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Speaker 1: is he saying? And then he wasn't talking to you.

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Speaker 1: He was just making decisions without you. Okay, whole process

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Speaker 1: and you can leave. Ask me Keith, what I think

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Speaker 1: about that dollar about and you know what you're talking

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Speaker 1: about and you ask anything. I know we're about to

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Speaker 1: wrap up here, but I wanted to talk about It's

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Speaker 1: because so many things I can talk about the book

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Speaker 1: of talking to Erica Pittman um EP in my game

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Speaker 1: Executive Producer. That's what I called it, because she run things.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be her self title, you know,

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Speaker 1: because she run things, just things. That's because she run things.

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Speaker 1: UM is a chapter book under defined and Control your

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Speaker 1: Own narrative, which I always talk about, I think in

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Speaker 1: that's uh, That's what I set down with a UH

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Speaker 1: specialist about like to. Wanted to find out who who

441
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Speaker 1: relates to Rashan McDonald with age group, relates to Rashan

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Speaker 1: McDonald with my colors, what the people are attracted to?

443
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Speaker 1: They like me casual, they like me to suit and

444
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Speaker 1: also so I really actually went to somebody to tell

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Speaker 1: me who Rashan McDonald was and who wants to listen

446
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Speaker 1: to Rashan McDonald. And when you get into the chapter

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Speaker 1: to define and Control your own narrative. You say this

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Speaker 1: at the age of thirty three, you made it out

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Speaker 1: of the projects and was part of the top five

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Speaker 1: percent of income earners in America. Now, lot of peoplen't

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Speaker 1: understand that that's that's powerful. That's powerful because you're now

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Speaker 1: you're non navigating waters. When you go on the grocery store,

453
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Speaker 1: you just pick things up the way about sale. Just

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Speaker 1: pick it up. Okay, you go buy some shoes. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I have a couple of pairs. Okay, I have a

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Speaker 1: couple of pair. Uh that car. Put put a few

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Speaker 1: more features on that car. I like that. Okay, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't mind flying first class every once in a

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Speaker 1: while because I'm in the top five. But you don't

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Speaker 1: know these things. And then and the thing about it,

461
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Speaker 1: you didn't know. And when you look back on it, Erica,

462
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Speaker 1: you didn't know. That's all it took. That's all I

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Speaker 1: had to make to get into the top five percent.

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Speaker 1: So you mean the rest of the name five percent

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Speaker 1: of America is living under this level. That is an

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Speaker 1: eye opener because it makes you realize that to get

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Speaker 1: to the halves, it's a lot of work. But when

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Speaker 1: you're get in that world, all you want to do

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Speaker 1: is keep it getting to the fourth percent. That's your

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Speaker 1: goal now, and so standing there is rough. And I

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Speaker 1: always tell people longevity is a beautiful thing, but it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of work. I tell people twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: in a day. Always learned how to use every hour

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Speaker 1: in a day. So when you make that statement about

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Speaker 1: at the age of thirty three, you made it other projects.

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Speaker 1: It was part of the top top five percent of

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Speaker 1: income earners in America. Why do you make that statement

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Speaker 1: in your book? Um, I think it's important for you know,

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Speaker 1: those of us that perhaps comes again, we should realize

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Speaker 1: that we you know, it's possible for anyone. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I often say everyone can't be open worm free or

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Speaker 1: Michelle Obama, who also is a great example of coming

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Speaker 1: from humble beginnings and you know, sort of reaching a

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Speaker 1: pinnacle of success. But everyone can't be those those archetypes.

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Speaker 1: But you know, everyday people, you know, with the right

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Speaker 1: mind frame and the right commitment and persistence can can

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Speaker 1: make it happen. And to your point, it is not

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Speaker 1: as difficult as it seems, because the better half of

489
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Speaker 1: the world is not necessarily as successful as the five percent.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so I just I wanted people to see

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Speaker 1: that it's achievable and I'm not just sort of blowing

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Speaker 1: smoke with with my messaging and then my strategies. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're not blowing smoke here. I appreciate the honesty in

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Speaker 1: your book, and you made me laugh. You made me

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Speaker 1: take a little note because I love reading books like

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Speaker 1: your books, because I'd like to believe I'm a successful person.

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Speaker 1: And when I when I read books like you, it's

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Speaker 1: like a master class, you know. Oh yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: she may remember. Okay, cool, good ras Sean McDonald's is

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Speaker 1: still in the right lanes of success. And that's what

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Speaker 1: you will get when you read the book What Mommy

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Speaker 1: Never Told You, written by Erica Pittman. H E. P.

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Speaker 1: That's my girl, you know, exacutive producer because she run things. Erica,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show. Okay, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for having me. More Money Making Conversation interviews

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Speaker 1: Award winning multimedia personality that includes series x MS, Caffe

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Speaker 1: Mocal radio show, talk show, co host on The Rio,

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Speaker 1: comedian entre maneuver, and actress. She's on the show to

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Speaker 1: talk about her very very funny memoir I tried to

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Speaker 1: change so you don't have to please. Welcome to money

549
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Speaker 1: making Conversation again. Loney Love than Lonny I'm telling you something.

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Speaker 1: Let me just read this little just what I took

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Speaker 1: from the book, because I want to want to set

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Speaker 1: the stage before we started writing talking about this very

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Speaker 1: funny book and very funny book memoir. In reading this

554
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Speaker 1: book just came from you. In reading this book, you

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Speaker 1: should remember that I am a comedian. I'm also a

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Speaker 1: television host and an actress and electrical engineer. This is

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Speaker 1: my memoir and tells you about my life. But it's

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Speaker 1: a tale told from a comedian perspective, a comic perspective,

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Speaker 1: and I believe that this entitles me to a good

560
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Speaker 1: number of liberties. I reordered and combined events and people.

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Speaker 1: I changed a whole lot of names and identified her details.

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Speaker 1: And I've exaggerated and made some things up. Altogether, I

563
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Speaker 1: hope make your smile or even lad when I have

564
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Speaker 1: not changed the reality of my life, where I came

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Speaker 1: from and how I've got here today. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: loney love that's beautiful. You know, you know you've been

567
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Speaker 1: on this show before, and I'm a big fan of yours,

568
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Speaker 1: and uh you know it always I you know, like

569
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Speaker 1: I always call you a text you just to let

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Speaker 1: you know I love you and uh, you're just a

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Speaker 1: gifted young lady and never be down on yourself. And

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Speaker 1: I read this book is a journey from Detroit to Houston,

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Speaker 1: Texas to Elsa Gondo to Los Angeles. It all started

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Speaker 1: in Detroit. Tell us about that the start, and then

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Speaker 1: I want to break down some of my favorite chapters,

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Speaker 1: like chapter eight when you were thrown in jail, That's

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Speaker 1: what that is. Has to be the funniest, the funniest chapter.

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Speaker 1: You know, I read a lot of books. Now just

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Speaker 1: tell I'm just telling. I'm talking to Loney Love. Now

580
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Speaker 1: this is our book. Now, this is something Member one

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Speaker 1: I tried to change, so you don't have to. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you. I just think everybody should tell their journey,

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Speaker 1: and especially people of color. People don't understand how hard

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Speaker 1: it is for us to make it. That's why I

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Speaker 1: want everybody, especially during the pandemic, to share their story,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so this is my story. I grew

587
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Speaker 1: up in Detroit and the Brewster Projects, and it just

588
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: takes you through that whole life thing. Because you know,

589
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Speaker 1: some people only know me from real or from Chelsea Lady,

590
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: or you know the shows that Rashan will put me on.

591
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Speaker 1: Um so, but you know, it's a whole journey, and

592
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Speaker 1: I just wanted the people to understand, you know, my

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Speaker 1: journey and why I appreciate where i am while I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm vulnerable at times, why I'm sensitive at times, while

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Speaker 1: I'm strong at times, because the fact is that it

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Speaker 1: hasn't been an easy a road and um, I also

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Speaker 1: wanted to inspire and give people some hopes. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's what you're reading. And it's it's just a love

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Speaker 1: letter to my fans, That's what it is. It's a

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Speaker 1: it's an honest letter. And the thing about it is

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Speaker 1: that I've read a lot of memoirs during the show

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Speaker 1: money making conversations. But I love George because it was

603
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Speaker 1: just funny, but it's also truthful. It was also painful.

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Speaker 1: It was also I was like, you know, I had

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Speaker 1: a reason to cry, I had a reason to feel

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Speaker 1: sorry for you. I had to read it's a root

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Speaker 1: for you, had a reason to call you a fool.

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Speaker 1: You know, girl, that's stupid. Why do you do that?

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Speaker 1: And but one of the things that came out that

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Speaker 1: stood out for me it was like you, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was a point of your life where you were

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Speaker 1: surrounded by blackness. That's why I called in your book

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it, yourself surrounded by blackness protected you. The

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Speaker 1: HBCU experienced a pre view and m the Black sisters

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Speaker 1: of your soarity dealt the Sigma theta. It defined the

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Speaker 1: importance to me right now or why black lives matter

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Speaker 1: that little. When I got to that part of the book,

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Speaker 1: it just it just felt so current to me and

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Speaker 1: why it was important that you you you you you

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Speaker 1: experienced that HBCU experienced and being surrounded by the sisterhood

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Speaker 1: who bailed you out of jail. Uh yeah, yeah, thank

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Speaker 1: you to my starbars. They had you know, they had

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Speaker 1: them credit cards. They was able to do that and

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Speaker 1: they you know, and I had to lean way on

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Speaker 1: the shield that that night almost that hard, which shun.

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Speaker 1: But it's just, um, it's a wonderful story of how

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Speaker 1: you know, at nineteen years old, even though growing up

628
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Speaker 1: in the projects, I knew nothing about um, the police

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Speaker 1: because my mom always protected me from that. You know,

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Speaker 1: the police never came into projects unless you know, somebody

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Speaker 1: got shot. So I didn't I didn't have this experience

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Speaker 1: that I was in college and I didn't realize, you know,

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Speaker 1: I didn't have to talk. I didn't know nothing about

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Speaker 1: you know, racist cops, and you know, I've never I've

635
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Speaker 1: never experienced that. So when I experienced it, and the

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Speaker 1: story is so interesting. It goes through the whole process

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Speaker 1: of being arrested, you know, going to the booking center, Um,

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Speaker 1: because I was it was a felony for trespassing, walking

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Speaker 1: in the kitchen. I was putting us, you know, in

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Speaker 1: a sale with you know, murderers and felons and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. And nineteen years old with no experience. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's and it's I'm able to come out

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Speaker 1: of it. But it really does relate to what's happening today,

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Speaker 1: rashaant with what's happening with you know, um, the over

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Speaker 1: police and the people, the inequalities that police have against

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Speaker 1: black people. And it's a story that's relatable. You know.

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Speaker 1: The reason I liked the book is that I kind

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Speaker 1: of understand you're a lot more, you know, because you

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Speaker 1: really outspoken, and you first of all, you're coming from

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're talking about prison or jail or

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Speaker 1: wrong ful or incarcerated, or talk about being to call

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Speaker 1: out by your name, racial statements thrown your way, you know,

653
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Speaker 1: and people don't really understand. That's why I really when

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Speaker 1: I look at the white people protesting of watching, I

655
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Speaker 1: really makes me feel good. Maybe they're starting to understand

656
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Speaker 1: that this is not something we're making up. You know,

657
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Speaker 1: this is this is something that I know. You can't

658
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Speaker 1: ever relate to it because being the black is an

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Speaker 1: everyday challenge. I don't care what flag they take down

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Speaker 1: the NASCAR, what flag they take down in message Mississippi,

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Speaker 1: We're still gonna be challenged by our darkness, our color tone.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about it in your book, when I

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Speaker 1: would is the churches, and the church plays a role

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Speaker 1: Miss Evil, Jehovah Witness, you know how she built those

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Speaker 1: Just talk about some of the ladies besides your mom,

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Speaker 1: who played an import defining role in your personnel. There

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Speaker 1: how you look at life, how you look at love,

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Speaker 1: how you look at relationships and all that stuff. Talk

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Speaker 1: about the other women that were important in your life

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Speaker 1: in this book. Well, the love that I developed a

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Speaker 1: black women came from my foundation. You know, I had

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Speaker 1: a baby said her name was Miss Brooke. She was

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Speaker 1: Jehovah's Witness who I spent a lot of my time with.

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Speaker 1: That's where I got my religious backing from UM. I

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Speaker 1: had Miss Eva ice Cream Evil, yeah, even because she

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Speaker 1: was a Bible sudden lady. You know. I had my

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Speaker 1: girl Scout troop leader. And these are women that impacted

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Speaker 1: me so much that they cared for me and they

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Speaker 1: could care me. And this was the foundation that And

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Speaker 1: I think that it's important when they say a village,

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Speaker 1: it takes a village to raise a child. It really

682
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Speaker 1: really does. But then also is my relationship you know

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Speaker 1: with um men in general was was actually defined in

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Speaker 1: that era as well. And you know, the caring of

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Speaker 1: of black brothers and sisters, you know, was also defined

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Speaker 1: to that. So it's like when I meet people like

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Speaker 1: the fabulous Rashan McDonald, UM, we're able to connect because

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Speaker 1: we're down home people, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 1: so that's so all of this you can, you know,

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Speaker 1: read about it in the book and you could really

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Speaker 1: see and feel the foundation. But I mean, the thing

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Speaker 1: if anybody I want them to take away from is

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Speaker 1: that if you feel hopeless, UM, if you need some inspiration, UM,

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Speaker 1: understand that you are from a strong stock of people.

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Speaker 1: And we constantly proved it all the time. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just waiting it's coming to bother, tell you something. This book,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling that Noble. You can get online right now.

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Speaker 1: The book is on sale right now, Please go out

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Speaker 1: and buy. And the thing that because it's it's some

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Speaker 1: relatable things to me and that I'm a male, but

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Speaker 1: it's very relatable because this book is by motivation, is

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Speaker 1: by the inspiring, it's overcoming the arts. And one of

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Speaker 1: the things was when she came out of high school,

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Speaker 1: you know, bright calling nerd. My degree was in mathematics,

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Speaker 1: so and her skill was mathematics. She got a degree

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Speaker 1: in electrical engineering, and she just went to work for

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Speaker 1: you know, was the gym gym, or was one of

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Speaker 1: the general motors, went on the line, just just putting carpet,

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Speaker 1: blewing carpet down. When I graduated from high school, I

710
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Speaker 1: became a forklift driver, and I thought that was my level.

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Speaker 1: I thought that that's it had it had a nice

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Speaker 1: hourly check tie to it. I thought that was my level.

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Speaker 1: But somebody saw more more in me, more in me

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Speaker 1: that I saw on myself. And that's really where mentoring

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Speaker 1: comes in. That's why it's important. I see the role

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Speaker 1: that you play out there. I see registering people to vote.

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Speaker 1: I've seen how you realize that look look in your

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Speaker 1: book then, and then it talks about accepting who you

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Speaker 1: are when you're trying to lose all that weight, trying

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Speaker 1: to be something that you're not. And that's really and

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Speaker 1: I want to let people know that this book is

722
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Speaker 1: so relatable because it talks about issues and trusting yourself

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Speaker 1: and not listening to other people who say you should

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Speaker 1: be doing this, trusting your it's it's it's really an

725
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Speaker 1: amazing story, very funny, but very but very telling as

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Speaker 1: to what we need to read today to be motivated

727
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Speaker 1: to be successful. Great job on this book, great, great

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Speaker 1: job appreciated. I appreciate everybody that's that's were discovering it

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Speaker 1: and reading about it. It's great with you. Amazon is

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Speaker 1: the number one and Memoirs is number one in comedy

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Speaker 1: a great story and I'm just thankful that I'm able

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Speaker 1: to live to still telling. And then we and then

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Speaker 1: and then we did something else. We were musically inclined

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Speaker 1: and we love classic music. See I was a B

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Speaker 1: flat clearing that. That was me, So you you couldn't

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Speaker 1: have that. You went over to the french horn. And

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742
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Speaker 1: about the french horn. That is the most difficult instrument

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Speaker 1: to play because if you don't put your hands in

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Speaker 1: that right and more right, not a sound because you

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Speaker 1: could just keep blowing on that thing forever. So for

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Speaker 1: you to go for you the wont pass or be

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Speaker 1: flat clearing that and go over to a french horn, girl,

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Speaker 1: hands down, you are bad, sister, okay, and you shauld

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Speaker 1: also use it as a weapon. It's just a beautiful

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Speaker 1: it's just beautiful with the journey at because we go

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Speaker 1: through this book, you know it was it was. Let

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Speaker 1: me just tell everybody about the book and the sins

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Speaker 1: High Breakstad talks about the early years in the projects

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Speaker 1: and then they talked and that's part of her life.

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Speaker 1: That's important, that first eighteen years. Then it talks specifically

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Speaker 1: about her college life, her friends, how she got to college,

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Speaker 1: how that played an important role, and each which one

758
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Speaker 1: of those layers is defining for her because you know,

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Speaker 1: she didn't want to leave home when she was asked

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Speaker 1: to leave home, and then she wasn't really ready to

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Speaker 1: go to college, but she saw an opportunity to go.

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Speaker 1: She went. She learned how to pivot. That this book

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Speaker 1: is about pivoting too, because in this book, learning is

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Speaker 1: a great pivot. She's an opportunity she going, and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna give a lot of people pivot. And it kind

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Speaker 1: of ease over that line. You don't do that, do you? So?

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Speaker 1: I really like telling the story, telling the truth of

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Speaker 1: bringing levity. At the end of every chapter is a

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Speaker 1: list of jokes because some stories in the books are dark,

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Speaker 1: some stories are sad, some stories are really happy. But

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Speaker 1: I want people to know that after every chapter there's levity.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that's important because it shaped your

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Speaker 1: your your frame of mind differently. So to know that

774
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Speaker 1: you can get out of anything, even though it seems impossible,

775
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Speaker 1: you could get out of anything. And this is a

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Speaker 1: story for men, women, young old. If you had a

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Speaker 1: point in your life where you're trying to read and

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Speaker 1: you kind of like you need some motivations, you read

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Speaker 1: this book, you know, I mean, if you're trying to

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Speaker 1: find love, you know I talk about that where you

781
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Speaker 1: need to you know, you get in situations where you

782
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Speaker 1: know things ain't working out or you know, it's that's

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Speaker 1: the part where really, Rashaan, I have to say, we

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Speaker 1: were the chapter in Real Talk where I really need

785
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Speaker 1: go on Rashawn to give me advice, and it really

786
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Speaker 1: helped me to get through the situation I was in

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Speaker 1: my TV show. And you know, understanding the studio system,

788
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Speaker 1: all of that is explained because you know, it's real

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Speaker 1: easy for people to see the front side of certain

790
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: things of television shows and things. They don't understand the

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Even the way back my first movie

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Speaker 1: even don't you know a lot of people don't know

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Speaker 1: that I was. My first movie was so playing and

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Speaker 1: definitely all thought it was gonna make us all a star,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, Monique, all of them, don't you know. It

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Speaker 1: tells the whole The whole story is explained. But it's

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Speaker 1: all and I have so many more stories. But you know,

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Speaker 1: because I keep a diary, and I tell anybody you know,

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Speaker 1: right now we're living in historic times. Keep a diary

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Speaker 1: or a journal, and you know, so that you can

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Speaker 1: look back in five years and see where you come

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00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: from and what you were dealing with. So these are

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Speaker 1: like just a few stories that I put together and

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Speaker 1: it kind of tells the stories, the beginning story, and

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Speaker 1: it's just something that I'm just I'm just amaze the

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Speaker 1: people and I'm grateful that people see it and now

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Speaker 1: they've gotta they have a better understanding. But more importantly,

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Speaker 1: Black people are different. We're not all the same. But

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Speaker 1: you know, and if that's why it's important to push

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Speaker 1: our stories and get our stories out so that they

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Speaker 1: know that we're real, living and breathing people, so that

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Speaker 1: they will stop killing us, so that they understand it. Wow,

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Speaker 1: these people, you know, because they think that they can't

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Speaker 1: relate to us. But the whole point is we're living

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Speaker 1: and breathing people and we have to share our stories

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Speaker 1: to show them the experiences that we've come through. And

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Speaker 1: that's what that's what we're doing. Wow, I'm talking to

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Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning she talks about that in the book

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Speaker 1: Two time n Double a CP Image Award winning UH

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Speaker 1: co host of The Real She's a comedian, very funny, entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: great clothing line and actress. You've seen her own TV.

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Speaker 1: More important, she has a very very funny memoir I

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Speaker 1: tried to change so you don't have to Amazon, number one,

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Speaker 1: You know, don't you know how I do with you? Okay,

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Speaker 1: thousand Wednesday morning, nine o'clock is going out there. So

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Speaker 1: I support you, my friend. I just wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: about that book. I know you've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: to make sure I gave the love for this memoir

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Speaker 1: that people need to neither hear. I read this book.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I've learned some things about myself. I learned

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Speaker 1: a lot of things about learning love. But more important,

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Speaker 1: it's a love story, and that's that's beautiful. It's a

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Speaker 1: love story about her life, the people who entered her life,

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Speaker 1: how they shaped her life, and how she's happy being

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Speaker 1: herself when she looks in the mirror with the person

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Speaker 1: who likes what he sees in the mirror too. Thank

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Speaker 1: you lining for calling my show. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for Sean for the time I appreciate you. Stay strong.

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Speaker 1: Stay strong. If you want to hear more money making conversations,

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Speaker 1: please go to money Making Conversations dot com. I'm Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host. At ADP. We understand the importance of

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861
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Speaker 1: out my guests. Is someone you've seen grow up on television,

865
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Speaker 1: starting his sitcoms, dramas, and film. He is an Emmy

866
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: nominated veteran TV and film actor, social activist, relationship coach,

867
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: and author of Male Versus Man. He is currently ambassador

868
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: for Delta Airlines Annual Dream Flight and ambassador for p

869
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: Gas Beyond the Green mentoring program for youth and college students.

870
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 1: He's on the show to discuss this new book, Mail

871
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: Versus Man, which I have read and love it. Please

872
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversation my man Dendre with Phil

873
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: my brother, Hey brother, let's let's today. You know what, man,

874
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: I've been knowing you years man, and uh, the humbleness

875
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: of your of you is always something that stood out

876
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,439
Speaker 1: about me when I met you because of the fact

877
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: that there was always look you always had that look? Man,

878
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: What can I do next? Explain that about that? Before

879
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 1: we get into detail. I know that's that's a look

880
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: that I always was like, Man, I love that dude, man,

881
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: because he really does care. Why Why is that passion

882
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: and so much in you? Andre because I know that

883
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: when people really care about someone, they invest in them

884
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: what's necessary in order to get them to come to

885
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: the fullness of their life. Many of our children in

886
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: underserved and underresourced neighborhoods like the one I grew up

887
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. If we had the resources, um, if we

888
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: had the kind of care, if people took the kind

889
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: of time to invest in our kids, our kids. Look,

890
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: our kids do it in spite of not having all

891
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: of those things at times. So can you imagine if

892
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: they had proper resourcing. One of the things that's um,

893
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: that's really eye opening in the conversation of what we

894
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: what we're having about policing right now, is defunding the

895
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: police in order to properly fund our neighborhoods, right, And

896
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: our neighborhoods is really funding our children. Right. What do

897
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: they need? We've got, We've got, we need social work.

898
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: Our children are experiencing PTSD. They don't have to turn

899
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: on the television to see violence being committed against them.

900
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: They're watching it every single day in their own neighborhoods.

901
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: They're watching it every single day in their own homes.

902
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 1: So for me, I know that as a kid growing

903
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,919
Speaker 1: up in Brooklyn. I was impacted greatly when people took

904
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: the time to invest energy in me. And so every

905
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: single day as a man, I know that that is

906
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: that that's my purpose in life, and that's important and

907
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: you deliver it. I've seen you and many times with

908
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: Steve and I and Steve Harvey and I had the

909
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: mantoring camps. Man were the loan phone call to get

910
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: you there. Brother, you were there and just was there

911
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: and was dressed like a star. You was just like

912
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: a regular guy. You just ready to work. You know,

913
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: Tennis was home. You know a little little formal pants

914
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: and they're just a teacher. If that that's all you needed,

915
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: because you saw something of these young people that you

916
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: know only you through your effort. And I said you

917
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: other others there, but you take it personal. You take

918
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: it personal though, and that's what I like about you know.

919
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: You know what I saw in all of those young brothers,

920
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 1: I saw myself. Yes, So even even I didn't even

921
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: get invitation to the mentoring camp, I had to reach it.

922
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: I reached out to Steve Um, to Steve s folks.

923
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 1: I got a conversation with one of his daughters. First, Yo,

924
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: you guys, need to have me there, right, I'm not

925
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: like I been my way in the in the getting there.

926
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: And then you know, many of our brothers and this

927
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: is not a knock on any of them, but many

928
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: of our brothers ca it made for the day and

929
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: then they left. I had a conversation. I had a

930
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: conversation with my with my two kids, my daughter and

931
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,760
Speaker 1: my son, and I said, I need your permission because

932
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: it happens over Father's Day weekend, right, So I had

933
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: a conversation with my daughter, with my daughter and my

934
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: son to say, I need your permission. I need you

935
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: to lend me to those kids that don't have a father.

936
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: So I stayed there the entire weekend. I was actually

937
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: the only brother there aside from of course brother Steeping myself.

938
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: I was the only father there, the only quote unquote

939
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: to left there that was actually their on Father's Day.

940
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: And I did that because I know that our young

941
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, our young brothers need to be able to

942
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: to to feel that like they can tell when you

943
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: come in to make an appearance or whether you're truly invested, right,

944
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: they can tell that. Man, they can tell you were

945
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: you're there for the shine, you're there for that they

946
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: can tell when you're there for the shine, you're there

947
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: for the like. Yes, they can, and they and they're

948
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: mad about it too because it's been done so many times.

949
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: That's why man is not in there. That's why they

950
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: won't and that's why they won't listen to you, because

951
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: they can tell. They can see through that. Right. When

952
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: you grow up in the street, you learn how to

953
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,240
Speaker 1: recognize the bs, right, you learn how to like size

954
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: people up and go, oh man, this dude is making

955
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,240
Speaker 1: an appearance. As soon as those cameras turn off, watch

956
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: him turn off, right, they can they can steal it, right,

957
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: And I wanted those brothers to know, yo, man, no, no,

958
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be here. I didn't leave the camp. Matter

959
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: of fact, the first day at the camp, my first

960
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: day at the camp, I stayed so long that I

961
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: actually missed the ride back. Absolutely true, that's a true story.

962
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: Remember that, absolutely because because you can go you said, hey, man,

963
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: I need a ride, I need a right you didn't

964
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: just the man, Man, I've been here dealing with it

965
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 1: with the kids, like I ain't got no way back

966
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: to get to the hotel. That's putting in work, and

967
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: you know it. Actual need you know, and and the

968
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: reason I brought that story up and just our relationship

969
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: because I want to let everybody know why this book

970
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: is important. There's always been a passion mission for him

971
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: throughout his life. This finally allows us to read why

972
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: is it so passionate in the words the book I'm

973
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: talking about this male versus man um, this is an

974
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 1: amazing book. Mr Wield, I'm calling you Mr with phil Okay,

975
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: because you preach it him. You preach it him in

976
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: this book. When I got the Moses, you know, when

977
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: the Moses, I was looking for a plate. I was

978
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: looking for a plate. I don't looking for I plate money.

979
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is that tell us the

980
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: importance of importance of male versus man. And we're gonna

981
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: break down some details about it because it some personal

982
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: stuff that you mentioned in your book that hit home

983
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: for me, and that's important just the people I knew,

984
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 1: a person I knew and I and I want to

985
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: reflect on that. But tell us the importance of male

986
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: versus man. Well, you know, there is as as I

987
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 1: tee up in the book, and as I often say

988
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: when I speak that every man that you meet as

989
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: a male, but not every male that you meet as

990
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: a man. There's a huge difference between being a male

991
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: and being a man. So being a male, male is

992
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: the gender that we were chosen to be, but man

993
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: is the job that we choose to do. So males

994
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: look to serve themselves while men look to serve others.

995
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: They look to be of service. Males look to be served.

996
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: There is a huge difference between being a male and

997
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 1: being a man, and many of our brothers, their development

998
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: into manhood gets arrested at a very specific and early age,

999
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: particularly when they don't have their father around to give

1000
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: them manhood messaging. Now, watch of this. Just because you're

1001
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: there the person who gave you their DNA in your

1002
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,880
Speaker 1: biological father, just because you have them in your life

1003
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna get the messaging that

1004
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: you need in order for you to matriculate in the manner.

1005
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: Because what if your father never got the messaging that

1006
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: he needed. Your father can't give you something that he

1007
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 1: never got. So many of our young brothers never properly

1008
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 1: matriculated in the manhood because they never receive manhood messaging.

1009
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: My father was in and out of jail my entire life.

1010
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: Throughout my adolescence. So I never got the messaging that

1011
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: I needed from my father. But here's the thing. My

1012
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: father never got the messaging that he needed either. So

1013
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: my father couldn't father me because he himself was unfathered.

1014
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: And in writing this book, I said to myself, you

1015
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: know what? And and this this came after me reconciling

1016
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: with my father after twenty years of the two of

1017
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: us being estranged from each other. At twenty six years old,

1018
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: I threatened my father. I told him, if I ever

1019
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: saw him again, one of us wasn't what wasn't gonna

1020
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: be here and it wasn't gonna be me. And uh

1021
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: so I can't say exactly what I said because I

1022
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:38,240
Speaker 1: don't speak that way anymore. But that's one of the Lucas.

1023
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: Lucas Lucas without a doubt, right. So in boy, you

1024
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: breaking it down, Sean, Now I get it back. You

1025
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: really read this book? Oh my gosh, we're gonna get

1026
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: to the Book of Lucas in the minute. But boy,

1027
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: I can't even believe you breaking me up. Okay, So literally,

1028
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: I wrote this book because is what I wanted to do.

1029
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: Was I wanted to um, I wanted to break down

1030
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: UM for my father. I knew that my father could

1031
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: have been a great man had he had great instruction, right,

1032
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: And so I said, if my father, if I need

1033
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 1: to write the playbook for manhood, that if my father

1034
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: had it would have been abled him to become a

1035
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: great man. And thankfully, as an eleven year old son,

1036
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: thankfully I'm in his life. But what if God calls

1037
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 1: me home sooner than I anticipated. I need to have

1038
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 1: a playbook for manhood that my son can imediately go

1039
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: to and say, Okay, here's here's what it is. Right.

1040
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: So this was the purpose behind me writing male versus

1041
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 1: man beautiful, And I want to make note, like I said,

1042
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: you know your faith has become strong in your life,

1043
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 1: has been a passage or write a passage for you

1044
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: and when you reunite with your father, he found Islam,

1045
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,360
Speaker 1: and so so it's it's all about a journey. Like

1046
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: I said, his journey was doing incarceration okay before he

1047
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: found his faith, okay. And what you lost, you and

1048
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: him to have a clear understanding of how you can

1049
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: communicate with each other, your your your journey to your

1050
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: faith in the Book of Lucas okay. And it's been

1051
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: derived through allowing us to see you grow and play

1052
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: out television movies and films, you know, starting on the

1053
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: cause be share all that stuff. You know, a little

1054
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: cute little boy, you know what I'm saying. And so

1055
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: but along the way, they are tragic moments that pop up.

1056
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: I can I can tell you this man. When I

1057
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: was I wounderstand was about five years old. One of

1058
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: my good friends, you know, he was blowing up a

1059
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: balloon and it sucked it down and he held it

1060
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: and he choked and died. That had a I'm changing man.

1061
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: That had a lasting effector it's even now it's to me,

1062
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,439
Speaker 1: I can understand why you need counseling. While they said

1063
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: get counsel thee counseling, get counseling, because nobody, nobody a

1064
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: black neigh'm black kids in with the hood, there was

1065
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: no counsel you know, well, just just feel sorry for him,

1066
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: hear you? You know, you know God called him home,

1067
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: you know it was his time. All those classic statements

1068
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: you get now, young man, that you and I both

1069
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: knew I was Steve harming. I was doing uh name,

1070
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: You're going three to beat and in Los Angeles most

1071
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: popular radio format in l a at the time, and uh,

1072
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: I'm on. Parker used to come up to the station,

1073
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: good looking young man. I love that dude. Man, slender

1074
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: in shape by six one. You know, we should laugh

1075
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: all the time whenever you come around that corner. He

1076
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: had energy, Man, he had energy. You just calmed out,

1077
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: what are you taking man? When you come up from

1078
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: the station. And and then in telling and introducing him

1079
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: into this book, I learned the side of you I

1080
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: didn't know about your motorcycle skills, you know, and the

1081
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: ability to be able to be special. That's why I

1082
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: always look at people like you, man, is that you know,

1083
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: God gives us all a lot of talents, you know,

1084
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: and that's just one of the talents that you became

1085
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: very good at. And in doing so, Mr Parker became

1086
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: innamored and wanted to share in that experience. Tell us

1087
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: the rest of the story. You know, My a mind

1088
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: was my I love the fact that you recall him

1089
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: through his staple, which was his energy. Oh I love

1090
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: that kid. This dude, this brother was like like a

1091
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 1: pack of like a super Transformer pack of energy. And

1092
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: no matter when you saw him, he was the same way.

1093
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: His mom um said that when I finally met her.

1094
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 1: She said that we were uh, we were. We us

1095
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: have been separated at birth because our energy is always

1096
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: like the said, is one of the reasons why we

1097
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: we were attracted to one another as brothers, because our

1098
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: energies matched. It was just high off life. The dude

1099
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: didn't have you know, uh, he didn't have those kinds

1100
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: of advices and and all that stuff that would make him,

1101
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: you know, energetic. He was just energetic about life. And

1102
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: he became my best friend out here. And um, we

1103
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: did everything together with our families, together, our our our wives. Um,

1104
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: we're great together. Our you know. I was really tight

1105
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: with his kids and a couple of months before my

1106
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: wife gave birth to our first child, my daughter. Um,

1107
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: a man decided that I was always a a adde

1108
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: motorcyclist and my skill sets ran deep. You know. I

1109
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 1: was really on the freeway and and do stoppings, and um,

1110
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: you know, I rased motorcycles like motorcycles became a huge

1111
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: part of my life, and I was doing stuff that

1112
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: while I was on television shows and I would do

1113
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: all of these stunts on my motorcycle and people like

1114
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: I take my helmet off, I can get help people

1115
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,919
Speaker 1: be like, that's doing from that show. So people were

1116
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: like blown away at that. He would come over to

1117
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 1: my house, see my motorcycles, see my wife's motorcycless, like, man,

1118
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to ride. I said, well, Yo, if

1119
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna ride, you're gonna have to go through motorcycle

1120
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: safety course. So I made sure he went through the

1121
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: motorcycle safety course. He did all of that. Everything was good.

1122
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: I made sure his equipment was good, all that. His

1123
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: first day of getting on the freeway, I started listening,

1124
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come pick you up. I was living in

1125
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: Targana at the time. He lived in Palmdale, so it's

1126
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: a big trap. So I had to ride out there

1127
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: to his house and uh, and we got on the

1128
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: freeway and we started rolling and day was going great.

1129
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: And I talked about this in the book, and I'm

1130
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: not gonna go through the whole thing because it's a

1131
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: lengthy story. But rather than the reason why I picked

1132
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: him up was because I knew that it was my

1133
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: assignment to look after my friends. And what I talked

1134
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: about in the book is the pain that you go

1135
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: through as a man when you abandon your post and

1136
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: you don't walk out your assignment in life. And I

1137
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: happened to leave him while we were on the freeway

1138
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: in order to go through these turns that I used

1139
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: to love to go through. And I'm speeding through, and

1140
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: after I get to the end, my other partner and

1141
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: I were sitting there and we were waiting on them,

1142
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: and he never never came out of that turn, and

1143
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: in a car pulls up besides beside us and says, hey,

1144
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: you guys got a bike down back there. So we

1145
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: turned because we were on our way to pass a

1146
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: demas and make this uh you turn. Uh. Come up

1147
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: on the other side and I see my best friend

1148
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: laid out in the middle of the freeway. His motorcycle

1149
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: is up against the guard rail. Traffickers stop. We go

1150
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: up to the top, turn back around, come back over

1151
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 1: and get down to him. Take off my helmet. I'm like,

1152
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:37,440
Speaker 1: my min I'm like, I said, you're good, all right.

1153
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: He's breathing, but he's not responding. His eyes are fluttering,

1154
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: his chest is pumping, you know, trying to take in

1155
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: you know, oxygen, and I just begin you know, talking

1156
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: to him, going man, hey, something just hit me. It's like, yo,

1157
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 1: you can't leave here. You got a wife and two kids,

1158
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: and you haven't even seen my daughter be born yet,

1159
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: and just kept talking to him, kept talking to him.

1160
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: Ambulance finally comes transported him to the hospital. Long story short,

1161
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 1: he had so much swelling on his brain that they

1162
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: said that if he made it, he would never be

1163
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: the same again, and that he would just live his life,

1164
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, in a vegitative state. And family and his wife,

1165
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 1: along with his mother sister, they decided to give him

1166
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: a peaceful, you know, homegoing, and it devastated me. It

1167
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: devastated me because while I know I'm not as powerful

1168
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: as God, and I don't know God's plan, all I

1169
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: know is is that as a man, I did not

1170
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: stand my post on that right. I didn't stay there. Now,

1171
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if the both of us, we still

1172
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: don't know what happened. We don't know whether our car

1173
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: hit him. We don't know whether he lost control going

1174
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 1: into the turn. We have no idea what happened. They

1175
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: still don't know, and I never got to start it

1176
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: after me, That's exactly what happened. All I know. He

1177
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: was on the freeway, you know, and probably driving at

1178
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: a high speed, and that was it, right, and when

1179
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 1: it came back to me Andre, I was like, huh,

1180
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: you're kidding me because that that and that My takeaway

1181
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 1: from that book is it's about it's there's no pointing fingers.

1182
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: It's about life. No, it's not. It's about life and

1183
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: and and really that's why I talked about this, because,

1184
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't know if I stayed with him.

1185
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if both of us you know, I

1186
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: might have meant that you know the same thing. I

1187
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: have no idea. All I know is this, as a man,

1188
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: I knew that my job was to look after my brother,

1189
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: and for a moment, in order for me to feed

1190
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: my flesh, I abandoned my post, and that lesson stayed

1191
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 1: with me. First of all, his last name was Parker.

1192
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: My my he was. My daughter was born two months

1193
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: after he passed. Her name is Parker. So every single

1194
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 1: day that I look at her, every single day that

1195
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: I call her name, I think about him, and I

1196
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 1: also think about how devastating it can be when a

1197
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: man abandoned his post. And so I've never since that day.

1198
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 1: And now my daughter comes September will be sixteen, So

1199
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 1: that was sixteen years ago. So every single day, when

1200
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: I walk as a man, I walk with great purpose,

1201
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: like just like this Father's Day. It's ironic. We were

1202
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: talking about the camp and talking about my commitments on

1203
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: Father's Day. This Father's Day in Los Angeles, I am

1204
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: organizing a rally. You can go to all of my

1205
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: social media's and you will see my call to action

1206
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: to all fathers, not Black fathers, not white fathers, all fathers,

1207
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: all fathers on Father's Day eleven am in front of

1208
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: City Hall in Los Angeles, because we recognize that while

1209
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: we want equality and justice for all of our families,

1210
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 1: we recognize that right now black people are being denied

1211
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: those rights. And as all fathers, when one child or

1212
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: one person of our families is denied equality and justice,

1213
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: thus too many. So the call to action is all

1214
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: fathers coming to stand up for equality and justice for

1215
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: black people. I'm talking to we are you know? You know,

1216
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 1: dre Um. I'm just telling brother, You're special man. You

1217
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 1: know and and and been. I've been a part of

1218
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:21,240
Speaker 1: your life watching you on TV. You came into my

1219
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: life and forced your way into my life doing something

1220
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: I love doing. You're changing people's lives. Who you know, brother,

1221
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: we didn't you know you are. I came from, you know,

1222
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: like they say that the Golden Spot lifestyle. You know

1223
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and so and so and the give

1224
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 1: and the give part and excuse me, Brooklyn dre let

1225
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: me go and just break it down to you, Brooklyn Drake.

1226
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 1: And uh, you know because that's because like you said,

1227
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 1: you know, we all have different slices of life that

1228
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: we live in, you know, like I said. But the

1229
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 1: term I want to take from the book that really

1230
01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: hit home for me this this statement right here, the

1231
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: mark of the may and this is in the book

1232
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:04,599
Speaker 1: male versus Man as m a l e versus man.

1233
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 1: The mark of a man is that he can lead

1234
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:11,560
Speaker 1: with his physicality, but chooses to lead with his mentality. Mentality.

1235
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 1: Who sir, Yes, sir. When I wrote that, I can't

1236
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: tell you. I literally when I wrote that, it came

1237
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: out of the fact that most of us have been

1238
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 1: taught that manhood really is masculinity, or really is our sexuality. Right,

1239
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: So our masculinity will speak to the fact that you know, um,

1240
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 1: we could bench press two hundred pounds two pounds, right,

1241
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 1: Our sexuality is about how many women can we you know,

1242
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: conquered exactly right, because we're hunters. Right, even one of

1243
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 1: those things has anything to do with our manhood. Our

1244
01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: manhood is directly tied to our dedication to being a

1245
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: servant leader, serving the women and children in our lives.

1246
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: I talked about it in the book, how every man

1247
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 1: has to be the walking tree of his house and

1248
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: community because what does the tree do? A tree provides cover,

1249
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 1: right from the harmful elements of the world. Right. A

1250
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: treat also gives us oxygen when we give it carbon

1251
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: uh uh thenox side right. So so the poison that

1252
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: we uh that we give the tree, the tree gives

1253
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 1: us oxygen. So that's what a man is supposed to do.

1254
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 1: A man is supposed to allow us to breathe better. Right.

1255
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:45,640
Speaker 1: A tree also gives us fruit. What is that? That

1256
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 1: is food? So a treat feeds us. A tree gives

1257
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: us shelter. The tree allows us to breathe better. That's

1258
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: the job of every man for every woman and child

1259
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 1: in his life. So when I wrote that a man,

1260
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: uh you know, could lead with his physicality because of

1261
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: our physical strength, but chooses to lead with his mentality,

1262
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 1: that left me in tears. I'll never forget it. I

1263
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,800
Speaker 1: was sitting downstairs in my house writing that section, and

1264
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:16,240
Speaker 1: that brought tears to my eyes. You think I brought

1265
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 1: it up, you know, I know you. You know, I

1266
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 1: know you of all that I brought that up. I said,

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Speaker 1: I got to say this on this show and let

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Speaker 1: him know that this meant something to me too. This

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Speaker 1: meant something to me too. This is another statement from

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Speaker 1: the book that meant something to me. You believe that

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Speaker 1: a man who is truly successful is one with healthy

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Speaker 1: and whole relationships. H that I attribute that statement to

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Speaker 1: the to the journey you take us on in this

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Speaker 1: book because of the fact you define the difference between

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Speaker 1: male versus man, You define the difference between your your

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Speaker 1: relationships as you get finally met Sally and you have

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Speaker 1: a whole family and the responsibilities of of what they

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Speaker 1: are You talking about your son when he was when

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Speaker 1: he had a racial slur hit him by his best

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Speaker 1: friend Ben. The name was being in the book and

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Speaker 1: how you you know it reminded me of a situation

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Speaker 1: with my wife and my daughter when my daughter's being

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Speaker 1: intimidated in her school. You know, my wife, she went

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Speaker 1: up to the school with nothing happening fast enough for

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Speaker 1: brother Rashwan okay. And so finally I had to go

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Speaker 1: up there. You know, she thought I was gonna throw

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Speaker 1: stuff against the wall and and go crazy. I did,

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Speaker 1: just like you. I had a conversation with the teachers

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Speaker 1: and educating them and let them know because see, it's

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Speaker 1: all about the education and your demeanor place. I'd like

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Speaker 1: that this book is an educational book about life, about

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Speaker 1: men and defining these these fallacies that we have, these

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Speaker 1: physicality by being macho, by gotta break through a door

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Speaker 1: instead of open the door, gotta be gotta be a

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Speaker 1: champion for the cause instead of a speaker for the moment.

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Speaker 1: This is what this book is about. Everybody, mail versus man.

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Speaker 1: This is a book man, I think it's to me,

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Speaker 1: it's a define any moment and uh and and educating

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Speaker 1: where we're at right now. When you look at these

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Speaker 1: young boards out in the streets, man walking down with

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Speaker 1: no shirts, angry man, they gotta read this book there

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Speaker 1: because they do a lot of They're doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of physical things when it should be mental. No question.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's so interesting. When I spoke earlier,

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Speaker 1: I said, I think I'm misspoken, said carbon monoxide, um,

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Speaker 1: and meant to say carbon dioxide is what we breathe

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Speaker 1: out when we breathe, and our our our trees produce

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Speaker 1: oxygen for us, and that that's what men are supposed

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Speaker 1: to do. We spoke earlier about the Book of Lucas, right, come, right,

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Speaker 1: So in the bubble there there are a great many

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Speaker 1: different books and so so in talking about this in

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Speaker 1: male versus man, I said, you know what we we

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Speaker 1: all know about the book the five love languages, And

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Speaker 1: I said, you know they're actually is um, there are

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Speaker 1: five pain languages. And that's how I came up with,

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Speaker 1: quote unquote the Book of Lucas. Lucas is an acronym

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Speaker 1: for l rusting you unforgivingness, see cursing, a anger s sarcasm, right,

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Speaker 1: the five pain languages. Lusting is the passion of pain. Right,

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Speaker 1: so all of these things about the pain languages, Lusting

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Speaker 1: is the passion of pain. Right. So when we lust

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Speaker 1: after somebody where we're really moving after them, there's a

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Speaker 1: passion for them, but it's because of our pain. It

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Speaker 1: really doesn't have anything to do with love, right. Unforgivingness

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Speaker 1: is the memory of pain. If I remember something, then

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna forgive you because I remember the pain

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Speaker 1: that it produced, So I can't forgive you. Right. See,

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Speaker 1: it's cursing. That's the vocabulary of pain. Right, Whenever I speak.

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Speaker 1: I used to always speak when I was in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: you know, Uh, Curson was like the first language. That's

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Speaker 1: English was the first language. Right. But I began to

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Speaker 1: realize that met cursing at my wife is never something

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Speaker 1: that I should do because that is going to cause

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Speaker 1: her great pain. Me cursing that my children, I should

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Speaker 1: never do that as a man. That's going to cause

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Speaker 1: them great pain. I began to realize that every time

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Speaker 1: I cursed at somebody, it only brings them pain. So

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Speaker 1: that's when I realized that's the vocabulary pain. That's why

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Speaker 1: I don't curse anymore. Right, Hey, it's for is anger.

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Speaker 1: That's the emotion of pain. Whenever we feel pain and

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Speaker 1: we get like hurt from that profound pain, anger shows

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Speaker 1: up because that's the emotion that gets produced by it. Right.

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Speaker 1: And then finally s is sarcasm. That's the humor of pain. Right.

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Speaker 1: So when somebody says something sarcastic to you, they're being funny,

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Speaker 1: but they say that sarcastic or make that sarcastic statement.

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Speaker 1: Towards you because they are in pain, but they find

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Speaker 1: a funny way of saying it or doing it right.

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Speaker 1: So those are the five pain languages and lusting, unforgivingness, cursing, anger,

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Speaker 1: and sarcasm and those things. When I began to examine

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Speaker 1: all those things, man, they changed so much of my

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Speaker 1: behavior because not very many people. People don't realize any

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Speaker 1: of that, so they can't break that down for you, right.

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Speaker 1: So when I got to that, man, I sat there

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Speaker 1: and I said, oh my gosh, bro, you just gave

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Speaker 1: people a language to be able to recognize what behaviors

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Speaker 1: they are walking out that cause other people pain from

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Speaker 1: their own pain. It's like that's thing. Hurt people hurt

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Speaker 1: people when we hurt. These are the pain languages we

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Speaker 1: used to hurt other people because we are hurt. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. I know I gotta wrap up here.

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Speaker 1: I want to You have a You have a Male

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Speaker 1: versus Man video series is features Will Smith, Kevin Hard,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Jackson. Tell us about that every Friday at ten

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Speaker 1: am uh uh a Pacific coast time, one am East

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Speaker 1: Coast time. It's a new series, new setters of videos,

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Speaker 1: Mail versus Man Talk to us about that. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: produced this digital series along with my producing partners of

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Speaker 1: the Black Love Team. Oh yes, that's my crew. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are my people, Cody Uh and Tommy Oliver. Um.

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Speaker 1: Those are those are my people that are my producing

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Speaker 1: partners on the digital series. And I came to them

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Speaker 1: because I needed somebody to help me produced this this

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Speaker 1: this series of talks with men about their matriculation into

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Speaker 1: manhoods UM. I knew that people needed to hear stories

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Speaker 1: from people that they considered to be accomplished UM men

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Speaker 1: about how they went from going from maleness to manhood.

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Speaker 1: And so my first conversation was with my brother Will Smith,

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Speaker 1: and um it was extremely powerful. If you watch that

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Speaker 1: Uh talk, it really talks about the fact that everything

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Speaker 1: that we've been told when we're younger, that it's going

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Speaker 1: to make you feel great about being an accomplished man,

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Speaker 1: in making money and doing the things that you do

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Speaker 1: in your career, in sleeping with a bunch of women,

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Speaker 1: none of them are going to sustain how you feel

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Speaker 1: about yourself as a man. Most of those things we

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Speaker 1: usually use as males to distract ourselves from the fact

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Speaker 1: that we don't really know what our purpose on this

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Speaker 1: earth is. So when Will talks about it, it really

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Speaker 1: breaks it down. Like it's one thing for me to

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Speaker 1: say it in my book, but when you hear powerful

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Speaker 1: brothers like Will, like deal hugely, like Kevin Hart, like

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Speaker 1: Trevor Jackson, like all of these brothers who have a

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Speaker 1: powerful perspective about what that is and what it meant

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Speaker 1: to evolve and to matriculate in the manhood, it really

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Speaker 1: drives the point home. So this digital series is powerful.

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Speaker 1: It's all my YouTube channel, which is the Male versus

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Speaker 1: Man channel. Go check out all of the conversations. They're powerful, powerful,

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Speaker 1: powerful stuff that I'm talking to DeAndre with feel uh.

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Speaker 1: I call him a friend, I call him now, he's

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Speaker 1: a he's a he's a he's a minister, a minister

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Speaker 1: of change here for us understand what being a man

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Speaker 1: and being a male or two different things. It's a

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Speaker 1: journey that we all need to take upon ourselves. The book,

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Speaker 1: it's a great chapter and a happy wife, happy life.

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Speaker 1: Love that chapter. God plus do equal successful life. You know, man,

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Speaker 1: you uh calming chaos. I'm gonna tell you something, brother,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for us book man, thank you, thank you

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Speaker 1: for for showing up in Dallas. And that's creating a relationship.

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Speaker 1: Uh the second time I've interviewed you on this show.

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Speaker 1: Every time I talk to you, Mr whit Phil, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you're preaching, you preach it. When you preach it,

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Speaker 1: I gotta call you, Mr Whitfield. You're blessing man. You're

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Speaker 1: blessing brother. I'm a family. See me some banners so

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Speaker 1: I can promote, uh your YouTube channel on my on

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Speaker 1: my on my brand. And uh, but I love him, man,

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Speaker 1: I really really really do love you book Brooklyn Right,

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Speaker 1: I love Brooklyn Drake. I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Don't change, man, don't change, Okay, Man, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host with

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. As stated, each Money Making Conversation show is

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Speaker 1: The Money Making Conversation interviews provide relatable information to the

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Speaker 1: Hall of New York. I've been the hall of many

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Speaker 1: many times, not the hall of you. When the hall

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Speaker 1: that's there now. Has studied numerology and astrology for many years.

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Speaker 1: He's an expert. He's brought the subject to light by

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Speaker 1: national television the radio show such as Oprah Winfrey. See

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Speaker 1: the money man conversations, My man, lord straight harnt you're

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Speaker 1: you're good, You're good. Yeah. In fact, I was on

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01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: there three times with her in ironically each time I

1475
01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: was with for three of the women know, on three

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01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 1: different occasions. But we were talking about this ancient subject

1477
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:33,679
Speaker 1: of astrology and apology. When people come to wonderful experience.

1478
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:35,280
Speaker 1: When people come to you, you know what you have.

1479
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: Are they expecting? What do they expect from you? When

1480
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:43,599
Speaker 1: you're an expert that you're the best at what you do? Okay,

1481
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 1: that's numerology and astrology. What what? What what do they

1482
01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:51,560
Speaker 1: expect from you? Well? They first of all, they expect honesty,

1483
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: because you can't help me if you don't be honest.

1484
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: But you you explain to them that the services I

1485
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: employed actors a god. It does not compel with more intels.

1486
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 1: In other words, once I give you the information, then

1487
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:10,320
Speaker 1: you have the freedom of your mind to you follow

1488
01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:13,719
Speaker 1: the advice or not. So you could tell a person listen,

1489
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: if you stand in front of a truck you're not

1490
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: going to see tomorrow, then it's up to them. Then

1491
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: at least you have spoken in a way that conveys

1492
01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:24,679
Speaker 1: the honesty of it. And so that's what it doesn't

1493
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: act as a guy to help a person so they

1494
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:29,120
Speaker 1: can be in the right place at the right time,

1495
01:25:29,160 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 1: because if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time,

1496
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 1: certainly there's got to be the other side of that equation,

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01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:37,599
Speaker 1: which I have mastered over my many years of willingness. Right,

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01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,360
Speaker 1: you know I mentioned earlier. I remember I first moved

1499
01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:42,439
Speaker 1: up to New York but trying to do stand up

1500
01:25:42,479 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: comedy and uh moved up to New York and I

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01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:49,040
Speaker 1: lived the eight six and first Upper East Side and

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01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: Harlem Wi. I went up to Hallom and it was

1503
01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 1: like it's like, you know, because you grew up all

1504
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:57,000
Speaker 1: you do is here by Hallom Cross and hydro st Okay, yes,

1505
01:25:57,160 --> 01:26:00,639
Speaker 1: and so that's eight and I remember you couldn't catch

1506
01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:03,160
Speaker 1: a cab to Harlem. I mean it's like you to

1507
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 1: take the subway, and they had the gypsy cars. The

1508
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:07,880
Speaker 1: gypsy cars will take you up and back. But calbs,

1509
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: yellow cats, they would not take you. You You said you're

1510
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:13,160
Speaker 1: going north, they go, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Uh put

1511
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: their flag on dark like they were off, just so

1512
01:26:16,160 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: they wouldn't take you up there. Now we we've seen

1513
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 1: this journey of you've seen it. You live in Harlem currently,

1514
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:25,760
Speaker 1: what tell us about that that the ad eight to

1515
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:28,519
Speaker 1: now experience? Right quick? Because when I'm when I'm talking

1516
01:26:28,560 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 1: to a person who has saw this tremendous change, it

1517
01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 1: has to be different from my eyes, from the eyes

1518
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: of a person who's watching it and living and seeing

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01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: the change. Well, I have actually seen and lived between this.

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01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm a product of the problem because

1521
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:48,680
Speaker 1: I was born in Hallm. But people don't realize that

1522
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: if you took the New York Tourism board, Hallm is

1523
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 1: the most sought after place some people all around the

1524
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:58,679
Speaker 1: world to visit. What happened is when black people moved

1525
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 1: into Halem and that early twenties did that begin to

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01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: change the whole face and reputation of this community. UH

1527
01:27:06,439 --> 01:27:09,479
Speaker 1: since the last about say five and a half years,

1528
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 1: is becoming more gentrified. But you are absolutely right. If

1529
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:18,080
Speaker 1: I was downtown, I more detend when a bus to

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01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:20,679
Speaker 1: take me home or a train to take me home

1531
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:23,559
Speaker 1: than trying to get a cab to come home. Okay.

1532
01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:27,400
Speaker 1: I remember one time I talked to this UH ambassador

1533
01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:32,760
Speaker 1: from Nigeria and they told him, well, don't go to Harlem, Charlot.

1534
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:34,400
Speaker 1: Would you like to know the first place I took

1535
01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:40,560
Speaker 1: him to, sir? He loved it, loved it. Okay, everybody

1536
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 1: loves Hallom and if you fact, if you on Sunday mornings,

1537
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:48,719
Speaker 1: they're more white visitors visiting all about black churches throughout

1538
01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:52,160
Speaker 1: all of hallm People come from all over the world

1539
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:55,519
Speaker 1: just to visit this little small patch of land. But

1540
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:59,759
Speaker 1: it is dynamic. It has produced the likes of Malcolm

1541
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:03,479
Speaker 1: at produce the likes of Marcus Garvey, h called ropes

1542
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:07,080
Speaker 1: and walked the street. James weldn Johnson lived right around

1543
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:10,240
Speaker 1: the corner from where I live at Now, then you

1544
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:14,479
Speaker 1: have the Black Swan Recording label whichause the music which

1545
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: was the original first recording of African American. In fact,

1546
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 1: where I get my haircut is the exact location where

1547
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 1: the You and I A, which is the Universal Negro

1548
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 1: Improvement Association founded about Marcus Garvey, was printed. Absolutely absolutely

1549
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:33,200
Speaker 1: so it's rich. I mean it's rich and so many

1550
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:36,640
Speaker 1: other things. It really is. It really foods, silver Us,

1551
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: that's Silvers and many other places like that. But now

1552
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 1: you walk up, you know, you know, you couldn't catch

1553
01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: a cab. Now didn't get a cab. You know, I

1554
01:28:44,840 --> 01:28:48,639
Speaker 1: think that uber really changed the game for it changed

1555
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:50,960
Speaker 1: the game. It really changed the game. Now you see

1556
01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 1: it two o'clock in the morning, white people walking around

1557
01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: with the dogs. You know. Yeah, yeah, this this has

1558
01:28:57,439 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 1: changed completely and but still is still predominantly black. But

1559
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: what happened is in the gentrification mode, they wanted to

1560
01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 1: change the name of Halem. But the Hall of Nights

1561
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:10,640
Speaker 1: as we call ourselves, wasn't happened, none of it. So

1562
01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: Hallan will remain the name hallm period. They wanted to

1563
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:17,280
Speaker 1: change your name, Harlem, Yeah, they wanted to. They wanted

1564
01:29:17,320 --> 01:29:19,800
Speaker 1: to change it. You know, when they're start moving up

1565
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 1: to the Bronx and other areas of Washington, they wanted

1566
01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 1: to change the name to give it a more I

1567
01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 1: guess whatever kind of name you want to call it.

1568
01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: They tried for a half a second to trains the

1569
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:36,559
Speaker 1: name the HALLM. That did not fly at That's beautiful.

1570
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 1: That's beautiful. So let's let's talk about your career, my friend.

1571
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:41,120
Speaker 1: I just wanted to larter. Everybody know, when you have

1572
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:44,160
Speaker 1: a historian on the phone, especially harm historian, you want

1573
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:46,240
Speaker 1: to let him speak a little bit, because that's what

1574
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:48,160
Speaker 1: I do with money making conversation. I educate you to

1575
01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 1: it's good good to get a little local education from

1576
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:54,200
Speaker 1: a person who was born in Harlem, lived through Hallm,

1577
01:29:54,280 --> 01:29:57,679
Speaker 1: not currently stays in Hallm. That's a life. That's a life. Now,

1578
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 1: Numerology a strang How does one get involved in that?

1579
01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:06,800
Speaker 1: And then how does one become an expert? Well, one

1580
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 1: becomes an expert, like in all things we do by study.

1581
01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: We know that you can't get around it. It's not

1582
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 1: instant I suppose this, and it's not instant gratification. Just

1583
01:30:17,840 --> 01:30:21,120
Speaker 1: uh at work you in anything you do, whether I

1584
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:22,720
Speaker 1: do what I do or you do what you do,

1585
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:27,639
Speaker 1: we puick years study and effort and consistency and training

1586
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:32,479
Speaker 1: and sometimes disapprossess ourselves. Are we even crazy to doing this, okay, um,

1587
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:34,639
Speaker 1: because who would have ever thought, and because I saw

1588
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:36,920
Speaker 1: some of your videos when you were hearing you or

1589
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:41,439
Speaker 1: doing comedy, who would have ever thought then that the

1590
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:45,680
Speaker 1: Resan McDonald today would be totally transformed and everything you

1591
01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 1: do helping countless people, that is amazing. Well, that's kind

1592
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 1: of what I do. I will take a person's birthday.

1593
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:55,559
Speaker 1: So let's say, if you've got a person that's born

1594
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:59,679
Speaker 1: on the twenty seventh of the month, like February, right, Well,

1595
01:31:00,360 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 1: that means that that person they know there are pisces,

1596
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 1: but until they meet me, they now know there are pisces.

1597
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 1: Nine person because they're born on the twenty seventh of

1598
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:13,400
Speaker 1: the month and two plus seven at nine. That's what

1599
01:31:13,560 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 1: got me hook. The numbers only go from one to nine.

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01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:21,680
Speaker 1: I got ten singers. I got this. Never in my

1601
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:24,400
Speaker 1: wildest dream that I will wind the writing books, have

1602
01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: national TV radio shows. Uh doing it all? Online course?

1603
01:31:29,479 --> 01:31:32,160
Speaker 1: Now this that I have available on my website like

1604
01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:34,360
Speaker 1: that straighth one dot com. Tell us about that? Tell

1605
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: us about that that online course. Well, the online course

1606
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:41,040
Speaker 1: is a ten park course designed to get a person

1607
01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: or teach a person how to do what I do.

1608
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:46,439
Speaker 1: In its simplest forms. It is for beginners, but even

1609
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 1: intermediate and professionals can always use a review the tin

1610
01:31:51,120 --> 01:31:54,920
Speaker 1: cart to go at your own pace. Uh rate you know,

1611
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 1: you take your time. You can do it in a day,

1612
01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 1: you can do it in a week, you can do

1613
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:00,000
Speaker 1: it in a month, but it takes you a year.

1614
01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:02,320
Speaker 1: It did not mean I have to revise it. But

1615
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:05,160
Speaker 1: over and above that it they go at your own pace,

1616
01:32:05,560 --> 01:32:08,360
Speaker 1: and it tells you a couple of things. One how

1617
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 1: to analyze a person's name. For example, if I walk

1618
01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 1: up to a person, I could more probably get their

1619
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:17,280
Speaker 1: first name, then woke up and say, excuse me, what's

1620
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:20,320
Speaker 1: your birthday? If I woke up and says what's your name,

1621
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 1: you might say Rare Shawn, and then followed by in

1622
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: your mind, who are you and why are you? Would

1623
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:27,880
Speaker 1: to know? But if I says your birthday, it's like

1624
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:32,919
Speaker 1: excuse me, you know, not unless you're in a motor vehicles,

1625
01:32:33,080 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 1: Social Security offers, doctor's offers something like that, And then

1626
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:39,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna momble that out to you, so nobody would

1627
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:43,320
Speaker 1: hear it? You know, yes, yes, And so what happens

1628
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:48,040
Speaker 1: is the name denotes one natural talents gives skills and ability.

1629
01:32:48,120 --> 01:32:50,679
Speaker 1: That's the first part of the ten part of course,

1630
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:53,599
Speaker 1: I do. The first five parts is about doing your name.

1631
01:32:54,120 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 1: You know, Shakespeare says, what's in the name the responses everything,

1632
01:32:58,120 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 1: okay um, And so the name unlocks and tells their

1633
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 1: natural talents, gifts, skills, abilities, and even the kinds of

1634
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,240
Speaker 1: parents that they were born to by way of either

1635
01:33:10,280 --> 01:33:14,000
Speaker 1: their zodiac signs or data births. Okay, I mean, this

1636
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:17,519
Speaker 1: thing is just fascinating. I couldn't believe this, and I

1637
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:20,639
Speaker 1: thought that everybody should do this because everybody I've learned

1638
01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 1: don't have an interest in this. But I guess that's

1639
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 1: what makes the world go round. But it guides you

1640
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,360
Speaker 1: from from and it points you north in terms of

1641
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:32,559
Speaker 1: what you do. So if I tell this person who's

1642
01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:35,960
Speaker 1: born on February, I would explain that there by a

1643
01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:38,599
Speaker 1: water element with a fire sign, which means they are

1644
01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 1: sensitive and passionate at the same time, and that nine

1645
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:45,360
Speaker 1: people normally don't take stuff from nobody, Okay, nine as

1646
01:33:45,400 --> 01:33:47,760
Speaker 1: a leader number. They like to be the masses of

1647
01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:51,599
Speaker 1: their faith in the captains of this ship LaShaun just yeah,

1648
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 1: you can't dictate terms. You can try, but I don't

1649
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:57,320
Speaker 1: think you would be successful. Now you know you you

1650
01:33:57,439 --> 01:34:00,599
Speaker 1: talk about favorable days in this whole says what does

1651
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 1: that mean? That means this timing is everything, especially in

1652
01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:10,280
Speaker 1: the cosmos, there is any time and a season where

1653
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 1: everything wonce goes the scene and so by a person's birthday.

1654
01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: So let's stick to this example of February twenty seven.

1655
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:20,640
Speaker 1: I know that person is a nine because there are

1656
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:23,679
Speaker 1: Pisces that is ruled by Jupiter which lose the number

1657
01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:26,760
Speaker 1: three and then the other number two it is the six.

1658
01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:29,559
Speaker 1: So this person going on February twenty seven would be

1659
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:35,040
Speaker 1: the nine, the three, and the six nine Tuesday, three

1660
01:34:35,120 --> 01:34:39,240
Speaker 1: rules Thursday and six rules Friday. So I would tell

1661
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:42,040
Speaker 1: that person that they're best times to do anything of

1662
01:34:42,120 --> 01:34:46,920
Speaker 1: significant of consequence, you know, hanging out, bowling, you know,

1663
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:50,120
Speaker 1: having something to eat at a restaurant. That's one day

1664
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:53,479
Speaker 1: when you've got to make those life changing decisions, those

1665
01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 1: decisions of major consequences that are that's going to affect

1666
01:34:56,479 --> 01:34:59,519
Speaker 1: your future, as your outcome as well as your budget.

1667
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:04,400
Speaker 1: Then timing becomes everything. And what my objective is to

1668
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:06,720
Speaker 1: get my clients to be in the right place at

1669
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:10,720
Speaker 1: the right time in perfect harmony with the universe and

1670
01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:14,680
Speaker 1: by setting up their names or their their days, they

1671
01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:17,720
Speaker 1: know how to plan their affairs. And I get, I

1672
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:21,439
Speaker 1: mean the testimony is that get. It's just like ridiculous, man,

1673
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:24,439
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's like a very very nice

1674
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: confirmation of my dedication to my craft. You are the best, daddy.

1675
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:32,760
Speaker 1: Before we go to in this break, can you tell

1676
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:34,800
Speaker 1: everybody how to reach out to you and contact you,

1677
01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 1: whether social or your website and things like that. Yes, yes, Uh,

1678
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:41,759
Speaker 1: they can stall by going to my website Lloyd dash

1679
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:46,240
Speaker 1: Straighthorn dot com. That's l l O y D Dash

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Speaker 1: Straighthorn s t r A y h o r in.

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01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 1: Not only can they read about the zodiac signs they

1682
01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:55,719
Speaker 1: design up for the three month month is better enjoyed

1683
01:35:55,760 --> 01:36:00,160
Speaker 1: by numerology group. Shoot, but that's what they sign up in. Fact,

1684
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:03,720
Speaker 1: online courses now on sale until July one, so if

1685
01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:05,679
Speaker 1: they can take advantage to get on it, it's fine.

1686
01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 1: Um July the first, right, it is July first. The

1687
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 1: deadline is July one. Well, it's on sale, but it's

1688
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:17,720
Speaker 1: always periodically, okay, periodically periodically, so if they miss it,

1689
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:19,559
Speaker 1: all they gotta do is with another week two their

1690
01:36:19,600 --> 01:36:23,080
Speaker 1: pure okay, then they can also reach out to me

1691
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:28,479
Speaker 1: by Facebook numbers and you Instagram numbers, and you Twitter

1692
01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:32,240
Speaker 1: numbers in you because then the LinkedIn numbers and you

1693
01:36:32,479 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: you see that consistent called numbers in you. It's my bible,

1694
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:37,920
Speaker 1: that's my very first book, and that book is still

1695
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:40,720
Speaker 1: selling to this day. Sup. Four hundred page book I

1696
01:36:40,840 --> 01:36:44,280
Speaker 1: wrote on this subject. And when I published it, then

1697
01:36:44,439 --> 01:36:46,679
Speaker 1: I said, this book is going to sell a lifetime,

1698
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,160
Speaker 1: still selling. So we'll be right back with my man

1699
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:53,439
Speaker 1: lord straight hand. You know, um, really we need to

1700
01:36:53,560 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 1: it's it's it's of course that I still have to

1701
01:36:56,080 --> 01:36:58,640
Speaker 1: ask him. I'm a fan of what he does. I

1702
01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:00,640
Speaker 1: tried to do it in the high school. Did it

1703
01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:05,840
Speaker 1: for mine and uh one goal first I got to

1704
01:37:05,960 --> 01:37:08,360
Speaker 1: I got I got just the Spanish and this I

1705
01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:12,320
Speaker 1: gotta get back to the older astrology of numerology, which

1706
01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:15,559
Speaker 1: is older. Well, you know that question has been opposed

1707
01:37:15,600 --> 01:37:18,680
Speaker 1: to me and I say numerology. Of course people canna say, well,

1708
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,720
Speaker 1: of course you're gonna say numeroology, Lord, because your numerologists.

1709
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: But let me explain the logic. For those that have

1710
01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:29,720
Speaker 1: had a astrology truck done. There is a process that processes.

1711
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:33,479
Speaker 1: You must give them your birthday. Okay, how is that

1712
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 1: birthday given by numbers? The number of the month you

1713
01:37:36,520 --> 01:37:38,840
Speaker 1: were born, the number of the day you're born, and

1714
01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:41,280
Speaker 1: the number of the year you're born. Then you need

1715
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:44,080
Speaker 1: to give the astrology the exact time you were born

1716
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:46,559
Speaker 1: and where you were born, so they could look up

1717
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:49,519
Speaker 1: the longitude and the latitude. All of that is in numbers.

1718
01:37:50,120 --> 01:37:52,160
Speaker 1: So you gotta get this. You gotta get to numbers

1719
01:37:52,240 --> 01:37:55,200
Speaker 1: first to get to that. So numbers is actually older.

1720
01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 1: It's the little popular though, which is irony. Which is

1721
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:01,000
Speaker 1: the irony? So I'm a sou when that you have

1722
01:38:02,160 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 1: uh clients, regular clients to communicate with you on a

1723
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:08,360
Speaker 1: regular basis, How does a new client? How's that process?

1724
01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:10,479
Speaker 1: When you when you bring in a new client on board,

1725
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:14,280
Speaker 1: and do they ask for anything in particular like financial

1726
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:19,000
Speaker 1: advice or life advice, or relationship advice, or just how

1727
01:38:19,080 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: they have their children? You know you are on point.

1728
01:38:23,040 --> 01:38:28,880
Speaker 1: Primarily it's about relationships, yes, about careers and finance, about

1729
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 1: health and travel as a rule, normally these are the things.

1730
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 1: Then you have some people who are nervous as maybe apprehensive,

1731
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:40,960
Speaker 1: who've never had a reading. Then you had those who

1732
01:38:41,400 --> 01:38:44,000
Speaker 1: who are God's fearing and feel that what this does

1733
01:38:44,080 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 1: goes against the lords of God, which it does not.

1734
01:38:46,400 --> 01:38:50,040
Speaker 1: Because religion is a belief. What I do in numerology

1735
01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 1: and astrology is a science. There's a big, big difference

1736
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:56,240
Speaker 1: of people who keep that in mind. They won't get

1737
01:38:56,280 --> 01:38:59,080
Speaker 1: all kind of uh been out of shape, but this

1738
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 1: is what they do. They do. They will get out,

1739
01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, they get rust me. I've been on I've

1740
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:07,439
Speaker 1: been on the receiving end of it. But then when

1741
01:39:07,520 --> 01:39:10,080
Speaker 1: I asked some of the questions. And in the Old Testament,

1742
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:12,799
Speaker 1: the fourth Book of Moses is called the Book of numbers.

1743
01:39:13,600 --> 01:39:16,559
Speaker 1: I didn't write that to make myself real good Sean

1744
01:39:18,040 --> 01:39:20,960
Speaker 1: goddess fokes Moses on the first day, the second day

1745
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:23,080
Speaker 1: of the second month to name the armies by their

1746
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:26,080
Speaker 1: name and their home. There is in fact, when I

1747
01:39:26,200 --> 01:39:30,320
Speaker 1: refer to the Bible as a numerology book, people really

1748
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:33,280
Speaker 1: get upset in the religious community. But it's it's not

1749
01:39:33,479 --> 01:39:36,200
Speaker 1: think of it. If I give you a passage, it's

1750
01:39:36,280 --> 01:39:40,040
Speaker 1: going to have a chapter in the verse and you

1751
01:39:40,160 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 1: go to song twenty three, verse two. Okay, that's how

1752
01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:46,120
Speaker 1: you find what you want to get your message for

1753
01:39:46,160 --> 01:39:48,479
Speaker 1: the day or whatever. The case is, so the so

1754
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:51,120
Speaker 1: numbers act as a guide and all we do mine

1755
01:39:51,240 --> 01:39:54,760
Speaker 1: just using more metaphysical approach, which is spiritually inclined to.

1756
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:57,400
Speaker 1: Now it's it's it's a beautiful thing that we're talking

1757
01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 1: about because it's really about information. And then you you

1758
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:03,679
Speaker 1: can take how you use that information is your calling

1759
01:40:03,880 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 1: or your your desire, not your provider information based on

1760
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:11,720
Speaker 1: the information that they give you. There's no smoking mirrors here.

1761
01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:14,639
Speaker 1: You're not trying to Like you said, if you don't

1762
01:40:14,640 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 1: stand in front of that bus, you can stand in

1763
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:17,320
Speaker 1: front of that bus and they hit you. I told

1764
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:18,880
Speaker 1: you not stand in front of that bus. Now you

1765
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:21,720
Speaker 1: can listen to me and believe me or not. And

1766
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:24,560
Speaker 1: the whole process of this is that when when you

1767
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:26,880
Speaker 1: talk about relationship, when when the person comes to you

1768
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:30,080
Speaker 1: in regard to a relationship, what what do you what? What? What?

1769
01:40:30,240 --> 01:40:33,720
Speaker 1: What do you provide to them to to be able

1770
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:37,160
Speaker 1: to channel that that that goal that they're trying to

1771
01:40:37,280 --> 01:40:40,240
Speaker 1: achieve information they're trying to get out of you in

1772
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:44,439
Speaker 1: regards to that relationship. Well, when I do, for example,

1773
01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:48,000
Speaker 1: when I when couples approached me about getting married, which

1774
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:51,040
Speaker 1: is a great question. First of all, I try to

1775
01:40:51,080 --> 01:40:54,400
Speaker 1: see if they have a number in common. So let's say,

1776
01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 1: let's go back to that first example where the person

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01:40:57,360 --> 01:41:00,680
Speaker 1: is born February the twenties seven, and then I might

1778
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:05,000
Speaker 1: have another within a couple, might let's say be March

1779
01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:09,240
Speaker 1: the six. Well that first of all, the person that

1780
01:41:09,640 --> 01:41:11,800
Speaker 1: is March the six dead numbers of the six, three

1781
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 1: and nine, where the person born on February the seven

1782
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:18,040
Speaker 1: numbers of the nine, three and six. Once I find

1783
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:20,800
Speaker 1: numbers that are in common, those are the numbers I

1784
01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:22,360
Speaker 1: was here. So I would say, well, these are your

1785
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:25,400
Speaker 1: best days that you share, the best dates that you share,

1786
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:28,719
Speaker 1: and the best months. Now let's say there's a couple

1787
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:31,600
Speaker 1: where the numbers don't match at all. I'm going to

1788
01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:36,320
Speaker 1: always always set the wedding date around the woman. You

1789
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:38,760
Speaker 1: give her a house, she gives us back her home.

1790
01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:42,200
Speaker 1: You give her food. You know, she give us a meal.

1791
01:41:42,520 --> 01:41:46,439
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So so there's always you know,

1792
01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:50,000
Speaker 1: the woman is always the foundation to the family, to

1793
01:41:50,160 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 1: the home and everything. I and I found that out

1794
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:55,640
Speaker 1: when my mother passed before my father. I used to

1795
01:41:55,760 --> 01:41:58,680
Speaker 1: think because he was the banded bigger areas, you know,

1796
01:41:58,840 --> 01:42:02,040
Speaker 1: balking orders that my mother would just say, okay, okay,

1797
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:04,360
Speaker 1: that's how I figured out side. She got around them, right,

1798
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:07,320
Speaker 1: But when she passed, that's when I found out who

1799
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:12,679
Speaker 1: really win that? Right? Right? Right? Right? So I always

1800
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 1: said around the woman. But if I can find numbers

1801
01:42:15,360 --> 01:42:18,240
Speaker 1: that are in common between both of them, that's what

1802
01:42:18,360 --> 01:42:22,000
Speaker 1: I aim for, which is which is great. I'm one

1803
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:23,960
Speaker 1: of them. I'm one of them, sneaky believers. You know

1804
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:25,640
Speaker 1: what I'm saying when it comes to the astrology. And

1805
01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you how, you know, because because

1806
01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:29,240
Speaker 1: you know, I've been going to go through the news,

1807
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: probably my newspaper every day, and then I get over

1808
01:42:31,960 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 1: to the little every newspaper has an astrology section, daily

1809
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:38,080
Speaker 1: astrology section, you know, going there had a couple of

1810
01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: maybe two or three sentences of motivation of information that

1811
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:45,280
Speaker 1: they're they're they're telling you about, and I go over there,

1812
01:42:45,360 --> 01:42:51,280
Speaker 1: go okay, all right, okay, cool now now now talk

1813
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 1: to me about that. Talk to me about the sneaky

1814
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:58,360
Speaker 1: I'm the sneaky guy. Okay, I believe, but don't want

1815
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: to tell everybody I believe in. Do you have the

1816
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:03,720
Speaker 1: people who really believe? Those are two different people? Correct? Yes,

1817
01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:07,519
Speaker 1: that's true. Yes, you've got, you got those undercovered believers. Okay,

1818
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 1: then you've got we're trying mcdonals. We're trying McDonald under cover, undercover,

1819
01:43:12,360 --> 01:43:15,120
Speaker 1: under cover of law. In fact, I'm out of the

1820
01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 1: cover now, I'm I'm I'm laying a little bit that

1821
01:43:18,200 --> 01:43:19,880
Speaker 1: you know, when you talk about that, there was a

1822
01:43:19,960 --> 01:43:23,760
Speaker 1: time in hallm when people into astrology actually had to

1823
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 1: walk around in their astrology books and brown paper wraps,

1824
01:43:27,760 --> 01:43:29,840
Speaker 1: you know when they have paper to wrap your book

1825
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:33,559
Speaker 1: bags and wrap books. Yeah, well you couldn't walk around

1826
01:43:33,600 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 1: with the obvious astrology, but if you put it in

1827
01:43:36,120 --> 01:43:39,000
Speaker 1: a wrap of book raps, so people wouldn't know until

1828
01:43:39,080 --> 01:43:43,080
Speaker 1: they had some subject, you know. But this is but

1829
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:47,760
Speaker 1: this is a very long and very trying to do

1830
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 1: art that's tens of thousands of years old and a

1831
01:43:52,200 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 1: guide people in a way that is absolutely absolutely amazing, Sean.

1832
01:43:57,800 --> 01:44:02,200
Speaker 1: So to say, it's absolutely amazing because because now now

1833
01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 1: now use Joe, tell me I'm the undercover guy, that

1834
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: the one, the one in man. Then you have the

1835
01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 1: people who are are dedicating to belief, like you said,

1836
01:44:09,840 --> 01:44:12,479
Speaker 1: people having to walk around with Brian bags at one

1837
01:44:12,520 --> 01:44:15,920
Speaker 1: time not publicly saying that because because people can be

1838
01:44:16,120 --> 01:44:19,160
Speaker 1: perceived as like, you know, do you really believe that?

1839
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 1: Don you really believe that's word following, how do you

1840
01:44:22,400 --> 01:44:26,400
Speaker 1: overcome the skepticism? Well, you know, the proof is in

1841
01:44:26,439 --> 01:44:29,519
Speaker 1: the pudding. And I've been doing this for thirty plus years.

1842
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:33,479
Speaker 1: You have kinds of praises and occulations and confirmations of

1843
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,280
Speaker 1: what I do. And because it is a science. But

1844
01:44:36,439 --> 01:44:39,000
Speaker 1: notice is what they always say, do you really believe

1845
01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:42,599
Speaker 1: in it? It's not a belief system. Religion is a belief.

1846
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:45,600
Speaker 1: That's why man has always killed each other. Um. But

1847
01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: for those this is why with the acception of the

1848
01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:51,880
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, every paper

1849
01:44:51,920 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 1: pactically cares. The hardscope. But the people that want to

1850
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: stay under the radar, they'll learn not what's up about them.

1851
01:44:57,800 --> 01:45:00,160
Speaker 1: For those that are not afraid, For those to the

1852
01:45:00,240 --> 01:45:03,760
Speaker 1: more openly receptive, which is now it's really open now.

1853
01:45:03,920 --> 01:45:07,000
Speaker 1: People didn't go to professionals like myself. For other people,

1854
01:45:07,720 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 1: um that that uh, that can do this on a

1855
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:15,360
Speaker 1: more professional basis and guidance. When you read something in

1856
01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 1: the paper that's like a broadbrush stroke, okay, but then

1857
01:45:19,080 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 1: you might have a thousand pisces but they're not all

1858
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 1: born on the same year, at the same time, the

1859
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:27,439
Speaker 1: same location. And uh, they're not all born on the

1860
01:45:27,520 --> 01:45:31,240
Speaker 1: same day. So by going to professor, you get more

1861
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:34,920
Speaker 1: of something just for you. That's a for Sean McDonald

1862
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:39,400
Speaker 1: moment that yes, I'm not looking at this, I'm not

1863
01:45:39,520 --> 01:45:43,280
Speaker 1: looking at the generic newspaper generic thought. I have them,

1864
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:47,320
Speaker 1: I have my reading done for me specifically, and then

1865
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:50,519
Speaker 1: I have you recorded. I have you recorded too so

1866
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:53,759
Speaker 1: you can review it. So it makes a big difference

1867
01:45:54,040 --> 01:45:56,880
Speaker 1: in the response I get. Uh, some woman told me

1868
01:45:57,120 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 1: I said you would get married. She since you got married.

1869
01:45:59,080 --> 01:46:01,120
Speaker 1: I said I did. She said, yeah, you take it.

1870
01:46:01,560 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 1: You're not okay, keep fine. But it's but these are

1871
01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:06,800
Speaker 1: the kinds of things all the I mean from reading

1872
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:10,960
Speaker 1: people like Denzel Washington. Example, Denzel, when I met him,

1873
01:46:11,240 --> 01:46:14,080
Speaker 1: he called me behind stage after he didn't play here

1874
01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:16,320
Speaker 1: in New York and he explained, they do was born

1875
01:46:16,360 --> 01:46:18,960
Speaker 1: on the twenty eight, his wife was born on the

1876
01:46:19,040 --> 01:46:22,599
Speaker 1: twenty eight. They married on the twenty eight. Their son

1877
01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:27,040
Speaker 1: they played in the recent movie about implicating the Kuklos clan.

1878
01:46:28,520 --> 01:46:32,080
Speaker 1: When yeah, so, so what I'm saying, and it's interesting

1879
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:37,840
Speaker 1: when Denzel Washington received his first oscar. The presenter was

1880
01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 1: um oh boy. She she played in Pretty Woman. I

1881
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:48,759
Speaker 1: forgot her name. Julie Robbins right well, Julie Robinson presented

1882
01:46:48,920 --> 01:46:51,400
Speaker 1: what was Born on the twenties orself? Which I thought

1883
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:54,400
Speaker 1: it was interesting. So numbers followed people, but we're not

1884
01:46:55,520 --> 01:46:59,160
Speaker 1: conscious of it. And and once you become conscious of it,

1885
01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 1: you look at things different and you then you try

1886
01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:05,120
Speaker 1: to be really in a time that's appropriate to you

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Speaker 1: for you to share that story with me, I really

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Speaker 1: I've ever made. Well what why? Why is that with HBCUs.

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Speaker 1: I really try to talk about the you know, the

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Speaker 1: historical factor. I always tell people, if we didn't have HBCUs,

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Speaker 1: it really wouldn't be black education because they wouldn't let

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Speaker 1: us go to school in the South. I'm talking about

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01:58:33,280 --> 01:58:37,040
Speaker 1: they mean racist behavior and they were limited through quotas

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Speaker 1: to us to inner schools in the North. I'm to

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Speaker 1: my white school. So that's that's why HBCUs were creating

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Speaker 1: and needed. So going into that, you had all these

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Speaker 1: offers from basically white colleges and then there's beautiful black

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Speaker 1: campus and tallahas in Florida. You just you just felt

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01:58:52,160 --> 01:58:54,600
Speaker 1: a kinship. You walking around seeing people look like you.

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Speaker 1: What was it? Oh, it's very empowering. I grew up

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Speaker 1: in Detroit. It was over eighty percient Black grows up there.

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Speaker 1: So from there and fam you it was. It was

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Speaker 1: the love, it was the accountability. To this day, my

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Speaker 1: professors are on social media and still roots for me.

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Speaker 1: To this day. I can see them chining on the

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Speaker 1: comments on Facebook and that type of rich relationship you're

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Speaker 1: just not gonna get as a black student want to

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Speaker 1: a p W. I I highly adupt that your profectors

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Speaker 1: still even remember you, let alone that they are invested

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Speaker 1: in your future beyond those four years that you were there.

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Speaker 1: You know they still look out for me. They still

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Speaker 1: share resource. Mean, I was on the call the other

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01:59:38,120 --> 01:59:44,120
Speaker 1: day with the school. So it's truly family. It's truly safe.

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Speaker 1: In addition to just attending an institution, which is a

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Speaker 1: priceless experience, you were not as a black person going

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Speaker 1: to have the kind of environment with that kind of

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01:59:55,400 --> 01:59:57,840
Speaker 1: accountability and love that's going to be poured into you.

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01:59:58,080 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 1: They want you to win because you look like that

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Speaker 1: you are their child, you know. So it's I encourage

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Speaker 1: HBCUs for African Americans all day long. It has been

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Speaker 1: beneficial to my career, and that trajectory is my career.

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Speaker 1: And then all of the resources that I've received. The

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Speaker 1: family network is real. And you know, it's really important

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Speaker 1: that people understand going somewhere where you're comfortable, going somewhere

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02:00:24,280 --> 02:00:27,000
Speaker 1: where you relationships in long term because that's one of

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Speaker 1: the chapters in your book, the Relationship Principle. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get to that chapter six. I believe you know, because

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, And just sitting here, uh, it

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02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:37,880
Speaker 1: allowed me time here and you speak, allowed me to

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Speaker 1: remember our relationship back in two thousand and four. Kind

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Speaker 1: remember and I'm gonna tell you something, you know, the

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Speaker 1: one and and I'm not remembering everything, and I'm kind

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02:00:47,360 --> 02:00:50,040
Speaker 1: of I'm remembering everything a little bit here. I remember.

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Speaker 1: The thing that stood out for me was that your

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02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:57,840
Speaker 1: energy and your smile and your professionalism. You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't so I didn't know you as homeless on the

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Speaker 1: two of the sixth floor. I didn't know that. Okay,

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02:01:02,240 --> 02:01:03,600
Speaker 1: So I wasn't doing that. I wasn't doing it in

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02:01:03,680 --> 02:01:05,960
Speaker 1: the favors because I thought I was. I was feeling

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Speaker 1: sorry for you because I didn't know your situation. All

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02:01:08,320 --> 02:01:11,640
Speaker 1: I know is that your game was tight and so

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02:01:12,320 --> 02:01:15,160
Speaker 1: and I and I learned that about myself and I

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Speaker 1: one of the things about money making conversations, I've discovered

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Speaker 1: so many relationships that I had with people I didn't know,

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02:01:21,200 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 1: just because I just felt that, Hey, everybody deserves a shot.

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Speaker 1: That's my personality. Everybody deserves a shot, especially people who

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Speaker 1: are working hard and and showing a consistent personality. Because

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Speaker 1: that was one thing with me. You had to be

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Speaker 1: consistent rou sean. If I tell you know and you

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Speaker 1: walk away, then you would you should not be in

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Speaker 1: my presence. But I couldn't tell you know. I could

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Speaker 1: not tell you no. It was like no, it's like

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Speaker 1: you you were like, you know, like like that matrix.

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Speaker 1: You dogs that no you dogs that let on it,

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Speaker 1: let on it like she cool, she cool, she cool.

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Speaker 1: And that's really a strong driving force to why you

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Speaker 1: were successful today. Not that you're arrogant. You just understand

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Speaker 1: your confident you you believe in the value is that

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Speaker 1: God has put on this earth that you shouldn't be afraid.

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Speaker 1: And I guess that that was me telling you we

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Speaker 1: met because I was a big personality on two thousand

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Speaker 1: and four, and I was a pretty big personality, and

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Speaker 1: so because Steve just called me black cloud. So I

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Speaker 1: would tell people know, and I would tell people to

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Speaker 1: get out of my face really really quick. But you,

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Speaker 1: my friend, that was was not happening. Talk about that

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Speaker 1: ability to not be afraid before we get into the book.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Um, well, the part of it, I

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Speaker 1: would say, is in the book. It isn't even the intro.

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Speaker 1: I definitely, absolutely yes, I believe in happing into that.

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Speaker 1: I believe that when you move without limits that doors

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Speaker 1: open up on your behalf. So I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: approach things from this that space. I definitely approach things

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Speaker 1: from a very fearless space. Um. And then then our

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Speaker 1: confidence just goes forth. And I said, door, it's just

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Speaker 1: open um. But I don't. I don't believe you should

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Speaker 1: operate from that space. You need to operate from a

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Speaker 1: level of surreness. You need to oppillate, operate from a

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02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:06,839
Speaker 1: level of confidence if you plan on for schelling anything

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Speaker 1: in life. And I always overdre have those features. So

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Speaker 1: it's just for us. You came into the world like that.

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Speaker 1: If up for us to make sure we tap back

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Speaker 1: into that because it was nothing. But the world started

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02:03:19,320 --> 02:03:22,120
Speaker 1: projecting its way onto you when people started saying different

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02:03:22,160 --> 02:03:24,800
Speaker 1: things to you. But who you are before you are

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02:03:24,920 --> 02:03:28,160
Speaker 1: confident who you are, before you do believe in yourself.

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Speaker 1: Once you get all over the forest from the trees

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Speaker 1: and all that back, you need to walk in there.

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Speaker 1: That's a beautiful statement. You know, your book has seven

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Speaker 1: chapters that believe principle, the thought principle, the speech principle,

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Speaker 1: the principle of sewing, sewing and the action principle, the

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Speaker 1: relationship principle, the principle of stewardship. I was a quoting

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Speaker 1: the book that I pulled out that really uh stood

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Speaker 1: out to me and said, if I believe something was

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Speaker 1: going to happen for me, that's as you're talking. I

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02:03:58,480 --> 02:04:02,720
Speaker 1: refuse to entertain need thoughts that will counter what I believe.

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Speaker 1: Oh that was you meeting me. That was what that

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02:04:08,960 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 1: when we met. You know before the book, you were

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Speaker 1: on the twenty sixth floor. I didn't know that homeless,

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02:04:18,160 --> 02:04:20,000
Speaker 1: but you had a vision. But that didn't stop you.

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Speaker 1: In other words, see a lot of people allow other

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Speaker 1: things to stop them. Excuse I call them excuses because

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Speaker 1: we don't all wake up the same every day. We

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02:04:28,040 --> 02:04:30,120
Speaker 1: don't wake up with good days. Something I wake up,

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02:04:30,120 --> 02:04:31,320
Speaker 1: I don't even want to get out of bed, but

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02:04:31,360 --> 02:04:33,160
Speaker 1: I still get out of bed. That doesn't mean I

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Speaker 1: might have an unsuccessful day. And that's what that that

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Speaker 1: you're saying right there. If I believe, if I'm want

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Speaker 1: a mission to be successful, why should I suddenly stop

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Speaker 1: myself from being successful? That's a that's an amazing thought.

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Speaker 1: Where did that come from? Parents? Where? Well, fam me?

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Speaker 1: What did that? What did that thought process developed? Eighteen win? Okay,

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Speaker 1: this I honestly can't probably tell all the time. I

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Speaker 1: am a woman. I can't so I am a woman

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02:05:04,040 --> 02:05:06,880
Speaker 1: of strong faith. But I don't know when I started.

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02:05:09,040 --> 02:05:13,560
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I think my parents probably allowed

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02:05:13,640 --> 02:05:20,920
Speaker 1: me to be ball and adventurous. Um I know I do.

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02:05:21,080 --> 02:05:22,680
Speaker 1: And this book I tell the sturdy about like how

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02:05:22,720 --> 02:05:25,080
Speaker 1: my mother took me onto the parking lot to get

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Speaker 1: my first car and she was in a huge car

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Speaker 1: section and I tell her that's not what I wanted,

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02:05:31,120 --> 02:05:34,360
Speaker 1: and what did you want? And I pointed open to

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Speaker 1: the car that was on the show room floor and

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02:05:37,240 --> 02:05:42,080
Speaker 1: it was spent it. This was like Farler on it

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Speaker 1: and the and the red color and the two doors

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02:05:44,760 --> 02:05:47,800
Speaker 1: and the ren and she was said, well, you could

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Speaker 1: ask it, and I got excited and she paused, because

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02:05:50,920 --> 02:05:53,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for it. And I was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm a ris to the occasion. Well, I was always

2238
02:05:58,080 --> 02:06:00,640
Speaker 1: taught that everything was possible and was thing my reach.

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02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:04,920
Speaker 1: Now that that was most Now how you got there,

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Speaker 1: you just had to figure it out. But that I was,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome because you know, because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying is that we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of similar characters. I remember the first car I got

2244
02:06:18,040 --> 02:06:21,640
Speaker 1: was a used car. You first car in high school

2245
02:06:21,720 --> 02:06:25,480
Speaker 1: to beat up Pino for a Pinto. And I told myself,

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02:06:25,720 --> 02:06:28,520
Speaker 1: I said, I said, I would never drive a car

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Speaker 1: with more than fifteen miles on it. Again, I said

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Speaker 1: that to myself. I just knew and that was just

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Speaker 1: my da. I always tell people certain ways, you said

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Speaker 1: goals in life, you know, so I didn't. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: telling anybody I was gonna buy a new car. But

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02:06:44,640 --> 02:06:46,520
Speaker 1: you know, if you have a car with fifteen miles

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02:06:46,600 --> 02:06:49,360
Speaker 1: or less on it, that's a new car. And so

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Speaker 1: that's a standard that you set for yourself. You said,

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Speaker 1: I don't want that, Why can't I get that? And

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Speaker 1: how can I get that? And that's goal setting, but

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Speaker 1: without but with not to instincts tied to it by

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02:07:01,840 --> 02:07:04,160
Speaker 1: having the standard you set but not going to a

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02:07:04,240 --> 02:07:07,160
Speaker 1: school and somebody telling you, here's your vision board. So

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Speaker 1: you're you're walking talking vision vision board and small, that's

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Speaker 1: what you are. Anybody tell you that, anybody tell you that. No,

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Speaker 1: I think you will. You read this book. You read

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02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:24,040
Speaker 1: this book. You're walking talking vision board because I'm telling

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02:07:24,040 --> 02:07:25,680
Speaker 1: you something I kept. We're looking at it. I kept

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02:07:25,680 --> 02:07:27,360
Speaker 1: reading this book. We go we're gonna go to break

2266
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:29,640
Speaker 1: because I want to talk about something because you you hit.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about if you if I if I found

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Speaker 1: a young lady who was a younger version, but a

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Speaker 1: female version of h M. I'm talking to her right now.

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Speaker 1: You know, here's the thing. Our belief influence is our

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02:07:44,520 --> 02:07:50,880
Speaker 1: belief influence our behavior. We are born bold. I always talking.

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Speaker 1: I always tell people that. That's why I can't understand

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02:07:53,720 --> 02:07:57,800
Speaker 1: people who treat kids terrible, you know, abused kids, because

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02:07:57,960 --> 02:08:00,200
Speaker 1: kids just just they just want information. They just want

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Speaker 1: to whatever you give them. You tell them to go left,

2276
02:08:02,680 --> 02:08:04,240
Speaker 1: they go left, You tell them go right, there, go right.

2277
02:08:04,520 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 1: So they just they just an energy just waiting. They

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02:08:07,200 --> 02:08:10,960
Speaker 1: just just absorb stuff. And that statement right there, we

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Speaker 1: are born bold? But what what push us off to?

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02:08:14,200 --> 02:08:16,760
Speaker 1: What pushes us off the railroad track? Though? Mrmon? What

2281
02:08:16,960 --> 02:08:23,840
Speaker 1: what tell me? People? And thought? People and thought? You've

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02:08:23,840 --> 02:08:29,320
Speaker 1: allowed somebody to project their way of thankful onto you thought.

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02:08:30,920 --> 02:08:34,480
Speaker 1: I totally agree. I always tell people is that there's

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Speaker 1: people around you, people who loved you or say they

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02:08:37,320 --> 02:08:39,200
Speaker 1: love you. Stop can stop your dream. It can be

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02:08:39,320 --> 02:08:43,839
Speaker 1: your boyfriend, your husband, your partner, your kids, your minister,

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02:08:44,400 --> 02:08:46,640
Speaker 1: your daddy, your mom. All these people can stop you

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02:08:47,240 --> 02:08:49,440
Speaker 1: with bad thoughts. And I was telling you she talks

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Speaker 1: about this in the book. Don't talk to nobody don't

2290
02:08:52,320 --> 02:08:55,800
Speaker 1: know about that. They can't understand the capabilities of your dream.

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02:08:55,960 --> 02:08:57,600
Speaker 1: In other words, if you're trying to be a doctor,

2292
02:08:57,640 --> 02:09:01,200
Speaker 1: don't talk to a mechanic. You don't know nothing about that.

2293
02:09:01,720 --> 02:09:03,520
Speaker 1: You're trying to be a lawyer, don't talk to somebody

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02:09:03,560 --> 02:09:06,040
Speaker 1: over there. They don't know nothing. By lawyer, you can't

2295
02:09:06,040 --> 02:09:08,920
Speaker 1: do that. And so that's why I love this book

2296
02:09:08,960 --> 02:09:11,320
Speaker 1: because of the fact that she breaks it down in

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02:09:11,400 --> 02:09:14,560
Speaker 1: the natural world. When I see a natural world means

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02:09:14,640 --> 02:09:17,400
Speaker 1: that we all go through life wondering if we can

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Speaker 1: be great, and your book tells us we can be great,

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02:09:21,680 --> 02:09:24,960
Speaker 1: but also points out with stopping up from being great. Now,

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02:09:25,080 --> 02:09:26,720
Speaker 1: how long did it take you to write this book?

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02:09:26,920 --> 02:09:31,120
Speaker 1: Because this book is on fire? It just came out

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02:09:31,120 --> 02:09:33,200
Speaker 1: the presses because you're talking about COVID nineteen in here.

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Speaker 1: That's how that's our current, this book is. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe I was talking. I've reading her book and she

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Speaker 1: talked about COVID ninteen. Yeah, it has been updated. Um uh,

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02:09:45,560 --> 02:09:49,040
Speaker 1: it's say about eight months for that one. And honestly

2308
02:09:49,360 --> 02:09:52,280
Speaker 1: that's because I wasn't more of the final edit. I

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02:09:52,360 --> 02:09:55,640
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't even know that my book would

2310
02:09:55,640 --> 02:09:59,360
Speaker 1: be releasing during a period where people would be having

2311
02:09:59,440 --> 02:10:02,800
Speaker 1: a global economic impacts on their finances. Come on, now,

2312
02:10:03,160 --> 02:10:05,520
Speaker 1: I had no clue, So of course, yeah, we went

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02:10:05,560 --> 02:10:08,920
Speaker 1: back and updated something. But yeah, I am I am

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02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:11,840
Speaker 1: playing on that at all. I'm gonna reading this book.

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Speaker 1: She isn't morth of Jewish. I'm reading a book about

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02:10:14,720 --> 02:10:18,800
Speaker 1: COVID nteen. That's a that's a relevant this young lady is.

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02:10:19,160 --> 02:10:21,200
Speaker 1: That's how that's our own point she is with our

2318
02:10:21,240 --> 02:10:24,720
Speaker 1: conversations about getting this active. And we're not talking about

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02:10:24,800 --> 02:10:27,360
Speaker 1: a book that God released last year. We're talking about

2320
02:10:27,440 --> 02:10:31,640
Speaker 1: on the money right now now. Now. As a speaker,

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02:10:32,800 --> 02:10:35,040
Speaker 1: what motivates you? What is the goals when you go

2322
02:10:35,240 --> 02:10:39,320
Speaker 1: on stage or people ask you to speak. What's the

2323
02:10:39,400 --> 02:10:42,400
Speaker 1: purpose of you speaking to people? What? What? What are

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02:10:42,400 --> 02:10:46,200
Speaker 1: you trying to emote or trying to um get them

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02:10:46,200 --> 02:10:50,560
Speaker 1: to understand when you're speaking understood? First of all, I'm

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02:10:50,640 --> 02:10:53,280
Speaker 1: definitely a service that I take the stage. And two

2327
02:10:53,960 --> 02:10:55,640
Speaker 1: and what I mean by that is people are only

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02:10:55,680 --> 02:10:58,720
Speaker 1: going to remember the speech that applies to them. They

2329
02:10:58,800 --> 02:11:00,960
Speaker 1: could care less about what you saying about your life

2330
02:11:01,000 --> 02:11:02,800
Speaker 1: if it is not applicable to what they're going through,

2331
02:11:02,960 --> 02:11:07,000
Speaker 1: what they're dealing with, and to my message is always

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02:11:07,040 --> 02:11:11,560
Speaker 1: a fearlessness that's helping you remove those fears from your mind.

2333
02:11:11,680 --> 02:11:14,480
Speaker 1: Because the ways of mind is designed, it can shift

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02:11:14,520 --> 02:11:17,120
Speaker 1: towards the negative bias kind of quickly when you don't

2335
02:11:17,160 --> 02:11:20,600
Speaker 1: put in the work. Because we beings who were created

2336
02:11:20,640 --> 02:11:24,280
Speaker 1: to be mindful for survival reasons if danger was coming,

2337
02:11:24,800 --> 02:11:27,040
Speaker 1: but we're not in though any fields right now. We're

2338
02:11:27,040 --> 02:11:31,360
Speaker 1: not running some lions, we're not around animal over anything

2339
02:11:31,400 --> 02:11:33,320
Speaker 1: of that type of danger. So we just have to

2340
02:11:33,520 --> 02:11:36,920
Speaker 1: be very conscious that we're always operating from a place

2341
02:11:37,800 --> 02:11:41,800
Speaker 1: of a positive bias. So with that being said, you

2342
02:11:41,880 --> 02:11:45,200
Speaker 1: know to put in the work. So these negative things

2343
02:11:45,240 --> 02:11:46,760
Speaker 1: that people have put on you, you're gonna have to

2344
02:11:46,800 --> 02:11:50,040
Speaker 1: peel those things off. So that's my goal when I

2345
02:11:50,160 --> 02:11:53,600
Speaker 1: step onto a stage. Okay, and believe me, you're fearless. Now,

2346
02:11:54,160 --> 02:11:56,120
Speaker 1: ra Sean made a statement. That's what Sean, that's I'm

2347
02:11:56,160 --> 02:11:59,280
Speaker 1: talking about myself third person. Okay, I may just statement

2348
02:11:59,320 --> 02:12:02,160
Speaker 1: that if I had to see somebody that was a

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02:12:02,280 --> 02:12:04,960
Speaker 1: younger version of me, but it was a female, I'm

2350
02:12:05,040 --> 02:12:08,360
Speaker 1: talking to her right now, Arian Simone, Okay, why you

2351
02:12:08,400 --> 02:12:11,880
Speaker 1: said every shoan? Well, in her book she talks about this, uh,

2352
02:12:13,000 --> 02:12:15,880
Speaker 1: this conference that she was thrown and they hit her

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02:12:15,920 --> 02:12:19,360
Speaker 1: with a budget. There was like almost a half million dollars.

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02:12:19,640 --> 02:12:21,160
Speaker 1: Okay when the guy came in and this is what

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02:12:21,280 --> 02:12:25,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost. And she had never done this before.

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02:12:25,520 --> 02:12:27,840
Speaker 1: That reminded me when I threw my through my first

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02:12:28,160 --> 02:12:31,320
Speaker 1: neighborhood awards was HOODI Awards in l A. I had

2358
02:12:31,400 --> 02:12:36,000
Speaker 1: never done that before avering and I had a budget

2359
02:12:36,360 --> 02:12:38,600
Speaker 1: and I pulled it off. That's one story right there.

2360
02:12:39,120 --> 02:12:41,040
Speaker 1: Then she gets into the book and she talks about

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02:12:41,240 --> 02:12:47,760
Speaker 1: her favorite story to shopping is Ze Gallery. You want

2362
02:12:47,800 --> 02:12:51,720
Speaker 1: to know, Mrs Simone, one of my favorite stories to

2363
02:12:51,800 --> 02:12:59,240
Speaker 1: shopping is ze Gallery. Then she goes, Then she goes

2364
02:12:59,600 --> 02:13:03,360
Speaker 1: right here? Where did she go to church in Los Angeles?

2365
02:13:03,440 --> 02:13:08,080
Speaker 1: At West Angeles Church of Garden Christ. What do you

2366
02:13:08,120 --> 02:13:17,480
Speaker 1: think Roshan went in Los Angeles Bishop Blake? Then Roshan

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02:13:17,600 --> 02:13:22,200
Speaker 1: McDonald doesn't accept no for an answer, because I would walk.

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02:13:22,480 --> 02:13:25,840
Speaker 1: In a book, she talks about walking and being being, being,

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02:13:26,040 --> 02:13:28,680
Speaker 1: being a confident I would walk in places. Of course,

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02:13:28,680 --> 02:13:30,280
Speaker 1: you know, always had a tailor suit over, so that

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02:13:30,360 --> 02:13:33,720
Speaker 1: helped a little bit. I would walk in venues wouldn't pay.

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02:13:34,440 --> 02:13:36,760
Speaker 1: I just look at people and you walk over by

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02:13:36,880 --> 02:13:38,880
Speaker 1: like I supposed to be. I'm supposed to be in

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02:13:38,960 --> 02:13:42,120
Speaker 1: the venue. She talks about this in the book, presenting

2375
02:13:42,160 --> 02:13:46,200
Speaker 1: yourself as a success, presenting yourself like you belong, and

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02:13:46,280 --> 02:13:48,600
Speaker 1: presenting yourself so people can treat you like a king

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02:13:49,520 --> 02:13:54,840
Speaker 1: or a queen that you are that is that is me,

2378
02:13:55,600 --> 02:14:06,400
Speaker 1: Mr Amone. If we have medsins two thousand four. So

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02:14:07,040 --> 02:14:09,040
Speaker 1: so when I see it, when I read about the

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02:14:09,280 --> 02:14:15,920
Speaker 1: Fearless fun, now I go, okay, it's everything is natural

2381
02:14:16,080 --> 02:14:19,360
Speaker 1: for me. Now everything makes sense to me. Why I'm

2382
02:14:19,440 --> 02:14:23,160
Speaker 1: interviewing you on this show today, because you have a

2383
02:14:23,280 --> 02:14:27,360
Speaker 1: quality within you that truly is fearless. I've never used

2384
02:14:27,400 --> 02:14:29,400
Speaker 1: the word fearless. I always tell people that, you know,

2385
02:14:30,440 --> 02:14:32,760
Speaker 1: I wake up. I wake up to get up. I

2386
02:14:32,800 --> 02:14:34,600
Speaker 1: go to sleep to get up. That's my goal. I

2387
02:14:34,680 --> 02:14:36,960
Speaker 1: wake up because when I wake up, I have a plan.

2388
02:14:37,080 --> 02:14:38,840
Speaker 1: Every time I wake up, I don't go to sleep.

2389
02:14:39,320 --> 02:14:40,680
Speaker 1: I was telling you the reason a lot of people

2390
02:14:41,200 --> 02:14:43,160
Speaker 1: find it difficult to get out of bed. They have

2391
02:14:43,280 --> 02:14:45,200
Speaker 1: no reason to get up. They never set a goal

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02:14:45,440 --> 02:14:47,200
Speaker 1: to get up. They ever said I'm gonna do this

2393
02:14:47,240 --> 02:14:49,840
Speaker 1: when I'm gonna get up. They just what I'm gonna do.

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02:14:50,520 --> 02:14:51,840
Speaker 1: I know what I'm gonna do when I get up.

2395
02:14:51,880 --> 02:14:53,560
Speaker 1: I may not want to get up, but I know

2396
02:14:53,720 --> 02:14:56,000
Speaker 1: I have some stuff to do. That's why I get

2397
02:14:56,080 --> 02:14:59,880
Speaker 1: on up out that bed. And that's your personality. Upside

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02:15:00,160 --> 02:15:03,360
Speaker 1: dial rayl flip over top everything three sixty. That's you.

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02:15:07,080 --> 02:15:10,000
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much. And you have this

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02:15:10,080 --> 02:15:14,000
Speaker 1: beautiful book, you know, and you know when you know,

2401
02:15:14,080 --> 02:15:15,600
Speaker 1: when you when you go through the chapters, you know

2402
02:15:15,720 --> 02:15:18,800
Speaker 1: the bleief principle of mind is the terrible thing to waste.

2403
02:15:19,320 --> 02:15:21,560
Speaker 1: The thought principle, when you you know you believe in something,

2404
02:15:21,680 --> 02:15:24,640
Speaker 1: it will happen, which is which is That's how I think,

2405
02:15:25,040 --> 02:15:28,080
Speaker 1: and everybody should think. The speech principle, if you say it,

2406
02:15:28,560 --> 02:15:31,720
Speaker 1: you expect it to happen. Focus on that happening. All

2407
02:15:31,800 --> 02:15:33,880
Speaker 1: these different things that you talked about, you know, the

2408
02:15:34,680 --> 02:15:37,880
Speaker 1: the action principle. You know, it's just really really a

2409
02:15:37,960 --> 02:15:41,440
Speaker 1: special book. And you know when you when you did

2410
02:15:41,520 --> 02:15:45,000
Speaker 1: you sit down and discuss with individuals different chapters, or

2411
02:15:45,040 --> 02:15:47,600
Speaker 1: you just just just just put it all out there

2412
02:15:47,640 --> 02:15:49,360
Speaker 1: and sat down with an editor and said, this is

2413
02:15:49,480 --> 02:15:51,560
Speaker 1: my vision and I want to get it. Tell us

2414
02:15:51,600 --> 02:15:54,280
Speaker 1: of thoughts behind getting this book out to the press.

2415
02:15:57,080 --> 02:16:01,320
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Like I said, up, wait, did I

2416
02:16:01,400 --> 02:16:06,000
Speaker 1: start you down? No, because it looks different. It looks

2417
02:16:06,640 --> 02:16:09,640
Speaker 1: it took on a whole new meetings during thing happening

2418
02:16:09,640 --> 02:16:12,840
Speaker 1: in the world. Now, I first said I to do this.

2419
02:16:13,080 --> 02:16:15,360
Speaker 1: The book was gonna be released in at the Essence

2420
02:16:15,400 --> 02:16:19,560
Speaker 1: Festival and that bookstore, like everything just was was different.

2421
02:16:20,320 --> 02:16:23,280
Speaker 1: So I thought the process of I knew it was

2422
02:16:23,440 --> 02:16:25,720
Speaker 1: needed because the build the book is built upon one

2423
02:16:25,760 --> 02:16:28,280
Speaker 1: premise that people have more fear and going broke than

2424
02:16:28,320 --> 02:16:30,879
Speaker 1: they do faith and having a bundange. And the reality

2425
02:16:31,040 --> 02:16:33,120
Speaker 1: is that both of those things are unseen. Fear is

2426
02:16:33,200 --> 02:16:36,680
Speaker 1: unseen and faith is unseen. You choose to adopt which

2427
02:16:36,720 --> 02:16:39,680
Speaker 1: one you want to follow. So I knew I wanted

2428
02:16:39,720 --> 02:16:42,439
Speaker 1: the book out for that one reason. Just in itself.

2429
02:16:43,080 --> 02:16:46,080
Speaker 1: I had no idea that the world would turn into

2430
02:16:46,920 --> 02:16:50,760
Speaker 1: all of what everything happened and the course of so

2431
02:16:51,760 --> 02:16:53,879
Speaker 1: it took on a whole another meaning as far as

2432
02:16:53,959 --> 02:16:55,840
Speaker 1: just like you're saying, getting it out into the world,

2433
02:16:55,959 --> 02:16:59,560
Speaker 1: getting out to the press, of making sure um it

2434
02:16:59,720 --> 02:17:02,320
Speaker 1: lives in this space. It's more timely now than I

2435
02:17:02,440 --> 02:17:04,480
Speaker 1: had ever even imagined what I said out to do this,

2436
02:17:04,680 --> 02:17:07,000
Speaker 1: Oh most definitely. And I forgot this one other thing

2437
02:17:07,080 --> 02:17:10,800
Speaker 1: that made me in you very similar a quote that

2438
02:17:10,879 --> 02:17:14,640
Speaker 1: your mom told you. Mom said, value of giving from

2439
02:17:14,720 --> 02:17:19,400
Speaker 1: a pure place. She said that to you, and I

2440
02:17:19,520 --> 02:17:22,200
Speaker 1: have a good friend of mine, she Uh Whinny with

2441
02:17:22,320 --> 02:17:29,320
Speaker 1: cal Robinson, and she um very famous actress and she

2442
02:17:29,920 --> 02:17:34,280
Speaker 1: has his dance studio Actors Studio in Los Angeles and

2443
02:17:35,280 --> 02:17:37,680
Speaker 1: I would always I would care how hard I was

2444
02:17:38,400 --> 02:17:41,039
Speaker 1: because everybody, you know entertainment, you have peaks and valleys.

2445
02:17:41,080 --> 02:17:43,800
Speaker 1: You know, if I had a value, I still send

2446
02:17:43,879 --> 02:17:46,080
Speaker 1: my checks to her. I had to send my check

2447
02:17:46,160 --> 02:17:48,440
Speaker 1: to had because I made a commitment. That's that pure

2448
02:17:48,600 --> 02:17:51,840
Speaker 1: space when there's no agenda, when you when you're doing

2449
02:17:51,959 --> 02:17:54,640
Speaker 1: something and you don't realize you're changing people's lives, but

2450
02:17:55,080 --> 02:17:58,200
Speaker 1: somehow it's been put upon you, and that's a pure space.

2451
02:17:58,280 --> 02:18:00,840
Speaker 1: Your mom was talking about the pure waste in your heart,

2452
02:18:01,280 --> 02:18:04,400
Speaker 1: just like giving it but not expecting nothing anything back.

2453
02:18:04,800 --> 02:18:08,040
Speaker 1: That's a balance that your mom instilled in you. And

2454
02:18:08,400 --> 02:18:11,240
Speaker 1: like I said, reading your book, I don't I hope.

2455
02:18:11,280 --> 02:18:15,879
Speaker 1: I hope our mom really communicating the value of listening

2456
02:18:15,959 --> 02:18:18,680
Speaker 1: to a younger version of my reason. I'm excited because

2457
02:18:19,120 --> 02:18:21,200
Speaker 1: through my whole life, my only goal is to make

2458
02:18:21,240 --> 02:18:24,280
Speaker 1: sure people I meet people on and I'm saying I've

2459
02:18:24,320 --> 02:18:26,480
Speaker 1: impacted you. You was impacted about a lot more people

2460
02:18:26,520 --> 02:18:29,480
Speaker 1: than me. But to know I I met you, and

2461
02:18:29,560 --> 02:18:33,000
Speaker 1: to see the person you're becoming in the lives that

2462
02:18:33,120 --> 02:18:36,720
Speaker 1: you are affecting on a daily basis, Thank you, Mr Mom,

2463
02:18:37,040 --> 02:18:41,880
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Yes, you

2464
02:18:42,000 --> 02:18:44,760
Speaker 1: did have a great impact on me because you believe

2465
02:18:44,840 --> 02:18:47,560
Speaker 1: in the girl who was trying to sneak into the writing.

2466
02:18:51,160 --> 02:18:53,520
Speaker 1: Thank you. You know you know the thing about this

2467
02:18:53,680 --> 02:18:55,800
Speaker 1: book and the Fearless for Let's talk about that a

2468
02:18:55,800 --> 02:18:57,720
Speaker 1: little bit because because we've got a few minutes, about

2469
02:18:57,720 --> 02:18:59,520
Speaker 1: three minutes left, I don't want to You know, this

2470
02:18:59,600 --> 02:19:01,840
Speaker 1: is great book. I definitely want to banner so I

2471
02:19:01,879 --> 02:19:03,200
Speaker 1: can put it in my news letter, put it on

2472
02:19:03,280 --> 02:19:06,280
Speaker 1: my personal social media, Like I'm about eight hundred thousand

2473
02:19:06,280 --> 02:19:08,879
Speaker 1: Facebook followers, so I definitely want to tell them about

2474
02:19:08,920 --> 02:19:11,120
Speaker 1: you and buy another two hundred thousand. All want money

2475
02:19:11,160 --> 02:19:14,000
Speaker 1: making comics facing platform. But tell us about the Fearless

2476
02:19:14,000 --> 02:19:18,560
Speaker 1: Fund and why was it created first? Thank you for

2477
02:19:18,760 --> 02:19:23,560
Speaker 1: get the additional support and exposure. I'm just extremely grateful. Well,

2478
02:19:23,600 --> 02:19:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a PR and marketing specialists now, so

2479
02:19:26,080 --> 02:19:29,680
Speaker 1: you know you know what I'm saying. You're the queen

2480
02:19:30,760 --> 02:19:35,400
Speaker 1: and guess who Guess what I am, I'm marketing specialist.

2481
02:19:35,440 --> 02:19:37,080
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that's not look tell you that I

2482
02:19:37,080 --> 02:19:39,640
Speaker 1: love telling you. I'm telling you MS Moran telling your girl,

2483
02:19:40,200 --> 02:19:43,080
Speaker 1: we don't fire you. Keep talking, keep talking, keep talking.

2484
02:19:43,959 --> 02:19:47,640
Speaker 1: Yeah this moment, but yes, the Fearless Fund was set

2485
02:19:47,680 --> 02:19:50,760
Speaker 1: out the Shong problem and that was increased to the

2486
02:19:50,920 --> 02:19:55,240
Speaker 1: venture funds that black women were receiving. UM currently right now,

2487
02:19:55,440 --> 02:19:58,760
Speaker 1: black women received point zero zero zero six percent of

2488
02:19:58,840 --> 02:20:03,480
Speaker 1: venture funds and and hundreds of not millions, but billions

2489
02:20:03,760 --> 02:20:09,199
Speaker 1: get invested in that stage US and women eight percent

2490
02:20:09,320 --> 02:20:12,480
Speaker 1: currently right now adventure funds. So we set out to

2491
02:20:12,600 --> 02:20:15,360
Speaker 1: do this to solve a problem where the Searless funds

2492
02:20:15,360 --> 02:20:17,680
Speaker 1: in mock him in Don fund and we are investing

2493
02:20:17,879 --> 02:20:21,520
Speaker 1: in women of color businesses at early stage, which is

2494
02:20:21,640 --> 02:20:26,039
Speaker 1: precede seed in Series A. UM. We are industry agnostics,

2495
02:20:26,320 --> 02:20:28,520
Speaker 1: which means we can do any industry, but we're doing

2496
02:20:28,560 --> 02:20:33,480
Speaker 1: a focus on consumer products, UM tech, beauty. Certain industries

2497
02:20:33,520 --> 02:20:38,280
Speaker 1: were definitely homed in on and we understand that there

2498
02:20:38,360 --> 02:20:40,720
Speaker 1: was a lack of diverse investments because there was a

2499
02:20:40,800 --> 02:20:44,119
Speaker 1: lack of diverse investors, so a lot of the people

2500
02:20:44,120 --> 02:20:46,040
Speaker 1: who were playing in the state didn't look like us.

2501
02:20:46,080 --> 02:20:48,640
Speaker 1: It's an eight percent white male industry as far as

2502
02:20:48,640 --> 02:20:52,400
Speaker 1: the investors are concerned. So in order to change the dynamically,

2503
02:20:52,560 --> 02:20:54,360
Speaker 1: we had to be on the other side of the table.

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02:20:54,840 --> 02:20:59,000
Speaker 1: It is myself, my close girlfriendcation night pillium, my close

2505
02:20:59,080 --> 02:21:03,680
Speaker 1: girlfriend Parsons, and we shout out we're all Abcu. Grabs

2506
02:21:03,800 --> 02:21:08,680
Speaker 1: Ayana's family as well, catches Fellman, and we set out

2507
02:21:08,760 --> 02:21:10,440
Speaker 1: to make history. Now, we did not know who were

2508
02:21:10,440 --> 02:21:12,360
Speaker 1: going to be the first fund that is built by

2509
02:21:12,400 --> 02:21:15,040
Speaker 1: women of colors for a women's color. We found that

2510
02:21:15,120 --> 02:21:17,920
Speaker 1: out after the fact. We are sec regulated, had to

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02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:21,000
Speaker 1: go through much of paper work with the government and

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02:21:21,240 --> 02:21:24,240
Speaker 1: we found that out later. But we are very much

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