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Speaker 1: Out all right. Gosh, welcome back, Alisia. This is a

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Speaker 1: very special episode. We're back home and we got Aisha

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Speaker 1: bo So this is a first of sorts. They always say,

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Speaker 4: Take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Yeah for sure,

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Speaker 4: Well maybe it does.

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Speaker 1: Well, we have a rocket scientist, so X, NASA scientist

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Speaker 1: stem It's recognized by in five thousand as one of

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Speaker 1: other businesses as well. And it's a good conversation because

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Speaker 1: started from struggling academically community college to literally being what

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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

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Speaker 4: And then definite.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So she's also the first African American woman astronaut

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Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, And so you're going to go out

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Speaker 9: Right, but I'll be so astronaut, rocket scientists, entrepreneur, stem enthusiast, teacher,

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Speaker 1: Motivational speaker, you have a you have a book too.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, this is a lot. There's a lot to unpack.

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Speaker 1: All right, and you're from DC, right and blue exactly.

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Speaker 4: I greeted you by saying, go blue. So congratulations to them.

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Speaker 4: We are sorry for what happened to our alliance, but

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Speaker 8: What we say about that, right, The moral of the

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Speaker 8: I think that what happens in life is that when

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Speaker 8: The C students are running the company's AC start working.

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Speaker 8: So I like bomb the first semester. I think I'm

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Speaker 8: how do I create a way to found a business

439
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Speaker 8: that helps people realize that they can do this too?

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Speaker 1: Started a business?

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Speaker 8: I had the idea, and I say it that way

442
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Speaker 8: because once again I didn't have successful family members that

443
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Speaker 8: I could go to for money or people that thought

444
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Speaker 8: that my idea was going to be anything. And so

445
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Speaker 8: I started the idea. And it took me two years

446
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Speaker 8: from having that idea to actually getting enough traction to

447
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Speaker 8: transition from my job to run the idea full time.

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Speaker 2: What was that that transition? Like you said that you

449
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Speaker 2: were the work would be, but now you're the entrepreneur.

450
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Speaker 2: We spoke to Robert Smith, who comes from engineering, and

451
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Speaker 2: that was one of those things for him as well.

452
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Speaker 2: It was all right, I'm I'm an engineer by trade,

453
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Speaker 2: but now I'm an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 4: I'm a CEO. What were you going through during those

455
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Speaker 4: two years while you're trying to figure.

456
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Speaker 2: Out, who were you leaning on to figure out how

457
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Speaker 2: do I navigate this new space that I'm in. I'm

458
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Speaker 2: already a rocket scientist, but an entrepreneur this is new.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Well, one of the things that happened was I realized

461
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Speaker 8: how expensive it was to be knowledge poor, right, and

462
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Speaker 8: I had given up Delisa my permit, which now all

463
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Speaker 8: the way my parents are like what like what Like?

464
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Speaker 8: My mom was just like, there's just you mean, you're

465
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Speaker 8: giving up your jobs and now's the right for this business.

466
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Speaker 8: And I'm like, I'm going to be bigger than this business.

467
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Speaker 8: You just don't know. And so I got up an

468
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Speaker 8: hour earlier and an hour later, and I started reading

469
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Speaker 8: about successful people. And one of the things that I

470
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Speaker 8: noticed was a lot of people had the destination in mind,

471
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Speaker 8: but they had no idea how they were actually going

472
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Speaker 8: to get to that point. It was just a series

473
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Speaker 8: of things that happened that may have looked fortuitous, but

474
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Speaker 8: was really the universe and their environment reacting to their

475
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Speaker 8: desire to get to where they wanted to go. And

476
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Speaker 8: so I'm meeting people, I'm making connections, I'm going to meetups,

477
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Speaker 8: I'm you know, hiring consultants and trying things and just

478
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Speaker 8: a lot of failure. And all of this led me

479
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Speaker 8: to finding mentors who I think they just recognize the

480
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Speaker 8: desire to figure it out, and we're willing to provide

481
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Speaker 8: a little bit more guidance to take me the rest

482
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Speaker 8: of the way.

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Speaker 1: So what's the first company that you started?

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Speaker 8: Stemboard?

485
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Speaker 1: So talk about that and you know challenges and the

486
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Speaker 1: idea and the vision behind it.

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Speaker 8: Started Stemboard a decade ago. We are an eight figure

488
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Speaker 8: business and I've got nearly fifty people working for me

489
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Speaker 8: full time in several states. I started the business literally

490
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Speaker 8: with the dollar and a dream, and it took maybe

491
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Speaker 8: I would say, three to four years before I really

492
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Speaker 8: started to see the revenue that validated that business. And

493
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Speaker 8: this is why I think, especially for minority entrepreneurs, it

494
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Speaker 8: is so expensive to be broke. If you can take

495
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Speaker 8: the time and you can do your side hustle and

496
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Speaker 8: let that side hustle build while you have a job,

497
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Speaker 8: I highly recommend it because all money I used to

498
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Speaker 8: spend trying to figure it out, going to conferences that

499
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Speaker 8: I didn't need to invest in, hiring people that I

500
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Speaker 8: didn't know what I was looking for and a hire.

501
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Speaker 8: I didn't have to worry about that as much because

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Speaker 8: I still had a job. When I transitioned out of

503
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Speaker 8: the job, all those gambles on talent and decisions just

504
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Speaker 8: became more weighty. But we are an engineering firm. We

505
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Speaker 8: support government clients, mostly large clients, and we were actually

506
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Speaker 8: been recognized not only by INK five thousand twice as

507
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Speaker 8: one of the fastest growing companies in America, but BUY

508
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Speaker 8: the Small Business Administration and by the Department of Defense

509
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Speaker 8: is one of the premier contractors.

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Speaker 4: So you.

511
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Speaker 1: Do consulting work for what is that? He did your

512
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Speaker 1: company do?

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Speaker 2: So?

514
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Speaker 8: We provide engineering expertise in data science, data analytics, and

515
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Speaker 8: enterprise IT modernization, which can sound like a lot of words,

516
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Speaker 8: but basically we provide very good engineering advice when it

517
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Speaker 8: comes to data consulting.

518
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Speaker 4: So you make systems for these large companies to make

519
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Speaker 4: their businesses run easier.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so you don't actually do to engineering work, you

521
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Speaker 1: just consult.

522
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Speaker 8: We actually do the engineering work.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

524
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so my team is all engineer so we not

525
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Speaker 8: only consult, but we also implement.

526
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Speaker 1: So is an engineering firm?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

528
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Speaker 1: Pretty?

529
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Speaker 2: So who is the you start do you start small

530
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Speaker 2: businesses and lead to large enterprises. Did you have connections

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Speaker 2: being in Silicon Valley but NASA? Did you rely on

532
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Speaker 2: those resources to help you get.

533
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Speaker 4: Your first clients?

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Speaker 8: So let me frame it this way. When I was

535
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Speaker 8: an engineer and I as a worker be i'd have

536
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Speaker 8: to go out. I've talked a whole bunch of people,

537
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Speaker 8: and one of the pieces of the device that I

538
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Speaker 8: give is a lot of the people who have already

539
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Speaker 8: hired you can be some of your first clients. And

540
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Speaker 8: so I essentially where I could right went back and said, hey,

541
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Speaker 8: I'm a business on my own. Now are there opportunities

542
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Speaker 8: for you either to come on as an employee or

543
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Speaker 8: for you to support me?

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Speaker 1: And how did that go?

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Speaker 8: It went well, it went really well. There are a

546
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Speaker 8: lot of people who I worked with who were like, well,

547
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Speaker 8: I know what your reputation was when you were at NASA,

548
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Speaker 8: and that's what attracted us to work with you now.

549
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Speaker 1: So okay, So you get that up and running, and

550
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Speaker 1: then the next business that you start is the stem business.

551
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Speaker 1: It is so talk about that.

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Speaker 8: I'm looking at stemboard, I'm saying to myself, we are

553
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Speaker 8: going out there and we had this mission of a

554
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Speaker 8: portion of revenue every year was going to be reinvested

555
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Speaker 8: back into the community because I wanted to from the

556
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Speaker 8: ground up build a talent pipeline. That was my mission

557
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Speaker 8: when I came out of NASA's I want to see

558
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Speaker 8: people and tell them my story and I want to

559
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Speaker 8: own the highlights and the low lights so that students

560
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 8: know that they can build their own businesses, that they

561
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 8: can change the future of their community. And that allowed

562
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Speaker 8: us as a company to say, we're going to take,

563
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Speaker 8: you know, minimum ten percent of the revenue that we generate,

564
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Speaker 8: and we're going to build our own educational programs, and

565
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Speaker 8: we're going to go into inner cities Baltimore, Atlanta, Saint Louis,

566
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Speaker 8: all these areas, and we're going to donate our time

567
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Speaker 8: and we're going to work alongside these kids, and we're

568
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Speaker 8: going to help them build companies. We're going to help

569
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Speaker 8: them apply for college. I mean, this is stuff that

570
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Speaker 8: we've been doing for the entirety of the foundation of

571
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Speaker 8: the company, and it ended up becoming such a needed

572
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Speaker 8: thing that it grew into its own company on its own.

573
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Speaker 8: And I you know, as somebody who never thought that

574
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Speaker 8: they were going to be an engineer, right I didn't

575
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Speaker 8: decide to do sinceil I was eighteen, and my academic

576
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 8: journey didn't really start to get good until I was

577
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Speaker 8: building with my hand and I could learn that, like

578
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Speaker 8: that fire, that passion that I had for hustle really

579
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 8: could translate to dollars. I wanted to bring that to

580
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Speaker 8: kids where they were and that's what LINGO is. We

581
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Speaker 8: spun it out, we grew it, and in the last

582
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Speaker 8: two years we've been put in the hands of nearly

583
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Speaker 8: ten thousand students. And one of my favorite things is

584
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Speaker 8: we support up bound. We're taught in schools. You know,

585
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Speaker 8: We've got everything from Princeton Day School as a client

586
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Speaker 8: to Albany State University in Georgia. Right, We've got HBCUs,

587
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Speaker 8: We've got PWIS. We have it all. And that to

588
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Speaker 8: me is what I truly feel is a legacy because

589
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Speaker 8: I don't need you to become an aerospace engineer, but

590
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Speaker 8: I do need you to be successful, and I need

591
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Speaker 8: you to understand that you may not need a four

592
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Speaker 8: year degree to be successful. All you need is confidence

593
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 8: in yourself and a little bit of know how and

594
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 8: the ability to learn things on the Internet, and you

595
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Speaker 8: can make a lot of things in life happen.

596
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Speaker 2: How involved all with the selection of the students in

597
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Speaker 2: the schools because STEM has been set and that has

598
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Speaker 2: been pushed for the past I say, ten to fifteen

599
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Speaker 2: years inside of schools for those non STEM is science, Technology, Engineering,

600
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Speaker 2: and math. But it seems like, especially in the schools

601
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Speaker 2: I've been in, the STEM kids are the brightest kids

602
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Speaker 2: based on their grades. Right, So technically if that was

603
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Speaker 2: the case, then at the time you wouldn't even been

604
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Speaker 2: inside the program. So how are you making sure that

605
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Speaker 2: it's curate from kids with all academic prowess?

606
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so let me tell you a little bit about

607
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Speaker 8: how we architected the program. My head of the business

608
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Speaker 8: who runs education. He's the only person that I know

609
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Speaker 8: who had a lower high school GPA than me. He

610
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Speaker 8: did at one point eight, became a PhD nuclear science,

611
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Speaker 8: the only black man to do it in the entire country.

612
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Speaker 8: The year that he did it. Right, we all got

613
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Speaker 8: together as an executive team, we said, how do we

614
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Speaker 8: design this for people who don't have parents that can

615
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Speaker 8: help them with their homework and people who don't have

616
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Speaker 8: teachers that have the training to help them execute it.

617
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Speaker 8: So first thing was all of our lessons are online,

618
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Speaker 8: self paced modules. We are teaching you, the kids. The

619
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Speaker 8: other thing was we aligned it to national learning standards

620
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Speaker 8: so we can be taught as part of you know,

621
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Speaker 8: Next Generation Science Standards or CSTA K through twelve, which

622
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Speaker 8: the importance for that is a lot of the schools

623
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Speaker 8: are under pressure to teach the standard. Well, now you

624
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Speaker 8: can introduce our box as part of that standard. And

625
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Speaker 8: the other thing is we specifically go to areas that

626
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Speaker 8: need our help. Our idea is to be capacity building,

627
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Speaker 8: so we want to develop the content and we want

628
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Speaker 8: to train the teachers, and that's where we spend our

629
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Speaker 8: time empowering educators. I spent time teaching eighth grade and

630
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Speaker 8: East Saint Louis loved it, loved it. We'll be back

631
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Speaker 8: there again this year, and I've had students. So one

632
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Speaker 8: of my favorite lessons is what we call trap Lingo,

633
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Speaker 8: where we teach the kids that music is really like

634
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 8: voltage drops, right, And we had the kids code their

635
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 8: favorite songs and so all of a sudden, you have

636
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Speaker 8: meg on a micro controller and the kids don't want

637
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Speaker 8: to leave the class. And that kid's telling me that

638
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Speaker 8: he wants to be a producer and he wants to

639
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Speaker 8: make music and the parents coming in and saying, I

640
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Speaker 8: have no I ever had to come into the school

641
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Speaker 8: other than to take my kid after bad behavior. And

642
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Speaker 8: now he's telling me to come in and tell and

643
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 8: see what he built that day because he's proud of it.

644
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Speaker 5: That is what we do.

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Speaker 8: And when you look at education, you guys know this well,

646
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Speaker 8: there are very few things in the school district that

647
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Speaker 8: are actually made by us or made by an American company,

648
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Speaker 8: And like, that's what I want to contribute, right for me,

649
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Speaker 8: The legacy is the story, the idea that you can

650
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Speaker 8: be anything and you can build anything.

651
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Speaker 1: So you have a STEM program that you have offerings

652
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Speaker 1: through different school districts, and you can purchase it as

653
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Speaker 1: a parent as well.

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Speaker 8: You can so you can go direct online and you

655
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Speaker 8: can buy from us. But what I like to do

656
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Speaker 8: is get corporations to pay for the kids. So our

657
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Speaker 8: whole strategy is to work with big corporations and they

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Speaker 8: then donated to the schools, Like we just worked with

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Speaker 8: Wells Fargo to have them donate about twenty five thousand

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Speaker 8: dollars worth of product to a school in New Orleans.

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Speaker 8: That's how we operate because I don't want you as

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Speaker 8: a student to have to pay for that. I want

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Speaker 8: you to get that for free.

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Speaker 4: Right, that makes sense. It's like a company like Amazon

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Speaker 4: can come in by give it to a school district

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Speaker 4: and it's.

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Speaker 1: An online program.

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Speaker 8: So it's two parts. They get the box that they

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Speaker 8: can build with at home. The box has a board

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Speaker 8: that's open source, so you don't have to just do

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Speaker 8: our lessons. You can do any lesson that's a no

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Speaker 8: we know based online, which is why people really like it. Right,

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Speaker 8: you buy something a lot of times and you get

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Speaker 8: trapped into just what they made. You can do our stuff,

675
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Speaker 8: you can do other lessons. You do that at home.

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Speaker 8: Our lesson box supports at least eight lessons. So you

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Speaker 8: go online, you get a class, you like it, great,

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Speaker 8: do another one. So it's a mixture of building at

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Speaker 8: home with your hands and being educated online.

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Speaker 2: So this is if it sounds like it's an activity

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Speaker 2: base model or a project based model.

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Speaker 8: That was the project based learning model, Well yes it

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Speaker 8: is Arc five motivation.

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Speaker 4: There you go.

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Speaker 1: So the whole point of STEM is to get kids

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Speaker 1: out obviously more into science and technology and engineering and

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Speaker 1: math with the career path of what being a computer programmer, coder,

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Speaker 1: an engineer, like what's the career path?

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Speaker 8: So I like to look at this a little bit

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Speaker 8: differently because I think that all careers now are STEM careers.

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Speaker 8: So I don't even think about it as you have

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Speaker 8: to be interested in science and math. I look at

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Speaker 8: it as do you have twenty first century skills? Like

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Speaker 8: can you interact with the environment around you? Like this

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Speaker 8: microphone is hardware, this phone is hardware, this camera's hardware.

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Speaker 8: So what I want is for students to feel empowered

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Speaker 8: to know that they can participate in this economy by

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Speaker 8: being able to build, and that they can create startups

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Speaker 8: and that they can raise money and that they can

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Speaker 8: try to be entrepreneurs on their own. That's really what

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Speaker 8: I'm after.

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Speaker 4: So is this domestic or does this have a global

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Speaker 4: international feel to it?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Because I feel like the brightest minds is everywhere, right,

706
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Speaker 2: so you need to pick the entire globe.

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Speaker 4: So how did you guys go about doing that?

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Speaker 8: So I've had the honor of being invited to keynote

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Speaker 8: in a dozen countries. I'm a US State Department Global speaker,

710
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Speaker 8: and there was this trip that I went on to

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Speaker 8: South Africa and it just changed my life. I was

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Speaker 8: at a school called bains Villa, and this girl or

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Speaker 8: a cafeteria. They don't even have an auditorium, right, This

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Speaker 8: little girls maybe like four feet five, stands up and says,

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Speaker 8: I'm really inspired by your story. But you need to

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Speaker 8: go back and you need to make something that the

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Speaker 8: world can learn from. And you can give us a book,

718
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Speaker 8: but it's better if you make something that teaches the skill.

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Speaker 8: Lingo was created as an independent business a year and

720
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Speaker 8: a half from that trip, and we now have been

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Speaker 8: used in nearly all of those keynotes as an English

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Speaker 8: language technical teaching tool because you don't even have to

723
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Speaker 8: know English to complete Lingo. We color coded it. So

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Speaker 8: I did a workshop in Bishkekstan and the students were

725
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Speaker 8: able to finish their kit even though we had to

726
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Speaker 8: have a translator help us talk to each other. And like,

727
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Speaker 8: that's the power of this box, and like that's really

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Speaker 8: what I want to give to the world. I want

729
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Speaker 8: to give the world hope and inspiration because if they

730
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Speaker 8: can see me and black women teaching them how to

731
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Speaker 8: code online, they know that they can do that. And

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Speaker 8: pretty much everywhere people are looking for the playbook for success.

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Speaker 1: So as far as artificial intelligence is that part of

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Speaker 1: the program and what shit what you got to use

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Speaker 1: the article intelligence at NASA.

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Speaker 8: That was so when I was at NASA, there were

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Speaker 8: definitely there was research on it, but that wasn't necessarily

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Speaker 8: in our area and satellites. Now we're definitely employing that

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Speaker 8: with like machine learning algorithms and even some of the

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Speaker 8: stuff that we're doing with lingo, right, creating custom learning paths, right,

741
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Speaker 8: having a being able to log into your account and

742
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Speaker 8: have somebody that greets you and is like your lingo bot.

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Speaker 8: That's really where I think things are going. But AI

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Speaker 8: predated my career at NASA.

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Speaker 1: How important is how important is all? Right? Technology, that's important,

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Speaker 1: right obviously, but science, engineering and math? How important is

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Speaker 1: that for the average person.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think it's really important, But I think

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Speaker 8: it's all about like bringing it into perspective, right, Like

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Speaker 8: if somebody didn't have a decent concept of math or forces,

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Speaker 8: that chair wasn't going to hold you up. Same thing

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Speaker 8: with technology, microphone. I mean, some of the most amazing

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Speaker 8: things are electronics. Like the quality, it's it's insane. I mean,

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Speaker 8: I think there's just like a lot of really really

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Speaker 8: practical things that people don't necessarily associate with stem subjects

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Speaker 8: that when you make them accessible, it becomes relatable and

757
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Speaker 8: thereby more interesting, and it helps you think better to

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Speaker 8: absolutely like, look, I'm a serial plant killer. I tell

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Speaker 8: anybody who wants to know, I kill plants. And I

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Speaker 8: took this complaint into a meeting that I had with

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Speaker 8: my team, and the team was like, well, we can

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Speaker 8: make a temperature and humidity sensor, so you know, if

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Speaker 8: that plan is thirsty, I'm like, bet bring it. And

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Speaker 8: one of the activities that we have now is plant

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Speaker 8: health and so to be able to now go, I

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Speaker 8: can have a relationship with my plant, and I can

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Speaker 8: build a sensor that goes into my plant to make

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Speaker 8: sure that my plan is health.

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Speaker 8: And that's them. Yes, but now you've just taken that

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Speaker 8: field and you've made it accessible, and who knows what

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Speaker 8: that person is going to create because they just felt

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Speaker 8: a censor for them to talk to the plant in

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Speaker 8: their house.

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Speaker 2: You got to talk to your plans. That's a fact.

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Speaker 2: That's a fact. My mom has had the same plan

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Speaker 2: for over twenty seven years. Yes, I show you after

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Speaker 2: this she talked, she knows, but that's natural she knows.

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Speaker 2: But to have a sense that makes it a lot easier.

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Speaker 2: And in order to get the boss off the ground?

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Speaker 2: Is this way you raise capital?

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Speaker 4: Yes to start lingal so, I mean, we know, we

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Speaker 4: hear about it.

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Speaker 2: The percentages that minority founders, you know, are able to

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Speaker 2: have access to. What was that like for you, obviously

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Speaker 2: being minority, being a woman a founder talk about that.

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Speaker 8: I really liked being an outsider in the sense it

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Speaker 8: was similar to when I started to start the business

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Speaker 8: from NASA. At first, people were telling me, hey, you've

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Speaker 8: got to go with a pitch deck, go to the valley,

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Speaker 8: go to vcs. But the vcs weren't trying to rock

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Speaker 8: with me. They didn't think that there was a market

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Speaker 8: for what I was looking to do. Business has been

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Speaker 8: around for ten years. Y're wrong, right, So one of

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Speaker 8: the things that I'd like to say is stop taking

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Speaker 8: advice from people who haven't done what you're trying to

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Speaker 8: do with LINGO. I'm like, eh, I don't think I

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Speaker 8: want to raise venture capital. I know what the stats are.

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Speaker 8: They're terrible. How do I look at the model and

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Speaker 8: how do I flip the model on its head? Because

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Speaker 8: that's what I do. And when I looked at it,

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Speaker 8: I said, vcs get their money from family offices. Why

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Speaker 8: don't I try to hit up a couple of family offices.

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Speaker 8: Now I know why people don't typically hit up family offices,

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Speaker 8: but I was determined once again to try, and I

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Speaker 8: had the time, and oh, by the way, I had

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Speaker 8: the patience because I'm already running a business that's successful

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Speaker 8: that I've had for ten years. So let's try to

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Speaker 8: figure this out. So I made a list of family

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Speaker 8: offices who were in businesses that I thought that could

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Speaker 8: be strategic investors. And the gamble that I made was, well,

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Speaker 8: if I can get a multi billion dollar family who

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Speaker 8: has the right investment mindset and is willing to support

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Speaker 8: me and understands the long term of what I'm looking

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Speaker 8: to do, can I also bring in traditional capital, and

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Speaker 8: the answer was yes. So I did a founder led

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Speaker 8: seed round where I brought in a million and a

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Speaker 8: half from a family office, and then I went to

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Speaker 8: the other v sas and said, do you want to play?

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Speaker 1: How did that work out?

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Speaker 8: It worked out well because if I've already brought in

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Speaker 8: a million and a half and you're going to chip

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Speaker 8: in one hundred thousand dollars, that million and a half

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Speaker 8: is going to help your hundred thousand dollars. So I

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Speaker 8: basically de risk around for you. And that's one of

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Speaker 8: the areas that I've been big on telling other minorities

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Speaker 8: to pursue is what I call friendly patient capital. I

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Speaker 8: call my investors like they're my dad. I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 8: what do you guys do? And here's what I'm working on.

877
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 8: And part of the things that were not, you know,

878
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 8: non negotiable for this family was that you were going

879
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 8: to do good and you were going to do well right.

880
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 8: It's not just the dollar, it's about the legacy. And

881
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 8: so when I tell them that kids in Ghana are

882
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 8: doing our kids have the video, love it. They're like,

883
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 8: that's what you're supposed to do, right, go out and

884
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 8: make that impact, whereas some people who have you know,

885
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 8: domestic vcs are not necessarily as lucky to have people

886
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 8: who think in that way.

887
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: So, okay, so you raise the money that helps you

888
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: with infrastructure and employees. I'm assuming, So are you raising

889
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: more money? What's to goal?

890
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 8: Yes, you can definitely hit me up if you want

891
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 8: to send a.

892
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: Check how much you're trying to raise.

893
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 8: I would like to raise about a million more and

894
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 8: plot a path to our Series A. And I'll tell

895
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 8: you why. Some of our clients are big firms talking

896
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 8: Semens General Dynamics. General Dynamics has been a customer's ours

897
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 8: for the last three years. Microsoft buys from us, right,

898
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 8: we have big companies who have engineers who buy from US.

899
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: What do they they buy the software, They buy the

900
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 1: kids so they can teach the employees.

901
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 8: They have their employees go into the schools, or they

902
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 8: provide it as capacity building for the schools that they sponsor.

903
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 8: And as I started to do this, we started talking

904
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 8: to school districts. Shout out to Syracuse School District. And

905
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 8: I'm realizing that this mission and this need is even

906
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 8: bigger than I knew. Like when I thought about it,

907
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 8: I was like, oh, we're just going to ship out

908
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 8: some kids, but it's really become about how can we

909
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 8: help make a district better? And that is a problem

910
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 8: of a much larger magnitude, and it takes more time.

911
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 8: And we're also now building custom kids, like we're about

912
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 8: to drop three whole space lessons. We got a climate satellite,

913
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 8: we got a buggy coming out. That buggy's a moon rover,

914
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 8: and we also have a rocket launch. And in building

915
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 8: all all this content, I'm like, you know what, bo,

916
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 8: we need to take a little bit more capital, take

917
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 8: our time, and really do something that is going to

918
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:25,720
Speaker 8: move the needle.

919
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 4: How many lessons are inside these kids?

920
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 2: Because I'm thinking, and this was an elementary middle school

921
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: and obviously high school probably different, but it felt like

922
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: they were just for semesters, and so there was a

923
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 2: semester worth of lessons and there was a new set

924
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 2: of kids. So those four semesters of kids in the

925
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 2: grade every year. How many lessons are inside of your

926
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: kids right now?

927
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 8: So it depends on what you want. And this is

928
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 8: the beauty of it, because we design this to be flexible.

929
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 8: You can have two to three semesters worth in your

930
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 8: kid if you want. It's all about what you ask

931
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 8: us for. So we developed content for every lesson for

932
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Speaker 8: the classroom, and you could teach that over semester. You

933
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 8: could teach it over too.

934
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: So school districts aren't really buying it for you. For

935
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: the most part. Is corporations as buying it.

936
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 8: It's mostly been corporations. If you're out in the district,

937
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 8: hit me up. I mean, I think the challenge right

938
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 8: is there's a lot going on in the district environment,

939
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 8: and we've got some good connections and we're making progress.

940
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 8: But this is where I'm not ashamed to say I

941
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 8: need help. The people who purchase from us, they love us.

942
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 8: But I started to realize what we were really up

943
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 8: against when it comes to like ads and marketing and

944
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 8: all that stuff. And that's really why I was like,

945
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 8: I got to go back to the drawing board and

946
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 8: raise more money because I did not know how expensive

947
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 8: it was to really advertise and read some of these people.

948
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 4: Is it a price point issue?

949
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 2: Because I feel like schools wet so much money on

950
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 2: some of the most ridiculous things, and they do it

951
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 2: repetitively every single and so when you're approaching schools or

952
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 2: school districts, are they saying, well, it's the price point.

953
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 2: We don't have it in the budget this year. What

954
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 2: is the resistance you feel? Because every school has them,

955
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 2: so I'm just trying to feel what would be the resistance.

956
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 8: So we actually do not see resistance once we get

957
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 8: in front of the right person. What I see is

958
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 8: the amount of money that I have to invest to

959
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 8: have somebody reach out, form the relationship, do the presentation,

960
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 8: put the proposal in front of whoever has to make

961
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 8: the decision, close the deal and then get paid can

962
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 8: be roughly six to eight months, and that's really where

963
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 8: we have to support the operation until they can close

964
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 8: the deal. And so the challenge in my mind is

965
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 8: how can we do more of these deals and shorten

966
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Speaker 8: the time.

967
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: So what's the ultimate vision for the company.

968
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 8: My vision for Lingo would be to not only be

969
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,439
Speaker 8: a global provider of immersive STEM experiences like I would

970
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 8: like to get to the point where some of our

971
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 8: boxes interact with Oculus, but to combine that with the

972
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 8: entrepreneurship thing. Because when I teach the Lingo box in

973
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 8: the Bahamas, and I've had this camp for nearly ten years,

974
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 8: I couple it with entrepreneurship and then I give kids

975
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 8: money to go out and try to run their business,

976
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 8: because I believe that you don't have to have a

977
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 8: college degree to be a multi millionaire. You just need

978
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 8: to have entrepreneurship skills. And it's like a muscle. The

979
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 8: more that you exercise it, the stronger that you're going

980
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 8: to get. So I want students trying to build their

981
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 8: first startup when they're twelve or they're thirteen, because by

982
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 8: the time they're twenty, they're going to be beasts.

983
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: So how is it for you to be a go

984
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: from being an employee to be an entrepreneur?

985
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 4: You know?

986
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 8: I feel like my strength in this situation is knowing

987
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 8: that there's so much that I don't know. Like when

988
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 8: I was an employee, when I would go to work

989
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 8: every day, all I wanted to do is be respective

990
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 8: for the things that I know. And as an entrepreneur,

991
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 8: all I want to do is go out and speak

992
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 8: to people and tell them that I don't know right

993
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 8: so that I can be made better by the things

994
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 8: that they know. That is my goal, just be able

995
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 8: to listen and support and have people improve the things

996
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 8: that I create.

997
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 2: That's not on the personal level as the entrepreneur, but

998
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 2: you're also the CEO. Yeah, and so there's people that

999
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 2: are relying on you for their leadership. So walking into

1000
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 2: that role, how's the dynamics been for you?

1001
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 8: You know, like I shifted when he asked me that

1002
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 8: question because the question really strikes at home because I

1003
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 8: spent so many years as a woman professional just wanting

1004
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 8: to be seen as being good enough. And when I

1005
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 8: let go of that, I realized that my strength is

1006
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 8: being authentic and being empathetic. And when I took a

1007
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 8: step back, I was crowding out the sun because I

1008
00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 8: was trying to always lead and be strong and also

1009
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 8: other's stuff. And so when I said to the team

1010
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 8: for both businesses, he I want to make space for

1011
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,760
Speaker 8: you to bring your gifts. That's really when I started

1012
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 8: to see exponential growth. So I have this concept of

1013
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 8: eighty twenty. You hire somebody eighty percent for the things

1014
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 8: on the resume that you know that they can that

1015
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 8: they can do, and the twenty percent that they can

1016
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 8: bring to the table that you haven't discovered yet, and

1017
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 8: you cultivate that person and they will take you to

1018
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 8: places that you never you never knew that you would go.

1019
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: So let's talk about going to space. So what is

1020
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: the program that you're going out of space? How did

1021
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: you get involved in that? And are you just going

1022
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: up coming back down? Is there observation that you're going

1023
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 1: to be doing when you're up? Like, what's what's happening

1024
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: with that situation?

1025
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 8: So I'm going to be flying the space on the

1026
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 8: new Shepherd vehicle with Blue Origin. We will be coming

1027
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 8: up and we will be coming back down, and I'm excited.

1028
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: About how long will you be out of space?

1029
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 8: The total trip? So the round trip is a roughly

1030
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 8: I don't know, less than an hour, and it's about

1031
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 8: ten minutes of microgravity.

1032
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,479
Speaker 1: Ten minutes out of space. Yes, so twenty five twenty

1033
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: minutes coming up, ten minutes out of space, then twenty

1034
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: minutes come back go.

1035
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 8: I think so. And I think we got to fix

1036
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 8: our hair before we can get out, so there's some

1037
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 8: time there.

1038
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 1: Sure.

1039
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 8: So I will be the first to tell you that

1040
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 8: I never thought that I was going to be leaving

1041
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 8: the Earth's atmosphere. I don't even like turbulence on commercial flights,

1042
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 8: and so for me, this is a try it before

1043
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 8: you buy it situation where I get to try space

1044
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 8: and it controls scenario. Once I started working at NASA

1045
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 8: and meeting amazing astronauts. I never thought that I could

1046
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 8: be them. And this is what I like about life

1047
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 8: and karma in the world is like, right, when you

1048
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 8: think that you can't be something, life will show you

1049
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 8: that you can. And I said to myself many years ago,

1050
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 8: one of these years, I'm going to apply to be

1051
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 8: a NASA astronaut. I'm going to go to the International

1052
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 8: Space Station. And somehow I manage not to do it

1053
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 8: for a year after year after year, and all of

1054
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 8: a sudden, I have the opportunity to be a Blue

1055
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 8: Origin astronaut. And my goal is to complete this and

1056
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 8: if I like it, which I'm probably gonna love it,

1057
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 8: I'm going to turn around. I'm going to apply to

1058
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Speaker 8: be a NASA astronaut.

1059
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 4: What's the preparation light for this?

1060
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 2: I remember maybe it was last year they had Michael

1061
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 2: Strahan and he was going through it and they had

1062
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 2: to take some time off from Good Morning America.

1063
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 4: What do you have to do? What are they putting

1064
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 4: you through to get you prepared for this moment?

1065
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 8: So they have a trading program in their facility in

1066
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 8: Van Horn, Texas. That's mandatory. But in addition to that,

1067
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 8: you can do a host of other things. And so

1068
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Speaker 8: I'm participating in a microgravity flight. I'm looking to fly

1069
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 8: on a fight or flight with the jets, like real fast.

1070
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 8: I like to go fast. I'm looking to do a

1071
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 8: high altitude skydive. And then in addition to that, for me,

1072
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Speaker 8: this is about bringing it home. Right, there's so many

1073
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 8: you My family are like what is NASA doing for me?

1074
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 8: What's space doing for me? Like why does any of

1075
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 8: this matter? And so I've been reaching out to organizations

1076
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 8: HBCUs in high school so that I can either fly

1077
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 8: a patch for school or do experiments like I would

1078
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 8: like to partner with HBCU and do an experiment on

1079
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 8: orbit right, or fly a sensor. I really want the

1080
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 8: outcome of this to not be oh, you know, like

1081
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 8: that's like ten minutes I wanted to be. This was

1082
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:33,760
Speaker 8: something that made me believe, or inspired someone to believe

1083
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 8: that they could reach for the stars and realize that

1084
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 8: it was only the beginning.

1085
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 4: To take this flight. I know it's expensive.

1086
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 2: So were you chosen, like did you have to apply

1087
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 2: it to become one of the Bloori astronauts or was

1088
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 2: there a sponsored event like Okay, this is the person

1089
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 2: we're putting forth as our choice.

1090
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really cool. I got a call all the

1091
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 8: blue from this lady named Nancy Conrad, and it just

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Speaker 8: so happens that that first day when I was at NASA,

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Speaker 8: when I had a badge and I was decided to

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Speaker 8: be there, I met Nancy. Nancy is the wife of

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Speaker 8: Pete Conrad, who's an apollo astronaut. I remember seeing her

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Speaker 8: and being like, wow, like one day I hope to

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00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 8: speak with her. Fast forward right over a decade. She's

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00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 8: calling me and she's like, look, there's this mission coming up.

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Speaker 8: I think you'd be a really really good fit. How

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Speaker 8: about you apply this time. I didn't say no. I

1101
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 8: put my application forward and it happened to work out

1102
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Speaker 8: that I was in the position to join the crew.

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Speaker 8: Now back to the money thing. Even if I had it,

1104
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 8: I don't know if i'd want to spend it. And

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00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 8: the reason for that is there's a lot of support

1106
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 8: for space and for science right and go to African proverb,

1107
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 8: it's like, if you want to go you know, fast,

1108
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 8: go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

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00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,439
Speaker 8: So I went out to sponsors and I said, look,

1110
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 8: I want to know if you're going to back me

1111
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 8: on this flight, and they have and so I'm getting

1112
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 8: ready to announce some significant brand partnerships. But we really

1113
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 8: are going to challenge the way that people look at

1114
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 8: going to space, and I'm excited to have amazing brands

1115
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 8: behind me to do it.

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Speaker 1: So what is the purpose of going in space? You

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00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: work for NASA. You work for NASA, an organization that's

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00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,760
Speaker 1: devoted for space. Some people debate if we ever actually

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00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 1: got to the moon the conspiracy theorist out there, but

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Speaker 1: even if we did get to the moon, what really

1121
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: had Like why was the purpose of going to the moon?

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00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: You really think about it, right, Like, went to the

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Speaker 1: Moon sixty years ago. I get it. It was a

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Speaker 1: race against the Russians and we put the American flag

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Speaker 1: on the moon, very typical of America. But when you

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00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:56,919
Speaker 1: really think about it, what's the point?

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00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 8: But I'm like, those same people love their state ofllite

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Speaker 8: TV and their right.

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Speaker 1: So that's the point.

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Speaker 8: I mean, space for the benefit of Earth is really

1131
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 8: the theme, and it's the theme of you know, Blue

1132
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 8: Origin and what happens is there's all this amazing research

1133
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 8: that's done in space. Your memory from Mattress Space, there's

1134
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 8: all the stuff that comes out of that, but people

1135
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 8: don't know that it came from space, and so they

1136
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 8: don't associate with space.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm giving you to platform to educate people,

1138
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: including myself, on the benefits of spending trillions of dollars

1139
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: over the last fifty years of going to space. Like

1140
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: this is your open platform to educate the world on

1141
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: the benefits of American tax dollars being spent to go

1142
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: to space.

1143
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 8: So one of the things that I really enjoyed about

1144
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 8: working on space missions was it helped me understand how

1145
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 8: much research is done in order to help humans fight

1146
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 8: diseases and infections that wouldn't be possible without space. And

1147
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 8: so one thing that happen weapons is if something is

1148
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 8: launched into space, it tends to mutate and it's called virulent.

1149
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 8: And so you see researchers working with pharmaceutical companies to

1150
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 8: introduce new antibiotics and new treatments that if you can

1151
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 8: kill it in space, you can kill it on Earth.

1152
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 8: And so that directly relates to our ability to just

1153
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 8: go outside right, to be able to interact. And I'm

1154
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 8: not talking about vaccines. I'm talking about basic things that

1155
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 8: allow us to be able to better protect people. In

1156
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 8: addition to that technology, right when we look at the

1157
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 8: artificial heart valve, there are so many things that are

1158
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 8: small that benefit people day to day. And then beyond that,

1159
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 8: you know climate and the world like the world is

1160
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 8: becoming ever smaller place, and a lot of what we

1161
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 8: know about climate change came from studies from space and

1162
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 8: the impact on that that is far reaching. And so

1163
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 8: when you know, when people ask me about space, I'm

1164
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 8: just like, it's it's not so much about the moon

1165
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 8: and all the dollars that are spent. The dollars that

1166
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 8: are spent are actually spent in the hopes of spending

1167
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 8: less dollars. Right, if you build something the first time,

1168
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 8: it's typically more expensive, but if you repeat it, it

1169
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 8: becomes cheaper. That's why you get these large price tags.

1170
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 8: But the ability to be able to say people in

1171
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 8: fifty years aren't going to die from cancer, that's really

1172
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Speaker 8: what we're after. When we look at space, it's a lot.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot going on there, especially when when you

1174
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 4: think about technology. You talked about satellites.

1175
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 2: We you know, we've been following starlink and all that,

1176
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 2: but also the the debris that's up there, is an issue.

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Speaker 8: That's a job, that's a startup. So this is somebody

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Speaker 8: a billion dollar idea, right there?

1179
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 2: They have a startup that well you want to elaborate

1180
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 2: on that because that that's something that that's that's a

1181
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 2: real issue.

1182
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 8: No, that's definitely an issue. But this is why I

1183
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 8: love it because it's on super sci fi, right, Like,

1184
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 8: why don't you create a space trash company? Go right ahead?

1185
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 8: But there's a lot of debris in space. And I mean,

1186
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 8: once again, space is a large place, but there's no

1187
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 8: shortage of jobs, startups read opportunity for people to pursue

1188
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 8: in space.

1189
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 4: I was just gonna is there is there like a

1190
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 4: race to Mars?

1191
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 5: Is that?

1192
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 2: Is that what we're headed with this? Like I'm looking

1193
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 2: at well, like humans, we haven't been tomorrow? Rovers well

1194
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 2: humans I'm talking about is there a right right? Because

1195
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 2: I'm looking at humans. Have humans been to Mars? They

1196
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 2: have not that you can say so from a standpoint

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Speaker 2: of like we're watching the wealthiest people in the world.

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Speaker 8: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: Explores space expiration, whether it's Elon or Jeff Bezos, Like

1200
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 2: we said, is that the race?

1201
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: Is that?

1202
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 4: What is headed?

1203
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 5: I don't know.

1204
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 8: I wouldn't necessarily say that that was where it was headed.

1205
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 8: I mean I think like when I look over I

1206
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 8: don't know the last thirty years, what's amazing is this

1207
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 8: idea that you now have a private industry that can

1208
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 8: contribute to something that used to only be the domain

1209
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 8: of governments. And I feel like that's the takeaway. And

1210
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 8: when we throw out Besos and Branson and Elon, why

1211
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 8: can't we have the black version or the Hispanic version, right,

1212
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 8: Like why not somebody else who is not like them?

1213
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 8: Because a lot of their money came from entrepreneurship in

1214
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 8: startups and they decided to go and pursue space because

1215
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 8: that was the passion. So for me, it's sort of

1216
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 8: like we have this model, there are these guys, and

1217
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 8: I want it to be like Basos, Branson, bo.

1218
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: So it's it's right in line. What do you say

1219
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: to the flat eartherers?

1220
01:01:57,160 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 8: You like satellite TV? Right, That's that's my whole response,

1221
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 8: and like, don't come for me on Twitter, don't come

1222
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 8: for me in the dms. Like there are a lot

1223
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 8: of things that people rely on every day that requires

1224
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 8: there to be a rotation of that thing. If you

1225
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 8: think that your satellite just goes left to right and

1226
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 8: left to right again. I can't help you.

1227
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 4: That's a good answer.

1228
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:25,840
Speaker 1: So are people in Australia that when you say, I'm like,

1229
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: are people in Australia standing standing upside down?

1230
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 8: We're always standing right side up.

1231
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 1: We'll always gravity of rotation.

1232
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:37,080
Speaker 4: The axis of the Earth.

1233
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: Yes, so the Southern hemisphere if we're standing right side

1234
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 1: up the world, the northern hemisphere, the Southern hemisphere, so they're.

1235
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 7: Right set up for where they are.

1236
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 4: The gravity allows it's a legitimate question.

1237
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 1: Look, I read a lot of these conspiracy theory situations,

1238
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: so so you.

1239
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 8: Know what's funny about conspiracy is like sometimes conspiracy is

1240
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 8: a name for like whistleblower, right, and like you're really

1241
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 8: getting the drop, But then sometimes it's just weird news.

1242
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: What about aliens?

1243
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 8: That's an interesting question.

1244
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 4: Are you allowed to answer that?

1245
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 8: Well, well, I'll just look at it from a probailistic standpoint, right,

1246
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 8: because who's to say that we're not the aliens?

1247
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: Well, we are aliens if there's all the life form

1248
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: the aliens to them.

1249
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 8: So this is why I need people to get involved

1250
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 8: in the stem fields, like you too could be responding

1251
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 8: questions like this at work on the class, on your job.

1252
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 1: So do you think that the aliens? You think that

1253
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: they are?

1254
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 4: So?

1255
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 8: I think that when I first logged into chat GPT,

1256
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 8: my very first query was returned to me all of

1257
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 8: the most reputable sightings of UFOs in history do it.

1258
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 8: It's a great search. There's a lot of really good stuff.

1259
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 8: And the reason for that is I'm committed that I

1260
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 8: don't know what I don't know. And from a math perspective,

1261
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 8: if you've ever seen the sun, the sunset in Africa,

1262
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 8: which I know you guys have, and see how many

1263
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 8: stars out there, it's hard to believe that there isn't

1264
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 8: something else. Now what is that else? Is that else

1265
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 8: a dog on another planet?

1266
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 3: Is it a plant?

1267
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 5: I don't know.

1268
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: I don't know organism right, I.

1269
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 8: Mean, but I think that we should inspire people to

1270
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 8: figure it out. Like I belong in the camp of

1271
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 8: let's figure it out.

1272
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 1: So there's a high probability that this other life forms

1273
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:26,640
Speaker 1: outside of.

1274
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 8: There's a Drake equation, and the Drake equation says that

1275
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 8: that probability is one. Therefore it is most likely possible.

1276
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: Did Drake equations. The Drake equations like the rapper Drake.

1277
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 8: He can take credit for that, but it's it's not

1278
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 8: not that Rake, No, it's literally yeah, No, it's just

1279
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 8: his name, the sciences scientist.

1280
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 1: Yes Drake, Yes, Okay, Okay.

1281
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 4: That's a lot. Well, let's talk about your next move. Okay, intended?

1282
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 4: How did that come about? How's it going? Is it

1283
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 4: still happening? You know you're host on Yeah, I think

1284
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 4: your next moves, So let's talk about that.

1285
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 8: I'm really I mean, I'm really excited about it because

1286
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 8: I get to travel around. I get to talk to

1287
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 8: entrepreneurs like I get to be asking the questions as

1288
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 8: opposed to answering the questions, which is always a really

1289
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 8: good position to be. We shot the first episode in Atlanta.

1290
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 8: I'm very excited about the guests. I don't know if

1291
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 8: you've met her. Her name is Brianna Arps. She has

1292
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 8: a perfume name Mudo, and she was one of the

1293
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 8: recipients of a grant from Pharrell's Black Ambition, which I

1294
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 8: thought was just an awesome way to open the season

1295
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 8: for me, for them, for everybody, because she talks about

1296
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 8: funding through grants and she lifts out grant sources. So

1297
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 8: if you haven't seen her, if you haven't caught that.

1298
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 8: I really want people to catch the free knowledge and

1299
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 8: the free money that comes out of that. We also

1300
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 8: will be traveling around, so I've committed to twelve episodes,

1301
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,120
Speaker 8: some of which will happen out south By Southwest. I

1302
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 8: haven't been a Southwest really, I know, but it's really

1303
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 8: hard to make the case to be there as an

1304
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 8: engineering company, like an aerospace engineering company, small one. My

1305
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 8: team just thinks I'm out like having fun and I'm like, no,

1306
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 8: I'm really working.

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Speaker 4: Texas Homer Aerospace makes more sense.

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01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 8: But they see me at south By West and they're

1309
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 8: just like, she just haven't fun. But this year I

1310
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 8: get to go and actually be hosting. But I'm really

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01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 8: excited to be able to support inc in highlighting some

1312
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 8: of these stories and you know, bringing maybe a different

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01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 8: perspective to the conversation, not only as a minority female,

1314
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 8: but as a founder. I just think we think about

1315
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 8: things differently because of lack of resources.

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Speaker 1: So okay, let's talk about relationships. You had mentioned off

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01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: camera your philosophy on relationships, and you have a similar

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01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: conversation that a lot of guests have had as far

1319
01:06:57,040 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: as like successful black women where sometimes in today's society,

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01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:09,800
Speaker 1: it can be a detriment to our relationship or dating life.

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01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: The more successful you are, right to who well, But

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01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 8: That's what we need to dig it and explore, right,

1324
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 8: And I'm going to light up around this conversation because

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01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 8: there are no shortage of men in my dms. Now

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01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 8: they may not be black men, but there are plenty

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01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 8: of men in my dms. And people think that I

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01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 8: don't date successful men, like, no, we're both CEOs.

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Speaker 1: And but that's the narrative that you talk about what

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01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:37,600
Speaker 1: you were talking about to us off camera.

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Speaker 8: So I think one of the things that happens, I

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01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 8: think is the services I know, these brilliant, talented, successful

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01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 8: women who maybe being told by society that for some

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01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 8: reason they're less attractive. Heck, I've gotten it. I've gotten

1335
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 8: to my own family barbecues. My great aunt has said, honey,

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Speaker 8: it don't matter if he's a felony, take them anyway.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, that is not a felony. If he

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01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: has a legendary, if he's a felony, if he's a felony.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, she was alone.

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01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 8: She just wants she just wants a grand baby.

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01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: Whatever would say just settle.

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01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 4: Just take told you like, I have to be.

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01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 8: Careful because I would. I am concerned that, you know,

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01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:20,719
Speaker 8: some of the older folks might be trying to trade

1345
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 8: me or sell me for something, right when when I

1346
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:25,840
Speaker 8: know when they had those conversations and they're like, I

1347
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 8: want to lean in and figure out what's going on.

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01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 8: But I think that what happens, right is the more

1349
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 8: that you invest in yourself, the better the person who

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01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:41,760
Speaker 8: you attract is. And I find that if you're lucky

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01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:45,479
Speaker 8: enough to find somebody that you can grow with early on,

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01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 8: definitely do that.

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01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 4: Right.

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01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 8: But for where I'm at in life, the people who

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01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 8: I deal with and the people that I date are

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01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 8: so much better then the person that I would have

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01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 8: settled for in my twenty years or thirties. It's outrageous,

1358
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:04,599
Speaker 8: just like the delta in quality. And so when people

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01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 8: are like, well, you know, being a CEO and things

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01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 8: like that makes you unattractive, is like, I don't understand

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01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 8: because I'm going to dinner with somebody who has thirty

1362
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 8: five thousand employees, Like that's who I'm saying, seeing, that's

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01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 8: who's calling me.

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Speaker 1: So you don't have a problem.

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01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 8: I don't have a problem. When it comes to certain

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01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:25,240
Speaker 8: areas of the population.

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Speaker 1: So you as far as as far as white you have,

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01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:32,719
Speaker 1: you have a thing I'm reading the table white white

1369
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: men are. That's the dating pool for you, you know,

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01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 8: So here's what I'll notice is like I would not

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Speaker 8: necessarily say that it's white men. I think you can

1373
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 8: broaden that. I think that there's just.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 8: I think there's a well and I think black men

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01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:51,760
Speaker 8: of a certain age because if you've met a black

1377
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 8: man that has been married, has kids, and is divorced,

1378
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:58,720
Speaker 8: that is a whole different man than somebody who is

1379
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 8: just like on the starting line somewhere right, Like that

1380
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 8: experience comes with knowledge, and I can't tell you how

1381
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 8: many guys sit with that said. I really wish that

1382
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 8: I would have went with someone like you the first

1383
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 8: time around, because they recognize the value of being able

1384
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 8: to have somebody who is going to treat your business

1385
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 8: like their own, who's going to be able to add,

1386
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 8: who's going to work hard, bring their connections, and then

1387
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 8: also be able to support you when maybe you can't

1388
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 8: support the family because you're building.

1389
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,560
Speaker 1: Do you feel, as I said, so we know that

1390
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 1: the vice president, obviously everybody knows her husband is white. Right,

1391
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 1: do you feel a disconnecting some levels of having a

1392
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: high level of success and not necessarily finding a black

1393
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:46,640
Speaker 1: counterpart or does that even matter to you?

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,640
Speaker 8: I mean it's not. I mean, I'm sure he's out

1395
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 8: there and he's probably watching this show, right. I don't

1396
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:56,679
Speaker 8: think that he doesn't exist. He absolutely exists. The question

1397
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 8: is have I met him yet? And my I mean,

1398
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 8: my line is open. I definitely date black men. I

1399
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 8: also date men who are not black, and it's all

1400
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:12,160
Speaker 8: about the best fit. Like, I'm meeting more and more

1401
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 8: and you guys could probably lean in on this because

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01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 8: I'm meeting more and more black men who are taking

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01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 8: their time and they're building their empires and they're waiting

1404
01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 8: until they're thirty five to thirty six.

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01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 4: Is it necessary? Is the union necessary?

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01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 2: Well, in a sense where we're meeting a lot of people,

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01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,560
Speaker 2: not just just women, but men are saying, you know what,

1408
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,280
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily want to get married.

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01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 4: I don't think it's necessary for me where I'm at.

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Speaker 8: I mean I think that that's really like a personal decision.

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01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 8: I personally would like to be married. That being said,

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01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 8: I think that as a culture, we have to have

1413
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 8: honest conversation about pre nups. Right, A prenap is always

1414
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 8: It's not always a bad thing. Like, how am I

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01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,920
Speaker 8: going to take my sixty something employees into my relationship

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01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:01,679
Speaker 8: with you and not make sure that they're protected? Yeah,

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01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 8: I just I just think that those are certain things.

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01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 8: But in the same way, like if you had certain

1419
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 8: things before I came into the picture, I respect that.

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01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 8: You know, maybe you want to make sure that those

1421
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 8: things are managed in a certain way after we're together.

1422
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,799
Speaker 8: So I think it has I think that that conversation

1423
01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 8: has to be widened. I also think that a marriage

1424
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 8: is not always necessary to be in a strong partnership, right,

1425
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 8: It's really about what you want and what you need.

1426
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:33,720
Speaker 8: But I believe in monogamy. I'm a serial monogamist. I

1427
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 8: believe in that. That's just how I live. That's just

1428
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 8: like how I like the role. And I also believe

1429
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 8: in loyalty. I am very loyal and those two things

1430
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,600
Speaker 8: like loyalty and respect, As long as you have it,

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01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:49,719
Speaker 8: I feel like you can build and you can grow anything.

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01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: How was it, how was it working at NaSTA as

1433
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: far as being a black woman, Did you ever feel

1434
01:12:55,000 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: any awkwardness or any you know, level of vibe that

1435
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: was all.

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01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:10,240
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it was not exactly without its challenges,

1437
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 8: I shall say, But also part of that was just

1438
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 8: me like learning myself. Like the first three years I

1439
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 8: went in, I didn't really want to be seen as attractive,

1440
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:21,360
Speaker 8: and so I would get like shirts that a little

1441
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 8: bit too big and pants because I didn't really want

1442
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:25,640
Speaker 8: to have body or shape. I wanted to just know

1443
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 8: that whatever ideas and things I had or being received

1444
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 8: because of who I was. But once I started to

1445
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,839
Speaker 8: push all that to the side, I sort of realized

1446
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:41,560
Speaker 8: that it is not my job to fix you. It

1447
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,920
Speaker 8: is my responsibility to have the best possible experience and

1448
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:49,879
Speaker 8: grow from it. And as a result, I joined clubs,

1449
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 8: I built relationships with people who were not like me,

1450
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 8: and I had a lot of mentors who you know,

1451
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 8: to this day are still people I lean on who

1452
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 8: are men who have backgrounds that are totally different than me.

1453
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 8: So some of it truly was me getting out of

1454
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 8: my own way and just refusing to allow myself to

1455
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:11,719
Speaker 8: subscribe to what I felt was the status quo.

1456
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: At the time for sure. So before we leave, what

1457
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: will be your advice to somebody, as you know, young

1458
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. You know that might have

1459
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 1: similar situation as far as you what will be your

1460
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:30,439
Speaker 1: advice as far as your pathway in life.

1461
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 8: If you're young, I would say, tell the right people

1462
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 8: your dreams. And the question may be who are the

1463
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 8: right people, But it's the individuals who when you tell

1464
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 8: them your dreams, they're going to be supportive and they're

1465
01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 8: going to agree to hold you accountable for what it

1466
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 8: is that you want to achieve. Today as an adult,

1467
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 8: I still have a support network I get every single

1468
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 8: day and I work on my mindset. I have affirmations,

1469
01:14:56,280 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 8: I pray, I have goals. This success thing, it's a practice,

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01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 8: it's a habit is something that you execute on a

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01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 8: daily and when you feel like you are weak or

1472
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,519
Speaker 8: you have an automatic negative thought, you need to be

1473
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 8: able to call your friend and be like, hey, I

1474
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:15,560
Speaker 8: need you to tell me something good to get me

1475
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 8: through the day. I think that matters a lot when

1476
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:23,599
Speaker 8: you're younger right communities and for the adults out there

1477
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 8: right like, we're all role models to somebody. If somebody

1478
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 8: tells you something that's crazy as long as it doesn't

1479
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 8: hurt themselves. But if they're like, hey, I want to

1480
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 8: build the next spaceship to Mars. You tell them they better.

1481
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:37,680
Speaker 4: Well, I am rooting for you. We are rooting for you.

1482
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 2: It's interesting when you talk about the youth, you know,

1483
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 2: one of those things when people have future aspirations of

1484
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:45,400
Speaker 2: what they want to be. It's like, I want to

1485
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 2: be an ass in that it just seems like the

1486
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 2: most lofty goal ever that is not attainable. So to

1487
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 2: see that you are now the person that we can

1488
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 2: look to, it means a lot. So we are looking

1489
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 2: forward to to supporting you as number six and we

1490
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 2: are proud of you. I'll speak for the entire community.

1491
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 4: Thank you.

1492
01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 1: Oh before we leave, So, what does a rocket scientist

1493
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,120
Speaker 1: actually do? What did that job description? Actually? Because I

1494
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,840
Speaker 1: know what your job description, but like a rocket scientist

1495
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: in totality, what is a rocket? What actually is a

1496
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 1: rocket scientist?

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01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 8: Yeah, and so there's a wide variety, everything from engines

1498
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 8: to the vehicle to working on satellites. I talked a

1499
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 8: little bit about the early days, but I left out

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01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 8: that we still to this day and Stumboard do a

1501
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 8: lot with rockets, rocket launches, advisory services making sure that

1502
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 8: those things are safe. One of my favorite things which

1503
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 8: I cannot wait to talk about later on after it

1504
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 8: becomes public. Is the work that we do to make

1505
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:56,800
Speaker 8: rockets and satellite launches more accessible.

1506
01:16:58,880 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 4: You do drone work too.

1507
01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:02,200
Speaker 8: We don't really do any drone work right now, but

1508
01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 8: that's definitely an area that I'm interested in getting into.

1509
01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: Well, it's been a pleasure. Thank you. How can people

1510
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 1: follow you on social media or any anything else that

1511
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: you would want to leave as far as information for

1512
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:15,640
Speaker 1: your your program stuff like that.

1513
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 8: Yeah, so if you're like an eligible black man, hit

1514
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 8: me up on the DMS. Listen you asked for that,

1515
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:24,680
Speaker 8: ask for that.

1516
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: Uh, that's a qualified rocket scientists only.

1517
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 4: Please.

1518
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:35,799
Speaker 8: We just need ambition. We don't need all that other stuff.

1519
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 4: And you got to listen to illmatic. There's a prerequisite.

1520
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:41,040
Speaker 4: We're saying it now. That's a fact.

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Speaker 8: really good stuff in the community, go directly to stem

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Speaker 1: Did you have it Asian and gentlemen. Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: for hacking on to see next week peace.

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Speaker 6: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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Speaker 6: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador

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Speaker 6: accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with

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Speaker 6: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

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Speaker 6: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

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Speaker 6: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States

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Speaker 6: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

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Speaker 6: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over

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Speaker 6: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you

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Speaker 6: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly

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Speaker 6: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will

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Speaker 6: never return. But if you register using our CBP home

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Speaker 6: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

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Speaker 6: Do what's right, leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,

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Speaker 6: border and families.

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Speaker 7: Will be protected. Sponsored by the United States Department of

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Speaker 7: Homeland Security,