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

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

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Speaker 1: we come. Hi, Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I

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Speaker 1: am your host, Rashwan McDonald, and welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: I think today is that there's no perfect time to

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Speaker 1: and started blocking your dreams. That's what this show is putting.

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Speaker 1: Its just a purpose of why I do this show

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Speaker 1: to stop you from stopping yourself. When you wake up

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Speaker 1: what I talk about on this show money making conversation,

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Speaker 1: because for you, success may be the size of your paycheck.

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Speaker 1: Mine has inspiring you to accomplish your goals and live

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

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Speaker 1: with your gift and don't let your friends, family, or

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Speaker 1: were discussing all this overcoming the arts and everything. My

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Speaker 1: guests on the show today are Aeron Carolina. He'd beat

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Speaker 1: life threatening disease to start Hollywood productions like The Black Widow,

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Speaker 1: The Cleaning Lady, nine one one, and Tyler Perry's Sisters

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Speaker 1: and then my other guests, Robert Foster. It's time to

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Speaker 1: meet the creator of the Shopmakers League. Everybody knows March Madness.

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Speaker 1: Now what perfect time to interview this brother a virtual

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Speaker 1: basketball skills challenge platform. Let's get it all rolling with

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Speaker 1: money making conversation. My guests is Aaron Carolina, just like

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Speaker 1: the state. He was born and raised in all it

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Speaker 1: in Texas, just like the state. From singing singing in

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Speaker 1: love to act, Being either on stage or the big

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Speaker 1: screen was always the end goal. So while attending a

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Speaker 1: college at UT Arlington, he decided to go full throttle

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Speaker 1: into his acting. After beating a life threatening disease. Not

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Speaker 1: on such projects as The Black Widow, The Cleaning Lady,

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Speaker 1: with the money Making Conversations master class. Mister Aaron Carolina,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing, my friend? I'm blessed. I'm blessed

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Speaker 1: about yourself. When you say you're blessed, you know I

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Speaker 1: within your bio is discussed life threatening disease. Are you

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Speaker 1: willing to talk about that? Of course? Of course that's

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Speaker 1: my testimony. Give us a background on that. All right.

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Speaker 1: So when I was about a nineteen let's say before that,

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Speaker 1: out my freshman year, came back. What's going on tour?

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Speaker 1: the disease. UM. I gained sixty pounds and five days. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: It was crazy, but yeah, yeah, I gained sixty pounds

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Speaker 1: ask you, So, what was the disease nephrotic nephrotic syndrome.

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Speaker 1: speaking to Aeron Aaron Carolina. He's based out above. That's

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Speaker 1: what he's born from, Olton, Texas. Now, yes, sir, singing

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Speaker 1: still looking good because you still can play those you know,

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Speaker 1: late teenager roles, but you still got that ten year

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Speaker 1: window of opportunities that you can go into. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just playing to everybody what happens is when you go

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Speaker 1: to Hollywood. You know you want to it's about the youth.

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Speaker 1: Hollywood is all about the youth, and so as you're younger,

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Speaker 1: you can play more opportunities. But as you get older,

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Speaker 1: they start character acting you, they start putting you when

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Speaker 1: you can be a police officer, you can be a teacher,

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Speaker 1: you could be an executive, you could be working in

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Speaker 1: the office and stuff like that. But when you're young,

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Speaker 1: you know you can do anything. You can be high school, college,

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Speaker 1: you can be at parties, all those things. So it's

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Speaker 1: a lot more opportunities. So when you're thirty, you want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that you know you can you can

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Speaker 1: at least go ten years beneath your real age. And

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Speaker 1: that's where you're sitting there right there, so you're playing

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Speaker 1: a nice little range. You look good, stand in shape,

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Speaker 1: So just setting to take even for my listener continue airing. Um, So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it took me about three or four years before I

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Speaker 1: was able to even to start getting roles. And after

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Speaker 1: obviously going here, everybody out here in la is in shape.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is there's gyms everywhere, there's everybody's eating healthy. So

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Speaker 1: that's another way to help keep looking youthful. When I

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Speaker 1: got out of here, so I still had those opportunities.

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Speaker 1: But what they started doing, what they started character typing

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Speaker 1: me like, all right, you're going to play a cop,

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Speaker 1: be military, right, you're playing detective everything, And I was

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Speaker 1: like yo, When did I become the guy right boring

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Speaker 1: to raise them the for worth I'm talking about, stop everything?

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Speaker 1: When did I become the guy that would be a cop?

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Speaker 1: But that's just what they saw me. That was the type,

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Speaker 1: and I was playing a cop ry a military experience

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Speaker 1: that they would try to utilize a look like clean cut,

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Speaker 1: cut off all the facial hair and just play clean cut.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I was. That kind of got my

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Speaker 1: foot in the door and a lot of these roles,

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Speaker 1: Most of the roles that I've been booking as far

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Speaker 1: as that I've been pretty big, have been in just

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Speaker 1: like that uniform roles. But I was blessed to get

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Speaker 1: some where they started um allowing me to step outside

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Speaker 1: of that and be more more of a ladies man

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Speaker 1: and things of that nature. But it took a while.

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Speaker 1: They tried to characterize, characterize me and put me in

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Speaker 1: a in a genre right away, that's what they do.

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Speaker 1: What was the first role? Did you went? Yeah? Did

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Speaker 1: you got did when you when you went? Yeah? Out

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Speaker 1: here in la are just in general and la la

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Speaker 1: in la uh. The first role that I bookedly, I apologize,

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Speaker 1: I apologize. Let's let's the first role in general, and

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Speaker 1: then we're gonna talk about the first opportunity in general

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Speaker 1: when you were yeah, I can do this. The first

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Speaker 1: role I booked was for a Marvel show called Gifted.

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Speaker 1: I booked it in Texas and it was a security guard.

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Speaker 1: I booked the role as a security guard and that

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Speaker 1: was the first and I was like, yeah, they wanted

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Speaker 1: me for multiple days. It was the first and the

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Speaker 1: executive as a director, everybody loved it. It was great. Um.

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Speaker 1: That's when I realized, and you get them. You get

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Speaker 1: there on set, they know your name, you got your wardrobe,

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Speaker 1: if you got your honeywagon on set up, They're like, yo,

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Speaker 1: what do you want for breakfast? If you want lobster

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Speaker 1: that I'm like, what y'all got lobster in the morning?

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Speaker 1: I said, what else do you have? What do you

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Speaker 1: want hanging on menu? It's whatever you want. That's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I can do this for a living. I can do

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Speaker 1: this for life. Um. And after that more roles came

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Speaker 1: out of here. The first role that kind of really

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Speaker 1: had me going, uh, what was it? Oh? No, none,

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Speaker 1: maybe not out here? Uh Tyler Perry's role. Uh. Getting

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Speaker 1: a role for Tyler Perry was I was like I

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Speaker 1: can do this for I could do this long term.

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Speaker 1: I saw what it took. I saw there the years

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Speaker 1: of preparation and working and going to classes and stuff

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Speaker 1: got me to a point where I can handle the pressure.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, I like, I like this. I

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Speaker 1: want to keep doing this. The role you currently doing.

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Speaker 1: Those sisters are pre role. It was. It was Tyler Perrott.

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Speaker 1: It was a role that I did for sisters. The

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Speaker 1: role I did for sisters. It was that role that

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Speaker 1: kind of got me like, yo, I can do this,

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Speaker 1: I can do this long term. And that's what I

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Speaker 1: was that that was something else. I was kind of reaffirming, Uh,

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Speaker 1: doing this job. You get so many knows. When you

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Speaker 1: get those yeses, it's like, Okay, I'm on the right track. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's like it really is. Man. I tell people that

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Speaker 1: in life you get a lot of those. But in Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: you walk in the room, you don't know why they're

513
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Speaker 1: what they're looking for. You know, they they you know.

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Speaker 1: It's really the most um frustrating business, but it's the

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Speaker 1: most exciting business once you start getting success. And sometimes

516
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Speaker 1: when you start getting success, you don't really know why

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Speaker 1: they they they you're getting it until they start asking

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Speaker 1: for you by name, Then you understand that a certain

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Speaker 1: type of person recognizes you for your time. Now, being

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Speaker 1: a former athlete, that's competition. Now you're in this world

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Speaker 1: as an actor, that's competition. Do you are you able

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Speaker 1: to marry the two existence that really get a clear

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Speaker 1: understanding what you're capable of doing? Oh? Yeah, and what

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Speaker 1: I feel like what I'm capable of doing. The sky's

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Speaker 1: a limit. As an athlete, I'm competitive and I'm willing

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Speaker 1: to work hard no matter the circumstances, regardless of my condition,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to work hard. And in this industry, there

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Speaker 1: is no quit It's not the sprint, it's it's a marathon.

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Speaker 1: It's about those who are willing to endure for the longest.

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Speaker 1: And if you have what it takes, you want to

531
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Speaker 1: work hard. You're coachable and you're in there and you're

532
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Speaker 1: in there for the long haul. People eventually see the

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Speaker 1: talent and skill that you have and then they will

534
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Speaker 1: start requesting you, but they give you bits and pieces.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody comes in here and just starts hitting home

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Speaker 1: runs right away. You know, you start taking you taking

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Speaker 1: victories as you get them. And being an athlete, I

538
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Speaker 1: am okay with doing what needs to be done in

539
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Speaker 1: order to get those opportunities later on. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: really interesting to appreciate you coming on money making covers

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Speaker 1: to his master class. I'm talking to Aaron Carolina. Uh.

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00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: He's out of Arlington, Texas. Um started singing in choir

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Speaker 1: as a child, you know, ad del with asthma as

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Speaker 1: a youth, homeless, said roughly seventeen, and but that didn't

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Speaker 1: stop him with a life threatening disease that he didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knew, very little, UH insurance in his life to

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Speaker 1: be able to assist him. Um basically wouldn't didn't come

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Speaker 1: from the ideal family, so his support system wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: But that didn't stop him from living his dreams that

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Speaker 1: he's currently living now. As we as we wrap up

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Speaker 1: this interview, Aaron, what would you what would you say

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Speaker 1: to people who are trying to get into this world

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Speaker 1: that you are still growing your brand in? What? What

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Speaker 1: what setbacks that you were able to overcome that you

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Speaker 1: went that somebody can find relatable, that can give them

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Speaker 1: a gem of information that they can help them bypass

557
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Speaker 1: what you did moving forward, start becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable,

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Speaker 1: take chances on yourself. Don't be afraid to fail and

559
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Speaker 1: actually ask yourself, is this something that you really want

560
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Speaker 1: to do? Anything that you've ever done throughout your whole life,

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Speaker 1: any experience, any any kind, anything whatsoever. You can use

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Speaker 1: that in this career. But you have to be willing

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Speaker 1: to take the nose and if you find joy in

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Speaker 1: the craft itself, eventually you will reap the benefits of

565
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Speaker 1: those who are willing to endure. Now, the benefits of

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Speaker 1: life is that you're able to tell us your story.

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Speaker 1: The benefits of life is that you know faith plays

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Speaker 1: a major role in your life. You know, especially we

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Speaker 1: all know that faith with people comes and goals, and

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Speaker 1: it usually comes when there's not there's discomfort in your

571
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Speaker 1: life that you can't control. I know I've been there,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying I'm a church gore, but LAWD knows.

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Speaker 1: I understand the value of motivation and self motivation is

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Speaker 1: tied to your faith as you as you as you.

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Speaker 1: What's the future hold for mister Aaron Carolina Um currently

576
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Speaker 1: right now have an independent feature film that I'm working on.

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Speaker 1: We're in a post right now. There's a couple of

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Speaker 1: series that I haven't the works right now. UM executive producing,

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Speaker 1: U producing and writing. Um. There's a lot of work

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Speaker 1: in one in twenty twenty three a months are about

581
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Speaker 1: to be a father. So um, that's just a lot

582
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Speaker 1: going on. Looking about to do a father, be a father,

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Speaker 1: be a father. Okay, you gotta slive that out there,

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Speaker 1: you know what. I know Father's Day coming up. There

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Speaker 1: wasn't much heat on that father line. It was about

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Speaker 1: to be a father, you know. Yeah, I'm about to

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Speaker 1: be a father and there's something I'm excited about. You

588
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: should be looking forward to, you should be. Yeah, just

589
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Speaker 1: trying to stay busy, make sure that I'm able to

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Speaker 1: continue building a career for my family and you know,

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Speaker 1: just to have something where I can, you know, just

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Speaker 1: continue doing what I love. But there's definitely a feature

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Speaker 1: film coming in the project, coming in the works. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's what I gotten and plenty of other stuff

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Speaker 1: that I'm working on. Congratulations. As we wrapped up this interview,

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Speaker 1: tell everybody how we can reach out to your stay

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Speaker 1: in touch with you. You can reach me on Instagram

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Speaker 1: at Aaron Carolina Underscore. That's aa Ron Carolina, like the

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Speaker 1: State Underscore, UM Facebook, Aaron Carolina Twitter is also Aaron

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Speaker 1: Carolina underscore as well. Appreciate you, my brother, appreciate you

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Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversations master Class. Appreciate you. Sharing

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Speaker 1: Bright hey Man overcoming the arts. That's all this ship

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Speaker 1: was about. Talk to you soon and good luck. Aeron Carolina, Yes, sir,

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