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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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

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Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry

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Speaker 1: my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations Here we come.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host from

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. This is important to understand that everybody travels

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Speaker 1: a different path to success. That's because your brand is different.

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Speaker 1: The challenges you're facing your life will be different. So

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Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories so you can read

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Speaker 1: and write your own. Okay, it's about you. That's what

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation was created to motivate you to go

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Speaker 1: pass your success that you feel that other people told

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Speaker 1: you could not accomplish. Because their stories that you read

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Speaker 1: a good direction. They also will help you see the

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Speaker 1: goals are reachable. But in the end, it's about you

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Speaker 1: planning your own goals and you committed to your effort.

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Speaker 1: My next guest is Chef Triggay Fraser. She grew up

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Speaker 1: eating her grandmother's farm fresh cooking. She's a seasoned chef

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Speaker 1: but she soon re lies that her own love for

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Speaker 1: Chef Tregay is a successful, self employed mother who relates

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Speaker 1: woman to win Food Network Star, two time competitor of

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Speaker 1: Way that airs every Saturday afternoon at twelve thirty pm.

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Speaker 1: Please work with the money making Conversation. She got a

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Speaker 1: lot to say now, Chef Triggy, whoa boy, A lot

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Speaker 1: because I you know, I can bake a little bit, well,

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Speaker 1: I can really banke. I could really bake now now.

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Speaker 1: But these competitions are a different world because see, I've

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Speaker 1: a judge. But then I realized that they don't prep

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Speaker 1: with the Food Network start where you became the African,

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Speaker 1: Tell us about that competition. Oh man, that competition was

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Speaker 1: really stiff. It was really tight. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer in UM just the power of manifestation,

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Speaker 1: called Cutthroat Kitchen and God's Grocery Games. I have been

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Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to I want to shine and

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Speaker 1: me know that you could do this too. You know

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Speaker 1: you could. You can have a little slang in you

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Speaker 1: know you can have you have. You know you can

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Speaker 1: to be somebody else. You just have to own who

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Speaker 1: greens and smother cork chops, like we do everything on

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Speaker 1: that show because I want to touch everybody. Well, so

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Speaker 1: I'm based. I'm based in Atlanta that my office has

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Speaker 1: another baby, but my staff, and like I'm making them

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Speaker 1: safe and everything. But and so so I want I

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Speaker 1: a spice cake the other day we did a barbecue

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Speaker 1: spread for lunch and my because I wanted a place

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Speaker 1: I if I got to work early, because you know

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Speaker 1: what happened when I used to work when I didn't

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Speaker 1: then I bring it to work. So now they're coming

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Speaker 1: other day they came in. I was in the middle

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Speaker 1: some some vanilla bean ice cream, and we was having

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Speaker 1: a good time. So that's my life and just hearing

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Speaker 1: to stop enjoying your life. But I wanted to extend

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Speaker 1: the invitation that I want to I want to promote

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Speaker 1: your brand. I want to be able to tell everybody

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Speaker 1: how great you are it uh, just living your life,

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Speaker 1: but more important you being you though. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Well I got the invite, so you can't take it back. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no you I can't take back no, no doubt. I've

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Speaker 1: learned that in this call. I know you. You put

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Speaker 1: some on social media about me. You have every sean

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Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be on Instagram story. We're gonna, we're gonna,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come over here. And you didn't say the

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Speaker 1: kitchen around Absolutely shift coming to come to kittch you

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Speaker 1: know it's a big, roomy kitchen, you know, and uh,

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Speaker 1: and just let you talk about your career, your stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. And it's about relationships. And I'm big on relationship.

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Speaker 1: Anything I can help you do or point you in

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Speaker 1: the right direction. I've been blessed to be able to

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Speaker 1: to be able to build a lot of big careers,

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Speaker 1: whether it's corporate or individual. So when I see somebody

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Speaker 1: a unique talent, and you're still very young. That means

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Speaker 1: that your future is going to be bright. But more importantly,

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Speaker 1: you are a hard workers and that's what I love

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Speaker 1: about you. You do not run from the dirty kitchen,

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Speaker 1: especially if you're the one that made it dirty. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna clean that, you know. I'm just coming from an event,

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Speaker 1: taking out the earring, limp stick on and everything, and

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Speaker 1: I'm getting in there with my team. My team no

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Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, if I can leave

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Speaker 1: you with anything, it's just never give up. And don't

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Speaker 1: spend so much time worrying about the bad. Takes away

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Speaker 1: from time figuring out the process to get to the good.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a journey, and you know we just

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Speaker 1: be great. But when it's good, it's good, you know.

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Speaker 1: So I just spend less time focusing on negative more

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Speaker 1: time focusing on positive. I do appreciate the negative. Actually

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Speaker 1: I embrace it, yes, um, because without it, who could learn?

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Speaker 1: How would I know if it's wrong, if it's never

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Speaker 1: happened to me? Kick all the doors, look, look, close

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Speaker 1: all the doors in my face. I'm gonna kick one

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Speaker 1: used to start your gage way. It airs every Saturday

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Speaker 1: She's one of my favorite people. In fact, she has

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