, you know. So so what okay, do you 181 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 1: know if I gotta ask you this question to develop 182 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: an athletic line, do you work out? I absolutely do. 183 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: I have a trainer, I sure do. I know people 184 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: don't believe big girl workout, but we can be healthy too. 185 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: That's what I'm I'm wanting to push. I want. I've 186 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: seen so many curvy girls because I released this line, 187 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: they have the courage now to stand up and say, yeah, 188 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: I work out, you know, yes, you know I do. 189 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: I eat healthy. But sometimes some of us say used 190 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: to say this back in the day, some of us 191 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: just big bone girls. But I believe you can be healthy. 192 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: You can ask my doctor right now. I have no 193 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: health issues whatsoever. I'm a curvy girl and I believe 194 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: And eat it right, you know, I'm gonna eat me 195 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: a piece of cake every now and then. But for 196 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: the most part, you gotta stay with your regiment. You 197 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: gotta make sure that you're taking care of your temple. 198 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: God gave us one body, you know, He gave us 199 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: one one life to live, and you have to make 200 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: sure you're taken care of it. And and terb athletics. 201 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: I wanted to push that. You know, the the this 202 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: honest story behind this is I was online um looking 203 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: for Ivy Park, which is Beyonce's uh. She has an 204 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: athletic line, and so every at midnight she will release 205 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: these collections and they only do like a small portion 206 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: of the plus side, and so if you get on 207 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: right at midnight, you're gonna miss it. So that time 208 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: I was missing getting the order, and so jokingly I said, 209 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: and you know, the Bible says you have whatsoever you say, 210 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: and I said, out of my mouth, I'm gonna create 211 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: my own athletic wears just like that. It was a 212 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: joke and I just threw it out there. But when 213 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: you throw things out into the atmosphere, you know, those 214 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: angels received it. And so I said it and I 215 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: could not shake it. And so about three years ago, 216 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: now this one was a little different from UM for 217 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: I Wear because I had challenges. I had hurdles with 218 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: this one because you have trademarks and you have you know, 219 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: you have to go through manufactures. It was just a 220 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: little different for me. And so three years ago I 221 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: started out with this product. And this is really good 222 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,719 Speaker 1: for some people who may want to give up. I 223 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: started out and my trademarks did not go through because 224 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: the logo that I had was too similar to another one, 225 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: and so I had to start all the way over 226 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: after printing so many labels, and and so I learned 227 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: a valuable lesson from that, you know, So I was disappointed. 228 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: I sat for a little while and I still couldn't 229 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: shake it, and so I worked hard, you know, to 230 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: make sure. And people will tell you now a lot 231 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: of women are getting there their products. I made it 232 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: for the curvy woman. A lot of times we get 233 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: these types. They roll down, they slide down and don't 234 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: fit right. You can't work out, and I did a 235 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: lot of study about the plus sized body and what 236 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,839 Speaker 1: will fit and what type of material and fabric to use. 237 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: And so for three years, I worked hard and I pressed, 238 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: I studied, and I make sure that these these garments 239 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: would fit properly and everybody will have them. Now they're saying, 240 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 1: oh my god, they don't sly down, Oh my god, 241 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: and that it's just blessing me because that's what I 242 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: worked so hard on to make sure that they fit 243 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: properly and that we're comfortable and we feel great in them. 244 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: And so you know, for anybody you're out there you 245 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: want to start a business, don't give up. If you've 246 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: got some hurdles that you gotta jump over, the mountains 247 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: you gotta knock down. Sometimes it's not gonna come to 248 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: you easy, but you got to keep on working. I'm Tasha, Okay, 249 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: you need a podcast. If you don't have a podcast, 250 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,719 Speaker 1: you need to get one. I'm telling you, you know, 251 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: I'm tresume if you If you don't know, you come 252 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: to Rushawn. I got people who will sell it, top 253 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: people out of New York. I'll set your own net 254 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,199 Speaker 1: work up. Just I'll tell you people contact me I'm 255 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: not even trying to get no money on it. You 256 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: are a blessing, young, You're a blessing for my show, 257 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: a blessing for my listeners. 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I'd like it was 309 00:15:58,280 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: going to be on fire because I didn't know what 310 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: I was doing. I didn't know. I didn't have a 311 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: point of view, I didn't have a I didn't when 312 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: I was booking people, I was just booking them to 313 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: come on my shows. Do me a favor. Now I 314 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: have a brand that people understand why they come on 315 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: this show. They understand that I'm here to give advice 316 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: and information that would help them be successful entertainment and 317 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: entrepreneurship by right listening to individual stories, how its sacrifice, 318 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: how they how they didn't let the word know stop 319 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: them from being successful. How they step beyond somebody else's 320 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,119 Speaker 1: uh self doubt, doubt and their abilities to be successful. 321 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: My next guest is that person. Call him a good friend, 322 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: somebody I laughed. I've laughed many times and in entertainment 323 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: where we walked with eating together. He's called on me 324 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: to do favors for him and I and I've done 325 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: him because guess what, he's the type of person when 326 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: he calls you, you should do a favor for. And 327 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: more than thirty years, more than thirty year career. My 328 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: next guest is written, directed, or produce numerous classic feature 329 00:16:54,680 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: films including House Party, Awesome, Boomerang, Classic Baby's Kids, Classic Django, Unchained, 330 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: and Start My Board. Jamie Fox and Marshall you know, hey, 331 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: my man Black Panther and that one executive Busing writer 332 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: of the animated TV series Black Panther, executive producer Boondocks. 333 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: He's on the show to day to talk about this 334 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: his first that's what the that's what the bio said, 335 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: his first feature Lynch documentary, The Black Girlfather, which is 336 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: currently airing right now on Netflix. Please work with the 337 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: money making conversation, my dear friend, Reginald Hutland, come on now, 338 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: black godfather Clarence Avant. I had a chance in the 339 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: two thousand I was in there and Steve Harvey was 340 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: doing radio and l A blowing up. We took a station. 341 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: It was nineteen in the market. It was number one 342 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: and six months so we were Who's who black radio 343 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: a radio period in l A. And everybody kept telling me, Chean, 344 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: you gotta meet this guy, Clarence Avon. He's uh, you 345 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: gotta meet him, man, you gotta meet He's kind of 346 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: like you. He's kind of like you in a lot 347 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: of ways. But he's a bad man. I will tell 348 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: you this, Reginald. I did not meet him after watching 349 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 1: this special, The Black Girlfather, which I am recommending everybody watch. 350 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: All right, he's special. Man. How did you come across 351 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: the story and how were you able to put all 352 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: of this, all of this footage together? Man, there's so 353 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: many clearances you had to do to get all this 354 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:34,439 Speaker 1: stuff clear? Do I love that you went straight to 355 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: the business side. How the movie got me? Yes, man, 356 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: I'm talking about I'm talking to people. You're watching this special. 357 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: It's amazing the journey this young man had through his life. Okay, 358 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: coming from the South, going to Chicago in l A. Presidents, 359 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: you know the fact that he Um, but then I 360 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 1: think I did not go business though, Reginald. Go Okay, uh, okay, 361 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: that needs to be cleared. Okay, that needs to be clear. Okay, 362 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: how did you get permission of that? That needs to 363 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 1: because Stan Lathan sitting up in there, you know Lyon 364 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 1: Richie sitting up in there. You know l A read 365 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: Baby facing up in there. You know Jimmy jamm and 366 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: Terry Lewis sitting up in there. It's just a list 367 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: after listen, President Barack Obama sitting up in there. President 368 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton sitting up in there, talking about this man. 369 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: This is what this special is about. And I'm leaving 370 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: out a whole lot of names because guess what you 371 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: need to watch and be stunned at this man's ability 372 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: to be able to communicate at every level of our society. Reginald, 373 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: how did you get this story and how did you 374 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: get started? Well? Crazy enough, I met him at the 375 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: beginning of my career in show business. Um. I made 376 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: some little short films, and when I started doing music videos, 377 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: all my music business friends would talking about Clarence Andre 378 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: Horrendo Russell Simmons. They talked about plans like he was Zeus, 379 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like he was he was 380 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: model Lympus level like you know. Uh, so I knew 381 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: he was important. I knew he was at the top 382 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: of the food chain. But then I get a call 383 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: from George Jackson mckenry, who were black producers making movies, 384 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: and Jason absolutely and George was a few years ahead 385 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: of me in college. So he said, oh, I know 386 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: this young kid, he just graduated. He's got a little 387 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: student film called House Party. He's talented. So they called 388 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: me out to l A for a meeting about a 389 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: movie that was supposed to start Janet Jackson. And the time, 390 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: Janet Jackson had just done her first album, uh you know, 391 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: a control that really had broken out, and you know, 392 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: the time was hot, coming off a Purple Rain. So 393 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: they were like, let's do a movie with them together. 394 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: So they brought me out there and Clarence met me 395 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: at the airport, which I knew was a big deal 396 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: because Clarence was the man. And so then they brought 397 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: me to his house, which was in the beautiful home 398 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills filled with the most amazing black art. 399 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: It was like a museum. Uh. And then I'm looking 400 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: around and then I see an Andy Warhol painting and 401 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, WHOA, that's that's stuff. You see a museum, 402 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: and it's in this man's house. And then I met him, 403 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: and he was everything everyone claimed to you was. He 404 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: was wrong, he was real, He cut to it at 405 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: the same time, you know, you knew he was the 406 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: man that just made things happen. And then over the 407 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: years and all my kind of show business, you really 408 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: can't do too much without hearing Clarence names evoked one 409 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: way or the other. Whether it's music, business, of politics, 410 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: or whatever it is, Clarence is always up in there. Uh. 411 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: So I knew I wanted to tell his story because 412 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: we all respected him, our whole generation of books who 413 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: worked entertainment, Black folks who worked in entertainment. I don't 414 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: care if you're in the music business, movie business, whatever. 415 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: You respected Clarence a Van And I thought, well, I 416 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: want to tell his story. Clarence did not want his 417 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: story told. He was like, I'm not writing a book. 418 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: I'm not doing this. I'm not doing that. So finally, 419 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: his daughter Nicole that will maybe not a book, maybe 420 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 1: let's do a documentary. And he agreed to that, and 421 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: then she asked and well, who do you want to 422 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: make it? And he said, well call Reggie. I like 423 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: Reggie and that you know boom. Now when you get 424 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: that called, that's like a papal da, that's like a Vatican. 425 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: You do go, yes, sir, you get on it. And 426 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: but it's also but there's also some fear in that too, 427 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: when you say, because you know, you know the body 428 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: of work that you how do you do the beginning, 429 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: middle of the end, because this is an incredible beginning 430 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: because we could have stayed on the beginning when you 431 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: got started, you know, gainst the relation background, that was 432 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: a whole story yourself. You know, that's a movie really, 433 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: you know, that's a movie really right there. So I 434 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: want to I know, we've got two minutes left in 435 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: this interview, and I just got to talk about the 436 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: a CP Image Awards UM which has become the award 437 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: show that it always should have been. Is it recognizes 438 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: Anthony Anderson has been Anthony Anderson has been amazed as 439 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 1: the host. What do you feel that you brought to 440 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: the table that now makes this show. They must see it, 441 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: must attend show, must attend show. Well, well, thank you. 442 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we worked hard on a couple 443 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: of things. One is, we wanted to make sure the 444 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: full range of black Hollywood was represented, you know, not 445 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: just your friends, but you know, okay, here's an exciting 446 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: new voice. Oh, let's make sure we are of the legends. 447 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: Make sure we you know, folks who are working in 448 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: unusual parts of entertainment for black folk. We want to 449 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: make sure everybody's represented. And then the second thing is 450 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: and we you know, and you know, our our black 451 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: talent are Latine or Latin talent are Asian talent are 452 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: white allies, They're all welcome. You know. We make sure 453 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: the show starts some time and then sometimes live show. 454 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: Everyone knows. We handle our business like it's no CPT, 455 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: it is JPT. And and and then the last part 456 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: is we try to keep up in the production values 457 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: a little more every year. How can we top ourselves? 458 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: How can we make it better? So now people are like, whoa, 459 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: you know what, I may or may not win that 460 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: Oscar this year, but I know my family with the 461 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: ACP and black folks are going to embrace me and 462 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: give me the love. Our may or may not get 463 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: that at me, or may or may not get that grammy, 464 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: but I know when I come home, I'm going to 465 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: get the warm embrace. That awesome brother Reginald is always 466 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on money making conversations. Keep winning, 467 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: my brother, Thank you, my brother. How many of us 468 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,239 Speaker 1: have looked at our finances and scream how can we 469 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: make this much and still have so much debt? 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More importantly, Rashan McDonald 514 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: will use his business and celebrity relationships to empower small 515 00:27:48,960 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: businesses with information to succeed. If we had some drum roles, 516 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: you're needed for this young man right here, because he 517 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: got some credits. Whoa you hear the term working actor 518 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: in Hollywood? That is truly the title of my next guest. 519 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: His film credits conclude Jumping the Room, for which he 520 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: received nub A CP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in 521 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: a Motion Picture, starting the highest grossing film of all time, 522 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: James Cameron's Avatar. He played the lead Bill and Universal's 523 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: Fast and Furious. He was bilingual Spanish English, Spanish English, 524 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: Spanish English. He is starting the new series on He's 525 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: now starting a new series on Amazon is an original 526 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: series called The Boys. The series premieres on Friday, July 527 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: twenty six. All episodes will be available on Amazon Prime Video. 528 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making Conversations. My man ain't saw 529 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: him in a long time last Alonzo. Hey, Hey, what 530 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: I'm doing? Good my friend. First of all, Man know, 531 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: I know you. I know you have your faith, I 532 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: know you. Your career is tied to hard work. Just 533 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: just a blessing man to see the diversity oh your resume. 534 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: That's what really impresses me about your performance schedule. Man, 535 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: Can you talk about that a little bit? Thank you? Man. Yeah, Man, 536 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: I mean I've always wanted to, uh dibble and dabble 537 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: and do you know as film as well as TV. 538 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: Uh Right now, TV is at a level where, uh, 539 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: it's just as good and in some cases better than film. 540 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: So you can really get a lot done in both 541 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: mediums where you're reaching people in their own home theaters 542 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: and at the same time doing stuff, you know, in 543 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: a traditional sense, which is you know TV, I mean 544 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: that film and having people come out and make it 545 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: an event type of situation, which is what you know, 546 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: Fast and Furious and Avatar. That's event type of films 547 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: where people playing around, going to those you know, the 548 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: Marvel movie things like that. We know, there's justest thing 549 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: that anybody because I gotta mentioned because every time I 550 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: don't care what it is. But I'm going to watch 551 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: the last forty minutes of Avatar. I'm gonna watch it. 552 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: I gotta see you die, man, get get shot off 553 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: the back of that plane. You know, it's sad after 554 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: you get that big old speech to my man and 555 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: everybody rallying behind him. That movie, man, was that Was 556 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: that a career changer for you or just on your 557 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: resume because it just became so big and he became 558 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: big to the world. Yeah, man, I mean it's still 559 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: the highest gross and some of all time. Uh. The 560 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: Avengers Endgame just re released trying to take us down. 561 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: But I don't think they're not gonna do it. Thirty 562 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: seven million sharp, bro, that's a lot to make up 563 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: on the movie, man, because the thing about they did 564 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: well though, that ain't nothing to you know that. You know, 565 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: you can't take it away from him. They did a 566 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: great movie too. I enjoyed it. I want to go 567 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: see it absolutely. But um, but yeah, man, I think 568 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: what I think even we were surprised, be honest with 569 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: you about Avatar because I remember when we were filming 570 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: this multi um, James Cameron would tell us, you know, uh, 571 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: don't expect to beat Titanic. Told he said, our success 572 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: or failure is not whether or not we beat Titanic. 573 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: He said. The difference between Nothing Titanic was was you 574 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: had a young you know, good looking Leonardo DiCaprio where 575 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: high school girls were going out to see it, you know, 576 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: five six times a week with all their girlfriends. You know, 577 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: all the little high school girls. They were like, high 578 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: school girls are gonna come out to see Blue People 579 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: five or six times a week. And so so our 580 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: expectations weren't to be in the number one spot. We 581 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: just wanted to do a great film. Man. I think 582 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,719 Speaker 1: sometimes you know, when you stay focused on the craft 583 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: and you stay focused on doing the absolute best. Yeah, 584 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: you know, for me, it was this was my opportunity 585 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: to do my Star Wars. You know, I wanted to 586 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: be in Star Wars when I was a kid. I 587 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: grew up watching Star Awards. That was the movie that 588 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: I grew up idolizing. So when I got this opportunity, 589 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: I said, Okay, this is my Star Wars. And so 590 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: I was already happy to be in the film. Um 591 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: once as I started for the first time, you know, 592 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: we screened it and it was crazy because at the time, 593 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,719 Speaker 1: you know, Arnold Swartznaker was governor, you know, Steven Spielberg 594 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: was at the screen and I didn't expect to see 595 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: all these types of people at the screening. And I 596 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I hope I did a good job, 597 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And uh, and I was. 598 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 1: I was pleasantly surprised. Man, Like, thirty minutes into the movie, 599 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: I didn't care who was in there. I was so 600 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: locked in. I was like, Okay, we really made something 601 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: special here. That's when I started to really really feel it. 602 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: You know the thing about it, I I I look 603 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: at it because I know who you are, you know, 604 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: as an as an Areen actor, and I know a 605 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: lot of people who don't understand about it. It It actually 606 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: will work to do those type of roles. Were you 607 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: morphing into character makeup and all that stuff and blue 608 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: screen and green screen, all kinds of stuff to be 609 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: to accomplish those casts that's a lot of work, and 610 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 1: that that means you have to be patient, you have 611 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: to be polite, you have to be aware that it 612 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: might it might be one, two, three, or four or 613 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: five six takes to get it right. What holds you 614 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: true to your craft when people see the success of 615 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: your story? And I know the journey way back in 616 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 1: the l A back in two thousands, you know, when 617 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: Steve Harry and I were doing the radio and you 618 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: were just just like everybody else. Man and I guess what, 619 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: we're not comfortable. But you know, back then there were 620 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 1: no options. It was just I had a dream, right, 621 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: talk about that journey, right? Um? You know want for me? Um? 622 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: You know the first partiest question when you talk about 623 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: the transformation, that's what I pride myself on. You know, 624 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 1: uh I didn't want to be one of these actors 625 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: that played the same exact character every single movie where 626 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: it really seems like they're playing themselves. You know, if 627 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: you can imitate an actor, then they didn't transform, you know, 628 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: they gave you what they always give you, whereas uh 629 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: I wanted to always become a completely different human being 630 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: in every single role, to the point where you don't 631 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,920 Speaker 1: recognize him where it's an unrecognizable person from me from 632 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: Yann say, well, we do this new series called The Boys. 633 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: Now you play the superhero in this series? Are you play? 634 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: Are you playing a superhero in this series? Ah? So, 635 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: here's the thing, man, it really defines on what It 636 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: really depends on what you define superher because you know, 637 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 1: I mean our superheroes good or our superheroes bad people? 638 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: You know, having superpowers all of a sudden make you 639 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: a hero or does it just mean that you're just 640 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 1: a bad person with some superpowers? You know, those are 641 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: the That's where our show is different from a regular 642 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: superhero show. The measure happy because this is pretty deep 643 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: what you just said here last okay, because you you 644 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 1: step back on me. Hold up, now, what what do 645 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: you mean a superhero? Because because you know our black 646 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: panthera you know, not nine hours I would to avenge 647 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: just na na na, so so I wouldn't. And saw 648 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: some of the trailers and it was talking about like 649 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 1: this just this company called Vote right, yeah, and they 650 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: have these superheroes, but they're not nice superheroes. Correct. Well, 651 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: what what it talks about is is superheroes really are 652 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,720 Speaker 1: just people. They're just human beings that have a little 653 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,839 Speaker 1: different power than you have. You know, your power might 654 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: be the food on the table every night for your children. 655 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: You know, your power might be, you know, to donate 656 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: some bone marrow to somebody that needs it. Or your 657 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: power might be to donate some blood, you know, somebody 658 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 1: who's dying and needs a blood transfusion. Or trust me, 659 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: you've got more power than the superman can if your 660 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: blood saved their life or their mama's life, or the childlife. 661 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: You know. So it really depends on how we define 662 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 1: hero in this particular world. And the Boys, the so 663 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 1: called superheroes are just people that still have They have 664 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: all these great superpowers where we consider superpowers, but they're 665 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: still insecure, they're still they still have uh, they still jealous, 666 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: suffer from jealousy and envy, they still hate on each other. 667 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 1: And so what we do as the Boys is we 668 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,720 Speaker 1: decide we're gonna pull the sheet down and we're gonna 669 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:23,400 Speaker 1: expose who these so called superheroes really are. And sometimes 670 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,280 Speaker 1: you don't need powers to be able to do that. Okay, okay, okay, 671 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: but that's a danger though, if you don't have powers, 672 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: trying to mess with people with powers correct, exactly exactly. 673 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:40,400 Speaker 1: We are a team of vigilantes that are gonna defend uh, 674 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,080 Speaker 1: what's going on right now because we have these people 675 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,800 Speaker 1: with powers that are supposed to be the good guys 676 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: and we discover that they are also doing some pretty 677 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: bad things. Now it says the powerness against the superpowerful 678 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: as the Bars embark on the heroic quest to expose 679 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,319 Speaker 1: the truth about the Seventh and the company they work 680 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 1: for called vow the multibillion dollar conglomerate that manages these 681 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,960 Speaker 1: superheroes and cover of all their dirty secrets. So how 682 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 1: do you get involved? How do they recruit you into this? 683 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,359 Speaker 1: This this, I guess a vigilante team. Well, I'm gonna 684 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,840 Speaker 1: tell you, man. Like, after I finished my last series 685 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: for NBC called Mysteries of Mysteries of Laura, I decided, okay, 686 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: from from my next phase in my career, I want 687 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,320 Speaker 1: to work on stuff that really really speaks to something 688 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 1: that's happening in society, something that really, you know, addresses something. 689 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,280 Speaker 1: And so the first project that I worked on after 690 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,200 Speaker 1: that series was a film by the name of Detroit 691 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 1: that talked about the nineties that a Detroit riot, you know, 692 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: and that was That was during the time when Kaepernick 693 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,240 Speaker 1: was kneeling and there was a lot of police violence, 694 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,320 Speaker 1: you know, on a daily basis, we would get bombarred 695 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,360 Speaker 1: with somebody got shot, and I felt like that was 696 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 1: the type of project that I wanted to work on 697 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: at that time. Um. After that, I worked on the 698 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 1: film with Dion Taylor, Robert Frederick Smith, the brother that 699 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: donated you know, all that money to Morehouse the graduates 700 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 1: to get him out of debt. Um. He was the 701 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: executive producer, Rock Santavan executive producer. Then a movie called Traffic, 702 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: and I was reunited with h Paula Patton worked with 703 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 1: Omar Appx Roslan Sanchez and that movie we talked about 704 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 1: sex trafficking, which we don't talk about it in US. 705 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: I mean, Atlanta is the number one city where sex 706 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:35,359 Speaker 1: trafficking happens in the United States of America. The first two. 707 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 1: Sacramento is number two. You know. So this stuff is 708 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,360 Speaker 1: happening right under our noses, and it's people of color 709 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,720 Speaker 1: that are suffering the most, and nobody's talking about it. Um. 710 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 1: And then this this show came around and when I 711 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: read the log line, I said, this is this is 712 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: in the same light of the type of projects that 713 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: I want to be a part of, projects that means something, 714 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 1: not explosions for the sake of explosions. But you know, 715 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 1: here we're talking about a society where people have unchecked power, 716 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 1: and with unchecked power comes corruption and how does how 717 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 1: do regular people stand up against and resist that corruption? 718 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: And I think if you turn on the news every day, 719 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 1: we see examples of that happening every single day. So 720 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 1: I felt like this project was timely, I felt like 721 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 1: it was on point. I felt like it was entertaining 722 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 1: and crazy. And crazy thing is it's based on a 723 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 1: comic book that was written back in the nineties, right right, 724 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 1: right right, you know the thing that you know about 725 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: your emotions and your passion, and this is that the 726 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: reason of exciting about this series now, because you're telling 727 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: me that all these series was super because these superpowers 728 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,000 Speaker 1: or X Men is just about racism. You know, the 729 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 1: people who are different, they get treated different. That's all 730 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 1: X Men is about. That's really all about super That's 731 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 1: all this is about people. People can can can throtade 732 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,399 Speaker 1: at you, and these superheroes who are treated differently. That's 733 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,959 Speaker 1: why that's why the Avengers became such a because people 734 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,880 Speaker 1: became afraid of them. And that's why, you know, Tony 735 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,040 Speaker 1: Stark and Captain America had issue. They want to control 736 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,359 Speaker 1: them by signing these people paper. You can't do any 737 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,640 Speaker 1: of these things just because you're different. And that's all 738 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 1: you're saying about this series. This series just exposes people 739 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,279 Speaker 1: who are considered special but have the same issues as 740 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,359 Speaker 1: people who are not considered special. So the vision last 741 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: group called the Bars are there to correct the wrong 742 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,680 Speaker 1: or a perceived success story that really isn't successful. That's powerful, man, 743 00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:39,320 Speaker 1: that's powerful. Oh boy, it's gonna be fun, man. But 744 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: at the same time, you know you're still gonna get 745 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:48,360 Speaker 1: what you want out of the TV and your blood 746 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,200 Speaker 1: and your explosions and all that stuff. Supero trauma. Hey man, 747 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,799 Speaker 1: this is this is awesome. This is awesome. Yeah, but 748 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 1: you know we also covered some real stuff too. Well 749 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,880 Speaker 1: that's what I like about it. 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I 802 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: think faith there's a motivator, but hard work is tied 803 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,200 Speaker 1: to faith. And so and I always tell people, when 804 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,279 Speaker 1: you have all those two things, what is your goal? 805 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,640 Speaker 1: What was your plan for being successful? And so I 806 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,480 Speaker 1: probably bring individuals on the show who have different layers 807 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: of success, so you you know that success can be 808 00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:01,359 Speaker 1: achieved in two different fields through different opportunities. And when 809 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,040 Speaker 1: you get it, when you get that shot at success, 810 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,719 Speaker 1: go forward. And also you should be prepared when you 811 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,560 Speaker 1: get that shot at success. I always tell people that 812 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,000 Speaker 1: the reason a lot of lottery winners go broke to 813 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,879 Speaker 1: say that they're not preparing themselves for that financial success. 814 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,279 Speaker 1: So when they get it, then it goes out the 815 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:24,000 Speaker 1: door because they wouldn't the mentality or the having nothing 816 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,919 Speaker 1: countering in place. You really, if you're gonna have played 817 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:27,440 Speaker 1: a lot of real on the regular basis, you should 818 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,120 Speaker 1: know who your accountant is gonna be. You know who 819 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna invest in. You should act like you're going 820 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,279 Speaker 1: to win. You should take meetings with different stock brokers. Look, 821 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,399 Speaker 1: I'm playing a lottery every week. When I win money, 822 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,279 Speaker 1: I'm gonna come to you. How do you think I 823 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,040 Speaker 1: should spend my money. That means that you have a 824 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,680 Speaker 1: plan for success. I knew that sounds extreme, but guess what, 825 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,280 Speaker 1: anything that you do on a regular basis should should 826 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,759 Speaker 1: be prepared in an extreme format. As it is, getting up, 827 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: getting up, and getting out of bed. It's pretty extreme. 828 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,400 Speaker 1: I would like to stay in my bed, but guess what, 829 00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 1: I gotta get up. I gotta get up, take a shot. 830 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:01,920 Speaker 1: You know, I could eat my baby. But if I 831 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,879 Speaker 1: keep eating my baby, I'm eventually to get up because 832 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,360 Speaker 1: the big gonna get dirty. So know that anything you 833 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,840 Speaker 1: do in life is prepared to a different level of success. 834 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,239 Speaker 1: My next guest, she's young, she's years old, and I 835 00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,080 Speaker 1: mean said she's she figured it out, and so it 836 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:17,719 Speaker 1: took me a while. I was still uh. I was 837 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 1: seeing you're out of college, trying to figure out what 838 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,480 Speaker 1: I wanted to do, working at IBM and telling jokes 839 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,319 Speaker 1: at night, so you know, I didn't know what I 840 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,399 Speaker 1: was doing. My next guest went from making six dollars 841 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,399 Speaker 1: and fifty cents an hour to own at one point 842 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,479 Speaker 1: seven million dollars worth of properties. Like I stated early, 843 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,839 Speaker 1: she's a twenty five year old and she's a mother 844 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,520 Speaker 1: with an amazing testimony. Please work on to money making conversation. 845 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:44,239 Speaker 1: The CEO of Rosebuds Investment dubbed the millennial millionaire Jemisa 846 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:49,120 Speaker 1: like I for thank you, thank you. Then I think 847 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,920 Speaker 1: I need to take you everywhere. Well guess what I 848 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,799 Speaker 1: would mind. You know, I wouldn't mind following you. You know, 849 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,480 Speaker 1: you know I would say good things about you. All 850 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:02,239 Speaker 1: I needed to do was add some applause. So where 851 00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:06,000 Speaker 1: are you calling me from? So I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm 852 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:10,440 Speaker 1: originally from Philadelphia and I just moved like to upstate 853 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:18,160 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania two hours away from your Pennsylvania native. Yes, okay, cool? Good. 854 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:25,120 Speaker 1: So what exactly is Rosebud Investments rolls Bus Investments is 855 00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:28,120 Speaker 1: the company that I started, but I like to say 856 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:32,040 Speaker 1: that it's more of a lifestyle. So what happened is 857 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,200 Speaker 1: when I was about nineteen years old, um my grandmam, 858 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,120 Speaker 1: which is my dad's mom, she started to ask me 859 00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,759 Speaker 1: questions about the house that she she lived in, Like 860 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,040 Speaker 1: if something was to happened to me. You know, what 861 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,080 Speaker 1: would happen to my house? What would happening you know, 862 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:48,840 Speaker 1: all of those things that I clearly didn't have to 863 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,640 Speaker 1: answer to. But what we did was we put myself 864 00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:56,560 Speaker 1: on her d, which is called a dollar D transfer, right, 865 00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,399 Speaker 1: so I think it cost about a dollar and then 866 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 1: I did from insurance stuff and the title you know, 867 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,040 Speaker 1: that might have been three hundred. And that was fine. 868 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,560 Speaker 1: So remember I'm an eighteen years old at that time, 869 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,239 Speaker 1: I had one child, um, and that's when I was 870 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,399 Speaker 1: being the best casher in or. I got to talk 871 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,040 Speaker 1: to you guys about that, being the best cashier. But 872 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,000 Speaker 1: what happened that she did a dollar D transfer with me. 873 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,000 Speaker 1: She put me on her d, and it was fine. 874 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,799 Speaker 1: It literally meant nothing to me because this was the 875 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,560 Speaker 1: house that she had lived in my whole entire life. 876 00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,720 Speaker 1: So I didn't understand the dynamics of what was done, 877 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:33,600 Speaker 1: just going through the process making grandma happy. You know, 878 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,799 Speaker 1: she's peace of mind. You know, Okay, I'm a team 879 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,960 Speaker 1: making it happy. Yeah, that's it, And I'm like, okay, great, whatever. 880 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:42,600 Speaker 1: So it's like you have a house at that point. 881 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,120 Speaker 1: At that point, I was a homeowner. But to me, 882 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,560 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know the dynamic. She still lived there, 883 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:49,920 Speaker 1: so I'm still looking at it like, you know, this 884 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,600 Speaker 1: is grandma's house. Um, she died, like I want to 885 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,600 Speaker 1: say a year after that. She may have known what 886 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,960 Speaker 1: was going on. I will say that she wasn't the 887 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,080 Speaker 1: healthiest person. She was overweight, and she had breathing problems 888 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,000 Speaker 1: like a co op dingy which started off as asthma 889 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,719 Speaker 1: but gradually you know, going So she wasn't the healthiest, 890 00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,360 Speaker 1: which may have sparked that conversation that she had with 891 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,560 Speaker 1: me when she did it. Um, so she died, whether 892 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 1: it was sudden, you know, was unexpected, she died, so 893 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,400 Speaker 1: she stanched away, and you now have this house in 894 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,560 Speaker 1: your home. So then this is the thing, it's in 895 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,400 Speaker 1: my name. Now that's when reality actually set in for 896 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,840 Speaker 1: me because it's like, okay, this was my house, but 897 00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:33,640 Speaker 1: now and this is like my house house you mean, 898 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,760 Speaker 1: like the maintenance to taxes, like all of this is mine, 899 00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,400 Speaker 1: right because remember her living there, I didn't have to 900 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,759 Speaker 1: do anything. She kept everything as is really you know 901 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,240 Speaker 1: whoa So at that point, um, that was my first 902 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,120 Speaker 1: brush with reality, like my first like okay, you have 903 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,919 Speaker 1: to be responsible, like this is something that you're gonna 904 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,960 Speaker 1: have to do. And at that point, I was pregnant 905 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,400 Speaker 1: with my second child. There's this little girl, um and 906 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,480 Speaker 1: if you ever have the pleasure of meeting her, the 907 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,920 Speaker 1: way that she is now is exactly how she was then. 908 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,319 Speaker 1: Meaning she gave me a run for my money the 909 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,759 Speaker 1: whole time. Right. So during this part of my pregnancy, 910 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: my water bag rup shurety didn't break and had me 911 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,440 Speaker 1: on bed rest. She was putting me through the motions, 912 00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:22,040 Speaker 1: and I did not have time to really, you know, 913 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,000 Speaker 1: do all of the things I end up doing anyway. 914 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,759 Speaker 1: So the first step after she passed away was I 915 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,640 Speaker 1: had to go through the family feud. Money tends to 916 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:33,200 Speaker 1: bring out the best verse of all people. So you 917 00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,080 Speaker 1: have to keep in mind that I am her grandchild, 918 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:39,560 Speaker 1: but she has like ten grandchildren. Um, she also has 919 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,120 Speaker 1: children who are twice my senior, my father being one 920 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,200 Speaker 1: of them. That I have three uncles and I and 921 00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,080 Speaker 1: they're all like older than much Olderance and you and 922 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:54,080 Speaker 1: you got the house, she gave it to me, uh listen. 923 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,320 Speaker 1: So that didn't go over too well with people. Um 924 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,160 Speaker 1: my grandmom's requests when she gave me the house, though 925 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,920 Speaker 1: they were really specific. One she wanted me to be 926 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,080 Speaker 1: the landlord of the house that was the family house. 927 00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,560 Speaker 1: She didn't want us to sell it because that's all 928 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,120 Speaker 1: we had. I remember her saying, that's all we got. 929 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, So she wanted me to be the landlord. 930 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,120 Speaker 1: I'm responsible to anybody lived there. They went to pay 931 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,279 Speaker 1: me rent um. She didn't want anyone arguing over it. 932 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,400 Speaker 1: And that was pretty much it. Well, that was a 933 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,920 Speaker 1: request that she remained. But we know the arguments came. Listen, 934 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,120 Speaker 1: and that's what I was gonna say, Like, that was 935 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,920 Speaker 1: almost impossible what she was asking of. I mean, she 936 00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,040 Speaker 1: knows who were related to That's why she gave it 937 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,960 Speaker 1: to me. You want them to pay me grandma. They 938 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,840 Speaker 1: don't pay me mine? Hello, Like so she she pretty 939 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,359 Speaker 1: much stepped me up. So with your company, Rosebud Investments, 940 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,680 Speaker 1: So so do you do you have clients? How does 941 00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,800 Speaker 1: that work? Because we have two minutes left in this interview, 942 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,200 Speaker 1: I want to make sure we get that out about 943 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:57,280 Speaker 1: Rosebud Investments. Yeah, listen, I have a lot of clients 944 00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,360 Speaker 1: all over New Orleans, Miami, and man to what happens 945 00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,719 Speaker 1: is I hold your hand through the new investor process, 946 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,280 Speaker 1: and it's personalized. So I'll hope you create a step 947 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,359 Speaker 1: by step blueprint for yourself no matter where you are. 948 00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,840 Speaker 1: If you have credit, no cash, I'll talk to you 949 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,000 Speaker 1: about leveraging your credit, purchasing properties with credit cards. If 950 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:18,960 Speaker 1: you have cash, no credit, I'll talk to you about 951 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,920 Speaker 1: building your credit. I even give my clients fourteen thousand 952 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,920 Speaker 1: dollars where from unsecure credit to boost their score. If 953 00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,759 Speaker 1: you're somebody doesn't that doesn't have eyes or I'll talk 954 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,239 Speaker 1: to you about purchasing that six hundred dollar property you know, 955 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,680 Speaker 1: helping you shallotte for a few thousands. So now you 956 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,200 Speaker 1: have the capital to invest in your credit and you 957 00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,600 Speaker 1: know to be able to build. I hope you create 958 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:42,400 Speaker 1: that foundation. I have helped hundreds and hundreds and hundreds 959 00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:46,080 Speaker 1: of people become homeowners without the whole mortgage thing, the 960 00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,560 Speaker 1: tax returns, the eight hundred credit scores. Like I help 961 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,000 Speaker 1: people from ground level because a lot of people they 962 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,360 Speaker 1: have a musical screwed. They think you need credit in 963 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,120 Speaker 1: a million dollars and you don't need that. You just 964 00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,360 Speaker 1: need to be educated. So that's what I do. I 965 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,719 Speaker 1: educate you. I hold your hand through the process. I 966 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,800 Speaker 1: walked through the door. You get a house. You're happy. 967 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,120 Speaker 1: I'm happy, and we keep it going. We keep it going. 968 00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:14,760 Speaker 1: And all this started because your grandmother had a vision, 969 00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,080 Speaker 1: had a vision that you didn't understand. You was just 970 00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,479 Speaker 1: a cashier at one child, the child on the way 971 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,120 Speaker 1: was given a house due to the sadness of our 972 00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,440 Speaker 1: passing and all heck Bros Broke loose with the family. 973 00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,200 Speaker 1: We got fifty three seconds left. How is the family 974 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,120 Speaker 1: treating you now? Oh man? I mean it's diffinitely being 975 00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,320 Speaker 1: a millionaire. 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