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Speaker 1: I got Egypt Sharad real Estate's Okay, first of all,

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Speaker 1: you about the host of money Making Conversations, Rashean McDonald.

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Speaker 1: He's a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: McDonald will use his business and celebrity relationships to empower

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Speaker 1: small businesses with information to succeed. Welcome back to Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations. There's a show where I interview industry decision makers, CEOs,

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Speaker 1: small business owners and celebrities and you learn the secrets

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Speaker 1: of their success. My next guest sitting right next to me,

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Speaker 1: she's live in studio. Let me just bring it out

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Speaker 1: down to TV hosts and personality love expert waiting, an

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Speaker 1: interior designer, author, creator of the Valentine Cuff. Please, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations, Diane Valentine, Good morning, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me. Well, first of all, I'm excited your studio,

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Speaker 1: my first studio guests in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: having fantastic And I'll be talking to that wonderful husband

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Speaker 1: of yours in the second break a power couple conversations,

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Speaker 1: which I love. I love. Really, you know we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get on the phone and I really I won't get

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Speaker 1: enough time to talk about that because I really like

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Speaker 1: going to the dynamics of you know, your life, his life,

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Speaker 1: and you know how you mix it because you have

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Speaker 1: wonderful kids are important. That's your legacy. When I had

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Speaker 1: my daughter and changed my life, it gave me a

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Speaker 1: reason to possess a purpose because you're just out there

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Speaker 1: just doing your things. Yeah, but love expert read your book.

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Speaker 1: Let me just have everybody read her book, Going to

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Speaker 1: Distance for Love. Who was out in the lobby and

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Speaker 1: she went, you actually read my book? Yes, very impressive.

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Speaker 1: Those are the clips. Thank you. You have the show

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Speaker 1: Tell me about your shell your TV show on Bravo.

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Speaker 1: They premiered in January and I knew nothing about it.

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Speaker 1: Now you know that he told me about his stuff.

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Speaker 1: He tell everybody he t the TV premiere. You know

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Speaker 1: you're laughing back there, but you know he didn't tell

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Speaker 1: me nothing about the premiere your show. He pitching ideas

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Speaker 1: about his life. Now you in my life, so you

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Speaker 1: could just separately, Thank you, thank you. Yes, we premared

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Speaker 1: in January. Is to Run for Love. We air on

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Speaker 1: day not Rome Texas, Rome, Rome, Italy. Right. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: we are Sunday nights at nine pm on Bravo, right

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Speaker 1: after Real Housewives of Atlanta and the premise of the

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Speaker 1: shows that I took five black women to Rome that

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Speaker 1: were struggling to find love in the US to date

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Speaker 1: exclusively Italian men exclusively attained Yes, okay, cool, Now how

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Speaker 1: did you find these women? I was I always like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a I'm a TV producer. All these

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Speaker 1: casting Okay, so you're based where Los Angeles? Los Angeles?

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Speaker 1: Where did the casting for these women happen? All over

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Speaker 1: the country? Yes? Okay, however did you find these ladies?

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Speaker 1: And can I ask you the age group of them? Sure?

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Speaker 1: Our youngest person on the show is twenty five years old,

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Speaker 1: Mercedes Young, and the oldest is fifty one? Who? Okay, cool?

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Speaker 1: Now these are five women? Yes, okay, cool, y'all went

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Speaker 1: over to Rome. You actually went over there. Yes, they

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Speaker 1: lived together in a villa for five weeks. Five weeks okay, now, okay, now, okay,

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Speaker 1: just kind of like a bachelor at type show kind

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Speaker 1: of you kind of, but your stop. It's not an

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Speaker 1: elimination show, right, It's a show about helping women find

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Speaker 1: love and in the process, finding themselves. That's the key

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Speaker 1: right there. Yes, I have six sisters, so I can

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Speaker 1: talk about women. Win't gonna expert, but I can talk

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Speaker 1: so so you're wearing how many hats on this show? Host? Host,

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Speaker 1: love expert, matchmaker, matchmaker? How? Because first of all, I'm

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Speaker 1: just tell you something about this young lady. You heard

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Speaker 1: all the credits, creator, innovator, entrepreneur, mother, you know, designer, valentine, call,

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Speaker 1: who is you? I'm all those things? Why? Because you could?

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Speaker 1: Most people stop? You know, they stopped, They stop. That's

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Speaker 1: too much. I'm tired, I'm tied. Why do you keep going? Girl?

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Speaker 1: How do you do this? You know? The one thing

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Speaker 1: that I've been very clear about in my life is

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Speaker 1: that love is always going to be my ministry. Love

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Speaker 1: has always been the purpose of my life and what

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Speaker 1: I'm here to do. I never thought that I started

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Speaker 1: my career doing weddings and to work for a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in Hollywood, for sure, And I never thought

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Speaker 1: that was it. I just always felt that wherever I

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Speaker 1: was going, love was gonna take me there, Okay, and

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Speaker 1: it has. It's not paying some bills, that's the beauty

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Speaker 1: of it. So so in this process of being I

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Speaker 1: gotta say this a love expert, yes, okay, because you

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Speaker 1: have to. You have to carry that level of that title.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise people won't listen to you can't say I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of a leg love it, right, this is what I do? Yes, Okay,

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Speaker 1: when you when you take on that responsibility, what are

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Speaker 1: some of the problems of pitfalls or being a person

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Speaker 1: because you have friends, you have people running into you

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Speaker 1: in your streets. Yeah, people want to you. You're you're

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Speaker 1: taking a very intimate side of life and exposing it

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Speaker 1: in a books, on the radio, on TV. That's that's

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Speaker 1: your whole career here where the people were trying to

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Speaker 1: put on a wedding dress or planning for a wedding.

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Speaker 1: How have you been even to balance that that strong

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Speaker 1: emotion because not all love works. Love doesn't always work,

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Speaker 1: but that you've got to understand that the core of

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Speaker 1: love is always good. It's always good. So I am

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Speaker 1: in people's lives because they want it. I'm in people's

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Speaker 1: lives because they either want love, they're looking for love,

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Speaker 1: they're asking me to help them celebrate love. So the

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Speaker 1: fact that that is the gateway in which I come

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Speaker 1: into women's lives, it's all built around positive things. So

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Speaker 1: there is no negative effect with Diane Valentine. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: Now there's no negative effect now, which is what would

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Speaker 1: be basically your book. When I read the book, you

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Speaker 1: know you have these different situations. You gotta get this book, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Gotta get this book. Going to Distance for Love twenty

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Speaker 1: two tips, reaching ass. You gotta get this book because

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Speaker 1: you know everybody knows my background. Steve Harvey, you know

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Speaker 1: we have a book. Act like a lady, Think like

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Speaker 1: a man. Sold over three million books worldwide, translating their

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Speaker 1: the languages. The second book was equally successful, took three

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Speaker 1: books to New York Times number one best seller. So

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Speaker 1: with that being, where were you when I was writing?

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Speaker 1: Now again again, again again. I'm not gonna see his name,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna bring him on the air. Here. I

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Speaker 1: am over here, take it with the room and you right,

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Speaker 1: New York Times. Just let you know this is what

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Number one New York Times Marketing and producing

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Speaker 1: an expert on my brand. Guru g r U Guru Diane.

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Speaker 1: I brought you on the show. Cup. See, we gotta

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Speaker 1: get a relationship. That's the purpose of money making conversations

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Speaker 1: because of the fact that people need to meet people

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Speaker 1: like you. Understand, how do you balance all these things

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Speaker 1: with no excuses? Because people people stop being successful because

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Speaker 1: they make excuses and the head out of me. Why

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Speaker 1: don't you make excuse you? Okay, your husband back there,

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Speaker 1: you're married, you got kids, a beautiful dog almost tall

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Speaker 1: as you, two other small ones. Okay, both of you

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Speaker 1: guys are here. And I know when I left, when

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Speaker 1: how do you balance that emotion? Because you know you

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Speaker 1: carry that child nine months You know you have an

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Speaker 1: equally stronger attachment than the man. You know, Yes, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, and so so when you when

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Speaker 1: you understand these brands and relationships, how do you say

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Speaker 1: I have no excuses? Because you also said, uh, the

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Speaker 1: steps for your children? Yea, as he is doing well.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that my husband and I we

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Speaker 1: certainly work hard at being present in our lives. So yes,

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Speaker 1: I do wear a lot of hats, and I juggle

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Speaker 1: a lot of things, but I focus on trying to

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Speaker 1: be a dred percent present wherever I'm at, like right

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Speaker 1: here with you, that's all I got. But when I'm

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Speaker 1: home with my daughter, on home with my grand babies,

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Speaker 1: they're all I got to. So you can handle a

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Speaker 1: lot as long as you're giving everything your full attention

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Speaker 1: when you're in it. I think people people get in

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Speaker 1: trouble when you try to juggle a lot of things

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Speaker 1: and multitasks too much and things start falling apart. But

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Speaker 1: when you can be focused for small periods of time,

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Speaker 1: then you can be successful. And you are successful and

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Speaker 1: so on this show, because we was out in the

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Speaker 1: lobby talking, I was saying that, you know, whenever you

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Speaker 1: whenever you take people, because we know we have stereotypes,

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Speaker 1: and these African American women, now you taking them a room,

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Speaker 1: they don't look like African American man they meet controversy, ensues,

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Speaker 1: trolls started hitting your social media. You know they right,

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Speaker 1: black old Black cry loves you. Being the same color.

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Speaker 1: We should go to the same church, We should be

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Speaker 1: the same height. You know, we should eat boby quep together.

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Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? And also I feel

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Speaker 1: that you should do a post show right after the air.

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Speaker 1: Right after the air. You're giving me another job. I

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Speaker 1: got you, I got you. You need to do a

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Speaker 1: Facebook Lita. You got you because you first of all articulate,

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Speaker 1: be aful, knowledgeable host, and you have the facts. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. You know when I when I

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Speaker 1: think about the controversy that surrounds the show. This is

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Speaker 1: good controversy, Yes it is. It is I feel that

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Speaker 1: women are misinformed, particularly Black women, are misinformed because they

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Speaker 1: do not understand that this show is not about bashing

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Speaker 1: black men. I married a black man, Thank God, I

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Speaker 1: love him. I love everything about him. Right, So it's

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Speaker 1: not about bashing black men, but it is about being

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Speaker 1: a champion for black women because if you look at

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Speaker 1: the sheer numbers, there's a disproportionate number when it comes

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Speaker 1: to available Black women in the US and available African

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Speaker 1: American men and the black you know in the US.

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Speaker 1: So those numbers don't lie. And the only thing that

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is that we are worthy of love and

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Speaker 1: to love and be loved and to be wise and

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Speaker 1: to be happy. And sometimes you've got to find where

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Speaker 1: love is and it might not be in your community,

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Speaker 1: and that's okay. Be does love. You should be willing

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Speaker 1: to go the distance for love wherever it is. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling I got a daughter, and in my mind,

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Speaker 1: you know, I I feel that I've instilled a man

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Speaker 1: version of who she should marry, which is a version

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Speaker 1: of me. But I also know, deep in my heart

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Speaker 1: she has to have a good life. She so she

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Speaker 1: needs to marry the person who's going to treat her right,

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Speaker 1: give a respect fulfill her dreams, and willing to partner

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Speaker 1: fifty would equal respect. So that's what your show is.

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Speaker 1: And so people, people, people bottle neck opportunities and see,

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Speaker 1: just like you have different job opportunities, you have different

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Speaker 1: relationship opportunities. And this is a show that that you

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Speaker 1: you've taken it back to a room where you've been

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Speaker 1: going for twenty years. Yes, so this is not something

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Speaker 1: they just they didn't pop you in the round and

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Speaker 1: this is not a good storyline. I've been traveling in

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Speaker 1: the room, uh not just wrong, but all over Italy

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Speaker 1: for twenty plus years. And a lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: know this, but eight years ago my husband and I

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Speaker 1: got married in Lake Como, long before the show came about.

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Speaker 1: So I have a love I have a long love

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Speaker 1: affair with Italy and and what I like to tell

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Speaker 1: people that there we are very well traveled, me and

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Speaker 1: my husband. I'm a bit of a travel snob. But

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Speaker 1: that's another show. But I find that when I go

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Speaker 1: to Italy, and that why I fell in love with

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Speaker 1: it is there aren't a lot of places around the

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Speaker 1: world where as a woman of color, I feel so comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Right there is cultural relevance in Italy. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of similarities in our culture, and so when I go there,

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Speaker 1: I've always felt just so incredibly welcome and I felt

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Speaker 1: at home. Well, I'm gonna tell you something. You know,

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Speaker 1: when I look at what you're trying to do, you know,

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Speaker 1: I am a fan because you can't be look at it.

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Speaker 1: I come from Field for Texas, Okay. Typically you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be just a guy who doesn't make it.

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Speaker 1: You know, I did not really have a white student

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Speaker 1: throughout my middle school and my senior high school. I

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Speaker 1: went to college when I had a roommate who just

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Speaker 1: happened to be a white surfer. That that opened my

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Speaker 1: eyes to so much. And then not to see the

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Speaker 1: show what it's supposed to be about. This show is

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Speaker 1: just to me. It's like, Okay, this happened. This is

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Speaker 1: show is happening in the room. Ladies. Ladies, if you're

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Speaker 1: sitting at home by yourself, waiting on your dream man,

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Speaker 1: stop looking at color, look at opportunities. That's what this is.

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Speaker 1: And and you're gonna do a post show because on

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Speaker 1: Sunday nights, right after Real Housewives of Atlanta, come on

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Speaker 1: your comes your show. Okay, right after your show, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go to Facebook and I'm gonna promoted. I'm held promoted.

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Speaker 1: Then you're gonna help promote. You're gonna do a post

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Speaker 1: rap show. Anybody you didn't like about the show. Anything,

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Speaker 1: he wants to advice, you want point of live, They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be live now because you hate you, I hate you.

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Speaker 1: Be right back, Hey, Hey, and guess what this job

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Speaker 1: I need paying? Give me everybody back for the husband

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Speaker 1: name and my man power couple. We'll be right back

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Speaker 1: with more from Masha McDonald's Money Making Conversations. As host

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Speaker 1: of money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald is uniquely positioned to

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Speaker 1: of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's a social media influencer.

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Speaker 1: Of his seven hundred thousand plus social media of followers

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Speaker 1: are female. He's a two time Emmy Award winner, three

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Speaker 1: time n double A CP Image Award winner, sitcom writer,

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Speaker 1: in mathematics. More importantly, Rashan McDonald will use his business

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Speaker 1: and celebrity relationships to empower small businesses with information to succeed.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Money Making Conversations is a show where interview

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Speaker 1: industry decision makers, CEO, small business owners and celebrities and

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Speaker 1: you learn the secrets of their success. Diane Valentine is

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Speaker 1: on the half of the power couple that I have

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Speaker 1: on the show today. He's been sitting in the back

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Speaker 1: of room. My next guest is the head of sports

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Speaker 1: Marketing at Troy Car Media. Please welcome to Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversation the guy I've been doing a long time, and

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Speaker 1: help me throw the best part in the history of

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles at Hollywood and Vine. My man, Damon Haley,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Your Sean, really really appreciating my guy,

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Speaker 1: My guy, well, thank you. First of all, When when

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Speaker 1: I Am was on the show, you know, I knew

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Speaker 1: she was in town, and then they told me to

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Speaker 1: use the town, I would. I gotta have them both,

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Speaker 1: you know. But I gotta show her love because you know,

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Speaker 1: she has a career right now that is booming. In

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Speaker 1: the show that follows, you know, Real Housewives of Atlanta

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Speaker 1: has an opportunity to win. Okay, so I gotta My

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Speaker 1: whole thing was to push you to death, you know,

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Speaker 1: so make sure you win. But then I said, you

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Speaker 1: only win, you're uniquely winning because you're part of somebody

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Speaker 1: who's equally successful in his lane. And so you know

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Speaker 1: when I say big events, you know, Playball, Matchion, Hollywood

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Speaker 1: and Vine, this is stuff he's done with me, Steve Harvey.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, you know, imaginative. Um.

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Speaker 1: If he had budget issues, he makes adjustment. Hey man,

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Speaker 1: when you got that kind of money, okay, we won't

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Speaker 1: look at we're give rid of the dove. So we

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Speaker 1: give it to the dove and so so. So now

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Speaker 1: you're here at this new company. What is the difference

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Speaker 1: in your life right now? When I knew you and

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Speaker 1: what you're doing now as an individual, because again you

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Speaker 1: also always reinventing yourself. You also not a guy who's

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Speaker 1: just always smelling the roses looking at the next challenge.

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Speaker 1: What makes you special, my man? Well, I think when

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Speaker 1: we first engaged, I had my own agency with a

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Speaker 1: business partner, and UH, that really ran its course. UM.

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Speaker 1: I did a lot of great things across the United States. UH,

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Speaker 1: and at some point I said I just need to

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Speaker 1: take a step back and do something different, and I

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Speaker 1: actually began consulting. I've spent probably a third of my

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Speaker 1: time in China over the last five years or so. Uh,

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Speaker 1: China in Shanghai. What does that mean? You're there in China?

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Speaker 1: I was there pretty much for five years from April

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Speaker 1: through August working on a project with with Nike, various

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Speaker 1: projects with Nike. UM I had an opportunity to go

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Speaker 1: down before World Cup and Olympics to work on once

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Speaker 1: again projects with Nike. So I began running big and

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Speaker 1: major productions, uh with an agency to just consulting UM

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Speaker 1: big brands and so now with Troika, I gotta call

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Speaker 1: this summer from the president. Uh. You told me you

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Speaker 1: contacted me when it was happening. Were talking about transition

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and I went, hey, man, do

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Speaker 1: it this. Yeah, I thought it was time. The big

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Speaker 1: beats on it were big data obviously, going from a

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Speaker 1: small small public small publicly health company UH to a

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Speaker 1: larger UH publicly health company, being part of that experience

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Speaker 1: and then given the keys to UM take the company

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Speaker 1: in a different direction. So that that excites me. I

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Speaker 1: like building things. That's that's your history because you're creative guy.

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Speaker 1: Now let's talk about this power couple here. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: know I've seen her when she's making these transitions in

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Speaker 1: her because they're all out in public. You know, whether

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Speaker 1: she's affecting people. You know, you're not re producers, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're kind of like behind the scenes people. But she's

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Speaker 1: in front of the camera, just not the first time

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Speaker 1: she's been in front of the camera. How does that

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Speaker 1: play your Why does your role play in giving her

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Speaker 1: emotional support when it doesn't go right or criticism? How

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Speaker 1: does that role play in this relationship? Your role? I

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Speaker 1: think it's exactly where I need to be. I think

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Speaker 1: in order to fuel UM your significant other, you have

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Speaker 1: to be in one support. So UM I had a

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Speaker 1: big decision to make to kind of put the brakes

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Speaker 1: on what I was doing the last year to go

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Speaker 1: shoot with her. And it was an old wise guy

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Speaker 1: who told me, essentially told me to damon, Hey, you're smart,

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Speaker 1: you can make a lot of things happen. But this

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Speaker 1: television opportunity and following up the housewives, this is huge.

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Speaker 1: You should be there to give her every opportunity to succeed.

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Speaker 1: Uh And I am stat And that's exactly what I did.

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Speaker 1: Every night I was there to what Company, California? Wrong?

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Speaker 1: You know, I had to put my life on home

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Speaker 1: go follow my wife to wrong je Well you know,

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Speaker 1: part of every day don't tell all the suffer days,

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Speaker 1: but part of but but part of the turn power

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Speaker 1: is both individuals being powerful. So for me, it was

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Speaker 1: really a big sacrifice, you know, to say I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to do because I just mentioned I was going

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Speaker 1: to China, I was going to Brazil, New York. I

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Speaker 1: mean that's people asked me to make big things happen

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Speaker 1: over the summer. Multimillion dollar things happened, right, but this summer,

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Speaker 1: but this summer um I went to our last summer,

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Speaker 1: I said, I went to room And so that's all

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Speaker 1: I did. I was the boy toy, I was off.

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Speaker 1: I was management about the boy that ain't in the book,

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Speaker 1: going to distance. It was a happy lover board to

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Speaker 1: were talking about keep that under the lady man to

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Speaker 1: the gig guy, about the girl losing all our money

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Speaker 1: to this food, what you gave him her cold talk

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Speaker 1: about all that creep. But the ain't nothing about no

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Speaker 1: board told no man like I said, foot massages, shoulder rubs.

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Speaker 1: That was my goal. That was that was what I

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Speaker 1: was there to do. When you do so, you and

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Speaker 1: I'll tart. Looking at her show, Okay, it's following. He's

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Speaker 1: following the housewives of a laughing and a long root successful.

846
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Speaker 1: Get that, get them good numbers, get following, good numbers.

847
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: Just got a hold onto the numbers are build on.

848
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: That's the goal, right. So when she told you about

849
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: this show, what were your thoughts? Oh? I was so

850
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: happy for um. Like she had shared, she's been on

851
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: this this Italy thing for a while. Uh. And then

852
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: we got married in Italy, which introduced me to it.

853
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: But I saw it just meant a lot to us.

854
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: But for her to just get a show it set

855
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: in Italy, that just said all is possible because I

856
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: heard her dreams for so long about about loving Italy

857
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: and doing a show and then too to help women.

858
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: I think Diane shared at the base of who she is,

859
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: it's about love. So I've seen her do great wedding celebrations,

860
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: make women very happy, families, mother in law's, the whole nine.

861
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: But to have a woman be able to find something

862
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: she otherwise didn't think she found, or thought she lost

863
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: and would never find. I just thought it was a

864
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: great union. Uh, And once again it took her to

865
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: another level in terms of love expert. So love expert.

866
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: What's the future for Diane Valentine. Well, we know it'll

867
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:54,879
Speaker 1: be with love. We know that love is gonna take

868
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: me wherever I'm supposed to go. And I think that,

869
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: you know, this show is going to be transformative for

870
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: black women. I think that black women are going to

871
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: see themselves in a fresh light and they're gonna start

872
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: believing that they really are worthy of love. We know

873
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: the reason I like to show it. Sometimes we need

874
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: uh to be given permission, correct, Okay, because we're restrictive

875
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: so much of what we cannot do, and we step out,

876
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: we get the stairs. You know why he would you know,

877
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: or she could do better than that. He can do

878
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: better than that same vice versa black man day now

879
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: that is ras get the same stairs. Okay, So when

880
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: I when I listened to this show, to me, I'm

881
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: excited because we need permission to say it's all right.

882
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 1: And I hope this becomes a signature show that launches

883
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: that movement. They who makes you happy? Yes, I agree.

884
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: I think that black men have have done it easier

885
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: and faster, um. And so I'm hoping that this conversation

886
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: continues and that that that women just find that it's

887
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: okay to love whoever loves you. And that's important. And

888
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: so so when I when I make that dam about

889
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: her doing the show post show, this is on her

890
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: own time after the show airs, go on Facebook Live.

891
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: We was on the sofa in the lib and you went,

892
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: you did that damon head noob? Why did you do

893
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: the damon head knob? When you know it's gonna take

894
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: up more of her time? I think, one, it's a

895
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: great idea to thank you, thank you baby, thank you baby.

896
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: It gives her more voice because we know the editors

897
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: are telling the story from nine to ten, and so

898
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: afterwards she gets to tell her own story. Uh, and

899
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: as we've seen through social media and just some of

900
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: the feedback over the last four weeks, that her story

901
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: needs to be told, uh maybe a little differently than

902
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: than the editors have told it. So because because also

903
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: it's her brand. That's why I want to do it,

904
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: because I think that once people people need to understand

905
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: you more. You know what I'm saying, your journey, you know,

906
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: your books, your history, because this show only tells the

907
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: small slice of you just being a love expert. You know,

908
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: like I said, you're the person that starts with the

909
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: wedding dress, to the event planning, to the posts. You know,

910
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: you and some of these people you may take relationships

911
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: with them for years and the good and bad of

912
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 1: those relationships. So I think this is just the next

913
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: stage of Diane Valentine and gets what you're not kicking.

914
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: Rashaan McDonald's the curb, I'm gonna be in your life.

915
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: So we got a minute left, so you know, sell yourself.

916
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,439
Speaker 1: You know you around here right in New York Times.

917
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: Best we need to start, we need to start working

918
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: on book number three. I will do that for you

919
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: because guess for your gift and uh, Damon and I

920
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: haven't had a long relationship, and it's one of those relationships.

921
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: He knows whenever he's called me, and we may I

922
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: talked to us a couple of years. I pick up

923
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: the phone, He's in my phone, He's in my dial

924
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: uh in my phone book, and I would talk. And

925
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: so my, my, my, My compliment to you is that

926
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: I'm a friend for you. And when you make that

927
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: decision to go live, let us know and we will

928
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: post and support you socially to promote your brand because

929
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: it's all about you. It's all about your next level

930
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 1: of opportunities for you. Thank you, Thank you. Pick up

931
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: Going the Distance for love can find it. Didn't believe it,

932
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: She didn't believe it. Where can they get this book? Diane,

933
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: Valentine dot com a great power couple. I got another

934
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,959
Speaker 1: power couple coming on the show later London on Dale

935
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: McMillan social media say, man, I got a checking clip.

936
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: Man I handle that when I get back. She said

937
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,320
Speaker 1: that Valentine dot com we gotta produce on the sideline

938
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: that done radio did point. Thank you all for coming

939
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: on my show. Peace, Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's

940
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: the show that she has the secrets of success experience

941
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: firsthand by marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will

942
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: know he's giving me advice to many occasions. In the

943
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: case you didn't notice, I'm not broke, you know, he'll

944
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's

945
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: what he likes to do, it's what he likes to share.

946
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: Now it's time to hear from my man, ra Sean McDonald.

947
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. Here we come. Come on now. I

948
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: appreciate y'all. I appreciate everybody who listens, who watches, who

949
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: follows money making conversations. My next guest is the chairman

950
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: of the north Star Group, executive publisher of Source Magazine,

951
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: The Source Magazine and Jones Magazine. Please welcome the Money

952
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: Making Conversation. Lon Dale McMillan, Hello, good morning, how are

953
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: you free? You know something? When I went to your

954
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 1: resume thank you for coming coming on the show, I went,

955
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: why have I not met this young man before? We

956
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: we we've done so many things in twined together. When

957
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: I looked at your resume and so it's so excited

958
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: to see have you on the show. To talk about,

959
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, the Source magazine, which you know I had

960
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: an opportunity to produce one of the shows that was

961
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: hosted by Monique way back on UPN and so I've

962
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: had a relationship with this magazine over the years. And

963
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: let me take him into explain everybody, if you don't mind,

964
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: what the North Star Group is. The north Cub Group.

965
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: I took this offline. Hopefully this is correct, and I'm

966
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: sure it is. Came a few website is a private

967
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: equity group of innovative marketing, media, talent, management and production

968
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: companies that connects brands to consumers and the community through

969
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: our insights, resources and various platforms including digital, print, mobile,

970
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: social media, and experiential. That is what the North Still Group.

971
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: Is that a group that you started or how did

972
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: they come about? Lindale right? That is a group I started.

973
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 1: I started that business as an alter ego to my

974
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:43,720
Speaker 1: law Yes, I know, because most people know me as

975
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:49,240
Speaker 1: a business entertainment lawyer and and that is my primary

976
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: I guess, um, I guess claimed to getting into business

977
00:53:54,960 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: where I've represented UH and managed prints. Um. But for that.

978
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: In Michael Jackson's Stevie Wonder read the Franklin, Kanye West,

979
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: Little Kim so many, many artists in the entertainment industry,

980
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: Spike League, Wesley Snipe, so many. And as I was

981
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: representing them as a lawyer, I realized that there was

982
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: a need to put together business company to help them

983
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: with structuring their business UM and so I started that

984
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: years ago and one of my clients happened to have

985
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: been The Source Magazine, and UM I wound up investing

986
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: in and then later taking over the Source Magazine because

987
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: the Sources the number one hip hop media brand in

988
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,879
Speaker 1: the world, and I wanted to be able to read

989
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: reconnected to the community UM and use hip hop in

990
00:54:56,239 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: a more positive way. And so I'm from the from

991
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: the community, and I think that our community has a

992
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: lot uh to offer hip hop, and hip hop has

993
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: a lot to offer the community, and I want to

994
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: make sure that hip hop is used in an enterprising

995
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: and inspiring way. So I so I acquired The Source

996
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: Magazine and that's what the North Star Group is. With

997
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: that being saying you say reconnect, Why do you use

998
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: the word reconnect Because I think the hip hop commercial

999
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: culture has taken many of our most talented people away

1000
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: from our community and ways that have left so many challenges,

1001
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: and we need to reconnect the art, the music, the

1002
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: culture of fashion back to the community in a positive

1003
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: way rather than once they get a hit record, they

1004
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: make money, they leave the community, and we still have

1005
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: all of these problems left in our community. And you've

1006
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,439
Speaker 1: got people talking all this talk that is not as

1007
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: inspiring as we can make it. And so want to

1008
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: make it what it was intended to be when we

1009
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: started hip hop in this culture which was supposed to

1010
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: inspire people, educate people, and empower people. Okay, but when

1011
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: you you're talking to Richard McDonald, ust me. Okay. I'm

1012
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:19,240
Speaker 1: what they call a marketing, branding guru. I'm a media force,

1013
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: social media influenza. I got a half million fan base,

1014
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 1: email fan base, UM radio show. How did you? How

1015
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,320
Speaker 1: do you get a person like me engaged into your process?

1016
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 1: Because I'm here to help. I'm here to spread the

1017
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: word not for financial games. Because you're motivating me with

1018
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: your with your vision. How can I help you? Well? First, first,

1019
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: you getting on me by understanding that there's a connection

1020
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 1: and community service and commerce, So you should you should

1021
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: find financial game because we need to produce products and

1022
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 1: services that our community need to have and they will

1023
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: pay for. We need to recycle our culture and our

1024
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: dollars and our commerce in our community. How do you help?

1025
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: You help by doing what you're doing right now, you

1026
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:15,319
Speaker 1: having we speak on your platform, spreading the word, getting engaged,

1027
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: contributing stories. Um, we have to see each other as

1028
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: allies and partners in commerce and in culture, and you

1029
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: have to just see how can you come to anyone

1030
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: like So this is not just you and I to

1031
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: your question, but this is to your listeners. When you

1032
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,959
Speaker 1: approach someone that may have something of value, identify what

1033
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: you can offer to add value to something that's already

1034
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: going forward, and then come up with a reasonable price

1035
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: or return. So when you ask me what can you do,

1036
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: you can do what you do best and connect it

1037
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: to what we do and then we figure out how

1038
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: we can make too. Well. That's why that's why I

1039
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 1: made I created money making conversations because of the fact

1040
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: that I want to be a connector. I want to

1041
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 1: be It's interesting that the brand of of the source

1042
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: because we're gonna get to Jones magazine in a minute,

1043
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: but the brand of the source because it's it's an

1044
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: age range. Now because in two thousand one, when I

1045
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: was producing the show and on the upn and Monique

1046
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: was hosting. You know that was dead on that eighteen

1047
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: to thirty four audience. Now that audience has gotten older,

1048
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: who are fans of the Source magazine and then you

1049
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: still have that eighteen to thirty four audience. Does that

1050
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: make it difficult because the I feel the age range

1051
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: of that of your brand is extended itself, or it

1052
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because you just focusing on a certain age group.

1053
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: I think it doesn't matter. It's all about how we

1054
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: produce our content, because because it gives us an advantage

1055
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: in one rous fact, because we do have the baby boomers,

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Speaker 1: the people who are in there and at thirty five

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Speaker 1: to fifty five range who are aware. But it also

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Speaker 1: because of the content. You know, kendricle Mar last night

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Speaker 1: cleaned up. You know Mars cleaned up. You know, you

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Speaker 1: know they beat a lot of very very well known

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Speaker 1: people who were sitting there expecting to get awards. But

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Speaker 1: you know the content of this culture is young culture.

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Speaker 1: So that's the content that we produced especially during throughout

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Speaker 1: digital or the Source dot com, through our Instagram, through ours,

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Speaker 1: through all, through all Facebook and Twitter. You know, we've

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Speaker 1: got we've got platforms for people who consume music differently.

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Speaker 1: So I think that because we the Source has always

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Speaker 1: been about discovering and promoting new talent, that always will

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Speaker 1: keep young millennials engaged because they're thirsty for an opportunity,

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Speaker 1: So we want to help give them the opportunity. The

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Speaker 1: difference between us, though, is that we want them to

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Speaker 1: curate it in a way that's not only like clever

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Speaker 1: and slick, but also inspiring and empowerful. Is not going

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Speaker 1: to just completely to denigrate and degrade our culture. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what I'm talking about. What that's what the

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Speaker 1: north Star part of it is, right, you know, So

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Speaker 1: we we do everything with them with the north Star

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Speaker 1: land because we believe that you can still be heading,

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Speaker 1: you can still have fun, you can still be lit.

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Speaker 1: But also you don't have to actually take us in

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Speaker 1: the gutter in the in the mix of everything. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing interesting, because I can see

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01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: our relationship is going to stay together because your vision

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01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: mirrors of mine. I launched money Making Conversations and for

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Speaker 1: the entrepreneurship generation. Who is the entrepreneurship generation eighteen and

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Speaker 1: thirty four millennials. I really want to be Uncle Roshan

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Speaker 1: to the millennials. I want to be their voice. And

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Speaker 1: so this platform right down, you know, relaunching in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: is on our Heart Radio podcast, and then I'm launching

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Speaker 1: it to all the HBCU campuses UH this year. And

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Speaker 1: so because I feel that that voice, the same voice

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Speaker 1: that you're talking to, they, like you said, there's a

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Speaker 1: thirsty noess about them that they want to be aware

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Speaker 1: of and be informed. Because if I see all these

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Speaker 1: things as you're doing, you know, Source three sixty four

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Speaker 1: day festival celebrate the seven pillars of hip hop. You know, music, fashion, dance,

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Speaker 1: and art. You you got a three sixties man that

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Speaker 1: you're working on. That's gonna be I think over the

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Speaker 1: next five years, it's gonna be the leader. You know.

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Speaker 1: When I was growing up, you know, it was Jet

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Speaker 1: magazine on my counter, you know, it was just it

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Speaker 1: was on my it was everything magazine. I see Source

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Speaker 1: being that that that new magazine will be on the tabletop. Correct. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I think that the Sword has both the heritage and

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Speaker 1: also the currency of now. Um, you know that we

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Speaker 1: can we can actually continue that motion. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people counted hip hop out that hip hop and to stay,

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Speaker 1: we have to engage and re engage a lot of

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Speaker 1: people walked away from hip hop in our community because

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Speaker 1: it's not like what it used to be when they

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Speaker 1: were here. So I compare hip hop to like sports,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I think the Source Magazine is the

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Speaker 1: vehicle that connected. You know, you have different generations of

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Speaker 1: different people who love different athletes and then uniforms and

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Speaker 1: so forth. But it's here to stay. And I think

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Speaker 1: the Source is the vehicle to make sure that you

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Speaker 1: get it and you get it in a way that

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Speaker 1: is going to be authentic and that's going to empire

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Speaker 1: our community. We'll be back with more Jones Magazine. I'm

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Speaker 1: on the phone with Landale macmilland we'll be right back

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Speaker 1: more from John McDonald and Money Making Conversations. Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you about the host of Money Making Conversations Vershan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: He's a social media influencer. Eighty percent of his seven

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand plus social media followers are female. He's a

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Speaker 1: two time Emmy Award winner, three time n Double A

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Speaker 1: c P Image Award winner, sitcom writer, stand Up Comic

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Speaker 1: one where IBM executive and has a degree in mathematics.

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Speaker 1: More Importantly, Rashane McDonald will use his business and celebrity

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Speaker 1: relationships to empower small businesses with information to succeed. Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is Tasha Evans and I love to eat a

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Speaker 1: great restaurants and more than that, I love great desserts.

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Speaker 1: I O N and McDonald is spelled just like the

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hi, this is Rushan McDonald, the host of

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. You say to yourself, who calls Rushan

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Speaker 1: shell Rickie smiling, You got to get out of your

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Speaker 1: own city and leave in order to group. Because a

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Speaker 1: fish don't get bigger as long as it's inside, get

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Speaker 1: please walk into phone the one and only Charlie Wilson.

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Speaker 1: So many people have really been trying to get me

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Speaker 1: to do a gospel record for so many years, and

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Speaker 1: I've been promising God that I would, I would shout

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Speaker 1: him out to do something. You know that, my baby,

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, but a little Jesus in the song,

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Speaker 1: come on brother, miss Patty little bell, and you know what.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing concerts and little clubs. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for you so that I can touch you

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Speaker 1: when I'm singing with my hand. Thank you. See I

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Speaker 1: told you be there every Monday, ten am the noon.

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Speaker 1: Basy Love and Naty Money Making Conversations. Welcome back, Rushan McDonald,

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Speaker 1: the host of Money Making Conversations on the Phone, the

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Speaker 1: chairman of the North Star Group, executive publisher of Source

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Speaker 1: Magazine and Jones Magazine First Break. We talked extensively about

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Speaker 1: the Source magazine. But I'll be remissed. Eighty percent of

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Speaker 1: my social media followers are female. Uh seventy of my

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Speaker 1: fan club member which just reaches over half me, almost

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Speaker 1: half me our female. So the the becoming the pre

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Speaker 1: eminent guy for shopping for female is Jones Magazine. Tell

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Speaker 1: us about it, Lindale, Hey Jones magazine is just a

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Speaker 1: fantastic UM property of print and online digital UM that

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Speaker 1: that caters to women of color, UM, particularly African American women, UM,

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Speaker 1: Afro Latino women UM in their fashion, beauty and style. Right. UM,

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Speaker 1: it's one that think of like in style. It's a

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Speaker 1: shopping mag it's not a social magazine talking about issues.

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Speaker 1: This week by things talked about products. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: that it's that shopping guy that think Vogue and l

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Speaker 1: and in style our culture. Now, what drove the thought

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Speaker 1: process for creating this? What? What? What? You know? There's

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Speaker 1: always is like okay, we need this. Okay, I got

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Speaker 1: the fact we needed, but how does one drive it

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Speaker 1: to be successful? Okay? Well what drives it is that

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Speaker 1: women in our community are often the CEOs and the

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Speaker 1: c epos of our of our communities, so they drive

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Speaker 1: the most of the purchasing decision community. And secondly, our

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Speaker 1: women are black and brown women are beautiful, stylish, diverse,

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Speaker 1: and we wanted to make sure that we had something

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Speaker 1: that focuses on their styles. There are there are other

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Speaker 1: major publications, including Essence, which I love and you know,

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Speaker 1: my mother had a beauty salon. I love Essence, but

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Speaker 1: Jones is like the fashionable and beauty little sister of that.

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Speaker 1: We don't get into all of the big social issues

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Speaker 1: and all of that. We deal with our fashion, style beauty.

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Speaker 1: There's a place for everything, you know, and Jones is

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Speaker 1: that that beauty place where you can understand where to

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Speaker 1: get products, how much it caused you know, style. You

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Speaker 1: can see beautiful women um styling and profiling, and that's

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Speaker 1: what Jones is about, and that's that's that's how you

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Speaker 1: that that's an important part about being able to drive.

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Speaker 1: Do you have like I've had Tracy Edmands on the show,

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Speaker 1: she talks about her health and wellness all right now?

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Speaker 1: Website which health and wellness? Is that a part of

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Speaker 1: your brand bill out as well as when you talk

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Speaker 1: about style and shopping, is health and wellness? What about

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw these out? What am I baking?

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Speaker 1: And you feel that those are not the generational thoughts

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Speaker 1: that you want to promote and Jones Magazine to your

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Speaker 1: female audience, or am I reaching too far? You know?

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Speaker 1: We definitely keep health health involved because health is part

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Speaker 1: of fitness, part of lifestyle. So everything that's lifestyle, fitness

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Speaker 1: and looking good, you know, it's not about only what

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Speaker 1: we promote, you know, it's about what that, what that,

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Speaker 1: what that brand is about. We don't profess to be

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Speaker 1: all things to every woman, just you know, or every

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Speaker 1: black and brown woman. We're very focused on fitness, style, fashion,

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Speaker 1: and beauty and that's what we do. There are other

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Speaker 1: publications that focuses on other things, and we don't try

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Speaker 1: to do it all. We just do what we do

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Speaker 1: extremely well. And I like that. I like that you're

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Speaker 1: you're a gentleman who's talking with a lot of confidence.

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Speaker 1: I said these events earlier. I want to slow down

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Speaker 1: for you to give me a little background on each

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Speaker 1: source three sixty What exactly is that to my audience?

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Speaker 1: Plus sixty is a festival and conference that focuses on

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Speaker 1: seven pillars are film, fashion, music, technology, sports, and business.

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Speaker 1: Business is important because in hip hop you're always talking

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Speaker 1: about hustle. Unfortunately, the hustle that a lot of the

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Speaker 1: guys are talking about hustles that have a criminal edge

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Speaker 1: to it. We want to create a hustle that is

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Speaker 1: lawful and also enterprising, and so we use the culture

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Speaker 1: of us, the film, fashion, art, technology and so forth

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Speaker 1: to kind of spread both community and business enterprises it's

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Speaker 1: our similar to like south By Southwest, you know, you

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Speaker 1: know when we were young you had Jack the Rapper

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Speaker 1: and all those times. Yeah, focusing on music in an

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Speaker 1: industry and now you've got technology which is driving so

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Speaker 1: much of how we do business that we have to

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Speaker 1: bring that home to our community. We have concerts, we

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Speaker 1: have films or previews, we have a panel discussions. For example,

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Speaker 1: last year we had a huge panel discussion and went

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Speaker 1: very deep on the cannabis industry lawful Mary lawa, which

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Speaker 1: is going to be a multi trillion dollar business. We

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Speaker 1: as a people have gone to prison too much with

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Speaker 1: with cannabis. Now that's gonna become lawful. We now need

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Speaker 1: to be able to be entrepreneurs in that field. You know,

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Speaker 1: we of all people should be the leaders of that industry.

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Speaker 1: And so that's something for example that we looked at

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Speaker 1: and we focused on. We focus on film, music, fashion.

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Speaker 1: We had a power panel with the former CEO b

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Speaker 1: Et Debate Lee and master Pace. Can you imagine master

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Speaker 1: p Is definately did on the days that's power brother,

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Speaker 1: because because I like master because you know he want

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Speaker 1: to gradroom guys. You know, gradroot guys, us straight hustler,

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Speaker 1: you know straight hustler. Now, now when is when is

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Speaker 1: this event it held? And where's it held? So they'd

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Speaker 1: only tell every year in the August of September in Brooklyn, Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: New York. This will be This will be our second,

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Speaker 1: this will be our fifth year. And this year, this

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Speaker 1: year we're gonna start traveling it to other cities because

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Speaker 1: of the success of what we do. It's been, it's

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Speaker 1: been an amazing success. We've received citations from the Mayor's

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Speaker 1: office for the Brooklyn Well President. We've got mads from

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Speaker 1: other cities in Atlanta, in l A, Chicago, all over

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, Charlotte asking us to come and to actually

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Speaker 1: bring that positive spirit of hip hop culture which is

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Speaker 1: which is also now international. This is something that we

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Speaker 1: created as a community that has an international component, and

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Speaker 1: we need to create international business opportunities off of it,

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Speaker 1: not just see it in a very limited way where

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Speaker 1: it's just music or it's not just in the strip

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Speaker 1: clubs all over Yes, sir, yes, sir. Now, when I

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Speaker 1: when I hear all these these are amazing things. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're on the phone with me, you know, and I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you something that I'm a fan, and I say

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Speaker 1: that to you, because that's why I created Money Making

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01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:51,640
Speaker 1: Conversation to give you another portal, another outreach. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we talked about a little bit what I can do

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Speaker 1: for you. I'm letting you know whatever you need for

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01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 1: me to do for you, I'm available to you because

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Speaker 1: I'm a connector that guy. You know I talked about

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Speaker 1: Tracy amen As I talked about I got kier Kira Douglas.

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Speaker 1: Uh Kiara Douglas on the show. She does fashion and

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Speaker 1: dance here in Atlanta market. She's gonna be on the

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Speaker 1: show Wives and Girlfriends. You have all these individuals in

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Speaker 1: that entrepreneurial space who are doing philanthropists. So so when

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Speaker 1: I hear about it moving around, you know, that's that's

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Speaker 1: the beast right there. Man. I remember several years ago

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Speaker 1: when Sas Festival to approached me by doing an essence

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Speaker 1: live because they were considering doing it in different cities.

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Speaker 1: So for that thought process has never been done. I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a big lift for you and

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Speaker 1: bringing it to a place like Atlanta, which has a

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Speaker 1: strong African American market, taken to a place like Chicago,

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Speaker 1: which has a strong African American take it to d C. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be off the change in d C.

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Speaker 1: Come on now, ec. So, so I'm just telling you.

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you d do come on my show, man,

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01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:56,799
Speaker 1: get me hyped. And I don't hear from you no more. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: I know everything. But I can find your brother, I

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Speaker 1: can find you. Know. I'll be d M and you.

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Speaker 1: I'll be d M and you direct message in you

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Speaker 1: come on, do all right, let's do it. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Team work makes the dream work. Absolutely. And I say

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Speaker 1: that to you, man, because when I hear what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: you know you're just like me. You know my degrees

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Speaker 1: in mathematics. I come from a corporate environment of IBM,

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Speaker 1: and I love what I do because you're creative guy.

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01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: You know, you just happen to be a lawyer, and

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01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,439
Speaker 1: you're changing lives every day, man, either social through social media,

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Speaker 1: digital or print. Right now, you're changing lives on my

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Speaker 1: radio show. So when I hear you know what, I'm

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Speaker 1: a lawyer, but I also owned my own law term.

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Speaker 1: So I was an entrepreneur. My mother was an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: owned beauty salon. And it's just in our DNA and

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Speaker 1: I think our community has to get back and helping

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Speaker 1: to create businesses that are of color. Whether you own

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01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 1: them or not, you have to be a part of

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Speaker 1: building them because you are building and investing in your community.

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Speaker 1: And we have often chosen after benefiting of the civil

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Speaker 1: rights to not work in companies that are like us,

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Speaker 1: and that has cost us dearly. Not to say that

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Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with working for other companies, but if

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Speaker 1: that becomes what we do for the most part, for

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Speaker 1: the most part, we're going to be relying on other

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Speaker 1: communities for our livelihood and we need to be able

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Speaker 1: to have more control over what we do, particularly from

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Speaker 1: from cultural accets that are created in our communities. I

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Speaker 1: want to say before we go, the source power theory

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01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,679
Speaker 1: is on news stands now and that's a business issue.

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Speaker 1: Focus on power. It focuses on being great at what

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01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: you do, entrepreneurship and having an impact. You know, in

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01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,840
Speaker 1: life you look back and you'll you'll remember many things,

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01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 1: but the things you remember most when you when you

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01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 1: close those eyes are your family and loved ones and

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01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 1: what impact you made or you didn't make it in life.

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Speaker 1: I say, make an impact and make sure that that

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Speaker 1: impact benefits your family and your community and stop worrying

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01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,600
Speaker 1: about what other people think and get to get to

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Speaker 1: this business. My man, give me that link so I

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Speaker 1: can promote it on my social media. We're gonna talk soon.

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Speaker 1: You're fantastic, fantastic brother. Stay strong, We'll be right back

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Speaker 1: from Ms McDonald and Money Making Conversations. We're streaming online,

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Speaker 1: com tune in radio, I Heart Radio, and our exclusive

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Speaker 1: mobile apps. As host of Money Making Conversations, Rashan McDonald

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01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: is uniquely positioned to provide a step by step, easy

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01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 1: to understand blueprint that drives listeners to realize their dreams

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01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:49,440
Speaker 1: and aspirations. Until you do the business plan or incorporate

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01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: or actually create that product or start selling products, the

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01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 1: universe doesn't have to deal with. Money Making Conversations is

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01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:59,759
Speaker 1: an innovative platform that delivers financial literacy to help everyone

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01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: with brand success. Good to have a money making conversation

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01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 1: with somebody that makes money. Let me tell you about

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01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 1: the Host of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's a

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Speaker 1: social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand plus social

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Speaker 1: media followers are female. He's a two time Emmy Award winner,

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Speaker 1: three time n double a CP image award winner, sitcom writer,

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Speaker 1: stand up comic, former IBM executive, and has a degree

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Speaker 1: in mathematics. More importantly, Rashane McDonald will use his business

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Speaker 1: and celebrity relationships to empower small businesses with information to succeed. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm back man, this this this uh, this room is

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Speaker 1: already jumping um this Rashan McDonald, I'm the host of

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Speaker 1: money Making Conversations. I ran into them when Fox was

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01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: doing There's been an interview right before me and their

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Speaker 1: power car and I it was the thing that because

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Speaker 1: when they came into the dressing room, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: just sitting over there on my phone and asked him

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Speaker 1: they there, They said, well, we're on the Wives and

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Speaker 1: Girlfriendship Atlanta. Go okay. And then I said, then then

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Speaker 1: you know Harry, Harry, Harry. I'm just saying his name

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Speaker 1: before I introduced him. You know, he's the he's the

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Speaker 1: the guy that goes out and talks to everybody. He's

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Speaker 1: the lead man in this conversation. He said, he said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how you doing When we came out there? You go,

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Speaker 1: he said, you you you you do something with Steve Harve.

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Speaker 1: I go, yeah, you said that might want to take

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Speaker 1: your number. I want to take your number. But then

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01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: I said to her chierro I said, I said, I

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Speaker 1: do a show called Money Making Conversation. I will become

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Speaker 1: the voice of the entrepreneurship generation, which is eighteen and

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Speaker 1: thirty four millennial. She said, that's us. That's up a

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Speaker 1: little dad, that's that's up time. That's us. Harry held

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Speaker 1: this place. He don't start talking what I'm saying, your

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01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: place because you've done radio phone, ain't you on that?

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Speaker 1: Let me introduce him because she's already she got the

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Speaker 1: camera rolling around. My next guest or a power couple.

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Speaker 1: He's a professional football player. After spending seven years with

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Faculty, he is currently with the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: He and his brother Tony had to bring it up.

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Speaker 1: Didn't know I knew him. Uh. They have a Douglas

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Speaker 1: Brothers Foundation. As a business is Douglas Property Enterprises. Not

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Speaker 1: His wife was also an entrepreneur. Just Dance Studio is

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Speaker 1: a dance studio specialized in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop,

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Speaker 1: and contemporary dance. Aerial Talent After Your Sister is a

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Speaker 1: talent the agency for kids that develops and provides opportunities

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Speaker 1: for young expiring dancers. Closet Couture is a women's clothing

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Speaker 1: boutique that provides an upscale shopping experience for the modern

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Speaker 1: day woman. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Harry and

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Speaker 1: Kia Douglas. Hi, thank you guys so much for having us.

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Speaker 1: We're excited to be We're gonna talk about, you know,

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Speaker 1: this TV show. But I got excited because you and

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Speaker 1: that United Age group or what I feel is the

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurship genervation and what what what? What excited me when

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Speaker 1: I was at the age of twenty when you decided

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Speaker 1: to start your own business, you know, you know I

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Speaker 1: was that was interested me. And we're gonna get to you,

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Speaker 1: you know her here. Hey, hey, I'm on the end here.

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Speaker 1: But you know is that, you know, always amazes me

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Speaker 1: when people at that age get it, you know, get

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Speaker 1: a clear understanding of this is what I want to do.

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Speaker 1: How And I want I want you to listen. How

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Speaker 1: the age of twenty that you said, hey, I want

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Speaker 1: to start my own business. I know you did it,

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Speaker 1: you know, you dancing all of that stuff. How did that?

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Speaker 1: How did that come into play? Well, I'll be honest,

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Speaker 1: I'm very blessed I have a family that has like

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneurship spirit. Like literally, I think like almost all

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Speaker 1: of my family members on their own business or at

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Speaker 1: some point did. Um. So I was actually in college.

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Speaker 1: I went to Georgia State University. So I was there

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Speaker 1: majoring in marketing and business. And my mom had a

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Speaker 1: corporate job. She was like a VP of her company

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Speaker 1: at the time, and she was a business consultant. So

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Speaker 1: she decided that she was gonna kind of retire early

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Speaker 1: wanted to open a business. And it was always a

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Speaker 1: dream of mine to open a business. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I had seen all of my family members do it. Um.

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Speaker 1: So it was just kind of like, let's merge what

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Speaker 1: we love and take our business sense and do something

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Speaker 1: with it. Um. And for us, it wasn't about finding

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Speaker 1: a business that was going to make us money. It

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Speaker 1: was about finding a business that we thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: would let us grow our passion and we could you know,

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Speaker 1: so into other people. Um. And So for us, that

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Speaker 1: was dance because I've been dancing my entire life. My

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Speaker 1: mom has been a dance small you know, my entire life.

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Speaker 1: And so that was just something that we wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I was just very lucky, um to

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Speaker 1: be in a position to be able to do that

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Speaker 1: age while I was in college, Like I said, I

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Speaker 1: had my mom um, who was a business consultant who

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Speaker 1: knew you know, who knew the ropes of business and

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Speaker 1: what to do, and who was there to kind of

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Speaker 1: Earl's younger. Yeah, she's younger. So she was actually in

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Speaker 1: high school when I opened the business. Um, so it

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Speaker 1: started out with just me and my mom um, and she,

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Speaker 1: you know, after she graduated, join the family business as well.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, which is very lucky to have that mentor,

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Speaker 1: which is the aerial talent Agent. Yeah, it's area area. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know I corrected that. Okay, are I Talent and

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Speaker 1: what you can't really tell the way it's written, it

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Speaker 1: looks like it's her almost yeah, area, it's are I

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Speaker 1: Talent Agency. Yeah, and that's something that's kind of new

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Speaker 1: for us. But we wanted to have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: you know, provide these talented dancers that we see every

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Speaker 1: day with opportunities in the dance world. Okay, cool, Now

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Speaker 1: you got a very talented husband over there. I do.

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Speaker 1: I'm a very lucky woman. It is lucky because of

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Speaker 1: the age, you know, you don't know who you get.

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Speaker 1: I've been married, but I'm lucky to you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, because in the business that I live in,

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Speaker 1: you know, you have all these so many things coming

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Speaker 1: at you, good and bad because you're an entertainer and

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Speaker 1: you're in entertainment, you know, being dancing all your life,

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Speaker 1: and so Harry. You know, I remember, I remember back

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Speaker 1: back in the green room that you felt fortunate that

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Speaker 1: you married a woman of this caliber, even a little

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Speaker 1: shop moment of just seeing you, you felt this was

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Speaker 1: a blessing. Um for me, she was. She was so

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Speaker 1: different from all the other women. Man. She never let

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Speaker 1: me talk to her any kind of way. She had

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Speaker 1: morals and value, She had standards, um, believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: She reminds me one of my mom. And I'm my

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Speaker 1: mama's boy, and my mom is yes, and she is

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Speaker 1: the holiest person on the earth. And my wife has

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01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:26,280
Speaker 1: a strong I called him yesterday to talk to her.

1472
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: He didn't call her back in church. But like but

1473
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: like like like people say, man, you always want a

1474
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: man like your mama, similar to your mom, and she

1475
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:38,720
Speaker 1: was just different. Like I knew she was the one

1476
01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 1: early on. You know, I was just a little crazy things,

1477
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: you know, experience of things she did. But it's it's

1478
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: such a blessing because, believe or not, she is the

1479
01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 1: calm one in the relationship. It's times when she tells me, well,

1480
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 1: I think you just need to calm down. It's not

1481
01:22:56,800 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: that like, you know, it's not that serious. So she

1482
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:02,919
Speaker 1: she she she llows me out sometimes. Well, being an athlete,

1483
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: you know, you you're you're gonna be at an extra gear,

1484
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, because you're constantly training and you have a

1485
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 1: short window. You know what I'm saying. That's that's the

1486
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: honest part about I felt when I was talking to

1487
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,559
Speaker 1: you and then your bio is that you always knew

1488
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: there was there was life after football, you know. With that,

1489
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: with that understanding, what what preparations are you making? Um

1490
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,639
Speaker 1: I'll say with me was it started when I was

1491
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:28,640
Speaker 1: very talented brother named Tony. Didn't even know that. I

1492
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: been a big fan of Tony, largest state first round

1493
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: draft pick in New York Knicks, been following him for years,

1494
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: you know. So so when I read that, I went,

1495
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 1: you got to be kidding my brother, what I'm saying.

1496
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 1: You know, so because of the fact that you know

1497
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 1: I I know a lot and I see a lot

1498
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:48,000
Speaker 1: and that's why that's when they came into the book.

1499
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 1: I go, y'all just on the stage. Y'all right, y'all

1500
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: got stuck. Y'all stuck with me now. And I received

1501
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 1: all my talents to give you guys an opportunity to

1502
01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 1: be successful, because that's my legacy, my legacy Guard is

1503
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 1: given me. Since I was a teen, I've been helping

1504
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:04,000
Speaker 1: people like this. I just didn't know that you know

1505
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And as I got over there, I

1506
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: started building our Steve's career and I started asking what

1507
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. This is what I want to do.

1508
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: I want to be able to take some gifts to

1509
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 1: God and giving me from a marketing and branding standpoint relationships,

1510
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:17,759
Speaker 1: we're able to connect the doctor and show you guys.

1511
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:19,280
Speaker 1: And I want to be the force of that millennial

1512
01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: group because you are my future. You're the people are

1513
01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:23,320
Speaker 1: gonna pay the taxes, You're the people are gonna build

1514
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 1: this country to the next level of greatness. And so

1515
01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:28,439
Speaker 1: when I read about your brother, went again, just like

1516
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 1: you were talking about that entrepreneurship, you know, the athleticism

1517
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:33,720
Speaker 1: of your life. And then y'are giving it back to

1518
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 1: your foundation. Come on that it all started with my

1519
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: mom and dad. Though we had that foundation. Man, I

1520
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:42,840
Speaker 1: think a lot of people gotta understand, Um, you don't

1521
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't have both pairs in the household,

1522
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 1: but you can lean on somebody else. But it all

1523
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 1: starts with that foundation. And I think me and my

1524
01:24:50,479 --> 01:24:52,400
Speaker 1: brother and my sister, we had a great foundation with

1525
01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: my mom and dad and they built for us and

1526
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 1: they instilled within us early on to giving back even

1527
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: when they didn't have so much to always get took

1528
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:03,600
Speaker 1: community and help other kids out. Um. So that's me

1529
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 1: and my brother. It was instilled into us. Okay, Now

1530
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: you have the other other part of the Douglas property.

1531
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 1: What is that I actually started a year ago where

1532
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 1: we uh we take home anything to do with that, No,

1533
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: she does, She got her home. Baby. You ain't got

1534
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: no opinion about what he does. But I got three

1535
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 1: businesses like the show this is my baby, my baby.

1536
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:36,680
Speaker 1: But but but you got to be able to and

1537
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:40,160
Speaker 1: you know, this is your life, you know, y'all. Attractive couple,

1538
01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 1: y'all y'all, and high profile, risky businesses. You know, I

1539
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: would tell people I've been producing TV shows with guess

1540
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: what they could be counsel. When you thank you about

1541
01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:49,639
Speaker 1: that pay that car note, you know what I'm saying,

1542
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: And that's that's and so so you have property? She said,

1543
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 1: that's his, and then she dance. You know, the talent

1544
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: agency and all that good stuff. You ain't nothing to

1545
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: say about that. You ain't got the page. She didn't

1546
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: ever come, and you go, well, she comes to me.

1547
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 1: She comes to me about advice because one thing we

1548
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: share with you, we definitely share business with each other.

1549
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 1: I'm hard on her because why I see the potential

1550
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: that she has to be great right now, you're kind

1551
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,720
Speaker 1: of like a mini manager. Yeah, Like I tell I'm

1552
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: the guy to tell her things that she don't want

1553
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 1: to hear. It's bad enough that all three of my

1554
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:34,720
Speaker 1: businesses are two of them are family owned businesses. So

1555
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, you constantly have mom in your ear, and

1556
01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 1: then you go home and and then you go home

1557
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 1: and you have and I'm wrong with it. I keep

1558
01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:44,000
Speaker 1: it real. I don't cut no corners. I don't shoot

1559
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:47,719
Speaker 1: the cod the TV show a little bit. I wouldn't

1560
01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 1: because we know we're gonna talk about the next break.

1561
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:54,360
Speaker 1: But I want to really introduce the whole personality here

1562
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 1: because I love when I get an opportunity to have

1563
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: a couple on the show, because that didn't agement is

1564
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:03,640
Speaker 1: so important, especially in the lifestyle that y'all live. You

1565
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:06,400
Speaker 1: know this, this is the beauty lifestyle, this is the

1566
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood is about the youth. You know, if

1567
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:11,360
Speaker 1: you haven't established who you are in your twintes, you

1568
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 1: pretty much hang it up when you in your fifties

1569
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:16,000
Speaker 1: because they have nothing for you. And that's white black fact.

1570
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. And so when I when I when

1571
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:19,840
Speaker 1: I was talking to you guys in the green room

1572
01:27:19,880 --> 01:27:22,160
Speaker 1: over the Fox, it was it just struck me that

1573
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 1: there's a certain implied energy that you guys are not

1574
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:31,320
Speaker 1: going to fail. Well me, my my mind said, listen,

1575
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,800
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I'm gonna feel anything I do.

1576
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: I just wide, you know. And but but it was

1577
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 1: the cool thing about it was that I was able

1578
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 1: to see two individuals. You know, I've been I love

1579
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:46,600
Speaker 1: couples in my life, you know, stealing you doing all

1580
01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 1: those relationship books. So I've seen enough relationship. I did

1581
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 1: not see a fear in your relationship. You know what

1582
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying, a fear of Okay, she gotta stay close

1583
01:27:54,880 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 1: to me or he gotta stay close to me, you know.

1584
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 1: But but that's important though, it's important, and and it's

1585
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:04,479
Speaker 1: it's funny you say that because the pastor was just

1586
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 1: talking about that yesterday in church. How in relationships, a

1587
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:10,760
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of things fail. You can love somebody,

1588
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 1: but you can level but you might not trust them. Yes,

1589
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:15,599
Speaker 1: like with me and my wife, like it's times when

1590
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 1: she's just I can go somewhees, I'm not worried about you.

1591
01:28:17,920 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: I got the she goes places, I'm not worried about her.

1592
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:23,680
Speaker 1: I think that's important though in a relationship that you

1593
01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 1: each have your own identity and have your own things

1594
01:28:25,880 --> 01:28:28,559
Speaker 1: going on. So for us, it's not we're not stuck

1595
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:30,479
Speaker 1: with each other's but all day because we're so busy

1596
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 1: with other things that we have going on. And that's

1597
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:36,800
Speaker 1: important that you said like that on the radio. We'll

1598
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: be later. They stuck up somebody something, They're gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: been trying to get me to do a gospel record

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Speaker 1: little bell and you know what, I'm gonna be doing

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Speaker 1: concerts and little clubs. Thank you, Thank you for you

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Speaker 1: so that I can touch you when I'm singing with

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Speaker 1: my hands. Thank you. See I told you be there

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Speaker 1: every Monday ten am, ne noon be is he love

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Speaker 1: Power couple, Carol and Harry. You know they're fantastic. You know,

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Speaker 1: a little background Harry professional football player Nick Mayer, you know,

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Speaker 1: or do show on the show. Here. You know, he

1636
01:30:45,040 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 1: got excited because here rise up fan. You know, so

1637
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna be grabbing a picture you before you leave.

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01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:59,559
Speaker 1: I'm brother with me a picture. Yeah. Look, got stop

1639
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 1: be real quick though, because listen, you know I never

1640
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:05,320
Speaker 1: let people call me a football player. Okay, cool, I'm

1641
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:07,280
Speaker 1: a man that plays a game of football because I

1642
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: had so many other things in my life that I

1643
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:12,840
Speaker 1: can do. Cool but but but don't don't don't be

1644
01:31:12,840 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 1: alone if I made yeah interrupting, Okay, now what is

1645
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: this thing? What is this again? I'm a man that

1646
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:21,160
Speaker 1: plays the game of football. So that's just one of

1647
01:31:21,200 --> 01:31:23,599
Speaker 1: the things that I do. Because we were talking about

1648
01:31:23,680 --> 01:31:29,680
Speaker 1: the property before Kilty jumped in front of you, were

1649
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:32,639
Speaker 1: talking about you. Did she lean head forward and head

1650
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:37,640
Speaker 1: in front of you? You know, I'm like what I

1651
01:31:41,360 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 1: so talk me about properties? Um, I basically started a

1652
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:47,880
Speaker 1: year ago. Right now we have eight properties. Um, we

1653
01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:50,240
Speaker 1: buy them for for cheap, fix them up, rent them out,

1654
01:31:50,600 --> 01:31:58,040
Speaker 1: some of them will resell them right now yesterday. Also, yeah,

1655
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:01,680
Speaker 1: you're not a football player. Played football, that's one of

1656
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 1: the plans, you know. But listen, I was always a

1657
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 1: fan of When I was four years old, I wanted

1658
01:32:06,920 --> 01:32:08,639
Speaker 1: to be a lawyer. So while I was in college,

1659
01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:11,559
Speaker 1: so before I graduated my senior year, I did an

1660
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:14,040
Speaker 1: internship at a law firm called Frost Bround of Tie.

1661
01:32:14,040 --> 01:32:16,400
Speaker 1: So I was working at a law firm and going

1662
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:19,320
Speaker 1: straight to practice. But like when I go to talk

1663
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:21,200
Speaker 1: the kids, I tell them, like, now in middle school,

1664
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:23,439
Speaker 1: you gotta have playing A, B, C and D now

1665
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 1: because it's not like when I grew up. You could

1666
01:32:26,240 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 1: wait to high school or college to decide what you

1667
01:32:28,400 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 1: want to do with the world's moving too fast. Now,

1668
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 1: you said you have a property. What do you mean

1669
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:37,559
Speaker 1: we said a property? Um, I have duplexes, condos, town

1670
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:40,960
Speaker 1: homes and houses. So you hire management company to how

1671
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:43,960
Speaker 1: the exchange your people moving out of the houses that work?

1672
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:46,599
Speaker 1: My dad does it all. We keep it in the family.

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01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:50,759
Speaker 1: You ain't sharing the check. We keep talking about always

1674
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:55,760
Speaker 1: all family here. Why give other people money and you

1675
01:32:55,800 --> 01:32:58,120
Speaker 1: have the bad your father, your family has the background

1676
01:32:58,160 --> 01:33:01,600
Speaker 1: to do us. So, so that's so I'm looking. I

1677
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:03,639
Speaker 1: see why y'all jumped up and down in that green

1678
01:33:03,680 --> 01:33:06,320
Speaker 1: room when I start talking about the entrepreneurship generation. Y'all

1679
01:33:06,320 --> 01:33:08,919
Speaker 1: were not lying. Y'all have been instilled with that presence

1680
01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:11,680
Speaker 1: to be successful. Y'all don't want to work for the

1681
01:33:11,760 --> 01:33:15,000
Speaker 1: corporate lifestyle. You'll want to build your own brand and directive. Now,

1682
01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 1: with that being said, there's a certain mortality to that

1683
01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:21,040
Speaker 1: because there's no guarantees. Because that's why people go to banks,

1684
01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 1: That's why they go to these different companies because eight

1685
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:26,480
Speaker 1: to five, They know their medical they know their vacation day.

1686
01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: How does that? How does that allow you guys? Being

1687
01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: the power couple. I kinda keep bringing it back. How

1688
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:35,200
Speaker 1: does that allow you when those because they're down moments,

1689
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, their injury moments, the moments. Okay,

1690
01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:41,360
Speaker 1: am I going to play another season? Am I gonna

1691
01:33:41,360 --> 01:33:44,000
Speaker 1: get registrations? Or is this show going to do anything

1692
01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:45,960
Speaker 1: for my career or hurt my career? How do you

1693
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:48,600
Speaker 1: deal with that? Care? I mean it's a lot, but

1694
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:51,080
Speaker 1: I feel like that's life. You're gonna have ups and downs.

1695
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:53,360
Speaker 1: And you know, for us, being that we are a

1696
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:55,240
Speaker 1: power couple, we just were there for one another, you

1697
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean, through the ups the downs. Were

1698
01:33:57,080 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 1: there to push each other, encourage each other. You know,

1699
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:01,800
Speaker 1: if I'm having a down day, he's there to carry

1700
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 1: me on his back to you know, so we make

1701
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:05,479
Speaker 1: it on the open up. And I think that's what's

1702
01:34:05,479 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: important as a power couple. You know, just in businesses

1703
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 1: generals that you have, you know, a support system. Right, Okay,

1704
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about this dance studio. Okay, so you

1705
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,360
Speaker 1: started when you were twenty, Okay, your sister was in

1706
01:34:19,439 --> 01:34:23,519
Speaker 1: high school. What's the goal because now it's for boys

1707
01:34:23,600 --> 01:34:27,240
Speaker 1: and girls. Yes, okay, just started the boys side of it,

1708
01:34:27,320 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So why did you start

1709
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:33,240
Speaker 1: a boy side of it? And what's the goal of

1710
01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 1: creating academy? When I say go talking about registration wise,

1711
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:39,639
Speaker 1: how long are the classes and things like that, Well,

1712
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:42,720
Speaker 1: we started age to go all the way to age eighteen. Um.

1713
01:34:42,920 --> 01:34:46,320
Speaker 1: So we've always actually been open to boys, but the

1714
01:34:46,400 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 1: market is just not as strong for male dancers. I

1715
01:34:49,120 --> 01:34:50,880
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of stigma there. They kind of

1716
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 1: look at it and it's like, oh, that's a girly thing. Yeah.

1717
01:34:55,320 --> 01:35:00,360
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I think you know, within the last probably

1718
01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:04,719
Speaker 1: about eight years or so, it's become really mainstream and popular,

1719
01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:06,680
Speaker 1: um because you had shows like so you Think and

1720
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:09,360
Speaker 1: Dance America's Best Dance Crew, and you you saw a

1721
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:12,040
Speaker 1: lot of those man you saw that male presence a

1722
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:14,240
Speaker 1: little bit more um, and it was a little bit

1723
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 1: more masculine. I think that's another thing that people kind

1724
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:19,360
Speaker 1: of into towards them a little bit. UM. So definitely

1725
01:35:19,439 --> 01:35:23,120
Speaker 1: we were open to you know, everybody and everything, but um,

1726
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:26,639
Speaker 1: we definitely have a really high group of boys right now. Um,

1727
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:30,599
Speaker 1: they're really strong hip hop dancers. But we offer everything ballet, tap, jazz,

1728
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 1: hip hop, and for us, we're just looking to just

1729
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:35,639
Speaker 1: grow the studio as a whole, you know. Um Again,

1730
01:35:35,760 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 1: our goal is to reach as many children as possible.

1731
01:35:41,040 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 1: I'm sorry glam hair, um, but yeah, our goal is

1732
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:50,040
Speaker 1: just to you know, grow, grow the studio, grow the town, agency,

1733
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:55,720
Speaker 1: to reach as many I like to talk. I love

1734
01:35:55,800 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 1: to talk. I love for the phase right on. Every

1735
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:05,320
Speaker 1: time she talked, she'd be blocked. That what it is is,

1736
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:07,120
Speaker 1: every time I sit back from the mic, they're always like,

1737
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 1: we can't hear you. We got your cover girls, don't

1738
01:36:10,320 --> 01:36:14,759
Speaker 1: we were high profile? This ain't no you know, amateur ranging,

1739
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 1: Mike go, I can get you in the hallway. Here's

1740
01:36:17,600 --> 01:36:22,320
Speaker 1: the thing about wags, Wives and Girlfriends of Atlanta. Okay, okay,

1741
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:26,479
Speaker 1: so I got I gotta be rishaw. Okay. So I

1742
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:30,080
Speaker 1: see the pretty pictures of these women here and stuff

1743
01:36:30,120 --> 01:36:35,200
Speaker 1: like that, and I gotta say, you are amazing, thank

1744
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: you so much. I did not expect all this, you know,

1745
01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:42,599
Speaker 1: when you introduce yourself in the green room. Okay, when

1746
01:36:42,600 --> 01:36:45,719
Speaker 1: I saw they are a little bit different now after

1747
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:49,000
Speaker 1: I did my background. Sorry, I was just excited me

1748
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:52,040
Speaker 1: ahead with texting that takes it back, text back, I

1749
01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 1: need this, you do I even need I need to

1750
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 1: think BYO. And so so, how did you guys avoid

1751
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 1: that stigma, because this is a stigma of saying that

1752
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:05,280
Speaker 1: you you're just pretty faced, you just a sexy football player,

1753
01:37:05,600 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 1: because that's what were sold to the general public. But

1754
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 1: we know that's that's a deeper conversation within the household

1755
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:15,040
Speaker 1: to take this opportunity and build your brands to another

1756
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:16,840
Speaker 1: legal because I know that's the goal. Y'all too smart

1757
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:22,360
Speaker 1: for that. Absolutely, I'll say it's um my, my perspective.

1758
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:26,000
Speaker 1: I think it's more so a mindset and um the

1759
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 1: way you think and the way you present yourself. And

1760
01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:31,200
Speaker 1: that has a lot to do with it because a

1761
01:37:31,240 --> 01:37:34,240
Speaker 1: lot of people like I said, like remember we came

1762
01:37:34,280 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: in football player. I stopped everybody and tell them. I

1763
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:40,519
Speaker 1: let them know right there, listen this this I'm not

1764
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 1: the normal guy. I'm ad normal because you look at

1765
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,519
Speaker 1: the grates and this in our life and history, they

1766
01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 1: was weird and not normal. So I'm put I put

1767
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:52,719
Speaker 1: myself in those and that's the beauty of the foundation

1768
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:56,640
Speaker 1: going on that. Okay, he said, you know, dude, you

1769
01:37:56,680 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 1: know that that means you dumped right into it. As

1770
01:37:58,600 --> 01:38:00,320
Speaker 1: soon as you've got a little cash flow, you was

1771
01:38:00,360 --> 01:38:03,800
Speaker 1: investing in the community. Because so you have you have kids.

1772
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:06,400
Speaker 1: You have kids that live in Atlanta and never even

1773
01:38:06,400 --> 01:38:08,200
Speaker 1: been to Georgia Tech. And it's right down the street.

1774
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 1: So we one of the things we do we take

1775
01:38:10,439 --> 01:38:12,799
Speaker 1: kids on college tours to to get on that avenue.

1776
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:15,320
Speaker 1: Would allow them to to be able to see different

1777
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:16,840
Speaker 1: things that they're not they don't get to see on

1778
01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:21,400
Speaker 1: a daily basis. We have a career goals, a seminar

1779
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 1: for the kids. We have a big Christmas event for

1780
01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:26,280
Speaker 1: the kids. We have a foundation building where we have

1781
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:29,800
Speaker 1: about thirty computers. They can come get tutored from different

1782
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:33,080
Speaker 1: teachers and whatnot. So we try to help those kids, Uh,

1783
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:36,000
Speaker 1: give them an avenue to have it out because I

1784
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:37,760
Speaker 1: always tell people that I asked a lot of kids

1785
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 1: what's the definition of poverty, and a lot of them

1786
01:38:39,439 --> 01:38:42,000
Speaker 1: say dollars and cents, right, And it's a mindset, and

1787
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 1: into your mindset changes, your circumstances would never change. Oh look,

1788
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:54,040
Speaker 1: he just articulated on that little kid the hand of

1789
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 1: the class. Now are you doing you have sponsors tied

1790
01:38:59,240 --> 01:39:02,200
Speaker 1: to your founday, Yeah, we have some. Okay, cool, Well

1791
01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw you some more your way, thank you,

1792
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: because what you're doing in Atlanta, I got some connections here.

1793
01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let them know about you. Yes, sir, you

1794
01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:14,120
Speaker 1: know what what's your brother doing right now? Right now?

1795
01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:16,599
Speaker 1: He's over in Europe right now, he's in Turkey playing.

1796
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try to get over there and march

1797
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:21,559
Speaker 1: around his birthday to check him out. But he played

1798
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:24,439
Speaker 1: in the NBA eight seasons. But I think we was

1799
01:39:24,479 --> 01:39:29,920
Speaker 1: only the six NFL NBA um to pair up and

1800
01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:34,479
Speaker 1: play professionally brothers ever. Uh so that's a blessing. But

1801
01:39:34,520 --> 01:39:36,439
Speaker 1: like I said, man, I get a credit to my

1802
01:39:36,520 --> 01:39:39,120
Speaker 1: parents because they gave us that foundation, and you give

1803
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:44,080
Speaker 1: you credit to your absolutely my mother, I mean my

1804
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:47,879
Speaker 1: mom and my dad. But my mom was that driving force. Um,

1805
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:50,240
Speaker 1: my mom and dad are both together they man. But

1806
01:39:50,280 --> 01:39:52,800
Speaker 1: see that's another thing. My parents been married thirty six

1807
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:55,519
Speaker 1: years her parents how long your parents been married? A

1808
01:39:55,520 --> 01:40:02,439
Speaker 1: long time? Something you don't find that often no more?

1809
01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:06,000
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Well, let's because I got

1810
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:09,519
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, honestly, I'm a fan of you

1811
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:12,519
Speaker 1: guys as a couple. You know, you know, good friends

1812
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:15,000
Speaker 1: of Mike Kenny Smith and Gwen lind Smith. I had

1813
01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:16,680
Speaker 1: them on a radio, fell in love with them. They

1814
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:18,640
Speaker 1: got they would have a production there with I t

1815
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:21,679
Speaker 1: V in Los Angeles if we go to some projects together.

1816
01:40:22,120 --> 01:40:24,680
Speaker 1: And you know when they left my show that they

1817
01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:28,000
Speaker 1: felt they were inspired because of what I saw, you

1818
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:31,120
Speaker 1: saw in them, I seeing you guys. You know, he's

1819
01:40:31,160 --> 01:40:33,200
Speaker 1: just a younger version. And I'm just letting you know

1820
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:36,800
Speaker 1: that God just giving you some cool opportunities. My role

1821
01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:38,879
Speaker 1: in your guy's life, it's to help you take advantage

1822
01:40:38,920 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 1: of it. Um Like, I offer myself as a friend,

1823
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:45,559
Speaker 1: offer myself as a mentor to let you guys know

1824
01:40:45,680 --> 01:40:47,360
Speaker 1: this is what I've been put on earth to do.

1825
01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:50,160
Speaker 1: I will become the voice of the millennial generation. I

1826
01:40:50,200 --> 01:40:53,040
Speaker 1: will become Uncle RuSHA to the generational a t V

1827
01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:55,320
Speaker 1: three or four. So let me just let you know

1828
01:40:55,479 --> 01:40:58,240
Speaker 1: that when you walk out that door, hold me accountable,

1829
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:01,400
Speaker 1: because I'm a whole You account because I'm telling you

1830
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:05,160
Speaker 1: that you guys are special. You you blow me away

1831
01:41:05,200 --> 01:41:09,440
Speaker 1: with this with this relationship. You're it's fun, it's it's lovable.

1832
01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:13,120
Speaker 1: It's que and there's nothing wrong with you and a

1833
01:41:13,200 --> 01:41:16,240
Speaker 1: loving relationship. So thank you for coming on my show.

1834
01:41:16,400 --> 01:41:21,200
Speaker 1: Thank you for having blessing. We appreciate it. I'm holding

1835
01:41:21,240 --> 01:41:31,680
Speaker 1: to their hair, her name, my name. I'll see you'll

1836
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:38,800
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