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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Melody Thomas Scott. Well, Hello,

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Speaker 1: Sean Well. Uh well, first of all, thank you for

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Speaker 1: because I was in the hospital. But it's the same scenario.

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Speaker 1: So when I'm reading your book, I'm like, there are

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Speaker 1: too many aha moment aha moments with you and I

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Speaker 1: because we're we're we're self starters, okay, and you know,

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Speaker 1: in life, people have told us what we cannot do,

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Speaker 1: And yet we're nice because you are a nice person. Well,

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Speaker 1: little time. You might change mind that I read it

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Speaker 1: all two and seventy pages. Okay, I could read between

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Speaker 1: the lines. Now, oh you're wonderful. Let let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the story. We're a little bit that just being a

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Speaker 1: being a star on the show that long. Can you

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Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit? See kind of thinking

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Speaker 1: doesn't even answer my mind. It's hard for me to

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Speaker 1: even say I am a star. That makes me so

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable to say that. Um, you know, we're a company,

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Speaker 1: We're a repertoire company, and I feel that we are

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Speaker 1: all stars in our own right. You know. The The

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Speaker 1: interesting thing about when I when I meet a person

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Speaker 1: we look and uh, you know what, But I take

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Speaker 1: after this conversation, I do want to meet you in person.

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Speaker 1: I think that would be really you're amazing in it.

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Speaker 1: But when I and then thank you for wanting to

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Speaker 1: meet with me because of the fact that my whole

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Speaker 1: thing and doing this interview was first of all, to

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Speaker 1: meet you and also to share what I view what

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Speaker 1: my takeaways from a book, because we all have reasons

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Speaker 1: why we write a book. But I just want to

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Speaker 1: let you know that some people who read the book,

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Speaker 1: they are inspired. And you have to have to realize

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Speaker 1: that's a blessing in my eyes. The fact that you

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Speaker 1: that you were honest enough to say, look, because I'm

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Speaker 1: just telling you, when you when you hang up the

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Speaker 1: phone or during this interview, if you really look at

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Speaker 1: what you're talking about in your book. You overcame so

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Speaker 1: many high odds, so many levels of different types of abuse,

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Speaker 1: so many emotionally challenging physical moments, and you survived it.

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Speaker 1: And you survived it, uh and and and and it

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Speaker 1: didn't affect you. And so many people allow things to

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Speaker 1: to take them off their success, that their path of opportunity,

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Speaker 1: and you didn't. And that's why I had to say

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Speaker 1: that you are a self starter. But when a moment

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Speaker 1: sense itself melody, you take advantage of it. You do not.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you have to take the larber called dog,

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Speaker 1: you took the doll. Okay, you know you took the dog,

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Speaker 1: and so you dog. I don't like dogs, she said, okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll bring the dog on there. Because you understood relationships,

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Speaker 1: you know, and all these things have when you look

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Speaker 1: back in your life, you relive because you have such

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Speaker 1: a great memory you could. I think you get to

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Speaker 1: appreciate your life a lot more because you can't remember

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Speaker 1: so many things I can. And I think that was

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Speaker 1: very helpful in uh for the readers out there who

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Speaker 1: think that I am NICKI nem and a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a fine line. They really think that

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Speaker 1: that is me and if they read everything I've been

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Speaker 1: through and everything that I have come out of the

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Speaker 1: other end it, it gives them hope. And if I

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Speaker 1: can give them encouragement to you know, stick with it

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Speaker 1: and and there is light at the end of the tunnel,

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Speaker 1: then that writing the book is all worth it. If

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Speaker 1: I can just help those who might be going through

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Speaker 1: similar things or did as a child and are now

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Speaker 1: adults still carrying it around with them, they don't need to.

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Speaker 1: They don't need to dump it and move on, move on,

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Speaker 1: move on, or share it with somebody so you can

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Speaker 1: dump it. And that's important too, because sometimes you need

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Speaker 1: to speak speaking and get it out of your system

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Speaker 1: and and see how some people who care about you

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Speaker 1: react to it, and you realize it's no big deal.

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Speaker 1: And that's the blessing of communication. That and itself has

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Speaker 1: been very healing for me to have put it all

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Speaker 1: out there. Hey here it is works and all. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm encouraging others to follow my lead.

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Speaker 1: I guess you know, Nicki Newman. You know I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to Nicki Newman here. Okay, the iconic Nikki no more. Now,

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Speaker 1: I love talking to you. Well in your book, you

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Speaker 1: met a lot of famous people. Nikki Franklin, huh Ahmad Ali,

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Yes, that was great, great day. And

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Speaker 1: so when you meet these famous people, you know kind

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Speaker 1: I tell you when you said you met I'm just

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Speaker 1: tell you something. John Wayne, I'm a Western nut. So

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Speaker 1: John Wayne was I grew up in loving John Wayne.

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Speaker 1: Kirk Douglas, A man's a man, one of my spotticuts,

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Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite acts. So you came,

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Speaker 1: you started writing off names. It's like I was jealous

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Speaker 1: of you. I would say, I hope she took pictures.

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Speaker 1: I hope she took pictures and long recall. Oh that

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Speaker 1: that that I can just see her silhouette. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm going, oh my goodness, Carl Reiner, Aretha Franklin. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling something. And you want to meet Rashaan McDonald,

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Speaker 1: I feel even better. It was festive, but you got

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Speaker 1: a book out and uh. I first of all, I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for writing a book that

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Speaker 1: inspired me to realize that I'm living the right life.

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Speaker 1: I'm all the things that I'm doing my life I

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Speaker 1: should keep doing. And age has never been an issue

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Speaker 1: with you. You've been motivated by hard work and success

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Speaker 1: and the fact that when and I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: respond to this before we leave, because in the entertainment

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Speaker 1: business it's always feels with so much uncertainty. You work,

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Speaker 1: h for young and the wrestlers, how did that make

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Speaker 1: you feel? At that point, You're like, because you know

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Speaker 1: what your your life had been, the experience with your grandmother, Uh,

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Speaker 1: certain situations that that that people should have been been

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Speaker 1: put in jail by the way they treated you physically,

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Speaker 1: it didn't happen. But at that point you have offered

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Speaker 1: a three year contract. What did that? What did that

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Speaker 1: do for you emotionally and mentally? And uh, we know

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Speaker 1: what it did for you financially. I think I was

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Speaker 1: too young and immature to really appreciate what that meant.

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Speaker 1: But slowly clearly um it. Of course you know it

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Speaker 1: does affect of life. All of a sudden, you're making

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Speaker 1: regular money every week, which for you know, free lance

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Speaker 1: act or that never happened, and you start making new

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Speaker 1: friends lifelong friends on the show. You start maybe wearing

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Speaker 1: nicer clothes and driving a nicer car, and it just

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Speaker 1: kind of slowly creeps up on you without you realizing, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I've kind of jumped into a different bracket here of living.

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Speaker 1: You're living in a house and these things just occur

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Speaker 1: without you giving them that much credence. But certainly as

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Speaker 1: time goes on. Uh And and I mean not only

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Speaker 1: did it affect my life financially, but I met my

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Speaker 1: because of Young and Wrestles. So it really impacted my

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Speaker 1: I've been on it for forty one years. It's it's

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Speaker 1: How memoir Always Restless is a very motivational book. Nicki

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Speaker 1: Newman's on my show A k. A. Melody Thomas Scott,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you so much for having me. It was a pleasure,

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Speaker 1: and we will see each other soon one day down

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Speaker 1: TV host, slash, celebrity chef, slash best best selling cookbook author,

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Speaker 1: Every time I see am Motivum Homework. He's the host

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Speaker 1: Awards and his first season. The show is geared towards

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Speaker 1: the black millennial woman because of their unique styles of

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Speaker 1: eating food compared to their parents and older siblings. Despite

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Speaker 1: all of the show's past success, it is changing this year.

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Speaker 1: Chef Jernard will be a solo host. This year we

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Speaker 1: will talk about the show's new direction and be a

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Speaker 1: more health conscious and the more health conscious manner for

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Speaker 1: all of us today, especially in COVID and eighteen. Please

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show the Family Self Chef Jernard Wells. Hello, Hello, man.

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Speaker 1: So I never finished that man chef, that hetroduct yourself

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Speaker 1: so good. I was like he talking about me and somebody,

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Speaker 1: and he's like, okay, it is my whole show. Interview

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Speaker 1: of the intro? Is it the whole? That's all I

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Speaker 1: want to know, because I like you keep talking, but

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Speaker 1: I do have some things I want to say. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's let's talk about that. What you're saying. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: jump around a little bit, but I want to start first.

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Speaker 1: What you just said, by the show is geared towards

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Speaker 1: the black millennial woman because their unique styles of eating

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Speaker 1: food compared to their parents and older siblings. I have

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Speaker 1: a daughter who's twenty four, and she loves the Food Network,

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Speaker 1: watches it all the time, watches it all the time.

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Speaker 1: And then now she's like she she was one of

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Speaker 1: the favorite shows. Is that the worst Cooks? She couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe I interviewed and morell she couldn't she could damn

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Speaker 1: you know her, you know her. She she didn't saw

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Speaker 1: un TC once because Nazi I was interning at my company. Now,

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Speaker 1: so she just updates all the update all the media kids.

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Speaker 1: So now she will see your photo. She's gonna go

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Speaker 1: you know, Chef to know it will due because you

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Speaker 1: know everybody, and so I know that really caught me

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Speaker 1: off guard that here's a twenty four year old person

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Speaker 1: who's watching the Food Challenge and the Cooking Challenge so much.

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Speaker 1: Talk about that whole generation that is now you know,

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Speaker 1: more into like the self help, do it myself, do

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Speaker 1: it yourself, and you guys are supplying that and that

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Speaker 1: is the whole corner stone of New Soul Kitchen. That

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Speaker 1: is so true, and that's what's driving a drive with

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Speaker 1: the band with now and and it's funny you mentioned

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Speaker 1: Chef and Burrell, which is a good friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: Chef and Burrell is whom I did my first TV

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Speaker 1: show with the Food Network about eleven years ago. The

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Speaker 1: name of the show was Chef wont it was and

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Speaker 1: Burrell And they brought me to New York City in

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Speaker 1: and had me to take over the oldest steak house

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Speaker 1: in in New York City by the name of Old

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Speaker 1: Homestead and gave me that restaurant for at nite. Amazing experience.

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Speaker 1: But now, the way, the way, time, the way the

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Speaker 1: market is point it is we're in the d I

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Speaker 1: y or do it yourself society. Now where the millennial

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Speaker 1: woman is driving that. And one of the biggest things

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Speaker 1: is is they see what They go to restaurants and

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Speaker 1: they eat great food, but then after they eat it,

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Speaker 1: they want to go home and recreate it, versus when

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Speaker 1: the people before as we're going and they go in

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Speaker 1: the restaurant and they eat great food. What they're saying

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Speaker 1: is I can't wait to go back to that restaurant.

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Speaker 1: But the driving force that watching TV now when they

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Speaker 1: can go to the restaurants, but they see it, they

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Speaker 1: want to recreate that experience, not just for themselves but

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Speaker 1: for them for their friends because we're in this more

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Speaker 1: innovative driving platform. Indeed, you know, even though the pandemic

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Speaker 1: has been a big downside for a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: it's been upside for the food industry because people who

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Speaker 1: were normally eating out and and living for the week

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Speaker 1: kids just to eat. We were quarantined at home and

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Speaker 1: they had no choice but to cook or they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be eating cold cousin Balogne every day. Absolutely. Now, my daughter,

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Speaker 1: like just yesterday, she uh, she made some cream spinach

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Speaker 1: for me. I didn't even ask her the cream Spanish

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Speaker 1: and she I said, what did you learn that. I

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Speaker 1: saw it on The Worst Cook because she worst I'm

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Speaker 1: telling say, try his daddy. And here's the thing about

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Speaker 1: The Worst Cook really is inspiring a lot of people

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Speaker 1: who can't cook. Could they get to see the progression,

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Speaker 1: you know, a person who can't cook making all the mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly at the end of the show they can cook,

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Speaker 1: and so they And it's not pre perscating, No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's not. And so I'm just letting you know that

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Speaker 1: that you know, I'm just I'm talking about that, but

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Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about So Kitchen. But I'm just

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Speaker 1: using my daughter as an example. I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: get away from the concept of who or what you're

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Speaker 1: doing with new show Cleto TV. I'm just using an

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Speaker 1: example that you're talking about millennial. My daughters a millennial.

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Speaker 1: So she is that person that you're talking about on

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Speaker 1: Cleo TV, your Clear TV show Knew So Kitchen that

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Speaker 1: is now driving the digital, driving the social force of

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Speaker 1: your show. Now, let me ask you this about New

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Speaker 1: Soul Kitchen. Did it start out like that? Was that

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Speaker 1: the original concept? Yeah, that was the original concept with

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Speaker 1: New Soul Kitchen. Um, which is which is as you know,

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Speaker 1: with Cleo TV. It was a new network when it

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Speaker 1: when at Lunched two years ago and it really blossom

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Speaker 1: and took off. It took out fashion and what we

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Speaker 1: realized it was and and the thing was, we knew

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Speaker 1: it was a need. The network knew it was a

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Speaker 1: need for this is why they created it. But what

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Speaker 1: she realized that the need was gonna take off the

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Speaker 1: way it did. You know, even with season one of

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Speaker 1: New so Kitchen, the way it was where it was

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Speaker 1: initially set up, it was me a Southern chef that

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Speaker 1: was cooking American cuisine fair and they paired me with

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Speaker 1: vegan chef because they knew veganism was big and the

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Speaker 1: millennial culture. So what they did was going into season two,

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Speaker 1: which will be we season two of the airing in October,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so happy I would had the ability to

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Speaker 1: film season two literally days before the pandemic shut down

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Speaker 1: New York. I was. I was on the first thing

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Speaker 1: smoking out of there. But the way season two is

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Speaker 1: gonna be set up is of course me as a

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Speaker 1: sol host, but I have four amazing young women that

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Speaker 1: have expertise and different fields that are gonna be joining

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Speaker 1: me through the sixteen episodes. Um one young lady specialized

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Speaker 1: in veganism, another one specializes in the African diaspora, another

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Speaker 1: one specializes in keto, and then another one specialized in

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Speaker 1: seafood pesctarian. So we touch on all of those areas.

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Speaker 1: So you get to experience to fear, get to experience

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Speaker 1: these different cuisines. And what I do is instead of

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Speaker 1: just cooking how I typically would cook, I step into

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Speaker 1: their coach in their world, and I create meals that

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Speaker 1: are comparable to go just alonge with them. So you have,

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Speaker 1: as we call it, the Yen and the yet you

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Speaker 1: get the best of both worlds with this new season.

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Speaker 1: Now the cool thing is rashon New so Kitching being

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Speaker 1: so well and we won we want several awards, three

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Speaker 1: Telly Awards, where I also had the benefit now of

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Speaker 1: having a second show. So I have a second show

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Speaker 1: that will be airing this coming year, which is New

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Speaker 1: so Kitching Remix, and that show is geared towards the

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Speaker 1: millennial woman or a man that wants to create great

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Speaker 1: meals on the fly. So if you're listening to learn

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Speaker 1: how to cook a meal in thirty minutes of mass,

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Speaker 1: I'm your man. So so that so that's what you

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Speaker 1: do on that show. You're going there and show how

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Speaker 1: the quickly a quick miller? Now when does that air?

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Speaker 1: That airs? Win? Then with New Soul Kitchen Remix is

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Speaker 1: gonna be later on later on this year after New

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Speaker 1: Soul Kidchen Rise and two Stars with New Soul Kids

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Speaker 1: and Season two stars in October. So we hadn't had

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Speaker 1: got the release date for New So Kitchen Remix that yet.

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Speaker 1: So when would you be shooting that that remix show?

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Speaker 1: At Well, I'll be shooting that. Richer already shot it.

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Speaker 1: Why I went to New Powerhouse production that and I

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Speaker 1: shot twenty eight episodes in eight days. Okay, you did

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Speaker 1: it like Tyler Perry. You know Tyler Parachute series. You know,

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Speaker 1: twenty five episodes in a week. You know, So if

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Speaker 1: Tyler Perry can do it, you know you can do

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Speaker 1: it for a cooker show. Hey, I said, why not?

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Speaker 1: I was like Energiz the bunny, just wind me up

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Speaker 1: and just let me go. Well, you know, think about it. Now,

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Speaker 1: what period and now let's let's slow it down here

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Speaker 1: so I can make sure I'm getting all all the

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Speaker 1: information crack. Now, The New Souls Kitchen show was shot

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Speaker 1: right before in New York City right before the pandemic shutdown. Right,

793
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Speaker 1: that was sixteen episodes, four different female chefs, millennial chefs

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Speaker 1: are god of coin with four different styles of and

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Speaker 1: then you're gonna match their cooking styles based on how

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Speaker 1: you present stuff, right, correct, So which is really smart

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Speaker 1: not saying that the host that was their last year,

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Speaker 1: actually she's just all she could do with vegan. So

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Speaker 1: this year you start with a vegan, but you got

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Speaker 1: the African diosis. Then you have with the keyno you said,

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Speaker 1: and then the seafood, so those are fordive. So it

802
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Speaker 1: maintains the interests a lot stronger and allows the people

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Speaker 1: not to think it's the same old, same old, because

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Speaker 1: guess what, not everybody is into veganism. That's not nothing

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Speaker 1: that right, but not everybody it's nothing because you don't

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Speaker 1: have to be in the veganism. The eat veganism. As

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Speaker 1: I always tell people, anytime you get your plate, you

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Speaker 1: always don't have your meat and two sides. So you

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Speaker 1: eat vegan food with even right right right, with a

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Speaker 1: little that was meat. Like me, that's you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have some meat in my college greens. I'm going

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Speaker 1: I had so I might have some vegan looking green,

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Speaker 1: but it's some meat dancing in that and that sauce.

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Speaker 1: That's sauce. There, not another shif. I think we've been

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Speaker 1: known each other a long time. We came together back

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Speaker 1: in two seventeen, and I've been fortunate to watch your

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Speaker 1: journey as an entrepreneur and what you grow, and it

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Speaker 1: really sow your knowledge into me because you're you're icon

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Speaker 1: in in this game, and I really just religious thank

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Speaker 1: you for for you know, all the knowledge that you

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Speaker 1: take time to show into me, you know, on and

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Speaker 1: off the camera. Well I appreciate it because you know,

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Speaker 1: I really called you the family chef. You have a

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Speaker 1: beautiful wife, you have a large family, and uh so

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Speaker 1: you could? You could. It gives you an opportunity to practice.

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Speaker 1: It's my worst critic, absolutely absolutely so. So when you

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Speaker 1: go away and do a show like Cleo TV, okay,

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Speaker 1: and uh this is I like to say, because we've

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Speaker 1: always talked about you doing your own show, and it

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Speaker 1: kind of feels like the Cleo TV is finally giving

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Speaker 1: you your leverage to be your own brand. How is

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Speaker 1: the relationship of building out your brand and time to

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Speaker 1: a show like New Soul Kitchen happening out your other

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Speaker 1: entrepreneur opportunities. Because I've seen you on Rachel Ray. You

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Speaker 1: know you didn't drop you know you can DM and

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Speaker 1: sliding in on the marias you know you you everywhere now,

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Speaker 1: which is good? What your little hat on about? Yes? Yes,

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Speaker 1: Alwa take my hand over. You know it's really opening

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Speaker 1: up the doors. Cleo has really opened up the doors

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Speaker 1: to give me a voice and a platform. And what

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Speaker 1: they did was when when when I when I came

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Speaker 1: to Cleon, we became a family. Instead of smuggling out

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Speaker 1: the light that I had from doing these shows a

844
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: countless years of Food Network and Cooking Channel, they allowed

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Speaker 1: me to use that knowledge blossom into who and what

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Speaker 1: I desired and what I wanted to see. You know

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Speaker 1: if that was one of the most amazing things that

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Speaker 1: I really love, especially were dealing with the exect that

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Speaker 1: Cleo and they the producers with Powerhouse Production is they

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing I want to talk about right here.

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Speaker 1: You was talking about millennials being health conscious. I'm reading

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Speaker 1: your bio here about the show New Soul Kitchen, which

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Speaker 1: making these red velvet UH donuts with UH with white

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Speaker 1: iceing on them, you know, And I'm trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out you said millennials are wanting more health conscious food option.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to figure out it's red velvet doughnuts

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Speaker 1: with white ice and health conscious. It depended on how many. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just continue this chiffs and on. I've been

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Speaker 1: eating two a day for five days. Bro oh wow

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Speaker 1: uh I hope that maybe don'nor unfortunately you know, come on,

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Speaker 1: if it was many, do I see the rashol eat postal?

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Speaker 1: I know how you get down. I just gotta I

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Speaker 1: may have a different millennial like that. I'm have a

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Speaker 1: what's what's the millennial? They truly do believe in Hey,

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Speaker 1: I can have my cake and eat it too, along

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Speaker 1: with everything else. But what they do is they have

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Speaker 1: they have active lifestyles. And also if you notice it,

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Speaker 1: the typical millennium, when you see them, they don't overindulge

929
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Speaker 1: um like the jet gen xs did you You will

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Speaker 1: see them in donus. Your see them eating, taking advantage

931
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Speaker 1: of all their guilty pleasures. And then you cut another

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Speaker 1: You know it is because maybe it's because of of

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Speaker 1: the way society has started to gear things and the

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Speaker 1: way they see it. They look at food differently, and

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Speaker 1: the food that they desire to put in their bodies,

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Speaker 1: it's different. You see them more and so on, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm farm to table. You know their selection of food.

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Speaker 1: They don't the millennials now, they don't typically gravitate towards

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Speaker 1: the process food like the generations prior to them. And

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things which allows them to eat

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Speaker 1: with it eat. You know, when we think about it, Rashan,

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Speaker 1: ate it and they lived long life. So what's the

948
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Speaker 1: difference now? If the difference then is what's being put

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Speaker 1: in a lot of the food. So when you become

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Speaker 1: health conscious, on, okay, I can eat this, but let

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Speaker 1: me figure out what's in it before I eat it,

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Speaker 1: so I know how much to eat or how or

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Speaker 1: millennials gravitating towards avocado or olive or great sea or

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Speaker 1: and it's those minor renew things that changes their whole

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Speaker 1: diet and how their body breaks down the food. Now

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Speaker 1: But he got four new additional millennial they millennial chefs.

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Speaker 1: That's that's coming. I have four amazing ladies that only

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Speaker 1: show with me and we're kicking some bud and having

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Speaker 1: some fun. Look, I can tell you this. Other shows

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Speaker 1: them eating every they got me eat everything for mackerel

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Speaker 1: you might would just throw it away because you can't

975
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Speaker 1: there you cannot fix it. That's for a friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: He emailed me last night. He said, do you listen

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Speaker 1: to jazz. When you bake, I go, man, listen to nothing.

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Speaker 1: or smitch or peach, it does not be more than

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Speaker 1: And so my wife, she was making gumbo yesterday, just

983
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Speaker 1: making you know, the crab me to dip stuff the

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Speaker 1: in the backyard. So my tomatoes came fresh out of

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Speaker 1: it in there. And then she came and tapped me

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Speaker 1: on the show. He had sausage and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: and she had the sausage in there with her route

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Speaker 1: and she said, I don't think the rule is right.

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Speaker 1: So I went over and taste it. I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: what's not right? What's not right? What's not right? What's

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Speaker 1: not right? So so I said, she said, what should

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Speaker 1: I do? I said, okay, this is what you do.

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Speaker 1: some some some chicken um chicken broth in the back.

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Speaker 1: You know, I keep that in the container. And I said,

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Speaker 1: and give me tony Tony season, that little green bell

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Speaker 1: going here, I said. I said, put that that that

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Speaker 1: put it half water, put everything back in there, put

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Speaker 1: So you can save food, but you can't save a

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Speaker 1: One of the things that you know you mentioned about

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1020
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Speaker 1: and so that's how it goes like that. But when

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Speaker 1: I when I just say this to this transition to

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1029
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1031
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Speaker 1: How are your other entrepreneurial things besides the fact that

1032
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Speaker 1: you physically are cooking on shows. You physically are doing

1033
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Speaker 1: appearances on Rachel Ray, on your Instagram Crown, you're doing

1034
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1035
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Speaker 1: how did you pivot doing the pandemic? Oh Man? During

1036
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, you know, at first I was I was

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Speaker 1: But I tell you I've been nothing but blessed. The

1039
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Speaker 1: manufacturing business truly just took off, you know from all

1040
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Speaker 1: my seat and products because a lot of people didn't

1041
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Speaker 1: get't and still don't want to leave the home as much.

1042
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Speaker 1: You don't want to go to a lot of grocery stores.

1043
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Speaker 1: So with the products that I create, what hope was

1044
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Speaker 1: in they are, you know, all natural products, lower sodium,

1045
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1046
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Speaker 1: sales did more than quadruple, you know, and and where

1047
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Speaker 1: we had we had to ramp up production just to

1048
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Speaker 1: be able to keep up with it and satisfy the demand,

1049
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Speaker 1: which was most certainly a good problem to have, you know.

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Speaker 1: During the course of that, I even lunched lunch of

1051
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Speaker 1: new products in the process, where I have an amazing

1052
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Speaker 1: lemon pepper ranch that I say, that's that's great on everything.

1053
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Speaker 1: The kids truly love that. And what I did was

1054
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Speaker 1: because we are millennial driven, is I started leaning on

1055
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Speaker 1: my kids, my my my eighteen and nineteen year old

1056
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Speaker 1: and my younger ones. I started leaning on them on

1057
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Speaker 1: their taste buds. What are some of the things that

1058
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Speaker 1: they liked, what are some of the things they friends eat?

1059
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Speaker 1: And I started creating products based around that that would

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Speaker 1: meet the need of them. But then steel satisfy our

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Speaker 1: taste budds and what we like because I always you know,

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Speaker 1: I earn this years ago, was that having the shows

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Speaker 1: and having that platform was one thing. But that platform

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Speaker 1: don't be anything if you don't have some true products

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Speaker 1: and true things that you can attach to your brain

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Speaker 1: even when you're not on TV. And that's important because

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Speaker 1: that's called multiple streams of income. And also some people

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Speaker 1: calling mailbox money or you're sleeping check comes and because

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Speaker 1: in the yard, in the end, you can't be up

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Speaker 1: making money all the time off your physical back, your

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Speaker 1: effort to wake up and you have to walk out

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Speaker 1: that door to uh make labor. And that's how everybody

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Speaker 1: makes their money. They go to the nine five. And

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Speaker 1: but when you get in there and then guard the

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Speaker 1: giving is giving you these extra skill sets. You have

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Speaker 1: to learn how to be how to be smart. And

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Speaker 1: that's all you're saying right now. You're just you just

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Speaker 1: start out that multitasking. Like like I said, I got

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Speaker 1: your I got your your your red and white bottle,

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Speaker 1: that that hand sanitizer that every time you build up

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Speaker 1: your shell out on it, I know your fail your amnis.

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Speaker 1: And that's a family business because I know you put

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Speaker 1: it all together at your house, right I did I did.

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Speaker 1: Now we do have a you know, I do have

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Speaker 1: a commercial kitchen that we produced the vast majoy hard

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Speaker 1: products in. But when the pandemic first hit and we

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Speaker 1: couldn't go out the house, I had to I had

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Speaker 1: to converted space in the house and we had to

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Speaker 1: continue to keep producing here to satisfy the demand because

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Speaker 1: it was though I'm not the big companies like Crafts

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Speaker 1: and mccormicks, I still have to satisfy my customers. And

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Speaker 1: I couldn't put a we're closed down, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of a lot of these other bigger manufacturers like my

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Speaker 1: bottle suppliers and stuff like that, I was getting. It

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Speaker 1: came to a point where we were getting outbided on

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Speaker 1: products because Singer Companies was coming in buying up the products,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and I had to start really voicing

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Speaker 1: my opinion from my company's standpoint, like, hey, but I've

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Speaker 1: been dealing with you guys for ten years. You gotta

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Speaker 1: have to give me some kind of favorite, some kind

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Speaker 1: of league way, because I gotta survive just as well

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Speaker 1: as the major company. And that lead into them making

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Speaker 1: sure that I had the ingredients, making sure that I

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Speaker 1: had a lot of the packaging attempts that I needed

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Speaker 1: to continue to get these products shipped out to the people.

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Speaker 1: Because then also we launched the sirrup. We launched uh

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Speaker 1: no high fruit toast corn sir. Oh. Yes, yes, I

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Speaker 1: got that, man, I got it more. I put that.

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Speaker 1: My daughter made some again. My daughter she's watching TV. Okay,

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Speaker 1: watching Millennial. The Millennial made me some thin waffles, some

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Speaker 1: thin waffles, and I warmed up that, warmed up that

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Speaker 1: sir brother put it on that man with me some butter.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing at you know, I forgot to tell you that.

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Speaker 1: I I apologize, I did try to serve and it's

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Speaker 1: all gone. All I have to make sure things something

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Speaker 1: that and as well as in the process, we've lunched

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Speaker 1: the chopping boards. I have some bamboo chopping boys. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna make sure you're seeing a bamboo chopping boy.

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Speaker 1: And I have a new Life knifeline that was just

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Speaker 1: lunch about two weeks ago. So I have my own

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Speaker 1: volcanic Deo knives um the Chef Jon artline. Because one

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Speaker 1: of the things that I always tell people, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean food. So whenever I'm lunching or creative products,

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Speaker 1: I try to keep it in that same wheelhouse because

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Speaker 1: a lot of people said, well, her, are you doing

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Speaker 1: all this? You're doing TV shows, you you're doing that. Well,

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Speaker 1: when you keep it all this diversify from that same wheelhouse,

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Speaker 1: it's easy to maintained. So if I write a cookbook, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm a chef on TV, so cook would go to

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Speaker 1: go hand here up by lunch products. I'm lunching food products.

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Speaker 1: They still times in up I'm lunching nine of them, lunching,

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Speaker 1: chopping boys, things like that are still in my wheelhouse.

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Speaker 1: It's not like you know, I'm going out here. I'm

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Speaker 1: a chef and I'm promoting this and then you you've

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Speaker 1: seen me pop up and I say, hey, I'm for

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Speaker 1: the old number car locks. Okay you go, okay, we

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Speaker 1: need to chelf need with the family chef Nian family.

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Speaker 1: He's the family. My kid now family family, right, he's

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Speaker 1: a family fan. Hey man, come on here, I feed

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Speaker 1: you and I drive you. Let you drive away. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to the family chef. Chef. Guard Well has

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Speaker 1: an exciting new season coming up. New Do Sold Kitchen

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Speaker 1: bringing on four brand new millennial shelves. Uh also the

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Speaker 1: new Soul Kitchen we remix, which you both shows have

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Speaker 1: already been shot, one in sixteen episodes, the other one

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Speaker 1: you say, twenty eight episodes episode the remix and sixteen

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Speaker 1: episode total of twenty eight. That's why I got that

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Speaker 1: from you, and so that they'd be dropping later on

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Speaker 1: in the season. And so with that being said, the

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Speaker 1: whole pandemic, the taking care of your family, seeing all

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Speaker 1: these things play out just before we go. I know

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Speaker 1: I promote this heavily, the New Soul Kitchen show. Tell

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Speaker 1: me one of your best episodes on the best Thing

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Speaker 1: you ever ate? Please close our bow one of those

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Speaker 1: so I can just hear how you talk there. Chef

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Speaker 1: your well, so I can just so you're such a

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Speaker 1: colorful speaker. Tell me. I'm just giving you time to

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Speaker 1: get that right episode in your head, the best thing

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Speaker 1: you ever ate. If we time, I already know the episode.

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Speaker 1: The name of the restaurant is called Homemade, and home

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Speaker 1: Homemade is an Athens, Georgia. They have to have a

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Speaker 1: dish that's called the ham and Cheese Salvage, but it's

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Speaker 1: not like ham and cheese in a traditional sense. What

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Speaker 1: they do is they take that that pork loin and

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Speaker 1: they smoke it until its fall apart into little chunks

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Speaker 1: after they smoke it with their hickory wood. Then they

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Speaker 1: take a pepper jelly, put it in the cash iron

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Speaker 1: skill it drop those chunks of porch in their salta

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Speaker 1: whether pepper jelly is glazing all over that loin and

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Speaker 1: one they're doing it. Then they're gonna make a perimento

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Speaker 1: cheese from scratch. And once they make the pimento cheese

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Speaker 1: from scratched in and make these milk rolls, these milk

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Speaker 1: butter rolls that melt in your mouth, almost like how

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Speaker 1: those Hawaiian eese rolls, except you could tell these right

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Speaker 1: here made from scratch. And when it comes out on

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Speaker 1: the plate, you got those salte pepper jelly, slices of

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Speaker 1: that pork law in ham, that pimento cheese, and those

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Speaker 1: milk rows, and you build those selatiers out and everybody,

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Speaker 1: I tell you, it's like heaven in your mouth. You

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Speaker 1: literally get the items that table and want to go

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Speaker 1: to sleep. When you see it under me, you say

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Speaker 1: it's ham and cheese, that one. But it's nothing like

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Speaker 1: the ham and teese selling in the tradition in the

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Speaker 1: cent man right there, when I opened my new studio.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna men, You're gonna produce a show called good

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Speaker 1: and I'm yet you just talk about me and you

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Speaker 1: I am just like that. I swear to you. Chef

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Speaker 1: Denard Well, it's gonna be a hit. My engineer, he

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Speaker 1: looked over me just he turned his in and just

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Speaker 1: looked at me and went, man, he needs to stop

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Speaker 1: because you got a skilled man. You have a blessed

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Speaker 1: family and beautiful wife over twenty years of marriage. New

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Speaker 1: Soul Kitchen is coming back this season for the second season,

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Speaker 1: starring my man the Family, Chef, Chef Denard Well, Chef

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Speaker 1: de Nor Wells. Thank you for coming on my show,

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Speaker 1: Money making Conversations. Thank you, It's always a pleasure. Hi everyone,

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Speaker 1: Forest Service and the Council. My next guest is a

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Speaker 1: thirty three year old artist and skateboarder from Dayton, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: She has been running Proper Nor since. Proper Nor is

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Speaker 1: the streetwear brand focusing on skateboarding and girl power, black

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Speaker 1: girl magic that is is your go to stop for

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Speaker 1: original skate decks, clothes, pants, arts, and hats and more.

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Speaker 1: All the designs are drawn by her and she sponsored

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Speaker 1: a small women's skateboarding team. Proper Nor is the only

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Speaker 1: black woman owned skateboarding company in the market today. The

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Speaker 1: foundering artist, Latasha Stone, channeling her genuine love for skateboarding,

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Speaker 1: is de creating custom skateboards, clothing, and art prints that

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Speaker 1: are unlikely seen on any other skateboard. She's on the

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Speaker 1: show to discuss being the first black woman to own

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Speaker 1: a skateboard brand. Because she's on the show today discussed

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Speaker 1: she has on the show today discussed being the first

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Speaker 1: black woman to own a skateboard brand. Because of the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: she was laid off from her main job. But guess what,

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Speaker 1: there were bigger things to this story. Please working the

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Speaker 1: money making conversation. Latasha Stone, Hey, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: having me. Well, thank you for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: Now what is proper? Na Um? Yeah, proper and now

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Speaker 1: it's um it's started out was like a passion project.

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Speaker 1: It was just a way to combine, you know, everything

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Speaker 1: that I loved into one thing. Um. You know, I've

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Speaker 1: been skating since I was a kid. I've been an

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Speaker 1: artist since I was a kid as well, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just put all lot together and just turned it

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Speaker 1: into a business. And really go ahead, no, no, when

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Speaker 1: you say that, because you know when I hear skating

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Speaker 1: and apologized cutting off because when you said skating, you

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Speaker 1: say us a kid? So you were born and raised

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Speaker 1: in Ohio and Ohio yes, I was, yep, UM's here

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Speaker 1: in my entire life. So we are you here skating?

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Speaker 1: So you're skating, you always think West Coast, you think Florida,

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Speaker 1: you think Texas, you think we're just warm. A lot

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Speaker 1: of times. In Ohio, I think cold, cold, cold for

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Speaker 1: a long period. Yeah, and that's definitely affective as well. Um.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I would definitely have gotten better faster

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Speaker 1: skating if I had lived somewhere that was warm, because

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Speaker 1: you know how you got like, you know, five good

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Speaker 1: months and then you got rain you got winner. But

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Speaker 1: we do have indoor parks here, so those are fun.

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Speaker 1: Now when you say indoor parks, what do you could

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Speaker 1: tell me about exactly what you mean? Because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: you started skating at what age? Um? And it wasn't

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Speaker 1: like sixth grades around twelve years old? Who inspired you?

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Speaker 1: What turned you on to the to the art form

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01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: of the athletic form of skateboarding. Uh, It's kind of

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Speaker 1: a mixture of things. Um. Part of it was just

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Speaker 1: like the neighborhood that grew up in, Like I was

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01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: always seeing the little neighbor kids out there doing it.

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Speaker 1: And that also, UM, I don't know if you know,

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Speaker 1: like the Tony Hawks skate games had afore when I

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01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:07,640
Speaker 1: was a little kid, and that was one of the

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Speaker 1: first games that had so I was always playing that

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Speaker 1: as well. Then it was like, you know, I do

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Speaker 1: it on the game. Let's go try and realize. Well. So,

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Speaker 1: so he was inspired by Tony Harku's everybody knows it's

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Speaker 1: a legendary Uh. Probably the probably probably the most well

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Speaker 1: paid person in the history of skateboarding. I would say

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01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: it because he has skateboards, a fashion line and and

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01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: became like a star, a true star before social media

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Speaker 1: was out, And imagine how big he would have been

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Speaker 1: if he had social media when he was breaking all

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Speaker 1: those barriers and becoming the star he became on skateboarding. Now,

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01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: when you when you want to be a skateboard it

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01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: was two things in your intro that we talked about.

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Speaker 1: One was the fact that you are you can't skateboard,

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Speaker 1: but you also are on artists. So let's talk about

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01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 1: the development of that talent. Because at the age of twelve,

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Speaker 1: you said, like about the sixth grade you started skateboarding.

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01:11:57,320 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 1: I found the uh in your neighborhoo, you saw people,

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Speaker 1: So I like that, I'd like to try that. What

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Speaker 1: at the arts scale, the artist skills started, don't start

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Speaker 1: your developer. Um Well, also, when I was a kid,

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01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: I had an uncle that loot with me and he

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01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: was an oil painter, and so I was always watching

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Speaker 1: him and I kind of got inspired by that. And

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Speaker 1: then I was always a doing when I was in school,

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01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: and I would do like a little portrait drawings of

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01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 1: like all the celebrities and the little boy bands that

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01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: I would listen to, and really just went from there

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01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: and then, um, I never really quit drawing. I went

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01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: to art school and then I went to graphic design school.

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01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's definitely been a big part of my

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01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:40,880
Speaker 1: life as well. So everything, your whole life is the

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01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 1: state of Ohio, that's what you're telling me. Yeah, yeah,

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01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: So you're born there, did all your are training there,

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01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 1: skateboard enthusiasts in a in a code state, and now

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01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: you launched a company called proper Nor. What does nar

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Speaker 1: mean as g in a are proper Nor? No, it's

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01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,680
Speaker 1: um short for gnarly. Um. It's just a term that

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Speaker 1: a lot of skateboarders use. Um. You can use it

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01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 1: in all kinds of different ways. Um. It can be

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01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 1: something that's like a really cool and like really crazy,

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01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: like if you do a really big trick or really

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01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 1: like technical trick like oh, that's gnarly. Or also like

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01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, if you like hurt yourself and you get

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01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: like messed up, like, oh that's what that's a gnarly

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01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: looking star you out there. It can be used many

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01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,479
Speaker 1: different ways. Well that not now get the term gnarly

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01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 1: nor so because that's that's such a TV term, that's

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01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:38,640
Speaker 1: such a California term, and it's really tied to a

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Speaker 1: fantastic African American female skater in the state of Ohio.

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01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: How does that play out in the in the scheme

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01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 1: of things. First of all, first of all, affect you

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01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:55,560
Speaker 1: being black, thank you. Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot of

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01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: people assume that I'm from California. Like I always get

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01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: people like messaging me like, oh wow, like you're you're

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01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 1: in Ohio, Like I thought you were like in l

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Speaker 1: A or something. But um, yeah, it's definitely accepted me

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01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, like when I would go to

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Speaker 1: the skate park when I was younger. Um, you know,

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01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: first of all, being a woman, like people don't really

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01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: you know, like the stereotype of skating isn't being a girl.

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01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 1: And then especially like being like a black woman, Like

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01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 1: there's a there's a few you know, professional black men skaters,

1341
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: but you don't really see women doing that too often.

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01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:31,400
Speaker 1: So it's definitely you know, comments that I've gotten while

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01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: at the skate park, you know about how I don't

1344
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: really fit the stereotype and uh but I mean here

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01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 1: lately it's it's worked out to my advantage. But that's

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01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 1: that's a newer thing. Definitely in the past, you know,

1347
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: people kind of thought it was weird or you know,

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01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 1: they'd be like, oh, can you really skate? Like, oh,

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01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:52,640
Speaker 1: are you like a closer? Wow? They asked you can

1350
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: you really skate? Did you have to prove yourself? What? Yeah? Um,

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01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 1: I don't know. People just uh they they kind of

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01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: don't take you seriously. Like you go to the park

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01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: and you know, people I watch you to see if

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01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:08,439
Speaker 1: you can really skater. If you're just there, you know,

1355
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: like skateboarders there, they kind of like the gate keep

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01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: their culture. Um yeah, yeah, they only try and let

1357
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: like certain people in, so they make sure you're legit

1358
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:23,640
Speaker 1: before they work with you and you know, support you

1359
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Okay, okay, let me just back up.

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01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: This is Sean McDonald talking to Tasha Stone. She's creator

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01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:33,919
Speaker 1: of an incredible company called Skateboarding Company. She's black, female,

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01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:38,760
Speaker 1: proper nor no you know, like gnarly dude. Since that's

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01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:41,759
Speaker 1: when she founded the company. Now, how do you prove

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01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:45,639
Speaker 1: yourself that you can skateboard that? Because I've seen people,

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01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 1: you know, they hit the bottom of the board, it

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01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 1: pops up and they can grab it in their hand.

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01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 1: I've seen people slide down steps and balance themselves. I've

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01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,960
Speaker 1: seen people you know, hit it and it rotates three

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01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 1: sixty and it comes down and they can land on

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01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 1: top of it. What are like three major tricks that

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01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: you have to show that you can actually, you know,

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Speaker 1: participate in this game of skateboarding and credibility. I guess

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01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: we should say, Um, you know a lot of time

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01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: you'll be at the skatepark and people like to challenge

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01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 1: you to a game called skate which is where you, uh,

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01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 1: you gotta spell out the letters and like whoever spell

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01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:24,639
Speaker 1: the letters out first, Like every time you land a trick,

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01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:28,040
Speaker 1: it's a letter and you know, whoever gets gets it

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01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: first wins. Um. That's one of the way that a

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01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of people are like, oh, do

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01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: a kick flip. You gotta like bust it out, like okay,

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01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: not Natasha can't just throw out these terminology do a

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01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: kick flip? You know, I don't know where the kick

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01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 1: flip is, hilphone help the host out here, so you

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01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 1: just can't run out there. You already yeah, I already

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01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: had to explain to me where gnarly meant. N Okay,

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01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 1: so when you say a kick flip, we all radio

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01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 1: tells us exactly what that is. Um, a kick flip is, uh,

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01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:01,640
Speaker 1: it's it's a honestly one of the tricks, like one

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01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,640
Speaker 1: of the more technical tricks that people really learn how

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01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 1: to do them the beginning. But it's just when you

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01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: can flip the board uh completely around and just land

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01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: on it like like you do it. It's like it

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 1: flips like three sixty degrees and you come back and

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 1: land on it. Okay, so so you land on it.

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01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: Now here's my question about skateboarding. Okay, can I ask

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01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: you how tall are you? I'm five too, okay, five two?

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01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: Is it an advantage to be a smaller in statue

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01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 1: or it is? All right, it doesn't matter if you're tall.

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01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:41,040
Speaker 1: You can be an outstanding skateboard artists. Um. Yeah, it

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01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: does have an advantage of being shorter, because that's one

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01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 1: thing about like kids with skateboarding, because they're they're closer

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01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,879
Speaker 1: to the ground and that helps with your center of gravity.

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01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: But anybody of any size and height can really learn

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01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: how to do it though. And so now do you

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01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: have training sessions? Just talk about your BIS. This is

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01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: your business tied to just the the you know, a

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01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 1: parrel line the skateboards, and let's talk about that whole process.

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01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 1: And also the pandemic hit and you had a main job,

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01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 1: the main job went away. What ranked your mind right there?

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01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: Was it? Like you did you feel like it was

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01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: forcing you to commit to your really your your number

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01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 1: one passion, which was skateboarding and being an artist. Or

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01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: you just traumatized by the fact that a pandemic hit

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Speaker 1: you have no job. What's next? Move was just moved

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Speaker 1: number two in your life? Um, honestly, like both of

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Speaker 1: those are. Yeah. I was definitely really stressed when that happened.

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Speaker 1: I did photography um before well, I you know, the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of been starting in January, and I've been

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Speaker 1: uh doing the photography there for a couple of months,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, I started to see other places

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Speaker 1: closed down, so I was like wondering, you know, what

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Speaker 1: was I going to be next? And then it did happen,

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Speaker 1: and you know, school's closed, and it was super stressful.

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Speaker 1: So it was like, yeah, I definitely got to do

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Speaker 1: something because that unemployment. I was not uh you know,

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Speaker 1: it was not kicking in, and I mean I already

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01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: had the business going, but it was definitely like all right, now,

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Speaker 1: now I got the time to stay at home and

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Speaker 1: you know, really put all my time into it, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, it's now or never. I'm never gonna

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Speaker 1: get this chance again to have all this time off,

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Speaker 1: you know and get everything going. So I just put

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Speaker 1: my whole into it. And when you say all into it,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean when you say that? Because of

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Speaker 1: the fact that where were you at when you lost

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Speaker 1: your job with business wife? Where were you at? Um?

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Speaker 1: It was doing okay, but it wasn't. It definitely wasn't

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Speaker 1: doing what it is now. Um. You know, I I

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Speaker 1: couldn't really focus on it fully because you know, I

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Speaker 1: did have the other job. You know, it's hard to work,

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Speaker 1: you know, four hours a week and then come home

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Speaker 1: and then also make your art and then also around

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Speaker 1: the business and do shipping, and you know all the

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Speaker 1: social media and all that. So you in a way

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Speaker 1: like getting laid off definitely was a blessing because now

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Speaker 1: you said the word viral, that was that intentional intentional

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01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 1: marketing techniques or it just happened when you started allowing

1476
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 1: yourself to see your business blow up based on social media.

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01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:43,560
Speaker 1: It really just happened. Um. It was crazy how it

1478
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 1: all happened. Um. Back in early June, I got featured

1479
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 1: on Beyonce's um Black Parade business list and honestly ever since, okay,

1480
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 1: before we're going to further explain to everybody what the

1481
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 1: what exactly that is the Black Parade directly or black

1482
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 1: owned businesses that To be honest, I think she had

1483
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: like a hundred and Instagram followers and she created this

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01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 1: black business page. Correct, Yeah, yeah, she uh put every

1485
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 1: all these businesses on her main web page. So when

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01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:17,679
Speaker 1: you went to Beyonce dot com, it was this list

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01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: of all these black owned businesses that she endorsed, and

1488
01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: I was one of those. I woke up and everybody

1489
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: was telling me about it, and I honestly didn't believe

1490
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:27,759
Speaker 1: it at first, and then I went off with myself

1491
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, that's crazy, but yeah, yeah,

1492
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:36,759
Speaker 1: she uh, she really helped launch a lot of other businesses,

1493
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: like I've been hearing from the other people that are

1494
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 1: featured on that list as well that they've been having

1495
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:45,640
Speaker 1: some pretty good successes since then. And um really, after that,

1496
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:51,679
Speaker 1: I just started getting more people reaching out to me. Definitely.

1497
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: It definitely opened up a whole new customer base to me.

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01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:00,640
Speaker 1: And UM I did an interview back in lie with

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01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:06,679
Speaker 1: um Black Enterprise and that was when things really took off.

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01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:09,719
Speaker 1: And I went to sleep and I had like seven

1501
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 1: hundred some shares on it and I was like, you know,

1502
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 1: that's cool. And then I look at it the next

1503
01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 1: day and it had like two hundred thousands and it

1504
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: just kept going up and up from there. Now when

1505
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:24,000
Speaker 1: you when when you say things have taken off, what

1506
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:28,440
Speaker 1: is what is in our world of business? Are inventory?

1507
01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: What exactly does that mean? Um? Really, just like your

1508
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 1: show says like making money, you know, I I pretty

1509
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:41,760
Speaker 1: much made six figures in like one month, and you know,

1510
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:44,599
Speaker 1: it was just shocking because I went from these money

1511
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,640
Speaker 1: making conversations that is why you own this show, Latasha,

1512
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 1: six figures and one month from a person who lost

1513
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 1: a job during the pandemic. That is truly, truly unders

1514
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 1: You know, things happened for a reason, and we we

1515
01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:00,720
Speaker 1: that's a cliche. That's a cliche. You always say things

1516
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: happened for a reason, and so here you are. You're

1517
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 1: a photographer, and then you got laid off from your

1518
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: job during the pandemic. And the month of June, someone

1519
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:13,160
Speaker 1: told Beyonce about your product. Somebodey was impressed. Someone knew

1520
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:16,759
Speaker 1: you had value, and she posted you on her website,

1521
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:20,240
Speaker 1: posttat you to her Instagram account. I remember when it

1522
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 1: came out. You know, Beyonce's an amazing person. I'm from Houston, Texas.

1523
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: She's from Houston, Texas. I know Beyonce. She's a true,

1524
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:30,719
Speaker 1: true rebel to the cause, and she is true blackness

1525
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 1: and to be featured like that. But more importantly, she's

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01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:37,560
Speaker 1: just not a black artist. She's an international artist. So

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01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're the impact of her. You being on

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01:24:41,479 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: her website was an international impact. Correct, Yes, definitely. I

1529
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 1: sold in countries that I've never sold in before. Um,

1530
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, I definitely. I went from you know, not

1531
01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 1: knowing where my next paychecks was gonna come from to this,

1532
01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's it's overwhelming. That's definitely a blessing. Now,

1533
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,280
Speaker 1: what's next step for you? My friend? You know, you know, artists.

1534
01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:06,640
Speaker 1: We didn't talk a little bit about that because I

1535
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 1: went to your website page and you're an incredible artist.

1536
01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 1: It almost seems like your work on these skateboards and

1537
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:15,720
Speaker 1: your clothing, it's really like stuff. If I don't if

1538
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: I wasn't a skateboard artist, I could frame your skateboard

1539
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 1: and put it on the wall. It's almost like art. Yeah,

1540
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:24,720
Speaker 1: and that's my goal with it, because like if you

1541
01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: look at other skateboarding brands, you know, a lot of

1542
01:25:26,960 --> 01:25:29,479
Speaker 1: them just you know, they'll put their brand name, their

1543
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 1: logo and that's it. And you know, I didn't really

1544
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 1: like that at all. I wanted to do something different

1545
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: and um, you know, really just just stand out from

1546
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: the things that these other brands were doing. Um. The

1547
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 1: next thing that I want to do, Um, I've got

1548
01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:49,880
Speaker 1: some collapse coming up. Definitely get some new designs out.

1549
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of people ask me to do

1550
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:56,760
Speaker 1: longboards and cruisers, so, you know, just getting out new

1551
01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: styles and I I'm looking at spaces. I want to

1552
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 1: do a retail so because all right now I just

1553
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:07,040
Speaker 1: have a small area that I work out of, but

1554
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,120
Speaker 1: I agree with that within the last month. Definitely needs

1555
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:13,160
Speaker 1: some more rooms, well, yeah, you know, you know your

1556
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 1: six figures. Now we can but let's let's be smart here.

1557
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:19,880
Speaker 1: Let's be fart smart here. Okay, you your space is working.

1558
01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: You was able to generate six figures of income out

1559
01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:25,280
Speaker 1: of that. Okay, your online Okay, that means you don't

1560
01:26:25,280 --> 01:26:26,840
Speaker 1: have the paper right anywhere, You don't have to pay

1561
01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:30,080
Speaker 1: an insurance anywhere, you don't have to hire security or

1562
01:26:30,439 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: hire some extra staff to sell because they may not

1563
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:36,400
Speaker 1: sell why they're there, because online is really amazing. So

1564
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,719
Speaker 1: so how can you maximize or how are you trying

1565
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 1: to maximize your online growth growth through sales and exposure? Um, well,

1566
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 1: right now, I'm really just getting more content together. Um

1567
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:56,120
Speaker 1: We're working on a skate video right now, and then

1568
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:59,280
Speaker 1: I've got my skate team that I work with, you know,

1569
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:03,160
Speaker 1: really just filming new material with all the new designs

1570
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 1: and stuff. Um yeah, just working with them on new

1571
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:11,360
Speaker 1: content basically, you know, ramping up this marketing, getting that ready,

1572
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:14,200
Speaker 1: trying to be more official with my stuff. You know

1573
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:18,719
Speaker 1: before it was mostly a mixture of like users supended

1574
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: videos and not really like original content. So you know,

1575
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 1: definitely coming out with more of my own original stuff

1576
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:27,800
Speaker 1: with the girls that I work with. Well, I'm talking

1577
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: to Latasha Stone. She's the founder proper Nor. That's like

1578
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 1: gnarly Nor. If you know that's a great that's a

1579
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 1: great move on that board or no, you fell all

1580
01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:42,800
Speaker 1: off of it? You know has universal tones good and bad.

1581
01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 1: She's the founding artists Latasha Stone now on twenty third

1582
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 1: thing in Ohio. This is the beauty of her, her brain.

1583
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 1: She's born and raised in Ohio. She was educating Ohio.

1584
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 1: She learned how to skateboard in Ohio. Her brain has

1585
01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:59,120
Speaker 1: taken off because Beyonce, they put on her on that

1586
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:02,519
Speaker 1: black parade rectory for black owned business. She woke up

1587
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 1: and she realized that she was a social media star.

1588
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:08,920
Speaker 1: Now I'm not talking to a one man operation here,

1589
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:11,400
Speaker 1: am I talking? Because it's I wonder who else are

1590
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 1: helping you right now? I know you you got laid off,

1591
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:17,639
Speaker 1: got your job went away. Who are what is part

1592
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:24,760
Speaker 1: of your team that's making you successful right now? Um? Well, honestly, like,

1593
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 1: I've got two people that work with me right now,

1594
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:30,240
Speaker 1: and I just hired them here recently. But um I

1595
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:32,800
Speaker 1: got my friend that's helping out with social media, and

1596
01:28:32,920 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: then um I got my other friend that's helping out

1597
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:39,479
Speaker 1: with a customer service and then we all work on

1598
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: shipping and stuff like that. So yeah, I definitely got,

1599
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:45,639
Speaker 1: you know, pretty solid team behind me. You know, people

1600
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: that also skate that I've known forever that I can

1601
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 1: actually like afford to pay now to work with me

1602
01:28:55,640 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 1: is key because you know when people when you when

1603
01:28:58,200 --> 01:29:00,800
Speaker 1: you go viral and they know are you're making money,

1604
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 1: it's the handshakes and the high fives go away. What

1605
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: is the You have the Underground brand new line of colorful, creative,

1606
01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:10,920
Speaker 1: and original skateboards that average fifty five is sixty dollars

1607
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:13,760
Speaker 1: each and can be audited on the company's website along

1608
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:16,919
Speaker 1: with the artists on unique artwork, prints, accessories, and apparel.

1609
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:20,680
Speaker 1: What sets a price for a good quality skateboard? And

1610
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:22,880
Speaker 1: you are you? You? Because I don't really see you

1611
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:26,280
Speaker 1: as competing with other brands, because I feel I see

1612
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 1: you as a as a high profile, niche brand that

1613
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:31,680
Speaker 1: can only grow as much as you put into it.

1614
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah. I try to set my prices to

1615
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,560
Speaker 1: where people can still afford them. But also, you know,

1616
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,360
Speaker 1: my designs are different than everybody else's, so I kind

1617
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: of have to take that into consideration as well. You know,

1618
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: being a small business, you know, you have these other

1619
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:53,960
Speaker 1: companies where they can purchase you know, thousands of units

1620
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:56,920
Speaker 1: of inventory and get it at like a lower price

1621
01:29:57,160 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 1: because they're purchasing in such like a huge amount. And

1622
01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: um yeah, so I haven't really been able to do

1623
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:07,720
Speaker 1: that until here recently. So that's also reflected in my

1624
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:11,560
Speaker 1: price as well. But um, also you know, I I

1625
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:14,760
Speaker 1: want to get um, different types of people in a

1626
01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: skateboarding I like to work with beginners and also like

1627
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, people from like less privileged areas, and so

1628
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:24,640
Speaker 1: I also want to keep it affordable for people like

1629
01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 1: that also because you know, if you go to like

1630
01:30:27,360 --> 01:30:29,560
Speaker 1: a bigger skate shop, you can spend up to like

1631
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 1: two to three dollars getting your whole set up together,

1632
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 1: and you know, if you're just starting out, you may

1633
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:38,160
Speaker 1: not want to spend that much because you know what

1634
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:41,600
Speaker 1: if you spend all that and then you don't like

1635
01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:44,439
Speaker 1: it and you just drop like three dollars on this

1636
01:30:44,560 --> 01:30:46,880
Speaker 1: thing that you're not going to use. So I definitely

1637
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:51,240
Speaker 1: take that into consideration when making my prices. Again again, Natasha,

1638
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:53,640
Speaker 1: you've used some language that I have to be educated on.

1639
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:58,040
Speaker 1: You said the set up. Okay, what exactly is to say?

1640
01:30:58,240 --> 01:31:00,640
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's pads on your al old pads on

1641
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,439
Speaker 1: your need to helmet and a skateboard. What what are

1642
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:07,080
Speaker 1: you calling a set up? Um? Yeah, some people do

1643
01:31:07,200 --> 01:31:08,920
Speaker 1: where the paths and the help and all that, but um,

1644
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 1: what I was referring to is up. You have the

1645
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 1: skate deck, and then you have the trucks, which is

1646
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:17,000
Speaker 1: what holds the wheels on. And then you have the wheels,

1647
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 1: you got the bearings. Um, your hardware which is like

1648
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:22,640
Speaker 1: the screws that holds all that on. And then you

1649
01:31:22,720 --> 01:31:25,200
Speaker 1: have grip tape, which is ah, it's kind of like

1650
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:28,280
Speaker 1: a standpapery material that goes on top of the skate

1651
01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:31,880
Speaker 1: deck and uh that like helps keep your feet like

1652
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 1: stuff to it when you're doing your tricks and stuff. Yeah,

1653
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:40,559
Speaker 1: so you gotta you can either buy it all separately

1654
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:44,400
Speaker 1: and put together, or um, I'll have complete in the

1655
01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:47,000
Speaker 1: shop here next month where you can just pull it

1656
01:31:47,040 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 1: all the box and it's all put together and you

1657
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 1: can just hop on it and go wow. Now here's

1658
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 1: a little note here. The products you created are created

1659
01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: with teen girls and young women in mine who love

1660
01:31:57,240 --> 01:32:01,120
Speaker 1: the skate or wo and into alternative of servasive fashion

1661
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:04,760
Speaker 1: subversis fast fashions. Well, what do you mean when when

1662
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 1: you said teen girls and young women who love to skate?

1663
01:32:07,720 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 1: Are your boards smaller or the handlet particular weight? Can

1664
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:14,640
Speaker 1: teen boys do it? Wow? Talk to me about that.

1665
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:17,639
Speaker 1: Are just the designs on the skateboards just promote teen

1666
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:21,920
Speaker 1: girls and young women? It's more so, um, the designs

1667
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: that are more aimed towards women. Um, but yeah, the

1668
01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 1: sizes can be for anybody. Um, if you're our girl

1669
01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 1: or a woman, you they usually order the smaller sizes,

1670
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:36,160
Speaker 1: So I do tend to stop more of those. But yeah,

1671
01:32:36,280 --> 01:32:39,599
Speaker 1: it's more like the When I say that, I mean

1672
01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:42,439
Speaker 1: more towards the designs and the style of things that

1673
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:46,440
Speaker 1: I designed. It's aimed towards women. Is that way? Absolutely? Absolutely?

1674
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:50,120
Speaker 1: And my last question is about your show. Was your

1675
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: skateboards was featured on an HBO show? Mm hmm, Yeah,

1676
01:32:54,920 --> 01:32:57,479
Speaker 1: it was featured on Betty Um it's this show that

1677
01:32:57,640 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 1: just came out in May and it was Gonna Spio

1678
01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:03,519
Speaker 1: And it's a show that follows these teenage girls around

1679
01:33:03,560 --> 01:33:06,920
Speaker 1: New York and you know, they skateboard their skate crew

1680
01:33:07,160 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: and uh, you know it was about skateboarding, but also

1681
01:33:10,320 --> 01:33:13,439
Speaker 1: about their lives and the things that they're going through

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Speaker 1: and investor in entrepreneur. He started investing in real estate

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Speaker 1: when he started watching a YouTube videos, just YouTube videos,

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Speaker 1: the people start talking about how you can make money.

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Speaker 1: And now he owns over two million dollars in property.

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Speaker 1: So obviously he learned something from those YouTube videos. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's part of our story that we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about today. He wants to share his story and he's

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Speaker 1: written a book, an e book called interest Free Money Guy.

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Speaker 1: on Twitter fifteen business card to cards. I got a

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Speaker 1: bunch of so hey, I don't have towar the fifteen,

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Speaker 1: but I got a lot of credit card And we

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Speaker 1: will also discussed how he got started in the real

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Speaker 1: estate at such a young age. Please walking to money

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Speaker 1: making conversation straight out in Louisiana by way, I'm laughing, yette,

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Speaker 1: Mr O'Neill Parker. Are you doing that? How are you

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Speaker 1: doing pretty good? Well? You know you're in that real

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Speaker 1: estate game. And uh, you know they said when the

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Speaker 1: pandemic hit, did it? You know what type of real

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Speaker 1: estate are in the commercial real estate? Are in homes?

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Speaker 1: What type of real estate are you in? Residential houses? Okay,

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Speaker 1: okay with brother, Now, how was that when you were

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Speaker 1: well you were able to show your homes? Or how

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Speaker 1: do people didn't stop completely? Or where are you at

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Speaker 1: right now with residents? Your home sales? Honestly, everything uh

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Speaker 1: went pretty well, so we didn't really get affected by

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Speaker 1: the coronavirus that bad. So all the tenants kept playing.

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Speaker 1: So the thing what I do is big on rent

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Speaker 1: to own and sex and eight. So you know, sex

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Speaker 1: has never entertainment since it's been open, and the thing

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Speaker 1: would rent to owners. UM. The tenants that living those properties,

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Speaker 1: they put a big down payment and they're committed to

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Speaker 1: buying a hub. So basically I become the bank on

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Speaker 1: that property. And I'm not really just a landlord. That's

1833
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Speaker 1: like you know, you when you buy your house, you

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Speaker 1: don't call Wells Fargo when the toiler goes out, so

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Speaker 1: you just you know, that's just the bank coding. Okay, cool.

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Speaker 1: So basically, what do you with that being said, what

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Speaker 1: exactly is your business model that you put in that

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Speaker 1: you have in the real est game game? Because I

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Speaker 1: heard you say section eight and then we get started.

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Speaker 1: I've heard that term a lot in my life. Sex

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Speaker 1: and eight. What exactly is a section eight person? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start with the sex eight question. Um.

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Speaker 1: Sex needs basically regular people UM with low income. They

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Speaker 1: use the government to help them out because they're not

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Speaker 1: making enough money. So the government pitches in and pays

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Speaker 1: a portion of the rent or the whole rent. That's

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Speaker 1: all sex NED is just a federal program. Okay, low

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Speaker 1: income people. And when you said low income people, what

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Speaker 1: are we talking like under twenty thousand dollars on the

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Speaker 1: fifty annually or fifteen thousand dollars and you only thirty?

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Speaker 1: What is that the worst they considered a low income number? First,

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Speaker 1: every market is different. So you know, Louis Gianna pretty poor.

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Speaker 1: So if you make um like under twenty thousand, you

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Speaker 1: can apply for sexion, But it really just depends you

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Speaker 1: can make twenty five tho. Just the people that make

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Speaker 1: twenty of course they're gonna pay more than read compared

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Speaker 1: to the people that makes twenty five thou years, so

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Speaker 1: sexually pays lasers cy. You're into eight hundreds of policy

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Speaker 1: seven fifty and the ten page fifty. But depend on

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Speaker 1: what your job is and how much money you make.

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Speaker 1: It just depends on how much they're gonna pay. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: and now I reachally I bring that up and inquiring

1863
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Speaker 1: because when you when you talk about you watch television,

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Speaker 1: you talk about it. You you you're doing business with

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Speaker 1: people and they consider to be uh uh slow payers

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Speaker 1: or no payers. Uh, a dead beach of people who

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Speaker 1: what your sponges off of the government. That's the negative

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Speaker 1: that you get when people use the word welfare or

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Speaker 1: Section eight people. So explain why did you decide to

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Speaker 1: have that part of your business model. People on the

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Speaker 1: on the indie Section eight platform. Uh, you know what

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Speaker 1: they say about those people is really just, um, it's

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Speaker 1: here thing. So you know, you can't get advice from

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Speaker 1: people that's not really in the business. So the people

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Speaker 1: that are really in the business, they enjoy sectionate to

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Speaker 1: what the section vouchers. The thing about Section it is

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Speaker 1: the people that has all those headaches, that all those

1878
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Speaker 1: people and these landlords that accept the first person. So

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Speaker 1: it's the same as if you're written into a regular family.

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Speaker 1: You don't just take the first person. You have to

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Speaker 1: do all you do diligence. So it's the same with SECTIONIC.

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Speaker 1: So you put your application out there, you put your

1883
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Speaker 1: problem out there for rent, and then a lot of

1884
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Speaker 1: people start calling you, texting your Hey, I'm interested in

1885
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Speaker 1: this property. Of course you're not gonna accept the first person,

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Speaker 1: so you gotta do your property diligence, do your background check,

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Speaker 1: check the job check, their credit. Um called their former landlord,

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Speaker 1: things like that. So if you follow the steps, you

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Speaker 1: can usually get yourself a good tent. Now you get

1890
01:44:10,720 --> 01:44:12,360
Speaker 1: you know, you get the person that said they got it.

1891
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:14,720
Speaker 1: That's typically a bad tent because you're not doing nothing

1892
01:44:14,760 --> 01:44:17,960
Speaker 1: your research on that person. I understand what you're saying here.

1893
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:22,040
Speaker 1: You're saying Rashan, Look, they're bad apples in a batch. Okay,

1894
01:44:22,280 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 1: you don't out there and don't do your like like

1895
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:27,800
Speaker 1: you know, like you're trying to hire good employee. You're

1896
01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:31,240
Speaker 1: any person you call their references and you go on

1897
01:44:31,360 --> 01:44:33,760
Speaker 1: their social media that he got some crazy pictures on

1898
01:44:33,840 --> 01:44:35,760
Speaker 1: social media. That might not be the person you want

1899
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:39,240
Speaker 1: to hire. So the same thing here, So the same

1900
01:44:39,280 --> 01:44:40,519
Speaker 1: thing here. You have to do the same thing with

1901
01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 1: these individuals. It's not about a stigma than being in

1902
01:44:44,040 --> 01:44:46,240
Speaker 1: section age. It's the people out there who are trying

1903
01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:49,479
Speaker 1: to live a better life, trying to step up, trying

1904
01:44:49,560 --> 01:44:52,160
Speaker 1: to get into a better environment for their kids, for

1905
01:44:52,280 --> 01:44:56,439
Speaker 1: their families, and your your situation and enables that. And

1906
01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:59,080
Speaker 1: it's worked out pretty well for you. And you're based

1907
01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:03,559
Speaker 1: in Lafayette, Louisiana. Correct, Yes, sir, that's my market. That's

1908
01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:05,519
Speaker 1: your market now, are you looking to expand out of

1909
01:45:05,560 --> 01:45:08,599
Speaker 1: that market? You're just gonna dominate, laughing, Louis, He's gonna

1910
01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: be the king of Lafayette. That's what you're trying to do. Yeah,

1911
01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm trying to take over a little bit. So it's

1912
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Speaker 1: currently my market to laft right in the market market.

1913
01:45:20,120 --> 01:45:21,760
Speaker 1: So if anybody doesn't know where laugh he had left

1914
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:23,439
Speaker 1: head is right on I T N E S. And

1915
01:45:23,520 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 1: what he just said is you go just go straight

1916
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 1: down I ten ees heading from Houston, Texas. Okay, just

1917
01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:33,080
Speaker 1: going down there, you're gonna hit laughy at first, then

1918
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have the capital that's baton rouge. Then you're

1919
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 1: gonna slide right on end to New Orleans. So he's

1920
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:40,920
Speaker 1: he's really going down there. I called him. I'm gonna

1921
01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:43,519
Speaker 1: call him the gumboat, the gumbo real estate man, right

1922
01:45:43,520 --> 01:45:45,920
Speaker 1: because he's doing the gumbo. Bro. He controlling all the

1923
01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:50,559
Speaker 1: gumbo right there, Mr Parker, and that we're good. Well,

1924
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Speaker 1: you know I was. I want to talk about you

1925
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:57,040
Speaker 1: getting started this business because there's so many TV shows on,

1926
01:45:57,720 --> 01:46:00,559
Speaker 1: you know, Flip that, Flip dead by this. Yeah, people

1927
01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:03,280
Speaker 1: coming to town talking about you can get rich if

1928
01:46:03,320 --> 01:46:05,519
Speaker 1: you listen to their model and how you can get

1929
01:46:05,560 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 1: into the real estate game. Now you yourself. When I

1930
01:46:08,320 --> 01:46:11,759
Speaker 1: was reading your bio, he said, you started watching YouTube videos.

1931
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Speaker 1: That's how you got in the real estate game. Correct, yes, sir,

1932
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Speaker 1: yes sir. And so UM, I started my business back

1933
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Speaker 1: in two thousands sixteen, is around November, I closed my

1934
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Speaker 1: first deal. So I started my business with sixty three dollars.

1935
01:46:25,400 --> 01:46:28,080
Speaker 1: So you know all the YouTube videos that watches like

1936
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:30,000
Speaker 1: you can get into real estate with little money or

1937
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:32,400
Speaker 1: no credits. So you know, I want to figure it

1938
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:35,360
Speaker 1: out and see that's true. So um, I ort to

1939
01:46:35,400 --> 01:46:38,679
Speaker 1: miss some blank signs, so you know the political signe

1940
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:40,840
Speaker 1: that you say like both for this guy or whatever,

1941
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:43,360
Speaker 1: those type of signs. But I ordered the blink one

1942
01:46:43,960 --> 01:46:45,840
Speaker 1: and I wrote we buy houses on them. So I

1943
01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:48,240
Speaker 1: put those signs out within three weeks and made two

1944
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars and then um hold on the park right,

1945
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:55,040
Speaker 1: So I got a couple of houses. And because I

1946
01:46:55,479 --> 01:46:58,880
Speaker 1: live in both cities and different cities, you know, I

1947
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:01,960
Speaker 1: always get these these cards people mailing me, calling me

1948
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:04,160
Speaker 1: talking about I buy my house, we'll buy your house,

1949
01:47:04,200 --> 01:47:06,000
Speaker 1: we'll buy your house, you know, and I have to

1950
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Speaker 1: ignore them because I'm not selling my house. So you

1951
01:47:08,880 --> 01:47:11,559
Speaker 1: just said you had some signs, like those little political

1952
01:47:11,640 --> 01:47:13,920
Speaker 1: signs that you see people stick in the yard, and

1953
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:16,320
Speaker 1: you put we buy houses, and then you jumped to

1954
01:47:16,439 --> 01:47:19,200
Speaker 1: saying you made two thousand dollars. Now there are some

1955
01:47:19,320 --> 01:47:21,479
Speaker 1: steps that you missed that we have to say on

1956
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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation dot com. So you put the sign out,

1957
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:27,560
Speaker 1: you put the sign out, you you put on that

1958
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:30,360
Speaker 1: neatly rope we buy home, we buy homes, or we

1959
01:47:30,479 --> 01:47:35,599
Speaker 1: buy houses. What happened after that? All right? So basically

1960
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:38,240
Speaker 1: I did my marking. The strategy that I've used to

1961
01:47:38,760 --> 01:47:42,599
Speaker 1: do that was called hotelling, which hotelling is if you're

1962
01:47:42,600 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: advertising to distress sellers. So people that have gone through

1963
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:48,120
Speaker 1: the vorce, Um, they have two in the pairs. You

1964
01:47:48,160 --> 01:47:52,920
Speaker 1: can't fix long grass, covilation. Uh, there's a bunch of

1965
01:47:52,960 --> 01:47:57,960
Speaker 1: different things. So I'm marking into direct directly to distress sellers.

1966
01:47:58,040 --> 01:48:00,759
Speaker 1: So I put those signs up market and we buy houses.

1967
01:48:01,160 --> 01:48:04,320
Speaker 1: Started getting phone calls. Um, there was a father and

1968
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:06,640
Speaker 1: the son. The house just got flood. That was in

1969
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:08,360
Speaker 1: the Bad Bois market at the time. We had a

1970
01:48:08,439 --> 01:48:12,240
Speaker 1: big flood in two thousand sixteen. So the house was flooded.

1971
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:14,960
Speaker 1: They had flood insurance, so they got they checked there

1972
01:48:15,040 --> 01:48:17,200
Speaker 1: was just ready to settle house. So I went to

1973
01:48:17,280 --> 01:48:21,760
Speaker 1: the house, offered them seventy thousand. So the a r

1974
01:48:21,840 --> 01:48:23,680
Speaker 1: V at the house was just called after repair you

1975
01:48:23,760 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: have to order repairs and done like a brand. House

1976
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:28,519
Speaker 1: was about two hundred and thirty thousand. So I got

1977
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:32,599
Speaker 1: under contract seventy thousand. And then I saw that pizza

1978
01:48:32,640 --> 01:48:36,280
Speaker 1: paper to another investors for seventy two thousand, how many

1979
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:41,040
Speaker 1: two thousands on the deal? And that's called hostel in

1980
01:48:41,080 --> 01:48:45,559
Speaker 1: real estate, okay, okay, And so that person gets the house,

1981
01:48:46,479 --> 01:48:48,519
Speaker 1: they pay seventy two thousand four and they can sell

1982
01:48:48,560 --> 01:48:50,920
Speaker 1: it wherever they want to sell it. That right, right,

1983
01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:54,719
Speaker 1: So typically they buy it for me for seventy two thousand,

1984
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:57,439
Speaker 1: they put all the repairs into it. Let's just say

1985
01:48:57,479 --> 01:48:59,200
Speaker 1: they all in that one fifty and they sell us

1986
01:48:59,240 --> 01:49:02,200
Speaker 1: for two twenty and they make a profits. Now you

1987
01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:05,720
Speaker 1: got all this from a YouTube video, Yes, sir, I

1988
01:49:05,800 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 1: feel not just want to see you. Okay, Now, what

1989
01:49:08,320 --> 01:49:10,120
Speaker 1: motivated you to go to YouTube? Because you hear all

1990
01:49:10,160 --> 01:49:13,639
Speaker 1: these commercials on TV, you know, buy this or dialoade

1991
01:49:13,720 --> 01:49:16,679
Speaker 1: this and go to a webinar. Would you recommend people

1992
01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:18,880
Speaker 1: going to YouTube to learn about how to get in

1993
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:22,839
Speaker 1: the real estate business, I would say me and myself,

1994
01:49:22,880 --> 01:49:25,720
Speaker 1: I'm cheap, so that's the first step for me. Let's

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01:49:25,720 --> 01:49:28,880
Speaker 1: see all the information I can find free first and

1996
01:49:28,960 --> 01:49:31,560
Speaker 1: to see if I'm really interested in because why I

1997
01:49:31,680 --> 01:49:33,360
Speaker 1: pay money if you don't even know if you're interested

1998
01:49:33,400 --> 01:49:36,559
Speaker 1: in that type of thing. So that's my that's my idea.

1999
01:49:37,040 --> 01:49:39,759
Speaker 1: And you know, and uh, YouTube is like a big university,

2000
01:49:39,840 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 1: have pretty much everything anything you need. You know, if

2001
01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:44,240
Speaker 1: you need a six of cards on there, you want

2002
01:49:44,240 --> 01:49:45,800
Speaker 1: to buy a house or learn to trying to buy

2003
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:48,559
Speaker 1: houses on there. So I always say that's the first step.

2004
01:49:48,960 --> 01:49:51,680
Speaker 1: You google YouTube, figure out what it is. You know,

2005
01:49:51,720 --> 01:49:54,280
Speaker 1: if you're really interested, then you know, take the next step. Pay.

2006
01:49:54,360 --> 01:49:56,760
Speaker 1: Somebody has been through it, there's know what to do,

2007
01:49:56,920 --> 01:49:59,679
Speaker 1: and then you go from there. Well, it's an interesting

2008
01:49:59,760 --> 01:50:01,600
Speaker 1: thing about it. First of all, I don't want to

2009
01:50:02,200 --> 01:50:04,840
Speaker 1: you can say because you cheap, that's I'd say you're

2010
01:50:04,840 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: smart because of the fact that technology. And I always

2011
01:50:08,200 --> 01:50:11,160
Speaker 1: tell that too, because my predominant artist is African Americans,

2012
01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:14,599
Speaker 1: and sometimes we don't take advantage of what technology provides us.

2013
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:18,960
Speaker 1: You know, and you know, and the research is out

2014
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:22,000
Speaker 1: there for free as long as you have WiFi, as

2015
01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:23,400
Speaker 1: long as you and you can do this on your phone.

2016
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:24,920
Speaker 1: If you got your cell phone, you're doing your cell

2017
01:50:24,960 --> 01:50:26,240
Speaker 1: phone so you can know. You don't have to go

2018
01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:28,600
Speaker 1: get a laptop or go get a computer or you

2019
01:50:28,840 --> 01:50:30,560
Speaker 1: go to a tech store. You can do this on

2020
01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:33,799
Speaker 1: your phone and educate yourself. And these were just YouTube

2021
01:50:33,880 --> 01:50:36,120
Speaker 1: and you just went on YouTube. Just Google you real

2022
01:50:36,280 --> 01:50:38,479
Speaker 1: estate or what did you do on YouTube that you

2023
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:40,839
Speaker 1: was able to get you to to the right videos.

2024
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:45,160
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna break down the story. So I was

2025
01:50:45,240 --> 01:50:50,560
Speaker 1: twenty one, my first house. Nobody told you to do this.

2026
01:50:50,800 --> 01:50:53,880
Speaker 1: You just decided to do this on your own. Yeah.

2027
01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:56,600
Speaker 1: So the reason being I was living in last at

2028
01:50:56,640 --> 01:50:58,160
Speaker 1: the time and my job was in bed Rouge and

2029
01:50:58,160 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't like the drive, so I want

2030
01:50:59,920 --> 01:51:02,640
Speaker 1: to live close to my job. So I went um

2031
01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:05,160
Speaker 1: straight from my parents house to my own host. I

2032
01:51:05,280 --> 01:51:07,560
Speaker 1: was just uh looking in the area looking for the

2033
01:51:07,640 --> 01:51:10,519
Speaker 1: house about I couldn't really find anything, and I've seen

2034
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:12,439
Speaker 1: the house that they just pulled a slab. So I

2035
01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:15,240
Speaker 1: got with a developer. We got together and finished the

2036
01:51:15,280 --> 01:51:17,280
Speaker 1: house and then that's how I did that. And I

2037
01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:19,760
Speaker 1: purchased that house with f h a loan which is

2038
01:51:19,800 --> 01:51:23,920
Speaker 1: three and a half percent down. And then a year

2039
01:51:23,960 --> 01:51:26,559
Speaker 1: after that, I was just on YouTube again searching how

2040
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:29,640
Speaker 1: to make more money. And then uh, real estate keep

2041
01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:32,080
Speaker 1: popping up, and then hotels popped up, and then I

2042
01:51:32,200 --> 01:51:37,400
Speaker 1: took off from there. And that's how that happens. You

2043
01:51:37,479 --> 01:51:39,519
Speaker 1: just took off from there, and now you have over

2044
01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:44,760
Speaker 1: two million dollars and real estate property. Yes, yes, and

2045
01:51:44,960 --> 01:51:50,479
Speaker 1: you you you do. You leave that so many parts

2046
01:51:50,600 --> 01:51:52,680
Speaker 1: because you talk your fast talker too. I could tell

2047
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:55,439
Speaker 1: that to you. You you you talk quick now and

2048
01:51:55,520 --> 01:51:57,519
Speaker 1: so you're just slowing you down. Because I'm a Texas boy,

2049
01:51:57,560 --> 01:51:59,960
Speaker 1: I like for people to talk especial when you talk

2050
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:02,000
Speaker 1: about money. That's when you're talking about money, what you

2051
01:52:02,080 --> 01:52:03,439
Speaker 1: can't do and say, well, you know, I went from

2052
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:05,320
Speaker 1: sevent me to seventy two and now I got two

2053
01:52:05,360 --> 01:52:08,320
Speaker 1: million dollars. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. You know

2054
01:52:09,880 --> 01:52:11,400
Speaker 1: you can't do me like that. You can't do that,

2055
01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:14,880
Speaker 1: you can't do But listeners like that because they had

2056
01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:18,000
Speaker 1: to beat some something like some slow down moments. So

2057
01:52:18,160 --> 01:52:22,360
Speaker 1: oh no, wow, that wasn't a good move there, Wow,

2058
01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:28,200
Speaker 1: because you am I not everything has been a solid success. Nah,

2059
01:52:28,520 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot more to it all. This

2060
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:32,879
Speaker 1: really starts from the beginning, which is what your mindset.

2061
01:52:32,960 --> 01:52:34,519
Speaker 1: You know, if your mindset is not right, you can't

2062
01:52:34,560 --> 01:52:37,040
Speaker 1: do none of this stuff I'm talking about. So that's

2063
01:52:37,080 --> 01:52:39,720
Speaker 1: the first step. What I had to do is I

2064
01:52:39,840 --> 01:52:42,599
Speaker 1: had to focus on what I want to do, realize,

2065
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:45,200
Speaker 1: you know, what I want to do with my family. Well,

2066
01:52:45,240 --> 01:52:46,880
Speaker 1: I realized what I want to do myself, and just

2067
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:50,000
Speaker 1: cool off a little bit for like two years. I

2068
01:52:50,080 --> 01:52:53,800
Speaker 1: stay lost in read books podcast. I'm not really a

2069
01:52:53,880 --> 01:52:55,760
Speaker 1: clever type of person, so I wasn't really going out

2070
01:52:55,800 --> 01:52:59,120
Speaker 1: of anything. I wasn't really talking to friends. I was

2071
01:52:59,200 --> 01:53:01,479
Speaker 1: just spoken on what that to do. And that's how

2072
01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:04,360
Speaker 1: it really, that's how everything happened. How it to go off. Well,

2073
01:53:04,479 --> 01:53:06,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize that they have to

2074
01:53:06,160 --> 01:53:08,280
Speaker 1: sacrifice a lot of things to get what you really wants,

2075
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:10,120
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are not ready for that.

2076
01:53:10,800 --> 01:53:13,280
Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk about. Because everybody wants

2077
01:53:13,400 --> 01:53:17,599
Speaker 1: that that Ferrari, everybody wants that diamond ring, everybody wants

2078
01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:20,760
Speaker 1: that fat bank account. But there are sacrifices that you

2079
01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:23,680
Speaker 1: have to make, and we make those sacrifices, there has

2080
01:53:23,720 --> 01:53:25,519
Speaker 1: to be a goal in mind as to why you're

2081
01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:28,400
Speaker 1: making those sacrifices. And that's what we're talking about because

2082
01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:31,080
Speaker 1: you start, you made that that conscious decision at twenty one,

2083
01:53:31,400 --> 01:53:33,960
Speaker 1: and we all know twenty one mindset is to you know,

2084
01:53:34,400 --> 01:53:37,080
Speaker 1: to be out the club and party and hanging, and

2085
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:40,759
Speaker 1: you decided to know this is, uh, this is an

2086
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:44,160
Speaker 1: opportunity to better my life. But you now are you?

2087
01:53:44,320 --> 01:53:46,880
Speaker 1: Are you working a full time job? Now? Is real

2088
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:49,960
Speaker 1: estate all you do? Yeah, I say my full time

2089
01:53:50,080 --> 01:53:52,080
Speaker 1: job as well. But the thing about my job is

2090
01:53:52,120 --> 01:53:55,519
Speaker 1: pretty easily exactly twenty of a week, works like maybe

2091
01:53:55,560 --> 01:53:57,840
Speaker 1: two hours a day. So found that dead job. I'm

2092
01:53:57,840 --> 01:54:00,320
Speaker 1: still working real estate as well. That's that's they don't

2093
01:54:00,320 --> 01:54:02,400
Speaker 1: want to talk about. A lot of people don't like

2094
01:54:02,439 --> 01:54:04,280
Speaker 1: their jobs or like what they do, but they're not

2095
01:54:04,360 --> 01:54:06,439
Speaker 1: really maximizing all the time they do have to get

2096
01:54:06,439 --> 01:54:09,080
Speaker 1: out the job that they don't want to have. So

2097
01:54:09,200 --> 01:54:11,120
Speaker 1: you can't really be at your job complaining. Are they're

2098
01:54:11,160 --> 01:54:13,080
Speaker 1: not really doing nothing about it? After you get off

2099
01:54:13,120 --> 01:54:15,760
Speaker 1: of work or doing your lunch break, and um, that's

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making Conversations. I'm your host R

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. Well, wow, and that's all. That's all I

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Speaker 1: tell people money making conversation is there's a technique to success,

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Speaker 1: and your technique is saying luke, I can I can

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Speaker 1: paint you an easy story and tell you that you

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Speaker 1: know that you can do this too. But this is

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Speaker 1: not cut out for everybody. This is, this is and

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Speaker 1: that's why you said yourself, you wasn't really cut off

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Speaker 1: for this, so to speak. That's why you said, Rashan

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Speaker 1: on the reel, I went this direction because I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to spend any money. That's why I went to YouTube,

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Speaker 1: which was really smart because YouTube, like you said, you

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Speaker 1: can want to learn how to fix your car, you

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Speaker 1: want to learn to make a cake, you want to

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Speaker 1: learn how to how to make a rocket, you want

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Speaker 1: to learn how to be a marathon runner, you can

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Speaker 1: go to YouTube. It's on there. Just type in, just

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Speaker 1: type in search and a lot of options will pop up.

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Speaker 1: And so that's what you did. And so now with

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Speaker 1: that being said, but also I like the fact was

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Speaker 1: that I always tell people that if you have a

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Speaker 1: full time job to follow your dream, that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: necessarily you should quit your full time job, and in

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Speaker 1: fact you should. You should try to marry the you

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Speaker 1: and try to realize I'm a statement I said all

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Speaker 1: the time. But Parker, is this, If you have twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours in a day, learn to take advantage of

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Speaker 1: every hour. And that's what you did. And you said, look,

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Speaker 1: I got a nine five, I get up at three

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Speaker 1: or four, or my lunch break I called somebody. Since

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Speaker 1: I get a work I called somebody. Now has has

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Speaker 1: that led to any complications? Because I know you said

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Speaker 1: your job is unique. It allows as you do that.

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Speaker 1: But what if somebody was a banker or bank working

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Speaker 1: at a bank, or or working at a typical ninety

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Speaker 1: five that tells you that you have to come to work,

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Speaker 1: you have to do things nine to five, because they

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Speaker 1: still accomplished what you're trying to make happen on neil

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Speaker 1: of course, So let's say you said nine to five,

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Speaker 1: So what are you doing between seven eight thirty? You

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Speaker 1: gotta think you might have to wake up a little earlier,

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Speaker 1: said with a little later, so you can do a

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Speaker 1: lot of things. Just how committed all you to do

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Speaker 1: what you want to do now there's always, of course,

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Speaker 1: you'd be working nine at least get out of lunch break,

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Speaker 1: so you know, go Sydney card, don't really tell boy,

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Speaker 1: don't tell everybody what you're doing, because of course they're

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Speaker 1: gonna gonna go around the office and then that might

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Speaker 1: be a problem. So you gotta post it in lock

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Speaker 1: in and then do what you gotta do. Now with

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Speaker 1: that being said, you've written a book because you need book.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it in my opening introduction to you. It's

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Speaker 1: called Interest Free Money Guide. What exactly is that book

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Speaker 1: about and why did you write it? So that book

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Speaker 1: is really about business credit and teaching our communities, the

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Speaker 1: black community about um utilizing and leveraging the credit scores,

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Speaker 1: because many people have good credit and don't know what

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Speaker 1: to do with it, or they have good credit don't

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Speaker 1: own anything. So basically, this book is teaching how to

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Speaker 1: leverage your credit scores to get interest free moneys from

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Speaker 1: the banks, to investing yourself, your business or some type

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Speaker 1: of thing, some type of investment to make you more

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Speaker 1: money by leveraging the bank's money, which is called OPM.

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Speaker 1: Also reference to other people's money because a lot of

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people hear other people's money,

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Speaker 1: but they really don't understand what it is. Other people's

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Speaker 1: money is everybody else's money other than your own. So me, myself,

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Speaker 1: I teach people how to leverage the bank's money and

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Speaker 1: you can get big lines of credit fifty too, you know,

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Speaker 1: twoift dollars per LLC and it could be a brand

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Speaker 1: new LLC. A lot of people in our community that

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Speaker 1: has no knowledge of that. So it was my goal

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Speaker 1: to write the book to teach people about that because,

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, a lot of people don't know

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Speaker 1: about it and we need to start taking advantage of

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Speaker 1: it because the other communities have been doing that for

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Speaker 1: a while, and that's what we're behind because we don't

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Speaker 1: know any better. Now how do we get there? Now

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Speaker 1: you're on my show, might to make a conversation? Are

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Speaker 1: like you said, I have a newsletter. If you don't mind,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to drop this information about you. My news

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Speaker 1: letter goes out to ninety thousand people. And what what

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Speaker 1: would you say? Is? So you know, if I had

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Speaker 1: to write copy about you and dropping in the newsletter,

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Speaker 1: what would you say will be like three sentences I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't include in the copy about you in regards to

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Speaker 1: what you're trying to do with your book. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: I'll say, Um, the reason you need this book is

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Speaker 1: because is giving you access to thousands of dollars that

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Speaker 1: you can use to make more money for you, your

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Speaker 1: family and your kids and generations to come. That's all

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Speaker 1: it is, basically, And how did you find out about it?

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Speaker 1: Just just too you know, first of all, look let's

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Speaker 1: look back to you, because you what are you? Am

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Speaker 1: I wrong? In that age years old, twenty one years

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Speaker 1: of age, you were trying to find out who you were,

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Speaker 1: all right, because you want YouTube and you file these

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Speaker 1: real estate videos. You looked at them. You said, I

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Speaker 1: can do something. When I got your home in bad

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Speaker 1: Rouge and did a wholesale deal, made two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: This is now, We're twenty and the middle of a pandemic.

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Speaker 1: You have two million dollars of valued property out there.

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Speaker 1: You have good unners or some of them are Section

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Speaker 1: eight people. They're loyal, You do your research. You you

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Speaker 1: have creed, You have a personality that have said that

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be a ninety five, but you're

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Speaker 1: still holding on to your nine. How does how can

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Speaker 1: one say? How did you figured this out? O'Neil? I

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Speaker 1: got you, got you? So it's really uh, I'm a

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Speaker 1: learned term thinking, long term planning, so I know my

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Speaker 1: job uses me, so I do everything I can to

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Speaker 1: use them. So you've got to realize that banks like

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Speaker 1: people that have uh, two weeks checks was just considered

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Speaker 1: a guaranteed check. Banks that were like entrepreneurs because they

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Speaker 1: don't know where the next check is coming from. The

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Speaker 1: next check is not guaranteed, so I know, um, I

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Speaker 1: want to buy Reynolds, build my past of income to

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Speaker 1: of course to place my job, maybe even double my

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Speaker 1: job income. So when I do quit, I have those

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Speaker 1: two year tax returns with my business, and I have

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Speaker 1: my assets to pay for everything that I'm trying to do.

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Speaker 1: So that's the reason why I kept my job. I

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Speaker 1: still have my job because it's a lot easier to

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Speaker 1: get funded from banks and private lenders, hard money lenders

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Speaker 1: and things that need So it's all about long term

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Speaker 1: thinking and planning for the future, not just for now.

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Speaker 1: So I see what you're saying as an entrepreneur, Like

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Speaker 1: you said, people don't know there's no guarantee because you

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Speaker 1: are what you say, an entrepreneur. But because you have

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Speaker 1: a four time job, they see a steady check, a

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Speaker 1: guaranteed check. It means that could be a guaranteed commitment

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Speaker 1: to making that monthly payment. Exactly, you gotta look good

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Speaker 1: to the banks. You gotta look look exactly how the

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Speaker 1: people that's letting you the money wants you to look

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Speaker 1: to get the money that they're trying to live. So

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Speaker 1: I figured that out and I just kept my job,

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Speaker 1: so I could have quit my job. So going back

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Speaker 1: to the beginning of my story, I started to business

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Speaker 1: sixty two thousand and three weeks I mean fifty thou

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Speaker 1: and four months. So at that time I was making

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Speaker 1: like sixty sixty sixty five thousand a year. But net

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Speaker 1: that's really like party to forty five thousand years. I

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Speaker 1: mean more of my part time jobs than my full

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Speaker 1: time job. And most people just walk away. But because

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Speaker 1: see what I think about the long term game, they

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Speaker 1: think about right now. We're just the downside of being

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. If there is a downside to being an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: because as you said, I'm sure dude, you can do

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Speaker 1: you get help benefits with your four time john, Yes, okay, go,

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Speaker 1: so you gotta help benefits. You don't have to worry about.

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Speaker 1: You know that check is gonna be coming to you

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Speaker 1: on a regular basis. You know it. It's like a clock.

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Speaker 1: What is the downside of being an entrepreneur compared to

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Speaker 1: a person who's living both lifestyles? Right now, O'Neil, you're

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Speaker 1: a full time employer and you are basically a full

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Speaker 1: time entrepreneur, So you get to tell me exactly the

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Speaker 1: benefits of being a full time person and the benefits

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Speaker 1: of being a full time entrepreneur, because you clearly have

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Speaker 1: figured out the twelve hours and giving this and twelve

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Speaker 1: hours to give to this, and I'm gonna sleep somewhere

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Speaker 1: in between. Yeah. So the benefits of both is of

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Speaker 1: course what I said earlier, the funding and everything with

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Speaker 1: the job, uh insurance, you can also leverage your full

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Speaker 1: one k so I do that as well. Um, so

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Speaker 1: going towards the fulling kids, like, your job is giving

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Speaker 1: you whatever the match six percent you put in the thing.

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Speaker 1: So now you're building uh A saving a cause or

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Speaker 1: something like that with the company. So I did, uh

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Speaker 1: maybe like a month ago. I took half of it out.

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Speaker 1: So right now with the coronavirus, you can either depend

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Speaker 1: on your company. You can take all your going call

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Speaker 1: not have a penalty. But I only took half of

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Speaker 1: which is a loan to myself. Put that in real

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Speaker 1: estate and make more money with it, and then I'm

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Speaker 1: really just paying myself back with interest. So you can

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Speaker 1: leverage your job that way. Um. The other benefits of

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Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur is I don't really need the job,

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Speaker 1: so I don't have to work over time. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to. I just worked my party I was in Gone,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not really tied down to having to go

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Speaker 1: over there. So that's another benefit of it. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: also just um building my freedom, leveraging my job to

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Speaker 1: make me more money, change my um, you know, change

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Speaker 1: my lifestyle. So that's the huge benefit. Leverage them. What

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Speaker 1: it leveraging me in a partnership right now? Absolutely? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: And so being an entrepreneur you have to be self motivating,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. Oh and do you work with any other

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Speaker 1: people in achieving your success story right now? And from

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial side of the table, Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: you know have kind of ability partments to have friends,

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Speaker 1: a lot of friends out there. Uh. Just started another

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Speaker 1: business in Janue. Where are my business partner Mr Tyrn?

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Speaker 1: So we helped we hold each other kind of book.

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Speaker 1: Of course we both have to play out partunate the

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Speaker 1: business sceeed. So that's a big part of uh the growth.

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Speaker 1: And we're start another hostealing business. So I stopped within

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Speaker 1: those four months that we talked about earlier, we started

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Speaker 1: one again in January. Reason we started this business because

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Speaker 1: we're both looking at the future, want to uh the

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Speaker 1: generational by more properties. So we're starting another holestealing business.

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Speaker 1: Keep our pipeline full so we can pick out the

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Speaker 1: best properties to you know, either flip or run out

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Speaker 1: for that long term wealth. Wow. In your book, you

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Speaker 1: know the book we needs reading us, any book that

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Speaker 1: you can get, Uh, it's called interest Free Money Guide.

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Speaker 1: You're saying that in this book, you teach us how

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Speaker 1: to access interest free credit on twelve or fifteen business

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Speaker 1: credit cards. Talk to us about that, all right. So

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Speaker 1: the thing about the business credit is you don't need

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Speaker 1: much to get it. So you just need an LLC

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Speaker 1: E I E n uh seven hundred credit score. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it could be six or eighty. So we just will

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Speaker 1: tell up seven hundred less than like five harding cards

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Speaker 1: in the last six or twelve months, and then you're

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Speaker 1: really good to go. And when one personal credit card

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Speaker 1: five dollars or more. So, if you meet all those requirements,

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Speaker 1: you can get fifty again fifty to two d fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand prayer le see interest free twelve to fifty months

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Speaker 1: or the same as cast. If you don't how to

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Speaker 1: make money off of a fifty thou interest free money this. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this really isn't for you, So I don't recommend it

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Speaker 1: to everybody. Recommended for people that is responsible and has

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Speaker 1: something else has got to make them more money. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you want to get this to buy a car

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Speaker 1: or something like that, it's not the book for you.

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Speaker 1: So you know, if you have a seven hundred credits

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Speaker 1: for you have a plan you just are defunding, it's

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Speaker 1: definitely something you need to get. Wow. Talking to O'Neil Parker,

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Speaker 1: he's based in Laughing at Louisiana. Uh, got that little

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Speaker 1: gumbo runs. He's doing real estate from Lafayette, Baton Rouge

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Speaker 1: to New Orleans. Um, here's an exciting book, um that

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Speaker 1: it's an e book. It's called Interest Free Money Guide.

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Speaker 1: It's an e book is written to educate you on

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Speaker 1: business credit. And that's what we're talking about on the

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Speaker 1: call today on money making conversations. UM. So are you

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Speaker 1: comfortable with me putting your book or link into my

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Speaker 1: newsletter that goes out to ninety thousand people on Wednesday? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course of course. And I can also see the

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Speaker 1: link before they can before they can buy. You know,

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Speaker 1: if anybody else's on here. You have any coursetion of

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Speaker 1: anything I can follow on Instagram or Neil Oh and E. L. J. Parker,

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Speaker 1: And you got any questions you have to shooting a message? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can definitely put on that. Oh definitely will I'm

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Speaker 1: til I'm and try to give away your book now,

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Speaker 1: he said, I get a link on so you can

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Speaker 1: uh you know they can buy it. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: I'm old in you, of course, and I'm always interested

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Speaker 1: in hearing different plans of success. And of course I

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Speaker 1: started at twenty one. I didn't have the technology that

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Speaker 1: was self taught. Correct, Yes, sir, of course. Well, my friends,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on my show.

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Speaker 1: Man's a great conversation again. Uh we will. My staff

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Speaker 1: is gonna reach out to you and get those links

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Speaker 1: I'm wanna thank you for coming on Money to Make

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Speaker 1: a Conversation or Neil Parker, Hey man, I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: some man. You know what I said, I gotta will

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Speaker 1: be here absolutely. And I know you're saying you're starting

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Speaker 1: your business in September and January again, right, a new

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Speaker 1: business in January time frame? Right, we started in January

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Speaker 1: coming out of the pandemic, and we're talking about how

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Speaker 1: you looking to January. Is that all right? I'm ready

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Speaker 1: for that as well as the fans one that I'm

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