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Speaker 1: What's up? This is the people Shark. Here Damon John

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Speaker 1: with a motivation moment for you. Courtesy of that Moment

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Speaker 1: with Damon John, a production of the Black Effect Podcast

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Speaker 1: Network and iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: People always asks me do you teach entrepreneurship to children

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Speaker 2: or adults or are you born an entrepreneur?

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Speaker 1: I believe that we are all born thinking like entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 1: As children, we think we can do everything, and we

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Speaker 1: only learn what the people around us or even society

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Speaker 1: tells us we can do.

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Speaker 2: Or don't do.

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Speaker 1: I was walking down the beach the other day and

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Speaker 1: I was picking up a couple of pieces of garbage

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Speaker 1: and putting in a little bag. And if I was

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Speaker 1: a child when doing that. While somebody may say look

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Speaker 1: at all the plastic you picked up, I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: you there is a pool or a swirl of class

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Speaker 1: the size of Texas and our ocean. So whatever you're

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Speaker 1: doing right now, it doesn't matter. A little boy, don't

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Speaker 1: do that anymore.

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Speaker 2: However, my mother was a person that said, wow, look

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Speaker 2: at all the plastic you picked up. Did you have

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Speaker 2: fun picking out? Do you feel like you contributed?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Well, if that's all you did and just had that, well,

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Speaker 1: guess what, son, you've already satisfied yourself. Or my mother,

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Speaker 1: knowing how I would have probably said, well, son, how

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Speaker 1: can you connect that get your friends to pick up

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Speaker 1: that plastic? You know they pay a lot of people

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Speaker 1: around here to pick up that plastic? Can you go

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Speaker 1: and sell it to a recycling company? And once you

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Speaker 1: learn about all the ways that you can pick up plastic, well,

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Speaker 1: then maybe you can come out with a technology where

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Speaker 1: you highlight people picking up plastica and you direct them

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Speaker 1: to recycling place and they recycle it and then make

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Speaker 1: chairs and umbrellas and all kinds of things out that.

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Speaker 1: That is what entrepreneurial thinking is. So to give you advice,

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Speaker 1: don't ever doubt anybody's dreams, especially your children, as big

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Speaker 1: as those dreams work or are. When I had forty

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Speaker 1: dollars to go outside and stand on the corner to

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Speaker 1: sell a couple of hats, my mother didn't say, that's

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Speaker 1: forty dollars and it's cold.

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Speaker 2: My mother said, you may come up with an.

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Speaker 1: Idea that will maybe get you and your friends a

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Speaker 1: store that you can sell your products out of.

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Speaker 2: And then when I got that store, or five stores

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Speaker 2: or ten stores, my mother said, why don't you grow

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Speaker 2: it bigger? And that's maybe why you know me because

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Speaker 2: of a company called Foogle.

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Speaker 1: That's entrepreneurial thinking. Make sure that you are a champion

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Speaker 1: to when your children, our children are thinking about things

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Speaker 1: that they can do, and don't doust their flames.

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Speaker 2: There you have it.

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Speaker 1: So two and in every week or more episodes, Oh

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Speaker 1: that moment with Damon John Peace