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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. As you know, I'm the host Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I tell people every time they listen to watch this show,

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Speaker 1: short interview celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs and people I like to

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Speaker 1: call industry to decision makers. My next guest is Calvin

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Speaker 1: Truett True it is a barber to the stars. You

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Speaker 1: artists in Hollywood. Hollywoo Kevin's clients have included I'm talking

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Speaker 1: from Insecure. Kevin fell in love with country music, and

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Speaker 1: Please working the money making conversation, my man, Calvin TRUITTT

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Speaker 1: how are you doing, sir? And I'm doing wonderful man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me and to the

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Speaker 1: first of all, you know Calvin and entrepreneur to my

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And like I said, when

426
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: Nelly came out, you know, of course he's record labels.

427
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: They're just put you where they feel your sound fits,

428
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,199
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So they put it on

429
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: a rapper. Nell It should have been Cunt your way

430
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: back in two thousand one. Okay, his old country country

431
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 1: Grabma album should have been dropped as a country a

432
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: country music and is changing too, you know, But I

433
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think I think you're right because

434
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: in today's industry. That Country Grab Him album probably would

435
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: have would win the Album of the Year absolutely absolutely.

436
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: Guess what, then he becomes even international star. He's not

437
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: labeled as a black artist. And guess what, he's starting

438
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: to get that now because he's headlining tours with with

439
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: other artists. I think was the Alps. It was at Florida,

440
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 1: Alabama line What's the boys that they did that single

441
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: with they blew up but there it's really a great

442
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 1: sound when I look at what you're trying to do.

443
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: But what's the ultimate goal? Man? You know, you're still

444
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: in the entrepreneur management business of these successful barbershops in California.

445
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: Now you've got this open my you know, so now

446
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: you're not only uh you know. I think that that's

447
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 1: what I was saying, that you kind of missed that

448
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: experience of being a barber in a barbershop, and that

449
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: gets filled with your open mic because you really get

450
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: to talk, get to exchange your conversation and also participate

451
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: in the social environment where you're entertaining people. Tell us

452
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: about that open mic that's in Los Angeles and where

453
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: is it located. Yes, so it's called My First Fridays

454
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: and it's in Lake Babola, California. It started actually started

455
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 1: um in the barbershop, in the flagship location of the barbershop,

456
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: where we will move the chairs out of the way. Um.

457
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: I was playing base for church at the times. We

458
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: had all my equipment in there, and me and my band.

459
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: We get in there and artists will come, they jam

460
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: out with us, and that thing developed. So First Fridays

461
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 1: has been going on for now. It will be twenty

462
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: one years in September. You know that we've been we've

463
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 1: been doing that effort. Um. But that social capital that

464
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: I missed you then because I was in the l

465
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Speaker 1: A Man the one years I was in l A.

466
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: Two thous was in l A five. How I miss you,

467
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: Calvin two thousand fold Man was right here in the valley.

468
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: Man was right here in the valley when he started.

469
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: Man And uh, I don't know, Man, I'm so sorry, sorry,

470
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: I miss you. I heard you on the radio. I

471
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: still hear you on the radio, absolutely Man. Steve would dominating. Man,

472
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: I don't know how I missed you may dominating and uh,

473
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: And it was it was shifting black culture. I remember

474
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 1: one of my primary goals was to get a Hoodie

475
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: Award you know. But but because I was looking towards um,

476
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: towards black men, towards black male leadership, was doing it

477
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: recognizing the unsung heroes. And so that's what I felt like.

478
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 1: I feel pride to cut people's hair and to send

479
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 1: them into the world on their platforms with with with

480
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 1: my work. You know. Yeah, they got all this content,

481
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: I all this need for content. Not Calvin out there.

482
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: Why don't we see this on a special on HBO

483
00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: Max or Amazon Prime special this First Fridays. Yeah, let's

484
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: let's produce it. You know. Um, there has been a

485
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: few opportunities over the years, um to do it. Um

486
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: one was was was bigger than than most and uh

487
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: it just the business didn't work out. But then I

488
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: think it was year before last Damon Dash did a

489
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: show called The Next Big Thing and he came to

490
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: l A. They shot at my place where First Fridays

491
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: takes place. They utilized the platform. Um so that was

492
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: on on bt UM. Jonathan mc reynolds and Molly Music Music,

493
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: both of my boys. Yeah, so the Molly and Johnny Tour,

494
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: we were one of their virtual locations that were shot

495
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: where we shoot First Fridays at and Molly was one

496
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: of the artists who would come and just sing it

497
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: first Fridays, so he bringing. Uh, you know, everybody kind

498
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: of comes back. UM, A lot of us here in

499
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: the l A. We call that the home court, so

500
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: we want at home advantage. We produced content from there,

501
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: Kenny Lottimore during pandemic major um who was artists as well,

502
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,360
Speaker 1: you know, charting songs, film content there. Uh. Last Christmas

503
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: or Christmas before last, Holly Berry came through the doors.

504
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: Uh and it was just like all of the work

505
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: that we've done, um over these last twenty years have

506
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: just been incredible. And now I'm expanding that work in

507
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: a new way to where I'm not just behind the production,

508
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: but I'm also behind the microphone, sharing my stories of

509
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: healing and um you know, and of triumph to to

510
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: to everywhere. The reason I do music, it's the same

511
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: reason I cut heir, you know, UM, I really want

512
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: to touch the people that change the world. And I

513
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: know my music brings healing to little black boys who

514
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: don't feel like they're enough. Well, what I like about

515
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: your man is that you know they have multiple levels

516
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: of into income, multiple levels of entertainment. I always tell people,

517
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: when you focus on one dream. You should have many

518
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: layers in that dream. And I like that and that's

519
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: why I do want to make a conversations so people

520
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: can tell their stories. Because people can just see you

521
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: as the hold the first Fridays. No, no, No, he's

522
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: more than that. They can just hear your whole conversation

523
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: about doing country music and you're one of your first

524
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: love No, he's more than that. They can hear your

525
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: story about you just being an entrepreneur. You know where

526
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: you got these barber chains and you once was a

527
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,719
Speaker 1: barber and you started your first Fridays there twenty one

528
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: years ago. When you look at all these things, how

529
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: do you compartmentalize being able to be successful in all

530
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: these different lanes, plus your spirit and the ability to

531
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: motivate people to be successful through who you are. Calvin, Yeah,

532
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: I try to. I try to consolidate it all to

533
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: UH to service. You know. I think my greatest UH

534
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: calling is has been to serve my fellow man in

535
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: in in this life. You know, since I was a

536
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: little boy, you know, uh, I used to I started

537
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: my haircut business when I was like ten years old.

538
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: I used to cut lines. I used to cut people's grass,

539
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: and I couldn't hear my slogans if you can grow it,

540
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: I can cut it. You know. It's just something that

541
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: felt felt good to me to be able to, uh,

542
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: to do something that that people were either that they

543
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: were willing to pay me for, you know. And the

544
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: the storylines of the guys I looked up to in

545
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: my neighborhood, they were they were getting killed, they were

546
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: going to jail. And I had this this skill to

547
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: to cut stuff and make it look good, you know.

548
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: So in essence, it kind of put my life on

549
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: a different path. And and I keep sitting here in

550
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: that same message that reverb playing in my life, even

551
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: through my music, through my ministry, through my service to

552
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: the public. Um So I kind of consolidated all to

553
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: one thing, is that hey, and my serving and my

554
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: serving humanity and the best way that I can and

555
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: you know, basically as God pleased with what I'm doing.

556
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: And it does change from times. Sometimes it changed by

557
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: the day I got somebody's here right after this interview,

558
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: you know, and then I got to jump on another

559
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: call to promote the upcoming release of my of my

560
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: music and all of that, man, I believe is in

561
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: service to my highest purpose, which is to you know,

562
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: to to help my fellow man and to receive that

563
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: help and love in comaraderie that come when we when

564
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: we just show up authentically and take up a lot

565
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,959
Speaker 1: of space. So I'm gonna be big, you know, and

566
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: I want to leave big impact along the way. Well,

567
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: as we close, let's talk about the release of your music.

568
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: Tell us where we can find it, tell us the uh,

569
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: the whole are you shooting videos each which one it releases,

570
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: how you're doing it so we can wrap it up

571
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: on the high note about your brand. See, I love

572
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: that the whole concept of what you're trying to do.

573
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: But it also is key that you know you keep

574
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: doing first Fridays. You know, you keep cutting hair, you know,

575
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: all of just I always tell people I remember October one.

576
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,959
Speaker 1: I always that they mean something to me because I

577
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: asked God. I said, allow me to take advantage of

578
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: all my talents, and I will give you one, sir.

579
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: You know, seriously, I said, I will not sleep on it.

580
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: I will not if you if you tell me the write,

581
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna right. You tell me to manage somebody, I'm

582
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: give a d percent that wherever you put me I'm

583
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: gonna give a hundred percent and a lot of people do.

584
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: They always say, man, you just love what you do

585
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: because he gave me an opportunity to do it. And

586
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: I told him, if he gave me an opportunity to

587
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: do it, I would give. And so keep giving. One.

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00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: As we closed, let's talk about that music that you

589
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: give to you, sir. So, the upcoming release of my

590
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: song Opposite is happening on December four, um, which is uh,

591
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, by six days from now. UM. It's a

592
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: significant moment for me. It's also my fortieth birthday and

593
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: I'm devoted for for uh in my forties, man to

594
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: to show up in the world authentically. UM. I struggled

595
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: with a lot of things and my song Opposite is

596
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: just like you. UM. It's where I got before God,

597
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: and I asked God to change me and to give

598
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: me strength to do the opposite of a destructive path

599
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: that I was going to take my cell phone at

600
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: the you know, on the heels of adversity. UM. You

601
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: know I've been and I almost volted, but God gave

602
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: me strength to do the opposite. I want people to

603
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: know that. So December four, on all platforms, it is

604
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: a music video as well as a high quality, polished

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00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: master copy of the recording. UM you Know vocally performed

606
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: by me, co wrote the song with Grammy nominated uh

607
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: A singer and artist my brother Mr Eric Bellinger. So

608
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: we're putting all the momentum that we had around this.

609
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: I'm going home to my hometown and Sacramento to do

610
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: the release concerts, So you'll see all over my social

611
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: media UM as well as other platforms. But December four,

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00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: it's called Opposite Kelvin Trud available on all platforms off

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00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: streaming platforms Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, if they play music there,

614
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: you'll be able to find me there. Man. So I'm

615
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: really happy to share this message with you guys. Kelvin

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00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: Truyd When I did this opening credit, I said, he's

617
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: a barber to the stars. He's an interior designer, creative director,

618
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: hosts of a popular open mic for expiring and established

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Speaker 1: stars stars called First Friday. What I forgot to say?

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Speaker 1: Rising star in the music business, Calvin, thank you for

621
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: coming on money making a conversation. Thank you so much

622
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: for having me. God bless you guys. Hey, I gotta

623
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: come out for one of those First Friday or two

624
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: because I come out to l a like three times

625
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: every quarter, so I gotta make sure I come in

626
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,959
Speaker 1: on the Thursday so I could be there on the Friday. Okay,

627
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: we don't Friday. And when you close it, I want

628
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: you to close it. I used to close out my

629
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: mornings on the Steve Harvey Morner Show when you say, man,

630
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: if you could trust God, you could believe that to

631
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: take that too bad? There you go, brother, Thank you

632
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: very much. You. I'm gonna call you up stage. I

633
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: would do that for you. All right, all right, everybody

634
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: understand this is my man, care with truth. He's a beast,

635
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: He's a young man changing lives being an entrepreneur. On

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. If you want to listen to the interview,

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