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Speaker 1: honoring and I go, I know that person, that person

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Speaker 1: very very beginning early supporters of Black Girl's rock. And

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Speaker 1: then again you like you said, still I rise. You

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Speaker 1: her so she can keep You heard that quote, did

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Speaker 1: you get her leg? Did you get her leg? Her leg?

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Speaker 1: That's that's and she and she is a champion a

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Speaker 1: at the time she was Rushan McDonald. Let me just

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Speaker 1: tell you right now. Yeah, And I want to throw

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Speaker 1: out a couple of more shot caller Mara Brocker kill.

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Speaker 1: If you're not having watched The Black Lightning, she's executive

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Speaker 1: us in this show, being Mary Jane the game, Um

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Speaker 1: I love this book. I love what you're doing. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You gotta give me two tickets to Black Girls Rock

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Speaker 1: this year. I'm bringing my silter, my daughter to it.

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Speaker 1: She needs to be experienced this and know that I'm

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Speaker 1: a fan. I'm gonna keep promoting your brain. Okay, we'll

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Speaker 1: be right back. More from Rashana McDonald and Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: Some Money Making Conversations. Rashan McDonald is uniquely positioned to

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Speaker 1: Of his seven hundred thousand plus social media followers are female.

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Speaker 1: double A CP Image Award winner, sitcom writer, stand up comic,

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald will use his business and celebrity relationships to

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Speaker 1: empower small businesses with information to succeed. Hi this Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Money Making Conversations. My next guest is

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Speaker 1: an American television personality. She's known to the world with

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Speaker 1: her parents and a very popular VH one TV show,

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Speaker 1: Basketball Wives of Los Angeles. She has an unrivaled sense

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Speaker 1: of fashion and social influencer and a philanthropist to those

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Speaker 1: in need, entrepreneur, and her proudest role is that of

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Speaker 1: a loving mother of three. Please walk on the Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation Malaysia. Poco Hi Hi, I like that high

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Speaker 1: never get this. I'll ring your bio. Now where are

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Speaker 1: you based? Now? Where are you based? Now? Oh? My gosh,

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Speaker 1: I am by Hosto. So I am half of the

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Speaker 1: week in Atlanta, Georgia, and half the week in l A.

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Speaker 1: Okay cool. So because your your bio says you're moving

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta. Oh you just don't stay by coaster. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I already moved to Atlanta. Yeah. So my home bases

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, but I work out of l A. Okay. Cool.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that out the way because now you're

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Speaker 1: my body now you because I'm in Atlanta and I

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Speaker 1: also live in Houston, but I also hang out. I

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Speaker 1: like and I'm happy to have you on the show

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Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know, on this show

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Speaker 1: it's about entrepreneurship and also about entertainment, and you fit

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Speaker 1: both bills. But more importantly, you're motivating person because of

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're a single mom and I wanted

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people, a lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: understand the difficulties of being a single mam. But also

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Speaker 1: you have a career, and how do you balance the two?

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Speaker 1: How do you and I could write the book about

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Speaker 1: balanced lifestyle. How do you balance your life? Three three boys? Correct?

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Speaker 1: I know? No, No, I have two boys and a girl.

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Speaker 1: I was, yeah, I was blessedically eleven year olds done,

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Speaker 1: and then I have seven year old twins with girls

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Speaker 1: that awesome graduations. How do you balance that? You already

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Speaker 1: said you in l A. You're in Atlanta, So how

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Speaker 1: do you balance that? You know what I look at

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Speaker 1: it as like how Nike that you just do it?

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Speaker 1: And I like, both situations are nonnegotiable. So what I

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Speaker 1: say is like, I like, I am a parent curse right,

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Speaker 1: you know, I am a mom, you know, above all things,

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Speaker 1: because God lends me these precious full soals and I

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Speaker 1: haven't you know, raised them up right, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: but I also have to make money for them, and

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Speaker 1: you know, and and still live out my dream. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I just try to put a balance on

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Speaker 1: the both of them. So that's why I'm in a

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Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta three or four days out of the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and I go and back to l A to film

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Speaker 1: and and do other things that I need to do,

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Speaker 1: you know, And you're doing a lot of fantastic things

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Speaker 1: and on the entrepreneur shop entrepreneurship side before we get

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Speaker 1: into that. When I'm reading your bio, you a graduate

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Speaker 1: of with a Bachelor of science. When you see a

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Speaker 1: like correct, okay, that that doesn't get out there in

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Speaker 1: general public. You know what I'm saying. You know, they

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Speaker 1: just to use. So that's so. And you began your

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Speaker 1: career you wanted to be a dentist. I did. I did? I.

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Speaker 1: I really I was interested in um in the dental field.

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Speaker 1: But then I really realized that, like I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: a creative type and so like I you know, I

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Speaker 1: really sve the the art of you know, the human

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Speaker 1: body and the anatomy and things of that nature. I

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Speaker 1: just kind of was like, I'm so creative, like you know,

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Speaker 1: I like I love the duty empire, you know. And

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Speaker 1: I guess that is like one of the sassiness of like,

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Speaker 1: you know, your teeth. It's the first thing people see

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Speaker 1: and assassinated at at a young gig Like okay, so wait,

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Speaker 1: he said, lord Lingle, Okay, so what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Like and so I knew from the time I got

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Speaker 1: braces when I was a child that this is where

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Speaker 1: I wanted to do. I admired Um, I admired my

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Speaker 1: dentist and you know, and I would tell my mom

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Speaker 1: all the time, like I want to be the first

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Speaker 1: supermodel ventist. And she was like, okay, well your mom,

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Speaker 1: look at you. Look at what's your saying, supermom? Were

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Speaker 1: you gad you got the degree? Okay? So he was

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Speaker 1: headed that way. Yeah I got there. And then I

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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, okay, lady, I'm sorry for the money

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Speaker 1: that you put into this situation. Out piece, out piece out.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's really cool because when when you're looking

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Speaker 1: at a person's lifestyle, you know, and television you can

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Speaker 1: only in media sometimes only shows one side. And it's

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Speaker 1: important for me to try to tell your entire story

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Speaker 1: because I think it's rather fascinating because that's why it

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Speaker 1: tells people because you're from Compton, California, and Compton, California

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Speaker 1: always just this incredible reputation. Don't go down, don't go down,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I I love Compton, I really do.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we were striving in so many different directions.

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Speaker 1: We have a young African American, um, you know, mayor,

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Speaker 1: and I mean she is amazing, and um, I just

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Speaker 1: think that like it's just so much hope for you know,

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Speaker 1: pretty young kids to see that there's so many different

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Speaker 1: directions you can go in too, and it does not

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Speaker 1: have to just be like television. It could be you know, anything,

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Speaker 1: just to be up hiller in your community. So like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I'm always cringing to that the

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Speaker 1: Mountain Top that I'm from Compton, because I wanted, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I wanted them to say like, yeah, you can do

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Speaker 1: it too, because a lot of people have in their

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Speaker 1: mind that you know, you can't do anything because you're

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Speaker 1: from the inner city. We know. I had Morchelle Wilet

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Speaker 1: from ESPN on the show and he was he was

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Speaker 1: he was screaming the same words of excitement about his city, Compton,

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Speaker 1: how he gives back and all that good stuff. So

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Speaker 1: it's really awesome to who you talk about Anderson. We

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Speaker 1: have Anthony Anderson from Compton and I didn't even know that,

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Speaker 1: and so I met him. He was like, yeah, girl

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Speaker 1: from Times and I went to Lazy, you know, So

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Speaker 1: it was like it was it's super dope because you know,

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Speaker 1: we are are very proud of our little city. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I believe me, I'm from here. I'm from there, or

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Speaker 1: in the sense that I lived there fifteen years. And

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Speaker 1: when I was doing the radio show Steve Harvey Show,

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Speaker 1: we used to broadcast live from Compton. So I'm very

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Speaker 1: aware of the of the branding of what Compton has

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Speaker 1: has received in rap music and and and and also

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Speaker 1: and I also know that the great opportunities of entrepreneurship

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Speaker 1: they're great food, great people and um and it needs

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Speaker 1: to be promoted constantly and to hear people like you

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Speaker 1: who have media media access to come out and say Compton,

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Speaker 1: that's my hood. Yeah, all day long. I mean I

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Speaker 1: I brought the TV show there's a real time, you know,

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Speaker 1: just with me giving back to the community with White

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Speaker 1: and he did. He has those organizations where he gives back,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially all the time. So I heared out

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Speaker 1: with him and you know, and brought it on the show.

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Speaker 1: And so it was this, It was really nice. The

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Speaker 1: mirror came through and you know, it was really really dope.

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Speaker 1: It was you know, really amazing cool. Now we got

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Speaker 1: that she's from Compton. Got that out. She's a graduate

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Speaker 1: of Bachelor size from u c l A. Got that out.

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Speaker 1: She wanted to be a dentist. And now she told

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Speaker 1: her mom she's gonna be a dental supermodel. So sold

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Speaker 1: you on this show. Let's let's go to let's go

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Speaker 1: to this show TV show Basketball Wives. Okay, it's a

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Speaker 1: reality show. You know when it when it when when

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Speaker 1: it came on, you know, there was a lot of activity.

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Speaker 1: How did you get on the show? And did did

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Speaker 1: you think you would stay on the show as long

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Speaker 1: as you stayed on the show. Okay. So I was

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Speaker 1: approached by one of my girlfriends. She wanted to be

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Speaker 1: on the show. But she was like, I need a friend,

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Speaker 1: you know, the other lady. You know, I don't really

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Speaker 1: know them and I don't really have much in common

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Speaker 1: with them, so when you do it? And I was

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Speaker 1: she needs to back up, she needs to back up.

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Speaker 1: She was like, no, I'm here, Like we can you know,

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Speaker 1: we relate to each other. We were really different at

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Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, so Brandy MacDill and so, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was like at first, I said no, and I'm like, girl,

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm shy, like I don't really see I

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Speaker 1: only come to life with my friends, you know. So

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Speaker 1: she was like, no, just please to do it with me.

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Speaker 1: And I asked my husband at that time, my ex

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Speaker 1: husband now um and he was like, go ahead, fine,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. You know, I'll support to you.

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Speaker 1: And so that's how you know, we met with Shawny

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Speaker 1: and she was like, yeah, come on, let's you know

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do it l A. So yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to do an l A show. Let's go pitch

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Speaker 1: this to the network. And they loved the idea. So

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Speaker 1: that's how that happened. Now was once my first season.

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Speaker 1: If you to ask me if I would be here

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Speaker 1: seven years later, I probably would have told you no.

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Speaker 1: It was definitely. I was like no, no, no no, no no,

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Speaker 1: no, no no, no, no no, because like I was like, listen,

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Speaker 1: I am like sheep with a tackle woods. It is

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Speaker 1: not happening. I had to ask God several times, like

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Speaker 1: why did you place me here? I don't understand, but

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Speaker 1: to behave was driving you crazy? Hu Oh my goodness. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was just driving me. I just didn't realizing what value?

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Speaker 1: What value? Did you seeing it? Though? You know, because

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Speaker 1: you know, because it's a balance there, you know, because

658
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Speaker 1: you're seeing you y'all don't need you for your friend

659
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Speaker 1: talk to you and to doing on the show. You're

660
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Speaker 1: doing the show. You know, it's bringing exposure I freaget.

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Speaker 1: Did I forget to tell you that my friend that

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Speaker 1: casked me to you know, to getting on the show

663
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Speaker 1: ended up getting pregnant and didn't start with me by myself,

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Speaker 1: so you had no backup. You on the show by yourself,

665
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: going what the heck if I got myself into and

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Speaker 1: then and Shanny was supposed to get on the show

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Speaker 1: is low and didn't show it either, So I was like,

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Speaker 1: way to what a way to minute? So you know

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Speaker 1: the value that I've seen in the show is After

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Speaker 1: a while, once they started understanding who I was, um

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Speaker 1: not the pasmates, but I felt like production in the

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Speaker 1: network and I them allowing me to be myself, I

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Speaker 1: started I started to see, you know, the value in

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Speaker 1: the show because I felt like, Okay, God obviously brought

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Speaker 1: me here to for a reason. So when I you know,

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Speaker 1: just me praying and fasten and acting, God like, why DoD,

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Speaker 1: why do you have me in this situation? Why do

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Speaker 1: you want me here? You placed me here for a reason.

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Speaker 1: A use me? Lord? And he was basically like, I

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Speaker 1: just need you to be a positive role model to

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Speaker 1: our young girls. I need you to I need you

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Speaker 1: to show them that you could do it. You can

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Speaker 1: be from you know, from the hood, you can you

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Speaker 1: can you know, also have some of those good values.

685
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Speaker 1: But you can also be about your business. You can

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Speaker 1: have passion because I feel like a lot of the times,

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Speaker 1: like being that the world is so crazy these days

688
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: that we don't have compassion anymore because we're afraid to care,

689
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Speaker 1: you know, we're afraid of getting her. So just me

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Speaker 1: showing my vulnerability a whole lot, only because I am

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Speaker 1: so compassion and I care for people so much, and

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Speaker 1: I'm a seeker. I'm a healer by nature, so I

693
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Speaker 1: just you know, I wanted to heal and help everyone

694
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Speaker 1: and sometimes to get me in trouble. But for the

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Speaker 1: most part, like a lot of people that understand like

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Speaker 1: life and that are you know, compassionate as they see that,

697
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Speaker 1: you know, I am really coming from a great place

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Speaker 1: on the show. So that's why I am here, because

699
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Speaker 1: I'm like, not only am I doing that, UM, just

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Speaker 1: showing you know, message, an empowerment message. Yeah, just deligrant, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just deliver him empowering empowerment message. But I also get

702
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Speaker 1: to live out my dreams that make me not afraid

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Speaker 1: to just start projects that I wanted to do. Um,

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00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: and and and bring them in into and that's our

705
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: next break. We're gonna talk about all those products. This this, this,

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Speaker 1: this segment is about the entertainment. How did this wonderful

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Speaker 1: person who wanted to be a dental via dentist degree

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Speaker 1: from u c l A get on the show like

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Speaker 1: Basketball Wives? And you've told us that now you're telling

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Speaker 1: us now that it is. It has made you an

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Speaker 1: outgoing person, giving your platform to speak, giving you a

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Speaker 1: position to be empowering. And because of that, you've come

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Speaker 1: up with a lot of a lot of entrepreneurial ventures

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Speaker 1: that we're gonna talk about the next break. She's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I'm on the phone right now with Malasia Pargo, one

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Speaker 1: of the stars of v H one's Basketball Wives, and

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Speaker 1: she's an entrepreneur and she's a proud busy by coastal single.

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Speaker 1: Mall be right back with more Alasia Pargo. We'll be

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Speaker 1: right back with more from Marsan McDonald and Money Making

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Speaker 1: the host of Money Making Conversation. You say to yourself

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please bucking the phone. The one and

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Speaker 1: only Charlie Wilson. So many people have really been trying

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Speaker 1: to give me to do a gospel record for so

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Speaker 1: many years, and I've been promising God that I would

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Speaker 1: shout him out to do something, you know, and that

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Speaker 1: goes my baby. Come on, man, put a little Jesus

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Speaker 1: in the song. Come on brother, miss Patty little bell,

747
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Speaker 1: and you know what, I'm gonna be doing concerts and

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Speaker 1: little clubs. Thank you. Thank you for you so that

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Speaker 1: I can touch you when I'm sitting with my hands.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rashan McDonald hosts the Money Making Conversations

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Speaker 1: on the phone as Malaysia pargo Uh, one of the

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Speaker 1: stars of vige One's Basketball Wives. She's employing her entrepreneurial

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Speaker 1: business skills and industry and entering the business industry and

756
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Speaker 1: launching Vanity in the City. Now you see, Roshan, what

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Speaker 1: is Vanity in this city. It's a lush line of

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Speaker 1: meek eyelashes and apparel. And she's on the phone to

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Speaker 1: tell us about one of her business. So we got

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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about this break. Tell us about Malaysia,

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Speaker 1: tell us about Vanity in the City. Well, Vanity in

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Speaker 1: the City, um is just I told you I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be a supermado obviously, you know everything about fashion

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Speaker 1: and beauty and Vanity in this City is a luxury

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Speaker 1: lash meek lash line and it starts there and then

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Speaker 1: it also have apparel that's coming um soon and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so it's basically lashes that you can wear from

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Speaker 1: anywhere to twenty to thirty days if you keep them clean.

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Speaker 1: You take them off obviously and you where um wash them,

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Speaker 1: clean them up or whatever. But yeah, they are long

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Speaker 1: lasting lashes for you know, for their everyday woman. Now,

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Speaker 1: one of your model is embrace your beauty without judgment.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty powerful because you can for you to have

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Speaker 1: a month like that that we're just what're just the what'

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Speaker 1: just the background behind that model. Embrace your beauty without

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Speaker 1: judgment because I feel like a lot of women, you know,

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Speaker 1: don't want to seem vain, um because people kind of

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Speaker 1: frown upon being vain and like caring about yourself. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I want you to love yourself

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Speaker 1: whatever that you know, you can love yourself to death,

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00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: you can love yourself too much. Just love yourself and

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00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: a lot of I feel like just loving yourself comes

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Speaker 1: with a lot of stuff. Um, when it comes down

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Speaker 1: to business, when it comes down to caring for people,

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to caring for your children's UM.

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Speaker 1: When you don't like yourself or love yourself, you're lacking

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Speaker 1: those in those areas and you won't be an entrepreneur

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Speaker 1: because you don't think that you're capable of it. So

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Speaker 1: when I say embrace your beauty without judgment, I want

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Speaker 1: you to look at I mean when you feel when

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Speaker 1: when you scare that you still your back and up cool. Now,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I've noticed throughout everything I

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Speaker 1: looked though you are. You are are a giving back person.

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Speaker 1: You're a person that you serviced the community, your philanthropists.

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Speaker 1: Now that to me, you know it is important I

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Speaker 1: personally do that all the time. I gave a speech

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Speaker 1: this weekend at the Natural Organization of Women in Houston

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Speaker 1: and UM and it was about giving back and about

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Speaker 1: motivating people to be successful. Why is it important to you?

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Speaker 1: It's important to me because, like I said, and I

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Speaker 1: am a child of guy, and so he gives me

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Speaker 1: so much and he gives it to me because he

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Speaker 1: knows that I will get back and and I just like,

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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, so much is given to

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Speaker 1: me and I just want to I want to share,

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Speaker 1: and I like and I want someone else to do

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Speaker 1: it in return. I feel like the more that we

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00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: hope each other as a community to grow, the better

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Speaker 1: off we will be. And you're growing so so now,

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Speaker 1: just starting to explain the seven years on basketball wife,

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Speaker 1: because that that being on there has allowed you to

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Speaker 1: do these get back campaigns and be able to enforce

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Speaker 1: women embrace your beauty without judgment mantras that you're creating

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Speaker 1: out there and also and diving into that entrepreneur because

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Speaker 1: you're not afraid to pitch an idea by the business model,

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Speaker 1: or to engage your brand with a business model, are

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Speaker 1: you No, I am not. I'm not afraid to. I'm

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Speaker 1: not afraid to sell. I'm not afraid to, you know,

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Speaker 1: get out there and at least like and try it.

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Speaker 1: You know, everything don't stick and you have to you

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Speaker 1: have to realize that. And a lot of people think

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Speaker 1: that because you open up a business that the first

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Speaker 1: year you're gonna be rich. You're not. Tell that one

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Speaker 1: more time, Tell that one Moila, not letting that go by.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people feel like if you

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Speaker 1: create a business, you're going to be rich. The first dear,

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Speaker 1: You're not. You know, it's take time to take time

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Speaker 1: for people to recognize your brand, and take time for

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Speaker 1: you know, you to figure out the kings in the business,

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Speaker 1: to figure out what work but don't work. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's growing pains and learning, you know, learning your business,

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Speaker 1: learning your craft, how to make it better. There's different

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Speaker 1: components to go with it, marketing, you know, getting the

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Speaker 1: right product, finding the right vendors, building the right team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of things that go into it.

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Speaker 1: And I just feel like it's it's growing things, almost

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Speaker 1: like raising a child. For those that have children. UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, just you know, are just are you know,

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Speaker 1: finding the right space to live in. Um I was

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Speaker 1: just even just playing yourself. So I just feel like, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, just not being afraid. So just step out

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Speaker 1: of there, step out there and um and figure out

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Speaker 1: what works for you and and not giving up on

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Speaker 1: your baby figures. And I always call my business is

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Speaker 1: my baby, and I don't yeah, and I put it,

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Speaker 1: I put it in that frame of mind, so I

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Speaker 1: won't give up on them because I look at my

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Speaker 1: three children, and I will never give us on them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I will fix I will try to fix

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Speaker 1: the world when it comes down to, you know, those

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Speaker 1: three beautiful children I like, I will lay down on

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Speaker 1: the line for them. And so I look at my

853
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Speaker 1: businesses like my babies. Like I, I don't give up

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Speaker 1: on them. Sometimes I might have to, you know, step

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Speaker 1: back a little bit and see where they go. Or

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Speaker 1: sometimes I might have to, you know, put a nap

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Speaker 1: to it and then go do something else and come

858
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Speaker 1: back to it when it's time. But I will never

859
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, just raise my hand and and

860
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Speaker 1: they forget it, never agree. I believe that, and that's

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Speaker 1: the way I do my life too, and I think

862
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: that that's important to for my listeners to here those

863
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 1: mantras that you have in place, a consistency and don't

864
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: give up and then follow your dream with a plan.

865
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Speaker 1: And that's what you're doing every day. Now. You have

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Speaker 1: another business that you created for affordable bidding line bedlining

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Speaker 1: called bedroom Glad. How did that come about? Karroom Glenn

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Speaker 1: came around about because because I am a basketball wife,

869
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Speaker 1: I have lived all over the world and um, you know,

870
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Speaker 1: and it's basically like I will have to pack up

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Speaker 1: and the matter's notice and then go set up shops

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Speaker 1: somewhere else. But you know, and I wanted my husband

873
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Speaker 1: and my kids to feel as comfortable as possible. So

874
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Speaker 1: I would like, you know, kill myself one trying to

875
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Speaker 1: make the house look like our normal house, you know,

876
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Speaker 1: so that he would be comfortable, so that he can work,

877
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Speaker 1: because he was a provider, and I wanted to make

878
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Speaker 1: sure that all, yeah, I did do was down to

879
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Speaker 1: the ball. And so finding comforter was like the heartest always.

880
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Speaker 1: And when we moved to l A, I went months

881
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Speaker 1: without having like, you know, suitable comforters on my bed

882
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: because I was like, you know, I don't want just white,

883
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Speaker 1: you know, I want this. This is what I want.

884
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Speaker 1: So I ended up having a conversation with um, with

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Speaker 1: my really great friend, and she was like, well, why

886
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Speaker 1: don't you just start because I need them, You're like,

887
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Speaker 1: and I was like what She's like, Yeah, I was

888
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Speaker 1: like okay, Well and I did, and I really I

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Speaker 1: had a great time doing it. And I mean I

890
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Speaker 1: have them all throughout my house and and and like

891
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Speaker 1: a lot of my friends, you know, have them on

892
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Speaker 1: their visit and it just rethinks out like you've got

893
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Speaker 1: a girl. So you know, I love it. You know,

894
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Speaker 1: I didn't know. What I love about you with Malaysia

895
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: is that there is such an honest sincerity about you

896
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: when you're talking about what's happening in your life personally

897
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 1: and what you're giving back. There's there's no expectation that

898
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: you're supposed to get something back because you're giving something out.

899
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: And I think that's why you're successful and you're gonna

900
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: always be successful because that's a value that a lot

901
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: of people don't understand. You have to give to get. Yes. Yes,

902
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: is that I feel like the atmosphere is that give

903
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 1: and take situations. What you put out is what you'll

904
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: get back. And when you put out negativity and that's

905
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: what that's is gonna be around you. You put out

906
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: positive and love, you're gonna get positive and love back,

907
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: and you're you just won't. You won't access anything. Let's

908
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: but positivity and love. That's what you're putting out. Yeah,

909
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: I want, I want to I want to make sure

910
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: I get this all because you have a tragedy, a tragedy,

911
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: a personal tragedy in your life with your brother who died. Uh.

912
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: You know several years ago at the hands of the police.

913
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: How are you still coping with that today? And uh

914
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: are any personal causes that you that you involved with

915
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: to try to just keep you your spiritual because he's

916
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: never gonna come back. And but you always think about it, well,

917
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: I always, you know, I always think about it. And

918
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: sometimes I look at my son and you know, and

919
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: I just see how close they are, and you know,

920
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's that was me and my brothers.

921
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 1: You know, my I was there. You know, they're taken

922
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Speaker 1: law pretty much, and it really, really, it really hurts

923
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: me sometimes. But I I started to think, I'm gonna

924
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Speaker 1: use I'm gonna use a different method instead of reading

925
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Speaker 1: my brother, I'm going to celebrate his life. And and

926
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Speaker 1: so whenever I started thinking where I'm getting sad or whatever,

927
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: I just started thinking about how he used to make

928
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 1: me laugh and how unique he was. He was a

929
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Speaker 1: little kid that was skateboard all the time, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and he always had a smell on his face. So

931
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Speaker 1: you know, I started thinking of that, you know, so

932
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Speaker 1: I support him in that way. Now. My mom, on

933
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Speaker 1: the other hand, is not having a really good time

934
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Speaker 1: with you know, with dealing with it, and rightfully so,

935
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: because I probably would be losing my you know too.

936
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: But yeah, So these the last cash years two years,

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Speaker 1: I've been working with my mom on you know, hilling

938
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Speaker 1: her up and you know and making her feel comfortable

939
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Speaker 1: and you know, allowing you know, her to be more

940
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: um more active in my children's life. So my mom

941
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: is my project at this point. And and I now

942
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: that I see growth in her, she's happy. Now you're awesome, girl.

943
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on the show. Uh can you

944
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: come back please to this Rashard McDonald Money Making Conversations.

945
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

946
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

947
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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

948
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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,

949
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Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know, he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs,

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do,

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Speaker 1: it's what he likes to share. Now it's time to

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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations. Here

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Speaker 1: we come. That's right, you listened to my show you

954
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Speaker 1: will not be broke. Let me make this public announcement.

955
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: The super Bowl is coming to Atlanta, Georgia one more time.

956
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: The super Bowl is coming to Atlanta, Georgia. My next

957
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: guest is the director of Communications for the National Football League,

958
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: that's the NFL Players Association. Please welcome to money making conversation.

959
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: Is a very good friend of mine called Francis. How

960
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: you doing good to hear from you man, family a

961
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: few days something. Man, I can't do no but smile

962
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: thinking about them days. Man and uh man, you you

963
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: you were fun to work with. Bro I tell you

964
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: was a great time. Well, you know, the beauty of

965
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,720
Speaker 1: that relationship was that. And that's why, you know, because

966
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: really because I want to really breakdown what you do.

967
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: But it's about imagery, and it's about the players and

968
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: how they are, how they portrayed in the media also

969
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: social media also how they portrayed themselves. And that was

970
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why we got together with Family

971
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 1: Few was just a short lighter side of friendly side

972
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: of the players with Steve Harvey on a very popular

973
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: show called Family Few. And they fantastic. Man. Yeah, you know,

974
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: we had a great time and you know, one of

975
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 1: the uh misconceptions about players is, you know, people really

976
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: don't know the personalities of players because the game is

977
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: such a a physical game. But also number one, they

978
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: got pads, uniforms, a bunch of things. And I remember,

979
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things we tried to do

980
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: was show those guys, like you said, in a different light.

981
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: And and I remember after the show, you pulling those

982
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: guys to the side and talking to him about the

983
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: importance of branding and imagery and wearing a suit and

984
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: it's being okay to to to to express who you

985
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: are as a person and man. And they sure did.

986
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: They had a great time, and all the guys came

987
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: dressed to impress, and I know they were dressed to impress.

988
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: Mandaniel Brown, you know he was on Tonio Brown. You

989
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: know Tonio Brown and uh you know my man who

990
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: went from Arizona, Jacksonville, all of the fun guys man,

991
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: And I think that's is what it's so important about.

992
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: Antonio Gates was on that show, Matt four Tables on

993
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: that show. There's a great group of guys, uh where

994
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: who retired with from Dallas on My Time the Markets

995
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: Where And now it's on NFL Network and when when

996
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: I when I walked away from that show, I was

997
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: just so First of all, you know, the brand of

998
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: the NFL is the most powerful on TV. Let's get

999
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: that out the way first. It's the most powerful and

1000
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: also the most criticized because when you're the best, people

1001
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,919
Speaker 1: gonna point your point a finger at you all the time.

1002
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: Before I get into your position, I want to talk

1003
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: about your life, you know, from the stand. Here's some

1004
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: information about Carl Francis. Twenty four years for experience in

1005
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: marketing sales. Just how you get to be the director

1006
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: of Communications for the NFL. Twenty four years of experience

1007
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: in marketing sales, branding, website development, digital social media growth,

1008
00:54:54,480 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: video production, communications, public relations. This is very important. Crisis communication. Yes,

1009
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: it is the community outreach, an event marketing. Yes, sir,

1010
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 1: that's a resume, ma Man, Yes, sir, yes, sir. And

1011
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 1: I know that when you're in that position, you really

1012
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: do have to hav an awareness. You might not be

1013
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: an expert, but you have to have a strong awareness

1014
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: or what's going on in all these different departments because

1015
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 1: everybody has an opinion. Oh absolutely, And you know I

1016
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: take pride in what I do because I really care

1017
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: about our two thousand members and future members that are

1018
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: coming up. And one of the things that's important to

1019
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: my job is is to protect the image of the

1020
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: NFL pre externally and internally, but more important, our players.

1021
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: They are a union. They represent our union. So when

1022
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: they're out there and they're going through their transition of

1023
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: figuring out their space of like you mentioned earlier, branding um,

1024
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: their perception, their role, you know, I have to, you know,

1025
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: make sure I keep my finger on the pulse of

1026
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: making sure that they understand importance of it, because we're

1027
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: only as good as our players are while they're in

1028
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: the league. And then once they finish. See the most

1029
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: important thing you don't You don't judge a player while

1030
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: he's in the league. I think you really judge a

1031
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,919
Speaker 1: player how good he is once he leaves the league.

1032
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: Ten years after he finished the league. That's when you

1033
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: really figure out whether this guy really guided it or not.

1034
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 1: Because the athletic part, that's that's temper cent of the game,

1035
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: not a not a percent of the game. Is what

1036
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: type of man? Uh did he become? Did he take

1037
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 1: advantage of academic programs, resources initiatives in the in the

1038
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL and what did he become after the

1039
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: league and and those who are struggling, you know, we

1040
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 1: still reach back. But that's how you really judge a player.

1041
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: You don't judge a player on how many touchdowns, how

1042
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 1: many catches. You you depend with what type of husband

1043
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: did he become, What type of man did he become,

1044
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 1: Did he work in this community, did he build a

1045
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: foundation for him and his family beyond football? And that's

1046
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 1: how that's what we try to focus on, helping every

1047
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: player to come through our league get to that point.

1048
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: It's a struggle because we're fighting a lot outside. Uh

1049
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: sometimes challenges and distractions, but that's our main goal and

1050
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: uh hopefully you know we're we're we're working hard to

1051
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 1: get there, one day at a time. Now, with that

1052
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: being said, you give us a little bit of what

1053
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: the Players Association does, give us a full umbrella or

1054
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: what the role of the players used as a union.

1055
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: Uh what else is it doesn't the current players and

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Speaker 1: the retired players what role does it play in their lives? Well?

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Speaker 1: Players a major role as a current player where the

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00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: exclusive collective bargaining agent for active players, meaning anything dealing

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00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: with the players legal rights on the field, and as

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Speaker 1: an NFL player, we represent so it's important for us

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Speaker 1: to be connected to players when it comes to their contract. UH.

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00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: They're there working conditions and they're welfare. So when you

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00:57:55,600 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 1: see players have contract disputes, or there's the NIE and

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00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: TIS built around the healthcare players, whether we feel as

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00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: though our team went through the proper UH protocol channels

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00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: on the sideline with a guy gets a concussion, Russell

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00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: Wilson was an issue, yet Russell Wilson was an issue,

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00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: or whether the field people don't understand you know, there's

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00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: a lot of things that play a part of a

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00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: player's condition. That's that's the actual feel. Everyone don't maintain

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00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: the level of quality for the field of play, surfaces,

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00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: making sure that they're kept up, making sure that their drain,

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00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: making sure that their proper standards for safety, to make

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00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: sure that the field the guys are playing on a

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Speaker 1: safe I mean, these are all elements of our game

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00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 1: that most people overlook because they want to see the

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00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: shiny helmets in it and any funny looking cliques and

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00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: then all those things and see the touchdowns. But we're

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00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: talking about the total and now the celebrations d right

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00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: in celebration making sure the guys have a little fun

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00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: once they enjoy themselves, you know, because it is hard

1082
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: getting that in his own We we know it's it's

1083
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: not easy. You know, it's almost like getting two points

1084
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: in basketball, they're not just letting letting you go to

1085
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: go to the lane. Need you're really working. And football too,

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00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: they're not just letting you score. So we understand when

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Speaker 1: you score. And plus, you know, it's a marketing disadvantage

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00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: because players, you know, they have a brand. They want

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00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: to express themselves and they want to show that they're

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Speaker 1: real people. And sometimes it's hard to get that connection

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00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: with the fans because you have the helmet on all

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Speaker 1: the time. So you know, those type of things we

1093
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: try to protect and make sure that players receiving and

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00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: for the former players who have a program called the Trust.

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00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: It's a program that's dedicated to anybody that played in

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00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: the league two or more years where uh they get

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00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: a full body scan head to toe, UH, you go

1098
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: through exers. Uh it's called Exos program where they send

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Speaker 1: you off to a site and one of four facilities

1100
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: across the country and you can go through a week

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00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: long process of working out, teaching how to eat teaching

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00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: how to take care of yourself, to actually pay for

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00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: you to go back to school, up to dollars reimbursement

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00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: per year going back to school to get your education school.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's so many things that

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Speaker 1: we do. But the problem is, you know, any a

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Speaker 1: lot of our players, man, they go through so much

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01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: and there's so much pride that a lot of them

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01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out who they are, what they

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01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: want to become because so much of who they are

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01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: was on that fields, on that field, and we and

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Speaker 1: we try to tell them that what's on that field

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Speaker 1: really wasn't you. This is what you did because you

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01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 1: were blessed with those abilities. But who you are is

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01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: an individual that's smart, intelligent, your thinker, Uh you you

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01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: you you, you gotta have a lot of skill sets

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01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 1: that you may not even touched on that that we

1118
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: try to pull out of you so you can you

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Speaker 1: can have a productive life the next you know, thirty

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Speaker 1: or forty years of your life. So that's our focus.

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Speaker 1: Before we're in this break, I gotta bring up this

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Speaker 1: young man, Lindbacker University of Central Florida, Dallas, and they've

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Speaker 1: been dazzling Twitter been dazzled, dazzling everybody in this sports world.

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Speaker 1: To Quim Queen Griffin four point three eight in the

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Speaker 1: forty reps pounds, A person like that is who you

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Speaker 1: grab onto. That's right, that's right, quality kid. You know.

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Speaker 1: I have not honestly had to change to meet meet

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Speaker 1: the young man. But his story is what inspires. His

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01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: story is what our game is all about. And these

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Speaker 1: stories are are those that that inspire others to believe

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01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: that you can. And that's and that's how our league

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Speaker 1: is made up. But our league is made up of

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Speaker 1: a a lot of young men who have overcame a

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Speaker 1: lot of tragedy, a lot of disappointment in their life

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Speaker 1: and have become quality young men. And and and this

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Speaker 1: young man I see falling no short of that and

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01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: based on a disability, but it doesn't have anything to

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Speaker 1: do with his character as hardness desire. And that should

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01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: be a message to all young men. Uh and and

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01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: anyway women women for that part, in terms of you

1141
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: can overcome any setback in your life if your mind

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01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: and your heart are connected in your desire. And I

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01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: think that young man will have a fantastic We're gonna

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Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap up this conversation. Our next break, we're

1145
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: gonna talk about these the protests. Who'll talk about the concussions.

1146
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: We'll talk about a lot of great things that happened

1147
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL with Carl Francis. We'll be right back

1148
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Speaker 1: get me to do a gospel record for so many years,

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Speaker 1: and I've been promising God that I would, I would

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Speaker 1: I am hosting money making conversations on the phone. Is

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Speaker 1: the director of communications for National Football League that's the

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Speaker 1: NFL as we all know it, players association called Francis

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Speaker 1: Call You're still there? Okay? Call crisis management. That's what

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Speaker 1: it was. Part of your resume crisis communication planning the

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Speaker 1: last two years that you've been dealing with it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the voice of the players trying to get their message out?

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01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: Can you tell my listeners exactly what is the message

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01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: that that that the players are trying to get out

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01:04:55,880 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: about the national anthem protests? Can you tell us that basically, Well,

1195
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: let me say this for starters, I think Colin Kaepernick,

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01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 1: his his protests was something that he felt sincere and

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01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: he had a lot of passion about and so, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, you commend him for his personal conviction on

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Speaker 1: what he believed in. UM, but as it relates to

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Speaker 1: a number of players just feeling the same sort of uh,

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Speaker 1: having the same sort of mindset towards you know, how

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Speaker 1: our society has changed a little and to bring some

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Speaker 1: to bring some recognition, to bring some I'm more awareness

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Speaker 1: issues going to not recognition, but awareness, uh to these issues,

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Speaker 1: to bring some light and really to open up a discussion.

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01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 1: I think discussion has been important, like Malcolm Jenkins towards

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01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:59,160
Speaker 1: that that whole team coming together and sitting down with

1208
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Speaker 1: us the National Football League, to say, hey, look, how

1209
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: can we all uh brain conversation and more like to

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01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: these negative issues in our communities because we are products,

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Speaker 1: are members are products of many of those communities where

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Speaker 1: a lot of negativity has taken place in and we

1213
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,080
Speaker 1: want to help, We want to help change. And I

1214
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 1: think that's been the calling card for a lot of

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Speaker 1: our members. And and you know the good thing about

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Speaker 1: this process is that I think it has really woke

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Speaker 1: up a lot of people in terms of understanding that

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Speaker 1: our players are humans. Okay, they are part of these communities.

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Speaker 1: They are prod of society. Okay, they pay their their taxes,

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Speaker 1: they pick up their children from school, they go to

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Speaker 1: the same grocery stores. So they're no different than the

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Speaker 1: average person that's walking other than their job. But you

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Speaker 1: can't exclude them from the conversation of having an opinion

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01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: on their community. That's the right, um. And they feel

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Speaker 1: like that their mothers still live in those communities, their

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01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: family members, their cousins there, there there people that's connected

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Speaker 1: to their lives are still a part of these communities

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Speaker 1: and they and they feel as though I'm a part

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Speaker 1: of it. Two. So I have just as much of

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Speaker 1: an opinion as anybody else. And I think, uh, Malcolm

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Speaker 1: jenkin Is and his team, the players Coalition and those

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Speaker 1: group of players really stood up and did a great

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Speaker 1: thing by really bringing all the groups together and having

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Speaker 1: a strong conversation. And I think Colin Kaepernick bringing light

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Speaker 1: to it to open it up for discussion. Uh, brought

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Speaker 1: a lot of conversation and good, healthy conversation towards these issues.

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Speaker 1: And uh it looks like everybody is listening right now,

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Speaker 1: which is awesome. And I and I commended because it's

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Speaker 1: a very emotional battle because as a fan, all you

1240
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Speaker 1: wanna do is watch football. All you want to do

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Speaker 1: is you know, cheer, and you hear the word team

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Speaker 1: and it kind of throws you off mentally as to

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Speaker 1: because now you have to think about other than football.

1244
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Speaker 1: And that's why I think where the frustration she comes

1245
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Speaker 1: with a fan is that you know, football is, in

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Speaker 1: this case escape escapism for us. You know we watch it.

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Speaker 1: You know we can you can take me away for

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Speaker 1: six hours on a Sunday. I'm all in, dude, I'm

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Speaker 1: all in and so so I think that is the

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Speaker 1: issue that fans are having another talking about a lot

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Speaker 1: of fans. There's a few fans out there, but I

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Speaker 1: think in the overall, as a fan of Rushan McDonald,

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan for life. I'm a fan who believes

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Speaker 1: I'm African American fan who also understands what they're trying

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Speaker 1: to do. Uh. Sometimes it's confusing because each one has

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Speaker 1: a different way of showing their role of protests. I

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Speaker 1: think that that kind of damages the format of bringing

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Speaker 1: awareness because one person is doing this way, one person

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Speaker 1: is doing this way. But I know that it's something

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Speaker 1: that is needed. When you have the most popular viewed

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Speaker 1: them for doing that. I want to move over to

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Speaker 1: the concussions. That has been a dominant point. That's another

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Speaker 1: level of crisis management that you have to deal with.

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Speaker 1: Tell us the issues that that still brewing with concussions

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Speaker 1: in the NFL and how you guys are dealing with it.

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Speaker 1: You know, football is very physical sports, um, and it's

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Speaker 1: a very fast pace with played by a lot of strong,

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Speaker 1: fast human beings, and things happen. The only positive I

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Speaker 1: can say is that they have equipment on them versus

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Speaker 1: anything with soccer where guys are bumping into each other

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Speaker 1: or using the head and hit the ball, or any

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Speaker 1: other sport guys falling on the hardwood and basketball and

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Speaker 1: running in the elbows pick you know. But in in football,

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Speaker 1: we have a protocol. A few years ago we sat

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Speaker 1: down with the National Football League and set up a

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Speaker 1: set of rules and regulations in terms of how to

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Speaker 1: manage a potential concussion whereby a player has to come

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Speaker 1: out of the game, going to the blue tenants you

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Speaker 1: guys have seen on the sideline and go through go

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Speaker 1: through a series of tests in order to determine what

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Speaker 1: level of concussion there is and if there any sign

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Speaker 1: of concussion, he definitely does not go back in the game.

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Speaker 1: So it could be a slight but even if it's

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Speaker 1: a slight concussion, um, they don't go back in the game.

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Speaker 1: So we're trying to set the standard so it could

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Speaker 1: trinkle down to our colleges and our high school and

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Speaker 1: our youth leagues, because you know, people look at the

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Speaker 1: National Football League as, oh my god, these you know,

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Speaker 1: these hits are very dangerous and it's causing guys that

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Speaker 1: have a concussion. But you remember, I mean these hits

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Speaker 1: and and these sort of collisions occur early on. So

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Speaker 1: if we can get the high schools and the youth leagues,

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Speaker 1: which I think us a football organization UM that we

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Speaker 1: helped start uh several years ago, are educating um these men,

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Speaker 1: so we just don't have um these these uh you know,

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Speaker 1: runaway coaches that come out from working and just you know,

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Speaker 1: infuse their frustration on a little eight nine year olds

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, hit each other in the head until

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Speaker 1: I say stopped. You know, those things need to stop.

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Speaker 1: We need to stop having your everyday coach come up

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Speaker 1: there and implement bad twos, bad techniques, and every time

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Speaker 1: a good play they hit each other's side of the head.

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Speaker 1: I'll be going like, okay, now, now can we just

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Speaker 1: stop that the help me slap for a good play

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Speaker 1: right right, jump on top of and just you know

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Speaker 1: it might sound selling, but that is an issue with

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Speaker 1: your head. Okay, yeah, yeah, you know it's it is

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Speaker 1: another knock up side to here. But one of the

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Speaker 1: things we were put in their using more leveraging and

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Speaker 1: show the pads US and and and then your targets.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to manage the targets because I think for

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Speaker 1: a while people got excited of a knock off plays.

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Speaker 1: But knockoff plays we're having some impact. But because they

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Speaker 1: used to sell a knock off plays, and so we

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Speaker 1: were trying to change the format and I think we're

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Speaker 1: getting better. Uh, sometimes it's causing a little confusing with

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Speaker 1: the descender because their decendors how to hit. He's he's

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Speaker 1: running up on a guy like Rob Gunkrowski and saying

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Speaker 1: to myself, with a minute, he making a business decision there,

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Speaker 1: because you know, here's a guy six six six seven

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Speaker 1: two pounds and now I gotta figure out how to

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Speaker 1: bring this guy down, which are not easy. Imagine. What

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Speaker 1: what role do you guys play in the in the

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Speaker 1: world's biggest draft, the NFL Draft. What role does the

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Speaker 1: Players Association pay play during the NFL Draft when we

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Speaker 1: happened in April this year. Yeah, one of the things

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Speaker 1: we do is we really have a program we kind

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Speaker 1: of initiation program, bringing them into the fold of the family,

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Speaker 1: UH programs education, let them know our role where they

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Speaker 1: can uh become a part of it and early start

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Speaker 1: the better. And so we tell them about all our initiatives,

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Speaker 1: all our programs we have available, and UH try to

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Speaker 1: get their parents involved and not just them them in,

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Speaker 1: the parents involved because we know it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a transition for these young guys to get acclimated to

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Speaker 1: being a professional athlete, and so we just try to

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Speaker 1: let them know about our resource, let them know we're

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Speaker 1: all going to be their form and will be their

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Speaker 1: farm throughout their career and once they finished playing, will

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Speaker 1: we'll be their form. Man. This is the amazing You know,

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Speaker 1: my whole thing about the NFL talking to you is

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Speaker 1: that I just want people to just see another side,

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Speaker 1: the business side of it. And basically, you know, you

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Speaker 1: have these incredible athletes who need to be protected um

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Speaker 1: and also a brand called the NFL that needs to

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Speaker 1: be protected to and sometimes you have two sides that

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Speaker 1: don't even communicate. And that's your job to get people

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Speaker 1: to communicate and be one giant team. And you're we're winning,

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Speaker 1: my man. And again, you know, if you ever need

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01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: any brand then you know where to come. I'll be

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01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: ready to tell them players about their brands to stay

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Speaker 1: off that social media, to keep it right and keep

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Speaker 1: that marketing straight because they can win. Man, you have

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01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 1: a great product, You're a great person. You know. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate respect the NFL just as a business model. And

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Speaker 1: these young men have to take advantage of it because

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Speaker 1: it's such a short career performance level, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of money is throwing their way and they can retain

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Speaker 1: their money and live a great life. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: it's what they do away from the game, or so

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Speaker 1: what they do on the field, Carl, Thank you. Man.

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Speaker 1: Can I kind of invite you back on the show? Man, Hey, look,

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Speaker 1: I'll come back in the next out with if you

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Speaker 1: want my brother, My brother, I love man. Put the

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Speaker 1: word out there my money making conversation. Man, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more from Msha McDonald and

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations don't touch that doubt. As host of

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Rishan McDonald is uniquely positioned to provide

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Speaker 1: a step by step, easy to understand blueprint that drives

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Speaker 1: listeners to realize their dreams and aspirations. Until you do

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Speaker 1: the business plan or incorporate or actually create that product

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Speaker 1: financial literacy to help everyone with their brand success. It's

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Speaker 1: good to have a money making conversation with somebody that

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Speaker 1: make money. Let me tell you about the host of

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's a social media influencer.

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Speaker 1: Of his seven hundred thousand plus social media followers are female.

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Speaker 1: He's a two time Emmy Award winner, three time n

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Speaker 1: double a c p Image Award winner, sitcom writer, stand

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Speaker 1: Up comic, former, IBM executive, and has a degree in mathematics.

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Speaker 1: More importantly, Rashan McDonald will use his business and celebrity

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Speaker 1: relationships to empower small businesses with information to succeed. Rashan

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Speaker 1: McDonald is on the air with Money Making Conversations. My

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Speaker 1: next guest is an entrepreneur, educator, ambassador, businesswoman, author and mentor.

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Speaker 1: She owns the largest female owned workforce solutions company, was

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Speaker 1: the first African American woman to build and own a

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Speaker 1: billion dollar company, and one of the richest self made

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Speaker 1: women in the world. Please welcome to money making conversations

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Speaker 1: Janice Bryan Howard, How you doing Janice? Fabulous? Come on here.

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Speaker 1: She blew me away with that enthusiasm. I love it

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Speaker 1: about and I appreciate that. And I'm telling you something.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I want to tell you that I'm

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Speaker 1: a big fan. Um, you're an inspiration. Let me get

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Speaker 1: these self things out about Rushan McDonald in my relationship

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01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 1: from afar with you. Um, you've inspired me. We had

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Speaker 1: lunch one time, you and I and Steve Harvest sat

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Speaker 1: down and you set me on the right path. I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell people this story. I got this other story

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01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 1: now because we was meeting and she was doing some

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01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:28,680
Speaker 1: stuff with North Carolina Auntie and she's a trustee there.

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01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:35,200
Speaker 1: Just love her and and and and and you know,

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Speaker 1: I was I was just selling me and Steve on her.

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01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: I was just telling about She said stop, She said stop,

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Speaker 1: excuse me. She said, you are a very talented young man,

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Speaker 1: but you're not saying anything. You know. And basically you

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01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:52,200
Speaker 1: told me I was all hype and I need to

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01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: take my talent and put it in goals and move

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Speaker 1: forward with proper action. And nobody had ever told that

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Speaker 1: to me, and my life nobody ever told it to

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Speaker 1: me because I was always smooth. I all knew how

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Speaker 1: to talk. But I ran into I want look to

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Speaker 1: the holy Grail. This is the holy Grail. Ran into

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Speaker 1: it and she said, stopped this nonsense. You're not fooling me.

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Speaker 1: Go back home and do your homework. And I did.

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Speaker 1: And because of that meeting, that's why Steve had the

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Speaker 1: best seller that sold over three billion, That's why Steve

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01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,799
Speaker 1: got Family Few, that's the number one game show in America.

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Speaker 1: That's why Steve Harvey now is the number one talent

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Speaker 1: in the world. Because of my lunch meeting with you

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Speaker 1: at Cape Mandolining that you remembered thank you. Wow, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: wow wow. Well, you know what, we got a lot

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01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,840
Speaker 1: of people that think you and I don't be because

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Speaker 1: it's it's paying it forward, paying it forward, or as

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01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 1: I say, you're paying your current. You know, some of

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Speaker 1: us are just catching up. We're not paying it forward yet,

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Speaker 1: you know. And that's that's what you did for me,

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01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: because because you know, when I look at your resume

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Speaker 1: and I look at your your value system, I see

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01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 1: your value system. Because I'm writing a book now too,

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Speaker 1: and one of the things in my book I'm writing

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Speaker 1: about Jane's is about a Bala's life. And I remember

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Speaker 1: and and that's shot lunch meeting with you. You talk

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Speaker 1: about you love to cook, you love to cook. Here's

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Speaker 1: a lady running a big in there being all the company,

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Speaker 1: thousands of employees, fortune five hundred, and you were just

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Speaker 1: talking about your love to cook. You love to have

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Speaker 1: a good meal on the kitchen table. You know, you

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Speaker 1: that that that you're talking about when you talk about

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Speaker 1: the company, when you talk about the employees, you're talking

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Speaker 1: about family, and you're talking about a very defined evolution. However,

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Speaker 1: you're also talking about a little color Guo from Tabora

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Speaker 1: and North Carolina, one of the eleven kids, same mom,

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Speaker 1: same dad, and some very you know, core principles that

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01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:46,840
Speaker 1: we all grew up from it. The table was the

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Speaker 1: center of our home, and priam was the center of

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Speaker 1: our lives. So you know, am I not gonna cook?

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Speaker 1: Come on? But you but you know, but you don't

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01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 1: expect that. I'm just telling you that. You know, I'm

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01:18:57,160 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 1: a stranger, you know, and but you were willing to

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01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: share with me your values. And I think that that

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01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: openness is what makes you very special. Can I can

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01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 1: I just I know you used to the praise I'm

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01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 1: giving you, and I'm sure you you receive a ton

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01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 1: of awards, but you have a walking ability to shape

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01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: people's lives every day and that's important for you to

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01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: hear that. And because of that, those values, they've shaped

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Speaker 1: me Rashan McDonald and making me the person I am today.

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Speaker 1: Just for a short thirty minute launch, you changed my life.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Well, you know what, let us both be

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Speaker 1: grateful to that, and I am very grateful. Now let's

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Speaker 1: talk about how you became this mega self made female

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01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,880
Speaker 1: billionaire that started in eighteen seventy six. How did that

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01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: get into your head that this is something you can

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Speaker 1: do as an entrepreneur. Let's first say that I never

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Speaker 1: saw it and and and different people take different paths,

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Speaker 1: so this is not suggest that I prefer one path

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Speaker 1: or another for any particular person. We're talking about my path.

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Speaker 1: My path as was always centered around the idea that

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Speaker 1: I would seek success through service. And um, I know

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Speaker 1: that lots of people teach their kids how to look

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Speaker 1: to certain incomes or they send them to universities aspiring

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01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:15,600
Speaker 1: to certain levels of income for their degrees. And we

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Speaker 1: use money as a measurement for many things, but it

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01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 1: should never be the measurement of success. Teresa died successful

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Speaker 1: and penniless, um gandhi. So we've got models of success

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Speaker 1: where you make a difference in the world and you

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Speaker 1: provide for people, and that doesn't always mean that there's

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Speaker 1: that money indicator for yourself. For me, success is the

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01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:38,720
Speaker 1: progressive realization of a worthy ideal. And as long as

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Speaker 1: you're continuously growing. You know, my husband loves to say,

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Speaker 1: when you're green, your grow. When you're right, you're rot.

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Speaker 1: As long as you continue to grow, I think their

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Speaker 1: success in that. Now, how did I choose the path

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Speaker 1: that I'm in? Basically, I came to California from North

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Speaker 1: Carolina and didn't find a job that I thought was

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Speaker 1: what I wanted and decided to attempt from my brethren

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01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:07,600
Speaker 1: law did some work in his office. He loved it

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01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: when he came back and he said, Wow, you've got

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Speaker 1: a talent. You really should be doing this for a living.

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01:21:12,320 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: There was not a three year business plan when I

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01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: in front of me. When I started my business. There

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01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 1: was a plan to be of service to people, and

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01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,200
Speaker 1: he utilized what I did well and he helped me

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Speaker 1: to find that that's amazing. Now that happened in seventy six.

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Speaker 1: That's when you work at a tipperary secretary job with

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Speaker 1: your brother in law. And then well that's when I

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01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: started my company. That's when you started your company. He

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Speaker 1: was your first customer. He was my first customer, and

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01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 1: he was one of the most significant ones for me.

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01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. He didn't let all he

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01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,680
Speaker 1: was a brother in law, so he would always tell me,

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01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:51,680
Speaker 1: ain't no blood in my game. And he was a

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01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: very very strict guy. Uh. But you know, I learned

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01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: a lot from a lot of people when I came

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01:21:57,320 --> 01:21:59,760
Speaker 1: out to California. So much of who I am was

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01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: um was taught me and and and fueled my desire

1509
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 1: from North Carolina. But come into California taught me a lot.

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01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about this Rashan here, I am,

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01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:11,600
Speaker 1: this little nap headed girl out of talk where in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, and I come to California, where everybody is

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Speaker 1: gorgeous and everybody carries a purse with somebody else's name

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01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: on it. Back in the day, nobody wore panty home.

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Speaker 1: Some of your listeners probably don't even know what pantyos are.

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01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:34,120
Speaker 1: I totally freeing environment with streets, lines, with palm trees,

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01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 1: and so basically I'm describing a dubt out of water.

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01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 1: People would say a fish out of water. Right. But

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01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: but with the help of my sister and and and

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01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: a great foundation, I learned to swim. And I think

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01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: everybody can do that for themselves. You know, two different degrees.

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01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: I think the troubled people get into Rashaan is when

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01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:56,960
Speaker 1: you look at people's success and you identify what success

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01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:59,640
Speaker 1: means to you by some of the physical things they

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01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:02,680
Speaker 1: have instead of some of the physical things they do.

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01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 1: I loved it. I love to remind anyone in my

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01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:10,639
Speaker 1: presence that success, for me, it's not a noun, it's

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01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:13,960
Speaker 1: a verb. Let's talk about that. That the whole thing

1529
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 1: of success. Because this is one of the major reasons

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01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:20,560
Speaker 1: why you're on the show. Is that Earl Nightingale. A

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01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: lot of people if that name there's a limit. Give

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01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:24,920
Speaker 1: a little background about this gentleman. I call him the

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01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:28,799
Speaker 1: father of motivational speaking because at the age of thirty five,

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01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:33,519
Speaker 1: he wrote a speech for some salesman. He just wrote

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01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:35,800
Speaker 1: it for them. It was called He named it the

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Speaker 1: Strangest Secret, and he later played for the salesman. When

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01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:41,599
Speaker 1: he came back, they all wanted to get a copy

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01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:44,360
Speaker 1: of it. Well, he didn't have a copy, just created

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01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:45,880
Speaker 1: for them to hear because he was out of the

1540
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: room when it was playing. Well, he went to Columbia Records.

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01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: They recorded in eighteen fifty six. Now get this, he's

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01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 1: thirty five and eighteen fifty six. It sold over a

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01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: million copies. It went gold. Led him to a life

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01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: of a millionaire. The reasons Strangest Secret was evolved because

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01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:04,960
Speaker 1: he grew up a poor person and he can understand

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01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:08,200
Speaker 1: why some people had money and other people didn't did

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01:24:08,280 --> 01:24:11,040
Speaker 1: not have money. So he researched and he became an

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01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 1: educated man and that's how The Strangers Secret evolved. And

1549
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,440
Speaker 1: you got to read it. So tell us your relationship

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01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 1: with that, because that's what we're gonna be talking about

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01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: from now on to the next break, because that's an

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01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,639
Speaker 1: amazing you know, when you heard it for the first time,

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01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:27,080
Speaker 1: he was like, I do that already, I do that,

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01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 1: And but here's what I got to tell you, Rashawn.

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Speaker 1: First of all, when I read The Strangest Secrets, it

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01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:36,599
Speaker 1: immediately became one of my favorite books. And it's such

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01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:40,640
Speaker 1: a tiny book. Most people, so that's a pamphlet. However,

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Speaker 1: what's exciting for me is that I was able to

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Speaker 1: take those very well de prompt defined thoughts and principles

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Speaker 1: and apply them in a real way in my life.

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Speaker 1: And I will tell you it was so exciting and

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01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 1: so fundamental for me to keep using this book all

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01:24:57,520 --> 01:25:01,320
Speaker 1: these years, since nineteen never not had a copy of

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01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:04,920
Speaker 1: that book with me. However, I thought about it. I

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01:25:05,040 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 1: speak out a lot of universities, and lots of young

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01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:09,920
Speaker 1: people run up to me and asked me, and I

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01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 1: referred them to the book, and then I thought about it.

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01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: You know, the book is really number one. It was

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01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: originally written and Earl Nightingale's audio version was written towards

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01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 1: a time in our history when you were speaking to men,

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01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:24,960
Speaker 1: when you were speaking about types of success that he

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01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 1: described and his and his difference thoughts on how to

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01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 1: achieve it. So I reached out to Vic Knit of

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01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:37,200
Speaker 1: Nightingale Knit and said, I want to refresh these teachings.

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01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to make them highly inclusive, not just

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01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: of gender, but of age culture wherever you are, and

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01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:46,759
Speaker 1: I want to be able to produce them in audio

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01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: form and video form. Vig Konan is one of the

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01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:55,200
Speaker 1: greatest guys alive. He immediately said, yes, we went through

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Speaker 1: no long legal wrangle, we a reread on what we

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01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 1: would do, and now I got the strangest secret out

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01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 1: on because I had, I had, I have it out.

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01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 1: Now I'm so excited to tell you that your your

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01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: folks can get it by going to Nightingale Nightingale dot

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01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: com if they want to, or they can look it

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01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 1: up on audiobook and audible, and it's available on video

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01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:23,439
Speaker 1: segments on YouTube and Facebook. We put it out in

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01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:27,439
Speaker 1: every way that we can so that everyone can enjoy it,

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01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 1: regardless of where they are coming from, as long as

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01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 1: they want to be going somewhere defined. And I really

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01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 1: want to people to understand how valuable I'm gonna give

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01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: it before we get out of this break. I want

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01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: to give it up like a couple of jewels out

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01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: that book that like, here's the five steps, and people

1595
01:26:41,840 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 1: shore right down where we're talking about right now five

1596
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: steps because they're here. They are. Number one, you will

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Speaker 1: become what you think about. You will come what you

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01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:52,120
Speaker 1: think about. If you if you think you're losing, you'll

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01:26:52,120 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 1: be a loser. You think you can be a doctor,

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01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:56,440
Speaker 1: you will do the work to be a doctor. Imagination

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01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:59,960
Speaker 1: which number two, which means let your mind sore, don't

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01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:03,200
Speaker 1: stop yourself, don't stop yourself, don't doubt yourself. Number three

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01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:05,600
Speaker 1: and and you know, Rashawn, I also say you got

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01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 1: to play the music that takes you on where you

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01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 1: want to go. When I read about imagination, I knew

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01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: it was fear for me because my favorite song in

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01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:19,839
Speaker 1: all the world is imagined by John Lennon. Girl autist

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01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 1: artists as well. But but when it just all flows

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01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 1: together once you get in that mindset. But there you

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01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: wanted to get three, four and five and three was

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01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: you can stop me because it's your show. Now, this

1612
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: your show because I brought you on here because you

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01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 1: have success. See the thing about it, Jannis, that I

1614
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: want everybody understands that there's a lot of people write

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01:27:39,479 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 1: motivational books that they have no success. They're just talking hype.

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01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 1: So you're not hype. You're the real deal. And so

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01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:47,800
Speaker 1: to have you on the show telling people that's why

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01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: I want them to hear, why they should why they

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01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: should go get the audiobook audible books. She should go

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Speaker 1: to YouTube to pick up those pamphlets because you're telling

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01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: the truth your evidence. Like you said, I've had this

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Speaker 1: is seventy eight, A very tiny pamphlet made me a

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Speaker 1: self made billionaire female. We'll be back with more because

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Speaker 1: I would tell you something. She is on a roll now.

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Speaker 1: If you want to know how to be famous, you

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Speaker 1: want to know how to be successful, Come back and

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Speaker 1: hear more from Janets The Strangest Secret. It's powerful. We'll

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Speaker 1: tell me tell us about your company that I've been

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Speaker 1: Agile one offers so many opportunities for companies to utilize

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01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:36,600
Speaker 1: our technologies, utilize our processes, and basically helps them to

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01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:40,280
Speaker 1: not only plan and manage their workforce, but to ensure

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01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 1: that they're doing it in a most deliberate way. So

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. We design our own technologies and they're

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01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:49,519
Speaker 1: all cloud based, so we're taking care of the risks

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01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:52,880
Speaker 1: that come along with having companies that are driven in

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01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:56,920
Speaker 1: a very technological era. So that meant so what I like, Well,

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Speaker 1: this is what I hear. You are not a person

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01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:03,679
Speaker 1: who's afraid change. Well, we innovate change. And I'll tell

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01:32:03,760 --> 01:32:07,719
Speaker 1: you when I realized that as a minority owned company

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01:32:08,160 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: and a woman owned company, I was competing against some

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01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:17,120
Speaker 1: very major publicly held enterprises. UH, for clients, I had

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01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:19,639
Speaker 1: to do something different. I had to meet the same

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01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 1: price points, I had to meet the same service level

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01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:26,000
Speaker 1: agreements we call them as l a's, and I was

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01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 1: doing it for less, oftentimes less than UM five of

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01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:33,800
Speaker 1: the total spend. So you've got to figure out whether

1700
01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:36,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna stay in or whether you're gonna, you know, leave.

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01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:39,240
Speaker 1: I decided to stay but I had to be smart

1702
01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:42,680
Speaker 1: to stay and that's that was really what founded the

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01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:47,200
Speaker 1: beginning about the one and our step into creating technologies

1704
01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:51,360
Speaker 1: that helped, but always, always that helped the worker to

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01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:54,680
Speaker 1: have the best experience. That's really important. So so now

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01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: I've said the basis of who you are, tell us

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01:32:56,920 --> 01:33:02,120
Speaker 1: about your A, B C's for success. Well, I'm excited

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01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:04,559
Speaker 1: to tell you about that, Rashan. I'll tell you why

1709
01:33:04,920 --> 01:33:07,840
Speaker 1: because wherever I'm talking to Girl Scout Truths in North

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01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 1: Carolina or universities in California, the ABC's applied for anybody

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01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:15,760
Speaker 1: who really wants to have a successful life. First, let

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01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:17,840
Speaker 1: me tell you what I can't teach you the abc s,

1713
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:20,040
Speaker 1: or what I can teach you what I can. There

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01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:22,960
Speaker 1: are five things that nobody can teach anybody, and I

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01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,719
Speaker 1: hope you take note to these, Okay, because we talked

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01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 1: about two of them at that lunch years ago at

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01:33:28,280 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 1: Cape Mandaline. I think I cannot teach his experience. The

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01:33:34,320 --> 01:33:37,680
Speaker 1: second thing I cannot teach his common sense. Now a

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01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 1: lot of people know common sense in that common anymore. Okay.

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01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:45,160
Speaker 1: The third thing I cannot teach is confidence. When you

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01:33:45,520 --> 01:33:51,800
Speaker 1: marry experience to common sense, you gain confidence. The fourth

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01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:54,720
Speaker 1: thing I cannot teach is anything that you don't want

1723
01:33:54,760 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 1: to learn. And the fifth thing I can't teach is

1724
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 1: anything at all if you already know at all. So

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01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:03,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to teach you my A b c s

1726
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:06,600
Speaker 1: on the foundation of you understanding what I won't teach you.

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01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 1: Those are things you have to use these A b

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01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:11,640
Speaker 1: c s to teach yourself. And the A is to

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01:34:12,040 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 1: ask the right questions, then listen, listen, listen for the

1730
01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:21,240
Speaker 1: right answers, Rishawn. So often people are so busy with

1731
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 1: their next question, they're not hearing the conversation, and they're

1732
01:34:25,560 --> 01:34:28,439
Speaker 1: so full of questions that they don't find that quiet

1733
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:32,759
Speaker 1: time to listen for the answer. Whether you're biblically based

1734
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:37,000
Speaker 1: or whether you are an evolutionist, you know that listening

1735
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 1: is a large part of living life well and living

1736
01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 1: life and cooperation with all the things you wish to achieve.

1737
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:46,200
Speaker 1: And listening also helps you to understand how to be

1738
01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 1: a better giver. So although that A is about asking,

1739
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,640
Speaker 1: is also about listening for that right answer. And then

1740
01:34:54,720 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 1: the B is about being be where you say you'll

1741
01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:01,679
Speaker 1: be when you say you'll be, and most importantly, how

1742
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:04,280
Speaker 1: you say you'll be. You know, we've all got these

1743
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:07,960
Speaker 1: devices on our cell phones, I pass cars that can

1744
01:35:08,040 --> 01:35:10,759
Speaker 1: tell us what time we're gonna get there, which direction

1745
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 1: to go. Basically, they can tell us when we're gonna

1746
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:16,920
Speaker 1: show up, but they can't tell us how to show up.

1747
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 1: We have to do that for ourselves. And so it's

1748
01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:22,479
Speaker 1: important that you instill these A B c's as a

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01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 1: lesson path in the order that I give them, because

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01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:29,920
Speaker 1: it's only after the listening to asking, the listening to asking,

1751
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:33,479
Speaker 1: the listening, that you're able to be how you say

1752
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:36,040
Speaker 1: you're going to be. So be here you say you'll be,

1753
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:38,960
Speaker 1: when you say you'll be how you say you'll be.

1754
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:43,480
Speaker 1: And then that C. That C is about circular communication.

1755
01:35:44,080 --> 01:35:49,800
Speaker 1: Sending a tweet, sending a text. I mean, that's not communication.

1756
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:53,720
Speaker 1: It can be marketing, it can be advertising. It's the

1757
01:35:53,920 --> 01:35:59,360
Speaker 1: full circle of conversation that moves you towards success. At

1758
01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:03,080
Speaker 1: many people are very competent to I mean, when we

1759
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:06,400
Speaker 1: interview people in our offices today, Rashan, do you know

1760
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:09,120
Speaker 1: over six or five of the people we interview who

1761
01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:12,320
Speaker 1: are under thirty five years of age? There about age

1762
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:15,880
Speaker 1: is not something we ask um have their own website.

1763
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:18,680
Speaker 1: So everybody is invested in the idea that they have

1764
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:22,000
Speaker 1: a brand. But it's important for people. I shouldn't say,

1765
01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:23,800
Speaker 1: but my daughter said when you say, but, that means

1766
01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:28,040
Speaker 1: everything you just said is no longer truth. But it's

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01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 1: important Rashan, that we understand that branding isn't just about

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01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:37,240
Speaker 1: what we want people to see. Is how we communicate

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01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:40,160
Speaker 1: with the people who actually see it. Does that make

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01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:43,880
Speaker 1: sense for you? Absolutely make sense to me because of

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01:36:43,920 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 1: the fact that that's what I'm telling you. You're telling

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01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: the truth. You're telling you can't, like I said, you

1773
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,920
Speaker 1: can't make a turtal horse, Okay, you have to be

1774
01:36:51,160 --> 01:36:53,320
Speaker 1: like you said. Like you said earlier, is the music

1775
01:36:53,439 --> 01:36:55,240
Speaker 1: that there? Is it planning the right music for you

1776
01:36:55,360 --> 01:36:58,280
Speaker 1: to succeed in? Is it the right lane, the right opportunity.

1777
01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:02,599
Speaker 1: But most importantly people, as I would tell people, don't

1778
01:37:02,640 --> 01:37:05,240
Speaker 1: look at yourself as an employee as just an employee.

1779
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 1: You are a brand. And you said right there, people

1780
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,320
Speaker 1: got website. I said, when you have social media, you

1781
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:12,920
Speaker 1: become a brand. If you log onto Facebook or Twitter

1782
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:15,880
Speaker 1: or Instagram, you are a brand. Because suddenly you're telling

1783
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 1: people you need to start acting like that And start

1784
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: representing yourself in that in that manner, and that's in

1785
01:37:21,680 --> 01:37:23,920
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. When you log on to social media,

1786
01:37:24,200 --> 01:37:27,080
Speaker 1: you're longing on without a light. All you need is

1787
01:37:28,040 --> 01:37:32,680
Speaker 1: is that set and um. But there's danger and opportunity

1788
01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:35,639
Speaker 1: in that. You know, every opportunity has a danger attached

1789
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:38,200
Speaker 1: to it. You don't get to take it back. You've

1790
01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:40,640
Speaker 1: got to be very thoughtful when people come into our

1791
01:37:40,760 --> 01:37:44,479
Speaker 1: offices for work, when clients want to us to represent them.

1792
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter which side of the work equation we're on.

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01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:51,800
Speaker 1: That brand matter there are there are young folks today

1794
01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:54,320
Speaker 1: who come into our officers who won't work in certain

1795
01:37:54,400 --> 01:37:57,679
Speaker 1: companies because they don't like values that the companies exhibit.

1796
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:01,080
Speaker 1: They're unhappy about something they saw in the news. Brand

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01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 1: is Brand is King, And I'll tell you communication is Queen.

1798
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. You know I'm doing

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01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:10,840
Speaker 1: a series. I'm looking at what you're doing now is

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01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 1: the ABC is then a book form on the audio form,

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01:38:14,400 --> 01:38:18,080
Speaker 1: the ABCS of Success Audience. I haven't put it on.

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01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:21,920
Speaker 1: Come on, you know a mad man. You know I've

1803
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:24,479
Speaker 1: been teaching it all around the world. You taught me,

1804
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:29,599
Speaker 1: you taught me. I'm living proof it works. I'm living y'all.

1805
01:38:29,640 --> 01:38:33,240
Speaker 1: I'm living proof it works. If you listen to talk

1806
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:37,360
Speaker 1: about these things. We're talking about these things, and then

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01:38:37,439 --> 01:38:39,160
Speaker 1: the thing about it was that I didn't ask what

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01:38:39,240 --> 01:38:41,240
Speaker 1: you talked. And that's what I'm saying. That's about giving back,

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01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:44,720
Speaker 1: that's about breaking down to just anybody. Now, there are

1810
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:47,040
Speaker 1: certain places where you are speaking I want to bring out,

1811
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:50,439
Speaker 1: like March nine. You have to solve by southwest correct

1812
01:38:51,320 --> 01:38:54,040
Speaker 1: and then all right, I'm head Oh my goodness, I'm

1813
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:57,479
Speaker 1: headed to New Jersey with several clients and then I'll

1814
01:38:57,479 --> 01:38:59,720
Speaker 1: be headed to Austin. Yes, I will. Do you have

1815
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:02,320
Speaker 1: a upside where they can go? Right now? Because I

1816
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:04,519
Speaker 1: want to get this information now because you're You're so

1817
01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:07,840
Speaker 1: dynamic and people should not only hear you, but see

1818
01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:10,560
Speaker 1: you in person and walk up and realize you just

1819
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:13,720
Speaker 1: a regular person. And I kid you not, uh she is.

1820
01:39:13,960 --> 01:39:17,280
Speaker 1: She is the real deal. She she speaks and she

1821
01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:20,320
Speaker 1: articulates success. But she's also you can eat a hot

1822
01:39:20,400 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 1: dog and a hamburger with some fries with her and

1823
01:39:23,400 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 1: you will not you go. It's the same person I'm

1824
01:39:25,439 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: talking to. Come on, now, you know I'm talking about

1825
01:39:28,280 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 1: She's the real deal and that that's why I love

1826
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:33,439
Speaker 1: about now. Now. The thing about it when I talk

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01:39:33,479 --> 01:39:36,680
Speaker 1: about success with you, you know, are there anything that

1828
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: when when? Because everybody wants to be successful? That what

1829
01:39:39,400 --> 01:39:42,840
Speaker 1: Nightingale talks about. You know, everybody sits down they want

1830
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:46,320
Speaker 1: to be success. When the version of Nightingale and the

1831
01:39:46,439 --> 01:39:48,720
Speaker 1: version you did, like I know you had and Nelson Mandela,

1832
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 1: you had some quotes from Mary Kay, how did you

1833
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:56,000
Speaker 1: reshape it so we can understand and appreciate the full

1834
01:39:56,200 --> 01:39:58,479
Speaker 1: value of what he was doing in the nineteen fifty

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01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:02,160
Speaker 1: six before we leave. Well, the bottom line is the

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01:40:02,280 --> 01:40:06,320
Speaker 1: truth is did you hear what I said? The truth

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01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:12,120
Speaker 1: is how we hear. Truth oftentimes is more shaped by

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01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:16,240
Speaker 1: its framing than its content. And so it was important

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01:40:16,320 --> 01:40:20,640
Speaker 1: for me to make sure that we gave relevant notices

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01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:24,439
Speaker 1: to people who people today can relate to, to the

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01:40:24,560 --> 01:40:27,560
Speaker 1: audience I want to reach, and to make sure that

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01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:31,520
Speaker 1: we're speaking to all genders. You know, it's really important

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01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 1: to me that we're able to be inclusive in how

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01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:37,600
Speaker 1: we're teaching, because if we're messaging to one part of

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01:40:37,680 --> 01:40:41,639
Speaker 1: a conversation that can be so helpful to so many,

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01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:45,120
Speaker 1: then we lose the opportunity of the gift that we're

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01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:47,560
Speaker 1: really giving, and so for me, it became important to

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01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:50,960
Speaker 1: just be inclusive to everyone I want to talk with.

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01:40:51,439 --> 01:40:53,680
Speaker 1: And if folks want to know, you know, what's up,

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Speaker 1: they can they can go to my website at jbh

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Speaker 1: dot com and they can follow me at Bryant Jay

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Speaker 1: Bryant Albroy. I'm really happy for them to follow me

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