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Speaker 1: You know, it's so crazy when you hear people read

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Speaker 1: This morning when this girl was blocking me in my

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Speaker 2: I was like, I gotta see Brandon to night. I

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Speaker 1: I call my big mama wheezy, like weezy, and my

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Speaker 1: And then my grandmother was a statuesque woman and not

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Speaker 2: My grandmama like it was like for real, like for real,

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Speaker 1: And matter of fact, you could well not now because

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Speaker 1: which is Wendy Street Baptist Church, and it's was established

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Speaker 4: So you know, jih, some of the ato cars and

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Speaker 3: Every once in a while somebody pops up on social

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Speaker 4: You know, like, oh, what's butter about? How legit is?

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Speaker 4: Butter is Butter official? Who's behind? Who's this? I wasn't

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Speaker 2: I didn't have any I had a golf cars in

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Speaker 3: We don't get back to that. We used to steal

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Speaker 3: JII is she has always been a supporter. I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: Quick for me.

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Speaker 3: I know you lie because we just talked about Now,

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Speaker 3: this was the Butter atl launch party in twenty eighteen eighteen.

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Speaker 3: I know I saw Bame up in here earlier. Bamee

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Speaker 4: Bab's still here, bame Joiners are still up in there.

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Speaker 2: Thank God.

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Speaker 3: The land influences everything. That's Jai right there, that's me,

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Speaker 3: Rashaan A Lee j Carter Bane. You remember that night

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Speaker 3: you see Atlanta on my shirt.

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Speaker 2: I'm all, I'm real, I'm real about this thing, like

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Speaker 1: I just asked you about that because He gave out

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Speaker 2: Everybody be like, oh, you gotta spend a dollar per item.

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Speaker 1: He gave us these really nice glass butter holders, and

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Speaker 2: I still have it.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this dishwashers safe, but I never used it.

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Speaker 1: It's still it's still in my house. But man, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what this means to me. Nicole

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Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, he's launching this thing and

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Speaker 1: I had like fifty people in my group, and I

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Speaker 2: Because you can google me, it's okay.

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Speaker 1: But I started realizing that no publications had anything nice

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Speaker 1: And so when Nicole called and was like, yo, it's

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. Matter of fact, I

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Speaker 2: Whenever y'all need stuff. You need to be looking Peter

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Speaker 1: And then maybe two years ago Easter Race at the

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Speaker 1: it's true, y'all. I got friends that are cmo CEO, coos,

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Speaker 1: We're at that brewery over there, right, and I remember I.

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Speaker 2: Was so proud of you. I mean, I love all

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Speaker 2: know how many tears. I don't how many gambles, y'all.

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Speaker 2: I'm dating. I am in a domestic partnership with the entrepreneur,

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Speaker 2: So pray for me.

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Speaker 1: Because his wins be big and the trips are great

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Speaker 1: and the bags are awesome. But I've had to also

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Speaker 1: The wind is coming. The wind is coming. The wind

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Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna take your stand up comedy. I

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Speaker 1: But no, so literally, I was so happy for Brandon,

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Speaker 1: Like I was so happy for him because I was like,

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Speaker 1: I had Atlanta on my shirt, so I figured. I

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Speaker 2: Do you know what majority is? Like? Do you know

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Speaker 2: what butter does?

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Speaker 1: Do you know that you literally can You were like

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Speaker 1: I got you on my Rollodex and we can have

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Speaker 3: You know, I wasn't on really social media before I started, Butter,

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Speaker 3: And you know, Joe came out, Jay Carter came Outshan

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Speaker 3: ain't got no black shirt now, so you know this

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Speaker 3: is this This tells you how old it does. That's

440
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Speaker 3: probably like my uniform every day. This you know, you know,

441
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Speaker 3: changed a little bit now, but it's still the same

442
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Speaker 3: old band. But again, thank you so much. Just I

443
00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,600
Speaker 3: just want to get in this show. Atlanta supports Atlanta.

444
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Speaker 3: And I think that's one of the things you'll see

445
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,520
Speaker 3: more and more when you start kind of digging below

446
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Speaker 3: the surfaces, you'll see relationships like this right to where

447
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,080
Speaker 3: now literally six years later, we're sitting here, you know,

448
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Speaker 3: talking about not just Butter atl And and you know

449
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Speaker 3: the airport. We're talking about you now being the CEO

450
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Speaker 3: of the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, you know, me

451
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Speaker 3: and majority and Butters become this whole other thing, and

452
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Speaker 3: like again, just this is the moment, this is literally

453
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Speaker 3: a moment right here that I really have never shared

454
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Speaker 3: this photo.

455
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Speaker 2: No, just picture that.

456
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, would you I got something for you,

457
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Speaker 1: my old what you're gonna do. But but I'm also

458
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Speaker 1: tell you what that means is that greatness surrounds itself

459
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Speaker 1: with greatness. And like we have this saying in my

460
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Speaker 1: family with competitives, second place is the first loser, because

461
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Speaker 1: so don't try for second place.

462
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Speaker 2: And then iron shoppers iron.

463
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Speaker 1: So you shopping your iron, you shopping your mind, you

464
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Speaker 1: shopping your body, you shopping your family, you shopping your

465
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Speaker 1: financial health, your wellness.

466
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Speaker 2: The people who are around you.

467
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Speaker 1: I see somebody who's right here, and yeah, I'm calling

468
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Speaker 1: everybody else, So y'all better hope I don't see these

469
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Speaker 1: blinders over here. I remember being in Atlanta Station, not

470
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Speaker 1: Atlantic Station. Atlanta Station is where Eric Gordon used to live.

471
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Speaker 1: And Eric had had this crazy show at one point,

472
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Speaker 1: and he was we were I could be honest with

473
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Speaker 1: my friends, probably dangerously honest. They don't fight me, but

474
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Speaker 1: they want to usually when it's when we're talking about things.

475
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Speaker 1: And Eric hat this show because I was at that time,

476
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Speaker 1: I was I think was I incubating that Turner or

477
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Speaker 1: I was coming out of incubation at Turner. I think

478
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Speaker 1: I was coming out of it, and so I saw

479
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Speaker 1: what was getting sold. So I like work on like

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dreamland and Monica Show and Nephie and all them.

481
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Speaker 1: And I was telling him. I was like, Eric, this

482
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Speaker 1: is not it, like we gotta do this, we gotta

483
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Speaker 1: do that, y'all. We used to be in his three

484
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Speaker 1: story townhouse. It will be a whole bunch of deuce.

485
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Speaker 1: He was a person who put me on superfoods early

486
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Speaker 1: because he did this whole buff thing. He wanted to

487
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Speaker 1: show his muscles this before he was a father and

488
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Speaker 1: her husband. But I just remember being like, yo, like

489
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Speaker 1: we got something so special and we all we had

490
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Speaker 1: to do is just keep tweaking. And now he's like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, i'mna be in Coln this week because I'm

492
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Speaker 1: doing this pitch. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be over here,

493
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Speaker 1: and Martha's ving doing that. I'm like, dang, can I

494
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Speaker 1: get a plus one to come with you? But I'm

495
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Speaker 1: so proud of that because I remember the grind, right,

496
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Speaker 1: I remember doing the crazy Immerging one hundred events and

497
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Speaker 1: like trying to like see out what life was. And

498
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Speaker 1: so I'm so proud of my people, and I take

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Speaker 1: y'all with me, I promise. So when somebody's like, yo,

500
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for a marketing person, I'm like, oh, I

501
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Speaker 1: got somebody, or I'm looking for a person who does this.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got somebody I'm developing. And now don't

503
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Speaker 1: do that out to midje website. I got somebody.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm always like trying to help because I also know

506
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Speaker 1: that now my voice has prowess and before it did it.

507
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Speaker 1: But you know how I got that is because there

508
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Speaker 1: were people speaking my name in rooms that I was

509
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Speaker 1: not in and who were like, she could do this.

510
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Speaker 2: I have to tell you this. I did not apply

511
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Speaker 2: for this job. I didn't. I did not apply for

512
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Speaker 2: this job Edbie parsons.

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Speaker 1: If y'all don't know Ebbie, don't follow him on social

514
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Speaker 1: media because he's an avid supporter of crazy.

515
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Speaker 2: Things, at least to after November. But when.

516
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Speaker 1: I love Ebbie, so I knew if Ebbie's work because

517
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Speaker 1: I have a lot of family friends. I'm'a spell my woman,

518
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Speaker 1: but half of my friends, more than half of my friends,

519
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Speaker 1: was a fam and so I heard of Ebbie before

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Speaker 1: Ebbie knew of me.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know he knew who I was, and I

522
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Speaker 2: knew his wife, Ayana.

523
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Speaker 1: She's a former co founder for Fearless Funds and you

524
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Speaker 1: should know about her, and so I thought they were

525
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Speaker 1: just super dope. Right when my close friend called and

526
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Speaker 1: was like, hey, Naima's doing some work with Ebbie.

527
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Speaker 2: They're looking for something. Can they call you mind you y'all?

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Speaker 1: This probably was the week before we went to dinner

529
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Speaker 1: because I was gonna tell Brandon I needed a job

530
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Speaker 1: because I wasn't sure what I was gonna do. I

531
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Speaker 1: just knew my season at the airport had departed. And

532
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Speaker 1: it was time for me to move on.

533
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Speaker 2: And I remember being like, yo, like Ebbie knows.

534
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Speaker 1: Me, because what I knew about Ibbi was that he

535
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Speaker 1: had placed bowl Saint John at Netflix.

536
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Speaker 2: So I'm like, this is the guy, right, like, this

537
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Speaker 2: is the guy. You know my name?

538
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Speaker 1: You know about me? Did I cut some old like

539
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Speaker 1: and what did I do? Did I say something crazy

540
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Speaker 1: on a Facebook post?

541
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Speaker 2: Because I'm good for that.

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Speaker 1: I've calmed down on my keyboard courage because I'd been

543
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Speaker 1: trying to see about people on some of these posts,

544
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Speaker 1: but I've learned I can't do that anymore.

545
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Speaker 2: But Ebbie was like, hey, I think this would be

546
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Speaker 2: a great opportunity.

547
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Speaker 1: You gotta sign an NDA And I was like, I

548
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: never had to sign an NDA before for a job application,

549
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: like to talk about it, and he said, oh no,

550
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Speaker 1: you don't understand. We've been talking about you in some

551
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: circles anyway, and your name was shortlisted for something in JFK,

552
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Speaker 1: but I diverted you here, and I was like.

553
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Speaker 2: Wait, ain't nobody in New York called me and talk

554
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Speaker 2: to me about anything?

555
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: But it goes to show you that your name might

556
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Speaker 1: be on lists and in places where people are already

557
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Speaker 1: paying attention to you and you have a pulse on

558
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Speaker 1: so many things. And he was like, hey, is this opportunity.

559
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: It's nonprofit. I was like, oh, nonprofit means no money.

560
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: He said, no, it hits your comp I said, okay,

561
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: let's have a conversation. And so then and then we

562
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: started talking and he started talking about the bonuses and

563
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: the things. And then he was like, look, you get

564
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Speaker 1: to be Ji. And I was like, so you sure

565
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: they don't expect nobody else because I don't how to

566
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: be nobody else. Now they're gonna see this black girl

567
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: come in there and all this magic, all six feet

568
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Speaker 1: of it. And then so I go in and he's like, oh,

569
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Speaker 1: I didn't just put you in. Your name was already

570
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Speaker 1: on a list from a board member. And I got

571
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Speaker 1: one of my comedy people in here.

572
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Speaker 2: Where is she? I don't see her this year? Hey, bo,

573
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Speaker 2: I don't have my glass because I got these lashes on.

574
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Speaker 2: And this is not gonna work out.

575
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Speaker 1: But but I just remember talking to people who were like,

576
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Speaker 1: you're special and it's so crazy. So okay, have y'all ever,

577
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Speaker 1: y'all bet I've seen this before. Have you ever seen

578
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Speaker 1: what's love got to do? With it.

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Speaker 2: So that's my one of my Grandma' favorite moved.

580
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Speaker 1: Just one of the last movies we saw South of

581
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Speaker 1: kamp Mall before it turning the South Africa Mall. I

582
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Speaker 1: don't have a movie THEA tomorrow. It is South af

583
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Speaker 1: Come on, it's nothing there. We should buy it. Actually,

584
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: I just let's go like we should. Let's South finish

585
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: line right there. Then I went to g G because

586
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 1: they had cheap clothes. When I went back to finish

587
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 1: line so I can get my sneakers. But we went

588
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Speaker 1: to see it, and my vivid memory of it is

589
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Speaker 1: when Anime Bulllock was singing this little Light of Mine

590
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Speaker 1: in the beginning and I'm gonna let it shine, and

591
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: then the quad director was like, you're doing way too

592
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: much and pulled her by her ear and pulled her out.

593
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 1: But I show that clip in my talks because that's

594
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Speaker 1: how I want to sing this little light of mind.

595
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Speaker 1: So before every talk, even today, I sing this little

596
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Speaker 1: light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine to myself.

597
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Speaker 1: I used to sing it in my Kanye voice, but

598
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Speaker 1: then Kanye stopped being Kanye, so I stopped singing it

599
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Speaker 1: the way that he sings it. But when when I

600
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Speaker 1: say it to myself. I do say this little light

601
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Speaker 1: of mine because guess what, this is the only light

602
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Speaker 1: I have. It is the only one I got, and

603
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: I have to let it shine or I'm not showing up.

604
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Speaker 1: So this little light of mine, I don't care how

605
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: little it is, but all it takes is light to

606
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Speaker 1: push out darkness.

607
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Speaker 2: And that's what I try to do.

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Speaker 4: John, What Yeah, come on, Clap for that. Clap for that.

609
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Speaker 3: You know, one of the things you talked about was

610
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Speaker 3: your name being your name being mentioned in rooms you're

611
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 3: not in, and just people advocating for you. And again

612
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Speaker 3: I can tell you I remember when I went through

613
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Speaker 3: my NBA program at Georgia Tech. One of the things

614
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Speaker 3: they talked about is at a certain level, these jobs

615
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 3: aren't going to be on LinkedIn, They're not going to

616
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Speaker 3: be on glass door.

617
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Speaker 4: Like there's a certain level.

618
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Speaker 3: The same thing that happened to me with majority right,

619
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Speaker 3: Like the same thing I was doing my thing and

620
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Speaker 3: I get like a random message on LinkedIn from shack

621
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Speaker 3: and this guy named no Meat.

622
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Speaker 4: I thought I was a scam. I was like, what

623
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Speaker 4: is this?

624
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Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, my room was my neiame

625
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,239
Speaker 3: was being spoken in the room. Somebody from Coke had

626
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 3: recommended me. They said, you know what, y'all are starting

627
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 3: this agency in Atlanta. We think there's a lot of opportunities.

628
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 3: Go talk to this guy. I had never met them

629
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Speaker 3: before in my life, and we came, we sat down

630
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Speaker 3: and talked, and now I'm a partner at the agency.

631
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Speaker 3: You know, we got semi acquired last year. So again

632
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 3: it's important, y'all gotta understand these relationships at a certain

633
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 3: part really matter. Just kind of speak on that for

634
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 3: a second, right, Like, what is it like kind of

635
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 3: going through that process. But also, how do you, you know,

636
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 3: plant those seeds you trying to talk about the idea

637
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: of you know, small steps and leading the bigger things.

638
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 3: How do you kind of plant those seeds so those

639
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 3: opportunities do happen.

640
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: So one thing I'll say is authenticity, y'all know what

641
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: y'all gonna get. I'm this person all the time. It

642
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: sayds a makeup in lestions because I really don't worry

643
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 1: these and it's really this one right here is really

644
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: bothering me. Shout out on my makeup artist, Rayeh, she's great.

645
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: But being authentically yourself and showing up see most of

646
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: them laughing.

647
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 2: But they used to this already.

648
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 1: They they I really, I really could be on common View,

649
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: but no, seriously, so authentically I show up as myself.

650
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: But what I learned very early at those nice days

651
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: on ten fifty tech Wood Drive as an intern and

652
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: also at seven fifty five hang Air and Drive as

653
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 1: an intern where my mother actually used to pass out

654
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: programs and napkins and things like that as an usher.

655
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: And then I get an internship and I was the

656
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 1: only black girl there that year. I learned very how

657
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: important it was to have advocates. So there's a different

658
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: and mentor and sponsors. Mentors these are the people I

659
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: talk about my stuff with. They're almost my therapists, but

660
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 1: I don't pay them. I talk about things, approaches. They

661
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: may even prove of an email for me because I

662
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: might be two, four or four in it, so I

663
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: have to remind myself about how my posture is and

664
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: they can check me in an emotional way. My sponsors

665
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: are one hundred percent transactional. Do not get it twisted.

666
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: They know exactly while they're in my book because guess

667
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: what they need me is currency too, because a lot

668
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: of times they need to be able to say, Oh, no,

669
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: I know an amazing black woman who does this. I

670
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: know somebody in Dei that does that. Oh I have

671
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: somebody in Atlanta. Oh my god, you're trying to get

672
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: the Brandon Giant. Brenda are really closed, She mentors his daughter.

673
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: You'll be amazed at what people say in those rooms.

674
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: And guess what, sometimes they're not happening in rooms, ladies.

675
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: So let me look at me real quick. Get you

676
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: some male sponsors. Okay, get you some because even now

677
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, a lot of the opportunities I've

678
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: gotten it's because men have been on the golf course

679
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: or to speak easy or the cigar room.

680
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: Because there are still spaces we're.

681
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: Not in right, And so I had to learn very quickly, like, Okay,

682
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: Dan Gordon likes me, let me work on this. Alex

683
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: Urban PGA Tour executive director thinks I'm cool. So I

684
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: gotta show up to the PGA tour like I started

685
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: putting things together. And guess what, they were more happy

686
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: to see me there because there was no intimidation factor

687
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: for them.

688
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 2: They were happy to usher me into the room.

689
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: They were happy to say ji with somebody I invited,

690
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: and the reason that is also important is because it's

691
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: like trying to go viral. You know those people who trying,

692
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: like these crazy people who keep going on this baby

693
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: oil up thinking that it's gonna make them look cool,

694
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: and it's really not.

695
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: It's really kind of yeah.

696
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: And I ain't gotta say what y'a already know and

697
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: so and I'm thinking, you're trying so hard to be viral,

698
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: You're trying so hard to do something.

699
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: If you're yourself and show up, those are the moments.

700
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the nice young lady who said very

701
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: demure and very mindful had no idea that people will

702
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: be talking about this a whole month later, right. It

703
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: was just that person being authentically who they were. It's

704
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: the same thing where you're talking about showing up in

705
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: these rooms. But here the one thing that I have

706
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: to say to all of us have a plan. A

707
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: lot of y'all, Oh, John, can you help me do what?

708
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 4: You know? What I mean?

709
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: People come to you, hey, I want help for what

710
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: you know?

711
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: What do you want help for? In the terms of Joey,

712
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: I don't think he's here because he was under the weather.

713
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: But we talked about MVPs and mxvps. If you've ever

714
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: done ideation before, you know exactly what this is from

715
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: design thinking, what is your minimum viable product to get

716
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: where you're trying to go. So when somebody asks you

717
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: what you want, don't give me what you want five

718
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: years at the capital investment and after some ideation and

719
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: after your film is finished, what do you want?

720
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 2: I need a meeting with the producer at Viacom. Can

721
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 2: you help me with that?

722
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: Not I want to be you know, produced and on

723
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: Netflix that you're not ready yet. And the other thing

724
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: is when you start talking about these things, align yourself

725
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: with people who do what you do, who can champion you.

726
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we want things to be ready, wanted,

727
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: the microwaved, we want the thirty second button hitting it

728
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: to work, and just does not work that way. One

729
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: of my favorite methods is Samuel ed Jackson. And if

730
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: you look when he became Samuel L he was already fifty,

731
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: already fifty, already kicked out of more House all at

732
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: already fifty.

733
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 2: And so when you start talking.

734
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: About those things, you had to think about like, maybe

735
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: my time isn't yet, but trust and keep working, keep digging,

736
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: keep moving in that direction.

737
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: It's okay to pivot too. That's the other thing.

738
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 4: Fail.

739
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: If you're gonna fail, fail fast, fail forward, dust yourself off,

740
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: but move on to the next thing. A lot of

741
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: times were perpetually failing, and now you've lost money and time.

742
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: Sometimes respect depend upon who money you lost. So I'm

743
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: talking to the entrepreneurs here. But when I talk about

744
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: you have to believe in yourself. A lot of people

745
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: want to be next to sunshine, right, They want to

746
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: be next to lights. So bring your light to whatever

747
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: it is that you're doing and be proud of that.

748
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 2: I'm not you know.

749
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: I talk to my partner all the time because I

750
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: believe I'm the baddest shack in the room. And let

751
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: me tell you, because my mama told me long time ago, baby,

752
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: you can't be sure.

753
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: That's not who you are. You're not gonna have no

754
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: big old booty. That ain't who you are.

755
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have real you know this, ain't it right,

756
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: That's not who you are. But be who you are

757
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: and be true to that part of you, and people

758
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: will literally come to you. It's like a magnet. My

759
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: mom gets to ask all the time, like has she

760
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: always been like this? And miss Dale right here can

761
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: tell you she'd been with me since before I was

762
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: with me. Matter of fact, Julia is named after my

763
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: grandmother and my mother will talk about that later. But

764
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: miss Dale, my church member here, is only before me.

765
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: And I've always had this light always because I've always

766
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: just been who I was. I couldn't be anybody else.

767
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: So if I leave you with nothing, find you somebody

768
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: who can speak your name in a room you're not in,

769
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: and they don't have to look like you. Blackness doesn't

770
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: always meaning having black mentors and sponsors.

771
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 2: Blackness means having an ally. I take them all.

772
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: I take the ones who are not Atlanta centric but

773
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: are cultural adjacent. I take the ones who are trying

774
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: to figure out what a vibe is and I can

775
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: be their vibeure. I take the ones who are trying

776
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: to find whate to put their money because they don't

777
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: know you can always buy girls scout cookie, but I

778
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: need more than that from you.

779
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: I take the ones who.

780
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: Are starting an app or a dot com platform that

781
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: nobody really understood in twenty eighteen but still figured it

782
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: out later. I take the people who are just about

783
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: wanting to be around good people and good vibes, because

784
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: that's where you cultivate, that's where you build and you learn. Again,

785
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: when Brandon was a matter of fact, what they were

786
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: talking about it as a website. I was like, a website,

787
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: like because talking with Tammy was big back then, and

788
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: Shandra rolls ooh, and so I was like, is it

789
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna be like that because I don't want to do

790
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: Atlanta johnt.

791
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: They're like, no, it's culture.

792
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: And then Bang always been talking about everything starts in

793
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: Atlanta child, He's the Atlanta unofficial mayor, right, And I

794
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: was like, is it like bang stuff?

795
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 2: Now it ain't really bang stuff either. I'm like, well,

796
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 2: Bang gonna beat her? So how is it? Like? It

797
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 2: was just so weird.

798
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: So what I will tell you is this is how

799
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: you meet people in these rooms. You'll be amazing how

800
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: many of my c sweet friends are sitting right here

801
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: tonight to come support me.

802
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 2: You have no idea what that looks like. The other

803
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 2: thing is show off your people. Show up for them.

804
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: It means the world to them, and they will show

805
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 2: up for you.

806
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: And sometimes that might be an email, a LinkedIn connection,

807
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: taking their kids to vacation, and then him telling me

808
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: that she is always supposed to go to spell men.

809
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 2: She don't know that yet.

810
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: But the day before we go to Calaway, Gardens's gonna

811
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: call me talking about we're not gonna make it.

812
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 2: I'm like, we've been planning this. We go to Calaway

813
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 2: every year for five, seven, ten years. Like what are

814
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 2: you talking about?

815
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 1: But again, get people around you who you can trust,

816
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: who you think you can keep your kids with, right,

817
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: Like if you if you got a question if these

818
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: people should be around your family, your kids, Get you

819
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: some new friends.

820
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 3: I think one thing that a lot of people don't

821
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 3: realize is, you know, they see the titles and the roles,

822
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 3: they see this stuff. But one thing I think it

823
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 3: kind of gets, you know, glossed over, especially like in

824
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 3: this entrepreneurship game that Atlanta likes to play specifically, is

825
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 3: that like building something is hard, and not only is

826
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 3: it hard, it's hard on you personally, mentally, emotionally. I

827
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 3: got to tell this story about there was a time

828
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 3: when I had a chain of web design stores and

829
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 3: you know, we were doing okay and things were happening.

830
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 3: I had like three different locations, I had employees that

831
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 3: worked for me, and you know, I didn't know anything

832
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 3: about P and L's. I remember I got a copy

833
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 3: of quick Books and I went and like knocked on

834
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 3: this accountants firm that was by my house and said,

835
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 3: you just show me how to I paid to guy

836
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 3: one hundred bucks and say, you just show me how

837
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 3: to use this so that I can do right by

838
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 3: my employees.

839
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 4: I remember one time I literally drove my had my man.

840
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 4: I loved that car.

841
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 3: I had my nineteen ninety five accurate RL and I

842
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 3: drove it to Title Wow. And I was sitting in

843
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 3: the parking lot because I had to make payroll, and

844
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 3: I was like, I can title upon my car right

845
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 3: now to make payroll.

846
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 4: And I remember I got an email.

847
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 3: And that that one email that I got was enough

848
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 3: money to help cover my employees for the next two weeks.

849
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 3: So I don't think people talk about that kind of stuff, right.

850
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 3: So leadership and building something is hard. But on the

851
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 3: other side of that, how do you especially running a

852
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 3: two billion dollar you know, organization, especially running now the

853
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 3: Girl Scouts of Atlanta with over thirty thousand people, Like

854
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 3: how do you manage your well being in mental space

855
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 3: in trying to build what you're doing? Because you got

856
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 3: to be able to show up too, and again, you're your,

857
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 3: you are you, but you're also still a person.

858
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, I'll say this leadership is lonely. I remember

859
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: when me and Melissa were at Turner. Melissa got y'all.

860
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: They sent Steve Conan sent her a UK and she

861
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: did Turner Europe and everything.

862
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 2: I was just still working the bridess. I was really jealous.

863
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: But one of the things we wanted was in office

864
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: with our name. Oh my god, office was our names

865
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: on it, Like there goes LORI, y'all. But I told

866
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: you my friends, they they show for me. But but

867
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: I want an office with my name on it. And

868
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: that was all I was working towards. Like I never understood,

869
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,439
Speaker 1: Like I was like, I want to be that person

870
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: that they talk about in the press releases.

871
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 2: I've learned now, Yeah, I really would rather not you

872
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 2: talked about in the press. I've had enough, fresh child.

873
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,479
Speaker 2: My Google footprint is deep.

874
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: But when it comes to this idea of what leadership is,

875
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: we just look at what we're aspiring to have because

876
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: we're looking out of this this gaze of the glory.

877
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: My mother's guy brother, my uncle, Craig Oliver, has a

878
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: sermon that he talks about not understanding the story behind

879
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: the glory and what it takes to get there and

880
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: how I mean he's dyslexic and all these things that

881
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: nobody knew anything about. And he's a mega guy, right,

882
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: he's the guy to know. And he would he would

883
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 1: always tell me to stay true to myself and my faith,

884
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: and a pray don't have to be long. It could

885
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: just be simple as lead me and guide me, oh Lord,

886
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: because sometimes that's all I had words for. Because when

887
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: you were being attacked again, I'm very googleable, when you

888
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: were being attacked publicly and you have these people coming

889
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: for you, My honey said, he still owes me another

890
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: dinner at the pass Very Houston's because I could not

891
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: enjoy my rabbi because I was crying so dog on

892
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: hard because I was tired.

893
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 2: You know, you get tired, You like, why am I fighting?

894
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 2: Why am I doing this?

895
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: But there's this this this concept and I can't remember

896
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: the person's same now we'll put it somewhere in the chat,

897
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: but it says until you commit, everything's gonna seem crazy.

898
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: But the moment that you commit to something, providence will

899
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: move to and things that you do not expect outside

900
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: of your control will start to move in your favor.

901
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: And I start realizing I was I was doubting myself.

902
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: Like then I was like, wait a minute, you got

903
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: a interroom with confidence. Because I used to go into

904
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: rooms afraid and asking for permission to be there because

905
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: I felt like I was so grateful to have the opportunity.

906
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: And I started realizing I was like, oh wait, I'm

907
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: the only one with this amazing dax ribo nucleic ascid

908
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: that's DNA and there if anybody else can be me,

909
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't be here. And so I started realizing

910
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: that it was a blessing for me to step into

911
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: that room, and that was purpose for me to be

912
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: in that room. And there was some rooms I wasn't

913
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: supposed to be in. There were some clients when I

914
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: was consulting and figuring out my life out I didn't

915
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: need to take. There were some people who I just

916
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: needed to distance myself from because I started realizing I

917
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: don't even like them like that I like for real

918
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: and it's just like the people consulting. You'd be like

919
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: I really hate this client, just let it go. But

920
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: I also started realizing, like I have to make time

921
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: for myself. As a matter of fact, my cousin has

922
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: graduated from college May third. She'll be the first dds

923
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: in our family. She's going to medical school after she's

924
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: at Tennessee State. She just crossed ALTFHA cap Alps already incorporated,

925
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: and we're so proud of her. Well, I got a

926
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: board meeting that was already pre scheduled pre PJ, which

927
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: I called PREGI, and so I called my board chair

928
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: to di text. I said, I ain't gonna be here

929
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: May third, So y'all can have this ward meeting, but

930
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be here because I started realizing, I

931
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: stopped showing up for my family, and I started feeling lonely.

932
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: I stopped showing up for the birthday parties, the bridal showers,

933
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: the fish fries, the meean up to wash the falcons.

934
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: Hopefully when they didn't do it that a lot these

935
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: last couple of years, but maybe they were going forward

936
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: where I started.

937
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 2: I stopped showing up for those things because I was embarrassed.

938
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 1: You ever felt like everybody knew what was going on,

939
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: like everybody you know was well in the reality was

940
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: your family just wanted you to be who you were

941
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: and I started surrounding myself with people whose eyes were

942
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: lighting up when they saw me. I forgot that gentleman's name,

943
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: but he was like, be around people whose eyes light

944
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: up when they see you coming. And that's when I

945
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: started being like, you know what, I want to be

946
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: around people who love me level crum. David Banner a

947
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: good friend of mine. We were just talking about. He

948
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: and I just did American sash. Where was that worstraquiler?

949
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: I think it was, I can't remember Saturday Friday. So

950
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: we just did American Chess. And one thing that David

951
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: Banner said to me, and we talk about this a lot,

952
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: because he'd be on some godboxing, some biblical ancestry stuff.

953
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 2: Y'all just got to watch this stuff. Oh watch Fight

954
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 2: Night too, because he's good in that.

955
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: But he was saying to me, he was like Joe,

956
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: I stopped going places where I had to I couldn't

957
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: put my back to the door, and I ain't feel love.

958
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: I stopped going places where I felt that way. And

959
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: so I challenged you, as leaders, if you get to

960
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: a point, well, I listen. People thought I was gonna

961
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: be the CEO of the airport. I never signed up

962
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: for that. Let me be clear, I never asked for that.

963
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: I always wanted to keep having fun. And if you've

964
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: ever been to any of my talks, you know that

965
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: I have fun and everything I do, I'm the same

966
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: person in front of air bashing. I'm the same person

967
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: all the time. But when it stopped feeling like fun,

968
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: and when I couldn't sleep, and when I had to

969
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: have a conversation with my mother, I was coming back

970
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: from Africa. I never seen anything as beautiful as Africa

971
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: my life. Literally, I felt so one with everything. I mean,

972
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: I feel like my body was sage, like I was

973
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: say out there and I was like, what is going on?

974
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: And I called my mother and I was like, Mom,

975
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: I can't do this no more. But she said, you

976
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 1: have done enough and it is okay. And turning down

977
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: your next or saying that you were done and leaving

978
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 1: on your own will is not the same as quitting.

979
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: And all I needed was that permission from my mama

980
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: and my BOO said you don't have to do this.

981
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: I called Melissa and I was in tears. I was like,

982
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: ma'am Mail, one of my ball of friends.

983
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 2: I was like, mal, I just want to pay my

984
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 2: mortgage you know, I want to just be able to

985
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 2: take care of my family because I'm not for my

986
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: family right like I'm just that one I always have been.

987
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm being a mother isn't my ministry,

988
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: but I'm a mother to a lot of folks kids.

989
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: And I just was like, I can't. I don't want

990
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: to feel like I'm quitting. I felt like if I

991
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: was leaving I again, Land of five hundred decorated. I'm

992
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: actually aviations forty under forty. I got that when I

993
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: was thirty six years old and I was the only

994
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: black girl on the docket. Like I was. I was like, Mama,

995
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: if I leave, they gonna think that I did something.

996
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: And she said, you were leaving with your pride, and

997
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: you are leaving for peace.

998
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 2: Baby, You're not quitting.

999
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: So I'm speaking to someone who's trying to figure out

1000
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: if they to sign that deal, take that job, stay

1001
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: on that course.

1002
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 2: Continue.

1003
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: It is perfectly fine to raise the white flag for

1004
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: your peace. It's not about the black girl failing, because

1005
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: that's another whole conversation. And have in Kumbaya and sit

1006
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: and sing, you know the Ceilionetti songs about right, like

1007
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: the feeling of failure because I had been propped up.

1008
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: But what I also started realizing was you were being

1009
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: propped up, so if you failed, they could say it

1010
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: was because you were a black girl. And I start realizing, like,

1011
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's what this is. So let me

1012
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: do the graceful thing. Let me choose my integrity, let

1013
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: me choose my illumination and my light, let me choose

1014
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: my energy, and let me choose myself. Right, y'all, I've

1015
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: had days went in between time when I was trying

1016
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: to figure out my life.

1017
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 2: I used to live. I still live in Castlebury Hill.

1018
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 2: That's why I got here in five minutes.

1019
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: But I used to be afraid when So we had

1020
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 1: this fence, so we actually live right underneath pascals on

1021
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: top of pascals, and the garage was underneath, and it

1022
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: was a roll up garage.

1023
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: And you know, people just best messing up.

1024
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: So if you know how it is when you live

1025
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: in communities where people mess up again and everything, well,

1026
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: the gate protected me because report man can come get

1027
00:43:55,160 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: my car. See that's see listen, and I remember, and

1028
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: then my ac compressor went out and I can try

1029
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: to get the m man.

1030
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 2: Hen we done came a long way.

1031
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: When when I started thinking about literally it goes back

1032
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: and I guess, go bi before.

1033
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 2: When I look back over my.

1034
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,919
Speaker 1: Life and I think things over, I can truly say

1035
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: that I've been blessed.

1036
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 2: I have a testimony.

1037
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: And so when I start thinking about that and I

1038
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: think about leadership, we are not here to be broken.

1039
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: We are here to give the treasure of which has

1040
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: been bestowed to us. And when the person of which

1041
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: you're issuing your treasure to refuses it, don't let somebody

1042
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: tell you more than once they don't want you.

1043
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 2: And that's what people were doing.

1044
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing in Atlanta way, I wasn't playing Atlanta game,

1045
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 1: and I had no idea when we talked.

1046
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 2: Remember I told I was like, I don't know what

1047
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do.

1048
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: I literally got every phone call that following week and

1049
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: text you a green heart because I was like, Yo,

1050
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: this is weird, but I'm trying to tell y'all you

1051
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 1: have to have faith. And it's scary and it is lonely,

1052
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: but trust it will be all right. It may look

1053
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: different than what you thought. It might not come in

1054
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: that nice package, it might not even have a bow

1055
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: on it, but it may be your gift and be

1056
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: okay with stepping into the unknown. Do I know anything

1057
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: about nonprofit by laws and regulations?

1058
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 2: I got people for that. Do I know anything about law? No.

1059
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 2: I had a whole bunch of contracts, but at the

1060
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 2: airport I had twenty lawyers. I have people for that.

1061
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: There will be positions that God will put you in

1062
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: that you were not qualified for. Trust and believe and

1063
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: you won't have to apply.

1064
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 4: For I only got one word to say. Message.

1065
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 3: You know, you talk about stuff like transition. You talked

1066
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 3: about the challenge and again as especially in this world

1067
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 3: we live in this Atlanta entrepreneurship space where everything's on

1068
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 3: social media. It's hard to walk away from that stuff.

1069
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 3: And you're so publicly successful, trus I dealt with those

1070
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: same challenges. I went through a very large legal battle.

1071
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't know when I left the

1072
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 3: agency that I started butter At. I was in litigation

1073
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 3: with them for nine months. I remember, and I was

1074
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 3: paying for butter out my pocket and it was bloody,

1075
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 3: and it was bloody, It was messy, but I had

1076
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 3: to fight for it because what I didn't want to

1077
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 3: do is I didn't want to walk away from it.

1078
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, if it became something else,

1079
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 3: y'all be looking at me. Y'all have been saying, oh, okay, No,

1080
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 3: he wasn't who he said he was. He wasn't really

1081
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 3: doing what he said he was gonna do, or he

1082
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 3: was really just this. So I had to fight for that,

1083
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 3: for my own peace of mind and my own reputation

1084
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 3: because I had built something in public and I was

1085
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 3: so public about it being so different that these people

1086
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 3: tried to take it from me and I had to

1087
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 3: fight them for nine months to get it. So I

1088
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 3: get it and understand transition. But on the other side

1089
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 3: of transition, though, good things happen. And now you are

1090
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 3: now the CEO of the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta,

1091
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 3: the first one in one hundred years, over hundred years.

1092
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 3: My question for you is in this role now, how

1093
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 3: do you see all those experiences rolling up and for

1094
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 3: you to be able to kind of change this culture

1095
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 3: and make your new vision for the Girl Scouts of

1096
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 3: Atlanta Greater Metro Atlanta, Like, what do you see that becoming?

1097
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 2: So there are two things.

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00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: There's one book, Carla Harris, Expect to Win is real easy,

1099
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: you should read it. And I'm not a reader, by

1100
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: the way, so if I'm giving you these books, it

1101
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: is because they probably real easy to read.

1102
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 2: On a playing flight from Atlanta to New York. You

1103
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 2: can be done. So Expect to Win is one of them.

1104
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: And the other book I can't I think his name

1105
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: is Franz, but it's called The Metachi Effects in the

1106
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: Medici Effects. In the book, it talks about how they

1107
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: bring all these people from different backgrounds to solve one

1108
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: common issue. And what I realized was that And this

1109
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: goes out to Vicky Hamilton. She is one of my mentors,

1110
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: but she talks about this idea of having tools in

1111
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 1: your toolbox that were transferable skills that will be able

1112
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: to get you somewhere. What Eric could tell you is

1113
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: that I'm really I'm killer on Adobean Graphics and Premiere

1114
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: and I could do all of that right.

1115
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 2: So I was a one woman show like I used

1116
00:47:59,520 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: to be able.

1117
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: To do my own events, build my own creative, build

1118
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: my own spots and pre role and people thought I

1119
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: was a big agency and I was thinking it till

1120
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: I made it the whole time. My honey, tell you,

1121
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: I can build a website in a couple of minutes

1122
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh my god, this is amazing.

1123
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 2: He has an idea.

1124
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: I just bought the Groogle domain from whatever, you know,

1125
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: seven dollars on wits. But it was the idea of

1126
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: the presentation. I knew how to do that very well.

1127
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: And then also I had a little bit of charm

1128
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: and I had a lot of a little bit of brilliance,

1129
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: and I was smart enough to enter the room. I

1130
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: started realizing, you know, I had everything I needed. I

1131
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: had the expertise, I had the leadership, I had the

1132
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: transferable skill set.

1133
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 2: I just had to believe I could do the job.

1134
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: A lot of times we go in and we're grateful

1135
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: that people just interviewed us, not understanding that we're actually

1136
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: a KPI that somebody's trying to meet. We're the key

1137
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: performance indicator they're trying to find, and instead of us

1138
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: being who we are, we're coming in with levels of gratitude.

1139
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,919
Speaker 1: That's why we are so disproportionately paid less, both black

1140
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: women and brown men than any other race, because we

1141
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: go in just grateful to be in a room.

1142
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 2: Oh thank y'all so much, and so m a no lie.

1143
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: One of my mentors says, stop entering the room with

1144
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: an absence of confidence.

1145
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 2: So what now? Now? What I play along with this

1146
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 2: a lot of mine.

1147
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: I play optimistic by sounds of blackness because I'm like,

1148
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: you can win as long as you keep your head

1149
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: to the sky, like you could whatever is going to

1150
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: be in the midst of all your sorrow, right, as

1151
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: long as you win. And I'm blasting this in them folks,

1152
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: uh parking lot at the Girl Scouts And so yeah,

1153
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: I listen every now and then. I might listen to

1154
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: trape Dot too, because sometimes I do sell bricks when

1155
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: I'm on the way to work.

1156
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 4: Just silly.

1157
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 2: But but what happens is that you have everything you need.

1158
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: We're always trying to find ways of to say, Okay,

1159
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: I don't check off this box. It might be volunteerism.

1160
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: It might be at your church, it might be in

1161
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: your community. It might be some freelance thing you did.

1162
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: It might stop finding reasons for you not to be

1163
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: good enough. I think some of it's the trauma in

1164
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 1: our bloodline, and we'll get through that, maybe, I'm hope.

1165
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 2: But that's why we do what we doing for zoe'

1166
00:49:59,120 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 2: so zo.

1167
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: We don't have to feel this way, right, So when

1168
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: you try to each bloodline, each generation. You try to

1169
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: remove the trauma each time. At least we should, and

1170
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: if you're not, you should be trying to do that.

1171
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: Because that's what I realized. Like, I was like, Okay,

1172
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: I have everything I need. A matter of fact, they y'all,

1173
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: I ain't never been on no job interview or no

1174
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: job process where they give you a leadership assessment. I

1175
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 1: took a Hogan assessment. I don't take everything Maya's Bridge.

1176
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:23,439
Speaker 1: They told me I should be a farmer.

1177
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 4: It was so random.

1178
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: Shane's finder truths find their true colors, you know, take

1179
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: all of them. One of the things they told me

1180
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: was that I was too resilient. I had never heard

1181
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: of that before. Mind you, these are not people who

1182
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: look like me giving me the test. I'm like, what

1183
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: are you talking about. I'm not too I'm too resilient.

1184
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, do you know what this like to

1185
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: be black in America? So what she told me was

1186
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: the opportunity in my resilience is that I was dismissive

1187
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: of other people's ability to process because I would be like, Okay,

1188
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 1: that didn't work, let's move on.

1189
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 2: But she was like, as a leader, you have to

1190
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: be able to that that some.

1191
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: People need to dwell here for a moment, right, you

1192
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: need to feel the I'm not a really good pacifier either,

1193
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,399
Speaker 1: so I'm like, if people start crying in my office,

1194
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be freaked out. So like, I'm trying to

1195
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: figure it out. So she told me, she said, I

1196
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: want you to give yourself a moment. It might be

1197
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: the end of the day, maybe give them to the

1198
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: end of the week, but give them a deadline for

1199
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,479
Speaker 1: to feel the grief, the transition, the harm or whatever

1200
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: and then move on.

1201
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 2: But my resilience comes from my mother. My resilience comes from.

1202
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: So y'all know the reason I love Outcasts is because

1203
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: Outcast was storytelling.

1204
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 3: Also the greatest group absolutely speak a speaking box Love

1205
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 3: Below came out twenty years a day. Kick It on

1206
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 3: butter At like that post.

1207
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: But there's a portion that was so important to me

1208
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: because on Elevators it talks about how he caught the

1209
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: eighty six lath onon from headed Todicator. My mom and

1210
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: I used to ride the eighty six lith Onion for real.

1211
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: It's on the corner of columb Drive in Rainbow and

1212
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: Me and my boo Because I wanted to show him

1213
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: where I was from. He from the country y'all got.

1214
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 1: They got probably eight hundred people in the town. He's

1215
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 1: from Mississippi. I ain't lying.

1216
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 2: It ain't no y'all. It adn't no gravel is no.

1217
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: They don't even have a golden pantry. If you country,

1218
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: you know you got a golden patrie. They ain't got

1219
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: one of those. But he went to college and Officer

1220
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: Oxford and played football. But go dogs, we're gonna have

1221
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: a thing in a couple of weeks because Georgia plays

1222
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: Oh miss. But I went took him to Decatur, and

1223
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta show you something because he's

1224
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: so me and my mama talking the phone every morning.

1225
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 2: He knows this.

1226
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: Everybody knows this. Melissa knows this. Everybody know that I'm

1227
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: be on the phone my mama around. I'm not a

1228
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: morning person. So around about seven thirty eight o'clock, we'll

1229
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: be talking the whole time, and before my grandmother transitioned,

1230
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: it will be the three of us. The people that

1231
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:43,959
Speaker 1: Turner even knew this, They will leave me alone until

1232
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: I got to phone my mom and my grandmother. My

1233
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 1: mother's resilience of the eighty six, lath Onion headed to Decatur.

1234
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: I wanted him to see where my mama used to

1235
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: have to walk. I wanted him to understand that she

1236
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: ain't gonna never have to pay She might have to

1237
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: pay a car note, but she's not gonna have to

1238
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: pay assurance for the Because I wanted Malcolm to understand,

1239
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: I was like, I want you to see what this

1240
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 1: comes from. My mother is beautiful, like she gives Leila,

1241
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: I lead the rest of them a run for day money.

1242
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: You want to go see how fine she was. She

1243
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: was real fine for her for theyse class room in

1244
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: you last week, and so she was she she was.

1245
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: She was a batty for real. And so I showed Malcolm.

1246
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: We were walking up the here y'all ever been indicator,

1247
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: you know, you coming from south of Camp Mall and

1248
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: you coming straight up like you going to Columby Drop

1249
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: and you go down that hill and up that big

1250
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: old hill where matthis Dairy is.

1251
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 2: My mother used to walk that every day and.

1252
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: The way that she would Now I know this, I

1253
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: have a love for funians, you know, honey bun and

1254
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: orange juice.

1255
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 2: Because we was stopped by matthis Dairy.

1256
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: Because my mother would get me something to give me

1257
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: a distraction from how long we were walking, and so

1258
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: I wanted I told Malcolm because Malcolm was like, wait,

1259
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: your mom used to walk this, I'm like, every every day.

1260
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: And she was also a Santa's Oh if we had

1261
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: the first black Santa Claus or rest in peace Missus

1262
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: Stanta because he passed away, but we had the first

1263
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: black Santa Claus, and that's where she would work. And

1264
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: so when we talked about resilience and I had to

1265
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: explain to my leadership person, I was like, ma'am, that

1266
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: stuff is in the fiber who I Am Like, I

1267
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: can't just let that go because it's not convenient for

1268
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: this workplace. But what I started to realize was I

1269
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: could use those things as tools to bring and level

1270
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: up the next person, to give them opportunities to learn

1271
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: about resilience. The only reason I'm sitting here is because

1272
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 1: there are people who believe that I could do something that. Okay,

1273
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about planes, but I knew that

1274
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,240
Speaker 1: they obviously can't be that close together, because then something happened,

1275
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, Like, I knew that

1276
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of energy to push and turn

1277
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: the propellers on. So don't stand right here. Like there

1278
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 1: were some things I knew, and so I also started

1279
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: to educate myself. Google's your friend, but like I got

1280
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: friends in spaces. I was like, okay, nonprofit Milton Little.

1281
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: I have been calling the Milton every week. I'm like,

1282
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: how do you do this? How does this work? So

1283
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: to answer your question and to go back to center.

1284
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: My resilience is what keeps me centered. But I use

1285
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: my network all the time. If I don't know something,

1286
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to ask. I'm pretty smart, but I

1287
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: don't know everything. Even when I was in HBS, I

1288
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: was the only black girl in my group, and I

1289
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: used to be like, I'm tired of being the only one. Jesus, please,

1290
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: I need an ally, a sister, soldier, somebody. But I

1291
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: just remember, you know, I was like, Okay, I'm here

1292
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: for a reason. So now guess what I got people

1293
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: who are financial years for nonprofits. They might be on

1294
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: the countries, but I can call him and be like, hey,

1295
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: how does this work? How do ohd j'ade just do

1296
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: this or just do that. So when it came down

1297
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: to being a CEO, because I was reminded that I'm

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Speaker 1: the trifecta. I've been in corporate government and now nonprofit,

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Speaker 1: and so I wasn't prepared for nonprofit, so you think,

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Speaker 1: but I started realizing, I was like, well, wait, nonprofit

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Speaker 1: is just a tax designation.

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Speaker 2: It's still a multimillion dollar business.

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Speaker 1: And so when I started looking at my core and

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Speaker 1: I'm still in my first one hundred days, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, no, this is twenty million dollar

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Speaker 1: revenue generated business. I do'tant to make money if I

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Speaker 1: can't do nothing else right, And so I'm like, to

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Speaker 1: your point about P and L statements and just in

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Speaker 1: hygiene of the data and asking if you don't know,

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Speaker 1: just ask. I think a lot of times we're so prideful, like,

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Speaker 1: oh god, I don't want to look dumb. I can

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Speaker 1: assure you messing up and doing the publicly look way

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Speaker 1: more dumb than if you asked before you did it.

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Speaker 2: And so I put my pride aside.

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Speaker 1: That's the other thing, and I was okay with asking,

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Speaker 1: and and you know what, I started realizing people respected

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Speaker 1: me more when I asked. I was like, look, I don't,

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Speaker 1: I don't I have never done this before, or I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure about X, and I gave a finite response.

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Speaker 1: It was respect there, and they saw that I valued

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Speaker 1: them because I had enough courage to come and ask them.

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Speaker 1: And they were like, oh my god. You know so

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Speaker 1: I think put your pride aside. But again, when you

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Speaker 1: enter that room, don't enter it with an absence of confidence. Listen,

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Speaker 1: the first black woman in one hundred and three years.

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Speaker 1: I pray every morning. There are still some places that

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Speaker 1: I cannot go by myself in the thirty five counties

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Speaker 1: I served, because they still have some sun downtowns. We

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Speaker 1: went to what was that we went too? We went

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Speaker 1: to Armucci, Georgia and yeah, so i'n'na tell you all

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Speaker 1: about it with our girls scouse do in there. We

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Speaker 1: went to Armucci, Georgia, and then we went to Luthersville

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Speaker 1: and believe or not, did you know that it's fifteen

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Speaker 1: hundred acres of rolling hills properties. I have oversight over

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Speaker 1: three lakes. One is one hundred acres large. We have

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Speaker 1: possession of sixty eight horses. I have a twenty million

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Speaker 1: dollar revenue business. Cookies is just one vertical of that

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Speaker 1: portion of the program. So when I talk about girl Scouts,

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Speaker 1: I know she's cute in front of your publics and

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Speaker 1: support her, But I need you to support other ways too,

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Speaker 1: because I have a full program.

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Speaker 2: Of things that we offer.

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Speaker 1: But I started realizing, I was like, Malcolm, I can't

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Speaker 1: go out here by myself because there are still some

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Speaker 1: people that are not happy that I'm sitting here. And

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Speaker 1: I know that all I ask is to give their

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Speaker 1: daughters a chance to change the world. That's all I ask.

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Speaker 1: That's all I ask. That's all I ask. I get

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Speaker 1: I know the seat that I occupy. I asked that

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Speaker 1: y'all keep me coven in prayer and keep me undemonished

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Speaker 1: from my four or four because she'd be jumping out

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Speaker 1: every now and then. But I started realizing, I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm who I am because of the people that I have,

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Speaker 1: even those who are showing up for me today. I

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Speaker 1: just want to be that for somebody else's little girl.

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Speaker 1: That's all I just I don't know who she's gonna be.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you never you never know.

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Speaker 3: Trustee this again, there's a lot of people you sit

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Speaker 3: back and that's I think that's again. I think that's

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Speaker 3: one of the beautiful things about Atlanta. There's so many

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Speaker 3: people that we went to high school with you know, Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: We're all about high schools out here, right, It's like

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Speaker 3: where you went to high school? If you tell somebody

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Speaker 3: from Atlanta, the first question, the'renna ask. That's gonna tell

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Speaker 3: me everything I need to know that the problem is

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Speaker 3: not that all these new high schools now, like I

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Speaker 3: ain't never heard of that one before.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, they're bifurcating our schools and creating all

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Speaker 2: these little micro schools. That's why the football teams ain't

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Speaker 2: as good as the ones up north, because I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you've got five schools where used to have one. So

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Speaker 2: I said, that's what we're supposed to go to exactly,

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Speaker 2: like what what what cross section shirt you on? Kelly Chapel?

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Speaker 2: You like, whe where are you at? For real?

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Speaker 1: So no that, and then be from the AUC because

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Speaker 1: if you're from the AAC, like you know, see how

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Speaker 1: you thinks they run things, it's fine, It's okay, Well

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Speaker 1: we'll give them that.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, John, this this has been amazing. I know,

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Speaker 3: we got people in here. We want to get into

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Speaker 3: some networking. I got like, I think a couple hundred

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Speaker 3: drinks from our sponsor's Belvetere and herenessity that we got

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Speaker 3: to give away.

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Speaker 4: So y'all please not everybody take them all at once.

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Speaker 3: But before we get out of here, before we get

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Speaker 3: to the networking portion of the program job. My last

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Speaker 3: question for you I have is if there was a

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Speaker 3: billboard in Atlanta that you could put some advice on

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Speaker 3: a message on whatever you want the city to know.

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Speaker 3: Now again, there was one time where there was a

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Speaker 3: BMF billboard. It was that's the whole from But if

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Speaker 3: you had you had the Joharil billboard, you can put

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Speaker 3: it wherever you want in Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: What would that billboard say? What piece of advice would

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Speaker 4: be on that billboard?

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Speaker 2: Hmmm, it's a double side billboard.

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Speaker 3: It could be it could be one of those electronic

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Speaker 3: ones that flips through a couple.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I'll say this.

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Speaker 1: I've been all over the world and the airport had

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Speaker 1: awarded me to get every stand on my passport except

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Speaker 1: for Australia and Antarctica. I've been everywhere. I even took

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Speaker 1: my mama with me. She said she want to ever

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Speaker 1: going nowhere else with me. That was longer than eighteen hours.

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Speaker 1: She went to China and she was like, I'm done

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Speaker 1: but I will tell you, and this is just a

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Speaker 1: little bit of history for you. The reason that the

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Speaker 1: airport was built now one hundred years ago, it'd be

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Speaker 1: hundred of the Cincinnio's next year for the airport is

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Speaker 1: because the Atlanta was the city too busy to hate.

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Speaker 1: We had great race relations and we had a thriving

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Speaker 1: black populace. So for those who come to Atlanta, welcome.

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Speaker 1: But if I had to have a billboard with everything

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Speaker 1: I've seen stands in them Bibia, if I can live

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Speaker 1: in them Bibia, I would have a house there and

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Speaker 1: they probably didn't listen, trust me, but it would be

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Speaker 1: Atlanta no place like home. I go places, I enter

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Speaker 1: rooms all the time, and there are not a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who look like us, and not just look

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Speaker 1: like us, but wanting stuff like we literally have a

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Speaker 1: mayor named Andre and we just had one named Keisha,

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Speaker 1: like you know, I.

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Speaker 2: Like I.

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Speaker 1: Even at Turner you had Loretta Walker and Vicki Free

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Speaker 1: and like all these amazing brown women who were like

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Speaker 1: doing it. And I had never seen anything as everything's about,

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Speaker 1: like Shaye Butter.

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Speaker 2: It was awesome.

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Speaker 1: But I would say Atlanta, there's no place like home

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Speaker 1: because Charlotte tries DC his mates and is fair attempts.

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Speaker 1: Dallas is hot and it got hurricanes. But there's no

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Speaker 1: place like Atlanta. So if I had to put up

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Speaker 1: a billboard, it would be Atlanta. There's no place like home.

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Speaker 3: On my billboard, I put up Wakanda Forever. No, Jod,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much. It's an amazing conversation. I'm so

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Speaker 3: excited and so proud of everything you've accomplished. I'm glad

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Speaker 3: to call you a friend. I appreciate you pulling up

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Speaker 3: to this conversation. I wish you nothing but success and

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Speaker 3: whatever we can do. When I say we, I mean

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Speaker 3: Butter's resource, Old Steve. Atlanta are all behind you. We

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Speaker 3: want to see you when and we cannot wait to

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Speaker 3: see what you continue to do next. So congratulations everybody.

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Speaker 2: Please thank you.

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Speaker 4: Johharell.

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