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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I am Rashwan McDonald, the host

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Speaker 1: of Money Making Conversations Masterclass, where we encourage people to

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Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories and start planning their own.

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Speaker 1: Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country,

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rashaan McDonald down here in Atlanta, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: interviewing Eric Thornton in this business firm, Care and life

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Speaker 1: Sharing because we want to know the secrets to his success.

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Speaker 2: Now yet two phones, two phones. Now, I've interviewed people

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Speaker 2: all those counts.

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Speaker 1: Now, I've interviewed foot doctors, tax for countin, pancake people.

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Speaker 2: Barbara Barbara College. So I've had a variety of stem

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Speaker 2: like a STEM atlant of women.

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Speaker 1: So I've had a lot of people, never having anybody

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Speaker 1: with multiple phone talk to me.

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Speaker 2: How busy you are?

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Speaker 3: Eric, Well, first borneo, I'm honored to be here with

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Speaker 3: you with a legend here, but hey, the two phones.

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Speaker 3: I got to be available for the clients, Okay, I

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Speaker 3: have to be available for the clients as well as

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Speaker 3: also on my staff listen, right, And so we're a

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Speaker 3: business where we're we have a lot of touch points

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Speaker 2: So I have to make sure that if they call,

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Speaker 2: I'm here to ads. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about your business, your firm, care life

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Speaker 1: sharing when.

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Speaker 2: It's your starting.

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Speaker 3: So we started in twenty nineteen, okay. And the reason

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Speaker 3: why I started is because I wanted to actually make

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Speaker 3: not only a better way in the entrepreneur I've always

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Speaker 3: wanted to be an entrepreneur, yes, sure, right, I always

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Speaker 3: had those aspirations, A man of high aspirations and that

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Speaker 3: I can really be somewhere that I can help our people.

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Speaker 3: And we normally help a lot of people that have forgotten,

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Speaker 3: people that have developmental disabilities, a lot of our seniors

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Speaker 3: that they need someone to help, right, And so I

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Speaker 3: get a lot of fulfillment with being able to have

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Speaker 3: and build a company that can really help our people,

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Speaker 3: not only just in the Atlanta area Metro Atlanta but

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Speaker 3: also great Georgia areas. Here in Georgia, we look we

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Speaker 3: look forward to actually growing outside of this state as well,

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Speaker 3: but Georgia is our most important I would say aspect

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Speaker 3: right now in order to help you.

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Speaker 1: Know around because let's a good little detail exactly because

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Speaker 1: you're talking about helping you define certain lanes of people

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Speaker 1: who needed your help.

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Speaker 2: How does your company work? Yes, so our company works.

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Speaker 3: We actually are a full service agile healthcare company. We

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Speaker 3: actually we actually work specifically in a home in a

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Speaker 3: And we normally work with we worked with the myriad

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Speaker 3: are a part of the Medicaid system, all right, and

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Speaker 3: so lower income. So what we'd like to do is

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Speaker 3: we actually like to make sure we educate as well,

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Speaker 3: so we're an educational company also. With these services that

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Speaker 3: our clients actually received free home health care services in

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Speaker 2: And so this is what we were talking about the

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Speaker 1: A lot of people who have medicare may not know

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Speaker 2: How do you get that word to them? How do

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, because there's so many people out there,

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Speaker 3: I was graduate from graduate of Moorhouse College, and they

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Speaker 2: Were you like, were you engaged? Like, you know, you

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Speaker 3: Hey, you know, only the best fraternity, you know, and

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Speaker 3: that's Omega Sout five fraternity incorporated by way of side

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Speaker 2: Another compere I looked up to you now, you know.

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Speaker 3: But but in there, you know, obviously we were in

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Speaker 3: One of my really good friends in middle school, and

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Speaker 3: his name was Kyle Suffer with you know, with the

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Speaker 3: that every day. But also I wanted to be someone

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Speaker 3: one of my one of my really good friends, Brad Jiles. Uh,

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Speaker 3: I always would be thankful for that brother, for introducing

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Speaker 2: Land of opportunity.

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Speaker 4: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making

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Speaker 4: Conversations master Class hosted by Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: Now, I know that you know I'm talking to you

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Speaker 1: Eric okay in front of me. But I know you

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Speaker 1: got to have a right or left hand person. Who

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Speaker 1: is that person? I'll tell you I do.

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Speaker 2: I have both right and and that is first and

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Speaker 2: foremost my wife.

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Speaker 3: She's been phenomenal or has been phenomenal in uh just

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Speaker 3: two other people that I would like to mention. One

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Speaker 3: She's the vice president of our client care and she

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Speaker 3: She has been just phenomenal. And then also Tia, Tia

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Speaker 3: you know, phenomenal. And I worked with pretty much all

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Speaker 3: you know, and they, when I tell you, the most

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Speaker 3: amazing and helping the growth with firm care life sharing.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm honored to have them on the staff.

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Speaker 2: How did you come up with the name firm care

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Speaker 2: life share? Firm care life sharing is kind of a mouthful. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's interesting, firm care we have life yes, me have sharing.

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Speaker 2: So it's not so much as a mouthful. Each each

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Speaker 3: So I've always been a big proponent of acronyms, So

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Speaker 3: firm is a acronym. It means foundations in real moments, all right,

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Speaker 3: Life sharing is or will care firm care Life Shares

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Speaker 3: obviously we're providing care to our community, right, providing that

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Speaker 3: foundation in real moments where we're also providing that care

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: Life Sharing is also I wanted to pay homage to

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Speaker 3: His company's name is g h our Life Shared. I said, hey,

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Speaker 3: I want to, you know, I want to give back

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Speaker 3: to you. And so the Life Shared the actually was

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Speaker 3: I actually put all of that together.

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Speaker 1: Oh cool, cool, Well, congratulations on the concept because a

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Speaker 1: that name has to People ask you that the interviews

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Speaker 1: and if you don't have a rational reason that said.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just flip the cone.

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Speaker 1: It has to have some emotional attachment because it drives

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Speaker 2: Why did you come up with Google? Why did you

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Speaker 1: Or IBM or all these very tesler, all these popular

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Speaker 1: there's a reason for those names, and there's a reason

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Speaker 1: that you give her here for your day. Now, when

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Speaker 1: and COVID testing at the top of the line. So

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Speaker 1: over seventy thousand COVID testing. Now, your company started in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, yes, sir, COVID is in twenty twenty. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: so talk about so there had to be a shift

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Speaker 3: Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Morris Brown all right, just

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Speaker 3: being somebody from Morehouse College. And first and foremost I

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Speaker 3: Atlanta University Center and doctor Tredwick believed in me, and

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Speaker 3: a lot of the staff member members believed in me.

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Speaker 3: At Morehouse, I was president of my class sophomore year.

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Speaker 3: Member of Omega Soft File Fraternity Incorporated, in which I

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Speaker 3: served as keeper of finance as well as Vossile is

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Speaker 1: So what's the five year plan from now? What is

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Speaker 2: Eric Oan, thank you for allowing me to come on,

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Speaker 2: And you being at the forefront of that thought process.

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Speaker 1: Sharing your child relationship, lets we know this is an

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Speaker 1: honest business that's built on a relationship that has a

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Speaker 1: bright future. Congratulations from starting this company and I wish

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Speaker 1: your tremendous mindess success. I really appreciate it. That's honored.

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Speaker 1: This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass

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Speaker 1: hosted by me Rushaun McDonald. Thank you to our guests

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Speaker 1: on the show today and thank you our listening to audience.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: If you want to listen to any episode I want

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Speaker 1: Our social media handle is money Making Conversation. Join us

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Speaker 1: next week and remember to always leave with your gifts.

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Speaker 2: Keep winning.