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Speaker 1: If you're about to make a change in your life

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Speaker 1: and not what somebody told you to do. And that's

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Speaker 1: when all bets are off. Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rashan McDonald. Our theme is there's no

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Speaker 1: perfect time to start following your dreams. I recognize that

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Speaker 1: we all have different definitions of success. For you and

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Speaker 1: maybe decide to your hl it's time to stop reading

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Speaker 1: other people's success stories to start living your own. Keep

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Speaker 1: winning well well well, Rashan McDonald. Keep winning. What does

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Speaker 1: that mean? It means that when you think there's not

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to be successful, keep winning, keep

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Speaker 1: pushing forward. I have an interesting fact to tell people today.

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Speaker 1: I will tell people never allow age to be an excuse.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, more than four million people will

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Speaker 1: reach the age of sixty five years of age in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Now, when the Social Security was established

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Speaker 1: way back in nineteen thirty five, the average age expectancy

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Speaker 1: system is broke because people are out living or in

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five, they thought they will live beyond sixty

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Speaker 1: three years of age. Four million people reached the age

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Speaker 1: of them and happy about it. And I will never

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Speaker 1: planning my next business opportunity, planning my next vacation, playing

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Speaker 1: my next house is available for me to buy out there,

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Speaker 1: buy out there, playing my next opportunity, to dream beyond

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Speaker 1: ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years. I'm dreaming

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Speaker 1: like that because I will not allow age to be

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Speaker 1: even if you're twenty, don't let nobody tell you what

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling everybody, we've allowed the system to tell

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Speaker 1: Throw it out the window. Throw it out the window.

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Speaker 1: It don't work. In twenty twenty four. Moving forward, We've

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Speaker 1: got social media out there. Social media out there, we

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Speaker 1: can promote ourselves and everything. My guest is on the phone.

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Speaker 1: Let me get this show rolling. This is Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversations Master Class. I'm your weekly host, ra Sean McDonald.

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Speaker 1: The interviews and information that this show provides offer everyone.

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Speaker 1: I said every week it's time to start reading other

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Speaker 1: people's success stories and start living your own. My guest

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Speaker 1: is a wellness expert, registered nurse, best selling author, breast

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Speaker 1: cancer survivor, life coach with a master's degree in nursing.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome the Money Making Conversation Master Class. Holly Cotton.

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Speaker 1: How you doing? My friend? Hey?

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Speaker 2: Hi?

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Speaker 3: Who?

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Speaker 2: That intro made me sound fancy? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, all I can do is tell the truth,

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Speaker 1: and that's the key. You know, I'm not making any

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Speaker 1: of these things up. What exactly when we get started,

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Speaker 1: Miss Cotton? What exactly where are you based at?

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Speaker 2: By the way, I am in Houston, Texas?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Is that where you were born or did you

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Speaker 2: No, I transplanted. I'm actually born and raised in home

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Speaker 2: of Louisiana, graduated from high school, went to LSU, lived

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Speaker 3: Was it great?

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Speaker 1: Houston? Houston was well, I was born and raised, So

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Speaker 1: you're never here a negative thing about Houston from Rachelle McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the best restaurants in the world are

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Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. That's me. I'm a big foodie, so

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Speaker 1: to eat. Now let's get back to you, miss Cotton.

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Speaker 1: Master's degree in nursing.

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Speaker 2: Why Honestly, I needed some money and I knew a

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Speaker 2: I always knew that nurturing and doing that whole thing

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Speaker 1: Because you know, I always ask people, you know, my

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Speaker 1: But I was looking for. I was looking for. I

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Speaker 1: And when you get these degrees, you know, uh, it

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Speaker 2: Yes, so honestly, when I was in nursing school, because

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Speaker 2: then I did my bachelor's and then I went back

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Speaker 2: So I feel that nursing was a way for me

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Speaker 2: you know, I've done nursing for my twenty years now,

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Speaker 2: and that's just something that I did. It's not who

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can make lots of money, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I knew that nursing wasn't always where I was going

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Speaker 1: But I just knew that wouldn't have final step in your.

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Speaker 2: Life right exactly.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Ms Cotton. I'm talking to

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Speaker 1: Holly Cotton. She's a best selling author of Media Personality,

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Speaker 1: Life Coach, Go Guru podcast Hope. Just see these additional credits.

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Speaker 1: I didn't read at the top, you know, because you

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Speaker 2: Now, I do.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, the stereotypes they come with nursing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, for sure, for sure. So nursing. Actually you don't

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Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest stigma a lot of people have,

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Speaker 2: Like there's so many other things that you can do.

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Speaker 1: You know, now, just get into your lifestyle. You know,

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Speaker 1: because your lifestyle, you know, you're very energetic. You can

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Speaker 1: say it with energy. Now you embrace a holistic lifestyle. Now,

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Speaker 2: So a holistic lifestyle is basically when you're talking about body, mind,

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Speaker 2: And I also say, for me, holistic also includes financial

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Speaker 2: all in sync. Because if your money ain't right, now

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Speaker 2: so now your mental health is off. Now you may

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Speaker 2: now your mental health is off because you're stressed out

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Speaker 2: don't want to go out, and you can't afford to

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Speaker 2: go anywhere. And then of course physical health comes into

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Speaker 2: that because now you can't, you might be unhealthy. Now

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Speaker 2: if that's that's the triangle for me for holistic But

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Speaker 2: you know, really, instead of financial, most people say it's spirituality,

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Speaker 2: but I say it's financial because if money ain't right,

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Speaker 1: I want to agree with you that because I'm telling

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Speaker 1: Holly Cotton, she is a weldness expert registered nurser. You

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Speaker 1: When you talk about survival, and in twenty fifteen, I

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Speaker 2: For sure? And I've told this story so many times

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Speaker 2: Oh? For sure? For sure, I feel that when I

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Speaker 2: We're gonna show them that we bosses. I'm a mom,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick up and go on a vacation. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna do whatever. I'm gonna eat me a cheesecake. I

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Speaker 2: just live my life every day that I don't need

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Speaker 2: a vacation from. And that's what I want to show people.

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Speaker 1: Awesome. Now you have some books. I want to definitely

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Speaker 1: get those out. You have a series of books that

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Speaker 2: Yes, I would love to. So I happen to on

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Speaker 2: your magic. And so I wanted to give back because

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Speaker 2: you know, just like you said Rashaan, you go through

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Speaker 2: you start doing these other things no matter where you are,

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Speaker 2: but you still gotta have a sense of purpose on

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Speaker 2: why you're doing it. Right, So for me, I was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: last year I was like, God, I just feel like

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Speaker 2: I lost my sense of purpose because all I'm doing

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of parents are in provider mode,

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Speaker 2: and we weren't giving kids that offer up with the Freeze,

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Speaker 2: Your Mind, Your Magic, and there's four books in it,

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Speaker 2: and basically it's the scenario on one side, and then

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Speaker 2: it's affirmations on the other side of what it's like

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Speaker 2: it's affirmations and it's teaching kids how to speak life

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Speaker 2: into themselves, how to build mental toughness. And also I

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Speaker 2: wanted to create a way to have dialogue opening between

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Speaker 2: kid can be reading it and they can say something

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Speaker 2: feeling that way? Do you have body dysmorphia? Are you

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Speaker 2: feeling like you're in a toxic relationship? Are you getting

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Speaker 2: pressured for sex or are you feeling this way? Are

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Speaker 2: you worried about having responsibilities now? Is it? How do

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Speaker 2: you feel about being independent? So it's four series. I

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Speaker 2: mean it's four books in the series, one for girls

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Speaker 2: and boys, one specifically for young men, so it's topics

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Speaker 2: that young men face, and then one for special needing

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Speaker 2: kids because the wording is a little different so that

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Speaker 2: they can retain the information. And then I'll also have

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Speaker 2: kids at Saint Jude or any type of sickness or whatever,

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Speaker 2: they can also have that to where it talks about

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Speaker 2: disabilities and you know, live in what chronic illnesses and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So there's four books, and also have them all written

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Speaker 2: in espaniol so to reach a broader audience as well,

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Speaker 2: so they actually come in Spanish too.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you have a lot to say, and I'm proud

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Speaker 1: you came on my show to say some of it,

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Speaker 1: because you ain't saying all. I'll just let you know that,

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Speaker 1: Holly Cotton. You know you are high Cotton. Okay, eh,

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Speaker 1: c for sure. But you know I always enjoy interviews

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Speaker 1: here that have a base of honesty tied to it,

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Speaker 1: and your story has a base of honesty. And then

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Speaker 1: you've taken that storyline, that sadness and converted it into

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Speaker 1: a purpose and that purpose is really important, and that's

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Speaker 1: all I wanted people to hear. The big takeaway from

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Speaker 1: this show is that you can get hitting the gut,

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Speaker 1: get hit upside the head with a baseball bat, get

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Speaker 1: pushed down in the mud, but just don't stay down.

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Speaker 1: Just don't let people whoever push you in the back.

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Speaker 1: You ain't got to retaliate. Just understand that you have

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Speaker 1: a force inside of you that can cause other people

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Speaker 1: to change if you for positivity and as what miss

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Speaker 1: Cotton's doing and how can we reach you of social media?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a website? Before we wrap up this call,

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Speaker 1: Miss Cotton, Yes, for.

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Speaker 2: Sure, for sure. And one last thing I wanted to

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Speaker 2: say ver Sean is that when you find that purpose,

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Speaker 2: when you live your life authentically, when you are where

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Speaker 2: you're supposed to be, everything that you do will align

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Speaker 2: with your purpose. The money is going to come you're

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Speaker 2: doing what you're supposed to do, But not only that,

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Speaker 2: but the people that you impact and inspire is priceless.

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Speaker 2: The rones that you get in the networking that comes

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Speaker 2: all of that. The money is great, but having those

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Speaker 2: things are priceless as well, So super easy. I'm Hollycotton

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Speaker 2: dot com Www h O L L Y C O

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Speaker 2: T T O N dot com, Instagram, Hollycotton underscore. Everything

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Speaker 2: is Hollycotton, Hollicotton, Holly Cotton. My new like I said,

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Speaker 2: my new initiative, Your Mind, Yourmagic dot com super easy.

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Speaker 2: You can get my books global distribution anywhere that sales books.

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Speaker 2: You can get Born to Nobles, Amazon obviously the cheaper,

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Speaker 2: or you can come to my website and get it.

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Speaker 2: I have ebook versions as well. I'm looking to network

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Speaker 2: with any type of not politicians, of camps for summertime,

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Speaker 2: of sports foundations, all of that stuff if you're looking.

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Speaker 2: You guys are worrying about getting these kids in football

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Speaker 2: camps and basketball camps and making them physically strong, but

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Speaker 2: we need to focus on them being mentally tough and

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Speaker 2: strong as well. So holler at me.

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Speaker 1: I know we'll holler at you again soon, probably in

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Speaker 1: the summertime. Again, thank you for coming to my show,

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Speaker 1: Holly Cotton. She's a winner, and again my next guest

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Speaker 1: is also winning. Thank you for coming to my show,

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Speaker 1: Holly Cotton. We strong now. Thank you and keep promoting,

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Speaker 1: keep promoting doing your thank you, I know you.

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