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Speaker 1: What's up? Its way up with Angela yee happy wealth Wednesday?

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Speaker 2: Yes, back again, back again. I feel like it was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nicole point yes, Ash she said it right, y'all

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Speaker 1: year that Yeah? Sure, but AKA Nicole Harmon. That's how Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's how you know me.

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Speaker 2: She's known me for decades, right, so Nicole Harmon yes,

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Speaker 2: now point d'sr.

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Speaker 1: When did you change your last name?

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Speaker 2: I officially changed it, I want to say about a

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Speaker 2: year ago. But I've been married for two years. So

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Speaker 2: my husband's like, what do we No.

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Speaker 1: I think that's interesting because, like you said, I have

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Speaker 1: known you as Nicole Harmon for so long. Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: what was that process like? Because sometimes I think for women,

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Speaker 1: men don't think about how, like you know, how people

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Speaker 1: have known you, the branding that goes behind that. But

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Speaker 1: now point sounds fancy, said.

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Speaker 2: It does, but it was, like you said, it's a

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Speaker 2: hard transition because I've been on w wash sheet since

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Speaker 2: I was twenty one, and everybody knew me as Nicole Harmon,

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Speaker 2: like you even to me as the Cole Harmon. So

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Speaker 2: even when I wrote my book, I put Nicole Harmon

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Speaker 2: point to jour. But legally it's the Cole point to sure, right,

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Speaker 2: but it was my husband was like, we're married, Like

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Speaker 2: you have a different like you need to change your

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Speaker 2: last name. But it was a hard transition for me

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Speaker 2: because I was always known as n Cole Hartmon. So so

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Speaker 2: people are gonna know who I am. They're not going

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Speaker 2: to answer my email. Like my friend I was like,

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Speaker 2: who is this right? Everybody everybody was doing, especially I

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Speaker 2: worked it like are you gonna answer my email?

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Speaker 1: But well, the first time we had you on here

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Speaker 1: was early on in your business. You know, you are

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Speaker 1: the massive connector, and that's been who you have been

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Speaker 1: all this time. But now you know, I've always been

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Speaker 1: supportive of that because even in early conversations, just the

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Speaker 1: way you've been able to link people together, link corporations

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Speaker 1: and branding opportunities with people. That's definitely a skill that

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Speaker 1: I think that you've always had. Thank you, you know,

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Speaker 1: from when I first met you. And this can be

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Speaker 1: something that also was a business.

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Speaker 2: It's a business, yeah, and you actually encouraged me because

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Speaker 2: you used to always say when are you starting that business?

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Speaker 2: When are you starting that business? And I'm like, Ange,

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Speaker 2: I'm just working. I don't know. I just connect people

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Speaker 2: you're like, no, this is a business. So thank you

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Speaker 2: for encouraging me to step out there. And I just

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Speaker 2: celebrated my one year anniversary on October third, Right, for

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Speaker 2: a long much in the business. But yeah, so literally,

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Speaker 2: I connect people, charge a few for connections. But I

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Speaker 2: also have an event called in the Room where I

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Speaker 2: bring corporate executives, industry leaders together all in one room

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Speaker 2: to help them get access to people that they know

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Speaker 2: me wouldn't come across on a daily basis. And I

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Speaker 2: interview a celebrity that has made it to do their

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Speaker 2: career projector tell us their career trajectory. So you're my

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Speaker 2: next guest, yes, November six, But just to give people

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Speaker 2: access to understand like what it takes to grow a business, right,

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Speaker 1: And I think the other really important piece of this,

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Speaker 1: those connections. I was at an event over the weekend

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's a great question. So people ask me all

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Speaker 2: So if you're in this room and you're meeting somebody,

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Speaker 2: a little on Nicole. But when you're in that room,

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Speaker 2: you quantified by one figuring out how you can leave

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Speaker 2: the Master Connection Agency event. I would love to connect

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Speaker 2: with you this week over coffee. Zoom and person always

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Speaker 2: tell people to do lunch because it's something about breaking

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's in the book.

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Speaker 2: Then they book, Yeah, breaking brand and Breaking barriers where

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Speaker 2: and you get to learn more about them. But scheduling

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Speaker 1: I agree with that because at an event like that,

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Speaker 1: While you may be amazing, it's really hard for anybody

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Speaker 2: And I also also lead with do good business. Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, Ane's like, doing good business is so important

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Speaker 2: because just as good as good news travels fast, bad

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this though there's sometimes that people

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Speaker 2: Some great questions. So every day I pray to God

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Speaker 2: And I also give people grace. Sometimes they made them

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's always a difficult thing. There's so many

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Speaker 2: It's a crazy business. And your name speaks like you

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Speaker 2: but I sent my friends to support you.

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Speaker 2: So it's like those things matter because that builds a

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Speaker 2: showing up. But breaking bread, like I talk about in

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Speaker 1: I always feel like we have a lot of options

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Speaker 2: you stop out on faith? So, yes, I started on

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Speaker 2: social media. I'm on the camera all the time that

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Speaker 2: I just tracking my life and showing the trajectory of

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Speaker 2: how I started and where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, And I know that's what we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking about even more in November six.

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Speaker 2: Yes, November six. Get in the room, yes, yes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And it is important to get in the room

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Speaker 1: and events like this. I always tell people sometimes I

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Speaker 1: know we could feel like, well, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: this something that I have to do for work, This

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Speaker 1: is something you.

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Speaker 2: Have to do for you, for you. I want to

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Speaker 2: say one quick story. So one of my friends was

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Speaker 2: on a panel and high profile person and I was like,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't feeling myself. I just left my company two weeksaited.

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Speaker 2: She's on a panel and like and she said, I

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Speaker 2: support all my friends. So I'm like, I'm gonna pull

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Speaker 2: myself together go to this event. I really don't want

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Speaker 2: to go cause I'm just like Morning leaving walls sheet,

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Speaker 2: but I go to support her. She comes off stage

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Speaker 2: and she's like, you don't look like yourself, and I

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Speaker 2: was like, what does that mean? I thought I pulled

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Speaker 2: myself together. She's just like, you're usually high energy, like

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Speaker 2: you know Nicole, And I said okay. She's like, I'm

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Speaker 2: giving you sister girls time, taking you to lunch. We

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Speaker 2: went to lunch. At the lunch and a girl walks

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Speaker 2: over and she goes, I know you, but I'm thinking

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Speaker 2: she's talking to my friend and she's like, no, I

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Speaker 2: know you, and I'm like me. She said, yes, she

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Speaker 2: said I came to your event. I said really. She

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Speaker 2: said yeah. She's like your event changed my life. Oh wow,

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Speaker 2: that's what I said. I said, I even changed your life?

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Speaker 2: She said, I said how? She said, I'm working on

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Speaker 2: a real estate project in Tennessee, so two million dollar project,

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Speaker 2: and I met a guy that does government contracting in

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Speaker 2: the room ature event that's helped me with my contracts.

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Speaker 2: And so it was like stories like that I'm like, God,

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Speaker 2: I hear you. Let me keep going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that made you feel like really energized.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm like, okay, go now I'm on the right track. Someone.

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Speaker 2: If your event changes someone's life and they get the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to help with their business, that's why I created

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Speaker 2: the room so you can meet people that can get

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Speaker 2: you to the next level.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm excited to be there because I'm hoping I

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Speaker 1: can meet some people.

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Speaker 2: But you got to ask all the people come out.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to.

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Speaker 1: Miss some people to get me to the next level,

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Speaker 1: you know. I just I have that building in Detroit

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Speaker 1: that I did and we've been working on getting into

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Speaker 1: a permanent mortgage. And I actually met this woman at

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Speaker 1: a conference. She's from Detroit, but she works, you know,

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Speaker 1: she has a VC fund and she connected me with

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Speaker 1: another woman who runs the Opportunity Resource Fund who helped

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Speaker 1: us get in with the bank. Like it was like

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Speaker 1: a whole chain of things happening. But if I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: been in that room.

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Speaker 2: Room to meet that person, Yes.

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Speaker 1: You know, and I always want to make sure we

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Speaker 1: give credit to the people that are you know. Shout

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Speaker 1: out to you, Shelana, Thank you so much. For that,

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Speaker 1: but I haven't even known her that long. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's the people that you're going to end up meeting

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Speaker 1: at an event like this who are like minded, that

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Speaker 1: are trying to win, that are trying to get somewhere,

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Speaker 1: that are ambitious, and that have no problem helping you, yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, and that you have no problem helping them either.

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Speaker 1: Those you know, I know. We feel like we have

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Speaker 1: our friends who we grew up with, who we've known forever,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes these newer people that are kind of come

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Speaker 1: into our lives are the ones that are going to

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Speaker 1: really help us on the trajectory that we're on business wise.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's easier to gather that open yourself up to it, yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: And so these people in this room coming here to network,

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Speaker 2: like they're in the room saying I want to help

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Speaker 2: help people. I want to grow my network. So when

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Speaker 2: you come into the space, the garage are already down,

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Speaker 2: the time is here. We're here for it. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: here to help everybody, and so I'm excited. I'm excited

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Speaker 2: that you're coming.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I cannot wait to see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Where can people get tickets?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can get tickets at www dot Themasterconnectoragency

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Speaker 2: dot com. That's my website. You can also follow me

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Speaker 2: on Instagram at the Master Underscore Connector and the link

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Speaker 2: is in my bio. Hopefully you guys all come use

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Speaker 2: code connect twenty to get twenty percent off. I'm given

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Speaker 2: I just specifically for Angela, ye, since I want her

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Speaker 2: radio show today, So get your tickets now. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be a dope room. I'm interviewing Angela. She's gonna

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Speaker 2: give you all the chips on how she got her businesses,

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Speaker 2: her coffee, her real estate. Right. But you'll be in

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Speaker 2: there with I have one major corporate sponsor coming and

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Speaker 2: they're bringing their executives, right, and so it's all about

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Speaker 2: being in the room with those executives that have a

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Speaker 2: seat at the table like I was. I can help

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Speaker 2: write a check to sponsor your businesses.

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Speaker 1: All right, we love it, well, Thank you so much, Nicole.

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Speaker 1: Always appreciate you. I'm looking forward it and looking forward

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Speaker 1: to it, and I'm looking forward to seeing all of

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Speaker 1: you in the room.

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Speaker 2: In the room November six,