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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I'm your host,

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Speaker 3: Rashaw McDonald. As always, we recognize. I recognize that you

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Speaker 3: all have different definitions and success.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about that all the time.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with thinking different, being different, but it's

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Speaker 3: Mine has inspired people to accomplish their goals and live

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Speaker 3: their very best life. I always tell us on every episode,

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Speaker 3: my guest is hers as many times, please stop reading

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Speaker 3: other people's success stories and believe me. She is writing

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Speaker 3: her own right now please always leave with your gifts.

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Speaker 3: If you leave with your gifts, then don't let anybody,

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Speaker 3: now even your friend's family or coworkers, stop you from

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Speaker 3: epitomizes my next guest. It's a new year, it's time

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Speaker 3: Conversation Master Class, is Melody Charie. She's the star and

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Speaker 3: producer on owns hit series Love and Marriage Huntsfield. You

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Speaker 3: the last year, Melanie just released the Ladies single Down,

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Speaker 3: founder of the beauty line Seventh Avenue Premier Skincare, which

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Speaker 3: I've ordered by the way, now, the Ladies session of

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Speaker 3: Love and Marriage hunts Field's and right now on the

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Speaker 3: I can't belie this, four years full seasons. I've known

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Speaker 3: We're going to talk about that, her social life. We

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Speaker 3: welcome to the Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Melody Schari.

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Speaker 1: How you doing? Melody?

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Speaker 5: Hey, hi everyone, how are you doing?

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Speaker 6: Look at this like you know, I always enjoy getting

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Speaker 3: you know, and throughout that journey, you know, when I

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Speaker 1: Couple doesn't mean you have to couple.

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Speaker 3: It means that they're shared opportunities and one should support

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Speaker 3: No mention its Melanie, because you know when people I

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Speaker 3: I'm sure some people go, you know, Melanie need to

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Speaker 3: That's why it was important that people need to hear

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Speaker 1: This is part of your DNA, part of your life.

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Speaker 5: And I will tell anyone that hard work is definitely

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Speaker 6: You know, you have to have a strong work ethic

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Speaker 6: Ethic is unmatched, that would be an understatement. I don't

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Speaker 6: but I believe in working hard, and my my mindset

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Speaker 3: She's doing all this is still doing Love and Marriage Huntsfield,

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Speaker 3: the Seventh Avenue Premier Skimcare. That's the second lane that

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Speaker 3: So tell us about Seventh Avenue Premiere Skincare.

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Speaker 6: So at Seventh Avenue Premier Skincare. I actually grew up

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Speaker 6: that conversation sometime. And so reality hosting gives me a

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Speaker 5: So I definitely enjoy hosting.

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Speaker 6: You know, I hosted Girlfriends check In for own, I

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Speaker 6: hosted Behind every Man for own, and I hosted something recently,

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Speaker 6: most recently was for Essence and Coca Cola. And so

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Speaker 6: I will say that for me, that is definitely a

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Speaker 6: comfort zone for me.

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Speaker 5: Is hosting.

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Speaker 1: Well, she's a brand ladies and gentlemen. You know, I

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Speaker 1: met her.

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Speaker 3: She was just a young lady who's married, which is

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Speaker 3: nothing wrong with that. But I love the fact that

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Speaker 3: she's always been focused. And when you watch the show

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Speaker 3: Love and Marriage Huntsfield, like I said, eris every Saturday night,

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Speaker 3: eight pm Eastern Pacific on their own network. You know,

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Speaker 3: you're doing all these things NonStop. Where does the time

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Speaker 3: for the kids fall in line? How do you align

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Speaker 3: that relationship because there's a lot of moms out there

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Speaker 3: who want.

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Speaker 1: To do what you do.

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Speaker 3: How are you able to be able to manage the

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Speaker 3: low because and the need Because I always tell people,

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Speaker 3: these kids didn't ask to come in this world.

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Speaker 1: We brought them into this world absolutely.

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Speaker 6: So, for one, it's very important that you have an

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Speaker 6: amazing support system. It's important that you know you also

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Speaker 6: communicate and talk with your children. So my children know

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Speaker 6: what I'm doing, they know what I'm working on. I

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Speaker 6: have those real conversations with them, you know, I have

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Speaker 6: conversations with them about what it is that they want

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Speaker 6: hope and prayer is always that I'm knocking down doors

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Speaker 6: that they will then be able to easily walk through.

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Speaker 6: So everyone in the family understanding the assignment, so to speak,

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Speaker 6: it's super super important. I can tell you that my children,

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Speaker 6: they still get their mom.

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Speaker 5: We still go on vacations. I still you know, pack

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Speaker 5: them up.

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Speaker 6: We'll go to the indoor water park, We'll go to

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Speaker 6: the beach, We'll go to Dave and Busters.

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Speaker 1: I still cooked you and I cooked.

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Speaker 5: The other night their favorite chicken pot pie. I still cook.

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Speaker 6: I still take them to school.

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Speaker 5: You know, they come first, regardless period, they come first.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm talking to the brand Melanie Sharif, the star

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Speaker 3: Loving Marriage and producer.

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Speaker 1: Let me put that back. Let's lip back star and

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Speaker 1: producer Love and.

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Speaker 3: Marriage Huntsville, which airs every Saturday night, eight pm on

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Speaker 3: the Own Network.

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Speaker 1: What is going to happen this season?

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna let you kind of tell it

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Speaker 3: because you know, if I might get to tell out

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Speaker 3: too many details and then I don't want to let

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Speaker 3: you back on my show. But it's still high power.

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Speaker 3: Your bought been to Africa. You know, he coming back

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Speaker 3: with all these ideas, social media posts getting people fired up,

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Speaker 3: infidelity questions, relationship questions, whoa just let.

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Speaker 1: Everybody know, why did you do the show?

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Speaker 3: And how did you guys come to come together as

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Speaker 3: a couple before we start talking about what's happening this season?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely so on.

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Speaker 6: He pitched the show to Carlos King my ex to

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Speaker 6: nine and had a consultation with him, pitched the show

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Speaker 6: to him and in the midst of that and once

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Speaker 6: we agreed, you know, to go with his production company

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Speaker 6: to get us a show. It took us about three

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Speaker 6: years of us selling Huntsville to him. I would test

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Speaker 6: in terms of how the city was growing.

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Speaker 5: And eventually he sent us a contract.

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Speaker 6: He was like, look, we put together a sizzle for him,

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Speaker 6: send it to him, and he said, oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 6: I want to sign you.

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 5: I don't want you to sign with anybody else. I

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Speaker 5: want to work with you.

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Speaker 6: He sent a contract that day we signed it. It

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Speaker 6: gave him a certain timeframe to get the show picked up.

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Speaker 6: The next conversation we had was, hey, look, I'm getting

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Speaker 6: some great feedback, but I am really great at getting

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Speaker 6: ensemble soul.

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Speaker 5: What do you guys think about doing and ensemble? Do

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Speaker 5: you have any.

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Speaker 6: Friends that you maybe want to bring along? And so

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Speaker 6: at that point we presented several friends to him. You

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Speaker 6: know that we several couples that we knew, and they

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Speaker 6: them and you know, deciding how they wanted to go.

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Speaker 5: And so you know, that's where we are. That's how

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Speaker 5: we're here with Love and Marriage Huntsville.

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Speaker 6: I think for me, the the idea from the beginning

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Speaker 6: was really to show a young, young black couples who

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Speaker 6: were successful doing things in the community, working hard to

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Speaker 6: you know, enhance the.

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Speaker 5: Community as much as possible, while.

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Speaker 6: Also showing real life issues that happened in relationships and

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Speaker 6: that happen with friendships, and just being transparent, transparent, honest

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Speaker 6: and open about life like a reality TV show that

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Speaker 6: is actually real, that it's transparent.

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Speaker 1: That was the goal and authentic.

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Speaker 3: And and you also changed the game because you went

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Speaker 3: from that big city for a matt And I'm not

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Speaker 3: gonna I'm not being niggad when I say that, you know,

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Speaker 3: And I'm I call a hospital a small town with

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Speaker 3: a smaller city, you know.

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Speaker 1: But if you ever go the Hounst Field, which is

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Speaker 1: the home.

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Speaker 3: Of NASA, very well educated, you go there, they got

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Speaker 3: everything it is. It is a baby version of Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 1: When I'm talking.

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Speaker 3: About the the the the the lifestyle, the education level

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Speaker 3: and the uh and the job availability. It's a beautiful city.

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Speaker 3: I went there many times. I was fortunate to go

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Speaker 3: through when I was when I was being the entertainer.

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Speaker 3: And so with that being said, what should we expect

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Speaker 3: Melody Scharie? What is season four and why should we Look,

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Speaker 3: I know why because I'm watching you, But why should

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Speaker 3: we know.

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Speaker 5: Some season brow up? In one word, it would be

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Speaker 5: whirlwind world wind.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and you thought last season was something else after

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Speaker 6: that reunion that has happened and everything else that's going on, Honey,

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Speaker 6: you better buckle up for season four.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you better season four?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, like I said, you know, that's why

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Speaker 3: I wanted to let everybody hear how it started, so

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Speaker 3: you can see that the you know, some of the manipulations,

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Speaker 3: some of the production. You know, you get into these

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Speaker 3: projects and you don't know your journey and their journey.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, and melody situation has.

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Speaker 3: Led to a divorced situation played out in the public side,

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Speaker 3: played out in social media.

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Speaker 1: But it didn't break her.

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Speaker 3: It didn't break her spirit, didn't break her relationships. And

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Speaker 3: know that that's important because you got a lot of

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Speaker 3: haters out there, and these haters are trying to manipulate

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Speaker 3: the system and.

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Speaker 1: Make people feel that they're wrong.

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Speaker 3: Again, Melanie, sure read as always, you bring God, you

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Speaker 3: drop the gems, you dropped the enthusiasm, and just watch

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Speaker 3: our relationship grow. And you know you have a home here.

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Speaker 3: Money making conversations Master class. I was aboord the show.

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Speaker 3: Tell them to send those those videos. Tell them you

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Speaker 3: now you can tell me about the song. Drop all

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Speaker 3: the wives out to put that in a newsletter.

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Speaker 1: But that's all right.

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Speaker 3: I'm a good little hate knowing you. You could have

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Speaker 3: told you. Boy, Rashid, can you drop this first? You

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Speaker 3: need to apologize. You need to apologize. D mail me

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Speaker 3: d em mel with everything else. But again, tell them

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Speaker 3: to send me some videos so I can drop in

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Speaker 3: next week's newsletter because I've gotten no banners to promote it.

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Speaker 3: They got one hundred and five thousand fan club members

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Speaker 3: go out every Wednesday, and I drop them every week,

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Speaker 3: the sizzles that go out to promote the upcoming episode.

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Speaker 3: Because I believe in you. I love the people on

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Speaker 3: the show. You are my number one on that show.

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Speaker 3: I will protect you, I will support you. Keep being

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Speaker 3: who you are. You are a blessing and what can

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Speaker 3: I say, a star of what we needed you. You

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Speaker 3: represent a lot of great things and keep winning. Okay,

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Speaker 3: thank you for coming on my show.

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Speaker 1: Mellan Sree. You're wonderful. If you want to hear.

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Speaker 3: See any of my interviews on money making conversations, please

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Speaker 3: go to money Making Conversation dot Com.

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Speaker 1: IM Rashaan McDonald. I am your host.

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Speaker 8: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

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Speaker 8: with Rashawn McDonald.

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Speaker 10: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 10: of Inspiration with Rashawn McDonald.

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Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Rashaan McDonald for Money Making Conversation Masterclass with

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Speaker 3: your Daily Into the Inspiration. I said that with actor,

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Speaker 3: writer and comedian Leonard Robinson, I talked about the necessity

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Speaker 3: of changing with the times as a.

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Speaker 1: Comedian outside of just stand up. I mean, the world

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Speaker 1: is different right now.

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Speaker 11: You know, people are becoming more educated and more informed

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Speaker 11: on a lot more issues than they had to be

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Speaker 11: in the past, and with that requires a certain amount

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Speaker 11: of growth on your part as the artist and new

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Speaker 11: creative to understand where the world is right now, the

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Speaker 11: temperature of the world, and decide are you going to

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Speaker 11: grow with it or are you going to draw a

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Speaker 11: line in the sand and say I'm going to stay

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Speaker 11: right here and keep saying these things.

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Speaker 1: You see it.

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Speaker 11: Politically the last couple of years, the whole America first,

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Speaker 11: bring back bring back the good old days, right.

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Speaker 4: Like well, when you say things like that, well, good

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Speaker 4: for who but you.

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Speaker 3: Know you can listen to this full interview with Leonard

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Speaker 3: Robinson is available on money Making Conversations dot com.

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Speaker 8: Now let's return to money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: They're here.

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Speaker 3: We're going to talk about a couple of my favorite

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Speaker 3: cuts on their s their project. My guests don't Money

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Speaker 3: Making Conversations master Class. A Grammy nominated jazz duo Marcus

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Speaker 3: and Jean Baylor for their new album of The Baylor

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Speaker 3: Project Generations. The Baylor Project a husband and wife, an

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Speaker 3: astounding duo built on love, faith, family, culture, and community.

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Speaker 3: As the children of pastors, Marcus and Jean's musical roots

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Speaker 3: were planted deeply within the church, and it was there

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Speaker 3: that the road was paid for the influence of jazz, gospel,

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Speaker 3: blues and soul to make its mark. Please welcome the

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Speaker 3: Money Making Conversations Master Class. Marcus and Jean Baylor. How

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Speaker 3: you doing?

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Speaker 9: Hello?

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Speaker 4: Hello?

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Speaker 1: Well, I hope, I hope. I did did you justice

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Speaker 1: by that intro? Because the music.

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Speaker 3: Is uh, I'm telling you man, y'all, y'all, y'all are

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Speaker 3: doing something. You know jazz is it's it's jazz. But

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Speaker 3: this is a mix of something else? Am I missing

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Speaker 3: something when I say that, Marcus and.

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Speaker 4: Gene, Nope, You're not missing anything. I mean, first of all,

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Speaker 4: thank you for the amazing introduction. The other thing is

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Speaker 4: that it's music that's going out of our community. So

665
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 4: I think a jazz, you know, the blues is there,

666
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 4: you know, Gospels there, you know R and B. All

667
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 4: those things are the roots of our music that makes

668
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 4: up who we are as the people.

669
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 3: Right before I get into your background. And like I said,

670
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 3: I may be late to the party, but I'm at

671
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 3: the party now with the Baylor Project, Okay, you want.

672
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: To let you know that.

673
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 3: And there's two songs that really they're on my there

674
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 3: are two songs that really stand out for me that

675
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 3: I listen to and uh and that that really I thought,

676
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 3: really talk is what I'm talking about.

677
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: How diverse the sound is.

678
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: It's called Only Believe featuring the jameson Ross and then

679
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 3: black Boy. You know black Boy got their trumpet sliding

680
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 3: through that, the piano, the strings, that drums, you know

681
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 3: they all it's then the beat, it's just a slow

682
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 3: melodic tune that builds up to the vocals are just

683
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 3: that are just slid in at different moments those two

684
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 3: songs Only Believe in Black Boy. Can we talk about

685
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 3: the evolution and the process of creating those really really

686
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 3: different songs on the same project, which is the Baylor Project.

687
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 9: Yes, oh wow, you picked two very diverse songs.

688
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 4: I love it those two.

689
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 9: You know, when we approach an album in general, we

690
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 9: really approach it as a body of work, and we

691
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 9: really take our time to kind of basically live and

692
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 9: allow the songs and ideas to come to us and

693
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 9: then we're able to develop them. So Only Believe I

694
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 9: think that actually kind of came early on and I

695
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 9: didn't think it was gonna work on the album, and

696
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 9: Marcus was like.

697
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: Yes, shame on you, shame on you. That is my favorite.

698
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: That is the I can't say that that's I love

699
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: the song. I love.

700
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 3: I'm an MPR. I can't endorse it. I apologize. I

701
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 3: slipped over the curve, I slipped over the lake. But

702
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 3: Only Believe is a song that stood out on the album.

703
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 3: That's all the music stands out, but that Like anybody

704
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 3: who listens to music, you always have a favorite song

705
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 3: that just that just grabs you and it holds onto

706
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 3: your emotional it takes you on the journey because what

707
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 3: I've taken from listening to the music, you guys, when

708
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 3: I say you guys, Marcus and Jean Baylor great storytellers.

709
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 4: Wow, thank you, thank you.

710
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 9: That's really kind of what we aim to do is

711
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 9: tell stories through our songs. But there we are aim

712
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 9: to tell stories that are true and authentic, not only

713
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 9: to us but to other people. And a good friend

714
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 9: of ours, Andre Guests, he described this, he wrote our

715
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 9: line of notes and he described the album as a

716
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 9: soul full sonic story quilt, I believe, And you know

717
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 9: just how it was all weave together with the different songs.

718
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 4: And how it was like.

719
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 9: You had specific ideas and concepts and themes, but then

720
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 9: it's still had.

721
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 4: It was like about the universality.

722
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 9: Of the human condition. So even though it's very particular,

723
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 9: a lot of them very particular to the black community,

724
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 9: the concepts and things are those that really anybody can

725
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 9: relate to.

726
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 4: Ye. And also, I mean this has truly been a

727
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 4: journey for us. I mean before we were married, I

728
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 4: was a drummer, well well while while we were married

729
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 4: as well, but I was the drummer in the yellow

730
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 4: jacket and Jane come out of an R and B

731
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 4: duo across Jean Nay and so there's a whole history

732
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 4: of our you know, where we have come from in

733
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 4: terms of what we've been doing in the music business.

734
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 4: But at the same time been blessed to just be

735
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: mentored by some of the you know, the legends and

736
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 4: just people that inspire us, you know daily and we

737
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 4: standing on our shoulders.

738
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I created.

739
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 3: I've been blessed to be able to have a show

740
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 3: like Money Made Competition, Master Class. I get people to

741
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 3: talk about their dreams with the coming their fears, you know,

742
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 3: walking through unknown dark Faith plays a major role in

743
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 3: that because you already said both of you, both of

744
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 3: you came from groups, and groups can allow you to

745
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 3: you know, standing back and lean on somebody for support

746
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 3: and or sometimes they don't give you the support that

747
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 3: you want, but it's still somebody you can talk to

748
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 3: to step out as individuals and do what you do.

749
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 3: Talk about that journey.

750
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 4: Well, it's I mean, I know Gene can definitely add

751
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 4: to this, but I guess for us, I mean, we

752
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 4: started our own label, Be a Light, Be a Light,

753
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 4: and it started at the beginning just for us stepping

754
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 4: out as the bill of project and starting from their

755
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 4: first gig of just playing for a set of fifty people. Yes,

756
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 4: and so to see how this journey has moved forward.

757
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 4: And now we're blessed to be Grammy nominated this year

758
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 4: for our album Generations. And actually this is our fourth

759
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 4: Grammy nomination within what past four years, twenty eight pen

760
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 4: So you could add more to it, you.

761
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: Know, you can talk mar this not we not just

762
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: not a five minute interview. Now you can talk now.

763
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 3: You know he's just gonna throw it off, like I'm

764
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 3: gonna cut him off. You know, you know, the only

765
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 3: guy bout three more minutes. You know, I think right,

766
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 3: this show is built to tell your story. This this

767
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: show us built to talk about your journey because I

768
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 3: want people to understand a lot of people want to

769
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 3: be you. There's a lot of people who have dreams

770
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 3: cut off because somewhere along the line, somebody said, go

771
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 3: get a job that's not you know, you're too old,

772
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 3: or you or you're the wrong size, the wrong color.

773
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 3: You know, you can't sing, nobody wants you to. Because

774
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 3: I know because those things were said to me. I remember,

775
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 3: as my career is a stand up comedian, I remember

776
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 3: early on. This guy I can tell you his name,

777
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 3: Paul Menzel. He was the owner of this comedy club

778
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 3: in Houston. And I came off the stage and if

779
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 3: to a standing ovation. He said, he said, you know,

780
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 3: you could be a little bit funnier if people understand you.

781
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 1: I go, huh, he said, you know, you're you're you're

782
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: not really clear when you talk. I go, but but they're.

783
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 3: Laughing, he said, he said, just a note, just a note,

784
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 3: you know, you know, but this is a business. You're

785
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 3: not gonna make it in, you know, because nobody won't

786
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 3: ever understand you.

787
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: So I know that happened to me.

788
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 3: And that's why I can just say this to people

789
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 3: that when people questioning, well, you know my success and well,

790
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 3: you know, how did you make it? I had to

791
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 3: overcome people telling me to quit, that this wasn't for you.

792
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 3: And so I know along the way, you know, I

793
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 3: said earlier, your pastor kids, and so sometimes when your

794
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 3: pastor kids, people saw your favored you know, you didn't

795
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 3: work hard, and things are those things, and and so

796
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 3: that's why I wanted to make sure, Marcus, you tell

797
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 3: us your story because I'm gonna get to Gene.

798
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you probably on the other side of

799
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: the break, depending on how hard you talk. So continue, Marcus.

800
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 4: So I mean, so basically the journey. I mean, so,

801
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 4: the thing about it is is that I think it's

802
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 4: you know, one thing that I tell people is that

803
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 4: when you have a dream and a go, it starts

804
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 4: with a dream, but you have to be consistent and persistent.

805
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 4: And so in saying that, it's almost like the thing

806
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 4: about it is is that you tweak your you tweak

807
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 4: whatever your business or whatever you're doing along the way,

808
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 4: but stay consistent at it. Like because a lot of

809
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 4: times is that I meet people, we meet people in

810
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 4: the industry or just in business in general that they're

811
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 4: one thing, they're doing this today tomorrow Like well, man,

812
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 4: I'm selling these shurance you know. So it's like nothing

813
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 4: wrong with that. But my thing is that your dream

814
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 4: really borrows down to your purpose, and if you understand

815
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 4: your purpose, that's what keeps you going. Because one thing

816
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 4: I will tell you this is that I learned that

817
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 4: motivation and inspiration on the journey comes and goes, but

818
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: what keeps me going daily is the purpose. One to

819
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 4: understand what my purpose is, then it's like, Okay, whether

820
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 4: I'm tired, whether you know it's like okay, man, now

821
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 4: you got to keep going. You almost there. I mean

822
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 4: the better project. I mean it started with you know,

823
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 4: now we're blessed to tour and and you know, have

824
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,399
Speaker 4: a booking agent and and but everything started with us

825
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 4: doing everything ourselves. We booked ourselves. We uh, we did

826
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 4: all the I mean you, I mean you you know

827
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 4: how it is, you name it absolutely brought drums to gigs,

828
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 4: we you know, the whole nine. So with that being said,

829
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 4: I think it's really understanding the journey because it doesn't

830
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 4: happen overnight. As much as we would like it too,

831
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 4: it doesn't happen overnight. It's a process.

832
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 3: Well, the thing that I love about this story is

833
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 3: so relatable to you know, nothing's easy, nothing during it.

834
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 3: There there are hungry nights, he's he'll tell you that

835
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 3: they're hungry days. There are days when you sit on

836
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 3: the other side of the bed and you your feet

837
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 3: on the floor but your body don't want to get up.

838
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 3: The days where you actually just cry. You cry not

839
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 3: so much out of fear, it just frustration. It's fear

840
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 3: us because you know, fear drives that frustration and I

841
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 3: should say that because that fear the unknown have I

842
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:17,240
Speaker 3: made the right decision. But what keeps you going is faith,

843
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 3: but also a plan. You gotta have that plan, everybody.

844
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 3: You cannot just walk out that door and not have

845
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 3: an objective because talent will only get you so far.

846
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 3: And the bottom line, you got us surround yourself with

847
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 3: people who believe in the same journey you are trying

848
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 3: to make.

849
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: Let me repeat that one more time.

850
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 3: You got us surround yourself with people who want to

851
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 3: make the same journey with you. And I will tell

852
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 3: you back in ninety two, I didn't get that. I

853
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 3: didn't get what people saw in me, Marcus and Jane.

854
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 3: And so that is why this interview that we're doing

855
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 3: now is so important, because of the fact that I

856
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 3: want people to hear your story when we talk all

857
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 3: about the journey, you know, we all I know, I'll

858
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 3: tell people I grew up in the hood and I

859
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 3: always used to see things on TV. And I always

860
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 3: felt of what I saw on TV, I could actually

861
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 3: be a part of I guess that was That's what

862
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 3: helped me out. Always I was a dreamer that really

863
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 3: believed that, you know, if I worked hard and stay

864
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 3: focused the dream of me being something other than where

865
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 3: I was living could actually happen. So when I when

866
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 3: I say that Marcus and Gene, what was the driving

867
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 3: force for you? Was your parents? Was the culture that

868
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 3: you grew up in? What was the driving force that

869
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 3: inspired you to this point? And guess what, the journey

870
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 3: isn't over, It's just another starting point. Because both of

871
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 3: you are goal oriented. I tell people that all the time,

872
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 3: a goal and what drives that? What is the drive

873
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 3: for the journey?

874
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 9: I would say starting out, for me, it was just

875
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 9: the love of music anywhere that I could sing, whether

876
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 9: it was the a choiring church or acquiring school league club,

877
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 9: consequence magicals, talent shows, wherever I could sing because I

878
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 9: just loved doing it so much. It wasn't didn't represent

879
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 9: work at that point. I just did it. And you

880
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 9: know that's still part of the drive. But of course

881
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 9: it's developed over years and as Marcus mentioned, purpose that's

882
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 9: like hugely important to me and the both of us.

883
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 4: And also.

884
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 9: And business of course, business finance and that kind of

885
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 9: thing that's a drive as well. But you know it

886
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 9: kind of grows and develops and changes a bit as

887
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 9: you as you get older and but it's it's definitely

888
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 9: the drive and love for music, but the purpose and

889
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 9: the passion for it. And and you mentioned something.

890
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 4: What was it?

891
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 9: Oh excuse me, just kind of seeing yourself in different spaces,

892
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 9: like growing up. I grew up in a little small

893
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 9: town Sound, Jersey, so I didn't I wasn't connected to

894
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 9: the music industry whatsoever. So I didn't even have a

895
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 9: concept that you know, if I saw a music video,

896
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 9: you know, on MTV back then soul Trained, I loved

897
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 9: the scene, but I never thought, oh.

898
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could go and do that because I was.

899
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 9: Not anywhere in any proximity too close to it, as

900
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 9: I didn't even know, you know, their arts high schools

901
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 9: were for real, I was watching fame like man I

902
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 9: share with nothing to go ahead. It just kind of

903
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 9: I found it and it found me. Marcus has a

904
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 9: little bit of a different story because he definitely had

905
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 9: to have a lot of.

906
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 4: Drive to break through some barriers. Well, well, both Well

907
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 4: the thing about, like like you said before, both Jean

908
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 4: and I are both uh preachers kids, pastors kids. So

909
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 4: Jean grew up her dad was a pastor of a

910
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 4: Baptist church. I grew up where my dad was a

911
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 4: pastor of a Pentecostal Apostolic church. So what that means

912
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 4: is back then there was no other music allowed. Well,

913
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 4: your mom wouldn't playing either, Jane, but there was no

914
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 4: other music allowed in our house other than gospel music.

915
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 4: And so with that being said, but this is the

916
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 4: other side. My mom my dad only had like maybe

917
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 4: a seventh grade or sixth or seventh or eighth grade education,

918
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 4: and he came from Mississippi and you know, for better

919
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 4: life for the family. And so with that being said,

920
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,479
Speaker 4: I mean later on in life he gave his life

921
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 4: to the Lord and he ended up pastoring. But they

922
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 4: started my dad's church before I was born. I'm the

923
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 4: youngest of nine children. His church literally started in my parents'

924
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 4: house where they had a baptismal pool in the basement.

925
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 4: So that's the beginning of me hearing those stories was

926
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 4: the beginning of me understanding what drive is. And then

927
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 4: while I was a kid, my mom had been forty two,

928
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 4: so I hung out with my dad a lot, so

929
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 4: he would pick up all the members for church. He

930
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 4: would be setting up tents. I mean, my father was

931
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 4: only about five foot three five foot four. I'm without

932
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 4: the same height and he would say, well, I get

933
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 4: out the way I do it. And so you're talking

934
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 4: about when you watch him, when you're talking about drives

935
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 4: and somebody just working and just really serving the people

936
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 4: and just working hard. I think that's what the beginning

937
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 4: of me understanding what it takes to have the drive

938
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 4: and the passion and the work ethics.

939
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 8: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

940
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 8: with Rashaan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations

941
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 8: Masterclass with Rashaan McDonald.

942
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: You got to tell us how did you start making

943
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: that music shift and when did you introduce that music

944
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: shift to the family.

945
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 4: Boom, Wow, that's a great not no, I'm bringing in.

946
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 4: So I started playing, so I became I started playing

947
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 4: drums at the age of two, and I became the

948
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 4: church drummer at the age of five.

949
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 3: So when I got to you all in, you all

950
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 3: in back there, two years old, back.

951
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 4: There, Yeah, yeah, it was you know, yeah, it was.

952
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 4: So once I got to high school, I think I

953
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 4: had a buddy take me to my first introduced me

954
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 4: to the Yellow Jackets when I was in middle school.

955
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 4: And actually he's a pastor now and a buddy by

956
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 4: the name of Chris Kier introduced me to.

957
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: The music, did introduce you to the music, and then

958
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: ran back to the church.

959
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 4: That's what he did, basically, No, but yeah, I mean

960
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 4: it was like and then later on I had a buddy.

961
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 4: This changed my life. He took me to my first

962
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 4: jazz club and it was open. I snuck out and

963
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 4: from there. I don't know why my parents while my

964
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 4: mom had this because my dad passed away when I

965
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 4: was nine, and so I don't know why my mom

966
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 4: had this. But I had a bed, I had a

967
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 4: door in my bedroom, so I would literally sneak out

968
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 4: to go hear jazz music. And by high school I

969
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 4: had older mentors that said, hey man, you need to

970
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 4: start doing some gigs, and so they will call me

971
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 4: while I was in high school to go play some gigs.

972
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 4: And that's where that's when the bug bit me. And

973
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 4: the thing about it is, I'm trying to really figure

974
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,879
Speaker 4: this out, is that a lot of times is that

975
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 4: when you have resistance in terms of I remember my

976
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 4: family even at that time they said, hey man, drummers

977
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 4: come a dime a dozen. But in my mind I'm thinking, like, well,

978
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 4: I'm going to be that dime and a dozen. So

979
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 4: I think parents not just handing everything to you sometimes.

980
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of it's kind of weird. It's

981
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 4: almost like it makes you want it more and it

982
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 4: makes you go after it. Like I had a conversation

983
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 4: with a family member today and he talked about, you know,

984
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,320
Speaker 4: we talked about having a plan B. Gonna be honest

985
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 4: with you. I mean I told him this because I

986
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 4: always flattered him because I love basketball. I said, actually,

987
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 4: my plan A was to make it to the NBA.

988
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 4: But at the age of probably nine tent on about eleven,

989
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 4: my brother told me I wasn't going to make it

990
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 4: to the NBA.

991
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: So I tell you killer, dream killer, Yeah he.

992
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 4: Dream killer, dream killer or a truth teller.

993
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: He making he made it to the NBA.

994
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 4: Five foot three, Now, come on see himself. Well it

995
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 4: was about zero, okay. But I'm just saying, I mean,

996
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 4: what is the percentage of being a musician?

997
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 5: Okay?

998
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 4: A while liar, I would say this, so so to

999
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 4: bring it all in, I just I feel like this,

1000
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 4: like I'm thinking about people that have a plan B.

1001
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying I believe you should have a

1002
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 4: plan B and C. But for me, in my mind,

1003
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 4: most people that I know that has a plan A

1004
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 4: that means they're resistance and their drive a lot of

1005
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 4: times it's not going to quit when they know they

1006
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 4: purpose because I don't believe then. I mean, I told

1007
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 4: my family. They was like, hey, you go to school

1008
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:01,959
Speaker 4: for music in New York. I went to music school

1009
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 4: in New York, and so they were like, you know,

1010
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 4: I told my mom, Yeah, I'm going there. Yeah I

1011
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 4: can teach, you know, that's the plan be to them.

1012
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 4: When I in my mind, I was like, man, I'm

1013
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 4: going to New York to play with the greats and

1014
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 4: I on a tour and do music for a living.

1015
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 4: That's what my mind was saying to me the whole time.

1016
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 3: And I agree with you. I remember when I my

1017
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 3: degree is in mathematics. I worked for IBM, and I

1018
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 3: left IBM to be a stand up comedian and so

1019
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 3: I so in my mind, I always I can always

1020
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 3: go back.

1021
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: That was my plan.

1022
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 3: B was sitting in the back of my mind, this

1023
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 3: jokey joke things, I'm not going to be the next

1024
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 3: Adie Murphy next to Richard Pryor. Then I can always

1025
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 3: go back, you know, I was. I didn't leave with

1026
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 3: no discard. You know they were crying when I walked

1027
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 3: out the door, but it was when I decided no,

1028
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 3: going back was not an option. That commitment you have

1029
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 3: to one time in your life. If you say you're

1030
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 3: going to go to college, if you say you're going

1031
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 3: to get married, you say you're gonna be in a relationship,

1032
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 3: you say you're gonna have chur that's about commitment and

1033
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 3: when you make that commitment. That's why I was trying

1034
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 3: to shape these stories that really they can line up

1035
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 3: in anything that you do, whether it's losing weight or

1036
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 3: getting in shape, or getting married or dating, or having children,

1037
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 3: or job or starting a business, all this these variables

1038
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 3: really align themselves to the same conversation.

1039
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: It's commitment.

1040
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 3: And if you're going to have a committed effort, it

1041
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 3: has to be tied to goals. And when you tie

1042
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 3: things to goals, then your dreams can become a reality.

1043
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 3: And that's what people make the mistake all the time.

1044
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 3: They have all these dreams, no commitment. They have all

1045
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:43,280
Speaker 3: these dreams, no goals, and guess what happens.

1046
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: Frustration sets in.

1047
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 3: Then they sales become the kings of your conversation. And

1048
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 3: next thing you know you're sitting back depressed, not and

1049
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 3: next thing you know, you're forty years old saying I

1050
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 3: wish I should have done this fifty years old.

1051
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: I could have done this sixty years old. So you mad,

1052
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:01,879
Speaker 1: you mad?

1053
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just all your stories about what you could

1054
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 3: have done. When I tell people, do not use age

1055
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 3: as and excuse. If you have a dream, you can

1056
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 3: still do that for it and you still got talent

1057
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 3: associated with it, that'd do it.

1058
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 4: Yes, I'll tell you this. I gotta say this. So

1059
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 4: you just mentioned something. You just talked about age, So

1060
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 4: here you go. In our twenties, I was in the

1061
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 4: Yellow Jackets, in Jean's twenty she was in Johnny. So

1062
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 4: when we started this independent grind started all the way

1063
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 4: back in two thousand and five, right Jean left the

1064
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 4: group Johnny, I think in two thousand or something like that.

1065
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 4: So I'm saying all that to say this. Two thousand

1066
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 4: and five, all the way up to twenty seventeen was

1067
00:51:54,160 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 4: nothing was building and starting our independent journey. Now we

1068
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 4: went the labels, we did all that, nothing happened. We

1069
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 4: put out some independent product, spent money, we lost money,

1070
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 4: made bad decisions and you know, just in terms of that.

1071
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 4: It was like the education process, like getting a master's degree.

1072
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 4: So yes, so so basically I was saying that, you know,

1073
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 4: we made decisions, and the fast forward from two thousand

1074
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 4: and five now comes two thousand around fourteen, and I

1075
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 4: took a long shower and it hit me and said, hey,

1076
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,320
Speaker 4: we should start this band called the Beiler Project where

1077
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 4: you know, at the time when I left the Yellowjackets,

1078
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 4: I wasn't doing as much touring. I was doing more

1079
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 4: production and producing in the studio Gene and I and

1080
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 4: I just said, I want to get back to playing

1081
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 4: Jene and you know you can you know where it

1082
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 4: features me on drums and you're singing. You know, we

1083
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 4: have a full band and everything. And so I said, man,

1084
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 4: that would really be cool. And she said that is

1085
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 4: the dumbest idea. I said, Okay, don't worry about it.

1086
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 4: We're gonna write some music and it don't make you said,

1087
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:12,760
Speaker 4: it don't make no sense. Okay. So this is twenty fourteen, fifteen.

1088
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 4: So we end up doing our first gig at three

1089
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 4: shows at this place called Smoke Jazz Club. The first

1090
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 4: set was okay, it's the sort of okay crowd, long,

1091
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 4: no no, I'm I'm going to bring it in. I'm

1092
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,959
Speaker 4: gonna bring it all in. So we did our first show.

1093
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 4: It was okay, the first two sets was rocking and

1094
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Speaker 4: it was packed, and it was packed. And out of

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Speaker 4: that started a residency for like eight or nine months.

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Speaker 4: So that was the birthing of the Bella project. We

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Speaker 4: go in the studio and re card and we released

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Speaker 4: this album. Now, the industry tells you, well, the industry,

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Speaker 4: the way it's been shaped for years is that it's

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Speaker 4: a young person's industry where your years are in the twenties,

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Speaker 4: your bench years are in your thirties. Check this album.

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Speaker 4: We're over our forties. Our first album drops and comes

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Speaker 4: out right. This album gets nominated for two Grammys, Best

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Speaker 4: Jazz Vocal Album and a Song Laughs and move On

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Speaker 4: is for Best Traditional R and B Performance. Why am

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Speaker 4: I famous, Marcus? You're saying is because the thing about

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Speaker 4: it is is that it's never too late to go

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Speaker 4: after your goals and your dreams right now. And I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna put it out there because a lot of times

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Speaker 4: is that the industry says that, hey man, you're you know,

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Speaker 4: age is what's in your mind, it's what's so there's

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Speaker 4: a new book that's being written, and the book is this.

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Speaker 4: I'm Marcus Baylor. I'm forty six years old. My wife's Jean.

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Speaker 4: Could I tell them your age? Baby, I'm thank you

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Speaker 4: forty six years how I'm on forty six to forty five? Okay, y'all,

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Speaker 4: I forget my age. I'll let you know when you

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Speaker 4: say y'all because you stop counting. So I mean, okay,

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Speaker 4: I stopped counting. More you start to get that years

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Speaker 4: old and my wife Jean is fifty one. So check

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Speaker 4: it out. We're in twenty twenty two. Last year we

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Speaker 4: had a song that was Grammy nominated called sit On

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Speaker 4: Down for Best Traditional R and B Performance. This year,

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Speaker 4: our album Generations is nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album,

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Speaker 4: and we just was blessed to win NAACP Award this

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Speaker 4: year for Best Jazz Album Vocal. Now, it ain't about

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Speaker 4: the accolade of this and that, but what I'm trying

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00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 4: to tell you is this is that age and you

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Speaker 4: starting your goals and your dreams. And we literally started

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Speaker 4: over when we started to build a project. So I'm

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Speaker 4: saying that. All to say this is that no matter

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Speaker 4: what your age is, if you have the if you

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Speaker 4: have the breath, and I'm gonna call it to dream.

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Speaker 4: Then once you dream, you got to go after that

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Speaker 4: thing and put a plan together like you said, and

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Speaker 4: pursue that and pursue those goals. And this is the thing.

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Speaker 4: Everything that we've done so far, I mean, we don't

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00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 4: say this too many times, but I will say this

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00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 4: is that everything were small goals that we put into place.

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Speaker 4: We didn't wake up one day and just say, hey man,

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Speaker 4: we want to play in front of in a theater.

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Speaker 4: Oh we want to be Grammy nominated. No, let's be

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Speaker 4: consistent and persistent when we're playing in front of fifty

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00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 4: people or when we then only sold ten tickets. Let's

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Speaker 4: play as if the place is packed in full. And

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Speaker 4: so with that being said, that's where the persistent and

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00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 4: consistency comes in. That and you understanding your purpose.

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Speaker 1: Cool.

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Speaker 4: So hopefully this, you know, will help somebody.

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Speaker 3: Well, then it helped me because that's what I talk

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Speaker 3: about all the time, and that's what I'm known for

1151
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 3: telling people ages. Don't let age be an excuse to

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Speaker 3: your dreams being achieved. And Gene, you know, when you

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00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 3: talk about that only ten people in the audience you

1154
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 3: out in front now or that sold that audience. You

1155
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 3: out in front and you get to see those faces,

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00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 3: You get to see what the music and what you're

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00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 3: doing and people reacting to it. How does that affect

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00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 3: how you perform, you know at being an entertainer or

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00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 3: does it take you to another level emotionally?

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Speaker 1: Does that? Does that?

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Speaker 3: Does that give you a little more juice to give

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Speaker 3: one hundred ten thousand percent talk about that experience as

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Speaker 3: a performer.

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Speaker 9: So yes and no, Like, when you know you draw

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Speaker 9: from the audience, for sure, I don't know if audiences

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00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 9: really know that, but you know when you can feel

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00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 9: the energy from an audience that, you know, it inspires

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Speaker 9: us as artists on stay like yeah, you know now

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Speaker 9: one thing you know, especially in jazz, you're going to

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00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 9: be in front of different audiences, right and so you know,

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Speaker 9: sometimes I'll talk to my when I teach, and sometimes

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00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 9: I'm talking telling my students. I'm like, listen, you gotta

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Speaker 9: be able to really you know, a song is a song,

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Speaker 9: but when you come before people, it's really a selfless act.

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Speaker 9: When you go before people to perform and sing and

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00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 9: do what you do. If you're doing it, you know,

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00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 9: in the right frame of mind, but it's important to

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Speaker 9: kind of just just kind of sense the room. And

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Speaker 9: so it'll be a song where I may sing, I

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00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 9: don't always sing it to sing that way every night.

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Speaker 9: For instance, there's a song called Praise Songs Holly Loojah song,

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Speaker 9: and there's a whole story behind that. But you know,

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Speaker 9: when we did it in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and it.

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Speaker 4: Was like all black audience. You know how we do we.

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Speaker 9: Talk back to come on now, hey, all right now?

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Speaker 9: I mean you know, we had our good buddy Chedrick

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Speaker 9: Mitchell on the organ and he acts a fool when

1188
00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 9: he gets on the organ, and and it was just

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Speaker 9: a whole thing.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, when we were in I believe

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Speaker 4: it was broad a slava.

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Speaker 9: You're completely different vibes. They do not talk to you like, hey, sing.

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Speaker 9: It's just not a part of their culture, you know,

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00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 9: And they could be enjoying it, and you're kind of

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00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 9: wonder and well, I think, but they're listening so understanding

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00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 9: that they're they're really listening. But the sphirit of the

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00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 9: room was completely different, and the lady closure in here

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Speaker 9: sung it completely differently. We performed it there. It was

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Speaker 9: just it was just a different vibe all together, and

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Speaker 9: it's just responding to that space in the moment, and

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Speaker 9: and they definitely enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 9: One of the lad's just and embraced me after afterwards,

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00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,439
Speaker 9: and she didn't speak English and I didn't didn't speak

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Speaker 9: her language. So anyway, Yeah, it does affect in a way,

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Speaker 9: I think what you do because you're you almost can't

1207
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 9: help it. You know, if they're vibing with your you're

1208
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 9: gonna be vibing right back. But if same time, it's

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Speaker 9: not people, if you're in Japan, they're going to kind

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Speaker 9: of express themselves differently depending on the age of the audience,

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Speaker 9: and that's sort of thing. So at the end of

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Speaker 9: the day, you have to kind of have an idea

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Speaker 9: of what it is that you are trying to give

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Speaker 9: to the audience when you go out there. Sometimes you

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Speaker 9: may have very discouraging situations and it's important to kind

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Speaker 9: of learn how to handle those.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: Well, I did it really badly one time. I gotta

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Speaker 4: figure it out, you know.

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Speaker 3: Being a being a performer is amazing because you're right.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes I as being a performer on stage, some people

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Speaker 3: give you a standing ovations.

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Speaker 1: Some people will stand and.

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Speaker 3: Walk out that's me talking creative and it gives you

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Speaker 3: different reactions. I some people I've had quiet audience and say, man,

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Speaker 3: you're the funniest person ever saw. I said, wish youd

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Speaker 3: have told your faith? Okay, because I didn't see any

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01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 3: laughter come out of your face. Okay, will it will

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Speaker 3: helped me out there. But I just want to take

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Speaker 3: the time. This was a journey. That's what I do

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Speaker 3: on Money Making Conversation master Class and allow me to

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Speaker 3: speak to the Grammy nominated jazz duo Marcus and Gen

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Speaker 3: Baylor for their new album The Baylor Project Generations Appreciated

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Speaker 3: a husband, a wife and ustund in duo built on love, family, faith,

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Speaker 3: culture and community. I wish you luck on that fantastic night,

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Speaker 3: and again, thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass.

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Speaker 9: Oh, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having us, and we hope

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Speaker 4: to come down to your area soon and what we do, we.

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Speaker 8: Gonna let you know you've been listening to Money Making

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Speaker 8: Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Always remember to lead with

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Speaker 8: your gifts. Money Making Conversations Masterclass is a presentation of

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Speaker 8: thirty eight to fifteen media incorporated.

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Speaker 10: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 10: of Inspiration with Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 3: And Rashan McDonald for Money Making Conversation Masterclass, your Daily

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Speaker 3: Minute of Inspiration. I said that with writer and director

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Speaker 3: Reggie rock Bightwood, he discussed the message behind the series Swagger,

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Speaker 3: having confidence and living your dreams.

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Speaker 1: The show's called Swagger.

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Speaker 7: You know, obviously on the surface that's like a bottle

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Speaker 7: and confidence, but really underneath all of that, Swaggers were

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Speaker 7: having a cause bigger than yourself, whether your causes, your people,

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Speaker 7: your family, your team. Having that cause bigger than yourself,

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Speaker 7: it really gives you that sense of purpose, that determination

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Speaker 7: to move closer to your dreams and your calling. And

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Speaker 7: I think that's why you know in Jason's Journey, Jason's

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Speaker 7: journey initially is himself, and as we go through the narrative,

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Speaker 7: it expands as he expands.

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Speaker 3: You can listen to this full interview Reggie rock Bightwood.

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Speaker 3: It's available on Money Making Conversations dot com.