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Speaker 1: Omar Dorsey. Thank you so much for that AFO Introductional

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Speaker 1: shog Well, you know I'm just chasing the O. You know,

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Speaker 1: a body of work should be recognized because I look

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Speaker 1: at sometimes we were just grinders. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You're an entrepreneur. You know people he's an acting No,

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Speaker 1: he's an entrepreneur because he's building a business, building a career.

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Speaker 1: And when in the process of doing that, their peaks

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about some of your journey early on, because, uh,

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Speaker 1: when I was going through your resume, it was one

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Speaker 1: you as a young thug number one. That's that's that's

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about when did it started turning after two

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Speaker 1: thousand and six. You know what, I came home as

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Speaker 1: but I said, I don't want to play thugs anymore.

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Speaker 1: I want to play something my kids canna be very

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Speaker 1: proud of me, of right, sir. So Um, there there

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Speaker 1: have been times in my career where I stepped back

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Speaker 1: when I was like, you know what, let me figure

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Speaker 1: I didn't after that. I said, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: whatever career path you choose, what however you want to

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Speaker 1: do it, if you're into politics, or if you're into uh,

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Speaker 1: into education, if you have done your due diligence, and

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Speaker 1: you'll be ready to be ready for your close up

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Speaker 1: close up. But thank you, my brother. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: the last season of Queen Sugar again. We'll be watching

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Speaker 1: the game were watching on the small screen, be watching

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Speaker 1: a big thing. Thank you for coming on money making

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Speaker 1: compensation master like creature. We talked soon. My friend stay

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Speaker 1: sa A brother Peace