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Speaker 1: My next as owners of First Down real Estate Group,

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Speaker 1: They're an innovative real estate company that truly goes the

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Speaker 1: I want you to welcome to show three individuals. The

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Speaker 1: first is D'Angelo Hall, the second is John Aberatory, and

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Speaker 1: John is John? What? John? What? John? Alvatar? How are

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Speaker 1: you going? Avatar. How don't great thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: of coming to my show. First of all, Um, you

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Speaker 1: this seminar. We make money. You you don't have to work,

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Speaker 1: excited with Sean's good. Yeah. Absolutely me this because of

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Speaker 1: the fact that when you when you talk about live stage,

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Speaker 1: that's what you're on a live stage tour. And then

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Speaker 1: you've done television and you've done many films what you

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Speaker 1: like the most because you're a comedian, you're a comedian

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Speaker 1: now and at hard you are a singing comedian. Thank

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Speaker 1: you give me a definition of this thing called life.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Richard. I'll let me tell you. I

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Speaker 1: better than just you know. You know what's amazing to

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Speaker 1: me is that these theaters, ten thousand people in one setting,

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Speaker 1: all strangers, not knowing each other, but they're laughing at

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Speaker 1: the same time, um, crying at the same time, and

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Speaker 1: they're enjoying Medea. They enjoyed Tylerperia. They're coming out because

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Speaker 1: of Tyliperia. Now my job to me is as Mr

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Speaker 1: screaming and clapping for me, it is just um unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Because you know, Rashan, you know, I don't have any

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Speaker 1: acting classes. I've never had and you know, and I

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Speaker 1: don't have that agent and manager. So I sometimes I

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Speaker 1: feel like I'm an illegitimate actress or actor. But I

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Speaker 1: still serve the same God that that just surpasses all

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Speaker 1: of the norms and all of the things that are

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Speaker 1: and they're just like, is that you do? You know

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Speaker 1: You're The funny point about you, I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: when you start talking about her resume, let's star power

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Speaker 1: tied to it, that's recognition tied to it. So what

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Speaker 1: that can't be her sitting over there in that chair

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that's her. So that's what that's what

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Speaker 1: You know who you remind me of? And I just

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Speaker 1: said to I, really I would do you like her? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We love her? Oh well, then this is a compliment listening,

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Speaker 1: Get don't out of here, you know that's me. And

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Speaker 1: Oh but with television and movies, um, you know, those

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Speaker 1: and there are people with those beautiful accents saying, oh

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Speaker 1: accents up right, I'm about to mess up, you know,

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Speaker 1: from missipping. So but they're but they're so excited Rashan

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Speaker 1: and and their their messages that Mr Perry um gives

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Speaker 1: keep them full of life. And you know, sometimes people

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Speaker 1: come up and say, my grandmother used to watch you

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Speaker 1: and um, and I just watched how much joy you

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Speaker 1: guys brought her. And some of them have passed away.

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Speaker 1: And then it's just I mean like we had to

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Speaker 1: all of our lives. She couldn't really talk very well,

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Speaker 1: but you know, she was standing there in front of

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Speaker 1: me and talking and saying, I'm damn, I know your

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Speaker 1: It's just a beautiful moment. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you about the host of money making Conversations,

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Speaker 1: Rashaan McDonald. He's a social media influence. Of his seven

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about with my next guest today. She

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Speaker 1: is an Emmy Award winning TV and film producer and entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: She is currently producing a very hot show of BT

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Speaker 1: entitled Games Diva's Play, a sexy stylized drama about the

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Speaker 1: high stakes world of the NBA from the female perspective.

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Speaker 1: She has a very popular lifestyle, health and wellness website

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Speaker 1: called all Right Now, All right now dot com. Please

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Speaker 1: welcome to money Making Conversation because I helped our lunch

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Speaker 1: all right now dot com. Tracy Evonts you sure do?

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Speaker 1: They thank you for having me back on. It's always

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Speaker 1: so much fun to talk to you. Well, it's great,

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Speaker 1: first of all. Always a fan of just just you

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Speaker 1: as a mentor to women in general, your leader. Uh,

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Speaker 1: nothing but great things come up when they talk about

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Speaker 1: your brand and the brand that you consistently promote and

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Speaker 1: get out there with quality shows. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: really the key with you is quality, right, And that's

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Speaker 1: the point of view that you you you strive for correct, Well,

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Speaker 1: you know absolutely, And I was gonna say, Um, by

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Speaker 1: the way, we changed and we updated the name of

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Speaker 1: our show, it's all Games People Play now, Okay, cool?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but you're right because it was based on

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Speaker 1: the book Games Diva's Play and Bert Murder right exactly

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Speaker 1: exactly as editor as My Girl. Now that's my girl too.

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Speaker 1: And this is the second project that that we've done together.

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Speaker 1: So we did another movie for Lifetime, the one called

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Speaker 1: With This Spring that was based on her first book.

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Speaker 1: Right here we go again. Um, but yeah, Rishan, You're

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Speaker 1: absolutely right. It's like it's all about you know, quality control,

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Speaker 1: you know everything that you do, every project that I

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Speaker 1: work on, and you know, paying attention to detail on everything.

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Speaker 1: And so for me as a producer, I'm hands on.

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Speaker 1: I'm not phoning it in. There are a lot of

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Speaker 1: people that you'll see in Hollywood that will put their

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Speaker 1: name on a show. Um, and networks will pay people

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Speaker 1: to executive produce and especially celebrities and put their name

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Speaker 1: on a show. They'll get a check, but they're not

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Speaker 1: involved in the production at all. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: quite the opposite. I'm like, they're you know, picking wardrobe,

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Speaker 1: you know, approving hair and makeup, you know, interviewing the directors,

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Speaker 1: interviewing the department heads, you know, giving script notes, giving

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Speaker 1: editorial notes. You know. I will be involved in all

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Speaker 1: the marketing and promotion you know as well, but you know,

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Speaker 1: quality control over everything that I put my name on.

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Speaker 1: It is really really important because I want I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be the best, and I want people to be

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Speaker 1: excited about what they're watching. And that's important because I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna just tell everybody that's generally what happens with all

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Speaker 1: the big producers. And she falls in line with the

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Speaker 1: big producers or I'm talking about J. J. Abrahams and

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Speaker 1: all these individuals, and that's why they tend to see

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Speaker 1: the same nothing negative about They will care the same producers,

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Speaker 1: same quality people on and sometimes they care the same

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Speaker 1: actors and actresses to different projects. And that's called relationship. People.

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Speaker 1: You can trust people understand your direction. They won't be

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Speaker 1: sitting over the tripping, won't come out to trailer when

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Speaker 1: they told him come out to trailer when we're talking

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Speaker 1: about I got a ride, I need black jelly beans

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Speaker 1: only this is this is, this is why you get

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Speaker 1: shows done correctly, she laughing. You don't tell the truth,

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Speaker 1: and now you are. It's so funny, but you know

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Speaker 1: what we I am so blessed and it's like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, with this project, and you know the other

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Speaker 1: movies and shows that I've worked on, I honestly can

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Speaker 1: say I've never had like any of the diva demands

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Speaker 1: that you read about everybody. It's always one love. We're

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Speaker 1: always we operate like family, and and that's true, you

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Speaker 1: know with this cast. You know, you know, Lauren London

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Speaker 1: has become like my little sister. She's our she's our

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Speaker 1: Vanessa King. And you know Parker mckinnem posey, you know,

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Speaker 1: she's another beautiful actress, is one of our co leagues.

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Speaker 1: And you guys are gonna remember her because she was

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Speaker 1: on the TV show My Wife and Kids and she

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Speaker 1: was a wild girl. You have all grown up now

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Speaker 1: and so um Karen Obel Um, you know she's our

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Speaker 1: third female lead. She's awesome. She's our little chocolate princess.

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Speaker 1: Just gorgeous, gorgeous girl. And um, and I love me

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Speaker 1: some sharonas Jackson. You know who's playing Marcus King, ur

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Speaker 1: NBA baller who you know has some some cheating issues

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Speaker 1: and he's awesome. Jackie Long Um, he's playing are Marcus

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Speaker 1: King's best friend Kareem who went to college with him,

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Speaker 1: friends for years and we've been like dying to work

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Speaker 1: together and some things. So we're finally doing this, um,

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Speaker 1: but we've got some, you know, also some great supporting casts.

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Speaker 1: You know, Barry Brewers, a stand up comedian and this

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Speaker 1: he's killing it. Kendall Kendall who a lot of people

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Speaker 1: may follow from social media. He's got a huge Instagram following.

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Speaker 1: This is his first role as well. Um, and then

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Speaker 1: you know Vanessa Bell Calloway's on the show. Van that's

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Speaker 1: a sent veteran. So we've got a really fun cast

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Speaker 1: and it's really shows in there. Now let me ask

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Speaker 1: pursue a writing career, and now this is the second

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Speaker 1: project that you're doing with the name of the TV

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Speaker 1: the book Games. Diva's Play helped me. What is about

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Speaker 1: her concept of her creative balance that works with you?

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Speaker 1: You know what both of us. Um. You know, I'll

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Speaker 1: just say both of us a our industry veterans. Like

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've known Angela for years, you know, when

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Speaker 1: she was the editor of Essence magazine. You know, Angela

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Speaker 1: responsible for the Essence music, fast and stuff. So you know,

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Speaker 1: you're talking to a really really bright visionary. And so

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Speaker 1: when Angela segued into becoming an author and stuff, you know,

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Speaker 1: she and I remained friends, you know, and carried our

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Speaker 1: friendship on into doing some business together. And so she

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Speaker 1: brought to me her book, The Vow, you know, that

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Speaker 1: which makes delicious TV watching, you know. And so and

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Speaker 1: these characters that she creates, like are so memorable and

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Speaker 1: diabolical that they you know that they can carry on,

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Speaker 1: want to see more and more of what are these

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Speaker 1: characters going to do next and so um so hence,

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Speaker 1: you know, she after we did with this rain together,

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Speaker 1: so I read Games Diva's play on an airplane and

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Speaker 1: you know, get it's just like such a fun dive

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Speaker 1: on social media. And you know when Carmelo and La La,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we're going through all their drama, you know,

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Speaker 1: all on from the page. You you may be like

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Speaker 1: a law and order tone from the actual page. Are

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Speaker 1: games people play? Yes right now? And then you know

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Speaker 1: goes on in that world, and that's what we're really exploring.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I was told you. You know, my

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Speaker 1: staff reached out to you for January to start making

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Speaker 1: it an annual or a monthly part of my newsletter

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Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know pre Dominant or

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Speaker 1: want them to start seeing it as a part of

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Speaker 1: my newsletter. On a monthly basis and they start becoming

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Speaker 1: so what is that? And if you keep showing it

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Speaker 1: you're you're part of my my world, a part of

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Speaker 1: right now dot com it's gonna go out every morning,

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Speaker 1: not just the first quarter. When people are pushing social

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Speaker 1: health change and health awareness and Brandon that get fit

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Speaker 1: now type philosophy twelve months, twelve times. I'm putting you

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Speaker 1: out in my news letter. You know what, I didn't

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Speaker 1: even realize you you were doing that. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: That is like, that's that's part of you know, creating

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Speaker 1: a movement. And I really appreciate your support. That's awesome. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Before we go, I want to talk about this new

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Speaker 1: deal at x t X Entertainment. Phillis in on what

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Speaker 1: that is. Well. S t X is a global multimedia

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Speaker 1: they S t X is behind some of the biggest

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Speaker 1: it's the studio and a global studio and they do TV,

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Speaker 1: they do film, they make video games, they do subscription

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Speaker 1: channels and they are global, they're all over the world. Um,

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Speaker 1: they just did a two picture deal with Kevin Hart.

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Speaker 1: They did his movie Up the Upside I think it

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Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, And so I have what's called

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Speaker 1: the first Look deal with st X and so um

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Speaker 1: So Edmonds Entertainment, my production company, is in partnership with

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Speaker 1: to them TV ideas and the scripted non scripted space

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Speaker 1: movie ideas. St X and I are actually building a

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Speaker 1: huge uh subscription channel which we haven't announced yet. I

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Speaker 1: can't can't announce it this yet, but it's something really

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Speaker 1: groundbreaking in the vein of Netflix, but something with a

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Speaker 1: specific twist to it and focus to it. Um. But

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Speaker 1: we're you know, it's it's amazing because the um Robert Simons,

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Speaker 1: who is the CEO of st X, is really supportive

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Speaker 1: and it's like having the most amazing playground now to

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Speaker 1: you know, to explore ideas with. And so it's it's

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Speaker 1: pretty awesome. Our first project that we're doing together is

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Speaker 1: you know, games people play they're actually providing production services

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Speaker 1: for that. Now here's the deal. Recap the show games

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Speaker 1: to people who are produced by your company. You're executive producing,

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Speaker 1: the to the production and premieres on BT April. All

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Speaker 1: right now, dot com you already heard my background about

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Speaker 1: it is in my monthly newsletter. Raean McDonald Morthley newsletter

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Speaker 1: goes out to two and thirty thousand fans every month. Also,

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Speaker 1: I need a banner from you and let's keep winning together.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on you and Dion being a couple for real,

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Speaker 1: long term and I love you to death and keep winning.

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Speaker 1: six eight ten. Hi, this ra Sean McDonald. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to money making Conversations. Uh. It is my show I

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Speaker 1: created to uh give exposure to small entre entrepreneurs, UH,

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Speaker 1: celebrity CEOs who were doing things outside of their norm.

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Speaker 1: The norm thing They deliver information about career planning, motivation,

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Speaker 1: financial literacy, and how they leave the balance life is

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Speaker 1: next person I've known for a long time. I have

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Speaker 1: known it for a long time. But next test joint

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Speaker 1: forces were with retired NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan

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Speaker 1: and launched s M, a C entertainment that sports, media

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Speaker 1: and culture, a multidimensional talent management, music, branding and production company.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Constant Swartz Marini. Good

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Speaker 1: morning or good act is Wow. I'll tell yourself this

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Speaker 1: is great. This is My staff called me to say, Rischan,

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Speaker 1: would you like to intertute? It's a constant. The name

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Speaker 1: sounds for me. Yes, yes, I want the interview. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I want the interview. How are you doing? I'm so

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Speaker 1: good and I see it's a Dion Sanders themed morning.

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Speaker 1: And I'm so happy that Tacy and Dion arngate praise

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Speaker 1: the Lord at many levels. I love both of them,

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Speaker 1: and I love them even more together. So I told

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Speaker 1: him that if you listen to the interview, that's all

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Speaker 1: I talked about two beautiful people. And uh, you played

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Speaker 1: important role in Dion's career and now you have I

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Speaker 1: think now you kind of like if you let let's

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Speaker 1: let me say this right. You know now you are

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Speaker 1: a uh you've been a brand maker. Now you kind

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Speaker 1: of like at the forefront and being recognized as a

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Speaker 1: talent yourself and producing and you're you're more on the

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Speaker 1: forefront now will I say that? Am I right when

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Speaker 1: staying that now? Um? Very regret regrettably, Yes, I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to come out on the forefront. I think you probably

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Speaker 1: can relate a little bit like we've been behind the

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Speaker 1: bees for many years helping you know, architect and craft

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Speaker 1: even talents with and uh. And I have to give

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Speaker 1: major props to my talent because they're the ones that

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Speaker 1: have been kicking me in the behind saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got to get out there, You've got to get

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Speaker 1: out there, I think, especially with what's happening in the world,

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Speaker 1: you know, just with with uh, you know, diversity and

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Speaker 1: gender equality and and uh. Just just as you can

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Speaker 1: tell IM stuttering a little bit because I hate talking

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Speaker 1: about myself. But as someone said to me, you know,

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Speaker 1: think about how it's helping the people coming after us

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Speaker 1: as well as you know, our our company, and we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of young people that work with us

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Speaker 1: here at SMACK who I just love and respect. And

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Speaker 1: if it's going to help you know, our business grow

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Speaker 1: and their careers, and this is sort of what's doing

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Speaker 1: it so long way to say thank you for having me. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, is that that's why I developed

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Speaker 1: the show. You know, I developed the show and uh

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Speaker 1: because I couldn't. I could not stop being as they say, famous.

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Speaker 1: You know, people will find you, people will follow you.

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Speaker 1: And so either you do two things. You go with flow,

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Speaker 1: which I decided to go with the flow and build

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Speaker 1: my brand out and it's becoming an incredibly the next level.

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Speaker 1: You know. I built it with Steve and then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden it took me like a little bit

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Speaker 1: too nurture and let everybody know that this is what

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald's brand. And now it is going growing exponential.

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Speaker 1: And I feel that's happening to you because, and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you this constant, I can tell in your

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Speaker 1: personality there's a difference, and that's a positive thing because

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Speaker 1: you know, your energy level when we used to talk

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Speaker 1: was a little bit low, a little bit different, you know,

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Speaker 1: and now it's it's it's seems to be bigger, and

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Speaker 1: it seems to be more more um promotional. And because

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Speaker 1: you're willing to talk about your success story, your your

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Speaker 1: your side of the story, which is a very important story.

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Speaker 1: To be told nowadays. Correct, Thank you? Yeah, I agree,

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Speaker 1: And I think probably um, as you get older and

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Speaker 1: failures which you can turn into success, it um brings

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Speaker 1: I think a level of confidence and maybe some calmness.

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Speaker 1: And you know, this is a big step for me

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Speaker 1: because I'm going to be fifty in a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks and you look fantastic. You know you look fantastic,

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Speaker 1: right I don't, but thank you for saying it. I'll uh.

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Speaker 1: I think when I'm fifty in one day, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: own it and I'm going to just say the heck

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00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: with it and it is what it is. And I

847
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: think that's a lot of what transers over into sort

848
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: of you know, the business of it all is just

849
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: also finding some confidence in your looks too. Is you're

850
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: about to turn this milestone birthday. Well, you know, I

851
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: did a big video they were viral about not having

852
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: age as an excuse. You know that you can do

853
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do, whatever age you are. And

854
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people when you hit a certain platform

855
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: with it's fifty or sixty, they feel there, this is it.

856
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: I can't dream anymore. I can't plan anymore. And I

857
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: know that when I'm looking at your what you're doing now,

858
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: it's the sky's the limit. Now you might be turning fifty,

859
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: but wow, you're gonna be busy to your hundred hopefully not.

860
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out when this retirement plan is

861
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: going to happen. It's not gonna you know, it's not.

862
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: I know everyone says, who are you kidding? You're not

863
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 1: a lunching uh lady, you know, shopping type of person.

864
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 1: And I know deep down that's the truth. And and

865
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: I think you know, spiritually and and just my soul

866
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: and my spirit, I definitely don't feel fifty. And I

867
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: also think you know that your their truth and what

868
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: you're saying is I'm just getting started. Okay, before we

869
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: get to the management company, they sent me some recent interviews,

870
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, because I could though, And these some of

871
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: the titles of the interviews that they said, what is

872
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: really like to be a female boss in the male

873
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: dominated industry? That was one title, how to make it

874
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: as a woman in an NFL, And then the one

875
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: I really like is uh uh constant swats Marina on

876
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: why she works ten time harder than members of the

877
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: Lucky Sparm Club. That's my favorite. That's my favorite. Oh

878
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: my goodness. That was one of my first interviews when

879
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: I realized that they're always going to pull that one

880
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: line out that you don't realize as you're saying, is

881
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: that it's a little little polarizing maybe, but it's the truth. Well,

882
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 1: that's why, that's why I got you on the phone,

883
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know a lot of

884
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: it's the device show. It's an informational show. It's a

885
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: show about what can you do? And you know, men

886
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: dominate this business, and sometimes women, attractive women can be

887
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: perceived as just attractive women and you have to fight

888
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: even harder to get your voice heard, as you know,

889
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,959
Speaker 1: for as you know, you are an attractive young lady

890
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: and so and so you can't run from that. But

891
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: you also shouldn't be held held uh that is the

892
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: negative and be treated a certain way. And what to

893
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: me about that journey a little bit of being able

894
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: to get your voice in this business because you're still

895
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: getting it, just like I'm still getting my voice of

896
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: being a female in this business, and you know it's

897
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: male dominated. It started for me back in my twenties

898
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: when I was at the NFL, and I realized that

899
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 1: a lot of times, because you're saying it you are

900
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 1: an attractive female, people look at you differently. They don't

901
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: want to hear what you have to say. Um, nothing

902
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: against you know, attractive women that are pursuing, you know,

903
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: a business as a cheerleader, which I think is a

904
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: very lucrative business. But that wasn't my past. And so

905
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: when you just I think looked at differently when you're

906
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: trying to be the person that's commanding the room. I

907
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 1: dressed differently. I mean I was wearing clothes a size

908
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: too big for me. You know, I wasn't being myself.

909
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: I was you know, oversized golf shirts when we're at

910
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: our events, because you wanted to be taken seriously. And

911
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: I think there was a moment that came where I

912
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: had a really successful event and my boss at the

913
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: time acknowledged it and started really paying attention to me

914
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: and giving me, you know, the confidence and just I

915
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: guess the power and the respect to walk into a

916
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: room and command that seat at the table. And it

917
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 1: was that defining moment for me where I was like,

918
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to show up in my

919
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 1: jeans and my sports coat, like I'm going to show

920
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: up at these events and wear my heels and not

921
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: worry about being in in flat shoes and baggy khakis.

922
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: And it sounds stupid, but mentally it meant so much

923
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: to say, this is who I am, and this is

924
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: who I'm going to be, and you know, take it

925
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: or leave it. Basically, you know, I just didn't believe

926
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 1: that because of the fact that you know, even I

927
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: like to dress. And this is not nowhere close to

928
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 1: your conversation, but it is about perception and what people

929
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: can say, how are you supposed to look? And when

930
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: I was right, I mean my early years of writing,

931
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: when everybody will come in blue jeans and T shirt.

932
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: I come in a suit or vest or tie, and

933
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,959
Speaker 1: they will go, why are you dressing like that? I said,

934
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: because I like dressing like that. So people will will say,

935
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: there's a standard and the way you're supposed to look

936
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: and where you're supposed to act, and it will treat

937
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: you accordingly. Well, I fought. I fought in held onto

938
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: my values and that's all you're saying. Hold on to

939
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: your values, hold on to you oho you are and

940
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: you have a career. But if you succumb to the

941
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: circumstances what people tell you should look like, or you'd

942
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: be comparing, or with what other females think about how

943
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: you're moving up the success ladder, then that can hold

944
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: you back and cause you to be not not reap

945
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: the benefits of your talent. And that's what you said.

946
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: You just said, Hey, I this is who I am. Okay,

947
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 1: deal with it, And that's basically what you're saying in

948
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: this interview. Correct a thousand percent. You said it's way

949
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: more eloquently than I did. But you've got that right,

950
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: and you know it's it continues and it still carries on.

951
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: And you know, when I was managing Snoop half the time,

952
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: you know, I'm dealing with other managers that just assumed

953
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: that I was not the person making the decisions. And

954
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 1: in the beginning, I think Snoop didn't think I was serious,

955
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: and I'm like, watch, they're not paying any attention to me.

956
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: He's like, you're crazy, And sure enough, like there was

957
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: we were I forget where we were, but at an

958
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: event and someone was pitching him on a big idea

959
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: and they just completely ignored me, looked down on me.

960
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: So I just walked away from the conversation. And at

961
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: the end of it, the guy was like, well, where's

962
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: your manager so I can hit him up and you know,

963
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: close the deal. And Snoop just started laughing. He said,

964
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: you know the woman that was just standing here and

965
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: the guy was like mm hmmm, and he said, that's

966
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: the manager. Good luck, brother. And I think that's such

967
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: a key thing is that I've always had the support

968
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: of my clients, you know, whether it's Dion or stray

969
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: Hand or Snoop or with Khalifa. I think that's so

970
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,760
Speaker 1: important that they're the ones that are just helping because

971
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: I say it all the time, Yes women need to

972
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: lift women up, but without the support of the men

973
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: and we work with, it's a feudal effort. And and

974
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: that's the thing something that people are starting to realize

975
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: is it's it's good to help each other. Like we

976
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: all succeed, we win as a team, we lose as

977
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 1: a team. You know, that's a big ethos for us

978
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: here at SMACK is if you don't play your position,

979
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 1: we're not gonna win. And no matter if you're the

980
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: person getting someone a coffee or a Starbucks or a tea,

981
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: or you're the person that's working on the budget for

982
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 1: the next big television show. Everyone has an important role.

983
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: Now let's get to my my favorite part of the interview.

984
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: You launched with Michael straighthand clothing Lot and clothing Accessory

985
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 1: with j C. Petty. How did that come about? And

986
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: and and tell me the backstory on that. A very

987
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Arian Romano, who we worked together

988
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: at the NFL, works for PVH. And when Strahan started

989
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: working on Kelly and Michael, he needed a lot of

990
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: suits and ties, and so I went to her and

991
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: I said, hey, can you help me out, you know,

992
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: with whatever you guys have for him. You know, we'll

993
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: figure something out. She said, I can only do the ties,

994
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: but let me introduce you to a guy named Richie

995
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: Wertzberger over at Peerless, and I'm sure they can work

996
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: something out with you guys or some suits. So we

997
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: go over there and they couldn't have been nicer. And

998
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: you know, Michael and Richie and his father had a

999
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: great relationship, and a few I think probably a few

1000
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: months after it, Richie said to us, listen, um, you

1001
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: know Michael wear suits so well. Jacy Pennies, Yes he does.

1002
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: And J. C. Pennies is looking for, um, you know,

1003
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: expanding in the men's line. And I said, well, who

1004
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: better than Michael because six days, sometimes seven days a week,

1005
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: twice a day, this guy's wearing a suit. And we

1006
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: we met with them, um goll yeah. I think it

1007
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: was about six years ago. But the timing wasn't right.

1008
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: And they said, we get it, but we're just not ready.

1009
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: And we said, we understand, and we're gonna wait, because

1010
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: who wants to rush into a bad deal. And so

1011
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: they came back to us about a year later and

1012
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: they said, let's develop this and we just started with suits,

1013
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: shirts and ties. And I got to say, and you know,

1014
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: your boy, he is so hands on with this. Not

1015
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 1: one article of clothing that hits the stories that he

1016
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: hasn't felt the fabric, moved, the zipper, changed the button,

1017
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: change the fabric. It's you know, authenticity. I mean that's

1018
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: the key to success, authenticity. If your name's on it,

1019
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 1: you better own it, good and bad. He constance. Here's

1020
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 1: here's the deal. First of all, we connected, Um, I

1021
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: want to tell your story more. I hope you have

1022
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: to hope your time in the future I'm not gonna

1023
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: bug you next month, but I want to bring you

1024
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: back on and I would love it. And let's talk

1025
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: because everybody just stud you was blown away by your story.

1026
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 1: Because that's why I wanted to bring you on the show.

1027
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: Because you're so strong, You're you, You're a dynamic, polite

1028
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, you're a tough guy. You

1029
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: are Ray Donovan, the female version without the murders, and

1030
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