1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: advice on many occasions in incason didn't notice, I'm not broke. 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: You know he'll be interview with celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do, it's 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: what he likes to share. Now it's time to hear 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations Here we come. 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I am your host, 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: ras Shan McDonald. I recognized that we all have different 11 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: definitions of success. For you, it may be the size 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: of your paycheck. Mine is inspiring people to accomplish their 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: goals and live their very vast life. It's time to 14 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories and start writing their 15 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: own or writing your own. People always talk about the 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: purpose or your gift. If you have a gift, leave 17 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: with your gift and don't let your friends, family, and 18 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: coworkers stop you from planning or living your dream. My 19 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: next guest is a dear friend chef Jernard Wells. He's 20 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: annoyed winning TV hosts, celebrity chef, best selling cookbook author, 21 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: and best known from numerous appearances on the Food Network 22 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: and Cooking Channel shows. He's the host of New Soul 23 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: Kitchen remix on Cleo TV. Is the co host on 24 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: The Best Thing They Have eight, which I hate watching 25 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: him on that because it just makes me mad because 26 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: the food looks so good. He's already a great chef, 27 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: but then when he's talking about it, he is. He is. 28 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: He is all the right term of knowledge to make 29 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: you want to reach through the TV and grab it. 30 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: Did you see him on the Cooking Channel? New Soul 31 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: Kitchen is preparing for a new season after winning three 32 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: national awards in his first season. The show is geared 33 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: towards the black millennial woman because of their unique style 34 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: of preparing food compared to the previous generation. We're talking 35 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: about the show's direction and being more health conscious for 36 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: today's healthy lifestyle and his new cookbook coming out November, 37 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: First Southern Inspired more than one hundred recipes from My 38 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: American Table to Yours. Please the Money Making Conversations Masterclass 39 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: jar Wells. Hello, thank you for having me, I am 40 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: doing good. You know, hey, I think you you got 41 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: a damn packed. I spend so much time with you 42 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 1: on the introduction, but I well, first of all, you know, um, 43 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: I got to share a kitchen with you several weeks 44 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: ago last year in December, and got to watch how 45 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: gifted you really are, you know, and how simple you 46 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: make something that looks difficult and it really you know, 47 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: it really is an art form. And so it's like anything. 48 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: You know, if Jordan walks on the floor, you know, 49 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: you just gonna say, you know, the king on the floor. 50 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: Same thing with Lebron. So I play around in the kitchen, 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: chef enor Wales, you the king brother. I received that. 52 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: You know, hey, it's it's time and time and practice 53 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: and practice and practice. But look, you know how to 54 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 1: throw down, so I can even if you do of 55 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: the holiday. So I tell what you can do. You 56 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: know what it really amazed me was how you able 57 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: to take cabbages, you know, And I make this big 58 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: announcement alright, I planted my new guarden this weekend. I 59 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: put cutecomas down, I put collar greens down, cabbages, Brussels sprouts. 60 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: For the very first time, I put us sweeping down 61 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: the peppers palapeenia green, yellow bell peppers. I got uh my, 62 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: my my husky cherry tomatoes on the back row, along 63 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: my beefsteak tomatoes in the back row. And then I 64 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: added a row of strawberries back there, and then I 65 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: got a row of catalopes and a royal watermelons. So 66 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: you know, I'm ready, I'm ready. When when you're yet? 67 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: Because the reason the reason I'm bringing up that because 68 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: you talk about healthy food living, because that's a good 69 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: way to invite yourself into the healthy lifestyle. Because I'm 70 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: not buying products that are traditionally buying the store with 71 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: some people shot away from because of the fact that 72 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: they feel of that there's a lot of pesticides being used. 73 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: They're not being they're not being sold to the general 74 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,119 Speaker 1: public and a healthy format. And talk about that chef 75 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: to Darwells, you know, and one of the biggest keys 76 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: is that this is so smart what you what you're 77 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: doing with your your space creatively growing it because it's 78 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: all about knowing what's in your food. And you know, 79 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: we we we we've heard time and time again, well 80 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: my my, my, my grandparents, my great grandparents, they ate 81 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: this and they live to be eighty ninety years old. 82 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: And what's the difference now, It is what's being put 83 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: in the food and what's being put on the food. 84 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: So when you take time to even start growing your 85 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: own urge, your own vestials, now you truly know what 86 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: it is that you're cooking and you control what's being 87 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: put in it, which ultimately, by doing it long enough, 88 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: you chased the outcome of what you're putting in your 89 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: body and your family body. There also, it's a it's 90 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: it's a lifestyle, and the lifestyle is is how do 91 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: we bridge the gett of great food and keeping it 92 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: health hunters at the same time. And that's one of 93 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: the things that I spent so much time teaching people 94 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: only so KidSing them so kids remix, and also how 95 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 1: to do it in the fraction of the time. With 96 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: that fraction of the time, what messed over me was 97 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: when you did the cabbages. I'm gonna tell you something. 98 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: I was sitting over there, you know, because like he 99 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: tells you, You'll tell you. I think I could cook, 100 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: you know, I can cook all bake until I get 101 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: people like him. Then I was like, I'm just staring 102 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: going Okay, that's how you really do it. So when 103 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: you look at that skills set, just like anything, you know, 104 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: it's like shooting free throws if you're an athlete. It's 105 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: like you know, running for a touchdown passing if you're 106 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: wide receiver and an athlete. Is it something natural? Because 107 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: you know your mom was a pastry shell, what did 108 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: this talent start to become an honest gift for you 109 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: that you wanted to pursue shift your nord wealth? You know, 110 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: one of one of the biggest things is my mom 111 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: was a patry chef from my father was a chef. 112 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: And when my parents made these strategic decision to move 113 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: us from Chicago, where I was born and raised the 114 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: air love part of my my life, to Mississippi, where 115 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: my great grandparents owned two farm land, it was a 116 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: bit of a culture shock that I have to tell you. 117 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: But what it is stealed in me having the opportunity 118 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: to be raised on the farm and and cultivate croc crops, 119 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: live stock, the smoke house that my great grandfather used 120 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: to smoke hands and turkeys, and oh so amazed and 121 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: spending that time in the kitchen with my mother and 122 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: father cooking. You know. It wasn't that they were instilling 123 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: any Jannardi you need to cook. It was a way 124 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: of life because we know food bridges people together in 125 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: the community was always migrating around us because our house, 126 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: our family was always is known as the cooking family. 127 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: And the and the biggest thing was what I loved 128 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: about it is the reactions people give when they eat 129 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: great food. And that's one of the things that made 130 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: me want to gravitate in and going into culinary arts 131 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: of life later on, is because the art form of 132 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: how it makes people feel when you're cooking something good. 133 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: It's just the art of breaking bread, you know, it's 134 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: it's a it's a whole ritual around and you think 135 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: about it, Hey, when when people are celebrating, Hey we 136 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: gotta promotional job. Let's go out to eat weddings, it's 137 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: all about the reception, you know, or just having gatherings over. 138 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: And that's what really made me fall in love with 139 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: cooking was the process of how once I go through 140 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: instilling who I am, how it made people react to it, 141 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: you know. And it started earlier, right absolutely, when I 142 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,119 Speaker 1: look at the talent, because you are a talent and 143 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: we know that, especially cable TV and now streaming TV, 144 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: have made celebrities out of chefs, and you are a 145 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: celebrity chef. Uh. You know, when I represented I represented 146 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: many talented people in life, most notally Steve Harvey currently 147 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: represent stephen A. Smith. When I would take Steve Harvey 148 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: to the Today's Show or Good Morning America or whatever show, 149 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, there was a certain reverence. They were excited about, Wow, 150 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: Steve's here. And so when I see you on TV, 151 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: you're becoming that star that that how you welcomed on 152 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: these shows and are you're starting to feel they knew 153 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: who I am because you know, when you get on 154 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: the stow you just happen to be on the show. 155 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: Now you're starting to be on these shows so often 156 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: they kind of know who you are, and there's a 157 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: certain level of expectations, especially from the producers of these 158 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: TV shows. Talk about that change in your brand as well. Yes, 159 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: and and over time the brand extremely grown where when 160 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: I where we don't have to reach out to these 161 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: networks to have me on their shows What's Today, Good 162 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: morn America they reach out to They reach out to 163 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: much to my team and I and it really feels 164 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: good walking on the show and being at a point 165 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: in life where the brand and my culinary point of 166 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: view speaks for a set, because for so long people 167 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: always wonder, Okay, what is his unique style, what is 168 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: this his way of cooking? What messages he bringing? And 169 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: and and ultimately we know, hey, it's now. Um. It 170 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: went from the Shelf of Love to the Family Chef 171 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: because it's about showing people how we come together with food. 172 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 1: But with my new book that's coming out that you 173 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: that you mentioned earlier, Southern Inspired My American Table, I 174 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: am diving into it a lot further and explaining how 175 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: our art cuisine, especially from the African American coach to 176 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: contribute so much to the American table and what we see, 177 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: you know, and I even give outside of giving amazing 178 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: recipes that I created with my family growing up, and 179 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: even it's in rolling over to now with my children, 180 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: I didn't get history explaining about like why we use oprah. 181 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: You know, oprah is one of those ingredients that's truly 182 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: indigenous to the African culture, and ochre is one of 183 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: those ingredients or or vestials. They came over when slaves 184 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 1: was brought over because they didn't know where they were 185 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: going they went, nor if they were going to have 186 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: food to eat. So you know what they did, They 187 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: hit the ochre seeds in their braids so when they 188 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: came over they were able to plant and start growing 189 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: these and ochre is normally used as a thinker for students, 190 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 1: for gumbos and things like that. And these are things 191 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: that I talked about and I share in Southern inspired 192 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: and while we cook the way we cook and love 193 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: the food that we loved. Last year, I grew oprah 194 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: in my garden and that's a tough loom plant. That man, 195 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: it was like I was like caught off Guard's just 196 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: a tough look. The really have to you know, really 197 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: have to sauted and slowly. It's not something you just 198 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: throw in there because to get it soft you have 199 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: to know that background about it. And so because I 200 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: was not even by it. And that's the great thing, 201 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: like you're talking about, you're talking about the history where 202 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: it came from, Why it is the way it is 203 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: because of our ancestors used that knew it was a 204 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: sturdy crop. I knew what it was purpose because I 205 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: love you know, okra and tomatoes. That's my favorite right there. 206 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: I'm always had it made. So you know my smarty 207 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: pants say, well, you know I got the majors got 208 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: some ocra, man, I would not think, Man, it's some 209 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: hard oak. And I had to learn and educate myself. 210 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,719 Speaker 1: And so even though you can do these gardens, if 211 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: you don't know the history, doesn't know the relationship or 212 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: what this food is about, it also contempor your success 213 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: in the kitchen. And that's what your cookbook is gonna 214 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: help us get through. Yes it is. It's so true. 215 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: While while making you knowledgeable and giving you the education 216 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: of peace on as they say, how do we know 217 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: where we're going if we don't know where we came from? 218 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: And and seeing the creativity other unique food, even all 219 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: the way down to grits, we know, especially when we 220 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: think about shrimp and grits. Hey, they had derived from 221 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: Charts to South Carolina. But one of the fool things 222 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 1: was the African culture. They were growing. They were growing grits, 223 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: and they were growing the weak the barley. You know, 224 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: at one point they were producing some of the rice 225 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: and everything gilse. They was producing enough props coming out 226 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: of South out of South Carolina where it was enough 227 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: to aford the United States. That's how much it and 228 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: they were important. We were thinking that, Hey, when we 229 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: hear about rice, we think about coming out of Asia 230 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: and that being the biggest, the biggest import exports. But 231 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: at one time, that freaking Carolina gold rice, it was 232 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: sweeping the nation where we were, we were supplying those 233 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: countries with it. And if we had we possessed such 234 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: a scheme where we mastered the art of how to 235 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: grow it and grow up phenomenally well and keep it 236 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: growing to this day. Right, we'll be right back with 237 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's 238 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now, 239 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: when you think about all these things and putting together 240 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: a book, because they said it's one hundred recipes, more 241 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 1: than one hundred said, more than one hundred delicious recipes 242 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: from my American table to yours. You've been doing this 243 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: for a long time. You've done books in the past. 244 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: What separates this book from the previous books? And how 245 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 1: did you start Because people have asked me to do, 246 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: you know, cookbooks, and I sat down and I started 247 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: doing it. It's a lot of want it is. It's 248 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: a lot of work I have to this. This has 249 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: been probably my my longest project on writing and creating 250 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: a book because we've really done it. We really wanted 251 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: this to be a master for master for peace that 252 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: I created, and of course the differences all of my books. 253 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: I put out a total over five different books, and 254 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: over the course of those years of creating those books, 255 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: one of the things is is I wanted to tell 256 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: a story. I wanted to tell the story around creating 257 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: these recipes. I wanted to tell the story of how 258 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: they were born, what what made him come about? And 259 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: being also not to mention, my other books were self published, 260 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: and this one is actually I signed a publishing deal 261 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: last year, so this one is actually gonna be nationwide 262 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: national through Actually I mean he, I mean, you gotta check, y'all, 263 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: we gotta check and said, let me said he worked 264 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: the hardest ever because they gave a check up from Hey. Hey, 265 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: that's that's a motivational a fact we must say. But 266 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: the thing is, wasn't the key things when we talk 267 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: about money making conversations, as they always say, you don't 268 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: have to wait, you don't have to wait for a 269 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: seat at the table when you can build your own table. 270 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: And I learned that early in the game when I 271 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: didn't have a brand, I didn't have a name, but 272 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: I was a chef and I had great recipes, and 273 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: I didn't have the opportunity to to for a major 274 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: publisher pay attention. So I started writing my own coople. 275 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: I started sending them through copy editing to make sure 276 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: that it was done right. And then after I wrote 277 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: those books self published them. I had I got out 278 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: of beat the payment and marketed and showed my books 279 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: to the point of where I made Barnes and Noble 280 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: pay attention to me as a self published author because 281 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: I was generating sales. So all those things played played 282 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: a major part. And when a major publisher approached me, 283 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: I actually had something to bring to the table, show Hey, 284 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: if I could do this by myself and my own 285 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: man power, imagine what we can do together. And so 286 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: so it's true, it's true. It's truly been a blessing 287 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: owned on just really just bringing forth this and the 288 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: other recipes were recipes in my in my previous books, 289 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: were recipes that I learned that I picked up from 290 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: traveling around the world and different things, and this book, 291 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: Southern Inspired. I really wanted to tap into the roots 292 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: of my foundation and the style of cooking. You know, 293 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: because a lot of people intend to say when when 294 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: you're talking about recipes, and especially from your southea African America, 295 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: Oh you you you could sol food? Right? No, I 296 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: don't could sol food. And this is the thing. So food, 297 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: as I always tell people, so food is American cuisine. 298 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: So food is the is the cuisine that the backbone 299 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: of America was buil though when when when slaves came over, 300 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: they took their they took the culture and their recipes 301 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: for African civilization that merged with Western civilization, and hence 302 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: this cuisine was born. If you think about it, doing 303 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: those times when our cuisine, when we were cooking and 304 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: and and feeding our cuisine to the masses as slaves, 305 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 1: it was us in the in the in the plantation 306 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: houses cooking. It was our cuisine. But then when that cuisine, 307 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: when they realized how great this cuisine he was in 308 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: this cuisine had a monetary value around it, it was 309 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: stripped away from us. So when you hear if you 310 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: see me, a person would say, okay, it's so. But 311 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: if you see anyone else that don't look like me 312 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: and would be considered American cuisine, which is one and 313 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: the same. But it's about the person who's bringing in 314 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: the how we create these dishes, and then not about 315 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: all the heavy pasioners that say cooking with fat back 316 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: and all those different things, these recipes that have been 317 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: modified for today's healthy lifestyle. So you can, as they say, 318 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: you can have your cake head even too. You know, 319 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: when you say American cuisine is a so food, you 320 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: automagical thing, high blood pressure, you know, diabetes. We said 321 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: so food, American cuisine Automagican field sound white sound, culture 322 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: sounds like everything's cooked correctly, you know, measured correctly. And 323 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: it really is how people can define your your culture, 324 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: defining your eating habits, and and be eating the same thing. 325 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: You know, corporates, you know rice, you know, you know 326 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I know I remember, 327 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: I remember a long time ago, when I was growing up, 328 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: you could go get a chicken pot pie three four 329 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: dollar chicken pop, and I remember there was this restaurant 330 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 1: so that same chicken pop pop, but they made it 331 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: for twenty dollars, you know, twenty dollars not but that 332 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: same chicken poper because you're not You're not gonna change 333 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 1: the inflexibles in there. It's still that chicken and there's 334 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: still that broader there. Steal that dope. You went over 335 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: the Crockers three four dollars, I went in this restaurant 336 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 1: twenty dollars. It's how you sell it, it's how you 337 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:10,360 Speaker 1: put it. And so in your book, your Teller's eight, 338 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 1: We're gonna do it. We'll understand when a different time period, 339 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: Healthy Conscious Eden hundred recipes. Now, we talked about old 340 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: crewk we talked about you know what, we ain't talked 341 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 1: about getting this dessert snap. You know you gotta tell 342 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: us about what's coming out of the dessert and that 343 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: because you're gonna get me mad if you don't start 344 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: talking about some dessert. I'm gonna end this phone call 345 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: because everybody else I'm the dessert king. Yes, yes, and 346 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: I have. Look, there's problem about thirties some different recipes 347 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: from from strawberry trifle kades all the way down to 348 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: our signature banana. Looksure, look sure a banana putting with 349 00:19:55,280 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: my mom. I'm saying that what I'm saying, she's ain't 350 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: look cool, look cool, look cool. See is a bank. 351 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: But now the putting guy here, Mr Rob. See, that's 352 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: what happ when you're when your mom a pastry, shall 353 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: your dad and shell two acres, he's educated, look cool. 354 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: I wouldn't even come to look cool. But now he 355 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: has a book. Well, just what we're gonna do when 356 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: you when you when the book comes out, it's gonna 357 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: come out November first. Correct. Okay, We're gonna do a 358 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: Facebook live a series of them, and I'm gonna have 359 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: fun with you all that fancy stuff. He's gonna do 360 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: the look cool version, look cool version of the pudding. 361 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: I would do Rashaw McDonald bag. But now they're putting 362 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: slap your mama in the face, and they both gonna 363 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: look good, taste good because we're enjoying food. But it's 364 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: all in how you deliver the message, correct, it is. 365 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: It's all about the messages, all about the message and 366 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: the enself and what I tell people. If I can 367 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: show you how you can get the same errands though 368 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: by using this process and and and have and have 369 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: an amazing tasting dish, there's no need to bed it 370 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: because this is the thing. It was. It was that tail. 371 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: Later on in life, we're cooking, we started doing all 372 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: put adding all these extra additives and and over we 373 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: over saw now food. If you think about it, when 374 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: we originally was cooking, we were using the basis for 375 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: bare minimum of fresh earth, spices, granulated sugars, molasses, different 376 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: things like that to to get these enriched recipes. And 377 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: somewhere along along the lines, we feel that, hey, we 378 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: could sub that out and put all this other stuff in. 379 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: So this is all about showing you how you create 380 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: great food. Well, let's jump and on top of that. Look, 381 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: you know, I'm always about putting time back in life 382 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: because we got business scheduled. So my biggest model is 383 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: showing you how you can create these dishes and on 384 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: yourself and the kissing the fris of the time. Because Richelle, 385 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: you know, when our grandmothers and mothers used going to kitching, 386 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: they're gonna be in the kitchen. It was to the 387 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: point that you would be in the so long you 388 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: holry summer crowning, you were you instantly thinking to yourself, 389 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: I don't never want to come because I don't want 390 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: to go in the kitchen. But the reason why grandmothers 391 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: were going to kitchen and staying the kids and for 392 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: hours was to give away for my granddad. That was 393 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: That was the relaxing point because going here, I want 394 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: this is Southern inspired coming out nowhere first, but you 395 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: can't buy pre sale. That book will be available on Amazon, Target, 396 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 1: Bonds and over website. You can go to either book 397 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: right now. So it's important to get that out. But 398 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: you have a couple of TV appearances coming up. I 399 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: want to talk about that. Let's go into that and 400 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: they we're gonna get into the new Sold Kitchen that 401 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: starts in several weeks and new Chen, New Sold Kitchen remix. 402 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 1: So let's talk about the upcoming TV appearances so we 403 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: don't want to miss that, and then new Soul Kitchen. Yes, 404 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: um April twentieth, I'll be on the Today Show, um 405 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: our Rock and myself. We're gonna be whipping up one 406 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: of my kids and myself. See a broker him good people. Now, 407 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: this is just a shame. I remember him four years ago. 408 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: He was barely getting on my little money making show 409 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: that I had, my make conversations, I had the used 410 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: he was out there buying this product off of Whole 411 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: Food like he was actually selling them and confession that 412 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: his product was hot. That was four years ago. Now 413 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: I'll be on the show with our broker, you know, 414 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: not Mr Roker, not Mr Roker, Al Roker. See, it's 415 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: all about supplying demand. Like when you mentioned like my 416 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: products hall Cusine supply. I created the demand and the 417 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: supply down. I knew it was just the love it. 418 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: So you'll be on that with our broker and then 419 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: withoutter that after After that, I'll be in St. Augustine, 420 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: Florida doing the St. Augustine Wine and Food Festival Mother's 421 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: Day weekend. And when you go to you cook and 422 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: people sample that they pay a fee to come into 423 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: the festival, they can just sample different products. How does 424 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: that work? Yes, Timpa. When you go to the festivals, 425 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 1: you you you get a risk band. That risk band 426 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: normally met you in where you get a chance to 427 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: sample all of the signature wins the contathers this year 428 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: believe we're gonna have Maker's Mark on deck is one 429 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: of the church sponsors. We have Costello wins. That's gonna 430 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: that's gonna be in the house and one of the 431 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: things you get to experience outside of all of the 432 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 1: signature wines hotails and konyaks Is. We're doing a one 433 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: of the opening nights I believe is Thurstday night U 434 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: cat Cora, which is an iron chef Amazed and she's 435 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: actually Mississippi native as well myself and as serious of 436 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: other other chefs. We do on a curated dinner. And 437 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: for that dinner, one of the ditches that I'm doing 438 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 1: is actually a shrimp and grits, but ain't doing a 439 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 1: recenting wine route. That's gonna be overlaid over the shrimping 440 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: grit cake. And then we take the grits after cooking 441 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: them up and fusing with smoke goodle, we let them 442 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: cheer with form in the cakes, paint for bread from them, 443 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: and then flash frown so they have that nice crispy 444 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,959 Speaker 1: crust on the outside, but go on the inside with 445 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 1: the recenting wine route casscading down the sides of the 446 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: jumbo shrimp. Those are the things that we're gonna be 447 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: doing right there. And then also I'm gonna do a 448 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: live cooking segment on the on the cast on the 449 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: cat on the cash starn Um, the cash Star a 450 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: skillet stage. So and then there I'm gonna make my 451 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: signature new Orleans Creole barbecue shrimp. Stop. Man, just stop, 452 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 1: Let's let's move on. See that, See that? See what 453 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: he ain't spank for y'all. It's like, you know, it's 454 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: like he had the jabbar hook shop on it. No, no, 455 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: I couldn't blocked the shot. No I was coming, but 456 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: he just whipped me out of the New Soul Kitchen 457 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: New Season award winning you have to do in your thing. 458 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: I love the fact that now it's really your show. Correct, 459 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: Yes it is. Yeah, New Soul Kitching and New Soul 460 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: Kitchen remakes. Uh. The difference in the two shows. New 461 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: Soul Kitchen is more of the the slow pace and 462 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: be like, Okay, we're doing longer recipes and I take 463 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 1: the step by step so that you can either cook 464 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: along with me, because normally what I'll do on my 465 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: social media page and on Cleo on Cleo's, on my 466 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 1: Cleo TV social media page, what I normally do is 467 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: well provide the recipes where you can cook along or 468 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: after the show because of the pace and rate that 469 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: I cook it, you can go back and follow and 470 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: create those dishes. And I love for the fans and 471 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: the beers to recreate an antagg me in and man, 472 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: they put out some amazing stuff and it just feels 473 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: so good inspired and then new soul kisr remix. What 474 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: they do is for that fast paced lifestyle. Hey, you're 475 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: you're working through the week, you got a family, or 476 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: it's just you. That's neverant only you want to come 477 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: in with something the quick and fast. I give you 478 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: simple ingredients that you can grab from the grocery store 479 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: with it up in the fraction at the time against 480 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: what you're eating good. You know what you're putting in 481 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: your body, the whole nine yards. And if you like 482 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: Rachean plints your guarden, you just don't pick from it 483 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: as usual. Man, you're a fantastic demand. Your communication skills 484 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: are about food. Is like it's as good as you 485 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: cook it in the kitchen you make it. You're what 486 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: I call consumable conversation. When I watch you talk about food, 487 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: I'm consuming and I'm eating and enjoying it and want 488 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: to sit down and really eat what you actually have 489 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: talked about. That's the beauty and the gifts of your talent. 490 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: Shift to nor Wales Man, and every time you bless 491 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: me with the time to talk to you again. My 492 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: job now as a friend and also a person that 493 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 1: I believe I've mentored you to certain paths that you 494 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 1: have been since I've been in your life. Let's let's 495 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: make this book number one, brother, Let's make this book 496 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: number one. Okay. So look, because because the because because 497 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: the ride game, you know it blew it blew me 498 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: out and blew my mind at the body you broke 499 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 1: down kiss Well you know the thing about you because 500 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: you asked me to write it up, and I know 501 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: it caught you all guard and just said, wow, you 502 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: mean everything you say, absolutely absolutely, and we're gonna take 503 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: this to the next level man, and look forward to 504 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: seeing your TV. It was so funny. My my wife 505 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: the other day, she said, we need to we need 506 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: to we need to get to do we need to 507 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: do something with chef you. Well, do we have something 508 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: we you know, she try to figure out something to 509 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: do with you, you know, because your talents are just 510 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: so so gifted and so so massively uh liked and 511 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: uh and of course you know Keena, your wife, who 512 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: I love the death. Your family is awesome. It's a 513 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: it's an experience that because you know, it's a package deal. 514 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes he dad but he did too, and 515 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: that's all good. That's all good, that's all good. I 516 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: love you, Chef to wales Man. Thank you for coming 517 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation master Class. Thank you, my brother. 518 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: They're looking forward to many more. Absolutely, if you want 519 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: to see or hear this interview, please go to money 520 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: Making Conversation dot com. I'm with Sean McDonald. I am 521 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: your host. We'll be right back with more money Making 522 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. You are now tuned into 523 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rushan McDonald. 524 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: This week I sat down with award winning actor, bestselling 525 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: author and entrepreneur He'll Harper. He stopped by and talked 526 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: about how his thoroid cancer diagnosis led to his role 527 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: as a health and wellness ambassador, teaching everyday people how 528 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: to live healthier lives. We believe that a lot of 529 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: the root cause of cancer has to do with what 530 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: we can put on our skin. Our skin is the 531 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: largest organ on our body and if you aided your draconsistent, 532 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: your liver, your kidneys have to deal with it. And 533 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 1: they said, the reason why I will never be tested 534 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: because the same companies that make the lotions to contain 535 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: the illuminum, the petroleums, the paramous and the oils and 536 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: all these things the same companies will make that are 537 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: all the same companies the drug company, so they're never 538 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: going to do a long term study of the effects 539 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: of their product. If you want to listen to this 540 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: full interview with Heal Harbor, it's available on money Making 541 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 1: Conversations dot com. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations 542 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,959 Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. My next desk is Tiffany Halls. 543 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: How are you doing, Tiffany? How are you? Let's get 544 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: it all out. You know, what do you do for 545 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: a living, Tiffany? Because I thought you're gonna be a 546 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: studio with me. I thought so, but they said, you know, 547 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: you couldn't make it in I'm not mad at you 548 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: because you're my friend. You're my friend. You're my friend. 549 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: But tell us about what you have right now with 550 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: your career. Um. You know, I am a let's stay 551 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: close on attorney UM in Atlanta. Yes, ma'am. Now when 552 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: you say that, because you know we've been to view 553 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: individual before and you know my whole fear about having 554 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: a closing attorney because I signed a bunch of papers. 555 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: I've been fortunate to buy a house in my life 556 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: and there's a stack of papers. I know nothing about 557 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: what I'm signing, but I'm told to sign. So can 558 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: you help? I'm sure it's a lot you laughing at me, 559 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: and you laughing because you know this is this is 560 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: a look that you can people give you all the time. 561 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: So there's a lot of trust I have to have 562 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: with an attorney like you, So tell us exactly what 563 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: are they may be doing the same thing out signed. 564 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: What are we signing? So it's not necessarily a lot 565 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: of trust that you have to have with the attorney. 566 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: It's just you knowing what you are agreeing to as 567 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: far as the terms of the actual loan. And so 568 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: as a humor or as a buyer, if I'm purchasing 569 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: a home, the number one thing that I'm concerned about 570 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: is can I afford to purchase this home? Is the 571 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: interest rate going to be sufficient enough for me to 572 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: be able to make my mortgage payments each month? Um? 573 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: And so those are the important factors as a homeowner, 574 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: UM that I'm gonna go over with you in detail, like, hey, 575 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: this is your note, and on your note, you know 576 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: it says your interest rate is three point five and 577 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: your principal and interest is this figure. But now on 578 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: top of that, we have to add in your s 579 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: grows for your taxes, your property taxes, and for your insurance. 580 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: And so although your principal and interest is this amount, 581 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 1: your monthly payment will be this amount once we include 582 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: those s grows. And so as a buyer, that's the 583 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: most important thing because you have to realize that when 584 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: a lender is um lending you money, you're not signing 585 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: anything in your favor. Everything is always going to be 586 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: in the bank's favor. So if we make them of sake, 587 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: you will correct it by her um. If something goes on, 588 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: you will correct it. If you have done anything fraudulent, 589 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: we can't fork close. If you don't pay, we can't 590 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: fork close. So all those terms are definitely going to 591 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 1: be in favor of the lender. So it's just important 592 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: for you to know what you're comfortable with UH and 593 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: what you can afford. And once you figure that out, UM, 594 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: the truth is you're either signing the documents to getting 595 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 1: the loan or you're not. You can't negotiate anything. Well, 596 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: you know this interesting because we're gonna talk about the 597 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: show that your star, the unscripted series on Own Ladies 598 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: Who List Atlanta. But one of the reasons I invited 599 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: you on my show, the live show on w C. Okay, 600 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: let's just talk about it, because sometimes you get lost 601 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 1: in reality and TVs. That's what she does for a living. 602 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: She play acting because I really wanted to because I 603 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 1: knew that wasn't the truth and I want to make 604 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: sure clarify that. But because you deliver our skill and 605 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: U and uh that am I wrong in this saying 606 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,719 Speaker 1: that's that not many African American LA female participate as 607 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: closing attorneys. Um, there's a there's a handful of us 608 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 1: out here. I wouldn't say that there's not a lot. 609 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: There are definitely um enough of us out here. And 610 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: and actually it's the area law where you're starting to 611 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: see more minorities UM entering this area of law. So back, 612 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: you know, five ten years ago, you didn't see as 613 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: many African American closing attorneys. But now like I'm literally 614 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,840 Speaker 1: seeing them pop up everywhere around Atlanta, around this metropolitan 615 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: you know, sitting here. UM, but we're still a minority, 616 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 1: We're still not UM the main person that you see 617 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: at the closing table. Um, even in Atlanta, Tiffany. Uh. 618 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: You know, this interview is part of answering questions for Rishwan. 619 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: And people call it because an experience of how did 620 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: you get started? Because you said you can go to 621 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: school for this, you know, like I went to college. 622 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: You know, I started off as a civil engineer, and 623 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,799 Speaker 1: I went over the chemical engineer, and then I went 624 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 1: over to uh, the math and then you got a 625 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 1: degree in math and I minored out and um and 626 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,359 Speaker 1: the sociology. Was this what you wanted to do when 627 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 1: you went to college. So when I went to I 628 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: went to Savannah State University undergrad and I made a 629 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: major that political science and minored in English. And my 630 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 1: goal was to go to law school. Now, at that time, 631 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: I had no idea about transactional law. I had no 632 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 1: idea about real estate closing. I didn't even know when 633 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: attorney was involved when you purchased the house. It wasn't 634 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: until UM when I graduated. I ended up getting pregnant 635 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,280 Speaker 1: with my oldest son. And instead of going a law school, 636 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 1: I went and got my pair of legal certificate and 637 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,320 Speaker 1: I applied to like a whole bunch of law firms, 638 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: and the law firm that called me back was a 639 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 1: real estate closing attorney's office. I got my first job, 640 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 1: and so that was the first time that I was ever, 641 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: you know, even aware that there was law associated with 642 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: purchasing homes. And that was back in two thousand and six, 643 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: two thousand seven. And once I got into that arena 644 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: and I started learning the process and how everything went. Eventually, 645 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: when I went to law school, it's all I knew 646 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: how to practice. And so once I graduated laws at 647 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: the bar, I just immediately, um, you know, opened up 648 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,240 Speaker 1: my own firm and started doing the residential real estate closing. Now, okay, 649 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 1: now opening your own firm, is that a Is that normal? 650 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just asking simple questions in my mind, 651 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 1: you know, because that means that you know, you have 652 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,840 Speaker 1: from there the word firm. You know, they're all on 653 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: TV now. They all got commercials out there, and you know, 654 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: they had billboards. It was drong on with the law 655 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: and you know Morgan and Logan and you know they 656 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,360 Speaker 1: they they they sponsored local news, which is shocking to me. 657 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: You know, how you can have a law firm sponsoring 658 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: local news. I don't get that. But they do it. 659 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 1: And so how do you compete with all that super 660 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,279 Speaker 1: hype that's going on, all this news of dollars as 661 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 1: being spent. How does your firm cut through all that clutter? Um? Well, 662 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: I never looked at it as a competition. UM. When 663 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,200 Speaker 1: I opened my firm, it was simply because I knew 664 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: how to do everything. UM and I paid three hundred 665 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,799 Speaker 1: thousand dollars to go to law school. Why am I 666 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:35,319 Speaker 1: going to apply tool law firm make seventy thousand dollars 667 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 1: if that um and then has to work, you know, 668 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,719 Speaker 1: my ass off for everyone else. So the goal in 669 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: my mind was, No, I did all this work, I 670 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: know how to do this, so I'm gonna open up 671 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,919 Speaker 1: my own firm. Now I knew how to do all 672 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: the real estate stuff, the practice, but when I didn't 673 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 1: know how to do which actually builds UM my business. 674 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 1: And I still at that time wasn't like, oh what 675 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 1: am I gonna do with all these big law firms. No, 676 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 1: I was like, more like, how am I gonna find 677 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 1: my way? What's gonna benefit me? And I found the 678 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 1: power of social media. UM. I have three children, so 679 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 1: it's very hard for me to do traditional networking. UM. 680 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,280 Speaker 1: Like going to different places, lunches, shaking hands, getting out cards. 681 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:30,040 Speaker 1: It was very Um, it's difficult for me to um 682 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: even kind of like put myself out there being in 683 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,520 Speaker 1: front of people like, hey, I just graduated law school. 684 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: Here my business cards. But then when I found out that, 685 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,359 Speaker 1: like my audience, the people that I want to do 686 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 1: business with with your real estate agents, they're all over 687 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: social media and of course they want everyone to know 688 00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 1: that they're a real estate agent, so it's easy to 689 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 1: find them, and that became my niche and how I 690 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,080 Speaker 1: got my business. Now, I may not be the largest 691 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: law firm out years, but the business that I do 692 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: is enough for me. It's enough to employ um eleven people, 693 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: it's enough to you know, take care of my family. 694 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,239 Speaker 1: And so for me, that's enough. There are people out 695 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 1: here with lofty goals of wanting to be you know, 696 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 1: the largest closing attorney, are not even closing attorney any firm. Um, 697 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: I just don't have those goals because you know, a 698 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,759 Speaker 1: lot of my goals are now to just you know, 699 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,000 Speaker 1: pour into my children. Um. So it's just all about 700 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,040 Speaker 1: you know, what you want, And I just really never 701 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,799 Speaker 1: looked at anybody else to compare myself and what I'm 702 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,920 Speaker 1: doing to what they're doing. Now when you when you 703 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: look at first of all, when I when I hear 704 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 1: the way you talk, that means that you walk through 705 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,400 Speaker 1: a lot of unknown situations with a lot of courage, 706 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: because that stops a lot of people. A lot of 707 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,239 Speaker 1: people want their dreams to be accomplished, but fear the 708 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,360 Speaker 1: not feeling comfortable, not not knowing, hey is a paycheck? 709 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: Wait on me? If an idea is gonna work, Who's 710 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,920 Speaker 1: supporting me? How did you overcome the fear of the 711 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,279 Speaker 1: unknown before we go to break? Well, the big thing 712 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 1: is you just mentioned is support. Um. So I am married. 713 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,800 Speaker 1: I have a husband, UM who is a traditional husband 714 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,279 Speaker 1: in the sense that he pays all the bills. So 715 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 1: it wasn't a situation where I was, you know, deciding 716 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,360 Speaker 1: whether I'm a pay my rent or open up my 717 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,960 Speaker 1: law firm. You know, I didn't have to think about 718 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: something that some some people have to think about. So 719 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,440 Speaker 1: the fear of paying bills and all that stuff that 720 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: was removed because the support that I had from my husband. UM. 721 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,319 Speaker 1: Now with that support, of course, you still have to 722 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: have the focus and the mindset to actually go out 723 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,600 Speaker 1: here and get business and and find ways to be successful. 724 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 1: But I honestly couldn't have any of that without the 725 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,799 Speaker 1: support of of my family. That is that was that 726 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: was paramount and me opening up my law firm. Now 727 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,000 Speaker 1: we got two calls for you right now. Are you ready? Okay? 728 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: Nikki from Atlanta? How are you doing, Nikki? Hi? Rashon 729 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: lating great. We have Tiffany on the call. What is 730 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:20,200 Speaker 1: your call today about? Hi, Tiffany, I'm a realtor as well. 731 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,800 Speaker 1: I'm a realtorday night as well. But I'm a realtor 732 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,400 Speaker 1: and I just want to give you props because you know, 733 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 1: we do look for closing attorneys that return our calls, 734 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,359 Speaker 1: they get the paperwork done on time, that do it right, 735 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,919 Speaker 1: have no issues with titles, et cetera. And you must 736 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,480 Speaker 1: be doing something right. So I really am calling into 737 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,279 Speaker 1: just pat you on the back and say you must 738 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,759 Speaker 1: be doing a great job. And I'm gonna look you 739 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,040 Speaker 1: up and see you know what's going on, because we 740 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 1: are always looking for a great, great closing attorney. So 741 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,479 Speaker 1: I just really want to call in and congratulate you well. 742 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,840 Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Nissy. Sometimes this industry is crazy. 743 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,359 Speaker 1: If you're a real estate agent. Then then you know, 744 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,879 Speaker 1: so we're always trying to do, you know, the best 745 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,960 Speaker 1: that we can to just make our way through the 746 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,479 Speaker 1: craziness of a real estate transaction. So it's always good, 747 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: um to get that pat on the back, um, just 748 00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,440 Speaker 1: to keep us going. You know, real estate is brutal. 749 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,319 Speaker 1: It is. I was gonna say, it really is. And 750 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 1: because you're dealing with you know, such a large purchase 751 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,799 Speaker 1: them the buyers or sellers can do. You know, it's 752 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:35,799 Speaker 1: just an emotional roller coasters drive. But um, you know, 753 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 1: if you have a good closing attorney that can keep 754 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 1: everybody staying at the table, you know, obviously you're doing 755 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,279 Speaker 1: something right. So good job. Well, yes, so at our 756 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:53,839 Speaker 1: clothing table we have Margarita's and wine and so yes, 757 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,239 Speaker 1: well you know the thing what she called in Let 758 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,840 Speaker 1: me just roll back here a little bit because obviously 759 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:05,320 Speaker 1: by Nikki's response, there are certain there there's different type 760 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,640 Speaker 1: of closing attorneys. You try to bring levity and calmness 761 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:14,960 Speaker 1: and celebration to your closes, right, and so now that's different. Now, 762 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,799 Speaker 1: what what makes you what makes it good? I may 763 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,440 Speaker 1: have asked this, but for having her call in, what 764 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:25,920 Speaker 1: makes a really good closing attorney. UM. The what really 765 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 1: makes a good closing attorney is just the ability to 766 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:35,160 Speaker 1: relate to the party said. Real estate is very emotional. 767 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 1: The sellers are on high emotions. Number one. They may 768 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,400 Speaker 1: be selling a home that they have like emotional ties to. 769 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,920 Speaker 1: Their kids may have been born there, they may have 770 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,480 Speaker 1: lived there for several years, and so although they may 771 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,560 Speaker 1: be walking away with a check, it's still a very 772 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,960 Speaker 1: anxious and emotional time for them and for the buyers. 773 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,120 Speaker 1: You know, getting financing for a home is not easy. 774 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,440 Speaker 1: You go through a lot of ups and downs. The 775 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,000 Speaker 1: lenders take you through hell and back just to get 776 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 1: the money, you know, to buy your home. So a 777 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,960 Speaker 1: lot of times, once you get to the closing table, 778 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:13,520 Speaker 1: you're honestly exhausted. Now, you know, I have to bring 779 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,239 Speaker 1: you from that point of exhaustion to now realizing that 780 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:22,560 Speaker 1: this is a happy occasion for you. Let's celebrate home ownership, UM. 781 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,160 Speaker 1: Let's celebrate the ability to purchase homes and sell them 782 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,160 Speaker 1: and create wealth for our families. And that's really what 783 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:35,080 Speaker 1: separates me apart from other attorneys, just my ability to 784 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,440 Speaker 1: relate to people on all levels. You know, I close 785 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:43,960 Speaker 1: your standard buyer and seller are closed, celebrities are close athletes, um, 786 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 1: and you just gotta come to people where they are. 787 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: And when people know that you can relate to them, 788 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,319 Speaker 1: it just makes for an easier transaction. We'll be right 789 00:44:52,360 --> 00:45:00,239 Speaker 1: back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with ru Sean McDonald. Now, 790 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:05,280 Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. 791 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,520 Speaker 1: You are articulate, you have three kids. Do you have 792 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,960 Speaker 1: a husband who as your back your employee? Loving people? 793 00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,319 Speaker 1: You are very busy. I'm sure you do a lot 794 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,960 Speaker 1: of speaking engagements. How do you have time to do 795 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,840 Speaker 1: a television show on own? It call that entitled Ladies 796 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,360 Speaker 1: Who Listed Atlanta? How did that come about? Tivity? Because 797 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:32,720 Speaker 1: your schedule scenes pretty robots. My stentile is definitely busy, 798 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:39,080 Speaker 1: but a lot of my schedule is surrounded with real estate. Um. 799 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:43,160 Speaker 1: The show is a real estate show. And so this 800 00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:47,960 Speaker 1: is not you know, real Househoves of Atlanta or um 801 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,200 Speaker 1: any show like that where I would have to actually 802 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,879 Speaker 1: change the trajectory of my life. This is about real 803 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,080 Speaker 1: estate and it's in my life. It's surrounded if I 804 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,200 Speaker 1: real estate, so it was an easy thing for me. 805 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,440 Speaker 1: Is not basketball wife, you know? It's not all that 806 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,600 Speaker 1: over there, you know, all over that, And we're not 807 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,799 Speaker 1: saying anything negative about Real Housewives of Atlanta. What she's 808 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,560 Speaker 1: saying is that she was invited to come on the 809 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,320 Speaker 1: show that aligned yourself with her career in her background 810 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 1: what she does real estate, So it wasn't like a 811 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:22,400 Speaker 1: fictionalized role or character she had to play or scripted. Basically, 812 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,240 Speaker 1: they're kind of like recording what you do for a living, correct, 813 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:31,319 Speaker 1: correct exactly. The unincorporated a lot of my family with 814 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,319 Speaker 1: as well, and so it was just something that would 815 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,600 Speaker 1: aligned with my lifestyle. Now, with that being said, are 816 00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:43,719 Speaker 1: you enjoying being no, no, being uh notice on the 817 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,239 Speaker 1: streets being what is that and what is that participation 818 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:52,120 Speaker 1: in the TV show done for your brand? It's a 819 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,000 Speaker 1: little weird for me when I go in two public 820 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,400 Speaker 1: cases and people know who I am and they're like, 821 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 1: oh my god, there's a they don't do that tiff 822 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,560 Speaker 1: They'll do the oh my god, dude, oh my god, 823 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,600 Speaker 1: I'm just Tiffany, or they want to take pictures and 824 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm just I'm just Tippany. I'm nobody. 825 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,239 Speaker 1: I'm nobody's special, and you know, I'm just you know, 826 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,360 Speaker 1: just a regular person. Well, I'm gonna tell you this, 827 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,160 Speaker 1: you're not a regular person because people want to call 828 00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,319 Speaker 1: and talk to you on my show. We got another call, 829 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,680 Speaker 1: if you're ready for another call? Sandra Soandrop from Atlanta. 830 00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,719 Speaker 1: How you on, Sandra, You're on the call with Tiffany Halls, 831 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,640 Speaker 1: the very humble who doesn't like getting notory g brought 832 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,400 Speaker 1: to in public? Oh my god, it's Tiffany. Oh my god, Sandra. 833 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:41,200 Speaker 1: What is your question for the humble? And you know, 834 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: regularly regular, regular, regular Tiffany? Can you guys hear meal 835 00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,400 Speaker 1: a little? But I love the show she was on. 836 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,640 Speaker 1: I love her spirit. She's beautiful and God is gonna 837 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,000 Speaker 1: always continue to bless her in her family. But I 838 00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,800 Speaker 1: had one quick question. I'm kind of embarrassed about the question, 839 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:04,680 Speaker 1: but I'm an act. Is it I've always rinched almost 840 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:10,080 Speaker 1: sixty years old. If the age factor a factor is 841 00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:17,520 Speaker 1: first time hold ownership, absolutely not. In fact, the benefit 842 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,360 Speaker 1: of actually purchasing a home as you get older is 843 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,799 Speaker 1: that in some counties, like when your large metro counties, 844 00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,960 Speaker 1: they have senior exemptions for taxes where you don't have 845 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,840 Speaker 1: to even pay the school taxes on your tax bill, 846 00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,359 Speaker 1: and that is um the majority of the tax bill. 847 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,840 Speaker 1: So if your tax bill is four thousand dollars and 848 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,279 Speaker 1: you get the senior exemption, your tax bill may go 849 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,319 Speaker 1: down to five hundred dollars. And so now instead of 850 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,839 Speaker 1: s growing um based on a four thousand dollar tax bill, 851 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,439 Speaker 1: you're now s growing based on a five hundred dollar 852 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,200 Speaker 1: tax bill, So your payment is even lower. So there's 853 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:03,120 Speaker 1: tons of benefits for purchasing, you know, at home, even 854 00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,920 Speaker 1: if you're not young, you still have the ability to 855 00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,799 Speaker 1: purchase something for your family. Yeah, okay, Because I had 856 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 1: thought about homeownership and then I felt like, well, I'm 857 00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:20,759 Speaker 1: too old home. But anyway, and I was thinking, well, 858 00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,920 Speaker 1: maybe I can get something and putting me in my 859 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,759 Speaker 1: daughter's name, and would that be a something to consider 860 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,160 Speaker 1: because I know as time go on and and she 861 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,920 Speaker 1: could just have it or however and just we both 862 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,000 Speaker 1: have our names on the deed. Is that a possibility? 863 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,080 Speaker 1: So let me just change your son, get that home 864 00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,200 Speaker 1: in your name. It's called a will, you know, get 865 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:45,080 Speaker 1: a will, get a will, live your life, Gusto. You know, 866 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,440 Speaker 1: that's one thing I was getting on black people, African 867 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:52,799 Speaker 1: Americans about you are a special person first of all, 868 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,319 Speaker 1: age and not be an excuse. Did anybody listen to me? 869 00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,360 Speaker 1: Do not if you're seven years old you want to 870 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,959 Speaker 1: buy a house by and you able to buy, ninety 871 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,040 Speaker 1: years old, if you look at the house while you 872 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,399 Speaker 1: roll it down the street and you're able to buy 873 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,840 Speaker 1: and go by, Because that's what life is about. A 874 00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:13,720 Speaker 1: life is about. Adventure is guaranteed. Come on, Tiffany, wrap 875 00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,880 Speaker 1: it up. Tim you you're the motivator. Come on different 876 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:22,840 Speaker 1: each other, tell them saying, Okay, something else can something 877 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,560 Speaker 1: can happen to you at that young age. Um, I'm 878 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,520 Speaker 1: totally in agreement. Don't ever let age stop you from 879 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,840 Speaker 1: doing anything any day that you wake up living in 880 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,760 Speaker 1: a day worth going after what you want in life. 881 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,360 Speaker 1: You hear that sounds yes, don't do don't anyway. I 882 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:45,759 Speaker 1: like her from the show Chilled. You don't like a 883 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,480 Speaker 1: lot of bes. I'm like, and when we got heard 884 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,120 Speaker 1: her on the radio, I'm like, I gotta figure out 885 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,400 Speaker 1: how to call it that. I have to figure this out. Well, 886 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach some some I'm gonna slow you down 887 00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,160 Speaker 1: before you say a word on my little show. They 888 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,040 Speaker 1: get me taken off that you already said the word 889 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,680 Speaker 1: that be as we can't get with no farther than that. Okay, 890 00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:10,279 Speaker 1: sound Sundra, listen to me. Now you're special, okay, and 891 00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:12,720 Speaker 1: it's a blessing. You have a daughter you can share 892 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,560 Speaker 1: this opportunity with if you can get you know, you 893 00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,480 Speaker 1: already got the closing attorney. She's the real deal. That's 894 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,319 Speaker 1: Tiffany Halls. Okay. So go out there and find that home. 895 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,480 Speaker 1: You know it might be a little tight right now 896 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,680 Speaker 1: because home mortgages are inching up, and they're doing that 897 00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,279 Speaker 1: to slow down home purchases. You know, that's what they 898 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,560 Speaker 1: do when their inflation. They raised the interest rate. That's 899 00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:35,799 Speaker 1: how they bring prices down because everything is available. It's 900 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,600 Speaker 1: kind of weird how they do. They They make you 901 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,719 Speaker 1: spend money so you can stop spending money. That's how 902 00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,360 Speaker 1: inflation works. The battle left. But it shouldn't stop you 903 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,799 Speaker 1: from going out there, taking your time. It doesn't have 904 00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,759 Speaker 1: to be a big home, just a home that you love. 905 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,560 Speaker 1: But one thing for sure, I'm gonna give you this advice. 906 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,560 Speaker 1: Whatever home you want to buy, go by there in 907 00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,080 Speaker 1: the daytime, go by there at noon, go by there 908 00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:01,200 Speaker 1: at night, go by there on the weekends. Because your neighbors. 909 00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,000 Speaker 1: What you can't pick as your neighbors want you buy 910 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,480 Speaker 1: at home. That's who you got on the left and 911 00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,279 Speaker 1: the right and in front of your in behind you. 912 00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,520 Speaker 1: So take your time. It might be a cute little house, 913 00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,640 Speaker 1: but make sure who you living next to is somebody 914 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:19,400 Speaker 1: that you want to be next to. Is that correct, Tiffany? 915 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:24,160 Speaker 1: That is definitely because you cannot change your neighbors. Absolutely, 916 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,000 Speaker 1: So thank you for calling in. We're about to wrap 917 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,080 Speaker 1: up this show, and I appreciate you. Still a fan 918 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,040 Speaker 1: of her? Okay of hers? Okay, so yeah, I will. 919 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,000 Speaker 1: I can't wait till the next show come on? When 920 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:38,680 Speaker 1: are they coming? She's on the own network? Ladies who 921 00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,160 Speaker 1: list Atlanta or Tiffany. I'll tell you something. We were 922 00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,800 Speaker 1: wrapping up the show here, yeah, and blew up my phone. 923 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,160 Speaker 1: People calling in want to know what's going on. That 924 00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,200 Speaker 1: means that you bring something, some great quality of life. 925 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,840 Speaker 1: And I want to appreciate you for coming on my 926 00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,880 Speaker 1: show and hopefully come back. But this time you're being studios. 927 00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,360 Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun. Yes, sounds good to me. 928 00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,040 Speaker 1: Just connect with me being Emil and let's make that happen. Okay. 929 00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,919 Speaker 1: I appreciate you and stay safe. Tell your husband high 930 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,360 Speaker 1: for allowing me a few times in the afternoon, and 931 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:11,880 Speaker 1: your children stay blessed. Alright, Tiffany, alright you Oh, definitely, definitely, 932 00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:13,919 Speaker 1: And I want to tell everybody who listened to Money 933 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,600 Speaker 1: Making Conversation again. Sandra called in on the show about age. 934 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,520 Speaker 1: We let we allow that limit and limits us so 935 00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,320 Speaker 1: much and what we want to do in our lives. 936 00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,239 Speaker 1: We get thirty, we think we not not in in, 937 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,480 Speaker 1: we're not inspired to do anything. Forday, we start regretting 938 00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,719 Speaker 1: our life. Fifty we're trying to run the retirement. There's 939 00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,080 Speaker 1: no such thing that there's nothing to run to. Look 940 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,439 Speaker 1: in the mirror, everybody, you can be whatever you want 941 00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,640 Speaker 1: to be, as long as you want to put forth 942 00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,640 Speaker 1: the effort to be that person that you want to be. 943 00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,000 Speaker 1: UM with Sean McDonald host the Money Making Conversation Masterclass. 944 00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,040 Speaker 1: See you next week. I'll talk to you next week. 945 00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,200 Speaker 1: You've been listening to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan 946 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,480 Speaker 1: McDonald Always remember to lead with your gifts. Money Making 947 00:53:55,480 --> 00:54:00,880 Speaker 1: Conversations master Class is a presentation of Thy fifteen Media Incorporated. 948 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,040 Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute 949 00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,440 Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. This week, I sat down 950 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:13,840 Speaker 1: with veteran Hollywood movie producer and farmer music executive James Lopez. 951 00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,640 Speaker 1: James talked about going from working on the job he 952 00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:21,560 Speaker 1: enjoyed to discover his true gifts to be involved in 953 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:25,480 Speaker 1: film intelligion. There were no examples for us. I had 954 00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,040 Speaker 1: no idea what a producer did. I didn't know that 955 00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:32,040 Speaker 1: there were people behind the scenes predominantly called casey. So 956 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,200 Speaker 1: I just took the natural route into music because there 957 00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,239 Speaker 1: were several examples that we as black naked point to, 958 00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,840 Speaker 1: and then getting involved in soundtrack. In the music business, 959 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:48,279 Speaker 1: I started interacting with studio executive and producers, and then 960 00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:52,239 Speaker 1: I started to get exposed to the possibility of where 961 00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,239 Speaker 1: where I wanted my life to go. If you want 962 00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,319 Speaker 1: to listen to this full interview with James Lopez, it's 963 00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,719 Speaker 1: available on Money Making Conversations dot com.