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Speaker 1: money Making Conversations Here we come. Welcome to Money Making Conversation.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Rashean McDonald. Like I say every

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Speaker 1: My next guest is a former NFL star Herman Moore.

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Speaker 1: Herman isn't the football player who now owns a business.

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Speaker 1: as a very successful NFL analysts promoting products as defender Centabon.

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Speaker 1: I love Centabon business consultant, corporate and nonprofits. He has

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Speaker 1: And he is the founder of what all these products

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Speaker 1: The company's mission is to help black young men and

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Speaker 1: that when you look good, you feel good, and then

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Speaker 1: making conversations. Herman, more leasure. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: And what I see is that you have to be

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Speaker 1: able to reach back and not it's not about what

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Speaker 1: I do and what's appealing to me, but it's what

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Speaker 1: does the world itself offer and how do we extract

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Speaker 1: those different abilities and the mindset from individuals say who

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Speaker 1: am I and how can I take this this knowledge

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Speaker 1: or this opportunity and apply it to my vision in

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Speaker 1: my goal. So everything that we do has been around that.

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Speaker 1: We've done programs from UH computer programming, so we designed

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Speaker 1: websites and build um different types of projects that require robotics.

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Speaker 1: We also now are into e gaming and eat sports,

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Speaker 1: which is a big thing. There's grants and scholarships, especially

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Speaker 1: at HBCUs that are getting really big into the sports

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Speaker 1: and e gaming platforms. We with this entrepreneurship program. If

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Speaker 1: you look at the African American community, there were very entrepreneurs. However,

447
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Speaker 1: the failure rate is high because we don't have access

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Speaker 1: to not only the partnerships, the revenue of the tools.

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Speaker 1: When I go and I meet with these large manufacturers,

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Speaker 1: the first thing I saw, Rishan was that they mentioned

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Speaker 1: they would love and I won't name these big retailers.

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Speaker 1: These are your major major retailers. They said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we we want the African American products. We want the

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Speaker 1: minority based products. But you know what, the product quality

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Speaker 1: isn't there, the labeling isn't there. They don't have the

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Speaker 1: systems and the logistics to be able to handle the

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Speaker 1: workload or the capacity of the distribution that we need.

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Speaker 1: They don't have these these things. Well, question I have

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Speaker 1: for them is are you providing resources through your manufacturing

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Speaker 1: partners to afford them that opportunity and not many work,

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Speaker 1: and then I looked at who we were and that's

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Speaker 1: what spawned this entrepreneurship program to say, we are a manufacturer.

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Speaker 1: We're not relying on someone to help us. We get

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Speaker 1: the row goods. We also, through Team eight before my

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Speaker 1: parent company, we do logistics and transportation and procurement and

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Speaker 1: all these things and packaging. So we know what we'll

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Speaker 1: do this our sales will create an entrepreneurship program to

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Speaker 1: help us bring those young, aspiring people in who would

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Speaker 1: love to learn about manufacturing of products and services that

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Speaker 1: we offer, and then we would team up with them

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Speaker 1: to actually launch that vision and we're gonna create this marketplace.

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Speaker 1: So we've already started this program under leadership of a

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Speaker 1: person I brought in who has done a great job.

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Speaker 1: Her name is Christie's Abacar. She's our chief marketing and

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Speaker 1: communications officer, but she also runs our program and we're

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Speaker 1: Well let me let's let's slow it down and talk

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Speaker 1: about it because you shed a lot. But you mentioned

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Speaker 1: your communication director in your CMO, and we know the name.

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Speaker 1: Tackle Life Foundations start in two thousand nine Official twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: which was officially recognized as a foundation. How does one

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Speaker 1: is it a limit to the amount of students young adults?

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Speaker 1: Is the age requirements? What are the requirements for participating

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Speaker 1: in the Tackle Life Foundation opportunities. Well, for the for

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Speaker 1: that particular program, the Entrepreneurship program, it starts with the

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Speaker 1: age of eight team UH. We will go below that,

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Speaker 1: but you have to get parents involved and in your

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Speaker 1: executing documents with them. So we're looking at for those

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Speaker 1: particular programs at a at a different age group. We

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily play a cap because people can be entrepreneurial

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Speaker 1: all their lives and UH for us, we don't put

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Speaker 1: restrictions limitations there. And to qualify for that, we've created

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Speaker 1: a website that should be up here in about a

534
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Speaker 1: month that will start to open it up to the public.

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Speaker 1: We put we pick a few groups to work with.

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Speaker 1: We're working with juvenile justice system to work with some

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Speaker 1: that are are incarcerated and or are getting out that

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Speaker 1: need to have a place in a VISION, so we

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Speaker 1: wanted to start areas of need would be there. We're

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Speaker 1: also working with some of the youth organizations where we

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Speaker 1: will hancel a a few that have vision to come

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Speaker 1: in and participate in our program. But we're gonna open

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Speaker 1: us up and uh if you qualify, that'll be great,

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Speaker 1: but we will do you know, some contract manufacturing as well.

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Speaker 1: I have to mention that for those that are looking

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Speaker 1: for partnerships that will help them scale so they don't

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Speaker 1: have to do it out their house, right, uh, So

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Speaker 1: they can definitely reach out to us uh in at

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Speaker 1: that capacity, and we're gonna do as much as we

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Speaker 1: can within our means to to be able to help. Well.

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Speaker 1: I would tell you this, I want to know more

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Speaker 1: and I would love to learn more be a part

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Speaker 1: of this for you, uh my talents. I've been doing

554
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Speaker 1: this since I was eighteen years old, uplifting educating our

555
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Speaker 1: backgrounds degrees in mathematics, my minor sociology work five years

556
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Speaker 1: for IBM, so I have executive training and I'm entrepreneur

557
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Speaker 1: so and hearing this for the first time on this show,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just let you know if you're looking for volunteers,

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Speaker 1: I always you know, I available, and not just saying

560
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Speaker 1: that because I'm on this show trying to getting good

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Speaker 1: good with you because you are already got my groom

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Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't need you no more, but I

563
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Speaker 1: just know that what you're doing is important, especially for

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Speaker 1: men of color and UH. And if if I'm in

565
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Speaker 1: a position to help you, I will help you. Okay, Now,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate that, and by all means I will

567
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Speaker 1: reach out because I can't do it alone. So I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you. Cool. Well, I'm goning to switch

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Speaker 1: s gears to another subject that I know nothing about,

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Speaker 1: but it's making the headloans cryptocurrency. First of all, explain

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Speaker 1: to my listeners and views what exactly is cryptocurrency. Well,

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Speaker 1: it depends on who you're speaking with. There there are

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Speaker 1: many of us who think that it is a decentralized

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Speaker 1: service in the financial market that allows UH very seamless

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Speaker 1: transactions and the purchase of of just basically this this

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Speaker 1: coin that think is just a phantom value, but it

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Speaker 1: is a way in which to be able to move

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Speaker 1: UM dollars around UH in a in a digital space,

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Speaker 1: versus using FIAT, which is you know what we use

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Speaker 1: now the American dollar or something that is more physical

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Speaker 1: and tangible that's tied to a UM some type of collateral.

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Speaker 1: But it's something that I think it's worth looking at.

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Speaker 1: And as I mentioned to you earlier, you know I'm

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Speaker 1: not an expert on it, but what I've learned is

585
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Speaker 1: I look at the value of systems, and I look

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Speaker 1: at blockchain technology, and I look at a way in

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Speaker 1: which you improve on some of the deficiencies that you

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Speaker 1: find in the financial system. And that's what I think

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Speaker 1: is grown. Has pretty much grown quite a bit, and

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Speaker 1: it's caught the attention of many of those in the

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Speaker 1: financial space. But the regulations are a lot lighter uh

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Speaker 1: than what uh an unregulated than what you see in

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Speaker 1: the central banking system. But as those things get ironed out,

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Speaker 1: I think there is a play here. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's going away. Well I'm I'm pretty sure it's not.

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Speaker 1: You can put regulations there, but there's just too many

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Speaker 1: places in parts of the world, and it's a global participation.

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Speaker 1: This isn't just about the United States. So for me,

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Speaker 1: I mainly just play around with some of the smaller coins,

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Speaker 1: but I will find some that, especially Ethereum, that is

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Speaker 1: where I put more of my time in. Every well,

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Speaker 1: before I close, you know, we talked about the Golden grooming,

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Speaker 1: which I like. I said, this is at my desk

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Speaker 1: every day. I'm liking, you know, I use this all right,

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Speaker 1: I use this man makes me feel good. I like

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Speaker 1: to believe it makes me look good. Okay about coming

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Speaker 1: from my dad right there, I'm grooming brother right in

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Speaker 1: front of you on this interview. Okay and that, But

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Speaker 1: more importantly, we talked about you. You you're you're, you're

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Speaker 1: giving back. We talked about your ability to run a

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Speaker 1: country from running around your business from state across this

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Speaker 1: country using technology. Now you're in the podcast world and

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Speaker 1: you I'm a big fan of this deep deep force. Uh,

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Speaker 1: sidekicker yours lot much Brown? How did you why didn't

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Speaker 1: with offensive tackle Lomas Brown talking about is that you're

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Speaker 1: former Detroit ty Detroit Lions teammates. Yeah, so with moments. Uh,

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Speaker 1: what a great, great guy. We've ended up being teammates.

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Speaker 1: When I came in one he was probably the toughest

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Speaker 1: guy on me because lineman don't like for you to

621
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Speaker 1: they threatened me quite a bit, which made me an

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Speaker 1: all pro wide receiver and actually do my job, but

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Speaker 1: afterwards he is someone who is very much engaged in

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Speaker 1: the community. He's very, very philanthropic. Uh, he's just the nicest,

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Speaker 1: nicest guy you could ever meet. And because of that,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to figure out a space for him within

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Speaker 1: first and foremost our company. So bringing him in is

631
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Speaker 1: our chief Diversity and business development arm. That was awesome.

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Speaker 1: He's done a tremendous job there. But then he and

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Speaker 1: I both have been in media for over twenty years,

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Speaker 1: and having that background, we decided why not build a

635
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Speaker 1: studio in our office. Why not come up with our

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Speaker 1: own camera crew, our podcast equipment and start to do

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Speaker 1: our own show. So we started a show. Because Lom

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Speaker 1: is always if you don't if you get to know him,

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Speaker 1: the first thing he had he will say when he

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Speaker 1: leaves a meeting with you, say next time we get

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Speaker 1: together less great bread. And so we decided to call

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Speaker 1: our show Breaking Bread and UH. From then on, we've

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Speaker 1: been having a blast. It allows us to talk about

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Speaker 1: things that are relevant to us, things that are relevant

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