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Speaker 1: The game of basketball has been very, very good to.

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Speaker 1: My next guest is the former NBA All Star If

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Speaker 1: World champion with the San Antonio Spurs, Olympian businessman, broadcaster, philanthropers.

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Speaker 1: After playing fourteen season in the NBA, he became You

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Speaker 1: can see him in popular TV commercials, which I always

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Speaker 1: enjoy him and he looks so relaxed because I can't act,

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Speaker 1: So whenever I see anybody looking at that relaxed, I

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Speaker 1: always go, what are you doing? Back college basketball? Seeing

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Speaker 1: nightly on NBA TV and some cold suit you know,

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Speaker 1: you know how the cold suit on the day, but

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Speaker 1: he got the cold suit on NBA today, uh TV.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations. Steve Smith. Appreciate, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I like that. You can do

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Speaker 1: that again, absolutely, But you're not the cold suit on

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Speaker 1: with a little you know, square and everything. So, so

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Speaker 1: what is the image of Steve Smith? What is Steve's brain?

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Speaker 1: I guess I can say I would say Steve Smith

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Speaker 1: brand is just being himself, a humble person for that voice.

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Speaker 1: He already got the voice. He went into Steve Smith voice.

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Speaker 1: It's just a natural, just a natural, just a natural.

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Speaker 1: My friend, just kid from the east side of Detroit,

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Speaker 1: got a chance because of that around basketball you talked about,

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Speaker 1: obviously for me, um, it's taken me where. I still

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Speaker 1: haven't had a job. I always tell people, haven't got

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Speaker 1: and obviously that dream came true. Never thought and dreamed

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Speaker 1: did that happen? Because you said you never thought because

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Speaker 1: not at all, that's not for me. I didn't go

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Speaker 1: did a demo and obviously they said, uh, we think

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Speaker 1: When I got a chance to go to Michigan State

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Speaker 1: about to donate how much? Two point five million dollars?

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Speaker 1: He said, why? And after you explain why, it all

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Speaker 1: I'm sure people would. I just haven't opened that door

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Speaker 1: my focus has been my kids. Focus has been my family,

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Speaker 1: and like you said, I've been comfortable, so I've been

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Speaker 1: what's happening with your whole life. That's why you look

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Speaker 1: so comfortable. Next for me, though, entrepreneur, I want to

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Speaker 1: get more real estate for me and also kids, and

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Speaker 1: want to do camps all over the country for kids

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Speaker 1: and obviously UM provide somewhere. Can you say camps all

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Speaker 1: over the country that basketball camps, whether it's education camps,

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Speaker 1: love reading one of the Definitely. I want to have

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Speaker 1: If you can read, you almost can read yourself out

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Speaker 1: that's why I think kids can do well. You know something,

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Speaker 1: Are those in all those still in the planning stages?

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Speaker 1: Are you always in the planning stages? Okay, we gotta

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Speaker 1: moving from planning to action. There you go. You got

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Speaker 1: the goals you've never been Let them tell you something.

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Speaker 1: When you're sitting next to a successful person, Steve, you

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Speaker 1: realize that that's what they're gonna do. Surrounding yourself with

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Speaker 1: the right people will create that the next step. Because

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Speaker 1: you said that constantly, that you've never done anything by yourself, never,

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Speaker 1: and that's so so moving forward shooting, you know, shout

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Speaker 1: from the from the elbow. You're very good man. I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you Steve Spith for coming on my show.

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Speaker 1: I just said, just sharing your story, man, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: You're amazing story. Well, you know, you're amazing guy. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I think that when people see this side of you,

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Speaker 1: it's a big blessing for them because they need to

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Speaker 1: know that there is an evolution and in the athletes

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Speaker 1: life and their evolutions is now affecting people in a

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Speaker 1: positive way. And I've gotten this story about your son

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Speaker 1: being in your his grandmother's building. That's um, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: take that with me a long time. Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you,