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Speaker 1: current production slate is certainly impressive, with two shows on air,

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Speaker 1: see TV program has even as seven major networks anteing up. Okay, now,

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Speaker 1: first of all, Roshawn does not have one show on TV.

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Speaker 1: They're clamoring for her abilities. Please welcome, good friend. Long time,

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Speaker 1: money making conversations producers extraordinary Holly Carter, Hi, Hey, big time?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? Big time? Okay, let's put the

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Speaker 1: what is your brand? Ms Carter? Um, You know what,

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Speaker 1: First of all, that's so awesome. It's awesome to know

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Speaker 1: just trying to educate my audience to understand how you

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Speaker 1: What talent has attached to this? And so one of

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Speaker 1: the things that I always enjoyed doing was Emerged Summit.

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Speaker 1: Are you still doing Emerge summits? Oh? Yes, we're going

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what Let's talk about how did you

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Speaker 1: So keep doing what you're doing and keep winning. And

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on money making conversations so awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for Seane