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Speaker 1: lek Ay, Good morning. Before they take your fatly on

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Speaker 1: right because I respect because my name is Roshane, people

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Speaker 1: And so that's the main thing. I tried it out,

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Speaker 1: because when you read this book, this book is nothing.

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Speaker 1: It's all about a man who failed over and over

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Speaker 1: and over and over again, but he eventually learned to

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Speaker 1: take hold those failures and turn them into lessons and

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Speaker 1: then use those lets such a tournament to successes. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I want people to get away from from

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Speaker 1: from my talks. My talk from this book is that

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Speaker 1: don't give up after you fail. Don't let that fail

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Speaker 1: So on what I'm hearing is that he is a

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Speaker 1: be the man he is today. That's a man who's

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Speaker 1: who was admitted flaws, which I always tell people, but

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Speaker 1: you don't admit a flaw, that's a that's a problem

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Speaker 1: because you're seeking perfection, which is impossible. So if you

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Speaker 1: seeking possibility, then guess what comes into your life frustration?

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Speaker 1: And if you're a frustrated person, guess what. Don't nobody

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Speaker 1: What is your message for young people who may be

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Speaker 1: struggling out there today? Uh, you know, you know, don't

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Speaker 1: get caught up in this concept of everything should happen

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Speaker 1: right now. I want young people to realize that things

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Speaker 1: take time. As she said, I you went through seal

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Speaker 1: training twice. That sounds when you know me saying that

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Speaker 1: That's four years of constant, day in and day outglinding.

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Speaker 1: But you don't see that. You just see the end results.

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Speaker 1: you you achieve what you want to achieve. And what

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Speaker 1: what is it that you want to achieve? Really now,

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Speaker 1: I mean it changes old time. Well uh well, now

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Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I've got the book out,

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Speaker 1: so obviously I want that to be successful, which is

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Speaker 1: being very successful, uh to uh you know, you know

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Speaker 1: now moving you know, I'm a writer producer now in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: You know I've been I'm in talking and it really

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Speaker 1: still now here here here from an answer to a

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Speaker 1: with the major studio right now to option the rights

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Speaker 1: to my book and option a screenplay I wrote and

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Speaker 1: some other projects. So I'm gonna talk to kind of

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Speaker 1: That's that's a day, is uh, getting that production company

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Speaker 1: off the ground and just putting out amazing inspirational stories

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Speaker 1: and a lot of black stories as well. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm writing a film now about one of the first

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Speaker 1: groups of African Americans to serve in special operations and

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Speaker 1: the story that that you know, it's hidden, it's like

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Speaker 1: So so that's that's what my next goal in life

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Speaker 1: I would just tell you this, first of all, you're unique, okay,

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Speaker 1: who and we look at him. Man, you gotta tell

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Speaker 1: every level. And when you when you're when you're the

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Speaker 1: the new members of the club. And I'm not saying anything,

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Speaker 1: and that's just life that happens in any environment, you know,

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Speaker 1: all right, and so but I just want to let

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Speaker 1: wanted anybody who reads this book transformed to just to

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Speaker 1: value what he did and used the same values and

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Speaker 1: failures and successes and let you know that you can

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