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Speaker 3: Making Conversation master Class. It used to be called just

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Speaker 3: Kimberly's dedication to fostering community led her to create the

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Speaker 3: HBCU Social mobile app. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation

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Speaker 3: master Class, Kimberler Kissinger. How are you doing, Kimberly?

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Speaker 4: I am great, I am fantastic. How are you pretty good?

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Speaker 1: HBCU we talk about HBU.

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Speaker 3: Giv me your HBCU background so we can get all

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Speaker 3: this all this out with hbc you one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's go on.

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Speaker 4: I am the proud graduate of the illustrious Clark and

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Speaker 4: Lanta University Class of nineteen ninety five Bachelors of Mass

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Speaker 4: Media Arts, Radio, TV Films. So that is my HBCU history.

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Speaker 3: Well, why did you go to an hbc what did

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Speaker 3: you have other options? And you just said this the school.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to attend YEP, great question. So throughout my

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Speaker 4: entire elementary school, middle school, and high school, I went

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Speaker 4: to predominantly white colleges and high school and school, and

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Speaker 4: looked like me. So I can't completely give that complete credit.

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Speaker 4: I also have to give credit to school days as

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Speaker 4: well as different world. And then my sister she went

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Speaker 4: to Hampton University, so I was able to go visit

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Speaker 4: her at Hampton. So from there I was like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I have to go to the hbc.

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Speaker 3: Well know when we're talking about social but before we

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Speaker 3: get there, when you think about HBCUs, of course, you

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Speaker 3: always think about halftime, the bands, the marching bands, and

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Speaker 3: we think about sports, especially football and right and then,

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Speaker 3: but we tend to forget about the academics. I think

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Speaker 3: when you're talking about what is an HBCU, we go

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Speaker 3: to the marching bands, to the halftime show. Some type

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Speaker 3: of people call it the fifth quarter of a football game.

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Speaker 3: It's called a halftime show. I remember when ESPN when

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Speaker 3: they started airing the HBCU games on ESPN platform, they

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Speaker 3: weren't showing the halftime. They would go to halftime highlights

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Speaker 3: to show the halftime on another channel because there's so

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Speaker 3: many complaints for not seeing the halftime show at HBCU games,

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Speaker 3: And that's how powerful these halftime show performances are with

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Speaker 3: these marching bands. Do you feel we do enough job

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Speaker 3: promoting the academics of HBCUs.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 4: I think there's always room for improvement. I think yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's part of the mystique of going to

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Speaker 4: and that's always the entertainment portion of it all. But

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Speaker 4: I think yes, I think we can do a better

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Speaker 4: a party school. It's not party time. We're also about

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Speaker 4: our books. We have to remember that HBCUs have the

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Speaker 4: historically played a crucial role in providing access to higher

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 3: Kivira Leman heavy out with numbers, some facts. Okay, you know,

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Speaker 3: the black teachers come from Hbcusvent Dennis and medical doctors

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Speaker 3: come from HBCUs who are black. Forty percent of the

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Speaker 3: And so but if you don't tell that story, then

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Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, You're absolutely right, and those numbers like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's that's great data, but who else knows about that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the reason I bringing that up because recently the

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Speaker 3: talking about co signing a claim that black students who

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Speaker 3: attend HBCUs have low IQs, and I was all started

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Speaker 3: about that. Not United Airlines started this pilot program and

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Speaker 1: To tie hbc used to IQ's.

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Speaker 3: It's just a test because I my SAT score was

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Speaker 3: so bad it was ridiculous. I only got into college

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Speaker 3: that score on this radio show. That's how bad it was. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so please don't tell me that you know sad scores

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Speaker 3: ra Sean mcnonal. Okay, now, But but people use these

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Speaker 3: test scores and use this propaganda, especial in social media,

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Speaker 1: That's all.

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Speaker 3: I'm just talking about fighting that negative, that the mantra

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Speaker 3: that can be out there that's being politicized, and that's

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Speaker 3: really the backbone of what you're doing with this app?

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Speaker 1: Correct?

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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly correct?

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Speaker 4: So it really all came from having a conversation. That's

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Speaker 4: why you don't underestimate the power for conversation, right, and

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Speaker 4: ouration with a college one of my best friends from

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Speaker 4: her school. And you know, she and I were talking.

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Speaker 4: We're like, you know, what wouldn't it be? I was like,

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Speaker 4: wouldn't it be amazing if we had like some type

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Speaker 4: at other university HBCU colleges and universities, not just for

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Speaker 4: But more important, we also hear that from some of

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Speaker 4: So now it's like, okay, this could also be a

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Speaker 4: is that you know, there isn't out anything out there

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, it's not really tailored to

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Speaker 4: just the HBCU community. This is for us by us

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Speaker 4: stealing Fulu's line. But that's basically what it is now, Kener, this.

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Speaker 3: Is money making conversations that you called inn on. Okay, Now,

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Speaker 3: HBCUs that's a community. Then you have predominant white institutions.

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Speaker 3: Now it seems to me in a money making conversation

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Speaker 3: HBCU conversation. I'm talking from a money making conversation.

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Speaker 4: Money making standpoint. Listen, I hear you. I think that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I when I pitched this idea to certain investors and

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Speaker 4: a black person, right right, right, great idea. I think

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Speaker 4: it can make a lot of money, but I feel

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Speaker 4: like you can make more money if you expand it

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Speaker 4: to the white community. And my question was which is

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Speaker 4: I can also make money within our own community. We

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Speaker 4: keep forgetting we can tap into our own community. But again,

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Speaker 4: what is your motivation. My motivation was not necessarily to

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Speaker 4: of course I want to do that, but that's not

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Speaker 4: something that was designed by an African American woman who

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Speaker 3: Cool, I'm talking to Kimberly Kissinger. She's built out and

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Speaker 3: HBCU's social mobile app. Let me ask you this. So

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Speaker 3: this is technology. You know, apps are huge. I noticed

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Speaker 3: to my podcast. That's generally that's why such a younger

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Speaker 3: group of people use the mobile apps, because everybody's really

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Speaker 3: Are usually trying to reach the young people. What's your audience?

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Speaker 4: So the audience is the entire ahpC community. So that's

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Speaker 4: the lums, that's that's undergrads, that's Divine nine members, that's

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Speaker 4: ABCU supporters like yourself. It's basically our entire community. When

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Speaker 4: you get down into internships or events or jobs listings

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Speaker 4: like internships are for the undergrads. You want to go ahead,

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Speaker 4: and there could be different types of events that are

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Speaker 4: gonna be tailored to the collegiate community. So anything that

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Speaker 4: it's for everyone. We didn't just want to just make

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Speaker 4: it to the for the young folks. Because here's the

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Speaker 4: thing now again, we also this is money making conversation.

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Speaker 4: So of course I designed the app, so total motivation

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Speaker 4: money off of it. Young people they're gonna pay, but

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Speaker 4: maybe they won't. But we know that older people are

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Speaker 3: When we come back, we're going to listen to how

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Speaker 4: you have to ask them, Okay, what else do you

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Speaker 4: want to see in this app? And that's why I

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Speaker 4: asked those questions, and that's why I'm making some additional

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Speaker 4: functionality improvements.

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Speaker 1: Cool, you know?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Now you have Android that's the number one platform

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Speaker 3: out there, and then you have an Apple or is

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Speaker 3: the Apple available on those platforms?

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Speaker 4: Yes? It is.

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Speaker 3: Now what did it get? Did you put it on

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Speaker 3: Apple first or Android first? Or you launched them simultaneously?

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Speaker 4: They did it simultaneously.

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Speaker 1: Awesome?

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Speaker 3: Now now, and the whole process of that, what was

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Speaker 3: the one glitch that really made you mad that you said,

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Speaker 3: why does this keep messing up? That you eventually got fixed,

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Speaker 3: of course, but you didn't see it happening because when

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Speaker 3: you lay out these great plans, you know, you think

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Speaker 3: they're just going to happen correctly, but you overcame. Because

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Speaker 3: I want people to hear these things. Not not be

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Speaker 3: frustrated by the process. Not let a glitch or something

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Speaker 3: that didn't go according to plan to run you down

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Speaker 3: the lane.

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Speaker 1: I quit.

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Speaker 3: This is not ever going to work because I know

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Speaker 3: you had those moments, you know, and who do you

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Speaker 3: turn to when you have those moments?

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Speaker 4: Kimberly, So I would say, there are a couple of

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Speaker 4: glitches that were frustrating. The biggest one was the filtering option,

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Speaker 4: because that was one of the main things with it

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Speaker 4: was filtering. Like I would filter and I wouldn't get

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Speaker 4: back what I filtered. I didn't understand it. And so

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Speaker 4: luckily the app company actually is in Atlanta, So like

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Speaker 4: I would write down all of the different glitches that

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Speaker 4: I would found, I would do research, I would try

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Speaker 4: to figure out, and then I would go into the

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Speaker 4: office and sit down with the actual developers and we

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Speaker 4: would go through step by step and we'd work it out.

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, as there were times where I'm like

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Speaker 4: I paid this amount of money, like this should be working,

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Speaker 4: Like I don't understand, like you've had you know, but

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Speaker 4: you can't get mad because it's technology, and it's new

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Speaker 4: technology and so meaning new technology to the system. So

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Speaker 4: you have to give it time, but you got to

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Speaker 4: stay on it. They there really were, you know, really

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Speaker 4: kind of like impressed with me, because they're like, do

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Speaker 4: you know how mean people like that we've built apps

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Speaker 4: for that don't come in and sit down with us,

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Speaker 4: or either they just let like a whole year go

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Speaker 4: by and they don't make any updates. They don't even

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Speaker 4: think about it. And I'm like, well, that's not gonna

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Speaker 4: be me because I put my blood, sweat and tears

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Speaker 4: in this and money, and so I'm gonna see it through.

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Speaker 4: And so when I would get frustrated, I remember calling

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Speaker 4: my mom like I just don't understand what's happening, you know,

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Speaker 4: and she was like, tell me about different inventors and

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Speaker 4: people that it didn't take. You know, it took more

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Speaker 4: than one time for things to happen. You have to

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Speaker 4: give it time. And really this just helps me tell

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Speaker 4: the story. It's part of my testimony. And so you know,

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Speaker 4: I know that God gave me this, and I know

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Speaker 4: he didn't say, Okay, I'm gonna give you this and

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be smooth sailing. He gave it to me.

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Speaker 4: But everything's worked the way it's supposed to work, but

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Speaker 4: it hasn't always been smooth, but it doesn't mean it's

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Speaker 4: not gonna work. Like right now, I think my first

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Speaker 4: payment because when you go into the app, it's only

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Speaker 4: it's free for thirty days, and then it's a dollar

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Speaker 4: ninety nine every month, and then of course when you

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Speaker 4: get paid, it's like a month behind. So I here,

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Speaker 4: I got my first payment of like ten dollars the

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Speaker 4: other day, and I started laughing, but I also was like,

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Speaker 4: you know what, that's okay because today it's ten dollars.

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Speaker 4: Tomorrow it's gonna be you know, one hundred, and it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be one thousand, it's gonna be ten thousand, and

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Speaker 4: so you just have to laugh at that, but also

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Speaker 4: understand that it's coming right, and if it wasn't supposed

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Speaker 4: to happen, it wouldn't happen.

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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate the honesty because a lot of people

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Speaker 3: don't understand that. You know, people start businesses and they

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Speaker 3: think that I'm opening this doughnut shop and they think

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Speaker 3: there's going to be a line of people out the door,

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Speaker 3: and it's not always the case. I remember when I

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Speaker 3: opened my comedy club. I opened it and it was

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Speaker 3: like fifteen people in the audience.

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Speaker 1: And I had to.

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Speaker 3: I had to, and I rank commercials on the radio.

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Speaker 3: I put out flyers, drop all the local barbershops, fifteen

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Speaker 3: people on opening night. And then I realized that this

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Speaker 3: is a process, a marketing process. I gotta stay at it,

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Speaker 3: I gotta believe it. And I started creating different plans

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Speaker 3: of action, and I started creating specialty nights.

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Speaker 1: I'm just talking about. That's what I had to do.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I started creating an amateur night on Thursday, which became

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Speaker 3: the most popular night in my comedy club. And so

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Speaker 3: when I let when I allow individuals like you, Kimber

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Speaker 3: to come on my show and honestly talk to people.

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Speaker 3: You know, we all want to be millionaires, we all

530
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Speaker 3: want to be Elon Musk. But Elon Musk had some

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Speaker 3: rough times getting started too. That electric car didn't just

532
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Speaker 3: jump off the page. There was States didn't want his

533
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Speaker 3: electric cars. They want Texas name one of them. See,

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Speaker 3: they're never have an electric car in the state of Texas.

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Speaker 3: Now they got more electric cars than anybody. Because of

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Speaker 3: the fact that times change, and so times changing people

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Speaker 3: people will have to deal with the changes, and so

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Speaker 3: you're dealing with a community now, and we're talking about

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Speaker 3: HPCU community and tapping into the mobility the apps that

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Speaker 3: are popular and people could click of a button.

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Speaker 1: You can just tap into the HPCU community. That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Cool kimber Las. We to wrap up the call.

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Speaker 3: Anyway we can reach you or any other than going

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Speaker 3: to the Android and the Apple formats.

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Speaker 1: We're good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go to I have a website, it's

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Speaker 4: hpcsocial dot Next. You can also follow me on Instagram,

549
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 4: the real HBC Social and then you can also follow

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Speaker 4: me on Instagram. I think Kim Kimberly Kiss or Kim

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Speaker 4: kim be Kiss, but really go to the real.

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Speaker 3: You're about to confuse me. You're about to confuse me

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Speaker 3: HPCU Social mobile app Kimberly Kissinger. Hey, thank you for

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Speaker 3: coming on Money Making Conversation master Class. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: She has a lot to say to young people and

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Speaker 3: people like me that we can steal save money and

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Speaker 3: live a great life. And Lester is coming right up.

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