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

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Speaker 1: great Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Rashaw McDonald. It is important to understand that everybody travels

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Speaker 1: a different path to success. That's because your brand is different.

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Speaker 1: The challenges you're facing your life are different. So stop

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Speaker 1: reading other people's success stories and start writing your own. Now.

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Speaker 1: You could be motivated by their success because their stories

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Speaker 1: mart is about you When you sit down and set

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Speaker 1: be about you in the relationships that you create. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna introduce a relationship I've had long time ago. My

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Speaker 1: next guest are writing, directing, producing, Power Couple Land and

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Speaker 1: David E. Tawer. They currently have trending on Netflix. They

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Speaker 1: told me already thirty two countries. They've been number one.

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Speaker 1: They've got premiered in a hundred and ninety countries Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Jingle Jangle A Crystal Story, a live action musical. The

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Speaker 1: first Sunday Back Exclaimed, Almost Christmas and El Camino Christmas.

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Speaker 1: They're also releasing two books, The Square Root of Possible,

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Speaker 1: a Jingle Jango Story, is a picture book for ages

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Speaker 1: jeronas a Jangle is a middle grade novel for ages

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Speaker 1: eight through twelve. Please work with the money making conversation.

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Speaker 1: My man and my lady, I said, said my first

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Speaker 1: it's the beauty of it because I have a fantastic

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Speaker 1: our relationship and what you've done, you know, all the

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Speaker 1: way back to Radio DJ, you know, play right, you know,

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Speaker 1: relaunching your your plays back and then always been a

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Speaker 1: and it's been you know, Lenny and I've been been

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Speaker 1: to Lynn. You know, well, you know the whole project

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Speaker 1: And so so I know how Sean McDonald was feeling

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Speaker 1: hundred countries allows you to really understand your value, Lennon David.

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Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying, man, is that you know, look

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Speaker 1: the beauty of this moment we're having right now, is

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Speaker 1: back and see what you guys are doing with a

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Speaker 1: I'm putting franchise on this, and I want the classic

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Speaker 1: I remember with Steve and I, Steve Harvey and I

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Speaker 1: thirty different languages. It was translated, so I know what

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Speaker 1: other people need to understand that this is entertaining, this

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Speaker 1: us to be bringing to our household. That's the key,

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Speaker 1: bringing your product into our household so we can share.

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Speaker 1: That's what I love about this project. And I just

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Speaker 1: don't want you to walk away from this interview saying

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Speaker 1: not understanding how you guys are changing lives. How you

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Speaker 1: guys see a movie theater. Nobody could go in the

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Speaker 1: movie theater. But when people turn on their television in

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Speaker 1: their house, man, that's that's a different grade of opportunity

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Speaker 1: because racism. Because they ain't going to that black movie.

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Speaker 1: It's over the movie there, they can walk past. But

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Speaker 1: when they turn it on and you started treating, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna telling some day you're talking about you got emotional.

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Speaker 1: Your bar over here was straight up in tears for

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Speaker 1: you because I knew the blessings and the talents I've

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Speaker 1: always seen in you I've always known in you always

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Speaker 1: capable of doing and producing was showing and that's just

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Speaker 1: the start. Like you said, you're not going back. Your

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Speaker 1: damn right, you ain't going back because I ain't gonna

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Speaker 1: let you go back. Okay, not at all, Tanning tanning

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Speaker 1: my microphone. Now, let's talk about these two books. You

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Speaker 1: Square would be Possible. It's just pushing that same thing

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Speaker 1: And I have an amazing illustrator that illustrated it, Tara

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Speaker 1: so it's a sweet Christmas story to tell and it's

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Speaker 1: great to go along with the kids. And Invention of

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Speaker 1: circle moment where um, Felicia Rashad read the audio book

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Speaker 1: for that, so it'll be released. Yes, when is the

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Speaker 1: audio being released for that? Okay? Cool available for preorder now.

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Speaker 1: They'll be available tomorrow and anyone that purchases a book

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