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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry

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Speaker 1: my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations Here we come.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, Rashwan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I recognize that we all have different deficitions of success.

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Speaker 1: For you, it may be the size of your paycheck.

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Speaker 1: Mine has inspired people to accomplish their goals and live

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Speaker 1: their very best life. It's time to stop reading other

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Speaker 1: people's success stories and start writing your own. People always

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Speaker 1: talk about their purpose or gifts. If you have a gift,

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Speaker 1: My guests today are Power Cup Rashawn Casey, known as

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Speaker 1: DJ Mvy and gr Casey. They host the popular podcast

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Speaker 1: The Casey Crew. Their podcast explores the good, bad, and

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Speaker 1: ugly size of relationships and family life. It has been

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Speaker 1: ranked by Essence is one of the best podcasts about

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Speaker 1: Black love and family. Rashan is also host of the

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Speaker 1: popular Breakfast Club alongside Charlemagne the Garden Angela Lee. He

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Speaker 1: currently lives with his wife Jill in the New Jersey area.

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Speaker 1: Their book, which will be just reading about today and

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Speaker 1: to good morning. Actually I read it twice. It's a

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Speaker 1: very entertaining narrative about how to grow together in a

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Speaker 1: relationship and the aspirational guy book for people who seek

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Speaker 1: the same unconditional love in their relationship and an in

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Speaker 1: depth look at how to remain equals after being thrust

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Speaker 1: into the public eye. In it, the cases share their

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Speaker 1: to maintain this long standing relationship. Please welcome to Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation Masterclass. Rashawn Casey and gr Casey. How y'are doing?

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Speaker 1: They are wonderful. Thanks for having us. Well, let's get

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Speaker 1: some looks a little ground like. My name is Rashan,

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Speaker 1: If you don't mind for an interview, can I just

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Speaker 1: call your d J Envy so we want Yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: capital got very creative. Oh that's awesome. That's awesome. But

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Speaker 1: you know, when you write a book like this, I've

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Speaker 1: been I've been blessed, you know. I've been with Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey when he wrote his act Like a Lady, Think

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Speaker 1: we sold three million copies and and thirty languages worldwide,

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Speaker 1: and when you and I like the book. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it's not about color, which I think is really smart

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Speaker 1: Was there a conscious effort to my not making a

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Speaker 1: book for black women a book for black men because

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Speaker 1: it's a book about men and women. No, it's a

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Speaker 1: book about love and finding true love, growing in that

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Speaker 1: true love, and maintaining So for us, love is universal,

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Speaker 1: So it could speak to anyone specifically, if you desire

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was in high school and uh

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Speaker 1: blown me away that, wow, how did they understand that

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Speaker 1: to I was thirty two and I've been married for

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Speaker 1: thirty three years. As you know, there's a journey in

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Speaker 1: those thirty three years, as there's a journey in your book.

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Speaker 1: And so I've had my share with ups and downs

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Speaker 1: that early knowing there was something special if you believe

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, because see, I couldn't deal

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Speaker 1: me not being in this world will be better for

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Speaker 1: her and better for my kids. And I was there,

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Speaker 1: like I was there, it was no longer I thought

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Speaker 1: that was so if that's how I felt. I felt

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Speaker 1: like me not being here would be better off for

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Speaker 1: everybody else. And when my wife said she didn't want

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Speaker 1: to be my wife anymore, I felt like life was

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Speaker 1: going about like there's no there's no reason to live,

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Speaker 1: you know here here I am uh a young fellow.

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Speaker 1: At the time, I had a lot of money, We

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Speaker 1: had everything that we thought we need, right we had

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Speaker 1: cars and homes and in vacations and jewelry and shoes

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Speaker 1: and bags and speakers, and all of that meant nothing.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that I wrote it and the only

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Speaker 1: thing that meant the most to me, I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to be with me anymore. And at that moment right there,

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to be anymore. And that's how I felt. Wow,

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Speaker 1: And you wanted to say something, Yeah, no, I'll let you.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you, Okay, cool, you know, because see it

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Speaker 1: comes into players. I have one child, and uh, because

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Speaker 1: I don't want to keep you alone, because it's I

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Speaker 1: could be talking to y'all forever here, because I enjoyed talking,

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Speaker 1: you know. You know my one child my wife said

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Speaker 1: she didn't want to have because I was never home.

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Speaker 1: I always tell people, you know, I just stand up comic.

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Speaker 1: I left Stand up comment in a eight and went

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Speaker 1: to New York and lived in New York for two years,

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Speaker 1: and lived in the l a for fifteen years. I

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Speaker 1: think that the first part of our lives, I may

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Speaker 1: have been we may have been married like twelve years,

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Speaker 1: we may have been together like three years in the

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Speaker 1: same place, and so but and I have a little

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Speaker 1: tape for my daughter. Well, I kind of like to

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Speaker 1: have raised my daughter on the phone. And I have

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Speaker 1: this what she she called leave a message. I love you,

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Speaker 1: dadd and my dad and I gave it to on

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Speaker 1: twenty birthday and just surprised her and I. And it

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Speaker 1: says that your children are always watching, listening, and learning.

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Speaker 1: That's the line from your book. And and I want

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Speaker 1: that we forget that. We forget that just because we

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Speaker 1: can be in another room talking, they don't see the body,

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Speaker 1: they don't understand our body language. Just because we can

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Speaker 1: raise our voice here, they don't hear that. In this

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Speaker 1: book about relationship, can you play and let our listeners

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Speaker 1: see and hear the importance of recognizing your children are

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Speaker 1: always learning, they're always watching, and they're always listening. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we are our children's first and most significant teachers. People

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Speaker 1: think that when you have good children, they're just inherently

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Speaker 1: that way, as though they just became good by happenstance.

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Speaker 1: For in the same respect bad as some parents like

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Speaker 1: to describe their kids, which I don't agree with, but

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Speaker 1: we'll let that go by happenstance. Um. When you have

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Speaker 1: good children, it is because they were raised by parents

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Speaker 1: or grandparents or whomever who was deliberate and very intentional

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Speaker 1: about their upbringing, about the lessons that they were taught.

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Speaker 1: That is vital. We don't just teach by sitting down

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Speaker 1: and explaining things to our children. We teach by action.

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Speaker 1: We teach simply by living, and children are always watching.

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Speaker 1: Even when not watching intentionally, they're always watching. They're learning.

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Speaker 1: We lead by example, and they use our lives and

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Speaker 1: how we deal with people, how we deal with situations

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Speaker 1: as their first line of reference points. So whenever I'm

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Speaker 1: around my children, I make sure that I'm on my

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Speaker 1: best behavior because we try to find things intentionally and

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Speaker 1: unintentionally to teach our children. For instance, Shawan Lee is

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Speaker 1: a very stressful life. He has I don't know six

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Speaker 1: seven different businesses and that that requires a lot of time.

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Speaker 1: It requires a lot of work, a lot of energy. Um.

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Speaker 1: He's expended mentally all the time. His eyes are often low,

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Speaker 1: and he tries his very best to not bring that

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Speaker 1: into the house, Like he takes those shoes off at

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Speaker 1: the door. Sometimes it doesn't always work, and those shoes

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Speaker 1: come inside the house with him, and sometimes I bear

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Speaker 1: the brunt of it. Sometimes the kids bear the brunt

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Speaker 1: of it. And with those same kid gloves we talked

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Speaker 1: about earlier, I might sit him down and say, you

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Speaker 1: know what, when Logan asked you about whatever it was, UM,

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Speaker 1: you could have handled him a little bit differently. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think that he probably walked away thinking that you

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Speaker 1: didn't care, that you were yuessing him, that you weren't

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Speaker 1: really paying attention. So you might want to go and

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Speaker 1: have a conversation with him, and Rashaun will park up

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Speaker 1: and say, Okay, is that is that really what you

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Speaker 1: took away? Absolutely, that's what I took away, And he'll

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Speaker 1: walk down the hole and go to the Logan's room,

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Speaker 1: knock on the door, sit down and apologize and say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I've been overworked this week and I

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Speaker 1: didn't really have that much pace and patience. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: really there when you were talking to me. I am sorry,

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Speaker 1: and let's have that conversation again. Let's let's redo it.

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Speaker 1: And my son not only gets to have his father

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Speaker 1: present in those moments, but he's able to learn that

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Speaker 1: apologizing isn't soft, Apologizing doesn't make you less of a man,

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Speaker 1: a real man could admit when he's wrong, a real

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Speaker 1: man and unveil his flaws and take accountability for it.

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Speaker 1: We're teaching an accountability not just by the words, but

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Speaker 1: by the actual actions. Well you know that's what these

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Speaker 1: because about accountability. And and I love the fact that

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Speaker 1: there's a great clothes we can we just I can't

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Speaker 1: in the interview better than what you just said, because

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Speaker 1: you scream out the world communicate me to communicate, communicate,

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Speaker 1: but also should be screamed out the accountability, accountability, accountability,

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Speaker 1: and you should be screamed out if you're gonna bring

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Speaker 1: children into this world accountability, accountability as well as communicate, communicate,

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Speaker 1: share responsibility. This book is a beautiful book. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you for allowing me to read it. I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you for allowing me to share my

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Speaker 1: life into your book. Because you poured into me words

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Speaker 1: I was able to pour back in conversation. A brilliant

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Speaker 1: piece of work. Thank you and God bless you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so well, I just want to say mean from you

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Speaker 1: that means the world to us. Now this is you know,

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Speaker 1: you know I am where I am and um and

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Speaker 1: people tell me I'm a straight shooter, and I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't have time to tell people a lie. But

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Speaker 1: when I read the truth and I'm able to share

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Speaker 1: it like this, and I've never my wife hid his interview.

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Speaker 1: She should tell you he's never talked like this on

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Speaker 1: the radio to nobody. Thank you so much, thank you,

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Speaker 1: because she's just like you like and you know you

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Speaker 1: said you in the book and said you didn't do

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Speaker 1: social media. One part that's like you can't find a

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Speaker 1: picture of her nowhere, okay, and so but I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do my best and do what I do here or

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Speaker 1: thank you for the time again. You guys are fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on. Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having us about, they say, we'll be right

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Speaker 1: back with more money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. This week, I said that

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Speaker 1: with what Winning Multimedia Maverick Talent Manager, executive abuser Arthur

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Speaker 1: and CEO Mona's Got Young. She provides advice on taking

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Speaker 1: the time to appreciate where you are. You gotta keep

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Speaker 1: you and keep it moving but you know what I've

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Speaker 1: been thinking about a lot ristaurant lately, just the need

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Speaker 1: to sit still for a minute and to appreciate who

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Speaker 1: you are right now in the moment. And it's not

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Speaker 1: about I mean complacent. It's about taking stock and showing

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Speaker 1: yourself appreciation right for what you've a published and then

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Speaker 1: using that to propel you to the next stage, because

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Speaker 1: a lot of times, like you said, we'll go go, go,

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Speaker 1: go go, that we don't stop to really recognize where

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Speaker 1: we've come from, where we are in the moment, and

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Speaker 1: how we can take all of that experience, knowledge, know

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Speaker 1: how you know, and and use it as we move forward.

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Speaker 1: If you want to listen to this four interview with

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Speaker 1: Mona Scott Young is available on money Making Conversations dot com.

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Speaker 1: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: My guests on Moneyment says master Class feature guess is

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Speaker 1: today as a therapist turned heart healthy food entrepreneur, are

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Speaker 1: shown your Scott. We're shouting the spotlight on her St

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Speaker 1: Marie Salad Dressing Company so others can learn more about

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Speaker 1: her heart healthy and delicious products handcrafted from her very

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Speaker 1: own kitchen that is saving lives. She's based in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Their products are Vegan Healthart, heart Healthy, low sodium, dairy free,

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Speaker 1: gluten free, and Delicious Dressing, marinades and sauces are shown.

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Speaker 1: Your s good never intended to make history by creating

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Speaker 1: something to help people suffer from suffering from such a

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Speaker 1: preventable disease, heart disease. It's affecting black people and women

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Speaker 1: by astounding numbers. Please welcome to money making Conversations masterclass

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Speaker 1: are shown Your Scott. How you know what, Miss Scott,

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Speaker 1: I'm great, Thank you, thank you for having me reshin. Well,

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Speaker 1: let me just because we're talking about heart disease. I

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Speaker 1: remember you know that it's a silent killer. They always

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Speaker 1: say heart disease. He's facts, everybody, you know. I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to turn this into a dog show because I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about, you know, her salad dressing and

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Speaker 1: she's an entrepreneur and how she's she's trying to grow

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Speaker 1: her brand and she and her brand is tied to

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Speaker 1: salad dressing, but she's figured out a way to not

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Speaker 1: only serve a great product, but also serve a great

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Speaker 1: product and how that can also help you live longer.

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Speaker 1: Heart disease, here's a fact, is the leading cause of

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Speaker 1: death for men, women, and people of most racial and

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Speaker 1: ethnic groups in the United States. One person dies every

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Speaker 1: thirty six seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease,

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Speaker 1: about a hundred and about six hundred and fifty nine thousand.

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Speaker 1: Let's get that democratic About six hundred and people in

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Speaker 1: the United States die from heart disease each year. That's

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Speaker 1: one and mber four deaths. I'm making this statement. Was

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Speaker 1: something personal motivated you, that motivated you to create this

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Speaker 1: line of salad dressing? Yeah, absolutely, losing my mom when

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Speaker 1: I was fifteen and feeling helpless. I felt helpless in

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Speaker 1: that moment um. You know, she complained she was normal

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Speaker 1: that day, totally normal, normal activity, cooking during the usual

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Speaker 1: household tourists, and that evening she was just like, I

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Speaker 1: need some air. She didn't know what it was, but

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Speaker 1: she couldn't breathe. And then all of a sudden she

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Speaker 1: collapsed and said, you know, the last thing she said

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Speaker 1: would make something of yourself. And that was the last

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Speaker 1: time I saw her and heard from her. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: now that that impacted me, and a it was a

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Speaker 1: negative thing that impacted me in a positive way. Right

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Speaker 1: because you didn't know. And and when did you find

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Speaker 1: out what you know, the exact reason for her death?

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Speaker 1: And how did that affect you? Because you had to

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Speaker 1: It was an educational period you had to go through

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Speaker 1: to know it wasn't your fault. It was something that

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Speaker 1: you know, somebody, some people said the word God's will

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Speaker 1: or her time. And you know there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: cliches come out when people die unexpectedly. And so how

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Speaker 1: did that whole period of a guilt, frustration, sadness um

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Speaker 1: manifests itself until you being an entrepreneur who has an

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Speaker 1: award winning sala addressing right now and Marinate talks, Well,

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Speaker 1: it really it changed me. You know, the sudden impact

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Speaker 1: of losing her changed me. You know, it was eye

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Speaker 1: opening and it was just something that made me realize, like, wow,

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Speaker 1: there's something you know that I need to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: I need to make something of myself. Number one. That's

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Speaker 1: what she said. So at that moment, I took nothing

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Speaker 1: for granted, like everything was intentional, even finishing high school

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Speaker 1: in three years. Games were over and so you know,

640
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Speaker 1: being helpless in that moment, I felt like I needed

641
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: to be in healthcare. So I looked into becoming a nurse.

642
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: That wasn't it. And so I found therapy and that's

643
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: that's where I found my need to help other people.

644
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Speaker 1: I love. I love what nursing wouldn't it? Nursing wouldn't Why? Why?

645
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: Why why not nursing? You know, because you said it's

646
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Speaker 1: so quick. That wasn't nursing With extremely it's not as

647
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Speaker 1: easy as it looks. You know. Well, you know a

648
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: lot of people say, you know, like I, I would

649
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: love to be a doctor, but I'm not the person

650
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 1: you won't cut on you, okay, because I just don't

651
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: have that. You know. It's it's like it's it's a

652
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: it's a couple of things I could not do in life.

653
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: You know I would want to do it. One, it's

654
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: being a pilot. You don't want me landing your planes.

655
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: It's something about coming in and holding it steady. And

656
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: a surgeon. You know, I could probably be adentist, but

657
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure sure a couple of cavities would run me off.

658
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: You know. Oh yeah, it's pretty So you went into therapy.

659
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: When you say therapy has a broad meaning there what

660
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: what type of therapy did you go into? I went

661
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:57,439
Speaker 1: into with the you know, physical occupational therapy license occupational

662
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: therapists and um, so I I'm very creative in that aspect.

663
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: That's why I am an entrepreneur. But I love to

664
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 1: help people too, so that fit right into what I

665
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: needed to do, you know, because occupational therapy is usually

666
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: a creativity to help people with deficits, you know what

667
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Rather it's mental, Rather it's physical. Rather it's

668
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: you know, anything you can really help the kids with

669
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Speaker 1: autism and special needs. It's so many different aspects that

670
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: occupational therapy working. So yes, I found my love there.

671
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: You know, my my mother, my mother in law and

672
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: suster law are registered nurses and then used to always

673
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: complain about their jobs, right and well, you know, an

674
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is that when I hear this

675
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: conversation that you've given and thank you for calling on

676
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: the show, money making conversation is that you know, when

677
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: you start talking about salad dressing and you hear the

678
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: word because everybody wants your salad dressing to be great

679
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 1: and good, and we're gonna talk about them any because

680
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to cross into this break because I

681
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: want to talk about how you got on the shelves

682
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: and how this whole. But when you're talking about words,

683
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: these are the words that run people away when they

684
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: hear them that in their mind it doesn't taste good

685
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: because we're so mentally, I'm talking about the racial African

686
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: American community especially, they're hear words like vegan, dairy free,

687
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: low sodium, gluten free. That's not gonna taste good. You know,

688
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: Am I telling the truth? I promise you you are

689
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: low sodium black people hanging up on you. I'm telling

690
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: you right now. So we gots to have our salt. Okay,

691
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: we used to have our salt. That is so true

692
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: now that Scott so So tell everybody why too much

693
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: salt is bad for you. Though supermuch salt is bad

694
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: for you. From one, It swells you up inside, It

695
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: increases I'm sorry, Noah, no, Noah, I'm sorry, guys, No,

696
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: I want to talk. Okay. It increases the fagume in

697
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: your blood vessel and the health which decreases the amount

698
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: of your blood flow, you know, which increases your blood pressure.

699
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: So that's that's, that's and that's where the silent killer

700
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: comes in right that we're talking about you know, because

701
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: you hear these statements all the time he was he

702
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: looked so healthy to me. He was just you were laughing.

703
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,959
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, when you reminisced back to your mom's death,

704
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: she was doing everyday towards she was just living life

705
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: and then she said I can't breathe, I need to

706
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: get some air, and she passed away. So so we

707
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 1: can walk through life feeling good and ignore signs. Yep, yep.

708
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: It's typically it's really like a gentle swelling that you

709
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: don't really recognize, you know, and so they say, oh,

710
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: you have five blood presure like I do. You know,

711
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: you don't really feel it. It's a it's an internal

712
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: gentle swelling that's coming from that sodium, you know what

713
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you want to keep that sodium low.

714
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: You want to also continue to keep moving because that

715
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: helps to you know, it helps to provide the vasil dilation.

716
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: At those days, just said a big word there. We're

717
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: gonna go to break here and come back dilation. You know,

718
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose all your your listeners with

719
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: these with deturn, I'm trying to keep them around. This guy.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more money making conversations. Masterclass

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Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to money Making Conversations

722
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You know, I don't want to

723
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: shy away from the reality of the The food is

724
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: a good product. It's it's very popular, it's being sold online.

725
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: But we have to say why it is also valuable

726
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: to you as a health product. You know, like you know,

727
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: people people recommend you know, they say take an aspion

728
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: day keeping. You know people say that, and you know,

729
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: I always keep a cough dropping my my cabinet at home.

730
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: With my throat feels a little sore, I pop a

731
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: cough drop in a minute. I always tell people I'm

732
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: not gonna wait till I get sick. I feel kind

733
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: of like it's coming. I call that prevented. And so

734
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: I look at what you when I want to reading

735
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: about your product. When I hear these terms about you know,

736
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: this is something that you didn't You create it, but

737
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: you didn't intend to fully understand the impact it will

738
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: have on people. I'm sure you're getting a lot of

739
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: testimonials about how how the food your salary dressing is

740
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: impacting people's lives. Let's talk about that. Absolutely. Yes, I

741
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: get pictures from customers all the time, and then you

742
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: know it's just um, it's inspiring. Its actually what keeps

743
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: me going. You know, for people to um give me

744
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: the feedback of why they like it, how they like it,

745
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: and how they're using it and how it's benefiting them. Um.

746
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: So that's it lets me know that the whole purpose

747
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: is being you know, it's being you know, created here

748
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: because um that I created it for people, not really

749
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: for myself. I do use the product and I love it,

750
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: but I really created it for others to benefit off

751
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: of it. And like when my mom passed, I didn't

752
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: know that it was the number one killer. Like that's

753
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: it's not talked about enough. You know, Um, it's the

754
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: number one killer. Even despite COVID, it's still the number

755
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 1: one killer. Every year, they're like so many new diagnosis

756
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: one point five million new diagnosis. Is the cardiovascular disease

757
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: related elements. That's that's that's that's crazy, And a lot

758
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: of it is because of lack of education. People don't

759
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: realize that they can have good food that tastes delicious

760
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: without all that junk in there. You know. Um, we

761
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: have a lot of products on the shelf that are

762
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: seal addressing in the marinated are loaded and chemicals loaded. Stuff.

763
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: That shocked me that I didn't even know when I

764
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: started the product that that stuff was in there, like

765
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: stuff you can pronounce stuff. They using grass fertilizer. But

766
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: yet we wonder why all the dialysis centers are popping

767
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: up in our community. Why is that no one's really

768
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: talking about what we need to have in our diets

769
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: each and every day to stay healthy. You know what

770
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: we need to be eating each and every day to

771
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: keep our bood pressure and ta chack. I'm one of

772
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: those bad people. I'm not gonna. I you can lie

773
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: me up. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna sit on

774
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: this show like I'm a saint. Now you know, I

775
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: gotta admit I'm one of those people that eating that.

776
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: Like you said, some ingredients you can't evennounce the words.

777
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: That's me. I look, I've never I would tell you this, Mscott.

778
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: I've never looked at the ball, pick up the bottler,

779
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: looked at the back, I looked the front. If the

780
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: color is right, I said, it's been a great I

781
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: shaked it. I shake the salad dressing and go. It

782
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: moves in the bottle pretty good or I heard that

783
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: name or that brand. I'm I'm it's it's in my

784
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: it's in my basket. I've never turned to the round

785
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: here with okay, I totally get it, and you know what,

786
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: and it's okay because that's what most people are doing.

787
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: And that's why, that's why you're on Money Making Conversation,

788
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: Master Glass. That's that's gonna tell the truth. I have

789
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: to bring up somebody who can slap me in my

790
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 1: forehead and said, stopped. I'm here to stop the madness here. Now,

791
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: how did you create this product? Let's let's talk about

792
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 1: the journey. Let's talk about your dream. We talked about

793
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: the sadness, you talked about the inspiration. How did you

794
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: create this product? And who helped you? You know, I know,

795
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: you know we all started all in vinegar based on

796
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: different things. That the vinegrad is like the number one

797
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: if you don't how to make it a salary dressing,

798
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: all in vinegrad exactly, that's it. Yeah. But my mom,

799
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: my mom was a young lady and had a huge family.

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Speaker 1: I come from a big family. To him one of fourteen,

801
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: I'm actually done the thirteen of fourteen from the same

802
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: my dad. So my mom cooked every day every day.

803
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: She made these healthy. They weren't healthy home cooked meals

804
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: that were delicious, so her products. Or I would take

805
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: them to work, like the salads. I would take them

806
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: to work, and the co workers love product. Like I

807
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: was a salad girl. Like I had to bring that

808
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: to every function we had. They wouldn't let me leave.

809
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 1: Was like I heard stuff over like, don't letter leave

810
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: until we get the recipes something pretty much my mom recipes.

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Speaker 1: I just made them hard healthy recipes from the home

812
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: cooked mills that we would have every day. I made

813
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: them hard, healthy and made them, you know, delicious. You

814
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: know I wanted them to still taste good, because no

815
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: one wants to eat a healthy product that doesn't taste

816
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: good consistently. You know absolutely that. That's why I mentioned

817
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: that because of the fact that we tend to run,

818
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: and we I include we meeting Rashan McDonald, tend to

819
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: run for things that we feel doesn't taste right or

820
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: not doesn't taste it doesn't have a taste. We grew up,

821
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: we grew up to know or we're used to eating,

822
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Speaker 1: and we rejected immediately, don't even give it a shot.

823
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: So so, but you have a brand. You know, how

824
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Speaker 1: did you start mixing the right ingredients? I guess I

825
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: want to know you know because you I'm assuming you

826
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: started in your home kitchen. Correct, Yes, well, the product

827
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Speaker 1: the recipes are my mom's. I just made them hard healthy,

828
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Speaker 1: which Okay, I took the bad stuff out and put

829
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: good stuff in. Okay, let me ask you this what

830
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: what would you consider the bad stuff you took out?

831
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying it bad in a bad way.

832
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: We're trying to turn a meal that's really good into

833
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: a healthy product, right absolutely. Ye, Okay, So we know

834
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Speaker 1: Lottle sodium, it probably had salt, and you turn that

835
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: into what type of salt would you have used with

836
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: this coach? Your salt or what do you do? You

837
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: mineralized mineralized pin Himalayan s salt, which is beneficial to

838
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: the body. It's not going to cause you. That's not more.

839
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Speaker 1: That's not more than. That's not more. You know. You

840
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: know I grew up on that little that little blue

841
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: blue salt, right right, that's me. That's met You lost him,

842
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: lay In. I'm gonna just say right now, you lost him. Alan.

843
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: I love it, I love it, but no, I needs

844
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: to be this is something that that needs to be

845
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 1: on my table because of the fact that you're telling

846
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 1: me Richard, your over sixty. You should look at your

847
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,720
Speaker 1: died differently, Okay, just because you get up and you

848
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Speaker 1: you think you're looking fine in the mirror when you

849
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: when you're looking at when you're leaving the house. So

850
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: your your blood pressure, which I do go to the

851
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: doctor twice a year. I do that. You know. You know,

852
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: as you get older, you know you want to be

853
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: you know, you start thinking about being God as you

854
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: get older. Have on, Let's see how I can hold

855
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 1: off this. It's just neat and so true. Yeah, that's

856
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: the yeah, I mean, yeah, we do it. Sometimes has

857
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: to say Okay, I gotta do better. You know, I

858
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: gotta do that. And I'm not saying to say you

859
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: don't have what you like every now and then, but

860
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: on that normal, consistent, everyday basis, we gotta we gotta

861
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: really start putting some you know, we gotta start like

862
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 1: really being involved with what's going on and going into

863
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: our bodies. You know what I'm saying. Now, you also

864
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 1: have a marinade? Do you have a salad dressing? And

865
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: because I think you know, I looked up because I

866
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: knew it was coming to the show that I looked

867
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: up some things you do. So these salad dressing is

868
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: also can be put on sandwich. I used as a

869
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: sandwich spread as well. Correct. Yes, it's like you know,

870
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: people have sent me recipes with all kind of stuff

871
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: they've done with them, but they are dressings and marinade

872
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: like you can marinage your salmon, your shrimp, your chicken

873
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,479
Speaker 1: in them, and I mean just delicious and still add

874
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: any additional like onion powder, garlic powder, if that's what

875
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: you want, but it just really changes the flavor and

876
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: makes it something delicious. And more importantly, when you're using ours,

877
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't have all those chemicals in it because see

878
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: a lot of those chemicals and stuff they're using grass,

879
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,720
Speaker 1: fertilizer stuff like that, Like why is that even in food?

880
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: You know? So that's one main important thing that you know,

881
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: you don't want to just be pouring stuff on the

882
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: you gonna make this beautiful salad. Now you've got all

883
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: this stuff out of this dressing bottles, Like what are

884
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: you doing? You know? And uh, I'm not fan, don't

885
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 1: have ranch every now and the Okay, well I'm gonna

886
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: tell you something I would tell you something. If you

887
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: lived as long as I've had lived, then you've had

888
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: ranch too much. Okay, let drive ranching just it's you

889
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: reached you, you ranched out. Okay, it's time to look

890
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,240
Speaker 1: at it, look at your life. And you're eating habits

891
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: from a different way. And that's what this episode is about.

892
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: This reason I brought you on the show because I'm

893
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: talking about being an entrepreneur. I'm talking about planning your life.

894
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,959
Speaker 1: But we're planning your life is also how you eat,

895
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: and how you eat determined when you can have a

896
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: good day. You know, we're just coming out of COVID.

897
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: We saw that COVID impacted the minority community more than

898
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: any other community. And what was it tied to high

899
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: blood pressure, overweight, you know, poor eating habits, and so

900
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: we were attacked the first by COVID and so and

901
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,479
Speaker 1: so I feel it's it's fortunate that now you've made

902
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: something available that doesn't doesn't doesn't our palette to say, oh,

903
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: this is not good, but this is something that people

904
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: are now finding value. Not only a good food that

905
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: you've created, a good salad dresser, meritage that you've created,

906
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: but something they can enjoy talk about that absolutely. I

907
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: I can't. Like, people don't want to leave the house,

908
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: like when I would make it at home for family

909
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 1: functions and they're like, I know you got that salad.

910
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: That's apple peacon salad to day, you know, and you

911
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: can switch it up. You know, different recipes are on

912
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: our west side at s maries dot com, so you

913
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: can you can get those recipes and switch them up

914
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: any kind of way you like. But people literally like,

915
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: I know you made my salad, right, I know that

916
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: salid lady, I don't know. Oh, you're so enjoyable the interview.

917
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: You know, I love the salad dupeen making Rashawn, Oh

918
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: my god, you've been cutting up. Well, I've been ranched out.

919
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 1: I'll just time for to change by eating habits. We're

920
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: gonna be back for more. We're gonna talk about the

921
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: different dressings that you've made, uh, your product line, I

922
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: should say, but also just talk about how did you

923
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: manage to get in stores and how people started discovering

924
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: your product on the shelves, because that's the exciting part.

925
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: Because we all have dreams. But when people started seeing

926
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: your dream and started championing your dream, that's a different

927
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: that's a different high. But it started somewhere, Miss God.

928
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: In regards to the recipes with the foundation, you changed

929
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: them up. I took some of the lot as you say,

930
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: the word bad things out of the recipe and made

931
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: them health conscious. Just use the word health conscious into

932
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: the recipe, now you okay? It had what was that

933
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: transition step to put it in a bottle and then

934
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: take it to a store and then they put it

935
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: on the shelf. Talk about that, right absolutely? So you

936
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: know you have the recipe. We all have recipes, right,

937
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: so you just create the recipe and then once you

938
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: create the recipe, packagen is so important, you know, um,

939
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: making sure whatever it is you're selling, if it's some bakery,

940
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: if it's if it's uh potato chips, if it's stuff

941
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: that goes and bottles, you want to make sure that

942
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 1: you have it up to whatever it is. Your competition

943
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: is you know, um, you know, So did you go

944
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: in the store looking at your competition looking at their packaging?

945
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: What were your idea to say? Okay, because I'm telling

946
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: in the salad dressing world, it's it's it's a lot.

947
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: I believe me. I go down that as like I said,

948
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: I just look at the bottle that has the nice

949
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: color on it or familiar brand name, and then I

950
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: pick it up and I'm good. I cannot tell you

951
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: why I bought it other than the fact that name

952
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: sounds familiar. I think I've had that before, okay, and

953
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: then I get them out not that and based on memory.

954
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: So you're battling, you know, people who are tied to tradition,

955
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: people are tied to not wanting to change. And also

956
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: people don't experiment that much in the salads lane, so

957
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: they speak to what they know and that's it, you know.

958
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: And so going the brands, yeah, it's it's you got

959
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: to really be involved intuitively, Like you have to do

960
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 1: it on purpose. Like people they're so used to their

961
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,359
Speaker 1: brand that they've been buying for years when they come

962
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 1: in the store. That's so they're just focused on getting

963
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: what's on that list. You know. You have to creative

964
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: ways to introduce them to your flavors, you know during

965
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: the store promos. Okay, cool, let's let's stop right there.

966
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: When you say creative ways to introduce them to your flavors,

967
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: how did you do that? Um, we do a lot

968
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: of store promos in store promos um. You know, we

969
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: go out to community events. My passion is talking to

970
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 1: people in the community because I like to educate with

971
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: this product. Because that's why I was creating a memory

972
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: of my mom who died of higher disease se Marie

973
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: with my mom. So this product was created with a

974
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: purpose to educate the communities about heart disease and um

975
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: alternatives delicious alternatives, right and what you're what we're used to?

976
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: Like you said, Rishon, yeah, no, no, no, let's let's

977
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: slow everything down here. Okay, who did you tell this

978
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: idea to just say, you know something, I think I

979
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: can get into sally dressing business? And did they say

980
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: go forward? And they went, girl, you crazy? What? What? What? What? What?

981
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: What statement did you get at the box? Well, well, people,

982
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: they harassed me for it. So I told my husband,

983
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: I said, I need to do something meaningful with this.

984
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: I need to do something meaningful with this. And you know,

985
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,439
Speaker 1: he knows I'm an entrepreneur of my heart, like I've

986
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: done lots of stuff in the past, but he, you know,

987
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: he understands my passion of losing my mom and stuff

988
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: like that. So you know, he's like, okay, well we

989
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: can just try it, you know. So when he gave

990
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: me the green light, I said, let me just get

991
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: the planning. You know, everything starts with the plan. So

992
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: first and foremost, whatever it is you want to you

993
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: want to write it out right, every step down. Look

994
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: at your competition, make sure you have it all together.

995
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,240
Speaker 1: You know, find out the rules and regulations of that product.

996
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,760
Speaker 1: You know, because everything you may can't just be putting

997
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: the stores. You know, being in Whole Foods is a

998
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: big deal for us here. Um, Whole Foods has a

999
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: whole separate list of standards. Like you, every product that

1000
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,280
Speaker 1: you see and want can't be in Whole Foods. And um,

1001
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 1: so that landing and is a major you know, it's

1002
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: just like a major accomplishment. So how did you okay?

1003
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: Because you know, I don't want to miss these steps

1004
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: because you know you we know as major. You're an

1005
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: African American female. You know you're a therapist. You know

1006
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: you're not a you know you're not trained in and

1007
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: making salad dresses, seching for a living. You didn't get

1008
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,919
Speaker 1: a recommendation letter from a competitor that make salad dress.

1009
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: I got this salad dressing. Did you do you have

1010
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: to give them a sample to taste, or you come

1011
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: in for a tasting session. How does that work? Yep,

1012
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: that's what happened. Whole Foods was opening in Chicago in

1013
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: a local community in Inglewood, and they were looking for

1014
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs um and so you know, they was like, oh,

1015
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: you don't live in the area. No, you don't fit.

1016
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: So I guess they needed to meet a quota or something.

1017
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, okay, God, if that's

1018
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: what you want, then I won't be there because they

1019
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 1: said no, you know. But then they called me back

1020
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 1: and I was like, this guy, you're funny, Okay, whatever,

1021
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: because I don't live in this zip code. Did you

1022
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,799
Speaker 1: walk out there as a mattitude? I was like, I

1023
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: was like, okay, God, I yesterday't my time? You know,

1024
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: you did some funny. First of all, I enjoyed this interview.

1025
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: I haven't laughed as much a long time because I

1026
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:45,879
Speaker 1: could just see you walk out of that mad as

1027
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: heck went home, says some fancy words to your husband

1028
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: about what you thought of Old Foods. Right, okay, how

1029
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: you are? And so they called you back. They called

1030
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: you back. They called me back for a family for

1031
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,439
Speaker 1: a tasting. I went down to the corporate office, because

1032
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: they always start with the corporate if you want to

1033
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:09,720
Speaker 1: get your producting doors and how many how many bottles

1034
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: did you take down there? So a couple of the

1035
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: throw at them. They said, no, I took a ready

1036
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: made salad and I had a couple of bottles, you know,

1037
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: the top ones that people love, and they were just

1038
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: extremely impressed when it was extreme and like we we've

1039
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: outsold all their major brands and we're still doing We're

1040
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: still doing that. And you know, being an African American one,

1041
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: I've received pushback, major pushback. But I'm gonna I'm just

1042
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: not that I'm not cut from that cloth. That's gonna stop.

1043
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: So I don't care. You can put me on the

1044
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 1: bottom sholf. I'm gonna tell my people where the family yet,

1045
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just crawling the store. I'm on the bottomshelf.

1046
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: You seem so so yeah, Well, you know this is

1047
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: a We're having a lot of fun and I'm enjoying

1048
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: this interview with you. The beauty of your story. It

1049
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: starts sad, but wow, it's proven to be a blessing

1050
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 1: to so many people and and and you know, because

1051
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: like it put you on the bottom shelf and then

1052
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: you start going up sheelf shelves. When they came back

1053
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: and told you, you know, people seem to like your

1054
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: se Marie, what what did that? What did they ring to?

1055
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, if you were a musical

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Speaker 1: artist you're driving and you hear your song on the radio,

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Speaker 1: that I think that'd be comparable to that. When you

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Speaker 1: got that call right from it's crazy like they were

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Speaker 1: like you all sold all the major brands we've had

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Speaker 1: for years and like you know, like the first month

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So that was just like mind blowing.

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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, people like this stuff. They really

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Speaker 1: like this. Okay, So the next step of question, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure my artists will go, Okay, what what will help

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Speaker 1: you to explain what is stopping you from going across

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Speaker 1: country and leaving the Chicago market because your product is

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Speaker 1: selling the world and that in the regional marketing. What

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Speaker 1: what's the next day we're looking. I'm open to investors,

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Speaker 1: you know, investors to help expand a brand because you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a multibillion dollar industry and I'm the only black

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Speaker 1: girl doing this and um, people love it. They love it,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of like, I want to give people

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Speaker 1: something that's helping them. You know, it's not just a

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Speaker 1: product that's delicious and taste good. It helps people, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's my that's my reason and my wife wanting to

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Speaker 1: do this. You know, because no fifteen year old or

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Speaker 1: anyone younger than me my sister was fourteen should have

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Speaker 1: to love their best friends to something they didn't even

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Speaker 1: know existed in their parents. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So you can't and you do ship out of state, correct,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we ship nationwide. We shipped to every state

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Speaker 1: so far. We get repeat orders all the time. We

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Speaker 1: ship a lot in Atlanta, ship a lot in Texas, California.

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Speaker 1: You know, Tabitha Brown is a big support. She comes

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Speaker 1: to Chicago and she looks for us and hopeful that

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Speaker 1: just really do that blew my mind, right, it was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's it's just been an amazing experience

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Speaker 1: and something and like it took my husband bout WorldWind.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, he has the whole separate things of

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Speaker 1: what he loved to do, but he didn't expect for

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Speaker 1: it to do what it's doing now. So what's stopping

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Speaker 1: me is mainly you know, like I said, going into

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Speaker 1: other investing, if I had a great investor, would be great.

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Speaker 1: And you know, because of COVID shut down a lot

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Speaker 1: of UM manufactories and stuff like, that's what we have

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Speaker 1: to go out of state to find a better manufacturer.

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Speaker 1: So we're working on all those things. But those are

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Speaker 1: the those are just the only two things. Well, I'll

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Speaker 1: telling you something. Thank you for calling in. Moneyment comes

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Speaker 1: to your masterclass. An amazing product, Marie's Salad Dressing based

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Speaker 1: out of Chicago, can go online. Thank you. We're gonna talk.

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Speaker 1: So first of all, you made my heart as they

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Speaker 1: say stronger in his interview, I appreciate you. Stay safe, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we talked soon. Thank you guys. God bless y'all. But

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Speaker 1: my you've been listening to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with

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Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. Always remember to lead with your gifts. Money

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation with your daily Media of Inspiration. This

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Speaker 1: on Stars Run the World at Lifetimes Merry Little Christmas

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Speaker 1: Baby Risha, and she shares her discussions about being a

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Speaker 1: well rounded artist and honing her craft. I try to

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Speaker 1: be experimental in my creativity and so me dared each

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Speaker 1: other to start doing stand up. I've been doing it

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Speaker 1: for over ten years, you know, just being really thrust

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Speaker 1: into the comedic world. I was on Love That Girl.

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Speaker 1: One of the requirements to play I'm Unique was for

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Speaker 1: me to do stand up, so that just made me

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Speaker 1: do that even more. But you know, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, I love acting, you know, like that's

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Speaker 1: the main thing. So to go on the road and

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Speaker 1: commit to that, it's always something that I have to

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