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Speaker 1: supervision at a large financial services firm to launch a

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Speaker 1: small business called Snowy Atlanta. Snow Wee Atlanta. They serve

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Speaker 1: mouthwatering shaved ice cream icecu meil, I want to say

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Speaker 1: ice cream lover. They serve mouthwatering shaved ice that you

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Speaker 1: can top with many different flavors. Already sounds good. Please

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Speaker 1: welcome the Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Marcus Sony Marcus, did

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Speaker 1: I say your last name? Correct? Sonya?

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Speaker 3: Very close?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Cool? You know it's it's in I E r

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Speaker 1: You know Rashon. People say, is that Russia knows Rashan

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Speaker 1: Little layer Marcus how you doing, brother, Tell me about

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Speaker 1: this business man. You went from the corporate world and

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Speaker 1: now you're doing shaved ice.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: The first time I experienced shaved ice, I was in

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Speaker 1: this shaved ice. So what exactly is shaved ice? Help

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, first of all, thanks for having me on

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Speaker 3: your show. Appreciate honor to be on the show. So

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Speaker 3: shaved ice originated in Hawaii. So it's a way to

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Speaker 3: you get to top it with different flavors of your choice,

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Speaker 3: and it's just it's fantastic in the summertime or even

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Speaker 3: in the winter time. We have learned, right, So.

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Speaker 1: Like that I've had this now, you know, growing up

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Speaker 1: It wasn't shaved and then they put that that that

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Speaker 1: I was happy, brother. They weren't ice cream, but it

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Speaker 3: Now, yes, well, I was gonna say, we have a

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Speaker 3: in them. And what makes our product really unique that

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Speaker 3: you get to create your own version. Right, So instead

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Speaker 3: any combination that you would like. Which has been a hit?

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Speaker 1: Now you now you say it's you know it originated

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Speaker 3: So I grew up in Loasayete, Louisiana, and similar to

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Speaker 1: Marcus has that modern machine. Bless him. He he's a

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Speaker 1: on that was that old ice machine. Boy, it's shaved.

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Speaker 1: it would just be they put a block of ice

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Speaker 3: Right Marcus, Absolutely, absolutely, So this is a byproduct for

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Speaker 3: But when you're eating shaved I you need both hands.

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Speaker 1: Now, wow, we're talking to Marcus Sanie. You know he

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Speaker 1: owns a small business in Atlanta, Georgia called Snowy Atlanta. Now,

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Speaker 1: a jaguar. He's a jaguar. Everybody blue and gold. Now

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Speaker 1: you wanted to be just a career man, a forty

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Speaker 1: work for it? Okay, now what made that shift in

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Speaker 1: But what started making that shift for you? Because there's

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Speaker 3: No, that's a great question. So, very successful career at

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Speaker 3: a very large financial services company, getting to the point

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Speaker 3: I would see in corporate America was how quickly that

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Speaker 3: and then I'm jumping out. That's the Barb's phrase. I'm

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Speaker 1: Cool, So it's five years period started your idea, Are

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Speaker 1: you working full time basically starting actually becoming the full

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Speaker 1: were you just doing weekend stuff? Did you have equipment?

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Speaker 1: Where were you at when you jumped out that plane?

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Speaker 1: As far as assets.

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Speaker 3: Okay, initially are after or after five years?

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Speaker 3: Okay? So after five years we had developed six different

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Speaker 3: here at coopray Field, to one at Striper's and then

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Speaker 3: So we were positioned well enough at that point. After

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Speaker 1: VP of Field Supervision and a large financial services HBCU

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Speaker 3: Correct Marcus, that is exactly right. So Donad was a

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Speaker 3: Marcus, absolutely absolutely, But before I do, I just want

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Speaker 3: So in twenty nineteen, I had a seventeen year old

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Speaker 1: I know you do a lot of catering your food trucks.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Marcus, thank you man for coming on my show.

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Speaker 1: Until Donald it's going to air in Houston, Texas, So

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Speaker 1: So thank you for coming on Money Making Conversations Master

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Speaker 1: Keep your faith, man, keep your faith.

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