1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to money making Conversations. 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 2: It's to show that she is the secrets of success 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 2: experience firsthand by marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: will know he's giving me advice on many occasions. And 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: in case you didn't notice, I'm not broke. You know 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry decision make 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 2: because it's what he likes to do. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: It's what he likes to share. 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 2: Now it's time to hear from my man, Rashan McDonald 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: money making conversations. 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 3: Here we go, Welcome to money making conversation. He's announced 12 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 3: my name and I have to step up to it. 13 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 3: I am Rashan McDonald. Our theme is every Tuesday, every week. 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 3: Our theme is there's no perfect time to start following 15 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 3: your dreams. That's the thing. A lot of people don't 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 3: know when to start. A lot of people are afraid 17 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 3: to start. But if you start, at least you can 18 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 3: hear it in the direction that may makes some sense. 19 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 3: The problem I have with people that they just sit 20 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: there complaining, going to the same job, complaining, probably dating 21 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 3: the same person, complain, married to the same person, complaining. 22 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 3: If you start moving the complaints out the way, you 23 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 3: can probably start moving forward with some positivity in your life. 24 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 3: Stop creating your own level of negativity because I recognize 25 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 3: that we all have different definitions of success. For you, 26 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 3: it may be the size of your paycheck. Mine is 27 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 3: inspiring you to accomplish your goal, your goal and live 28 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 3: your very best life. It's time to stop reading other 29 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 3: people's success stories and start living your own. 30 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: Wow. 31 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: I hear that a lot people always talk about their 32 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 3: purpose or gifts. If you have a gift, lead with 33 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,839 Speaker 3: your gift and don't let your friend's family will cowork 34 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 3: and stop you from planning or living your dream. Today's 35 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 3: show really is about black girl magic. That's the person 36 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 3: I am about to interview is truly black girl magic. 37 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 3: My guess is a writer, director, and producer. Crystal Robison 38 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 3: Christal is a member of the Director's Guild of America 39 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: and has directed episodes of Green Leaf, All American Dire 40 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 3: or Future President, American Soul, Long Soul, O Slow Exhale, 41 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 3: Black Mafia Family BML, and The Gilded Age. She's also 42 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 3: Enjoyed and George, serving as a producing director on Queen's 43 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 3: which is on ABC, and Genius which is a great 44 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 3: series you can find on that geo. She's an enthusiastic 45 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 3: writer with projects and development and remains excited about storytellers 46 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 3: for generations to come. And she's African American. Please work 47 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 3: with the Money Making Conversations Master Class, Crystal Roberson. 48 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: How are you doing, Crystal? 49 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 4: I'm doing great, Rishawn, thanks for having me. 50 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 3: First of all, how do you have time to talk 51 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 3: to me? How do you have time to talk to 52 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 3: me on my little show, Money Making Conversations Maths Class. 53 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 4: Well, you know, first of all, it's not a little show. 54 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 5: Hear. 55 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 4: A lot of my friends are big fans of your show. 56 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 4: And right now, you know, in the film industry, we 57 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 4: do a show and then we have a break. So 58 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 4: I'm enjoying a break right now. I start prepping on 59 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 4: being math next week. But for now, I am relaxing 60 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 4: in Los angele lists enjoy my off time. 61 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: Well, thank you, will thank you for the compliment on 62 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: the show. 63 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 3: But let's let's talk about because I know, I jokingly said, 64 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 3: because being a director is not a forty hour week job. 65 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 3: It's not going to work at eight leaving it five. 66 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 3: It's not Oh can you stay a couple of hours. Oh, 67 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 3: we're gonna run a little over the five o'clock. You're 68 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 3: gonna be good with that, because that's why I know 69 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 3: that in season I could never interview you. When you're 70 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 3: an actual production, trying to interview you will be just 71 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 3: like a really like a waste of time because you 72 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 3: really can't dictate your schedule because anything. 73 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: Can pop up. 74 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 3: Can you get people like a capsule of what what 75 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 3: is the director's life like? 76 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, so a director's life is you know when your 77 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 4: in production, Like you said, we go we shoot at 78 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 4: ten to twelve hour days every day, and so we 79 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 4: do that to just maximize the amount of scenes that 80 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 4: we can shoot in a day, and the mo the 81 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 4: more that we get done in the day, the less 82 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 4: time the overall show takes to be completed, and the 83 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 4: less money as well. So the more days you spend 84 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 4: doing it, the more money you're gonna spend. So they 85 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 4: try to push as much into a day as possible. 86 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 4: So that's why people in the film industry work twelve 87 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 4: hour days. So as a director, I get there at 88 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 4: call time. We have everything is unionized in the industry, 89 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 4: so that's why it's so unpredictable because you have to 90 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 4: have twelve hour turnaround. So if we've wrapped at eight 91 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 4: pm at night, we can't come in until eight am 92 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 4: or nine am the next day, and so we never 93 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 4: know kind of what time we're gonna wrap, So we 94 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 4: never know what time we're gonna start, you know, and 95 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 4: so it becomes hard to tell, like when your lunch 96 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 4: break is gonna be and all of that. But the 97 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 4: so the life of a director is very you know, 98 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 4: it's time consuming with uh when you're filming, and you 99 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,239 Speaker 4: really have to try hard to do that work life 100 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 4: balance and maintain you know, relationships and everything with your 101 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 4: family and loved ones. But usually people are pretty understanding, 102 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 4: you know, people who love you, they understand. And then 103 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 4: you have great moments where like like I just wrapped 104 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 4: a Genius M l k X mid March and I've 105 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 4: had all of the rest of March. 106 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: And stuff right that it's not that I just wrap 107 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: email k X Martin Luther King Malcolm X. Now can 108 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 3: you give us a little because I saw the Aretha 109 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 3: series on Genius, which was amazing. What's amazing? I think 110 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 3: a Cynthia Riva was the was the play the Reva. 111 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 3: It was played Aretha in that series. Yes, and she 112 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 3: was amazing. And so what they do is they kind 113 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 3: of it's like maybe even where from four to six episode? 114 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: How many episodes was this was? This series? Was this 115 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: limited series for? 116 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 4: It was eight episodes? 117 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: Eight episodes and you directed all eight? 118 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 4: No, I directed about four or five. I've directed about 119 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 4: four out of the eighth. 120 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: Wow. 121 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 3: Okay, So talk walkers through that. First of all, what 122 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 3: is it the series about? Because you have two iconic 123 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: civil rights activists, both tragically were assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. 124 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 3: And Malcolm X two. 125 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: One was pieced. 126 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: One was someone would say or advocated violence in the 127 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 3: sense that, you know, you got to fight for what 128 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 3: you want in America. So talk about bringing you on 129 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 3: board for that project and what did you have to 130 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 3: do to prep for it? 131 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 4: So what got made that job? You know, I had 132 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 4: just general meetings with people. You know, you want to know, 133 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 4: you want people to know who you are when you're 134 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 4: an African American, you know director coming up in the industry. 135 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 4: You know, I like everybody to meet. So I went 136 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 4: out on meetings. I had a lot of general meetings 137 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 4: and one of the producers who I'm of genius, I 138 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,679 Speaker 4: met about two years prior to the Genius mlk X job, 139 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 4: Francie Calfo, So I met her in general, and she 140 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 4: really liked me, so she always sort of kept an 141 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 4: eye out for me for things. So when I saw 142 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 4: that Genius mlk X was coming up, I was like, wow, 143 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 4: I would love to direct on that show. And I 144 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 4: just reached out to her to see how she was doing. 145 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 4: You know, it's really about maintaining those relationships and knowing that, 146 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 4: like even though something might not come from it right now, 147 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 4: that you never know a year from now, two years 148 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 4: from now, it could pay off big. And that's what 149 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 4: happened with me. I had a general meeting, we hit 150 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 4: it off great, and then by you know, a while later, 151 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 4: mlk X was coming up, and I would have been 152 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 4: happy just to direct one episode of Genius m LKS, 153 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 4: but they saw me as a person who could be 154 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 4: a great producing director. So I was a producer as 155 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 4: well as a director on the on the series and 156 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 4: prepping for that really like tons of audio books. Wanted 157 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 4: to know not only Malcolm and Martin's story, but also 158 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 4: Karta and Betty's, you know, reading all the autobiographies. You know, 159 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 4: when you're a busy person. Auto audio books are the truth, 160 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 4: you know what. I'm so on the way in the work, 161 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,079 Speaker 4: on the way to the grocery store wherever I was going, 162 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 4: I was listening to Malcolm Story, Martin Story, Kartta's or Betty's, 163 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 4: and I could and I could infuse that into the 164 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 4: work because when you come, when you come to that 165 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 4: type of work with the truth of what was actually 166 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 4: what actually happened, everyone there, the actors and everyone there 167 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 4: is at ease because they say, oh, our director really 168 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,319 Speaker 4: knows this stuff. She knows what she's doing it. 169 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 3: But did it sadden you a little bit because of 170 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 3: the fact that you, you know, you learned some things 171 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 3: and then the value of their relationship was just snuffed 172 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 3: out so early in their lives and for just for 173 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 3: just for just for violent reasons when you were doing 174 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 3: your research, because I've done research on projects and I go, 175 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 3: wow it and it really touches me emotionally, and to 176 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 3: do too iconic men like this, Well, how did they 177 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 3: impact you personally? 178 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 4: Well, it was, Honestly, it was more inspiring for me 179 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 4: than I thought it would be, because, you know, even 180 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 4: though it's sad, they were both assassinated at age thirty nine. 181 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 4: But you know, it was very inspiring that these men 182 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 4: because I'm I'm thirty nine, you know, dare I say 183 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 4: my age on radio? But like it hit me because 184 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 4: I was like, wow, all the things that these men 185 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 4: dare to do by thirty nine years old. I mean, 186 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 4: they knew that they were putting their life on the line. 187 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 4: They knew that like they were on dangerous territory, they 188 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 4: knew the FBI was spying on them and out for them, 189 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 4: and they still saw the need to make sure that 190 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 4: they stood up for what they believed in. And that 191 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 4: was really inspiring. It was like, wow, you know, there 192 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 4: are people in this world who will risk it all 193 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 4: for their brother, you know that for their sister. And 194 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 4: it was just inspiring to me. And every day was 195 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 4: so fulfilling because even on our hard days are long days, 196 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 4: you knew that you were paying, you know, tribute to 197 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 4: this legacy of these men and women, and it was 198 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 4: just it was really inspiring. It made you look at 199 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 4: yourself kind of in the mirror like okay, what am 200 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 4: I doing, you know with my thirty nine years. 201 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: You know it's really when I look at you, I'm 202 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 3: speaking to HIMSS Crystal Robinson Robertson, excuse me, she's. 203 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: A member of the DJA. 204 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 3: The reason I say that because they have rules. When 205 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 3: you're in DJA, you're going to work so many hours. 206 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 3: Like I'll remember when I got my first writer's job, 207 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 3: when he said, why are people going on strike? Because 208 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 3: they got to fix rules that people will abuse you. 209 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 3: I remember I was writing on Me and the Boys 210 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 3: on ABC. It was I think it was ninety three, 211 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 3: and I was my executive producer kept me in the 212 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 3: writer's room and everybody else till sun up. I mean, 213 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 3: we came to work when it was light, it got dark, 214 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 3: and we were still in the writer's room when it 215 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 3: got light again. And that is why you have to strike. 216 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 3: That's why you have to have rules. That's why you 217 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 3: have to have these deals because people will abuse you. Yes, 218 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 3: you are well paid, but you don't have to be 219 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 3: abused because that's what you're fried mentally. And so that's 220 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 3: why she said, Look, when you stop working, you have 221 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 3: to come back at a certain hour. Otherwise their people 222 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 3: out there will work you sixteen eighteen hours. 223 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, they will keep working. If there are no 224 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 4: rules to keep you from working all day, they will 225 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 4: work you day and night into the next day. Like 226 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 4: you said, you see the sun twice, you know, see 227 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 4: the sun rise twice. 228 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: And that's not fair. That's not fair. 229 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 3: And I just want to say when I you know, 230 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 3: it's really interesting because when I do research on everybody, 231 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 3: when I come on the show, and then you know, 232 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 3: they send these little blurbs about you, and they send 233 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 3: a bio or and you start googling your name. You going, Okay, 234 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 3: her name keeps popping up over here, popping up over here, 235 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 3: and when and I just won't put everybody in perspective 236 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 3: with your talent, your actual talent. 237 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: You know, she directed Greenleaf. 238 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 3: That's gospel church, okay, in all American you know, that's 239 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 3: sports football. Okay, we'll go, and then we go American Soul. 240 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 3: That's soul trained that music right there, Okay, Okay, she's done. 241 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: And then b M F. 242 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 3: Black Matfield that's drugs. That's violence. That's scary people, scary people. 243 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: Okay? 244 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 3: And this did he slide right over there to Diary 245 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 3: of a Future President Disney? Plus, how do you keep 246 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 3: all these hats on your head? 247 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 4: Well, you know, like at the end of this no, 248 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 4: I don't know. 249 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: Miss Robertson, No, I don't know. 250 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 4: Don't you put them? 251 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: Don't you do that where you know Rashon. 252 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 4: Well, Rashan, They're all stories, right, And so I love 253 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 4: great stories. And at the end of the day, I 254 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 4: just tell myself, I know how to tell this story. 255 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 4: You know, you you just you read the story. You're like, 256 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 4: I understand this and you and I find the part 257 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 4: of it that speaks to me, or the part of 258 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 4: it that I've experienced before, or you know, the part 259 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 4: that's closest to my heart, and I'm like, you know what, 260 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 4: I know how to tell this story. I know I 261 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 4: know exactly what to do. And at the end of 262 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 4: the day, that's really all you're doing. You're telling a story, 263 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 4: and you're making sure that the audience is going to 264 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 4: enjoy it the way that you enjoyed it. And so 265 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 4: I'm sitting in for y'all. I'm always sitting in for 266 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 4: the audience. When I'm directing back to who I'm thinking about. 267 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 4: I'm thinking about the people at home, you know, watching 268 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 4: and how they're gonna feel. So if I can always 269 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 4: just put myself in that place and understand what the 270 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 4: story is, I can tell any story I'm not intimidated 271 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 4: by any time period or however big explosions or any 272 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 4: car chases or whatever, because at the end of the day, 273 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 4: you're telling a story and you're doing it one shot out. 274 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 3: The guilded age, the guilded age time Carrio. 275 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: You know you you. 276 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 3: I love talking to individuals like you because you know 277 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 3: you're hard workers, and so sometimes you forget how talented 278 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 3: you are. And and and that's what because there are 279 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 3: certain people like you know, Michael Bay he just blows 280 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 3: stuff up. That's just he's super rich, blowing stuff up. Okay, 281 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 3: same thing with James Cameron, shot high tech, blowing stuff up. 282 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 3: You know, every time you do a movie goes over 283 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 3: a billion dollars in box office. But that's what he does. 284 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 3: That's a specialty he does. I'm telling everybody, look at 285 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 3: what I'm saying here, Look at the range. And when 286 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 3: we come back, she hasn't even another project that has dropped. 287 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 3: Look at we're gonna announce it on my show when. 288 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 4: We come back. 289 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: She is another show. 290 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 3: And the person that she's doing business with has money 291 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 3: in his name. 292 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: Money in the night. 293 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 3: Right back with more make it conversation about the class 294 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 3: with the humble, humble but great. 295 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: Christ Robuston, Please. 296 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 5: Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more Money 297 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 5: Making Conversations Masterclass. 298 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 6: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute 299 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 6: of Inspiration with Rashawn McDonald. 300 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 3: Kirk Franklin is a sixteen time Grammy winning artist, songwriter, producer, 301 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 3: concert promoter, and recently he was inducted into the Hall 302 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 3: of Fame by Stevie Wanner's powerhouse radio station KJLH one 303 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 3: on two point three FM. Kirk has never been one 304 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 3: to stand still. We talked about his new podcast and 305 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 3: why it is important to diversify. 306 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 7: I'm honored at whatever capacity to be able to do 307 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 7: life with people, to be able to be part of 308 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 7: people's journey for God to loan me words and music 309 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 7: or whatever that I can borrow from Him, to just 310 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 7: be a catalyst. That's something that I take a great 311 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 7: level of humility and responsibility in And it was never 312 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 7: my intent to try to do something that would be 313 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 7: left of center. 314 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 8: That was that was never. 315 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 3: If you want to hear this full interview with Kur Franklin, 316 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 3: visit Money Making Conversation dot com. 317 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: Keep going in. 318 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by 319 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 5: Rishan McDonald. 320 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 3: Bring individuals who are just super talented, who rarely do 321 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 3: interviews like this because they's just so busy, they're always working. 322 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 3: And she's one of them, Miss Robinson is one of them, 323 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 3: one of the brilliant directors. And I feel so fortunate 324 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 3: to have her on Money Making Conversations Masterclass because she's 325 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 3: she's in between big projects and if you have an 326 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 3: opportunity you want to talk, you have these aspirations to act, 327 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 3: because when you direct, you deal with actors, When you 328 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 3: deal with producers, you. 329 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: Deal with writers. 330 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 3: Plus, she's a writer, and she has always been a 331 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 3: dream of hers to do these things, and she's now 332 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 3: living her dream. As we return back to this conversation 333 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 3: with you, Miss Robinson, what is the new project that 334 00:17:54,359 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 3: you have that just dropped and it evolved man taking 335 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 3: over everything, not dollar, not five dollars. 336 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 4: Yes, I'm so excited. It's a new animation series called 337 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:17,959 Speaker 4: Lady Danger, and Lady Danger is an animation and uh, 338 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 4: the lead is going to be Nicki minage. I'm really 339 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 4: excited because we you know, we all know Nicky's voice. 340 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 4: She can do all sorts of crazy things with her voice, 341 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 4: and she has a very animated way of expressing herself, 342 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 4: so I think that the animation is just going to 343 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 4: be perfect for her as the lead. And you know, 344 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 4: fifty Cent has a really like his his eye, his 345 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 4: finger is on the pulse, you know, and his eye 346 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 4: is on the streets and in the culture, and he 347 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 4: knows exactly what people want. He knows what audiences want, 348 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 4: and he's had a lot of I think that's why 349 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 4: he's had so much success with his show. So really 350 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 4: excited to be working with fifty and g Unit on it. 351 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 4: And I'm excited to explore the future. You know, we're 352 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 4: exploring year twenty seventy five and so we get to 353 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 4: sort of go into the future and we're being really 354 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 4: you know, everything coming out now with artificial intelligence and everything. 355 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 4: I think everyone's eye is on the future and what 356 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 4: it's going to look like, especially for black people. So 357 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 4: I'm super excited about this new project. I'm one of 358 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 4: the creators of the show, one of the executive producers, 359 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 4: so I'll be writing the show as well as producing 360 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 4: the show. So I'm excited about that. 361 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: Super excited. This is mss Roperson again. You know, animation animation. 362 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 3: Didn't blink. Didn't blink? Now, what preps you? This is 363 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 3: all This is a question that I always ask people. 364 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 3: What preps you to be able to do a show? 365 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 3: An animated show? What is the difference between an animated 366 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: show and a live action? 367 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's interesting, there's there's there's not a 368 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,479 Speaker 4: lot of different in terms of writing. There's not a 369 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 4: huge difference in it, except you got to know, like 370 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 4: when people are watching animation, it's it's a bit of 371 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 4: a heightened experience when you're dealing with an animation about 372 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 4: a superhuman And so we just want to make sure 373 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 4: the writing is really punchy and and really interesting, Like 374 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 4: every every other line needs to be really kind of 375 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 4: like ear catching or eye catching in some sort of way. 376 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 4: So we want to make sure it's always fun and upbeat. 377 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 4: But besides that, you know, like I said before, you know, 378 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 4: a story is a story, and as long as you 379 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 4: know how to tell that story and you can feel 380 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 4: those different characters, then you know you're good. You can, 381 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 4: you can, it'll translate to animation, it'll translate to live action, 382 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 4: right or whatever you want it to be. 383 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, we know because I have pitched animated projects, and 384 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 3: it's almost like you have to do extreme writing. You know, 385 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 3: you can't talk just you know, because I guess what, 386 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 3: somebody who's walking next year. In animation, you become a tomato, 387 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 3: and can become a chicken, can become a human, and 388 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 3: you have to understand you have that creative freedom to 389 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 3: make that happen in animation, whereas when you have a 390 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 3: person who's structured like I am, coming from a world sitcom. 391 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: It was a major leap for me to understand. 392 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 3: It's fine, you can do that and guess what because 393 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 3: you're dealing with animation, and because animation extremes allow you 394 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,479 Speaker 3: to tell a story sometimes a lot better than live action, correct, 395 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 3: I believe. 396 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 4: So I've always it's been a lifelong dream of mine 397 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 4: to work in animation. So this project has been like 398 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 4: a dream come true for sure. And a lot of 399 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 4: times pitching animation, the studios want to know, like, well, 400 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 4: why is it animation? So a lot of times, like 401 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 4: like you said, like somebody turning in to a tomato 402 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,439 Speaker 4: or having like an animal side kid that talks, or 403 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 4: doing things that you would not be able to really 404 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 4: do in live action. They want to know like why 405 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 4: is this animation, Why can't this be just a regular show. 406 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,719 Speaker 4: So all those elements are important when you're writing it 407 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 4: to know like, this is why this has to be animation, 408 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 4: because you know we have the pillows talk to you, 409 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,239 Speaker 4: seeing you to sleep, or you know, whatever whatever you 410 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 4: want to put in there. 411 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 3: Right, You know, it was really interesting because when you 412 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 3: start talking, the only thing the project that really comes 413 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 3: across is live action that kind of feels like animation. 414 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: Is the you know, Guardians of the Galaxy. 415 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 3: You know, they have the treat you know, the little 416 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 3: raccoon that talks the treaty. 417 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: With walks around and participates physically. 418 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 3: It's almost like an animated project, but they're treating it 419 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 3: like it's live because it's live action. And but really 420 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 3: that's not reality. And when I look over the years, 421 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 3: you know, when Star Wars started going to these different 422 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 3: planets in the different world and bringing in these odd 423 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 3: looking characters, that wasn't the sense was animation because they 424 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 3: was stepping into a culture that wasn't real. But guess what, 425 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 3: it is the world that I'm creating so I can 426 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 3: get away with it. And that's what animation allows us 427 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 3: to do. And so when you look at these different 428 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 3: projects when they and you absolutely correct. That was one 429 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 3: of the major questions they asked me, and I guess 430 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 3: that's why I don't have an animated project on TV. 431 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 3: They said, Rashaan, why is it necessary to do this 432 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 3: project and animation? 433 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: I went because I like it. I think it'll work. 434 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 1: And they said, we'll get back with you. Willgi back 435 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 1: with you, because. 436 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 3: You really have to say, this project of this storytelling 437 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 3: can only be achieved by doing it this way, and 438 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 3: that's what you're achieved. 439 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:46,239 Speaker 6: Now. 440 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: How did you get Nicki Minauche involved in. 441 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 4: This, Well, that was all fifty cent. You know, he 442 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 4: has that relationship, that friendship with Nikki, and he thought, 443 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 4: you know, he came to the table thinking like we 444 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 4: had to pitch pitch it to him, and then when 445 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 4: he got on board with it, he was like, you know, 446 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 4: I think Nicki Minaj would be perfect for the lead 447 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 4: for Lady Danger. And then we had a meeting with 448 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 4: Nicki and we had to pitch it to her as 449 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 4: well as she had thought, and then she she was interested, thankfully, 450 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 4: and so and she's also you know, she's interested in 451 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,719 Speaker 4: the fact that, like, you know, the studio time in 452 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 4: order for her to do to do the Lady Danger voicing. 453 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 4: You know, she can do that from home, from a 454 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 4: home studio, and with her being a mother and having 455 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 4: her own label and doing all the amazing boss things 456 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 4: she's doing. And I think it's also appealing to her 457 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 4: because it's something that she can do, you know, from 458 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 4: the studio in her home and she doesn't have to 459 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 4: you know, go through hair and make upbe and traveling. 460 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 3: You know, they will be there with that camera because 461 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 3: you got to get the b road side of it, 462 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 3: of them actually doing it, so you can't get too 463 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 3: too regular. 464 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. But for the most part, you know, 465 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 4: she's able to like be there with her son and 466 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 4: all of that. So I think that was also. 467 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely absolutely. You know, let's let just talk about 468 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,399 Speaker 3: fifty Cents. You know this, I got to use the 469 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 3: word brilliant. You know, I've been knowing him, I've been 470 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 3: knowing of of knowing, and met fifty Cents way back 471 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 3: and when I was doing the Beat in LA with 472 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 3: Steve Harvey and that's when I first met fifty Cents. Uh, 473 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 3: you know, the birthday and all that something, all those 474 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 3: all those those hits he had back then when Power 475 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 3: came out. 476 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: That's Power is. 477 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 3: A series that launched his production and television brand. And 478 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 3: I remember when that show was announced, it was said 479 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 3: it was a it was a show about a drug 480 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 3: dealer who ran a nightclub, and it's being produced by 481 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 3: fifty cents. And I immediately turned to my friends, go, 482 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 3: that'll never make it because I just didn't see it. 483 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,719 Speaker 3: I just didn't see it. I didn't I didn't think 484 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 3: the American culture was ready for that. I didn't think 485 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 3: that America would would would would buy into that. 486 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: Boy was I wrong? 487 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 3: And boy did I not miss an episode. I watched 488 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 3: every episode because what I what he showed me was 489 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 3: if you look at every one of his series, it's 490 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 3: just like the Fast and Furious series, it's about family. 491 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 3: All his series are successful because it's about family. It's 492 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 3: just family, and it's just a different way of parenting 493 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 3: because all if you look at the core Power, it 494 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 3: was about a mother, a husband and wife trying to 495 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 3: raise their kids as safely as possible, and a drug 496 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 3: community that they built. 497 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 4: Mm hmm, that's true. That's true. Yeah, yeah, And I 498 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 4: mean I think that like that's what makes make shit 499 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 4: so relatable. And I think that's why audiences love it 500 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 4: because you know, it's an escape first of all, and 501 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 4: it's really grounded, and then you can relate to it 502 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 4: because it's still, at the end of the day, a 503 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 4: story about family. 504 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: It really is. 505 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 3: Andin' I'm gonna tell you something, I have to take 506 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 3: my head off to you because you're helping these stories 507 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 3: being told. Because as a person who's been in this 508 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 3: industry a long time and watching black portrayal, black creative, 509 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 3: black content, and you know, we had no dramas. I mean, 510 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 3: we couldn't keep a drama on the air back in 511 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 3: the day. You know it, come on, I mean Tim 512 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 3: Reid his drama came on and they counsel it. Oh 513 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 3: my god, can we keep a counsel And they kept 514 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 3: saying black people are television in the world or the 515 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 3: television community audience will not see it and watch black drama. 516 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 3: And so to see what is happening now and watching 517 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 3: him lead the way and watching so many more talented people, 518 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 3: it's merely amazing to me because of the fact that 519 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 3: you at the center of that and a clear understanding 520 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 3: that your talents are mushrooming this new content era for 521 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 3: black black producers and writers and directors. How do you 522 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 3: feel about that? 523 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 5: Man? 524 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 4: That makes me feel amazing? You know, I mean, I'm 525 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 4: a I'm a little girl from making Georgia. You know, 526 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 4: I started out, I didn't know anybody in this industry, 527 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 4: coming up like from where I was from, and it 528 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 4: just it just makes me feel amazing that now you know, 529 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 4: I'm one of those people who can inspire somebody else, 530 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 4: you know, and that that means the world of me. 531 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 4: It really does mean everything. And and it's always really 532 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 4: heartwarming when a younger, you know, black woman comes up 533 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 4: to me and says, you know, I see you, and 534 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 4: I see myself in you, and I can as you're directing, 535 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 4: I can see myself directing. And that's what it's about 536 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 4: to me, the fact that you know, you can look 537 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 4: at me and see yourself and you know, and and 538 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 4: that that's what that's what makes the difference. Like when 539 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 4: you can see yourself doing something that you couldn't see 540 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 4: yourself doing before. That's a breakthrough just in just in that, 541 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 4: you know, just in that realization that's sometimes that's life changing. 542 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, you know, you know, I want to if 543 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 3: I want to ask you one more question now, if 544 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 3: you if you can stick around for one more break, 545 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 3: because I want to talk about the rise of the 546 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 3: female Black female directors and you're part of that because 547 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,479 Speaker 3: you know it's it's really brilliant what we're seeing out there, 548 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 3: and it really exploded during the COVID, really exploded the opportunities. 549 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: And I want you to mention some of. 550 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 3: The name if you don't mind, and how how this 551 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 3: whole chemistry is starting to just not long do you 552 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 3: take over this, but dominate the industry and from producing 553 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: and EP and and all that stuff, and it's it's great, 554 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 3: and just stick around. We've got one more break. I 555 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 3: held her. She already told me she don't have a 556 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 3: job right now, so I can keep her. She told 557 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 3: me she hasn't run in those sets. See our jobs 558 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 3: coming now, but right now Rashaw McDonald, guy, Miss christ 559 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 3: Ropers from Lockdown, don't got where. We're back for more 560 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 3: money making conversation Mastering Class. One more big question, and 561 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 3: she's going to respond, don't go nowhere. 562 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 5: Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more 563 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 5: money making conversations. 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You can click my HBCU Story to 581 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 9: share your story. 582 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by 583 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 5: Rashaan McDonald. 584 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 3: I've kept her one more break, MS Rowerson. You know, 585 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 3: let's let's let's rehash some of her greatness, you know, 586 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 3: because she's wants to sit around and be humble. Directed 587 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 3: episodes of green Leaf. I'm just mentioning some of the 588 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 3: things that, you know, if I could still be talking Greenleaf, 589 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 3: which is on Own Network, All America, which is on CW, 590 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 3: dire Future, President, Disney Plus American Soul, bet Long Slow, 591 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 3: EXL Paramount, Black Mafia Family which is BMF Star, The 592 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 3: Gilded Age, HBO, you know, Genius, which is now GEO, 593 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: and now she's doing animation. Yeah, and she sits on 594 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 3: this call y'all. Well, you know, Rashine, it's about relationships. 595 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 3: You know, I call here, call there and people remember me, 596 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 3: and uh, you know, it's really about that relationship. For 597 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 3: sh It's really really what it amounts to my situation, 598 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 3: my situation, you know, but people know I like, let 599 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 3: me just tell you something. When you're talking to somebody 600 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 3: humble like this Roberson, she said, you know, I really 601 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 3: went over to do Genius. 602 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: I just really wanted to do one episode. Then he 603 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: told me. 604 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 3: Four, and then he told me four because I was 605 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 3: a producing director. 606 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I remember everything. 607 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: People say to me. 608 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 3: They said, ra Sean, you remember everything because I like 609 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 3: to remind people in the world we live in. I've 610 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 3: been in Hollywood as a writer since ninety two. The 611 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 3: Roberson's of the world did not exist, not like they're 612 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 3: but existing, and now they existing now today as producers, 613 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 3: as contributors, as independent thought bringers that are not pigeonhole 614 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 3: and duct tape to say this is what you're supposed 615 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 3: to do. Her resume of work is tremendous. But she's 616 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 3: not alone. Talk to us about why is there a 617 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 3: tremendous rise in African American female directors and what impact 618 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 3: are you guys making on the industry. 619 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean, listen, I'm so fortunate to be 620 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 4: able to come up in this like new renaissance of 621 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 4: black women directors. And one person that I gotta gotta 622 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 4: give a lot of credit to is Ava DuVernay. 623 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: Like Ava Amen, Oh. 624 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 4: My goodness, Ava single handedly made a big, big difference 625 00:33:54,840 --> 00:34:00,239 Speaker 4: in uh for for female black women directors. She just 626 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 4: women directors in general. When she started doing Queen Sugar 627 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 4: on own and she only hired women directors for the show. 628 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,439 Speaker 4: That made a big difference because suddenly, because that got 629 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 4: the attention of a lot of other shows that got 630 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 4: the attention of studios and networks, and suddenly people you know, 631 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 4: were looking out for women directors. And then things started 632 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 4: to change in Hollywood where you know, people started to notice, well, 633 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 4: out of the last one hundred directors that you've hired, 634 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,479 Speaker 4: only two of them have been black women, and why 635 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 4: is that? And then people began to be to question 636 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,400 Speaker 4: it and bring it out into the air and expose it. 637 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,760 Speaker 4: And so I think that you know, that happening allowed 638 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 4: people like me and a lot of my sisters now directing. 639 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 4: It allowed us all to be seen finally and to 640 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 4: come through through and then they gave us a shot 641 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 4: and it was like, oh, these women know what they're doing. 642 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 4: They're doing great. And so I think people like Ava, 643 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 4: people like Easter Ray, you know, those really amazing powerful 644 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,360 Speaker 4: black women who went to the forefront and really showed 645 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 4: people like, Hey, we know what we're doing and we 646 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 4: do a great job, and we're also going to reach 647 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 4: back and bring our other sisters up here to do 648 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 4: it too. That was a really major turning point in 649 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 4: the industry. I think that happened about about six years ago. 650 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:44,320 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it was I know that because of the fact 651 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 3: that you know, at one point blacks only participating. 652 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,840 Speaker 1: Really, I'm just being honest when I talk. 653 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 3: On these shows because you're in the industry reality shows, 654 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,800 Speaker 3: Oh we were were We were killing it in reality shows, 655 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 3: fighting and throwing glasses and jumping over the table and diving. 656 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 3: That's where they was betraying Black women on TV. Y'all 657 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 3: were killing it in reality Okay, there was no there 658 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 3: was no culture tied to black women. It's all about screaming, fussing, 659 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 3: fighting over man and throwing glasses and climbing over the 660 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 3: tables and beating each other up. That was the portrayal 661 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 3: of black women in the media, especially on television, in 662 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 3: the reality world. And then behind the camera, you guys 663 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 3: started changing the narrative and it took a powerful courageous 664 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you the word courageous because I'm gona 665 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 3: tell you something. What Ava Dubne did. It was a 666 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,839 Speaker 3: lot of people questioning her, and I mean, I've been there. 667 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,400 Speaker 3: I have been there. When you start making decisions and 668 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 3: you know people are questioning it and you it'll creep 669 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 3: into your life. You have to got have strong faith, 670 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 3: You got to have strong relationships, and you have to 671 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,840 Speaker 3: be more importantly confident that you're making the right decision 672 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 3: and you've chosen the right person to lead you out 673 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 3: of that darkness into the light. Because that's all she 674 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 3: was doing. And I you know, and it show the 675 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 3: level of work that she does. But she she knows, 676 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,240 Speaker 3: she you know, it's like it's like, you know, Michael 677 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,239 Speaker 3: Jordan know he gives you know, he got six championships 678 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,120 Speaker 3: to do that, but you know, he also knew he 679 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 3: had to pass the ball off to Pippin. You know, 680 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 3: Steve Kerr, you know he had to pass the ball 681 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 3: cart right, he had passed the ball off to people 682 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,879 Speaker 3: and otherwise you can't win. So what Ava du Vine 683 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 3: is doing in this industry or have done in this industry, 684 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,759 Speaker 3: she's passed the ball off. And yes, y'all made the. 685 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 4: Shots, Yes exactly. That's what you gotta do. You gotta 686 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 4: make it. You know, you gotta make the shot. If 687 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 4: they pass your ball, you gotta make the shot. That's 688 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 4: your one shot. 689 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 3: Well, you know, you know, you know the great thing 690 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 3: about my show is that that I love and I'm 691 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 3: to appreciate it. I'm allowed to do it every week 692 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 3: and bring people like you on my show because the 693 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,080 Speaker 3: word master class is attached to it. And when I 694 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 3: say master class, you are you epitomizes that term because 695 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 3: of the fact that you know, corn, you're somebody, you 696 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,880 Speaker 3: were born in Germany, you know, raised in making. Because 697 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,120 Speaker 3: if anybody can't hear that Southern accent, because she she's 698 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,400 Speaker 3: not losing that that that country girl. 699 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:09,839 Speaker 4: Is tied up. 700 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 1: It's tied up all up in you. 701 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,439 Speaker 3: And and and then but the enthusiasm of the fact 702 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 3: that I just you know, I said one more question, 703 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,240 Speaker 3: but I got to ask you this next question. 704 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:22,640 Speaker 1: There are always. 705 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 3: Doubters in individual paths to success. How did you move 706 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,799 Speaker 3: past those people? You know, when they used the word 707 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,319 Speaker 3: luck or they use the word right place at the 708 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,239 Speaker 3: right time, or girl, don't get too excited about that. 709 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: How did you get past that? 710 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 4: My father told me once, he said, he said, people 711 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,839 Speaker 4: are gonna doubt you, and he said, you're gonna doubt yourself, 712 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 4: but as long as you don't listen to it and 713 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,799 Speaker 4: move on, you'll be fine. And in those moments, I 714 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 4: remember what my father said, and I had doubts myself 715 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 4: and other people had doubts. I had somebody tell me 716 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,319 Speaker 4: in college, you know, you need to be realistic. When 717 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,759 Speaker 4: I said, I want to be a film you need 718 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 4: to be realistic, and I was like, I am being realistic, 719 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,879 Speaker 4: you know, And but you just can't listen to it. 720 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 4: You have to you have to know that the doubt 721 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 4: is gonna happen, because you don't need to be thrown 722 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,440 Speaker 4: off by it. Okay, it's gonna happen. You're signing up 723 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 4: to do one of the hardest things in the world, 724 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,120 Speaker 4: like you're as a as a as a black woman director. 725 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 4: I know I signed up to do something that one 726 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 4: percent of the whole world could could only do. So 727 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,359 Speaker 4: I know that it's gonna be hard. I know people 728 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 4: are gonna doubt. I know that's gonna happen, and I 729 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,319 Speaker 4: just say, Okay, that happens. It's like feeling to burn 730 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 4: when you're working out. Some it starts to burn. But 731 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 4: you know that's gonna happen. You want it, you know, 732 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 4: it's like that's a part of the whole process. But 733 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,200 Speaker 4: you gotta you gotta do it anyway. You just got 734 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,239 Speaker 4: to do it anyway. And you know you got to 735 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,839 Speaker 4: sign up. You signed up for something hard to do, 736 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,759 Speaker 4: and you just got to make it happen. Wow, you know, 737 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,400 Speaker 4: And that's what that's what makes it. It's not easy. 738 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 4: You know, if it were easy, everybody would be doing 739 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:18,719 Speaker 4: it right. 740 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,760 Speaker 3: If you listen to that person said be realistic. Be realistic. Yeah, 741 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,879 Speaker 3: get married, get a job, and just stand in line. 742 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,280 Speaker 3: That's where you're supposed to be, just standing in line. 743 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 3: Let your dreams just become nightmares, because that's what will 744 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,480 Speaker 3: become if you don't live your dreams. 745 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,319 Speaker 1: But I wanted to thank you for coming on my show. 746 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:35,480 Speaker 10: You. 747 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 1: I know it's been a lot. 748 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,160 Speaker 3: It's been a journey to get you on this show, 749 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 3: and it's been a blessing to hear your conversation. 750 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,320 Speaker 1: How can we get in touch with you via social 751 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,400 Speaker 1: Do you have a website? 752 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 4: Can you tell them an audience, Yes, I am cc 753 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:52,880 Speaker 4: Roberson that stands for Crystal Clear Roberson and on Instagram, 754 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 4: i am c. C. Roberson Creates and then my website 755 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 4: is cc Roberson. And be looking out because I'm about 756 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,680 Speaker 4: to start c see our story House, which is going 757 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,279 Speaker 4: to be a really great resource for up and coming filmmakers. 758 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,200 Speaker 4: I'm going to start giving grants for short films and 759 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,240 Speaker 4: a lot of really great creative advice. So just stick 760 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,239 Speaker 4: with me and stay tuned in and you'll start seeing. 761 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,760 Speaker 3: That when you start. Now that's a program you're about 762 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,839 Speaker 3: to start or has it started? I'm about Okay, cool, 763 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,319 Speaker 3: come back on the show so we can let my 764 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,000 Speaker 3: people know. Okay, come on, Georgie girl, come on back 765 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,040 Speaker 3: down here and talk to us. Okay, right, come on, 766 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,319 Speaker 3: talk to us again. Thank you for taking the time 767 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,880 Speaker 3: to come on my show. An extended interview with the 768 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,920 Speaker 3: running on it, Miss Crystal Robinson. 769 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:44,480 Speaker 4: Thank you, Rashan. 770 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,200 Speaker 3: You're amazing, and continue to be blessed and continue to 771 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,879 Speaker 3: work hard and continue to uplift the community because every 772 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,760 Speaker 3: time I'm telling some people need to understand how gifted 773 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,319 Speaker 3: you are. And I'm marveled because I know the hard 774 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,680 Speaker 3: work that it comes with a resume that you built 775 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,759 Speaker 3: so far and you continue to build. And you can 776 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,440 Speaker 3: throw out the word thirty nine because I'm telling you 777 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,640 Speaker 3: something that's a forty nine, fifty nine year old resume 778 00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:06,719 Speaker 3: you're talking about right now. 779 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:09,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd be safe out there. 780 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 7: Okay. 781 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:14,600 Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Thank you. Wow, you know it was 782 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:16,680 Speaker 1: I'm opening up the phone lines. 783 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,840 Speaker 3: I know that interview went longer than normal, but I 784 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 3: want to talk to you guys, if you want to 785 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:21,880 Speaker 3: talk to me. 786 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:22,919 Speaker 1: You can ask me any question. 787 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,279 Speaker 3: But more important, I want to share a couple of 788 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,520 Speaker 3: thoughts before we go to break about you know what 789 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,600 Speaker 3: she was talking about how people would throw that doubt 790 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,879 Speaker 3: in you. Well, people will question your dreams with people 791 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,319 Speaker 3: because that's a dream that they can't understand because that's 792 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:42,319 Speaker 3: not their dream. My life is always been a life 793 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,640 Speaker 3: where people have said what I should be doing and 794 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:46,759 Speaker 3: what I could. 795 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:47,279 Speaker 1: Not be doing. 796 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 3: And and I'm not saying that I went out there 797 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,759 Speaker 3: to prove the wrong. I just lived my life. And 798 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,320 Speaker 3: when I think about the different things and the different 799 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 3: famous people that I've been associated with all my life, 800 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:04,280 Speaker 3: within my life even today, it's because they saw something 801 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,520 Speaker 3: in me that I didn't see it myself, and they 802 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:12,520 Speaker 3: saw a skill set. I was interviewing Brian Brian Custer. 803 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,319 Speaker 3: He's an ESPN analyst and he does a college play 804 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,200 Speaker 3: by play and uh and he was he did the 805 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,960 Speaker 3: fight this weekend where Garcia guy hitting the ribs of 806 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,800 Speaker 3: the liver and he just sat down in the corner 807 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:26,960 Speaker 3: and he was and he said, man, you're a legend. 808 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,120 Speaker 1: You're a legend. I said, what do you mean? He said, 809 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:30,359 Speaker 1: you are a legend. 810 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,800 Speaker 3: He said, people sleeping on you, brother, And I said, wow, 811 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 3: I said, thank you. That's all That's my wife has 812 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,520 Speaker 3: told me, well, lushun, when people compliment you, please say 813 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,160 Speaker 3: thank you, because sometimes I just get taken back because 814 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 3: I'm not expecting a compliment. All I'm doing is expecting 815 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,279 Speaker 3: myself to understand that I'm just grinding. And sometimes you 816 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,919 Speaker 3: grind you you just walk walk, just run right past 817 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,239 Speaker 3: the accomplishment, Just run right past the what you have 818 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,000 Speaker 3: achieved in you don't recognize what you have achieved is 819 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:06,240 Speaker 3: very unique and very special. Because I was this past weekend, 820 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,279 Speaker 3: I was honored at the Black Media Honors. It was 821 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,440 Speaker 3: this event and I didn't know, you know, I walked 822 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,320 Speaker 3: in there. You know, they walked in there. Mister McDonald 823 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,839 Speaker 3: coming this way is the Black Media Honors, and uh 824 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,319 Speaker 3: put me on the red carpete taking pictures. People want 825 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,640 Speaker 3: to do selfies with me. I'm like being tossed around 826 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 3: like a little pinata dog, a little dog. And you know, 827 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,600 Speaker 3: and I wasn't the only person being honored. April Love 828 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,360 Speaker 3: was being honored, Steven A. Smith was being honored, Matthew 829 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,000 Speaker 3: Knows was being honored. My boss Samuels from Revolt TV, 830 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:42,000 Speaker 3: Alfred Edwinds Junior from Black Enterprise was being honored and 831 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:46,719 Speaker 3: Rushaun McDonald was being honored and for some reason, I 832 00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,480 Speaker 3: didn't understand why they honored me. But we have one 833 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 3: more phone call coming back. When we come back, Rodrigus, 834 00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,720 Speaker 3: don't go anywhere. This is your show now. You called 835 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,879 Speaker 3: talk to me, asked me the question. I will responding back. 836 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,760 Speaker 3: More money Making Conversation Masterclass and tell you. 837 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: Can win, man, You can win. 838 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:08,120 Speaker 3: Just believe in yourself and stick around people who believe 839 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,040 Speaker 3: in your dreams. 840 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,040 Speaker 1: Be right back. 841 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,560 Speaker 5: Please, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more 842 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,880 Speaker 5: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. 843 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,440 Speaker 6: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute 844 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 6: of Inspiration with Rashawn McDonald. 845 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,120 Speaker 3: Michelle Williams is a Grammy Award winning recording artists and actress. 846 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,560 Speaker 3: She rose to stardom as a member of the Omega 847 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,480 Speaker 3: group Destiny's Child. In her new book Checking In How 848 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,040 Speaker 3: Getting Real about Depression save my life and can save yours, 849 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,359 Speaker 3: this book will help you see the science to overcome depression, to. 850 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,160 Speaker 11: Go into counseling. I really want to help people in 851 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,080 Speaker 11: entertainment and sports because I don't feel like we have 852 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 11: to live these lives, whether dysfunction or not, identifying hurts 853 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,680 Speaker 11: that trigger certain behaviors and responses because just because I 854 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,600 Speaker 11: was hurt in my childlihood does not give me the 855 00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,440 Speaker 11: right to go hurting people as an adult. And then 856 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,680 Speaker 11: I really feel like we can go on to be 857 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,840 Speaker 11: more whole and have great quality relationships. 858 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,800 Speaker 1: Michelle Williams full interview. 859 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,360 Speaker 3: It's available at money Making conversation dot com. 860 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,399 Speaker 5: Keep winning Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass 861 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,040 Speaker 5: hosted by Rashaan McDonald. 862 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,240 Speaker 1: There are no guarantees in life. People. 863 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,040 Speaker 3: They can push you back down that mountain. There are 864 00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:30,080 Speaker 3: no guarantees in life. Ask Don Lemon, asked Tucker Calls. 865 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,800 Speaker 3: You have to say at the top of the mountain, 866 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,600 Speaker 3: and one day somebody decided to say, you know, some 867 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,480 Speaker 3: of that mountain has a base, and we're gonna push 868 00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 3: you back down that base. So while you're living this 869 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,960 Speaker 3: dream of these doubts that your dreams cannot be achieved 870 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,000 Speaker 3: because guess what somebody's told you you can't achieve it. 871 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:52,040 Speaker 3: Try try and guess what I'm not. Don Lemon's not finished. 872 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,239 Speaker 3: Tucker Calls is not finished. They just got knocked down 873 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,839 Speaker 3: and they're gonna get back up because they're fighters. They're 874 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,000 Speaker 3: twenty four to seven people. I'm a twenty four seven person. 875 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,360 Speaker 3: I've been knocked down. I have been knocked down. I 876 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,439 Speaker 3: have been I've had dirt kicked in my face. I've 877 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,080 Speaker 3: had times when I looked in the mirror and go 878 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,799 Speaker 3: is there a future? But that was only for a 879 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,840 Speaker 3: little moment, because I would not let negativity win. We 880 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,000 Speaker 3: have a caller here, Rodriguez in at LASTA. How you doing, 881 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:20,440 Speaker 3: rod Vegas? What can I do for you? 882 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:20,920 Speaker 1: My friend? 883 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,799 Speaker 8: Hey, yes, sir, thank you for taking my call. I 884 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,319 Speaker 8: just wanted to more amend you on your program and 885 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:29,920 Speaker 8: say that you know the end of you someone like 886 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,960 Speaker 8: Crystal Roversen, who is born in Germany and raised right 887 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,239 Speaker 8: here in Georgia making they have that exposure for the 888 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,960 Speaker 8: average person who may not ever have that kind of exposure, 889 00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,840 Speaker 8: and to realize the possibility, especially being so local, I 890 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,360 Speaker 8: think it's an awesome thing. So I commend you. I 891 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,240 Speaker 8: listened to you sure as often as I can. But anyway, 892 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,759 Speaker 8: this is one that really caught my attention, as many 893 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:52,120 Speaker 8: of them have. 894 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,200 Speaker 12: But my question more pretends to the average person like 895 00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:01,480 Speaker 12: myself I'm a real estate investry and go on. One 896 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,200 Speaker 12: of the things that we are in critical need of 897 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,600 Speaker 12: is mentors. How do we align ourselves with people like 898 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:13,359 Speaker 12: Crystal Robson who wants to give back in terms of 899 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,480 Speaker 12: you know, those networks. I think that's one of the 900 00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,400 Speaker 12: biggest things that we're going to require to go to 901 00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,439 Speaker 12: the next level and be that explosive type of young 902 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,960 Speaker 12: people even as we mature in our age. But that 903 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,960 Speaker 12: mentorship is so critical because you know, it's one thing 904 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:30,960 Speaker 12: to believe in yourself. 905 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:31,840 Speaker 8: That then you've got to have that. 906 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,399 Speaker 12: Right connection or right connections, if you will. So how 907 00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,800 Speaker 12: do we build those organizations so that we can really 908 00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:39,200 Speaker 12: start to expand? 909 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,279 Speaker 3: Well, thank you for calling Roveguez. You know, here's the 910 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,240 Speaker 3: interesting thing about that question that you're asking me, because 911 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,279 Speaker 3: it's like relationships, like she said this, Roberson said, this 912 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,520 Speaker 3: is my relationships, whether it's in church, whether it's fraternity, sorority, 913 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,799 Speaker 3: or any membership that you need. But you have to 914 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,600 Speaker 3: build it by relationships. You have to build it by 915 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,400 Speaker 3: a group, like by the people. Some people start organization, 916 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,719 Speaker 3: like they start these little financial clubs. It may be 917 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,200 Speaker 3: two or three people. I would tell you this is 918 00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,239 Speaker 3: that there are people who think just like you. All 919 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,919 Speaker 3: you need is another person. All you need is one 920 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,799 Speaker 3: more person Rodrigis to think like you. Then that person 921 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,680 Speaker 3: would get another person, and then you set a consistency 922 00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,520 Speaker 3: within that group saying we're gonna meet once a month. 923 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,200 Speaker 3: Don't over don't overburden the relationship. So a lot of 924 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,400 Speaker 3: people do things they want to meet every week, or 925 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,520 Speaker 3: let's meet every Sunday. I remember our family did that 926 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:34,920 Speaker 3: to me about we're gonna meet it every Sunday. You know, virtually, yes, 927 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,360 Speaker 3: what we don't meet it all anymore because this war's 928 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,000 Speaker 3: out now. Things just say it once a month. We 929 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,920 Speaker 3: probably still meeting. But you have to put a schedule 930 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,640 Speaker 3: together that everybody can meet and live with and adhere to. 931 00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,960 Speaker 3: So I would tell you that there's another person out there. 932 00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,960 Speaker 3: It's not so much you need mentorship. You just need 933 00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,200 Speaker 3: to talk to somebody who thinks like you, that's all. 934 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,680 Speaker 3: And so a lot of people confuse the word mentorship 935 00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,600 Speaker 3: like they need to get advice from somebody who knows 936 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:01,399 Speaker 3: more than them. 937 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:02,720 Speaker 1: That's not true. 938 00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,080 Speaker 3: You need to talk to somebody who talks and thinks 939 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,080 Speaker 3: like you, who has the same aspirations and the same dreams. 940 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,279 Speaker 1: That's who you need to be talking to. 941 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,400 Speaker 3: And there's another person out there just like you are 942 00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,800 Speaker 3: thinks like you. You connect with that person, you connect 943 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,720 Speaker 3: to your social media. You can ask for that person 944 00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,440 Speaker 3: to your social media, just post to say, look, I'm 945 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,759 Speaker 3: looking for a person want to connect on to start 946 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,480 Speaker 3: the club, you can start a Facebook club on your 947 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,759 Speaker 3: Facebook and a group of people can meet through your Facebook. 948 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:30,360 Speaker 1: That's what people. 949 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:33,800 Speaker 3: Facebook advertises that all the time. Facebook is not promoting 950 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,120 Speaker 3: likes or followers. They're promoting these clubs that you can create. 951 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,799 Speaker 3: And there are people over these Facebook clubs, but one 952 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,359 Speaker 3: hundred thousand, half million groups of people who meet through 953 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,040 Speaker 3: these clubs in these chatrooms. So I would start with 954 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,399 Speaker 3: your social media and put the word out what you're 955 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,120 Speaker 3: trying to do, and you can screen these people. But 956 00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,440 Speaker 3: more importantly right because you're not looking for a mentor, 957 00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,880 Speaker 3: you're looking for somebody who thinks like you, who is 958 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,680 Speaker 3: the same aspirations, the same goals, and the same hard 959 00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:07,239 Speaker 3: working skill set, and you can find that person through 960 00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:11,160 Speaker 3: social media today. Okay, I got phyllis, phyllis or mableton, 961 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:12,080 Speaker 3: How you're doing phyllis? 962 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,279 Speaker 10: How are you good? 963 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:17,640 Speaker 3: Good? 964 00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:17,839 Speaker 4: Good? 965 00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,000 Speaker 3: Welcome to Money Making Conversation master Class. What can I 966 00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,080 Speaker 3: do for You's your show? I'm giving it. I'm no 967 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,040 Speaker 3: more interviews. I'm just talking to y'all. 968 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:24,640 Speaker 1: I'm talking to. 969 00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:30,319 Speaker 10: Y'all, and I don't really have a question. I just 970 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,680 Speaker 10: want to say I am so excited that I heard 971 00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,480 Speaker 10: Crystal on your show today. I did not know who 972 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,320 Speaker 10: she was. I've seen all the stuff that she has. 973 00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:41,600 Speaker 4: Good. 974 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,120 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy? 975 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,640 Speaker 10: I know? And I wasn't even supposed to be in 976 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:52,160 Speaker 10: the car. I am a I have a gift. I'm 977 00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,480 Speaker 10: the person that always does the videos for the parties 978 00:51:55,520 --> 00:52:01,960 Speaker 10: and the graduation And before Georgie Film Academy started, when 979 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,360 Speaker 10: they were trying to get it started, I took a 980 00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,439 Speaker 10: class Atlanta, take a weekend class and just to see 981 00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,759 Speaker 10: what it was about. And I'm still dabbling in it. 982 00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:18,760 Speaker 10: And she has inspired me. I'm almost in tears. Really 983 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:20,240 Speaker 10: me tell you a little. 984 00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,200 Speaker 3: Thing about her resume. She started in the high school. 985 00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,200 Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that you got to start in 986 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,480 Speaker 3: high school. It's awesome at a camera shop, at a 987 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,359 Speaker 3: camera shop and making well. 988 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:32,960 Speaker 1: She converted old. 989 00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:37,560 Speaker 3: Sixteen millimeters home videos to videotape movies, to videotape. 990 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,680 Speaker 1: That's how she started. That's how she started. 991 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:44,640 Speaker 10: She was talking. She was literally talking to me today. Okay, 992 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:51,040 Speaker 10: I just came from class from uh I go to 993 00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,480 Speaker 10: a technical college in the media. I've been in media 994 00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:56,719 Speaker 10: all my life, but I've been working on a job 995 00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,560 Speaker 10: because life happened to me. I'm thirty seven years into 996 00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,520 Speaker 10: my job. I could have retired in twenty fifteen, but 997 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,160 Speaker 10: I'm still sitting here and then trying to make this 998 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:09,520 Speaker 10: film thing happen. She was talking to me today. 999 00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:11,359 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something right quick. 1000 00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,399 Speaker 3: Don't say film thing that you said, thing like it's 1001 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,279 Speaker 3: not something that you can do or going to do. 1002 00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,480 Speaker 3: I always tell people when I when I wake up 1003 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,160 Speaker 3: in the morning, I do exactly what I'm going to do. 1004 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:24,799 Speaker 12: Now. 1005 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,719 Speaker 3: I'm tired all the time. People hear that as people 1006 00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:29,600 Speaker 3: say that too. I say that. One radio he said, 1007 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,120 Speaker 3: we sure you get at four thirty in the morning. 1008 00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:32,640 Speaker 3: I said, I'll be mad when I get up to 1009 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:34,680 Speaker 3: I got up before thirty this morning, and I was 1010 00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,160 Speaker 3: not happy, but I had to get up because I 1011 00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:38,319 Speaker 3: had goals tied to. 1012 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:39,040 Speaker 1: Be getting up. 1013 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,120 Speaker 3: And that's what makes a difference when you're trying to 1014 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:47,319 Speaker 3: be successful. So when you called me, you just amplified 1015 00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,279 Speaker 3: your dream. You saying it out loud and other people 1016 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,200 Speaker 3: are hearing that. And when you say it out loud, 1017 00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,400 Speaker 3: that's you started your goals in motion. 1018 00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:56,640 Speaker 1: So don't stop. 1019 00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:03,680 Speaker 10: I can't. This is her show. You recorded it, right, 1020 00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:05,359 Speaker 10: I gotta I gotta hear it again because to begin 1021 00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:06,680 Speaker 10: out of the car. 1022 00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:08,600 Speaker 4: But I heard the important part. 1023 00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:12,600 Speaker 1: That I needed to heal with my friend. The important 1024 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:13,640 Speaker 1: part is that you called in. 1025 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,359 Speaker 3: And the important part is that this show is here 1026 00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,480 Speaker 3: every week, and this show is for you and everybody 1027 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,279 Speaker 3: who listens. And I want to inspire people. That's all 1028 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,680 Speaker 3: I want to do with money. Main conversation. 1029 00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:29,000 Speaker 4: I'm I'm sorry, and you know they shout, they shut. 1030 00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:30,719 Speaker 3: Down music for an hour and let me talk to 1031 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:32,720 Speaker 3: people and let me invite friends on people. 1032 00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:34,840 Speaker 10: And I listened to you here, I listened to you 1033 00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:35,399 Speaker 10: here and there. 1034 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,800 Speaker 1: Well, that's all I need is hear and that. 1035 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,440 Speaker 3: That's all I need is hear and that because here 1036 00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,400 Speaker 3: and that keep you rolling because of because it's. 1037 00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,560 Speaker 10: Sitting in the car. I don't want my husband to 1038 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:46,120 Speaker 10: see me cry. 1039 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,600 Speaker 13: Well, I'll tell you this. You drive them tills, your 1040 00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,040 Speaker 13: little thirty seven year old behind. 1041 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,040 Speaker 1: I can't. I'm so old. 1042 00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,879 Speaker 13: My job thirty seven Okay, you've been on your job 1043 00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:03,120 Speaker 13: thirty seven year. We guess I'll tell you something about 1044 00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,040 Speaker 13: this and I'm gonna wrap up. 1045 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,800 Speaker 1: And by the minute, is that do not let age 1046 00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:12,040 Speaker 1: be an excuse? Okay, Oh I don't, I don't. 1047 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,200 Speaker 3: Can you cannot? And so, But people are listening on 1048 00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,160 Speaker 3: this call right now, listen to this call, have loud 1049 00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,000 Speaker 3: age being an excused. They've allowed family to be an excuse, 1050 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,240 Speaker 3: They've allowed injuries to be an excused. They've allowed themselves 1051 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:29,000 Speaker 3: to be the excuse. My friend, you take this inspiration, 1052 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,800 Speaker 3: you take this moment that you've had on the radio 1053 00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:35,319 Speaker 3: with me, and continue to stay motivated, and you update me. 1054 00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,160 Speaker 1: Okay, call me next week coming jute. 1055 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,440 Speaker 3: So we shine this was happening because I'm being on 1056 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,279 Speaker 3: the air do I'm not going anywhere. 1057 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,359 Speaker 1: And they've told me they like me up here at 1058 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:47,319 Speaker 1: this station, and so it says they like me. You know, 1059 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:48,960 Speaker 1: we're gonna be here for a while. But thank you 1060 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:49,840 Speaker 1: for calling the money make com