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Speaker 1: Inspire means God breathe. And so my thing is when

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Speaker 1: to watch us the most importantly, We're out here to

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Speaker 1: there's no negative spirit on this show, so you can

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Speaker 1: That's always And now now we've got this new fragrance line.

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Speaker 1: That's the launch date, Prince Absolutely. Lunch date is February four,

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Speaker 1: you can do this. We are on the owners of

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Speaker 1: the co founder name, we're owners of we trademark that

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Speaker 1: we're owners of the actual product itself and um all

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Speaker 1: and so we're here to support support not just us,

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Speaker 1: is our love and our obedience to God. And when

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Speaker 1: our family, our our little brother and sisters to see

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Speaker 1: thing for us, for our family, for for you know,

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Speaker 1: start getting to work for God as soon as possible

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Speaker 1: because your time is limited in here and both of you,

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Speaker 1: both of you to talk. You know, there's a responsibility

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Speaker 1: with me. If you if you're hoping, if you hope

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Speaker 1: There's a business principle that's put in place, and that

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Speaker 1: you can do or create your own legacy within the

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Speaker 1: minority community. I think the responsibility is showing ownership um

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Speaker 1: you got um. I think one of the biggest one

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Speaker 1: example of what that means. When people go to college,

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Speaker 1: my definition of what you got. So my ideas when

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Speaker 1: a degree because if I got a degree, basically admit

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Speaker 1: that I could transfer or sell that degree to somebody

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Speaker 1: can't do that. They said, no, you can't do that.

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Speaker 1: This is yours you gotta somebody else gotta go get it,

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Speaker 1: because that means you have right to sell um to us.

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Speaker 1: What we're trying to do is ownership. We're trying to

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Speaker 1: show true ownership, and basically in a sense of, Hey

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Speaker 1: Hey own uh whatever it is that you have the

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Speaker 1: ability to sell or transfer down to your children or

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Speaker 1: if the economy were to collapse right now, do I

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Speaker 1: have anything to sell to be able to transfer for

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Speaker 1: the newest asset that makes my family comfortable? What if

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Speaker 1: that newest asset is right? Because we all need rights

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Speaker 1: in order to eat. But money no longer exists, Fiat

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Speaker 1: money is no longer around, So now I don't have

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Speaker 1: I have some sort of asset that I own that

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Speaker 1: I can transfer now to say, Hey, I need to eat,

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Speaker 1: I need to take care of my family. And that's

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Speaker 1: basically all we're trying to do is co Foundlies is

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Speaker 1: just push that message that YO keep owning, keep owning,

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Speaker 1: and keep owning some things that you own may not

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Speaker 1: have any value. Some things that you own may collapse.

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Speaker 1: Other things that you own, though, might end up increasing

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Speaker 1: in value. And the more that you keep trying to

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Speaker 1: But I just preached the ownership part as opposed to

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Speaker 1: Oh my man, we're talking. I'm talking to the creators

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Speaker 1: stars out there, and this in the in the world

643
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Speaker 1: of entrepreneurship, in the world of baking, I'm I'm on

644
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: the war winning baking. So I was like, you know,

645
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: you're a little happy when I talked to other bakers,

646
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: and because we're like a little club, because you know,

647
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: I always tell people I cannot watch TV. I cannot

648
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: watch I cannot listen to music when I'm baking because

649
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: one mistake you you're done it is That's that's what's

650
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: so what's so special about baking versus like savory And

651
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: I'm not knocking the safety. You know, chefs, you know

652
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 1: we love savory food, but definitely when you're baking, it's

653
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: a science behind it. And you know, if you make

654
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 1: one mistake, I feel like one teaspoon or tablespoon off

655
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: of a cake or a or something like that, you

656
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: gotta start all way over, like there is no I

657
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: will let me see how I can fix this real quick.

658
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: Now you gotta throw it away. And I started all

659
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: the way over. And sometimes that's like thirty minutes to

660
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: an hour, you know, worth the work that you've just

661
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: put yourself behind. So, you know, baking definitely is something

662
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: special um for me as well as a lot of people.

663
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: I love the science behind it. Well, I'm gonna tell

664
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: you this is this is how I started baking. That

665
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: was executive producing and co created that Steve Harvey talked

666
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: shows Chicargo and Steve Hardy twenty twelve, and Steve Harvey

667
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: pranked me into baking. That's how I started, you know,

668
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: Chris prank me and said and basically Darren me, I

669
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: never baked in my life. In front of a live

670
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: study ord, he dared need to bake a cake. Of course,

671
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: I baked three cakes and the rest is history. Basically

672
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: because I have an app with eighty different desserts called

673
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: Perfect Bacon. Uh, I'm a brain ambassador for that. That's

674
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: how I started. How did you get started into into baking? Well,

675
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: like most people, UM, who you know always says, you know,

676
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: my mom is a great cook. You know my mom

677
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: really is. Um, she's an amazing coach. He's an amazing woman.

678
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: And she was always in the kitchen, you know, having

679
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: us try like all these different things. And I have

680
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: to say, like our house, especially for like Christmas Eve,

681
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: because that's when we had our parties, was the house

682
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: to go to because you know, we're not having like

683
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: a traditional food. She's doing duck and quail and you

684
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: know oyses and lamb. You know that fried chicken exactly.

685
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: And for somebody that you know grew up in the

686
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: inner city of Birmingham, Alabama. I'm originally from the area

687
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: of Petsville from the from them yeah, him from they am.

688
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: I have to represent my magic city, Um, but exactly

689
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: being from that area, you don't think that, you know,

690
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: necessarily these are the things are going to be having.

691
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: You know, we were having you know, like kid Lives

692
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: and him in Turkey and you know all that black

693
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: peas in college and all those things are great and

694
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: please don't get in twisted, but you know, she definitely

695
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: like opened my eyes, um to this world that's out there.

696
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: And I remember us going to um San Antonio if

697
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: I want of how works trips and this was I'm

698
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: just like I seek like eleven and twelve and this

699
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: is my first trying trying s cargo, you know what

700
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: it was, you know, and this was her. This was

701
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: what she did in our lives is you know, give

702
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: us a different type of palette. So watching her in

703
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: the kitchen like baking, you know, all these pund kicks

704
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: you know, for you spens and you know all this

705
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: is just it made me love it and I spell

706
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: in love with it then even though most of the

707
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: time I just watched her, you know, we like to

708
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: read the benefits of the labor We don't want to

709
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: actually want to do with the labor um. But she's

710
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: definitely what got me into it um in the beginning. Well,

711
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: this is awesome, This is awesome talking to you now

712
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: that I know you're from the ham Burmham, Alabama. You know,

713
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: I do eat chiplins, I do eat black eyed peas.

714
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: I put my chilens on white rice. I also eat

715
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: this car go. I'm not a duck guy. You know,

716
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: I tried it. You know it's it's it's you know,

717
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: it's it's a dark side of the meat for me,

718
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: and I kind of like it's. Yeah, it's it's very gamy.

719
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: It's it's prepared perfectly though. It's really good, but it

720
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: is a little bit, you know, a little bit too

721
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: fatty for me, so I don't just consume it like

722
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: I wouldn't just necessarily pick it from a mini most

723
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: of the time, you know, I'll eat it off of

724
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 1: somebody else's please, But you know it terms it's perfectly

725
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: really good. You know I can get down with that. Well,

726
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: you know that the whole thing about it, that's what

727
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 1: the menu is all about. That's what that's what being

728
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: able to serve different people because everybody likes has a

729
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: different taste. You know, a lot of people like Chinese food.

730
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't like know a lot of

731
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: people don't like sushi. And I eat sushi. I don't

732
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: get too too sushi ish. You know it's me. You

733
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: don't need this. It's some stuff over that. I will

734
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: mess with it now, but you know you don't like

735
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: your fist straight out the open, just right. I'm a

736
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 1: California roll guy. I had some temporal shrimp roll your

737
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: boy winning. I'm winning. I'm winning. Listen. I I can'tnock

738
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: that because that used to be me too. I was like, yeah,

739
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: I never really liked the taste of raw fish period,

740
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: But like I said, certain places will make it. And

741
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I can rock with that. I can. Yeah,

742
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: you know, stick with that temporal. Those crabs, you know,

743
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: the invitation crabs, don't be shooting down my taste buds.

744
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: Invitation crazy crazy, using a little I was stop talking

745
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: to you. I was talking to you. That's what you

746
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 1: have good people that I'm just trying to be old.

747
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: I'm opening my heart to you already, said dunk. So

748
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: you really kind I told you you chling, he's so country.

749
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: I thought he was a big time over you don't

750
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: want but I'm country. Yo. It's so funny because people

751
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: talk to me and then it's like, well, you don't

752
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: really have an excent. I was like, no, I'm not

753
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: really until I talked about number one, something I love

754
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: and I started talking fast, and that that that thing

755
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: in the back of your voice where you just can't

756
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: help us say Alabama country and if you just start

757
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, talk to my friends and my

758
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: family gonna come back, you know, from seeing them and

759
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: my workar was like, I can't even understand you right now.

760
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: I don't even I understand. My listener will understand. YouTube.

761
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: We're talking to Amber Croom. She's competing in the first

762
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: season of the new Food Network show Chop Sweets. Tell

763
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: us about that. First of all, tell us about the show,

764
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: and second, tell us how you became I guess a

765
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: contestant on the show. Okay, oh man. So you know,

766
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: Chop Sweets is an amazing endeavor for them because out

767
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: of I think the forty four or the forty five

768
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: seasons that Chops has been on, I think it started

769
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 1: in like two thousand and nine. You know, that's you know,

770
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: eleven plus years of the show has been on. They've

771
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: may be done three or four episodes where they feature desserts,

772
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: that's it out of And so for them to say, Okay,

773
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: you know there's a market out there. These you know,

774
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: these talented artists are out there and they need to

775
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: be tested, just like the Savory chefs. And they decided

776
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: to do this platform. They decided to give us a

777
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: chance to kind of shine a little bit. And I'm

778
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: grateful for it because, you know, as a chef who

779
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: hasn't watched shops and sat there and thought, I know

780
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: what I would do. Why do you do that? That's nasty,

781
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: I would have you know, but you get there and uh,

782
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: hindsight and it's not somebody gonna say that day she's stupid,

783
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: but she nervous do that? Oh he left that off

784
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 1: the play. I wouldn't have left that off the play.

785
00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: How are you going to leave that off? The leaves? Like,

786
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: sitting right there there, you could just dissect that thing.

787
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: And you know, as a chef, that's like a pinnacle

788
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: for you. You know, you really want to get on

789
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: that stage and really be you know, tested, and you

790
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: want to shine, so you know, to be able to

791
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 1: do it on a pastry platform is is simply amazing.

792
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: And I got on the show because um, in two

793
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: thousand and sixte I actually did the Holiday Baking Championship UM.

794
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: And so I was already like in my my casting

795
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: company's pool of like chefs, and so they contacted me

796
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: and asked me if I wanted to auditions UM or

797
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: like put in my you know, my information and stuff

798
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: to actually be considered. And that was like a week

799
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: and the next week they called me is like, hey,

800
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: can you get to New York in a week? I'm like, oh, okay,

801
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: you know I'm not working, but sure. So that process

802
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: was so fast, like super super fast, and they're like, okay,

803
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 1: well you know we need you here on on that day.

804
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: Can't comment? I was like, yeah, why not? Just part

805
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: of you know, they've people have contacted me to be

806
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: a contestant on these shows and that's not what I do.

807
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just a fun baker, you know. You know,

808
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: you tell me, you know, one of them judges tell

809
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 1: me something my stuff is dry on tape. It's gonna

810
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: be a different conversation. You gonna it could be a

811
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: different conversation. You know, you know you tell me I

812
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: can't all you know I got, I got fans. Everything

813
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: I post gets liked. Everything I post goes viral. You

814
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I can't go on the show.

815
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: And somebody I don't even know what we cannot bleep

816
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: out the entire episode. We can't. We can't do it.

817
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: See see, certain people just can't get on the show

818
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: like me. I would like they go who booked him

819
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: to be getting executive to do some fire to look

820
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 1: casting agent girl over there crying, I don't know why

821
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: we book that dude. He was so nice on the phone.

822
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: Well I don't. I don't like heard my failing that

823
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: I'll be taking I'll be taking my little desserts to

824
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: people that be crying. Who do you believe you bag

825
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: for me? And I go to that TV show, sir,

826
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: you know your iceing is dry and your cupcake is

827
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: dry to uh and they pick it through with the

828
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: with the fark. I hate when they do that, when

829
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: they when they pull it like like they surgically like

830
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: my stuff ain't ain't ain't touchable no more be pulling

831
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: it up that your mama mama. You know you automatically

832
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: want to go back. And but I had this. I

833
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: had to call my mom. I was like, you know,

834
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna watch this show and your southern mom,

835
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: So I want to apologize in advance for my mouth.

836
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't, I don't. I just want

837
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: you to know I'm sorry right right when. You're the

838
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: thing about it this day. First of all, I know

839
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: while you're on the show, you got a great personality.

840
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: And secondly, y'all you know I want you to be

841
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: a friend of the show because I want to follow you.

842
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: This is just one step. I always tell people, you know,

843
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: a lot of people what they get old TV, Oh

844
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: this is my moment. Who I'm gonna be discovered and

845
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: be famous? Well, yes, and though you know these are

846
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: the steps, like you're going up a ladder, you know

847
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna you just want to keep climbing and climbing.

848
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 1: Nobody knows what that top step is, you know, because

849
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: you always here a billionaires, they want to make more billions.

850
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: So that means everybody's goal. Keith moving. Now, if you

851
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: get a point like Pat mahomes Patrick mahone, he wants

852
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: super Bowl you want. You want the super Bowl. You

853
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: know already he wants six, you want seven. So your

854
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: goal is gonna always keep moving forward and on your

855
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: next step. I want to talk about some of those

856
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: steps they happened when in the past they're a good step.

857
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: They got you to be this very personable girl from

858
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: the Ham that you dug scaRNA go oh, you know,

859
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: real eggs, all that good stuff all in the city

860
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: of Birmingham, the Ham Magic saying we'll be back more

861
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: with the executive pace yourself who started the New Food

862
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: Network show Chop Sweets. We'll be right back with more

863
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: from March McDonald the money making conversations. Touch that down.

864
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: I just Rashan McDonald and you're listening to money making

865
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: conversations on the phone today is a good friend of mine.

866
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna calling my friend. We had one good interview.

867
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: We've been laughing and you know, doing mama jokes, all

868
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: kind of good stuff on this phone and we talked

869
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: about pastries and appearance on the New Food Network show

870
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: Chop Sweets. Please welcome back to the call Amber Chrome Amber. Now,

871
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,479
Speaker 1: I'm I you know, early in my stand up comedy career,

872
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 1: one of the things that I did on the regular basis,

873
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 1: was performed on cruise lines. I performed on the Royal

874
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: Caribean Cruise Line, performed on the Norwegian Cruise Line. And

875
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: one of the things I loved was food, food, food,

876
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: and one of the beauties was the pastries that they

877
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 1: gave out there. Now you performed on a six star

878
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: cruise line called the Silver Sea in twenty level. How

879
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: did that help your pastry career? Oh? Man, um that

880
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: that helped me in so many ways that it's not

881
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: necessarily just pastry, but just personally on the pastry side

882
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: of it. You know, this this particular cruise line. You

883
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 1: know why I chose it is because it went around

884
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: the world. It went literally, it literally went around the

885
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: entire world. And you know, I remember when I started

886
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,919
Speaker 1: in this industry, I sat down and I say, Okay,

887
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this dream board thing. You know, I'm

888
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,439
Speaker 1: just gonna do it. And I just said there, I said, okay, well,

889
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: what in your wildest dreams, if money were never an option,

890
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: if obstacles were never in your way, what would you

891
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: want to go? What would you want to do? When

892
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: I just created this board and in my time with

893
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: Silver Sea, I literally crossed off every single place I

894
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: wanted to visit in the world. And yeah, it's like

895
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: it just when I look back at it, it was

896
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 1: just it was mind blowing. Um to be able to

897
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:58,439
Speaker 1: have this opportunity again. This little girlfriends, his real little

898
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: girlfriends is real. Is you know, sitting in the Mediterranean, see,

899
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: you know, making pastries, just you know, sitting and I'll

900
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: show you making pastries. And you know, the cruise line

901
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: will test you because you know every night, like you

902
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: you know, you generally work six months. Um, when you're American,

903
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: they only give you like six four to six months

904
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: of contracts. Everybody else is like eight to nine. But

905
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: if this is an everyday thing, you know, and everyone's like,

906
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: well you didn't have a day off, Like no, honey,

907
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: Like we worked every single day, you know for six

908
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: for six months, you know, and I was able because

909
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: the line I was on, I mean change daily. So

910
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: every day I was making a different type of cuisine pastrie.

911
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: So I'm learning how to make Indian, I'm learning how

912
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: to make you know, Asian influence. I'm learning English, I'm

913
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: learning Irish, I'm learning all these different messes and all

914
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: these different types of pastries. That now when I make things,

915
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: I have a box support from where I'm not, you know,

916
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: one dimensional in my creations. And not just that. It

917
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: teaches you time to management. It teaches you, you know,

918
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: how to make quantity, but not just quantity, but actually

919
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 1: making quality um things. And you know it's it texts

920
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: you that whole no crying in the kitchen, um, yeah,

921
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: I mean I cried in the cool look a few

922
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: times when it took when my French step is yelling

923
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: at me because I didn't know how to make a

924
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 1: proper crepe. And I remember one day they just had

925
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: me standing at you know, this eight ten top burner

926
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: with ten pans where I'm making crepes for like five

927
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: hours boom boom boom, like you know, and then I

928
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: got amazing at it and now I'm, you know, a

929
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: great crepe maker. But you know, in that environment, you're

930
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: either gonna thrive or you're gonna fail. And that's your choice.

931
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,479
Speaker 1: You know, that's your choice, and to how you're gonna

932
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: take this experience. It's not just about being able to

933
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: travel the world. This place tested who I was and

934
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: built me, you know, to where a lot of times

935
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: I look in the kitchen now and you know a

936
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: lot of people four are so sensitive and so soft

937
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: because you gotta work like nine hours. I'm like, boo,

938
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: I was sixteen hours in the kitchen. Come on, let's go,

939
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: let's go. You know you're younger than me. Let's go,

940
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: let's go, let's get it. And I feel like that

941
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: being in that environment actually fostered that inside of me.

942
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: It fostered my work ethic, it fostered, you know, my creativity.

943
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: And then on you know, on top of all that,

944
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: I'm getting east An amazing foods, you know places and

945
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: get the authentic cuisine of these places, and it was amazing. Well,

946
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 1: you know, you've told me a couple of stories here, Okay,

947
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: you told me about your mom teaching you how to

948
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: do just watching her because you really watched and had

949
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: this amazing option to view her. Just having a diverse

950
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: kitchen menu. And then we talked about the Silver City

951
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. Where did the education and the training

952
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 1: come from. Well, originally I went to school in New Orleans.

953
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 1: I went to the University of New Orleans and I

954
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 1: did enable arcas textra and marine engineering. So I was

955
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: on a totally and I was on a totally different

956
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: path than what I'm on now. And um, when her

957
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: Kane Katrina happened, I was there, but I wasn't one

958
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 1: of the people that actually evacuated. So I was there

959
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: for four to five days during that entire old deal,

960
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: like everything we saw and TV, that was when we

961
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:25,760
Speaker 1: were dealing with And I remember, um getting to Houston

962
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: and stay in the night and like sitting on the

963
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: edge of my bed and just trying to figure out

964
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: what happened, what just happened. And I got to Alabama,

965
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 1: and um, nothing seemed right, and I really didn't know

966
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: what to do. And I knew I didn't want to

967
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: go back to New Orleans. I didn't, you know, want

968
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: to pursue his career anymore. Um, while it was you know,

969
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: lucrative and you know, I'm still creating, it wasn't making

970
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: me happy. And I saw a lot of sadness. I

971
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: saw a lot of death that happened, you know, during Katrina,

972
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: and I just realized that, you know, life was too

973
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: short to not be doing what you love. And you know,

974
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: I had to sit there and say, what do I love?

975
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: What can I do every day and not get paid

976
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: for it? And I was like, well, I love eating

977
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: and I love paigetries and I want to pursue this.

978
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: So I actually went to culinary school in Birmingham and

979
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,280
Speaker 1: Obama time at the colon Ard and that is where

980
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: I got like my former education and that's where it

981
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: all really started for me. In two thousand and ten.

982
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: Good well, it's uh, it's led to you are opening

983
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: your own business called and for desserts. That's a cool day.

984
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 1: And for desserts and for dessert yeah, you know every

985
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: every way wages and for dessert you like you know

986
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,760
Speaker 1: they I was asking that what do you want for dessert?

987
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: You know? You know it's funny. That's exactly where that

988
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: came from. That's exactly where it came wrong. I was

989
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: on brain Songe with my friend one day. We were

990
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: in the basement um of my church that I was

991
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: going to at the time, and um, I'm just like,

992
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: you know what, I really want to open my own

993
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: dessert restaurant. I don't want just sing on big ground,

994
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: want you know, to be able to have like the

995
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: things that I up and my favorite with your appetizers

996
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: because I love appetizers. I love a good app I

997
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,479
Speaker 1: really do. I could just eat like six seven apps

998
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: and you know call it a day and then really

999
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 1: good dessert and really good drinking, really great ambi hont

1000
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: and so what are you CAUs like, I don't know,

1001
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, we started throwing it up. It's like, you

1002
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: know when you go in there like one for dessert,

1003
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: you haven't right there? Cool. Now here's the thing you've

1004
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: set me up for the show because you've shown me

1005
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: that you know, you have this little southern background. You know,

1006
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: your mom kind of set the stage before you to

1007
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: be very open mind. And then you went on this

1008
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: cruise line and you had had all these different styles,

1009
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: all the different uh you know, Indian, Chinese, all these

1010
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: different dessert Now you're on the dessert show that you're that.

1011
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,720
Speaker 1: Food Network has launched a competition show called Chop Sweets.

1012
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: Did it help you? Did your background help you this?

1013
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: This this, especially the cruise line opportunity to help you

1014
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: and being able to provide I noticed at the first

1015
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: competition show. But it is this It is kind of

1016
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: like the d did what they say they the top

1017
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: of the line, chop chopping the top of the line.

1018
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: You know they're coming in with the dog like don't

1019
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: don't don't you know you walk in there. You know

1020
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: they got they suited up. They know that they know

1021
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: they this just the Oscar of the Emmy Award. When

1022
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: you chopped right here, were you intimidating it all? And

1023
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: were you intimidated it all? Were you just ready? You know,

1024
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: you're ready to get fired up about this? You know, honestly,

1025
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna be intimidated, but you know,

1026
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: I had to have the coming Jesus meeting with myself

1027
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: before it started, and I was like, you, you know

1028
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: what I mean, You've been through so much. You you've

1029
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 1: been tested, you've been tried. This ain't nothing. You got this.

1030
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: Either you're gonna win, you're gonna lose one or Two's

1031
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: only one, you know what I mean. And whatever you're

1032
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: gonna do, go out there and leave it on the floor,

1033
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: because those couple of shows can be really nerve wracking.

1034
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: You know, the way they do it, you gotta do it.

1035
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 1: Separate interviews and repeat what you already. You got like

1036
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: thirty people just looking at you, and that's all they're

1037
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: paid to do is just stand there and look at you.

1038
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: Like that in itself is like it it's hard, and

1039
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: got the cameras and you know, certain places you can't walk,

1040
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, and then they want you to,

1041
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:11,879
Speaker 1: you know, actually engage with your people. Were you trying

1042
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: to focus? But you know, I I was prepared for it.

1043
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 1: I was when I lose you know, everything that I've

1044
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: done in my career prepare me for that moment. It

1045
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: really did, you know, cruise ship teaching how to manage

1046
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: my time, you know, checking the clock, making sure I'm

1047
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'm on point. It taught me how to

1048
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 1: you know, actually do my menu. You know, Okay, I

1049
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: can do this, is this while I'm doing that. I'm

1050
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: gonna do that. While I'm doing that. I'm only that,

1051
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: you know, you're multitasking. Um. And then it also the

1052
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: box and you're a good talker to so that really helps.

1053
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: You know, you got personnelit that really helps. So what's

1054
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: next for you, Amber Croom? Um? You know, honestly, my

1055
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 1: next step after opening my place is I want to

1056
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: do my own show. I'm not going to speak too

1057
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: much on it, like you know, you know, you're talking

1058
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: of the one of the biggest producers and television Rashan McDonald.

1059
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: And that's why we're friend. That's why we're friends. What

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Speaker 1: are you based in the ham or use someplace of

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Speaker 1: the hand with where you came from. Um, that's where

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Speaker 1: I'm from. But I'm currently living in Baltimore, Maryland, the

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Speaker 1: East Coast. Okay, well you know I'm up there alive,

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Speaker 1: being DC. So I'm coming to the DC next month.

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00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: This morning, fact, I got us the meeting tot so

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00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: maybe we can coordinate some things and and and because

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00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: some things that you ran and that you talked about,

1068
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: I thought this would be a great television idea. So

1069
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: I like to like to connect that in your head

1070
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: because of the fact that you are a very very

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00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: talented artists. Artists as they say. I always tell people

1072
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: that you know that food and it's just art that

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00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: you eat, that's all. It's just odd that you look

1074
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: at that's so pretty. Then you eat it, you know, yeah, exactly,

1075
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: you just eat it. And so so you you you

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00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 1: you you. You can't tell us how it goes. When

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00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: is this? When does the competition start? When when is

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00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: this starts? When is the show airrors? And um, the

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00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: first episode air is February third at timpm, but my

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00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: episode airs February tenth, tympm Eastern Standard time. Because you know,

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00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: that's the one I want. The February tenth one. Yeah,

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00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people out there I

1083
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: should be promoting, but I'm only going to promote you

1084
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: because you're my friend. You're from the Ham, You're not

1085
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,240
Speaker 1: living in Baltimore. You know, You've You've cruised the world.

1086
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: You you you you survive Haricane. Katrina went to my

1087
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 1: sister city, Houston. That's why I'm from Houston. So I

1088
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: felt kind of a little a little something about you

1089
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: when you said you was in Houston feeling bad on

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00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: the edge of the bed. Wow, Okay, Houston is not

1091
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: that bad. But I realized that it was challenges that

1092
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: you're facing like make you. They shape you and make

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Speaker 1: you who the special person that you are. More important,

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00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: they let you know that you can be inspired to

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00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: do great things for yourself. Thank you for coming on

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00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: my show, Amber and uh, February tenth. You know they're

1097
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: gonna hopefully send me a banner so I can promote

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00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: your appearance on the show. And I wish you good

1099
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Speaker 1: luck and also know this is your home for anything

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Speaker 1: you want to promote in the future, because you just

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Speaker 1: Forest Service and the ad Council. My next guest is

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Speaker 1: a two time Billboard forty Under forty power player. In

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Speaker 1: his career, he has overseen the development of many notable

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00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: artists and brands, including Anita Baker, Emily Keene, Corey, Henry Luke,

1131
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Speaker 1: James Michelle, Willim's Miguel Cooling, the Game, Look craz Leon Thomas,

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Speaker 1: festivals like Outside Lands Music Festival, and many more. He's

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Speaker 1: an artist manager, founder of Culture Collective and Culture Collective Records.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome back to Money Making Conversations, My man, Jonathan A.

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00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: Zool Hey, how are you doing? Hey man, it's the

1136
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: the intra only gets bigger every time you come on

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00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: the show. Appreciate I appreciate the invite to be back

1138
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: on the show speaking with you. Well, you know the

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00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: great thing about watching your brand and and it's all

1140
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 1: about reinventing yourself. You know, you're doing this, this this process,

1141
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you see an opportunity.

1142
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: But there's always a possibility that ship may not work.

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00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: In the process of how you're building your brand and

1144
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: leading talent but also recognizing that you are a brand

1145
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: and a talent to how do you separate the difference?

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00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. I mean I've always considered myself

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00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: personally a brand, right, and and you know, people ask

1148
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: me what do you do and I usually say, well,

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00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: I'm a longer, very hard right, I'm an artist manager

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00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: and I apply that market that approached the marketing as

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00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: raised to my my ideals with my clients, but also

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00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: the relates to myself as a brand. And I used

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01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: to always think about myself like a blank cereal by

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01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: walking down of a grocery store. You know, what are

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Speaker 1: the what are the things, what are the images of colors,

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01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: what's on the side of the packaging that is going

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01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: to make what to say? I want to I want

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01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: to buy that, I want to do business with that person?

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01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: And um, you know, if you got one of the

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Speaker 1: elements to make up Jonathan, and what are the elements

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01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: to make up Culture Collective. And I think about that

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01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: packaging and the thing that we want to apply to it,

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01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: and that's all marketing and all marketing, that's all brand development, um.

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01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: And we applied that. We played that same to that

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01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: same approach to working with our clients as well as ourselves. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know the good thing about I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of your clients. And just a little side note, Anita

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01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: Baker giving to you the best that I got. My

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01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: wife now got married on that song. It was our

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01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: song at our wedding. So you know, I always wanted

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Speaker 1: to tell the needs whatever I meet. I'm a Hugson.

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Speaker 1: There's a two years later we steered together, Nita and

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Speaker 1: your song, your song help does that. And so but

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Speaker 1: you know, grab thank you really are. I appreciate what

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Speaker 1: you're doing. Let's let's let's define where UH from one

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Speaker 1: of my research UH you founded Culture Collective in twent

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Speaker 1: and eighteen. Importance of Culture Collective regards to urban artists

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01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: make up less than one percent of the client base

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Speaker 1: at stations UH top firms nationwide. So just a drive

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Speaker 1: to understand that that urban artists are underrepresented in the

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Speaker 1: field that they may dominate and so that's what the

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Speaker 1: basis of your development, correct, Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean

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01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: it's somebody that's out of the top of major organizations

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01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: and had an opportunity to look down at you know what,

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Speaker 1: what's what's coming up next with what's having a cultural impact,

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01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: but then also who's working on it. I saw this

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Speaker 1: massive lack of diversity and inclusion um within the corporate

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01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 1: ranks of these bigger companies um. And then in addition

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Speaker 1: to that, and when you look at the artists that

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Speaker 1: are that are the trend setters and warning the payment

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Speaker 1: in today's generation, and you know, they look like us,

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Speaker 1: right and people that are representing them do not that

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01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: that it's it's necessarily a race thing, but ultimately the

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01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: CULTI perspective, you want to be able to look across

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Speaker 1: the table and know that you're that you're you're you know,

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01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: somebody really connects with what you're doing. So I started

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Speaker 1: Culture Collective with that mind step of permission statement, where

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Speaker 1: diversity inclusion is how we think about who we work

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Speaker 1: with and how we hire. My goal is to really

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Speaker 1: really have a well represented set of team members that

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01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 1: can fit with our clients and come up with the

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01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: concerts an idea to build their career and it's a

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Speaker 1: birth the culture collective. Uh. And you know, I'm having

1204
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It's been almost a year as

1205
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: you last spoke. I joke that we still have a

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01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: new car smell, you know, right, So we're in but

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01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: we're you know, we're having We're having a lot of

1208
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: fun and and being entrepreneurs, we get an opportunity to

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01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: look at opportunity spaces that, um, that need to be

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Speaker 1: filled and within that. We have some clients that were

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Speaker 1: in between record labels. Uh, they didn't have partners to

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01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: put out music. But they have very very force and

1213
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: careers and touring and other other aspects of what they

1214
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: were doing, but they didn't have a partner without music.

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01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,080
Speaker 1: And I started to look at why why can't we

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Speaker 1: put out that music? You know, what are the various

1217
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: entries of us putting out that music? Um and UM,

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01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: you know, we started talking collective records with that mind

1219
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 1: and we we we partnered with in Groups, which is

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Speaker 1: a universal company to help make sure that our artist

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Speaker 1: music is available across all digital service providers, and we

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01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: were closely with their team on the marketing promotion of

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01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: those artists and Luke James, a long time client, is

1224
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Speaker 1: the first artist to be released through this new venture. UM.

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01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: His new album, To Feel Loved was released on January

1226
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Speaker 1: thirty one. UM To Feel Loved Extuiing was released on

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Speaker 1: January thirty one. And uh, we not only are the

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Speaker 1: managers fools, but now we're probably the record label foods. Well.

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Speaker 1: You know the interesting part of why I maintain a

1230
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 1: relationship with you because of the visionary relationship that I

1231
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: feel that you're bringing to the industry. When you're talking

1232
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: about the limited recognition of you know, urban talent, the

1233
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: African American town, of the talent of color, how we participate,

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01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: but we seem to be bottled in you know. I know.

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01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: I know that for a fact because I executive produced

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01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: and create co created The Steve hard Mornin Show and

1237
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 1: I was on there from two thousands. So I know

1238
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: how the music industry can industry can play itself out.

1239
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: And what I'm what I'm getting at, it's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: we always get underrepresented. For instance, we have June is

1241
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: our Black music month. You know, June is Black music month. Okay,

1242
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: then you look at the music month for everybody else.

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01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 1: You have the Grammys, you have American Music Award, Yeah,

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01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 1: bill Boards, you know how our radio we know, even

1245
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: talking about Carting Western and then BT Music Award is

1246
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: basically our watcher when we should have more, you know

1247
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: we you know, that's the area that I really want

1248
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: to start talking to you about. How can we get

1249
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: more visual representation in award shows on television because that

1250
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: is necessary. We have to have more than just be

1251
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 1: two awards. And my mistaken when I say at Jonathan,

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01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: I agree, and I think it's interesting. It's interesting point

1253
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: because they think that part of that more is our

1254
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 1: culture in in brands coming to life, UM in more

1255
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: ways than just you know, our worship the BET Awards,

1256
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the most cognitive awards shows ever. UM,

1257
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: you know, the Hip Hop Awards as well, and when

1258
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: we look at the Grammys and Amis and all these

1259
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: other shows, it's important for us to be able to

1260
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: have a presence within those environments to UM and not

1261
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: be underrepresenting. And I think part of that is making

1262
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: sure that we do have people that represent our culture

1263
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: within the executive rings of these companies so they could

1264
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: hire the right folks and be in the right room

1265
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: for these conversations to come to life and this is

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01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 1: about business. Because one of the big things about the

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Speaker 1: Grammars this year was diversity, and uh he did. He

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Speaker 1: made a big deal on stage doing his speech about diversity. Now,

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Speaker 1: explain to people why was it important to have diversity

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Speaker 1: in music behind, you know, behind the moments, behind the talent.

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Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, I'm gonna go back to

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Speaker 1: last graining because it's just something that was that was

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Speaker 1: that was well talked about, not not this past graend.

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Speaker 1: It's not two thousand in betweenty, but two thousand nine,

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Speaker 1: and there was Amazetown. There was a Motown tribute. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people had a lot to say about, and

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Speaker 1: most of that was around the fact that we want

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Speaker 1: well represented within that tribute. Okay, and I think that

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Speaker 1: sometimes that can happen if we don't have the right

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Speaker 1: people in the rooms to make sure that our culture

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Speaker 1: is really really represented. The wrong people singing Motown hits right,

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Speaker 1: the wrong just because you're trying to get a hit.

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Speaker 1: Don't just throw somebody out there singing something that there's

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Speaker 1: not There's not that there shouldn't be singing it correct Yeah,

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Speaker 1: or or or has no has no real time, has

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Speaker 1: no real Tide, to the to the to the history

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Speaker 1: of Motown. So you know, I think, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's super important at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day. And and you know, creating Culture Collective it's

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Speaker 1: just my way of helping to break that cycle UM

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Speaker 1: and really developed the next executive. And we focus a

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Speaker 1: lot around hiring young talent and hiring interns and mentoring

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Speaker 1: the folks. I always say that the ways, the ways

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Speaker 1: into the world of Jonathan Azoo and Culture Collectives are

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Speaker 1: as high touch of negotiating um deals, uh, partnering on

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Speaker 1: on deal, on doubts, you just inspiring each other. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's really it's so special when I talk

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Speaker 1: to Jonathan Jonathan and the fact that you know, I

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Speaker 1: am meeting and talking to so many minds like you

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's a Charles Kane and Macrow. Now

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Speaker 1: he's starting to managing the division of his company and

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Speaker 1: you know your visionary and I know that this year

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Speaker 1: we're all going to meet in the room because because

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's you know, you have to talk to

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Speaker 1: this conversation even with Byron Allen is doing you know,

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Speaker 1: you know he's talking about you know, it's a. It's

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Speaker 1: a group of people make a decision for everybody. Don't

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Speaker 1: look like everybody and so and I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: turn this call into a war path call, but it's

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Speaker 1: an information call about the fact that if you really

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Speaker 1: want to be successful in any business, you have to

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Speaker 1: be allowed to participate. And so that's what you're trying

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Speaker 1: to get and that's what you're saying and starting the

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Speaker 1: management firm that you have and what you've done all

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Speaker 1: your life. Correct. Yeah, you know recently on Martin the

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Speaker 1: King day, I got together, um about twenty in the

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Speaker 1: last minute thing. You know, I was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: traveling on that day. We thought that was actually be

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. No one having a shot out of

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Speaker 1: an email about thirty or so both within my network. Um, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, senior level executives in the company are down

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Speaker 1: to two interns and said, you know, I want to

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Speaker 1: I want to cheat everybody in dinner and let's get

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Speaker 1: in the room, closed the door and let's have a

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Speaker 1: conversation how we can lift ourselves, right, um, and open conversation.

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Speaker 1: And it was a beautiful thing. And it's something that

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Speaker 1: need to happen or not. Just so Himmel Kingdad. It

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Speaker 1: needs to happen every single day, uh, for us to

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Speaker 1: be able to share with each other and in tight

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Speaker 1: guidance knowledge that we have in the struggles of how

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Speaker 1: we lift ourselves with an entertainment. Often times, you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that came out in that in

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Speaker 1: that conversation when people are like, well, it's not just

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Speaker 1: in my head. You know, uh, this other, this other,

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Speaker 1: you know, leading leading voyts in that spaces is creating

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Speaker 1: the same challenges. So I'm not crazy, right, because when

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Speaker 1: we receive in the environments and you're the only one

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Speaker 1: of color, you also to get side your head to

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Speaker 1: think that it's just me right cool. We're talking to

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Speaker 1: John A. Zoo. He's the founder of a culture collective

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Speaker 1: started in twent and nineteen and guess what he's rolling

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Speaker 1: with partnerships he's created with in Grooves. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: with more on money making conversation. This is awesome again.

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Speaker 1: Collective minds, collective thoughts generate success. We'll be right back

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Speaker 1: with more from Marsa McDonald and money making conversations. Don't

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Speaker 1: touch that down. Just for Sean McDonald and you're listening

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Speaker 1: to money making conversation. I'm talking to Jonathan Azoo. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He founded UH Culture Collective eighteen and right now I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the current artist roster that includes

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Speaker 1: Emily King, Luke James, Leon Thomas and my favorite person

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Speaker 1: and good friend, Michelle Weaves. Talk about your roster and

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Speaker 1: why are those particular people on your roster? Uh? You know,

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Speaker 1: and for me, I got into this business because I

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Speaker 1: have a passion for it, and um, I was able

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Speaker 1: to take a passion her into profession and include the

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Speaker 1: arts that I work with. I'm I'm fan. I'm a

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Speaker 1: fan everyone I've ever worked with in my career. I've

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Speaker 1: been a fan of. I've never once worked with somebody

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Speaker 1: that I was like, right working on this, I know

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Speaker 1: you're not into it, right, I'm passionately, passionately a fan

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Speaker 1: in each one of those artists that you mentioned, um

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Speaker 1: are I've always been on my playlist, right, So it's exciting.

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Speaker 1: It's excited to be to be working with him, and

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Speaker 1: it's exciting experience growth and you know, as you know

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and successful business executive yourself, growth is a

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Speaker 1: is A is A is a powerful world word. Um,

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Speaker 1: And you know, we develop a lot of really great

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Speaker 1: blue prints and road maps to help to help help

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Speaker 1: help growth, right, And that's from the bottom line at

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Speaker 1: that point. That's from an audience ree standpoint, that's from

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Speaker 1: a streaming standpoint, from the ticket sales standpoint. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: each one of those artists had great growth to their

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Speaker 1: their their careers working with us. Well, it's really important

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Speaker 1: that when I'm looking at you, when I when I

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Speaker 1: introduce you, we're just talking about the brands that you've seen,

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Speaker 1: overseen the development. I need a banker, Emily King in,

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Speaker 1: Luke James and share with Miguel cooling the game look crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's my man right there. So that's that's gospel gospel

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Speaker 1: as Miguel, that's hip hop. Coles in the Gang. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's R and B. I need the Banker, that's social

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Speaker 1: all and B. You know. Okay, that's that's a love

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Speaker 1: of fair music. That means your playlist is like you're

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Speaker 1: grooving and you're popping and then you're praising the Lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know it's again, it's it's so food in some

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Speaker 1: form of fashion, right, And it's really really important that.

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Speaker 1: So what do you see the direction of music like

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Speaker 1: I was. I was at NAPTY that's a national associat

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Speaker 1: Television program and program executives, and podcasts was just the

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Speaker 1: rage you know, we know streaming out there came out

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Speaker 1: and explode it, and uh now podcast is the rage

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Speaker 1: of not just the audio version of but the video

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Speaker 1: version of podcasts. Next level that you'll see that more

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Speaker 1: and more being being spoken about because they realized the

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Speaker 1: generation really don't care about screen on the wall here.

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Speaker 1: Don't they care about what's in their hands, and right

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Speaker 1: now what's their hand is things they're willing to download,

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Speaker 1: willing to play, willing to care with them. We're just

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Speaker 1: the future of music in that in that particular era

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Speaker 1: of that particular space or does it stay the same Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you know. And then just to just to

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Speaker 1: build on what you're saying, they wanted when we wanted

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Speaker 1: wherever they are right So, if I want to to

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Speaker 1: do a podcast, I don't. I don't want to to

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Speaker 1: to schedule it as I want to if I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: on the bus on the way home, like full look

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Speaker 1: on my phone, whether it be audio or visual, at

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Speaker 1: that time, that's the time that they wanted. And it's

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Speaker 1: almost like, you know, music music, and it's in any

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Speaker 1: in stream music really was the leader in that behavior

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Speaker 1: that adopts to that behavior. You know, you know, what

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Speaker 1: I want, what I want when I want UM, And

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Speaker 1: now you've seen to start that the later through other

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Speaker 1: forms of media. Um, as far as you know, you

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Speaker 1: music and streaming is obviously beginning to have aggressive growth.

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Speaker 1: When it first handing take and tip to pouition. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, there was a lot of different companies trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out streaming, and I always felt that once

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Speaker 1: it was all said and done, there would be a

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Speaker 1: handful left, maybe a few. It was were proven that

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Speaker 1: to be the case between Amazon, iTunes and Spotify, and

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Speaker 1: now we kind of have the three, the big three

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Speaker 1: for the most part. Um. There's a couple of other

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Speaker 1: small ow one within that that the step fourth and

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Speaker 1: to the sixth positions. But ultimately this is how people

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Speaker 1: consume music. And now you're starting to see you know,

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Speaker 1: as uh, you know, as as as as older older

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Speaker 1: audience just get older and younger artists start to come

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Speaker 1: into the consumption mix, streaming won't only get bigger and bigger,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's really look at you're tied to festivals,

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Speaker 1: are you tied to festival as a person who's a

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Speaker 1: blast talent or as a producer. So I, after many

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Speaker 1: years working in the radio myself, I just went over

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Speaker 1: to a company called super Fly, which was which was

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Speaker 1: a group of of of guys that graduated Jewlian that

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Speaker 1: come up with the concept of putting a large scale

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Speaker 1: music festival together in the United States. That was built

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Speaker 1: off of the Glastonberry So what would happens when you

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Speaker 1: duty dropped sixty seventy eight thousand people into a field

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Speaker 1: and you build multiple stages and multiple experiences within that

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Speaker 1: environment and live live on that property for that site

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Speaker 1: for for three to four days. And that was the

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Speaker 1: birth of Bonaroo And I went into work with the

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Speaker 1: team that actually put that festival together. I wasn't on

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Speaker 1: the talent buying side, that was more on the operational side,

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Speaker 1: but all aspects of the festival fall underneath operations, so

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Speaker 1: we had a very very good preview of of of

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Speaker 1: of talent and who's coming up. One of the funner

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Speaker 1: things that I do around my house is I have

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Speaker 1: all the old posters from all the shows that we produced,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you know, you know, you know, billing

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Speaker 1: for for a show or the fight of like who's

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Speaker 1: at the top of the poster, Who's at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the poster? Right, um, and I just need to

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Speaker 1: look at the bottom of the poster some of these

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Speaker 1: previous years and looking at the artists that are down

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Speaker 1: there that have now, you know, a ride to the

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Speaker 1: top of the top list. Yeah, like Miguel way back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: say wow, I think Drake about to break his record

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Speaker 1: or something on airplay or something like that. It's really

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Speaker 1: amazing money. When when? When? When the first tour I

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Speaker 1: did was was Miguel uh Chip remember of the year?

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Speaker 1: But Miguel was direct support to Drake, right, So drink

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Speaker 1: of the headline? It was it was would you like

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Speaker 1: a tour? Right? Drink the headline? And began opened in future?

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Speaker 1: Was the was the was the first act? Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: well knows that's the beauty of of Sining the beginning

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Speaker 1: and watched it come to the end and watch the

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Speaker 1: path of growth and you go, you know, because you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody has that hustle, that hustle, that hustle, and you

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Speaker 1: like I met nim Miguel because its side of the

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Speaker 1: l A when Steve and I was doing local radio

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Speaker 1: hip hop and R and B. When he was when

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Speaker 1: he was when he when he was trying to find

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Speaker 1: his bars, getting his music out there. And I was

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Speaker 1: looking at him now and go, wow, it's been that

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01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: many years and he's still got the passion to win.

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01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 1: He still has the passion to say, I'm gonna be

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01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: number one, I'm gonna be successful. That's a drive when

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Speaker 1: you when you manage talent. I always tell people, like,

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01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 1: right now, manage that Steven A. Smith. You know, for

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01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: many years people have known me to Twitter. Actually sixteen

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01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: or twenty years I managed Steve Harvey and built his

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,599
Speaker 1: brand to the Media Media International media brand. But it's

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01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: a lot of work when you manage talent. A lot

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01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:06,840
Speaker 1: of people don't understand that. Talk about your version or

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01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: your skills, or are the things that you put in

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Speaker 1: place so you can manage the different talent that you have. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think for me, you know, I'm an interesting intersection

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: because I spent many years in media. You know, you

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01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:23,440
Speaker 1: have essentially doing label relations um and developing interesting partnerships

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01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 1: for CBS Radio corporately. So we had a hundred any

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01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 1: radio stations, fifty program directors, and then I leave that world.

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01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:31,280
Speaker 1: I go into the life of festival. Business with festivals

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01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: were just really starting to take off in the United States. Right,

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01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 1: We're pioneers in that space, and now you see a

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Speaker 1: lot of festivals out there, but we were the first

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Speaker 1: to be there and then to jump over and help

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Speaker 1: help to run Red Light, which you know eventually became

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest management companies in the world. You know,

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Speaker 1: I had this, like am I seeing that this is

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01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: an interesting intersection where I have the ability to be

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01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 1: able to go in there and work with artists and

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01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:56,000
Speaker 1: when things come up absolutely to their career on one

1504
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 1: phone call away from you know, you know, figuring something

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01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: out in the life of that in the media space,

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01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: technology space, or the managers. I've been around there. I've

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01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: been always places. So one of the things that I

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01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: always try to be stone upon the young executives that

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01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:11,240
Speaker 1: work on my team and let's get you as diversify

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01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 1: it as possible, right in your skill set, in your

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01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: ability to be able to um speak from a strong

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01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 1: standpoint of various topics of business because you have experience

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01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: within those worlds. And you mentioned it, you said, I

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01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: hear you radio. You know red Light you talk about management,

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01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:29,679
Speaker 1: which means you see contracts, which means you you're dealing

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01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 1: with decision making situations. When you talk about the festivals,

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01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 1: you talk about the operational end. You know that those

1518
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 1: those things like really help you out. I'm say, calm writer,

1519
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: just myself. I'm the stand up comments. I understand talent

1520
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: to go, I managed shows, I produce shows. So when

1521
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 1: I walk in the room, there's a lot of information

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01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:51,600
Speaker 1: that I can absorb rapidly and make decisions associated with it.

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01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: And that's all you're saying to young people as they

1524
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: come into are being mentored by you. The more you know,

1525
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 1: the more diversified your pality is for information that you

1526
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: zor through experience. That's how you have longevity in this

1527
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:08,640
Speaker 1: business and respect in this business. Correct, Jonathan, that's absolutely right.

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01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: You know that's absolutely right. And in respected the big

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01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 1: thing I mean you want to you know, conducting character

1530
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:18,879
Speaker 1: and respect. Ultimately, that's all businesses, but especially within entertainment,

1531
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: especially as a minority with entertainment, you want to make

1532
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 1: sure you preserve that in the best way possible. So

1533
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: conducting yourself in the most positive, upbeat, respected, professional manner possible,

1534
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: you could do nothing but grow well, my friend, just

1535
01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: recap a little bit about your partnership with in Groove

1536
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: before we wrap up the interview. Uh that you you

1537
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 1: have Culture Collective Records. You have a partnership with in Grooves.

1538
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:44,120
Speaker 1: Talked to us about again while I was that launching

1539
01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: that manner and what's the future. Yeah, Luke James isn't

1540
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: a client that we worked with so many years in.

1541
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: Luke was a former major label artist and for various reasons,

1542
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:59,160
Speaker 1: Ted left the Island Records um uh label, which is

1543
01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 1: the major record able. And here here you was sitting

1544
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:05,640
Speaker 1: with a bank of beautiful music to put out and

1545
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 1: nobody to partner with to do it um. And you

1546
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: know we're as his managers, dealing with him on a

1547
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 1: daily basis on development his road map in his career.

1548
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 1: So well, what if we just develop a strategic relationship

1549
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: and let's work with the music out, Well we'll be

1550
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:23,759
Speaker 1: beliebel right, um. And I've done some work with Injuries

1551
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:25,720
Speaker 1: in the past, a lot of great success with them.

1552
01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:28,719
Speaker 1: And when I sat with them and launched Culture Collective

1553
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: a little less than a year ago, I wanted to

1554
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 1: their officers and share the vision in initial statement of

1555
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:34,800
Speaker 1: the company. It thought it was great, They thought it

1556
01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: was during much needed in the business and at the

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01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:38,680
Speaker 1: same time as if there's any way in which we

1558
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 1: can be helpful um to you or your clients, we

1559
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 1: should have a larger conversation. And that was you know,

1560
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 1: the birth of our first uh you know, you know,

1561
01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:51,680
Speaker 1: brain storms around coming together to develop a pipeline for

1562
01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:53,759
Speaker 1: us to be able to put music out through their system.

1563
01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:57,320
Speaker 1: So fast forward eight months later, you know, Luke James

1564
01:20:57,479 --> 01:21:02,120
Speaker 1: is putting out his release through the Injuries Universal Pipelining

1565
01:21:02,160 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: digital service providers. Um, we are gonna, we are gonna,

1566
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:08,600
Speaker 1: you know, working with ingres Um on all aspects of

1567
01:21:08,680 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: this release. And uh it's been great. It's in a great,

1568
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: great relationship, awesome as always, articulate, informative and uh spewing

1569
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:18,679
Speaker 1: out the knowledge we all need to hear. Johnathan Zoo,

1570
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 1: thanks for coming back on money making conversation. We're talking

1571
01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:23,960
Speaker 1: again this say another six months? Is that cool? Absolutely

1572
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:28,919
Speaker 1: appreciate your brother. Talk soon. And we're live here outside

1573
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Speaker 1: the Perez family home just waiting for that. And there

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Speaker 1: they go, almost on time. This morning. Mom is coming

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Speaker 1: out the front door strong with a double arm kid

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Speaker 1: carry looks like dad has the bags. Daughter is bringing

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Speaker 1: up the rear. Oh but the diaper bag wasn't closed.

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Speaker 1: Diapers and toys are everywhere. Oh but mom has just

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Speaker 1: nailed the perfect car seat buckle for the toddler. And

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Speaker 1: now the eldest daughter, who looks to be about nine

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Speaker 1: or ten, has secured herself in the booster seat. Dad

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Speaker 1: SIPs the bad clothes and they're off. Ah, but looks

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Speaker 1: like Mom doesn't realize your coffee cup is still on

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Speaker 1: the roof of the car, and there it goes. That's

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Speaker 1: a shame that mug was a fan favorite. Don't sweat

1586
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Speaker 1: the small stuff, just nail the big stuff, like making

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Speaker 1: and the AD Council. My next guest currently is a

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Speaker 1: motivational speaker, Arthur patent inventor in, an award winning behavioral

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Speaker 1: therapist for over sixteen years, and an entrepreneur. He recently

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Speaker 1: launched an apparel company called Gangster Mindset, LLC that is

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Speaker 1: redefining the word gangster with a positive spin. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations. Dr Mark D. Baxter, Thank you,

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01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 1: thank you. It's truly a pleasure in honor to be here.

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01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Mr Rashawn. It's always a pleasant, well

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01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:01,760
Speaker 1: awesome a friend. You know. I'm a member of the

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01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 1: Lincoln LinkedIn Social Media society. So I get a chance

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01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 1: to watch your videos, I'm motivated. Uh. I find them entertaining.

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01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:12,000
Speaker 1: I find them. Uh. I could never do them because

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01:24:12,040 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: you you know, you're very active. You're very active in

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01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 1: your in your in your video video. Explain that technique

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01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 1: that you developed in you in your videos. Well, I,

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01:24:22,200 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you, and when it comes to

1624
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 1: the videos, it's all passion, it's all purpose to me.

1625
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 1: I gotta drop a name for you. Paul Brunson, they

1626
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 1: recently moved to the UK. Has the Relationship show was

1627
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:36,400
Speaker 1: picked up my own years ago and they put them

1628
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: on a great path. I was in the Mastermind group

1629
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 1: with Paul and he said, Mark, your power, your energy

1630
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 1: is amazing, but you got to get it out to

1631
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: the world. So he said, in today's era of social media,

1632
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 1: you just gotta let it all out. And that led

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01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 1: me to start doing videos. And I was standing still.

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01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: He said, Mark, that's not enough. You too possible start

1635
01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 1: walking around. And then when I was in Atlanta, I

1636
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: was at John Hope Bryant's Hope Global for for him.

1637
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,719
Speaker 1: And I was the first one I did walking around

1638
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 1: and he said, that's good. Mark, I feel it. But

1639
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:08,320
Speaker 1: it's another level. And and and listen, Mr Rashwan, when

1640
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,679
Speaker 1: I started putting that video camera down and just start

1641
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: letting guy use me naturally, that's what you see today,

1642
01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: and that's what's bringing everyone in the world that's taking notice. Well,

1643
01:25:18,200 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 1: I take notice. I showed it to my staff. I

1644
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 1: told him, I said this, I helped up. I said

1645
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 1: this the guy one on my show right here, Mark,

1646
01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: look at it. Let guy right here look at it.

1647
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 1: Moves back, he runs to the camera, goes back, he

1648
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 1: makes that statement, and the steps back. I said, he

1649
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:34,160
Speaker 1: does it everywhere. He could be. He could be on

1650
01:25:34,240 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 1: the street, he could be in the parking lot, he

1651
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:38,040
Speaker 1: could be in front of the building. I just love

1652
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: the fact that you're saying you're willing to take your

1653
01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 1: your message wherever needs to be heard. That's basically what

1654
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:47,080
Speaker 1: you're saying in your videos. Correct. I am definitely saying that.

1655
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:49,880
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. See, I get motivated when I

1656
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:52,439
Speaker 1: can motivate others. God set me up, and see what

1657
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:55,680
Speaker 1: happens is that this is the only thing that's this

1658
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:59,679
Speaker 1: liberating for me, it's liberating. I've been holding that power

1659
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 1: and of so long and now you know, we getting

1660
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 1: the other questions later. But I made millions and lost

1661
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:08,639
Speaker 1: it all. But now I'm in alignment with my purpose.

1662
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,439
Speaker 1: So now I'm able to do things like this video

1663
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:14,120
Speaker 1: and just let all the power out because my job

1664
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 1: is to take the power that's in me and transferred

1665
01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 1: to the people of the world. Well, what you do?

1666
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:22,439
Speaker 1: You caught my eye and I find it because I

1667
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 1: feel you know when you when you're in this business

1668
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:28,000
Speaker 1: is a competitive business, Okay, motivation and information and you

1669
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: know what separates you what catches a person I and

1670
01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 1: and allows them to share your views, And that's the

1671
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:36,680
Speaker 1: whole thing in social media. You know, you're marketing and

1672
01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 1: branding machine. And so what's your hook, what's your take

1673
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,160
Speaker 1: on it and how you can grow your brand and

1674
01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 1: basically what you're doing and developing this technique? I find it. Uh,

1675
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: Can I congratulate you on that? And one of the

1676
01:26:49,560 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 1: reasons I'm a fan is because I know that's tied

1677
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: to a plan, a plan of action. Correct, yes, absolutely, absolutely, yes,

1678
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 1: it's definitely tied to a plan of action. And again

1679
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,719
Speaker 1: you know, um, and that's how ironic. We're in Black

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Speaker 1: History month, and um, what happened is that you know

1681
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 1: Martin had a dream. We all know that. But I

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01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: also had a dream at the age of fifteen. In fact,

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01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: I had the same dream each and every night for

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01:27:13,240 --> 01:27:15,479
Speaker 1: an entire year. And this is what it looked like.

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01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. When I wake up and fall back

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01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:19,679
Speaker 1: to sleep, to dream continue. When I go to sleep

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01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: the next night, the dream continues for an entire year.

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01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 1: So so Mr rashawn Is, I stand on your show

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01:27:25,439 --> 01:27:27,200
Speaker 1: and I sit and I spilled my heart out to

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01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: you into the audience. I'm here to tell you that

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01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 1: that dream is coming true right here, right now. So

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01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm a testament that life is real. You can create

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01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:39,960
Speaker 1: your own life. We're on a delayed gratification scale. That's

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01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 1: why your life is created by how you think, how

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01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 1: you feel, and how you respond to situations. I'll say

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01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: it again, your life is created by how you think,

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01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:54,080
Speaker 1: how you feel, and how you respond to situation. Well,

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01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 1: Mr back, you have not failed me so far in

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01:27:56,960 --> 01:28:00,760
Speaker 1: this interview. Now your book here, how to be One

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01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 1: with your Greatness. Before we get into the book, I

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01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:07,879
Speaker 1: had one question, though, what is your greatness, my greatness

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01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 1: and I And this is a great question. In fact,

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01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:11,880
Speaker 1: I was talking to a couple of friends the other day,

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01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:14,479
Speaker 1: and my view of greatness is that greatness is in

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01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:18,640
Speaker 1: the eye of the beholder, meaning that everyone's greatness may

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01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: look and feel different. That's why we're all made distinctively different.

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01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 1: And here's how you know, because that fingerprint that you

1708
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 1: walk around with that DNA is unmatchable. You can search

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01:28:30,200 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 1: the whole world, but there's no one that can specifically

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01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:37,720
Speaker 1: match your fingerprints. So that's basically what my greatness is

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01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: this to come and total alignment with that fingerprint, with

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01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: that uniqueness that I was created to be. So in

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01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:46,719
Speaker 1: doing that, and I'm trying to get into the book

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01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: a little bit, but you gotta come in alignment with

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01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:52,759
Speaker 1: your truth and the so so therefore you gotta first

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01:28:53,240 --> 01:28:55,680
Speaker 1: learn what your truth is. Because what life does. It

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01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 1: forces things on you. So it forces education, all these

1718
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 1: other things on But the true true definition of education

1719
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: is not systematic knowledge to go out and make other

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01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:08,600
Speaker 1: people wealthy. True definition of education is not is development

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01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:12,760
Speaker 1: from within. So we're already wired for greatness, but when

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01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: we come into this world, they've bombard you with other

1723
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 1: aspects of what you have to do, and often times

1724
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: we we put up these artificial layers to try to

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01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,960
Speaker 1: suffice all of these things that are coming at us

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01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: in life. When the truth of the matter is that

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01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: you're already wired for greatness. You just gotta resist the

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01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 1: external and believe and what's inside. My man. We're talking

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01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:40,000
Speaker 1: to Mark D. Baxter, author of How to Be One

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01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: with Greatness. You were Born to be great this book,

1731
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 1: I read it always what I when I do when

1732
01:29:46,400 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: I bring authors on the show. I always read the

1733
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: book to day out, you know, like I get up earlier,

1734
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,600
Speaker 1: read this so everything stays real fresh. And there was

1735
01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:57,679
Speaker 1: some really key moments in your growth, you know, five six, nine,

1736
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 1: early years. You know that with the mining and if

1737
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:02,439
Speaker 1: the reason I bringing that up because it's important to

1738
01:30:02,520 --> 01:30:07,719
Speaker 1: understanding you can be shaped so clean in those early

1739
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:09,760
Speaker 1: years and a lot of people understand how important it

1740
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:13,080
Speaker 1: is to start really, you know, putting a proper imprint

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01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:15,640
Speaker 1: on the kid, because those memories can carry you to

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01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 1: adulthood as it has you because it's it's written in

1743
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 1: your book. When you were five years old, when your

1744
01:30:22,120 --> 01:30:24,880
Speaker 1: brother Tony walked you down to your school for the

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01:30:24,960 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 1: first time he was excited and then he just let

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01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:32,240
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, it was a traumatic It was a

1747
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 1: traumatic experience. And what you you said that, Mr Rashawn,

1748
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 1: you said it. We are all a product of our home,

1749
01:30:39,880 --> 01:30:43,640
Speaker 1: our environment, and our experience. We are all products of

1750
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:47,320
Speaker 1: our home, our environment, and our experiences. And whatever you

1751
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:50,439
Speaker 1: choose to do back in the day, way mixed it

1752
01:30:50,479 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: in a pot like gumbo. So however you mix it

1753
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:56,040
Speaker 1: in your pots, and whatever recipe you come out with

1754
01:30:56,360 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 1: is what you have to deal with. See, I was

1755
01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:01,040
Speaker 1: challenged with a lot of adversity early on in my

1756
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: life and throughout my life because I understand for who

1757
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:06,880
Speaker 1: much has given, much is required. And see, you gotta

1758
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 1: change your perception of adversity. Adversity is not bad. Adversity

1759
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 1: is nothing more than growth opportunities because the only way

1760
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: you can grow is by being challenged. So you gotta

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01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,720
Speaker 1: change the way you look at adversity. And that's what

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01:31:21,880 --> 01:31:24,439
Speaker 1: my life has toward me early on in my life.

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01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:27,640
Speaker 1: I'm from I'm from a very dysfunctional household. I have

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01:31:27,720 --> 01:31:31,000
Speaker 1: a mom that didn't finish high school. She's from South Carolina,

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01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:32,800
Speaker 1: has to grow up really really hard. And I have

1766
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:35,599
Speaker 1: a dad that only went to the sixth grade from Savannah, Georgia,

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01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:38,439
Speaker 1: and they both migrated here to Philadelphia and and and

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01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:42,439
Speaker 1: created a relationship. And don't get me wrong, God rest

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01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:44,439
Speaker 1: my dad and my mom. I lost my dad on

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01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:46,760
Speaker 1: June eight to, two thousand and eighteen. I lost my

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01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:50,400
Speaker 1: mom on June twenty last year, two thousand nineteen. God

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01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:52,600
Speaker 1: rest their soul. But the truth of the matter is that,

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01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:55,679
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a realist. They should have never been married.

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01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:58,120
Speaker 1: You know, they created a high I love my siblings,

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01:31:58,160 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 1: and I'm thankful for being created, but you know, you

1776
01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:03,160
Speaker 1: gotta call us fade of space. And growing up in

1777
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:06,320
Speaker 1: the household it was very traumatic. I mean, they slept

1778
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:08,760
Speaker 1: in separate rooms, stretching to kill each other every day.

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01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:11,759
Speaker 1: And then we were in the hood, we were from poverty,

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01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 1: and then on top of that and so so so

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01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:18,639
Speaker 1: everything is just reinforcing the negativity. And then on top

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01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 1: of that, I was the youngest at all of this

1783
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 1: drive and all of this insight inside of me, and

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01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:30,960
Speaker 1: I had no outlet to let it out, no mentors.

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01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:33,839
Speaker 1: You know. That came later on and I found refuge

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01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:37,360
Speaker 1: to football and in church. That saved my life, and

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01:32:37,439 --> 01:32:40,040
Speaker 1: I poured all of my pain into it, and henceforth

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01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:42,000
Speaker 1: it got me a scholarship to college in football, and

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01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:45,280
Speaker 1: I got a tremendous relationship with God because I didn't settle.

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01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:49,440
Speaker 1: You know, you got a choice. I mean, listen, adversity

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01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:52,439
Speaker 1: comes free, but you gotta fight to secure the blessing.

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01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,599
Speaker 1: Every adversity comes with an equal with not greater blessing.

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01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: The adversity will find you free, but you gotta fight

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01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 1: to secure a blessing. And the difference is that us,

1795
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:06,800
Speaker 1: especially as a people, we've become comfortable with simply surviving

1796
01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: as this you get a reward for surviving. You know,

1797
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:12,639
Speaker 1: it's admirable to survive. But it's time that we start

1798
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:15,759
Speaker 1: to thride. So you gotta push the issue to thride

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01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: to get to those blessings. And that's what I just

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01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 1: learned how to do, and that's what I'm showing the

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01:33:20,040 --> 01:33:22,599
Speaker 1: world how to do it. He's doing on a First

1802
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:25,479
Speaker 1: of all, you're successful, and you called my attention. That's

1803
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 1: why you're on money Making Conversation. I'm talking to Mark

1804
01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:30,479
Speaker 1: the Baxter, the author of the book How to Be

1805
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 1: One with Greatness. You were born to be great, motivational

1806
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: He's honest. Uh, Mark, do you have a YouTube channel? Absolutely? Absolutely,

1807
01:33:39,360 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 1: if it's in my name, Mark Baxter, Mark Baxter, and

1808
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:45,559
Speaker 1: so to all the videos that I see on LinkedIn

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01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 1: stored on your your YouTube channel. YouTube, Absolutely, I have

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01:33:50,479 --> 01:33:53,519
Speaker 1: over to I have hundreds of videos on YouTube. I

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01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 1: haven't counted in a year, but I'm I'm very very

1812
01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:58,800
Speaker 1: active on YouTube, my daily videos on YouTube. In fact,

1813
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,800
Speaker 1: I've been doing videos on YouTube for years. It's just

1814
01:34:01,920 --> 01:34:04,519
Speaker 1: that I picked it up. I've had great people around me,

1815
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, runs to give me a vibe. You know,

1816
01:34:07,120 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm on you know, the Rash Donald's show. So it's amazing.

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01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 1: I'm getting people around. Success is closing in on me.

1818
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:18,280
Speaker 1: I can't lose. You can't lose, you can't not lose

1819
01:34:18,400 --> 01:34:20,599
Speaker 1: because of the fact that, first of all, I'm chasing

1820
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:23,559
Speaker 1: the man. I appreciate you. That's what money made conversation

1821
01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 1: is all about. First of all, individuals who willing, who

1822
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:29,240
Speaker 1: are willing to share their stories so everybody can find

1823
01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:32,560
Speaker 1: that the path can't be relatable, okay, because you know

1824
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:34,600
Speaker 1: you can see that journey. You can see superstars, you

1825
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:37,040
Speaker 1: can see millionaires, you see big cars, you see Blaining

1826
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:40,439
Speaker 1: basically was always played out in music videos. Now it's

1827
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 1: being played out in social media because people post their

1828
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:46,200
Speaker 1: best Nobody pay post their tragic Everybody wants post their

1829
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:48,840
Speaker 1: best clothes, the best play, the food, you know, the

1830
01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:51,960
Speaker 1: best vacation experience. You know, they're sitting them from They're

1831
01:34:51,960 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 1: standing in front the car. They might not even own

1832
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:55,280
Speaker 1: that car, but they're standing in front of you know,

1833
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:58,760
Speaker 1: so they're presenting that image to you. And so so

1834
01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:01,840
Speaker 1: you are. You're a guy who's sitting in the middle

1835
01:35:01,840 --> 01:35:04,920
Speaker 1: of all that. You know, you like like peeping through

1836
01:35:04,960 --> 01:35:07,719
Speaker 1: the curtains and guess who's on the other side. Mark,

1837
01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:10,639
Speaker 1: we know that said come on over here, don't be afraid,

1838
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:12,960
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, don't be afraid, and that's why I

1839
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 1: started Money Making Conversation. We will come back in our

1840
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:17,120
Speaker 1: next break and getting more detail on this board. I

1841
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 1: hope enjoying the interview here, Mark, because I'm so happy

1842
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:22,759
Speaker 1: you came on my show. I follow him on LinkedIn,

1843
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:27,080
Speaker 1: uh and uh he's spectacular on LinkedIn. He he motivates

1844
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:29,559
Speaker 1: me every week with his videos with his energy as

1845
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:32,200
Speaker 1: you hear in this interview is incredible. We'll be back

1846
01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 1: with more money Making Conversation with my man, Dr Mark Baxter.

1847
01:35:36,880 --> 01:35:39,720
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more from Marsa McDonald. The

1848
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:44,400
Speaker 1: money making conversations don't touch that down. Just Rashan McDonald

1849
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 1: and you're listening to money making conversations. I host this

1850
01:35:47,479 --> 01:35:50,360
Speaker 1: show to bring individuals on the show that can give

1851
01:35:50,400 --> 01:35:52,760
Speaker 1: you information on how to be successful. I know their

1852
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:55,479
Speaker 1: life is different, their path to success is different, but

1853
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:57,880
Speaker 1: they will share with you nuggets of information that will

1854
01:35:57,880 --> 01:36:00,719
Speaker 1: allow you to understand that your path after your dreams

1855
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:05,960
Speaker 1: can be achieved. One of the true uh and inspirations

1856
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:09,919
Speaker 1: of this whole technique, seeking your greatness, accepting your greatness

1857
01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:11,800
Speaker 1: is on the phone with me today. Is a very

1858
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:14,960
Speaker 1: successful book alcohol How to be One with Greatness. You

1859
01:36:15,040 --> 01:36:18,920
Speaker 1: were born to be great? Uh. Dr Mark d Factor Mark,

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01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:22,559
Speaker 1: how are you doing to day, my friend? I'm doing excellent.

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01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: Nesr Rashine and listen. It's such a pleasure to be

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01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 1: here and I want to thank you again for having

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01:36:27,000 --> 01:36:29,800
Speaker 1: me well great. Um. I was talking about we we

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01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:31,640
Speaker 1: kind of dipped in a little bit when you know,

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01:36:31,880 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 1: like I love the fact that you know you just

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01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:36,479
Speaker 1: told her on the story about your home life. But

1867
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,639
Speaker 1: it was these these little slices of life that stories

1868
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:43,880
Speaker 1: are experiences you provide your book, like like dealing with issues,

1869
01:36:43,960 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: how we how we will hide and how we will shield,

1870
01:36:47,120 --> 01:36:51,599
Speaker 1: how we tend to stop ourselves, like like expecting something

1871
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 1: that happened, and then when it doesn't have that happen

1872
01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:56,400
Speaker 1: that way, how do you deal with it? And that

1873
01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:59,719
Speaker 1: was that simple walk to school when your brother Tony

1874
01:36:59,840 --> 01:37:01,920
Speaker 1: was taking you. You thought he's gonna walk you all

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01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:04,280
Speaker 1: the way to school, and you was having a good time.

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01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 1: You know, you're barely keeping up with him with your

1877
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:07,680
Speaker 1: little short legs, and he was just he was just

1878
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:09,400
Speaker 1: walking normal. You know, what are you looking at? You?

1879
01:37:09,439 --> 01:37:11,320
Speaker 1: You just trying to keep up. And then you just

1880
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:13,479
Speaker 1: you just say a word or two. You thought there

1881
01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:15,960
Speaker 1: was gonna be like a big brother little brother conversation

1882
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:17,880
Speaker 1: and he's gonna just tell you about life on the way,

1883
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:20,160
Speaker 1: and he barely spoke to you. And then when he

1884
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:23,240
Speaker 1: was almost almost out of school, he just pointed at it.

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01:37:23,880 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: You got it from here, I got you now. But

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01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 1: that's what the life feels about though, because a lot

1887
01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:31,040
Speaker 1: of people, they get on the job, they think the

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01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:33,880
Speaker 1: job is gonna go this way, and then when the

1889
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:36,680
Speaker 1: when the job throws in the curve, how they how

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Speaker 1: they're going to be successful. That's what I took away

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Speaker 1: from that story. You walk in to school with an

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Speaker 1: expectation your brother's gonna take you to the front door

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Speaker 1: that school, and he didn't. How you dealt with it

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Speaker 1: along the way for the rest of your life. Really,

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Speaker 1: it's who you are today and and and I thank

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Speaker 1: you for the for the knowledge that you use with

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Speaker 1: social media and things, I say the same thing. Everybody

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Speaker 1: proclaim their own goodness is a perfect place for me

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Speaker 1: invent yourself. But no, you're you're you're a hundred percent right.

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Speaker 1: It's all about what how you handle the situations that

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Speaker 1: you're faced with. And when my brother was walking me

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Speaker 1: to school, um again, you were perfect. You're in your

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Speaker 1: analysis of me thinking it's going to be a big

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Speaker 1: brother and little brother interaction. I rarely saw him. He

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Speaker 1: was about sixteen years older than me. I was the youngest,

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Speaker 1: and it's a big gap in between us. And this

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Speaker 1: was individual time and then when he left me. But

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Speaker 1: what I had to realize, this is what I encourage

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Speaker 1: us all to do. The first person you have to

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Speaker 1: look at in any situation is yourself, because all of

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Speaker 1: the answers to life's problems are in the mirror. And

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Speaker 1: what I realized at a young age is that I

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Speaker 1: mislad my older brother. See, any situation that you're part of,

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Speaker 1: there's something that you gotta learn, even if it seems

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Speaker 1: like it's not your fault, Like if it seems like

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Speaker 1: you're Huney innocent, there's still something you gotta learn, or

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Speaker 1: else you wouldn't have never been encountered the situation. So

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Speaker 1: when I had to look in the mirror, I realized

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Speaker 1: that I created that situation because I used to act

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Speaker 1: tougher than I really was. You see, because I had

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Speaker 1: these older brothers that were cool, and I used to

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Speaker 1: act that way too. I act more mature. I had

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Speaker 1: some pride in there. Because of that pride is what

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Speaker 1: my brother called on too. He he felt those vibrations

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Speaker 1: and in his mind, he didn't feel like he was

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Speaker 1: doing anything wrong. He felt like he may have been

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01:39:26,400 --> 01:39:29,880
Speaker 1: doing me a favorite because I was. I was projecting

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Speaker 1: as if I was more mature than I really was.

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Speaker 1: So I had to look in the mirror fers to

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Speaker 1: acknowledge how could I do different or what how can

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Speaker 1: I change my behavior in order to get a different result.

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Speaker 1: And I had set the tone for the rest of

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Speaker 1: my life. And I realized I used to question God

1935
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Speaker 1: all the time because I didn't just have little things

1936
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Speaker 1: happened to me. I had big things happened to me.

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Speaker 1: Like I didn't E just break her arm. I broke

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Speaker 1: my femur bone, the biggest bone in your body, your

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Speaker 1: side bone. So I had to be in a body

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Speaker 1: cast for three to six months. I had to learn

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Speaker 1: how to walk all over again. So I didn't just

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Speaker 1: have little stuff happened to me, And I used to

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Speaker 1: always question, you know, God, why me? Why me? I

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Speaker 1: didn't ask for my mom not to like me. I

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Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I didn't ask for her to do,

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Speaker 1: to do anything in her power to try to tear

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Speaker 1: me down. You're the one that I looked to. You're

1948
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Speaker 1: you're my point guard, you're my go to first, and

1949
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Speaker 1: you're my quarterback. You know what I mean. But what

1950
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Speaker 1: I realized about life is that that was just life

1951
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Speaker 1: challenging me to be my best self. And now that

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Speaker 1: I was able to meet those challenges, that where they are.

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Speaker 1: And I mentioned earlier, every adversity comes with an equal,

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Speaker 1: if not greater blessings. Adversity comes free, but you gotta

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Speaker 1: fight to secure the blessings. And I'm just one that

1956
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Speaker 1: fights to secure my blessings. And now I'm just trying

1957
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Speaker 1: to help other people to fight to secure their well man,

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what I have you on this just to

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Speaker 1: tell my fans and my listeners are people who are

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Speaker 1: listening for the first time because it also plays out

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Speaker 1: on my YouTube channel, who might just click on your

1962
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Speaker 1: your photo and say wow, because I wanted to share

1963
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Speaker 1: your values. You know this book that you've written, How

1964
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Speaker 1: to Be One with Greatness? You were born to be great?

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Speaker 1: What can we buy this book at? Mark? Well, the

1966
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Speaker 1: book is an Amazon, I mean I published it through me,

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Speaker 1: uh the book Essence Essence Publishing, UM. And you can

1968
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Speaker 1: email me directly and I'll ship it out to you.

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Speaker 1: You know, I met M Baxter at Mark Baxter dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's M Baxter, b a x tr at Mark Baxter

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Speaker 1: dot com. UM. You can also hit my website Mark

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Speaker 1: at www dot Mark Baxter dot com and just shoot

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Speaker 1: me an info or whatever. But I'll get it to

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Speaker 1: you because and I appreciate you, Mr Rashaan, because it's

1975
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:44,519
Speaker 1: all about awareness. You know, a lot of people need

1976
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Speaker 1: exactly what I have, just like we all need each other,

1977
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Speaker 1: but we don't know, you know, so we have to

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Speaker 1: keep expecting and having a desire for better. It's all

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Speaker 1: about your desire. If you don't have a desire for better,

1980
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Speaker 1: better is not gonna come your way, you know. So

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Speaker 1: it's all about your desire. And uh, let's talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the business side of you. You. We

1983
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Speaker 1: know you're a great motivator. We know you you're passionate

1984
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Speaker 1: about your reminding people that your past. Do not allow

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Speaker 1: your past to determine your future, your destiny's chide to

1986
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Speaker 1: your effort. Now, you have a business that I wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring up to apparel company called Gangster Mindset LLC

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Speaker 1: is reading redefining the word gangster with a positive spin.

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Speaker 1: Talk about that absolutely, like I've always um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've always had designed being from the inner city, from

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Speaker 1: poverty and things like that, and coming out being a

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Speaker 1: being a man of character and integrity, you know, not

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Speaker 1: not perfect, but as pure of a hard as you'll find.

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Speaker 1: You know, I realized that, you know, it's all about

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Speaker 1: growth and development. You know, it's all about growth and development.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta put yourself in the best position so

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Speaker 1: you can continue to grow and develop. And that's all.

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Speaker 1: That's all that I do, and that's all that I

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Speaker 1: aspire other people to. The So Empartment Unlimited is a

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Speaker 1: company for individuals, businesses and then higher world and it's

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01:43:01,800 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: it's about coaching and consulting from a mindset and leadership perspective.

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01:43:06,040 --> 01:43:10,040
Speaker 1: So I have a mindset methodology program that I use

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Speaker 1: to take people and master themselves. Because I have a

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01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 1: personal quote, once you master yourself, life has no choice

2005
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 1: but to forever bowed down to you. I'll say it again,

2006
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:24,760
Speaker 1: Once you master yourself, life has no choice but to

2007
01:43:24,920 --> 01:43:28,479
Speaker 1: forever bowed down to you. And here's why. Because the

2008
01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:31,120
Speaker 1: world is all fake as you just mentioned social media,

2009
01:43:31,200 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 1: but yourself, you have your wired with greatness and authenticity.

2010
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:37,160
Speaker 1: So when you master that the world can't touch you.

2011
01:43:37,520 --> 01:43:41,519
Speaker 1: So in my company, I raised businesses, individuals, two levels

2012
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Speaker 1: unimaginable you know, gainster mindset of parer with a closing

2013
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Speaker 1: company I just dropped. And what it means is boldness, excellence,

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Speaker 1: and uniqueness. So every day I do a video and

2015
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:55,439
Speaker 1: I get three steps on that video. The last step

2016
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:58,439
Speaker 1: is always you got to develop against mindset. And I

2017
01:43:58,560 --> 01:44:01,720
Speaker 1: give a different description of what gangster mindset is in

2018
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Speaker 1: fact today's video. The third point is you got to

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01:44:04,560 --> 01:44:08,120
Speaker 1: develop a gainster mindset, a mind bold enough to believe

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01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:11,640
Speaker 1: that life is always happening for you and not to you,

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01:44:12,120 --> 01:44:14,880
Speaker 1: regardless of what it may look like or feel like.

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Speaker 1: My man, Okay, you know you got me fired up right,

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01:44:24,560 --> 01:44:27,640
Speaker 1: let's been messing accomplict. Thank you everyone. Well, you know

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Speaker 1: the beauty. First of all, you noticed that the last

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Speaker 1: time on my show. Because I don't reach out to

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01:44:31,560 --> 01:44:33,600
Speaker 1: people because I have a vision. People have called me

2027
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:36,280
Speaker 1: a visionary. I see things and how I talk to

2028
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:38,680
Speaker 1: people and these conversation. A lot of people call me

2029
01:44:38,760 --> 01:44:41,040
Speaker 1: their uncle. And you you can come into the Little

2030
01:44:41,080 --> 01:44:44,160
Speaker 1: Roushan Uncle club because of the fact that I want

2031
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:45,519
Speaker 1: to be there for you. You know, if you ever

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01:44:45,600 --> 01:44:48,080
Speaker 1: want to call and uh, I give myself. If you

2033
01:44:48,120 --> 01:44:49,760
Speaker 1: want to call and say, Rashan, what do you think

2034
01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:52,840
Speaker 1: about this? It's about not about me making money. It's

2035
01:44:52,840 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 1: about making ensure you that you're getting the advice from

2036
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Speaker 1: a successful person who's had many paths out there and

2037
01:45:00,360 --> 01:45:02,720
Speaker 1: and and many some people call me a renaissance man

2038
01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:06,639
Speaker 1: because I'm able to rechange myself. I'm able to reinvent

2039
01:45:06,760 --> 01:45:10,479
Speaker 1: the process of that path. I see an opportunity. What

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01:45:10,640 --> 01:45:12,960
Speaker 1: I do not do, Mark is think about it. I

2041
01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 1: go forward. You know, if we're shining over there thinking no,

2042
01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:19,880
Speaker 1: I think he's over there digging the ditch. Now, I

2043
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 1: think he's already laying the concrete to the foundation for

2044
01:45:22,640 --> 01:45:24,640
Speaker 1: his next house. I think that's what you're doing. So

2045
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:26,760
Speaker 1: when you turn out before we get off there, when

2046
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 1: you see you contribute most to business success, can you

2047
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:32,360
Speaker 1: give us some nuggets and what you mean when you

2048
01:45:32,400 --> 01:45:37,400
Speaker 1: say that statement? Oh man, listen, business success is nothing more.

2049
01:45:37,800 --> 01:45:40,519
Speaker 1: Before you got a business, you got an individual. All

2050
01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,240
Speaker 1: the team is as a group of individuals. And what

2051
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:46,080
Speaker 1: what makes it the team as the commitment to the

2052
01:45:46,200 --> 01:45:48,920
Speaker 1: common goal. You see. So in order to have a

2053
01:45:49,000 --> 01:45:52,720
Speaker 1: successful business, you gotta first have a successful why. You

2054
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:55,920
Speaker 1: gotta know your why. Why do you want this business?

2055
01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:58,599
Speaker 1: Who are you serving? Why do you want to serve

2056
01:45:58,720 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 1: that population? As Damon John says, I've been a rising

2057
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:06,080
Speaker 1: Grind ambassador. Now I'm a power Shift ambassador for Damon

2058
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:08,960
Speaker 1: John over the last two years, and his main thing

2059
01:46:09,479 --> 01:46:12,560
Speaker 1: is know your target audience, Who are you selling to

2060
01:46:13,640 --> 01:46:16,400
Speaker 1: So you gotta know your why, like why do you

2061
01:46:16,520 --> 01:46:18,600
Speaker 1: want to get this product or this service out? And

2062
01:46:18,640 --> 01:46:21,639
Speaker 1: then you gotta know who wants the service and products,

2063
01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:24,040
Speaker 1: and then you gotta find creative ways to put it

2064
01:46:24,120 --> 01:46:28,080
Speaker 1: in their hands, make them friends, make them, you know, customers,

2065
01:46:28,160 --> 01:46:29,800
Speaker 1: and you gotta and that's what you have to do.

2066
01:46:29,920 --> 01:46:33,519
Speaker 1: And you gotta constantly reinvent yourself. See the reason when

2067
01:46:33,560 --> 01:46:36,320
Speaker 1: Puffy and Damon John broke up, you know, I mean,

2068
01:46:36,400 --> 01:46:39,639
Speaker 1: not Puffy, when jay Z and Damon and David, I said,

2069
01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 1: Damon John. When Puffy and Damon Dad broke up, you

2070
01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:45,519
Speaker 1: know from Rocket Feller, you know what I mean. And

2071
01:46:45,680 --> 01:46:48,040
Speaker 1: jay Z said, okay, you may, you may hold make

2072
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:50,880
Speaker 1: another hole in his recordcy So, so what happened is

2073
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:55,519
Speaker 1: that jay Z was able to reinvent himself. Now you

2074
01:46:55,600 --> 01:46:59,080
Speaker 1: see billionaire Jazz It See this game is about reinventing

2075
01:46:59,120 --> 01:47:03,240
Speaker 1: yourself because sins constantly changed. Life is about evolution, constant change.

2076
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:05,439
Speaker 1: So if you think you can stay the same and

2077
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:08,920
Speaker 1: continue to rise and elevate your wrong, So in order

2078
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:11,240
Speaker 1: for you to be successful in life and in business,

2079
01:47:11,520 --> 01:47:14,479
Speaker 1: you gotta want you gotta know your why, sitting to

2080
01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:16,599
Speaker 1: the depth of it. You gotta know your why, why

2081
01:47:16,640 --> 01:47:18,840
Speaker 1: are you doing it? Why are you want to be successful?

2082
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 1: Who can you help? And then you gotta know who

2083
01:47:21,439 --> 01:47:24,120
Speaker 1: who you going to help, Who's who likes your product,

2084
01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:26,599
Speaker 1: who wants your product, who needs your product or service?

2085
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:29,240
Speaker 1: And then you've gotta find creative ways to make them

2086
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:31,720
Speaker 1: want it and need it over and over and over

2087
01:47:31,800 --> 01:47:36,120
Speaker 1: again while not being afraid to dive then and reinvent yourself.

2088
01:47:36,160 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Dr Mark the Baxter, the author of

2089
01:47:39,200 --> 01:47:42,000
Speaker 1: the incredible book How to Be One with Greatness. You

2090
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:44,200
Speaker 1: were born to be great. Mark, thank you for coming

2091
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:48,040
Speaker 1: on my show where you making conversations the pleasures all mine. Man,

2092
01:47:48,120 --> 01:47:49,800
Speaker 1: I thank you so much on the depth of my

2093
01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:52,040
Speaker 1: heart and we would talk to my friend keep winning

2094
01:47:52,240 --> 01:47:54,559
Speaker 1: and uh I keep watching those videos, so you better

2095
01:47:54,600 --> 01:47:57,720
Speaker 1: not stop. Okay, I can't stop. Won't stop. That's the

2096
01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:05,920
Speaker 1: puffy one for you. I've in this season of giving

2097
01:48:06,120 --> 01:48:08,920
Speaker 1: Coals has gifts for all your loved ones. For those

2098
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:12,400
Speaker 1: who like to keep it cozy, find fleeces, sweaters, loungeware,

2099
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Speaker 1: blankets and throws, or support minority owned or founded brands

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