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Speaker 1: South Show. That's what you're saying. That's what I say.

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Speaker 1: What you said, I should be like, I'm call those

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Speaker 1: eighty five South turned the Black Excellent music down a

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Speaker 1: little bit. That's the music for Black Excellent. That sounds

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Speaker 1: going on. So that's why we got you know, excellent

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Speaker 1: black business on with us today. That's what we got.

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Speaker 1: Lovely introduce yourself to other people of the eighty five Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we like on this part. We're like when people be like,

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Speaker 1: look on this and then I do that, I want

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Speaker 1: to do it in my own way. Yeah about that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're just giving you like what people have done in

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Speaker 1: the past. Indeed, I got it. I am Dr Lukisha Hallman,

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Speaker 1: Dr King, Founder and CEO of the Village Market, atl First,

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Speaker 1: first thing is your name is Dr Lakisha right absolutely

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Speaker 1: that I want to go to doctor. That we kind

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Speaker 1: of doctor, are you well? That would be education so

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Speaker 1: E D D and educational leadership. Okay, that's gonna make

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Speaker 1: you my doctor for all my doctor ship. Let's do

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Speaker 1: the doctor Lakeisha everything I need. My toe hurt called

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Speaker 1: Dr Lakisa. People with the garage act like you know

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Speaker 1: what the abbreviation mean? Yeah, I gotta be d D

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Speaker 1: and that I broke it down. So what exactly is

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Speaker 1: you know? Your business? What does it consist of? Yes?

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Speaker 1: I support the Village Market was launched in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: We support businesses from ideation for people with big ideas

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Speaker 1: and help them stand those those ideas up in tournament

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Speaker 1: to profitable businesses. So we reached hundreds of businesses from

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Speaker 1: Atlanta all the way to the Bahamas. Started hearing in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: What was the motivation? Like, what made you say this

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Speaker 1: is the route that we're going? Real conversation. I'm originally

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Speaker 1: from Mississippi, so that so I was excited to get

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta for a number of reasons. But what I

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Speaker 1: heard that Atlanta was the Black mecca, and that's true.

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Speaker 1: But then what I found out that black businesses were

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Speaker 1: struggling just like they were in Mississippi. So how are

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Speaker 1: we in the Black Mecca struggling in the Mississippi Delta struggling?

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Speaker 1: And so what what I found out is that yes,

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Speaker 1: we're creating businesses, but those businesses aren't growing, meaning we're

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Speaker 1: not making enough money to scale to really build generational wealth.

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Speaker 1: So I created support as a verb meaning get out

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Speaker 1: here if you're really about it, campassion. The support is

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Speaker 1: a verg put them action behind it. You gotta go

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Speaker 1: do something. Now, what what have you found is the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing that the biggest hurdle that new black businesses

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Speaker 1: have to Essince you've been doing this in what would

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Speaker 1: you say is the biggest hurdle that most early black

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Speaker 1: businesses face when they start off. I think the barrier

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Speaker 1: that we can control is what it's how black people

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Speaker 1: choose to support black businesses. So if if we can

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Speaker 1: know that the businesses are there support consistently, then those

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Speaker 1: businesses would have the cash flow that they need to sustain. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you act a business. Any business. They say it's

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Speaker 1: capital or I don't have the resources I need, and

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Speaker 1: those things are true. But to get cash injected into

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Speaker 1: a business, you just seed somebody to buy from you.

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Speaker 1: We got network to also, absolutely the network and making

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Speaker 1: sure that when you support black it's not from a reaction.

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Speaker 1: It's not because we're mad, because unrest is going on,

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Speaker 1: but this is just what we do. So we always

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Speaker 1: talk about Black Wall Street, Black Black Wall Street with

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Speaker 1: a lifestyle. It wasn't a community that was built in

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Speaker 1: a moment. It was a it was a community built

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Speaker 1: to sustain and so if we go back to that,

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Speaker 1: go back to our roots, then we don't have to

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Speaker 1: worry about generational wealth or where we won't be because

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Speaker 1: we have something standing every day. Yeah, it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: High social media helped or hinder your process. It helps

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Speaker 1: a lot, absolutely, because it doesn't matter where you are.

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Speaker 1: Anyone from anywhere the world can tap and like and

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Speaker 1: share your business. And if you shipped from all over

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Speaker 1: the world, people can support you from all over the world.

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Speaker 1: So I think social media is a gateway. Now. When

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Speaker 1: social media hurt businesses is when you may have a

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Speaker 1: bad experience. Niggas who niggas. That's nigga excellence. That's not

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Speaker 1: black accident. Yeah, yeah, it got to be. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: so when social media hurts black businesses is those situations

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Speaker 1: We go on and we do the tweeks or we

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Speaker 1: we put that energy every time we had an amazing experience.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? Why do you think

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Speaker 1: depends on how deepeople want to go. We're want to

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Speaker 1: go back to slave trade, and we know that it

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Speaker 1: is literally beaten out of us to really uplift and

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Speaker 1: push us to the highest. And so that suppressed mindset

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Speaker 1: is generational now from just one wise it that way.

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Speaker 1: It's because I don't think we've seen it enough to

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Speaker 1: understand internally that if you win, I win. And so

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Speaker 1: when we adopt that mentality that everybody eats, everybody win,

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Speaker 1: if you're successful, if I'm successful, then we're much more

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Speaker 1: likely to support. But we can go back and take

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Speaker 1: it to slavery or if we take it back to

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Speaker 1: twenty one, we just need to create more systems that

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Speaker 1: you understand it, if I win, everybody wins. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: why we launched this whole initiative to reach out to

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Speaker 1: some black owned businesses and some people who are active

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Speaker 1: in the community, who are doing stuff that you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, strengthen the network support is a verg

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Speaker 1: So we wanted to open up our platform and have

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Speaker 1: people know where they are and what they got going

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Speaker 1: on and what they're selling, and you know, just try

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Speaker 1: to open it up a little bit. So that's why

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Speaker 1: we launched this whole Black Business Initiative. And in your space,

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Speaker 1: we see that you have an actual storefront that people

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Speaker 1: can come into where you have a bunch of different

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Speaker 1: black entrepreneurs displayed. What made you have the idea to

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Speaker 1: businesses if you think about it. So that's so hard.

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Speaker 1: A lot cute though, we're really cute at Pot City Market.

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Speaker 1: So I mean COVID hitting everybody, but COVID hit black

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Speaker 1: businesses in a way that one and every third black

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. Along man work at war. He got the

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Speaker 1: job though, he got the job. But that's all you do.

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Speaker 1: Like you don't say when a great market, but with

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Speaker 1: that represents twenty nine different brands. And so what that

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Speaker 1: means twinning nine different brands will not close. When you

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get it to a hundred. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: it to a hundred. But the village market itself has

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Speaker 1: circulated four point two million dollars in the city of

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Speaker 1: Atlanta to black businesses. Tail the hat is that the

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Speaker 1: haters need to know, they need to know that support

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Speaker 1: tell them a number. Yeah, that's crazy, I mean, And

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Speaker 1: that's one thing that I know about black entrepreneurship is

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Speaker 1: that our dollars circulates the least in our community and

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Speaker 1: out of every other people. You know, their dollars circulates

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Speaker 1: five or six times within their community. Manas as soon

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Speaker 1: as we get it, it's black, here you go, bro,

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Speaker 1: So do you think that that's something that you strive

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Speaker 1: with having the storefront, so it's actually a space where

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Speaker 1: Or is it just something you did, you know, because

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Speaker 1: you just wanted to be different. Well know, it's a

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Speaker 1: really good question. So everything I do is intentional, and

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Speaker 1: so I do think we got We have to have

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Speaker 1: because we hear those numbers, but we don't really get it.

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Speaker 1: So if you only buy a T shirt from a

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Speaker 1: black brand and that's the only black business you supported

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Speaker 1: for a whole month, that's circulated outside of our community.

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Speaker 1: But when we open a storefront, I hired black contractors.

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Speaker 1: So if the paint on the wall was painted by

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Speaker 1: the hands of a black man, the sub designer was

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Speaker 1: a black woman. And from contractor to contract and to contract,

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Speaker 1: everyone that comes in the store that is profitable are

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Speaker 1: all black. So it circulates several times. But when we

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Speaker 1: think about circulating the dollars, who cut your hair, who

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Speaker 1: saying that I don't know about three Hispanic people they're

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Speaker 1: ortis and she's good, she's my doctor. Now that all

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Speaker 1: the way. So what are some of the products that

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Speaker 1: some of the brands that uh that are inside of

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Speaker 1: the market. It's a good question. We have a Plethora brand,

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Speaker 1: so we have meet at homes. They have amazing home

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Speaker 1: goods like you would never see if you think West

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Speaker 1: incredible things. We have Hairbrolla who is most recent only

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Speaker 1: can make sense. But it's incredible, uh said. Our flare

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Speaker 1: is there by Chris Classic, tons of hoodies, UM, children's books, furniture,

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Speaker 1: So it's elevating what Black excellence is. My job is

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Speaker 1: to raise the caliber of what people think when they

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Speaker 1: think about shopping black. What's the process of getting the

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Speaker 1: products in the store. UM number one operating an excellence.

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Speaker 1: So there's as an application process. It goes through the

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Speaker 1: hands of several merchandisers partner with a number of people

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Speaker 1: to screen these applications, to set up interviews. Because I

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Speaker 1: don't want to create a store that's going to fail.

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Speaker 1: I want businesses to be able to grow beyond the

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Speaker 1: village market, beyond punts. So if we make the application

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Speaker 1: process extensive, t what it truly means to be in

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Speaker 1: big box retail. If we closed, these businesses can go

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Speaker 1: on and open their own thing. So the process is,

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Speaker 1: you have to complete an application, you have to make

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Speaker 1: sure you have product picks, you should already have a website,

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Speaker 1: and then be prepared to have an interview with myself

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Speaker 1: and my team. And I asked hard questions. I asked

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Speaker 1: real questions about community building. Ask me. One asked me

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Speaker 1: you have a ring tone to be the question? Do

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Speaker 1: you still use ring tone? Hold? She's about to get

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Speaker 1: me in there. I got a product, all right, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: I want to see that. All you ready? I'm ready? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I see this nice hoodie you have right now? Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's a black owned company. That's good. You gotta

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Speaker 1: add like as your shout out to Jackie Loan. All right,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, OK, I'm trying to get this in here.

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Speaker 1: So you created this product, How does the message feed

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Speaker 1: the community, Because if you think about what the hoodie says,

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Speaker 1: it ain't nothing like a pretty bit bringing you some money.

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Speaker 1: See on the hoodie. See the bitch is not the

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