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Speaker 1: Calling all my sweeties to the forefront.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Christophe.

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Speaker 1: And this is to Keep It Positive Sweetie Show. Hello

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Speaker 1: and welcome to this episode of the Keep It Positive,

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Speaker 1: Sweetish Show. I'm your host CHRISTOPHINEE. Hazelt, and today we

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Speaker 1: have a powerhouse joining us. She's an entrepreneur, investor, author,

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Speaker 1: and co founder of The Fearless Fun Kiss Family. Let's

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Speaker 1: give a warm welcome to Arian Simone. Arian, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming by, literally coming by because you're

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Speaker 1: right there. Yes, Oh my goodness, I know you were

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Speaker 1: so close. Yes, and you have to come by more often.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'd love to. But thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: I've been wanting.

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Speaker 1: To talk to you. I've been so fascinated with everything

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Speaker 1: you had going on. So to get yes you so

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Speaker 1: to get this opportunity, I'm just super grateful. So thank

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Speaker 1: you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely so. There's been so many things that people

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Speaker 1: know about you, from your your story to what you've

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Speaker 1: done lately with the Fearless Fun very dynamic woman, but

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Speaker 1: I want to get to the root of who you

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Speaker 1: are from the beginning. You've been very open about going

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Speaker 1: from homelessness to being an entrepreneur. Tell me about that journey.

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Speaker 3: She didn't took me back. Okay, christ take it bag

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Speaker 3: and they were gonna come. Yes, it was truly a

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Speaker 3: moment where how should I put it, I was just

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Speaker 3: more so out of alignment with my assignment and what I'm.

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Speaker 2: Supposed to do in the earth.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was a college student at Florida and M University,

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Speaker 3: and I owned a store while I was there in

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Speaker 3: the mall, and I made a promise to myself while

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Speaker 3: I had the store that one day I was gonna

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Speaker 3: be the business investor I had been looking for.

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Speaker 2: The promise.

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Speaker 3: Of course, looks like the fearless fun today. But the

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Speaker 3: journey there, of course, took a lot of adventure. And

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Speaker 3: there was a time when I gave up.

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Speaker 2: On the store. Days you'd have fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: Some days you're kind as negative, and I'm like, am

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Speaker 3: I good at this? Or what is happening here? And

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Speaker 3: I stopped, and I keep that on my computer, the

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Speaker 3: financials from the store. Because business was actually profitable. I

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Speaker 3: look back now and laugh because I wasn't failing.

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Speaker 2: I just wasn't patient.

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Speaker 3: Who ooh, And I just needed patience. But what clothes

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Speaker 3: women's apparel amazing. Yes, in college, Yes, that's huge.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was working at the clothing store. I didn't

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Speaker 1: own one. Yes, it was a.

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Speaker 3: Lot being a colleerepreneur. It was definitely a lot. And

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Speaker 3: me giving up on that, I moved to Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: actually with the job. The only job I've had in

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Speaker 3: my adult life, cause everything else I've done, I've worked

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Speaker 3: for myself.

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Speaker 2: And it was Nellie's Apple Bottoms and I worked for

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Speaker 2: thirty days. Yes, those Apple Bottoms boots.

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Speaker 4: With the first yes what And I worked for that

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Speaker 4: company for thirty days doing product placement, placed product on

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Speaker 4: Jessica Simpson and Tyra Banks, and I even found Oprah

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Speaker 4: put the genes on her and she had 'em on

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Speaker 3: So when the president said, Harry and we I'd like

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Speaker 3: to meet with you, I'm thinking, like, of course I've changed,

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Speaker 3: I've turned the company around.

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Speaker 2: You wanna meet with me? And she said, unfortunately, have

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Speaker 2: to let you go. And I was like, let me go.

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Speaker 3: She said, if it was based on performance, you'd be

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Speaker 2: I said, what is this based on I was twenty

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she said, well, the company's being sold. Everybody has

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Speaker 3: You just having to be the last hired, you're the

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Speaker 3: first fired. So yes, And at that time, my parents

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Speaker 2: Ye y'all worry about my sister. I'm i'm'a keep going.

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Speaker 3: And I ran out of cash and then they put

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Speaker 2: I said, well, shoot, I guess I gotta quit.

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Speaker 3: And I was without a place to stay for seven months, welfare,

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Speaker 3: This the last day, This the last day. And I

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Speaker 3: what happened during that time. There was a moment where

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Speaker 3: I did do I did crash Like. I was like,

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Speaker 3: this cannot be happening to me. Yeah, this is not

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Speaker 2: I went to school, I got good grades. What did

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Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, am I being punished? What

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Speaker 3: But luckily somebody called me. They sought me out to

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Speaker 3: do some PR marketing work. They saw my work at

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Speaker 3: Apple Bottoms. So I'm like, but you've called months ago, right,

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Speaker 3: And it was to do some PR marketing work for

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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I got a business mm. And

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Speaker 3: I found that so interesting because the moment that got started,

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Speaker 3: it happened with such flowing ease MM. And I said,

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Speaker 3: and the moment you stepped out of that, you caused

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Speaker 3: yourself more chaos and more headache than when you had

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Speaker 2: Like, the ups and downs at the store.

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Speaker 3: Were nothing like me having no trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: I was like, you have to stay.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. So what happened after you got that call?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I ended up building a pr and marketing company

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Speaker 3: So Will Packer at the time was not the Will Packer.

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Speaker 3: I called him when I was living out of my

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Speaker 2: This is what I do.

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Speaker 3: I found out that Studio was actually outsourced PR and

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Speaker 3: marketing companies. He said, Aaron, your timing couldn't have been

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Speaker 3: more better. Wow, And I said, what's going on? He said,

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Speaker 3: I said what is it? And he said Stepping. That

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Speaker 3: was the working title. It's known as Stop the Art.

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Speaker 1: Which was my first and that was.

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Speaker 2: Their first big theatrical release. Wow, exactly. So she had

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Speaker 3: That was the first big one and the movie was

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Speaker 2: I bet they're like, she did this. We need what's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is incredible.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So at that point, did you move from Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: No, I had to come out.

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Speaker 3: To Atlanta to for when it was being filmed, but

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Speaker 3: I didn't just move to Atlanta from there.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Yes, oh my goodness. It's funny because Will Packer's married

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh Tennessee, yes, Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, yes, oh my gosh, yes, I love that.

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Speaker 1: She's she is she that is my girl, She's everything.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: Yes, small word, very small world, but something. R two

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Speaker 2: I worked many in films with Packer. Yes, he's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. So what was the pivot to

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Speaker 3: So I started meeting people who were in the space.

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Speaker 3: I took a meeting at Gary Vaynerchuk's office, vayner Media,

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Speaker 2: He's a social entrepreneur person.

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Speaker 3: So we find us out after the pitch, which was

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Speaker 3: so funny. But afterwards, remember standing on the streets in

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Speaker 2: I said, I do. I said, this is.

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Speaker 3: made to myself in college.

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Speaker 1: Come on.

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Speaker 3: And from there, having that awareness, I just started meeting

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Speaker 3: other people in venture capital at different events. I started,

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Speaker 3: let me tell you, it's fearless, funy with people. Know

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Speaker 3: today it was words.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'm building a fund. I'm building this fund.

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Speaker 3: It's for women of color. I was going around telling everybody, Girl,

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Speaker 3: there wasn't a cent in the bit, right. I opened

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Speaker 3: a bank account at Citizens Trust. This is a true story.

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Speaker 3: I went there and met with the manager and I said,

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Speaker 3: I'm building a multi million dollar fund and.

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Speaker 2: I told her all about it.

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Speaker 3: I said, and I'm gonna open it up with this

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Speaker 3: hundred dollars. I know, I said, I know this person

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Speaker 3: may have thought I was crazy. They're one of my

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Speaker 3: biggest advocates now. But I'm like, I said, I wonder,

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Speaker 3: what tell you. I'm thinking, like she's like, this girl's nuts.

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Speaker 1: But I got one hundred dollars, I'll say, you're right,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna set this account up.

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Speaker 2: I mean she saw a year later the millions coming in.

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Speaker 2: She said, this girl really did what she said she

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Speaker 1: That is incredible. So how did you go about it?

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Speaker 1: Like you said, it just started with words. What were

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Speaker 3: Capital intensity that's first and foremost. You need securities attorneys

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Speaker 3: But as I was selling the vision, I started to

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Speaker 2: But the names were there, and when.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And can you explain for people who don't know

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Speaker 3: The Fearless Fund is the nation's first, or even the

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Speaker 2: That's why we do what we do.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And then you guys hit a roadblock, a huge

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Speaker 1: It's like, what is happening in that moment when it's

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Speaker 2: Lawsuit we have said, I have no lawsuit. Like I

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Speaker 3: I said, you know what, just don't answer the phones,

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Speaker 2: And they kept calling. I said, y'all, this is chat GPT.

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Speaker 3: I was like, they've got I said, it'll fix itself

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Speaker 2: We're all over the news right now. And I was

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Speaker 2: just like, if there's a filing, can you find it?

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Speaker 3: Forty five minutes I got a call to have found

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Speaker 1: Now, is that something your lawyer should have called like

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Speaker 3: So since COVID you don't have to serve people in person,

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Speaker 2: But I used my rights. Yes, I'm well equipped. I

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Speaker 3: So that day they found the filing and I saw

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Speaker 2: I'm like, y'all got to help. So I'm just going on.

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Speaker 3: They filed three things against our company, a temporary straining order.

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Speaker 3: They were like, do y'all have an event coming up

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Speaker 3: when you know it's a spirit of fear. Yes, this

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Speaker 3: the big scheme of things. I am so proud of

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Speaker 3: what we've done. But you're worried about a couple hundred million. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 3: prior to the Fearless Fund, the average fundraise for a

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so this is man blowing all this is happening.

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Speaker 3: So if anybody doesn't know, the court case was for

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Speaker 3: Hello, I said, I did, I said civil rights. I

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Speaker 3: I kept a post like yes, because we were the

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. What happened with all the black women

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Speaker 2: But they still got their money? I know that's right.

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Speaker 1: Well, so where is fearless?

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Speaker 2: Woon? We still come checks now too? For the lawsuit

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Speaker 3: So just mind you people here and they see what

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Speaker 1: Listen, I can. I can't imagine, but I can.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what in those moments. I know you

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Speaker 3: I was like, I grew up around Rosa Parks. I

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Speaker 2: I said, your hand.

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Speaker 3: I think it's crazy too, because now I sit back

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Speaker 3: At this point, I'm well traveled. I've traveled country states,

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Speaker 2: I said, I don't want to see mysel MoMA. Do

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Speaker 3: Like I don't like this, Like I didn't want to

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Speaker 3: And I told her I can see those old women anytime,

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Speaker 3: like that. So this is not even like, oh my gosh,

444
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Speaker 3: it's my normal.

445
00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:25,680
Speaker 1: Yes.

446
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,360
Speaker 2: Wow, And she.

447
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 3: Was like, Arian Simone, reed, you will get your behind

448
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,680
Speaker 3: on that plane. So I got my behind on that plane.

449
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,160
Speaker 2: How old were you then? I think I was like fourteen? Yeah, yeah,

450
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 2: I was fourteen.

451
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,320
Speaker 3: Oh this was an anniversary for one of the Montgomery

452
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Speaker 3: Bust boycotts.

453
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, I pulled on that. So yeah, my faith

454
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 2: is strong.

455
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,880
Speaker 3: When it happened, I knew God's hand was on it,

456
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 3: and I was just like I knew my steps.

457
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,480
Speaker 2: Had been ordered. I knew I was covered.

458
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Speaker 3: I said, okay, Lord, no weapon form against me shall prosper.

459
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 3: I said, any tongue that rises up against me, I

460
00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,160
Speaker 3: shall condemn. I said, okay, I'm gonna stand on your word.

461
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:02,679
Speaker 3: I said, I believe you.

462
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe you.

463
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,160
Speaker 3: Watch over it to make sure it's performed. I said,

464
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 3: I'm with you. So yes, my faith got me through

465
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 3: because I had no clue that through something like that

466
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 3: that even other people would try to attack you because

467
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,680
Speaker 3: they think you're vulnerable. I was like, oh my gosh,

468
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 3: that's but we had a lot of support, So we're

469
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 3: gonna keep it positive, Sweetie. Always we had a lot

470
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 3: of support through the process, and I'm so grateful.

471
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Speaker 1: Now have you seen those people that came after you

472
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: since then and see and they see that it didn't

473
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 1: work and no weapon formed against you, so prospered.

474
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,159
Speaker 2: He lays the table.

475
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 1: Yes, and yeah, I know that's right. Oh my god.

476
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: So let's go back to Rosa Parks Corretta Scott King what, Yeah,

477
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: this is crazy, Like it's funny. I was on the

478
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Speaker 1: phone yesterday with a friend and he was like, you's

479
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 1: looking like Rosa Parks And I looked at the camera

480
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, well, I can see it

481
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: because my glasses on and my hair was like it

482
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 1: wasn't like slick bgg, it was kind of like. I

483
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 1: was like, come on, biopic, Rosa.

484
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 2: It's funny you said that.

485
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 1: And then the moment says you're a child not realizing

486
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 1: the I mean that you're like around and everage to

487
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: do what you're doing. Now, God makes no mistakes. It

488
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: was already written. Oh my gosh. So where you are now,

489
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 1: you're still writing checks, the fearless fun is still thriving.

490
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,919
Speaker 1: What are the initiatives that you're going after now that

491
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:44,959
Speaker 1: you're over that hurdle?

492
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 3: Before we got to My staff even has me on

493
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,199
Speaker 3: video talking about this. I didn't even notice it was

494
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,959
Speaker 3: coming around the corner. I told them, mat I retreat,

495
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 3: I said, you all. When we finished raising fun too,

496
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 3: I said, I'm gonna actually take a step back and

497
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 3: get into more afficacy work. I said, I have to

498
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 3: stand up for this kind of work that we're doing.

499
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 3: I said, because we don't need the Fearless fund. We

500
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 3: need fearless funds, I said, we need more people having

501
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,199
Speaker 3: the opportunity to do what it is that I do.

502
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 3: I said, So I'm gonna get into some more advocacy work,

503
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 3: I said, and we're going to have to make sure

504
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 3: that people are aware of what this racial disparity is.

505
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 2: And how do we actually fix it.

506
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 3: So I had no clue that this would turn into

507
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 3: the way it has and giving me a platform to

508
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 3: have a voice to speak about it more.

509
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: So, that's incredible. Yeah, are you do you do like

510
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: mentorship programs or young entrepreneurs that are trying to start

511
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: their own business.

512
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 3: Not necessarily try to start their own business, but the

513
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 3: second they have and we have a program called get

514
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 3: Venture Ready. Okay, so people who have started their business

515
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 3: and they're looking to get venture dollars. We have programs

516
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 3: for them so they can learn about their options and

517
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 3: venture capitals.

518
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 2: Not for everybody.

519
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 3: It's very aggressive and it's very fast venture capital. To

520
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 3: those of you all who are listening, it looks like

521
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 3: Shark Tank. So people say, hey, yeah, can you give

522
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 3: me five hundred thousand dollars. I'll give you ten percent

523
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,479
Speaker 3: ownership of my business. And that's exactly what it looks like,

524
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 3: just like Shark Tank. Now that's some semi aggressive because

525
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 3: we're looking for you to exit in five to seven years.

526
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 2: Whereas we also have a loan program.

527
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 3: We have a two hundred million dollar loan program and

528
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 3: people can apply for five thousand dollars up to two

529
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand dollars if you just have fifty

530
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 3: thousand in revenue credit score six hundred.

531
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Speaker 2: So that's the criteria for that program.

532
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,919
Speaker 3: And then at our foundation we have grants, so we

533
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 3: have multiple financing options depending on where you're at and

534
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 3: what is your desire to get done.

535
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Speaker 1: So say, y'all, as an entrepreneur, you are here we

536
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Speaker 1: go and I was coming to you to present my

537
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 1: business looking for funding. What are you looking for? Because

538
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: I know people like, but what do I need to

539
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: be prepared for when I go ask for this money

540
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Speaker 1: in this capital.

541
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Speaker 2: Well, there's four indicators.

542
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 3: Especially on the venture side. We do look for a

543
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 3: good brand story because you got to be to sell it.

544
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 3: Like I sold the vision and now we're here with

545
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 3: the fun. You got to be to sell it. You

546
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 3: need to have a strong team because that's nice. Once

547
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 3: you sell that story, it's like, okay, are you all

548
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 3: equipped to actually go execute on what you're selling to us.

549
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 3: You want to have a good product and you want

550
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 3: to have traction. So traction can look like anything. So

551
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 3: we invest in CpG, which is a consumer package good

552
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 3: and any type of products. We also invest in technology, but

553
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 3: with that being said, technology is very capital intensive, so

554
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 3: people may not have the revenue to say is traction.

555
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 3: They may have Oh my email list has fifty thousand

556
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 3: people on this wait list, that's traction.

557
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 1: Got it.

558
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 3: I've had this many downloads, that's traction. I've got this

559
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 3: many social media followers, that's traction. We know you have

560
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 3: people who are interested in what you're talking about.

561
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh wow, okay, so let's be tun to the

562
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 1: person who's just got an idea before they even can

563
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: even get to you. What are some things that they

564
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: can do to build that social media presence, to build

565
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: the traction, to get the emails.

566
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 2: And you'd be surprised ideas get funded every day.

567
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 3: Wow, those are our four indicators we look at.

568
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 2: But ideas do get funded every day.

569
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Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, it's good to know you guys. Listen, you

570
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 1: need to hip airing up or hit the fearless found up.

571
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: So how would you define success when it comes to

572
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur because so many people feel like, well,

573
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: I'm not where Aaron is, or I'm not where Crystal

574
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: is or I'm not here. But where would you define

575
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: success so people can understand there's different levels and you

576
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: don't have to be oh.

577
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 3: Completely, but it's whatever your field of I wouldn't say

578
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 3: like field of influences. I define it as you know,

579
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 3: just impact. If you've changed one person's life, you know,

580
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 3: just by your presence and by what it is that

581
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 3: you're doing.

582
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 2: That's impactful.

583
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: No, for sure, Yeah, that is impactful. Has your ideal

584
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,719
Speaker 1: of success evolved over the years?

585
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 2: Has it evolved?

586
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: It?

587
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 2: Probably has?

588
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: I know for me, like I remember where I would

589
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 1: say ten year.

590
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 2: Twenties and successful like a dollar amount.

591
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was success. And then where I am now,

592
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, that was nowhere near what I thought success was.

593
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: And then still today I'm like, I still have so

594
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: much further to go.

595
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: You know that is true.

596
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 3: I've always looked at it like, of course I'm always growing,

597
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 3: always evolving, always achieving always, Yes, but I still think

598
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 3: every level was successful.

599
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: Yeah.

600
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 3: So I get what you're meaning, what you're saying, like, oh, no,

601
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 3: I feel like I haven't made it.

602
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: I'm doing this, doing that, but you're successful. Yes, you've

603
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 2: been successful.

604
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 3: Yes, maybe because I just operate from like a pure

605
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 3: place of gratitude.

606
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

607
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think so that was where I was.

608
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 3: Saber has evolved, Okay, I love that.

609
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

610
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 3: I wouldn' up said that was successful all those times,

611
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 3: but now I look back and say all of that

612
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 3: was success.

613
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Yeah, what.

614
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: Actually inspired you to even create the Fearless Fun?

615
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 3: Was it just seeing that promise I made to myself

616
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 3: in college? I had the experience of going to pitch

617
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 3: as a college student.

618
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 2: What was your major? I was a business major, but

619
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 2: I majored in business in high school.

620
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 3: Like we had went to a high school that had

621
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 3: majors too. So going through that process and seeing investors

622
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 3: do not look like you going through that process and

623
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 3: I'm talking about it.

624
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 2: I'm suited and booted.

625
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 3: Even as a college kid, and I'm giving them my

626
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 3: best at that time business plan. This before decks quote unquote,

627
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 3: we're around and I was like, this is not working.

628
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 3: I was like, there's got to be somebody who can

629
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: understand my story. There's got to be somebody who's going

630
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,719
Speaker 3: to believe in me. And I sat there on that

631
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 3: floor amongst the inventory, and now, Sarah, don't you worry

632
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 3: about it, because one day you're going to be the

633
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 3: business investor you were looking for us.

634
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: I love that. Can you share a success story of

635
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: a business or entrepreneur that you guys have sewn into

636
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: and invested in? Oh honey, Plenty, please share it because

637
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear about.

638
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 3: You said, Plenty, I mean, we're investors. You know these

639
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 3: companies partake the lip bars Vegan. I mean, oh yeah,

640
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: I we got the hit list. Okay, we got the

641
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 3: hot roster.

642
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Oh yeah, we got all the

643
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 2: success stories.

644
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: Yes, that is amazing. So how did Pinky come come in?

645
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: I don't think she came in.

646
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 3: I was probably a uh slutified whatever they call it.

647
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 2: Oh. Yes.

648
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 3: And then I heard through her manager at the time

649
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 3: that they were having around a funding and I was like, oh,

650
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 3: you're gonna cut me in.

651
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: I know that's right.

652
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 2: He was like, I got you. I was like cool.

653
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: So that's how that happened.

654
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: Okay. And then Marissa the lip bar I just saw her.

655
00:29:54,440 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 3: She actually came to us, but I was there probably baby.

656
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's week one, two or three.

657
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 3: I pledge Melissa, we have the same yep, we're a Delta's.

658
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: We have the same high school in common.

659
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: We were both from the same side of town in Detroit,

660
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 3: and then we both went to FAM You oh so y'all.

661
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: So I was not in her diligence process because I said,

662
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: y'all have to keep me honest.

663
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

664
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I was like I was there week one

665
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 3: when she was in her studio apartment in New York

666
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Speaker 3: making Veigan lipstick from the stove. So I was like,

667
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Speaker 3: I got to step aside on this one.

668
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Speaker 2: No, there were times we think it was happening. She

669
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: was like, spash, I don't think it's happening. I said,

670
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Speaker 2: I don't know. They ain't giving me a good report

671
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Speaker 2: right now.

672
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Speaker 3: So it went on for like a couple of months,

673
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 3: back and forth, legal diligence papers, and then she called.

674
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 2: She said it's going to happen, and I cried.

675
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 3: I had never cried and we had invested, but I said,

676
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 3: this is somebody I saw day one built this business.

677
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: I said, I am honored to cut this check.

678
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Speaker 1: Oh see, I love hearing stories like that. And that

679
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: was another thing that he designed that it was written

680
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: since y'all were kids. Like what you know what I'm saying, Like,

681
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: that's crazy, that is crazy. How can people if they

682
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: want to get involved, if they have the money and

683
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: they want to just even donate to the fun how

684
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: can they do that?

685
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 3: Donations to the foundation are at the Fearless Dot Foundation.

686
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 3: Any information for the fund is Fearless Dot Fund f und.

687
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Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, Yeah, because I'm sure people listening are gonna

688
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: want to get behind this. Oh thank you, especially with

689
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: everything that's going on with DEI and our funsy and

690
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: cut everywhere you turn. How do you feel about the

691
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: boycotts on different companies?

692
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Speaker 2: Girl, don't get me started.

693
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 3: I'm not on social It's much lately. Yeah, but when

694
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 3: I have had to say a few things here and there,

695
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 3: I have a lot of feelings. I have told even

696
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: the black and brown brands at Target. I said, if

697
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 3: you can walk off the shelf the same way they

698
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 3: can cancel you, you can cancel them. Wow, I said,

699
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: And you all probably need to walk in your power.

700
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 3: I said, if I were you, I's in a collective

701
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 3: letter expressing your concerns that when I entered into an

702
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 3: agreement with your company, that these were.

703
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: Your value systems.

704
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 3: Yes, this is where things lined up. This is why

705
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 3: I chose to be in partnership with you. I said,

706
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 3: not have everybody sign it. And I said, because you

707
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 3: have now changed your values and I've entered into this

708
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 3: business agreement with you, my products are now being part

709
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 3: of a boycott.

710
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 2: That I wouldn't have wanted.

711
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 3: So I may have to sue you for financial damages

712
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 3: unless you want to change your values.

713
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: Wow, I need you to look.

714
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: So when we got to say how do I need

715
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Speaker 2: to break this email?

716
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Speaker 3: Oh, well, the bord of directors would have hurt from

717
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 3: me had I been in that position, their board of

718
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 3: directors in their c suites. You are sorry, and I

719
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 3: would have had a meeting. I know this, and I

720
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 3: would have had.

721
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 2: A check too.

722
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I love I'm good friends with Tabith Brown,

723
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: love her, and even Monique Rodriguez, their brands are both.

724
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 2: On target Ship.

725
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: These are all my girlfriends, everybody, and I've seen them

726
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: get on Instagram and say, hey, guys, if you do

727
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: if you're boycotting, you're boycotting us. So if you're going

728
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: to go only shop black brands. But when I think

729
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: about it, and I feel like, if you just bring

730
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: in and make your own website and sell it yourself

731
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Speaker 1: and get a.

732
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 3: Josh say, y'all, can all walk out the door and

733
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 3: go start tire baby. Listen, all walk out the door,

734
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 3: all of them, and collectively, I said, you all make

735
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 3: them millions millions of money. I said, stand in your voice, yes,

736
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 3: stand in your voice exactly. So yeah, they Target would

737
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Speaker 3: have had a new announcement by the time I had

738
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Speaker 3: got done with them.

739
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: We would have saw a whole new press conference. I

740
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: already know.

741
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, yeah I was. I see a lot

742
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: of people doing the boycotts and pastors, everyone's getting behind it,

743
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: and I think it's very important to let our voices

744
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: be heard and show the power of our dollar as

745
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: a community.

746
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 3: Because even speaking of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott

747
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 3: did not just end due to morality, it ended due

748
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 3: to economics.

749
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 2: They bled them out, so they were like, oh, we're

750
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 2: going to start this and fix some things.

751
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

752
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, you exercise, you advocate with your dollars.

753
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 2: And I tell that to people all the time.

754
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 3: So if somebody does donate from watching this, thank you

755
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 3: all so much because you advocate with your dollars.

756
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: Exactly they do. How do you balance being a leader,

757
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: a business woman and an entrepreneur like you do a

758
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: lot of things and now you're in your advocacy bag

759
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: and you're all of I can imagine how you even

760
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: keep up with the day with everything you have going on.

761
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: How do you balance it off?

762
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 2: Well, I'm grateful for a great team. Yeah, I'm like

763
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: you too.

764
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I'm like we may be small, but we're

765
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 3: mighty and lean.

766
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 2: Yes, we are mighty.

767
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 3: So I've been blessed with great people, great advisors, great

768
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 3: team members. I have to really give it to them.

769
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 3: They keep my life in order so I can move

770
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 3: and flowing it.

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00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I always see you around them, like she's

772
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: you always supporting everyone.

773
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

774
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: Years like we saw each other at Sarah James Roberts

775
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: book signing. Yes, and I saw your Will's book signing.

776
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

777
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: So you're always supporting everybody.

778
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 2: That's my joy I love.

779
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 3: I love seeing people succeed and I love seeing dreams fulfilled.

780
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 3: I love seeing people walking their purpose. Yes, yes, this

781
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 3: is this Earth is fun.

782
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: I love that what Roles has networking played in building

783
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: everything you've built today. Because I'm not the best networker,

784
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: I tell it, Sean all the time. I need you

785
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: to come with me because I will sit in the

786
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 1: corner and not talk to people.

787
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 2: But it seems like you have seen how you have

788
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:46,919
Speaker 2: figured it out.

789
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 3: You know.

790
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: I even last night I went somewhere and somebody else

791
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: had to like take me to meet the people because

792
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be like, Hi, I'm Crystal, how are

793
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: you doing this?

794
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: And people know who you are?

795
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 3: I said, somehow it has still worked out. But I

796
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 3: get what you're saying. You're like, Okay, if you're not

797
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 3: like aggressively extrovert, if you're not that, I think you

798
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: I think you may have answered your own question because

799
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 3: you're like, Okay, I'm gonna bring an advocate.

800
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: With me that somebody that can say this is right. Yeah,

801
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 1: that's true, because I do have an issue with that.

802
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: A friend of mine said, you network. I'm like, no,

803
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: not the bus networker, like, and I'm a really yes.

804
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 2: The word itself doesn't sound organic, and I think that's

805
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 2: my problem.

806
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 3: I don't want to Yes, you don't want force relationships.

807
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 3: So I wouldn't even approach it from a networking standpoint

808
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 3: because I'm big on energy to if I rock with you,

809
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: I rock with you, and if I don't, I don't

810
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 3: and I'm really okay with it.

811
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So I.

812
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 3: Would just say I'm coming to make whatever genuine connections, yeah,

813
00:36:58,440 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: or in the space.

814
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: That are there for me.

815
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: M I love that.

816
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 2: What is next for you? Oh God?

817
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: Because I know it's something. I know you got something

818
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: in your sleeve.

819
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 3: I mean, if we're talking business, I would say I

820
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 3: can sense a book.

821
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: I did it literally when you was like what are

822
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: you writing a book? If you were like, so, we

823
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: need a book, area, we need a book, especially talking

824
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: about groves of parks, and that was like your grandma.

825
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 3: Well the book is it isn't in the book because

826
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 3: the book is about picking up the mantle from where

827
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: our civil rights icons left off and preparing a prosperous

828
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 3: future for this generation.

829
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Speaker 2: I love it.

830
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. Do you have a title yet?

831
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: Mm hmm? Can the kids family get a little sneaky?

832
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: It's like not yet.

833
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 3: It's my I don't mind sharing it because it's I know,

834
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 3: even my agency is making an announcement.

835
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Speaker 2: But it's called Freedom to Be Fearless.

836
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Speaker 1: Amazing. Well, I have a like, it's not really announced

837
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: as a book club, but I do one book a month,

838
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: so I'll make sure I share that. Yes, absolutely, and

839
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: we'll read it absolutely. A goal of mine this year

840
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: was to read more because I just remember as a kid,

841
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: I would read all the time. I would stay in

842
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: my room and just like just going through the pages,

843
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I do not sit down and read anymore.

844
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: So this year I started that and every month I

845
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: do a book.

846
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: Did that help you just dream?

847
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: It? Did? It did? Especially being from a SMA small

848
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: town like.

849
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 3: My small town success stories out of magazines and the

850
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 3: books I hear.

851
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: I just I literally was. When we were in LA

852
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: for Essence last week, I just said that I was

853
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 1: like I was talking to one of the marketing executed Essence,

854
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: and I said, Essence magazine was in my coffee table,

855
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: and it was also at our bathrooms because back in

856
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: the day, we would have these little baskets with magazines

857
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: in it when you go to the bathroom, and it

858
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: was Essence and Jed and Ebony. Those are the magazines

859
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: in there. So that was where I found my style inspiration.

860
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: That's where I knew what was going on in black

861
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: culture because where I'm from, it's predominantly white, So I

862
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: didn't have that exposure like all my friends were white,

863
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: Like I was the black kids sitting at the table

864
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: with all the white kids. So I didn't have that

865
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: exposure to our culture through except for through bt MTV

866
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: and the magazines. You're absolutely right, and it just it

867
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: showed me a whole new world and it got my mind.

868
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: I said, as soon as I can get out of here,

869
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Speaker 1: I'm getting out of here. And I did. Oh my god,

870
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: that's beautiful, thank you, thank you. You pour into everyone.

871
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: How do you pour into yourself?

872
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 2: Oh?

873
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: I do, she said, Oh I do.

874
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 2: Have I do often.

875
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 3: I'm even about to take off on a whole wellness

876
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 3: tripod wellness resorts. I'm talking resorts that make you sign

877
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 3: a contract that you can't get on the phone.

878
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: Oh I need to do that.

879
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 2: Oh yes, we should do that, I think.

880
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, literally, I love this.

881
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: Oh I do. And a shot of nose she got

882
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Speaker 2: with one of her events.

883
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 3: I send her gift her for season spots like go

884
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Speaker 3: enjoy yourself. I said, go enjoy yourself. I'm very big

885
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 3: on being restorative, yes, because I know if I'm gonna

886
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 3: do all that, I have to pour into me.

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00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm very big on loving myself.

888
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Speaker 3: I get up in the morning, I pray, I have

889
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 3: a scripture, I meditate, I have affirmations, I say religiously.

890
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 2: You know I am intentional about loving on me.

891
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, And I'm proud of you for

892
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: that because I feel as black women, we pour poor, poor,

893
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: poor poor, and then we're I know, you can run dry,

894
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: literally run dry.

895
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 2: Yes.

896
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: So that's amazing that that you're intentional in that space.

897
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: And before we get out, I wanted to ask you

898
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: one last thing. Okay, you're a queen.

899
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 3: I am the queen of Dawa and cultivoar. You are

900
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 3: the queen of Dawa, yes and Cultivoar.

901
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: Where's that?

902
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 3: I'm the Ifer Coast it's right next door to Ghana, really,

903
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 3: so you can apply direct to a cry and you

904
00:40:58,840 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 3: can just hop on over.

905
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 2: To ib Wow.

906
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: So how did that happen?

907
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 2: That's why I said.

908
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 3: I knew I was gonna need some time if I

909
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 3: was gonna discuss this, but I'm gonna give it to you.

910
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 3: So I have always had an affinity for the continent,

911
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 3: and when you're talking about just ordered steps and divinity,

912
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 3: I never.

913
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 2: Saw this coming. I would always go over there in.

914
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 3: Big ball gowns and big head wraps and just enjoy

915
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 3: the fact that we come from kings and queen's and

916
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 3: I would just.

917
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 2: Savor in it.

918
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 3: And I remember one day I got this call from

919
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 3: one of our team members and they sit Arian because

920
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 3: I was building a school in Gotouvoir, and they said,

921
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: when you land, Astylus is gonna meet you. And I

922
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 3: was like, nah, I said, I'm wearing my hair naturally curly.

923
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 3: I just want to feel like, you know, I'm in

924
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 3: the Earth, Mother Earth. I'm just wearing my hair naturally curly.

925
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 3: And she was like, well, no, it's for your outfit

926
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh no, when I get to.

927
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: The school, I'm putting on jeans and you know, the

928
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 2: polo top for the school. And she was like, oh

929
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,879
Speaker 2: my gosh, she said, you don't know.

930
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 3: I said what she said, arian, they're crowning you queen,

931
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 3: and I kind of laughed and.

932
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 2: Got off the phone. I was said, oh, how cute.

933
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 2: I didn't take it as for real.

934
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 3: I took it as like this is an honor or

935
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 3: an award or something like that. It wasn't until I

936
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 3: got this long email that came through about the queen's

937
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 3: ceremony and her coronation. And then the queen addresses her people.

938
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 3: I'm reading this, said her people, A dresses her cortal.

939
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute, this is me addresses her.

940
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 3: I was like, and then it's said in there that

941
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 3: the chief had prayed to God. I have Christian territory.

942
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 3: The chief had prayed to God and said this is her.

943
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 3: And I was just like, what now, this isn't even

944
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 3: spook you out. Much later I get ready to board

945
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 3: this flight. Ain't on the iPhone they have like these

946
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 3: news stories that pop up in the day. Yeah, the

947
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 3: news story said five royal tribes that were captured in

948
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 3: the slave trade. I was so freaked. I don't even

949
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 3: read that art of the time. I went back and

950
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 3: read it much later. Then a year about later at

951
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 3: one of our family reunions.

952
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 2: Now, mind you, I've done my DNA.

953
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,479
Speaker 3: I just I always I never focused on the West

954
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 3: as much as I did the East. I was always

955
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 3: so surprised how heavy East I was, considering most people,

956
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 3: and yes, African Americans are very heavy West, yes, due

957
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 3: to the Transatlantic slave trade. So the fact that I

958
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 3: was like thirty five percent East of African, Ethiopian and

959
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: Retreat and all this stuff over there, I was like,

960
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 3: this is interesting.

961
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even look at the other side.

962
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 3: So I'm at a family reunion and my family's like lineage,

963
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 3: we go back eight generations and we're very heavy into

964
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 3: our family history, and they're doing a DNA test and

965
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 3: all that arie you know, we got Ivorian blood. And

966
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 3: I look and I said, oh my gosh, like even

967
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 3: if you see we have a family genealogist and you

968
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 3: can see it going up and up and up and up,

969
00:43:59,120 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 3: and I was.

970
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: Like, oh, this is freaking me.

971
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, oh my goodness.

972
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 2: What is this.

973
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 3: I know exactly, but it was definitely It's truly an honor.

974
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 3: But it's not just a title, it's actually a responsibility.

975
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 3: These people are looking to you for leadership, Yes, they

976
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 3: are looking to you for vision. As queen, you work

977
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 3: with the government to help improve the welfare of the people.

978
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 2: So this is it's real.

979
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 3: Wow. And especially in African traditions, we have so many thrones,

980
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,439
Speaker 3: like there's only I think twelve monarchs that are still

981
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 3: in power in.

982
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: The whole world now. But for Africans prior to colonialism,

983
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 2: you know, these were tribal lands.

984
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 3: Yes, this is being land that's governed by kings and queens,

985
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 3: you know, and still it's respected today over there. So

986
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 3: I land and paparazzis everywhere. I got on like a

987
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 3: poncho some sweats. I'm like, okay, get to the hotel.

988
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 3: They're like, what are you doing tomorrow? And I told

989
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 3: somebody I was gonna have a spot day. I told

990
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 3: you I was pour into me.

991
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: M m.

992
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 2: They said no.

993
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 3: They said, the head rap lady will be to you

994
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 3: at six point thirty and makeup is coming at six

995
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 3: I said, huh, that said you fee on National news

996
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 3: at eight am?

997
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 2: Oh my, what exactly?

998
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 3: I was like, what I said, you know what, You're

999
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,919
Speaker 3: gonna surrender? I said, just go with it. Yeah, I said,

1000
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 3: just go with it.

1001
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 2: I get out there luckily.

1002
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 3: On that trip, actually my first lady was with me,

1003
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 3: Pastor Danielle Murphy, and she actually gave the sermon in

1004
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: my ceremony and somebody translated it in French for the audience,

1005
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 3: and before I gave my address, And there was so

1006
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 3: many blooper moments, like oh, Christina Murray was there at

1007
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 3: that trip, like, oh what's you?

1008
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 2: Oh god.

1009
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 3: She was standing up at times and the government was

1010
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 3: like to sit down.

1011
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 2: She said to this, I said, Christina was supposed to

1012
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 2: be seen it right, Oh lord.

1013
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 3: So it's all these different bloopers. The girl greets me

1014
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 3: with these flowers, I curtsy right with her.

1015
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 2: The queen to stand so it was so funny. But

1016
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 2: I love the people.

1017
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,720
Speaker 1: Did you have to like take like a crash course?

1018
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: Oh no. Yeah.

1019
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 3: The moment I realized that letter was real, they were like,

1020
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 3: you have government protocol tomorrow morning, because you need to know,

1021
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 3: of course, how to address people. I'm even still learning

1022
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 3: on the job to this day. I was just went

1023
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 3: to go visit one of my girlfriends over there for

1024
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 3: her brunch and she's like on arian and of course,

1025
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 3: you know, do your title.

1026
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 2: You're at the head table, and I was just like, okay,

1027
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like I just sit at the head table.

1028
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: I don't know that every time somebody speaks, I have

1029
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,720
Speaker 3: to stand up and I have to greet them. Wow.

1030
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 2: So I'm always still.

1031
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 3: Like learning on the job because French culture is very

1032
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 3: big on protocol. Francophone countries and anglephone countries are a

1033
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 3: little bit different. Like when I go to China, I'm

1034
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,720
Speaker 3: like all relaxed, just chilling.

1035
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 2: I'm over at Coochdvar. It's like, okay, I already know

1036
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 2: I have to be on wow. So but yes, it's

1037
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 2: my honor to serve those people.

1038
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: Yes, that is in Oh thank you, Oh my gosh.

1039
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: We are in the presence of a queen. It's so crazy.

1040
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 2: I was wondering.

1041
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: I was like, how did that happen? So how often

1042
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: do you have to go?

1043
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 2: I go? Technically I go.

1044
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 3: It seems like I'm in Africa so often, but I

1045
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 3: am there in Dawa at least once a year.

1046
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 2: I am on the continent sometimes every other month.

1047
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: Wow.

1048
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 3: We actually even at the fund and the foundation, so

1049
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 3: eighty percent of our funds are domestic, twenty percent or international.

1050
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 3: So I allocate grants through there. We have investments on

1051
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 3: the continent. So yes, it's it's it's wonderful.

1052
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: I love that. I do have a question. There's a

1053
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: big misconception that Africa is not a place that you

1054
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: want to move to. But I hear so many Americans

1055
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: going back to Africa. Ghana specifically Ghana has done a

1056
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: good job. How do you feel about that and is

1057
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: that something that you feel people should look into.

1058
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I even have Guanian citizenship. So Ghana has

1059
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 3: done a great job with just marketing the year of

1060
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 3: their return. And I would say this because they're like,

1061
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 3: and what did you think when you got here?

1062
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 2: And I was honest with them, you all oversold this place.

1063
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: Now.

1064
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 3: I've been back and forth to Ghana so many times

1065
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 3: since then, I said, only because I'm somebody who's traveled

1066
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 3: the continent. I said, I've been north, south, east west.

1067
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 3: I said, so I know what Africa has offered. I said,

1068
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,439
Speaker 3: you all get enough so much tourism here. I said,

1069
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 3: I did expect your infrastructure to be a little bit better.

1070
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 3: I said, you go next door to Kotivoir and they said,

1071
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 3: we already know.

1072
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 2: It's gorgeous.

1073
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 3: So like Ibjina is called Paris of the West. Like

1074
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 3: I mean, it's Ivijian. I mean the beaches. Ivery coast

1075
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 3: is known for their white sand beaches, all of it.

1076
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 2: It's gorgeous.

1077
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 3: So I will say this, I think that any black

1078
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 3: person should have that experience of being on your own land.

1079
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 3: There's nothing like it. I think that they should know

1080
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 3: the culture, the history. It's part of who we are. Yes,

1081
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: So I do encourage that. I encourage even.

1082
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: If you want two places.

1083
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 3: You know, it may be inexpensive to have a summer

1084
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 3: home out on the continent and then come back, you know,

1085
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 3: So I definitely encourage it. And like I said, God

1086
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 3: has done a good job of making it easy for people.

1087
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 2: Right.

1088
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: What about safety? Because I went to Johannesburg with Tyler

1089
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: for the Global Citizens Festival and they were telling us,

1090
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: don't have EarPods in your ears, don't be on your

1091
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: phone in the car.

1092
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 3: I don't stop at the red lights after when it

1093
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 3: gets dark. Yes, I love Johannesburger a few times.

1094
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 2: Is it like that?

1095
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: And not even know if all Africa's like that? You

1096
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: have other parts where it's war no, whe I.

1097
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 3: Will say this, it's fifty four countries. So no, it's

1098
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 3: definitely not all like that. Africa has everything that you

1099
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 3: will find in the world. You're going to find paradise,

1100
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 3: you're going to find Third World and you're going to

1101
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 3: find city high skyscrapers oliver like you saw in Drouble.

1102
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 2: So you're going to see everything.

1103
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: You did see everything because job like thirty like to

1104
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: Suedo where YEP lives and then is like you're passing

1105
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: huts in like.

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Speaker 3: Correct all of it. But the level of beauty is unmatched,

1107
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 3: you know. So you're going to see all of it

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00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 3: and those of us who can and we can come

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00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 3: and do things to help make it better. The investment

1110
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 3: opportunity is huge. I sit on the board of Steve Madden.

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Speaker 3: Our number one store right now is our South African store,

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00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 3: are you Yes, We've expanded to the continent and Steve

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00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 3: Manner has some cute clothes.

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Speaker 2: Now I didn't know that. Yeah, just started making there.

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00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 2: It's on Revolve.

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Speaker 1: I see it all the time.

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00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like Steve Madden.

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00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all have some really keep it up. That's really cy.

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00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 2: But I love serving on the board amazing I do.

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Speaker 3: But Africa has so much to offer investments, opportunities.

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00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 2: I even know people in your field.

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00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: I have a friend, She's been very open. Gail Bean

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Speaker 1: has a house in Acre.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a cross.

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Speaker 3: But let me tell you there are people who couldn't

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Speaker 3: get through the door here, but got through the door there.

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00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,320
Speaker 3: I'm talking folks you wouldn't know who they were. And

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Speaker 3: now I got millions of followers, and I'm just like,

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00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 3: oh my gosh because of the opportunities on the continent.

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Speaker 1: And I love the TV and film industry. They're like that.

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00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: Some of my favorite shows are in Africa. You a

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00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: Blood and Water watch Oh my goodness, Pola. Yes, I

1133
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: met the other sister. I said, next time, Oh, I

1134
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: love it. Last year, yes, I love it.

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00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 2: I'm like you, Yes, Blood and Water. I just watched it.

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00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 2: She's like, yes, that's one of my favorite so good.

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00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the production quality is fantasy second to is incredible.

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Speaker 3: Now South Africa, it's eighteen to one. I have a

1139
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 3: girlfriend there. Yes, she runs actually an agency, a talent agency.

1140
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 3: Used to work at Innerscope. Now that she's there, her

1141
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 3: and her husband and their kids. She said, Arian had

1142
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 3: I known I could get stuff at this level for

1143
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 3: this price, She said, I had three more kids. Wow,

1144
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 3: she said, I'm just past childbeard, but I would have

1145
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 3: had three more.

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00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 2: Kids because she's like my house staff. You know, it

1147
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 2: is very expensive. They have so much help. Oh yeah.

1148
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 3: I walked in the door. They pulled off champagne everything.

1149
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 3: I'm at this gorgeous house of hers And I said, girl,

1150
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 3: what does this cost? She said about five hundred thousand,

1151
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 3: she said, but you know this over there in America

1152
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 3: would have been millions.

1153
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: Yes.

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00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 3: Wow, so eighteen in Africa.

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00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 2: That's not your favorite place where I am queen.

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00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 3: I will say this, it's not a still it's a

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00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 3: little midget midget less.

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00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 2: No, it's midget less, but it's you don't see.

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00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 3: It, so it's not you're going to get that feeling

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00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 3: of Oh no, five hundred thousand.

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00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 2: It's five hundred.

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00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 1: Thousand, right, got it?

1163
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 2: God? Yes, wow, I love that, Aaron.

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00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed this conversation. I have to.

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00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,959
Speaker 3: I feel like we're just sitting in your house, Yes,

1166
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 3: just having us a good time in our pajamas.

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00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll have to do that again.

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00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, and really have a good time.

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00:52:58,440 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 3: Yes.

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00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: Before we go, I want to play a game of

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00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: this or That's okay?

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00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 2: Are you ready.

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00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: All right, let's see we got angel versus seed investment.

1174
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 1: You said angel, angel investment or seed investment.

1175
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 2: And I pick one one or the other. Yeah, okay,

1176
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 2: what's the outcome?

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00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: She is such a business when she's like, no, what.

1178
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 2: Just say just pick one seed investment.

1179
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: Okay, success versus failure?

1180
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 2: Said, success versus failure.

1181
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: And this could be a have a caveat.

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00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 2: I know, because people will pick failure because they actually

1183
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 2: get to learn from it.

1184
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking.

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00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 2: She's like, I don't want to fail. It's not a

1186
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 2: bad thing though, so it's like, yikes, I'm gonna go

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00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 2: for success. Keep going.

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00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do it. Cash versus crypto.

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00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 3: Okash, I'm a old school I'm like cash, I'm real old.

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00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: I have not gotten into I don't trust it.

1191
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 3: No.

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00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 2: I did do crypto, and I made a lot of cash.

1193
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 3: Really yeah, I took most took most out. This was

1194
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 3: I was in it very early early on.

1195
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

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00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: It's something that I just really couldn't get into it.

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00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: And I guess because I'm very old, I won't.

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00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but it's cash. If I got you, I know,

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00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 2: that's right.

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00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 1: Okay. Investing versus saving.

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00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:23,320
Speaker 2: I already know I'm investing.

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00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 1: Period.

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00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 3: I don't have the discipline to save. I have the

1204
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 3: discipline to invest. Don't get me wrong, I have a

1205
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 3: saving yeah, but I am so disciplined. When I see

1206
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 3: that money going up, I just want to add, yeah,

1207
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 3: I have.

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00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,439
Speaker 2: A discipline for that, right.

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00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: I love that last one sneakers versus heels. I think

1210
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 1: I know this one.

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00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 2: I'm a heels.

1212
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:43,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say I know this one.

1213
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 2: Yes.

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00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: So to end the show, we have what is called

1215
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: positive outcomes, where our listeners right into us and we

1216
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: give them advice. You ready, all right? So Carol Lee? Right?

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00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: How can I balance my role as a give and

1218
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: continue supporting others while setting healthy boundaries to protect my

1219
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: own well being and foster a more positive dynamic within

1220
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: my family? So you are a giver and you're supporting,

1221
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: but you want to set boundaries. I've dealt with this

1222
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: where I'm constantly giving and giving and you realize that

1223
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: you're giving isn't helping people learn the lesson?

1224
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 2: Oh it could be enablement it very much, and then

1225
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 2: turn to entitlement.

1226
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 3: I don't think that people who are givers should ever

1227
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 3: stop giving because I'm a giver. Yeah, I think you

1228
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 3: have to be mindful of who you're giving to.

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00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: That's it.

1230
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 3: Yes, because by default we're gonna give, absolutely, because that's just.

1231
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 2: Who we are and how we're wired to be. Yes,

1232
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 2: but you have to be mindful of who you're giving to.

1233
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 3: So I think the boundary more so is is where

1234
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:53,240
Speaker 3: I'm giving going to bear fruit?

1235
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 2: Right? Yes? And if it is not, then that's not

1236
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 2: I'm not giving right right? Got it?

1237
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:09,320
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, my gosh, it's fascinating. Yes,

1238
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing everything with us.

1239
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Of course

1240
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 2: I could be here all day.

1241
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying, I'm glad we did this because

1242
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: we have not gotten to talk. We've seen each other

1243
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 1: in passing so many times and never got to really

1244
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: sit down.

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00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 2: This is amazing.

1246
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and we cannot wait for that book out

1247
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 1: that super excited you're thank you, my goodness. I absolutely

1248
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: enjoyed my conversation with Arian Simone. There were so many gems.

1249
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean, she touched on financial literacy, she touched on entrepreneurship,

1250
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: she touched on adversity in her journey and how she

1251
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: kept pushing and I think my biggest takeaway from Arian

1252
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: would be to honestly look more into my heritage and

1253
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 1: my lineage to see where I'm from. Her talking about

1254
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: Africa and her being a queen in Africa was so

1255
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: inspiring and it inspired me to really look deeper into

1256
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: my ancestry. For all they say, you don't know where

1257
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: you're going until you know where you come from. Thank

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00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: you so much for tuning into today's episode of Keep

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00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: It Positive, Sweetie. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review,

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00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,960
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00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: Positive Sweetie. And remember, guys, no matter what life throws

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00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: at you, stay focused, stay confident, and as always, keep

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00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: it positive.

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Speaker 2: Sweeties.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you guys next time.