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Speaker 1: Having the ability to portray characters ranging from a sophisticated

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Speaker 1: She recently launched shop She's Gotta Have It dot com,

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Speaker 1: and an extension of this is Living dot com, a

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Speaker 1: co founded with her husband, Terek Walker. Please walcome for

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Speaker 1: the very first time, if I had a drum roll

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Speaker 1: the money making conversations Melinda Williams, First of all, can

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Speaker 1: I get that again? I'm it's the funny point of

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Speaker 1: the A I did. I just left Hot Lanta. We uh,

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Speaker 1: we were down there for my my husband, Teric and

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Speaker 1: an interesting thing about it because you're, you know, still

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