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Speaker 1: My next guest is the owner of Excellent Credit Builders

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Speaker 1: and it's based in Atlanta, jaw John Um. Excellent Credit

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Speaker 1: Builders provides premier credit restoration UM services for thousands of

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Speaker 1: individuals across the nation, including the Top A List, entertainers, actors, actresses,

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Speaker 1: celebrities and business professionals. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations

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Speaker 1: celebrity guru and entrepreneur James Hunt. Thank you, thank you

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Speaker 1: for being for having me. Thank you. First of all, James,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you're in Atlanta currently, Yes, I am.

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Speaker 1: I just got back from Dallas, UM last late last night. Well,

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Speaker 1: your well, in your world, you know, have have opportunity,

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Speaker 1: will travel to get to the opportunity that I'm assuming right,

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Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I was out there with the Bishop T. D. Jicks,

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Speaker 1: my man Dallas, great man to be around and the

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Speaker 1: motivator himself. So let's talk about let's talk about your brand?

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Speaker 1: What is your brand? James, Well, my brand is the

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Speaker 1: celebrity credit Guru UM. And obviously I had to a

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Speaker 1: ton of uh NBA players and NFL players and music

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Speaker 1: industry people and actors uh tv um um actors uh,

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Speaker 1: but also to everyone else. So UM. Long before there.

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Speaker 1: Wherever our company was doing celebrity clients, we were doing

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Speaker 1: regular clients, and so I had to do everything that

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Speaker 1: has to do with credit for all of my clients. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you say credit, okay, I'm just trying to get

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Speaker 1: a defined statement of what exactly you do because you

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Speaker 1: have financial planners, okay, financial advisors, and then you have

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Speaker 1: then you talk about credit. What am I missing in

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Speaker 1: this conversation? So our job is to handle every negative

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Speaker 1: issue in that credit report for each of the clients.

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Speaker 1: So the clients who have negative issues is whether it

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Speaker 1: is taxulling, civil judgments, bankruptcies, child support, um, late payments,

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Speaker 1: hard inquiries. Our job is to assist our clients with

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Speaker 1: challenging those issues with the credit reporting agencies and or

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Speaker 1: with the creditors UH to have those accounts and those

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Speaker 1: negative items removed, and to a system in building their

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Speaker 1: credit scores up as high as they can go. Cool. Now,

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Speaker 1: maya the highest it can go as eight hundred and fifty? Correct? Yes,

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Speaker 1: So the frecal score starts at three and goes all

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Speaker 1: the way up to exit. Okay, what is a good score?

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Speaker 1: I know that, but I'm just talking in general just

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Speaker 1: to be able to promote your brain and be able

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Speaker 1: to talk about in general to the to my listeners. Well,

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Speaker 1: the FCO system definds a good score as a credit

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Speaker 1: score between UH six fifty nine and seven forty nine.

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Speaker 1: But a seven fifty to an eight fifty is is

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Speaker 1: UH titled excellent credit. And so the goal is for

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Speaker 1: every claient is to get them into the excellent credit category. Cool,

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Speaker 1: I am in the excellent credit creategory. Mr Hunt, just

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Speaker 1: wanna let you know that. Let you been working hard

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Speaker 1: since eighteen okay, you know, and because people understand the

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Speaker 1: value of credit, now let's talk about let's talk before

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Speaker 1: we get into celebrities, because you know, we know way

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Speaker 1: more individuals than we know celebrities. And celebrities I know

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Speaker 1: for you know, they come in a massive amount of money.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that's when they really gave credit issues. Because you know,

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Speaker 1: you can get a big contract, especially at athletes. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get a major signing bonus. What you do with

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Speaker 1: that signing bonies You can buy homes and all of

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Speaker 1: but you still are living at that lifestyle or five

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about individual. How does an individual how

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Speaker 1: we'll first stop, We'll tell them how to actually pull

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Speaker 1: a copy of the credit report. Uh. They contact us

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Speaker 1: through Celebrity Credit Guru dot com, my website, are dialing

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Speaker 1: And so when they reach out to us, then we

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Speaker 1: based upon what the issues are in the credit report

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about these reports. You have three three

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Speaker 1: it does not make sense to actually, um clean up

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Speaker 1: then leave a negative issues in Equifax. So really the

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Speaker 1: has been done? Now how does UM you know? I

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Speaker 1: was just going through some of your talking points. You

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Speaker 1: So are people have not been educated or have not

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Speaker 1: negative issues, but if you don't address address the negative

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Speaker 1: I say, you know, there's so many rules of getting

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Speaker 1: I'm mid thirties coming into your office, got some bad credit.

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Speaker 1: Walk me through the steps of trying to save my

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Speaker 1: life credit? Why James? Yeah, Soto, the do I messed up? James? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not really making that that kind of money, you

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Speaker 1: do a consolidation loan? What do I? So? I would

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Speaker 1: I think that's a pipe dream. But I'm trying, James,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm talking to James achievable that Yeah. Excellent

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Speaker 1: Credit Building is the name of the company. Is based

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Speaker 1: more my man, James Hunt, celebrity credit girl and entrepreneur. Hi,

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Speaker 1: this is ra Sean McDonald and you're listening to Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation. I'm the host on the phone. Is a

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