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Speaker 1: small entrepreneur, please welcome to show. Attorney Benjamin Crump, thank

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Speaker 1: that change your life? Certainly I was trying to do

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Speaker 1: people look like me, and for people who were Americans.

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Speaker 1: I get approached by too many people. It's in my

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Speaker 1: why you got involved at that magnitude. Absolutely. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: But Thurgot Marshall went all over America trying to use

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Speaker 1: And with this Being Crump Law Firm, using the brand

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Speaker 1: We're doing big things on this show, y'all because we've

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Speaker 1: right back, Hi. We're Tryan McDonald back with more money

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Brother Roshan McDonald, my advisor who always

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Speaker 1: make my prayer look good. Thank you, my friend. We

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Speaker 1: of shoes. I was like, I should recycle these shoes.

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Speaker 1: And so then it just kind of burther it into

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Speaker 1: heel time. And so I can turn a worn and

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Speaker 1: unworn sneakers and heels and I'm working on Oxford specifically

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Speaker 1: for guys um to turn them into clocks. Now, okay,

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Speaker 1: now when you say this, now let's go go to

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Speaker 1: the beginning. But thank you crazy right when you when

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Speaker 1: you when you think of these ideas normal? Right? So

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Speaker 1: how did you break through the crazy part? And let's

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Speaker 1: go let's go back. Okay, you're you're an attractive woman

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Speaker 1: very intelligently on a pretty man student when he was

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Speaker 1: in college, and you chowed an entertainment. And so when

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Speaker 1: when a woman who has been an entertainment talk about

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Speaker 1: with business ideas, all you met with any skepticism? Well yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just for years and years and years,

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Speaker 1: you know, we we work on we make other people money.

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Speaker 1: And I was like you know what, I want to

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Speaker 1: be in charge and have liberty of my own life

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Speaker 1: and do what I want to do when I want

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Speaker 1: to do it. And so the best way to do

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Speaker 1: that is to be your own boss. And I know

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Speaker 1: that I've been feeling this way for quite some time

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Speaker 1: and being like producing a show didn't really interest me.

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Speaker 1: It's just like I think being a dancer in so

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Speaker 1: many shows that I was like, that's a lot of

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Speaker 1: work and I felt like I had done that a

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Speaker 1: lot that it just didn't inspire me. And I wanted

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Speaker 1: something that, I guess what's kind of outside of the box.

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Speaker 1: And hell Time, because I made so much room for greatness,

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Speaker 1: hell Time just kind of made its way into my life.

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Speaker 1: And the creative process is what I love and it

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Speaker 1: you know, figuring out how to to put a clock

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Speaker 1: post from from like a clock kit in through a

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Speaker 1: sole of a shoe. Um, I had to figure all

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Speaker 1: that out, and that was the part that I love.

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Speaker 1: It's the business part and the marketing all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's where the headache comes in. And that's what we're

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Speaker 1: doing to day. We're marketing because when I when we

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Speaker 1: talked that said you need to come on my show,

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Speaker 1: so we can start marketing. And it's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: last time on my show because you're heading into Christmas season.

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Speaker 1: Because I know when you're marketing and you're branding, you're

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Speaker 1: promoting something. I always remind people McDonald's runs commercials every day,

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Speaker 1: Chick fil A runs commercials every day. You have to

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Speaker 1: stay in front of your customers eyes in order to

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Speaker 1: become an item that they want to purchase. And so

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Speaker 1: being on my show today, it's just an extension of

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Speaker 1: opportunity to tell people about you. But it's also your story.

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Speaker 1: Is why I wanted you on the show, about a

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Speaker 1: person who didn't limit her dreams. Based on the fact

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Speaker 1: that you know your your fitness guru. You know you

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Speaker 1: have you have a foundation. Tell us about your foundation.

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Speaker 1: So I created created a dance scholarship to give back

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Speaker 1: to young aspiring dancers. I grew up a single parent,

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Speaker 1: and um, so you know my mother would work your

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Speaker 1: jobs who that I could go and dance and I

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Speaker 1: would win these scholarships to l A and New York

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Speaker 1: and we would we would be tied on finances. So

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Speaker 1: I um asked I in Dallas because I'm from Dallas, Texas. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's the dance Counsel and they have awards scholarships, so

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Speaker 1: I would apply to those every summer. Since then I

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Speaker 1: could go to l A and New York to train.

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Speaker 1: And that was something that was important to me to

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Speaker 1: give back. And um, before I turned thirty, I created

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Speaker 1: this list of thirty things to do before I was thirty,

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Speaker 1: something that bettered me, something that bettered our environment, and

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Speaker 1: something that better better to other people. It would be

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Speaker 1: anything from you know, to stop tanning and tanning beds,

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Speaker 1: to plan a tree in my name, to create in

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Speaker 1: this scholarship and um, and that's how it kind of

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Speaker 1: came to life. And and some of my military friends

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Speaker 1: that I met along the way and pay people were

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Speaker 1: really supportive of it. I thought it was so cool.

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Speaker 1: So I get to award uh young dancers, uh you know,

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Speaker 1: financial aid to help them pursue their dreams. And so

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Speaker 1: with heal time, I'm able some of the proceeds go

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Speaker 1: to the Amber Shouser Scholarship. I love the way you

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Speaker 1: just we've that only because you learned how to market

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Speaker 1: and brain. You know, if you know is a percentage

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Speaker 1: of it is going to help other people. It's a

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Speaker 1: charitable clause in your heel time correct, So how does

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Speaker 1: one get how does one get a clock? Come on

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Speaker 1: that we only which out of sales of clocks too?

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Speaker 1: How does one get one of these special clocks? So

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Speaker 1: I have a website. It's heel time dot com. That's

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Speaker 1: h E E L T I M dot com and

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Speaker 1: you can go online under clock gallery. Uh. One cool

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Speaker 1: aspect Anxiety named every clock after a friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: So so every clock is named and inspired by a friend.

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Speaker 1: You know, whether this friend gave me their shoes some

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Speaker 1: of my showgirl friends gave me their shoes, or I

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Speaker 1: picked up the shoe at goodwill, or I ordered it

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Speaker 1: and the sho's never been worn and call all kinds

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Speaker 1: of the concepts are inspired by my friends. But you

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Speaker 1: can also customize um, your shoe if you have, like

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Speaker 1: say you have your wedding heels, um, you know just

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Speaker 1: they just sit in a box. Um. And so here's

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Speaker 1: a chance I can turn your wedding heel into a

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Speaker 1: beautiful clock that you can put on your wall. So

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Speaker 1: I say that the game because I think that's really

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Speaker 1: really awesome, and that should be heard clearly. You can

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Speaker 1: take anybody's shoe, even my size twa of gators yea,

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Speaker 1: and turn it into a shoe. You can take a

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Speaker 1: can you take a basketball shoot too? I've turned sneakers, yes,

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Speaker 1: sneak into that. So but you sell them, but you

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Speaker 1: also will customize them. So when they go to so,

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Speaker 1: when they go to that website hell time dot com,

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Speaker 1: does that have it on there that they can they

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Speaker 1: can submit a requests or contact you and make uh

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Speaker 1: for for customs. Yes, I actually have a custom tab

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Speaker 1: under clock gallery and it will tell you and explain

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Speaker 1: to you. Because here's the thing is, for some like Hells,

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Speaker 1: their platforms and clock posts aren't long enough to go

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Speaker 1: through that platform. So some for so platforms I can't do.

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Speaker 1: But it'll it'll show you how to take pictures. So

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Speaker 1: then I can then tell you yes, I can turn

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Speaker 1: that into a clock or no I can't. I love that.

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Speaker 1: So basically you'll be able to let people know up

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Speaker 1: front you don't just be mailing me in your shoe

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Speaker 1: and then you people ugly shoe come in your bam

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Speaker 1: and and just so. And also it's good to see

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Speaker 1: pictures and you you're just not gonna do any shoes.

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Speaker 1: So if the shoe look too ugly, you're just not

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Speaker 1: gonna do it right. Well, you know ugly shoes like

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Speaker 1: good Will and I've you know, added glitter and crystal girls.

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Speaker 1: Come on, come on, tell them again. You can turn

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Speaker 1: an ugly shoe into a pretty warm clock. That's what

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Speaker 1: you're saying, right exactly, I can do that. Yes. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing because a lot of people will say, hey,

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Speaker 1: once it's you know, hanging on my wall and it's

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Speaker 1: turn into a clock, can I wear it again? Here's

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Speaker 1: the problem is there's gonna be a hole in your

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Speaker 1: sole of your shoes. So so no, or if you

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Speaker 1: have your basketball shoe, I put the clock on the

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Speaker 1: top top of the toe, so um, you know you

564
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Speaker 1: can always take out the clock that you're going to

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Speaker 1: have a hole in your shoe. Right. So this is

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Speaker 1: something that's this is one time permanent and it should

567
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Speaker 1: be something that you want as a as an item.

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Speaker 1: We got, like I said, we've got Christmas coming up,

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Speaker 1: we've got birthdays coming up. These make great items, one

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Speaker 1: of a kind type items. Because we can say that

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Speaker 1: because your shoe, Yes, if it's customized on your shoe

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00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: that you warn for your wedding, that's one of a kind.

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00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: That makes an amazing gift opportunity. And these are working

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Speaker 1: clocks correct, Yes, these are working clocks. Yes, and I

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Speaker 1: always test them at least twice before I mail them out,

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00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: make sure they're all They're all um work and working

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00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: for sure. So Amber, again, you come on show right now.

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Speaker 1: This is October. You know we got Christmas coming up,

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Speaker 1: so if you have time, I want to bring back

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00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: on the show in November so we can get these

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Speaker 1: orders in. But again, it's all part of the branding process.

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Speaker 1: Tell them one more time how they can contact you

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Speaker 1: to get orders in order what you already have on

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Speaker 1: your gallery. Yes, www dot hell time dot com. That's

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Speaker 1: h E E L T I M E dot com.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, it's a great talking to you. It's a

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Speaker 1: fantastic And I want to also next time we're talking

588
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Speaker 1: about we're gonna talk about the the you know, the

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Speaker 1: getting in shape. That's what you really big Well would

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Speaker 1: love you, Yes, teach in cycling classes a week and

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Speaker 1: I'm sew energy just went to another level. Fantastic is always.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time and calling me from

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Speaker 1: Los Vegas. We're talking soon. Go to heal time dot com.

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Speaker 1: Check it out. Amber Strasser, the originator the entrepreneur Straight Dallas,

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Speaker 1: former Dallas cowboy Chilly to turn entrepreneur. That's how we

596
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Speaker 1: do it on this show, trying to tell you the

597
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Speaker 1: secret to success really is all about you and your

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Speaker 1: dream or you want to take it to the next level.

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Speaker 1: It's all about you and your dream and the effort

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Speaker 1: you're trying to put behind it. We'll be back with

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Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations hosted by me Rashaan McDonald. Hi,

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Speaker 1: I'm Rushan McDonald. Welcome back to Money Making Conversation. If

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Speaker 1: hear all my past broadcasts, all the broadcasts that you're

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Business Finance section. I'm Sean McDonald. You

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Speaker 1: guys ready for my next guest because I'm ready to

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Speaker 1: bring on. She's from Atlanta, Georgia. My next is a

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Speaker 1: farmer senior Senior executive and finance for the Intercontinental Hotels

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Speaker 1: Group in Now she has turned entrepreneur in her encore career,

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Speaker 1: starting they vendor laundromat business in an underserved Northwest neighborhood

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Georgia, which she envisions envisions being the local

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Speaker 1: community center. Please work in the money. May conversation Marlena Norris,

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Speaker 1: Hi Dot, I'm doing well good good? Are you start

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Speaker 1: like you're in the box? You know what speaking phone

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Speaker 1: or or what? Or you're on the regular phone? Can

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Speaker 1: you pick up because you start like in the boxes?

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Speaker 1: All right? Awesome, awesome, thank you very much. I apologize

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Speaker 1: when I tell you that earlier. First of all, thank

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Speaker 1: you for getting on the call today. Um being your you,

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Speaker 1: I want to say a corporate exact turned business on

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Speaker 1: the correct Can I say that? Okay? Cool? Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: very familiar with in the Continental Hotel Change. I have

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Speaker 1: the loyalty card, so I know the type of service

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Speaker 1: and expectations I expect from them when I check into

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Speaker 1: the hotel. I'm taking the Chicago. I stay in the

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Speaker 1: one in Los Angeles in the central city on the

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Speaker 1: regular basis, that's the only hotel I stay in, and

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Speaker 1: so I just want to know. I'm familiar with the

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Speaker 1: quality level with your background, so that's the level of expectation. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm also from filth War Texas. Fifth for our sections,

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Speaker 1: Texas is one of those underserved communities that you reference

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Speaker 1: because guess what. We had to go to a laundroy

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Speaker 1: mat to get our clothes done. We had to go

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Speaker 1: big old white sheet. We put all the dirty clothes

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00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: in that white cheet and I walk down the street

644
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: with this thrown over my shoulder because my mom made

645
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: me pack it. And we go down there, we do

646
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: all our washing or drying, and then we folded neatly,

647
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,479
Speaker 1: we bring it back. Is this the type of laundro

648
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: match we're talking about. That's a good question. I'm also

649
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: familiar with the awarding um and you two because I

650
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: lived in ut for seven years there you go very

651
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: very familiar with that area. The laundry service in today's

652
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: world is um more a little the quality of what

653
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: you would expect in the hotel as It's what I'm

654
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: trying to bring to it. It's not your mother's laundromat

655
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: there you go, or Rashawn's old laundroy mat. Now I

656
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: would sell it this. I would tell you this. You know,

657
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: I lived in New York and New York you know

658
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: it's one of those cities where you have huge laundry

659
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: matt services around the corner and things like that. And

660
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: I used that. And there's a lot of things that

661
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: that I noted in your description of what you're trying

662
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: to do. UM, basically, tell us why did you what

663
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: inspired you to do this? Because I read the article

664
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: that was printed September twenty eight, so I have a

665
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: sense of it, but I want our listeners to get

666
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 1: to understand it. Though. What's inspiring you behind starting this

667
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: type of service in the community. Well, coming from the

668
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: hotel business, to me, the laundry business is similarly in

669
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: that it's a hospitality business. Excuse me, it's a business

670
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: about people taking care of people. I actually sort of

671
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: fell into the first one, and from there the vision

672
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: morphed into something bigger than what I thought would happen. Right. Um,

673
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: I opened the first one. It is in on the

674
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: Donald Lee Hollywood Corridor. UM, And my primary purpose initially

675
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: was to provide jobs, right, um. So that was the

676
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,479
Speaker 1: thing that drove me. That's a catalyst driving me into

677
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: opening up the Lindry, and it gave me an opportunity

678
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: to connect with the community. Right. So, as time went

679
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: on and I got involved with nonprofit work, I could

680
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 1: see a greater need in this particular community. So when

681
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: the second location came available, I jumped on the opportunity

682
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: because it was a ground up opportunity as opposed to

683
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: the first one, which was turn key. I got the

684
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: chance to make it into exactly what I wanted it

685
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: to be, which is something that I think a community,

686
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: um like this one deserves and something that I think

687
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: the community need. Now we're the reason I just wanted

688
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: to talk about. That's a certain expectation of what people think.

689
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: I think a field that the larger matter is. Am

690
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: I wrong? I say that? Are you trying to change

691
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: the dynamic to say this is a lifestyle like larger

692
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: map where you have child services, WiFi, televisions that actually work,

693
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: you know that don't look blurry, you know, screens screens

694
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: of that. That's what we talk about as a lifestyle. Correct,

695
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: It's it's totally different. It's a shift in paradigm in

696
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: the a that one might think of what a laundromatum

697
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: ought to be or what it has been. An average

698
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: person that comes into a laundromat for all the purposes

699
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: in at least into at least two hours in that laundry, right, um.

700
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: And so it does become a gathering place um for

701
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: the community. And so to make it something that is

702
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: an experiencing that is enjoyable is what we're um, what

703
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: we're seeking to do. So when people walk into the

704
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: laundry and they bring in their children, yes there's there's

705
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: kids entertainments that are where there's wifis that entry um,

706
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: iPads that are that are stationed. So they rather than

707
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: kids who might ordinarily run around terrorizing the laundry play

708
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: with baskets, they said, they sit attentively in front of

709
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: a WiFi and they don't move. Um. We've this location

710
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: used to be an old McDonald's. So we used the

711
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: same footprint that was here from before. And it's a

712
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: McDonald's back in the early seventies if you remember, they

713
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: had outdoor play areas um during that time. So we

714
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: actually a footprint, sensed it in and said why don't

715
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: we just put something outside um that would give a

716
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: little more entertainment and a little more excitement to the

717
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: to the to the laundry experience. We haven't put actually

718
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: playground equipment out there yet, but it's primed and ready,

719
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 1: it's sensed. We just finished the cement in the concrete,

720
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: so now it's just bringing eating other things for for

721
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: kids and adults to utilize. Let me ask you this now,

722
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,919
Speaker 1: how many washers I hope, I'm I'm not putting you spot?

723
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: How many washers? How many dryers do you have at

724
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: your facility? We have thirties six washers and thirties four

725
00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: dryers at the facility, all brand new, all state of

726
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 1: the art, um and incredibly efficient. Okay are they because

727
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: are you know? Are they coin driven, credit card driven

728
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: or the l A D What are they? We think

729
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: they take everything UM their coin for the individuals who

730
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: want to come in and just you know, from the

731
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: old school, UM use coins. And then we've got you

732
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: take Apple pay, Google pay. It takes all the major

733
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: credit cards, Dinner and Discover um. So we Premis take

734
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: everything and we have a loyalty card where we can

735
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: put frequent reward programs on there to inspire customers to

736
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: come back repentively um and use on machines, so they

737
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: take present to everything. Well, well, you know, I'm just

738
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 1: letting everybody there's a new launder Madden Town to Atlanta, Georgia, because,

739
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, people have these perceptions, and

740
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: you know, I have a natural way of saying things

741
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: and and and it comes across humorous sometimes, and I

742
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: think when you say things humorously, people can tend to listen.

743
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: And also there's a layer of truth when you're speaking.

744
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: And when I'm speaking about my experience, you know, that's

745
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 1: the reality of a lot of people's experience. You're trying

746
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: to change that narrative, correct, I am trying to change

747
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: the narrative, shift the paradigm to to the way one

748
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: thought of a laundry is a drudgery and amongding chore

749
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: that you had to do. That hasn't changed. You still

750
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: have to do it, but it doesn't mean it has

751
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: to be a drudgery and it didn't have to be

752
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: so much of a chore. So we walk into our facility,

753
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: it's always going to be cool, it's always going to

754
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: be comfortable. It's very high techt and just to look

755
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: and feel, um, it's we have great attemptance who um

756
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,760
Speaker 1: take care of your every week we offer free coffee,

757
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 1: free WiFi, and eventually we have a long term vision

758
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: that we will take us into doing tutoring. This is amazing.

759
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back with more of our conversation

760
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: with Ms Marlena Norris in regards to it, she's innovating,

761
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: she's changing the game. She's a former executive with Intercomment

762
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: Hotel and now she's Uh, there's some things I want

763
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: to talk to her about. She really it's more than

764
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: just the lawn dramatic experience. She's trying to change. She's

765
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: trying to change that community. She's trying to get people

766
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: to reinvest in that community. And we want to talk

767
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: about that in more detail because as an entrepreneur, as

768
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: you are a gained changer and she's trying to let

769
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: people know that she is invested in the community not

770
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: just to make money, but to create a narrative of positivity.

771
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 1: And I love it and we're gonna talk more. We'll

772
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: be right back with Ms. Norris on money making conversation.

773
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: Don't go nowhere again phone number eight three two zero

774
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 1: five five nine two if you want to call by

775
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: bye Hi for sure. McDonald's back innovators money making conversations.

776
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 1: You hear the interviews of about industry decision makers, CEO,

777
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: small entrepreneurs and celebrities, and I asked them to tell

778
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: us the secrets to success in their world on the phone.

779
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: I have a young lady who has transition from the

780
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: corporate experience and now she's changing the game in the

781
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: underserved community in the Atlanta George. She's opened a laundron mat.

782
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: You hear the word lundromat, and I know you go

783
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: laundro Matt Man. I mean a lot of thoughts just

784
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: come on you about where the laundro Matt is. We're

785
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: not at her laundromat, and so Ms Norris, will you

786
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: please tell everybody your laundronat, your laundromat is not their

787
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: mama's laundro mat. That's absolutely right, it is not your

788
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: mother's laundromat. Matter of fact, the Washington dryers are so

789
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: high tech um that the force for which they stand

790
00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: actually cleans your clothes um better, more efficient. You don't

791
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,959
Speaker 1: need as much soap. So I can save the people

792
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 1: in the community money because they don't need to wash

793
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: and put tons and tons of soap in the washers

794
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: and then the dryers dry maximum in thirtamnus and so

795
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: they're in and out in one hour. So so you

796
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 1: say no time and money, that's what you're saying. I'm

797
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: saving in time and money exactly. Now, what is the goal?

798
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 1: Now you've opened one, you've opened one location. Uh, I

799
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: read the argles, say you're opening the second one or

800
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: it hasn't opened, the second one has opened, and the

801
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: goal is to like franchise these out. Is that the goal? No,

802
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: that's not the goal. My goal is to build as

803
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: many as I can and underserved communities and do good

804
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: for the community. But I want to keep my brand

805
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: pure and keep it clean and keep it focused on

806
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: on the mission that I have or that we were

807
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: put in place for it. So I have at this

808
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 1: point in time, I don't have any um intentions of franchising.

809
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: I read this quote. I'm gonna repeat repeat this quote.

810
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty phenomenal that you stated small

811
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs can come into this neighborhood and be real agents

812
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: for change in economic development. I want to lead that change.

813
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: That's your role. That's the role you want in life, now, correct,

814
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 1: That's that's the role I want. I want to play.

815
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 1: I want to make a difference in this community. And

816
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: people like me can come in and change the facide

817
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: put in a really good business model. Um. And if

818
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: everyone comes in and does the exact same things that

819
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,439
Speaker 1: that we're trying to do here, we take our community back,

820
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: one black at a time. Well, let me ask you

821
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: this then, because we're talking about you know, come back

822
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: and and you know what usually happens. And I'm not

823
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,240
Speaker 1: saying anything that anybody's know. There's certain areas in Houston

824
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: that at one time were predominantly black, and all of

825
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's not predominant black anymore. In fact, they

826
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: just pushed homeless people out. He pushed everybody out, and

827
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: it's they can be regentrified and now you and when

828
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: that happens, then we don't get to participate in the

829
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: change you're saying. I believe what you're saying is that

830
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: by investing in, by coming into your community, now you

831
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 1: get to only participate, but you also get to save

832
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: the community and build it back up, becoming a tax

833
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: serving community, correct exactly. And you get to see at

834
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: the table you did an opportuity to be on the

835
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,240
Speaker 1: funding of development and have guide and direct the past,

836
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: which it goes to your voices at the table they're

837
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: supposed to allowing it to happen and just run might

838
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: over you. So that's the thing that's important to me.

839
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: Now when when when I talking because I mentioned several

840
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: times that you were a corporate executive with inter Kondom,

841
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: a hotel chain, what was the transition? Because I I

842
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: get a lot of calls about people who are afraid

843
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: to make that transition to leave a job that offers

844
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: them health benefits, for retirement opportunities, they stay there for

845
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: a long period of time. What what was What was

846
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 1: the transition from going from you know, you know your check,

847
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: you know what time you show for work, you know

848
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: your vacations, you're gonna get everywhere of a year to

849
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: self employment. The first thing I learned was that I

850
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: didn't have where on in corporate America, I had a

851
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: team of individuals. There was the VP of of Legal,

852
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: there was a VP of Text, There was a team,

853
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: and it was a collaborative team that wasout solving problems.

854
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: The first thing I had to learn was there was

855
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: no team unless I paid for that team. And while

856
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: in the corporate world, I could just send an email

857
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: off to my legal counsel in house and they would

858
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 1: answer me expodiciously. In this world, I not only have

859
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: to pay for an attorney who happens to be in St. Louis, Missouri,

860
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: but I have to hope that he would call me

861
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: back within a day or two. So that was something

862
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: that was It was a real revelation for me and

863
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: the other things. The transition is that I am everything.

864
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: I have two partners, one of which who is my husband,

865
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: and then I have another gentleman who is a partner.

866
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: But generally I'm the CEO of the managing partners, the CFO,

867
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm the administrative assistant. I'm pretty much everything. I wear

868
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: every hat in the business. But it's fascinating because it's me.

869
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: What do you do on your because there are some

870
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: days they just get you down? You know? How do

871
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: you get back up from the down days? Oh that's

872
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: a good question. I am always going to see the

873
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: glass have full. If I didn't see the glass have full,

874
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have moved into this neighborhood. I wouldn't have

875
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: taken on the risk and the challenge. Um, I just

876
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,800
Speaker 1: keep remembering that I'm doing something really good and that

877
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: I've because I have two hundred mets in this community,

878
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: I now employed for eight people, so for one and

879
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: for the other, and that's eight people who may not

880
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: have had an opportunity otherwise. That I've been able to

881
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: be a blessing too. So that keeps me going. I

882
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: keep remembering, remembering that there's a question I wanted to

883
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: ask you earlier, was that the advantages of coming into

884
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:22,720
Speaker 1: an under under served community is what what what I'm

885
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: thinking through the biggest advantage for me is that my

886
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: husband and I both are educational education boss and we

887
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: believe in the power of knowledge and the biggest advantages

888
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: that we're finding. What I'm finding is that one we

889
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: can actually use that that platform to empower others and

890
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: to teach of as I had a young lady who

891
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: walked into the laundry on last Friday, and she was

892
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: probably thirty years old, and she was so excited because

893
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: you wanted to open the laundromat and she wanted to

894
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,959
Speaker 1: know what it took and and wants to really picked

895
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: my brain about it. So that's a teachable moment where

896
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: give an opportunity to teach people about what it takes

897
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: to give into the business um to use all the

898
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: propate knowledge that I had some much financial perspective to

899
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: impart that onto others. But more importantly, a tutoring aspect

900
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: of this is that what my husband and I want

901
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: to do. My husband tutors right now for in our church,

902
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: and he's actually brilliant and to what it gives us

903
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: an opportunity is to actually come into this community where

904
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: the scores are predominantly low and try to help raise

905
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: um awareness of that and also try to be put

906
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: in classes here at the laundry. So there's just so

907
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: many opportunities and so many it's so much you can do.

908
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: That's the advantage to it, that of giving back. So

909
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: this is this is a combination and if I'm if

910
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm incorrect, you can always correct me. Passionate and entrepreneur

911
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: because you're passionate about trying to make a change, and

912
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: also you also you're passionate about you know, you know

913
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,800
Speaker 1: this is the thing that this is one battle that

914
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: I always fight and I and I will continue to fight.

915
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: I hate when people just automatically stereotype African Americans. Uh,

916
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, we don't use technology, you know, we don't

917
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 1: use social media. You know, we uh, you know, we

918
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: just we use the basic funds of life. We don't

919
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: drive certain type of cars. So what I take away

920
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 1: from our call with you is that you're trying to

921
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: empower the community and only way it's gonna happen is

922
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: that by us reinvest in our time and our energy

923
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: back into the community. Is that correct? That that is

924
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: absolutely correct? And play you something that I found and

925
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,840
Speaker 1: what I don't like. What I don't like is that

926
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: you have um people who have come to this community

927
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: who may not look like you and I, who invest

928
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: in this community, but they invest at a substandard, sub

929
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 1: par level. And because there be this this community is

930
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: a basically it's it's there. It's a foodish, there's banks,

931
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: there's no grocery stores, there's pretty much it's pretty it's

932
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: pretty limited on each resources that other neighborhoods would have

933
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: in in this one should have. But you do with

934
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 1: people who come in and invest for the whole purpose

935
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: of profiting and taking advantage. And that's the things that

936
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,479
Speaker 1: I don't like. I like. I want to be able

937
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: to come in and give the community a product that

938
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: it deserves at a fair price. UM and offer other

939
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: a many things um in addition to that. So that's

940
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: the thing that excites me. Another exciting aspect of what

941
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: we're doing here is we will start this week to

942
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: launch the construction of a community garden. I said it

943
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: was a food desert um. So we're hoping if we're

944
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: gonna have a community garden that will we can partner

945
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: with some of the other restaurants in the neighborhood who

946
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: made come and get their products organic organic experiencing. I

947
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: you inspire me. Can I say that Ms Norri's inspire

948
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:30,240
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm fortunate, you know, Unfortunately I live in Houston.

949
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: I also live in Atlanta. So I'm not gonna say

950
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come over there and wash some clothes, but

951
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come visit you if you don't mind. And

952
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: because the fact of the matter is is that you know,

953
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: I traveled this country and I'm fortunate to have been

954
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: on both sides. You know, I hadn't we come from

955
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: the inner city, and I know days when I didn't

956
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: eat like everybody else was supposed to eat, even as

957
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: an adult. I know those days. And but what I

958
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: do like is the fact that you are undaunted by

959
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 1: the goal of somebody telling you what you cannot do.

960
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: You are undaunted by the fact that people telling you

961
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: that there's value only in certain parts of the world,

962
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 1: and that doesn't change you and I and I'm proud

963
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: of what you're doing. And I'm glad you came on

964
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: my show because this show is money making. Conversation is

965
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: about people hearing you. And also maybe if they hear you,

966
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: they would make a step in their city, in their

967
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: community and reinvest. Atlanta is only a starting point for you. Please,

968
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,240
Speaker 1: if anybody ever asked the interview, please spread your word.

969
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: You are the gospel, young lady. You are the truth,

970
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 1: You are the game changer, and you are the people

971
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 1: we need to hear from on a regular basis. Thank you.

972
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. So if if somebody want to watch

973
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,399
Speaker 1: their clothes, because people can hear me in Atlanta, how

974
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 1: can they get to your laundry mat my friend, and

975
00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: my laundry is called the laundry Sitter's twenty seven as

976
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: Donald Holly will Parkway. What what are the hours? What

977
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: are the hours? The hours are from seven eight m

978
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: to twelve o'clock, mis mate, every day of the week. Awesome.

979
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for taking the time to

980
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: call my show. If you don't mind, if if I

981
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: can always bring you back on the show periodically, just

982
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: to keep motivating my listeners and letting them know that

983
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 1: there's greatness in our community and their greatness, and making

984
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: change in yourself because you're you're changing the narrative. You're

985
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: giving us information and opportunity that there there's there's an

986
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: investment in any community. You just have to put the

987
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: time in an effort. Am I right? That's right? Absolutely,

988
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be happy to come back. I appreciate you

989
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: and tell you and tell your husband I want him

990
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: because you've been saying so many nice nuggets about him,

991
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: dropping all these gems, talk about he's your business partner,

992
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 1: and I heard you drop the words he's a genius.

993
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: I needed to put him on my show. My friend Ms.

994
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: Norris out of Atlanta, Georgia going up ain't changing the

995
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: narrative on Larger Match and then impoverished communities were back

996
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: more NFL stock is about to call my show first round,

997
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: pick said Diego charged. He's now a trucking magnet. Come on, y'all,

998
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: I'm bringing you all kind of diversity on this show,

999
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: Vinjamin Crump was talking about law, law firm, movies, expanding

1000
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:26,439
Speaker 1: his brain, and but Strauss from a Dallas cowbar cheer

1001
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: leader talking about wall clocks, custom wall clock, taking your

1002
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: shoes and turn them into clocks on the wall, customizing

1003
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: and not just talk to Mr North talking about reinvesting

1004
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: in your community. There is dollars in their hood and

1005
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: guess what you can take advantage of it. We'll be

1006
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: back with more of money Making Conversations with Sean McDonald.

1007
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: I'm your host. Hi. Sean McDonald's were back on the

1008
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Great show today. Benjamin Cruk was on

1009
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: earlier talking about his trans aosition to branding his business

1010
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: model into a national law firm called a ben Crump

1011
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: Law Firm, with Amber Strausser transitioning from Las Vegas showgirl,

1012
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: Dallas cowboy cheerleader to um clock designer called hill Time.

1013
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: And Marlana nors Uh left the corporate world at the

1014
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: Intercontinual Hotel and now is Uh creating a new narrative

1015
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: and unpoverished communities with laundro match, they have WiFi services,

1016
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: satellite TV. My next narrative is important because it's NFL

1017
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: season everybody talked about NFL, but the life expectancy of

1018
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: an NFL player roughly four years. My next guest is

1019
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: a former NFL first round draft pick for the San

1020
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: Diego Charges in two thousand and eight. He attended the

1021
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: University of Arizona and graduated with a degree in police

1022
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: st in double minor in African American Studies. In college,

1023
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: he wont this is very significant. That's why I want

1024
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: to keep it on because he's no slouts the Jim

1025
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: Thought Jim Thought Award, which goes to the best defensive

1026
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: back in college football. Please welcome to Money May Conversation.

1027
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: Antoine's Cathon. They get all that right there, Antoinet, It

1028
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: right my man. I'm gonna tell you I got you

1029
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: for one break. I gotta bring you back because when

1030
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: I when they when they gave me the resume, I went,

1031
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: you know something, and then we don't even talking about sports.

1032
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: It's just that you and I have similar tones. Let

1033
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: me just blame. My degree is in mathematics, but my

1034
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: minor is in sociology and policide. And my strength and

1035
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: it would change my life, man, was African American Studies.

1036
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: Because I was just wandering through college. Man and when

1037
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: I when I took my African American studies class, I

1038
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: discovered how much how much information is being denied in

1039
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 1: high schools and middle schools. Am I correct, Oh, it's

1040
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: it's it's it's insane. That was so eye opening to

1041
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: me to uh take those classes and to learn so

1042
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: much about our history because I would tell you, I

1043
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: tell this to my daughter. She's attending college now, and

1044
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: I told her, you know, it brought tears to eyes, man,

1045
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: because you know, when you look at studies basically in

1046
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: high school, this is how they just how they give

1047
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: you your studies to African Americans. You know, we were

1048
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: brought over as slaves, okay, then we were freed. Then

1049
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: they jumped all the way to the Brown Versus Board

1050
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: of Education, then they jumped to Martin Luther King, and

1051
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: then it's today whatever. That's basically what you learned in

1052
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: middle school. And they give your Black history mark, and

1053
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: they talk a little bit about and do a couple

1054
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: of program but they keep repeating the same you know,

1055
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: Rosie Park or Luther King, you know, the same same

1056
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: leaders and civil rights over and over again. When we're

1057
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: so much bigger and it's so much bigger you know

1058
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about right right there. Look, nothing else happened.

1059
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 1: Now you're my friend, outstanding football player because I'm a

1060
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: football fan. Okay, I can remember when you walked across

1061
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: the stage in New York City in the marry of marquees. Okay,

1062
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: that was a that was a life changing moment for you.

1063
01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: Correct right, Well, what did you expect? You jipt Off award.

1064
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Speaker 1: You you're from the West Coast and then you get

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01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: drafted by San Diego charges which is right down the coast,

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01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: so you really don't really change time zone. So you

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01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 1: went to school the universe Arizona save time zone, so

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Speaker 1: you're in heaven, correct I? It was. It was the

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Speaker 1: most amazing thing ever I went. I grew up in

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Speaker 1: Long Beach, went to Arizona to San Diego. My whole life,

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Speaker 1: I'm on the West coast with what's better than this?

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Speaker 1: I only spent four, you know, four or five years

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01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: of my life not next to a beach, So that

1074
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: was that was amazing. And then the family was very close,

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01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: so you know, making it making it to the to

1076
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: the NFL and having the family coast was always it was.

1077
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: It was something you always kind of think about like,

1078
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: am I going to be close? And then it actually happened.

1079
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: Now now, now the reason I've already bring you on

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01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: the show, and if you don't mind, I want to

1081
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:56,919
Speaker 1: bring you back. I already know I like you because

1082
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 1: the fact that you know you, you You're beyond you

1083
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: know when you you just happen to be a very

1084
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: gifted athlete who played football. You know what I'm saying,

1085
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: Because you your your your structure was set in place

1086
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: to be. I will tell you about Magic Johnson. I

1087
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: tell you about Magic Johnson. I want to call Magic

1088
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: Johnson a friend. Magic Johnson will be an entrepreneur. He

1089
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: just happened to be a brilliant basketball player because that

1090
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:22,439
Speaker 1: was something that was instilled in him. Can I see

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01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: the same thing about you? Yeah? And it was. It's

1092
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: been since I can remember. I've always told people that I,

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01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to own my own business, and

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01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, people asked me how I thought about sports.

1095
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: But growing up, you know, of course I had aspirations

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Speaker 1: of making it to the NFL or professional ranks. But

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01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: when I was when I was going through it, my

1098
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: mindset was always Okay, I'm in high school, now, am

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01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: I gonna start Okay, started as a freshman. Then okay,

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01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: am I ever gonna play varsity? Okay? Then you play

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01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 1: varsity and it's like, well, am I gonna get a scholarship?

1102
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: Then it's okay, I got one. Okay, now in my

1103
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: going to play then. So it was never like I

1104
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: just knew that was gonna happen for me. Um. But

1105
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: early on I always said I want to own my

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01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: own business and do different things like that, um as well.

1107
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: So it was it was, it was, it was always

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Speaker 1: that for me. Now with that being said, okay, we

1109
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: hear all these horror stories about you know, athletes in

1110
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: general because it gets such huge because I'm very familiar

1111
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: with this because I'm an entertainment and I know about

1112
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:35,439
Speaker 1: getting huge lump sums of money are inconsistent lump sums

1113
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: of money too, And so when you get this money,

1114
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: what what kept you focused? You know? What what made

1115
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: you stay the course? I want to say because of

1116
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: the fact that when I see yes like yesterday, you

1117
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: know Beckham from the New York Giants, you know he

1118
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: gets injured. J. J. Watt, you know another superstar, he

1119
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: gets injured. Your career was cut short by achilles heel injury,

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Speaker 1: What kept you, what kept you focused when you signed

1121
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: that contract? Say that there has to be life after football. Well,

1122
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: I always knew that it was for whatever reason, and

1123
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Speaker 1: I've been the kind of person that it was never

1124
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I knew the reality and that this wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to last forever. And I've kind of been a

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Speaker 1: frugal guy in my whole life. So for me, when

1127
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Speaker 1: I got it, it was like, Okay, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to do with it, so I'm just gonna sit

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Speaker 1: on it. I'm just love so I loved that. I

1130
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: love that, don't spend it. Sit on this, Okay, I'm

1131
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sull on this until I figure out what

1132
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Speaker 1: I really want to do with it. And then when

1133
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: I figured out what I wanted to do with it,

1134
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: because there was so much stuff I wanted to do,

1135
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: I would get to that point and say I just

1136
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. So I was just I've always been

1137
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 1: a safe I've always been a saver, and it's just

1138
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: it's just in me. It's just I just saved. And

1139
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: so people are say, hey, man, you know you're not

1140
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: living like you playoffs, right, I'm just you know, I'm

1141
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: just hanging out. I'm just enjoying what I'm doing. But

1142
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: I always knew it would it would come to an end,

1143
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: whatever that was. So he was planning, You was planning

1144
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: your exit. You was planning. He was giving to football,

1145
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: but you was planning your exit. Because nobody plays football

1146
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: at fifty. You know what I'm saying. That's a reality.

1147
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: You know they're getting to Getting past thirty five is hard.

1148
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 1: It's hard. And so with that being said, you got

1149
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: in the trucking business, though, How did you get into

1150
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: trucking business? My friend? Okay, let's let's go in your background. Now,

1151
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: look at your background, your NFL Star, first round draft pick,

1152
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 1: your degree in police side with with with African American studies.

1153
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 1: You went to the University of Arizona down in Santa

1154
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: and they go along all these nice beaches. How do

1155
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: you get in the trucking business? My friend? Yeah? So,

1156
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 1: my uh through my father. So his his dad, my

1157
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: grandfather started his truck and coumpany in the nineteen seventy seven.

1158
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: And my dad, once he finished playing, he played for

1159
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 1: the Falcons and he immediately got into truck and so

1160
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Speaker 1: I grew up around entrepreneur. I grew up around it,

1161
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: grew up around trucks, and and I've been around him

1162
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: and I just had a love for him ever since

1163
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: I was a kid. You know, used to ride around

1164
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: the country with him, and so you know, it was

1165
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: always something that I wanted to do as well. So

1166
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Speaker 1: once I you know, got injured and had that point,

1167
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, I decided to go back to school. So

1168
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: I went back to the University of Miami and I

1169
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 1: got my master's just to put a little bit and

1170
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Speaker 1: put some education behind the little knowledge that I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: And you know, through him is it's how I've learned,

1172
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 1: you know, certain aspects of the other business and you know,

1173
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: running trucks and being around him, it's it's it's what

1174
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,480
Speaker 1: it is. I've been around trucking in sports my whole life.

1175
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: Now what's being said, what's the goals? Now? You know

1176
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:09,919
Speaker 1: your goal or person because it as an athlete, your

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01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 1: goal orated, and so what's the goals in the trucking

1178
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: business for you? I know, you have a young son,

1179
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: so you creating his legacy correct in the entrepreneurial world,

1180
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,439
Speaker 1: because you're bringing him around and you he sees because

1181
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 1: you said your grandfather correct. And then your father and

1182
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: now you, So what is your goal? The goal is

1183
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: to just run a successful company. Right. We were hauling

1184
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: refrigerative food, so we have refur trailers, eighteen broilers and

1185
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 1: you know, frozen food, refrigerative food, and and the goal

1186
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: is to is to grow and to vertically integrate the

1187
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: supply chain. And that's our goals here. And you know,

1188
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 1: to do that, you know, I've been doing every aspect

1189
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Speaker 1: of of the business, as far as the dispatching and

1190
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: you know, looking at the counting and and the hr

1191
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: and the hiring, you know, just kind of getting into

1192
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 1: every area just so then once I do, once we

1193
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: do grow and get bigger, at least I'm someone who

1194
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: can understand the job, what to expect from people. And

1195
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 1: I because I'm you're educating me. And my father was

1196
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 1: a truck driver, so I know about trucky. We used

1197
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,200
Speaker 1: to work for lear Ray Motor Freight in Houston, Texas.

1198
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 1: Is all he ever did was drive trucks. So now

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Speaker 1: you're you're you're you're you're only you're a trucking magnet.

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01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 1: I can say that because you're dealing with refederated truck

1201
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: you're transferring merchandise. These things I used to sart load

1202
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:44,640
Speaker 1: sixteen years old. I used to unload these trucks, so

1203
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 1: very for me with that process. I'm as a driver

1204
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:50,759
Speaker 1: my dad, I'm familiar as an unloader from my personal

1205
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 1: past experience. So how does one grow a business like yours?

1206
01:08:55,720 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: How does that grow? Well? You we have know, you

1207
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: get your your freight license, so you have your you know,

1208
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 1: your MC numbers and all these all these things that

1209
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 1: the company's brokers and shippers are able to see. So

1210
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 1: once you you register that, you know they see all

1211
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: the trucks you have, all the equipment you have, and

1212
01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: when you you sign up with them to to run

1213
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: different loads and different lanes lanes meaning California to Texas

1214
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: or California to you know, Washington or Nevada sol. Once

1215
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: you once you you know, sign up with with these

1216
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: other with these companies, you know, you put down what

1217
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: equipment you have and how many and what lanes you run,

1218
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 1: so calls come to you. Um, you do your sales

1219
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 1: calls and you know people with freight do their sales calls,

1220
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: and you know, you just have a conversation like you

1221
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: and I, oh, hey I have a truck. We were

1222
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 1: over there. Every other day and okay, so they check

1223
01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: you out, they check out your score, your you know,

1224
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: your d O T. And you of course you have

1225
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 1: to be the Department of Transportation and they can look

1226
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,719
Speaker 1: you up and see your records and you know, okay

1227
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 1: you're a good carrier or not. Okay, well we'll give

1228
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: you this lane. All the work we have. We have

1229
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 1: it this amount of time a week and can you

1230
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,280
Speaker 1: service that? You know, Oh no, I can only do it.

1231
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: So then you have those conversations with different people and

1232
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: then you become to be around it so long and

1233
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: if people your name starts getting out and you start

1234
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 1: understanding what you want to take and hard, you know,

1235
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:32,160
Speaker 1: make it work. Because there's a lot of regulations in

1236
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:38,120
Speaker 1: this industry. Yeah, so everybody that's everybody can just start

1237
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: holding across state lines. The federal laws out there too. Yeah.

1238
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: The drive time and the schedule and you know, all

1239
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: those things really matter, and you don't want to you

1240
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: don't want to start scheduling guys the wrong way and

1241
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:53,160
Speaker 1: they're in the middle of nowhere sitting because they don't

1242
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,680
Speaker 1: have any time to drive before you go. Can you

1243
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,839
Speaker 1: give us some advice as an entrepreneurs, as a gentleman

1244
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: who made up from made a transition. I look at

1245
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 1: the athletic world no different than the corporate transition. You know,

1246
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 1: you still have to make decisions. You still creates fear.

1247
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: You know, yours was was accelerated by the Achilles heel injury.

1248
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,639
Speaker 1: What advice would you give to my listeners and people

1249
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: are watching on Facebook about you know, making a transition

1250
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: into a new career. Yeah, for me, the transition it

1251
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:24,639
Speaker 1: wasn't easy. Um I had an Achilles injury. I played

1252
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:28,679
Speaker 1: for I played on partially towing Achilles for two seasons,

1253
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: so that was tough, and and and not knowing, um

1254
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:35,640
Speaker 1: if I was gonna ever play again, not due to

1255
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 1: my ability, but due to an injury and me being

1256
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:43,680
Speaker 1: a little older. So I always always listened to you know,

1257
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: they have all these symposiums for us as players, and

1258
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: you know they continue to talk about how different people

1259
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 1: went through different things and depression and this. And I've

1260
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: always said, I don't want to be that guy because

1261
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:56,160
Speaker 1: I am not that guy. I'm not a depressed person. Yes,

1262
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 1: I've done this my whole life, but it's going to

1263
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: be tough. But that so point, it's gonna come to

1264
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:03,599
Speaker 1: an end. And I don't know how, but when it does,

1265
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,679
Speaker 1: I have to try and kick that adversity in the teeth.

1266
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: So my thing was is, Okay, if I'm doing something,

1267
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: my mind isn't idol to me not playing, So I'm

1268
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: gonna just keep doing something so that I don't really

1269
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: have to sit around and think about not playing or

1270
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm heard or this or that. And that really really

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Speaker 1: helped me through it. And then I went back to

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Speaker 1: school to Miami got my masters. So it's really a

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Speaker 1: lot of things that helped take my mind away from it.

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01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 1: My son I didn't want to see. I didn't want

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01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:40,560
Speaker 1: him to see me, you know, not look like I was,

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01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: you know, still going to do something or sitting around.

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Speaker 1: And that's not something I wanted to show him either,

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01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:52,799
Speaker 1: because you know this, it's not going to be easy. However,

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01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 1: you know you can still you can still get up,

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01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 1: grind and and and do what you want. And thank

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01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: you for calling in today. Can you call me back? Man?

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01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:04,679
Speaker 1: I love you, brother. Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't like calling back.

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01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you because I see people like you

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Speaker 1: see now you know my energy? You know how when

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Speaker 1: you call back next time, you know you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: another level. I know what I'm talking to because she

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01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:19,600
Speaker 1: you don't know me. You don't know what kind of

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Speaker 1: questions I'm gonna ask you. But you know all my

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01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: questions about you, man, because you're special. You're making the transition,

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01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:27,680
Speaker 1: and you're making a difference in the community, and you're

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01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,720
Speaker 1: sharing secrets. They're gonna help other people to be successful.

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Speaker 1: So so when you call it next time, I want

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Speaker 1: your blaze and brother. Absolutely, thank you for man, Thank

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01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 1: you for calling in on Money Making Conversation. My man,

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01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 1: former NFL first round pick and to our case Hun

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01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:48,080
Speaker 1: who owns case Hun trans Express. He's a trucking magnet.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with more money making conversations. Be right back.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all. She's a whole, She's a whole. I

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Speaker 1: gotta break off this. Rashan McDonald, I'm your host of

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. My next guest is the daughter of

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Speaker 1: legendary gospel singer Karen Clark. Shared. Haven't earned a bachelor's

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01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:13,639
Speaker 1: degree in English with a minor's psychology from Wayne State.

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01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: She's built an incredible career as a gospel singer and entrepreneur.

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01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:22,799
Speaker 1: Please welcome the Money Making Conversation. Kiara shared doesn't say that. Correct.

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01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I was struggling that my name is Rashwan,

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01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,840
Speaker 1: So you know, I want to be respectful. How your

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01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 1: name is nunciating? There's no joke because this is how

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01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: you get paid. This part of your brand, you know,

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01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: overre messing with your name and how you doing? What

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01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 1: are you calling from? I'm calling from Eastern time zone.

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01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Now, you, my friend,

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01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 1: have taken a career as a singer, and now you've

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01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 1: taken it into another stream of income. And that's important

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01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 1: that we know as entrepreneurs and as entertainers that multiple

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01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:03,639
Speaker 1: stream of incomes is the old mcgold correct. Absolutely absolutely,

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01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 1: of course, making sure it's you're doing something that you love.

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01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 1: It comes organically to you, and for sure, I mean,

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01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: why not. There's always room to do something else, and

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01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:16,600
Speaker 1: you don't want to get bored with one thing, so

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01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 1: why not. Now a few years ago, you know, Steve

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01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 1: harved I was managing at the time, we launched a

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Speaker 1: full figured clothing line through K and G Clothing Line.

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01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: And because we felt there was a need for that,

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Speaker 1: and even though Steve was a man, because he had

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01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 1: a a large female gemo in this social media and

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01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:44,679
Speaker 1: his listenership. We felt that was a smart move. Now,

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01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 1: did you launch your clothing line? Um? I want the

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01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 1: full figured line for women. Um, it's Cordie Levin sixty

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01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 1: and I'm really excited about it. That's what I have

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01:15:56,720 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: going so far now and now just interesting because and

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01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 1: and I want to slow it down, you know, because

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01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 1: you can ask me any questions, and I'm gonna ask

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01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 1: you different questions because the mindset of you know, as

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Speaker 1: a designer, as a person who lives that lifestyle. I

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01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 1: have six sisters, and and of course some of them

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01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: they uh have ventured into the full figure range. You know,

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01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: they probably listening and probably gonna pop me upside of

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01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 1: my head afterwards. But but I just know that that

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01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:28,639
Speaker 1: that look it's now on television is an advertising ads.

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01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 1: It's it's it is a look that's being accepted in

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01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:36,600
Speaker 1: full figure. It's being sexy. And if I say anything incorrectly,

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get my point of view to

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01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:42,599
Speaker 1: be able to to to tune into the full figure look.

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Speaker 1: You're telling the look of attractiveness. Correct. Yeah? And when

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01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:52,320
Speaker 1: and when when I say that, when I say attracting this,

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01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 1: I mean that your clothing line is about high fashion. Hey,

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01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: I look good, because at one time it wasn't that case.

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Speaker 1: Correct the clothing line, I'm I'm trying to cloth in

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01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: general for full figured women. Correct, absolutely right, it's been different.

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01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:13,080
Speaker 1: We didn't have as many trendy styles and absolutely you

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01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:17,799
Speaker 1: weren't always in sync with fashion forecasting. We're often given

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01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 1: clothes like just move moves. I'm talking about you know,

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:25,160
Speaker 1: what are you trying to change? Because see you know

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01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:27,600
Speaker 1: that you know the little spandex pants, put on the

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01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 1: T shirt. You know that's all you got to work with.

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01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: You know, you know you're talking about putting, putting the

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01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 1: style that shows a figure that when you walk out,

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01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: you look elegant, you look sexy, you look you've got something.

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01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 1: You've got options. You know, you want to go on

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Speaker 1: a dining Look, you want to go out to a

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Speaker 1: nighting dinner, you want to go into a nightclub. Your options,

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01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 1: That's what you're trying to do with your clothing like correct, absolutely, yep,

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01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: And I'm excited about what we're doing. Um, we're right now,

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01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 1: we're only e commerce and it's all quality garments are

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01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: manufacturing is of South Korea, and um, it's not just

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01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:05,720
Speaker 1: a straight sized designer. Obviously I'm a curby woman as well,

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Speaker 1: So I'm actually creating clothes as not just a designer,

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01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 1: but as a consumer. And UM, I believe that that's

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Speaker 1: what is helping these close to move while we're just

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Speaker 1: even an emerging brand. UM. So it's really exciting. I

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01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: want to empower the women through these clothes. It's not

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Speaker 1: just um, there's another thing you asked about having multiple

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Speaker 1: streams of income. But one thing that we want to

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01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: wrap our minds around as we are emerging millionaires is

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01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 1: that we have to do something that we love. Have

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Speaker 1: the heart of the people, not just have the heart

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Speaker 1: of the dollars. Um. And that is even that's what

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Speaker 1: causes us to be even more effective. UM. And so

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Speaker 1: my goal is to empower and to build other women

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Speaker 1: with these clothes, allow them to see that, no, we

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Speaker 1: don't all have the same shape. We may be built

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Speaker 1: a little differently. But here's a way for you to

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01:18:57,320 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: build your esteem. Here are some clothes that fall well

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01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: or that um queensy your body. Uh, the way that

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01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: will complement your shape and only enhance who you are.

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01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: You're already beautiful, and so that's the goal with the clothes.

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Speaker 1: I remember right there, I was. I was writing on

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Speaker 1: the sitcom called The Parkers that started Uh Monique. And

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons that I there attracted me to

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01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:24,879
Speaker 1: write on that sitcom was that the way the executive

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Speaker 1: producers wanted to portray the full figured women on the show.

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Speaker 1: They look good, you know, they dressed good. They were

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Speaker 1: I didn't like up to that point, all four figured

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Speaker 1: women on TV. They were made, you know, they were

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Speaker 1: you know, they were all at the lesser level of secretaries.

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Speaker 1: They all played minial roles. And that sitcom changed my

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01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 1: whole perspective, and that attracted me to that, And I

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01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 1: think that was a landmark for me personally and also

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Speaker 1: for television because ever since then, that was like in

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Speaker 1: two thousand when I was writing on this show, because

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Speaker 1: ever since then, television has started to show women, you know,

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01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:01,640
Speaker 1: and in commercial shols and panties and brawls, who are

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01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,719
Speaker 1: four figures and bikinis on television, and it went prior

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01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 1: to that that wasn't the case. And so when you

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01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 1: when you when you when you release a line like

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01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:14,320
Speaker 1: the line that you're releasing, it's an empowering, an empowerment

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01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: type statement that you are good just the way you

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01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: are correct, absolutely absolutely, and I think that that is

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01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 1: so important, especially with how society makes the same. Well, actually,

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01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:30,559
Speaker 1: I can say the society is now more into body volume.

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01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: They're even appreciating cellulite, which is really cool. Whereas about

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Speaker 1: five years ago, it was all just you know, the

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01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:40,799
Speaker 1: straight sized woman. But I think that this full figure

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01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:44,560
Speaker 1: community has definitely up their volume as it pertains to

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01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:48,719
Speaker 1: their voice, and they've made it, you know, known, because

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Speaker 1: the actually, one thing that I've learned in my research

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01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: while building my company, come on now, come on, come on, now,

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01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: you got that energy on the road, now, come on.

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01:20:57,160 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: Not tell us absolutely, but one thing that I've learned

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Speaker 1: is the average American woman is a size spoor teen,

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Speaker 1: size fol fourteen, so she's a press sized woman and

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01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: so um, I think it's really cool that society is

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01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:16,160
Speaker 1: changing things. But speaking of beauty and just appreciating who

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01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: we are, it's one thing to want to be better

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01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: and want to be healthy and to be able to

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01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: live well so that you can enjoy the blessings that

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01:21:23,120 --> 01:21:26,680
Speaker 1: God gives us. But it's another thing to appreciate who

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01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:29,639
Speaker 1: you are and to simply own your difference and own

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01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:32,640
Speaker 1: that as um a form of beauty as well, and

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01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:36,720
Speaker 1: so I'm really excited about what um this company has

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01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: to offer. Eleven sixty Again, it is for the full

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01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 1: figured woman, and if not to change the woman, it's

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01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 1: just to say, hey, here's something for you, get something

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01:21:45,040 --> 01:21:46,760
Speaker 1: for your sister. And this is how we've re late

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01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: and we connect rolling that get that look at Will rolling,

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01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 1: but you're rolling that girl because see, my whole thing

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01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:58,839
Speaker 1: is that he is the deal. Your fourfivor women got power.

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01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 1: You have buying power, and that's so happy to see

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01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,920
Speaker 1: that that that you're taking. Like you said, you did

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01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: your research. Size fourteen is the average size. So who

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01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 1: is feeding these people opportunities to be fashionable? So how

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01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: did you come up with the name eleven sixty? Uh,

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01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 1: Elettens difty actually came from my mother's birthday. I come

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01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:24,960
Speaker 1: from the Clark Sisters in quest my parents I Bishop J.

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01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: Drew shared and Karen Clark shared, and um, of course

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01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 1: my mom is a member of the legendary groups the

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01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 1: Clark Sisters, And I know the quarters are full figured

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01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:39,400
Speaker 1: women and um they of course they've become smaller now

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01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: over time, but they're still for considered full figured women,

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01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:46,360
Speaker 1: curvy women, and who would dressed by the way, let's

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01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: go and put that out there. All the all the

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01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 1: album covers, they were laid out absolutely very well dressed.

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01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 1: And um, that's where the inspiration comes from. It came

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01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: from my mother, because my mother taught me, if you

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01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 1: are going to be juicy, uh, just make sure you

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01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 1: wear it well. If you're gonna be thick, well, you're

1457
01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:05,840
Speaker 1: thick well, and don't be floppy with it. And I

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01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: think that that's a lesson that I've enjoyed sharing with

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01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:11,760
Speaker 1: a lot of curvy women because a lot of people think, oh,

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01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:17,200
Speaker 1: because I'm curvy or because I'm plus size, I'm not cute. No, together,

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01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:20,639
Speaker 1: put on you a good girdle and wear these clothes right.

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01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: And so um, that's where the inspiration came from. And

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01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: that's why it's name eleven sixties. I love it. If

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01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 1: you can hold on, we'll be back with more. To

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01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: hear someone with his inspirational talk from me, he's listen

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01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 1: to money making conversation. We're gonna be back with more,

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01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:40,559
Speaker 1: Kira Sheers, that's correct, right, yeah, awesome, be right back

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Speaker 1: at level sixties. A line of fact, we're gonna find

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01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: out where to buy it. It's on e commerce. You

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01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 1: can buy it online right now, and we're gonna find

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Speaker 1: out more. We'll come back. I just be trying. I'm

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Speaker 1: on the phone with a fair talented entrepreneur, gospel sensation. Uh,

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Speaker 1: daughter of a ospite great, but she's great in our

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01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 1: own right here shared she has a full figured clothing

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01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 1: line called Love and sixty. How can they how can

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Speaker 1: they find this clothe I tell a couple of little

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Speaker 1: things about it. While you are so emboldened by launching

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Speaker 1: this line and working the body this line, you can

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Speaker 1: definitely go on our website. It's my eleven sixty dot com.

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Speaker 1: Um again, that's uh w w dot my eleven sixty

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Speaker 1: dot com and um again, it's quotes for it's I

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01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 1: would definitely say it's trendy, closed trad in season, and

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01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:39,720
Speaker 1: they are closed for full figured women. Um guys fourteen

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01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: and these clothes are ships right to your doorstep, and uh,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. We're also expanding as well. May

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Speaker 1: have a we have a great opportunity with Ashley Stewart.

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Speaker 1: So if you're into trying to close on and actually

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01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,920
Speaker 1: filling the textures, you can't have this opportunity. We'll have

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Speaker 1: those locations very soon. I'm really excited about that. Well,

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01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,519
Speaker 1: I make sure that have you done a Facebook live yet,

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01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: you know, just showcasing your clothes, because that seems like

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01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 1: be right up your aulet because you got the personality.

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01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 1: You'll get a couple of friends and start modeling and

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01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,840
Speaker 1: everything and just do a Facebook Live and just turning out.

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01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,800
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about that? Doing that again? To

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01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:17,320
Speaker 1: you know? About me, I'm just an innovator and I'm

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01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: a brand specialist. So when I when I encounter somebody

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01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:22,960
Speaker 1: like you, did you blessed with all these talents a gift,

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Speaker 1: I gotta make suggestions. You are Facebook Live waiting to

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Speaker 1: happen for eleven sixty. Absolutely, I've definitely done it, and UM,

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01:25:31,600 --> 01:25:33,640
Speaker 1: I have a YouTube channel on my website. I am

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01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: very active on social media and I'm talking about the

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01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 1: brand always UM on my YouTube channel, a new an

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01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: up andcoming episode, we'll be talking about level sixty and

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01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 1: ABI to see the new quotes that will be released

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01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 1: in October so or this month actually later this month,

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01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,000
Speaker 1: and so I'm really excited about that. But yes, I've

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01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:56,759
Speaker 1: done Facebook Live, UM, Instagram Live and all these really

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01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: cool things. As far as outlets, I've been on them

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01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: and I am still on them. Um and that's actually happened.

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01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: Keeping me go. Shout out to all of those who

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01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 1: follow me on social media. Absolutely not on mine. You

1513
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:11,599
Speaker 1: you You're being heard live right now in Houston, Texas.

1514
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 1: We also replay the show back on the I Heart Radio.

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01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,560
Speaker 1: My podcast is under Business Finance, Money Making Conversations. And

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01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 1: also I wanted you to give me, like, uh, tell

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01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: us one of your staff to send me a banner

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01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:27,519
Speaker 1: or link so I can post it on my Money

1519
01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:30,360
Speaker 1: Making Conversation you know, social media lines and post it

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01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: today or sometime this week. And if you ever have

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01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 1: any specials and every time you're doing live links, please

1522
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 1: let us know because I know that's how you get

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01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: the word out and I always I can never tell

1524
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 1: people enough that you you know, there's a reason you

1525
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:47,679
Speaker 1: see the same advertisers for cars, for Target, for fast food,

1526
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 1: because you have to stay in front of your customer.

1527
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: If your customers don't know you, then they can't buy

1528
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 1: your merchandise. And that was one of the primary reasons

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01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:56,479
Speaker 1: why I have you on the show. I have you

1530
01:26:56,520 --> 01:26:58,640
Speaker 1: know the show because first of all, your celebrity, but

1531
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:01,679
Speaker 1: also you you you're a brand specialist because you're taking

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01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 1: your brand and you extended in the in the entrepreneurial space,

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01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:08,120
Speaker 1: which is a small business and that's eleven sixty and

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01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:10,720
Speaker 1: I think that's just amazing. I just commend you for

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01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:12,519
Speaker 1: doing that because of the fact that you're doing it

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01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:14,799
Speaker 1: for and you just said you're also doing it because

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01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: you enjoy doing it and it's not about the money,

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01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 1: and that's really key for you. Correct. Absolutely, of course

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01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:26,559
Speaker 1: I want my money in my pocket for sure. Absolutely, Um,

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01:27:26,760 --> 01:27:28,280
Speaker 1: I want to I want to live good. I want

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01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:30,519
Speaker 1: to enjoy, you know, to my life. I want to

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01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:33,200
Speaker 1: blaze the trail for the next young woman who may

1543
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:36,679
Speaker 1: have to dream again. My goal is to empower people.

1544
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:39,679
Speaker 1: I love people. I love um seeing people get ahead.

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01:27:39,680 --> 01:27:42,840
Speaker 1: I love believing in people. So yes, it's about me

1546
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 1: having your heart for people. But like you said, I'll

1547
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: also because I'm sure somebody listening and be like you know,

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01:27:48,320 --> 01:27:51,240
Speaker 1: she pull she who she fool She's fooling nobody. Um,

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01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 1: she knows more of our money. And yes, absolutely absolutely

1550
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: we're not fooling nobody. Which to get paid here, But

1551
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:04,000
Speaker 1: you said that you should do something that you love

1552
01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:06,080
Speaker 1: to do, not do it just because of the money.

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01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 1: That's a difference in conversation. And that's what I think

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01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:11,560
Speaker 1: is important, and that's why you're gonna win, because what

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01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: you're doing is you already said it's size fourteen is

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01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:18,360
Speaker 1: the average size in America. You've done your research, so

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01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:22,479
Speaker 1: you're supplying clothed and the trend style for people who

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01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:25,560
Speaker 1: need it, who need it, who don't have it. And

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01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:28,000
Speaker 1: so tell everybody again, how can they get your clothing

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01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:31,120
Speaker 1: line full figure full figure? You can go to my

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01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 1: eleven sixty dot com again, that's the word my and

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01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,920
Speaker 1: Elevin and the numbers six zero to my eleven sixty

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01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:42,679
Speaker 1: dot com and um if that's too if you're hired

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01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 1: to get that. I'm on Instagram, Facebook, UM, and my

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01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,640
Speaker 1: website is I am Here's here dot com and you

1566
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:51,360
Speaker 1: can totally find everything that I'm doing, from my blog

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01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:55,679
Speaker 1: to the youtubeing um and the clothing line and everything

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01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: that I'm doing, you can find it there. I do

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01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 1: speaking and singing as well. Girl. Now you Christmas coming up,

1570
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 1: so no, if you don't mind, I'm gonna bring you

1571
01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:05,280
Speaker 1: back on the show probably late November, so we can

1572
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 1: start talking aboutetting each Christmas sales. That's all right with you, absolutely,

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01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate you for calling on Money Making Conversations.

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01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: Stay strong and then send me to tell your staff

1575
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 1: to send me that bantner so we can post it

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01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:19,519
Speaker 1: on our Money Making Conversation Facebook page. This is the

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01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: show for the day, y'all. It's been awesome. We'll be

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01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 1: back next Monday. My man Van Jones from CNN will

1579
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,120
Speaker 1: be on the show next Monday. We're doing it big

1580
01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 1: here because it's about you. Money Making Conversation is a

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01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: show while I interview industry makers, decision makers in the industry, CEO,

1582
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:42,839
Speaker 1: small entrepreneurs, and celebrities and they tell you the secrets

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01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:46,040
Speaker 1: to their success. You take those secrets and make them

1584
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:49,640
Speaker 1: your successful tools for your next big opportunity. My name

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01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 1: is with Sean mcgonal. I see you next week.