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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Master Class. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. Our theme is there's no perfect time to

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Speaker 2: Please welcome to the Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Donald Lamar,

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Speaker 2: How you doing?

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Speaker 1: Donald?

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Speaker 4: Hey Rushan Man, how you doing?

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Speaker 4: Glad to be here and thank you for the invitation.

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Speaker 2: Well, the invitation was there because you know something that

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Speaker 2: I need to be telling the general public. Tell us

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Speaker 4: All right, no problem. Actually born in Texas, Man. I

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Speaker 4: I am today over here at Morehouse College helping businesses

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Speaker 2: Thank you. First of all, I am from Houston, Texas

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Speaker 4: My passion, to be honest with you, is to live

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Speaker 4: And there's several strategies that a lot of people just

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Speaker 4: Correct, absolutely, man, And I'm gonna drop a few little

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Speaker 4: The Dynamic Small Business Search Web gives you the ability

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Speaker 4: So just in that last twenty to fifteen seconds, man,

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Speaker 2: My show is based on the HBCU campus Clark Atlanta University.

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Speaker 4: lead by example because I'm gonna be partnering with your

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Speaker 4: Business Development Center, who's coming down here to help me

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Speaker 4: pull this thing off and lead by example and show

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Speaker 3: Tom.

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Speaker 4: You know I'm doing my thing. Boy, I'm just trying

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Speaker 4: to tell.

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Speaker 2: You, Hey, hey, Lamar, listen, here's the funny thing. Back

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Speaker 2: when I met Lamar, I asked him to come on

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Speaker 2: with the show. He said, what I'm gonna talk about Rachond?

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Speaker 2: I said, Lamar, you need to stop. You need to

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Speaker 2: stop we need to hear about you, not only in

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Speaker 2: a local level, but a national level. Is are there

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Speaker 2: ways we can reach out to touch you the email

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Speaker 2: addresses or their social media handles? How can we reach

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Speaker 2: out and touch you?

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Speaker 4: Donald Man, I'm really low key, you know, I don't

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Speaker 4: get into all that social media stuff. But I do

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Speaker 4: have my LinkedIn so you can definitely catch me on

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Speaker 4: LinkedIn with love for people to connect because I'm always

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Speaker 4: having something I like to say. Don't post that often

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Speaker 4: because I'm about my business here. But you know the

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Speaker 4: office here. You can reach out to our office or

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Speaker 4: at least send information that way and I can give

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Speaker 4: you the information you know related to that. And here's

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Speaker 4: the contact information you know here at our office. Or

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Speaker 4: you can go on the site of the Georgia SBDC

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Speaker 4: dot gov I mean, excuse me, dot org and you

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Speaker 4: can navigate down to all the offices at SBDC. But

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Speaker 4: our office has its own page and you can get

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Speaker 4: to it that way. We do have an office number.

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Speaker 4: Our general office number is four seven zero six three

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Speaker 4: nine to six two, and you can reach it by email.

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Speaker 4: Of course. Our email is more house at Georgia SBDC

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Speaker 4: dot org. Or you can reach me even at I

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Speaker 4: email address with we simply Donald dot Lamar at Morehouse

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Speaker 4: dot e edu.

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Speaker 3: Cool.

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Speaker 2: Now, before we go, as we wrap up this interview, Donald,

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Speaker 2: the wealth gap in our community, Yes, sir, it's it's

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Speaker 2: screams racial, it's screams gender orient it, it's screams educational deficiencies.

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Speaker 2: How can we close that? From your perspective? Is it possible?

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Speaker 4: Man, let me run through my letting me real quick.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm gonna be real quick because I know this

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Speaker 4: is we got a couple of minutes left. You know.

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Speaker 4: The biggest opticle got out there is access to capital.

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Speaker 4: So we got to increase access to African Americans. It's just,

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Speaker 4: you know, this is just deplorable to think about how

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Speaker 4: we can't access our capital. Other things that we can't

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Speaker 4: do is through education and training. You know, invest into

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Speaker 4: programs like I'm doing to kind of get people an

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Speaker 4: understanding on how they can address so they can grow

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Speaker 4: these businesses in the federal government arena and and and

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Speaker 4: and hire people. You know, supplier diversity initiatives you know

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Speaker 4: that are going on out there with these corporations. You

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Speaker 4: know we need to check them. Okay, Now you say

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Speaker 4: you won't supply the verse, but how many black businesses

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Speaker 4: are you actually doing work with, or any business for

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Speaker 4: that matter, you know, informing or reforming the policy that

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Speaker 4: can't keep the structural boundaries in place for inequality. We

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Speaker 4: need to make sure that we deal with that. We

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Speaker 4: got to invest in our community, and I'm telling you

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Speaker 4: right now one of the biggest things we can do

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Speaker 4: is reach out in this tech and innovation. We got

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Speaker 4: this AI going on. How are we using this to

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Speaker 4: our benefit that we can bring some economic relief not

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Speaker 4: only to our areas, but you know, to build a

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Speaker 4: wealth for those who have an idea and can really

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Speaker 4: make that work.

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Speaker 2: Donald, this is our first time talking. You have a

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Speaker 2: summit that's coming up first, that's the Small Business Entertainment Summit.

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Speaker 2: Then you have another summit coming in September. The first

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Speaker 2: summit is July eleventh. You've invited me to be a

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Speaker 2: part of that as a panelist and maybe participating a

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Speaker 2: couple of the sessions. I'm deeply honored that you considering me,

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Speaker 2: and I'm deeply quick to say I do. I'll be

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Speaker 2: a part of it. My friend. Again, the information you

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Speaker 2: dropped on my show today was amazing. Continue to be

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Speaker 2: who you are. We'll talk soon because the fact that

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Speaker 2: if you have the time, please know I value you

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Speaker 2: to come on this show more than every once in

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Speaker 2: a while because the nuggets you're dropping and that government contracting,

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Speaker 2: the slowing down, the well gapped through information, and also

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Speaker 2: I just think people need to be pounded over and

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Speaker 2: over again with the story or how you can win,

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Speaker 2: and it's tied to partnerships, relationships and hard work.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Donald, I appreciate it. Thank you for the invitation. Man.

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Speaker 4: I tell you that old and over again.

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