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Speaker 2: How y'all doing fellas good? How y'all doing fresh off investments?

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Speaker 2: Give it up for them? You know, I mean, an

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Speaker 2: amazing job for history, for real. So we had to

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Speaker 2: give everybody, you know what I'm saying, some motivation, some

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Speaker 2: games of course, some wisdom. How did the financial literacy

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Speaker 2: space start for you guys? Let's start there? Boys started

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Speaker 2: for me. I always was interested in business, like my

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Speaker 2: whole entire life, Like, I always wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know exactly what area I wanted to go into,

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Speaker 2: but I knew that I wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 2: I want to do business. And I used to play basketball.

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Speaker 2: I thought I was going to go to the NBA.

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Speaker 2: That was like my first passion. And then when that

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Speaker 2: work out, I had to figure it out. So I started.

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Speaker 2: I went back to home in New York, and I

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Speaker 2: started a career as a financial advisor and I was

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Speaker 2: helping people. He was actually my first client, I sold

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Speaker 2: them life insurance. So I was selling life insurance and

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Speaker 2: college savings plans and investing people's money. And I was

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Speaker 2: doing that when I was like twenty four years old.

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Speaker 2: So that for me was the origin story as far

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Speaker 2: as like how it started for me personally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for me, it really started with trying to help

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Speaker 3: kids learn about money. Because you are a teacher, a GGA.

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Speaker 3: I was a teacher in the Bronx for eight years.

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Speaker 3: And really, I mean, if you've been in public school,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, somebody said, right, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: And I had an opportunity to have a group of

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I figured, this is perfect.

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Speaker 3: If we're going to pay them, this is the opportunity

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Speaker 3: We should start teaching kids about money because if they

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Speaker 3: And so we started doing that, and then he had

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Speaker 1: I was like, this is great. Everybody would see what

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Speaker 3: Parents would hear about it, and they were like, I

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Speaker 3: led to him doing interviews. Those interviews people led to

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Speaker 1: And so one day he was like, look, you want

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Speaker 3: And at the time we hadn't listened to any podcast

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Speaker 3: So if he has an idea, I'm like, let's support it.

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Speaker 3: He said let's start a show. I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 6: So look, let me ask you this, at what point

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Speaker 6: effectively change your life forever.

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Speaker 3: I mean I learned it early. I'm you know, my

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Speaker 3: what that meant until years later. I was always asking questions.

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Speaker 3: And this is one of those things about being around

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Speaker 3: I didn't understand, right because I was doing a nine

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Speaker 1: And so I started teaching myself. They started having conversations.

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Speaker 3: I never forget there was a conversation that they had

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Speaker 3: So I made it my point to that day start reading,

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Speaker 3: feeling again, Right, bron, Really, what you think the big

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Speaker 3: what y'all think the biggest like disconnect between our people

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Speaker 2: Sexy Red, I think the biggest disconnect, The biggest disconnect

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Speaker 2: Like so it was like the goal was for you

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Speaker 2: that was like really pushed, Like that was something that

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Speaker 2: because that was like a very good job where you

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Speaker 2: This is the kind of mindset that we grew up with.

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Speaker 2: I like the crazy thing is like the people with

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Speaker 2: like the exactly. So I don't think people fully understand that,

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Speaker 2: kind of like systematic, like a robot pretty much, you

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Speaker 5: Because assembly line.

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Speaker 1: That's what we was taught to do.

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Speaker 2: So for the time you're like eight years old, to

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Speaker 2: doing that same program every single day, the repetition. You

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Speaker 1: Trained like that. Like what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So, I feel like a lot of our people were

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Speaker 1: So now now that we have the.

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Speaker 2: Internet, now that we have different examples, now that we

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Speaker 2: provide information, I think that that mindset is starting to change,

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Speaker 2: and now people are starting to understand, Okay, maybe I

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Speaker 2: should take this risk, so I can do this, so

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Speaker 2: I don't have to work a regular job for fifty years.

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Speaker 2: If you want to you can, but there's different options

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Speaker 2: for you. So I think just understanding how money works

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Speaker 2: in the mindset around money is something that we have

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Speaker 2: never really you know, fully understood and you used sexy read.

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Speaker 3: But the music pays a part in that too, right,

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Speaker 3: So we didn't learn financial intelligence just from school, like

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Speaker 3: sometimes we learned it from music, and it might not

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Speaker 3: I'm listening to music in the nineties and they're telling me, Yo,

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Speaker 3: challenge ourselves to invest in businesses that are scalable, right,

437
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:50,720
Speaker 3: and so in.

438
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Speaker 5: Our community speak on it.

439
00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,720
Speaker 3: Historically, we have the same type of businesses we're gonna

440
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 3: do the barbershop, the hair salon, in the restaurant.

441
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Speaker 1: Those are three and.

442
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,280
Speaker 3: They're great businesses, right, But when you get inside of

443
00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,960
Speaker 3: these businesses, it's tough to scale them, to replicate them.

444
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 3: And in fact, what you do is you end up

445
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,920
Speaker 3: working for your business and you're an employee for your business.

446
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,960
Speaker 3: And so in the age of technology and especially where

447
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,399
Speaker 3: we're headed in the next five years, we just came

448
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,760
Speaker 3: from a summit in California where they're talking about artificial intelligence,

449
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,400
Speaker 3: you're going to have to figure out how to scale

450
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,560
Speaker 3: and how to have a skill that can scale. And

451
00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,000
Speaker 3: so rather than you know, trying to run away from

452
00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 3: what's ahead of us, like you said, we need to

453
00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 3: educate ourselves to create businesses, collaborate with each other, to have.

454
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 1: A model that's scalable.

455
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Speaker 3: So now that you know it's something that can exist here,

456
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 3: it can exist in New York, it can exist in Africa,

457
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 3: it exists in London. And if not, we're going to

458
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 3: stay in the same segment, right because we can help

459
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 3: our families, we can maybe help our employees. But I

460
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,160
Speaker 3: want to challenge us to create businesses that can change

461
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,120
Speaker 3: the world. Like that should be our goal. We've done

462
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 3: this model for long enough. Let's do something that's progressive

463
00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 3: enough to say, all right, I can help a thousand,

464
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 3: a million lives, a billion lives.

465
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Speaker 6: Okay, and I want to I'm not trying to cut

466
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Speaker 6: anybody else off, but I wanted to ask you a question.

467
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 6: You were just speaking on group economics, and in your opinion,

468
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Speaker 6: do you think that the whole group economics theory is

469
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Speaker 6: why other races such as Asians and Jewish people are

470
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Speaker 6: so successful.

471
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.

472
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,640
Speaker 2: You only you can only go so far by yourself, right,

473
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 2: and people usually feel more comfortable with people that they

474
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,880
Speaker 2: have similarities with. So it's like, you know, if you're Asian,

475
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 2: it would make sense that you would do business with

476
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 2: people that you know come from the same exact country

477
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 2: that you could. You have the same dialect, you eat

478
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 2: the same food, you have the same religion. It makes sense.

479
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 2: So it's extremely important that you work with people that

480
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 2: you have similarities with. And that's just like a no brainer.

481
00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 2: That's something that's that should be something that we shouldn't

482
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 2: even really even have to fully explain at this point.

483
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,199
Speaker 2: I feel like if you don't understand at this point

484
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,679
Speaker 2: that you're making a mistake, if you're not collaborating with

485
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 2: other people, then you're not meant to actually be in

486
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 2: business because it's not gonna it's not gonna work for you.

487
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 2: Only models that have been successful have been collaborations. There's

488
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 2: very few models where collaboration has not been put in place.

489
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Speaker 1: So that's something that vitally is important.

490
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,440
Speaker 2: And like I said, that's us like we we work

491
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 2: together and it's not easy. Obviously you're gonna have issues,

492
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Speaker 2: But why would you want to start something by yourself.

493
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,080
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to do anything like by themselves. It's not easy.

494
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 2: So if you can find people that have similar goals

495
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 2: and like minded people, then that's the pathway to be.

496
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Speaker 3: Successful, and I think I think even in our community

497
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 3: it's something that we we still have to remind each

498
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 3: other about, which is kind of like alarming. Right, you

499
00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 3: should shot black, you should shot black. Where in other

500
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 3: communit it's a given, it's a standard, right, Like if

501
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 3: I'm come from the Jewish community and I'm probably gonna

502
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 3: have a Jewish dentist, a Jewish doctor, a Jewish lawyer.

503
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 3: These things are standards, right, Like we the essentials, these

504
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 3: are the essential things. But we have to remind ourselves.

505
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 3: We're so giving and so naive it to a certain

506
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 3: extent that we'll go out and find every other culture

507
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 3: outside of ourselves to do business with.

508
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: And so even having to remind it.

509
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 3: That's why I said, I want to challenge everybody, especially

510
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 3: in the next five to ten years, that we have

511
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 3: to really look forward and say, all right, this should

512
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 3: be the standard. This is how we circulate our dollar,

513
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 3: this is what it looks like when we work together.

514
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 3: Us even being here is something that we're working together,

515
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 3: even with you know, Noahen, Ryan and Paul last week

516
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 3: we were with Puff doing his showing up for each

517
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 3: other in a big way. Everybody coming to invest us,

518
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 3: everybody here patron and both and all three of these things.

519
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 3: This is how we show group economics. This is how

520
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 3: we show when we support each other. We didn't have

521
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 3: to ask it. You know that there's value here, right,

522
00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 3: You didn't have to go anywhere else.

523
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 1: You should do it. You should want to do it. Actually.

524
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 2: But then also I want to say, we really have

525
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 2: to educate each other the difference between consumerism, consumption and support.

526
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 2: So I was talking to my friend yesterday. He has

527
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 2: a clothing line, and he was like, a very big

528
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 2: NBA player wears his clothing for free. And the NBA

529
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 2: agent told them, like, you know, I told I don't

530
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 2: know why he's wearing your clothes for free. So, as

531
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 2: black people, we have to fully understand the difference between

532
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 2: consumption and support, right, meaning if we wear like if

533
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 2: you got a T shirt and I wear your T

534
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 2: shirt now, I think that you owe me from wearing

535
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 2: your T shirt, right, or I hold it over your

536
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 2: head like I did you a favor, But I.

537
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: Ain't have to.

538
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 2: You ain't have to do a favor to wear Rolex

539
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 2: or Mercedes bits. You don't have to say, hey Lucky,

540
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 2: I drove this car. Right, But it's like whenever we

541
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: support each other. We always look at it like it's

542
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,639
Speaker 2: support transition, it's not support. Like support is a very

543
00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 2: dangerous word right now. They can't be support, whether it's

544
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 2: in the form of mentorship or I introduce you to somebody,

545
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 2: or I go over it out of my way of

546
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 2: actually making a commercial for you. But everybody has to

547
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 2: wear clothes. So I'm making a decision to wear clothes.

548
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 2: If I make a decision to wear a black designer's clothes,

549
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 2: well that's consumption because I like the color pattern, I

550
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 2: like the fabric, and I'm wearing it just like I

551
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 2: like Nike's or I like Cardier frames. I'm not looking

552
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 2: at it from a standpoint of I'm supporting Cardier. Never

553
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 2: looked at it if I'm a standpoint of I'm supporting.

554
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 5: Nike or trying to further the brand.

555
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: Right, So it's like that's that's another mindset that we

556
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 2: have to If you go into a black restaurant, you're

557
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 2: going to that black restaurant because you made a conscious

558
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 2: decision that you were hungry and you thought that their

559
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 2: food was good and you should just do it and tip,

560
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 2: and that's it, right. But the mindset of like, well,

561
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 2: now you owe me because I'm supporting your business, even

562
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 2: if it's done with you know, a mindset of okay,

563
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 2: this is actually I'm supporting black business. Well that's actually

564
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: dangerous because that word support lends to charity, and charity

565
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 2: is something that we have to get out of. Right,

566
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 2: this isn't a charitable situation. It's a for profit organization,

567
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 2: not a nonprofit organization. When you when you go to

568
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 2: invest FST, you're you're paying your money because you want

569
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 2: to learn something and you want to be around the vibe.

570
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: And that's it.

571
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 2: It's not you never looked at Phil Knight like what

572
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 2: do you What did you do with this money that

573
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 2: I gave you? Right right, I better not see your

574
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 2: magic city. Did you give it back to the did

575
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 2: you give your five percent back to the neighborhood. I've

576
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 2: never heard it before. So that's another thing that we

577
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 2: got to really look at for black businesses.

578
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: Stop doing that.

579
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 2: Support the black business because you want to support it

580
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 2: because you you look to see the value in it.

581
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 2: Don't support it because you think that it's a charitable organization.

582
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: Because when you when you do that, then you're gonna

583
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 2: look at it like it's a church where it's like, Okay,

584
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna scrutinize you, I'm gonna keep tabs on you,

585
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make sure that you do everything right. And

586
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: we don't do that for any other organization in the

587
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 2: world except for black.

588
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: Businesses and the rest.

589
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 3: The restaurant thing is a perfect example, right, Like, we

590
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 3: can go to a black restaurant just because we, I

591
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 3: guess want to support and let the food come out cold. Right,

592
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 3: we're writing with terrible views, we're never going back, But

593
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 3: when we go to McDonald's and the fries come out cold,

594
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 3: we're like, all right, we're gonna be back next week

595
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 3: and our kids are hungry. We don't hold each other

596
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 3: to the same they don't hold corporate to the same standard,

597
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 3: and so we got to keep that in mind, right, Like,

598
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 3: have grace the same way you would have for McDonald's

599
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 3: or any other company or fry or wherever you patron

600
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 3: that have the same grace, have the same patience when

601
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 3: it comes to us, right, because those are franchises that

602
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 3: have been here for decades, right, Like a lot of

603
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 3: us are first generation, and so we got to have

604
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: grace for each other, even at the highest level.

605
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: I'll talk about this all the time.

606
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 3: The people that we've seen a sin to success, the

607
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 3: billionaires that we've seen, we've all seen them in our lifetime.

608
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: Right.

609
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 3: This isn't like something like the Walton family where oh

610
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 3: you read stories about that. No, we actually watched buff

611
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 3: do it. We watched Jay do it, we watched over

612
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 3: do it. We watched Tyler Perry, we watched Robert Smith, Dave.

613
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 3: We've watched all these things happen in our lifetime. They're

614
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 3: going to make mistakes. We're gonna make mistakes. We gotta

615
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 3: have grace for each other and patience with each other.

616
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 6: So basically, do you feel like when it comes to

617
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 6: like black businesses and basically us supporting us, that support

618
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 6: subconsciously turns into entitlement.

619
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, Yep, that was great. That's that's a very

620
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 2: good observation. In fact, button that's actually excellent. Thumb is

621
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 2: that our time is that really our time? That's time,

622
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 2: that's our time over time, she said, She says the time. Look,

623
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta do this.

624
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: We're gonna go We're running it out full ball, Josh,

625
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 3: were running this.

626
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, forget that. They gotta get security.

627
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 4: For us.

628
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: A real, real, real quick question.

629
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you guys have earned your leisure

630
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 2: or is that a consistent thing to continuously earn your leisure,

631
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: because you see, I'm kicking it too. It's a consistent thing.

632
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: You could never feel like you made it. Once you

633
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: feel like you made it, then that's when it all

634
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: falls apart.

635
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: So you know it.

636
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 2: Always gotta keep your head down, always gotta keep working.

637
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: There's always new levels. No matter what level you're at,

638
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 2: there's another level to go to. So I think that's

639
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 2: that's extremely important, and that's something that you know for

640
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 2: any level of life that you're in, right, I think

641
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: it's extremely important to never become satisfied and never feel

642
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 2: like you know you're at the top of the hill, right,

643
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: Always remain humble and always remain hungry. That's something that

644
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 2: we learned from the greats. Like even if you look

645
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: at Kobe, if you look at Mike, if you look

646
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 2: at Floyd. I saw Floyd run at in Fountain Blue.

647
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: I'll never forget. A couple of years ago, I was

648
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 2: in Fountain Blue. I was driving, it was twelve o'clock

649
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: at night, I was going back to change, was going out,

650
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: and I saw him running by himself in the middle

651
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: of Fountain Blue Hot on the highway, and he wasn't

652
00:29:58,840 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: training for a fight.

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Speaker 1: And this is what you don't see. You're see him

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Speaker 1: with the eighteen million dollar watch.

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Speaker 2: You see him with the yacht, but you don't see

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Speaker 2: like because he's been fighting since he was five years old.

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Speaker 2: It's winners have habits, right. How you do one thing

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Speaker 2: is how you do everything right. So it's like I

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Speaker 2: when I saw that, I gained the whole new level

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Speaker 2: of respect for him because it was like there was

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Speaker 2: no cameras around, there was no hype man, there was

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Speaker 2: no fight coming up, but he was running at twelve

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Speaker 2: o'clock at night because he understands that that's the level

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Speaker 2: of dedication and determination that it took for him to

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Speaker 2: get there, and he never wants to lose that. So

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Speaker 2: I just encourage everybody to just make sure that when

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Speaker 2: you reach success, understand that you're still at the bottom.

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Speaker 2: Like that's how we look at it, Like no matter

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Speaker 2: how high you are, you still at the bottom.

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Speaker 1: You got to keep going.

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Speaker 3: I'll just quickly add that Kobe, like errlisia is a

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Speaker 3: phrase that really just means this levels to freedom.

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Speaker 1: There's a NonStop pursuit of freedom.

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Speaker 3: And Kobe said this prior to his pass and he

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Speaker 3: was like, post his career, if he's remembered for playing basketball,

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Speaker 3: then he's filled that life.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, he's still in pursuit of greatness.

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Speaker 3: So, whether that was going into film, whether that was

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Speaker 3: going into creating academies, where it was going into education,

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Speaker 3: there was still pursuits, there was still goals, there was

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Speaker 3: still the chasing pursuit of that leisure, that freedom, And.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of how the mindset is.

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Speaker 3: There's always a new obstacle, there's always a new challenge,

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Speaker 3: and we're always going to attack it that way.

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Speaker 1: Big shouts out to ear your leisure, big shots.

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Speaker 5: Biggest ever.

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Speaker 4: That's a FACTI E Y L big facts.

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Speaker 1: It's big facts, No captain, bitch,