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

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

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

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Speaker 1: You know, He'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry

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Speaker 1: making Conversations. All I can say is they keep coming

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Speaker 1: famous people, CEOs, presidents, millionaires, billionaires. Uh, people got way

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Speaker 1: where I'm at and even for other That's where money

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Speaker 1: making Conversations is all about. It. Something I started in

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Speaker 1: managing Steve Harvey because people I couldn't mentor anybody, and

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Speaker 1: set aside where I can actually create a mentoring program.

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Speaker 1: So Money Making Conversation is a mentoring program where you

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Speaker 1: can listen. Yeah, gained incredible information about how to be

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Speaker 1: can use. It's a tool, a tool of information. That's

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Speaker 1: why I created Money Making Conversations. So it evolved from

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Speaker 1: in seventeen in Houston, Texas, that's where I was born,

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Speaker 1: I decided to launch Money Making Conversations as a six

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Speaker 1: And now it's been two years, two years, and I'm

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Speaker 1: We partnered with the technical colleges, partner's businesses, we partner

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Speaker 1: We can't be divided. We gotta be united. Well, you

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on my show.

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Speaker 1: I feel that by being on my show you understand

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Speaker 1: who I am a little bit now. Now you need

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Speaker 1: to see me in person. Realize I am a man

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Speaker 1: my man uh Dale Henderson, were reaching out to You'll

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Speaker 1: be setting up a meeting so we can come by

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Speaker 1: our house while I was at work and a friend

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Speaker 1: recommended Blink. I was skeptical, but decided to give it

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Speaker 1: about the host of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's

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Speaker 1: a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand plus

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Speaker 1: social media followers are female. He's a two time Emmy

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Speaker 1: Award winner, three time n Double A CP Image Award winner,

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Speaker 1: sitcom writer, stand Up comic, former IBM executive, and has

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Speaker 1: a degree in mathematics. More importantly, Rashan McDonald will use

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Speaker 1: his business and celebrity relationships to empower small businesses with

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Speaker 1: information to succeed. But next year she's on the phone.

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Speaker 1: She's hyped because I I met her. UH our relationship

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Speaker 1: by two years old. Now I met her. I was

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Speaker 1: hosting at leftoff competition in Houston, Texas several years ago,

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Speaker 1: and she was one of the contestants and she won

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Speaker 1: leave ten thousand dollars at the time, and she used

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Speaker 1: that ten thousand dollars to be a seed money to

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Speaker 1: UH start a business. And she is the founder and

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Speaker 1: CEO of a Sale Lifestyle. I have her quotes at

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Speaker 1: my house. When she UH launched on her day, I

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Speaker 1: purchased UM several items with a bought more. But she's extended.

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Speaker 1: She's building her line because certain things I like to where.

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Speaker 1: You know, even though I don't work out all the time,

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Speaker 1: I work out time I'm tasting about me. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I work out to the level of sweat. I

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Speaker 1: do not go outside when I work out. I'm tom sorry, y'all.

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Speaker 1: I work out an air condition. I do the ceiling

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Speaker 1: fan is a up my head. I do work out.

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Speaker 1: If you look at me. You go, he's in shape.

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Speaker 1: That's all I need from you. You don't need to

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Speaker 1: know how much I'm in shape. You need to look

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Speaker 1: at me and go, do you work out? I get

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Speaker 1: that question a lot. Do you work out? See? That's

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Speaker 1: all I need. That's all I'm seeking, y'all and my

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Speaker 1: workout plan. Do you work out? And I go? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: See she has a fitness apparel with anti stink fabric.

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Speaker 1: That's what I wanna talk about this. And I don't

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Speaker 1: get to her anti stink stage. See. Well, if I

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Speaker 1: do get there, I'm ready. Though. If I one day,

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Speaker 1: y'all see me out that jog and in my yard

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Speaker 1: and I'm stinking, I gotta clothes on, I won't be

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Speaker 1: stinking because I got on her clothes. About three and

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Speaker 1: a half years ago, she was tired of throwing where

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Speaker 1: her husband workout closed because they stalk. One day, she

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Speaker 1: threw away his favorite T shirt from college and he

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Speaker 1: was not very happy. Been there, Been there, Been there.

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Speaker 1: On May twent and four, this year was proclaimed in Houston,

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Speaker 1: Texas as Megan Eating Eddings Eddings Day and for all

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Speaker 1: of her for philanthropy in Houston. This date coinside with

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Speaker 1: launch of her a Sale Lifestyle please work back to

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Speaker 1: money making conversations. The founder and CEO of a Sale Lifestyle,

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Speaker 1: Megan Eddings, thank you, laughing talking about your non stinky clothes.

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Speaker 1: You don't sweat. Of course you're in shape. I mean

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Speaker 1: if if you ain't everything you bake, yeah, you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: look like you were in shape. But clearly you work

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Speaker 1: out too. I'm gonna tell you something. Here's my workout, Megan.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know. Now, I get up

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Speaker 1: at four fifteen every day, right, so about the first

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Speaker 1: five ten minutes, it really me asking why I'm up.

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Speaker 1: I'm there's a conversation about why am I up? I

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Speaker 1: staggered to the front of the house, you know, and

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Speaker 1: because I don't put the phone near my bed. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's in another room, so it's it's it's so, it's

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Speaker 1: it's telling me. I've learned that technique, you know, do

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Speaker 1: not put any clock anything you can can stop your movement.

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Speaker 1: You're moving far away, so I have to get up,

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Speaker 1: go into the room, turn it off. It's in front

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Speaker 1: of the mirror. It's always in front of the mere

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Speaker 1: so I look at myself and go, okay, wow, this

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Speaker 1: is what you look like. This cannot walk out to

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Speaker 1: do it. This look can not walk out to do it.

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Speaker 1: Make it. I'm just gonna let you know that. Then

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Speaker 1: I get down to the gym and I go to

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Speaker 1: turn on the news. By four thirty, by the end,

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Speaker 1: it's by four thirty. So I've wasted fifteen minutes trying

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Speaker 1: to just staggering her. I don't drink coffee. I don't

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Speaker 1: drink anything that motivates me to any stimuli. And so

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Speaker 1: down there, turn on the news to find out about

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Speaker 1: the weather because I gotta figure out what I'm gonna wear,

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Speaker 1: you know. So that's a big part of my day. Maker.

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Speaker 1: I gotta figure out what I'm gonna wear, you know.

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Speaker 1: And then I started, did I start the workout program?

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Speaker 1: I do like I do stomach crunches. I do like

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Speaker 1: three sets each. That's it. Okay, that's it. Okay, air

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Speaker 1: conditioning room, Okay. Then I do some dips on the

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Speaker 1: on the bench. I do three sets twenty each. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's it. I can just room. Then I go to

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Speaker 1: another room. Okay, where have my actual equipment? I do

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Speaker 1: three sets of butterflies. That's it. That's it. Okay. Then

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Speaker 1: I go to the treadmill ten minutes each ten minutes max.

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Speaker 1: That's it. At three point five, that's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: There there you go, perfect way to start today. I'm done,

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Speaker 1: So anybody else, I walk out of that look in

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Speaker 1: the mirror, I'll step on that scale. I walk out

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Speaker 1: in the streets. They go, your shape, I said, yes,

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Speaker 1: doing those dips, my friends, I'm doing those depths absolutely.

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Speaker 1: You know, people feel the back of my ill. Do

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Speaker 1: the dip so people can feel the back of my arm.

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Speaker 1: They go, that's that's that's the that's the sign right there.

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Speaker 1: If anybody trying to fake somebody like you in shape,

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Speaker 1: just make sure the back of your arm is in

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Speaker 1: shape and your soul because people always touch you back

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Speaker 1: in your own by accidents. Who you work out here,

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Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. But tell me, my friend, um

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Speaker 1: as life treating you as a as a small business owner?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yees, small small business owner and esficially since

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Speaker 1: we last talk about, well, you know, I gotta support

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta support you because first of all,

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Speaker 1: you have a passion. I feel like we've been on

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Speaker 1: the journey together. I've seen you after you warned the

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. We spoke a little bit, and uh,

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Speaker 1: then I brought you on the show and it was

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Speaker 1: still uh, you know, you were working on your patents,

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Speaker 1: and you start telling me Ra Sean started making these

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Speaker 1: trips to l A. Just started looking at what I

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Speaker 1: want to do. You know because certain people that approached

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Speaker 1: you by buying your your your your your patent or design,

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Speaker 1: you said no. And so when you had the big

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Speaker 1: launch date, I'm on your email system because she she

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Speaker 1: markets very well, and so the big launch date and

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Speaker 1: I participated in that, and so but I do I

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Speaker 1: don't want to start there. I want to start early

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Speaker 1: on so people can hear your journey because you're still

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Speaker 1: develop you're still marking, you're still trying to figure out,

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Speaker 1: you're still trying to add different up your the variety

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Speaker 1: of choices that people can get tell us about when

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Speaker 1: you want it, and uh, the whole patent process. And

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00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: then we because we have two breaks because I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: bring you back to talk about the actually what's going

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Speaker 1: on right now? Okay, So yeah, yeah, for sure, thank you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So the patent process that's just been uh, that's been wild.

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Speaker 1: I mean basically when I started inventing the fabric because

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Speaker 1: I was tired of throwing away, you know, my husband's

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Speaker 1: sinky workout clothes. And I majored in chemistry. I saw

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Speaker 1: a man, if there's a wheel, there's a way. There's

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Speaker 1: gotta be a way to figure out fabric that doesn't think.

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Speaker 1: In this day and age, you know when you're sweating,

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Speaker 1: whether you're working out or not. I mean, I live

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Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas, so if you just walk outside, you're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna start sweating. Absolutely, And so did a bunch

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Speaker 1: of research. There's a lot of cold calling. Basically, that

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Speaker 1: means that's go on the internet, find people that know

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Speaker 1: more than me about fabric and science. And I picked

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Speaker 1: up the phone and I call them and I would

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Speaker 1: ask a bunch of questions. I didn't really know a

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Speaker 1: lot of the words they were saying because I didn't

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Speaker 1: know fabric science. So I was write down the words.

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Speaker 1: I'd get off the phone. I'd research the words since

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Speaker 1: so my next phone call, I found a little more intelligent.

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Speaker 1: Dot dot fast forward. I Yeah, applied for the fabric

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Speaker 1: patent last may like a year and a half ago,

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Speaker 1: and it's a patent pending in a hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: countries right now. I've had some companies already approached me

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Speaker 1: UM interested in using my fabric, licensing it from me,

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Speaker 1: and at this point I've declined UM for for various reasons.

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Speaker 1: I'm really focused on the apparel right now. However, if

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Speaker 1: if if a certain company or two approaches me that

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Speaker 1: I'm interested in, I'll be on the next plain tomorrow

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Speaker 1: I'll tell me them. So, uh, just trying to you know,

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Speaker 1: build a brand over here and not get to derailed,

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Speaker 1: because as a startup you can only do so much,

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Speaker 1: you know, every day. Um. Yeah, the fabric's patent pending.

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Speaker 1: Uh right now. We just launched men's as you know,

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Speaker 1: May twenty four and it's Houston has just been extremely

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Speaker 1: supportive of not only me and just Excel Lifestyle, but

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Speaker 1: just uh. I love to get back to the city

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Speaker 1: of Houston as well. So that was really cool that

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Speaker 1: they proclaimed Megan ettings Day the same day that we

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Speaker 1: launched on Lifestyles because of just my commitment to giving

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Speaker 1: back to the city. I know that I've done business

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Speaker 1: deals with individuals, with companies and I went, but I

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Speaker 1: should have asked for more or I should have asked

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Speaker 1: for this this clause that they would have protected me

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have to deal with with this headache

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Speaker 1: right now. And so you you're at the forefront. You

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Speaker 1: have a brand, you have a brand online right now

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Speaker 1: people are reacting to it. What what could Rashaan? Do

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Speaker 1: you know? I do anything for you. I'm a big

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Speaker 1: fan of yours and I would you know. I've use

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Speaker 1: my resources definitely to post your your items just let

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Speaker 1: us know on my not only just on money making Conversation,

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Speaker 1: I post your items on my personal fan which almost

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Speaker 1: has almost a median followers, because I just feel that

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Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, you need to be have a relationship

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Speaker 1: they believe in you. What is your support system right now?

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Speaker 1: Oh in Rashan, thank you so much. You've been so

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Speaker 1: supportive since day one and I mentally appreciate that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my support system, I'm super blessed um. People can only

648
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Speaker 1: want to help and it's been awesome with people, you know,

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Speaker 1: people that have either a lot of connections or they

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Speaker 1: have a skill set in something that I need. So

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Speaker 1: many people and especially advisors, they become mentors and they

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Speaker 1: just they just really want to help see me and

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Speaker 1: my team succeed. And whenever I succeed. We all succeed.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's all a team effort for sure. Cool. Now, listen,

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Speaker 1: you've heard first of all, I don't want to butcher

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Speaker 1: your process. I've introded, So tell her about exactly about

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Speaker 1: your brand, uh, and and what what's available and how

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Speaker 1: they can reach you online or social media. Perfect? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you. So we're in ethical fitness apparel brand. So

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Speaker 1: ethical means no sweatshops to accomplish that everything is sourced

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Speaker 1: and made, all the yarns, the fabric, the clothes here

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Speaker 1: in the United States. UM, so I can personally go

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Speaker 1: visit all the factories and make sure that people are

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Speaker 1: paid and treated fairly. And then I invented the anti

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Speaker 1: stink fabric. So we're starting with shirts right now for

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Speaker 1: men and women. Men can get either a tank tip

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Speaker 1: or a T shirt. Took various graphics on the on women.

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Speaker 1: Women were actually launching in the next couple of weeks. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there'll be four different styles for women's all like tank tops,

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Speaker 1: crop tops, really fashionable, super light thoughts, uh, anti stink fabric.

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Speaker 1: And then in the future we're wanting to get into

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Speaker 1: pants and sports bras and just the whole fitness of

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Speaker 1: power line. You know, anti stink socks, golf shirts, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: You now, now you say in the future, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the launch of the women's line. I have a wife. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I gotta go back online. She she likes

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Speaker 1: what I'm wearing. I totally what he wasn't ready yet,

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Speaker 1: so it is there official date yet for her? Not

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Speaker 1: an official date. There's a couple of styles on our website,

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Speaker 1: Excel Lifestyle right now for pre sale. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be within the next two weeks. I'm working with a

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Speaker 1: PR company right now to see what date would be

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Speaker 1: the best to launch. But it will be about within

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Speaker 1: two weeks for sure. Okay, can you do me this favor?

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Speaker 1: Because she said she's just forget about Rashaan. Ever, Shan

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Speaker 1: made the big old speech about how he helped are

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Speaker 1: out and from all the stuff, and then it'd be

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Speaker 1: launched like she launched last time. Didn't come to me?

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Speaker 1: Did you come to me when you launched on May

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Speaker 1: twenty four? Did you come to Rashawn McDonald's and Rashaan

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Speaker 1: McDonald May twenty fourth? Is is my day? My day

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Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas? Can you post that on your social media?

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Speaker 1: Did you after this? Did you come to me? You

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Speaker 1: know as system just let everybody know. Don't think that's right.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just letting everybody know she failed in our relationship.

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Speaker 1: You feel like I got I got you? Say you

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Speaker 1: have staff? I got stabbed. Rashaw's not doing this by

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Speaker 1: himself now that he and the people want to help

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Speaker 1: you in your brand. So are there any goals or

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Speaker 1: sale numbers or marketing numbers that you're trying to reach

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Speaker 1: this year? Because I know it has to be an

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Speaker 1: arc on what you trying to are you Are you

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Speaker 1: gonna set up any fitness tournaments or any workout tournaments

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Speaker 1: or any any you know in the psycho tournaments or what? What? What?

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Speaker 1: What does something thing? Because you're innovative, you're you're you're

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Speaker 1: you're fun, and you have a lot of brands in

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Speaker 1: the workout business. What do you have? What? What? What? What?

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Speaker 1: What game plans do you have to get the word out? Yeah,

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00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: to get the word out, definitely a lot of pop

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Speaker 1: up shops because I like bringing the energy, bringing you know,

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Speaker 1: the excitement, and so basically partnering with fitness studios around

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Speaker 1: the country to be quite frank, and not only having

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Speaker 1: a pop up shop with our clothes. But I like

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Speaker 1: to host experiences, whether that be like pull up competition,

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Speaker 1: push up competition, think it more of an event, um,

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Speaker 1: because that's the whole thing about Excel Lifestyle. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: selling fitness clothes really, you know, selling excitement and empowerment

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Speaker 1: and positivity. So we have some pop up shops lined up.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to go to some of the bigger cities

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Speaker 1: New York City, Chicago, Miami, l A, get some lined

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Speaker 1: up there. I currently don't have any, um, so that

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Speaker 1: would be awesome. And then uh yeah, just pop ups,

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Speaker 1: pop up shops, and then social media marketing and you're

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Speaker 1: on the email list and just kind of getting that

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Speaker 1: word out there. Now we got one minute left, please

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Speaker 1: uh rehash everything how we can reach you and tell

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Speaker 1: everybody about your brand or them clip this off and

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Speaker 1: put it on on social media. Because you know, I

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Speaker 1: can't depend on you, I really can't. I gotta do

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Speaker 1: this myself this time. I'm just I'm gonna do it myself.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna tell everybody in as articulate manner that you

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Speaker 1: have developed because you're star. Now go, you have twenty seconds,

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Speaker 1: all right, cool? You can find out my clothing at

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Speaker 1: Excel Lifestyle a C C E. L Lifestyle dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's our website that sells our clothing kind of tells

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Speaker 1: our story. You can find me on Instagram at literally

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Speaker 1: just act at excel Lifestyle or one word or on

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn and yeah, looking forward to hearing from you. Reach

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Speaker 1: out you have any questions at all, and I e

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Speaker 1: mentally appreciate all of your support. And you'll find her

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Speaker 1: on Rashan McDonald at Rashan McDonald's seven sixty thou Facebook follows,

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Speaker 1: Instagram follows, and your Twitter follows. You'll start my friend.

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Speaker 1: We will talk soon and you keep winning. Okay. I

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Speaker 1: new device being delivered. Hey, we agreed no new devices

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Speaker 1: This ra Sean McDonald Sean McDonald. Money making conversation is

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Speaker 1: to show that you're listening to There's a great day,

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Speaker 1: always a great data deliver deliver information to individuals or companies.

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Speaker 1: Are people don't know what to do with their lives,

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Speaker 1: don't know how to direct their potential in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: That's what money making conversation is about. Communicating them. Just communicate.

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Speaker 1: I just want to talk to you. I want you

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Speaker 1: to talk. You don't have to call me, just listen,

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Speaker 1: and when you listen, to walk away with an idea

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Speaker 1: that you can be successful. Walk away with the idea

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Speaker 1: that you can win, walk away with the idea that

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Speaker 1: just because somebody said you can't do that. All right,

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Speaker 1: I've been all my all my life, I've I've never

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Speaker 1: no one's ever told me I was going to be successful.

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Speaker 1: No one's ever told me. If told me I was smart.

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Speaker 1: They've told me that that I could be successful in

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Speaker 1: the sense of if I work hard, But nobody ever said, reshing,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be successful. I never got that finger point.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody gets your finger point unless they

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Speaker 1: work hard to get it. My next guest, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he's got that finger pointed at him, but

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Speaker 1: I know he's successful. I know that for a fact.

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Speaker 1: My next guest is an international acclaimed thought leader on

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Speaker 1: emerging technology companies. He has been engaged in over one

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Speaker 1: billion dollars transactions. That's a lot of money. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to moneymaking Conversation. Rashawn Williams, Thank you very much. I

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Speaker 1: never thought I would be talking to someone with my

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Speaker 1: exact same name spelled so differently. And I mean, here's

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Speaker 1: the fun thing about rash I was in the struggling

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Speaker 1: how you saying that? How he said, it's just like

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Speaker 1: your name. It's like your name, have the same beard.

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Speaker 1: I basically want to be like Mr Weir. You got

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Speaker 1: hair on your head, so hey, we got a separate

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Speaker 1: you still your dome, got some more top your black

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Speaker 1: holding on, my brother, I am barely holding on. So

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at you and I'm like that exactly where

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Speaker 1: I want to be. I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love well. First of all, thank you for the energy,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show, and that the

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Speaker 1: purpose of this show is first of all for you,

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Speaker 1: not for this not to be your only visit. Let's

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Speaker 1: get that clear first, because I think that, uh, this

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Speaker 1: show has been great because it gives individuals who are

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Speaker 1: successful a voice, a channeler come in and just communicate

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Speaker 1: exactly what they're trying to do. But I didn't restrictions.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm not over here to charge anybody

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Speaker 1: a fee. I'm not only here to try to having

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Speaker 1: to pop up saying that you know your information, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get it, gonna be translating to something else where

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Speaker 1: I can make money about money making. Conversation is designed

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Speaker 1: to give people an opportunity to hear successful people talk

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Speaker 1: about the secrets of their success, and the success is

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Speaker 1: many different lanes. Your lane is different from my life.

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Speaker 1: We may share the same annunciation, but we're two different people.

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Speaker 1: And how it's accomplished our pass of success, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and when I when I talked about that, Let's

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Speaker 1: start at the beginning with you. When you were trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out who you were? How did not who

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Speaker 1: you are? Now? I would tell people, you know, sometimes

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Speaker 1: you look in your past to find out who you

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Speaker 1: are in order to move forward. When you came out

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Speaker 1: of the college, did you are you doing what you

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Speaker 1: thought you would be doing? You know? No, I'm not um.

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Speaker 1: When I came out of college. I'm from the South

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Speaker 1: Side of Chicago, so I'm from a pretty rough neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: And the only thing I knew for sure was that

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to be broke anymore. But I didn't

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Speaker 1: understand anything about finance, anything about investment. So I was

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Speaker 1: running away from something more so than running towards something.

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Speaker 1: So for me, I was just trying to live life

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Speaker 1: in some type of financially free environment as opposed to

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Speaker 1: the restricted environment that I grew up in. So I

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Speaker 1: didn't know it would lead me to hear. So I

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Speaker 1: went to the one place that that everybody would go

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Speaker 1: to if they wanted to learn about money, and that's

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Speaker 1: Long Street. So I left more House College, went to

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Speaker 1: Goldment Side, and that's when I learned about investing. And

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Speaker 1: all of my clients were billionaires, and I learned how

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Speaker 1: money moved and how people were out there winning, and

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Speaker 1: I noticed that our community wasn't a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, And let me ask you this. We always

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Speaker 1: talked about Wall Street of money. Do you you ought

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Speaker 1: to be a participant in Wall Street? Do you really

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Speaker 1: have to? What is having money? Like? Say? How can

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Speaker 1: you be a part of the game? Action? You know? What? What? What?

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Speaker 1: What allows you to be a participant? How much? Yeah? So,

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Speaker 1: according to the government, if you want access to kind

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Speaker 1: of the biggest and and and most profitable investment opportunities

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Speaker 1: and in the private markets, you have to be what

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Speaker 1: we call an accredited investor. And accredited investor is somebody

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Speaker 1: that makes over two hundred grand a year or whose

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Speaker 1: network is more than a million dollars. So those investors

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Speaker 1: get access to the fastest growing private companies, which is

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Speaker 1: how most people are making all the money. After a

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Speaker 1: company goes public, and it's a little safer. But that's

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Speaker 1: when the average investor, your mom and pop gets access

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Speaker 1: to it. But by that time, it's slowed down a

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Speaker 1: little bit in terms of growth and uh and and

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Speaker 1: the profit margins are are still there, but it's just

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Speaker 1: not growing as quickly as possible. So and our world

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Speaker 1: is divided by accredited investors and non accredited investors. But

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Speaker 1: Wall Street is really dominated by the big institutions. So

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Speaker 1: all of the pension funds, all the insurance companies, they

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Speaker 1: have a trillion dollars, they have billions of dollars, and

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Speaker 1: they're the ones that are making all of the big investments.

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Speaker 1: And most people's retirement accounts are held with those firms,

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Speaker 1: so they're kind of getting into it, but through someone else. Right.

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Speaker 1: And so this is important because first of all, what

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Speaker 1: I don't do the show is advised people where to

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Speaker 1: put their money. I just talked in general because because

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Speaker 1: people will hold you accountable. Were you told me that

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Speaker 1: where I put my mama on in there? My mom,

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Speaker 1: not my daddy money, my mama money. And there, you know,

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying is the cover of the little faux pause.

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Speaker 1: So we were talking, like, for instance, when I invest

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Speaker 1: I've always been a nervous investor. I got maybe like

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Speaker 1: tw and aggressive and the rest is a conservative. But

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Speaker 1: they're they're tuning's certain age groups where you should be

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Speaker 1: aggressive because you can recover and then can you break

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Speaker 1: down that little age group conversation about how you can

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Speaker 1: look at so what's interesting and your the money moves guy.

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Speaker 1: Your investment philosophy is exactly what billionaires do. So billionaires

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Speaker 1: mostly put um a big chunk of it. Let's say,

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Speaker 1: you know, fifty in something very conservative like bonds right

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Speaker 1: where they can generate some income, but then they go

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Speaker 1: all the way on the other end of these and

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Speaker 1: go to risky stuff like private equity where they can

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Speaker 1: double and triple their money. So your investments a lot

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Speaker 1: for you exact same as the billionaire's on Wall Street.

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Speaker 1: But what the average American does is if you're anywhere

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Speaker 1: between you know, five years to ten years out from retirement,

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Speaker 1: most of your money should be held in stocks, and

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, the SMP five hundred, you'll get on average

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Speaker 1: ten percent returns every years in the average for the

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Speaker 1: last one hundred years. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down.

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Speaker 1: If you are one to five years from retirement, you

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Speaker 1: want to be in mostly bonds because it's safer, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's not as volatile, and you'll be able to

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Speaker 1: get your money back you know exactly how much you

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Speaker 1: know win. But in stocks it's gonna go up and

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Speaker 1: down every year. You don't want to have that volatility

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Speaker 1: when you're getting ready to retire, right. So the average

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Speaker 1: allocation for someone who is five years removed from retirement

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Speaker 1: or more, it's mostly stocks. Five years or less it's

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Speaker 1: mostly bonds, and then as you get closer to retirement,

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Speaker 1: it kind of goes more, you know, towards bonds away

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Speaker 1: from sto Absolutely the things about it is that down

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Speaker 1: do you look at it? We're just having a general conversation,

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Speaker 1: not trying to pin you down on any day. We're

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Speaker 1: just talking about different ways how I've done my money

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Speaker 1: and how I still do my money. I've looked at it.

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Speaker 1: Insurance policies, I'm that's low. What are your thoughts on those?

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Speaker 1: Just your thoughts, not puning you down, because a lot

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Speaker 1: of people come to different ways to say, what can

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Speaker 1: I do with my money? Where should I put my money? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So so um first and foremost, I'm not a financial

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Speaker 1: the buser. I'm a venture capitlist invest in tech company.

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Speaker 1: The world I live in is like investing in Airbnb

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Speaker 1: and modify terrists and lifts Uber and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, but you know, but you know, Mr Willives,

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Speaker 1: you could just say crazy question I'm getting so as

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Speaker 1: they say invested, Yeah, that's all they excuse me, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: money man, money mane. But I do think people should

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Speaker 1: have diversification. The way I get it to them is

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Speaker 1: by speaking to them in our language. The biggest problem

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Speaker 1: is when you have like a sixty five year old

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Speaker 1: white guy who only worked in finance, trying to explain

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Speaker 1: hood who makes million a year what evil dies and

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Speaker 1: what a kigger is. They don't understand that. So if

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Speaker 1: you speak to them in the language that they understand.

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Speaker 1: If you notice my Instagram post, I'm saying stuff like

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Speaker 1: what do NBA teams, record labels and venture capital firms

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Speaker 1: all have in common? How do you make mailbox money? Right? Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to them in their language, using real life examples,

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Speaker 1: because even though I'm thirty nine, I still presented myself

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Speaker 1: young and one of them. So um. And then the

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Speaker 1: second thing is I'm actually a practitioner. I do this

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Speaker 1: for a living. This is all I do, except I'm

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Speaker 1: also from the hood. I'm from the South Side of Chicago,

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Speaker 1: and I'm I'm black, And those are things that helped

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Speaker 1: me to relate to these guys and speak to their language.

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Speaker 1: And then I either take them on tours of Silicon Valley,

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Speaker 1: I do conference calls. I helped them meet with their

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Speaker 1: and tackling on the day to day basis. And and

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Speaker 1: the best part of what I do is I'm able

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Speaker 1: I appreciate First of all, it cannot be done in

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