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Speaker 1: My next guest is from the Small Business Administration. Because

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Speaker 1: Mr Richard Jenkins, How you doing, sir? Thank you kind

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Speaker 1: and I said, I want to start my own business.

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Speaker 1: And I had no training, no knowledge of how to

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Speaker 1: I went on to learn a line from my mistakes.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I'm so passionate about trying to help

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Speaker 1: others who are trying to be successful in business, um

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Speaker 1: and particularly in the minority community, because which is not

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. It's amazing because I I hear the passion

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Speaker 1: that I hear the information, so you able to deliver

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Speaker 1: passionate information. Very rarely do people do that. You know,

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Speaker 1: then you didn't get on top of a box and

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Speaker 1: and and just scream to do until they blew in

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Speaker 1: of why you start. That's your missrs statement. And I

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Speaker 1: love the fact that your Mrs David, you're telling me,

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Speaker 1: come one, come all. But more importantly, African Americans start

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Speaker 1: lining up first for a change and starting and starting

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Speaker 1: for people to offer you change, you should make change yourself.

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Speaker 1: And that's the interstatement of the Texas Black Expo. Correct, yes, sir, yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: it is. And I just think that we gotta be

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what really I just really feel

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Speaker 1: My office is very close to the medical center here

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Speaker 1: about four or five hours working over our computer, um

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Speaker 1: doing black export and everything else. And but what's my point?

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Speaker 1: My point is I was able to control my own

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Speaker 1: destiny because I have my own business. And when my

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Speaker 1: I said, I feel blessed right here because when you

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Speaker 1: still able here to work. I'm still able to do

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Speaker 1: what I need to take care of my family. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not having to go check with anyone else and this,

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Speaker 1: that and the other. And I think that's the power

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Speaker 1: so much more when we have businesses and control our

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Speaker 1: about to bring you back my friends, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I want to just bring you back. You know. The

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Speaker 1: and ask your questions about entrepreneurship, because that's what they

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Speaker 1: really need to understand. And what people tend to not

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Speaker 1: believe is that. And I know I'm doing something unique

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Speaker 1: here because I'm not talking about entertainment. I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about movies and I'm talking about sports. I'm talking about business.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people when they hear the word business,

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Speaker 1: they don't think that affects them just because they're employed.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to let people know that you can

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Speaker 1: have the entrepreneurs spirit and work for somebody which will

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Speaker 1: make you a better employee, which will make you make

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Speaker 1: more money. Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't can tell people.

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Speaker 1: I say, we're all entrepreneurs, some others are just independent

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Speaker 1: contract After you work for McDonald, contracting your services to

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Speaker 1: McDonald for a certain defeat, And when you think that way,

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Speaker 1: you value yourself more are and you will you will

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Speaker 1: you will be more productive, you know, to draw give

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Speaker 1: me one more time on how they can make that

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Speaker 1: donation to the Harricane Relief for small businesses, so I

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Speaker 1: can get all out of here, brother, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: We're gonna tell Samath to call you reschedule you for

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Speaker 1: two breaks this month, my man. Yes, yes, sir, it

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Speaker 1: Octoba twel is our next day that we give our

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Speaker 1: my man. Texas Black expos the founder, my man Jerome Love.

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Speaker 1: We're coming up next if you want to know about LinkedIn,

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Speaker 1: I got the foremost authority on the social media platform

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Speaker 1: linked In. His name is Robert young Blood. He's been

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Speaker 1: on the show before. He turned it out. He's coming back.

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Speaker 1: I got it for two breaks. Well with Money Making Conversation.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rashan McDonald. Welcome back, ras Sean mcdonaldly

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Speaker 1: hosts of Money Making Conversations. We're having a great day

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Speaker 1: so far. I like to believe it's a great day

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Speaker 1: doing our thing, talking to different people about being successful.

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Speaker 1: My next guest, well, you're not having on the show

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Speaker 1: before you know, I am a I am a LinkedIn fan.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell everybody right now. You know I

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Speaker 1: got success on social media on the Facebook, I got

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Speaker 1: success on the Instagram, and I got success into Twitter. Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I'm not really I don't really get into Twitter as much.

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Speaker 1: For Facebook and Instagram, very strong movement there. But my

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Speaker 1: favorite platform is linked In. I post as much as

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Speaker 1: possible about what I'm doing with my career to get

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Speaker 1: the word out for over two decades. My next guest,

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Speaker 1: are Y be Connect has focused his energy on building

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Speaker 1: and maintaining quality relationships, which is one of the true

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Speaker 1: keys to success is relationships. He's one of the foremost

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Speaker 1: authorities on the social media platform linked In. Please workome

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Speaker 1: the money making conversations Robert T. Young Blood, How the

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Speaker 1: Robert I'm doing well? Ver Sean Peason blessing. Can you

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Speaker 1: hear me, sir? Absolutely? And Robert and I am. I'm

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Speaker 1: making you sound big, am I'm making That's the goal here, Robert,

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Speaker 1: because you got it going on with that LinkedIn My man.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you what, man, I feel big, but

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Speaker 1: when I'm around giants, man, I feel like I'm in

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Speaker 1: the right place. So thank you so much for the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to be with you today. Appreciate it. Now tell

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Speaker 1: me this what is when the whole uh you know,

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Speaker 1: I had you on the show before only one break.

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Speaker 1: I got to feel two break because I want to

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Speaker 1: slow it down and I'm not I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: have you give a seminar on my show, but I

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Speaker 1: want to to educate you know, also hopefully dry business

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Speaker 1: and relationships with you on LinkedIn that can build your

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Speaker 1: brand through Why be Connects. What exactly is why be Connects?

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Speaker 1: So Why be Connects is a strategic consulting and coaching firm.

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Speaker 1: I work with sales executives and entrepreneurs to help them

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Speaker 1: to enhance their visibility, credibility, and profitability using tools like LinkedIn.

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Speaker 1: Now when you have not not to what is the

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Speaker 1: difference Because I like I said that, I told her

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Speaker 1: I'm very successful on Facebook. I used it a lot. Instagram, Twitter,

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Speaker 1: not feeling Twitter, but I do have a Twitter account.

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Speaker 1: Now I have the same thing with moneymaking conversations. I

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Speaker 1: have a monimating conversations Facebook account and have a moneymaking

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Speaker 1: conversations Twitter account. What is the true value of LinkedIn?

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Speaker 1: The true value of LinkedIn is the opportunity to connect

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Speaker 1: with business professionals, whether they are CEOs or managing directors

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Speaker 1: of companies, or if they are the people who can

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Speaker 1: decide to hire you for potential opportunities, recruiters and such um.

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Speaker 1: The difference between Facebook and LinkedIn is that Facebook is

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Speaker 1: mainly social. It's mainly personal from a you know, I

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Speaker 1: know you from college and we just talk about anything

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Speaker 1: and everything. LinkedIn is focuses primarily on your professional brand,

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Speaker 1: your ability to attract those opportunities that will lead to

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Speaker 1: revenue or lead to income, and so you know, in

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Speaker 1: some cases you're not able to get in front of

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Speaker 1: the CEO on Facebook, but you can get in front

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Speaker 1: of the CEOs on LinkedIn. So if your goal as

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur is to secure a speaking opportunity, or maybe

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Speaker 1: you want to identify additional sponsors, LinkedIn is the place

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Speaker 1: to do it because people are using that platform to

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Speaker 1: discuss business topics. That being said, how do you help

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Speaker 1: a person, how do you help a company take advantage

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Speaker 1: of that platform. So my my aliens are solrpreneurs. My

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Speaker 1: my work with a lot of authors, speakers, coaches, life coaches,

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Speaker 1: and so their biggest challenge is really identifying their next client.

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Speaker 1: It's really helping them to attract their ideal client. I'll

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Speaker 1: have a philosophy that if no one knows you exist,

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Speaker 1: they can't pay you. So what we want to do

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Speaker 1: is I focus on teaching my clients how to be visible,

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Speaker 1: how to perfect their elevator pitch, how to promote who

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Speaker 1: they are, what they do, how they do what they do,

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Speaker 1: and then who needs their service. Once they gain that

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Speaker 1: level of clarity and confidence, then we transition to LinkedIn

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Speaker 1: to put those in words so that we can begin

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Speaker 1: to magnetize their LinkedIn profile. And when I say magnetized,

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Speaker 1: I mean to draw people to you. There's certain words

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Speaker 1: that that attracts people to the profile, and when the

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Speaker 1: right person finds your profile, they're going to send you

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Speaker 1: an invitation to connect, and that's when the relationship can begin.

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Speaker 1: I believe that because some times, you know, I just

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Speaker 1: started LinkedIn this year, you know, I got almost like

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Speaker 1: five thousand connects. And the thing about it is that

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Speaker 1: I know some weeks and not you know, people just

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Speaker 1: joining me left and right, and then some weeks nobody's

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Speaker 1: joining me, and so so it really is tied to

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Speaker 1: terms and how you present your present, your your profile,

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Speaker 1: your your your posts. Correct, that's correct, And I think

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Speaker 1: the key is it has to go beyond the connection.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we we may have five thousand connections,

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Speaker 1: but how well do we know those connections? Right? See,

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Speaker 1: they may be connections, but they're not as strong. Your

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Speaker 1: network is not strong if you can't say anything about

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Speaker 1: them that you know about them personally. And that's my

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Speaker 1: charge connections. I'm profound that. Now say that one more time,

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Speaker 1: because the goal with anything is to get numbers. Numbers

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Speaker 1: mean something, you know, you everybody I got a million,

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Speaker 1: is I got a hundred? Got kind of brain that

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Speaker 1: got five thousands, you say, right, just because you've got

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Speaker 1: five thousands, if you don't know your five thousands, they're worthless, right, correct,

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Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, it's I would say, and they're not

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Speaker 1: worth it. I would say your network is not as strong. So,

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Speaker 1: for example, you're doing a major fundraiser helping the people

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Speaker 1: are Houston out. You've you've got a credit, you've got

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Speaker 1: credibility with the people that you know. But imagine if

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Speaker 1: those five thousand people don't really know you and you

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Speaker 1: ask them for your help. You ask them for help,

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Speaker 1: and they're not gonna respond because they're like, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: connected to you, I like you, but I don't really

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Speaker 1: know you that well, so I'm not gonna open up

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Speaker 1: my checkbook. But if you knew them, if you went deep,

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Speaker 1: if you serve them, and what happens is you put

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Speaker 1: out a request, they'll jump right on it because they

648
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Speaker 1: feel some level of connection to you personally, not to

649
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Speaker 1: you just socially, but they feel connected to you personally.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's something amazing. I guess that a classic

651
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Speaker 1: example of connecting to someone personally. The J. J. Watts

652
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Speaker 1: Hurricane Harvey campaign. You know, he said, got two fifty dollars.

653
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: Now he's at thirty three million dollars. And so now

654
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Speaker 1: I'll let you know that the people he connected with

655
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Speaker 1: those people. That's just a huge example of how somebody

656
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Speaker 1: who can connect with you emotionally will translate into an

657
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Speaker 1: amazing response. And that's basically the purpose of your company

658
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 1: is to find a person or a company's social media

659
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Speaker 1: boars is that correct? That's correct, and to help them

660
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: understand how to add value first. So most people in business,

661
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,760
Speaker 1: they want to sell. And there's nothing wrong with selling.

662
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with it because if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: if no one sells, no one eats, right. But there's

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Speaker 1: a way to sell in a way that people see

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Speaker 1: it as mutually beneficial. And so it's just a matter

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Speaker 1: of slowing down to speed up. So I believe that

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Speaker 1: if you find a way to serve people first. So

668
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Speaker 1: if I'm able to serve you and then I can

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Speaker 1: identify a gap that you have, I'm not selling you now.

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Speaker 1: I'm essentially giving you an opportunity to buy a solution

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Speaker 1: that solves your problem. And so that's what I strive

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Speaker 1: to do. I strive to help my clients to to

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Speaker 1: think differently when it comes to business development, because if

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Speaker 1: you're not out there people, hitting the pavement and building relationships,

675
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: you know your business is going to go out of

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Speaker 1: business because of lack of business. And I go is

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Speaker 1: to put you in a position that you can attract

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Speaker 1: that using this tool that we call LinkedIn. Okay, before

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Speaker 1: we go to break, because I'm bringing Robert of why

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Speaker 1: be Connects, one of the foremost authorities on the social

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Speaker 1: media platform LinkedIn. How can I get into contracted with you?

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Speaker 1: Contact with you, Robert? The best way. The best way

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Speaker 1: is through my website which is www dot y be

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Speaker 1: connects dot com. On all of the platforms social media wise,

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00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: they can find me at why be Connects and uh

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Speaker 1: and I love connecting with people specifically through LinkedIn, so

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00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: they can send me an invitation, let them let me

688
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: know that they heard about me on your show. Well,

689
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: as long as they heard about you. That's the goal.

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Speaker 1: That's why I got brought you back because I know

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Speaker 1: in any type of business, it's about consistent awareness. If

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00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: you consistently stay in front of somebody, eventually they're gonna

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Speaker 1: ask and you're abviously gonna take over and you have

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Speaker 1: the ability and you've shown me you're just watching your

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Speaker 1: post on LinkedIn that you all a ware or how

696
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Speaker 1: to communicate and share opportunities and also letting everybody know

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the why be connect space. We've

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Speaker 1: been back with more with Robert young Blood, who is

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Speaker 1: the founder of why be Connects again, one of the

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Speaker 1: foremost authorities on the social media platform LinkedIn. If you're

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Speaker 1: not listening, to tell other people they need to listen

702
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: to because it's money making conversation. I see you on

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Speaker 1: Facebook money making conversation on Facebook fourteen eighty down in Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: and I am also heard on our Heart radio podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Business Finance. We're getting it out there, Robert.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with more. How this ra Sean McDonald.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to money making Conversation. If you have any

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Speaker 1: phone calls, you want to talk to us, anybody you

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00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,959
Speaker 1: want to talk to on this show. It's about helping

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Speaker 1: you be a better person in your life, which is

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00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 1: your personal life. It's where as your career in business.

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Speaker 1: On the phone right now, I have from why Be

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Speaker 1: Connects and the I'm gonna keep you holding out that

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Speaker 1: title of people understand what I'm trying to do to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you relationships that will help you

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Speaker 1: in your personal life, in your business life, and then

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00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: also your life in general because a lot of people

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Speaker 1: jumping on these social media platforms and not really understanding.

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Speaker 1: Every time I have an interview on this show, I've

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Speaker 1: become better educated about what I'm doing, better understanding of

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Speaker 1: how I can do it better because it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of mean you said to work right, like foolishness going

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Speaker 1: on on social media. Now, what you don't see on

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn is bikini pictures. You don't see them, little poses

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Speaker 1: that they see them, little the little profile booty shots.

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Speaker 1: You know, did you see on Facebook and Instagram? You

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Speaker 1: don't see that because on LinkedIn you trying to get

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Speaker 1: a job or you trying to present yourself in the

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Speaker 1: professional manner that you want to speak or attract other

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Speaker 1: professional people to communicate with you in a business format. Again,

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Speaker 1: let me bring back up live my man, Robert young Block. Robert,

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Speaker 1: did I it correctly that my friends did? I said correctly?

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Speaker 1: You said it absolutely correctly, and and I believe that

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Speaker 1: if if people do post those type of pictures, they

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Speaker 1: just have not understood the fact that LinkedIn is about

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Speaker 1: business and that that type of business. Most people I

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Speaker 1: look for that type of business on LinkedIn, so they

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Speaker 1: posting that that's not that's not appropriate. But I think

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Speaker 1: the key is really understanding how to network. And I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people think they know how to network.

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Speaker 1: But the truth, the true definition of networking is the

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Speaker 1: ability to connect with others in a way that you

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Speaker 1: create mutual benefit. So if it's all about you, it's

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Speaker 1: not networking. If it's mutually beneficial, then it's about networking.

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Speaker 1: And I learned that from Dr George Fraser, one of

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Speaker 1: the premier leaders in networking, who's been teaching that for

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Speaker 1: for years. And I'm just I'm thankful to be able

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Speaker 1: to take that message to this new generation. Days that

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Speaker 1: I met he had Steve Harry and I both met

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Speaker 1: him in Cleveland, went up there for one of his uh,

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Speaker 1: his entrepreneurs. He looked with his way, him and less

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Speaker 1: Brown been doing this way for anybody else thought about

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Speaker 1: doing it, you know, motivating people for success, you know. Uh.

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Speaker 1: George Frasier, who was on has been on this small

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Speaker 1: entrepreneur tip of opportunities for at least twenty to twenty

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Speaker 1: five years. That I know of, and he's still at

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Speaker 1: the forefront of it. And for you to say his name,

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Speaker 1: I just can't let that name just slide by and

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00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: not let everybody know. Why did he bring up that name?

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Speaker 1: You should google his name. I think Fraser's spelled f

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Speaker 1: R A S c R. Correct. That's correct. Yeah, that's correct.

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Speaker 1: And uh and and he and and so when you

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Speaker 1: think about those you mentioned, Les Brown. I also got

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Speaker 1: to give a shout out to another one of my coaches,

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Speaker 1: Dr Eric Thomas. She had he was on Yeah, that's preacher,

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Speaker 1: he's blazing the trail. I'm excited. I'm excited because a

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Speaker 1: lot of what I'm doing, uh, in terms of just

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Speaker 1: really enhancing people's lives has come as a result of

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Speaker 1: my relationship with ET you mean, a part of real

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Speaker 1: university and also you know, just being prepared it as

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Speaker 1: a speaker. But you know, the key, the key to

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Speaker 1: all of that is networking. Is is the relationships that

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Speaker 1: you build. And there's also understanding exactly what is that

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Speaker 1: you want to do and where you want to go.

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Speaker 1: And I tie that back into LinkedIn because if you

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Speaker 1: don't know what you want and you don't know where

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Speaker 1: you're striving to go. When you connect with the right person,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna waste their time. And a lot of times

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Speaker 1: people are saying they want mentors, but what they need

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Speaker 1: or they need coaches. There's a big difference between a

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Speaker 1: mentor and the coach. And a mentor is gonna give

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Speaker 1: you time, they're gonna show you love. But when you

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Speaker 1: have a coach, you have to invest in that time.

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Speaker 1: And so when I work with people i'm coaching them,

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Speaker 1: I often have to ask people with showing that I

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Speaker 1: asked them, can I can? I may have permission to

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Speaker 1: put my coaching hat on, which means that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: talk straight to you. I'm gonna step on your toes

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Speaker 1: and if you get mad bling yourself because you gave

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Speaker 1: me permission to put my coach a hat on. But

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Speaker 1: that but that's what's needed when it comes to tools

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Speaker 1: like LinkedIn, because you never get a second chance to

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Speaker 1: make a first impression and a lot of people just

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Speaker 1: don't know what they don't know. And that's in portant

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Speaker 1: for you to say that because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: I've been called arrogant, I've been called nor at all,

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Speaker 1: I've been called all those terms of trying to let

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Speaker 1: everybody know, Okay, this is if you asked me for advice,

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Speaker 1: You asked me to come in here and run this operation.

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Speaker 1: You've asked me to produce this and hold your budget

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Speaker 1: in line. But suddenly your your staff calling me arrogant,

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Speaker 1: your staff calling me a nor it all because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people understand is that who you have around

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Speaker 1: you can hold you back, who you have around you

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Speaker 1: can stop you from your next opportunity. And so just

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Speaker 1: because they work for you, just because they show up

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Speaker 1: all time, don't mean they have the best interests of

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Speaker 1: your ultimate goal at heart. And that leads me back

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Speaker 1: to the whole process of LinkedIn content. What is off limits?

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Speaker 1: Oh content? What? What should people avoid doing? You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to see a lot of interesting things on

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Speaker 1: on on LinkedIn, people basically lately asking for jobs, people

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Speaker 1: blatantly or promoting themselves. What is? What is? What? What

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Speaker 1: lines of And I'm gonna go a little deeper after

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Speaker 1: you answer this question about what happens when you go

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Speaker 1: on linked in? What what are the oftenest area for

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00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: content on LinkedIn? So I would say, I would say,

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Speaker 1: you know, definitely, definitely promote yourself, but promote yourself in

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Speaker 1: the context of the value you bring to the tape.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm oftentimes job seekers are looking for jobs

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Speaker 1: and they help post how they sailed out three three

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Speaker 1: hundred applications or sent in things on different job boards,

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Speaker 1: and I always respond to them, and I say, listen,

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Speaker 1: stop looking for a job and start finding problems to solve.

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Speaker 1: So I am i saying don't look for a job now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm saying, take your focus from

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Speaker 1: finding a job and put your focus on finding people

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Speaker 1: who have problems that you can solve. So, and one

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Speaker 1: of the things that the content is not posting your problems.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't post what's going wrong? Post what you need

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Speaker 1: help with solving. So, so post the problem that you

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Speaker 1: have as it pertains to you know, I need help

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Speaker 1: with communication, or is anyone here that can help me

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Speaker 1: enhance my interview skills. But instead most people are posting

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Speaker 1: about this this recruiter doesn't want to give me a shot,

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Speaker 1: or this person doesn't want to help me. That that

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Speaker 1: that's gonna fall on deaf ears. But if you focus

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Speaker 1: on asking the right questions, like what's the what are

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Speaker 1: the top ten questions that interviewers ask in an interview.

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Speaker 1: If you throw those out, people are gonna want to

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Speaker 1: help you left and right because they've been through the situation.

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Speaker 1: And you want to be able to create a community

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Speaker 1: of supporters who can teach you what you need to know,

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Speaker 1: which will put you in the right place. Another thing is,

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Speaker 1: obviously people talk about avoiding politics and and UH and religion.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of tough to do nowadays. I mean sometimes

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Speaker 1: these social media sites will put that stuff up there

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Speaker 1: and people post their opinions. But I think if you

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Speaker 1: want to if you want to stand out and let

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Speaker 1: your brand shine, focus on what you bring to the table,

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Speaker 1: or focus on you know what challenges you're facing, and

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Speaker 1: look for solutions or people you know people that can

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Speaker 1: help you with those solutions. And the solution is the

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Speaker 1: most important. Is that put you in a position to win,

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Speaker 1: putting in a position to provide you and information that

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Speaker 1: is going to get to the next of them. Again,

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00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: before we get out of here, please Robert, tell everybody

858
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: how they can connect with you. Tell everybody you know,

859
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: what is your basic purpose or being on this show.

860
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: Just just wrap it up in the nutshell and you

861
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: know you have access to me anytime more importantly, please

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Speaker 1: give me a bann of email or del the deal

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00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: is my program director for money Making Conversations, email him

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Speaker 1: a banner so we can put it up on to

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Speaker 1: connect to your website today. And that's the whole purpose

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Speaker 1: of me developing truly money making conversations Facebook, because now

867
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Speaker 1: when I talk to entrepreneurs or talked to my guests,

868
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: I can start supporting you guys and also assisting in

869
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Speaker 1: your brand build and be able to get the word.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do it on my personal Facebook page as much,

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Speaker 1: but on this money to make conversation format that I

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Speaker 1: have is Facebook Face we own brother, So please get

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Speaker 1: your face, Please get your bant over to us today

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Speaker 1: so we can drive traffic to why be Connects. But

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Speaker 1: tell everybody how to reach you absolutely, So I'll just

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00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: start with my purpose. So my purpose is to create awareness,

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Speaker 1: empower leaders, promote philanthropy, and facilitate connections that lead to

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Speaker 1: outstanding outcomes. That's my purpose. Uh. And they can find

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Speaker 1: me on why be Connects dot com. All of my

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00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: social media platforms are there. Uh and uh And like

881
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: I said, if you connect with me on linked then

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00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: make sure you send a personalized message for someone I

883
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Speaker 1: have to emphasize that people hit to connect button and

884
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: it's just a random and random invitation, but they have

885
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Speaker 1: to send a personalized message to everybody they connect to.

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00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: And for those who are listening, send me a personalized

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Speaker 1: message and let me know you found me on the

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald show. And I'm looking forward to you know,

889
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: being able to serve. I'm looking forward to coming to Houston.

890
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: I love to meet you in person and build with you.

891
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Speaker 1: And where you face it, Robert, I'm out of Richmond.

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Speaker 1: I'm out of Richmond, Virginia, which my mentor call is

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Speaker 1: a rich Man Virginia. But we're right here in the

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Speaker 1: center center of Virginia. And uh, I traveled quite a

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Speaker 1: bit and I'm looking forward to the first smarter of

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Speaker 1: I'm putting together a team so we can uh take

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Speaker 1: some daytime and you, I want to tell you right

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Speaker 1: up from your phone, will get a ring my friend

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Speaker 1: Laura Fuse out of d C. Because we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: out there and change some lives. Man and do it

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Speaker 1: our way, and do it our way because you're a

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00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: fantastic person. But also you have information and I also

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Speaker 1: want to let everybody know from a fraternity side. He's

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Speaker 1: an alpha fi alpha, so you alpha fire alfa brother

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Speaker 1: start supporting him. Go to why Be Connects and tell

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Speaker 1: him heard your brother. I'm with your brother. Frat Brother

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Speaker 1: six or six to my brothers. Absolutely all right, my man,

908
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Robert. We're gonna talk toon my Man's Please

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Speaker 1: get that banner over to Dale or Money Making Conversations

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Speaker 1: the Facebook page. I appreciate you. We talked soon. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the encouraged my brother. Thanks for all you do. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, if you want to if you have videos,

913
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Speaker 1: the TV shows, you want to get on the multi

914
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Speaker 1: medium streams, my next guests can help you out because

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Speaker 1: we're out there producing a lot of projects. Just just

916
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Speaker 1: sitting on the basement. Are you just playing it for

917
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 1: your friends? With my next guests, we'll be able to

918
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Speaker 1: tell you how he can help you. That the world

919
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Speaker 1: see your work. And if your world see your work,

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Speaker 1: you might be on HPO like Insecure. Chake it out,

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Speaker 1: ro Sean McDonald, I'm your host the Money Making Conversation.

922
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Speaker 1: This show is just flying by, and don't forget I

923
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,959
Speaker 1: got my man Betley Evans at the bottom of the hour.

924
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Speaker 1: That guy, he's the reason I'm standing on this show

925
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Speaker 1: Bittley Evans, the creator Martin and he got three TV

926
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Speaker 1: shows sitcoms on television. Right now, he's at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the hour, but coming up next the founder Rise

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Speaker 1: as r y s E Rise, y'all rise for more

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Speaker 1: money making conversations. You're right back, We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: I'm loving it. I've had our first guest up was

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Speaker 1: my man Richard Jenkins. Are rich Jenkins from the Small

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Speaker 1: Business Administration. He was on to let everybody know who's

933
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Speaker 1: been affected small businesses that have been affected by Hurricane Harvey.

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Speaker 1: How they get long assistant for three point three interests

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Speaker 1: with no early penalties. Even if the loan is for

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Speaker 1: thirty years and you hold on all owners. You also

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Speaker 1: can get interest rates of one point seven one point

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Speaker 1: seven percent up to two hundred thousand dollars. The small

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Speaker 1: business loans could be up to two million dollars. That's

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Speaker 1: the incredible part of the relationship we're trying to create

941
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Speaker 1: with Money Making Conversation. We're trying to give you an

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Speaker 1: opportunity so you can win big by getting information so

943
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Speaker 1: you'll understand the next step to being successful. My next guest,

944
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Speaker 1: I'm in Atlanta, just talking because somehow people think I

945
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: love to talk. I don't. I don't love to talk.

946
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Speaker 1: I just love people to hear what I got to say.

947
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Speaker 1: My next test is the founder rise. There's R Y

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Speaker 1: s C rise, R I s C. That's how naunciated

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Speaker 1: a multimedia and marketing company committed to recognize the young,

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Speaker 1: successful and empower. That's what Ryan stands for. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to money making Conversations. Jay Jackson Senior, Hey man, how

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Speaker 1: you doing on Earth? Can you hear me? Right? I'll

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Speaker 1: hear you live clear. J J. You got one of

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Speaker 1: the smoothest pictures on LinkedIn. I appreciate that. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: But we met we rany to teach you that Moby right,

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Speaker 1: moby right. Absolutely, you are all the title spitting fire there. Man. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know the thing about it, and I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: saying that, Ja, And it's a passion and the thing

959
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Speaker 1: about me, J. And that's why I appreciate the compliment

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Speaker 1: is that what I try to do when I started

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Speaker 1: talking to people is let everybody know I'm gonna speak

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Speaker 1: the truth. So if you ask me, I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you how I failed. And if you talk to me,

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00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you how I succeeded, because both stories

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Speaker 1: have to be told. And what what what? What damages

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Speaker 1: the growth of so many people. They only hear the

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Speaker 1: success stories and you know, and building your platform Arise

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Speaker 1: And we were just talking and then you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a guy. I actually listen to people when they talk.

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Speaker 1: And you start telling me about this. A lot of people,

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Speaker 1: don't you know what I'm saying that they just watching

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Speaker 1: your lips move, ain't ain't here in the word, looking

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Speaker 1: at the person behind you, looking at the person behind you,

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Speaker 1: and listen to nothing. They got that little blank staff.

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Speaker 1: He'd be going him listen to me to talk. That's

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Speaker 1: what they do. They're waiting to talk right right and

977
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Speaker 1: so and so when you told me about your program.

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00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: Please let's get everybody super interested right now on money

979
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: making a conversation on my Facebook page. There's also be

980
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Speaker 1: played on my podcast which is on our Heart Radio.

981
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: And you heard live in Houston, Texas on kl f

982
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: L tell us about Rise absolutely well. Before I get

983
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Speaker 1: started out to say much love and prayers to the

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Speaker 1: victims in Las Vegas, man, I have some you know,

985
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Speaker 1: prayers out to them, but you know, to give you

986
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: a little bit of insight about Rise man is uh

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Speaker 1: where video on demand company targeted at the urban millennial market. Man,

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00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: So we'd like to call ourselves Netflix with swags and

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00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: uh and basically what we do, Wasteally, what we do

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Speaker 1: is we go and find creators, content creators who are

991
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Speaker 1: creating dynamic content and we make it available on our

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Speaker 1: platform and it's a subscription based platform, and really try

993
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Speaker 1: to focus on content that connects with that multicultural millennial audience. Man.

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Speaker 1: And so uh so that's in essence what we do, man.

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Speaker 1: We we like to amplify the voice of Erman creators.

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Speaker 1: Now what that mean is saying now you said a

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Speaker 1: lot real quick. Now this actually just I've just asked

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Speaker 1: you this, Jake, now because you said millennial. So so

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Speaker 1: you tell me grown people like that they can't even

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Speaker 1: upload on your site. Oh no, anybody can upload that

1001
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: has stories that connect with with the urban because you

1002
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Speaker 1: because you lost a lot of people right there with

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Speaker 1: my owner. This ain't this ain't hip hop America. You know,

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Speaker 1: this ain't the young flyve show. You know what I'm

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Speaker 1: saying on t RM. I'll just let you know what

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Speaker 1: you said when you said millennial. There's a lot of people.

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00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm fitted. It's not just for millennials, man,

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Speaker 1: but it's for people that that love, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: the urban culture. When I say urban, I don't mean

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Speaker 1: hip hop. I mean anything that connects with the with

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00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: the African American or the minority audience. Man that we

1012
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Speaker 1: go see. I had to reel you back because sometimes

1013
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: I'll tell you something, Jay, you could out there start

1014
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 1: talking to your fan. You can run off half your room.

1015
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 1: I can't let you do that because because when I

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00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: met you your platform, I felt there was a need

1017
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Speaker 1: and like I said, no, this is about me, j

1018
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: this is this will not be the only time you

1019
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,399
Speaker 1: will be on my show. This is a marketing opportunity

1020
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: that I'm providing to people to hear about your brain.

1021
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 1: And like I said, it's gonna be replayed on my ipode,

1022
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Speaker 1: on my my podcast, on our Heart Radio, It'll be

1023
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Speaker 1: posted on my Money Making Conversations Facebook page for because

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Speaker 1: I gotta keep selling people and the way that's the

1025
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: only way you're gonna win. Because people are such disbelievers

1026
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 1: and people are basically lazy in general when it comes

1027
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 1: to trying to be successful. That's why. That's why and

1028
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: I would say that correctly. What I said, that's why

1029
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Speaker 1: McDonald's keeps advertising, That's what Target keeps advertising. That's what

1030
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: if you Chick fil A keeps advertis why you know

1031
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: about that cow. If they stop advertising about that cow,

1032
00:55:55,520 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: sales will drop. Absolutely, they will. Absolutely. It's so this

1033
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Speaker 1: is like my whole thing. That's why I created Monimaking Conversation,

1034
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: which is another extension of the Neighborhood Awards where I

1035
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: supported small businesses, is to let people know, listen to

1036
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: this opportunity. He's a small business, but he's providing the

1037
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,280
Speaker 1: stream that you don't have right now. And my correct

1038
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 1: is saying that this dream that you're providing is a

1039
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: rare opportunity for content creators in the urban platform to

1040
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: be able to upload their shows on your platform. Correct

1041
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: and and and monetize it. And I'll tell you resign.

1042
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: Really really, where it came about is man, we looked

1043
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: at the success of platforms like Netflix and and like Hulu,

1044
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:40,280
Speaker 1: and obviously these are these are you know, well known platforms,

1045
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Speaker 1: international platforms that are extremely successful. But when you look

1046
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: at those platforms, less than one percent of the original programming,

1047
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Speaker 1: which are the greatest driver of growth for those platforms,

1048
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Speaker 1: less than one percent of the original programming was created

1049
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Speaker 1: by by by minority filmmakers. And so I started coming

1050
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Speaker 1: across all of these my noority filmmakers were shining. You're

1051
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: you're familiar with that industry because you have all these

1052
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: film festivals. They go out there, these films go there

1053
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: and they just die. They just die. Award winning content,

1054
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, Rashaun, award winning content that is in their

1055
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: winning awards and these film festivals and you never see

1056
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: this content. And for these content creators man other than

1057
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: these film festivals and others than YouTube, which you know

1058
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: sometimes they can't make, you know, a significant amount of

1059
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Speaker 1: money from I said, man, we have to create a

1060
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: platform for you, for you all to be able to

1061
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: monetize this content and be able to get this content

1062
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: out there to the audiences that will connect with it.

1063
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: And that that is the that is the reason that

1064
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: we launched this this platform and understanding media, Okay, And

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Speaker 1: that's the reason you're on this show because because you'd,

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Speaker 1: like said, you know that you have to spread the

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Speaker 1: word and the more people and more quality people you

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Speaker 1: communicate with, because it's all about quality. Because no, this

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Speaker 1: is about Jay he's just not uploading junk on his network. No, no,

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Speaker 1: not at all. Can you give us some parameters on

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Speaker 1: exactly how you know, how this one get the content

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Speaker 1: to you? Is it a certain length? Give us a parameters? Well, so,

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Speaker 1: so here's the thing, man. We we focus on creators

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Speaker 1: that are are creating great content. And it could be

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Speaker 1: a number of different things. So we have everything from uh,

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Speaker 1: from web series on there to feature films, two documentaries. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, there is a process of selection process and

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Speaker 1: because because again you know, we're not just looking for

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Speaker 1: anything and everything that could go on YouTube. We really

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Speaker 1: want to make sure that we focus on on quality content.

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Speaker 1: So so you know, those those are something we definitely

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Speaker 1: have a process. And so they can go to on

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Speaker 1: the Rise dot com and and rises with the Y

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Speaker 1: and they can you know, certainly learn more about what

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Speaker 1: it is that we do learn more about the process.

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Speaker 1: But it's not anything and everything because the audience doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to see anything and everything and and and just

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Speaker 1: because we're targetting a minority audience doesn't mean that our

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Speaker 1: quality is going to be any less than what you

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Speaker 1: would expect. Is that what happens people just think that

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Speaker 1: you know, it's black as cheap, it's poorly produced, there's

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Speaker 1: no standards. That's what That's what annoyed me the most,

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Speaker 1: man about about you know, about being black, you know,

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Speaker 1: because being African American, because of the fact that it

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Speaker 1: is the process. You know, sometimes your add rage can

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Speaker 1: be cheaper. People think all that's some junk over there.

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Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. Things like that. That's

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Speaker 1: why when I met you, it was it was a

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Speaker 1: prioritist for me, because I know, I've been in the

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Speaker 1: television industry and fortunately in the movie industry as well,

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Speaker 1: all the books, radio, and I know I fought that battle, man,

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Speaker 1: and I will continue to fight that battle to say

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Speaker 1: my work, my productions are the same quality as a

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Speaker 1: non African American project exactly. And and everything that we do.

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Speaker 1: We've been in the media business for for about six years,

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Speaker 1: and out of the gate, we came with the best

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Speaker 1: level of quality that we could because we certainly wanted

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Speaker 1: to combat that. And and I come, I come across

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Speaker 1: all these creators that are creating great content. Man. But

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Speaker 1: they take these ideas, and they take these concepts, they

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily have the relationships they take them to Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: If they can even get those those kind of connections,

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Speaker 1: and you know, if they can even get there, and

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Speaker 1: and nobody gives them an opportunity if they don't have

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Speaker 1: a big name, they don't they aren't giving that opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And so that's what I love. That's why I love

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Speaker 1: what we do with Rising, and uh, I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to even greater things with us as we get into

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Speaker 1: original content production of our own. Um, you know, so

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Speaker 1: excited about where we're going with it now, you know

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Speaker 1: under like with Netflix, I'm a Netflix fan. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: don't have Hulu, I don't have Amazon. Netflix got not

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Speaker 1: money right now? Okay, they got they got the Marvel series,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know they got you know, they got Nackos.

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Speaker 1: I love Nackos, Nockles, the new season, they got Stranger

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Speaker 1: Things and things. But all these are categorized, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So so when they come to Rise, uh,

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Speaker 1: you is every because that's the medio of streaming. Because

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Speaker 1: streaming allows the entrepreneurs like you to exist because you're

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Speaker 1: not really trying to program twenty four hours a day

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Speaker 1: to day, like you're providing content. You go over there,

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Speaker 1: you click on the common, you click on the heart,

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Speaker 1: you click on the side fire. Is this separated like

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Speaker 1: that on Rise? Yeah, Yeah, it's absolutely. It's separated into categories.

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Speaker 1: It's separated into uh, you know, in genres, whether you're

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Speaker 1: looking for a series, whether you're looking for a short.

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Speaker 1: Which is an opportunity that that we've been able to

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Speaker 1: capitalize on um is being able to bring shorts onto

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Speaker 1: the platform. So so I mean it is no different

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Speaker 1: than an experience that you would have, including the quality

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Speaker 1: of the technology. It is no difference than an experience

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Speaker 1: that you would have at Netflix. Uh, it's just that

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Speaker 1: the content is created by minority filmmakers and the stories

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Speaker 1: are going to connect with the minority. Order. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: something Jay Jackson Senior. If you have a moment, I'm

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01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: going to break. I want to bring it back to

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01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,919
Speaker 1: we can wrap up. And I'm enjoying this conversation because

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Speaker 1: of the fact that I'm providing information that and also

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Speaker 1: created a relationship with you, because you know this best

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01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: lost is about relationship and if I can, I know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna share a couple of stories on the

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01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: other side that let people know how you gotta do

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01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: it this way, you gotta be able to sit down

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01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: with individuals like Jay. They are rules that he has

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Speaker 1: even at his level. Now, if you don't abate the

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Speaker 1: rules he has a hit level, you're never making the Netflix,

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Speaker 1: You're never making the ABC. He is like a he's

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01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 1: like the farming system to get it right. So that's

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Speaker 1: why you just can't bring no sloppy mess over there

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Speaker 1: and get mad when he tells you know, yeah, be

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01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: looking at be looking at you like you don't know

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Speaker 1: what you're talking about. But here's the thing side. We'll

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Speaker 1: work with you now, we'll we'll work with you right

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01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: right not you understand that protest, which you might not

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01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: get with some of the other platforms, and so we

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Speaker 1: want you to get there. We want to be at

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Speaker 1: that place to help you. I like that, did you

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Speaker 1: hear what? Did you hear? What he said? Here? Work

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01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,360
Speaker 1: with you. But he won't fight with you though. That's

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Speaker 1: a big difference. What j is not gonna do is

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01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: fight with you. And if you give you a note

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01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: for change and you come back with the same product,

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01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: that relationship is gonna go a little sideways right there,

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01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: because you're right there, he thought he talking to a

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Speaker 1: very ignorant person. You will be racked right back with

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Speaker 1: more rises R Y s C. I'm loving this, Jay,

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Speaker 1: I hope you're loving it too. Were listening to money

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Speaker 1: making Conversations. Keep your ears up, everybody, because we spread

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Speaker 1: some news. Boy cool, welcome back to money making conversations.

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Speaker 1: This show is on eight that's in Houston, Texas, on

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Speaker 1: your AM dial. Next this very mark, We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: on FL, sir. That's a little hidden secret, but we're

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01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: going up on FL. I'm taking over Houston, y'all because

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01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: I've been called the black Mole just a small entrepreneurship,

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01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 1: and I'm holding onto that title. We've had my man

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01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: Rick Jenkins from SBA Disaster Assistance Office on air, my

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01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: man Drawn Love from the Texas Black Expo been on

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Speaker 1: the air, and then my man Robert A. Y Be

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Speaker 1: connection as Robert young Blood foremost authority and linked in

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Speaker 1: social media trainee and connections. But now I got my

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01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: man Jay Jackson met this young man at Moby he

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Speaker 1: as he said, I was on the stage spitting five

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Speaker 1: five the building what I'm trying to do with this show?

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, because you know a post I

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01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: love posting on LinkedIn and I saw you you you

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Speaker 1: share the post about me and telling everybody to tune in,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate that. But that's how relationships grow, that's

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Speaker 1: how you that's how you spread the word, and that's

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Speaker 1: how it's important about your brand. So so this whole break,

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Speaker 1: I just really want to slow it down a little

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01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: bit and let everybody explain to everybody again what exact

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Speaker 1: the is rise a's R Y s E. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: I'll slow it down. Um, we're a video on demand service.

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Speaker 1: Um that is targeted that that that that urban audience.

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Speaker 1: So so if you think about what Netflix is, we

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Speaker 1: we focus on urban audiences. We were like, we're a

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Speaker 1: MR of BT meets Netflix. That's that's the best way.

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Speaker 1: But but their shows, well take them a hard time

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Speaker 1: getting on BT, but they can come to rise R

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Speaker 1: y s C and you work with them, get the

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Speaker 1: standards to your network standards and put them on that correct.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. And so if there are content creators out

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Speaker 1: there that are creating content that are struggling with distribution

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Speaker 1: of their content and looking for ways to to monetize

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Speaker 1: their content, um, those are the top type of people

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Speaker 1: that we look for. We we we you know, sour

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Speaker 1: film festivals all across the nation in search of everything

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Speaker 1: from web series to documentaries to feature films. Too short. Um,

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Speaker 1: and if it if it's targets an urban audience, then

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Speaker 1: then we wanted on our platform and you know, to

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Speaker 1: meet certain quality for awesome. Now, let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: You're an entrepreneur. It's not always easy to be an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: Know what keeps you going? My friends? Man? What keeps

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Speaker 1: me going? Man? Is passion? Man, I tell you I'm

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Speaker 1: driven by purpose. I I listened to your other callers

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Speaker 1: and they were talking about the why and talking about passion.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like you, ra Sean I I one of

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Speaker 1: my pet peeves is when I see people who are

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Speaker 1: settling right, who are not happy, and and they have

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Speaker 1: the power. Man, they have the power to take control

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Speaker 1: of their life, but they don't do it. And so

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, everything that we've I've ever done

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Speaker 1: and been an entrepreneur for a long time rises in

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Speaker 1: our first venture. Um. But it's always been about empowering,

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Speaker 1: providing and empowering resource, much like you're doing with your

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Speaker 1: radio show that can say hey, here's an opportunity right

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01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: to take what you do or what you have a

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01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: passion for doing what you have a talent for doing.

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01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 1: And uh, and we can help you turn it into

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Speaker 1: something that you can make, you know, make a lot

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01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 1: of money with and uh and enjoy life. Now, how

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01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,960
Speaker 1: do you promote Rise? How? What is the what are

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01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: the channels? You know? You know, it's a funny thing

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01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 1: about it that that's out there, like you know, Facebook

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01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 1: getself promoted? You know, is your Twitter? Netflix? You get

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Speaker 1: a remote? Netflix sitting on there. It's you're sitting right there,

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Speaker 1: you know, I HBO ain't sitting there, Cinemax ain't sitting

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Speaker 1: there for Netflix, and sitting on my remote for my

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Speaker 1: Sony TV I just bought on my Samsung TV. Right

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Speaker 1: It's just sitting right there. So Netflix a getting promoted

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01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: right there. We shot in our studio. It says Netflix

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01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: right there. That's the craziest thing I've ever seen in

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Speaker 1: my life. They can't help up win, No, yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and and and that's fine, And that's fine because we

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Speaker 1: focus on promoting to where our audience is at. And

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Speaker 1: so um we have the app available to Rise app

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01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: is available in you know, for Apple, for Android, for Amazon,

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Speaker 1: and for Windows devices. So they can certainly download the

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Speaker 1: Rise app by just saying, you know, typing in going

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Speaker 1: to their their app store is typing in Rise app

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Speaker 1: r y s E. We're available online. You can go

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Speaker 1: to on the Rise dot com and that will take

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Speaker 1: you to our multimedia platform. You can access Rise TV

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Speaker 1: from there. So uh and and actually we're in the

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Speaker 1: process of developing in Roadku app. So while we might

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Speaker 1: not have our logo on the remote, uh, if an

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Speaker 1: individual has the Roku device that you know curates a

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Speaker 1: lot of different streaming platform they can go right there

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Speaker 1: in Our app will will be available in the next

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Speaker 1: couple of months. Because yeah, I'm changing. I'm a technology guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I have slain Box. I've been doing

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Speaker 1: by for everybody knew what sling was, you know, five years.

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Speaker 1: I've because we're on the road. You never home TV,

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Speaker 1: you know, so I slam box is the device that

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Speaker 1: allows you to don't care where you're in the world,

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Speaker 1: as long as you have WiFi internet, you connect to

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Speaker 1: your cable box at your house and whatever your service

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Speaker 1: is channels or uh, subscriptions you have on your cable

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Speaker 1: service at your home, you can see it. I've seen

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Speaker 1: it in pairs. I watched TV Jamaica. I watched TV

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Speaker 1: in Canada, I watched TV in Africa. That's what slam

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Speaker 1: box is. I'm just saying these things that what he's

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Speaker 1: talking about, it is not going away, that's all. This

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Speaker 1: is not going away. This is the way and and

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Speaker 1: and and what what bothers me is that everybody like

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Speaker 1: this is a young thing. Okay, no, no, no no. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: I an I did run into a lady. I was

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Speaker 1: in New York and she took a picture of me,

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Speaker 1: and she had a flip phone. Kind of scared me

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Speaker 1: because because she handed it to a young guy and

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Speaker 1: he looked at it, like, what's gonna do with this?

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Speaker 1: She said, she said, young man, you know the right

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Speaker 1: there when I used to word young man, you know,

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Speaker 1: an old person had that flip phone. Now right now.

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Speaker 1: She ain't gonna be a rise customer that right now, bro, No,

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Speaker 1: not at all. She is knock maybe not right away

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Speaker 1: or no no no, no no no. Because she was

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Speaker 1: in love and I looked at and asked her. I

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Speaker 1: asked us, as ma'am, you know this flip phone right

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Speaker 1: here outdated. I'm not getting me to this. As soon

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Speaker 1: as you went that, I'm not. When I learned ja

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Speaker 1: don't argue with all the people they're closed to do.

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Speaker 1: They're close to the end. You know, I'm saying, it's

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Speaker 1: funny that you said that, because even when we came

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Speaker 1: about this whole concept and begin before we begin building

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Speaker 1: this man, we have been a media company for years,

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01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 1: and I think I put a magazine in your hand

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Speaker 1: when I was absolutely nice magazine. Then I want to

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Speaker 1: be in you know what I'm saying. So, so here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. I had about twelve writers, all under the

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Speaker 1: age that wrote for me. And one day I signed

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Speaker 1: the article to one of the writers to cover something

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Speaker 1: that was coming on on traditional television and she said

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Speaker 1: to me, Jay, well I don't I don't have cable.

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Speaker 1: And I was blown away. This is several years ago now,

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Speaker 1: and she sause, well, I I streamed, said I stream

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Speaker 1: everything you know online. And so I went and asked

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Speaker 1: the other eleven writers, all of them under sean, and

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Speaker 1: only two of them even on the TV, and only

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Speaker 1: one of them had cable out of all twelve of them.

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Speaker 1: And I said, oh, clearly, this is where the future

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Speaker 1: is at. This is whether that is what caused us

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Speaker 1: the pivot into that direction and begin building out this platform.

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Speaker 1: And building out this farm of rise because it is

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Speaker 1: it is a phenomenal because I know that you know

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Speaker 1: when the and then we're talking to technology, because we're

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Speaker 1: all always tell people the iPhone is only eight years

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Speaker 1: old because Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy when she was

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Speaker 1: running against President of Barack Obama on her iPhone. So

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Speaker 1: it's only eight years old, okay, a little bit over

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Speaker 1: eight years old, okay. And so with that being said,

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Speaker 1: it's it's important to people understand that if first you

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Speaker 1: had the iPads, you know, an iPads, we will will

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Speaker 1: put out there. They were popular because people wanted to

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Speaker 1: look at something that was comfortable to their television. Said okay,

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Speaker 1: but now you know you watch TV on your phone now,

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: and so you what you stream on your phone, and

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Speaker 1: so because of that, the game has changed. Officially. It

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Speaker 1: means that what we're talking about streaming and and and

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Speaker 1: and streaming and watching your television and watching movies and

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Speaker 1: all these things, the way of life is on your phone,

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Speaker 1: and it's not and it's only gonna get smaller and

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01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: eventually you're gonna have glasses that you're gonna just put

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Speaker 1: on your on your on your head and watch TV

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Speaker 1: right through these little glasses that's called virtual TV and

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Speaker 1: all that's coming. And so, so what what are the

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Speaker 1: goals for you in the next few years? Are you

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Speaker 1: gonna try to get a venture capital is involved? What's

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01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: the goal here because you owned something and also tell

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Speaker 1: people how they can submit their are content to you. Okay, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So it's funny that you asked me about the goals

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01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 1: because we launched um in our in vata format and

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Speaker 1: that that is when you're launching a test phase, and

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Speaker 1: we shattered the numbers the projections that we that we anticipated,

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Speaker 1: and so we said, okay, we know we have something

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Speaker 1: here that the audience is hungry for. We know one

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Speaker 1: thing we do know is that people of color watch

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Speaker 1: more content than than anybody else, right, So so we

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Speaker 1: know that we got an audience that is looking for

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Speaker 1: content that they can relate to. And so next for

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Speaker 1: us is we're in We just entered a seed round

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Speaker 1: of funding for us. So now we're in that capital

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Speaker 1: raising fide. We're feeding with with angel investors because we

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Speaker 1: wanted to be right. We don't want to trickle this

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Speaker 1: thing out and it be nickel and dying the whole way.

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Speaker 1: We want to launch and in its absolutely and then

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Speaker 1: also just the quality, even more content, being able to

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Speaker 1: buy even more content. I mean to know, Netflix spends

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Speaker 1: millions on content, and we don't necessarily know you have

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Speaker 1: the million subsis, but we certainly want to make sure

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Speaker 1: that content creators are getting paid and uh, in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of years, we look to build our our

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Speaker 1: subscriber base, and we've looked to build that that that

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Speaker 1: subscriber base up and and become a household name among

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Speaker 1: our community, very much like Netflix is among I want

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Speaker 1: to appreciate this fantastic and interview. By the way, you

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Speaker 1: know you have a friend, do me a favor. Let's

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01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: get a banner over so we can posted on money

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01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,760
Speaker 1: making conversations so we can promote what you're doing over

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Speaker 1: rise h. Like I said, my program directors is Adel Henderson,

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Speaker 1: Samantha Taylor haunts all of my small business guests that

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Speaker 1: we put on the show. It's it's just a great opportunity.

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01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: And I feel that what you're doing it's only gonna build.

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01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 1: But it's only gonna build because you're creating relationships. And

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Speaker 1: I feel I'm one of the relationships that you can

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Speaker 1: count on. Okay, I appreciate that I appreciate. They can

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Speaker 1: visit us that on the Rise with the Hye on

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Speaker 1: the Rise dot M and that's where they can get

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Speaker 1: way more information. Cool. We've been on the phone with

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Speaker 1: the File the creator multimedia platform Rise as R y

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Speaker 1: S C. J. Jackson C. Thank you Jay for carling

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Speaker 1: on money making conversations than we've been back with more.

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Speaker 1: My man Bitley Evans, the creator Martin the Creative Jay

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Speaker 1: Fox Show. He gave him my five first shot. That's

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Speaker 1: a true executive producer on a major sitcom back in

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Speaker 1: the day. That's why I'm standing there because of bit Live.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that Loud. I'm gonna tell him

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01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: that when he called in to we've been back with

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Speaker 1: more money main conversation. If you're feeling the energy I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to give you the opportunity I'm trying to give

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01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: you successful, then you're listening to the right show. Right back,

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01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: all right, last break, last half hour the show. Ruean McDonald,

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01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: I'm your host on my making a conversation. My next

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Speaker 1: guest puts a spile on my face. He's played a

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Speaker 1: major role in my career in entertainment. Be honest with

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01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna say that right up front. I can honestly

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01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: tell you that he trusted me and gave me an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to co executive produce on his hit Damie Fox

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Speaker 1: sitcom when he was on the w B, I showed

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Speaker 1: that he created an executive produced himself. He currently helms, helms,

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Speaker 1: or runs or producers three TV sitcoms currently airing on

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Speaker 1: Bounce TV. He is the creative the comedy's family Time

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Speaker 1: in the Cut and Grown Folks. That's his newest show.

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Speaker 1: Please Walk from the Money Making Conversations Bentley, Kyle Evans,

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Speaker 1: Hey Benley. Then I let you out. Then I let

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Speaker 1: you out. Hey man, you laid it out perfect and

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Speaker 1: I still shust you. And I'm so proud of you, man,

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Speaker 1: so proud of your accomplishments. Well, thank you man. You

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Speaker 1: know I saw your studio when I came out there.

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Speaker 1: You invited me out there to the studio Northfield Rights, California,

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Speaker 1: Nor three, California, which is just north of the valley

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California. And the thing about it is

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to first of all, I want to

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01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:12,080
Speaker 1: let you know that everything you do that you're doing

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Speaker 1: right now with your sitcoms, please give me any siss

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Speaker 1: a real, any banners and that the days that the

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Speaker 1: shows come on, and I will tell you they will

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Speaker 1: be posted on my money making conversation platform. That's why

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Speaker 1: I designed this show to give give people that I

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01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:31,640
Speaker 1: know in this business who who just needs extra opportunity

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Speaker 1: to get their word out. You know, you bounces doing

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Speaker 1: their job, but I know you need other people to

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Speaker 1: see it, and eventually things become viral and you get

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Speaker 1: hit shows. And that's the whole process. It isn't it

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Speaker 1: bent like it really is, man, And I will do

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Speaker 1: just that. I appreciate I appreciate you giving me that

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01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 1: opportunity to to you know, share my platform on your platform.

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Speaker 1: So it is exactly the way to do it. And

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just a new paradigm. It's a

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Speaker 1: new new time in this entertainment game where we can

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Speaker 1: do that and we need that social media push and

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Speaker 1: that's what that's what you know a lot of people say,

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01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, my life is really great from what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about Defences. This show is broadcasting live in Houston, Texas.

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01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,600
Speaker 1: It will be heard again on my Heart Radio podcast

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01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 1: and I'm also broadcasting on my Facebook page on money

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Speaker 1: making conversation. So those are mediums. And I'm about to

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Speaker 1: pick up another station podcast and Washington d C. Because

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Speaker 1: of the growth of the show, because of the word

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Speaker 1: of trying to get out and this is about small entrepreneurship,

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01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: and that's what you do. You're an entrepreneur and you

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01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 1: started real earlier. This this is where I really got

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01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: you on the show, Bndley, because you know, you knew

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01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: early on my man, this is what you want to do.

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Speaker 1: How does that operate your you know, you know, I

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01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:48,599
Speaker 1: really try to wrap my head around people who figured

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Speaker 1: out so young. How how I mean? You know, it's

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Speaker 1: interesting because I, like a lot of other people in

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Speaker 1: the entertainment industry, you know, we you know, you're infatuated

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Speaker 1: the idea of getting popular and showing your face through

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Speaker 1: the acting medium. And you know, I realized I was

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Speaker 1: you funny by the way. He's funny now. But just

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Speaker 1: let you know, this is a very entertaining executive producer

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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of a lot of out they're

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Speaker 1: just just tied. But you actually be laughing so hard

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Speaker 1: in the writer's room with You're going he paid me

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Speaker 1: for this, He paid me for this? Okay, cool? How

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Speaker 1: about that, man. I mean, I love being I love

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Speaker 1: keeping it fun. Man. The cats that I learned from

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Speaker 1: we're just the funniest people. Robert telling who you and

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Speaker 1: I both have in common, and every wins and and

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Speaker 1: and Martin Lawrence and those guys that you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just it keeps it fun. And I knew early on

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to be behind the scenes, but I

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Speaker 1: was always told that that was not necessarily a game

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Speaker 1: that black people could get in. Come on, and and

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Speaker 1: on top of that, you know, my story was a

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Speaker 1: little different because I didn't have the college degree. You Therefore,

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Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna be a little more difficult.

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Speaker 1: But I knew I wanted to be behind the scenes

1481
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 1: because I felt like that's where the real money was

1482
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: being made. And that was that was it for me.

1483
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:10,840
Speaker 1: So as soon as I got an opportunity to jump

1484
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:14,520
Speaker 1: from in front of the camera to writing and producing,

1485
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,760
Speaker 1: which you know, Martin Lawrence gave me a shot at that,

1486
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: I immediately jumped at that. And uh and that's that's

1487
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 1: pretty much my you know, my my little road to

1488
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,599
Speaker 1: getting behind the scenes. Okay, Okay, see now that's why

1489
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:29,599
Speaker 1: that's why I hate right there, you know, he tried

1490
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 1: to put it down a little road. Look, the most

1491
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: popular black show other than the Cosby Show, and then

1492
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:40,280
Speaker 1: here's your black people's Martin. Yeah, you know what. And

1493
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: when we were making I am I telling the truth

1494
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:44,560
Speaker 1: and my law you are man, We didn't know, we

1495
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: didn't know, we had no idea, man, and the hear'story

1496
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 1: of black people. You have Cosby, then you have Martin

1497
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, man, I mean it's it's man. I

1498
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 1: don't even know what to say about it because it's it's. Uh.

1499
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 1: It took us all by surprise, but I do I

1500
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:02,479
Speaker 1: will say that we were all swinging for the fence.

1501
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 1: I mean, Martin gave it everything he had on that floor,

1502
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: and you know, if it wasn't on the page, it

1503
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 1: wasn't on the stage. So we gave it all we

1504
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 1: had in that writer's room too, and that and that

1505
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:14,720
Speaker 1: that that that pretty much. Let let me get a

1506
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: little extra little bump about it. He started as an

1507
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: intern on Hollywood Shuffle. That was Robert Howson breakout movie

1508
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: that he did with the with Keen and Iva Rans.

1509
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 1: You know, that's what and intern really don't get paid.

1510
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 1: That's what always annoyed me about people. They want to

1511
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: get paid to everything they do. You know, they if

1512
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: you don't pay me. And I always tell people that

1513
01:21:35,479 --> 01:21:37,320
Speaker 1: a lot of things you're doing this business to get

1514
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 1: ahead will not be attached to a check you but

1515
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 1: the relationship that you create can eventually give you a

1516
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: check and get you get paid, get and get and

1517
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: give you an opportunity to get paid. So that was

1518
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 1: that's how you really got started. Then on Martin you

1519
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: you came on as a writer. Correct, how I was

1520
01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: that relationship? Yeah, man, you know it's I mean, coming

1521
01:21:57,479 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 1: into the Martin Show, I mean it was really interesting

1522
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: because we were boys and and uh you know, he

1523
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:05,720
Speaker 1: kept telling me, you know, mine's a straight shooter, and

1524
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 1: he said, hey, man, look I got this shot. They

1525
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 1: want to do this show with me, and I don't

1526
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:11,800
Speaker 1: know what the show is, but I need you to,

1527
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,599
Speaker 1: uh you know, come come with me and check my voice.

1528
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 1: Check my voice exactly because Steve deal with Steve Harvey,

1529
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: I do exactly what you talk about. You know exactly

1530
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:23,720
Speaker 1: what it is. So then when he said, uh, I

1531
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: told him, I said, well, look man, I need to

1532
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:27,320
Speaker 1: be writing the show. He said, yeah, well bet you

1533
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:29,679
Speaker 1: know I mean no, no, no offense. You know, we active,

1534
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know. And I showed him

1535
01:22:32,439 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: like a body of work that I had working on

1536
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: Stack that nobody had ever seen. And and Martin called

1537
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 1: me up on a weekend and said, yo, man, I

1538
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:45,800
Speaker 1: was reading the script you wrote these, And I was like, yeah,

1539
01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 1: he goes, You've gotta be my writer. You're you're it.

1540
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you relate to me, you know me, and

1541
01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: I think we can make something happen. And he, man,

1542
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:56,640
Speaker 1: he went out on a limb man and got me

1543
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 1: in that game. He took me into a meeting at

1544
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 1: twentieth Century five and they told him that I had

1545
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: to wait outside. Come on at them that if it

1546
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 1: was if he didn't come into the room, I wasn't

1547
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 1: coming into the room. Come on, now, come on, now.

1548
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 1: We don't do that for each other, man, And that's

1549
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:14,400
Speaker 1: that's the reason we stay down. And he did that

1550
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 1: for me, and anybody that got something bad to say

1551
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: about money, they need to come to see me, because

1552
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:21,040
Speaker 1: I'll think him I'm the guy he should take to

1553
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: the fight. I'm telling you something interesting that's a very

1554
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:26,560
Speaker 1: similar story you know that Steve Harvey did for me

1555
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:30,120
Speaker 1: on this first TV show with being the boys because

1556
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 1: Steve and myself j Anthony Brown, and he said, I

1557
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 1: want you all to write because guess what, when you're

1558
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: an African American person, you get in the writer's room,

1559
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 1: basically it's gonna be a white writer's room, and they

1560
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:42,679
Speaker 1: know nothing about you. They know nothing about your culture.

1561
01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:45,240
Speaker 1: They may have saw some stand up videos about you,

1562
01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: and they go in their room talking about they know

1563
01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 1: who you are, and now they're supposed to write script

1564
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 1: for your in your voice and they and I remember

1565
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 1: the ABC the producer UH said that, well, well we'll

1566
01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 1: read some of these scripts and see if we will

1567
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 1: consider him Steve Win. If they don't do the show,

1568
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: I won't get it back on that plane. That is

1569
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:07,439
Speaker 1: how I got into business, because he stepped up for

1570
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:10,760
Speaker 1: me and gave me my shot on ABC, on Me

1571
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 1: and the Boars, just like Martin Lawrence stepped up for

1572
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: you and gave you your shot. But the difference is

1573
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 1: you learned the business the way I learned the business.

1574
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: That's why you're still successful in the business. That's why

1575
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 1: you're on the phone today because we're going to talk

1576
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: about that journey. We're about to go to a break

1577
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 1: and we come back, Billy. I know you have two

1578
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: shows premiering tonight. Correct, Man, Okay, I know why you're

1579
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:37,280
Speaker 1: on this show. But man, we're here to promote these

1580
01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 1: TV shows now. But I had to tell everybody that

1581
01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: your your history, because see, you are a book and

1582
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:48,640
Speaker 1: you are a motivational guy, because your journey needs to

1583
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:51,800
Speaker 1: be exposed to everybody who's out there hustling. And it's

1584
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:54,120
Speaker 1: not a journey that starts overnight. But you have two

1585
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 1: shows that are gonna start tonight. That's gonna be family time,

1586
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be grown folks tonight on Bounce TV.

1587
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,680
Speaker 1: When we come back, he's gonna break everything down. We're

1588
01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:06,080
Speaker 1: gonna also hear about that third show. And you also

1589
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 1: gonna send me some some banners or some graphics or

1590
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 1: some sizzle real so I can start promoting this on

1591
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,760
Speaker 1: my Facebook, my Twitter, and my Instagram account today. Is

1592
01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: that a deal? Nothing done? Deal. We'll be right back.

1593
01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 1: We've been the Evans, my man, Thank you. I'll tell

1594
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: the world, brit the Evers is the reason I'm famous.

1595
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:34,160
Speaker 1: Be right back with more money making conversations. True, Hi,

1596
01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:37,040
Speaker 1: this is ras Sean McDonald's back with money making conversation

1597
01:25:37,360 --> 01:25:40,439
Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Houston, Texas. We can also be heard

1598
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: on podcast as My Heart Radio. Also can be seen

1599
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,840
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page Mighty making conversation. I'm on the

1600
01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:49,400
Speaker 1: phone with a I call him a friend, I call

1601
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: him a mentor call him a guy who looked at

1602
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:54,240
Speaker 1: me and saw me not for my color, but for

1603
01:25:54,360 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 1: my talents, and give me a shot at co executive

1604
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,519
Speaker 1: and co executive. One of the incredible arts comes on

1605
01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:04,559
Speaker 1: at that time, staring a hot talent because he came

1606
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: off that movie. Any given Sunday, Mr Jamie Fox, Now Bentley,

1607
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: you just wrapped up in the cut that was on

1608
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: this summer. Correct, that's correct. It ran for thirteen consecutive weeks,

1609
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,560
Speaker 1: and uh we did great, great, great numbers for for

1610
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: its uh for its second season, third season, excuse me

1611
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 1: so removed? You got renewed for the fourth season. Right,

1612
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:29,439
Speaker 1: that's correct, Yes, sir, Yeah, I'm I do my homework bad.

1613
01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 1: I I know you know this first time on my show,

1614
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 1: and you know I'm not Jimmy Fallon or nothing, you know,

1615
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: but I do my homework because you'll start. Man, I

1616
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,360
Speaker 1: gotta make sure I sell you like you're supposed to

1617
01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: be sold, like a star that you are in the

1618
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 1: producing business, my friend. So who's starting on in the

1619
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 1: Cut because I know Dorin Wilson, that's my boy from

1620
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 1: The Parkers. Yeah, and then you got you got Channel

1621
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:56,560
Speaker 1: Lawson Kennel who was also on The Parkers, right, and

1622
01:26:57,200 --> 01:27:00,560
Speaker 1: then the very very very funny John Marshall Jones j

1623
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: J J. J. Marshall Jones. This dude is funny from

1624
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:07,720
Speaker 1: a smart guy. And then of course Rashan you know,

1625
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:10,600
Speaker 1: and you know a person of Laura Hayes and h

1626
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 1: Comedian one of the original queens of comedy oh Man.

1627
01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 1: And she's killing the thing. She's I mean, she's she's

1628
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 1: really killing it. So that the ind the Cut series,

1629
01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 1: it stars those four and Kalita Smith also from the

1630
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: Bernie Max Show. And now you got like through Kalita

1631
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,479
Speaker 1: out there. Now you know Galita now from the Bernie

1632
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 1: Mac Show. Now now in in terms of black shows,

1633
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:34,679
Speaker 1: now I gotta write them. Now it's the Cosby Show,

1634
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:37,559
Speaker 1: is Martin, and then it was the Bernie Max Show.

1635
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. She played Bernie Max on the

1636
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:46,600
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right, that's right. So you know the

1637
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 1: show is it's a fun show. I keep most of

1638
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 1: my shows kind of kind of small. Uh. We don't

1639
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 1: need huge casts. We don't need a thousands thats. We're

1640
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 1: telling good stories and uh, and stories that hopefully will

1641
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:01,680
Speaker 1: be around for generation. It wasn't it, But that's how

1642
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:03,880
Speaker 1: sitcom started. We talked about all the way back to

1643
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: I Love Lucy. When that whole multi camera format was stopped,

1644
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:11,080
Speaker 1: there was only in two rooms. I Love Lucy, that's right,

1645
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:14,679
Speaker 1: the Dick Van Dyke Show, they were only in two rooms,

1646
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 1: the writer's room and their home room. That the living room.

1647
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: That was it on the Dick Van Dyke Show. So

1648
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 1: you just basically going back to what TV was. You

1649
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: always tell people black and white. You had to act

1650
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:28,600
Speaker 1: and you had to have a story color. You know,

1651
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:31,639
Speaker 1: they can fool you. That is good, blow up some stuff.

1652
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 1: And so when I saw when I went on your

1653
01:28:34,200 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 1: set and I saw that went, then you do a

1654
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:39,799
Speaker 1: real television to meet because it's all about the content,

1655
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:43,120
Speaker 1: is all about good acting, is all all about delivering

1656
01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:46,360
Speaker 1: entertainment that's relatable. And that's what you're doing over there

1657
01:28:46,400 --> 01:28:49,360
Speaker 1: with your three sitcoms. Correct. That is correct, man, that

1658
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: is correct. I'm trying to do that. The Black Norman leader. Man,

1659
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:55,320
Speaker 1: I'm trying to come on, come on, come on, normal lives,

1660
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:58,080
Speaker 1: the Jefferson's good time. You got to educate people. You

1661
01:28:58,160 --> 01:29:01,040
Speaker 1: thought them names, they don't know that's that's that's big

1662
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:03,600
Speaker 1: names right there, and that that's an opportunity to be

1663
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:06,599
Speaker 1: able to say that. You're trying to control your models,

1664
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:08,640
Speaker 1: to be able to right now, you've got three of

1665
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:11,200
Speaker 1: them there on Bounced TV, and you're you're doing it

1666
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 1: at a budget that allows you to be able to

1667
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 1: expand your horizons in that genre. Correct, that is correct?

1668
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: That that's correct. You know, Rashane, I spent uh, you know,

1669
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 1: twenty years in what I thought was show business, uh,

1670
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: until I realized that I wasn't in show business at all.

1671
01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: I was just in the producing business, in the writing business.

1672
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 1: But now I'm in show business and I'm selling shows

1673
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:38,720
Speaker 1: that I own and that I you know, retain a

1674
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:42,479
Speaker 1: huge go back in on. That's what we're talking about,

1675
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:48,320
Speaker 1: show business and and being in a producing business or

1676
01:29:48,320 --> 01:29:51,040
Speaker 1: a different part of the business. I'm in show business now.

1677
01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 1: Finally cool. That's today's October Suton tonight on Bounce TV.

1678
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 1: You have two shows premiere. Let's get to the region

1679
01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 1: we owned the show today. I was saving this build.

1680
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 1: Enough we have family time and then your brand new

1681
01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 1: show Grown Folks will start a fool named g Thing. Now,

1682
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:09,640
Speaker 1: I don't know how you working with g Thing with

1683
01:30:09,800 --> 01:30:13,760
Speaker 1: his loud self. You know what's so funny, Gary, He's

1684
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:18,320
Speaker 1: so crazy. G Thing is uh? He is that that

1685
01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: that loud mouth, he's that lower park He's what. But

1686
01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:26,320
Speaker 1: he's what Jackie Gleeson was to the Honeymoon. Absolutely. You know,

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01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 1: He's what Fred Flepstone was to the Flintstone. He's that

1688
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:34,560
Speaker 1: guy command that respect, absolutely, and he's gonna keep it real. Absolutely.

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01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:38,720
Speaker 1: He's that blue collar comic that deserved opportunity to get

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01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 1: his voice out there. And I was just happy to

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01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:42,599
Speaker 1: be the one that gave him that shot. I'm telling

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01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:45,400
Speaker 1: you something. I I that's the great thing about my life.

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01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:47,880
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's whether it's whether it's Karen Hard,

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01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 1: whether it's Martin with his g Thing, or whether it's

1695
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:54,360
Speaker 1: Jamie Foxx, we we are Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock

1696
01:30:54,720 --> 01:30:58,200
Speaker 1: or Steve Harvey, Jathan Brown. We all came from that

1697
01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 1: pool of talent, and G Thing was one of those

1698
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 1: ultimate hustlers. Whenever you come to a come to a

1699
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:08,519
Speaker 1: major watcher. He was warming up the crowd up there, hustling,

1700
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 1: making him laugh. He was always hustling. And you see

1701
01:31:11,280 --> 01:31:13,599
Speaker 1: him in a little movie called Moneyball, and you seem

1702
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:16,719
Speaker 1: a little movie called disaster Movie because he was always

1703
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 1: and so for you to give him a shot, the

1704
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:22,479
Speaker 1: brother could always act. He was always professional. I'm just

1705
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: joking the fact that I know he's loud and he's energetic.

1706
01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 1: When I say he's loud, I'm saying that's positive because

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01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:30,600
Speaker 1: he's not afraid to lay it out there. And I

1708
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:33,439
Speaker 1: think to get the funniest moments, you gotta go through

1709
01:31:33,479 --> 01:31:36,240
Speaker 1: that next wall. You gotta be able to push the envelope.

1710
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 1: And then that energy sells everybody to do the same thing,

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01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:43,760
Speaker 1: don't you agree? I definitely agree. And I tried not

1712
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:46,560
Speaker 1: to find tune him, you know, too much, because he

1713
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,880
Speaker 1: is from St. Louis and he does, and I'll tell

1714
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:51,640
Speaker 1: him to his face. He does like to split a

1715
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:53,880
Speaker 1: verb every now and then, and I think that's okay

1716
01:31:54,240 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 1: because that's who he is and that's who I'm promoting.

1717
01:31:57,080 --> 01:31:59,600
Speaker 1: I think that it's okay to be you know, to

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01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:02,360
Speaker 1: be that and be funny. But he knows he's a

1719
01:32:02,479 --> 01:32:05,360
Speaker 1: very smart guy, and he knows how to put promote

1720
01:32:05,560 --> 01:32:07,640
Speaker 1: and he has a presence. And that's and that's what

1721
01:32:07,720 --> 01:32:09,719
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sell. Now, he is playing a blue

1722
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:13,240
Speaker 1: collar character. That so, so he's not saying he's a

1723
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:16,519
Speaker 1: college professor professor. He's playing a blue collar carrecter. So

1724
01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:19,160
Speaker 1: he is the right to say eight, that's right. He's

1725
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,000
Speaker 1: playing a Scott cat Man. You know what I'm capting.

1726
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 1: When you go to the airport, you're checking in, they

1727
01:32:23,720 --> 01:32:27,160
Speaker 1: always got something cool to say. They're EAGs and and

1728
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: uh and the and the more they performed, the more

1729
01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 1: the bigger the tip is. And that's what I tried

1730
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:35,280
Speaker 1: to base this around, because I love Scot casts Man.

1731
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:37,920
Speaker 1: And now now that's the new show that's gonna air

1732
01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:41,400
Speaker 1: right after that. The premieres tonight on Bounce TV. And

1733
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:45,759
Speaker 1: the show Now, the show's coming back into the sixth season.

1734
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 1: This is to show that you brought down to the

1735
01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 1: Neighborhood Awards in Atlanta a couple of years ago. Correct,

1736
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 1: that's correct. Family Time, Family Time Now, tell us about

1737
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 1: family Time and tell us why it's been so successful

1738
01:32:56,200 --> 01:33:00,000
Speaker 1: going into his six seasons, which premieres tonight. Family Time

1739
01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:02,800
Speaker 1: as well as grown folks on Vince TV. Tell us

1740
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:05,759
Speaker 1: what actually, actually, this is the fifth season. We've already

1741
01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:09,439
Speaker 1: been renewed for us. Okay, this is the fifth season,

1742
01:33:09,800 --> 01:33:12,360
Speaker 1: and you already been picked up for Aready's been picked

1743
01:33:12,439 --> 01:33:15,639
Speaker 1: up for six. That's that's the Let me be quiet.

1744
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:18,200
Speaker 1: Just tell us about the show man. It's it's a

1745
01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 1: blessing man. First of all family time stars Omar Gooding

1746
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:26,439
Speaker 1: and uh Angel Conwell uh and also Jayla Calhoun and

1747
01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:30,360
Speaker 1: my son Benley Kyle Evans Jr. I wonder what you're

1748
01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:33,920
Speaker 1: gonna promote him? Now, Hey, we got we gotta look

1749
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 1: out for ourselves. And please and please, I'll be remiss

1750
01:33:37,200 --> 01:33:41,040
Speaker 1: if I don't talk about your talented writing sister, Stacy. Absolutely.

1751
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:44,600
Speaker 1: You know Stacy Stacy Evans Morgan. She's been rocking with

1752
01:33:44,760 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 1: me for some years. We had never worked together until

1753
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:50,519
Speaker 1: we started doing this independent thing. And uh, she's you know,

1754
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: she always always comes through for me. I mean, she

1755
01:33:53,479 --> 01:33:56,400
Speaker 1: is a big sister, and but she's very talented. She's

1756
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 1: probably a much better writer than I am. Just to

1757
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:00,720
Speaker 1: give her all her credit. But that's right to bring

1758
01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 1: up because I reachinally bringing it up because you know,

1759
01:34:03,320 --> 01:34:05,439
Speaker 1: the Wayne is I always got, you know, like there's

1760
01:34:05,439 --> 01:34:07,599
Speaker 1: a thousand of them. I'm letting you know, you're building

1761
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 1: your own the Evans. You're feeling the Evans trying. Man,

1762
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:13,200
Speaker 1: I got my nephew over there whiling out with Nick

1763
01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 1: Cannon Nia Evans, and he's exact producing that show. And

1764
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: we're trying to you know, we're trying to make our

1765
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:20,320
Speaker 1: make our present self and it's business. You know, we

1766
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:21,840
Speaker 1: want to I want to see y'all on the cover

1767
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 1: of Black Enterprise, on the cover of The Evans Evans,

1768
01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:28,760
Speaker 1: the real Evans, not the Evans from from Good Time, Mr.

1769
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:32,880
Speaker 1: Evans and Entertainment. The writers, the producers, changing the game.

1770
01:34:33,320 --> 01:34:36,000
Speaker 1: So so Family Time. What makes Family Time We're going

1771
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:39,280
Speaker 1: into is fifth season, renewed for the sixth seasons on

1772
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:43,760
Speaker 1: Boss TV premier tonight. Family Time works because it is

1773
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 1: the if, the if, the depiction of an African American

1774
01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:51,720
Speaker 1: family in the in this new uh this new Millennium,

1775
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:55,680
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's skinny Jeans meets meets the copy shows.

1776
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:58,920
Speaker 1: You know, we're taking a real family issues. I mean

1777
01:34:59,080 --> 01:35:02,280
Speaker 1: this is well a mother and a father they arguing

1778
01:35:02,360 --> 01:35:06,720
Speaker 1: bigger over real things, and the kids, uh, you know,

1779
01:35:06,920 --> 01:35:09,640
Speaker 1: going from living in the hood to moving slightly up

1780
01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:12,240
Speaker 1: the hill from the hood and how and we see

1781
01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:15,240
Speaker 1: how that you know what the difference is between those

1782
01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:18,680
Speaker 1: two experiences. But it's not only what family time. It's

1783
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:21,840
Speaker 1: not about the four core characters that live in the house.

1784
01:35:22,320 --> 01:35:25,679
Speaker 1: It's all of the outside characters, the family, extended family

1785
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:28,760
Speaker 1: members that they bring to the house, that bring their

1786
01:35:28,880 --> 01:35:32,719
Speaker 1: drama into their house. These these people won the lottery

1787
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: for a half a million dallars, enough to get them

1788
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:37,640
Speaker 1: the Beverly Hills, but they was able to get the

1789
01:35:37,720 --> 01:35:42,720
Speaker 1: ball and Hills. But uh, so you know they're up

1790
01:35:42,760 --> 01:35:44,519
Speaker 1: the hill a little bit. They're trying to do better,

1791
01:35:44,880 --> 01:35:48,240
Speaker 1: you know, still a struggle. But like these sister in

1792
01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:51,240
Speaker 1: laws and brother in laws Paula J. Parker and and

1793
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:57,640
Speaker 1: Tangerine Thomas play Lisa's too, and they're both crazy is

1794
01:35:57,680 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what. And they bring their drama and uh,

1795
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:02,760
Speaker 1: you know, we've had a lot of guest stars. Lynn

1796
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: Woodfield came in and she plays their mother. And Chris

1797
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:09,840
Speaker 1: Williams came in and he plays Omar's character, Tony's brother,

1798
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:13,280
Speaker 1: and he's the boushee guy that's married to the white girl.

1799
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:16,600
Speaker 1: So we're you know, we're showing the real deal of

1800
01:36:16,760 --> 01:36:20,439
Speaker 1: what this black family experience is about. And you know

1801
01:36:20,560 --> 01:36:22,439
Speaker 1: we felt like, you know, we were doing it before

1802
01:36:22,600 --> 01:36:25,439
Speaker 1: Black Ish, we were on the air, so we wanted

1803
01:36:25,479 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 1: to be that premier black family show. Uh, you know

1804
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:30,680
Speaker 1: that could be out there in the in the in

1805
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:33,599
Speaker 1: the electricon somewhere with my man. I want to thank

1806
01:36:33,680 --> 01:36:35,040
Speaker 1: you for coming on my show. You owe me a

1807
01:36:35,120 --> 01:36:37,519
Speaker 1: couple of banners. Now you got it on a couple

1808
01:36:37,520 --> 01:36:40,680
Speaker 1: of banners. Please get him tonight and know that if

1809
01:36:40,720 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: you have any special premiers contact uh just sending them

1810
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:47,680
Speaker 1: and Aaliyah could we shine post or could I come

1811
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:49,880
Speaker 1: on the show and shouted out because I'm gonna support

1812
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:52,400
Speaker 1: you to the end. Uh this the Evans were building

1813
01:36:52,439 --> 01:36:57,439
Speaker 1: the Evans, the Evans brand. Now start with your son now, Stacy,

1814
01:36:57,479 --> 01:37:00,280
Speaker 1: I haven't know Stacy, you know I know you. This

1815
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:02,240
Speaker 1: is what money making Conversations. Thank you for giving me

1816
01:37:02,320 --> 01:37:05,080
Speaker 1: the time to tell your story. Bentley any at all.

1817
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Speaker 1: I love you man, appreciate you, Bye bye. Wrapping up

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