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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: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host from

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. It's time to stop reading other people's success

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Speaker 1: stories and really start writing their own. Now you can

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Speaker 1: be motivated by their success because their stories could offer

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Speaker 1: and your committed effort. My interview is like the one

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Speaker 1: you will hear today, will provide you, as a consumer

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Speaker 1: of those. She's a CEO, she's an entrepreneur, and most importantly,

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Speaker 1: she's an industry decision maker. My next guest is Laurie

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Speaker 1: and Gibson. She's an Emmy nominating creative visionary, choreographer, director, producer,

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Speaker 1: and entrepreneur. Her new book is Dance Your Dance. Eight

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Speaker 1: Steps to leash your passion and live your dreams. The

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Speaker 1: book was packed with personal antidotes and messages of empowerment.

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Speaker 1: Dance Your Dance highlights Gibson's evolution from a young dancer

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Speaker 1: from the ground up. The book unveils the ultimate blueprint

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Speaker 1: some of the world's greatest superstars, including Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj,

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Speaker 1: Katie Perry, and the Jonas Brothers, among others. Please walking

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Speaker 1: the Money Making Conversation for the very second time. She's

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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine to have on this show

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Speaker 1: and I'm happy to promote her new book. Laurie Anne Gibson,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Ms Gibson, Hi, You're fantastic. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for having well. First of all, you know, welcome

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Speaker 1: to my new studio. I want them to happen because

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Speaker 1: last time we did to be a podcast and we

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Speaker 1: didn't get to see each other, but you know, life

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Speaker 1: and how did that impact you in and pro motivated

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Speaker 1: you for well? The interesting thing is I was told

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Speaker 1: I kept hearing this and I kept saying to myself,

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Speaker 1: I think, I think, I think that's right. You know,

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Speaker 1: when everything shuts down, when people's idea of what it

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Speaker 1: And I have the opportunity to really dig into the

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Speaker 1: in eight steps to unleash your passion and live your dream.

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Speaker 1: So for me, COVID was a blessing. There was an

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Speaker 1: people dance their dance and no one else's well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I definitely want to I want to walk you through

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Speaker 1: you telling your story. Right. I read the book, enjoyed

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Speaker 1: Read your book because you have to share personal personal angles,

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Speaker 1: your relationship we had with the the Greek restaurant owner

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Speaker 1: why you say life is a dance in your book.

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Speaker 1: Life is a dance because it's about different rhythms, it's

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Speaker 1: about different steps that you have to take. And again,

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Speaker 1: I believe greatness is in the process. It's not overnight,

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Speaker 1: book that would be effective for visionaries. Of the thing

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Speaker 1: There are dream killers, and there is a fight, and

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Speaker 1: And when you'll read this book, you the queen of pivoting.

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Speaker 1: pivoty you when you did it? In this book tells

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Money Making Conversations with your host, Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: My nixt guest is Ryan Sir Hand. He's a coach

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Speaker 1: star Bravo's hit show Million Dollars Listing New York and

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Speaker 1: the author of the national bestseller Sell It Like Sir Hand.

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Speaker 1: Ryan May just nine thousand dollars. He talked about it

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Speaker 1: in this book The first Year in the business twelve years.

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Speaker 1: Lady averages the billion dollars in sales every year, making

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Speaker 1: him one of the most successful real estate brokers in

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Speaker 1: the world. His social media platforms gets the combined average

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Speaker 1: of three million eyeballs. His real estate company, which launched

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Speaker 1: the world. He was discussing this new book b m E.

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Speaker 1: Big Money Energy, How to Rule It, Work, Dominated life

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Speaker 1: and make millions. People who possess b EMMY, which is

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Speaker 1: big money Energy, get that way because they are committed

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Speaker 1: vision is big b I G. Please working to money

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Speaker 1: Making conversation. He is b m E himself, Ryan, Sir Hud,

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Speaker 1: How you doing, sir? Pretty good? Let's talk about this

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Speaker 1: book man. You know, Uh, In some ways I felt

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Speaker 1: it was like a refresher course for me, which is

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Speaker 1: really good because sometimes we could get how to be successful,

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Speaker 1: we could get the journeys and a book like this.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know, you learned. If you do know,

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Speaker 1: it really forces the path that you've taken is the

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Speaker 1: right path? Correct? Correct? You know? I came to New

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Speaker 1: York City, uh in two thousand six after I graduated school,

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Speaker 1: and the one thing I always wanted to do was theater.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't good at too much else. I wasn't good

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Speaker 1: at school. I wasn't good at sports. My parents really

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Speaker 1: really pushed me to do both of those things, take

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Speaker 1: as many different courses as it could, uh, play every

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Speaker 1: single sport imaginable. But the only thing that I was

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Speaker 1: kind of okay at was theater. And so I've always

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Speaker 1: believed that I rather regret the things I did and

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Speaker 1: the things I never tried. And so I moved to

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Speaker 1: New York City and gave myself two years. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've been working odd jobs in the summers and after

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Speaker 1: school since I was like seven years old. Um. And

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Speaker 1: so I had a little and the money saved up,

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Speaker 1: move home. Uh. And when I decided to become a

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Speaker 1: a real estate agent. Who who Who's going to buy

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Speaker 1: or rent an apartment from me? I'm not from here.

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Speaker 1: I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up a

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Speaker 1: bounced around eight times before fourth grade. Um, uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: I had very, very very low self esteem. Um. And

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Speaker 1: when you come to a city like New York, you know,

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Speaker 1: New York is run by New Yorkers, and I definitely

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Speaker 1: But I saw all these people walking around on the

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Speaker 1: And that's really what this book is. Big Money Energy

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Speaker 1: is all about how to become the person you want

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Speaker 1: at other people's success and says, why not me? That

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Speaker 1: you know, the thing about the book is that this

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Speaker 1: is what I really liked. I like the book in

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Speaker 1: a lot of different ways. Like I've told you, I

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Speaker 1: love chapter five when you talk about dominating the look

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Speaker 1: of dominant look. It's important, don't trivia lize to look

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Speaker 1: I cannot read chapter five and not come on an

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Speaker 1: This is my dominated look. Now I'm gon dominator to

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Speaker 1: The reason I liked your book was that a lot

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Speaker 1: of books I read they talk about entrepreneurship, they talk

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Speaker 1: about small business owner. You're talking about everyday people, how

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Speaker 1: a regular forty all week job. How also they can

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Speaker 1: make millions. But so many people look at that forty

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Speaker 1: all week job and treat that that's all they can be,

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Speaker 1: change in their life to be successful. That's why this

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Speaker 1: people as well as entrepreneurs. Correct, yeah, no, it's it's

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Speaker 1: not just for entrepreneurs. Um. And entrepreneurs are people who

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Speaker 1: jobs at all. You know. I I am an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: If you have a job that is paying you by

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Speaker 1: I need to have my back up against a wall

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Speaker 1: just know that any of your superior's positions are possible

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Speaker 1: for you too, you know. And that's what having big

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Speaker 1: are the role. Okay, start assuming that position before someone

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Speaker 1: even has to give it to you. I think so

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Speaker 1: many people sit and wait and say, well, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to do that. I'm not going to know. That's

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Speaker 1: That's if you're the type of person who says that

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00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 1: it's not my job, then then you're not going to

645
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: go anywhere anyway. Like I still to this day. If

646
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: I got to, I'll go paint and apartments. I'll paint

647
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: all our place in microwave. Because nothing is above me.

648
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: My job is to get the job done, regardless of

649
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: who's doing it. Now. Ideally other people do it, but

650
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: if they don't, I'm going to do it. Um So

651
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: you can look at the people that are above you

652
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: at work, either the better sales people or your manager

653
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: or the boss, and know that it's possible for you

654
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: to be in that position. You just have to want it,

655
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: and then you have to work for it, and then

656
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: you have to work into it. We know. The thing

657
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: about it is that a lot of people are in

658
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: your business the real estate business. But I've never seen

659
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: the social media favor that you get in social media

660
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: because they're all my guests. I always look at the

661
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: social media at the traction follow their feeds. Why do

662
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: you think that your followers are so engaged with your brain?

663
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 1: Is because your youth, because of your your tone, your style,

664
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: You're confident, you care, you got a swagger about let's

665
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: go and right, let's go in bed. You have a

666
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: swagger about you and there's a fun swagger. Is that

667
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: tied to the fact that you wanted to be an

668
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: actor and you and U just like play act in

669
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Speaker 1: the world at the success and that's why bame works

670
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: for you big money and talk about that. Why why

671
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: are you so popularly in social media? Oh man, Well,

672
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: I think that's for one. People like real estate. They

673
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: like looking at beautiful houses, they like seeing inside wealthy

674
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,959
Speaker 1: people's homes, So people follow me for the real estate.

675
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: I think to one of the reasons million are listing

676
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 1: works so well as a show is because it is

677
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: such a crazy career. Like the fact that you could

678
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: live in New York City and sell these insane homes

679
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: and deal with these crazy people. That's a that's a

680
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: wild job. And so there's like this voyeuristic thing about

681
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: following me. You know, what is my life like? My

682
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: life is not normal whatsoever, between the filming, the books,

683
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: the showing the apartments to houses, the flying around, all

684
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: the craziness um. And so I think people like that.

685
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: They like being able to take a step back and

686
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: and seeing what what what our lifestyles are like. And

687
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: I think that I also try to have fun with things.

688
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: I don't take myself too seriously. I don't care how

689
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: much I sell. Life is way too short. Well that's

690
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: what I love about you, you know, because you you

691
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: don't take yourself serious, but you're you're shark. You know

692
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: that you know how to close. And uh, let's talk

693
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: about that whole start, because I want to give away

694
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: the book. But this book is kind of like a

695
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: journey from you know, becoming a novice who didn't understand

696
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: its value and understood and then just a gift from

697
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: God fell into your lap and you adjusted to it

698
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: and you rose to the occasion. And you kind of

699
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: mentioned that earlier. A lot of people who who tend

700
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: to say I will do that, or is that's not

701
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: my cup of tea or nobody, Nobody put that as

702
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: my work schedule or my opportunity. That is what you

703
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: didn't do. And that's what this book is telling people.

704
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: When the opportunity comes to you, don't push it this side,

705
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: challenge yourself. This book is a challenge yourself book. And

706
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: I am I reading it correctly, Oh yes, thousand percent.

707
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: The book is not for people that are going to

708
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,439
Speaker 1: read it and then go back to life the same

709
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: way they were they were doing it yesterday, right. The

710
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: book is for anybody that wants to do better, get

711
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: to a place tomorrow that they otherwise wouldn't be today. Right.

712
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 1: The whole idea is, how do you become the person

713
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in ten years tomorrow? How do you

714
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: start becoming future you? I think about Ryan all the time.

715
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: That's the person who motivates me. That's the person I

716
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 1: look up to is myself, because look at what happened.

717
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: We can't control anything, right, we can't predict anything in

718
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: life is so so so delicate. I want to make

719
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: sure that whatever I do today, it's going to make

720
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: my life in nine years awesome, So that that guy

721
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: is so successful that he can buy a time machine

722
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,439
Speaker 1: go back in time and pat me on the back

723
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: today and I'll be like, what's going on? Oh wow,

724
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: that's me in the future, so much older now, Like

725
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: that's what I want, right, more than anything, you want

726
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: to be future year, right, you want that knowledge. But

727
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: also when I'm reading your book, here's this's This's the

728
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: cool thing about reading your book is that I like

729
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: to believe I'm a successful person. Okay, and because of

730
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 1: that success, then I've learned some tricks of the trade.

731
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: And to see it written out somebody who follows that

732
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: same path, because you're a successful person and a very

733
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: successful person by the way, it follows those paths. What

734
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: made you say, you know some I'm gonna I'm gonna

735
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: reveal this path to millions who could potentially buy this book.

736
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: What made you say I want to reveal I want

737
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: to help people. Is that part of your DNA? Yeah,

738
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't think it was um. But over

739
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: the past couple of years it has become that. You know,

740
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: we were we were quarantined, like all of us. I

741
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: was in New Hampshire in the woods in the snow,

742
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: talking to our our course members. We do a big

743
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: online sales course. Talking to my team members, all the

744
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: people that work with me UM and talking to fans

745
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: and people all over the world, and everyone was so scared.

746
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: People were nervous. No one had any idea what the

747
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: answers were. We were all in limbo um and people

748
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: were being fired and people are being furloughed, and so

749
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: many people were connecting their self worth to their income

750
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: or lack thereof, to their level of income. And I

751
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: remember thinking that way until I stopped thinking that way,

752
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: and so I just started writing. You know, with my

753
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: first book that kind of happened to say went, and

754
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: so I just started writing. And out of those experiences

755
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: and those conversations and those talks came big money energy

756
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: And how many different ways can there be that I

757
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: get back? To get back with money, I get back

758
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: with time. I am only successful because New York allows

759
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: me to be successful. I'm only successful because I've been

760
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: super fortunate. It's super lucky, and I completely understand that.

761
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: And so what I know is also another way that

762
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: I can get back. It's like, okay, let me put

763
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: what I know about how to be successful. Let me

764
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: put in a book so people can copy it. Like,

765
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: go ahead, just do exactly what I did. Top me

766
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: worked for me. It could possibly work for you too.

767
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't, take take the best and leave

768
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: the rest right. And you did that, let's talk about

769
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: starting the business in which is the pandemic. A lot

770
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,919
Speaker 1: of people ran to the wolves, a lot of people

771
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: felt sorry for themselves, a lot of people were afraid

772
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: to come out of their homes. I know. That's why

773
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: I say I love your book because I bought a

774
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: building during the pandemic. I'm bet on myself. And like

775
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: I said, your book. You know, I don't want to

776
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: act like I'm just saying things to make you feel good,

777
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: but your book really alliance with a lot of my

778
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: easton I bet on myself, And you talk about betting

779
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: on yourself, trusting your instincts. And I bought up building

780
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: and I had a plan and it has been a

781
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: plan that has led me to a tremendous amount of

782
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: momentum and led to this new studio that I built

783
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: out for myself because I have a plan. And so

784
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: talk about betting on yourself, because this book starts out

785
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: when you was only making nine thousand dollars a year,

786
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: and you start betting yourself, you start taking risks, you

787
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: start ignoring what other people said you should do and

788
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: did the things you felt you wanted to do, and

789
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: someone them surprised you. Yeah, yes, yeah, My whole life

790
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: has been a bunch of a bunch of surprises. Um,

791
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: good surprises, Ryan good surprises. Okay, yes, good surprises. It's

792
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: one of the most important things about finding success, especially

793
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: when you don't think that success is for you, because

794
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: you think success is reserved for everybody else good looking,

795
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 1: that educated, the well connected, etcetera. Right, understand that that's

796
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: all You just have to become an opportunist. You cannot

797
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: wait for opportunity. You can't wait for the future. You

798
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: need to make the future now. You need to start

799
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: creating situations that will create opportunities. You need to start

800
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: riding the waves of all your little individual successes and

801
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: shouting them from the mountaintops. Remember that people who are

802
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: successful only work with other successful people because there's there's

803
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: too much risk in working with anyone else. So the

804
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: reason I work now with billionaires, helping them buy and

805
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: sell property all over the world is because they know

806
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: that I've helped other billionaires. They don't even talk to

807
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: anyone else now. They just call me because they know

808
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: all right, he's been able to figure it out. Other

809
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: people have used him. That that's good enough for me, Ryan,

810
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: I need there's any dat you know. And so it's

811
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: it's that level of just sort of betting on my

812
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: own abilities, um and being able to play the game.

813
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: Like you already have the money in your pocket, right,

814
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: like you already you already want any time you go

815
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: into a meeting, any time you go into work, you

816
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: already want. You already won the day, right, you've already

817
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: been paid. What else can you do? What's gonna separate

818
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: you from everybody else? But you know the thing about

819
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: it is there now hear what you're saying. And then

820
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: you talk about in the book because you play the game,

821
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: but you better have your facts together, you better do

822
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: your homework. I remember when you, Steve Harvey. I was

823
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: sitting down in the meeting in l A and we

824
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: met Janet. She's a billionaire, and we were talking about

825
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: some deals. And I've always had that gift of being

826
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: able to I guess b asked my way up to

827
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: a point, and guess what. She called me on it,

828
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: and she said, you're telling it, but I know what

829
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: you're doing. Stop it. Stop it. At that point on

830
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: when I realized and that's that's that moment you have

831
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: in your book that you discussed when you got called

832
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: on it, when you came in with those generic responses,

833
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: you thought you would get away, and he kept digging

834
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: into you, going he don't know, he don't know. Talk

835
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: about that moment because I don't want people. That's what

836
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: I don't want people take away from this book, big

837
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: money energy. That you can address a certain way and

838
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: you can win. That you can be as your way

839
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: with a personality and you can win. That is none

840
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: of Ryan's skills. This is a person who does his work.

841
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: He's willing to put forth the effort to accomplish the task.

842
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: He knows a look, if you're gonna if you're gonna

843
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: play with billionaires, don't walk up there like you're about

844
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: to cut their yard. That's what he's saying in this book.

845
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: And so I remember when when I was reading that

846
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: portion of your book about your encounter, it flashed back

847
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: to my encounter because all I'm saying, Ryan, is that

848
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: in your book, my man, you're hitting so many home

849
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,959
Speaker 1: runs with relatable information that people like me and people

850
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: who aren't's successful like me. People wh aren't imploying in

851
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: for the all week job will take this information and

852
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: win with it. And that's all you're saying. Yes, a

853
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: thousand percent, everything takes work, but if you put the

854
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: work in, the work will take care of you. The

855
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: work will make you money, will make you more money,

856
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: will allow you to lead a better lifestyle. But you

857
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Speaker 1: cannot fake it. This isn't fake it till you make it.

858
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Speaker 1: This is why not me. This is being future you. Okay,

859
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: there's a very, very very big difference between the two.

860
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Speaker 1: Faking it till you make it is what you were

861
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: just talking about that I did that once. I sold

862
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: one apartment, one home one for just over two million dollars,

863
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: and I thought I was the man. I thought I

864
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Speaker 1: was the best. I just sold this apart all I do.

865
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 1: I did it with a Chinese investor, buying an apartment

866
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Speaker 1: for a baby that wasn't even born yet. I am

867
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: the man. And so I got a meeting with a

868
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Speaker 1: big developer who sows buildings all over the city. I

869
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: was like, wow, dude, I'm it's me. Okay, I just

870
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Speaker 1: sold that apartment. I'm gonna go meet with this developer.

871
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm just gonna get this. And I went

872
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 1: in there prepared to crush it, and he started asking

873
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: me all these questions about the market, the history of

874
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: New York City, what I thought about this developer, that developer, this,

875
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: and I froze. I had no idea what he was

876
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: talking about. I just thought, you know, he wanted to

877
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: meet me, and that, like I was that I didn't

878
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: have to do any work. That I was just gonna

879
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: go in and use canna say, Ryan, we've got this building.

880
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: You know you're a star broker. You just sold that

881
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: apartment so that Chinese and pstor you know, what do

882
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: you think about our building? Would you like to sell it?

883
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: I can't believe that I was so naive, but that

884
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: was that was bullet money energy. That was a BS

885
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 1: money energy. Um uh. That that carried me into that meeting.

886
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Speaker 1: And when I left, the feedback I got from the

887
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Speaker 1: friend who connected us was he basically just said Ryan's

888
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 1: got a lot to learn. Nice kid, though, And that

889
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: that was that moment where I was like, Okay, you

890
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: know I just messed that up big time. I gotta

891
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: fix this going forward. It's all about what you know,

892
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 1: It's all about what you know, you do your homework,

893
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: your preparation. That's where the confidence comes from because then

894
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: you don't need the experience if you know more than

895
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: the next guy. And that's how you're better than the internet,

896
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Speaker 1: right for all of us that are selling against the

897
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Speaker 1: Internet all day long. Really interesting that that was a

898
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Speaker 1: that was a tough meeting for It was a tough meeting,

899
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Speaker 1: but that was a meaning that woke you up because

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Speaker 1: it was two things I took away from that meeting. One,

901
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Speaker 1: you didn't you do your homework, but to close your

902
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Speaker 1: first deal with Joan, who was pregnant at the time,

903
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Speaker 1: by you did your homework. You learned New York. You learned.

904
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Speaker 1: You learned that you did one of the great one

905
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Speaker 1: of the great moves that I tell people everyway. I say,

906
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Speaker 1: if you want to be a star, go make a

907
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Speaker 1: consistent appearance of the restaurant loading major d when you

908
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Speaker 1: come in there and say hello with Sean. How you

909
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Speaker 1: doing those techniques? Like I said, Man, this is one

910
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Speaker 1: of my favorite books. Man is gonna be on my

911
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Speaker 1: book share because all those things you're talking about un

912
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: natural you don't have to pay for. You don't have

913
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: to if you're like going out to eat, go to

914
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Speaker 1: the restaurant, the same restaurant all the time. Once you

915
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Speaker 1: just have a relationship, guess what, they give you the

916
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Speaker 1: best table. They'll welcome you in front of a line.

917
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Speaker 1: There's nothing to do with being a millionaire. And that's

918
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Speaker 1: all I'm saying about. This is everyday people rules. If

919
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: you just work in a regular job, you can become

920
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: a superstar. You can come to start big money energy

921
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: how to rule it, work dominated like and make millions.

922
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: That's all you're saying is that everyday people can win

923
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Speaker 1: with this book. Am I correct? You are one percent? Correct, sir?

924
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: With that being said, why is it so hard to

925
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: buy houses? Right there? Why is it? Why is the

926
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: real estate market flying off the chart? Why is it

927
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: everywhere I look every part of the country, people are

928
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: buying homes like they're running out of style. Right, you're

929
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: the expert coming, Yeah, because, Uh, in March of um,

930
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: the federal governments spent six trillion dollars on what was

931
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: effectively at pr campaign for buying new homes. Because there's

932
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: nothing like being locked inside your current crappy house to

933
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: convince you to go get a new one. And that's

934
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:20,280
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. People, really, listen, this isn't a financial crisis.

935
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: Look at the stock market, like I mean, look at

936
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: look at bank accounts, look at interest rates. It's like

937
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: the greatest buying environments ever. Right. Yes, there was massis unemployment,

938
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: but as COVID restrictions lifted, everyone wanted to get back

939
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: to work. Right, there's a lot of unemployment because people

940
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Speaker 1: actually got fired from jobs they don't like. So they're

941
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: they're trying to wait to figure out what exactly they

942
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: want to do. A lot of them are getting the

943
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: real estate. To be honest, we've seen a lot of

944
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: people just joined up to our course. It's been totally crazy.

945
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: Um uh you know. And so everyone want to end

946
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Speaker 1: decided to buy new homes. And remember we still haven't

947
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Speaker 1: totally recovered from the great recession that started in two

948
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Speaker 1: thousand eight. Right, the world is we're still in that,

949
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: Like we're still trying to figure out how we're crawling

950
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 1: out of that. Like that was a massive collapse. Um

951
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: that is, this is a shock wave from and so

952
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people still haven't upgraded their homes from

953
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Speaker 1: prior to two thousand and so now they're doing his

954
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: because now they're trapped, you know, and they don't want

955
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: to be trappedick again, if there's gonna be a second wave,

956
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: a third wave, who knows now its own problem? Uh?

957
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: Do they have to that that show is part of

958
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: your I guess you want to say brand now, Okay,

959
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: what does that for? Nine years? Right? It's part of

960
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: your brain? What what is the future do you? What

961
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: do you? You just go to uh? And and what

962
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: I say that part of your brain is that it

963
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: gives you a vehicle to promote who you are and

964
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: to validate who you are and also build your company.

965
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: And a lot of people, like you said in the

966
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Speaker 1: book of your Friend, our friend thought you were crazy

967
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: for trying not to be a reality star. Talk about

968
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: that friend now and also would be in a reality stuff.

969
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: All my friends thought I was crazy, My family thought

970
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: I was crazy. Everyone thought I was crazy. I remember

971
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: this was two thousand and ten. Reality TV in two

972
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: thousand and ten. It wasn't for building a business. It

973
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: was for Dog the Bounty Hunter. It was for the

974
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: real world American Idol survivor. You know, the Kardashians had

975
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: only just started. Like it was you know, it was

976
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 1: kind of you know like that you know, Real Housewives.

977
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 1: It's what Bravo was really known for. Some people are like, oh,

978
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna go be a male real housewife slinging real estate.

979
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: Uh and so, and people said, listen, New York is

980
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: a really serious city. It's very serious. It suits like

981
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: no one's gonna take you seriously. But listen, I'd only

982
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: been in the business for a year. In a year

983
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: and a half, I guess, And so I just thought

984
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: the more people who knew what I saw, the better.

985
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: You know, there's almost eight billion people on this planet.

986
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: If I could do a TV show and let people

987
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: know I'm selling real estate, that maybe some bit will

988
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: call me. And for anyone that doesn't want to work

989
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: with me because they're super serious and I'm on a

990
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: TV show, Um, I don't want to work that person either.

991
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: There's way too many fish in the sea. I'll deal

992
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: with my Chinese investors all day long. I don't care

993
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: who you are. I'll buy and still real estate with anybody. Um.

994
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: Those friends now, I think are proud and I think

995
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: everyone's just surprised. It's like anything like a millionar Listening

996
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: was not supposed to work out, you know. It was

997
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: a spin off show of a franchise. Um uh, just

998
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: sort of that people just sort of took to, you know,

999
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: and here we are still doing it. It was season nine.

1000
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: That is what I'm feeling right now. And one of

1001
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: the studios shooting those interview scenes where we sit there

1002
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: for the camera and they're like, WHOA really, thank you

1003
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: that for like hours on Mondays and so I'm here

1004
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: in between that. So season nine will be out in

1005
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: the next couple of months, I think, right, your star man,

1006
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: Just a second time I've gotten a chance the interview.

1007
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 1: First time, I didn't have your book. This time I

1008
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Speaker 1: made sure they got the book to me so I

1009
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Speaker 1: could read it. Rullior read man, and I'm a fan.

1010
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: And uh again I'm recommending this and putting into my newsletter,

1011
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: putting on my social media. I got one point six million.

1012
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Speaker 1: Eyeball was looking at me. I don't have three million,

1013
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Speaker 1: but I got enough to believe in the brand of

1014
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1016
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Speaker 1: keep winning, my friend. All right, thank you man, thanks

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1044
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Speaker 1: guests are Many Boom, well known director, and Solomon Onneita Jr.

1045
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Speaker 1: Bennie Boone is one of the executive producers of Tasmanian Devil,

1046
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 1: and Solomon Noneia Junior is the writer and director of

1047
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Speaker 1: Tasmanian Devil. Here's a little history of my man, Benni Boom.

1048
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Speaker 1: He's a member of Appli Phi Apple As it Is. Solomon,

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Speaker 1: August twenty the Tasan Tasmanian Devil earned Solomon Onneita Jr.

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Speaker 1: The inaugural John Singleton Director Award for the Best First

1056
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Speaker 1: Feature at the tw twenty American Black Film Festival. Tasmanian

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Speaker 1: Devil was streaming on all platforms, especially Amazon, iTunes and fandego.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to My Man to money making Conversations Bennie

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Speaker 1: Boone and Solomon Oneita Junior. How you doing, fellas? Are

1060
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Speaker 1: you doing? Man? I got a couple of apples on

1061
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Speaker 1: the call right here. I think that's important to say

1062
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Speaker 1: this because we're talking about the more by pledging and

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Speaker 1: and if they you know, I've seen a lot of

1064
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Speaker 1: different versions. Uh, I know, I was fortunate. Uh I

1065
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: should do sitcoms and I used to. I wrote an

1066
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: episode with Sister Sister when it was on the air

1067
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: and we did. Uh my man, Brian McKnight, he was

1068
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: a starter in the sitcom and we and you know,

1069
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: when you start talking about fraternitys and sororities, and if

1070
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: you if you make anybody walking the straight line or

1071
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: anybody to do something against their will, then no national

1072
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: branch for turning to mess with you, because that's hazy.

1073
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: That's you know, if you said walking the straight line,

1074
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: if they bied out to you and they say yes, sir,

1075
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: that is a form of hazing. I just want to

1076
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: explain to people, well why they didn't use a f

1077
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: I and you can't. That's hazing. And if you acknowledge

1078
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: that use in a movie, then they can come and

1079
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: can come back and bite them into some form of

1080
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: a lawsuit because they can use that where you acknowledge

1081
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: this portrayal in the movie here. So that's why even

1082
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: though they members of A five, they can't use it

1083
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: because guess what the images that they're portraying in this movie,

1084
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: which are very realistic by the way. And I'm not

1085
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: saying anything negative because guess what it happened to me

1086
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: when I pledged to make a fire. In fact, it

1087
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: was pretty much worse in certain situation. But you know

1088
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: I have nothing negative about that, Benny and Solomon when

1089
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: I talk about this, because I will tell you this

1090
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: pledge it to makea sat fire. As you probably say,

1091
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: pledge in A five, It changed my life, how about you, guys? Uh?

1092
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: For me, a hundred percent changed my life. I pledged

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01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: spring one at Temple at University Piro. I was a

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01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: solo pledge, so it was a very very very difficult

1095
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 1: or deal for me and UM, it definitely changed me

1096
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: from a boy to a man. I was nineteen years

1097
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: old and I had UH, I was a freshman, you

1098
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 1: know a lot of those things you know that I

1099
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: was grappling with as a young man. I was molded

1100
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: and guided by by my bros, you know, the big

1101
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: bros at the time, and so it really changed life,

1102
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: guided me, matured me really quickly, and I appreciated every

1103
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: single day. You know what I was, what I went

1104
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: through when I was able to make it through. How

1105
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: about you, Solomon? For me, I had a very similar

1106
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 1: experience with with pledging Alpha fi offa. UM. What I

1107
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: showed in the film is not necessarily my exact experience,

1108
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: you know. I made it a fixtionalized version for entertainment purposes.

1109
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: But the lessons and the values that these organizations UH

1110
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: give young men is what I was trying to depict

1111
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: through film. UM. And so the journey that my lead

1112
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: character takes throughout Tasman and Devil, it's something similar that

1113
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: I experienced, you know, gaining self confidence, gaining that brotherhood

1114
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: factor that UH that you know, really propels you to

1115
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: that next phase of your life, especially as a young man.

1116
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 1: We know, it's interesting Benny, you said you played you

1117
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: when you was a freshman. I was a senior when

1118
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 1: I played So you know, they hit me hard. Why

1119
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: you wat you long? Why you long? Oh dude, trying

1120
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: to pledge all these young people. And but and I

1121
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: say that because I was lost, man, And that's what

1122
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: I see in this movie. Tasmanian Devil was a young

1123
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: man who's loss, trying to find himself. He's from a

1124
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 1: foreign he's from another country. His mom is back in

1125
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: the country where he's coming from. His dad. I guess

1126
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: it's a disconnect because his dad wasn't with him as

1127
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: he grew up and became a man. And so he

1128
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: comes over here, and the manhood he receives is really

1129
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: from the relationship he creates with these young men in

1130
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: the in the in the fraternity. He's trying to pledge,

1131
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: and I am I reading it right, that's um, that's

1132
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: exactly right. I think that the one thing for me

1133
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: when I read the script. You know, Solomon Uh, Solomon's producer,

1134
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: Trisia Woodard, got the script to me and and my

1135
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: company and we're looking for um producers and financing and

1136
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And so when I read the script,

1137
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: I was so familiar with the pledge process that that

1138
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: wasn't the first thing that jumped out of me. The

1139
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: first thing that really jumped out of me was the relationship,

1140
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: the father's son relationship in the film, and I felt

1141
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: like reading that script. You know, whenever you read a

1142
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: piece of material, UM, you try to find the commonality

1143
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: of the story that that you think everyone can relate to.

1144
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 1: So everybody can relate to for pledging or hazing, or

1145
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: the Black week life or black colleges, but everybody can

1146
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: relate to their own relationship or dynamic with their mother

1147
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 1: or father. And to me, that is the strength and

1148
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: the foundation of this film, Um, that relationship that you know,

1149
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: um where where where Diode comes to America thinking that

1150
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 1: you know, he looked as his dad as a god,

1151
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: you know, and he comes to America and he's falls

1152
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: very short of that. You know, you're also talking about

1153
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: in the film. He's a man of God, he's a

1154
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: missionary and a pastor, and so we have that dynamic

1155
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: of faith um in the film, which is also something

1156
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, I I'd like to talk about

1157
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: in the film because I think it's an important factor

1158
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: when when in this story, well you know, it was

1159
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: important to me because you know, here's a guy he

1160
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: left his family, right, he left his wife. His wife

1161
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: had to raise a young man, and we all know

1162
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:11,479
Speaker 1: the dynamics of it importance the men in the boy's life,

1163
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 1: and he wasn't there in those important formative years. And

1164
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: basically he was the only reason he came to him.

1165
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell the story. It was. It was

1166
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 1: it was kind of like happens that that he actually

1167
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: was in the States to be with his father. But

1168
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: his father explaining me, Solomon, what were you trying to

1169
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: achieve in the in the in the ark of the

1170
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: character with the father, because you're the writer and the director,

1171
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 1: what were you achieving in that relationship? Because I hear

1172
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: what Benny said, and I'm agreeing with what you're saying, Benny,

1173
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: And because my father was a disconnect with me, you know,

1174
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 1: even I loved him to death, you know, and uh,

1175
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: but we were not that type father some relationship. Uh.

1176
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: For me, when it came to the father of Tasmane

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01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 1: in Devil, Uh, it kind of mirrored my relationship with

1178
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: my father. My my dad is also in the ministry

1179
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: and often and often he would leave to Nigeria to

1180
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 1: other countries on missionary trips to uh you know, because

1181
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: he he works in um and like radio broadcast and

1182
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: in order to kind of you know, spread the message

1183
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: of Christ. And so I was looking at that when

1184
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 1: I was when I was growing up, and I was thinking,

1185
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, he's leaving his family in order to push

1186
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 1: the gospel, and so you know, his his attention is

1187
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 1: being carried away from things that I thought he should have,

1188
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, been at home trying to nurture us as

1189
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: we were coming up, but he was instead doing other things.

1190
01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: So for me, it's like that was the most interesting

1191
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 1: part of of of the character for me, because I

1192
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: thought the art there was he puts more value in

1193
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 1: this out is in this external system of religion versus

1194
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 1: his own family, and that's what I was trying to portray. Well,

1195
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, we're not being you know, you know, I

1196
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: mentioned a different channel as she shows, you've done success

1197
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: in the film industry and then you get a project

1198
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: that comes to your production company, Tasmanian Devil. You know,

1199
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: is it is it the character structure or is the

1200
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 1: content of what the script brought to the table that

1201
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 1: really excited you the most? Or we're just the favorite

1202
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:19,800
Speaker 1: meter ority of the background because you are remember I'm

1203
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: aphro firephon. Well, it was a combination of things. I

1204
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 1: think part of um, part of our responsibility as uh

1205
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: in these fraternities is something that's important, and I think

1206
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: over the years it has gotten lost on on all

1207
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 1: of us, you know, not just alpha's, not just cues.

1208
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: All of us we've we've sort of we've taken a

1209
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: back seat to what we're supposed to be doing. And

1210
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to be doing is giving back to

1211
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 1: the community. UM, we're supposed to reach back and bring

1212
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: other people up. Regardless of what I mean, I would

1213
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: have had this film come to me Solomon not been

1214
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: an alpha and he was you know, a queue or

1215
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 1: new I would have been involved in the same way

1216
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: because that that wasn't the reason why I UM. What

1217
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to do was to be able to help

1218
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: a young man who wanted to be or who is

1219
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 1: a filmmaker tell his story and not be held back

1220
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 1: by what happens when you make a studio movie. When

1221
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: producers who've never made a movie before, or never directed

1222
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,040
Speaker 1: or never written have all these notes and ideas and

1223
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 1: thoughts and all this stuff and it goes against what

1224
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: you want to do creatively, right, So what I what

1225
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to do was help shepherd him in this

1226
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: into this industry in a way where his full vision

1227
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: can be achieved. The way he thought about the scenes,

1228
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: the way he wrote the scenes, the way he directed

1229
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 1: the scenes, or his vision. At the same time, because

1230
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 1: of the experience I had, I wanted to give him

1231
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: some notes and some ideas, But never was I in

1232
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: a position where I said, Yo, you gotta take these

1233
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: notes or it's gonna be whacked. No. I would offer

1234
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 1: my ideas to him, some he took something he didn't,

1235
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: and I respected the respect of them both the same way. Um,

1236
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 1: Because the point of the matter is when you make

1237
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: a film, you have to as the director and writer,

1238
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: you have to live and die by that film. So

1239
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: I was I just wanted him to make sure that

1240
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 1: he was solid and stood solid on the ground and

1241
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: the decisions that he made. And my whole goal was

1242
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 1: to be here to support him. And I think it's

1243
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: really important to Solomon that you did have someone who

1244
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:25,639
Speaker 1: had the fraternal experience, the pledge experience, because I would

1245
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: tell you so Man really enjoyed the movie. I was.

1246
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 1: I smiled because it brought back memories, you know, Zomba trying.

1247
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,560
Speaker 1: You know when it was past, you know, when it

1248
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: was greed. It was like, you know I was going through,

1249
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: if I was going through, see it through, I was

1250
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:47,640
Speaker 1: going it was like you can keep your heading all

1251
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: about your losing theirs and blame it wing you. I'm

1252
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: going who you know, it was like it was. It

1253
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 1: was the reason I'm excited about it. I wanted to

1254
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 1: highly recommend this movie is because you know it's a

1255
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 1: collegiate journey, because you know that people on the outside

1256
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 1: saw what we experience and then you have the people

1257
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:06,160
Speaker 1: who experienced it and can share that that that firm believed.

1258
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 1: But this is why I feel it was important that

1259
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 1: Benny was part of this, this this bootoo seen in

1260
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 1: uh process because it didn't go over the top. Nothing

1261
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:21,600
Speaker 1: in this movie. I went, that's some crap, what are

1262
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: you doing? And we were never do that, dude. It

1263
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: stayed on the level plane field. It didn't go to

1264
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: the extreme because you know where it can go. But

1265
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: it was not nobody's jumping out of a plane, somebody

1266
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: dumping out of a call, somebody robbing the store because

1267
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: they're trying to get something. Everything that was asked in

1268
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 1: this movie by the young man actually happened to me,

1269
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: or I asked somebody to do it for me when

1270
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:47,800
Speaker 1: I became a big brother. That's important, Solomon, and I

1271
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: believe it. What's your what's your thoughts on that? Uh? Yeah?

1272
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: I just wanted to show almost like a standard view

1273
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: of what hazen is. I mean a lot of people

1274
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Speaker 1: have seen hazen from other black films like Stump the

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01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 1: Yard and Spike Lees movie, so we have a knowledge

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01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: of hazing already. I didn't want to get too deep into,

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01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: you know, what different organizations do, because that's not what

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01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: this is about. You know, I created it. I created

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01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: a film that's outside of m P a C. So

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01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 1: I just wanted to show a generic hazing process or

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01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 1: pledging process, to use that as a vehicle to to

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01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 1: show what it's like to to enter this organization and

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01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:32,160
Speaker 1: then uh comparing, comparing, contrast that to the religious aspects

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01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: of it and to the you know him trying to

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01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: assimilate to American culture. Uh So that's why I kept

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01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: a very surface level. I just showed stuff that people

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01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: probably already know about hazing or pledging. Well, are you

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01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: doing someone? I don't want to. I don't sell yourself short. Um,

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01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,599
Speaker 1: it's about an experience. And and you know as a person,

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01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: and you both you growth air players, you have any

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01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 1: players by myself, I played with three other brothers. I

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01:10:57,320 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 1: players with a fifth one. But we're going to run.

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01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 1: And he jumped out of the car while I was

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01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: still moving. So we went down the flour So that's

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01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 1: how extreme pledging can beat, you know. And then ran

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01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: back to the door when he wasn't gonna get out

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01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 1: of his bed. I quit. I quit, I'm done. And

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01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: I know the first day, just sharing some experience. I

1299
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: did get hit on the first day that were the board.

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01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: I got paddled, you know, because my my, my lyon

1301
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 1: brothers knew. I didn't know them. We're just all pleasure.

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01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: At the same time we're playing cards. They said, look

1303
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: look at me, serious now, however many points y'all lose by,

1304
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: that's a man time, we're gonna hit him. They were

1305
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:36,600
Speaker 1: really okay. They just the points kept totally. And in

1306
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:39,639
Speaker 1: my mind, I'm going, are they seriously up a hundred

1307
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: points here? Damn? You know what I'm saying. And and

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01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,639
Speaker 1: then all real it was a hundred and eighty four

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01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: points they lost. Come on, Come On Down. And I

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01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 1: got hit a hundred and eighty four times on my

1311
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: first day. And I'm not saying that's a badge of courage.

1312
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that in that point of life,

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01:11:57,439 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 1: you make decisions. And I think that that's what this

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01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 1: movie is about. It's a decision making movie. It's a

1315
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: decision about relationships. It's a decision about his dad, this

1316
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 1: decision to come over there, it's decision how people look

1317
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: at you. When he finally stood up, the homeboard that

1318
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: told him he know started calling him names, and he

1319
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 1: stood up for him the first time because he found

1320
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 1: he was soft, because he had a soft tone and

1321
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't aggressive. This is a really great movie, Solomon.

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01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 1: And it's not about the levels that you deliver. It's

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01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: the story that you're telling. Man. And Viney, I'm sure

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01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: you played a major role, and I'm and I'm not

1325
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 1: trying to undersell it. I'm just selling it right. Man.

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01:12:33,720 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 1: I enjoyed. I would watch it again because I watched

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01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,560
Speaker 1: it this morning. Whenever I do interviews like this, I

1328
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 1: don't want like to watch a movie three days or

1329
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 1: four day. I like to watch it the day of.

1330
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: So I got up at four o'clock this morning and

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01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: I watched the movie and it's entire to the one

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01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: hour and fifty nine minutes. I know. I watched it

1333
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed, and I went, wow, this is really

1334
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:56,599
Speaker 1: good because and the lead character is amazing. That plays

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01:12:56,680 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: d He's amazing. Abraham. Yeah, you know one thing too.

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01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: I want to say, the culture of the cultural aspects

1337
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: of this film are important. And you know when when

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01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 1: we made this movie, we didn't. You know, this was

1339
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: pre pandemic, this was pre George Floyd and all these things.

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01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 1: And I think one interesting factor about it is that

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01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: um as as Africans in this diaspora of America, we

1342
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 1: we are finally, I think now, have finally come together

1343
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,559
Speaker 1: as one unit where we can look at each other

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01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 1: as real brothers. And I mean, you know, um Russia.

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01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: You know, we were probably not that far in age,

1346
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 1: and we grew up in a time where, you know,

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01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: if you was African or Haitian or Jamaican or something

1348
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:44,600
Speaker 1: like that, Southern Southern brothers and brother people that grew up.

1349
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:46,799
Speaker 1: I grew up in Philly, but my parents, my father's

1350
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,679
Speaker 1: from the South, you know, from Virginia, and my mother's

1351
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:52,639
Speaker 1: from Philly, but she's her parents are from Virginia, North Carolina,

1352
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: so southern roots. And we always looked at Africans or

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01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 1: blacks coming from other places and a little weird, a

1354
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:01,840
Speaker 1: little weird way the way they sounded, the food they

1355
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:04,800
Speaker 1: ate and all these things. And so this is this

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01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 1: film showed. It showed a little bit of that, but

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01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 1: it showed the respect factor too. He was like, you're

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01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 1: from Africa, right, and he says, you got a four

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01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 1: point oh. And I think that right there showed a

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01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:21,280
Speaker 1: lot because it changed that little scene changed the dynamic

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01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 1: of what African Americans think of Afrikaans, right. And I

1362
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 1: think that's important given what we are all going through

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01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,640
Speaker 1: uh in this country right now. And in terms of

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01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:35,439
Speaker 1: you know, when when that policeman stopped you, he's not

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01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:38,599
Speaker 1: asking you if your parents are from Nigeria or Houston

1366
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: or or Charlotte or you know, or Southfield, Virginia, He's

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01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 1: they're looking at the black skin. And I think, now

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01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: we we uh at a point in in in this um,

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01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, in this journey of of African people that

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01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 1: we all together now you know, we could look at

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01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: each other and respect each other. It takes a Lloyd

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01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 1: took a long time for that, but now we probably

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01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:02,840
Speaker 1: you know, we can respect each other when we see

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01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 1: each other, you know. Not when I think about this

1375
01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 1: when at four, I remember that scene because they mentioned

1376
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: that four point four point or great point that like

1377
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: three times in the movie. When I took away from that,

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01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: Solomon and being a would always tell people when you

1379
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:18,720
Speaker 1: have value, when you create value, then there's a need

1380
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: or want for you, you know, because people wants to

1381
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: be a millionaire, but what's your value? Everybody wants to

1382
01:15:24,439 --> 01:15:27,000
Speaker 1: be active? Can you act? And with more basketball? Can

1383
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:29,839
Speaker 1: you dribble? You know? Can you show up for practice

1384
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 1: on time? And to me, that was a strong moment

1385
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: for me, for for just young black people in general,

1386
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 1: especially black men. If you create value, then there's a want.

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01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 1: You create want, then there's a desire to make you

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01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 1: part of I'll make you a whole part of something

1389
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: that's bigger. And that's the whole thing about the tas

1390
01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 1: Medon and day of experiences that you know, being our

1391
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:51,720
Speaker 1: players to make as fire. You know, we had the

1392
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: cute pearls and all that's all these different layers the

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01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 1: A K s and all that stuff. I remember the

1394
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: scene when there was at the UC Center. We all

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01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:02,759
Speaker 1: know Wednesday. I don't care what campus you on in America,

1396
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:07,760
Speaker 1: Wednesday noon, Brother, on the campus, that's where you got

1397
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: to be on any camps black, h B, c U, White,

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01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:15,560
Speaker 1: Wednesday noon, not Tusday, Thursday, but Wednesday New So I

1399
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:18,160
Speaker 1: had so many flashbacks in this movie, but it was

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01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: tied to the realism and the portrayal of the college experience,

1401
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 1: because you really gave me the college experience, not only

1402
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: from his point of view, for the other young men

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01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:30,599
Speaker 1: who wanted to fit in. Because you can agree with this, Ben,

1404
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: and you went to Temple. I went to the University

1405
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 1: of Houston. So even though it was like we thought

1406
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: it was a lot of black people on campus, it

1407
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 1: was only liked of us, right, you know what you

1408
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:47,200
Speaker 1: thought it was. You thought we was like of the campus.

1409
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 1: You know, do you realize it? Thirty five thousand white

1410
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: people on this campus. We only and but but that's

1411
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: the black experience. But also I remember I became vice

1412
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,679
Speaker 1: president's student body and that was because of the black

1413
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: sperience allowed me to experience that. But truly, I'm talking

1414
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:07,160
Speaker 1: to you saw the black experience, just talking about what's

1415
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: happened in and seeing what happened to Georgian Floyd, George Floyd,

1416
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:16,160
Speaker 1: and watching black men talk you know, used in word

1417
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: like they're supposed to us in word on the streets,

1418
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:21,599
Speaker 1: you know, being comfortable in using that. What was your

1419
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: whole ultimate goal besides being a personal story that you

1420
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: can relate to use a fternity. Remember your dad was

1421
01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,680
Speaker 1: in the ministry, did radio some form of entertainment. What

1422
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 1: was the ultimate journey for the movie Tasmanian Devil, Um

1423
01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:41,040
Speaker 1: with Tasmanian Devil, and also hopefully as I progressed in

1424
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 1: my career, my goal is to show Black people ask

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01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: who we truly are. Um, there's a lot of like

1426
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: most of the stuff that that depicts African American culture

1427
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: and film is us having to overcome some type of

1428
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: system or like racism or slavery. Something that is uh,

1429
01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 1: that's something that to fight against. But I just wanted

1430
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:04,600
Speaker 1: to us living our lives, like doing things that we do.

1431
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,679
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's that's my voice as a filmmaker.

1432
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: That's that's my contribution. I want to make films for

1433
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: black people that that that that's just us existing in

1434
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: our everyday lives and showing the different things we can do,

1435
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 1: not just having to overcome a white system or being

1436
01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 1: inferior to some other kind of race or something like that.

1437
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:25,640
Speaker 1: So with Tasmanian Devil, that's what I was going for

1438
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:28,320
Speaker 1: as I created, As I continue to make films, that's

1439
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: what I'll continue to do. So I'm glad that you

1440
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: saw that in Tasmanian Devil, because I hope to do

1441
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: more of it. Hey, man, I believe me. I saw

1442
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 1: that and more. I saw a talented young man, and

1443
01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that, Benny, you're doing that. You know,

1444
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: Basically I created money making conversation because so many people

1445
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 1: would ask me to mentor it, you know, and I

1446
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: just can't mentor everybody. So I kind of like use

1447
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:52,120
Speaker 1: these interviews I'm doing with you guys as a form

1448
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:54,759
Speaker 1: of mentory. People listened an interview, they grab your experience

1449
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 1: being they grab your experience Solomon, and it becomes a

1450
01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,080
Speaker 1: possibility those nuggage that you guys dropped doing end you

1451
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 1: Now you talked about script to come your way. You

1452
01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 1: created a production company with a fellow fra trading brother,

1453
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,680
Speaker 1: Benny talk tell us about your production company. Well, we

1454
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:12,320
Speaker 1: have Groundwork Studios, and it's uh, we created myself and

1455
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 1: Gerald Rawls, who's brother alpha brother from my chapter who

1456
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:19,040
Speaker 1: I pledged, and we you know, from day one, we

1457
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:22,680
Speaker 1: always um said that we we have you know, we

1458
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:25,959
Speaker 1: know that there's something greater that can be done in entertainment.

1459
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,760
Speaker 1: So while I was directing videos and having the opportunity

1460
01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 1: to do movies and television, I'm also uh opening myself

1461
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: up to the next voices and the important It's interesting

1462
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: to hear Solomon say that because it's it's funny. This

1463
01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: is the first time I'm actually hearing his mission statement

1464
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:44,799
Speaker 1: funny enough of what he of what he sees himself

1465
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: as a filmmaker, which I think is great because you know,

1466
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,560
Speaker 1: when I was trying to come up and make you know,

1467
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 1: from transition from music videos to film, the knock was

1468
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: that we didn't want to do anything that was black

1469
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: sub jack matter because it really wasn't popular then, right,

1470
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,679
Speaker 1: So we were trying to fit in, get in somewhere.

1471
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,800
Speaker 1: Um that didn't really happen for me. So the first

1472
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:11,400
Speaker 1: film I did was Next Day Air, which was the

1473
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: first feature of Mike's Mike EPs and Wood Harris and

1474
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:18,160
Speaker 1: Ormary Hardwick, which is a very black, very very funny,

1475
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: dark comedy. You know that that kind of dealt with

1476
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 1: the drug subject matter, and it was very relatable to

1477
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: my life growing up in West Philly in a way. Um.

1478
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:33,559
Speaker 1: And so that although you know, the film is funny

1479
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: and people talk about it, you know, had I made

1480
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: that film in this climate, it probably would have been

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Speaker 1: received more or better or bigger, you know, something like that,

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Speaker 1: had more interest in it. But it was just very

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Speaker 1: hard at that time to get people interested in black movies.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just so glad that I'm able to sit

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Speaker 1: here now, um, you know, some fifteen years later from

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01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 1: that movie almost and be able to help a young

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Speaker 1: filmmaker tell his story the way that he wants to

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Speaker 1: tell it to too, and give it to the world,

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Speaker 1: and and the other great thing. Um, and it's not great,

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Speaker 1: But something that's come out of COVID is that we

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Speaker 1: don't we don't have to be hampered by the idea

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Speaker 1: of um of what you call on theaters of theatrical release.

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Speaker 1: And so we can put this film out and give

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Speaker 1: it to the audience without having to go through the

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Speaker 1: trades and say, oh man, we only made you know,

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Speaker 1: three million the first weekend or two million the first

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Speaker 1: week those kind of things. That is which I'm really

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Speaker 1: happy about. We can actually actually service the audience with

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Speaker 1: a great movie and not be worried about, um, what

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Speaker 1: the perception is of it based on how many people

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Speaker 1: saw it the first weekend. Well, you know exactly what

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Speaker 1: it was. What I'm saying, we said all eyes on me.

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Speaker 1: It was considered a black movie. It was only basically

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Speaker 1: domestically released. It was limited released into foreign selected markets

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01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 1: maybe England, the Caribbean, maybe South Africa, or Africa in general.

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01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: Where this movie when it's released February nine, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be on the entire it's worldwide release. That's that's what

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Speaker 1: I really love about streaming. I'm glad you brought that

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Speaker 1: up because our champions streaming, especially when it comes to

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Speaker 1: black products, because we're not limited to what somebody says

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01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: we should be seen by only these people really want

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Speaker 1: to see your movie. Now. People are everybody seeing your movies.

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Speaker 1: And that's important because it's premiering on Amazon, it's premiering

1514
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Speaker 1: on that tune and these are international platform Fandango, Google

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Speaker 1: Play Off the Horizon. That is the beauty of why

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Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure I was a part of

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Speaker 1: this interview. You know, I'm gonna put it all my

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Speaker 1: social media, I'm gonna put it in my newsletter because

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01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: my man, you know, like Bennie said, you are our future.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying being and not ready to die.

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01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:46,519
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that solid okay, but you are our future.

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Speaker 1: And it's important that we let you understand. Man. Look,

1523
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Speaker 1: it's a whole different game out there because he's right.

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01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 1: You know, Next Day are funny boy. That ended, but

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Speaker 1: they were shooting up everybody that ended, you know, how

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01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 1: something the movie it's so, but it was, it was,

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01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 1: it was. It was funny Mike Ebs, that's my boy, Harvard, Harvard,

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01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:08,439
Speaker 1: all these things, and so it's all about timing. But

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Speaker 1: guess what if that moving back there was released domestically,

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01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:14,600
Speaker 1: if every movie is released right now, the options of

1531
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:17,160
Speaker 1: being able to say I don't like that deal, I'm

1532
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 1: gonna take that deal over here because I want my

1533
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 1: product to see be seen by everybody, China, uh, Russia, England, Germany,

1534
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: all of Africa, Italy, you know, Brazil. That's what's gonna

1535
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 1: happen to your project. That's why I like your project,

1536
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:36,639
Speaker 1: because you're telling the story to me that's very honest

1537
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:39,920
Speaker 1: and very relatable. And I just want to say congratulations

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Speaker 1: Mr Writer, Mr Director, and I'm glad you had an

1539
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 1: EP like Mr Bennie Boone to show you the state

1540
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 1: truth in your story because your story related was relatable

1541
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,759
Speaker 1: to me, even at my age. You made me smile.

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01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 1: That's great. Cool well by, I wanna thank you for

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01:23:57,040 --> 01:23:59,519
Speaker 1: coming on the show, Solomon or Nita Jr. I'm sure

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01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: here you do in the future. Brother, you'll start on

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01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:04,439
Speaker 1: the rise. Man, don't stop, man, I appreciate you are

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Speaker 1: coming on some money making conversations. Thank you, Rush. I

1547
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:09,720
Speaker 1: appreciate the sign. Man, Thank you so much. Hey man,

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Speaker 1: many you know. I know you're gonna have projects in

1549
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Speaker 1: the future. I always know you can come to me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate that. Man. All right there, appa

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Speaker 1: appa omega man. We all fraternity to brothers. Okay, Alrighty'll

1552
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Speaker 1: stay strong. We will be right back with more money

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Speaker 1: Forest Service and the ad Council High Rushan McDonald, the

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Speaker 1: host of Money Making Conversation. The Cafe Moka Swag Award

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Speaker 1: is a celebration of Black men who are making a

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Speaker 1: difference in our community by empowering others to reach their

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Speaker 1: The Cafe Moka Swagger Award winner this week is but

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Speaker 1: Cary Sellers, a more House graduate who made history in

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Speaker 1: two thousand six when, at the age of twenty two

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Speaker 1: years old, he became the youngest member of the South

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Speaker 1: Carolina State Legislature and the youngest African American elected official

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Speaker 1: in the nation. But Cary Sellers currently practices law and

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Speaker 1: it's a political commentator at CNN. His book, My Vanishing

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Speaker 1: Country coronicles critical flashpoints and our civil rights movement. I

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Speaker 1: had no idea that my book was gonna come out

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Speaker 1: during a time where black folks were dying in extremely

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Speaker 1: would have had the deaths of Brianna Taylor, by the

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Speaker 1: deaths of amd Aubrey Um and now another death in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Book comes out in the words that I'm that I'm

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Speaker 1: putting on those pages and speaks to the issues of

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Speaker 1: have strength, whose wisdom is assertive, and who is genuine

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Speaker 1: in their spirit. Welcome back to money making Conversations with

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Speaker 1: your host, Rashan McDonald. My next guest is always trimmitted, committed.

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Speaker 1: She's a committed person. Brittany Nicholson pickings the Juice Girl.

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Speaker 1: The Juice cair definitions. When life gives you lemons, you

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Speaker 1: make lemonade or in this case, you get to juicing.

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Speaker 1: She's a food blogger and created eating Anonymous that allows

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Speaker 1: her to review restaurants, and she is a serial entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: She started up and off now she's down in the South.

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Speaker 1: The Juice Girl business offered the variety of products and

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Speaker 1: energize you, boost your immune system, reduced risk of sickness,

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Speaker 1: and increase your fruit and vegetable intake. They all ingredient,

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Speaker 1: all natural ingredient, rich envitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to money making Conversation. Brittany Nicholson pickings. Yes, I loved

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01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:55,160
Speaker 1: that intro. Well, you know I was struggling for some reason.

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Speaker 1: I'm gon struggling day. I don't know why, but I've

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01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:00,080
Speaker 1: I've gotten through the intros. So make sure I have

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01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 1: a great interview with you. So I'm looking at this

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01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:05,240
Speaker 1: fantastic I'll see some I'm assuming those are juices in

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01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 1: front of you. Four tax of juices. I'm asuming right there,

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01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: what type of juices are they? So, okay, let's just

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Speaker 1: go through it. Okay, consider the wanted all pack. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this one in all pack. I always suggest everybody to

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Speaker 1: take if they want to start um detoxing. That's the

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Speaker 1: first step on detoxing is the water off. Let's stop

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Speaker 1: right there. What's exactly a detoxic detoxing? Basically, it's just

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01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 1: gonna cleanse your body, take all the toxins out. So

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01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:39,320
Speaker 1: a lot of times we use natural juices. It just

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01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 1: right away, like right if your body is not used

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01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:46,360
Speaker 1: to eating, help, So it basically flushes your system out,

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Speaker 1: system out. Just I'm talking about shot mcdonaldad because sometimes

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01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 1: I feel a little bloated, Like after I came out

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01:28:53,240 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 1: of Thanksgiving weekend, I felt a little bloated, detoxed. Okay, cool, okay, cool,

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01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 1: okay cool. Definitlybe the times. So let me just go

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01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:04,200
Speaker 1: through what we have here. So this is the Green Goddess.

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01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:10,960
Speaker 1: This has five fruits and vegetables. It has kale, kiwi, cucumber, lemon,

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01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:14,519
Speaker 1: and pineapple. You know, it sounds a little nasty because

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01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 1: it has a lot in it, but it tastes very

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01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,599
Speaker 1: very good. This is the Carrot Paradise. So the care

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01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:23,800
Speaker 1: Paradise has pineapple, lemon, and carrots in it. It has

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01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:26,320
Speaker 1: the beat berry. The beat berry is a little bit

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01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 1: hard to drink because it has ginger in it. It's

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01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:33,679
Speaker 1: just it means you're a little harder to drink because

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01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: it has ginger. And what does gender? What does ginger

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01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,919
Speaker 1: doing to make it harder to drink? Is it tangy

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01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:42,439
Speaker 1: or is it u? Ginger is very strong, especially to

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01:29:42,520 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: ginger that I use. But it has like I think

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01:29:44,280 --> 01:29:47,680
Speaker 1: it's ninety two minerals, vitamins and minerals in it. Um

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01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 1: it's very very good for your immune system. I love gender.

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01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 1: So like this is like one of the ginger shops

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01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:56,640
Speaker 1: that I I always that I suggest. It's called of

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01:29:56,680 --> 01:30:00,320
Speaker 1: Boost Me Up. Basically has the honey, the lemon, and

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01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:03,840
Speaker 1: it also has the ginger in awesome the wheat grass.

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01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:07,400
Speaker 1: So the wheat grass has wheat grass and ginger. I've

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01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 1: been here about wheat grass, you know, for I remember

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01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey used to always drink way back in two

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01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: thousands when everything wheat grass. Okay, I've tried the wheat grass.

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01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:20,760
Speaker 1: Now what exactly does the wheat grass do for you?

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01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,800
Speaker 1: Uh So, basically what a reat grass do for you

1660
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 1: is it has a lot of vitamin and middles as well,

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01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: and it definitely helps boost your immune system. A lot

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01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 1: of things green cleans you out. Like immediately here is

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01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 1: the Kickstar. So this one is a little tangy. So

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01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: if you like citrus, which is oranges which has vitamin C,

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01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:48,880
Speaker 1: really like this one. You would like this one. And

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01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:53,519
Speaker 1: it has oranges, lemons and then also pineapple juice in

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01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:56,640
Speaker 1: it fresh pineapple, um fresh. I use a lot of

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01:30:56,720 --> 01:30:59,800
Speaker 1: fresh pineapple, you know people. So one thing about my

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01:31:00,439 --> 01:31:05,080
Speaker 1: business is I customize your juices. So I want pineapple,

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01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:06,960
Speaker 1: I won't put pineapple if you do not want If

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01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:08,800
Speaker 1: you want more ginger, just say in the notes I

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01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:10,840
Speaker 1: want more ginger. You just let me know and I'll

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01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: make it how you are. Okay. So if I wanted

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01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:15,960
Speaker 1: just so, you show me four juices. If I wanted

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01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 1: juice number one and juice number four of what you

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01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 1: presented to us, I can just order those. Yes, so

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01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:25,080
Speaker 1: everything you can order one of one M minimum order

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01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: for delivery. So I out here in Atlanta, I have

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01:31:28,040 --> 01:31:31,000
Speaker 1: a delivery service. Okay. I make sure I come to

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01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:33,759
Speaker 1: your door and I drop off your juices. UM. Minimum

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01:31:33,880 --> 01:31:37,719
Speaker 1: to juices per order. Most likely a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: Usually these are my top sellers. Artists and the Care

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01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:44,719
Speaker 1: Paradise are my top sellers. Um. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: think they're the top sellers. Why do you think there's

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Speaker 1: two of the top sellers, and remind people what they

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01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:53,559
Speaker 1: have in them that makes them the top sellers. Um.

1687
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:56,200
Speaker 1: I think it's because they taste really good and there's

1688
01:31:56,240 --> 01:31:58,559
Speaker 1: a lot of benefits. So this one has five roots

1689
01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: and vegetables, and then this one has three, but both

1690
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 1: of these together. A lot of the time, if people

1691
01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:06,240
Speaker 1: buy them as their detoxing, and they buy them in

1692
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:10,760
Speaker 1: the gallon. I sell them in the gallon as well.

1693
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:14,320
Speaker 1: Now there's one detox does that is that considered weight

1694
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:18,840
Speaker 1: loss when you detox. So also with detoxing is weight loss.

1695
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:21,599
Speaker 1: So you can lose a few inches to your stomach. Okay,

1696
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: I can always do with that. I'll just let you

1697
01:32:24,320 --> 01:32:27,000
Speaker 1: know that. So if I have to go through the process,

1698
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:29,680
Speaker 1: how much is each bottle? And if I bought more

1699
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:33,320
Speaker 1: than one bottle, are there any discounts? So there there

1700
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 1: aren't any discounts. Some times I do like I'll add

1701
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 1: it like I should drink shot time. So each juice

1702
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 1: cost twelve dollars, and when I sell the gallon, the

1703
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:48,479
Speaker 1: gallon is seventy dollars. So the gallon is like a

1704
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:51,920
Speaker 1: huge gallon of juice. And it's usually you can you

1705
01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:54,439
Speaker 1: can detox for about a week or two with the GAG.

1706
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: The shelf life is three to five days. So you

1707
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:00,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to get a you wouldn't want to like

1708
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,160
Speaker 1: to get like fifteen bolls. You want to bottom like

1709
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:05,840
Speaker 1: on a weekly or two week basis right by. So

1710
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:07,960
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna start within the new year is I'm

1711
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:12,320
Speaker 1: going to do a membership program where everyone can because

1712
01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:14,680
Speaker 1: they can't described and every week they will get a

1713
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:18,240
Speaker 1: delivery of juicing. Wow, that's pretty hot. That's pretty hardy.

1714
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:20,200
Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about Let's go back down. We

1715
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:22,679
Speaker 1: know you got the product. How did all this get started?

1716
01:33:22,800 --> 01:33:25,639
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the Brittany. You know, she's the founder.

1717
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,360
Speaker 1: She is the juice girl. She has a fantastic poster

1718
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:30,680
Speaker 1: of her in the background. She has these roses in

1719
01:33:30,760 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 1: front of her. She has four fantastic popular juice drinks

1720
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 1: in front of her. The first two that she talked about.

1721
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 1: It just reminded of her popular ones in the Atlanta area.

1722
01:33:39,360 --> 01:33:44,080
Speaker 1: That's where you based. You can deliver that. Okay? What

1723
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:46,880
Speaker 1: is each bottle? The cost of each bottle? The cost

1724
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:49,560
Speaker 1: of these fallows swall dollars? Okay, cool? Okay cool. So

1725
01:33:50,040 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 1: I if Rushane McDonald said, hey, I finued this interview,

1726
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:54,880
Speaker 1: I said, look, I want to order two bottles. I

1727
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:57,560
Speaker 1: can get them delivered to my office today. Yes, you

1728
01:33:57,600 --> 01:33:59,240
Speaker 1: can get them to that. Well, you'll be hearing from

1729
01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:04,439
Speaker 1: me after this call. Perfect. I mean then I also

1730
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 1: have on my website. I don't want to forget those.

1731
01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:11,400
Speaker 1: I have two other drinks pineapple ginger. And then I

1732
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:16,720
Speaker 1: also have a it's called a sunrise, was it? Why

1733
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:21,520
Speaker 1: don't I forget it? A Paradise Sunrise basically has pineapples

1734
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:25,519
Speaker 1: and strawberry. I use that more so as a refreshing drink.

1735
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:28,920
Speaker 1: So you can add alcohol if you want to to

1736
01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 1: that one, because a lot of people lying fresh juice,

1737
01:34:32,160 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 1: they go healthy and drunk. Healthy drunkness. That's what you

1738
01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:42,759
Speaker 1: picture right there. Brittany on peaches, So I also had peach.

1739
01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 1: It was it was delicious. So like for certain events

1740
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:51,160
Speaker 1: where they want my juices, I usually add Georgia peach

1741
01:34:51,200 --> 01:34:55,800
Speaker 1: basically had fresh peaches hair, and then it had peach rock.

1742
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 1: And then you did an Apple crisp and it had

1743
01:34:58,600 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 1: fresh apples pineapple in apple's rock. So I do go

1744
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:04,760
Speaker 1: for like a special of it. Okay, cool. Now I

1745
01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:06,760
Speaker 1: want to come back to the question. I kind of

1746
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:09,000
Speaker 1: like stumbled over it and was asking how did all

1747
01:35:09,040 --> 01:35:11,160
Speaker 1: this get started? You know, well, you're working a full

1748
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:14,040
Speaker 1: time job and you quit your four time job talking

1749
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 1: about what you're doing in part time developments while you're

1750
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:18,160
Speaker 1: working four times Because I want to tell people, don't

1751
01:35:18,240 --> 01:35:19,960
Speaker 1: quit your four time job. Do you have an option

1752
01:35:20,040 --> 01:35:21,880
Speaker 1: that the job you're going through the opportunity to go

1753
01:35:21,960 --> 01:35:25,240
Speaker 1: into it's real. So talking about hot just let's go

1754
01:35:25,320 --> 01:35:28,240
Speaker 1: through the history of how Juice Girl got started. Okay,

1755
01:35:28,400 --> 01:35:32,519
Speaker 1: So when Juice Carl got started. UM, so background story.

1756
01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:36,120
Speaker 1: In February, my mother passed away. I'm sorry to hear

1757
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:40,080
Speaker 1: that my mother passed away. And I was working a

1758
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 1: full time job as executive assistant for a CEO of

1759
01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:47,840
Speaker 1: a global manufacturing company. Looking in corporate. I've been working

1760
01:35:47,880 --> 01:35:52,360
Speaker 1: in corporate for about fifteen years, and I all of

1761
01:35:52,400 --> 01:35:55,960
Speaker 1: a sudden decided what am I here in New York for, Like,

1762
01:35:56,240 --> 01:35:59,479
Speaker 1: I need to start a new life. I want to move.

1763
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 1: So I decided to move to Atlanta. I feel like

1764
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:06,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot of opportunities out here in Atlanta and

1765
01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:12,040
Speaker 1: it's more progressive for you know us and um and

1766
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:15,120
Speaker 1: I love to see I just love to see so

1767
01:36:15,240 --> 01:36:19,240
Speaker 1: many black entrepreneurs and like, let's let's just go and

1768
01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:22,280
Speaker 1: only child. I don't have any kids, so I said,

1769
01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:26,280
Speaker 1: let's go. So I moved to Atlanta in July and

1770
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:31,840
Speaker 1: I started the Juice Girl literally in July or more

1771
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:36,040
Speaker 1: towards August, and I was just like, okay, let's go.

1772
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:38,640
Speaker 1: So I've already did always did the food blogging for

1773
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:41,840
Speaker 1: the longest on my charge for food blocks. On my blog,

1774
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:46,000
Speaker 1: it's called Eating Underscore Anonymous, and basically I travel around

1775
01:36:46,080 --> 01:36:48,679
Speaker 1: different cities and give you a real reactions for reviews

1776
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: to different restaurants and what's good in their on their

1777
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 1: menu and stuff like that. So then I just said, hey,

1778
01:36:54,760 --> 01:36:57,120
Speaker 1: we're in during a pandemic. One thing, I realized a

1779
01:36:57,200 --> 01:36:59,479
Speaker 1: lot of restaurants were closed. The only thing that I

1780
01:36:59,560 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 1: really see that was open were juice places. I was

1781
01:37:04,520 --> 01:37:06,880
Speaker 1: just like, this is something we need to boost our

1782
01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:09,960
Speaker 1: immune system. Is mainly boosting your immune system with a

1783
01:37:10,040 --> 01:37:13,160
Speaker 1: lot of fruit and vegetable intake. All my juices have

1784
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:16,479
Speaker 1: all fruits, all vegetables, no water added. A lot of

1785
01:37:16,600 --> 01:37:20,400
Speaker 1: businesses put water in their juices and they're not a natural.

1786
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:23,880
Speaker 1: A lot of business don't you put sea moss and

1787
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,360
Speaker 1: their juices. All my juices have sea moss. That's why

1788
01:37:26,439 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 1: the prices at twelve dollars. So I just I just

1789
01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 1: started it and I just decided let's go with it.

1790
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:38,720
Speaker 1: And it's actually been going and I'm excited. They're just

1791
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:43,360
Speaker 1: starting your kitchen. You start in a lab. How did

1792
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 1: this just start in my kitchen. I started actually in

1793
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:52,080
Speaker 1: this kitchen. Actually I started in this kitchen and then

1794
01:37:52,240 --> 01:37:55,719
Speaker 1: now I just brand a space in a shared kitchen

1795
01:37:56,280 --> 01:37:59,599
Speaker 1: to make all my juices. Okay, so you make your juices,

1796
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 1: are you you've not gotten to a distributor yet or

1797
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 1: the trash. The next step within the new year is

1798
01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:09,160
Speaker 1: UM I have a manufacturing working on my UM ingredients

1799
01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:11,840
Speaker 1: to perfect my juices. Because what the next step is.

1800
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to be in Hopefoods, So I'm going to

1801
01:38:14,240 --> 01:38:19,160
Speaker 1: change the label and everything like that and hopefully within

1802
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:22,599
Speaker 1: January Febora and hopefully. Let's just so not that's about

1803
01:38:22,720 --> 01:38:25,320
Speaker 1: that's about marketing in Brandon, getting up your volume of

1804
01:38:25,439 --> 01:38:27,559
Speaker 1: sales and things like that. But it's something you're saying.

1805
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:29,519
Speaker 1: It's very important. We all know when the COVID right now,

1806
01:38:29,640 --> 01:38:33,439
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and it a virtually affects overtly affects the

1807
01:38:33,520 --> 01:38:36,640
Speaker 1: African American community of people of color. And you you

1808
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:39,599
Speaker 1: decided to launch Okay, what made you? I know your

1809
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:42,600
Speaker 1: fact you, Sery Shane. I saw juice places open up

1810
01:38:42,640 --> 01:38:44,880
Speaker 1: there and it's good for your immune system. But that's

1811
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:47,400
Speaker 1: a degree of fear. That's a degree of unknown. What

1812
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:50,280
Speaker 1: made you the step path, the fear and the unknown.

1813
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm fearless. One of those people is like, let's just

1814
01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:01,560
Speaker 1: let's just go and I know what's you know? So

1815
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:03,439
Speaker 1: a lot of the times, a lot of one thing,

1816
01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:06,200
Speaker 1: I've realized a lot of people aren't. You don't know

1817
01:39:06,360 --> 01:39:08,560
Speaker 1: about juicing. They don't know the benefits. They don't know

1818
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:11,400
Speaker 1: about sea moss, they don't know about ginger, they don't

1819
01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:14,479
Speaker 1: know about health. You know, it's important, not even just

1820
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:17,200
Speaker 1: boosting your immune system is important to start eating right.

1821
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: Once we get a certain age, we have to change

1822
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:24,719
Speaker 1: our eating habits. We really have to eat differently. These

1823
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:28,240
Speaker 1: you won't even think. This green juice right here can

1824
01:39:28,360 --> 01:39:31,120
Speaker 1: make clean out your system, get rid of the toxins,

1825
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:33,720
Speaker 1: and just make you feel a lot better. So if

1826
01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:37,920
Speaker 1: you drink this juice, you take a vitamin daily vitamin

1827
01:39:38,240 --> 01:39:41,080
Speaker 1: they has mass in it. You should you should be okay.

1828
01:39:41,240 --> 01:39:44,000
Speaker 1: You know, the COVID thing is very very serious. It's

1829
01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:46,840
Speaker 1: it's not it's not even a game. Um. Getting a

1830
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:50,760
Speaker 1: cold or getting the flu is serious, very serious as well,

1831
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:54,720
Speaker 1: because then it changed, it goes into pneumonia. It's just

1832
01:39:54,880 --> 01:39:57,880
Speaker 1: like all these different steps we need to you know,

1833
01:39:58,320 --> 01:40:01,040
Speaker 1: chop out. You know, we avoid, we need to void.

1834
01:40:01,200 --> 01:40:04,639
Speaker 1: So it's really important to really just really realize, Hey,

1835
01:40:04,760 --> 01:40:08,439
Speaker 1: this this is real. We need to boostar immune systems.

1836
01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:12,360
Speaker 1: We need to either if taking sea moss every day

1837
01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:14,920
Speaker 1: if you don't want to juice. So another thing is there.

1838
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:18,040
Speaker 1: In the new year, I'm going to have like a

1839
01:40:18,120 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: twenty dollar subscription. Every week, I'm gonna come out with

1840
01:40:21,400 --> 01:40:24,280
Speaker 1: a new juice, the new ingredient. I'm gonna show everybody

1841
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:26,160
Speaker 1: how to juice because a lot of people are like,

1842
01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:30,440
Speaker 1: they don't think it's a necessity. They don't think it's important.

1843
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 1: So they're like, oh, I have a juice at home.

1844
01:40:32,280 --> 01:40:34,559
Speaker 1: I could juice. Yeah, I juice. A lot of people go, oh, yeah,

1845
01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:36,679
Speaker 1: I juice. I choose, but then they try my juice

1846
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:40,280
Speaker 1: and they're like, wait, this is good. I'm like, but

1847
01:40:40,360 --> 01:40:42,400
Speaker 1: what did you put in it? I'm like, hey, hold on.

1848
01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:45,920
Speaker 1: In the year, I'm going to have a system where

1849
01:40:45,960 --> 01:40:48,599
Speaker 1: you guys can subscribe and I can show you how

1850
01:40:48,680 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 1: to juice. I'm gonna give you the tools of juicing.

1851
01:40:51,320 --> 01:40:57,000
Speaker 1: Because you're not giving away any secrets, Like McDonald didn't

1852
01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 1: give away these secret songs. You know, so you know

1853
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 1: it's this is good, this is different because I have

1854
01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:04,160
Speaker 1: a juicer. Look at it, it's brand new. Your boy

1855
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 1: has never juiced. Okay, in theory, that's why I told you.

1856
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:09,160
Speaker 1: We we finished his interview, I will be calling you

1857
01:41:09,240 --> 01:41:12,479
Speaker 1: because I I like to, because I immediately when ran

1858
01:41:12,560 --> 01:41:14,560
Speaker 1: through my mind was I need to I need to

1859
01:41:14,680 --> 01:41:17,599
Speaker 1: free the toxins in my body. You know, I felt bloated.

1860
01:41:17,760 --> 01:41:20,320
Speaker 1: I actually picked up five pounds over the over the

1861
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:23,200
Speaker 1: thanks to even holidays, and so I didn't know what

1862
01:41:23,360 --> 01:41:25,519
Speaker 1: to do and so but I also knew that I

1863
01:41:25,600 --> 01:41:28,360
Speaker 1: wanted to flush my system basically what I'm doing with

1864
01:41:28,479 --> 01:41:31,640
Speaker 1: the toxin. And so again, tell everybody again because I

1865
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:33,840
Speaker 1: want people. Every year, a lot of people hear stuff.

1866
01:41:33,880 --> 01:41:36,400
Speaker 1: In the beginning, they want to, then they forget. They

1867
01:41:36,439 --> 01:41:38,760
Speaker 1: subscribe each one of the four juices that you have

1868
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:43,720
Speaker 1: on display in your store online. Okay, so everything is

1869
01:41:43,760 --> 01:41:48,360
Speaker 1: based off online. Um. So basically, here is the Cara Paradise.

1870
01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:53,000
Speaker 1: So the care Paradise has carrots, clemming in pineapple. Here

1871
01:41:53,160 --> 01:41:57,480
Speaker 1: is the Green Goddess. The Green Goddess has kal kiwi, cucumber,

1872
01:41:57,760 --> 01:42:00,559
Speaker 1: lemon and pineapple. That's a little bitter than the first

1873
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:03,320
Speaker 1: one right from a thing the good. They're both good

1874
01:42:04,520 --> 01:42:08,960
Speaker 1: because kale and q comba okay, sale is very bitter,

1875
01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:11,640
Speaker 1: but the pineapple over a pineapple and the lemon just

1876
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:14,200
Speaker 1: cover it over. You're not even gonna know that. Okay,

1877
01:42:15,720 --> 01:42:17,800
Speaker 1: And those first two you just mentioned are your most

1878
01:42:17,880 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 1: popular brands. Most popular, um, A lot of people bodies

1879
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:25,000
Speaker 1: in the gallon for de tap so the de tacting

1880
01:42:25,080 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 1: so basically they can drink the green for breakfast, the

1881
01:42:29,160 --> 01:42:33,120
Speaker 1: orange the carrot for for lunch, and they have like

1882
01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:35,800
Speaker 1: a light sound, have an oatmeal for breakfast. You know,

1883
01:42:36,160 --> 01:42:39,000
Speaker 1: it's just certain things, you know. I even started eating

1884
01:42:39,040 --> 01:42:41,720
Speaker 1: veggie burgers. I don't eat I eat less meat. I

1885
01:42:41,840 --> 01:42:45,560
Speaker 1: love steak though, but I love start eating more like

1886
01:42:45,880 --> 01:42:50,360
Speaker 1: vegetarian plant based pace. But I love the steak, so

1887
01:42:51,160 --> 01:42:54,280
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta cut it down. Like I love

1888
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 1: Coca Cola, I don't anymore. I use it as I

1889
01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:02,559
Speaker 1: consider it as actual. So when I stay for Christmas,

1890
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm having a Coca Polar just to look in ask

1891
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:08,640
Speaker 1: and you know, not too much, but I love the

1892
01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:10,800
Speaker 1: taste of it tastes with steak. But now we have

1893
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Speaker 1: the beat berries has freshly pressed beef and it has ginger.

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01:43:16,520 --> 01:43:20,120
Speaker 1: And then it also has blueberries and strawberries. You can't

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01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:23,160
Speaker 1: take the brulberries and strawberries more so on the beatberry,

1896
01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 1: we just taste strong ginger. This is the only drink

1897
01:43:27,040 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 1: that has well. This drink and the ginger pineapple have

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01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:33,240
Speaker 1: ginger in it. And I'm gonna tell you a funny

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Speaker 1: story right after this. So then also we have the Kickstart.

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Speaker 1: The Kickstart has it's more the citrus dividing and seed.

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01:43:39,479 --> 01:43:43,479
Speaker 1: It has the oranges, the lemon, and the pineapple. So

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01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:46,960
Speaker 1: and then the weak Crash that sounds like my favorite

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Speaker 1: right there with the oranges, the lemons and the pineapple.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like my favorite right there, Brittany. It's very

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01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:57,840
Speaker 1: very tangy because this this freshly pressed oranges is so

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01:43:58,240 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 1: like like it wakes me up. So I always tell

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01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: everybody drink this in the morning as a morning bra.

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Speaker 1: I think I would want that one for sure, for

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01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:12,520
Speaker 1: sure that that was because I love oranges, I love pineapples,

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Speaker 1: and I know lemon that's acidic, Like I said that

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01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:18,000
Speaker 1: that's acidic right there. That would knock down that sweetness

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Speaker 1: in there. But that's uh, you got three out of four,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm all over, I got I gotta punch. I

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01:44:24,120 --> 01:44:26,840
Speaker 1: want to buy a button of this is considered the

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Speaker 1: one and all past. So this is a three to

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Speaker 1: four day detox. So I always tell everybody the first

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Speaker 1: two days of us trying to detox a body and

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Speaker 1: tell them I want you to drink a juice and

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Speaker 1: a shot all. So basically, once you do your purchase,

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01:44:43,560 --> 01:44:45,559
Speaker 1: I give you guys, I send you guys a message

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Speaker 1: telling you exactly what I want you. So, so you

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01:44:48,840 --> 01:44:53,840
Speaker 1: gotta send me not only a juice but also a shot. Yes,

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Speaker 1: well you did. Now you got some extra stuff coming

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Speaker 1: on the side here. So I get a juice in

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01:44:58,600 --> 01:45:01,800
Speaker 1: the shop per day with this want wanted all pack,

1926
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: you get too shots and you get four juices. Okay, cool?

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01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:07,639
Speaker 1: So this shop talking very serious here because I want

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01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:11,160
Speaker 1: to get our to day is Monday, okay, so I

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Speaker 1: have I'll be able to do a Tuesday win is

1930
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Speaker 1: the Thursday Friday of this week? Correct, So on Tuesday,

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01:45:17,360 --> 01:45:20,280
Speaker 1: I get my package today. Okay, what would I do

1932
01:45:20,360 --> 01:45:22,120
Speaker 1: when I wake up in the morning. So when you

1933
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:23,760
Speaker 1: wake in the morning, the first juice I want you

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01:45:23,840 --> 01:45:26,640
Speaker 1: to drink is the green Okay, I want you to

1935
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:29,040
Speaker 1: do a green juice, and I want you to do

1936
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:32,600
Speaker 1: the boost Me up shot because I want us to

1937
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:35,479
Speaker 1: get your body ready for what's next. So then the

1938
01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:39,600
Speaker 1: second day, I always say the care of Paradise and

1939
01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:43,280
Speaker 1: the weak Grass shot, right okay. Then the third day

1940
01:45:43,520 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 1: I always say, in the morning, I want you to

1941
01:45:45,720 --> 01:45:48,360
Speaker 1: drink the Beats. You cannot drink the Beats. You would

1942
01:45:48,400 --> 01:45:52,439
Speaker 1: drink the Bet for breakfast or the Beat for lunch.

1943
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:53,960
Speaker 1: I do not want you to drink the Beats at

1944
01:45:54,040 --> 01:45:56,320
Speaker 1: night because it will keep you up, okay, but I

1945
01:45:56,360 --> 01:45:59,599
Speaker 1: can still eat normal food. You can still eat normal food.

1946
01:45:59,800 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 1: That ginger is very strong. So every so after you're

1947
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:05,880
Speaker 1: doing that, the fourth day, I want you to drink

1948
01:46:05,960 --> 01:46:09,639
Speaker 1: the Kickstar. Right in between of all the drinking the juice.

1949
01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:13,000
Speaker 1: In the morning, I want you to drink water. I

1950
01:46:14,320 --> 01:46:17,920
Speaker 1: prefer essentia water because it's alkaline. You don't have to

1951
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:20,599
Speaker 1: have essentia per se, but I want you to drink

1952
01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:26,160
Speaker 1: alkaline water because alkaline helps flesh your body. So so

1953
01:46:26,320 --> 01:46:30,600
Speaker 1: this normal bottom water wouldn't do it. I like alkaline

1954
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:34,080
Speaker 1: is the piece diff Your pa is different. I'm trust

1955
01:46:34,120 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: me your pea and cleaning out your kidneys is so

1956
01:46:37,640 --> 01:46:40,320
Speaker 1: much different when you start drinking alkaline water. The only

1957
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:44,040
Speaker 1: water I drink is either core or essential. Now I

1958
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:46,880
Speaker 1: drink a lot of water period. I love drinking water,

1959
01:46:47,080 --> 01:46:49,200
Speaker 1: you know. That's a big thing with me, drinking water.

1960
01:46:49,560 --> 01:46:51,160
Speaker 1: And so when I'm looking at this plan you have

1961
01:46:51,280 --> 01:46:55,519
Speaker 1: in place, you know, you got a product. How did

1962
01:46:55,560 --> 01:46:57,320
Speaker 1: you get to the point that you can mix all

1963
01:46:57,400 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 1: these together though? And realize that you you know, you know,

1964
01:47:01,200 --> 01:47:03,200
Speaker 1: you know. I got to ask these questions, you know,

1965
01:47:03,240 --> 01:47:05,720
Speaker 1: because you know, just a regular person walking around and

1966
01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:07,360
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you got an idea and you're

1967
01:47:07,400 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 1: mixing juices and you got a product line. How did

1968
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:16,040
Speaker 1: the product line get started? Did you experiment idea? Okay,

1969
01:47:16,479 --> 01:47:18,640
Speaker 1: I was an idea, and then I took myself to

1970
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:24,160
Speaker 1: the farmer's market. I said, okay, let's buy a bunch

1971
01:47:24,200 --> 01:47:28,080
Speaker 1: of fruits. What goes with what? So at first, when

1972
01:47:28,120 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 1: I first it was so funny. It was the construction

1973
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 1: workers outside of my building. He see me all these

1974
01:47:32,320 --> 01:47:33,760
Speaker 1: bottles and he said, what are you doing? I said,

1975
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:35,960
Speaker 1: I'm the juice girl. Mind you, I didn't even start

1976
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:38,240
Speaker 1: the juice girl. I didn't even start it, but I

1977
01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:41,240
Speaker 1: knew once I said it. He said, oh yeah, well

1978
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:43,200
Speaker 1: when did you juice? When are you ready? I said, Monday,

1979
01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:45,560
Speaker 1: mind you. I didn't have any idea on what was

1980
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:49,519
Speaker 1: going with what, but I had a plan. So on Monday.

1981
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 1: So on Sunday I got all these fruits. I started

1982
01:47:53,479 --> 01:47:55,479
Speaker 1: mixing all these fruits. I had all these jugs with

1983
01:47:55,600 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 1: different fruits in them. So then I'm like, okay, let's

1984
01:47:58,200 --> 01:48:00,479
Speaker 1: put this with this. Put up one cup. I have

1985
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 1: muddering cups and everything. I'm measuring everything. I'm just trying

1986
01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 1: to figure out what goes with what. So the first

1987
01:48:06,040 --> 01:48:11,800
Speaker 1: round I put ginger in everything. Obviously, by the way

1988
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:14,559
Speaker 1: you said that, that wasn't a good move. That wasn't

1989
01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:17,360
Speaker 1: a good move. So then I realized, wait a minute,

1990
01:48:17,400 --> 01:48:19,840
Speaker 1: hold on, we cannot put ginger in everything because it

1991
01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:22,680
Speaker 1: burns like it's burning like it's just it's it's automatically

1992
01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:25,240
Speaker 1: making you go to bathroom. So this is not gonna work. Um,

1993
01:48:25,560 --> 01:48:28,680
Speaker 1: So now I started again. I said, okay, round two,

1994
01:48:29,400 --> 01:48:31,559
Speaker 1: let's try it again. So then I just started mixing

1995
01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:35,240
Speaker 1: with So for me, pineapple is like my natural sugar,

1996
01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:39,600
Speaker 1: so that we'll just take take away the taste for

1997
01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:42,400
Speaker 1: the care and the green and make it taste much better.

1998
01:48:43,320 --> 01:48:47,719
Speaker 1: They mean, it's just something that needs to be basically everything. Okay,

1999
01:48:47,880 --> 01:48:50,160
Speaker 1: because like this boost me up. Shot, if you have

2000
01:48:50,280 --> 01:48:55,200
Speaker 1: a cold, this ginger lemon and honey is going to

2001
01:48:55,320 --> 01:48:57,680
Speaker 1: knock that cold out. You're not You're no longer going

2002
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:00,280
Speaker 1: to have a cold. So like two or three days

2003
01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:03,120
Speaker 1: of this to three days of a ginger pineapple juice,

2004
01:49:03,200 --> 01:49:05,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna be okay, you know. I mean it's all natural.

2005
01:49:06,040 --> 01:49:08,120
Speaker 1: You have to really start going into the more of

2006
01:49:08,200 --> 01:49:11,960
Speaker 1: the natural route instead it's depending on medicine, you know, absolutely,

2007
01:49:12,160 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 1: Now you have to I want to transition a little

2008
01:49:14,120 --> 01:49:15,560
Speaker 1: bit because I know before a wrapper for any of

2009
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 1: you are we missed. We talked about you being a

2010
01:49:18,479 --> 01:49:21,280
Speaker 1: blogger food blogger, and we talked about that. We all

2011
01:49:21,360 --> 01:49:24,000
Speaker 1: know you're serial entrepreneur out there making juices in your kitchen.

2012
01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:28,439
Speaker 1: Now you also have a uh all purpose seasonal. Rob,

2013
01:49:28,680 --> 01:49:30,840
Speaker 1: tell us about that and how that got started? How

2014
01:49:30,880 --> 01:49:32,600
Speaker 1: did I bring it? Hold on, I gotta gonna get it.

2015
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:40,880
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Okay, Now she's got

2016
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:43,800
Speaker 1: an all purpose to see, Rob, there's really popular. And

2017
01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:45,840
Speaker 1: now she didn't know I was gonna bring it up

2018
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:49,439
Speaker 1: obviously now because I'm a I'm a big cook guy,

2019
01:49:49,520 --> 01:49:52,760
Speaker 1: and so I love rubes. I love seasonal. When you

2020
01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:54,840
Speaker 1: p your water all pat, I'll make sure I'll playing

2021
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 1: a pre person. Let's talk about this all season in row.

2022
01:49:58,720 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: How did they get started? Oh my god. So I'm

2023
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 1: a foodie. I love to eat um. I always like

2024
01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:08,920
Speaker 1: seasoning on my food. I like who that has it

2025
01:50:09,080 --> 01:50:12,680
Speaker 1: taste to it. I like to see the seasoning. So

2026
01:50:13,360 --> 01:50:16,920
Speaker 1: that's why I like steak because like during the quarantine

2027
01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:19,560
Speaker 1: on Sundays, I always used to have steak on the

2028
01:50:19,600 --> 01:50:23,439
Speaker 1: groom like it was like my thing, are you are

2029
01:50:23,520 --> 01:50:26,400
Speaker 1: your medium or what type of level of steak person

2030
01:50:26,479 --> 01:50:30,320
Speaker 1: are you? I like it, Christie, so just do me

2031
01:50:30,760 --> 01:50:33,679
Speaker 1: me and well you know you're you're a well done person.

2032
01:50:34,240 --> 01:50:37,439
Speaker 1: I like it burn like burn. Some people get mad

2033
01:50:37,479 --> 01:50:39,320
Speaker 1: at you. You go in the steakhoumes, they get mad

2034
01:50:39,360 --> 01:50:40,960
Speaker 1: at you. They always mad at me when I go

2035
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:44,280
Speaker 1: to steakhouse. My lamb chops because I like the bird.

2036
01:50:44,560 --> 01:50:47,519
Speaker 1: But I just like the seasoning. I like I like

2037
01:50:47,680 --> 01:50:50,760
Speaker 1: when there's burn and it tastes fresh women on there.

2038
01:50:50,800 --> 01:50:54,880
Speaker 1: So my of purpose seasoning rug basically had a little

2039
01:50:54,960 --> 01:51:02,200
Speaker 1: bit of everything. So every I sold almost eighty bottles

2040
01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:06,120
Speaker 1: already of this. It sells for twenty dollars um. It

2041
01:51:06,439 --> 01:51:10,960
Speaker 1: literally has fresh cilantro garlic. The list goes on and

2042
01:51:11,080 --> 01:51:13,880
Speaker 1: on everything that's in here. I think it's about twenty

2043
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:18,400
Speaker 1: three ingredients that are in here. Um. I basically came

2044
01:51:18,479 --> 01:51:20,560
Speaker 1: up with this because I said, Hey, I have a

2045
01:51:20,600 --> 01:51:24,160
Speaker 1: food blog. I love to eat. I love steak, I

2046
01:51:24,240 --> 01:51:29,759
Speaker 1: love fish, I love lamb chop, birch steak, birch steak. Okay,

2047
01:51:33,720 --> 01:51:36,519
Speaker 1: every time I'm like, excuse me to make sure burn

2048
01:51:36,800 --> 01:51:42,320
Speaker 1: like that. I work at Burger King, and the people

2049
01:51:42,360 --> 01:51:45,680
Speaker 1: will come through there, they go, okay, run it through that.

2050
01:51:45,840 --> 01:51:49,800
Speaker 1: They've patty through the through a little grillo. No, run

2051
01:51:49,880 --> 01:51:54,160
Speaker 1: it through again. They asked me to run it through

2052
01:51:54,240 --> 01:51:56,840
Speaker 1: four times. They wanted burn, they wanted like crispy, I

2053
01:51:56,920 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 1: mean charred, and then she because I just get people

2054
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:03,840
Speaker 1: a background on steaks. Now you go to a steak place,

2055
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:09,439
Speaker 1: they really want you to do rare are are a medium.

2056
01:52:09,960 --> 01:52:13,240
Speaker 1: Once you start going past medium, they start frowning on you.

2057
01:52:13,479 --> 01:52:15,800
Speaker 1: When you start using the word well done. They go,

2058
01:52:16,120 --> 01:52:18,559
Speaker 1: while you come here, while you come you just use

2059
01:52:18,600 --> 01:52:20,800
Speaker 1: just cooking all the juices and the flavor out of

2060
01:52:20,880 --> 01:52:24,240
Speaker 1: the meat. So what she says she wants well or

2061
01:52:24,320 --> 01:52:26,719
Speaker 1: done a charge. They look, they go back in the kitchen,

2062
01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:30,000
Speaker 1: go got another one out there? Why she here? Because

2063
01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:32,599
Speaker 1: it just drives all the juices. And I'm not saying

2064
01:52:32,640 --> 01:52:34,320
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with what she does, because you buy, you

2065
01:52:34,439 --> 01:52:36,560
Speaker 1: buy your you have your flavor, you're paying for you

2066
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:39,160
Speaker 1: get what you want. But that's what they want to steakhouse.

2067
01:52:39,240 --> 01:52:42,120
Speaker 1: They want you to have a rare selection or a

2068
01:52:42,280 --> 01:52:45,559
Speaker 1: medium selection. Once you get past that, they started telling

2069
01:52:45,640 --> 01:52:48,080
Speaker 1: you in the sense that you're you're you're drying the

2070
01:52:48,160 --> 01:52:51,519
Speaker 1: steak out. You you're losing all the juices out of it,

2071
01:52:51,880 --> 01:52:53,519
Speaker 1: and your meat is gonna be dark. And once you

2072
01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:55,640
Speaker 1: get to a dark meat, then you have nothing but

2073
01:52:55,800 --> 01:52:58,920
Speaker 1: just tough meat. And so but you love that every time.

2074
01:52:59,280 --> 01:53:05,080
Speaker 1: I hear it every time. But I just say cool.

2075
01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:07,160
Speaker 1: Before we get on, let's wrap it up, juice girl.

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01:53:07,320 --> 01:53:10,240
Speaker 1: We're talking about talking to Brittany about her wonderful success

2077
01:53:10,280 --> 01:53:12,200
Speaker 1: and starting to the kitchen. She moved from up North.

2078
01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:14,479
Speaker 1: Now she's in the Atlanta tearing it up. If you're

2079
01:53:14,479 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta area, she can deliver this. If you're

2080
01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:19,400
Speaker 1: buy at least two bottles, bottles of twelve, nine and

2081
01:53:19,479 --> 01:53:22,840
Speaker 1: nine each, right, and we discussed twelve each and then

2082
01:53:22,920 --> 01:53:25,400
Speaker 1: she says a little shot. If you buy the four pack,

2083
01:53:25,520 --> 01:53:27,680
Speaker 1: you get two shots, allow you to She has a

2084
01:53:27,760 --> 01:53:30,360
Speaker 1: system in place that you can win with. I myself,

2085
01:53:30,479 --> 01:53:33,080
Speaker 1: ra Sean McDonald will be investing in her four pack

2086
01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:35,519
Speaker 1: so I can get by two shots. She's gonna throw

2087
01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:37,559
Speaker 1: in a little free ball com from her battle of Rub,

2088
01:53:38,040 --> 01:53:40,439
Speaker 1: so I'm winning twice. She had to go off camera

2089
01:53:40,680 --> 01:53:43,559
Speaker 1: to get the rub to come back on fourteen kitchen

2090
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:47,720
Speaker 1: start that big, so she got back real quick. Thank

2091
01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:49,840
Speaker 1: you coming on the show. You have a website, Tell

2092
01:53:49,880 --> 01:53:52,280
Speaker 1: us about your website and your social media. So my

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Speaker 1: website on social media is ww dot the Juice Girl

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Speaker 1: Dot Store. Thank you, I appreciate you. If we'ren hear,

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