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Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's to show that she

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Speaker 1: You know. He'll be interview with celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and

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Speaker 1: My guests today are Latasha Brown Southern Black Girls and

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Speaker 1: Women's Consortium visionary founder and co founder Black Voters Matters

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Speaker 1: and Malika Rogers Southern Black Girls, Southern Black Girls and

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Speaker 1: Women's Can Sort Them, Executive director the Southern Black Girls

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Speaker 1: and because Women's Consortium, which is speed Southern Black Girls

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Speaker 1: is a collection of black women. I have six sisters,

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Speaker 1: so I know by black women in philanthropy, activision and

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Speaker 1: girls work who hold deep roots and moves and building

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Speaker 1: models for success. Please work with the Latasha Brown and

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Speaker 1: Meliko Rogers to money Making Conversation Master class, Ladies, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing really, we are wonderful and we were

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Speaker 1: extremely blessed. We're on this show with you. We want

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Speaker 1: to talk about making money and moves. Well, I usually

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Speaker 1: get it now, usually get them on split screen. Why

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Speaker 1: won't see him at the same time? Now, say not

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Speaker 1: get you one at a time when you talk, then

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Speaker 1: you pop up when you don't talk, I don't see you.

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Speaker 1: Can we can we get that look for me because

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Speaker 1: but both of you guys are both the ladies excuse me,

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Speaker 1: are based in Atlanta, Georgia. Why well, Maliki wanna start? Sure,

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Speaker 1: my I grew up here in Atlanta, but the work

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Speaker 1: is based all across our toil states. We just happened

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Speaker 1: my You're a land of native too, I am not.

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Speaker 1: I am an Alabama girl. I'm a deep deep South.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna country to Alabama. They gave me the big

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Speaker 1: Now we're not looking at Malika and I look at you, Latasha,

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Speaker 1: I see energy, I see enthusiasm. But when you talk

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Speaker 1: about the black woman, you know, I was working on

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Speaker 1: black men will consider slaves as well. But but black women,

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Speaker 1: I think I always had a two step, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I think because black women have literally said at

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Speaker 1: other way. And so for many of us entrepreneurship. Many

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Speaker 1: of us have created jobs, not because somebody left us

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Speaker 1: Many of us literally saw a gap of a need

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Speaker 1: the irony is that while black women are the fastest growing,

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Speaker 1: Then why is it that economically we're still at the bottom,

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Speaker 1: And it grew out of us responding to a need

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Speaker 1: because it's good to make money, right, we all want

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Speaker 1: to make I won't folks to make money. This whole

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Speaker 1: for us to help get money and investment in our communities.

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Speaker 1: But that cannot be at the expense of harm in

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Speaker 1: That's our gifts, that's our talents, that's also our treasures.

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Speaker 1: But when we combine that, it ain't no stopping us. Now, Molika,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you now they actually moved her out

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna squeeze on the question into you. But Lenka,

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Speaker 1: Fo I come back to me, don't feel back. But

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Speaker 1: say that? Right? Do you say to you about to

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Speaker 1: say something. Just keep smile, now, Lenka, you sent me

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Speaker 1: straight early in the interviews that a little strong black women.

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Speaker 1: She said, we're just not in Atlanta. Were in twelve states. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we do that because there has been a gap. And Milka, now, Latasha,

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Speaker 1: shut us down, Malika, she shut us down. No, I

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Speaker 1: did not. I would never shut Malika down, my brother.

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Speaker 1: But I was not on the screen when I was

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Speaker 1: then you see you always. I fixed it at first,

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Speaker 1: you sent me straight. You said, I said, we just

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Speaker 1: you said, We're just not in atlant We're in twelve states. Now.

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Speaker 1: why twelve states? Because I'm sure is growing so at

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Speaker 1: our base. The Southern Black Girls and Women's Consoration is

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Speaker 1: over the years of experience is that there was a gap,

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Speaker 1: less than one percent, excuse me, receiving less than one percent.

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Speaker 1: And with that piece of information, the four organizations and

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Speaker 1: this group, So there's that's not acceptable. It's not acceptable

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Speaker 1: in the face of that of Americans who identified black

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Speaker 1: for the South, we are investing here. This is smart money.

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Speaker 1: Investing in black women and black girls in the South

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Speaker 1: to do this work. And we are in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: my hometown of Houston, Texas. Now, now when I went

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Speaker 1: out of Latasha, you know your your your gift to

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Speaker 1: your gift is communication. That's obviously you know the Guard

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Speaker 1: Stacy Abrahams, you're running for the governorship for the second time.

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Speaker 1: This is an incredible experience, and because we've all been

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Speaker 1: away from each other for two years, this is the

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Speaker 1: perfect way to give ourselves a moment to smile at

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Speaker 1: each other. To wreck ignizes the fact that joy is restorative.

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Speaker 1: To take some time to actually share stories with each

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Speaker 1: other because our mental health and self care is important.

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Speaker 1: This is an important event. It's a lot of fun,

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Speaker 1: but it actually does help restore our souls. So it

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Speaker 1: started Saturday, August and then ends September. Why that window,

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Speaker 1: why why that particular window of travel for the tour.

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Speaker 1: So September six is actually the um if you would remember,

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Speaker 1: that that is the commemoration of the bombing at the

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Speaker 1: sixteen Street Baptist Church with the four little girls. And

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Speaker 1: so we always try to make sure that at Southern

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Speaker 1: mark that that moment in our lives UM to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we remember those young women, remember their sacrifice,

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Speaker 1: and remember that black girls have been given to social

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Speaker 1: justice movements for years and that their lives were not

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Speaker 1: in pain. So that date is August. It started August twining,

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Speaker 1: they gave me some bad information, Lake, I said, I

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Speaker 1: think I've reading seventeeth there, but I got to come back.

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Speaker 1: I was just I was speaking specifically to the day.

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Speaker 1: Let me go, like I gotta close the show with

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Speaker 1: the mouth the wonderful the articulates straight out of slum.

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Speaker 1: You know, visionary founder co founders. He got two co founders.

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Speaker 1: She got on my show here, the one and only

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Speaker 1: Latasa Brown. You started this and then three other ladies

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Speaker 1: had the same vision. You brought home with Lakas during

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Speaker 1: a wonderful job as the executive drect What is the

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Speaker 1: ultimate goal? Because it ain't something going to happen in

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Speaker 1: the year. This is a jouranis a legacy campaign You've

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Speaker 1: created here like I could believe it, but Dr Martin

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Speaker 1: Luther King created It's a legacy campaign because we're always

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Speaker 1: going to continue to fight. We're always gonna have obstacles.

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Speaker 1: We know we have obstacles. How will we be able

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Speaker 1: to come overcome it with your organization? So you know,

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Speaker 1: I am really clear that when God gives a vision,

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Speaker 1: he gives a provision. This is a vision that God

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Speaker 1: gave me. I was in the shower. The vision came

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Speaker 1: so strong, so hard. A matter of fact, I had

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Speaker 1: coming to me at the time. And so I'm raising

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Speaker 1: that because I think part of what we also uh

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Speaker 1: don't do enough of is happening into our spiritual gifts

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Speaker 1: and know that literally, if we follow we're in alignment

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Speaker 1: with that we can create the vision that God gives us.

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Speaker 1: And the vision for me wasn't about the organization, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't about the money, it was how to create that

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Speaker 1: that I was so excited that God would tap me

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Speaker 1: as one of his many, many people that we could

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Speaker 1: act have the audacity to believe that we could create

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Speaker 1: the kind of environment that could be that people, women

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Speaker 1: and girls could feel healthy and hold that we could

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Speaker 1: actually staying in the space of abundance. That our abundance

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Speaker 1: wasn't determined by the stock marketing, determined about about check

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Speaker 1: them out. But my abundance is what God has given

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Speaker 1: me and put in me that we could actually create.

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Speaker 1: We can use our innovation to actually address some of

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Speaker 1: the problems. That we didn't need anybody to come in

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Speaker 1: and look at us as victims, but in fact we

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Speaker 1: can actually share out of our abundance, our abundance of spirit,

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Speaker 1: our abundance of joy, our abundance of thoughts, our abundance

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Speaker 1: of creativity. And we've seen where the world has has

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Speaker 1: has actually benefited from that and has exploited that. And

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Speaker 1: so but what best way to do it is to

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Speaker 1: lead and create a vision that literally all of us

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Speaker 1: collectively could be a part of that if we change

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Speaker 1: the life of a black girl, I am convinced that

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Speaker 1: if we change your life, a little black girl, we

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Speaker 1: will change the world. And so that is my vision.

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Speaker 1: My vision is that black girls will recognize that they

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Speaker 1: are already whole and complete and there's nothing left to

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Speaker 1: do but just operate in the in the gifts and

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Speaker 1: the talents that God has given them. Well, thank you

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Speaker 1: for that. You know that I won't say sermon because

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Speaker 1: if you you're you're you're a talker, you're a gifted speaker,

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Speaker 1: You're you know what to say and know how to

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Speaker 1: say it. But I want to add this um on

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Speaker 1: every Wednesday my news so I have sixty or six

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Speaker 1: thousand fan club members receive a newsletter at ten am.

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Speaker 1: If you have any banner about the tools, we have videos,

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Speaker 1: fantastic videos, and least get it to me today so

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Speaker 1: it can go out to my fan base tomorrow. Ten

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Speaker 1: o'clock is gone. We were like, we're professional over here,

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Speaker 1: not ten fifteen. I'm they were creeping. One day they

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Speaker 1: did ten fifthdnswer who time y'all tell it this ten

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Speaker 1: am at this company. So please get that information today

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Speaker 1: because I like to my fans to know about it,

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Speaker 1: and I like to know about it because I like

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Speaker 1: to surprise y'all one of them stops. Okay, I wonder

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Speaker 1: so much. I love the South, Chail. You can't. You

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Speaker 1: can't run a brother out to the South, okay. And

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Speaker 1: I love your energy. I'm a fan and and I'm

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Speaker 1: very seriously y'all hear me on my show. I'm inviting

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Speaker 1: them Blika Latasha over by the build and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a down hore. We're gonna capture on video, putting

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Speaker 1: on TikTok and just let everybody know we're gonna and

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Speaker 1: we know we might even do a fundraiser too. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get something rolling around here. Let's get these folks

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Speaker 1: to know why they're watching us eat. Give us a dollar,

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Speaker 1: give us a dollar. Long we eat, y'all keep giving

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Speaker 1: us some dollars. But more importantly, get that information so

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Speaker 1: we can let everybody know about this tour nationwide. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. It was awesome. I love both

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Speaker 1: of y'all. Y'all got, like you said, family, I feel

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Speaker 1: like I'm talking to family. And when you're talking to family,

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Speaker 1: you can talk to him for a long time because

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Speaker 1: guess what, You're gonna start eating and I love to eat.

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Speaker 1: By y'all. We'll be right back with more Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. You are now tuned into

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Speaker 1: the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. Hi,

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Speaker 1: I'm Rashan McDonald for Money Making Conversation Masterclass with your

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Speaker 1: daily minute of Inspiration. This week, I say that with

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Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning TV and film producer, entrepreneur, executive producer

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Speaker 1: of College Hill Celebrity Edition on BT Plus Tracy Edmonds.

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Speaker 1: She talks about the importance of acknowledging our accomplishments and

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Speaker 1: the power we hold. You know, the other thing that's

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Speaker 1: important is to know where you came from and also

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Speaker 1: feel empowered. You know that you're black. You know, while

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Speaker 1: it's important to know the history of slavery and the

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Speaker 1: challenges and the obstacles that we've had to overcome as

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Speaker 1: a race, it's also important to know the accomplishments that

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Speaker 1: we've made as a race. You know, learning about all

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Speaker 1: those contributions that African Americans have made really helps you

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Speaker 1: feel empowered as an individual. If you want to listen to,

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Speaker 1: the full interview with Tracy Emonds is available on money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations dot com. Now let's return to Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. My next guest is Jermaine Carter,

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Speaker 1: otherwise known as Jane Young, a Million Dollar Kid m

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Speaker 1: d K. He's a rapper, mild Marvel was bet to me.

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Speaker 1: That's the show actor and multi entertainer when he's not

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Speaker 1: spending time being a proud father. Is to see you

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Speaker 1: or before I go Hollywood a full service management, marketing

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Speaker 1: and entertainment company. You can catch Jermaine on tour. You

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Speaker 1: can catch him on YouTube, showcasing live performance with Jamie

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Speaker 1: Fox and Snoop Dogg, or performing hits on stage with

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Speaker 1: some of my comedy friends. Gary On's a Country Wayne. Please,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass the one and only

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Speaker 1: Jermaine Carter. How are you doing, sir? Hey? What's going on? Boss?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? I mean, first of all, that

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Speaker 1: intro was thank you for that intro that I started

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Speaker 1: looking like, wait, who's he talking about? So talk about

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Speaker 1: you for that intro um And I'm just excited to

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Speaker 1: be here. Um done a little research on you, Willie,

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Speaker 1: a lot of research search on you. So just excited

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Speaker 1: to be a part of this, this interview and everything

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Speaker 1: that you guys got going on over there. Well, you

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Speaker 1: know this is about you. You know it's about because

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Speaker 1: I try to take the interviews and just show people

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Speaker 1: that you're just a regular person. God is giving you

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Speaker 1: a talent and instead of running from it or instead

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Speaker 1: of being afraid to step out there and be different,

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Speaker 1: you are doing it. But it still comes with bomps,

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Speaker 1: it still comes with excitement, still comes with celebration, but

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Speaker 1: it still is a journey and you have not stopped dreaming.

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Speaker 1: And that's what this interview is about. And so you're

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Speaker 1: young guy, You're out there and you're meeting talented people.

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Speaker 1: Are I mentioned a lot of famous people in this

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Speaker 1: in your intro? How does that correlate with what you

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Speaker 1: trying to do so you can make sure you you

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Speaker 1: develop your name your brand Germain. Um, Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I named my company years ago before I've ever been

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. I named it before I go Hollywood, so

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Speaker 1: that already lets you know, like my mindset um. And

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Speaker 1: my first album was called Now or Never, so that

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Speaker 1: lets you know my mindset. I'm always one of those

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Speaker 1: types of people that look at the glass it's half full,

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Speaker 1: and I'm always that type of person that want to

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Speaker 1: surround myself with greatness, surround myself with positive people, surround

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Speaker 1: myself with people that's head it in the same direction

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Speaker 1: as me. Are people that's already there um to the

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Speaker 1: destination where I'm trying to get. So so they become

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Speaker 1: mentors in a way for you when you see them,

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Speaker 1: and they can tell you. Because one thing I love

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Speaker 1: about the younger generation because a lot of y'all get

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Speaker 1: wraps because you know, people say, y'all want to take

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Speaker 1: it easy, y'all, y'all lazy, y'all don't want to work

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Speaker 1: hard for I say, y'all, take advantage of technology. You know,

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Speaker 1: I grew up. I was born the rotor Vidale telephones

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Speaker 1: was out there. Okay, you born in the internet, the

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Speaker 1: social media video phones. You should take advantage of that.

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Speaker 1: How do you take advantage of it through social media

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Speaker 1: outside of the relationship that you meet physically. Well, I

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Speaker 1: would say with the social media thing, it's just that

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Speaker 1: it's like the whole world is available to you. Like

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Speaker 1: you said, like maybe when you were doing it, you

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Speaker 1: you probably had you had to physically do everything right,

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Speaker 1: so you you had to go meet people at a party,

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Speaker 1: probably within your city. You probably wasn't meeting people in London.

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Speaker 1: You weren't meaning people in Asia, you weren't meet people

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Speaker 1: in Africa. But now, um, which is a huge advantage,

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Speaker 1: And so anyone that's not taking the advantage of that

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Speaker 1: is Yeah, I don't know what to tell you, but

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Speaker 1: it is a huge advantage because now I could get

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Speaker 1: on this phone, like we're talking right now, You're in

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Speaker 1: a complete different city, complete different state, completely you know,

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Speaker 1: you like somewhere completely different than me. I'm in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles right now, But somehow we're conducting this dope interview. Um,

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Speaker 1: just based off of this phone and based off of technology.

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Speaker 1: So we go the same way with creating fans, creating customers,

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Speaker 1: creating anything. Um. You you definitely have the advantage nowadays.

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Speaker 1: But with it being in the advantage, it becomes a

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Speaker 1: disadvantage too because at the same time everyone's doing it

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Speaker 1: versus if you are a hustler back in the day

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Speaker 1: and you're doing something back in the day, you might

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Speaker 1: have had a couple of people to compete with. But

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Speaker 1: now in me twenty two, you have the world. If

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Speaker 1: the grandma decided to pick up the phone because she's

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Speaker 1: want to do a rap, and then she could without

643
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Speaker 1: just like you could throw it out and people pay

644
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: attention to that quicker than they made pensions in your stuff,

645
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: you know, because I really, really, you know something, Just

646
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 1: tell you something, Germain. I've interviewed a lot of people,

647
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: but you hit it dead on the nail right there.

648
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: Because of the fact that time allows me. Like I said,

649
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: I remember when I started doing pause parties, you know,

650
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: passing out my flies and all that. Now fast forward today.

651
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: You know, somebody post on social media, they got followers.

652
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: It's in New Zealand, it's in Canada, it's in Brazil,

653
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: it's wherever that feed takes that brand. But that can

654
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: be scary too, because I just read where you know,

655
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: you know, the star of the Spider Man series. You

656
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: know he's taking a mental break from his social media

657
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: because of what he reads on a constant basis. How

658
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: you deal with social media because we're seeing more and

659
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: more people, especially people of color, acknowledging the mental stress there.

660
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: Used to be that we would never tell we have

661
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Speaker 1: we this. Black people always hide that and hold that

662
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: back in. But mental stress is a real big problem

663
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Speaker 1: talk to us. So yeah, um, I mean as as

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Speaker 1: far as me, I try not to, Like I said

665
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: a little earlier, like I'm a glass half full type

666
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Speaker 1: of person. So the biggest thing, like with this with

667
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Speaker 1: social media, is just knowing who you are and knowing

668
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: what you're there for. You have to know who you are.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know who you are, you you're gonna

670
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Speaker 1: have problems in life period because someone could tell you're

671
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Speaker 1: something else and someone could say you look ugly, are

672
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Speaker 1: you stupid? Are you you you're broke? Are you like

673
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Speaker 1: our look at you because of the color your skin,

674
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Speaker 1: and you will feel insecure about that. But once you

675
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Speaker 1: know who you are, you know what you represent, you

676
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Speaker 1: know what you stand for, then at that point it's

677
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Speaker 1: harder to you know, I'm not saying it's easy because

678
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: we all go through it, right Like, we all want

679
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,479
Speaker 1: validation sometimes from other people, and that's where we get stuck,

680
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: where we want that other person to say we look good.

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Speaker 1: We want that other person to say, and in Spider

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Speaker 1: Man's case, oh, you did an amazing job on that movie,

683
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Speaker 1: or you're this or you're that. But unfortunately success come

684
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Speaker 1: with hate, you know what I mean? And and that's

685
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Speaker 1: just how it is like no matter what it is like.

686
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Speaker 1: Imagine like you could be the person that's trying to

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Speaker 1: start a barbershop, you know, and and you you you're

688
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Speaker 1: gonna have friends and family that don't support it, or

689
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Speaker 1: they're gonna try to limit you to what you could do.

690
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to be like, oh, I don't know,

691
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Speaker 1: you sure you're gonna do a barbershop. You know, they're

692
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Speaker 1: not They're not successful like that at the percentage of like,

693
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Speaker 1: they're gonna feed you different things to detroy you to

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Speaker 1: to to make make you pretty much go away from

695
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Speaker 1: what you're trying to do. And this happens all the time.

696
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Speaker 1: So um, you just gotta be strong minded, know who

697
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Speaker 1: you are and know where you're headed, no where you're going,

698
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: and not allow no like to slow you down or

699
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Speaker 1: stop that. I'm talking to the CEO before before I

700
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Speaker 1: go Hollywood. Jermaine Carter a kid and Jay Young the

701
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Speaker 1: million Dollar Kid, you know, I said earlier, he's a rapper,

702
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: he's a model, he's an actor, multi multi entertainer. But

703
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: more importantly, he's an entrepreneur and a businessman. And that's

704
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: really where the new model is nowadays, because you used

705
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: to go out and people just with performers. Now we

706
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Speaker 1: have your entrepreneur. What allows you to be able to

707
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Speaker 1: be at our business person? Is it because you want

708
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Speaker 1: to understand how to maximize your income and opportunities versus

709
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Speaker 1: just being a town. Well with me, I always believed

710
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Speaker 1: that I want to equity in anything I do. Like

711
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: since I was kid, all of the people that I admired, well,

712
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: you know, starter is just admiring the talent. But then

713
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Speaker 1: I started looking behind the scenes, like, okay, who's involved

714
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Speaker 1: with this? Like and I saw the people that literally

715
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Speaker 1: had generational wealth and the people that chance kids kids

716
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Speaker 1: were getting fed off it with the owners, the people

717
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Speaker 1: that owned the publishing with music, the people that own businesses,

718
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Speaker 1: that owned real estate, that owned McDonald's, that owned whatever.

719
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Speaker 1: Those were the people who were able to take care

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Speaker 1: of their families for the long haul, you know, and

721
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Speaker 1: always thought about it. I know, and I love my

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Speaker 1: mom My mom took very good care care me as

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Speaker 1: a kid, and um and and everything. But always when

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Speaker 1: I when I grew up, I had nothing and I

725
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Speaker 1: had nothing to inherit. You know, like I'm the first

726
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Speaker 1: person that had this mindset that started from ground zero,

727
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Speaker 1: so I didn't I don't want my kids, kids kids

728
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Speaker 1: to have to do that. So I have to be entrepreneur.

729
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: I have to have to have equity and everything I do,

730
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Speaker 1: I have to be able to one day, UM make

731
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Speaker 1: their life easier than mine. And I feel like that's

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Speaker 1: the goal for everyone, UM is to make sure that

733
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Speaker 1: your family's life is easier than yours. That's we're put

734
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Speaker 1: here to do. We'll put here to enjoy ourselves, put

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Speaker 1: here to take care of our family and make sure

736
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Speaker 1: that your family's life is better than yours are they

737
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Speaker 1: have a better start. If I started at ground zero,

738
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Speaker 1: which I did, I should be able to least uh

739
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Speaker 1: pass my kids down ground five or ground ten. So

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Speaker 1: they started a tend instead of the zero. And that's

741
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Speaker 1: where and that's what's been happening to the Royal families

742
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: and are to to uh just different races. They've always

743
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Speaker 1: been able to leave their kids something, whether it's a house,

744
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: whether it's a little bit of money, whether it's some stocks,

745
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: whatever it is they left from something, you know, another brand.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing for, you know. I it was interesting.

747
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: My life has been interesting because I remember when I

748
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: look at you being a multi talented individual. I remember

749
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: in October one that was a that was a day

750
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: for me because I really I had a talk with

751
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,240
Speaker 1: myself and it was motivated by my belief in my faith.

752
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: Was that I asked hard, if he allowed me to

753
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: just to maximize all my talents, did I would give?

754
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: I would not I will not cheat the gifts. And

755
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: when I see you a model actor, you know, rapper,

756
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: you know, entrepreneur, a businessman. When you look at maximizing

757
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: your talents, how do you do that? Jermaine? How do you?

758
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: How do you decipher and monitor and multitask all that

759
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Speaker 1: not just in a daily basis, but a weekly and

760
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Speaker 1: a monthly basis. I think the biggest thing for me

761
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: is passion. I just have a passion for it. I

762
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: don't do anything that I don't love, you know, like

763
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: I could do I'm pretty sure I'm one of those

764
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: types of people that could do anything I want to do,

765
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Speaker 1: Like there's nothing I can do if I put my

766
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: mind too. But I'm not gonna put my mind that everything.

767
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna put my mind to things I genuinely love.

768
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: I love music, so that's why I do it. I

769
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: love acting and film, that's why I do it. I

770
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: love hustling, That's why I'm an entrepreneur. I just have

771
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: a passion for. Like, that's the things that make me happy. Now,

772
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: if it didn't make me happy, there's things I've tried

773
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: that was like mm hmm, yeah, that's not for me,

774
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: you know. But if it wasn't, the fact that I

775
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: couldn't do it, well, it's just I just didn't have

776
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: a passion for And that's not what I lay. I know,

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Speaker 1: if I don't love something, I'm not gonna do it

778
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: well because I'm not gonna give it my all. So

779
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: I feel like one of the biggest things to begin

780
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: with is finding your passion. What do you love to do?

781
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: So if you find something that you love to do

782
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: that you will do for free, although you want to

783
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: make money eventually, but you would do this thing for free,

784
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: then that's your passion. And then you wake up and

785
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: you're smelling and then bring you joy and bring you happiness.

786
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: That's your passion. So that's something that you will naturally

787
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: excel in because you already love it to begin with. Now,

788
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: if there's three things, then I always say, don't put

789
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: your eggs in one basket. Do all three, you know,

790
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: like and see what's for you. And then maybe two

791
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: of them get weeded out and you're only do one

792
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: thing or maybe one thing to work for you at

793
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: the moment. And then he transitioned then other things like

794
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: sometimes music works for me, and then and film's not

795
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: going on, and then I do that, and then a

796
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: film opportunity comes up, So now I'm doing film, and

797
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: then I'm doing film, and a modeling opportunity comes up,

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00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: So now I'm gonna do modeling. I'm gonna run with

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Speaker 1: the opportunity at the same time, while I'm still doing

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00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 1: everything and going in the right direction. You know, my

801
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: career path. I love it. I'm speaking to a Jamaine card.

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00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: How did how did m d K? Million dollar kid?

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00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: How did you get How did that become part of

804
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: your brain? How did that become part of your brain?

805
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: Because I love it well. When I when I was

806
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: when I was a little kid, they used to tell

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00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: me I look like a million dollars and I love

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00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 1: so I went from I was I was just Jay

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Speaker 1: Young at the time and um and I had a

810
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,399
Speaker 1: friend also who used to call itself a million dollar

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Speaker 1: man based off of Ted d Beyonce the wrestler, right right,

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Speaker 1: So I kind of got that name from I was

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Speaker 1: thinking of Anna like an extra name, like an A

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Speaker 1: K A. And he was like, man, you look like

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Speaker 1: a million dollars. So on set of calling myself a

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00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: million dollar man, I went with the million dollar kid,

817
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: and then eventually I nailed it down to J Young

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Speaker 1: M D K instead of being like J Young the

819
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Speaker 1: million dollar Kids, so it became M D J. Well.

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Speaker 1: I first off, just to reviate that, we'll be right

821
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Speaker 1: back with more money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations master Class with

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. When I when I throw out these famous names,

824
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Speaker 1: and then you know, your stage with Snoopy on stage

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Speaker 1: with you know, we know his career, one of the

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Speaker 1: ogs of Wrap. You know, Dion stage with the Oscar

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Speaker 1: Winner and Jamie Fox. Then you're on stage with Cartion Wayne,

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Speaker 1: then your stage with Gary on that's a lot of

829
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Speaker 1: different people you're hanging with. Man, that's a lot of

830
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Speaker 1: different you know, uh brands, how do you? How do

831
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Speaker 1: you float like that? Come on to ain't talk to us?

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00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: You know what's so crazy? Every since ever since I

833
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: was young, I'm a master networker. Like I've mastered networking. Right,

834
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Speaker 1: This is what I've always tell people. If Obama was

835
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Speaker 1: in my city, somehow I would end up at the

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Speaker 1: party where Obama was gonna be in a section with Obama.

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Speaker 1: It's just like that's just my life, Like every single

838
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: time is just you attract what you know. You're just

839
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Speaker 1: the energy, it's the hustle, it's what you attract, you know.

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00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: Um So it's just always worked like that for me.

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Speaker 1: I've never been afraid either. I've never been afraid. I'm

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00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: the person that when I see something and people are like,

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00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: oh wait, that's jay Z, don't go over there, because

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Speaker 1: you know that's exactly where I'm gonna go. I'm going

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Speaker 1: directly to what I'm trying. I'm not afraid to hear now.

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00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: And that's important because people know in fear kind of

847
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: married itself, you know, because of people don't want to

848
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: make that transition. Don't want to because of fear of rejection,

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Speaker 1: fear what people might think of him. That is a

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Speaker 1: that is an incredible leap for a young person. And

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00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: how do you make that leap? And then with people

852
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: question you, Jay, how do you resist? Uh? Not been

853
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: falling victim to their questioning, our doubts because their doubts

854
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: and their doubts like I'll believe that And go back

855
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: to when you say believe in yourself, Like, um, Tom

856
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: Brady know if he throw the ball that he know

857
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: how he This is what I would say, not even

858
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: Tom Brady And he's a he's a going and football right.

859
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: But let's go to Steph Curry for example. Steph Curry

860
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: could close his eyes and make the shot. Why because

861
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: he put in that much work to practice that hard.

862
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: It's not the game. It's not because of the game.

863
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: It's because of the practice. He knows what he's He

864
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 1: know the hours he put in, He know the work

865
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,959
Speaker 1: that he put in. So by the time he gets

866
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: to you and he makes the shot or he shoot

867
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: the shot, he knows what's gonna go in. So he

868
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: can't He don't have time for people to be like

869
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,760
Speaker 1: you imagine, he was very small coming out of college,

870
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: people like he would never work in the NBA, and

871
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: he ended up being a person that transformed the whole

872
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: NBA to where everybody want to shoot threes. Now everybody's

873
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: shooting threes from half court. And that's that's based on

874
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: the simple fact that he practiced, and he practiced, he

875
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: became confident and confidence, you know, like you get confidence

876
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: with with with practice. You know you're good. So nobody

877
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: else have to validate that you're gonna be good. Are

878
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 1: you gonna be okay or nothing? You just you work,

879
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: keep working on yourself, put your head down, go straight,

880
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: don't worry about what people say. You know, when people

881
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: say bad things about you, don't listen to them. People

882
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: say great things about you. Listen to it a little bit.

883
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: But just keep working, working. Now, Now we're you know,

884
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: we got the pandemic out there, we got the George

885
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: Floyd's situation. But here's my man, Jay Young. In twenty

886
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: he made history being the first artist to release a

887
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: four rap album and r B album on the same day. Now,

888
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about. How you continue to push

889
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: the limits. Now when this idea came to you, that's

890
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: I always telling about when I'm saying that, you know,

891
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: and it's not a negative statement, but people were pushing, go,

892
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,399
Speaker 1: that's crazy, why do that final final lane? You're trying

893
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: to do too much? Because I'm sure all those statements

894
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: came at you, but you did it anyway, What did

895
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: you gain by doing that? Well, first of all, I

896
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: heard that all my life when it comes to that

897
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: you're doing too much because I'm I was an athlete first,

898
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: so I played football, played on both sides of the

899
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: ball um, I played wide receiver, I played defensive back,

900
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: running back, everything, So I was already I've always been

901
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: used to being a slash type of player, you know,

902
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: like playing on both sides. So that that helped me

903
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: going into regular life when it comes to doing other things.

904
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: So naturally, I just love to feel challenge like so,

905
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: and I'm always thinking of what's the next thing that

906
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: nobody else has done? Are very few have done? You know?

907
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: So that that's how at the time I was doing

908
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: a thing called fifty Songs fifty weeks. That was when

909
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: I was released one song every week for fifty weeks.

910
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 1: So while dropping a lot of music dropping weekly, I

911
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: was like, man, I might as well put together a

912
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: full body of work, you know, and and the beauty

913
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: about the fifty songs fifty weeks, and you didn't know

914
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get. I was dropping rap records. I

915
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: was dropping on the records. You just didn't know. You

916
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: had to tune in to see what you can get.

917
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: So so I said, you know what, Let's drop two albums.

918
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,399
Speaker 1: First of all, one could be R and B, one

919
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: could be rapped, since I'm releasing a lot of a boat.

920
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: And I was like, wait, let's drop it on the

921
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: same day, because nobody's ever done that. I mean, they're sure.

922
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: There's been double albums, like Tupac All Eyes on Me

923
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 1: was the first double album, but it was a double

924
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,720
Speaker 1: rap album. It wasn't like one R and B album

925
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: and one rap album, like two different genres. So I

926
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, that would be cool. Because I'm already

927
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: doing something called fifty songs fifty weeks, why not do

928
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 1: two albums one day. And that's how that happened. And

929
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: the reaction was, I mean, every news outlet, everybody picked

930
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: it up. And it was happening during the pandemic at

931
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: the same time, when a lot of people weren't really

932
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: they were signed with labels, and that go back to

933
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: your independence and your equity and your ownership. Because I

934
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: was able to decide what I wanted to do and

935
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: when I wanted to do it. I didn't have to

936
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: wait for a label to say, nah, it's a pandemic. Um,

937
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: we're not gonna allow you to drop music, you know.

938
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: So I was able to on my own say I'm

939
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 1: gonna release as much music. Okay, Now I'm gonna drop

940
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: two albums on the same day. Okay, Um, a couple

941
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: of months later, I want to release another album to

942
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: make it three albums within three months. Like you know,

943
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: it was just whatever we wanted to do. I'm talking

944
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: to the CEO or before I go Hollywood. Now now,

945
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: Jamie foxxx new movie on Netflix Day Shift. This is

946
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, right, Okay? Now I saw it

947
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: this I saw it Saturday. Okay, Look, I loved it.

948
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: And to my understanding, you got some news and they ship.

949
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yes, sir, so they ship. First of all,

950
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it yet, make sure you go to that.

951
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: First of all, it's the number one movie in the world. Literally,

952
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: it's a hundred and fifteen countries, is number one in

953
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: right now, and they straight it's a hundred and ninety countries.

954
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna get if we're gonna talk about Jamie,

955
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. The number one movie on Netflix. Okay,

956
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: this is the second number where there the number one

957
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: ship calm here the number one moving for that. Now

958
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: it's a hundred nine countries. My man, Jay Young, I'm

959
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: interviewing it right now, bowling with some music and Day Shift.

960
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: If you don't just watch Day Shift, stop what you're

961
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: doing right now. Snoop in it, Franco in it. It's

962
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 1: ballers making good. Whoa uncle? Snoop in that thing? You

963
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: you you gotta go see it. Um so yeah, speaking

964
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: to that. So you see this right here. BSB actually

965
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: is right there. So that's the name of our group,

966
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: the bs B Boys, So that that can assess to me,

967
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox and my guys Sam. So what we did is, um,

968
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: during every song, I mean during every movie, Fox releases

969
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,280
Speaker 1: a song or he has a song on the movie.

970
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: So this one is called um Bud. It's called Mowing

971
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: Down Vamps. So you gotta check it out. Um super crazy.

972
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: Actually the video the video that Netflix is gonna release

973
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 1: something today and the official video comes out tomorrow. So

974
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 1: that's okay, I said. My newsletter goes out to my

975
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: fans six or six thousand every Wednesday at ten a m.

976
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: Can I get that video today? Oh yeah, get your teller.

977
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: Tell everybody get me that video so I can drop

978
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: it in my newsletter. To Marrow Man, I get thirty

979
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: open rate. My fans opened my newsletter. Okay, so least

980
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: get that to me. To Jake, we get there because

981
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: because Man, I really appreciate this interview. I love your energy,

982
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: and I want this relationship to continue. But I want

983
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: to I want to ship before as we close out, man,

984
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: because violences. You know, you know, I grew up in

985
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: the whole rap when it's first exploded, and it seemed

986
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: to calm down. But now it seems like every time,

987
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,720
Speaker 1: at least every month or every quarter or young rapper

988
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: is becoming a victim of senseless violence within the rap

989
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:30,320
Speaker 1: community on stage, you know, at the house, at their apartment,

990
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: in the streets. What is happening there? What am I missing?

991
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: What information? Could you can tell me? They can help

992
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: me out? You know, it's it's so much. It's I

993
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: feel like it's so much, you know, me being from Atlanta,

994
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: living in Atlanta. Um, like I see it firsthand, Like

995
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: I'm seeing people get locked up, I'm seeing people get killed.

996
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: I know friends has gotten killed. I feel like, not

997
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 1: even just music right now, the state that we're living

998
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: in definitely an American man, as a young black American,

999
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: it's just it's bad. It's bad. You know, like everybody

1000
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: everybody determined knowledgy and the raps and everybody talking about

1001
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: my ops ops, I have to go kill this person.

1002
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: No that's not your ops. But um, everybody everybody's like

1003
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 1: and and also you have to think about the record

1004
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,439
Speaker 1: labels that's actually promoting this stuff. I mean you can't

1005
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: you can't say anything about the LGBT community or you

1006
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,839
Speaker 1: will be canceled. But you could go. You can talk

1007
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: about killing the Black Man and it's gonna be the

1008
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: number one song on the radio. So what is what

1009
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: messages that sending to us? And you've got all these

1010
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: people who are coming from poverty, who have nothing, who, um,

1011
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: who Who's who's promoting a certain lifestyle and and getting

1012
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: rich off of it. But maybe it's one or two

1013
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 1: people or tem people out of the city that got

1014
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,879
Speaker 1: rich off, then there's thousands of people that's getting killed

1015
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: off of it, you know, for the same lifestyle that

1016
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: that we're promoting. But it's just I don't know what

1017
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 1: the state because I'm not involved in that type of stuff,

1018
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: but I do see it and I just feel like

1019
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: the promotion of it, the promotion of it, it sounds cool,

1020
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: but it's real stuff Like this is the craziest generation

1021
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: of music ever. I remember when when you had like

1022
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: the jay z s and all these people talking about

1023
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: they talked about things they used to do that they

1024
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: were over now that they weren't doing. This is a

1025
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: generation that's like I slid on my I went shot

1026
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: am I killed them, and they really did it, and

1027
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: they're really doing it at the time when they're saying it,

1028
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: it's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Um.

1029
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: But and and how do we fix it? I don't

1030
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: know completely. I'll be lying if I said I know

1031
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: how to fix it because it's been so many years

1032
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: of gangs going at each other. This person killed that person.

1033
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: Now this person has to get revenge and the other

1034
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: person now they got to go get revenge and now

1035
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: they're back at it again. It's just like it's crazy

1036
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: I don't know how it stops. I don't know. Um, well,

1037
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: I know I know how it stops. It stops with

1038
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: this conversations, you know, and also with us and with

1039
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: us us you know, you know the answer. First of all,

1040
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: you know you you're so articularly you're you're very smart.

1041
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: You you you're educating me. Okay, you know I would

1042
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,479
Speaker 1: tell you drop three things on me that I'm gonna

1043
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: take away from this, So I feel that's a blessing

1044
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: from this interview. But how it stops really is is

1045
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: a respect and being humble and being willing to walk away.

1046
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: And that's a problem. You know, people don't want to

1047
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: walk away, and then people want to issue threats and ultimatums,

1048
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,240
Speaker 1: and then people are challenging them, unfortunately, challenging them with violence,

1049
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: and that just leads us to go why. But more

1050
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: importantly that you know, your career is, as they said,

1051
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: this way with a lot of prayer, a lot of inspiration,

1052
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: and a lot of success tied to it. And I

1053
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: just want to thank you Jermaine Carter for taking the

1054
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 1: time to come on Money Making Conversation master Class. Thank

1055
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 1: you for having me, And obviously this cannot be the

1056
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: last time. Oh no, no, I seriously, when you drop

1057
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: three things on me, man, and I love you, you

1058
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: remind me of so many people that I that I

1059
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:15,879
Speaker 1: you know, my life has been really cool man, because

1060
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Speaker 1: I've I've touched a lot of people and not really

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