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Speaker 1: on the show today to disgust her new book, which
Speaker 1: I read and I'm excited to share with our audience today.
Speaker 1: It's called The Fearless Money Mindset Broke doesn't Scare Me.
Speaker 1: Seven principles for financial success. Please welcome the money making conversation,
Speaker 1: Arian Simone. Thank you a lot talking about fighting. Got
Speaker 1: start talking to you girl, you got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I actually have a story to tell you. Okay, great.
Speaker 1: We met years ago. Oh my god, we met years
Speaker 1: ago when you were Vicky h you know some you
Speaker 1: know some apple bottom. What No, it wasn't that floor,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely, but I used to when I was living
Speaker 1: out the office space. I was living in the office
Speaker 1: space on the floor. Yeah, you guys are on the
Speaker 1: nineteen Absolutely absolutely, This is when I was romeless and
Speaker 1: I went some living and living in the office space,
Speaker 1: and every morning I would sneak in to the radio station.
Speaker 1: And after a while you just didn't let her come in. Yes, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And when I was hearing your name, I
Speaker 1: could you see Apple Bottom because I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know I've run into her. I know, I know
Speaker 1: I know him. Yes, I used to come in every morning,
Speaker 1: ton who was in there? Because my parent marketing company
Speaker 1: that I was building from ground up, I was on
Speaker 1: the twenty six floor. I was living at the office
Speaker 1: at hers. And I said, it's not gonna believe this.
Speaker 1: In the one I got the information about the interview,
Speaker 1: I said, oh, he didn't realize we go back to
Speaker 1: two thousand and four. Absolutely absolutely, because we left in
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, because you know when I was
Speaker 1: when I was going through your bio and I said,
Speaker 1: it's no way to myself. I said, there's no way
Speaker 1: I have to have met her. I have to have
Speaker 1: met her. And I looked at the look at your
Speaker 1: picture when she looks so familiar. So for me, so
Speaker 1: for you to share that story with me, I really,
Speaker 1: really makes me feel good because you're such a talented person.
Speaker 1: And and then reading your book and looking at the bio,
Speaker 1: your history, you know, it's about hard work and overcoming
Speaker 1: the arts, but more importantly not giving up. And I'm
Speaker 1: highly recommending people to buy your book. I'm gonna putting
Speaker 1: in my newsletter. But let's let's you know, let's let's
Speaker 1: just talk about a little bit about the beginning, you know,
Speaker 1: from the trot. Then you went down to tallahas and
Speaker 1: the family me HBC, you got your m b A.
Speaker 1: Why Detroit, the family in Detroit, Detroit family. That's that's
Speaker 1: very cold, the very hot mosquitoes. No mosquitoes. Yes, at
Speaker 1: the time, I attended Famie starting ninety nine. But in
Speaker 1: ven according to Times in Princeton Review, they got raided
Speaker 1: at the College of the Year and Sam, you was
Speaker 1: in a moment where it was just so hot, and
Speaker 1: it's a business school, that's number one. UM. And I
Speaker 1: had offered from like Harvard to you of them too,
Speaker 1: I mean, for you name it, from ivy leagues, the
Speaker 1: big state schools. And when I saw those things coming
Speaker 1: from Family, I said, I'm going there. Yes. All I
Speaker 1: had to do was a ten for a few days
Speaker 1: after this visit, I loved my decision is made, well,
Speaker 1: the best decisions I've ever made. Well, what why? Why
Speaker 1: is that with hbc is I really try to talk
Speaker 1: about the you know, the historical factor. I always tell people,
Speaker 1: if we didn't have HBCUs, it really wouldn't be black
Speaker 1: education because they wouldn't let us go to school in
Speaker 1: the South from somebody mean racist behavior. And they were
Speaker 1: limited through quotas does to inner schools in the northrom
Speaker 1: to my white school. So that's that's why HBCUs were
Speaker 1: creating and needed. So going into that, you had all
Speaker 1: these offers from basically white colleges and then there's beautiful
Speaker 1: black campus and tallahasar Florida, you just you just felt
Speaker 1: a kinship you walking around seeing people look like you.
Speaker 1: What was it? Oh, it's very empowering. I grew up
Speaker 1: in Detroit. It was over eighty percent black girl up there.
Speaker 1: From there, it was it was the love. It was
Speaker 1: the accountability to this day, not professors on social media
Speaker 1: and still roots for me to stay. I can see
Speaker 1: them chining on the comments or safebook and that type
Speaker 1: of rich relationship. You're just not gonna get us a
Speaker 1: black civil onto a p W. I I highly doubt
Speaker 1: that your profectors still even remember you, let alone that
Speaker 1: they are invested in your future beyond those four years
Speaker 1: that you were there. You know, they still look out
Speaker 1: for me, they still share resource for me. I was
Speaker 1: on the call then other day Mr School. So it's
Speaker 1: truly family. It's truly safety. In addition to just attending
Speaker 1: an institution, which is a priceless experience, you were not
Speaker 1: as a black person going to have the kind of
Speaker 1: environment with that kind of accountability and love that's going
Speaker 1: to be poured into They want you to win because
Speaker 1: you look like this. You are their child, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's I encourage HBCUs for African Americans all day long.
Speaker 1: It has been beneficial to my career and that trajectory
Speaker 1: is my career and then all of the resources that
Speaker 1: I've received. The family network is real, it is much so,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really important that people understand going somewhere,
Speaker 1: will you comfortable going somewhere where you cre relationships in
Speaker 1: the long term, because that's one of the chapters in
Speaker 1: your book, the relationship Principle. We're gonna get to that
Speaker 1: chapter six, I believe, you know, because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: And just sitting here, uh, it allowed me time here
Speaker 1: and you speak allowed me to remember our relationship back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. Kind God, do I remember.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you something, you know, the one
Speaker 1: and I and I'm not remembering everything, and I'm kind
Speaker 1: of I'm remembering everything a little bit here. I remember.
Speaker 1: The thing that stood out for me was that your
Speaker 1: energy and your smile and your professionalism. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't so I didn't know you was homeless on the
Speaker 1: twenty sixth floor. I didn't know that. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: wasn't doing that. I wasn't doing in the favors because
Speaker 1: I thought I was. I was feeling sorry for you
Speaker 1: because I didn't know your situation. All I know is
Speaker 1: that your game was tight and so and I and
Speaker 1: I learned that about myself and I one of the
Speaker 1: things bout money making conversations. I've discovered so many relationships
Speaker 1: that I had with people I didn't know just because
Speaker 1: I just felt that, Hey, everybody, it was a shot.
Speaker 1: That's my personality. Everybody deserves a shot, especially people who
Speaker 1: are working hard and and showing a consistent personality. Because
Speaker 1: that was one thing with me. You had to be
Speaker 1: consistent rou sean. If I tell you know and you
Speaker 1: walk away, then you would you should not be in
Speaker 1: my presence. But I couldn't tell you know. I could
Speaker 1: not tell you no. It was like no, it's like
Speaker 1: you you were like, you know, like like that matrix.
Speaker 1: You dogs that no you dogs that let on in
Speaker 1: let on it like she cool, she cool, she cool.
Speaker 1: And that's really a strong driving force to why you
Speaker 1: were successful today. Not that you're arrogant. You just understand
Speaker 1: your confident you you believe in the values that God
Speaker 1: has put on this earth that you shouldn't be afraid.
Speaker 1: And I guess that that was me telling you we
Speaker 1: met because I was a big personality on two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, and I was a pretty big personality, and
Speaker 1: so because Steve just called me black Cloud. So I
Speaker 1: would tell people know, and I would tell people to
Speaker 1: get out of my face really really quick. But you,
Speaker 1: my friend, that was not was not happening. Talk about
Speaker 1: that ability to would not be afraid before we get
Speaker 1: into the book. Oh my gosh. Um, well, it's hard
Speaker 1: of me, I would say, is in the book. It
Speaker 1: isn't even the intro I definitely, but I believe in
Speaker 1: tapping into that. I believe that when you move without limits,
Speaker 1: that doors open up on your behalf. So I don't
Speaker 1: I don't approach things from this that space. I definitely
Speaker 1: approaching from a very fearless space. Um. And then then
Speaker 1: our confidence just goes forth. And I said, doors just opened. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't. I don't believe you should operate
Speaker 1: from that space. You need to operate from a level
Speaker 1: of surreness. You need to operlate, operate from a level
Speaker 1: of confidence if you plan on for killing anything in life.
Speaker 1: And I always oldren have those features. So it's just
Speaker 1: up for us. You came into the world like that,
Speaker 1: it's up for us to make sure we tap back
Speaker 1: into that because it was nothing but the world started
Speaker 1: projecting its way onto you when people started saying different
Speaker 1: things to you. But who you are before you are
Speaker 1: confident you are in yourself? What did you get all
Speaker 1: the forest from the trees and all that? That's a
Speaker 1: beautiful statement. You know. Your book has seven chapters that
Speaker 1: believe principle, the thought principle, the speech principle, the principle
Speaker 1: of sewing, sewing, and the action principle. The relationship principle,
Speaker 1: the principle of stewardship. I was a quote in the
Speaker 1: book that I pulled out that really stood out to
Speaker 1: me and said, if I believe something was going to
Speaker 1: happen for me, that's as you're talking. I refused to
Speaker 1: entertain any thoughts that will counter what I believe. Oh
Speaker 1: that was you meeting me. That was that when we met.
Speaker 1: You know before the book, you were on the twenty
Speaker 1: sixth floor. I didn't know that homeless, but you had
Speaker 1: a vision. But that didn't stop you. In other words, see,
Speaker 1: a lot of people allow other things to stop them. Excuse.
Speaker 1: I call him excuses because we don't all wake up
Speaker 1: the same every day. We don't wake up with good days.
Speaker 1: Something I wake up, I don't even want to get
Speaker 1: out of bed, but I still get out of bed.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean I'm gonna have an unsuccessful day. And
Speaker 1: that's what that that you're saying right there. If I believe,
Speaker 1: if I'm want a mission to be successful, why should
Speaker 1: I suddenly stop myself from being successful? That's a that's
Speaker 1: an amazing thought. Where did that come from? Parents? Where? Well? Sam? You?
Speaker 1: What did that? What did that thought process developed? Fifteen
Speaker 1: eighteen win. Okay, this I honestly can't probably pain for
Speaker 1: at the time I am. I can't. So I am
Speaker 1: a woman of strong faith, but I don't know when
Speaker 1: I started. I don't know that. I think my parents
Speaker 1: probably allowed me to be and adventurous. Um, I know
Speaker 1: I do. And book I tell the third about like
Speaker 1: how my mother took me on to the parking lot
Speaker 1: to get my first car. And she was in a
Speaker 1: used car section and I told her that's not what
Speaker 1: I wanted, and what did you want? And I pointed
Speaker 1: open to the car that was on the show rong
Speaker 1: floor and it was spinning farther on it and the
Speaker 1: and the red color and the two doors and the
Speaker 1: rens and she listened. She said, well you could have it,
Speaker 1: and I got excited and then she paused, because you're
Speaker 1: gonna pay for it, And I was like, ill came
Speaker 1: rides to the occasion. Well, I was always taught that
Speaker 1: everything was possible and was in my reach. Well that
Speaker 1: that was foremost. Now how you got there, you just
Speaker 1: had to fingure it out. But that I was on
Speaker 1: that that's awesome because you know, because of the fact
Speaker 1: that that's what I'm saying is that we have a
Speaker 1: lot of similar characterists. I remember the first car I
Speaker 1: got was a used car boy the first car in
Speaker 1: high school to beat up Pinto forth Pento. And I
Speaker 1: told myself, I said, I said I would never drive
Speaker 1: a car with more than fifteen miles on it. Again,
Speaker 1: I said that to myself. I just knew and that
Speaker 1: was just my da. I always tell people certain ways.
Speaker 1: You said, goals in life, you know, so I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't telling anybody I was gonna buy a new car.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you have a car with fifteen
Speaker 1: miles or less on it, that's a new car. And
Speaker 1: so that's a standard that you set for yourself. You said,
Speaker 1: I don't want that. Why can't I get that? And
Speaker 1: how can I get that? And that's goal setting, but
Speaker 1: without but with natural instincts tied to it by having
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Speaker 1: you are. Anybody tell you that, anybody tell you that, No,
Speaker 1: I think you will. You read this book. You read
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Speaker 1: dot ai. You know. Here's the thing our belief influence
Speaker 1: is that our belief influence our behavior. We are born bold.
Speaker 1: I always talking. I always tell people that That's why
Speaker 1: I can't understand people who treat kids terrible, you know,
Speaker 1: abused kids, because kids just just they just want information.
Speaker 1: They just want to whatever you give them. You tell
Speaker 1: them to go left, they go left, you tell them
Speaker 1: go right, there, go right. So they just they just
Speaker 1: an energy just waiting. They just just absorb stuff. And
Speaker 1: that statement right there, we are born bold? But what
Speaker 1: what pushes off to what pushes us off? The railroad track? Though?
Speaker 1: Mrm all? What what tell me? People and thought? People
Speaker 1: and thought? You've allowed somebody to project their way. You're
Speaker 1: thankful you. I totally agree. I always tell people, is
Speaker 1: that there's people around you, people who loved you or
Speaker 1: say they love you. Stop can stop your dream. It
Speaker 1: can be your boyfriend, your husband, your partner, your kids,
Speaker 1: your minister, your daddy, your mom. All these people can
Speaker 1: stop you with bad thoughts. And I always telling you,
Speaker 1: and she talks about this in the book don't talk
Speaker 1: to nobody. Don't know about that. They can't understand the
Speaker 1: capabilities of your dream. In other words, if you're trying
Speaker 1: to be a doctor. Don't talk to a mechanic. He
Speaker 1: don't know nothing about that. You're trying to be a lawyer,
Speaker 1: don't talk to somebody over there, they don't know nothing.
Speaker 1: By lawyer, you can't do that. And so that's why
Speaker 1: I love this book because of the fact that she
Speaker 1: breaks it down in the natural world. When I say
Speaker 1: a natural world means that we all go through life
Speaker 1: wondering if we can be great, and your book tells
Speaker 1: us we can be great, but also points out with
Speaker 1: stopping up from being great. Now, how long did it
Speaker 1: take you to write this book? Because this book is
Speaker 1: on fire than it just came out the presses because
Speaker 1: you're talking about COVID ninteen in't here. That's how that's
Speaker 1: our current this book is. I couldn't believe I was talking.
Speaker 1: I've reading her book and she's talked about COVID ninteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has been updated. Um, I's say about eight months
Speaker 1: for that one. And honestly that's because I wasn't more
Speaker 1: of the final edit. I didn't know. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know that my book would be releasing during a period
Speaker 1: where people would be having a global economic impact on
Speaker 1: their finances. Come on now. I had no clue, so
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, we went back and updated something. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I am I am plan on that at all. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna reading this book. She isn't morth of junish. I'm
Speaker 1: reading a book about COVID ninteen. That's a that's our relevant,
Speaker 1: this young lady is, that's how that's our own point.
Speaker 1: She is with our conversations about getting this active. And
Speaker 1: we're not talking about a book that God released last year.
Speaker 1: We're talking about on the money right now now. Now,
Speaker 1: as a speaker, what motivates you? What is the goals
Speaker 1: when you go on stage or people ask you to speak?
Speaker 1: What's the purpose of you speaking to people? What? What?
Speaker 1: What are you trying to emote or trying to get
Speaker 1: them to understand when you're speaking understood? First of all,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely a service that I take the stage. And two,
Speaker 1: and what I mean by that is people are only
Speaker 1: going to remember the speech that applies to them. They
Speaker 1: could care less about what you're saying about your life
Speaker 1: is not applicable to what they're going through, what they're
Speaker 1: dealing with, And to my message is always a fearless
Speaker 1: methods when you remove those fears from your mind. Because
Speaker 1: the ways of mind is designed, it can shift towards
Speaker 1: the negative bias kind of quickly when you don't put
Speaker 1: in the work because we beings who were created to
Speaker 1: be mindful for survival reasons if danger was coming. But
Speaker 1: we're not in though and the fields right now. We're
Speaker 1: not running from lions, we're not around and am over
Speaker 1: anything of that type of danger. So we just have
Speaker 1: to be very conscious that we're always operating from a
Speaker 1: place of a positive bias. So what's that being said?
Speaker 1: You have to put in the work with these negative
Speaker 1: things that people have put on you. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pick all those things off so that I go
Speaker 1: when I step onto a stage. Okay, and believe me,
Speaker 1: you're fearless. Now, ra Sean made a statement. That's ra Sean,
Speaker 1: that's I'm talking about myself, third person. Okay. I made
Speaker 1: a statement that if I had to see somebody that
Speaker 1: was a younger version of me, but it was a female,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to her right now, arian someone. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: you said every Sean. Well, in her book she talks
Speaker 1: about this, uh, this conference that she was thrown and
Speaker 1: it hit her with a budget. There was like almost
Speaker 1: a half million dollars. Okay, when the guy came in
Speaker 1: and this is what it's gonna cost, and she had
Speaker 1: never done this before. That remind to me when I
Speaker 1: threw my through My first neighborhood awards was HOODI Awards
Speaker 1: in l A. I had never done that before, avering
Speaker 1: and I had a budget and I pulled it off.
Speaker 1: That's one story right there. Then she gets into the
Speaker 1: book and she talks about her favorite story to shopping
Speaker 1: is Ze Gallery. You want to know, Mrs Simone, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite stories to shopping is z Gallery. Then
Speaker 1: she goes, Then she goes right here, Where did she
Speaker 1: go to church in Los Angeles? At West Angeles Church
Speaker 1: of Garden Christ. What do you think ras Sean went
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles? Bishop Blake. Then Rashan McDonald doesn't accept
Speaker 1: no for an answer, because I would walk. In a book,
Speaker 1: she talks about walking and being being, being, being a confident.
Speaker 1: I would walk in places. Of course, you know, always
Speaker 1: had a tailor suit over, so that helped a little bit.
Speaker 1: I would walk in venues, wouldn't pay. I just look
Speaker 1: at people and you walk on by, like I supposed
Speaker 1: to be. I'm supposed to be in the venue. She
Speaker 1: talks about this in the book presenting yourself as a success,
Speaker 1: presenting yourself like you belong, presenting yourself so people can
Speaker 1: treat you like a king or a queen that you
Speaker 1: are that is, that is me mrmone if we have
Speaker 1: medicines two thousand four. So so when I see it,
Speaker 1: when I read about the Fearless fun, now I go, okay,
Speaker 1: it's everything is natural for me. Now everything makes sense
Speaker 1: to me why I'm interviewing you on this show today,
Speaker 1: because you have a quality within you that truly is
Speaker 1: hear list. I've never used the word fearless. I always
Speaker 1: tell people that, you know, I wake up. I wake
Speaker 1: up to get up. I go to sleep to get up.
Speaker 1: That's my goal. I wake up because when I wake up,
Speaker 1: I have a plan. Every time I wake up, I
Speaker 1: don't go to sleep. I was telling the reason why
Speaker 1: of people find it difficult to get out of bed.
Speaker 1: They have no reason to get up. They never set
Speaker 1: a goal to get up. They ever said I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this when I'm gonna get up. They just what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I know what I'm gonna do when
Speaker 1: I get up. I may not want to get up
Speaker 1: but I know I have some stuff to do. That's
Speaker 1: why I get on up out that bed. And that's
Speaker 1: your personality upside down, Ryn, flip over top everything three sixty.
Speaker 1: That's you. Thank you, thank you so much. And you
Speaker 1: have this beautiful book, you know, and you know when
Speaker 1: you know, when you when you go through the chapters,
Speaker 1: you know, the bleief principle of mind is the terrible
Speaker 1: thing to waste. The thought principle, when you you know
Speaker 1: you believe in something, it will happen, which is which
Speaker 1: is That's how I think, and everybody should think. The
Speaker 1: speech principle, if you say it, you expect it to happen.
Speaker 1: Focused on that happening, all these different things that you
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, the the action principle. You know.
Speaker 1: It's just really really a special book. And you know
Speaker 1: when you when you did you sit down and discuss
Speaker 1: with individuals different chapters or you just just just just
Speaker 1: put it all out there and sat down with an
Speaker 1: editor and said, this is my vision and I want
Speaker 1: to get it. Tell us of thoughts behind getting this
Speaker 1: book out to the press. Oh my gosh, like I said,
Speaker 1: what you said, did I start you down? No? Because
Speaker 1: it looks different it looks. It took on a whole
Speaker 1: new meetings during happening in the world right now. I
Speaker 1: first set out to do this, the book was gonna
Speaker 1: be releasing at the Sucessible and that book store, like
Speaker 1: everything was different right now, I thought the process of
Speaker 1: I knew it was needed because the book is got
Speaker 1: upon one premier that people have more fear and going
Speaker 1: broke than they do faith and having abundange. And the
Speaker 1: reality is that both of those things are unseen. Fear
Speaker 1: is unseen and faith is unseen. You choose to adopt
Speaker 1: which one you want to follow. So I knew I
Speaker 1: wanted to book out for that one reason, just in itself.
Speaker 1: I had no idea that the world would turn into
Speaker 1: all of what everything happened in the course of twenty
Speaker 1: So it took on a whole another meaning as far
Speaker 1: as just like you're saying, getting it out into the world,
Speaker 1: getting out to the press, of making sure um it
Speaker 1: lives in this space. It's more timely now than I
Speaker 1: had ever even imagined when I said out to do this, Oh,
Speaker 1: most definitely. And I forgot this one other thing that
Speaker 1: made me in you very similar a quote that your
Speaker 1: mom told you. Mom said value of giving from a
Speaker 1: pure place. She said that to you. And I have
Speaker 1: a good friend of mine she uh Whinny we call
Speaker 1: Robinson and um very famous actress and she has his
Speaker 1: dance studio Actors Studio in Los Angeles. And I would
Speaker 1: always I would care how hard I was, because everybody,
Speaker 1: you know entertainment, you have peaks and valleys. You know,
Speaker 1: if I had a value, I still send my checks
Speaker 1: to her. I had to send my check to it
Speaker 1: had because I made a commitment. That's that pure space
Speaker 1: when there's no agenda, when you when you're doing something
Speaker 1: and you don't realize you're changing people's lives, but somehow
Speaker 1: it's been put upon you. And that's the pure space
Speaker 1: your mom was talking about. The pure place then your
Speaker 1: heart just like giving it but not expecting nothing anything back.
Speaker 1: That's a balance that your mom instilled in you. And
Speaker 1: like I said, reading your book, I don't I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope our mom really communicating the value of listening
Speaker 1: to a younger version of my reason. I'm excited because
Speaker 1: through my whole life, my only goal is to make
Speaker 1: sure people I meet people on and I'm gonna saying
Speaker 1: that impacted you. You was impacted a lot of more
Speaker 1: people than me, but you know I I met you
Speaker 1: and to see the person you're becoming in the lives
Speaker 1: that you are affecting on a daily basis. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Mr Moon, thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Yes,
Speaker 1: you did have a great impact on me because you
Speaker 1: believed in the girl who was trying to sneak into
Speaker 1: the rating. Thank you. You know you know the thing
Speaker 1: about this book and The Fearless Fun. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit because because we've got a few minutes,
Speaker 1: about three minutes left, I don't want to you know,
Speaker 1: this is great book. I definitely want to banner so
Speaker 1: I can put it in my news letter, put it
Speaker 1: on my personal social media. I got, like, I'm about
Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand Facebook followers, so I definitely want to
Speaker 1: tell them about you and buy another two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: All my money making coverts facing platform. But tell us
Speaker 1: about The Fearless Fun and why was it created first?
Speaker 1: Thank you for just the additional support and exposure. I
Speaker 1: am just extremely grateful. Well, I'm talking to a PR
Speaker 1: and marketing specialists now, so you know you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're the queen and I guess well it
Speaker 1: guess what I am. I'm marketing specialist. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: That's all tell you. That's all I've telling you. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you MS Moran telling your girl, we don't fire you.
Speaker 1: Keep talking, keep talking, keep talking. Yeah, this is the moment.
Speaker 1: But yes, the Fearless Fund was set out the song
Speaker 1: problem and that was increased to the venture funds that
Speaker 1: black women were receiving UM currently right now, black women
Speaker 1: received point zero zero zero six percent adventure funds and
Speaker 1: hundreds of not millions, but billions get invested in that
Speaker 1: stage US and women eight percent currently right now adventure funds.
Speaker 1: So we set out to do this to solve a
Speaker 1: problem where the Fearless Fund is the lock him in
Speaker 1: Dour Fund, and we are investing in women of color
Speaker 1: businesses at early stage, which is pre CD seed in
Speaker 1: series A. UM. We are industry at NAZIS, which means
Speaker 1: we can do any industry, but we're doing a focus
Speaker 1: on consumer products, UM tech, beauty. Certain industries were definitely
Speaker 1: homed in on and we understand that there was a
Speaker 1: lack of diverse investments because there was a lack of
Speaker 1: diverse investors. So a lot of the people who were
Speaker 1: playing the state didn't look like us. It's an eight
Speaker 1: percent white male industry as far as the investors are concerned.
Speaker 1: So in order to change the dynamically, we had to
Speaker 1: be on the other side of the table. It is myself,
Speaker 1: my close girlfriend kashing Night William, my close Girlfriendaporitans, and
Speaker 1: we set out. We're all a SBCU grabs Ayana family
Speaker 1: as well Ketches Fellman, and we set out to make history. Now,
Speaker 1: we did not know who we're gonna be. The first
Speaker 1: fund that is built by women of colors toward women
Speaker 1: of color. We found out after the fact we are
Speaker 1: sec regulated, had to go through much of paper work
Speaker 1: with the government and we found that out later. But
Speaker 1: we are very much so excited. We get thousands of applications.
Speaker 1: We're looking to just grow the fund and grow the
Speaker 1: fund so that we can make a financial impact in
Speaker 1: our community. Well you are you making an impact of i'mnnaelling.
Speaker 1: I do a lot done over five interviews MS Simone,
Speaker 1: and to meet a person like you, younger than me
Speaker 1: and and just just just crazy, it's crazy good. You're
Speaker 1: just a crazy good person. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I can say it like that it's you know, you're
Speaker 1: a crazy good person because of the fact that I
Speaker 1: sit around and I wake up some days and I
Speaker 1: just don't I planned stuff and and I don't know
Speaker 1: sometimes the decision that I'm making, I just know I
Speaker 1: gotta make that decision right now. And that's your thought process,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's it's so much. I want you
Speaker 1: to make sure. Make make sure you understand you have
Speaker 1: a fan of RuSHA McDonald. Anything you want to promote
Speaker 1: come to me. You have to be on my shows
Speaker 1: that Rashan, could you put the flyer from me? I
Speaker 1: would do that because you represent positivity. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: You represent positivity. And when you know right now, I'm
Speaker 1: not meeting anybody right now until it's a pandemic calmed
Speaker 1: down a little bit. But when it calmed down a
Speaker 1: little bit more, what we can like to sit across
Speaker 1: from each other. I want to sit down and talk
Speaker 1: to you. We might have a mask on talking to
Speaker 1: each other, but we're gonna be all good. But I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming on my show. Please
Speaker 1: get that banner to me so I could promote your
Speaker 1: book on my social media and my news letter. But
Speaker 1: more importantly, I can't tell you don't change because you're
Speaker 1: not gonna change. You're fearless. I appreciate thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on. Bye bye hey. If you want to hear
Speaker 1: more interviews of ras Sean McDonald with his fantastic guests,
Speaker 1: please go to Money Making Conversation dot com. I'm Rashan McDonald.
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