WEBVTT - Arian Simone Full Interview 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.000 Absolutely. I'm your host, Rashan McDonald. Welcome to Money Making Conversation. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:08.000 Each Money Making Conversation talk show is about entrepreneurship and entertainment. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.840 I provide the consumer and business owner access to celebrity CEOs, 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.160 entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. I recognize that we all 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.239 have different definitions of success. For some insuscisable paycheck. Mind 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.079 is helping people wake up and inspiring them to accomplish 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.560 their goals and live their very best life. These are 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.319 my passions and when I'm talking to people of people 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.200 are hearing these interviews that I do with so many 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.520 fantastic people that come on the show. 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Okay, great. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.440 We met years ago. Oh my god, we met years 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:10.120 ago when you were Vicky h you know some you 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:18.320 know some apple bottom. What No, it wasn't that floor, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.200 absolutely absolutely, but I used to when I was living 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.520 out the office space. I was living in the office 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:31.040 space on the floor. Yeah, you guys are on the 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.120 nineteen Absolutely absolutely, This is when I was romeless and 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.760 I went some living and living in the office space, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.440 and every morning I would sneak in to the radio station. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.640 And after a while you just didn't let her come in. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.280 you know. And when I was hearing your name, I 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.280 could you see Apple Bottom because I know, I know, 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.240 I know I've run into her. I know, I know 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.640 I know him. Yes, I used to come in every morning, 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.360 ton who was in there? Because my parent marketing company 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.160 that I was building from ground up, I was on 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.440 the twenty six floor. I was living at the office 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.560 at hers. And I said, it's not gonna believe this. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.800 In the one I got the information about the interview, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.160 I said, oh, he didn't realize we go back to 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.640 two thousand and four. Absolutely absolutely, because we left in 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.200 two thousand and five, because you know when I was 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:21.880 when I was going through your bio and I said, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.560 it's no way to myself. I said, there's no way 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.000 I have to have met her. I have to have 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.120 met her. And I looked at the look at your 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.960 picture when she looks so familiar. So for me, so 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.520 for you to share that story with me, I really, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.080 really makes me feel good because you're such a talented person. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.279 And and then reading your book and looking at the bio, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.880 your history, you know, it's about hard work and overcoming 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.919 the arts, but more importantly not giving up. And I'm 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.640 highly recommending people to buy your book. I'm gonna putting 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.520 in my newsletter. But let's let's you know, let's let's 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.320 just talk about a little bit about the beginning, you know, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.480 from the trot. Then you went down to tallahas and 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.520 the family me HBC, you got your m b A. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.560 Why Detroit, the family in Detroit, Detroit family. That's that's 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:13.680 very cold, the very hot mosquitoes. No mosquitoes. Yes, at 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.039 the time, I attended Famie starting ninety nine. But in 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.880 ven according to Times in Princeton Review, they got raided 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.719 at the College of the Year and Sam, you was 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.919 in a moment where it was just so hot, and 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:32.599 it's a business school, that's number one. UM. And I 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.920 had offered from like Harvard to you of them too, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.960 I mean, for you name it, from ivy leagues, the 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.279 big state schools. And when I saw those things coming 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.960 from Family, I said, I'm going there. Yes. All I 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.320 had to do was a ten for a few days 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.440 after this visit, I loved my decision is made, well, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.880 the best decisions I've ever made. Well, what why? Why 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.240 is that with hbc is I really try to talk 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.400 about the you know, the historical factor. I always tell people, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.560 if we didn't have HBCUs, it really wouldn't be black 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.080 education because they wouldn't let us go to school in 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.320 the South from somebody mean racist behavior. And they were 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.560 limited through quotas does to inner schools in the northrom 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.920 to my white school. So that's that's why HBCUs were 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.400 creating and needed. So going into that, you had all 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.160 these offers from basically white colleges and then there's beautiful 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.800 black campus and tallahasar Florida, you just you just felt 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.279 a kinship you walking around seeing people look like you. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.360 What was it? Oh, it's very empowering. I grew up 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.680 in Detroit. It was over eighty percent black girl up there. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.120 From there, it was it was the love. It was 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:48.320 the accountability to this day, not professors on social media 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.880 and still roots for me to stay. I can see 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.719 them chining on the comments or safebook and that type 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.280 of rich relationship. You're just not gonna get us a 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.120 black civil onto a p W. I I highly doubt 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.440 that your profectors still even remember you, let alone that 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.839 they are invested in your future beyond those four years 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.680 that you were there. You know, they still look out 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.960 for me, they still share resource for me. I was 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:18.240 on the call then other day Mr School. So it's 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.840 truly family. It's truly safety. In addition to just attending 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.520 an institution, which is a priceless experience, you were not 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.800 as a black person going to have the kind of 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.440 environment with that kind of accountability and love that's going 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.200 to be poured into They want you to win because 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.160 you look like this. You are their child, you know. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:45.679 So it's I encourage HBCUs for African Americans all day long. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.000 It has been beneficial to my career and that trajectory 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.480 is my career and then all of the resources that 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.320 I've received. The family network is real, it is much so, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.240 you know, it's really important that people understand going somewhere, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.080 will you comfortable going somewhere where you cre relationships in 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.320 the long term, because that's one of the chapters in 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.480 your book, the relationship Principle. We're gonna get to that 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.640 chapter six, I believe, you know, because you know, you know, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.520 And just sitting here, uh, it allowed me time here 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.600 and you speak allowed me to remember our relationship back 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.920 in two thousand and four. Kind God, do I remember. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.920 And I'm gonna tell you something, you know, the one 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.960 and I and I'm not remembering everything, and I'm kind 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.720 of I'm remembering everything a little bit here. I remember. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.600 The thing that stood out for me was that your 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.520 energy and your smile and your professionalism. You know, I 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.520 don't so I didn't know you was homeless on the 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.120 twenty sixth floor. I didn't know that. Okay, So I 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.080 wasn't doing that. I wasn't doing in the favors because 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.200 I thought I was. I was feeling sorry for you 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.480 because I didn't know your situation. All I know is 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.080 that your game was tight and so and I and 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.400 I learned that about myself and I one of the 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.439 things bout money making conversations. I've discovered so many relationships 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.320 that I had with people I didn't know just because 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.640 I just felt that, Hey, everybody, it was a shot. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.079 That's my personality. Everybody deserves a shot, especially people who 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.360 are working hard and and showing a consistent personality. Because 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.080 that was one thing with me. You had to be 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.440 consistent rou sean. If I tell you know and you 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.480 walk away, then you would you should not be in 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.440 my presence. But I couldn't tell you know. I could 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.520 not tell you no. It was like no, it's like 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.720 you you were like, you know, like like that matrix. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.360 You dogs that no you dogs that let on in 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.439 let on it like she cool, she cool, she cool. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.960 And that's really a strong driving force to why you 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.640 were successful today. Not that you're arrogant. You just understand 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.400 your confident you you believe in the values that God 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.600 has put on this earth that you shouldn't be afraid. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.680 And I guess that that was me telling you we 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.280 met because I was a big personality on two thousand 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.880 and four, and I was a pretty big personality, and 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.520 so because Steve just called me black Cloud. So I 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.240 would tell people know, and I would tell people to 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.640 get out of my face really really quick. But you, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.000 my friend, that was not was not happening. Talk about 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.760 that ability to would not be afraid before we get 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:07.680 into the book. Oh my gosh. Um, well, it's hard 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.480 of me, I would say, is in the book. It 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:14.880 isn't even the intro I definitely, but I believe in 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.080 tapping into that. I believe that when you move without limits, 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.480 that doors open up on your behalf. So I don't 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.199 I don't approach things from this that space. I definitely 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:29.400 approaching from a very fearless space. Um. And then then 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.840 our confidence just goes forth. And I said, doors just opened. Um. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.960 But yeah, I don't. I don't believe you should operate 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.960 from that space. You need to operate from a level 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.600 of surreness. You need to operlate, operate from a level 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.040 of confidence if you plan on for killing anything in life. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.200 And I always oldren have those features. So it's just 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.880 up for us. You came into the world like that, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.960 it's up for us to make sure we tap back 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.920 into that because it was nothing but the world started 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.800 projecting its way onto you when people started saying different 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.440 things to you. But who you are before you are 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.640 confident you are in yourself? What did you get all 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:11.280 the forest from the trees and all that? That's a 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.400 beautiful statement. You know. Your book has seven chapters that 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.800 believe principle, the thought principle, the speech principle, the principle 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:24.679 of sewing, sewing, and the action principle. The relationship principle, 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.480 the principle of stewardship. I was a quote in the 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.320 book that I pulled out that really stood out to 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.360 me and said, if I believe something was going to 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.840 happen for me, that's as you're talking. I refused to 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:43.240 entertain any thoughts that will counter what I believe. Oh 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.200 that was you meeting me. That was that when we met. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.520 You know before the book, you were on the twenty 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.200 sixth floor. I didn't know that homeless, but you had 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.360 a vision. But that didn't stop you. In other words, see, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.000 a lot of people allow other things to stop them. Excuse. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.400 I call him excuses because we don't all wake up 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.000 the same every day. We don't wake up with good days. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.440 Something I wake up, I don't even want to get 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:08.920 out of bed, but I still get out of bed. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.800 That doesn't mean I'm gonna have an unsuccessful day. And 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.480 that's what that that you're saying right there. If I believe, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.679 if I'm want a mission to be successful, why should 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.559 I suddenly stop myself from being successful? That's a that's 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:27.880 an amazing thought. Where did that come from? Parents? Where? Well? Sam? You? 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.920 What did that? What did that thought process developed? Fifteen 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:36.640 eighteen win. Okay, this I honestly can't probably pain for 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.280 at the time I am. I can't. So I am 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.720 a woman of strong faith, but I don't know when 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:49.160 I started. I don't know that. I think my parents 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:57.320 probably allowed me to be and adventurous. Um, I know 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.199 I do. And book I tell the third about like 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.040 how my mother took me on to the parking lot 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.839 to get my first car. And she was in a 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.520 used car section and I told her that's not what 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.679 I wanted, and what did you want? And I pointed 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.439 open to the car that was on the show rong 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:19.160 floor and it was spinning farther on it and the 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.600 and the red color and the two doors and the 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.800 rens and she listened. She said, well you could have it, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.719 and I got excited and then she paused, because you're 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.720 gonna pay for it, And I was like, ill came 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.120 rides to the occasion. Well, I was always taught that 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.240 everything was possible and was in my reach. Well that 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.839 that was foremost. Now how you got there, you just 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.199 had to fingure it out. But that I was on 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.160 that that's awesome because you know, because of the fact 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.640 that that's what I'm saying is that we have a 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.360 lot of similar characterists. I remember the first car I 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.640 got was a used car boy the first car in 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.240 high school to beat up Pinto forth Pento. And I 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.720 told myself, I said, I said I would never drive 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.840 a car with more than fifteen miles on it. Again, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.440 I said that to myself. I just knew and that 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.920 was just my da. I always tell people certain ways. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.400 You said, goals in life, you know, so I didn't. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.800 I wasn't telling anybody I was gonna buy a new car. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.880 But you know, if you have a car with fifteen 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.880 miles or less on it, that's a new car. And 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.240 so that's a standard that you set for yourself. You said, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.680 I don't want that. Why can't I get that? And 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.960 how can I get that? And that's goal setting, but 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.720 without but with natural instincts tied to it by having 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.200 the standard you set, but not going to a school 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.160 and somebody telling you, here's your vision board. So you're 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.960 you're walking talking vision vision board. M small, that's what 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.760 you are. Anybody tell you that, anybody tell you that, No, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.440 I think you will. You read this book. You read 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.640 this book. You're walking talking vision board. Because I'm telling 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.560 you something I kept we're looking at I kept reading 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.480 this book. We're gonna go to break because I want 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.200 to talk about something because you hit. I'm talking about 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.880 if you if I if I found a young lady 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.440 who was a younger version, but a female version of 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:19.520 I'm talking to her right now. 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We are born bold. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.880 I always talking. I always tell people that That's why 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.439 I can't understand people who treat kids terrible, you know, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.600 abused kids, because kids just just they just want information. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.040 They just want to whatever you give them. You tell 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.399 them to go left, they go left, you tell them 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.399 go right, there, go right. So they just they just 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.919 an energy just waiting. They just just absorb stuff. And 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.159 that statement right there, we are born bold? But what 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.040 what pushes off to what pushes us off? The railroad track? Though? 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:56.879 Mrm all? What what tell me? People and thought? People 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.959 and thought? You've allowed somebody to project their way. You're 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:07.080 thankful you. I totally agree. I always tell people, is 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.760 that there's people around you, people who loved you or 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.919 say they love you. Stop can stop your dream. It 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.760 can be your boyfriend, your husband, your partner, your kids, 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.159 your minister, your daddy, your mom. All these people can 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.960 stop you with bad thoughts. And I always telling you, 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.080 and she talks about this in the book don't talk 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.359 to nobody. Don't know about that. They can't understand the 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.000 capabilities of your dream. In other words, if you're trying 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.200 to be a doctor. Don't talk to a mechanic. He 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.520 don't know nothing about that. You're trying to be a lawyer, 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.600 don't talk to somebody over there, they don't know nothing. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.920 By lawyer, you can't do that. And so that's why 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.159 I love this book because of the fact that she 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.560 breaks it down in the natural world. When I say 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.119 a natural world means that we all go through life 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.359 wondering if we can be great, and your book tells 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.840 us we can be great, but also points out with 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.639 stopping up from being great. Now, how long did it 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.960 take you to write this book? Because this book is 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.680 on fire than it just came out the presses because 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.040 you're talking about COVID ninteen in't here. That's how that's 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.320 our current this book is. I couldn't believe I was talking. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.760 I've reading her book and she's talked about COVID ninteen. Yeah, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:21.080 it has been updated. Um, I's say about eight months 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.439 for that one. And honestly that's because I wasn't more 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.680 of the final edit. I didn't know. I didn't even 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:32.080 know that my book would be releasing during a period 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.240 where people would be having a global economic impact on 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.520 their finances. Come on now. I had no clue, so 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.800 of course, yeah, we went back and updated something. But yeah, 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.800 I am I am plan on that at all. I'm 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.920 gonna reading this book. She isn't morth of junish. I'm 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.840 reading a book about COVID ninteen. That's a that's our relevant, 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.520 this young lady is, that's how that's our own point. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.959 She is with our conversations about getting this active. And 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.280 we're not talking about a book that God released last year. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.840 We're talking about on the money right now now. Now, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.520 as a speaker, what motivates you? What is the goals 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.040 when you go on stage or people ask you to speak? 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.920 What's the purpose of you speaking to people? What? What? 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.000 What are you trying to emote or trying to get 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:24.280 them to understand when you're speaking understood? First of all, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.520 I'm definitely a service that I take the stage. And two, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:29.600 and what I mean by that is people are only 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.720 going to remember the speech that applies to them. They 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.920 could care less about what you're saying about your life 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.200 is not applicable to what they're going through, what they're 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:42.040 dealing with, And to my message is always a fearless 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.879 methods when you remove those fears from your mind. Because 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.760 the ways of mind is designed, it can shift towards 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.240 the negative bias kind of quickly when you don't put 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.639 in the work because we beings who were created to 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.760 be mindful for survival reasons if danger was coming. But 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:00.960 we're not in though and the fields right now. We're 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.880 not running from lions, we're not around and am over 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.080 anything of that type of danger. So we just have 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.480 to be very conscious that we're always operating from a 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:15.639 place of a positive bias. So what's that being said? 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.960 You have to put in the work with these negative 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:20.679 things that people have put on you. You're gonna have 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.480 to pick all those things off so that I go 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.639 when I step onto a stage. Okay, and believe me, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.640 you're fearless. Now, ra Sean made a statement. That's ra Sean, 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.800 that's I'm talking about myself, third person. Okay. I made 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.879 a statement that if I had to see somebody that 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:38.200 was a younger version of me, but it was a female, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.160 I'm talking to her right now, arian someone. Okay, Well, 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.600 you said every Sean. Well, in her book she talks 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:49.320 about this, uh, this conference that she was thrown and 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.000 it hit her with a budget. There was like almost 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.600 a half million dollars. Okay, when the guy came in 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:58.159 and this is what it's gonna cost, and she had 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.480 never done this before. That remind to me when I 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.639 threw my through My first neighborhood awards was HOODI Awards 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:07.199 in l A. I had never done that before, avering 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.280 and I had a budget and I pulled it off. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.960 That's one story right there. Then she gets into the 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.880 book and she talks about her favorite story to shopping 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:24.520