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Speaker 1: But eventually, of course, I realized that Abbia was not

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Speaker 1: the career that I wanted because I wanted to pursue

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Speaker 1: a career as a stand up comedian. But I'm just

427
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Speaker 1: letting you know that did not stop me from challenging

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Speaker 1: myself and being the best that I could be at

429
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Speaker 1: the time that I needed to be. So when I

430
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Speaker 1: tell you not capitalizing on your success or your opportunities

431
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Speaker 1: to be great, that's an example of that. Right there,

432
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Speaker 1: I was allowing clouds of racism, clouds of uh, they're

433
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 1: doing me wrong, clouds of you know, some dude, they're tripping. No, no, no, no,

434
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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald's was tripping. That's the problem. And here's another

435
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Speaker 1: story I want to share with you in two under

436
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: stop making mistakes. Stop making these mistakes fear of getting

437
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: your business relationship in writing? Whoa, whoa? Come on, come

438
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: on now, come on now, come on now, I testify.

439
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: Let's testify. So afraid to get it in writing because

440
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: you're afraid it's gonna go away. But I'm gonna tell

441
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: you something. If you don't get it in writing, it's

442
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: gonna go away. If you don't get it in writing,

443
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: it's not legitimate. If you don't get it in writing,

444
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 1: you cannot apply a business plan to it. Whoa alert

445
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: Alert Alert Alert fear of getting your business plan in writing? Wow,

446
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: how many of y'all out there dealing with that same

447
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 1: problem in business with somebody renting on the hook up,

448
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,239
Speaker 1: got employees working for you on the side, don't have

449
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: real insurance? Come on now, because you are afraid to

450
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: get your business relationship in writing, afraid to let the

451
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: city know that you in business, so you don't have

452
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: a certificate on the wall. If you want to be

453
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Speaker 1: successful in life, everybody, as an employer or employer, as

454
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Speaker 1: a small business owner, it has to be in writing.

455
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: It has to be written down. It has to be

456
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Speaker 1: a point where you believe you can be what you're

457
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Speaker 1: dreaming of can be accomplished. So that leads me to

458
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Speaker 1: my next section of conversation here, how to make money

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Speaker 1: with your brand? Whoa brand? What does brand mean? What

460
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 1: does brand meet? Boy? That word has been tossed around

461
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Speaker 1: brand brand brand, brand, b r A n D b

462
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Speaker 1: r A n D brand brand brand. I'm gonna tell

463
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Speaker 1: you something about being the brain. In two thousand I

464
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Speaker 1: took over managing Steve Harvey. Two thousand, I told Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey that I wanted to model his career as a brand.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to treat him like a corporation, treat him

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Speaker 1: like a business. He said, what do you mean? I said,

468
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: why why can't you, Steve Harvey, have the same rules

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Speaker 1: as an IBM, as a Disney, as a foid. Why

470
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Speaker 1: can't you have the same standards, the same stipulation. Why

471
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: can't you be a brand? Because those are recognizable brands.

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Speaker 1: That was before social media, that was in two thousand.

473
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Speaker 1: Because I felt at the time that Steve Harvey could

474
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Speaker 1: cross over. I feel at the time that Steve Harvey

475
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: was was a brilliant talent and he is still today

476
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Speaker 1: a breath of town. Look at what he's accomplished in

477
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: his career and look how much he has crossed over.

478
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Speaker 1: Because I started marketing him and treating his brand like

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Speaker 1: a business. I started having the same rules, the same

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Speaker 1: level of expectations. Because see what happens is I always

481
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: tell people we're living in the Mohammed Ali era. Peopriginal

482
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Speaker 1: Mohammad Alia, the Mohammed Ali era. You know what that means.

483
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: That means. That means that you can shout out your greatness.

484
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: That means that you, my friend, can make it happen.

485
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: That means that you can be great. That means that

486
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Speaker 1: you can be special. That means that you can do

487
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do when you want to do it,

488
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 1: because social media allows you to do it. If Coca

489
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: Cola can see they're the best soft drink. If McDonald's

490
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: can say they've got a great hamburger, if five guys

491
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: can say they got great fires, if Ford say they've

492
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: got a great truck. Why can't you say you're the best.

493
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: Why can't you shout out your greatness? Why can't you

494
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Speaker 1: be prime time? That's the world we're living in. How

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00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: to make money as your brand, first of all, you

496
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Speaker 1: have to tell people have a brand. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you have to have a product. First of all, have

498
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Speaker 1: to have a business. First of all, we have to

499
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Speaker 1: open no time. You have to close at the same time.

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Speaker 1: You can't open up when you want to close when

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00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: you want to. It's called consistency. That's what the brand

502
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: is all about. That's why every day, if Steve Harvey

503
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Speaker 1: does not turn on the mic a six am Monday

504
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: through produd Monday through Friday, that's a problem. That means

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Speaker 1: his brand is off or something's wrong. That's what the

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Speaker 1: brand is. So when you show the work. If somebody

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Speaker 1: tells you to show up at work at eight and

508
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: you show up at work at eight oh five, then

509
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: there's an inconsistency in your brand and people are gonna

510
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: start looking at you as a something they can't trust.

511
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: Because you are a brand. You are a product. You

512
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Speaker 1: are a walking, talking product. Everything you do in this era,

513
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: in the age of social media, you are a brand.

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00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: In two thousand, when I saw Steve Harvey as a brand,

515
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: I didn't have social media. But today, because of social media,

516
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: because of accountability, because of cell phones, you are on

517
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour o'clock nowadays. It used to be

518
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Speaker 1: when I was growing up, when you love home. If

519
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: they didn't call you, you you didn't get that called to,

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00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: you got back home, and then they had answer machine.

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Speaker 1: You answutely listen to playback your messages. You find out

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00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: who called you. Now then they went to pages. Okay,

523
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: then pages they could page you. Now cell phones allow

524
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Speaker 1: you to have a twenty four hour lease. Now because

525
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: of the pandemic zoom called virtual meetings actually more taxing

526
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Speaker 1: before when you were working regular hours because there's no time,

527
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Speaker 1: there's no downtime, just one meeting after next meeting, after

528
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Speaker 1: next meeting, after next meeting, and you're always up at

529
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Speaker 1: this level. That's the era we live in. That's your brand.

530
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: So in order to be successful with that brand, you

531
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: got a lot harder to make money with your brand.

532
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: How to make money with your brand? Let me just

533
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: let me shout out this little simple story about making

534
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Speaker 1: money with your brand. Listen to me this. There's a

535
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: there's a very simple story I would tell peop about.

536
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: Just because you look like somebody don't mean you're supposed

537
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: to make the same amount of money. Just because you

538
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: look like somebody doesn't mean that people see you the

539
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: same way. Just because you look like somebody doesn't mean

540
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: that the people expect the same things from you, then

541
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: they expect from the other person to see. Look for

542
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: your children's eyes to see the true magic of a forest.

543
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: It's a storybook world for them. You look and see

544
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: a tree. They see the rink of face of a

545
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: wizard with arms outstretched to the sky. They see treasure

546
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: and pebbles, They see a windy path that could lead

547
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: to adventure, and they see you. They're fearless. Guide is

548
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: this fascinating world? Find a forest in your you and

549
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: start exploring and discovered the forest dot orgon brought to

550
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: you by the United States Forest Service and the Council.

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00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: I call it the chicken versus the eagle. All brands

552
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: are not created equal. So if you look like somebody

553
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you're going to get the same amount

554
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: of money. I'm gonna get your same monitor aspect are

555
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: gonna be treated the same way. And that's a classic

556
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: example a chicken versus the eagle. They both lay eggs

557
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: and both are covered with feathers, but these two creatures

558
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: evoked two different levels of respect. The eagle is proud, noble,

559
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: and lauded by his peers, while the chicken is something

560
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: you'll find on the line and the launch buffet. When

561
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: it comes to life, why would you want to be

562
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: eating like the chicken when you can shot like an eagle.

563
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Hear that? Hear that? Okay, there's a lot of chickens

564
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: out there. Look look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look,

565
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: just pecking, pecking, pecking. For many of you out there,

566
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: you're living your lives and the chicken coop when you

567
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: don't even know it. This can ain't from a bad

568
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: relationship to disrespectful kids, to a terrible job, to provide

569
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: no opportunity for success or even to an uncomfortable lifestyle.

570
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: That's where the chicken coop can be. I'm just using

571
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: an analogy to your life to a chicken. And nobody

572
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: wants to be a chicken, but we all be coming

573
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: a chicken. I was a chicken at one time. I

574
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: was just going through the motions. I was a chicken

575
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: at IBM when I was winning the pointy toe shoes

576
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: or you know the sexy shirt, you know the non

577
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: matching coat and jacket. I was a chicken. I wasn't

578
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: going anywhere. I was getting a check going home. I

579
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: was never gonna be promoted. I was never going to

580
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: be uh putting in front of anybody to speak publicly.

581
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: I was never going to be the voice of IBM

582
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: because I was a chicken. The only people who run

583
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: for president of Eagles, people who achieve respect. All the

584
00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: people who who who are acknowledged for theirs are Eagles.

585
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: They don't acknowledge chickens. People eat chickens. Yeah, what always

586
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: they wanted to find out the breast, the thigh. That's

587
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: only want from chickens. You don't want to be a chicken.

588
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: Like the chicken. That doesn't matter how many eggs you lay,

589
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: whether you lay them in the day at night, you

590
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: always expected to lay eggs, which means the work never stops.

591
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: There's no extra pay, no extra love, and most importantly,

592
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: no extra happiness. You never wake up with a plan

593
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: to be successful and always pecking and scraping at the

594
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: dirt define your success. I'm preaching now, y'all because I'm

595
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: tired of us understanding that we have devalued ourselves because

596
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: we're huddling up with other chickens. And nobody wants to

597
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 1: be the eagle because you know why. It takes work,

598
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: because you have to get up on time every day

599
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: to be an equal. You have to look a certain

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00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: way to be an equal. You have to have people

601
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: put expectations on you to be an eagle. There's pressure

602
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: to be an eagle. But guess what you want to

603
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: be an eagle? You want that. You don't want that

604
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: job that has no extra pay, new extra love, and

605
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: most important to no extra happiness. Wow, when you're chicken,

606
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: you never wake up with a plan to be successful.

607
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's just terrible. But this is a

608
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: completely unlike the eagle. I ain't said much because you

609
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: know something, I've been talking about the chicken, this whole

610
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: conversation about your chicken. You know why, because when I

611
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: get to the eagle, I don't have much to say

612
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: because it's so well respected. Sores through the air get

613
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: respect for any chicken. They've comes by, chicken or run

614
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: from an eagle. Any creature that comes across the eagle

615
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: is aggressive with their hunt for success. The eagles goal

616
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 1: is to fight to keep it place in the game,

617
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: and they keep winning. Wow, that's what an eagle is.

618
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: But you cool with being a chicken. You're cool with

619
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: laying them eggs. You're cool with going to work, laying eggs,

620
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: getting off work, coming back to next day, laying some

621
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: more eggs. And I don't care if you lay a

622
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: dozen eggs that day or two eggs that day. But

623
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: I can assure you you keep laying those two eggs,

624
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: you will be laying eggs in that office no more.

625
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna keep pushing you. You love dozen't they want

626
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: two dozen because they see you as a person they

627
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: can replace. People don't look to replace eagles, but they

628
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: do look to replace chickens. You don't want to be

629
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: a chicken. You're gonna be something that people expect you

630
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: to be. You want to be. That's what chickens are.

631
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: And when people think like chickens and lie, guess what

632
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: they start doing. They start using ages and excuse as

633
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: to why they are chicken. Well, i'm forty, i'm fifty,

634
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: I'm sixty. You don't know if I want me, I

635
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: don't want nobody. My children get on my nerves. My

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Speaker 1: know what I'm at the point of this conversation in

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Speaker 1: Because if you want winning strategies that would keep you focused,

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Speaker 1: build a mindset for success. What does that mean with Sean?

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Speaker 1: That means that you have to have a plan in

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Speaker 1: That works for you. That mindset works for you. How

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Speaker 1: So people recognize me because they saw certain levels of expectation.

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Speaker 1: should be there. That's all I was doing with my brand.

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Speaker 1: But more importantly, when you have a brand. When you

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Speaker 1: get to work, stick to it, reach their goal. Some

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Speaker 1: That's their goal. They plan. An accident is by graduating

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Speaker 1: If they have aspirations they become a manager, supervisor, or

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Speaker 1: whold goal that I just outline could just be high

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Speaker 1: When I'm telling you the outline your plan, it's however

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Speaker 1: have to have all these things in place in order

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Speaker 1: Sometimes as entrepreneurs and employees, we undervalue ourselves. Having this

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Speaker 1: excel in the business. Well, the key to any level

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Speaker 1: all this truth is built through consistency. Consistently promote your brand,

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Speaker 1: this is all about, y'all. I want you to stand out.

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Speaker 1: I want you to respect your employees. But more important,

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Speaker 1: talking about it, this money making conversation episode that I'm

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Speaker 1: when I when I talk about everything that I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: when I'm talking about changing your life, when I'm talking

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Speaker 1: I want you to do is put down your stop

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Speaker 1: sign so you can start winning. That's all I want you,

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Speaker 1: put down your stop sign so you can start winning.

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Speaker 1: Please do that for me. This is ra Sean McDonald.

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Speaker 1: This is money making conversation and more important, this is

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Speaker 1: your life right. Welcome to Money Making Conversation. The journey

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Speaker 1: with your gifts. Rashan McComb. You've been listening to Money

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