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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald, host of Money Becking Conversation, Bars and Girls

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Speaker 1: Club of America. Frank Sanchez will be coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Thank you ready. Hi, This Rashan McDonald, the host of

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations. My guest is on the line. It's

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Speaker 1: Alumni Development for the Bars and Girls Club of America.

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Speaker 1: In the Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked the Bars and Girls

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Speaker 1: Club as the number one youth organization for the twenty

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Speaker 1: three straight year. Please work on the Money Making Conversation,

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Speaker 1: Frank Sanchez, Thank you, Frank. What are you calling from? Frank,

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Speaker 1: I'm calling from our headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Oh my,

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Speaker 1: you know something. I just knew you're gonna say something

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Speaker 1: which is Atlanta and also Houston, Texas. Were about in

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta, Georgia? Are you set up at UM on

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Speaker 1: fifteenth in Peach Street, right in the heart of Midtown.

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Speaker 1: Um been here for our national headquarters. Moved here about

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Speaker 1: Because we wanted a location where we can find the

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Speaker 1: best employees in the country. We moved here to Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: But my friend, I'm I'm not mad at you move

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Speaker 1: or enjoy Atlanta is the atmosphere is great, and you

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Speaker 1: also great to finding the right people and also for

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Speaker 1: your own personal well being. That is true. Well, tell

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Speaker 1: me about the mission. And first of all, I'm a

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Boars and Girls Club. I

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Speaker 1: to jump in front of and tell the story that

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Speaker 1: exactly Boars and Club, Because, man, you have been there forever.

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Speaker 1: I used the word forever in a very very proud

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Speaker 1: manner because it means that over that time you've affected

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Speaker 1: and changed a lot of lives. And I know in

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Speaker 1: the short period of time that I've been into the world.

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Speaker 1: You know, because my life has been about I went

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Speaker 1: to college and I got I started doing stand up

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Speaker 1: donating here and there. But your whole focus has been

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Speaker 1: the Boys and Girls Club of America. Our mission, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty simple. We want to enable all young people, especially

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Speaker 1: as successful citizens of America. And we do that through

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Speaker 1: our four thousand, three hundred US nationwide are sixty one

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Speaker 1: paid professionals. Uh. And every day some five hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: kids in America walking to a Boys and Girls Club

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Speaker 1: and have an experience around education, leadership and um you know,

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Speaker 1: good um education, character and leadership and healthy lifestyles. And

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Speaker 1: you know, in my lifetime going up in New York,

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Speaker 1: and boys and girls to have filled that void every day, uh,

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Speaker 1: for hundreds of thousands of kids. Well, well, lis'sen not

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Speaker 1: just say hundreds of thousands. GOT Bars and Girls Club

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Speaker 1: annually served four million young people through membership and community

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Speaker 1: outreach and forty three hundred clubs facility that you mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 1: The thing that kind of when I was, when I

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Speaker 1: based clubs. What is that? When you say that five

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Speaker 1: and one tho, what is a school based club? That's

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Speaker 1: a great question, great question, and you know there are

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Speaker 1: They are boys and girls to facilities that stands alone.

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Speaker 1: So a kid typically leaves school and goes to a

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Speaker 1: our reach with a partner that is a natural partner

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Speaker 1: for us. Kids go from school and they have a

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Speaker 1: place to go after school, and our school based sites

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Speaker 1: our military site and I was about to go to

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Speaker 1: You know, when you say that that that that was

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Speaker 1: eight and one Bars and Girl Close affiliated youth centers

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Speaker 1: on US military installations worldwide. How does that how does

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Speaker 1: that relationship work? Well, it goes back in twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: It started with our Desert Storm program, and uh, it

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Speaker 1: just makes natural sense when parents, uh and our military

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Speaker 1: men and women are deployed, there's a gap with who's

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Speaker 1: serving their kids with quality programs. And we had we

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Speaker 1: ago and uh it is extended now to reach a

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Speaker 1: significant number of young people. Um. But again, as parents

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Speaker 1: it's the natural fit for Boys and Girls Clubs of

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Speaker 1: during that time when their parents are serving our country.

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Speaker 1: And that's what Boys and Girls Club is about. It's

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Speaker 1: doing anything we can to serve communities, kids and families.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting that when I when I hear

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Speaker 1: all this information come to me because you know, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna bring out these organizations because their youth

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Speaker 1: or organizations. You know, you know the Girls College, the

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Speaker 1: and then you have the Bars and Girls Club of America. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think strategy wise, you guys using celebrities spokespeople are

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Speaker 1: are celebrity mentors. They publicly communicate it's really really done.

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Speaker 1: Wonders for your branding and marketing of what you're doing

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Speaker 1: at the Bars and Girls Club? Am I correct? It

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Speaker 1: has um. There's two real signature moments in our history

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Speaker 1: that probably started around the same time. The first is

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Speaker 1: our partnership with Major League Baseball, and if you're watching

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Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Major League Baseball has

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Speaker 1: been a supporter of us. We've been the official charity

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Speaker 1: for close to twenty years twenty years plus. The second

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Speaker 1: thing that happened was about twenty five years ago. This

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Speaker 1: young man came up to Enzel Washington and said, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say his name. I was gonna say his day, Frankfurt.

645
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: He's the man. Though he is the man, Denzel is

646
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: the man, and he's been our national spokesperson along with

647
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez, But Denzel has been our national spokesperson for

648
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: almost twenty five years, and there is a direct line

649
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: between us being a charity that most people knew the

650
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: good work, but didn't We didn't have that that face,

651
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: and when Denzel came in, he has been the face

652
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: of our charity with Jennifer Lopez for the past two decades.

653
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: And we also have about a hundred ambassadors. You do.

654
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: I saw that picture, man, that picture. I don't know

655
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: how you got out all together. Maybe that was photoshop.

656
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: How you got all in that picture together, from Terence

657
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: Howard to Jennifer Lopez to dead Sel, just name a few,

658
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: because it's it's I It's just important that people understand

659
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: that was key man because you know, having a Denzel

660
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: come on the commercial, having Lopez, that's millions of dollars

661
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: in marketing that you you connect the dots all immediately,

662
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: especially social world and the digital world. Just a smart

663
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: way of staying topical and staying relevant. Correct. That is correct,

664
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: And as a nonprofit, you know, we have to be

665
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: sensitive to how we utilize the utilize our dollars, and

666
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: advertising is a space that we don't spend a lot

667
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: of money on. You know, we have to rely on uh,

668
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: these types of partnerships, these types of relationships to get

669
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: our name out there. UH and UH it's a critical

670
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: way for us to stay relevant. It's also a critical

671
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: way for us to stay relevant with our teams and

672
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: our kids in the community. They want to be they

673
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: want to be in a place where they know their influencers,

674
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: want to be involved with. You know, we currently have

675
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: a partnership with Katie Perry are and you know, Katy

676
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 1: Perry is um It's amazing what she's doing for every

677
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: every ticket sold will receive some money for that. But

678
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: more importantly, she has her dancers and musicians visiting clubs.

679
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: He is visiting clubs country again. It just gives us

680
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: a way to be relevant and to inspire our young

681
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: people that they can be great, just like the people

682
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: that we are surround ourselves with. Now you create these

683
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: strategic allowances. That's that's just your one of your one

684
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: of your primary roles. Correct, that is one of my

685
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: primary roles. I've been blessed to have some strong relationships

686
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: over the years, and those relationships, UM, as long as

687
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: they live in the spirit of children, usually manifest into

688
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: good things. Cool. I've got to go take a break.

689
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back and want to come back,

690
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: Mr Sanchez, I want to talk about the clubs that

691
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: are in public housing and the clubs that are on

692
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: Native lands. Like I said, all this information has just

693
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: been sent to me. I went online and saw it.

694
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: I brought you on the show just to educate me,

695
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: and I feel if you educate me, you're gonna tell

696
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: the world more about the great program that you guys

697
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: are doing every day, affecting four million annually. This is

698
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: money making conversation. We'll be right back. Hi. This re

699
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: shot mcgull I'm back with money making conversations. On the

700
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: phone is my guests. The national vice president of Sports

701
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: Entertaining and Alumni Development for the Bars and Clubs Bars

702
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: and Girls Club of America, Mr Frank Sanchez. How you're

703
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: doing Frank, Hey, I'm great. Thank you very much for

704
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: having me on your show. Thank you, thank you for

705
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 1: helping me spread the word of positivity because my show

706
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: to day is really about successful people who are making

707
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: a difference by uplifting the community. Because a lot of

708
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: people don't realize that if the youth of America can

709
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: become customers, they will become taxpayers, they will become voters,

710
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: and so how you shape them young, it's how they

711
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: will impact our country as they become adults. And that's

712
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: why programs like this. What is the age age range

713
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: for the Bars Girls Club of America? Young people usually

714
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: arrive at about six years old and uh stay through

715
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: their teen years. We kind of peak six to five

716
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: thirteen and then you know, we grapple. We we we

717
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: keep our teams around. We have a new digital strategy

718
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: that will allow our teams not only to advance their

719
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: skills digitally with school, with jobs and careers, but we'll

720
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: keep our teams aligned with Boys and Girls Clubs through

721
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: their seventeen and eighteen years. Now. Myself, myself started at

722
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: six years old and have never left. It's been a

723
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: part of my life. That's awesome. That's awesome to hear.

724
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: Now my mar Show producer r J. He's from Alabama,

725
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: and he was talking about his experience. He's a fan

726
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: of the Bars and Girls Club of America and he

727
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: was telling me like he goes back every year just

728
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,879
Speaker 1: to volunteer and participate. But he also says that it's

729
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: not packed like it was when he was a young man.

730
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: Coming up. Is there a reason for that, as is

731
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: funding issues now or or my thing? It's something that

732
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: only he's experiencing in all about well, Um, you know

733
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I just left Alabama. I was in Opahaika, Alabama,

734
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: just a few short days ago, uh, and I was

735
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: at a at a club out there, and it was

736
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: packed to the brim. I think what happens now is

737
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: that there's so many uh options for young people. Right.

738
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: This device that's in our hand every day comes an

739
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: option for young people. And so Boys and Girls clubs

740
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: we strive. We strive to be contemporary tech centers in

741
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: our clubs. We have computers in our clubs, but we

742
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: still focus on relationships with young people that can transform

743
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: their lives. So I think, um, uh that as we compete,

744
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: you know, our competition has always been technology in the streets,

745
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: and we're trying our best to make sure that we

746
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: stay relevant uh and and in time with what kids need. Um. So,

747
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: as you talked about funding, there's always funding is always

748
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: a opportunity for our clubs. They need the dollars to survive.

749
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: They're they're funded by uh those dollars to continue to

750
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: support these kids in their communities. So UH, it is

751
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: a critical part of our movement that we rely on America.

752
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: We rely on corporate we rely on individual donations to

753
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 1: support our local clubs nation one cool. Let me read

754
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 1: a statement from your from the from the website. UH.

755
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: Clubs play an important role in providing a safe space

756
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: to exercise, competing team sports, and established lifelong friendships. Teams

757
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: who stay involved in the club are more likely than

758
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: their peers to have to have healthy habits, including being

759
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: physically active and abstaining from abstaining from risk of behaviors

760
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: like drinking alcohol, smoking, and using marijuana. Eight four of

761
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: Boars and Girls Club twelfth grade report abstaining from alcohol,

762
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: compared with fifty percent sent of twelfth graders nationally. That's powerful.

763
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: It is a powerful statement, and it's really based on

764
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: the great programs we have on clubs, the relationships that

765
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: are club staff develop with young people and raising the standards,

766
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: raising the goals for our young people. You know all

767
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: of us, UM, you said this earlier, you talked, We

768
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: talked about Denzel Washington, and in two thousand and six

769
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: he wrote a book called The Hand to Guide Me,

770
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: And Denzel said, listen, everybody knows I'm successful, right, they

771
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: look at me now, but they don't know who helped

772
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: me become successful. Who was the hand that guided me.

773
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: And we had the privilege of interviewing about seventy people,

774
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: and every one of them, from presidents to generals to

775
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: leaders and industries, all said that it was a person

776
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: who helped guide them to success. And that person, when

777
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: they do it right, can help them navigate through the

778
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: tough times and tough decisions like alcohol, like drugs, like

779
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: inappropriate relationships. And that's what our youth development professionals do

780
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: every day at clubs. So um, that data is a

781
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: direct reflection of the great work our team do at

782
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: local clubs and the programs that supported them. And that

783
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to read that, because a lot

784
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: of programs can't say that, and and sometimes you have

785
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: to let somebody else tut your horn, and that right now,

786
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: I'm tuting your horn, my friend, because it's important that

787
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: programs like this give kids options. I always tell me

788
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: that's so, that's true. Idle mind do do idol craziness.

789
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: And so when you talk about these people who guided you,

790
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: like I had a number of people who kept me

791
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 1: aligned like I was. I was one of those students gifted,

792
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: but boy, I was all over the place. I had

793
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: a lot of people to keep pushing me back on

794
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: the road to successful. Brother I I wrote on that

795
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: gravel and be about to head it for that ditch,

796
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: and they go, no, no, no, no, no, come bring up,

797
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: come back here. And I remember Ms. Trailer, you know,

798
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: she's my biology dude. I remember Mrs Nelson, you know

799
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: she was my math dude. And all these people in

800
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: high school and in college, I can remember not only

801
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, my fraternity brothers kept me focused. You know, college,

802
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: when I worked at part time jobs, they kept me focused.

803
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm parents of students that were my roommates.

804
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: They saw things in me. And when you're special, you

805
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: know you're different, you you can you can make a difference.

806
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: And I always say that saying positive things to young

807
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: people really is the key. And secondly, it's keeping young

808
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: people in a positive environment is the biggest key. Because

809
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: if you're going around, if you tell if all your

810
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 1: kids here, they can't make it, they're stupid, they are criminal.

811
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna get arrested. You're going to jail

812
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: before you hear thirty. If you if that's if that's

813
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: what you're here, it's going to happen. It's going to happen.

814
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: But if you around, people are telling you you can

815
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,479
Speaker 1: be successful. And that's what the Boys and Girls Club

816
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: or America's telling people, young people especially, you can make

817
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: it happen. You can be Come to us. We have

818
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: nothing but positive things to say about you. We won't

819
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: tell you you're special, and that's really the core of

820
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: your success. Correct Uh, that is the core of our success.

821
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: A positive affirmation is a big part of our tool

822
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: kit to help young people. But it's also setting expectations.

823
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:21,919
Speaker 1: Having young people understand that there are expectations and when

824
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: you exceed those expectations, we're gonna recognize you, We're gonna

825
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: guide you, we're gonna allow you to explore new opportunities.

826
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: There's there's secret source to our work recognition, strong positive relationships. Uh.

827
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: The more time we spend with kids, the more opportunity

828
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: for them to be successful. So there's there's a secret

829
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: source to the success of these local clubs. But positive

830
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: affirmation and setting goals and aspirations is part of that.

831
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: And um, we are we have a hundred and fifty

832
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: seven years of experience doing that. You may not know this, sir,

833
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: but you know you talk to about some fine other

834
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: youth organizations out Great YMC a great organization. Boys and

835
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: Girls Club is an American made organization. It was made here,

836
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: it was developed here, and it's a hundred and fifty

837
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: seven years old. Uh And we've been working with kids

838
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: and communities for for that long. Well, here's what's important

839
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: to me is that you don't run you know, certain organizations,

840
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: you know they basically talking to a certain group of

841
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: people all the time. It was two things that stood

842
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: out for me when I did my research and my

843
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: staff gave me information was the two hundred and nineties

844
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: six clubs in public housing and a hundred and seventy

845
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:47,720
Speaker 1: five clubs on Native lands. Those can be those public

846
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: housing and Native Americans can oftentimes be of a gidden

847
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: group of people. But you guys have chosen to go

848
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: in and go Look, you're important to us, you have

849
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: a voice. We want to give you the same opportunity

850
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: to experience with every other kid is experienced it in America.

851
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: That to me is way powerful, Frank, that is a

852
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: powerful statement. But it is part of our mission. You know,

853
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: we want to enable all young people, especially those who

854
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: need us most. That's the corvis, especially those who need

855
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: us most. And when you talk about kids in public housing,

856
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: they need us most. There are food deserts. They live

857
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 1: in food deserts where um, you know, the closest healthy

858
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: choice maybe two three, four miles away. And you talked

859
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: about Native Americans and their food deserts. Somebody may have

860
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: to drive an hour an hour and a half to

861
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: get a healthy choice for food. That's where boys and girls,

862
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: that's why they need us most. That's where we go.

863
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: We've been involved with Native Americans for some twenty five years.

864
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: We have been really the only youth service agency that

865
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: has been there more than two decades servicing young people.

866
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: Uh and it is critical work. Juvenile diabetes rates on

867
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: Native American lands is tragic, tragic. When you think about

868
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: alcohol abuse on Native American lands, it's tragic and boys

869
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: and girls stuff goes in there. And our goal is

870
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: again to help these young people during critical hours to

871
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: make good decisions, make good choices. And we've got great

872
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: alumni that have come out of that young actor named

873
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: Martin Sessamia, who you'll be hearing a lot of in

874
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Speaker 1: the next year, golfer, notable gay just great people that

875
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: have experienced the Boys and Girls Club and UH have

876
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: overcome great obstacles to become successful. My friend, I want

877
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: to call you my friend. Like I said, I have

878
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: a home in Atlanta, George of view on mine. I'm

879
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: gonna drop by, shake your hands and if you can

880
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: use any of my skill set, whether it's social brandy know,

881
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: come back on my show and take you have a

882
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Speaker 1: special event, feel free to use Rashan McDonald. Okay, Frank,

883
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold you to that. Next year, we'll have

884
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Speaker 1: some two thousand kids here in Atlanta, Georgia, two thousand

885
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: teams celebrating our leadership program, and I look to you

886
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: to help inspire some two thousand kids next year. I'm

887
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,439
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, Frank, You're not You're throwing no fear

888
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Speaker 1: in me, my friend. I will be there. I'm telling

889
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Speaker 1: everybody you send me a flyer and I will conferring

890
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page today because what you're doing, but

891
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: Mr Washington has been doing and I just want to

892
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,720
Speaker 1: outline the people. That's what this show is about today.

893
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: Letting people know about successful people because you can be

894
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: successful in the corporate world. You got that skill set,

895
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: but every day you change in lives and reshaping America

896
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: in the direction that can only make it better. My friend,

897
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: stay strong and you will be seeing me in your

898
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: office one day talking about what do I need to

899
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Speaker 1: do to help the balls in Girls Club of America.

900
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: Thank you very much and thank you for this opportunity.

901
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: Appreciate you and your fan shaning my friends. We talked soon.

902
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: Coming up next, got some more happening Money Make conversation.

903
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Speaker 1: Don't you go nowhere. People on this show are changing

904
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: live just like the lives I'm trying to change. Wow,

905
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: ra Sean McDonald, don't stop, don't stop, don't stop, want

906
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Speaker 1: to make conversations Coming right back, Hi, This was Sean McDonald.

907
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Speaker 1: You can always call me when I'm doing my show

908
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: this money Making Conversation. I'm your host. A three two

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Speaker 1: two three zero five five nine two is my number.

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Speaker 1: A three two two three zero five five nine two.

911
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: My show to day has been about successful people were

912
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 1: out there uplifting the community. They could be out there

913
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: a corporate job during their thing that IBM Google, but

914
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: they've chosen a path in life of changing the young

915
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: people in America are making this country greater, making this

916
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: country better because guess what, we all need to look

917
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: in at direction. And it's really important that when we

918
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: see these things happen, that we need to applaud them

919
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: because guess what, they're doing things to the average person

920
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: will not do because they're in their own right, a

921
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: very special My next guest, interesting guy, talented guy, was

922
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: exposed early to the harsh realities of divorce, drugs, violence,

923
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 1: and alcoholism. They plagued not only his family, but they Flint,

924
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: Michigan community at large. Rising above his circumstances, Omar went

925
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,760
Speaker 1: on to attend Howard University and now is the creator

926
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: and founder of Executive Preparatory Academy of Finance. Please welcome

927
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation, Omar McGee. How you doing sir?

928
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: Thank you? I'm doing great. You can't complain huh doing

929
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: that good? But if nobody would listen in anyway? Right? No, no,

930
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: because you're good looking dude, you know you're successful. So

931
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: who you complaining too? Because there's a lot of people

932
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: out they're doing way words, but what you're doing is

933
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: way bigger because you you're helping out our youth. You

934
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: redirected Pepe Kid to maybe fall in a different direction

935
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: and keeping them straight in the right direction. That's amazing, dude,

936
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: Thank you brother, I appreciate it. Now I read that

937
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 1: poor information from your bio about you growing up? How

938
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: did you get out? When I when I read that,

939
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: let me read that again? How did you get out

940
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: early years exposed to harsh realities of divorce, drugs, violence,

941
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: and alcoholism? How do you get out? What finger or

942
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: what prayer or what person got you out? Well, it's

943
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: a complicated story. I'm I'm the baby of eight. You know.

944
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: My mom she was you know, she was addicted to alcohol.

945
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 1: My dad he took over, you know, the other seven

946
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: and moved him into a dollar house, which is a

947
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: house that the city was given people in the community to.

948
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: You know, once GM started closing down, the community was

949
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: falling so fast. Absolutely, they started selling houses for like

950
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: a dollar. But the thing was, you couldn't set that.

951
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: You had to rebuild it and living it. And that

952
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: house was actually like worth a dollar, like truly. And

953
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: you're talking about a place that you know, wintertime is

954
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: practically hellless, you know, zero below zero practically half of

955
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: the winter, and this place you know I didn't have

956
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: you know, secure windows, no heat, no running water, and

957
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: you know he moved my sisters over there because the

958
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,280
Speaker 1: environment from my mom and my mom's my mom's environment

959
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: was so bad. But I stayed with my mom because

960
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: you know, she was unwelfare so she you know, bills

961
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: were paid. The only thing I had to do was

962
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 1: fight drums and pimps and do those things. So um.

963
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: To make a long story short, you know, I got

964
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: into a lot of bad things as a kid. I

965
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: taught myself how to read through memorizations. Um. After my

966
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,240
Speaker 1: mom died. You know, I was so far behind in school.

967
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: Um My, when they removed my mom mouth, they were

968
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: finding papers, you know, like the steak was about to

969
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 1: take um take me, were about to take me. So um.

970
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: When that happened, they realized that they had to get

971
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: me out of here. So my brother got the first

972
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: job at home depot in Atlanta. When you know they

973
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, right, they shipped me out there and lie,

974
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: they said. I was in the eighth grade. So um,

975
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: and I'll discovered basketball and that's how I started, you know,

976
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: changing my life. My brother introduced me to a lot

977
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: of things from I was back to Martin Luther King

978
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: to very con because I was never that bad kid.

979
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 1: I just you know, I just didn't know because I

980
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:37,720
Speaker 1: want I want to pull that comment back, that bad kid. Yeah,

981
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: And I don't think no kid. I when I see things,

982
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: when I see physical abuse or children, because the most

983
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 1: the greatest love in life is a child's love because

984
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: that was all they know. You know, they're born with

985
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 1: a blank slate, and as they grow up, they learned

986
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: what they experienced. You know, this is who they are

987
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: and when. And I don't think there ever are bad kids.

988
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: It's environment. You know, A kid learns racism through their parents,

989
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: through their environment, you know what I'm saying. You know,

990
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: kids learned violence through their environment, you know, selling drugs.

991
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: That's why I was asking you because you know I

992
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: came from Fifth War. You know, it's one of the

993
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: more empower communities, very similar background. Like I saw violence

994
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: when I was coming up, you know, violence, and my

995
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: parents may not be aware. I know they're not aware

996
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: of what I saw because that they ride my bike

997
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 1: playing basketball. I saw a lot of stuff going down

998
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: and go whoa, you know, and they probablyn't let me

999
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: go out there play basketball if they know what I saw,

1000
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: and so I know that. You know, I got fights

1001
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: in the street. Remember I got in one fight on

1002
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: More that dude hit me in my eye. I realized,

1003
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: you know something, I am not a fighter. Okay, Well,

1004
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 1: ever ran in my mind, whatever thought jumped in my

1005
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: head will never jump in there again. If anybody ever

1006
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: wants to fight me, I'm gonna tell her right now.

1007
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: I lost. I'm just I'm gonna just admit right now,

1008
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: I lost. Before you start hurting me physically, I lost.

1009
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 1: So I give and so. But but but when I started,

1010
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: when I look at your journey, you know, in the community,

1011
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: that's why this show is being done today because if

1012
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: we just get it through our heads, if we just

1013
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: get these young people early, yeah, they don't become bad kids.

1014
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 1: I'm starving, white, black, Hispanic, any of them. Yea, that's

1015
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: what you're doing now, man, with your program. You're trying

1016
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: to capture them early and give them directions, tell us

1017
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: about your program. And then I'm gonna die back in

1018
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: because I don't wanna get too deep. And people forget.

1019
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: I don't understand why I have you on the show.

1020
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: I have you on the show about this, this this

1021
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 1: preparatory program that you created and the amazing graduation. Right,

1022
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: tell us about that. Then we're gonna drop back and

1023
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: get more d your history. Okay, Yeah, I started to

1024
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: the prep um four years ago to start fifth year,

1025
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: and um, I wanted to get you know, what society

1026
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: considered the worst is in l A. And that's exactly

1027
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: what I got. I mean, our kids were the kids

1028
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: that Dorsey Crunshaw. You know, a lot of schools are

1029
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: tougher schools didn't want and a lot of people told

1030
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: me I would fail. A lot of people told me

1031
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm wasting my money. But that was the challenge and

1032
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: I was cool with that challenge because that's what I wanted. So, um,

1033
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: within that, I mean, you would have you have to understand,

1034
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: I had to separate the kids not by their academics,

1035
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: but by their gang affiliation. If you roll the sixties,

1036
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: you gotta go over here. Blood you got you have

1037
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: to go over there and in the same classroom. Yeah yeah,

1038
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: I can't sit in the same classroom. So that's why

1039
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: I was dealing with. But again, that's the challenge I

1040
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: wanted because I know if we can change those kids,

1041
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: we can change the academic success across the nation. For

1042
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: our kids. We can practically save our culture. You know,

1043
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: ninth grade is you you know, that's when that's when

1044
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: all your kids drop out of high school. So, so

1045
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: what's your minority breakdown? What is Hispanic African American temperac

1046
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: in Hispanic? Because I know the whole neighborhood over there

1047
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: is changing if they're coming more and more Hispanic. Correct, Yes, yes,

1048
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: it's it's not a lot of schools for African Americans

1049
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: to go to in l A right now. The black

1050
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: and brown thing is very heavy out here. It's really

1051
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 1: really a big problem in the school system in l A. Yeah.

1052
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: So you know, anyway, so I I created my mission

1053
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: um financial Literacy. I believe in instant gratification. You know,

1054
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: it's a big gray area from ninth grade to being

1055
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: a doctor. It's a lot of stuff goals on that time.

1056
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: So you gotta give them small championships in the middle.

1057
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: And you know, I created Executive Prep Academy of Finance.

1058
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: Our kids have their own businesses. Some kids have their

1059
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: parents working for them. Some kids even make more money

1060
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: than their parents. And um, not only are they learning

1061
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: about finance, they're teaching their parents and their sisters and brothers,

1062
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: and how to create a bank of town, how to

1063
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: prepare yourself for loans, interest rates, how to buy a car,

1064
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: how to fix your credits, So it's not only executive

1065
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Speaker 1: precfice going throughout the community, and um, you know it

1066
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: makes sense to him because now what we're doing is

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01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: answering the question of why you know, why you need

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01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: an education and how it's going to benefit. When you

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01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: answer that question for a kid, they make perfect sense

1070
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: because they have no examples in the community of successful

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01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: people coming from education, and if they do, they leave,

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01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 1: so they don't have a one on one contact with them,

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01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: no one on one contact with them, so they have

1074
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: not a lot of confidence. And and then your your goal.

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01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: Now that's really interesting. You say, I noticed that. You know,

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01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: you said athletics played a major role in your life

1077
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: at my wrong because I hear that term. I hear

1078
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: that terminology a lot. You know, reward uh put forth,

1079
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: how do you how do you marry it to how

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01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: do you how do you make sure you know that

1081
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: that that path is similar because that's a natural lead

1082
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:04,919
Speaker 1: for you, but it also lays a great framework for motivation. Yes,

1083
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: are you talking about with the students or myself personally,

1084
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: students with the students. Okay, well you know the true

1085
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: concept of that is I just didn't have any other option.

1086
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: I just wasn't exposed to anything. But the truth of

1087
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: the matter is our students are kids from the community.

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01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 1: They know they're not gonna be Lebron James. They know

1089
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: they can't. They're not jay Z. If you ask, I

1090
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: want to be a rapper, and they never wrapped a day.

1091
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: They like, they don't practice, they don't do anything. They

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01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: just don't have anything else to say. So what I

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01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: do and the things I've done so like our Career

1094
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: Day is sponsored by Ernst and Young, right, so I

1095
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: have every contact everybody from Ernston Young that's participating in

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01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: the Career Day, and I tell them to drive their

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01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: best car. Do not guess what happens? We have a

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01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: three million dollars on campus that day. Very unapologetic about this.

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01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: I don't do the fireman, I don't do the policeman.

1100
01:01:57,680 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 1: Is nothing wrong with those jobs, but my competition is

1101
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: jay Z, Puff Daddy Lebron. What happens is when they

1102
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: see that doctor jump out of that rolls Royce, that

1103
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: maserati that I can't be Lebron. I can be that.

1104
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,479
Speaker 1: I can't be Lebrons, but I can be that I'm

1105
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: figuring this thing out. So and then you know, we're

1106
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,439
Speaker 1: hugg them with that information and that exposure, and and

1107
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: and the concept change and the culture of exacutive prep

1108
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: starts to change because now they believe. And once you

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01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: get a kid dreaming, the dysfunction is small in comparison

1110
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: to their life. And there, lie, I'm mad at you.

1111
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: That is so smart what you're doing, man, you know,

1112
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 1: because because that's what the big complaint about, you know,

1113
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 1: you idlies and these athletes and these rappers and all that.

1114
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: You said, Okay, I got that, but the but the

1115
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: the way you win is thinking out of the box.

1116
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: You say, who else drives has matches? Who else got

1117
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: bad cause you know, tall in the suits? Okay, corporate exacts. Okay, Now,

1118
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: come on down here with that push that Mercedes, that Jaguar.

1119
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna parker out here and let these kids see.

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01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: You don't have to dunk, you don't have to wrap,

1121
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: just use your brain. The one thing that God gave us.

1122
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: All that, my friend, it's brilliant. That's brilliant. So we

1123
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 1: were just exposed them to everything. I mean, they just

1124
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: went to see Hamilton's. I rented them a Mercedes benz Una.

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Speaker 1: Love it. I love it. You're my world, brother, You're

1126
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: my world. If you go through our Instagram, you see

1127
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 1: him on the Lakers, on the on the on the

1128
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: on the floor with Snoop Dog like. We do amazing

1129
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: things with our kids. We let them know what the

1130
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: other side looks like. And you can do that. Not

1131
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 1: only that you can do that, you're about to experience that.

1132
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: I don't give you a taste. That's what you can

1133
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: get thirsty. And that's what we're about. We're just giving

1134
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: them the world and showing them and then and and

1135
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 1: and the sad part about it, I get a lot

1136
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 1: of slack for that because people tell me I'm giving

1137
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: them unrealistic goals and I'm living, you're not, You're not,

1138
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: And I get mad. I get okay, now, okay, Now,

1139
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 1: they can't be a stopbroker. That's what you're saying that.

1140
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: Oh now they can't work in an executive position. That's

1141
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Now, So what what do you want

1142
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: them to do? What do you want them do? You

1143
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: said it can't wrap. You say they can't act. You

1144
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: say they can't see you said they came dunk. They

1145
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 1: can't throw our football, they can't hear the baseball. Now

1146
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: they can't think that's you're saying. Stop with the madness, man,

1147
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: Stop with the man. You got me fired up, you

1148
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 1: got me filed up on mare. We're gonna take a break.

1149
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,439
Speaker 1: We're gonna come right back because you're about to make

1150
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 1: me fly to l A and come to your school

1151
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: and start talking because you're talking my kind of language

1152
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 1: to my friend. We've been back with more, my man

1153
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: on more doing this thing in l Acau. Guess what

1154
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: I spent fifteen years out in l A. I know

1155
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: exactly what he's dealing with. We'll be back right back

1156
01:04:53,120 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: with more money making conversations. Hi, just for Sean McDonald.

1157
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 1: I'm back with money making conversations. I'm your host on

1158
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: the phone. My friend. He's out of Flint, Michigan. Overcame

1159
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 1: the odds with the Howard University. Now he's in Los Angeles.

1160
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: He's the creative and founder of Executive Preparatory Academy of Finance.

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01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: Back on the line, my man, Omar McGee, how you

1162
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 1: do on? Omar good? Good? Now you now you you

1163
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: left me hype. Now you left me hype up there. Okay, cool? Cool,

1164
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 1: So so I'm gonna be quiet. Hype me some more. Man,

1165
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: give me because I'm being in l A on Saturday morning.

1166
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 1: I'm laying on Saturday morning because I'm being recognized for

1167
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: my community work by an amazing Grace Conservatory that's founded

1168
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: by rent the actress Windy with Carol Robinson. So I

1169
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 1: come out of l A all the time, so I

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01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: didn't know. I know, you know, that's why I have

1171
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 1: to bring it out. I didn't bring it out. So

1172
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: so tell us some more about your program, and then

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01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a living in detail. And when we

1174
01:05:57,640 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: hang up the phone, we're gonna have a relationship. My friend,

1175
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna be friends, and when you need something, you're

1176
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: gonna call me because I'm that type of dude. Thank you, brother,

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01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: I appreciate the support. Well, basically, we just hear a

1178
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: safe kids. Man. We just believe and everything that we're doing.

1179
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: And now they believe in everything that we're doing. You know,

1180
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 1: the culture is set. You know, every kid goes to

1181
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: a four year college, no exceptions, no options, no trade schools,

1182
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 1: no junior colleges, they're not even allowed to talk about

1183
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: it and believe it or not. I got a lot

1184
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: of slack about that. That was another unrealistic goal. Um,

1185
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: they said I was given the kids because you know,

1186
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: they said, you know, every kid I made for college.

1187
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: I said, well, that person that never met that kid

1188
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: can never tell me that kid is not made for

1189
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 1: college until the only way we know that kid is

1190
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: not made for college is when he go to college

1191
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 1: and come back and say I'm not made for college.

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01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: Until then, none of us can give me her shot. Yeah,

1193
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: give her a shot. You know I was not made

1194
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 1: for college. If you would have told me, I would

1195
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: have graduated from Howard University and doing all these things

1196
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 1: in high school. All to look at you and laugh.

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01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: I said, college wasn't for me. But basketball took me

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01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: to college and that's the only way I could play.

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01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: But once I got to college, I found the confidence

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01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: to oh, I can do this. It just made perfect sense.

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01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: So I know that you know these kids can do it,

1202
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: and they believe they can do it. It's obvious. I mean,

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: I got I got your college. A lot of people

1204
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 1: always approached me about you know, when I was when

1205
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: when I helped Steve build out his uh his foundation.

1206
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: You know he was famous. Okay, so easy for me

1207
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 1: to go to. Well I shouldn't say they were easy,

1208
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: because you two have had a media kid and a

1209
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 1: reason for asking forward or stay farm or home deep

1210
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 1: or for money or the US Army for money and

1211
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 1: so so how does an individual, you just a regular

1212
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 1: guy with a dream with a vision, how do you

1213
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 1: launch your foundation because it's your second foundation that you

1214
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: that you really got engaged with. How do you get

1215
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: the money? How? How does what makes you a superstar? This?

1216
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 1: What made you make it happen? Because a lot of

1217
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:05,439
Speaker 1: people still out there stumbling. They got these visions of goodness,

1218
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: but how did they get started? Well, just belief. You know.

1219
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:11,439
Speaker 1: I took my own money and put my money. See

1220
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: a lot of people the problem is this. People have

1221
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,560
Speaker 1: a dream, but they want to use other people's money.

1222
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: They want to use other people's money, not their own.

1223
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: You know, you come to it, You come to someone

1224
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:25,840
Speaker 1: and say can you invest in this? And then when

1225
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: the person asked how much you invest in it? That's good?

1226
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: I did invest anything. Okay, you have no stake in

1227
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 1: the game, so you know I put up a lot

1228
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 1: to make this happen. You know, I told my house,

1229
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: you know, I did a lot to make this happen.

1230
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: So I put my money where my mouth is. So

1231
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: when I went to somebody or um solicit other people

1232
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: and investors or donors, you know, it perfectly made sense

1233
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 1: if they know if I put my money into it,

1234
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: you know, I really believe in it. And then it's

1235
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 1: just my energy, Like it was nothing that was gonna

1236
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: stop me. Um, even when everybody told me I would

1237
01:08:56,200 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 1: fell Um, I kept pushing and I made it. You know,

1238
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: it's interesting you say that because whenever I talked to

1239
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: someone about trying to start their program or whether it's

1240
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: senior citizens or mail programs or students, you gotta have

1241
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 1: a record. You gotta have a footprint of what you've

1242
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: done to convince people that they should come on board.

1243
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: So if you don't invest in yourself, if you don't

1244
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: get the word out or start creating a media kid,

1245
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:25,880
Speaker 1: and that's what you basically did by investing yourself. I

1246
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: remember the first camp that Steve harm and I did

1247
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 1: at his his Dallas ranch. I personally came out of

1248
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: my pocket, personally came out of our pocket forty dollars

1249
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:39,799
Speaker 1: to help launch that because we were doing the Disney

1250
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 1: Dreamers Academy, and I was going where they're supporting the

1251
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 1: Disney Dreamers Academy, we should also support something that Steve

1252
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 1: believes in. That was single single moms and single boys

1253
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: in the household, and and and and there was no

1254
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:55,120
Speaker 1: male leadership in that household. And so we had to

1255
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: come out of our pockets. Same thing you just said,

1256
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: we invested in ourselves, and I'm just saying my name

1257
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:03,640
Speaker 1: wasn't nowhere on this program. It was Steve Harvey. But

1258
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 1: I felt that I had to invest to get it

1259
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: going as well, to show him I'm invested to Steve.

1260
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 1: I believe in your dreams to Steve, and we took

1261
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 1: that first year program and that became the model that

1262
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:17,680
Speaker 1: we took to other sponsors and say, look, this is

1263
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: what we did last year. Just think what we could

1264
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:21,759
Speaker 1: do if you came on board. Give us a hundred

1265
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars or two thousand dollars or fifty

1266
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. We can do more, way more and hip

1267
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 1: hop more students. So I truly understand your philosophy and

1268
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: it burns me up when people coming through you they

1269
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: got all these great ideas, but they don't want to

1270
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: invest in themselves, want you to invest your money. Yeah,

1271
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 1: and then also the belief as well, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I wasn't afraid to tell people that I was going

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Speaker 1: to graduate a hundred percent of our kids and was

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Speaker 1: going to go to four year college. I said that

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Speaker 1: from the beginning kids would come in on the fifth

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Speaker 1: grade level. I'm not afraid to say those things and

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Speaker 1: and really mean them. You know, people thought I was crazy.

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Speaker 1: I was the closest thing to Kanye. I was this guy.

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Speaker 1: Don't even this guy. You didn't even go to school

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Speaker 1: for education? Who are you? Like? Educated? Hate it like

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Speaker 1: I've been in this thirty years. There's no way that

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Speaker 1: you can do this. And I'm like, don't put your

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Speaker 1: fears on me. I didn't have anything to do it

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Speaker 1: the way you feel. But I know I can do

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Speaker 1: this because the difference between me and you, I was

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Speaker 1: actually one of those kids is nothing they can tell

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Speaker 1: me that I haven't experienced. I'm going to relate to

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Speaker 1: those kids way faster than you, So I knew I

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Speaker 1: can do it. And it's not a knock on, you

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Speaker 1: know that, because that's needed as well. It's also you

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Speaker 1: know that balance. But at the same time, I always

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Speaker 1: knew that I can do this, and you know, last

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Speaker 1: year it was just proven so so so you go

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Speaker 1: to Howard University and see and I always tell people, man,

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Speaker 1: I head. You know Stephanie One shes from the Reach

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Speaker 1: High program initiated by First Lady Michelle Obama. I just

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Speaker 1: been around for a hundred and fifty seven years, and

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Speaker 1: now I have your program. You know. I think it's

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Speaker 1: so awesome to follow his interview a hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: seven years to your program because they let you know

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Speaker 1: that you can't keep reinventing with you can't keep creating

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Speaker 1: new opportunities for these young people out there. Don't It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what demo. As long as they need help

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Speaker 1: and they ask for help, you extend in the hand.

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Speaker 1: That's what I love about your program. And that's the

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Speaker 1: and and and the beauty of it. It's based on

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Speaker 1: your philosophy. And I always tell people in life, if

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Speaker 1: you don't know who you are, how you gonna help

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Speaker 1: somebody to be who they are exactly? And that's what

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Speaker 1: you're doing right now. You know, exactly who you are.

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Speaker 1: So when people come at you, you you quickly put

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Speaker 1: up to stop sign. You stop talking to me, Stop

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Speaker 1: talking to me? What you're doing while you're there complaining?

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Speaker 1: Ain't you time? Ain't your time talking? Don't you think that?

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Speaker 1: And they gonna do something for yourself. Go go pray

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Speaker 1: us something, go donator or something. Because those people right

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Speaker 1: there make me sick. Man. They may don't do nothing.

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Speaker 1: Complaining people make me sick. And I have no problem

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Speaker 1: telling to get out of my face. Yeah you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean because my only, my only duty and loyalty

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Speaker 1: is to the kids, is not to them. And that's

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Speaker 1: what they have to understand. And it's and that relationship

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Speaker 1: is very you know, it's a tough relationship because you

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Speaker 1: have to understand I have to wear the face of

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Speaker 1: a father, uncle, whatever I have to be to get

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Speaker 1: that kid across the finish line, because I'm not a

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Speaker 1: CEO that like just sit up and do anything like

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Speaker 1: I'm in their lives every day. I gotta go to

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Speaker 1: Throe sixteen parties. I have to buy, you know, get

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Speaker 1: their hair done for prom if they got they don't

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Speaker 1: have money for them suit they you know Ms McGee,

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Speaker 1: I don't have you know, I'm there, not even the

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Speaker 1: game college. They're calling me every five minutes. So and

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Speaker 1: then also you have to understand to your audio have

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Speaker 1: to match your video what you say you are. You

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Speaker 1: have to be because in these kids live, they have

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Speaker 1: so many people lying to them and letting them down.

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Speaker 1: They look for that. So if you have any dinner,

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Speaker 1: your rmor they're gonna expose it that I don't go

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Speaker 1: to strip clubs, I don't drink, I don't do anything,

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Speaker 1: because I know exactly what they're looking for. They see

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Speaker 1: any of that right there is a let down because

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Speaker 1: they look at you now as somebody they've never seen

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Speaker 1: before because it's not in their home, and that's what

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Speaker 1: they dream of. That's that's that's the father or uncle

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Speaker 1: or friend I see on TV that's polished that I'd

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Speaker 1: never experienced before. So you have to be very careful

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Speaker 1: on even the way you carry yourself or you know,

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Speaker 1: the things that you do, because you know, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to let those kids down because you're that consistent

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Speaker 1: male figure that they've never had. Yeah, and that's really important. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of cases, you know, the majority of the cases,

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Speaker 1: I know because in Houston Im Jason Old the farm.

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Speaker 1: You know, your police officer for the Houston Police Police

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Speaker 1: police force here in Houston, used to have me come

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Speaker 1: down and talk to these very same students that you're

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Speaker 1: talking to. These students were the school say look one more,

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Speaker 1: one more peeple out of you. Jail is your next address.

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Speaker 1: And when I was going there, I remember I came

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Speaker 1: in there and these kids had their arms folded. He goes,

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Speaker 1: I have a suit on. I was looking good and

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Speaker 1: everything successful. And I looked at his kid. He was

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Speaker 1: about six five. You know, really a kid you know,

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Speaker 1: should be on somebody's football field because he was just

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Speaker 1: a naturally athletic kid. But guess what he's been steered wrong,

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Speaker 1: been told all the rold things, probably told him to

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Speaker 1: be successful and big dummy. And uh, he said, because

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Speaker 1: you ain't gonna come back next week. That's why we're

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Speaker 1: not really listening. Like what you mean he said. He said,

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Speaker 1: all you'd hear first, sir, is to make yourself feel good.

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Speaker 1: That's always why won't you just do your speech and

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Speaker 1: guess what, and we're just gonna act like we care

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Speaker 1: about what's coming out your mouth and and we'll we'll

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Speaker 1: be even and that's what you're saying right there. You're

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Speaker 1: saying that. And I came back because of that kid

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Speaker 1: said that. I came back for three straight months because

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Speaker 1: I had to show them consistency that I wasn't that

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Speaker 1: guy that was gonna come in and do a one off.

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Speaker 1: And believe me, man, it was some tough moments in

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Speaker 1: that room because you know, they had a no cursing

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Speaker 1: policy where all I had to break that a few times.

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Speaker 1: Gonna tell your homar I totally understand you had to

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Speaker 1: break down a couple of times to get their attention.

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Speaker 1: But guess what, they loved me though. They loved me,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't beat me out because you know why,

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Speaker 1: because I consistently showed up. I consistently said what I

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Speaker 1: was gonna do. And when I hear a program like yours,

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Speaker 1: it's based on consistency. My man. You know you have

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Speaker 1: a fan in me. Brother, you have a fan of

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Speaker 1: Rashawn McDonald, and I will do whatever you need to

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna do a donation

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Speaker 1: a couple of suits need kid misses them some suits

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Speaker 1: couple of students here who came to four riddlems. Give

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Speaker 1: me a call. Okay, no problem, and can I have

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Speaker 1: We don't have books the more because I'm preparing them

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Speaker 1: Our goal is three hundred thousand dollars. Man, Uh, say

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Speaker 1: I can post it on Money Making Conversation. We can

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Speaker 1: get it out there. The only way you win, man,

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Speaker 1: is your message has to be told consistently, and that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing here on Money Making Conversation. You have

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Speaker 1: a message, let me screaming out for you. Okay, say

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Speaker 1: can go. And I want to thank you for this call. Man.

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Speaker 1: about us. If you have people such as Bill Clinton

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Speaker 1: my brother. This was Sean McDonald. We will react with

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Speaker 1: more Ingrid wat Can. This will be on the phone

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Speaker 1: talking about diversity in the workplace, how she's trying to

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Speaker 1: what money Making Conversation is about. Secrets of success. We're

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Speaker 1: right back were Sean McDonald. Hi, This ra Sean McDonald.

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Speaker 1: It's the last half hour of Money Making Conversation, which

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Speaker 1: your dat. My final guest today on Moneymaking Conversation is

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Speaker 1: business development. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Ingrid Watkins

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Speaker 1: that get all that that good Hello, Hello, How you

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Speaker 1: you and myself beat uplifted. You know I've always been

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01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:24,720
Speaker 1: all that time uplifted everybody else I like to be

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01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: uplifted with watkets. I love it. I love it, you know.

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01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:30,840
Speaker 1: I'm happy to let I'm happy. I'm happy to being

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01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:33,280
Speaker 1: called loves you legend, Thank you very much. Let me

1483
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: just say you sent me because we're LinkedIn friends. I'm

1484
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 1: just let this we communicate LinkedIn and all that stuff

1485
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: and that I always tell people. You know, I know

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01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: you got Facebook, I know you got Snapchat. I know

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01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:48,680
Speaker 1: you got an Instagram, you got Twitter. If you endn entrepreneur,

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01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 1: if you're in the business, is trying to market yourself

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01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 1: among like minded people. Because you're not gonna see any

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01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:57,640
Speaker 1: bikini pictures. You're not gonna see this, the little a

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01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: little halfway pose. What people should their little bodies and

1492
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 1: all that stuff and people partying and all that. You

1493
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:08,000
Speaker 1: don't see that on LinkedIn. It's a motivational or social

1494
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 1: media format allows people like her. That's how we met.

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01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: You know, I promote all those things on that and

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01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: so she sent me an article. But before we get

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01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:19,879
Speaker 1: into the article, I want you to talk about your career,

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01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:26,280
Speaker 1: you know, twenty years Coca Cola in twenty years now

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01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 1: before get your I used to work for IBM, and

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01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:35,040
Speaker 1: I always remind people people always saying why are you successful?

1501
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: Why are we just able to do? Have been able

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01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 1: to do the things that you've done in your life,

1503
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,719
Speaker 1: whether it's a writer or manager of producer. It came

1504
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: from the tools that were given to me and I

1505
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: BM when I say to say, can I say the

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01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:52,120
Speaker 1: same thing about those same tools were delivered to you

1507
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 1: in your days at at Coca Cola? Oh? Absolutely absolutely. M.

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01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:02,560
Speaker 1: I started my career very early in journalism. I have

1509
01:23:02,600 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: having journalism background. UM moved on to corporate environment where

1510
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: I did some communications and made the transition into Surprise verse.

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01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:15,759
Speaker 1: It has always been my passion, even as a report

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01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: in the early days UM, to take on diversity issues.

1513
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: UM Knowledge is power and awareness. That's always been my

1514
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:26,640
Speaker 1: platform to elevate my people through knowledge and storytelling. So

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01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 1: Supprise diversity was one of those areas. Fifteen years ago

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01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: around in it relatively new to corporate. I believed in

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01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:39,560
Speaker 1: the process of engaging diverse suppliers. I believed in inclusive

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01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:44,559
Speaker 1: corporate practices. So it was a very natural transition for me,

1519
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: UM to move all of my personal beliefs into the

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01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 1: area and to make it work in that business environment.

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01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, I haven't spent fifteen years there. Of course.

1522
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: You you hone your your your craft, you become you know,

1523
01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: it becomes your brand and your subject matter expert. So

1524
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's been an amazing journey. Actually, now I'm

1525
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:10,080
Speaker 1: always ask questions Rich you know that answer, but I

1526
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 1: gotta say, I gotta answer because I gotta let people

1527
01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:14,439
Speaker 1: know why I have you on the show, or anybody

1528
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:16,800
Speaker 1: on the show, because sometimes, you know, if I allow

1529
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:19,720
Speaker 1: you to tell your story, then guess what I might

1530
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: miss the importance of the emotion of their passion. Why

1531
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: is diversity so important? Well, diversity and inclusion is important.

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01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 1: If you think about can you stay to point you

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01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: say diversity and inclusion? Am I missing something because I

1534
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:41,919
Speaker 1: just said diversion? Yeah, it's it's about including a diverse

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01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: community in your business practices. Um. If you think about

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01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:51,840
Speaker 1: UH marketing, how companies been hundreds of millions, if not

1537
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:56,719
Speaker 1: billions of dollars marketing to a multicultural consumer. That's about

1538
01:24:56,800 --> 01:25:00,120
Speaker 1: them making money from the community. So on the the

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01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 1: end of the spectrum, their surprise a versity, that's about

1540
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: spending money and contracting with the same business owners that

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01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 1: multicultural business owner. And then there is UM diversity and

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01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 1: inclusion workplace diverse that's about hiring diverse UM, you know, workforce.

1543
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:20,680
Speaker 1: So you want to have you know, all three of

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01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: those that cause the multi cultural trifector. You want to

1545
01:25:24,320 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 1: have all three of those covered to be able to,

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01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, claim that you're a diverse corporate culture. And

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01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 1: that's where I see as a diversity professional. Not all

1548
01:25:35,240 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: corporations are doing all three of those UM sides of

1549
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:42,599
Speaker 1: the triangle very well. So so my mission I believe

1550
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: it is to you know, help those corporations to UM

1551
01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 1: grow in areas where they might have a weakness or

1552
01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:53,759
Speaker 1: have a gap because, you know, because it's annoying sometimes

1553
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:56,799
Speaker 1: because if you don't, then people will start telling your story.

1554
01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:59,000
Speaker 1: And if you allowed to keep telling your story, then

1555
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 1: their narrative can be you off base. But guess what,

1556
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 1: you're giving them permission to tell it and guess what

1557
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: they've developed that image of you. This is where this

1558
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:10,720
Speaker 1: all you value in life is this particular approach. And

1559
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: it's really important you have somebody in the room because

1560
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 1: I've been in that room, and you've been in that room. Well,

1561
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:18,839
Speaker 1: you are the only person of minority status in that room.

1562
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 1: But more importantly, you have to be if you are

1563
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 1: that person, you have to be willing to speak up

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01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 1: or speak up with a plan. Because I've been in

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01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:30,679
Speaker 1: the I've been in rooms with people. You know, look

1566
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,080
Speaker 1: at We're in the era of today where everybody's upset

1567
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 1: about like racial discrimination just popped up last week. You know,

1568
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: it's been happening to all our lives. You know, the

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01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:41,720
Speaker 1: millennials they just found out about this last year. It

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01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: seems like, you know because they stud Well I was

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01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 1: because you know, I employed millennials, and I actually told

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01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:53,600
Speaker 1: a young man, I said, you really don't understand racial discrimination?

1573
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:56,400
Speaker 1: Yes I do. I know you don't. I said, know

1574
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 1: you don't because you grew up in the era where

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01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 1: you look at TV. You see a whole lot of

1576
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:04,599
Speaker 1: you on TV. Okay, you know you there's a whole

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01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 1: lot of the look like you. I grew up butn't

1578
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 1: like that. Wasn't like that I grew up. I grew

1579
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: up in fifth War. I got on the bus. It

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01:27:13,439 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 1: wasn't of the black people on that bus. When I

1581
01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 1: got on that city bus, when they dropped me off,

1582
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 1: they dropped me off on the black side of downtown.

1583
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: I shopped. I wanted the stores, and I'm I'm saying that.

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01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:25,439
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's where, that's the whey. It was

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01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:26,960
Speaker 1: just just for the last week. Nobody told me where

1586
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:29,519
Speaker 1: I couldn't go. But when you when you when people

1587
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: put a mindset in you, then you stay in your lane.

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01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:35,160
Speaker 1: And that's all you're talking about diversity. If you allot

1589
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 1: of people to communicate to you a certain way, you're

1590
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:39,719
Speaker 1: gonna keep walking on that side of the street because

1591
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: you've been told that's the side of the street you

1592
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:44,880
Speaker 1: walk on. And so when I that's why there's no

1593
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: leadership in the millennial community because guess what, they not

1594
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: had drama until recently. You know, Colin Kaepernack just just

1595
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 1: just need last week, you know, But guess what we've

1596
01:27:56,479 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 1: been dealing with fear police stopping us all my life,

1597
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 1: all my life, and so and so the drawing of

1598
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 1: all these different situations to keep popping up the trade

1599
01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 1: of our marks and all these things. You know, I'm

1600
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: not I'm not veering away from what you're saying. I'm

1601
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: just telling you the key termin knowledge is that the

1602
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 1: way you win is to be diverse, but also include

1603
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 1: all voices in the lanes of communication. And then when

1604
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 1: it all wraps up, we all understand why we're trying

1605
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: to get along because it benefits the country, it benefits

1606
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, and increased taxes, crime rate goes down. You

1607
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 1: don't look at me like I'm a criminal. You don't

1608
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 1: look at me like I shouldn't be dating your daughter.

1609
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 1: You look at me like I'm proud that you're in

1610
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:42,839
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. You're I'm proud that you in my community.

1611
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 1: When I drive down your street, you don't look at

1612
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: me like I just told your call. That's what diversity

1613
01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: and inclusion because it's thoughts. You know, you got me

1614
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:53,519
Speaker 1: fired up right now, I've been fired up this whole show.

1615
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:55,880
Speaker 1: When I come back mcwack and I want to share

1616
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 1: you an example of why what you're doing is so

1617
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 1: important because it changed my life, and it just changed

1618
01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:04,760
Speaker 1: my life, and it changes everybody's life, because that's what

1619
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 1: this shows about, being able to tell people why you

1620
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,440
Speaker 1: should win this way and why you should be successful

1621
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: this way because it's the only one. Diversity and be included. Okay,

1622
01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:18,479
Speaker 1: be right back with more to make conversation. Thank you,

1623
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I can hear myself. That means that America

1624
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 1: can hear me. Um, I'm on the phone with Ingrid Watkins. Um, Ingred,

1625
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 1: you had a very interesting article that you emailed to

1626
01:29:29,560 --> 01:29:33,840
Speaker 1: me through LinkedIn, and it's about Diversity Professional is in

1627
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:40,200
Speaker 1: the online, very well done online digital magazine called Diversity

1628
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: Professional Magazine. They recently purpose published a very compelling article

1629
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:49,679
Speaker 1: that you wrote on corporate recruiting disparity for African American

1630
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 1: millennials and their Caucasian peers. Tell us about that. Yes,

1631
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:58,600
Speaker 1: thank you. I'd like to thank Diversity Professional Magazine for

1632
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:02,600
Speaker 1: giving me that platform. M Um, I am a freelance

1633
01:30:02,680 --> 01:30:04,680
Speaker 1: writer and I do it on on the side and

1634
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:07,280
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. Yes, the article. You know, when you

1635
01:30:07,439 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 1: set out as a writer to research an issue a topic,

1636
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 1: you just never know what you're gonna find. And we

1637
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 1: overturned some things that even surprised me in terms of

1638
01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 1: the data and how many African American millennials were having

1639
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 1: these experiences connecting to job opportunities within corporate environment specifically UM.

1640
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 1: These were well educated UM African American millennials, some with

1641
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:40,479
Speaker 1: master's degrees, who were trying to get entry level jobs,

1642
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:46,200
Speaker 1: co op opportunities, internship opportunities, and the doors weren't weren't

1643
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:50,160
Speaker 1: opening for them UM. So some of these millennials actually

1644
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 1: reached out back to LinkedIn. I know you're an advocate

1645
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 1: of the tool, and so AM I reached out to

1646
01:30:56,120 --> 01:30:58,680
Speaker 1: me and say, you know, I know you do diversity.

1647
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:02,360
Speaker 1: Can someone look to this, you know the problem that

1648
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:05,479
Speaker 1: we're having. So I put my team to work and

1649
01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 1: we creator survey and sent it to college students in

1650
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 1: recent grads in several major cities UH in Chicago, Atlanta,

1651
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 1: and Charlotte, New York. And the results they were studying

1652
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:24,280
Speaker 1: UM pretty much one of those surveys felt that they

1653
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 1: were being, you know, disenfranchised in terms of UM engagement

1654
01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 1: with corporate opportunities. So yes, the article lays all that

1655
01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:39,720
Speaker 1: out in very compelling UM data actually data data, let's

1656
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 1: put the word data. It's not like you're just not

1657
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: just writing your opinion. You have facts involved there, and

1658
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 1: it was a student that you had involved at a

1659
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:50,080
Speaker 1: pretty uh kind of like the model of your conversation

1660
01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:54,799
Speaker 1: was a graduate of Georgia State University, and that's in Atlanta, Georgia.

1661
01:31:55,240 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 1: And look, let me share some ideas about me, Rashan

1662
01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:04,040
Speaker 1: McDonald and uh, the experience that I had, because I

1663
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,840
Speaker 1: know exactly what they're talking about. Uh, And that's why

1664
01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:09,960
Speaker 1: I brought up the conversation about me having experienced the

1665
01:32:10,040 --> 01:32:14,080
Speaker 1: corporate environment at IBM and and you having experienced the

1666
01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:16,840
Speaker 1: corporate environment at Coca Cola and use a journalist prior

1667
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:19,400
Speaker 1: to that. One of the things I always felt that

1668
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:22,360
Speaker 1: when I was in college, you know, I did cooperate

1669
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 1: intern work. And one thing, when you're trying to seek opportunities,

1670
01:32:27,320 --> 01:32:31,080
Speaker 1: you have to be willing to be inconvenient key term

1671
01:32:31,280 --> 01:32:34,880
Speaker 1: right there. Inconvenience. In other words, even though I lived

1672
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:41,880
Speaker 1: in Houston, my my summer intern jobs were in Louisiana, Okay,

1673
01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:45,720
Speaker 1: and we're in Mississippi, so I had to travel and

1674
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:48,880
Speaker 1: be inconvenient. So so so I just want everybody to

1675
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:52,040
Speaker 1: know that when sometimes when you're pursuing your dreams, you

1676
01:32:52,120 --> 01:32:54,720
Speaker 1: have to be willing to be inconvenient to get your

1677
01:32:54,760 --> 01:32:58,960
Speaker 1: ultimate goal. Do you agree with that? Yeah? I do.

1678
01:32:59,080 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 1: I mean some of these kids. I mean, if you

1679
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 1: live in a major metropolitan city like Chicago, New York, um, Atlanta,

1680
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 1: you think those opportunities would be pretty you know, close by.

1681
01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:16,040
Speaker 1: I lived in Houston, Texas. Let's let you know. You know. Yeah,

1682
01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 1: but I'm not saying nothing negative on your article. I'm

1683
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,639
Speaker 1: just letting everybody know that, you know, I was inspired

1684
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 1: by your article. Inspiring brought you on the show because

1685
01:33:25,360 --> 01:33:27,600
Speaker 1: of the fact that there is a problem. There's a

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01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: problem when when you when you walk in the room

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Speaker 1: and then you were when inviting it to that room,

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Speaker 1: what's going on here? You know? And then when you

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Speaker 1: the in the break room, you know, because all y'all huddling,

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Speaker 1: they're talking, you know, you know, little side jokes, filing

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Speaker 1: like that the coffee pot. Because you feel that there

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a term that you educated me

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Speaker 1: on the show to day. I've always said diversity, you said, Richard,

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Speaker 1: there's another important where you could to be diverse. But

1699
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Speaker 1: are you included in the process? Are you being included

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Speaker 1: that's the burden of proof that you're trying to get

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Speaker 1: making the decisions for finding up and re viewing these as,

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Speaker 1: they're generally not. This is how you come up with

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Speaker 1: these mistakes that some of these we've seen some recent

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Speaker 1: because there are no multicultural decision makers at the table.

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Speaker 1: And can we just bring up one recent ad was

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Speaker 1: that somebody thought that you can actually have a black lady.

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