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Speaker 1: Everybody. We got our special guests this morning. That's promised.

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Speaker 1: They are the hosts of the now extremely popular, culturally

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Speaker 1: innovative earn your Leisure invest Fest. What are an iconic

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Speaker 1: brand this has become Troy Millons and Rashad Balaud. They're

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Speaker 1: the creators of invest Fest and this year is atl

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Speaker 1: invest Fest. It kicks off August twenty second at the

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Speaker 1: Georgia World Congress Center. I'll be there again this year,

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Speaker 1: and we bring some friends with us. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about invest Fest this year. Why it's important for you

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Speaker 1: to attend. Listen to me. Everybody that goes to invest

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Speaker 1: Fest gains so much in terms of self development, learning,

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Speaker 1: business networking. Is just a plethora of information.

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Speaker 2: God, I can't believe I used that word.

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Speaker 1: It's such a plethora of information and just really really

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Speaker 1: rewarding for everybody to team. So please welcome to the

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Speaker 1: show the creators of invest Fest, Troy Millers and Rashad Belave.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hey brothers. How y'all doing today?

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Speaker 3: Good? Good good, Thank you for having us appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: I mean as usual, man, I just think it's such

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Speaker 1: a valuable tool for people. Man, to put in their arsenal.

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Speaker 1: I think that if you haven't been, you have to go.

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Speaker 1: You have to go. It is worth it is worth

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Speaker 1: investing in yourself. This year is invest Fast. Kicks off Friday,

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Speaker 1: August twenty second, and it runs the entire weekend in

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Speaker 1: Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. Give us an

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Speaker 1: overview of the investmentest this year, guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we have a great line up as always.

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Speaker 3: We have yourself, you have Magic Johnson. We have Jack Dorsey,

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Speaker 3: of the billionaires that's really been on the forefront of

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Speaker 3: crypto and bitcoin for a long time. We have John O'Briant,

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Speaker 3: we have Gisa Ray, Charlemagne Faugh and Weaver. But even

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Speaker 3: outside of the great lineup that we put together, we

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Speaker 3: have workshops on artificial intelligence, real estate stops, and especially

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Speaker 3: the AI conversation for our community. This is very, very

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Speaker 3: very important. Everybody's talking about how AI is going to

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Speaker 3: So if you're not educated on artificial intelligence, you're definitely

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Speaker 3: going to miss the boat. So that's the main focus

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Speaker 3: this year. We have a pitch competition. We're gonna give

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Speaker 3: away one hundred and twenty five thousand miles with an

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Speaker 3: entrepreneurs So we're very, very, very excited about this year.

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Speaker 3: But this is probably the most important year based on

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Speaker 3: everything that's been going on, but especially when it comes

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Speaker 1: Thanks Ales. Let's back up a little bit. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about this pitch contest exactly.

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so last year we had the opportunity to give

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Speaker 4: one hundred thousand dollars away to entrepreneur, which is incredible

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Speaker 4: when you talk about capital, especially in our community, it's

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Speaker 4: the toughest thing to come from, right to raise funds

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Speaker 2: Get loans for it.

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Speaker 4: So we said, you know, rather than be a problem,

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Speaker 4: let's be a solution. So they here, we're coming back

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Speaker 4: with our partner, Paul Judge, the head of Opportunity Fund,

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Speaker 4: kick off somebody's venture into the world of tech. And

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Speaker 4: what better place to do with that investments on the

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Speaker 4: stage lot in front of twenty thousand people. So people

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Speaker 4: are going to get to hear this business pitch and

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Speaker 4: nobody really loses right when you're talking about fishing in

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Speaker 4: front of that many people. They're gonna be people in

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Speaker 4: the audience. They're gonna be people that will be watching

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Speaker 4: this thing. Somebody's gonna see this idea and realize that

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Speaker 4: this is something that I make want to invest in.

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Speaker 4: So it's a win win for everybody.

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Speaker 1: So is this the pitch contest? Is this something people

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at investments dot com and the submissions. I think

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Speaker 3: So it's very important if you have it. But it's

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Speaker 1: Okay, good, hey man, Listen. We got some panel discussions

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Speaker 2: Man, who are you.

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Speaker 1: All looking forward to this year? I mean you got

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Speaker 1: Jack Dorsey, how'd you manage that?

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Speaker 3: intelligence technology the future of banking. I mean, it's one

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Speaker 3: all questions. So I'm definitely looking forward to him. But

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Speaker 3: of course Magic Johnson as well. You know, Magic is

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Speaker 3: somebody our community we've seen, you know, built movie theaters

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Speaker 4: we're keeping that street going and having billion this that's

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Speaker 4: there exciting Fani for the weekend and every every year,

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Speaker 2: So we're going to be in for a treat and

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Speaker 2: y'all stick around.

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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, we're back on our special guest this

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Speaker 1: morning are the creators of invest Fest, Troy Millins and

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Speaker 1: Rashard Blaud, and we're here.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking about invest Fest.

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Speaker 1: We're letting everybody know that it's August twenty second Friday.

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Speaker 2: It starts the whole weekend.

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Speaker 1: You can get tickets at Investfest dot com. But we

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Speaker 2: Why don't you tell us about that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hi, Steve harveulation listen to this. Go to

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Speaker 1: So let's go, y'all, let's get it. Were about to

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Speaker 1: telling you flat out, it will sell out. So hurry, hurry, hurry.

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Speaker 1: In the words of Blue Magic, step right up, hurry hurry,

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Speaker 1: let the side show be give It's invest fast everybody, Friday,

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Speaker 1: August twenty second. It's a must win, Magic Johnson, Jack Dorsey,

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Speaker 1: Such great information, man, Please don't miss it, and don't forget.

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Speaker 2: You can't beat that. Hey, fellas, I think we got it.

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Speaker 4: As always, thank you for those Appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate y'all. Man, We'll see y'all that invest Fest. Everybody.

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