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Speaker 3: You can push up somebody who you feel is clearly

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Speaker 3: ahead of you, but if somebody that there's a level

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Speaker 3: want to push them up. You see what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: So like, for example, like we all get it. You

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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, You gonna get it. You gonna

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Speaker 3: get it from other If another black mass start up

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Speaker 3: a financial podcast today, he's gonna be reluctant to give

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Speaker 3: you your props or say that you open up the door,

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Speaker 3: but he can give it the grand card on right away.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's just and what I learn specifically because

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Speaker 3: I'm big on like black psychology in a way in

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Speaker 3: which we think, right, So, like that's my biggest thing,

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Speaker 3: how we think, because in a restaurant space, you gotta

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Speaker 3: figure those things out. What make people go well? How

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Speaker 3: do you push and pull people on? What made people tick?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: So it really it really makes a person question themselves

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Speaker 3: same circumstance like per person, like well, damn he got

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Speaker 3: out of jail just like me, and he a millionaire

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Speaker 3: or damn he was you know he was. He was

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Speaker 3: the the the the adcourage and the ability that he

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Speaker 3: made something of himself. And then I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 3: what's so funny. They see you on Instagram, know you're

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Speaker 3: doing good, never say nothing, never comment, and they see

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Speaker 3: you in public like, yeah, I see you got full stores.

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Speaker 3: Yeah why didn't you like that?

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Speaker 4: Dude?

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Speaker 5: That is so crazy you said that because I've seen

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Speaker 5: somebody at our Bazu and he has a platform. He

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Speaker 5: was at our Ourvasu event and he was like, yo,

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Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: Y'all killing it. I'm like, I appreciate it. Bro good looking.

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Speaker 5: He put our like our he put we was interviewing

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Speaker 5: DJ Kalen. Right, he took He took us DJ interviewing

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Speaker 5: DJ Kalen. Put it in his story and tag DJ Kalen.

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Speaker 5: But I'm like, you didn't tag us. It's our event.

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Speaker 4: You can't show I love that subconsciously somebody.

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Speaker 5: Love because it might help us get to the stars

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Speaker 5: the same level of us, or somebody the same level

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Speaker 5: No, the person in the stars don't really care nothing

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Speaker 5: Person that can actually help you get to the stars.

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Speaker 5: It is the same person that you ignore because I

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Speaker 5: guarantee you, if Spike Lee or if any of these

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Speaker 5: they're gonna tag Spike Lee. They're gonna I'm like, why

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Speaker 5: of the clout right It's like Spike Lee did the

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Speaker 5: really even a black and white thing. It's more of

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Speaker 5: How we actually view people on the same level of us,

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Speaker 5: I don't want nobody else to find out about you

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Speaker 3: not the it's not the assets, it's not the cash flow,

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So like in the NFT world, there's

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget. Like a dude told me he was

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Speaker 3: we talk to everybody else, right, I d told me

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Speaker 3: But they don't know that. When they acknowledge you, it

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Speaker 3: fabric and recognition is the number one thing that you

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, you vest of recognition, you could get

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Speaker 5: I'm so this is why, this is why I love

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Speaker 5: talking to you, because it's like I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 5: certain people just connect men. I just connected with you

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Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like it's not and it's like ninety

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Speaker 5: We had to learn about click funnels, we had to

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Speaker 4: Thinking about that actually happens to us all the time.

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Speaker 5: Like I've done stuff for people, like people ask me like, yo,

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Speaker 5: You look at everybody on Instagram's page, they never say

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Speaker 3: I would be selfish if I just was like, we

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436
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Speaker 3: you know, he's just the attorney and he got the

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438
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Speaker 3: each other anything, right, So that was never my tone.

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Speaker 3: The social narrative for me was always build something of substance,

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Speaker 3: build something that was substantial, and pass it back right.

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Speaker 3: And I always tell people I never did it for myself.

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Speaker 3: for me, expansion was extremely difficult because now you gotta

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447
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Speaker 3: Like we would have never we would have stayed small

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Speaker 3: because I would have been comfortable. So I was comfortable

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Speaker 3: being uncomfortable because you got to realize, I'll come from

502
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Speaker 3: sending my money in a mail and hoping it can

503
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Speaker 3: it land, you know what I'm saying. So like you

504
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So it takes some money to

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Speaker 3: a bank, and you know, like next week you're gonna

506
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Speaker 3: have a tax. You can't you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: You can build upon that. But it definitely took a

508
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Speaker 3: lot of leadership. I gotta commend my team though it

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Speaker 3: wasn't me Like it took dof Doff the great Randy

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Speaker 3: bro play. He really he held the house done. Like

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Speaker 3: I always tell people like this because people like you say,

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Speaker 3: young black people looking for opportunity quit. Everybody can cross

513
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Speaker 3: the bridge with you, but there's some people that can

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Speaker 3: hold it up while you cross it. And you gotta

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Speaker 3: appreciate those people the head down, people who come in

516
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Speaker 3: every day who want you to grow. Because I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: tell you another thing, loyalty and love is hard to find.

518
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Speaker 3: So I had some people that work for me that

519
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Speaker 3: wanted me to win more than they wanted themselves to win.

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Speaker 3: And I think that that was the most important thing.

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Speaker 3: Because when a person know, okay, he's acquiring his seventh

522
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Speaker 3: building and I'm still just making twenty three dollars an hour,

523
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Speaker 3: they god.

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Speaker 4: Really believe in your really believe in.

525
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Speaker 3: The forecast of the business, and be willing to say, look,

526
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Speaker 3: you can walk on my back across the bridge. And

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Speaker 3: I think, like, we don't understand young people. Oh no know, lunergy.

528
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Speaker 3: It's all about a dollar. Well, I work here, you

529
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Speaker 3: make I make eight and our vour but TGI Fridays

530
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Speaker 3: they got nineteen and they just to give it to them.

531
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Speaker 3: And I think we gotta we gotta preach lunacy for

532
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Speaker 3: us to grow and for us to expand. It really

533
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Speaker 3: it's really contingent upon a lot of principles, bro. It's

534
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Speaker 3: contingent upon a lot of principles, bro.

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Speaker 5: Like like like, what y'all so I have to cut

536
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Speaker 5: you off, But everything you're saying right now resonates with

537
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Speaker 5: me so much because I'm just thinking just even with

538
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Speaker 5: earning your leisure life. It's like, and that's why we

539
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Speaker 5: hire a lot of people that we know because it's like,

540
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Speaker 5: loyalty is so underrated in business that somebody else is

541
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Speaker 5: gonna be more successful than you, and you have to

542
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Speaker 5: be okay with that. You have to be the extremely

543
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Speaker 5: humble person to know that somebody is more financially successful,

544
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Speaker 5: more popular than you, but you're you're helping them become

545
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Speaker 5: more financially successful. You're helping them become more popular. That

546
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Speaker 5: the popularity that you'll never have. That's something that's not

547
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Speaker 5: talking about enough either, Like when you start to brought

548
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Speaker 5: off business right, So I'm understanding these things and I'm

549
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Speaker 5: seeing these things from a psychological standpoint, It's like, then

550
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Speaker 5: you got to be a special person to actually want

551
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Speaker 5: to put your all into a company and help that

552
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Speaker 5: company grow, because as you grow, the company grows, but

553
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Speaker 5: you're never going to be as big with that's forty

554
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Speaker 5: eight laws and power. The number one rules never outshine

555
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Speaker 5: the masters. So it's like there's so many different things

556
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Speaker 5: that it's so many levels. There's so many different levels

557
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Speaker 5: to it. There's so many different and it's like just

558
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Speaker 5: from an educational standpoint, it's so mu stuff that we

559
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Speaker 5: had to learn as far as like payroll and like

560
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Speaker 5: having like health insurance for our employees for one K.

561
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Speaker 5: Fortunately we're blessed with early leaders, so we have relationships.

562
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Speaker 5: But I'm like, we had to learn so much as

563
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Speaker 5: we go. So I'm like the average entrepreneur, the average

564
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Speaker 5: black entrepreneur that has no mentorship, they don't stand a chance.

565
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Speaker 5: I understand why ninety six percent of black businesses don't

566
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Speaker 5: have employees because they don't have any level of mentorship

567
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Speaker 5: that they don't even know how to actually go through

568
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Speaker 5: ADP and make payrolls and pay state taxes and pay

569
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Speaker 5: the Medicare and Medicaid or they they don't know nothing

570
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Speaker 5: about that.

571
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Speaker 4: Like that's so fault.

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Speaker 3: Man. Listen to me, when I stand in front of

573
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Speaker 3: these these institutions right and these investors, and I know

574
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Speaker 3: what I'm going through, I could see how My people

575
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Speaker 3: ain't never had nothing, and now it gotta get so

576
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Speaker 3: See listen, it gotta get so much bigger than practices.

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Speaker 3: You gotta start getting on straight principles. We gotta be

578
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Speaker 3: we gotta be lawyer, we gotta stand firm, we gotta

579
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Speaker 3: have in secrity. And as the entrepreneur, your vision has

580
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Speaker 3: to be so big that they can put their visions

581
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Speaker 3: within your vision and see something for themselves. See. I

582
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Speaker 3: had a guidework with recently. I said, man, yeah, you're

583
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Speaker 3: doing good, but your employees miserable because you're not expanding.

584
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Speaker 3: So expansion was so important for me because if I

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Speaker 3: don't expand, they're gonna outgrow me. They gonna outgrow me,

586
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Speaker 3: they gonna say, shit, what's next? All you can it's

587
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Speaker 3: a sale hand. When you give me eighteen dollars a hour.

588
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Speaker 3: It don't get no bigger than that. So now I

589
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Speaker 3: had to buy the next building. The biggest thing for me,

590
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Speaker 3: what I've seen was really kept people entrenched in my

591
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Speaker 3: processes with ownership because once I buy this real estate,

592
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Speaker 3: a man, know what, if I work hard, I can

593
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Speaker 3: own that building and dog can finance that she. We

594
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Speaker 3: also have to understand that people will come up under us.

595
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Speaker 3: You don't have to work for a person and feel

596
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Speaker 3: like you gotta work two or three jobs. All of

597
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 3: your opportunity can come up under him real support. I

598
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Speaker 3: tell the people who work for me, you're so anxious

599
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Speaker 3: to leave and start a business where I'm getting next

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Speaker 3: and I'll invest in your business. It will make money

601
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Speaker 3: together because stop you right.

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Speaker 4: There, because that is what we do. So like we

603
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Speaker 4: got we got our young boy do Lie.

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Speaker 5: He's he's like two five years old, right, So he

605
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Speaker 5: came up and he he came up just kind of

606
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Speaker 5: being our assistant. It turned into being our manager. But

607
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Speaker 5: he has to He went to college, he got an NBA,

608
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Speaker 5: he got a master's degree and all that. But now

609
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Speaker 5: it's like the vending machine business. He's our business partner

610
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Speaker 5: in the vending machines.

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Speaker 4: So he's an owner.

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Speaker 5: He's a part owner in that vending machine business. Because

613
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Speaker 5: it's like, all right, we're gonna invest you're gonna be

614
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Speaker 5: the person that runs it. And now your your business

615
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Speaker 5: partner with us. And I'm sure that there's gonna be

616
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Speaker 5: other opportunities. So he had the foresight and the humbleness

617
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Speaker 5: to say, okay, I'll start out as an employee, but

618
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Speaker 5: doing a good job as an employee, I don't have

619
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Speaker 5: to stay an employee. Now I can bring opportunities. Yeah,

620
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Speaker 5: and like you said, who else are we gonna invest in?

621
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Speaker 4: Then? Somebody that we work with every single day.

622
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Speaker 3: But that's the ego. Caill' me tell you what the

623
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Speaker 3: ego come in place? Did it work for you? Right?

624
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Speaker 3: And be like, yeah, work for you and I work

625
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Speaker 3: for Applebee's and I'm saving up because I'm a photographer

626
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Speaker 3: on the side, and you like, that's that's stupid. Continue

627
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Speaker 3: to work for me, right, pitch the photography piece to

628
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Speaker 3: me and let's do it together. And I think, like

629
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Speaker 3: we they don't know. And that's why I'm going down

630
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 3: to so many principles because once, once these people sit

631
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Speaker 3: in front of us and you ask him the deep

632
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Speaker 3: you go. You gotta get into some deep work before

633
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 3: you grow with people. What's the difference between who you

634
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Speaker 3: are and what you do? Where do you see yourself

635
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Speaker 3: in five years? How do you feel I can best

636
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 3: participate in your life and you participate in mind? And

637
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Speaker 3: we create that residual vibe so we get I mean

638
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Speaker 3: that like a like a vibe, like a back and

639
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Speaker 3: forth vibe. Where we could get to the next level. Right.

640
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Speaker 3: So like, I just feel that the most important thing

641
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Speaker 3: is people committing like for example, ZODIQ Russia, like I said,

642
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Speaker 3: Randy bro play. If it wasn't Shaquana, Like Shaquana wasn't

643
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Speaker 3: looking like we ain't gonna live, We wasn't. It was

644
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Speaker 3: just straight, look, this is what we're on. We trying

645
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Speaker 3: to win together. It was about what we really wanted

646
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 3: offline and understanding that we could build and develop one another.

647
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 3: So like, if it wasn't for Zodi, the donut shot

648
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 3: wouldn't be as big as it is. If it wasn't

649
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 3: for Randy, the brunch and the donut shot wouldn't be

650
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 3: as big as it is. So all of these people

651
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 3: contributed to all of these different phases of my life.

652
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna tell you what they did. They put

653
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Speaker 3: themselves on the back Bruner. They created a level of

654
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 3: humility and said, here's a man who has a plan

655
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 3: that's bigger than mine. Let me stop acting around, let

656
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 3: me stop trying to buy to an ego, let me

657
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 3: stop acting like I got it all figured out, Let

658
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 3: me stop with side hustles, and let me go all

659
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 3: in on what he got going on, and I can

660
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 3: find my way in what he got going on, and

661
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 3: now eventually that's kind of how we build it out.

662
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 3: So like taking on those partnerships within the brand is

663
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: important to scaling. That's super important to making sure that

664
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Speaker 3: that people have a vision that extends beyond you in

665
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 3: your space so that they could want to stay. It's

666
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 3: super important. And then also I would say creating a

667
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Speaker 3: level of humility for your team, Like when you go

668
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 3: into a job, like I said, you don't work for brands,

669
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 3: you work for people, right, So when you go into

670
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 3: a there's nothing wrong with taking a job. That's the

671
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 3: first thing we gotta put out there. And when you

672
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 3: go into a job, you have to work for a

673
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 3: person that can help scale your abilities. It's like a

674
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 3: coach is a mentorship. It's not nineteen ninety nine noor more.

675
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 3: It's not clocking clock out, get the check. Things have

676
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 3: to be very intentional. So like if I want to

677
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 3: grow a media company, I'm working for you for free,

678
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: for free, I'm bootstrapping it. And I'm saying here, the

679
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 3: man who has a vision that's bigger than myself, how

680
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 3: can I contribute and what assets can I person only

681
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 3: bring to help this man scale his company and grow

682
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 3: my abilities in the main time. That is a fact man.

683
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 4: That is a fact.

684
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 3: Man.

685
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 4: There's so much a fact with the with this business company.

686
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 3: Like I said, like it it's so much.

687
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 5: We can just hashtag like support black business. We can

688
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 5: hash you know, we can put up memes about, you know,

689
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 5: should we show support. But it's like we gotta we

690
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 5: gotta have deeper level conversations because it's a man. And

691
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 5: like you said, it's like going through the process myself

692
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 5: personally as a business owner, I'm understanding more and more

693
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 5: why there is such a disconnect right because it's like

694
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 5: if I'm having trouble with this who I've been in

695
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 5: finance for forever. I've been a business owner for a

696
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 5: long time. We have all the resources in the world.

697
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 4: We earning leisure.

698
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Speaker 5: If if it's a learning process for us, the average

699
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 5: black entrepreneur that's just trying to start a business that

700
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 5: has no that has no resources, they don't stand a chance.

701
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Speaker 3: No, And I'm gonna tell you what's the biggest learning

702
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 3: for me. It ain't even because I can read, I

703
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 3: could write, I could add it's the social construct from

704
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 3: black man to black man. And black woman. It's the

705
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 3: it's the it's the internal things that I can't figure out.

706
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 3: So it's like, damn, how you so lazy when we

707
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 3: got all these great things going on or stuff? How

708
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 3: do you want to work for jobs? And we're kids?

709
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 3: How don't you know? It's it's so much for me

710
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 3: at night when I lay down, it's so much peeling

711
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 3: back layers on that, onion, on that and and wondering

712
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 3: why and how we can best grow together. And I

713
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 3: think like the the internal work has been the most

714
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 3: difficult thing when it's comes for me, when it came

715
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 3: to scale, because like you working with some of your

716
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 3: best friends and you're like, how he's still lazy or

717
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 3: he's still late and he don't get it. How I

718
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 3: still got to drag you and motivate you every day

719
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 3: to want this. You don't see this Bentley, just the

720
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 3: old Bentley. We're from the ghetto. Feel me like that

721
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 3: ain't enough And like you got realized. Man, it's so deep.

722
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You put out, you can

723
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Speaker 3: put out the black car, put it on this fo

724
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Speaker 3: you you get it now and it's still man because

725
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 3: it's such a Johnny. But what I did, was I

726
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 3: embraced my role. See, gotta brace your role, Like, yo,

727
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 3: you're Lebron James. You is like for we don't own

728
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 3: our entrepreneurs. Bro, listen what you're doing.

729
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 4: Now, ragularve.

730
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Speaker 3: So now once you realize you Lebron James, That's what

731
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 3: I took on. Oh, I gotta get sixty every night,

732
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 3: so I forget. I watched the last dash, Right do

733
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 3: you walk up on Michael Joint and said, now you

734
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 3: got sixty? Mic? Mike said, I had a choice. We

735
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 3: had to win because you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

736
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 3: So you gotta realize like with in your bandwidth too. Man,

737
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you another thing specifically for us, like

738
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 3: because we've kind of reached the premier, we passed the

739
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 3: primitive stages, right, So like for entrepreneurs in that kind

740
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 3: of like high six figure eleventh low seven figure range,

741
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 3: it has to now be a balance of your contribution

742
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 3: that you're willing to make, the imprint that you want

743
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 3: to have on your industry, also mixed with economics in

744
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 3: your personal life. Because I'm gonna tell you, I could

745
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 3: I personally feel I ca to get the next thirty

746
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 3: years of my life to grow in a billion our

747
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 3: of company, but I don't want you. And sometimes we

748
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 3: sign up for material possessions or end goals and the

749
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 3: work isn't worth it. So like, even when I was

750
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 3: talking to Troy, like, I like the way y'all have

751
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 3: kind of built it out in a space where you

752
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 3: can work with people that you know and trust and

753
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 3: grow it organically. So like, that's another thing with expansion.

754
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: Don't try to expand based off of what the next

755
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 3: man got. Like, Yo, listen, I see y'all the jets

756
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 3: our uncle, because I know we'll come with that jet.

757
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: I'm cool. I ain't even go lie to you, Troy say.

758
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 3: He said, Man, you ain't trying to grow to a

759
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 3: bigging No, I don't want to. But I also respect

760
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 3: that man who's going into a biggining. Like, man, I

761
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 3: respect that man who's going into a million because I

762
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 3: come to understand that as a black man. For me

763
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 3: to grow to a bigger in my particular industry, how

764
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 3: I gotta do it. It's so much work. It's so

765
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 3: much work, and what is that going to require? Do

766
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 3: I want to never have kids? Do I not want

767
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 3: to never get married? Do I want to always be

768
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 3: constantly thinking about the brand. So like, we gotta respect

769
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 3: those biggernings. I never forget when I first want to

770
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 3: get a posse, the dude told me that averag first

771
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 3: one got a pusse make four hundred grand a year

772
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 3: and over twenty five to thirty percent of people who

773
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 3: gotta make boyo. Now, I don't know if that was

774
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 3: real data, but that woke me up. Like now, when

775
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 3: I see a person in the porch, I respect that.

776
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 3: I know what you had to do. So I think

777
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 3: a lot of times the internet don't teach you what

778
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 3: you truly have to do. So I have kids who

779
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 3: come to Man they want Lamborghinis, and I'm saying, Google,

780
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 3: don't just google the Lamborghini, google the network for the

781
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 3: person who owns the Lamborghini and realize you washing the

782
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 3: dishes and there's nothing wrong with that, But are you

783
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 3: willing to build yourself all the way. We gotta be

784
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 3: red listed, We gotta be redalistic. So, like you know

785
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Once you get realistic, bro, you get

786
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 3: you get happy in life. Because now it's like it's

787
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 3: like it's like a ride home. I always tell people,

788
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 3: right when you're taking a ride home, a red light

789
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 3: gonna come, A den could run in the road and

790
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 3: the stop side. You keep going. You don't get distracted,

791
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 3: but we treat the ride home now on Instagram we

792
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 3: get distracted. Facebook, we get distracted. You just got I

793
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 3: know who you are and what you want out of

794
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 3: this thing. So when you do scale, you scale according

795
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 3: to your abilities, or if you scale according to your personality,

796
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 3: you scale according to your industry, and you scale according

797
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 3: to your bandwidth. Because bitch, trying to be like the

798
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: next person gonna stretch you thing. You see what I'm saying,

799
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 3: So like that was another thing, Like you gotta be

800
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 3: comfortable with knowing yourself and knowing what you want out

801
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 3: of this life. So like for me, I'm in a

802
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 3: good space. Man. I feel good about the brand we

803
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 3: building it out. My goal is to get to a

804
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 3: place similar like what Dave Gripman doing in Miami. I

805
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 3: like to do in like black cities like Atlanta or

806
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 3: like in la and in Brooklyn where I'm gonna circle

807
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 3: back with all of y'all and I'm gonna be like, yo,

808
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 3: here's the proposal. I want to listen. I want to

809
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 3: have the largest black luxury food and beverage company in

810
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 3: the country, and I don't want to do it myself.

811
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 3: That is doing something. When the corner came, there was

812
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: like a godsend more Jesus Christ, thank you, I love you.

813
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 3: You know it was everything, because, Yo, you don't know

814
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 3: how how hard it is bootstrapping a project by yourself,

815
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 3: figuring out the next play by yourself, not having all

816
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 3: the answers by yourself. She's been able to take the

817
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 3: entire accounting side of that business off off of my table,

818
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 3: Like it's nothing wrong with splitting the pie, especially if

819
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 3: the pie even bigger, there's nothing wrong with it. I

820
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 3: think we just so caught up because you're know, coming

821
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: from the street is pay for the car cast self made. Yeah,

822
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 3: everything from the jeweler, pay cash. You know what I'm saying.

823
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 3: So we got that mindset of like, yo, don't never

824
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 3: need nobody and don't look like you need nobody.

825
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 5: That goes back to the and that goes back to this.

826
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 5: This is the last thing I'm gonna say. That goes

827
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 5: back to the support and not tagging. Because we come

828
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 5: from that mindset is like it is every man for themselves,

829
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 5: that every man thing is only gonna leave you by yourself.

830
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 4: It's like, y'all got mind.

831
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 5: I'm not helping you on. You help yourself get it.

832
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 5: I'm self made. That goes back to that that mindset

833
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 5: of like, you know what I'm saying, I did it myself.

834
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 4: I'm up. Nobody did any think themselves? Nobody.

835
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 5: You can't show me I thing themselves. I don't care

836
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 5: what they tell you. They lying to you, because everybody

837
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 5: has some level of support. Early Alsia has probably fifty

838
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 5: people fifty p.

839
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 3: At least at least fifty people.

840
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 5: The superstar status and it helps them become millionaires and

841
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 5: things of that nature, just by putting them on our platform.

842
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 5: So even even if you did all the work by yourself,

843
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 5: at some point somebody wrote an article about you, somebody

844
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 5: put you on their podcast, somebody actually you know, was

845
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 5: the first person to buy your product. In both nobody

846
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 5: has done anything you have. You have not success by yourself.

847
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 5: Stop saying that because it's dangerous.

848
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: Because you're poison in.

849
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 5: The minds of impressionable people and they don't know any

850
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 5: better and they thinking, Okay, yeah, I'm self made, I'm

851
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 5: gonna do it myself. And only thing you're doing is

852
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 5: just perpetuating a dangerous selfish cycle. And this is why

853
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 5: we still in last place, because no matter how much

854
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 5: we get individually, that's still one person. One person is

855
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 5: not equate to forty six million people. So if one

856
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 5: percent of black people are doing well for themselves, that's

857
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Speaker 5: not beneficial and that's not helpful when ninety are still struggling.

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Speaker 3: For sure, one hundred percent, And I think it's odd

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Speaker 3: job to create the Like another thing, stop asking people

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Speaker 3: who are not interested in you for stuff too, like

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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I deal with people all the

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Speaker 3: time where you know, I've reached out the shit now

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Speaker 3: to try to get a bag, and I'm looking for that.

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Speaker 3: No listen, just like this black company right here to

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Speaker 3: offer you a bag, you ain't want to take it. Like,

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Speaker 3: we gotta now put our time and energy into ourselves

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Speaker 3: more than ever, more than ever. It's extremely important for

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Speaker 3: us to put our time and our energy into ourselves.

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Speaker 3: And even even when I say ourselves, I'm not even

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Speaker 3: specifically talking about black people supporting the people who support

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Speaker 3: you anybody, because you can create, you know, you create

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Speaker 3: that ecosystem and you get you get where you gotta

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Speaker 3: go faster.

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Speaker 4: Derek, I love you, my.

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Speaker 5: Brother, can you tell them you like mass for tell

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Speaker 5: your business where it's located and all of that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So my name is Don Fact, gonna be in

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Speaker 3: Baltimore and Maryland. I own uh a vegan donuts shop

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Speaker 3: called Cloudy Donuts. Were also own a brunch restaurant called

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Speaker 3: Homemade h O M me M A I D. So

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Speaker 3: you can follow us at Homemade h O M me

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Speaker 3: M A I D on Instagram, Cloudy Donuts on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Boss like you know, like Rick Roster, Boss at Cheese Steak,

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Speaker 3: the file at way you know what I'm saying. We

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Speaker 3: got Boss Steaks, which is a going mate fillet me

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Speaker 3: on Cheese Steak pop up that we do and we're

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Speaker 3: gonna be opening another store this spring. We also own

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Speaker 3: Huckles Hot Sauce, which is twelve different flavors of hot

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Speaker 3: sauce that we have regionally. You can follow us at

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Speaker 3: Huckles Fools on Instagram. UH. And a real estate company,

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Speaker 3: First Class real Estate. So shout out the Fernando, shout

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Speaker 3: out the Rashad and Troy, because they was the infrastructure.

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Speaker 3: I would never know. I would never know them without them,

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Speaker 3: Like yeah, never shout out to Sirquana. We're doing a

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Speaker 3: Cloudy Donuts and Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: that's gonna be a good look for us, And shout

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Speaker 3: out the Zodi t roferings. Shout out the Randy bro play.

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Speaker 3: Zodi actually has a park cerk Parca. It's caught sober

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Speaker 3: in the morning, and she's been the pillar of our brand.

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Speaker 3: And Randy is doctor great on Instagram and he has

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Speaker 3: his own thing going with as a private chef and

902
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Speaker 3: you know, real estate and things like that. So these

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Speaker 3: are the people who uplifted me. And I agree with you.

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Speaker 3: Like when people do things, they never do them alone.

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Speaker 3: They just don't want to tell you. They just want

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Speaker 3: to hide it. Now, let me make it seem like

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Speaker 3: I did everything. And you know, I think that that's

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00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 3: kind of been our authenticensity of showing our way. Like

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Speaker 3: you said, you come from an iPhone and a microphone.

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Speaker 3: I remember the first when we did a joint in

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Speaker 3: your house. I had to use my phone for a

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Speaker 3: little while until we transitioned over right, And like, yo,

913
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Speaker 3: those are the things you should be proud of. Like

914
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Speaker 3: nobody proud of the struggle. Nobody proud of the struggle.

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00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 3: Though nobody take pride in the struggle. And it's so

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Speaker 3: crazy because when we get a little something, we forget

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Speaker 3: the struggle on where we came from. And like for me,

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Speaker 3: I always tap into this struggle like, Man, I'm head

919
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,439
Speaker 3: with it. It's whole food. You know what I'm saying.

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00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: I get a small cut, I'm gonna go in the house.

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Speaker 3: I'm a study. I'm gonna focus on going back to

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Speaker 3: the basics and what got me where I gotta go.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, man, that's all I can say. Man. You know,

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Speaker 3: if you if you continue to scribe, if you continue

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Speaker 3: to support black businesses, if you make your support not

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Speaker 3: only economic but also mental, also emotional, and also social,

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Speaker 3: then that three sixty helps cantapault black businesses to the

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Speaker 3: next level. Don't forget it's twenty twenty two, but for

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Speaker 3: us it's nineteen twenty two. Man, keep pushing, my brother.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you, bro, all right, Bro, DOGU mind my

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Speaker 3: graduates from my school being forts back drop back drop

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Speaker 3: for Mike drop back drop drop.

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Speaker 4: Hi.

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