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Speaker 1: we go. Welcome and I'm here Rashan McDonald. Life is

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Speaker 1: bring people on this show, I feel can make a difference,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. I want to hear from you today, like

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Speaker 1: I do every week. I recognize that we all have

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Speaker 1: different definitions of success. For you, it may be the

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Speaker 1: to stop reading other people's success stories and start writing

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Speaker 1: You read about that a lot, especially in social media.

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Speaker 1: If you have a gift, leave with your gifts and

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Speaker 1: don't let your friends, family, or co workers stop you

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Speaker 1: today how to overcome to ours in life, like we

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Speaker 1: first guest is doctor Artcus Miller. He is the founder

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Speaker 1: Miller has a bachelor's degree and age economics from more

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Speaker 1: Doctor Artcus Miller. How do you know what I'm sir,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing excellent from man. Well, you know there's a

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, you know, you know economics and

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Speaker 1: more House. I swear to you in college, I tell

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Speaker 1: because before we get into the utopian school, which is

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Speaker 1: As Miller is. Rashan. I want to thank you, man,

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Speaker 1: that I was just starting, and I had every single

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Speaker 1: person from within our organization, from our school looking to

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Speaker 1: me for answers. And I would tell you when we

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Speaker 1: but how are we going to get through this? And

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Speaker 1: thank God, you know, we had those those those you

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Speaker 1: know steps with you know, having a governor and some

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Speaker 1: other folks get involved. But it was my faith in

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Speaker 1: us through it, which brought us through it. Because there

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Speaker 1: were things that took place, and I can give examples

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Speaker 1: if you want me to, but there was a place

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Speaker 1: that we just you know, the thing about it is

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Speaker 1: that I wanted you to share that moment of frustration,

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Speaker 1: that moment of fear, in that moment of turn back.

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Speaker 1: You know that you that that comes into everybody's dream

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Speaker 1: and I've had it. I remember when I was being

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Speaker 1: job at IBM, and i'm I looked around and or

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Speaker 1: just driving and not knowing knowing I couldn't go to

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Speaker 1: sleep because I had to go to the next gig.

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Speaker 1: So I had tears in my eyes because I didn't

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was doing stand up early in

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Speaker 1: my career. You know, I left the stage as a standardization.

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Speaker 1: This guy looked at me. You know, you could be

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Speaker 1: funnier if you were just a little clearer, just a

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Speaker 1: little clearer, you could be funny here. So people are

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Speaker 1: always ready to step into your dreams, have the statements

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Speaker 1: about your dreams. But the key in all this is

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Speaker 1: you that pushed you forward, that supported you. Let people

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Speaker 1: know about those people. As we wrap up this interview,

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Speaker 1: One is actually listening right now, Anthony Anthony Bryant, who's

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Speaker 1: Jacqueline herd Fields, Linda Stevenson. These were people prashan that

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Speaker 1: kept me grounded and kept the mission envision of why

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Speaker 1: this school was so important to start and because of

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Speaker 1: the hard work, the blood, sweating tears that it poured

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Speaker 1: into this design project. I couldn't give up. We couldn't

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Speaker 1: give up because these students and Clayton County were depending

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Speaker 1: on us. And if I could just share just the

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Speaker 1: I would tell you ten years later. Despite going through

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Speaker 1: which led into the first three years, Utopian Academy for

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Speaker 1: and operation opening up our fourth school this fall in

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Speaker 1: direct partnership with the second largest film and television studios

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Speaker 1: in the country. We are truly blossoming and giving more kids,

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Speaker 1: more students, not just in Clayton County, but across the

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Speaker 1: state of Georgia, access to high quality programming and then

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Speaker 1: a high quality education, so that ladies and gentlemen, despite

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Speaker 1: the difficult, dark moments we go through it, it's there

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Speaker 1: to make us stronger, to give us a testimony to

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Speaker 1: let people know that, guess what, just because things get

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Speaker 1: hard doesn't mean that you give up. And we didn't

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Speaker 1: give up, because if we did, we wouldn't be having

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Speaker 1: this conversation today to talk about how lives have been

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Speaker 1: changed for the better in our young people. And for that,

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Speaker 1: I'm just extremely grateful for Sean. You know something, doctor

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Speaker 1: TuS Miller. You know, I love the fact that you know,

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Speaker 1: elementary you're changing lives and impacting middle school, You're changing

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Speaker 1: lives and impacting high school. You're changing lives and impacting

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Speaker 1: college level, university level. You're changing lives and impacting. And

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Speaker 1: we always hear people if I'd call them in elementary,

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Speaker 1: they'd be right for middle school. I called him in

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Speaker 1: middle school, they'd be right for high school. If I

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Speaker 1: called him in high school, they'd be going to college.

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Speaker 1: You're hitting him at all four different levels. Man, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: First of all you coming back on the show. You

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Speaker 1: my friend, this is thirty minutes. We have to sit

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Speaker 1: down for an hour. Next show, an hour just me

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Speaker 1: and you take these phone calls, change the lives in

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Speaker 1: this country because you are a young leader whose voice

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Speaker 1: resonates and tells a story that we all need to hear. Again.

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Speaker 1: Thank you doctor R. Tcs Miller for coming on my show,

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Thank you so much for Sean.

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Speaker 1: We talk soon, good sir, Thank you. You know, when

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Speaker 1: we have guests like this, um, it allows me to

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Speaker 1: understand everybody's role. We all have roles in life. You

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Speaker 1: know your role as a listener, and then your role

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Speaker 1: as a listener is to take what you hear and

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Speaker 1: see if you can do anything with It's like that

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Speaker 1: young man who says Thomas who called in and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: how can I reach out to you? How can I?

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Speaker 1: What can I? What can I do to find out?

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Speaker 1: Get involved? That's all we're asking, get involved. We're not

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Speaker 1: always asking for money. Time. Time is money, Time is effort,

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Speaker 1: Time can create change, Time can make a big difference

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Speaker 1: in a young person's life and gets what when you

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Speaker 1: changing other people's lives, you will change your life. And

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Speaker 1: that's all we're asking on Money Making Conversations Masterclass and

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Speaker 1: another tremendous guest coming up sign your Fears of the

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Speaker 1: Fields group at Morgan Stanley talking about stocks, retirement, financial planning,

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Speaker 1: some big events that she has scheduled up to empower

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Speaker 1: black women. Be right back, Money Making Conversation Masterclass. You're

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Speaker 1: talking to Rashaan McDonald the host. You are now tuned

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Speaker 1: into the Moneymaking Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rashaan McDonald's

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Speaker 1: high I am Rashan McDonald for Moneymaking Conversation with your

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Speaker 1: daily Minute of Inspiration. This week I sat down with

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Speaker 1: the host of First Take, stephen A's World, and the

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Speaker 1: new co host of ESPN NBA Countdown, stephen A Smith.

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Speaker 1: Stephen A emphasizes the importance of not letting self doubt

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Speaker 1: halt your opportunities towards achieving your dreams. I was actually

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Speaker 1: reluctant and hesitant to write my home book for a

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Speaker 1: very very long time. I literally said, although I had

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Speaker 1: a national television show that's been number one in the

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Speaker 1: morning for nine years in counting, I literally was saying,

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Speaker 1: why would anybody want to read a book from me,

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Speaker 1: and so many people came forward, like, what the hell

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Speaker 1: are you talking about? Wrong with you? Everybody needs to

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Speaker 1: hear your story. Everybody needs to hear what you endured,

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Speaker 1: what you had to experience, what you had to go

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Speaker 1: through to get to this place that you're here now.

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Speaker 1: If you were to listen to this four interview with

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Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith's available on Moneymaking Conversations dot com, I

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Speaker 1: could start this secretary without with that famous OJ song

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Speaker 1: money money, money, money, money, money, money, money money. We

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Speaker 1: live for it, we want it, we get it, we

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Speaker 1: spend it. Sometimes we don't hold on to it. When

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Speaker 1: we hold on to it as if no mom. You

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Speaker 1: know Bruno Mars has that famous line in that song,

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Speaker 1: I'm a dangerous man with money in my pocket. Well

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Speaker 1: guess what my guests will help you do something with

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Speaker 1: that money that makes you dangerous, As Bruno Mars says,

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Speaker 1: she has Son Your Fears of the Fears Group at

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Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley. Son Your Fears is the first Vice president

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Speaker 1: of Financial Advisor, Senior Portfolio manager of Global Sports and

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Speaker 1: Entertainment Director. So your team's works with families to understand

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Speaker 1: how their money can be used to accomplish their goals

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Speaker 1: and help them plan for their future so they can

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Speaker 1: enjoy all their lives that all that life has to offer.

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Speaker 1: This interview is about stocks, retirement and financial planning, and

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Speaker 1: more importantly, empowerment, especially women. Empowerment. Please work might be

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Speaker 1: making conversations master class again Sun your fears? How are

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Speaker 1: you going to sign you good afternoon? Rachean? How are

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Speaker 1: you fantastic? Happy New Year? First of all, let's get

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Speaker 1: that out of the way. You know, it was absolutely

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Speaker 1: happy New Year. You know this, You know, the top

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Speaker 1: of the year can always you know, like maybe what

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago is the stocks were booming

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Speaker 1: and everything was the coming out of the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: was flying high, and then all of a sudden the

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Speaker 1: word recession comes in, and then the bar comes in.

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Speaker 1: And how do people value your your your information when

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Speaker 1: you have markets like this Sounya in terms of information,

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Speaker 1: So we know that they're talking about the financial markets

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Speaker 1: every CNN, CNBC, but even online there's so much information

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Speaker 1: about what's going on, perspectives on the market, and people

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Speaker 1: really literally just need to log online, go on Google

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Speaker 1: perspectives on the market, on the financial markets, and information

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Speaker 1: is provided so or if you know of a financial advisor,

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Speaker 1: the Fears Group is here, call us, talk to us,

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Speaker 1: tell us your concerns. Let us give you our perspectives

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Speaker 1: on the market and what's going on. Times like this

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Speaker 1: are nothing to be scared of, and it's really a

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Speaker 1: time to sit back and reflect. You know, when I

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Speaker 1: when I when I always have you on the show

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Speaker 1: to talk about them these types of matters. Furst of

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Speaker 1: all African American, and that has to be say it

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Speaker 1: because there's not many of you, especially female. When you

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Speaker 1: becoming a pioneer or trailblazer. Personal inspires because two of

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Speaker 1: your daughters are involved in this financial global perspective called

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Speaker 1: the financial markets. When they decided to be a part

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Speaker 1: of your world, what advice did you give them? And

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Speaker 1: then what did you learn from them coming into your world?

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Speaker 1: Excellent question, Thank you Bashan for that and and really

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Speaker 1: I would love to even have one of them to

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Speaker 1: speak up. But in terms of giving them advice coming

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Speaker 1: into this into this world or into this arena, I

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Speaker 1: think the advice applies to many many other arenas to

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Speaker 1: be successful, especially being not only a minority but a

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Speaker 1: minority in this industry. Very few women, very few blacks,

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Speaker 1: very few black women in industry. You have to work

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Speaker 1: very hard. You have to show up early, you have

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Speaker 1: to leave late, you have to study your craft. You

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Speaker 1: have to be better than almost anybody else you see

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Speaker 1: around you. And and really that's that's what we've been taught, right,

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Speaker 1: and it applies for every industry. You have to put

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Speaker 1: your heart into it. You have to walk um to

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Speaker 1: stay here and to learn and be a part of

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Speaker 1: this industry. And so that's the advice I gave them

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Speaker 1: in terms of what they gave me. Oh my goodness, Um,

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Speaker 1: the perspectives that they gave me. Um, just the these millennials,

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Speaker 1: they take charge, they ownership. They show you that they

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Speaker 1: can do it. They can be thorough, their detail oriented.

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Speaker 1: They take on the task and don't let it go.

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Speaker 1: It's it's been refreshing, it's been energizing. And the ability

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Speaker 1: out to reach out in social media, to reach out

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Speaker 1: to markets and engage their peoples. It's I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: able to do it like they do at all. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, you were the leader of the pack, so

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Speaker 1: they only following down if they said, you know, you

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Speaker 1: have to they following your footsteps. No matter which side

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Speaker 1: your shoe, they had to step in it. And that

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Speaker 1: allows them to be able to realize it's possible because

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Speaker 1: you didn't have it. You know, you walked in the room,

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Speaker 1: you didn't look around seeing anybody to look like you.

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Speaker 1: If it looked like you. They're fighting for their love,

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Speaker 1: pieces of the territory and to be able to have

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Speaker 1: a leader, a fearless leader like you, and no pun

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Speaker 1: intended to tie to your last name, fears. It's the

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Speaker 1: whole thing is that that approach means something and it's inspiring.

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Speaker 1: It's not only inspiring to have you on my show,

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Speaker 1: but it's also inspiring to them to see their mom

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Speaker 1: and they were there doing the seeing the times of

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Speaker 1: you know when sometimes you don't want to bring work home,

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Speaker 1: but it comes home and then but then you have

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Speaker 1: to disguise it and let them know everything's all right.

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Speaker 1: Those moments still stay on you and also allowed you

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Speaker 1: to build your brand withinside. Morgan Stanley correct. Absolutely, absolutely

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Speaker 1: the the the work. You know, we say success is

653
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Speaker 1: when opportunity and being prepared and luck meets you know,

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Speaker 1: so we need a little bit of luck in anything

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Speaker 1: we do. It's that one big break that makes most

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Speaker 1: people hugely successful. But to get that one brief break,

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Speaker 1: you have to be prepared. You know. For from most athletes,

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Speaker 1: they say they have to put in ten thousand hours

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Speaker 1: of practice good. The same thing with us, we have

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Speaker 1: to put in ten thousand hours. We have to be

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Speaker 1: prepared so when that opportunity presents it else we can

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Speaker 1: take food advantage. We can show what we're made of.

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Speaker 1: We can show that we have the knowledge, we have

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Speaker 1: the ability, and we can perform and there you have it,

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Speaker 1: that success. Wow. Talking to a Sudden your Fears of

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Speaker 1: the Fears Group, Morgan Stanley based UM. If you want

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Speaker 1: to speak to or four zero four eight eight zero

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Speaker 1: two five fives as we talk about upcoming events this quarter,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the two the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit that's coming up.

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Speaker 1: That's something that you wanted to definitely talk about in

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Speaker 1: your interview today. Please give us some background on it

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Speaker 1: and why it's important for us to get that out

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Speaker 1: into the public world. The twenty twenty three Black Unipowest

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Speaker 1: Women Are Power Summit UM this year, this is the

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Speaker 1: seventeenth annual Summit. It's a three day executive leadership conference.

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Speaker 1: It's being held in Las Vegas this year at the

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Speaker 1: Bellagio Hotel that the dates are March ninth through the eleven,

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Speaker 1: And it's really a conference that offers the opportunity for

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Speaker 1: women to connect, to be inspired by the most influential

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Speaker 1: leaders in our country to today, and really to be

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Speaker 1: exposed to information and individuals that look and able them

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Speaker 1: to reach their full potential. It's a summit that I've

685
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Speaker 1: attended many years, even when when before I started Morgan Stanley,

686
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Speaker 1: I've been in this business for sixteen years and I've

687
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Speaker 1: probably been to at six or seven of these summits,

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Speaker 1: and every single one that I've been to, I walk

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Speaker 1: away thinking that was the most amazing experience. The people

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Speaker 1: that unique, the success that they've had, the trials and

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Speaker 1: tribulations that they've gone route just to be able to

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Speaker 1: get to where they are. It's empowering, it's exciting, it's inspiring.

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Speaker 1: It's um I highly recommended for for any woman out there. Now,

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Speaker 1: you have something called the Senior Bowl, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. The view into sports always ties itself to

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Speaker 1: an amazing January football classic where these college seniors come

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Speaker 1: there and show their words for the NFL and hopefully

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Speaker 1: get drafted. Now your global sports entertainment group have the opportunity,

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Speaker 1: as Morgan Stanley, the hostess financial something that's coming up

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Speaker 1: really soon, like really soon next week tell us about

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. So for for the Senior Bowl, and

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Speaker 1: we participated, Morgan Stanley. Un So this year we have

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Speaker 1: a financial educational panel in which we want and we

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Speaker 1: have to start early. We want to talk about what's

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Speaker 1: financial planning needs. You know a lot of these youngsters,

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Speaker 1: one of them or many of them will make it

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Speaker 1: big one day. Right even now these days with name,

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Speaker 1: image and likeness, these high school students are getting opportunity

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Speaker 1: to earn money off of their talents early, and so

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Speaker 1: they're exposed being exposed to well at a very young age,

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Speaker 1: but understanding. So you know, we know that they're good athletically,

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Speaker 1: and we know that they have the intellect. But if

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Speaker 1: anyone teaching them or getting to them now to tell

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Speaker 1: them this is to the time learning about money. How

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Speaker 1: do you manage it? How do you use it to

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Speaker 1: plan for not just the next two or three years,

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Speaker 1: but have this money last for ten or twenty years.

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Speaker 1: How do you let that money work for you versus

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Speaker 1: you working for that money. It's the time to start

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Speaker 1: talking about it. And once you plant that seat in

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Speaker 1: their head, you know it can be nurtured. It just

722
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Speaker 1: needs to be ordered. It needs some dirt and it

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Speaker 1: can grow to something that and that's what we want.

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Speaker 1: We want to plant that seat from now so they

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Speaker 1: have it in their minds that I need to get more,

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Speaker 1: I need this to grow. I need to be able

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Speaker 1: to be wealthy, wanted and sustain my wealth. And that's

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Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. How do we teach these

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Speaker 1: youngsters that financial literacy today is what makes you successful

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Speaker 1: and wealthy tomorrow. Wow. You know when I talk about

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Speaker 1: every time I have it on the show, it is

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Speaker 1: always inspiring. It more importantly, when we come back, we

733
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Speaker 1: were talking about closing the black wealth gap. That's a

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Speaker 1: question that is always asked to me and I'll shoos

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Speaker 1: the question is always asked to you the Fears group.

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Speaker 1: We can come back. You have that quick answered live

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Speaker 1: on this show, Money Make Conversation Masterclass. Be right back

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Speaker 1: your host, Rushan McDonald. We'll be right back with more

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. With Rushan McDonald. You are now

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Speaker 1: tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with

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Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. Hi, I'm Rushan McDonald for Money Making Conversation

742
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Speaker 1: Masterclass with your daily minute of Inspiration. During a conversation

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Speaker 1: with producer and founder of the American Black Film Festival

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Speaker 1: Jeff Friday, he shared how important it is for those

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Speaker 1: who make it in Hollywood to open doors for others.

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Speaker 1: So metaphorically, Hollywood to the club, and when we get

747
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Speaker 1: in the club, we got to go back to the

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Speaker 1: door say yo, I'm not going in that my boy

749
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Speaker 1: can't come up. And that's what people like like Ava

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Speaker 1: duvan I have done. And that's what's you know, Ryan,

751
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Speaker 1: when you look at a movie, it might be three

752
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Speaker 1: hundred people who get a check. There's only only ten

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Speaker 1: or in front of the camera. What about the other

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Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety people who you don't know, who

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Speaker 1: have families, who have families. If you're going to be

756
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Speaker 1: at the forefront of this fight, you gotta bring You

757
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Speaker 1: gotta go back to the front door, and you gotta

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Speaker 1: let your boys, you know, or go open the back door,

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Speaker 1: let them me. Whatever door you go to, you can

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Speaker 1: listen to This full interview with Jeff Friday is available

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Speaker 1: on Moneymaking Conversations dot com. How can people get in

762
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Speaker 1: touch with you that question? So you can email me

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Speaker 1: at Sonya s O n I A dot Fears s

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Speaker 1: as in Frank E. A. R. S at Morgan Stanley

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Speaker 1: dot com and certainly unavailable via phone four seven zero

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Speaker 1: four four nine zero eight one two, or you can

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Speaker 1: go on the Morgan Stanley website and look up Sonya

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Speaker 1: Sears or the Fears group. We are here unavailable. Awesome

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Speaker 1: the black wealth gap, you know, like uh, Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith as a as a statement, he said, when black people,

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Speaker 1: when everybody catches the cold, White people catch cold, Black

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Speaker 1: people we catch the flute pneumonia. It's always worse for us.

773
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Speaker 1: We cannot ever experience equality, whether it's in UM, social

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Speaker 1: social standing, housing is UH salary. So how do we

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Speaker 1: close the black welcome? And I'm not saying that, I'm

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Speaker 1: not holding you to it, but you in that game.

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Speaker 1: What can we do? And the biggest and I've always

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Speaker 1: said that UM to increase the black dollar and wealth

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Speaker 1: in the black community, the biggest component is education, right,

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Speaker 1: and so we're not just talking about financial literacy, but

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Speaker 1: we're talking education to understand that it takes discipline, right,

782
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Speaker 1: it takes transparency. We need people who've attained success to

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Speaker 1: talk about themselves, to even talk about when they were

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Speaker 1: not successful, what the discipline took for them to get

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Speaker 1: successful Again. Understanding what is your net worth? Right? So

786
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 1: network is assets minus liabilities. And when you have more

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Speaker 1: assets and you have one hundred dollars in assets and

788
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Speaker 1: the debt is dollars, so your net worth is twenty dollars,

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Speaker 1: it's positive. So when your network is positive, that's where

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00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: you can start building wealth. Now, if you have a

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars, right, that's that's the cash you have

792
00:45:56,080 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: out there, but you have five hundred thousand dollars in debt,

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Speaker 1: that's not a positive network. You're negative four hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: So how are you going to build build wealth? To

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Speaker 1: understanding having a positive network, you don't spend more than

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Speaker 1: you have that that's one thing you know to have

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Speaker 1: the discipline to know that just because you have a

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Speaker 1: credit card and just because you have some money in

799
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Speaker 1: the bank does not mean that you go out and

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Speaker 1: buy that bag for a thousand dollars because you still

801
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: have to pay your rent and you still want to

802
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Speaker 1: have after paying rent and paying all your bills, you

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Speaker 1: still want to put fifty dollars in that savings account

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Speaker 1: or one hundred dollars is that investment account. The discipline

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Speaker 1: that it takes to start saving and understanding of what

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Speaker 1: it means to build wealth. Why need to start talking

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Speaker 1: to each other. Know, we need to start talking to

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Speaker 1: that middle school age child. We need to start talking

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Speaker 1: to that high school child about the discipline and the

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Speaker 1: financial literacy. You know, it's really interesting, as you know,

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Speaker 1: as you get older, there has to be a stronger

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Speaker 1: commitment to a financial saving Like you said, fifty dollars,

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Speaker 1: There's always remembers the guy who's telling Michelle, you need

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Speaker 1: to start saving fifty dollars a week when I was

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Speaker 1: in my twenties, when we'll find fifty dollars. You know,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't my mind wrap my head around finding fifty

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Speaker 1: dollars because I didn't have the discipline of the clear

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Speaker 1: understanding of financial literacy. If you don't understand financial literacy,

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Speaker 1: and you know that you put this in and the

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Speaker 1: compounds and over the years, you know what, maybe six

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars here becomes two thousand dollars maybe in a

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Speaker 1: couple of years, and that two thousand dollars may become

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars, and five years that ten thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: may become a hundred thousand dollars. That's what financial literacy

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Speaker 1: is all about. And it can't becomes simple mad, But

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Speaker 1: you have to stay committed to it. You have to

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Speaker 1: have a plan saying this is what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna set aside this amount of money and then

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Speaker 1: invest in yourself. I couldn't see that, and I will

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Speaker 1: tell people I couldn't see that. I didn't understand it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't understand how this money was going to grow

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Speaker 1: like that? How can a person like me who understands

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Speaker 1: it now, why couldn't I see it? Back then? Son,

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Speaker 1: your fears if you thank you, thank you for that question.

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Speaker 1: And we say this all the time, right, if you see,

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Speaker 1: if you speak it, if you if it's put out

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Speaker 1: there in the atmosphere, you see it, you will believe it.

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Speaker 1: But if we're not talking about it, you that understands

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Speaker 1: it now at your age. If you're not talking about

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Speaker 1: to a fifteen year old that doesn't really see it

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Speaker 1: and get it now. They won't have that concept in

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Speaker 1: their heads if you're not showing them um and on

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Speaker 1: a chart to say, hey, I just want you to

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Speaker 1: look at it. I want you to see that if

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Speaker 1: someone puts fifty dollars into the bank account every month,

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Speaker 1: what this is gonna look like in twenty years. You know,

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Speaker 1: once they get that visual in their mind, once they're

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Speaker 1: told that, once they see it on paper. When you you,

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Speaker 1: you you because you understand it, because you see it

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Speaker 1: and you can visualize it. I mean, that's the reason

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Speaker 1: why if you have a fifteen year old out there

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Speaker 1: that when they talk to adults, you're talking adults are

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Speaker 1: talking to them about gaming, and adults are talking to

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Speaker 1: them about playing forwards or not those things. Not that

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Speaker 1: to have those conversations. You need adults to paint that picture.

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Speaker 1: We are all visual people. Let's paint the picture. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's understand what compounding interests is and just literally put

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Speaker 1: it on a piece of paper and just like you

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Speaker 1: just said it, you know what how ten dollars will

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Speaker 1: turn into I did not see it on your fears.

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Speaker 1: I did not see it. I didn't make any math

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Speaker 1: system in just like what, okay, you know, a nightclub

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Speaker 1: versus ten dollars? Just ten dollars? How just ten dollars

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Speaker 1: going to make a difference in my life if I

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Speaker 1: put it over here. And that's the problem that we

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Speaker 1: can we can't see that versus a subway stand where

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Speaker 1: you don't see that that value of a subway standwhich

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Speaker 1: can change your life in five years if you're invested

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Speaker 1: in the right situation. You know. And that's just an

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Speaker 1: example of anything that we do socially, a purchase or

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Speaker 1: things like that. If you can make a commitment to

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Speaker 1: paying rent, if you make a commitment pan mortgage, make

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Speaker 1: a commitment to paying a card note, you can make

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Speaker 1: that same commitment in your mind. Because that's why they

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Speaker 1: give you contracts and say you got to pay us

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Speaker 1: this about the money on this house. Note. You have

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Speaker 1: to create that same discipline in your own personal life.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to financial literacy, you have to create

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Speaker 1: a contract that you create self discipline saying you know something,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna invest five fifty dollars a month because I've

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Speaker 1: signed a contract with myself mentally and emotionally that I

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Speaker 1: owe myself a three year plan. I'm gonna pay myself

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Speaker 1: if it's five thousand dollars. You committed. That's the same

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Speaker 1: life contract that you got to put into your own mindset.

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Speaker 1: And that's how I had to do it. I had

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Speaker 1: to create a contract mentally with myself. And when I

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Speaker 1: created that contract mentally with myself, the same way they

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Speaker 1: do when I buy a card, the same way they

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Speaker 1: do when I have to pay back of my credit card,

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Speaker 1: the same way they do me when I had to

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Speaker 1: buy a house. They contractedly tell you, you owe us money.

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Speaker 1: You should do the same thing with yourself emotionally and

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Speaker 1: you will win. Does that make sense? It makes absolute sense.

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Speaker 1: You know what I think about that? Young people do

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Speaker 1: so well that I never did. They have a discipline

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Speaker 1: these days about exercising and fitness that I didn't see

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Speaker 1: when I was their age. Right, they are, they're going

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Speaker 1: to the gym, they're doing them first, they're committed, and

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Speaker 1: then they see the results. It pays off. That's the

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Speaker 1: type of discipline I would like to see our young

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Speaker 1: people have about money. Do you first, Okay, just like

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Speaker 1: you go to the gym and you put that work

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Speaker 1: in and after you do it for a week, a month,

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Speaker 1: three months, you start seeing the results. It's the same

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Speaker 1: exact love look it is. That's the discipline. Cool as

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Speaker 1: we call it out the show. Let's give you contact

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Speaker 1: information one more time because I definitely you know you're

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Speaker 1: we close out the show, if you give your contact

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Speaker 1: financial literacy education with you. Would love to appreciate you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Happy New year and everybody. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back Nay weekend. I want to thank everybody for

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Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashaan McDonald. Hi, I'm Rashan McDonald for

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation Masterclass with your daily Minute of Inspiration.

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Speaker 1: My guest today, actor, educator, activists and entrepreneur Laman Rutger.

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Speaker 1: He addresses how being authentic can benefit and lead the

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Speaker 1: youth of today. It's your value, at your understanding of

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Speaker 1: your responsibility to serve, you know, to serve young people's.

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Speaker 1: You and I serve one another. We love and support

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Speaker 1: and encourage and empowering, uplift each other. The branding is

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Speaker 1: completely secondary. I believe if you're doing what you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be doing, if you're being who you're supposed to be,

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Speaker 1: if you're walking and living and your love and your

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Speaker 1: life on a regular basis, your brand will be shaped

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Speaker 1: around you, not you having to try to be something

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Speaker 1: you're not, just because so I do my best to

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Speaker 1: work from the inside out, not the outside is. Listen

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Speaker 1: to this full interview with Lamar Rutger. It's available on

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