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The 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: Black Effect Presents features honest conversations and exclusive interviews, a 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: space for artists, everyday people, and listeners to amplify, elevate, 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: and empower black voices with great conversations. Make sure to 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: listen to The Black Effect Presents Podcast on I Heart Radio, 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. On April four, 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: Dr Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis. 14 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: A petty criminal named Aimes Earl Ray was arrested. Case 15 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: closed right James L. Ray was upon for the official story. 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: Some of the evidence, as far as I was concerned, 17 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: did not match the circumstances. This is the MLK Tapes. 18 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: The first episodes are available now. Listen on the I 19 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 20 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she 21 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and 22 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's given me 23 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In occasion didn't notice, I'm not broke. 24 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interview with celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and 25 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do, it's 26 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: what he likes to share. Now it's time to hear 27 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan McDonald money making Conversations. Here we come. 28 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host, Rashan McDonald. 29 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: It is time to stop reading other people's success stories. 30 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: You hear me say that every week, and start writing 31 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: your own. I always tell people you're here by gifts 32 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: you have, by passions, following your dreams. I tell people 33 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: to leave with your gifts and don't let your age, friends, family, 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: or co workers stop you from planning to living your 35 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: dream just because they want to stand that four day 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: all week. J'all, don't when you have to stay, don't 37 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: let you. Don't let fifty sixties tell you that's it. 38 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: I gotta have to retire don't let your friends tell 39 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: you what you're capable of doing, and don't let your 40 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: family members tell you that's all you can do. Uh, 41 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: it's on my show. That's why I created money making conversations. 42 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: I'd like to bring people on the show that I 43 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: call game breakers, some of my celebrities, some of them 44 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: our CEOs, entrepreneurs, and what I like to call industry 45 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 1: decision makers. My next guest is Brendan Thompson. He is 46 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: a native Houstonian. You know I got it, so you 47 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: know I love him already because I'm from Houston Texts. 48 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: He graduated from Preview and m that's an HBCU for 49 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: for anybody who don't know about the power of a 50 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: of of HBCU. That's prev am used to. Degree was 51 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: an electrical engineering. My degree was from your Houston and 52 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: mathematics we talk about in a minute. While he was 53 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: able to finish through with this engine and degree, I 54 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: couldn't make it past physics. He found a trade house, 55 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: a company that partnered with an educational platform to be 56 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: to teach people how to properly invest in the foreign 57 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: exchange market. Within only two years of its exception, trade house, 58 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: a wealth management organization has grown to eighty thousand active members. 59 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: In fact, the co founders and Brendon are actively engaging daily. 60 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: They help mentor and coach new members who joined their 61 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: wealth management group. Regardless of one's location or age, Please 62 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: work with the money making conversations straight out of family family, 63 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: prayer of view and m thinking about my board, Will Packer, 64 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: who was also electrical engineer. Brendon Thompson, How you doing, sir? 65 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: You don't how you doing? Sign? Well? First of all, 66 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: you know what part of used to you from? I 67 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: gotta break it down because I'm a fifth ward boar. 68 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: What what part of used? You grew up in city text? 69 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: You know the same most cities right there right then, 70 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: See I'm Houston, Texas. You know, even me saying mo, 71 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: I said fear for you all of a sudden I 72 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: asked him to say, well you, oh, but sit so 73 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna start char change. But that's a great area 74 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: I grew up. I knew a fair familiar with that 75 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: area of the They kind of grew up before being 76 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: counted in Houston, Texas. And so would you be in 77 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: with what what has inspired you? You went to hbc 78 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: U School, which is Prey of View in them, which 79 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: is like forty five minutes outside of Houston, Texas. You 80 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: have Texas Southern right there in Houston, Texas. Down the 81 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: road you got Southern University. Up the road, you got Grambling, 82 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: Why Prayer of You? And m so A Shawn. If 83 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: I could just give you a little backstory on, you know, 84 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: my college journey. I started off at Hampton University. To 85 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: be honest with you, start off at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. 86 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: And for those of you that know about Hampton, it's 87 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: a private school HBC as well, but very very expensive. 88 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: So you know, I couldn't, you know, continue because of 89 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: financial holes. So I decided to transfer. And when I 90 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: was looking at schools to transfer to in Texas, you 91 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: know I looked at you, of H I looked at 92 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: t S you, and I also was looking at Preview. 93 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: You know, you have ah no not to say anything 94 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: bad about the school, but I just heard that you 95 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: would get swallowed up. You would just be like another number. 96 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: It wouldn't give you that same HBU HBCU feel t S. 97 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: You didn't have my my degree. They had electronic engineer, 98 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: but they didn't have electrical engineer praev You happened to 99 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: be the only school within that Houston area that that 100 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: accepted the bulk of my transfer credit. So I went 101 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: ahead and I became the panther rolled up that rode 102 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: down to the baby. Don't the panthers up there? Now? 103 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: It's a cool thing about it. Like a good friend 104 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: of mine, Lonny Love, she graduated from PREV and m 105 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: she's blinding Love. She's the one of the co host 106 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: of the talk show The Real and she graduated electrical engineering. 107 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: So they now Preview has been known. When I graded 108 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: from high school, a lot of my friends went down 109 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: to Preview and have I'm living very successful lives. But 110 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: you were talking about the culture, Like I graduated from 111 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: University Houston. You can't get into the numbers game. Forty 112 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: thousand students walking around on that campus and when I 113 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: when I was there, they didn't have that college life. 114 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: It's much more of a commuter school. And so my 115 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: executive producer of Money Making Conversation, she's a Hampton grad 116 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: So when you said happened though, she all are dancing 117 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: in the studio throwing our hands up in there, and 118 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,239 Speaker 1: so all right, So I got a lot of Pride 119 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: and then my boy, Will Packer, he graduated with electrical 120 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: engineering degree from FAM. You now, you got electrical engineering degree, 121 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: but you're not doing as they say electrical engineering, So 122 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 1: tell me about that transition. So when I transferred to 123 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: the p V, you know, I went ahead and finished 124 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: off and got my degree in electrical engineering, as you mentioned, 125 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: And before I even walked across the state, the stadiums 126 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: are already had an offer to the Born Company. So 127 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: the boring company offered me a full time position where 128 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: I started my journey in Long Beach, California. So I 129 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: hadn't you know, um ever been to California before in 130 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: my life, and it was a dream of mine to 131 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: go and lived there. But you know, I didn't know 132 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: exactly how I was gonna get there, so Long Behold. 133 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: You know, Boning offered me a full time positions, like 134 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: maybe a month or two after I graduated from p V, 135 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: I moved out to Long Beach started my journey. And 136 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: I'll be real with you, Rashaan, you know, it didn't 137 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: take me too long to figure out that corporate America 138 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: just wasn't fit for me. Right. I found I found 139 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: that I was like a shark in a swimming pool. 140 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: I was the youngest blackest person on my team and 141 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: every team I was on, and I started to feel like, 142 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: you know, my my gifts and talents just weren't being 143 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: put to good use. Um. You know, maybe I wasn't 144 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: the smartest in the company, but I had the most 145 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: I feel like uh business stavvy, I was. I was 146 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: more of a person that can solve problems. Maybe now 147 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: you know, mathematical, I could, But my best you know 148 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: strengths were you know, business. And I saw that I 149 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: was on the wrong side one of the company and 150 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: just the wrong side of you know, becoming successful on 151 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: how to approach it. So when I came across you know, 152 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: the foreign exchange market, you know, it was like a 153 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: light bulb that went off. I said, wow, I said, 154 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: this is something that I can actually use as an 155 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: exit strategy. Because I was I was, no, no dummy, 156 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: I wasn't about to just quit a six figure job. 157 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: But you know what, if I can really hone onto 158 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: this skills, if I could really understand this industry, I 159 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: could use this as a exit strategy to go full 160 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: time investor entrepreneur. So I came across the foreign exchange 161 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: market about twenty seventeen. So I have been working at 162 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: Bone for maybe like eight or nine months, and as 163 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: soon as I really understood what the industry was, I said, 164 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm walking off my job in about 165 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 1: a year and a half. I can't. I can't do 166 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: this anymore. You know, I'm not as happy as I 167 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 1: thought I would be. I thought making six figures would 168 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: be you know that golden ticket. You want to be 169 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: a six figure on it. That's what everybody wants to 170 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: be in college, you know, coming out. And so as 171 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: I realized that, you know, it wasn't about the money, 172 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: it was more so about the fulfillment and what you 173 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: were doing on a daily basis. And I wasn't getting 174 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: fulfilled as a person. And so, you know, as I 175 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: began to get a mercy the skill set and I 176 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: got better and better, I said, you know what, this 177 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 1: is something that I could really take all the way. 178 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: And at the top of twenty nineteen, I went ahead 179 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,719 Speaker 1: and fired my boss before they fired me, and uh, 180 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: and I took my talents all the way to to 181 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: full time entrepreneurship and I didn't look back. Now, you know, 182 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: let's go, let's go and talk about where he was 183 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: at a six figure in Houston, Texas salary and a 184 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: six figure salary in California. To them Salaris. Now, the housing, 185 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: the rent, the taxes is super crazy in California, right there, 186 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: you know, is a game changing right there. Just putting 187 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,479 Speaker 1: just buying tags for your call is crazy in California. 188 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: I'll just let you know, I think I was paying, 189 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: Like I paid up my tax on my car like 190 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: forty dollars in Texas. It was like a thousand dollars 191 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: in California. It's just the numbers are just different. And 192 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: how you living. Yeah, you got the numbers on your paycheck, 193 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: but you giveing it out as soon as you cash it. 194 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: So that was part of the process too as a 195 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: forty hour week guy. Now as an entrepreneur, the reason 196 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: I brought you on the show, I never the foreign 197 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: exchange market. I don't know what that is. I'll be 198 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: perfectly honest with you, Brandon, I don't know what you 199 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: when you start talking like that, you you come on, 200 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: You've coming. You know. I brought you in the show 201 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: to educate me as well as my viewers and listener. 202 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: What is the hard exchange market? So the foreign exchange 203 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: market is it is the largest financial market in the world, 204 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: the largest financial liquid market in the World's generating you know, 205 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: anywhere from six point five to seven point seven trillion 206 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: dollars a day on a given day. This is in volume. 207 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: So when we're talking about you know, trading, you know, 208 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: in a foreign exchange market, you are literally trading you know, 209 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: currency pairs, you know, in their exchange rates. So as 210 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: currency pairs, you know, uh exchange rate fluctuate, you can 211 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: make money on the rise and fall. So you know, 212 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: just like stocks or something like that, you only make money, 213 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: you know, on the rise of a share you get 214 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: in that five dollars a share. If it goes up 215 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: ten ten dollars to share, you make money. Where well 216 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: as in whereas in the porn exchange market, you can 217 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: make money on the rise and fall of an exchange rate. 218 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: So for example, if we were to go out of 219 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: the country, let's say from from Houston, texts, we fly 220 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: to Italy. Right, a lot of Italy there there there, Um, 221 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 1: I want to say, their currency is the euro, right, 222 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: the currency is the euro. So when we get there, 223 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: we can't spend US dollars. We have to convert our 224 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: US dollars to their primary currency. So just for simplistic, 225 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: you know, simplistic understanding, Let's say it's aitute one ratio. 226 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: For every two U S dollars we give them equals 227 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: one euro, so we give them a thousand U S 228 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: dollars in return, they'll give us five hundred euros. Now, 229 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: let's say we're on that trip, is all expense paid. 230 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: You know, we're just having a good time. We don't 231 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: have to worry about anything. We just have some spending cash, 232 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: that five hundred euro that we converted over from a 233 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Let's say at the end of that trip 234 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: we end up spending nothing, we still have that five 235 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: hundred year old We get back to the States, and 236 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: we realized that we cannot spend euro in the United States. 237 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: So all we have to do is, you know, I'm 238 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: pretty sure people have seen it in the airport, go 239 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: to those foreign exchange center booths and say, I want 240 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: to exchange my five hundred yearrol back to U S dollars. 241 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: I didn't spend any of it when I was on 242 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: the trip. Now, logically, thinking people are gonna be expecting 243 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: a thousand U S dollars back. But what can happen 244 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: to things can happen. You can get more or less 245 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: than what you exchange. You can give them that five 246 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: hundred yearrold and they give you two thousand U S. 247 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: Dollars back and you profit a thousand dollars. Or you 248 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: can give them that five hundred year old and they 249 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: give you five U S dollars where you lost five 250 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. The education and that is where you understand 251 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: what's going on. So if I understand the foreign exchange market, 252 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: I see that. You know, the euro can get stronger 253 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: to the US dollar, meaning that when I exchange it 254 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 1: over it can double triple whatever what I did. What 255 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: it was before I exchanged it, So at first it 256 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: was two dollars, but when I exchange it back, it's 257 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: four dollars. So I can actually make money, not by 258 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: spending it, not by necessarily working, but just by exchanging 259 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: currency at the right time. I don't know if you 260 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: caught the rashan, but you know that's the basis of 261 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 1: what the foreign exchange market is. It's just buying and 262 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: selling currency and making money off of the fluctuation of 263 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: the value. Well, you know, because you know, you know, 264 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: I travel or been to Mexico, been to Europe, you 265 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: know the currency exchange, and I never really pay an 266 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 1: attention to it, you know other than the when them 267 00:13:57,559 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: there in the moment. And so a lot of people 268 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: don't a lot of people, African Americans especially, they travel 269 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: and they either get get caught up in the complications 270 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: or they're just spen spend cash, and especially go to Mexico, 271 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: you give away with just spending cash a lot of 272 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: a lot of places that you go. But I've never 273 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: heard this because I'm a stock buyer, you know, buy stock, 274 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: I buy mutual funds and investing insurance policies that that 275 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: that that that give me a secured interest on my 276 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: on my money that I invested as a universe or 277 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: a whole, you can get a secured interest usually about 278 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: four percent. So that's for Rashan McDonald's mindset it has 279 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: always been when it comes to investing. You said, hold up, 280 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: put the brakes on the part the break of the shop. 281 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: The far exchange is also a market that I can 282 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: invest my money into. Are you saying that as well? Absolutely? 283 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: How so do I come to you do I They've 284 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: got a stockbroker offices open like they do it. I 285 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: know you can. You can definitely come to me. That's 286 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: that's exactly what we do. We teach people how to 287 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: you know, um participating. So to be completely honest with you, 288 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: you don't have to pay anybody to to get started 289 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: and start trading in the foreign exchange market. It but 290 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: but who's you to get some education and get a 291 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: mentorship and be attached to some type of platform that 292 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: can give you guidance. But honestly, you can go start 293 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: a startup broker right There's there's thousands of brokers online. 294 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: If you just google for egg broker, you can start 295 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: an account for free and you can put as little 296 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: as Some brokers allow you to put as little as 297 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: tim bucks in your account to get started summer fifty. 298 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: It just depends on the broker. And once you get 299 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: that broker, you then attached that broker to your your 300 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: trading platform, which we use either metatrator for or mediatrtor five. 301 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: These are actually actual apps on your phone that you 302 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: can download for free. 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I 336 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: appreciate that Smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires, 337 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: but I'm filling it because there's a lot more to report, 338 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: like when they're parched or windy conditions out there. You 339 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: gotta be extra careful with things like burning yard wish. 340 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: After all, wildfires can start anywhere, even in your neck 341 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: of the woods. Go to Smokey Bear dot com to 342 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: learn more about wildfire prevention. Brought to you by the U. S. 343 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: Forest Service, your state Forrester and the AD Council. Let's 344 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 1: let's talk about your background here a little bit. You know, 345 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: you went to prayer of you what to Hamptons first, 346 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: and it was also money has always been to the 347 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: forefront of your conversation because, like you said, it was 348 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: too expensive, so you had to come back to the 349 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: Houston area and uh consider texas southern, but it didn't 350 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: hit your major and then you wanted to like that 351 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: HBCU culture, that that that's structure, that felt you walked 352 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: around as a competitive environ with people that look like you. 353 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: With the prayer of you got that degree, I went 354 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: to California Snoop Dogg Country realized that okay, cool Snoop Stoop, 355 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: I gotta go, brother, gotta go. I gotta get out 356 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: of California, gotta get out of Compton. Their air where 357 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 1: I'm out. And so now you're back in Houston, most City, 358 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: Boar and trade House. You know the reason I say 359 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: that because you seem like an innovative. You seem like 360 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: a person who sits around who is your core group, 361 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: who who is your thinking team? Who was inspiring you 362 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: and your group to be able to take a lot 363 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: of these ideas to the next level because you know, 364 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: like with all of my Apple, Microsoft, they just start 365 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: by themselves. They had a little core group of fellows 366 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: that that managed to build these franchises out. Who who 367 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: is your team? Absolutely? You know, my my younger brother, 368 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: Bryce Thompson. He was actually one of the first people 369 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 1: that I introduced, you know, to the skill set. And 370 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: you know, he was in college at the time, struggling 371 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: college student at Morehouse College, and um, you know, when 372 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: I've seen this, I said, Man, if I would have 373 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: had this in college, this is definitely something that would 374 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: have changed the trajectory of my finances. And you know, 375 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,679 Speaker 1: I always wanted to put him on something, but I 376 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: wanted to make sure it was sustainable, and I knew 377 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: that he can have, you know, a long longevity in it, 378 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 1: and so I passed this along to him and then 379 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: you know, he got a few of his friends on. 380 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: Shout out to Nathan and Samuel Ian Jackson right now 381 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: though Perez, just to name a few. It started what 382 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: about four or five of us, but you know I 383 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: was the one that kind of spearheaded it, brought it 384 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: to everybody, and then we started to you know, collaborate, 385 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: and you know, amongst us, we we started spreading it 386 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: to the colleges. I called it the rich college Kids 387 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: tour Um because simply I didn't I didn't want to. 388 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: I didn't want to start, you know, and my my, 389 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: uh demographic because we were already in college, I said, 390 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,719 Speaker 1: I mean I already graduating college. I was looking for 391 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: people that were already in the learning environment and we're 392 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: looking for extra money. So I feel like that was 393 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: the best market to start, Like, we can get you 394 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: here in college where you're already in a in a 395 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: in a mindset to learn something new, and you you 396 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 1: want to get more money because we know the struggling 397 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: college students story. I said, this would be the perfect 398 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: you know, demographic to start at and really take this 399 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: to the next level. Wow. So you guys have been 400 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: viewing your brother Bright's have been featured in Forest magazine. 401 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,239 Speaker 1: Now we're just that do for your brain? Come on 402 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:06,959 Speaker 1: that Forbes, man. It definitely legitimizes it. You know. Um, 403 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: you know, like you said, are are our people don't 404 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: really understand, you know, the the investment world. I feel 405 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: like we've we've taken over a lot of different industries 406 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: from entertainment, sports, you know, but I feel like business 407 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 1: and and the finance well is something that we're still 408 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: you know, competing to really you know, hold the crowning. 409 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: So like to have that article written for both of 410 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: us in that light, you know, just just it gives 411 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: validity that that we can be you know, on top 412 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: of that space and that you know, it's it's it's 413 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 1: a lot more room for us. We just have to 414 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: you know, put ourselves around the right people that had 415 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: the right information. You know. It's really interesting when I 416 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: hear you talk because you're young, which is a blessing, 417 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: but you but you figured it out. You know, I 418 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: always tell people you can just figured it out. I 419 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 1: don't give you just sit down and figure it out. 420 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: But don't you have to trust yourself? And then when 421 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: I say trust yourself, obviously you graduated, you went to California, 422 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: was living to quote unquote plan, and then you said 423 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 1: the plan is not working for me. So when did 424 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: you start trusting yourself? Brandon? Well, you know, I always 425 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: was was one of those people that I wasn't necessarily 426 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: like a logical thinking. I'm a logical thinking, but I'm 427 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: very intuitive, right, I'm very intuned with with with with 428 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: the spirit right and and and my inner self. And 429 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: one of the people that I looked up to one 430 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: of my I guess you could say my virtual mentors 431 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:39,719 Speaker 1: is Napoleon Hill. And I probably start watching um and 432 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: reading some of his material. Back in tw and uh, 433 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: I watched the video on YouTube called the Seventeen Keys 434 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: to Success by Napoleon Hill, and I will watch you know, Uh, 435 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: I guess an excerpt every day before I went to class. 436 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: It was seventeen of them. And you know, once I 437 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 1: realized some of the things I was doing was actually 438 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: on accident, like you know, manifesting things, and he actually 439 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: made it like an actual thing. While I was like, Wow, 440 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: I can actually be intentional about manifesting my life. I 441 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: could be intentional about, you know, the things I do 442 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: to get success. So once I understood that there's intentionalism 443 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 1: behind succeeding, then I start doing those things on a 444 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: on a daily basis. And I realized that, okay, cool. 445 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: If I want to do something that's outside of the normal, 446 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: that that might look crazy to other people, it's okay 447 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 1: because if I'm intentional enough and I understand the formula 448 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: and the recipe, to success. It's gonna all make sense 449 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: at the end of the day. We know. An interesting 450 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: thing of what I love about you, first of all, 451 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: is that you don't forget the value of being an 452 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: hbc You graduated and then your your scholarship that you 453 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: created to fund HBCU students in the stem uh lane, 454 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:58,640 Speaker 1: Why is that important? It's it's super important. Um, it's 455 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: it's not enough of us in that space one. And 456 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: so I wanted to be a an example to say, hey, 457 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: look I'm somebody that Yeah, I'm not in the field anymore. 458 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: But I did use it as a platform. Um, and 459 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: you can do it too. And then I also know 460 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: that you know, it's a lot of it's a lot 461 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: of smart kids out there that are struggling in school 462 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: and they want to be able to focus. I remember 463 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: struggling at Hampton more specifically, UM, when I was going 464 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: from my electrical engineering degree, and it was so it 465 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: was such a different experience because my finances weren't in order. Well, 466 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 1: your finances are in order. In school, it's hard to to, 467 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: I guess, focus on the scholastics. It's hard to focus 468 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: on the curriculum. You're more so focusing on man How 469 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: am I gonna even buy the book? How am I 470 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: gonna pay my rent? How am I gonna eat? You know, 471 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: am I even gonna have enough money to go to 472 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: school the next semester? So it's a lot of the 473 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: it's a lot of the tractions when you don't have 474 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 1: your finances in order. And so if I could take 475 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: that that thought away from a student and say, hey, 476 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 1: you know, college is is your semester is paid for? 477 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: Just focus on the on the books, just focus on 478 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: getting the internship, and and that's gonna do you well 479 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: off well, way way more well. You're gonna be way 480 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: more well off if you're able to focus just on 481 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: school then focusing on finances. So that was really big 482 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: for me to be able to, you know, give back 483 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: to two people that I know have been in my 484 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: shoes before and understand the power of them, you know, 485 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: taking that that that whole out of their life, so 486 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: that could really focus on what's important. You know, um, 487 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: what grows in the forest trees, Sure, you know what 488 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: else grows in the forest, our imagination, our sense of wonder, 489 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: and our family bonds grow too, because when we disconnect 490 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: from this and connect with this, we reconnect with each other. 491 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: The forest is closer than you think. Find a forest 492 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: near you and start exploring. I discover the fourth Dot 493 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: Org brought to you by the United States Fourth Service 494 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: and the ad Council. And we're live here outside the 495 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: Perez family home, just waiting for the And there they go, 496 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: almost on time. This morning. Mom is coming out the 497 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: front door, strong with a double arm kid carry. Looks 498 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: like Dad has the bags. Daughter is bringing up the rear. 499 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 1: Oh but the diaper bag wasn't closed. Diapers and toys 500 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 1: are everywhere. Oh but mom has just nailed the perfect 501 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: car seat buckle for the toddler. And now the eldest daughter, 502 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: who looks to be about nine or ten, has secured 503 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: herself in the booster seat. Dad SIPs the bad clothes 504 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,479 Speaker 1: and they're off. But looks like Mom doesn't realize her 505 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: coffee cup is still on the roof of the car. 506 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 1: And there it goes. 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They 517 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: see treasuring pebbles. They see a windy path that could 518 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: lead to adventure, and they see you. They're fearless. Guide. 519 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: Is this fascinating world? Find a forest near you and 520 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: start exploring and discover the forest dot org. Brought to 521 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 1: you by the United States Forest Service and the AD Council. 522 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: Enjoy reading your synopsis that were sent over about you, 523 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 1: because you talked about your mom and uh, you and 524 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: your brother Bryce, and I remember my mom, you know, 525 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: she said we were born in fear for my father 526 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 1: passed before she passed. She's passed now. And one of 527 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: the things she wouldn't move out of that house. You know. 528 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: We grew up with a you know window, our audition unit. 529 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: And she moved the stove. You know what we do 530 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: you leaning on You're gonna get burned, you know, gat stove. 531 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: You know, the whole thing was hot, and I told us, say, hey, 532 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: I wanted to tear down the house. She wouldn't let 533 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: me tear it out of house. That's okay, cool, because 534 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: I wanted her to live and experience central air conditioning, 535 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: central heat, you know, just just you walk into the 536 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 1: room and it's warm, you know. And uh. And I 537 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: was able to do that and now and and before 538 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,959 Speaker 1: she passed, because that was that was one of my 539 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: dreams of giving her that life. Of course, she never 540 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: went back into the old part of the house that 541 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: she wouldn't let me tear dout. Basically, I built a 542 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: new part of the house onto an old part of 543 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: the house. When I read about, you know, the relationship 544 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: with your mom and how you and your brother Bryce 545 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: were able to retire her and allowed her to follow 546 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: her or live her passage, talk about that. The importance 547 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: of that, oh man, I think I think every child 548 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: wants to be able to pay homage to their parents, 549 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: you know, whether it's financially or it's them just succeeding 550 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: at a hot or to make them proud. So you know, 551 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: graduating college was definitely one of the things that you know, um, 552 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: that motivated me to finish. You know, graduating college was like, Okay, 553 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: I gotta do it for my mom. She she didn't 554 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: she didn't get to go. So you know, she made 555 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: it important that I made it importance on it that 556 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: I should go and I should finish so I can 557 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: have more opportunities than she did. But you know, getting 558 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: into a space where I was financially, you know, sustained, 559 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: sustained enough to not only take care of myself, but 560 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: then trickle it down and be like, hey, mom, you 561 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: don't have to work anymore. You know, I'm making enough 562 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: money where I can send you, you know, allowance every 563 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: week for you to not only cover your bills, but 564 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: for you to actually live a better lifestyle than you've 565 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: been living. And you know that's always been a dream 566 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: of mine. You know, they say you gotta have a whip. 567 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: You don't have a while, you know what I'm saying, 568 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: Then it's gonna be hard to really push through those 569 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: tough times. You know, the hire stands for will help you, right, 570 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: So on those tough times, you gotta have something that 571 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: your anchor to that you're you're pushing for as bigger 572 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: than yourself. And so you know, just having my mom 573 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: in the back of my mind, knowing all the sacrifices 574 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: that she made for me to even you know, get 575 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: to college. You know, it made me feel like a 576 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 1: sense of responsibility that I had to at least try 577 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: to pay it back. I know I can never pay 578 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: it back, but I could at least, you know, you know, 579 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: try my hardest to to to give her, like you said, uh, 580 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 1: an experience that she probably wouldn't have gotten if I didn't, 581 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: you know, make that um the forefront of my goals. Well, 582 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: you know, before COVID, that's what they said, no mask, 583 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: And we've been doing doing virtual and events for the 584 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: past year. You got the I Millennial three conference happening 585 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: this month in Miami, my favorite city. By the way, 586 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: I don't know why you're doing it down there, brand, 587 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: I know why. I love why you're doing it down there. 588 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: It's happening again. Talk about how it started, you know, 589 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: because the keyword you are millennial, and so you know, 590 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: literials get a bad rap about wrap and I think 591 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: they're easing up now because the fact that you understand mentorship, 592 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: You crave me mentorship, you seek out mentorship, and I 593 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: think that's something that's important. It was something I didn't do. 594 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: I didn't understand when I was growing up, and you 595 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: guys understand the value of mentorship and just hanging around 596 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: people who are experienced. Talk about the Millennial Millennial three 597 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: conferences happening in Miami this month. Oh, I'm super super 598 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: excited about I AM three. You know, it's gonna be 599 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: a industry shifting event, you know, just to give you 600 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: a little backstory on I AM you know, it is 601 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: a you know, essentially an event where we come together 602 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: as an organization and we just give value from you know, 603 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: teaching how to market mindset, you know, you know, strategies 604 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: on you know, looking at the market and becoming more profitable, 605 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: and then as well as entertainment. You know, we want 606 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: to have fun while we're there. But you know, we 607 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: started off I AM one in Atlanta, Georgia at the 608 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: Four Seasons Hotel downtown and we had about maybe even 609 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: people show up very great and out, you know, for 610 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: our first one. And then the second one we had, 611 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: I AM Too was in Houston, Texas at the Marriott 612 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: Hotel in West Chase District in Houston, Texas, and um 613 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: it was about fourth dolland over four thousand people, you know, 614 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: and then the pandemic hit right after that. So now 615 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: you know, we've been able to finess our way into 616 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: the hard Rock Stadium, you know, where the Dolphins play 617 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: in Miami, Florida, and you know, we're expecting you know, 618 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: anywhere from fifteen thousand and twenty thousand people in attendance. 619 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: We're having performers like the Baby Uh come out and 620 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: give us entertainment as well as I'm actually performing on 621 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: on one of those days as well, which is something 622 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if you you knew that I got 623 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: into music as well, but you know this, this is 624 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: gonna be a life changing event for not only people 625 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: that are there, but the people that have been looking 626 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,080 Speaker 1: at this industry and at this lane of investing an 627 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: entrepreneurship and say wow, like maybe this is something I 628 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: should get and like it's becoming mainstream, Like your favorite 629 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: rappers and entertainers are now starting to become more you know, 630 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: more keen to to getting getting informed and getting educated 631 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: on this space. So I think it's it's well needed 632 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: because you know, the culture needs needs influencers and people 633 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: that are in the industry that that we look up 634 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: to to say, you know what this is the right 635 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: way to go. Learning how to invest is cool, Learning 636 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: about cryptocurrency is something that you need to take serious. 637 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: And so I'm truly excited for this event and I 638 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: know that it's gonna be the catalyst that takes me, 639 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: my organization, my family to the next level where you know, 640 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 1: you have me at rock Star the Baby you know 641 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: right there. But my staff they always laughing, Listen, that's 642 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: that's my song man, rock Star the Baby got in 643 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 1: performing and doing this thing, and that I would laughing 644 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: when they had that Super Bowl commercial, I said, see, 645 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: I told you that's my poor rock Star. But it's 646 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: really great inclosed. Man, what's your advice for the younger 647 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: generation in terms of creating generational wealth when you're talking 648 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: about this, Brandon, if there's any advice I can give you, 649 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: know the younger generation out there is you know, when 650 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: you when you're growing up and you have dreams, whether 651 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: you're a years or nine years or you have dreams 652 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: of big dreams, and as you go go into real life, 653 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: you know, you you tend to get jaded because of 654 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: the people around you, the media and all that. You know, 655 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: keep listening to that voice inside of your head, still 656 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: staying at that that that dreaming phase and understand that 657 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: you cannot listen to people that don't have the information, 658 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 1: the resort, the results, or the lifestyle that you that 659 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: you want. Right if if you're listening to them, ask 660 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: yourself when I switch lifestyles with this person, when I 661 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 1: switch bank accounts with this person. If the answer is no, 662 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 1: then keep following your heart. I love it. Thank you 663 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: again for coming on the show Money Making Conversation. I'm 664 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: based in Atlanta. I still have at home in Houston, 665 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 1: so if you come through Atlanta, please drop out Money 666 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 1: Making Conversation. I got my building right here in the 667 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: heart of Atlanta and Petrie Corners. But more important to man, 668 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: I want to keep supporting your brand. Send me some 669 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: flyers so I can make an announcement. Buy what you're 670 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: doing down the hart Rock Stadium. I love you boy. Yeah, 671 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: you know you're going big man. As they say, go big, 672 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 1: go home, brother. But if you if you got a brand, 673 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,359 Speaker 1: you know you're gonna feel that stadium next year. 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