1 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's to show that she 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashaan McDonald. I will know he's given me 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In incase you didn't notice, I'm 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: not broke, you know, he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do, 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: it's what he likes to share. Now it's time to 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashaan McDonald. Money Making Conversations. Here 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: we go. Welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I'm your host, 10 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. I recognize that we all have different definitions 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: of success. For you, it may be the size of 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: your paycheck. Mine has inspired people to accomplish their goals 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: and live their very best life. It's time to stop 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: reading other people's success stories and start writing your own. 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: People always talk about their purpose or gift. If you 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: have a gift, lead with your gift and don't let 17 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: your friends, family, or co workers stop you from planning 18 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: or living your dream. My guest today is Great Companies, 19 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: co founder and Vice president for US by US Network, 20 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: Jay Alexander Martin. The new Flat platform will feature quality movies, 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,279 Speaker 1: very authentic and raw content around topics, people, and trends 22 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: related to the hip hop culture and lifestyle. It will 23 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: be launching April of this year. Today. His kingdom includes 24 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: the clothing line, the nonprofit, and the consulting firm. We'll 25 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: talk about all these things through all of his endeavors. 26 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: It is his innate talent and ability to predict trends 27 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: that it caused him to impact the fashion world and 28 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: now the network streaming world. Please welcome to Money Making 29 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass. The one and only had talked to him 30 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: twenty seventh date, Jay Alexander Martin, come back. Well, Jay, 31 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: you know it's a really excited man. I'm you know, 32 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: I'm always reading Black Enterprise, of reading different different different feeds, 33 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, then it comes up launching 34 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: for us by US network. Brother. I had a big 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: smile on my face. I said, I said, who care 36 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: who we got booked. I gotta get him back on 37 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: the show because I like to feel like I'm part 38 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: of this journey because in twenty and seventeen we were 39 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: talking about it that you were head see I wasn't 40 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: going to get on that stage and just talk and 41 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: talk and talk and not actually given the results. Yes, sir, 42 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,839 Speaker 1: And the result is this is a journey. Like I said, 43 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: there's something we talked about. It was an idea and 44 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: then you had it was out there available for the 45 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: journal public to see at that point, but it wasn't 46 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: where you wanted to. That's why you're an invest publicity 47 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: into marketing and to it. But it's a journey of 48 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: all this. Now we all know the brand name. Let's 49 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit. And this is we 50 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: could connect the dots on why you feel it would 51 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: be successful as a network streaming format now you know 52 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: food but of course transited years. I mean it's our 53 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: anniversary really, thirty or thirty years this year would be 54 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: our anniversary. So you know, I felt like, you know, 55 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: what's the best way to actually give back to the culture, 56 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: to give back to the people that actually stole for us. 57 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: What's going on now I think in this marketplace is 58 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: the fact that you know, we don't have anything that's 59 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: basically for us by us. And when it comes to um, 60 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: you know, streaming world. So again, just like thirty years before, uh, 61 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: you know our time we were doing it again. Um, 62 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: this is the brain shout of myself and a gentleman 63 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: which is my production head, press president or Rush or 64 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: sorry Roberto Rush Evans. And we're just trying to do it. 65 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: We're just trying to you know, be the kings of 66 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: the streaming world and give you know, someone, give everyone, 67 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: actually you know, a taste of what our culture is 68 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: really about. Right. You know, it's really interesting because you know, 69 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: for us by Us network, that seems so perfect, that 70 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: seems like the perfect title for a network, But it 71 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: was derived from the success of Your Clothing Live Now 72 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: that was started with a simple idea that they grew 73 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: through proper planning, passion and desire. Let's go through that 74 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: journey a little bit, because people don't understand that all 75 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: journeys don't happen overnight. Like I said earlier, and I was, 76 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: you know, we were cracking the champagne by it started 77 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. Now the official launch is being announced 78 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. So all journeys, they might start 79 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: with a dream, but it takes hard work, planning, and 80 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: a lot of effort to make it happen. Talk about that, well, 81 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: I talk about this all the time. You know, sometimes 82 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: it's about timing, you know, and you can go in 83 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: and you can have a dream to do what you 84 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: want to do, but it just takes time. You got 85 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: to go through a lot of you know, a lot 86 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: of what they callte unquote call failures. But I don't 87 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: believe it failures. I believe it's it's the possibility to grow. 88 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: You know, they're all possibilities. And again, if I look 89 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: back at you know, my partner Damon John when it 90 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: comes to the food side and Keiths pairing Carl Brown, 91 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: you know, we all came together, you know, to avoid 92 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: mission to actually you know, get clothes out there for 93 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: us by us. That acronym has stayed true to us 94 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: from from then until now. I happen to take the 95 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: acronym and use it, you know, for another another particular 96 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: business when it comes to streaming world. But that journey 97 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: is painstakily, one day at a time. You know, one 98 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: day it's not working, the next day it's not working, 99 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: and you gotta work even harder and harder and harder 100 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: because it's not working. And in the end, it actually 101 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: is working. And when you really think about it, and 102 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: I think it's just all perspective, So how you look 103 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: at it. I mean Damon had a Damon that has 104 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: necessarily had a vision to make hats, I mean to 105 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: make clothing. I came along with a separate vision that 106 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: pushed him along. Same way with my partner Rush Robert 107 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: or Evans. He had a vision as he was a 108 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: production company. I wanted to get in this space. I 109 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: had distribution. We came together and we made this happen. 110 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: Now the title artists say the title the name for us, 111 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: by us? How did that come about? Well, that came 112 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: from day one, I mean now on the food who side, 113 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: of course, it came from Damon saying, hey, listen, we 114 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: need something that's for us, that's by us, simple as that, 115 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: and again you know, going forward into using it for streaming. 116 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: Right now, everything's about content, everything about you know, visual. 117 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: Everything's a visual and that's what everything's about. Now. It's 118 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: not necessarily about old thing anymore per se. It's all 119 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: about getting your content out there and get get word 120 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: out there, get your name out there, and getting the 121 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: message out there. So I felt that you know, this 122 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,679 Speaker 1: was lacking, this is missing, and it didn't actually belong 123 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: to us. The words for us, bias was taken from us, 124 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: not taken in a bad way, but moved on and 125 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: moved the greater passages and better things. And the culture 126 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: today's taking it and embraced it. And it means doesn't 127 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: necessarily mean, you know, clothing, It means something else now 128 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: and we're just putting a title to a face or face. 129 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying, Jay, is 130 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: that it's so perfect. You know, it's like it's like, 131 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: you know, it was a clothing line and we got that, 132 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: but today it's an emotion, you know it. It is 133 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: a societal calling. I guess you know that we always 134 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: want to support each other. When you look at Google 135 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: and Google allows you and encourage you to put recognize 136 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: whether you're a black business, you know times have changed. 137 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: So when you look at TV you see all these 138 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: interracial couples on these commercials, you know times have changed. 139 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: That we are driven not so much about about who 140 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: we are, is how we feel. And the younger generation 141 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: not so much driven by a check. Is about what 142 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: you represent, what you're gonna do for the community, what 143 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: is your cause? And the title for us by us, 144 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: it's really our cause. And I think that leads to 145 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: a lot of positivity. Don't you think Jay a hundred 146 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: decent leads the positivity. And again I'm it's it's something 147 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: that like I said, we started like day one, like 148 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: thirty years ago, and I just have a mission to 149 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: actually keep that going somehow anyhow, no matter what I do, 150 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: like what I do is not necessarily for me for 151 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: you know others, you know, So again I have that. 152 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: I have that God put that on my spirit to 153 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: to to get this you know, company moving the first 154 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: time as far as food who and then He's done 155 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: it again when it comes to this, and I think 156 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: that I can reach more people this way versus meeching people, um, 157 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: reaching people, uh through you know clothing. You know the 158 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: thing about it nothing negative clothes. You can wear your clothes, 159 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: you can wear out your clothes, but you can't wear 160 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: out of feeling and you can't wear out of knowledge. 161 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: And that's what I take away. And I got excited 162 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: about your network. Let's break down your network. Let's talk 163 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: about it. Talk slowly because I really want to hear 164 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: you know, because you talk about the hip hop culture, 165 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: you talk about lifestyle, you talk about raw content. Those 166 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: are really challenging words. And let's explain to our my 167 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: fuels some of them, Like I grew up in the 168 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: hip hop culture. The hip hop culture, as you can see, 169 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: that dominated the halftime of the Super Bowl. So that 170 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: means that society in general has been accepted within the 171 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: white community. If the NFL says, you know, we don't 172 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: mind Snoop, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and Doctor Dre to 173 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: be on a halftime show for the biggest show in 174 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: the world outside of soccer, which dominates European sporting events. 175 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: So you, my friend, a network, the responsibility to the 176 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: burden is a lot bigger, my brother. I'm just telling 177 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: you international now immediately, you know that, right, You're not 178 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: You're not You're not dropping some some jees in a 179 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: in a borough in New York. You're dropping international immediately. 180 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: Come on, now, that has to have your mind spinning 181 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: a little bit. JA, Yes, and I think that you 182 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: know again, it took me thirty years to figure this out. 183 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: It took me thirty years to be able to be 184 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: able to to to do this because again I had 185 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: to my mind's body, spirit, all had to be in 186 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: one place and all sequence, everything has to line up perfectly, 187 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: and so I never rushed time. You know, I always 188 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: say stuff like, um, you know, you can't cheat work 189 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: in those who's working. So again I had to work 190 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: my butt off and I had to kind of you know, 191 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: get my mind right to be able to be able 192 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: to focus and have this responsibility because again you're right, 193 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: it's a huge responsibility, responsibility to be able to have 194 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: the eyes and ears of of and that means the 195 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: eyes and ears but depict what we are and who 196 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: we are as a culture, yes, as individuals, as multicultural 197 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: urban anyone with color and perspective, and to be able 198 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: to to you know, go back and be up and 199 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: it's great. I guess the greatest thing there is and 200 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: this is this is really no disrespect in anyone, you know, 201 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: any race, whatever. But again I did it my way. 202 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: I did not have to. I didn't look at I 203 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: didn't look to to link on with anyone else, and 204 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 1: I didn't look look too, you know, um to deal 205 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: with some other you know company. And again I'm not 206 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: talking about anybody per se. I'm just saying in general, 207 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: I just sat back and I said, I'm gonna do 208 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: it my way, and I'm gonna sit in the log, 209 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 1: the log. It doesn't matter how long it takes. That's 210 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. So again, we built a platform 211 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,119 Speaker 1: that's rivaling Netflix. Uh, just to give get put in perspective, 212 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: Apple TV, Android, Samsung, Amazon fire Stick, Roku. We have 213 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 1: a website or we have a number of a number 214 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: of original program original shows that's coming out. Um, you know, 215 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: advertisers like Group Black five, Smart, Undertone, Magnite like these 216 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: are the companies that we're dealing with. Only top, top, 217 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: top premiere companies. So again I waited, I waited my turn. 218 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: I bust my butt. I sat back and said, listen, 219 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it hook a crook, and not in 220 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: a way to where I'm going to go off and 221 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: try to you know, downplay or do anything. I'm just 222 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: gonna keep to keep going my way and if it 223 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: doesn't work, I must keep going my way. And I 224 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: think that's what it is all about, Drive, and especially 225 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: what you're doing. I mean and listen, you're talking about me. 226 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: I know it's an interview about me, but again I remember, 227 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: like I said, you from twenty seventeen and before I wait, 228 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: before that, and you've been doing it and now it's 229 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: turned and you still around. You know, I just got 230 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: here again, right where you recommend you. We'll be right 231 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, 232 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations master Class with Rashaan McDonald. 233 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: The beauty of what you're doing now and you can 234 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,719 Speaker 1: give young people, a young creative artist, an opportunity to 235 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: stream their brand, to be able to build there. Because 236 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: all we ever asked for outlets, you know that, Martin, 237 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: That's all we've ever asked for. And then Foodboo gave 238 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: gave a fashion outlet. That's why I said, this is 239 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: way bigger. And that's why I'm too excited to talk 240 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: about it. And I know you know that I just 241 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: keep reminding because I'm just so excited because I know 242 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: that there's so many talented writers, there's so many talent 243 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: created people in the documentary field and the reality TV 244 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: film and the episodic field, and the film directors and 245 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: writers and producers. You are are now developing a platform 246 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: that they can come to. How does one from a 247 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: creative space get the content to you so it can 248 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 1: be considered to be on your network? What are the processes, 249 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: the steps for that. Well, what I try to do is, 250 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: like I said, give an arm to anyone that wants 251 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: to actually present something. We are weak for now because 252 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: we're just starting. We only kind of approved content. That's 253 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: all package, not necessarily an idea to say UM. But 254 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: again it's not to say that I wasn't looking at 255 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: an idea. We do UM for now. You know, we 256 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: eventually we'll have to close it for unsolicited UM work, 257 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: but for now we have a wide open. If you 258 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: email me the letter j the letter j AT for 259 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: us by US network dot com, I'll get it to 260 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: my staff and my team. They'll overview it and they're 261 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: like it. They'll let you back and we'll cut a deal. Well, 262 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: you know, you send me some banners and posters. I 263 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: definitely were posted on my platforms because a lot of 264 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: people always inquire with me, inquired with me to say, hey, 265 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 1: where can I go to get my voice out, my 266 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: movies out, and processes like that. Because of the thing 267 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: about it this day, as you know, you know you 268 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: you have a responsibility to put out a certain type 269 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: of content because people expect that from your brand, your 270 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: first class all the way you see a lot of 271 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: people come in, you coming in with the first class 272 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: name and so as people expect that. So with that 273 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: being said, what were the fees involved with trying to 274 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: say this is what we're going to charge, whether the fees, 275 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: is there an app now they can download and so 276 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: just walk us through the next step, because this says 277 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 1: to generate revenue for your company in order to keep 278 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: coming up with new content and making the network refresh 279 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: with with with with with you know, with storylines. So 280 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: people want to REGI who app bought the app? All 281 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: bought the subscription? We want to renew well um, So 282 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: so basically we have what they call S five a 283 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: vote and we also have a linear um um set 284 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: up as linear so S five being subscription subscription base, 285 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: so you can actually pay for a subscription. The price 286 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: I believe is coming out to about twenty one dollars. 287 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: But what we do is we charge for three months 288 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: front up front, so that's how our planning billing plan 289 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: is three months up front. But we also have a 290 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: vote which is vod or video video demand program and 291 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: plus um we also have linear so we have twenty 292 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: four hour content as well that you can watch. So 293 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: we have a merit of different uh um ways that 294 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: you could actually watch consume our content. Now, when it 295 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: comes to the type of content that you spoke up, 296 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: the type of content is cultural. I mean we have 297 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: we have you know, our LGBT LBGTQ community and I 298 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: have a show with the gentleman named Saucy Santana. You know, 299 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: we have you know, we have we have problems within 300 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: our community, you know with um you know, adoption or 301 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: problems with you know, crime, but we have problems with 302 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: drugs and stuff like that. So I'm gonna tell everyone's 303 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: story in an authentic living way and and and not 304 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: kind of hold back and make sure everyone has a 305 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: voice per se um. So and also field comes that 306 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: we have scripts, we have scripted, we have faith based, 307 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: we have everything. Everything you want is there right there. 308 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: But it's all basically you know, telored and tell it 309 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: around what who we are. And it is categorized as 310 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: other catalogs you click that definitely categorize as adventures such 311 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: such and alex goes on. You know, this is my 312 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: third time of interview in jail Alexander, and the first 313 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: time we we knew each other and we just talked 314 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: about in twenty seventeen the second time we had this 315 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: brilliant book out that I read and we talked about 316 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: it and one of the most one of my favorite 317 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: books by the way, Jay Alexander and so. And one 318 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: of the sustaining qualities of the book about building sustaining 319 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: generational wealth for the culture. And that's always been your 320 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: mission because you're not just a person your community basis 321 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: you involved in you know, you in politics in the 322 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: sense that you want to be out there being a 323 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: decision maker, I should say, in the community. Talk about 324 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: building a sustaining generational wealth for this culture because it's 325 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: the culture that we want to push beyond. And also 326 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: say they have a voice. Well, you know, the voice 327 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: comes from the problem with this and I'm very you know, 328 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: to the point a lot of times, because I think 329 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: the problem is is that, you know, the first thing 330 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: we do when we when we we get something is 331 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: we want to market. Like marketing has become the thing. 332 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: We have to have this, we have to have that. 333 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: But you know, again, everything's about being ready. There's nothing 334 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: wrong with treating itself, but treat yourself, not treat your 335 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: outside self, treat your inside self. You know, treat your 336 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 1: mind treat, treat, your treat, your family, treat, and buy 337 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: by ways of generational wealth. And in turn of buying 338 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: your home, you know, buy those things first and then 339 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: you go off and you buy the other things. Um. 340 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: I always tell people, well, I can't spend a dollar 341 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: unless I made three dollars. You know, we have to 342 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: start help giving these practices and start looking at the 343 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: shiny object and start understanding how that excuse my friends 344 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: ship got shiny, you know, because you know I is 345 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 1: looking at the car when you say that it's the car, 346 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: the fancy car, the gold necklace, you know, the Shinese 347 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: that really doesn't prolong success. Actually it just takes your money. 348 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: And as they say, you drive that cart a lot, 349 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: it devalues. You want under the store, the jewelry, it devalues. 350 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: Instead of trying to figure out how the stock market works, 351 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: how to figure out whether it's big calms or cryptocurrency. 352 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: I'm not recommending you do that. At least understand it, 353 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: and it may be a way. When he starts talking 354 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: about generational wealth, buy the new car is not generational wealth. 355 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: Buying jewelry is not generational wealth. Especially not getting into 356 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: the drug game is generational wealth, and that's what we 357 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: see that quick. It's not it's like thirty day money. 358 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: It's not even thirty day money. It depends on where 359 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 1: you want to go. That is where we keep running 360 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: our heads and bumping our heads. And I think that's 361 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: one of the inspirations behind you launching the Forest Buyers 362 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: Network because I get you tired and you tired of 363 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: us getting news is not value to our community. On CNN, 364 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: on Fox News, on MSNBC. It's a shallow version because 365 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: we always hear this term cancel culture, which annoys me. 366 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: All I want to know is the truth. I don't 367 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,120 Speaker 1: want to know what was my role now that people 368 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: out there saying if you tell people about Slaver Bridige 369 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 1: School make the white people feel bad, Well, how you 370 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 1: think we feel bad? That? Come on, I'm about I 371 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: know you about get fired up, Jay. That's I had 372 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: to go there because that's what this is about. The 373 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: fair that was because you know, I get because because 374 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: that's why I know why we're doing this. That's why. Man, 375 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: you know something, I just want somebody to tell me 376 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: that your BT is shifted. They're not going there. TV 377 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: one not going there, you know, But this is a 378 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 1: streaming network. They can't. They can't. They can't at all, 379 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: And I have to stop right there. They cannot again. 380 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: It goes back to the place of creating your own Yes, sir, 381 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: come on that. Tell Jay. Don't want to come in 382 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: and tell me no, And I'm not gonna distupid you 383 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: because I'm gonna cancel you. I can't. I'm doing with 384 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: the what what the what the culture wants. Yeah, I'm 385 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: gonna can't. So that's that's all of said, because c 386 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: I am so you know, I've been down this journey. 387 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 1: I've been and first of all, just changing them. This 388 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,959 Speaker 1: is no disrespect to TV one, to BT. We're just 389 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: talking about content now. We're talking about like the Black 390 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: News Channel just got canceled. Got canceled, okay because the 391 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: fact that and they had upgraded the quality of their presentation. 392 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: That's the sad part about it. Two fifty employees gone, 393 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: got canceled. Let's go use the word got canceled. What 394 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: about that family? Yes, and what about the story that 395 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: they were trying to tell? So now where do we 396 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: go for our news our stories all? Because when you 397 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: look at no different than going to MTV. They don't 398 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: play music anymore. They do reality show, sitcoms and game 399 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: show now bt they're into dramas, they don't do they 400 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: launched over, so they don't even do news on those 401 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: channels anymore. Same thing with TV one. So now I 402 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 1: look at yours. Is there a place in your network 403 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: and your stream network that's gonna allow us to feel 404 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 1: whole because it allow us to get information that will 405 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: allow us as community participants to go there on a 406 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: regular basis. Is that the purpose of Foobo? Yeah, yes, 407 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: that's the purpose. And what I was trying to do, 408 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: to be honest, prior to this, was to reach out 409 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: to these particular news groups and and do a deal 410 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: with them in which they would kind of maybe stream 411 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: their content and stream them on hour just when network. 412 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 1: I haven't been successful in that process, but I'm I'm 413 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: I feel that I will finally get get something together again. 414 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: You know a lot of people I always reach out 415 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 1: and try to try to at least get the get 416 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 1: out screw with us, you know, And if I can't 417 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 1: get with us, I just have to do it myself. 418 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: So again, if within the next few fall a few months, 419 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 1: if I can't reach a deal with any one of 420 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: these groups, I'm gonna gonna do it myself. Well gears 421 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: with my brother. If you need my help, you know, 422 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: it's free of charge. I am so proud of you. 423 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: I am so happy for you. My goal. Like I 424 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: told him, we get those banners over here, give me 425 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,120 Speaker 1: those information on how you how you're trying to your 426 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: talented search. When I say talented search for producers created 427 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: people who have content, they've been shopping it, but nobody's 428 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: picked it up. You know, people who have films that 429 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: went to these festivals, that already produced, don't have nowhere 430 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,959 Speaker 1: to air. This is his outlet, this is outline. Now, 431 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you this is first class. He's 432 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: not putting everything on TV okay, but he is giving 433 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: you an outlet that he has a staff on board. 434 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: That you've sent it to him. They will review it 435 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: and give your possibility that we're having your content airing 436 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: on a mainstream, first class streaming network. That's the ultimate goal, correct, Jay, Yes, 437 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: ultimate goal? April first it's here. Well, brother, April is 438 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: uh is April gonna be here? Made gonna be here 439 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two joke. Yeah, that's why I just said April. 440 00:22:54,840 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: You know people ain't remember April. It's coming in April. Okay, 441 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: sign up now drop The app is streaming for us 442 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: by US Network. My good friend Jay Alexander martins Uh 443 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: has done it twenty seventeen. We talked about it. Read 444 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: his book. Can inspire me to maintain this relationship he knows. 445 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: Man here post uff. I like it. I motivated, dropped 446 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: a little balls. Just let him know. Look at your brother, 447 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: I love you. You inspire me more importantly, to see 448 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: what you're doing is an inspiration. Continue to do what 449 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: you're doing, continue to network, continue to put our product 450 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: out there that we can that resonates with us, because 451 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: otherwise definitely they're not gonna tell our story here. Hey 452 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: brother again, I'm here for you. I got my social media, 453 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: I got my I got a newsletter goes out every 454 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: Wednesday to one hundred and eight thousand people. So you 455 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: send those banners, brother, I put it in there for you. Okay, 456 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: thank you again each other. 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I'm Rushan McDonald for Money Making 488 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 1: Conversation masterclass with your daily minute of Inspiration, I said 489 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: down with writer and director Reggie rock Bitewood, he discussed 490 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: the message behind the series Swagger, having confidence and living 491 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: your dreams. The show's called Swagger. You know obviously on 492 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: the surface that's like probattle and confidence, or really underneath 493 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: all of that, Swaggers were having a cause bigger than yourself, 494 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: whether your causes, your people, if emily, your team, having 495 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: a cause bigger than yourself, it really gives you that 496 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: sense of purpose, that determination to move closer to your 497 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: dreams and your calling. And I think that's why you 498 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 1: know in Jason's Journey, Jason's journey initially is himself and 499 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: as we go through the narrative, it expands as he expands. 500 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: You can listen to this full interview Reggie Rock Bikeewood. 501 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: It's available on money Making Conversation dot com. Now let's 502 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashaan McDonald. Welcome 503 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I'm your host, Rashan MacDonald. 504 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: I recognize that we all have different definitions of success. 505 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: For you, it may be the size of your paycheck. 506 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: Mine has inspired people to accomplish their goals and live 507 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: their very best life. It's time to stop reading other 508 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,200 Speaker 1: people's success stories and start writing your own. People always 509 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: talk about their purpose or gift. If you have a gift, 510 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: lead with your gift and don't let your friends, family, 511 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: or coworkers stop you from planning or living your dreams. 512 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: My guests, doctor jack Lando. Doctor Dal believes that as 513 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 1: a female entrepreneur and it's important that women continue to 514 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: break barriers, pursue their wildest dreams, and leave the clearer 515 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: path for the next generation. We'll talk about that. She 516 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: frequently speaks on women's health issues and how that fueled 517 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: her career as an entrepreneur. Jaydal fitness caters to the 518 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: body type of every woman by carrying inclusive sizes that 519 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: range from xs xs to three x L on the 520 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: heels of the Target collaboration. The jay Dial Fitness Spring 521 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two collection features a combination of designs to 522 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: help women look cute, feel comfortable, and relax and they 523 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: will build that self confidence and self esteem. There's so 524 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: many women because of their sizes, can may not have 525 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: as they prioritize their health and commit to their fitness 526 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 1: and nutritional goals. Please work with the Money Making Conversations 527 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: Masterclass the one and owner, Doctor Jack Olindo. How you 528 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: done it? I'm great so much for having me. First 529 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: of all, thank you for coming on the show. Just 530 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: talk about your journey. There's always a journey, you know, 531 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: to go to say. In other words, I always called 532 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: this bragging because that's a good thing to brag, to 533 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: tell people what you're doing. And right now you're telling 534 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: people that you Jaydo Fitness collection is in Target Spring Collection. Movies, 535 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: there's a spring, there's a summer, there's a Fallless Winner. 536 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 1: So this is just the start of your journey. But 537 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: how did it all start, doctor dow So it all 538 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: started about four years ago. I have my doctorate in 539 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: public health, my Masters is focused on research specifically in 540 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: public health, and so I was really struggling as a 541 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: as a public health practitioner to really identify a way 542 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: to convey the message to women in a way that 543 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: is conversational, right, in a way that is applicable, in 544 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: a way that's fun, in a way that's see and 545 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: so I really just decided to use fashion as my 546 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: tool to have this really important conversation with women about 547 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: their health. So that's really how jade Outfitness started. We 548 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: started mainly online. I was relatively new to the Atlanta 549 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: area at that time, and so Atlanta is the hub 550 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: for black entrepreneurship, and they were just an array of 551 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: different in person shopping experiences that I participated in with 552 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: the Village Market with Pretty Girl Sweat, with Fit Atlanta, 553 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: until I really just pounded the pavements to take my 554 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: product to my target audience instead of waiting on them 555 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: to stumble on my website or my social media page. 556 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: So that's that's really how we got started. Okay, let 557 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: me back up a little bit here, because you say 558 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: you try to deliver a message and you use fashion 559 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: as your tool to be heard for people, to take 560 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: for people to see it and then notice it once 561 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: they notice that you had their attention, and do you 562 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: was able to deliver? What message were you trying to deliver? 563 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: That you were not delivering, but fashion gave you the 564 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: lynchpin to deliver it. So the main message was number one, 565 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: to prioritize your health, right to take the time out, 566 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: to make sure that you're exercising, to make sure that 567 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: you're eating properly, to make sure that we're managing our 568 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,479 Speaker 1: mental and emotional health, that we're prioritizing self care. And 569 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,959 Speaker 1: there are just certain things that as women we need 570 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: to talk about, like making sure that we're encouraging each 571 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: other to go get a mammogram, right, to make sure 572 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: that we're getting our annual paths near, to have important 573 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: conversations about, you know, how do how do we deal 574 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: with how do we get pregnant, how do we deal 575 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: with infertility? How do we bounce back, um, you know, 576 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: from pregnancy. And so those were really just a few 577 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: of the main public health messages that I really felt 578 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: like we're important and I wanted to talk about with 579 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: my audience. So by appealing to their advantage of their 580 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: looks or how they can look, fashion was your key. 581 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: Now that's that's good, that's a good idea. But who 582 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: did you work with to develop these fashion items? Because 583 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,959 Speaker 1: your oratory, where your doctor is at and your undergraduates at, 584 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: you said nothing about attending the fashion institute and so 585 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: but you knew that health and fitness wear go hand 586 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: in hand. And you also know that you know, we 587 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: all buy fitness clothes, and we know some of I 588 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: buy just for style purposes and casual walking and casual 589 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: workout in the gym, and then you have something that's 590 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: really for thorough exercising and running and jogging and for 591 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: fallout exercises. What did you bridge the line for your 592 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: fashion look for the audience that you were trying to reach? 593 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: And then we're gonna talk about that audience. Sure. Um 594 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: So in regards to the apparel, like you said, I 595 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: don't have a business background, I'm not a fashion designer. 596 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: I did not go to fashion school. Um so that's 597 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: really not my expertise. And so I would really say 598 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: that's where the passion and the drive stepped in. And 599 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: so initially I I'm just research really quality wholesale vendors 600 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: um and then once I did that for a little while, 601 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: I was able to identify what my audience likes in 602 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: terms of fit, in terms of color, in terms of pattern, 603 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: and things of that nature. And so that's that what 604 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: that is what makes the partnership with Target so exciting 605 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: because everything was created and designed by myself. So in 606 00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:00,719 Speaker 1: terms of sketching the designs, that was something that I did. 607 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: Picking the color schemes, the pattern that ec on the 608 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: croptop and the leggings, those are things that I designed. 609 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: So as time went on, I really have the gun 610 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: to really start to sharpen my tool, so to speak, 611 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: and you know, come become more of an expert in 612 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,959 Speaker 1: the craft of athletes are apparel designed. So that that 613 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: has been really exciting to see the growth over time, 614 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: which I'm glad you said, Rushan, I'm a I'm a 615 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: lot of design or not a fashion design like Partake 616 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 1: which is on all stores at Target and you get 617 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: on Delta air Lines you see it. Uh, She's not 618 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: a sheef. She got with a food scientist pre Relicious, 619 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: you know, she which is the number one African American 620 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: ice cream soul in the country and in the world. 621 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: She is not an ice creammaker. She got with a 622 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: food scientist. So you have to get with experts to 623 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: become an expert. And that's what you're saying here. And 624 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: I like a lot of people they have these great ideas, 625 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: but you have to invest in there. You'll spend a 626 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: little money. If you have a great idea, you know, 627 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: just there has to be money tied to it to 628 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: give it credibility. But you talked about the sketches, and 629 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: Target is not going to just put you in the 630 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: store on the sketch. So right, okay, So when did 631 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: the distributor come into play and the people who started 632 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: design making samples of your clothes, when did that come 633 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: into play? Because I don't want them to miss that 634 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: step when they're listening, because it's important that a lot 635 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: of people are trying to be you. But a lot 636 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: of people understand you got to have a certain amount 637 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,240 Speaker 1: of capital because when you go into a Target store 638 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,839 Speaker 1: and you start selling, they're going to ask for more. 639 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: If you don't have more, then you've lost that relationship forever, exactly. 640 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 1: So I think number one, regardless of where you are 641 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,879 Speaker 1: in your journey, I think it's important to know where 642 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,839 Speaker 1: you want to be. So even in the beginning, before 643 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: I even start a jade out fitness. You know, I 644 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: would do you know, would sketch clothing and things like 645 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,319 Speaker 1: that to say if I would secured a collection, this 646 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: is what I would make. And you know I would 647 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 1: want you know, a cough top of sleeves and the 648 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 1: bikers share. Would I would? You don't have to wait 649 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: until the opportunity presents itself before you start investing in 650 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: those things. And I would really say, start investing in 651 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: those things as soon as possible. You know, once you 652 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: know that this is a desire, this is a passion, 653 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 1: don't wait for the opportunity to come to start investing 654 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,799 Speaker 1: because a lot of times, like you said, it's too late, 655 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: because people really want to see um some validity, you know, 656 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 1: they want to see that you know what you're doing, 657 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: that they can trust you in this partnership, in this collaboration. Um. 658 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: So I would say, whether it's partnering with another black 659 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: owned business or identifying your you know, going going ahead 660 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,439 Speaker 1: and identifying your manufact sure that you want to work with, 661 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: go ahead and start making those steps so that when 662 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,760 Speaker 1: the opportunity presents itself that you're ready. So I will say, 663 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: I have a great name facturing team. They were awesome. 664 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: They were awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, And so, like 665 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,839 Speaker 1: I said, I took the time to sketch the designs, 666 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: create the color schemes, the patterns were so it was 667 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,879 Speaker 1: so much fun. What you see here on the rack, 668 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: this is just like a small portion in terms of 669 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 1: like the design concept. One thing that was just so 670 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,839 Speaker 1: much fun to work on was the pattern. So we 671 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: actually create I actually created like four to five patterns 672 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: and pattern had like a different color scheme, and so 673 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: it was just really fun to kind of like really 674 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: do a brained up and throw out all of these 675 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 1: ideas in terms of patterns and designs and then kind 676 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: of narrow it down to one. So don't wait until 677 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: the opportunity presents itself for you to start investing in 678 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,319 Speaker 1: some of those things. Please please, please, please please do 679 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: yourself a huge favor and start now now, meaning that 680 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,680 Speaker 1: not tomorrow, but with a plan. And you know, when 681 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: we talk about this, who is your audience doctor down? 682 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,320 Speaker 1: You know, because we had an excess through your exits, 683 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 1: that's a that's a huge range. So with anything that 684 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 1: you're trying to sell, you do focus a certain size, 685 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: like like you know, when you're selling T shirts you 686 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 1: want you know, you want large, and you want medium, large, 687 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,160 Speaker 1: and extra large, a few extra larges, but you definitely 688 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: got to have that large when you when you focus 689 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 1: your your bonding amount of purchases to sell, it's going 690 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 1: to be a large range. So what is your audience 691 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 1: range that you're trying to sell to based on that 692 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: range of sizes that you that we discussed in the show. Sure, 693 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: So in terms of my target audience, I'm really focusing 694 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: on women. Um. I don't even want to put an 695 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: age on it because to blow my mind, Um, I 696 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,839 Speaker 1: have young teen girls who are dancers wearing jail outfitness. 697 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,480 Speaker 1: I have a seventy one year old woman who's really 698 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,600 Speaker 1: into health and wellness and she wears it right. So 699 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,200 Speaker 1: it's it's hard to kind of put boundaries on it 700 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,440 Speaker 1: in terms of age. But what I try to do 701 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,359 Speaker 1: is really speak to all women, regardless of where they 702 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 1: are on their fitness journey. So you might have you know, 703 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 1: women who are naturally petite, which I see all the time, 704 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,360 Speaker 1: who need a small or an extra small. You know, 705 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: you do have your very popular sizes small, medium, large, um, 706 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: and then you have women who may be naturally a 707 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,640 Speaker 1: heavier or starting their weight looted journey, right, so they 708 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,480 Speaker 1: might need those plus sizes um pieces. So it's it's 709 00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:00,400 Speaker 1: it's it's very important for me to be inclusive, and 710 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,520 Speaker 1: so that's really why I wanted to focus on making 711 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,320 Speaker 1: sure that we had a wide range in terms of size, 712 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,200 Speaker 1: because women we come in all shapes and sizes, and 713 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 1: so it's important that we meet the need of every woman, 714 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 1: regardless of their size, regardless of their shape, and regardless 715 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: of where they are on their Fritess Channe, Well, you know, 716 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,200 Speaker 1: doctor Doe, I wasn't. I was putting your business hat on. 717 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,880 Speaker 1: That was my question because in business, a certain a 718 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: certain project is going to sale. It's like if you 719 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: have a popular ice cream, they're gonna say, you know something, 720 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: we just want the chocolate because the chocolates, we can't 721 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,960 Speaker 1: keep that on the shelf. And so my question to 722 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 1: you was not trying to minimize your reach, but to say, 723 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,239 Speaker 1: from a business perspective, what taught you because you said 724 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,799 Speaker 1: access to three l out of that, what is the 725 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,240 Speaker 1: most popular sizes that are being sold now? And because 726 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,799 Speaker 1: of that, will you focus more in that direction? That's 727 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,040 Speaker 1: the question, because I know you don't want to say 728 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: that limit your age because everybody should buy your but 729 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,319 Speaker 1: size wise, this is an artist to say, I love this, 730 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 1: it feels it's comfortable on me. I've never been able 731 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: to buy this type of leisure. Were at leisers where 732 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,239 Speaker 1: that worked for me? This is my leisurewear forever. That 733 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,720 Speaker 1: was my question. Yeah, So initially when I first started 734 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:24,319 Speaker 1: Jade Outfitness, my size smalls would just disappear. Right. I 735 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 1: had an in person shopping experience. I remember I was 736 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,920 Speaker 1: doing an in person shopping experience with the Village Market 737 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,759 Speaker 1: and here in Atlanta. It was about two hours and 738 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:41,320 Speaker 1: two maybe a four hour event, and every single item 739 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,520 Speaker 1: that I had in a small was gone. That's how 740 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:49,120 Speaker 1: popular that particular size was. And I had an abundance 741 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:53,279 Speaker 1: of inventory at that particular event. But it's very interesting 742 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 1: that over time the demand in terms of size it 743 00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,320 Speaker 1: has changed. Initially it was a little small. Now all 744 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,720 Speaker 1: it's a medium in the large right right, So those trends. 745 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: It's good to know you know what your hot ticket 746 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,160 Speaker 1: items are in terms of size and style. But then 747 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,400 Speaker 1: you know, as a as a business person, you gotta 748 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,960 Speaker 1: really be cognizant of kind of where the attention is 749 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,359 Speaker 1: going because it has changed over time. We'll be right 750 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:27,239 Speaker 1: back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now, 751 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:32,280 Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashaan McDonald. 752 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,319 Speaker 1: There's a couple of questions that you presented to me 753 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,399 Speaker 1: that I definitely wanted to reach back home. You said. 754 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,799 Speaker 1: The doctor Dal credits much of a career success to 755 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,320 Speaker 1: the foundation she received from attending HBCUs. Talk about the 756 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 1: HBCU experience, and we're talking about that del disigment, theated 757 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:52,200 Speaker 1: Thain in a minute to sure. So, I had the 758 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 1: pleasure of attending Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee as well. 759 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,960 Speaker 1: I received my Master of Science and Public Health from 760 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: A Harry and then I received my Doctor of Public 761 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:09,600 Speaker 1: Health degree from morgen I State University. So I would say, 762 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: I just I love both of those institutions. And I 763 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 1: would say the one thing that I would like to 764 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,239 Speaker 1: share about the hbc YOU experience is number one. I 765 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: felt like it prepared me not just for my career, 766 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,719 Speaker 1: but it prepared me for life. It also prepared me 767 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,520 Speaker 1: to be able to walk into any experience and be 768 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,600 Speaker 1: able to hold my own So I definitely credit both 769 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 1: institutions for my drive and tenacity and the ability to 770 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:47,160 Speaker 1: navigate this entrepreneurial world. Now you originally from Chicago, correct. 771 00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,880 Speaker 1: I am originally from Cold Lit five years so you 772 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,120 Speaker 1: know I can share some cold stories. But you know 773 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,960 Speaker 1: you're born in so you know more than I know. 774 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,360 Speaker 1: And then now you're based in Atlanta, Georgia. And so 775 00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: you went to school in Nashville McCarry and then Morgan State, 776 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,720 Speaker 1: which is I believe Baltimore. Correct, yes, yes, so you 777 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:09,040 Speaker 1: you've had a little journey to Chicago, Nashville, then East 778 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:15,560 Speaker 1: Coast Baltimore. Nay in Atlanta, Okay, that's my hometown, used 779 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 1: to Texas, so I'll be there this weekend in fact. 780 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:22,320 Speaker 1: So with that being said, these experiences shape you. Correct, 781 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: These these journeys have shaped you, and I think shape 782 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,120 Speaker 1: your dreams and the possibilities. And I always tell people 783 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,680 Speaker 1: to travel because if you get locked down in your 784 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: community or your thought, you really don't understand how big 785 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,839 Speaker 1: your dreams could be. Talk about that journey that is, 786 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,839 Speaker 1: because that to me is equally important made Jay dal 787 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,960 Speaker 1: fitness possibility. You know, HBCUs gave you your education, but 788 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: the journey and the places that you live, including Houston, 789 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,080 Speaker 1: made you who you are today and also expanded your 790 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:56,279 Speaker 1: reach as the dynamic availability of people that you can 791 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,720 Speaker 1: sell your brand to. Talk about that, that's very true. 792 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,919 Speaker 1: I think I've lived a number of places as as 793 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,759 Speaker 1: you have said. UM, I traveled a lot for school. UM, 794 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: and I think every city really taught me a different lesson. UM. 795 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,440 Speaker 1: So when I lived in Nashville, I moved I was 796 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm originally from the South Side of Chicago. I went 797 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,359 Speaker 1: to a predominantly white institution for my undergraduate degree, and 798 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,359 Speaker 1: so when I went to tour Mahrry in Nashville, it 799 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,879 Speaker 1: was like my first time visiting an HBCU campus and 800 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:39,680 Speaker 1: like seeing I had never had a black professor. R Wow, No, 801 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 1: that was that was that, you know, I couldn't believe it. 802 00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,120 Speaker 1: I was shell shocked, you know, like, not only do 803 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,560 Speaker 1: is there one, but like majority of my professors looked 804 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,960 Speaker 1: like me. Um. Now I'm not the only black student 805 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,680 Speaker 1: in the class. I'm in a class full of, you know, 806 00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,319 Speaker 1: students that look like me. And so you know, it 807 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:05,040 Speaker 1: was definitely an eye opening experience. UM. And, like I said, 808 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:10,520 Speaker 1: both Maharry and UM and Morgan really prepared me to 809 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:17,000 Speaker 1: um kind of like eliminate that, eliminate the fear that 810 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:22,319 Speaker 1: sometimes we have going into new spaces, especially when you 811 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,719 Speaker 1: know it's an unfamiliar space, or you might be the 812 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,279 Speaker 1: only minority in the space, or you know you feel like, okay, well, 813 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,000 Speaker 1: how how do I you know, kind of how how 814 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,799 Speaker 1: can I be seen or have my voice heard? And 815 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:40,319 Speaker 1: so I think being connected with HBCUs really helped me 816 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,759 Speaker 1: navigate that and it was really important because again, I 817 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:48,160 Speaker 1: continue to go into new cities where I didn't know anybody, 818 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,520 Speaker 1: I didn't have a network. So I'm really you know, 819 00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,720 Speaker 1: starting from scratch here um, so to speak. And then 820 00:45:54,840 --> 00:46:00,560 Speaker 1: when I graduated from UH, I graduated from Oregon, and 821 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:05,480 Speaker 1: then I got married to Houston. I absolutely love you. 822 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,960 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, doctor, when you say you know now 823 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,080 Speaker 1: you pledge Delta sigment theator, When did you pledge Delta 824 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,920 Speaker 1: sigment THEATA when I lived in Houston? Okay? Cool? And 825 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,920 Speaker 1: what year was that? That was twenty seventeen, Okay cool. 826 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,720 Speaker 1: So that created another powerful network for you where any 827 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,040 Speaker 1: city you go to, if you had that network when 828 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,360 Speaker 1: you was in Baltimore, in Nashville and even when left Chicago, 829 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,279 Speaker 1: it would have been a different experience because that's sisterhood. 830 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,440 Speaker 1: Because I remember, I'm making sci fire, so I always 831 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,759 Speaker 1: know that I have a relationship. And then he said, 832 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,960 Speaker 1: in fact, a lot of countries that I can travel 833 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,359 Speaker 1: with that I can call on somebody who can be there. 834 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,640 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying, hey, if you don't pledge the serada, 835 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 1: you don't pledge in fraternity, then you're making a mistake. 836 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,320 Speaker 1: I'm just saying that there's a bond, there's a relationship 837 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:55,279 Speaker 1: that can enhance your business opportunities, but also socialized from 838 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,479 Speaker 1: a social standpoint, in the community standpoint. It also keeps 839 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,560 Speaker 1: you focused talk about that relationship, which I also believe 840 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,480 Speaker 1: played a key role in you launching your business too. Correct. Yes, UM, 841 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:10,640 Speaker 1: so when I lived in I lived actually in Humble, Texas. 842 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:19,000 Speaker 1: UM I pledged with the Norse Hairs Alumni chapter. Like 843 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,000 Speaker 1: you said, sisterhood was really the element that I was 844 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:26,719 Speaker 1: searching for. UM when UM kind of starting my my 845 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,960 Speaker 1: journey with my sorority. And that's why I said Houston 846 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,520 Speaker 1: is my favorite place because that is where the majority 847 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:37,520 Speaker 1: of my lenses are. But UM, it definitely had a 848 00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,759 Speaker 1: huge impact on not just jade A Thinness, but me 849 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,920 Speaker 1: as a person. Um. I also work as a public 850 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,160 Speaker 1: health consultant and my boss as adulta she was actually 851 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,600 Speaker 1: my first supervisor, and twelve years later she's still she's 852 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,879 Speaker 1: still my boss. Just another context, but you know, in 853 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,000 Speaker 1: my professional world, a lot of the people that I 854 00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,440 Speaker 1: work with are members of my sorority. You know, if 855 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:08,719 Speaker 1: I um, even with Jada of Fitness, when I'm looking 856 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,359 Speaker 1: to hire people, you know, someone for pr someone for this. 857 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 1: My number one go to is like, Okay, do we 858 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:22,960 Speaker 1: know a Solar who have trust? Yes? And it's it's 859 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:28,960 Speaker 1: kind of this automatic, I don't want to automatic feeling 860 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,759 Speaker 1: of like family and comfort and you know you have 861 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,040 Speaker 1: you have something in common. So it has definitely had 862 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,080 Speaker 1: an impact just on me um as a person, as 863 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:42,240 Speaker 1: a professional and as a businesswoman. But like you said, also, 864 00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,360 Speaker 1: I never knew that traveling to all of these different places, 865 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,040 Speaker 1: how it would play out, but it has been really 866 00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:55,560 Speaker 1: really helpful in regards to just like overall recognition for 867 00:48:55,719 --> 00:49:00,720 Speaker 1: the athletes your apparel, especially once we collaborated with Target. 868 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,879 Speaker 1: You know, I it's not like you know, I'm from 869 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,160 Speaker 1: this place. I've lived here my whole my whole life. 870 00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,560 Speaker 1: I had people everywhere saying, oh my god, you're on Target. 871 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,080 Speaker 1: Uh and so you know, from my husband's from North 872 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:23,440 Speaker 1: Carolina and on the promotional um on the Black Beyond 873 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,520 Speaker 1: Measure promos, there was like a picture of me, so 874 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:32,000 Speaker 1: there was none with my name, and so it was 875 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,800 Speaker 1: literally I was received text messages and pictures and social 876 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:41,239 Speaker 1: media messages like you're in Target. Oh my god. So 877 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,600 Speaker 1: that has definitely um helped in terms of the success 878 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,759 Speaker 1: of the launch. And you know, it's kind of just 879 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,080 Speaker 1: really bringing everything full circle. Well, let's I'm talking to 880 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:56,120 Speaker 1: doctor Jacklindo. She founded jay Dow Fitness, which is in 881 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,719 Speaker 1: Target stores right now. You know, you might go in 882 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,480 Speaker 1: and go, oh my god, she's she's telling the truth 883 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,920 Speaker 1: right here, and buy it when you when you say 884 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,520 Speaker 1: oh my god, purchase it simultaneously. Okay. The thing I 885 00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,120 Speaker 1: enjoy about when I talk to young entrepreneurs like you 886 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,399 Speaker 1: and I talk about the experience and the travel. Because 887 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,399 Speaker 1: I've been fortunate to live in New York City, live 888 00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,280 Speaker 1: in Chicago, live in Los Angeles, and originally from Houston, 889 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,160 Speaker 1: living in Atlanta. It allows me a sense of how 890 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,760 Speaker 1: people think, how they what they eat, how they travel, 891 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,560 Speaker 1: what they look like, and so you so you got 892 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,439 Speaker 1: that visual down. You know, Chicago is a fantastic city. 893 00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,399 Speaker 1: Live in kind. She knows that period when when winter 894 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,640 Speaker 1: sets in and winter stops, which is like maybe made 895 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,520 Speaker 1: and it starts back up in September, And so she 896 00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:45,320 Speaker 1: knows how Nashville feels that culture, that energy that resonates 897 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,840 Speaker 1: in that area. When you go to Baltimore, that whole 898 00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,799 Speaker 1: East Coast corridor where it's more black people and as 899 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,200 Speaker 1: it says, she's catering to black people. But you always 900 00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:54,839 Speaker 1: have to have a base that you want to build 901 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,719 Speaker 1: your loyalty too, and then always tell people you have 902 00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,759 Speaker 1: a base, you always know where you can fall back on. 903 00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:01,640 Speaker 1: If you don't have a base, then you can be 904 00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,880 Speaker 1: stumbling and going who am I talking to? And that 905 00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,359 Speaker 1: can confuse you in your marketing plan. Now you know 906 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,359 Speaker 1: what is the future of Jade out Fitness. You had 907 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,160 Speaker 1: a great launch, Like you said, when you initially started out, 908 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,040 Speaker 1: the smalls were popping. Now has moved up to the 909 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,319 Speaker 1: mediums and large. So you realize that your audience base 910 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,920 Speaker 1: is growing, you know, and that's that's a beautiful thing. 911 00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,640 Speaker 1: So what's the future for you and your product. Sure, 912 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,759 Speaker 1: So the majority of this year we were really focusing 913 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:35,120 Speaker 1: on our target collaboration and so as that kind of 914 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:39,359 Speaker 1: winds down for that particular campaign, we are kind of 915 00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,760 Speaker 1: kind of going back to business as usual, so to speak. 916 00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:48,280 Speaker 1: So we have recently launched our spring collection on jadalfitness 917 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:53,960 Speaker 1: dot com. It is a combination between activewear and leisure apparel. 918 00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:58,680 Speaker 1: We have new fitness accessories. So we are really just 919 00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:04,040 Speaker 1: promoting in getting the word out about our new spring collection. 920 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,520 Speaker 1: And we don't want the partnership with mass retails to 921 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:12,480 Speaker 1: just be a one time opportunity, and so I'm definitely 922 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:17,960 Speaker 1: working on sketching new designs for collections. But it will 923 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:23,560 Speaker 1: be really ideal for Jay Dalfinness to continue to partner 924 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:28,920 Speaker 1: with mass retail organizations and provide athletes your apparel to 925 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,400 Speaker 1: women on a larger scale. Cool. Well, I want to 926 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,920 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Your 927 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,719 Speaker 1: journey is just started, you know, but to get to 928 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,879 Speaker 1: the journey, the store you told is compelling. That also 929 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,839 Speaker 1: reminds me the fact that you know, it's who you 930 00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,600 Speaker 1: know and who you created the relationship with and that's 931 00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,200 Speaker 1: the journey that allowed the journey. They have long term 932 00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:54,560 Speaker 1: effects and again thank you doctor Jack McDowell j J 933 00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,239 Speaker 1: DAL Fitness, founded in twenty eighteen, can be found on 934 00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,480 Speaker 1: our website. The Spring Collection to launched out of Target stores. 935 00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,480 Speaker 1: She wants to stand a lane of business. You know 936 00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,759 Speaker 1: as you standing now, as she stays that lane of business, 937 00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,439 Speaker 1: you support her. So thank you again, Doctor Dowl. Thank you. 938 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:11,120 Speaker 1: If you want to hear I see any of my 939 00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,080 Speaker 1: interviews on money Making Conversation Masterclass, please go to money 940 00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,920 Speaker 1: Making Conversation dot com. I'm with Sean McDonald. I am 941 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,840 Speaker 1: your host. You've been listening to Money Making Conversations Masterclass 942 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,520 Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Always remember to lead with your gifts. 943 00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:29,399 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass is a presentation of thirty eight 944 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,759 Speaker 1: fifteen Media Incorporated. You are now tuned into the Moneymaking 945 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:39,040 Speaker 1: Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rashaan McDonald. I'm ras Sean 946 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,480 Speaker 1: McDonald for Money Making Conversations Masterclass. With your daily Minute 947 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,480 Speaker 1: of Inspiration. I sat down with Pastor and Stella Award 948 00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,600 Speaker 1: winning gospel music recording artists Pastor Mike McClure junior, known 949 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,120 Speaker 1: as Pastor Mike. It's about the importance of setting one 950 00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,160 Speaker 1: step up for legacy and living in strong light. Everything 951 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,640 Speaker 1: about what we do business wise and entrepreneurily is about 952 00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:02,040 Speaker 1: paying the next be, not setting ourself up for legacy. 953 00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:03,840 Speaker 1: And if you've got a long company, go knock on 954 00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:05,319 Speaker 1: two doors and tell them, hey, I want to be 955 00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,520 Speaker 1: a blessing and cut these two yards for free. And 956 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,439 Speaker 1: I guarantee the person across street gonna ask who did that. 957 00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,360 Speaker 1: That's called free marketing. Giving away free music was my 958 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,840 Speaker 1: opportunity to say, hey, guys, here's a chance to believe 959 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,600 Speaker 1: in me. I was born in one year, I'll die 960 00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,200 Speaker 1: in another year. It's the dash in the middle of 961 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,000 Speaker 1: that matters. It's not about how long you live, but 962 00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,799 Speaker 1: how strong you live. You know you can listen to 963 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,280 Speaker 1: this four interviewer Pastor Mic. It's available on Moneymaking Conversation 964 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:30,920 Speaker 1: dot com.