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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's to show that she

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's given me

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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In occasion didn't notice, I'm not broke.

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Speaker 1: You know he'll be interview with celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and

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Speaker 1: industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do, It's

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Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations Here we come.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I'm your host, ras

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I recognized that we all have different definitions

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Speaker 1: of success. For you, it may be the size of

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Speaker 1: your paycheck. Mine is inspiring people to accomplish their goals

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Speaker 1: and live their very best life. It is time to

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Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories and start writing your own.

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Speaker 1: People always talk about their purpose or gifts. If you

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Speaker 1: have a gift, lead with your gifts and don't let

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Speaker 1: your friends, family, or co workers stop you from planning

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Speaker 1: or living your dreams. My guests is a civil rights activist,

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Speaker 1: says it has always prevailed against the odds. Rising from

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Speaker 1: g E. D the PhD. He's a community organizer. Dr

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Speaker 1: Jamal Harrison Bryant. He combines sound biblical teaching, business acumen,

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Speaker 1: action and graded levels of faith. He's the senior pastor

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Speaker 1: of New Birth Missionary Baptis Church. A graduate of Morehouse

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Speaker 1: College and of Duke University, his leadership efforts have always

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Speaker 1: begun to strengthen the multigeneration of bond among members, expand

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Speaker 1: community outreach, cultivate families, and expand the church's cultural significance.

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Speaker 1: Please work on the Money Making Conversations master class for

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Speaker 1: the very first time and hopefully not the last. Dr

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Speaker 1: Jamal Harrison Bryan, how are you doing, sir? Doing wonderfully well? Brother,

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Speaker 1: good to hear your voice and to see your face

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Speaker 1: well great, the same thing there, you know, when I

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Speaker 1: On TV, I'd say, uh, you know it. There was

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Speaker 1: a time when they when they when they when your

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Speaker 1: church reopened and members were allowed back into the church.

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Speaker 1: I saw you on every channel and that was in

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Speaker 1: this and there was a blessing because of the fact

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Speaker 1: that you went through to overcome and question your faith people.

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Speaker 1: You have to deal with the health. The black community

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Speaker 1: was affected the worst or people a brown skin tone.

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Speaker 1: So talk about that now and the reopening the church.

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Speaker 1: It was COVID was the best thing I think that

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Speaker 1: ever happened to the church because it made us move

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Speaker 1: outside of the four walls. Have you studied the life

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Speaker 1: of Jesus, of what he did was outside of the church,

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Speaker 1: but the contemporary model nine percent of what churches do

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Speaker 1: a consequence, the church never closed the building dead. And

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Speaker 1: so since today, Rashan, you ought to know that we

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Speaker 1: fed over eight hundred thousand people confronting food insecurity. UH,

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Speaker 1: know is that culture changes every four years, but Black

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Speaker 1: make it. Why because they were not technologically savvy. They

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Speaker 1: our modeled stewardship UH and increased the volume of trust

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Speaker 1: why we do this show, Dr Brian, because it's about information.

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Speaker 1: It's about information from a lack of knowledge. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: and that and that that you know and the knowledge

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Speaker 1: to thrive and shine uh in so young brath, Well,

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Speaker 1: here's the interesting thing about to wrap up here is

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Speaker 1: You know the state in the State of Texas holiday

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Speaker 1: Forever Nows and Day, and now it also lands on

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Speaker 1: Father's Day, okay. And black fathers have always been pushed

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Speaker 1: aside or said we are we don't understand the value,

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Speaker 1: a black man. I know I can get I get

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Speaker 1: hard when I hear I get upset when I hear that. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And and knowing that Father's Day is coming up, what

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Speaker 1: role or responsibility are you taking upon yourself to make

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Speaker 1: sure that black men are being recognized for being strong father,

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Speaker 1: strong parents, strong leaders in the community moving forward? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is that your health is your wealth U. And so

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Speaker 1: on Father's Day, we are doing free prostate cancer screenings

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Speaker 1: for all of our brothers because so many black men

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Speaker 1: have been impacted by it and the saying as our

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Speaker 1: early prevention least to secure and most black men don't

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Speaker 1: go to the hospital till they come through the emergency role.

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Speaker 1: It is all so June Team that we're setting up

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Speaker 1: these economic portfolios for investment for our people to be

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Speaker 1: able to have some greater sense of what the strength

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Speaker 1: of their dollar is. So in those ways we're gonna

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Speaker 1: affirm as well as trying to help fathers who want

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Speaker 1: visitation who have been robbed of it to be able

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Speaker 1: to get that through our partner with the courts is

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Speaker 1: you know, as we as we as the pandemic, as

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Speaker 1: you said earlier, has been a health and economic crisis,

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Speaker 1: and that's always been a blessing for the church. You know,

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Speaker 1: as one was to say, I'm talking to one of

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Speaker 1: the most influential religious leaders in the country, and you

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Speaker 1: Dr Bryant, as we as you call someone to the

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Speaker 1: altar and someone's listening to this show, what is the

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Speaker 1: final message you wanted to receive? So they can walk

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Speaker 1: away with a clear understanding that they can be successful.

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Speaker 1: They are walking and blessed shoes. They just need to

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Speaker 1: acknowledge it and accept the responsibility of hard work. That

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Speaker 1: the church to not over spiritual lines. It is nothing

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Speaker 1: more than a recycling center. We take that which has

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Speaker 1: been discarded, that which has been thrown away, that which

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Speaker 1: has imperfections, and helped turn it into something else. The

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Speaker 1: essence of who they are remains the same, but the

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Speaker 1: shape and the spirit of it is what it is

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Speaker 1: that we change. So every Sunday I tell people you

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Speaker 1: can come as you are, just be clear you won't

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Speaker 1: stay as you are. My guests rose from leventh grade

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Speaker 1: dropout to receive a g D, enrolled in Morehouse, first

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Speaker 1: time pH d graduate of Duke, and now he is

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Speaker 1: the senior pastor of Newberg Mission there Baptist Church. He's

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Speaker 1: a leader and also an inspiration and I'm so fortunate

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Speaker 1: to have him show to share these words. Know this,

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Speaker 1: whenever you have something, please come to Money Making Converses

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Speaker 1: Master Class. I'm a friend, advocate and a believer in

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Speaker 1: what you're trying to do to the community. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for coming on. I'm appreciative. Thank you so much, and

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Speaker 1: don't forget I'm coming back to tell you about the

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Speaker 1: future of the church once I figure out what it is. Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess what you know something? It would be quick

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Speaker 1: then because you've got technology on your side. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you, Dr Bryan, thank you for coming on that show.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

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Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. You are now tuned into the Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald Hire with

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald for Money Making Conversation with your Daily Minute

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Speaker 1: of Inspiration Recally I said Down with Minister Arthur speaker

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Speaker 1: and founder of the God Shift movement. Say Rattler talks

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Speaker 1: about the embracing disruption because it allows you to experience

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Speaker 1: the shift. Shy talks about embracing disruption because it allows

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Speaker 1: you to experience a shift. You're empowering people to do

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Speaker 1: what now? I'm empowering people to embrace disruption, collide with

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Speaker 1: God's purpose and chase their destiny. People's lives are experiencing disappointments,

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Speaker 1: but I believe that God is using those things to

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Speaker 1: get our attention. The question is are we going to

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Speaker 1: learn what it is that He wants us to learn?

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Speaker 1: And disruption doesn't all us have to be negative. I

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Speaker 1: think that the negative things are what get people's attention

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Speaker 1: the most. But I believe that it's an opportunity for

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Speaker 1: us to say, Lord, where is it that you need

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Speaker 1: me next? If you were to listen to this full

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Speaker 1: interview with Nai Ratler, it's available on money Making Conversation

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass

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Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I

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Speaker 1: am your host, Rashan McDonald. I recognize that we all

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Speaker 1: have different definitions of success. For you and may be

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Speaker 1: the size of your paycheck. Mine is inspiring people to

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Speaker 1: accomplish their goals and live their very best life. It

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Speaker 1: is time to stop reading other people's success stores to

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Speaker 1: start writing your own. People always talk about their purpose

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Speaker 1: or gifts. If you have a gift, leave with your

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Speaker 1: gifts and don't let your friends, family, or coworkers stop

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Speaker 1: you from planning or living your dreams. My next guest

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Speaker 1: is Cassandra Cummings. She's a leading wealth and investment strategist

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Speaker 1: and founder of the Stocks and Stilettos Society, is the

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Speaker 1: fastest growing online community and more than one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: women investors who are leveraging the power of investing to

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Speaker 1: achieve their wealth building goals. She's a licensed financial advisor, investor,

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Speaker 1: and speaker. Cassandra provides her knowledge and guidance to empower

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Speaker 1: others on financial literacy. People everywhere should recognize her talent

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Speaker 1: as we will at this point. Please work with the

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Cassandra Commons, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: having me, Thanks for having me. Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you you on the West Coast. You're based in Oakland, California. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm here, um right across from San Francisco and go Warriors.

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Speaker 1: That's true, that's true in the playoffs. Good thing, But

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Warriors are keeping you in Oakland, California.

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Speaker 1: In California, why Oakland California? Will you're well, you're just

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Speaker 1: like using social media, using the internet to build your brand.

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Speaker 1: But while Oakland, California, why are you? Why are you there? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm here because this is home for me and there's

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Speaker 1: no place like home. So you know, Um, I came

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Speaker 1: back because there's a certain type of energy, there's a

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Speaker 1: certain type of grit that I learned while being here,

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Speaker 1: and I felt like I needed that energy once again

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Speaker 1: in my life. So I circled back after making a

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Speaker 1: few pitch stops, and I'm back home now. Those pitch stops.

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Speaker 1: I always tell people, like I've lived in New York,

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Speaker 1: I've lived in Chicago, I mean really lived, I mean years,

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Speaker 1: lived in Los Angeles, the longest fifteen years, and presently

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Speaker 1: i've been in Atlantis is two thousand seven, So it's

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Speaker 1: about fifteen years here, but I'm originally from Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Each stop maybe a better person, maybe understand that different

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Speaker 1: people are different parts of this country, think differently, have

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Speaker 1: a different set of cultural rules, and also have different dreams.

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Speaker 1: In your travels and the places that you said you

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Speaker 1: had these pitch stops, how did they impact you and

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Speaker 1: made you the person that you are today? Well, I

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Speaker 1: had a couple of pitch stops. I too, lived in

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Speaker 1: l a form quite a long time. I think it

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Speaker 1: was about ten years years. I finished school down there

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Speaker 1: at USC and then from USC, I wasn't quite ready

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Speaker 1: to go home yet, and so I ventured out to Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 1: I actually was pursuing a career as a broadcast journalist,

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Speaker 1: and so I had some opportunities to go out there

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Speaker 1: and really work on the craft of becoming a news

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Speaker 1: reporter and had dreams of becoming a news anchor. And

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Speaker 1: then I had to grow up. I had to actually

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Speaker 1: go back to what I knew best, and that was,

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Speaker 1: you know, the money industry, and ended up coming back

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Speaker 1: to the West Coast, where um I started my career

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Speaker 1: in financial services with a I g Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't really use the world. Grow up, you know,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of people if I was a kids,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people out there mature. I think that

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Speaker 1: the realization of what your true gifts or your challenge.

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Speaker 1: That's why I talk about your gifts or your purpose.

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Speaker 1: You know, lea with it. You know that's what you're

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Speaker 1: doing now. You're leading with your true gifts just because

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Speaker 1: you want to do something like I wanted to lay basketball,

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Speaker 1: but I just knew that that wasn't my gift, nor

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Speaker 1: was that my purpose. And so what you just realized

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Speaker 1: is that this is my true gift take advantage of

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Speaker 1: I remember, I would tell I wrote on I was

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Speaker 1: living in l A October nine nine one, and I

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Speaker 1: had a guard. If you allow me to maximize all

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Speaker 1: of my talents, and I will follow the talent that

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Speaker 1: will lead me to my where I was supposed to go.

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Speaker 1: Because we all if we if when we were young,

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Speaker 1: we have so many visions of grandeur about what we

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Speaker 1: can do, but no goal are tied. It's tied to it.

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Speaker 1: That's what I felt that you're back in the financial

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Speaker 1: world because you put goals to it and the goals

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Speaker 1: come to expectations. And when we reached out the expectation,

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Speaker 1: you start reaping results. Whereas I was one time in

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Speaker 1: the entertainment business, I was a very successful stand up comic.

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Speaker 1: I just didn't I couldn't become goal order with that.

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Speaker 1: You're going for audition, then he tell you some people

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Speaker 1: said they like it, and they don't call you back.

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Speaker 1: They call you back, then somebody else gets it. So

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Speaker 1: I can't tie goes to that. I'm just a logical

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Speaker 1: thinking person. So I just think you're just a logical

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Speaker 1: thinking person. Am I correct to Cassandral, Absolutely, But you know,

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Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. I've definitely endured a lot

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Speaker 1: of rejection, UM. That was really filled in the news

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Speaker 1: broadcasting world, got a lot of nose sent out, a

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Speaker 1: lot of demo tapes, UM. And I would have, you know,

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Speaker 1: have to say that's been the case. Even in financial services.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of clients that don't necessarily established

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Speaker 1: rapport with you, they don't necessarily want to work to you.

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Speaker 1: That's just you know, a sotal form of rejection as well.

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Speaker 1: And I mean I too have fire clients because it

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Speaker 1: just wasn't a good personality fit or you know, they

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Speaker 1: were looking for something that I may not be able

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Speaker 1: to successfully deliver on So I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 1: just everyday part of life dealing with those nose, and

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Speaker 1: those nose they make you pivot, so you end up

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Speaker 1: having to change course. And that's okay because sometimes when

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Speaker 1: one door closes, right as they say, another door opens

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it could be the grand prize in that

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Speaker 1: new door. I agree, I agree, And I think that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize that, you know, they

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Speaker 1: feel they'd be They allow themselves to be blindsided by

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Speaker 1: what their own goals, and their goals might not be

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Speaker 1: the right goals from them. I know that, and that's

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Speaker 1: why I wanted to bring you on the show because

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Speaker 1: just looking at your your body of work, it has

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Speaker 1: it has tied to Journey's, it is tied to decision

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Speaker 1: making and oftentimes when you are and I just say,

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Speaker 1: when you're an attractive woman, then a lot of people

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Speaker 1: will not give you the credit do credit because of

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Speaker 1: your attractiveness. Am I wrong and making those statements like that? Absolutely? Um.

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Speaker 1: I've always sort of played my beauty down a little

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Speaker 1: bit um for the most part, and I would say

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Speaker 1: in recent years, I told myself, I'm not playing small.

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Speaker 1: This is who I am right. I just so happens

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Speaker 1: that I have the brains that comes with a pretty face,

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Speaker 1: and I need to act. He used that as an asset.

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Speaker 1: You are trying to ugly yourself up now because well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just you know, just learn how to

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Speaker 1: put on some eyelash, some lip laws. But before then,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was just really like, you know, this

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Speaker 1: is who I am, and coming from Oakland, you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't do a lot of beautification here. I would say,

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Speaker 1: you know, we grew up, wasn't a lot of you know,

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Speaker 1: provocative clothing and things like that. We were really from

645
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Speaker 1: the town and we had a different way of maneuvering

646
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Speaker 1: here that didn't really require you to flex your beauty.

647
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: You really had to show improve in different ways and

648
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: not leave with your face. So I learned that. But

649
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Speaker 1: as I started to make those pit stops, I saw

650
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Speaker 1: really how advantageous. You know, pretty has privileges, and I

651
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Speaker 1: really needed to use that to my advantage. Absolutely. You know,

652
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Speaker 1: look at me, I got my suit on. You know

653
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You'll say, I'm talking look at pretty

654
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Speaker 1: as I can. So you're talking to you looking a

655
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Speaker 1: think I like that. I like that because you know,

656
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Speaker 1: as we go through life, you know, you have to

657
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Speaker 1: like put all of your all your bullets in the gun.

658
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, It's just starts shooting and

659
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Speaker 1: you want you shooting your best shot and so and so.

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Speaker 1: That's but the one thing that we know that that

661
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: you leave with is your intellect. When you leave with

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00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: your brand, you leave with the fact that you have

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Speaker 1: you can provide a strategy or f natural goals that

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Speaker 1: can change people's lives. TEP a little bit of how

665
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Speaker 1: you came to be a wealth and investment strategist. It

666
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Speaker 1: was really from my college mentor of Her name is Angela,

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Speaker 1: and I mean this woman is was a powerhouse, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to emulate her. And I saw

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Speaker 1: her moving and shaking. She was a bond trader here

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Speaker 1: um a sitting stock exchange. She worked in finance, and

671
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Speaker 1: I was like, I want to be like her when

672
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: I grow up because I came from you know, very

673
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: humble beginnings for on welfare and I had an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to now have a mentor have someone that could you know,

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Speaker 1: get my foot in the door and really show me

676
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Speaker 1: the ropes um. And so that was really my introduction

677
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: to financial services. It was my introduction to really putting

678
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Speaker 1: myself out there to help others. She is so generous

679
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: with her time, with her knowledge, and that's something that

680
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to emulate. And it just really became

681
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Speaker 1: a part of who I am now now and you

682
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Speaker 1: say who you are? So now you are a mentor. Yes,

683
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: now you are a leader. Now responsibility comes with that.

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Speaker 1: Yes times. I mean I never imagined the impact that

685
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Speaker 1: I would have, like I saw the impact she had,

686
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Speaker 1: but I think I have definitely ten x that in it.

687
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Speaker 1: I definitely did. She had an impact on you before

688
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: you know, social media got out there, you know, and

689
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Speaker 1: before the end ofnet became the craze. So you know,

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Speaker 1: she she hut. She's a lot more intimate, a lot

691
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: more personal. But now you know, you post up on lengthdin,

692
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Speaker 1: you post up on social media, people a d M

693
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Speaker 1: you and all these things and what you will respond

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Speaker 1: to them or not. Sometimes you don't want to, and

695
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to something. Yes, people to follow you

696
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: to build your brand and your relationships. That's the world

697
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Speaker 1: you live into. Now you're you're the founder of the

698
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: Stocks and Stilato Society. What exactly is that? So it's

699
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: an online community of women investors. And I mean we've

700
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: got women in there who are at the very beginning

701
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: of their investing journey, haven't even bought their first stock.

702
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: We've got women who are in there with you know,

703
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: multimillion dollar portfolios. So there are black women in there

704
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: that run the gamut. And we really wanted to create

705
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Speaker 1: this space where women could really feel comfortable of out

706
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: talking about money, whether it would be questions like you know,

707
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Speaker 1: how do you even buy a stop too? You know,

708
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: I need to do tax loss harvesting, And so we

709
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: wanted to create that space where women who were well

710
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: seasoned and investing could also help and embrace the ones

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00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: who were coming up in this investing game. And I

712
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: think this community has done a great job of making

713
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Speaker 1: sure that we leave no system behind. Now when you

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Speaker 1: say one women investors, is that a is that a newsletter?

715
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: Is there a Facebook club? Where? Where are these? Where

716
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: are these? One hundred thousand women apologizes? So we have

717
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Speaker 1: currently we have about nineties six thousand in a Facebook

718
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Speaker 1: group that's yeah yeah, and then we have about eighteen

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00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 1: thousand on our Facebook page, and we have about forty

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Speaker 1: thousand on Instagram. And so collectively. When we look across

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Speaker 1: all of our social media of platforms are some huge numbers.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm just gonna let you know that you know,

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Speaker 1: this is this is this is uh six thousand in

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Speaker 1: your Facebook group, which is you know, if you watch Facebook,

725
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Speaker 1: there were a lot of commercials encouraging people to join groups,

726
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: you know, and then you also on your Facebook page

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Speaker 1: you have eighteen thousand. And then on Instagram you got

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Speaker 1: another forty thousand. Yeah. Now do y'all do uh retreats?

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Speaker 1: We do? We um what we do a signature event

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Speaker 1: called the Stocks to Star some in in Vegas every

731
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Speaker 1: year October six through the AID or the first weekend

732
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Speaker 1: in October, and it is a party unlike any other.

733
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've never seen a group of women come

734
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Speaker 1: together around the idea of investing and have so much fun.

735
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: And we learn from some of the top people in

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Speaker 1: the industry. So it's spokes and you know, I call

737
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: it entertainment. We come out, we have a good time,

738
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 1: we learned how to grow our money, and then we

739
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: get to business. We get down to business after we

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00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: leave there. Okay, now October six through the Okay, in

741
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Speaker 1: our in Vegas, what hotel y'all at we at the

742
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Speaker 1: Rin got one of the best buffets in Vegas. I'm

743
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Speaker 1: a buffet. I love buffaith I love Buffet's already hotel,

744
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Speaker 1: I got one of the best buffeties. I mean, you

745
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: go in there. They got it all up in there. Now,

746
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to test the tea. You're my only

747
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: thing with Cassandra comference. You know, I'm testing her. You know.

748
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: You know the people come on this show, you know

749
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: they throw our numbers all the time and act you know, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying. Let'm trying. But she had just

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Speaker 1: she has just set me back. You know where were

752
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: showing six thousand. You can round up if you want to.

753
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: You you you got you know, mad that's apt either way.

754
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,760
Speaker 1: You see anything above point five, you round up anyway.

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00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: That's okay, Na, Na that if you really if you

756
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 1: really think I'm front eighteen thousand sitting over there, okay,

757
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: if you really think in front of forty thousand sitting

758
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: over there, now, if you really think I'm front Vegas?

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Speaker 1: You know as a multi day event, you know Octolder

760
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Speaker 1: six through the Egg, you know at the Aria. You

761
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: know we're not off the beaten track with the Aria

762
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Speaker 1: you know when you going there, every everything is controlling

763
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: that hotel room by the phone, the phone controlled everything,

764
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Speaker 1: turn back through lives, every lives open, the front door,

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Speaker 1: back door, back and then lord of shade, everything in

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Speaker 1: the Aria. I know exactly when you're at Whoa, we

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00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: all on the strip, on the strip. I love it.

768
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 1: So how long have you have this? Uh? Does Stocks

769
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: and Stiletto Society been around? And when did this start? Uh? Well,

770
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: we've been around since two thousand and sixteen, so six years.

771
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: And it started after I left Morrow Lynch. Um. I

772
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: was talking with a friend and I was just dropping

773
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 1: names again, dropped her name again, she dropped the again.

774
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: Just see, I just love talking. She just drops his name.

775
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: I left Mary Lynch, you know, just left. I just

776
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: I had something to do. Oakland girl here. I just

777
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: started winning Live Floss and Eland a couple of weeks ago.

778
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,959
Speaker 1: You know, I've been winning naturally I've been winning naturalizes,

779
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: so so I'm making money. Was over here absolutely so

780
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: so Meryl Lynch. And the reason the reason I bring

781
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: that up because of the fact that in order to

782
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: get respect, you have to be respectable brands. And when

783
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: you with respectable brands and you made the decision to

784
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: lead a respectable You have to have a goal. Now

785
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: that goal might not happen immediately, but you know that, Okay,

786
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: what they're doing doesn't fulfill me. There's a lot of

787
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: people watch my show, listen to my show, the trapped

788
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: in jobs because they're afraid to change, They're afraid of

789
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: the unknown. I'm pretty sure there was some fear tied

790
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: to this. How did you overcome that fear of the unknown? Concentral?

791
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 1: You know, I would have to say it had to

792
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: be my circle. You know. It was my circle that

793
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: was rooting for me. They were my cheerleaders. They were like,

794
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: you got this, sis, You're gonna do this. And I

795
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: had a very difficult time really finding my lane afterwards

796
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: because I had been trained to do things a certain way,

797
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: and so I had to unlearn those things and reprogram

798
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: myself to to really go out here and serve in

799
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 1: a different capacity. And so it took me about a

800
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: year to kind of catch my footing. But I did

801
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: have a conversation with one friend and she was like,

802
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: you need to start a Facebook group And I'm like,

803
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: what is that? You know, because we couldn't really be

804
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: on social media like that with the firm. And once

805
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: I opened up the Facebook group, I had about fifty

806
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: people and before I knew it, I had like five

807
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: thousand people and it just took off from there. That

808
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: is awesome. That's awesome. Now let's go back to the

809
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: Las Vegas event. Yeah, what what we're prompted that type

810
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: of retreat and you know we talked, we really didn't

811
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: go take Can you break down what happens on each

812
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: day or they're like seminars and speakers because I know

813
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: there's entertainment in Vegas. There's entertainment. What what is the

814
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: what is the takeaway from that type of event from

815
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: a standpoint of education? Yeah, so, um, we make sure

816
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: you get ex municated. Sure in a different realms of investing.

817
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: So Day one is our v I P Day. They

818
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: come out and they actually have two master classes. So

819
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: we have two amazing speakers come out and they both

820
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: teach our V I P ladies something. Um that's gonna

821
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: help propel them, right. And then when we get today too,

822
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: which is the general sessions, we basically have morning breakout

823
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: sessions and that's gonna be either between options or day trading,

824
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 1: and then we have afternoon breakout sessions, and that's gonna

825
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: be really centered around UM. Let me remember, UM, I

826
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Speaker 1: can't remember off the top of my head, but we

827
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: have to probably like crypto and something else right that

828
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: aside hustles, So crypto inside hustles. So morning we do

829
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: options and day trading. In the afternoon we do crypto

830
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: and UM side hustles. Then on the third day is

831
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: when we have our panels. So we have a real

832
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: estate panel, we have an angel investing panel, UM, we

833
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 1: have a entrepreneurship panel this year. UM, we talk about

834
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Speaker 1: a lot of things that help women take have some

835
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: takeaways that they can actually go and act on right away.

836
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: So we give them actionable gems. And it's not a

837
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Speaker 1: bunch of fluff. You know. I'm really big on, you know,

838
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: getting away from the ro ra rod and stuff like.

839
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: I want people to have things that they can't go

840
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 1: and put in the place when they leave this event.

841
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

842
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations

843
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Let me tell you something, you know,

844
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: because I'm really impressed with you and not saying that

845
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't impressed with you before you came on the show.

846
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: But you have a certain style. I think it's very um,

847
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: very comfortable. I think that's important, especially dealing with with

848
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: your money people money. You want to be comfortable on

849
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: somebody you're giving your money to. Don't any won't be

850
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 1: nervous across the table with anybody. Now Big coin and cryptocurrent,

851
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: Lord knows, the Black community keeps getting left behind because

852
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Speaker 1: we don't know, we don't trust you know, Lord, you

853
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Speaker 1: know we we just took our money out of the mattress,

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Speaker 1: you know, thirty years ago, Okay, and we're still in

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Speaker 1: black communities dealing with these check cash in places is

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Speaker 1: and don't know anything about apps, don't even know anything

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Speaker 1: about zel anything. Okay, this is true talk. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: want to I want to turn into a couple of

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Speaker 1: a couple of things into little snippets for you. Can

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Speaker 1: you talk to the black community by why they should

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Speaker 1: be involved with the bigcoin and then separately talk to

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Speaker 1: him about cryptocurrency. Well, bitcoin is definitely the granddaddy of cryptocurrency. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's been around, I believe about twenty years now. It's

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Speaker 1: been around for a long time. Twelve maybe twelve years,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, like I say, with bitcoin, it

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Speaker 1: takes time to get to a certain level of you know,

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Speaker 1: investment success with anything, right, you've got to have sort

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Speaker 1: of like this long term view, even with crypto. So

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Speaker 1: bitcoin has definitely gotten a lot of buzz, a lot

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Speaker 1: of media attention and things like that because it has

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Speaker 1: definitely come into its time, right, it's a forty something

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Speaker 1: that thousand. Now, if you want to buy bitcoint you

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Speaker 1: can still buy bitcoin. You don't have to buy a

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Speaker 1: full point. So if you want to put a thousand

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Speaker 1: and you can still you know, make money off of that.

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Speaker 1: There are tons of all coins we call those are

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Speaker 1: all coins, and so those are your doge coins, your

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Speaker 1: Shiba coins and things like that that you can get

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Speaker 1: into that are really really inexpensive, and so you can

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Speaker 1: put in five hundred dollars and walk away with like,

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Speaker 1: you know, five hundred thousand shares of a coin by

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Speaker 1: investing in some of these all coins that may have

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Speaker 1: the potential to rise and increase as much as bitcoins.

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Speaker 1: So that's really what the game is now. People are

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Speaker 1: looking for the next bitcoin in cryptocurrency. Um. The other

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Speaker 1: thing too that's really big in crypto right now is

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Speaker 1: really investing in coins that are tied to the metaverse.

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Speaker 1: I was just talking to someone this morning about you know,

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Speaker 1: coins that are heavily involved in digital real estate in

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Speaker 1: the metaverse, and so a lot of people are starting

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Speaker 1: to allocate money and it could be a small amount

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Speaker 1: to some of these coins like Gala and the Central

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Speaker 1: Land and things like that that are heavily connected with

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Speaker 1: the metaverse and digital real estate. So there are really

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Speaker 1: good opportunities, especially for black people to get in with

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Speaker 1: very little money and you know, very little risk um

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Speaker 1: with crypto. So right, digital metaverse, none of that's real,

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Speaker 1: it's not really you know black people thought stock market

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Speaker 1: wasn't really at one point. Well, I know where I

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Speaker 1: be at, I know where the whole I can lose

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Speaker 1: some mon hole deepot, get mad at on deepot digital

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Speaker 1: real estate. Huh huh. And that's the part that we

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Speaker 1: have to cross that line over understanding the reality of

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Speaker 1: n f t s and you know the college athletes

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Speaker 1: learning about n els all these things. Uh, we're fast

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Speaker 1: moving into a society where education really may never catch

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Speaker 1: up with us. So it means that the ability to

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Speaker 1: be a participant may never be an opportunity. And so

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Speaker 1: bringing you on my show at least helps us understand

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Speaker 1: that there are people like us. There's a community of

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Speaker 1: women out there who don't want to be average, who

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Speaker 1: don't want to be left in the back, who want

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Speaker 1: to be able to say, how can I be a

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Speaker 1: party of this? Now, you have a little program called

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Speaker 1: Build a Bag of Wealth. I think that's the best

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Speaker 1: way to close up with you and this interview. But

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Speaker 1: also I have a show. I do my show live

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Speaker 1: on Tuesdays on w CLK Campus. I take phone calls.

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Speaker 1: I love to invite you on my live show. It

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Speaker 1: also plays back on my national platform. But you are

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Speaker 1: so engaging. And whenem I bring an investor on somebody

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Speaker 1: talking about stock, the phone light up and that's I

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Speaker 1: know these black folks want to know how to make

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Speaker 1: some money. I mean, I could bring on celebrities, no calls,

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Speaker 1: I bring on somebody talking about stock home they find

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Speaker 1: their way to that phone. So I know there's education

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Speaker 1: that they want, but the opportunity to participate they're being

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Speaker 1: left out of. So talk about your build a Bag

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Speaker 1: of wealth. Yeah. So Build a Bag is a program

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Speaker 1: that um I came up with to teach women and men.

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Speaker 1: It's actually open to everyone. Um how to trade options.

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Speaker 1: And options are contracts um to buy stocks. You're not

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Speaker 1: obligated to buy them, but oftentimes, you know, we don't

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Speaker 1: market to buy the Amazon's, to buy the Google's because

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Speaker 1: they're just really priced, you know, extremely high. But if

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Speaker 1: you learn how to trade contracts, you can still make

939
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Speaker 1: money off of Amazon or IBM or home Depot what

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Speaker 1: have you, with very little money. And so we have

941
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Speaker 1: designed this program called Build a Bag where we show

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Speaker 1: people how to go from five hundred dollars to five

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars and typically about a month and a half

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Speaker 1: to two months. See see see I am about talking

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Speaker 1: about staff. So we should have started out with that

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Speaker 1: conversation five the five dollars. You know, some we're gonna

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Speaker 1: book you on my show My Money makes Mother Master clap,

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Speaker 1: I'm firing some people off the show to bring you

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Speaker 1: on this. Okay, they need to know how to trade options.

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Speaker 1: They need to here. Okay, we're gonna start off with

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Speaker 1: That conversation though immediately, but you've been fantastic. I thoroughly

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I'm glad you contact me. I'm glad we

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Speaker 1: contacted you. It was it was a synergy. My people

955
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Speaker 1: were reaching out to you and you naturally reach it

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Speaker 1: out to me. Know that you'll be hearing from me again.

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Speaker 1: I want to bring you on my live show. It's

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Speaker 1: just like, this's a very fun nbr airs on a

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Speaker 1: with the number one week and showing black radio in America.

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Speaker 1: But more importantly, you are number one in my financial heart. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna win together here girl, five hundred

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Speaker 1: forward to it. I appreciate you. Thank you for coming

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