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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Rashan McDonald's host, money Making Conversation masterclass. The

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Speaker 4: It's time to stop reading.

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Speaker 3: Other people's success stories and start living your own. My

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Speaker 3: guest is Kim Whitley's Nature graduate, activist, author, comedian, and

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Speaker 4: Was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and I found out raised

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Speaker 2: Seventeen.

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Speaker 4: We got talk. We got to talk with her. Her success.

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Speaker 4: No holloist started with.

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Speaker 2: Me as a cloud.

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Speaker 4: You know, That's all I knew. Then I found out

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Speaker 3: We would discuss her career outside of acting the legacy

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Speaker 4: You know, when you know somebody for a long time,

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Speaker 4: you know they talented. Kim Whitley is.

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Speaker 3: One of those people where before she started being as

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Speaker 3: called me.

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Speaker 4: He said, on who you recommend to be a funny hope?

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Speaker 3: I said, Kip with me? She knows, I said, I

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Speaker 3: just gifted. I mean she walked out on stage, nothing

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Speaker 3: come out there and host? I said, Kim Whitley, kick

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Speaker 3: there was something about you. First of all, you're not

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Speaker 4: And Earth when Fire was headlined.

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Speaker 2: That was when David David Arnold came with me.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and remember Anthony Hamilton was there, Steve Harvey were

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Speaker 2: And that's right, Smokey Robinson. That was so excited.

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Speaker 4: You remember that because Gladys Knight was hanging out. She

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Speaker 4: And I said, you come, and she came and paid it,

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Speaker 3: When did you start getting the stand up bug, which

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Speaker 2: I mean, we could really be transparent here because you're

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Speaker 2: And he said, I'm tired of seeing these ugly funny

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Speaker 3: Oh, Rashwan, I'm gonna tell you something and that I

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Speaker 3: When did they click that this is what you could

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Speaker 4: you're blasted.

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Speaker 3: Now you're able to generate revenue for yourself as a

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Speaker 2: Correct, Absolutely, Sean, you're hitting that one on the head

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Speaker 3: That's her gift, right when she said that, I'm teasing

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Speaker 4: When she said that, that made me laugh because once

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Speaker 4: That was huge. But then, like the funny part before

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Speaker 3: I gotta say to her that I didn't know okay,

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Speaker 4: Born in Cleveland, raised in Sudan, Africa. How are you right?

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Speaker 4: It was a lot.

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Speaker 2: It was a lot.

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Speaker 4: She's my good friend. She's a stand up extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: We didn't even talk about the podcast, we didn't talk

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Speaker 4: We've been talking about everything, but because.

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Speaker 4: So I'm sorry audience.

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Speaker 3: Raseean had the ass some things he never asked the

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