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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 2: It's the show that she is the secrets of success

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Speaker 2: experience firsthand by Marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I

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Speaker 2: will know he's giving me advice on many occasions. And

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Speaker 2: in case you didn't notice, I'm not broke. You know

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Speaker 2: he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry decision make

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Speaker 2: because it's what he likes to do, it's what he

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Speaker 2: likes to share. Now it's time to hear from my man,

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Speaker 2: Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for joining me on my show. This

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Speaker 3: is Rashan McDonald's host of Money Making Conversation master Class.

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Speaker 3: I've been traveling this week. I was in Austin, Texas

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Speaker 3: this week. I was speaking to a group of our

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Speaker 3: college students down there about there but it was a

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Speaker 3: business and entertainment class and I'm looking at these students

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Speaker 3: thinking about it when I was in college and I

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Speaker 3: thought about it. It gave me a chance to reflect

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Speaker 3: that the th I am today, it really is the

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Speaker 3: person I was when I was eighteen years old. I

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Speaker 3: was a person who I was a promoter. I was

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Speaker 3: a person who somehow convinced people to come to events

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Speaker 3: that I envision as a form of entertainment. I convinced

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Speaker 3: them through my marketing and branding, to give me money

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Speaker 3: for parties. And back in the day, you know, yourent

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Speaker 3: at those apartment clubhouses and hire your little DJ out

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Speaker 3: the DJ. I was a guy at the door. I

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Speaker 3: was doing all those things. But it all started when

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Speaker 3: I was eighteen years old. And I always tell people

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Speaker 3: that your life gives you a lot of different lanes,

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Speaker 3: the lanes of being able to figure out who you

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Speaker 3: want to be. And as you go through these pathways,

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Speaker 3: if you listen to somebody's version of who they think

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Speaker 3: you are, that may be the wrong direction for you,

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Speaker 3: the wrong lane that eventually might frustrate you. I know

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Speaker 3: that as you go through life, the year of eighteen

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Speaker 3: to twenty four, have I pinned out those years? Those

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Speaker 3: are years where you are you feel you can do anything. Generally,

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Speaker 3: those are the years before you've settled down and may

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Speaker 3: may or may have not gotten married, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you may excuse you may be have recently graduated from colleges,

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Speaker 3: so you're still trying to find your voice. But as

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Speaker 3: you go through life, thirty you start getting nervous, thirty

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Speaker 3: five you start getting nervous about it, if you're not

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Speaker 3: in a relationship, if you're not married, if you're not

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Speaker 3: doing the job, and forty you start doubting that you've

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Speaker 3: done anything positive in your life if you feel you

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Speaker 3: have not accomplished or not living the life that you

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Speaker 3: want to live. Remember, you're only living in life that

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Speaker 3: you want to live. If you live in a life that

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Speaker 3: you want to live for somebody else, everything you're doing

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Speaker 3: is to please somebody else, you're feeling in your pathway

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Speaker 3: to success. You can only be successful in life if

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Speaker 3: you're living a life that you want to live. I

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Speaker 3: always tell people you come into this world by yourself,

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Speaker 3: you will leave by yourself. So you should live the

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Speaker 3: dream and play the cards that are most beneficial to

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Speaker 3: you and make you happy. That's not a selfish statement,

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Speaker 3: that's a statement of reality. Put one hundred percent into

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Speaker 3: what you feel will make you happy. Put one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent in what you feel will enable you to be successful.

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Speaker 3: Put one hundred percent into what you feel is your dream,

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Speaker 3: not somebody else's version of what they think you should be.

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Speaker 3: That's what money making Conversation master class is all about

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Speaker 3: because I recognize that we all have different definitions of success.

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Speaker 3: For you, it may be the size of your paycheck.

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Speaker 3: Mine is inspiring you to accomplish your goals and live

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Speaker 3: your very best life. It's time to stop reading other

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Speaker 3: people's success stories and start writing your own. People always

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Speaker 3: talk about their purpose or gifts. If you have a gift,

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Speaker 3: leave with your gifts and knowing that your friends, family,

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Speaker 3: or coworker stop you from planning or living your dreams.

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Speaker 3: We were discussing always every episode how to overcome the

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Speaker 3: odds in life because, especially people of color, we'll always

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Speaker 3: dealt a different hand because the color of our skin.

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Speaker 3: My guests on the show today represent people who are

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Speaker 3: making a difference in the entertainment business.

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Speaker 1: You can call it Hollywood, you can call it music.

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Speaker 3: The Grammy's Last Yesterday this past week when it aired,

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Speaker 3: was a tremendous tribute to hip hop. I always called it.

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Speaker 3: I felt it was like Grammys showcase black excellence in

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Speaker 3: the music industry. My show is featuring black girl magic.

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Speaker 3: If you want to call and talk to me today

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Speaker 3: are my guests. The number is four zero four eight

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Speaker 3: eight zero ninety two five five. My first guest is

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Speaker 3: Melanie Charles, a refreshing, inventive and gifted MOTI instrumental instrumentalist

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Speaker 3: and jazz singer. Melanie's improvisational style, inflection, and spontaneity talents

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Speaker 3: displayed in her celebrated album Y'all Don't Really Care About

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Speaker 3: Black Women? I Love That title has been held a

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Speaker 3: sheer masterpiece, and twenty twenty two Ebony Magazine listed her

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Speaker 3: album as one of the top female jazz albums to

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Speaker 3: listen to and enjoy. Melanie charles rumbling voices perfectly in

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Speaker 3: tune with her music. Her songs touch upon issues such

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Speaker 3: as socio economic disparity, the pay gap, and Mother Africa,

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Speaker 3: all set to deep pumping bass beat.

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Speaker 1: Please, we're here to hear.

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Speaker 3: We're on the show to hear a story and told

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Speaker 3: by her and asked by me. Please, Welcome to Money

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Speaker 3: Making Conversations, Masterclass, Melanie Charles, How.

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Speaker 1: Are you doing? Melanie?

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Speaker 4: Hello, mister McDonald, Thank you so much for that warm introduction,

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Speaker 4: and it's such an honor to be speaking with you today.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of.

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Speaker 3: All, there is a dual honor because the fact that

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Speaker 3: let's start with the title.

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Speaker 1: You know, I grew up with six sisters.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so when I when I hear a title like that,

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Speaker 3: you know, they always just TV.

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Speaker 1: Ain't don't care about me. You care about me. You're

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Speaker 1: the middle jib, you know, my favorite and all that.

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Speaker 3: Good stuff, you know, cause I have four older sisters

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Speaker 3: right in the middle. And so why what inspired the

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Speaker 3: title y'all don't really care about black women?

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Speaker 4: Well's McDonald's. I think any black woman who's listening can

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Speaker 4: agree that the role of a black woman in our families,

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Speaker 4: You know how many single family households are there. There

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Speaker 4: But for the most part is single mothers really trying

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Speaker 4: We are human beings. We are weak. Sometimes sometimes we

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Speaker 4: it's okay to say I need help, It's okay to

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Speaker 4: say I'm not okay. And I just wanted to sort

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Speaker 3: When you know, when you the jazz music, and and

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Speaker 3: it's always an educational period for me because I grew

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Speaker 3: up you know, hip, you know, R and B. I'm

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Speaker 3: a seventies child, you know, born in the fifties, late fifties,

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Speaker 1: And and and then and then my boy Snoop Dogg

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Speaker 3: But jazz has always been a constant, but it's never

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Speaker 3: I feel, became a mainstream sound. When I say that,

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Speaker 3: this because jazz. You're talking on the number one jazz

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Speaker 3: country of WCLK, So this is a fortunet format.

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Speaker 1: I like to feel that you can.

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Speaker 3: an education that people who are listening, because a lot

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Speaker 3: don't play the music and tune in to hear Sean

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Speaker 3: McDonald and the stories have to tell and the guests

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Speaker 3: for man, I feel this time we really talk.

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Speaker 1: So tell us about how did you get into jazz.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, my mother is a Haitian immigrant. She

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Speaker 4: it's got the age long, But I am first generation.

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Speaker 4: to the radio, she was listening to Black American music,

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Speaker 4: to jazz music, she was listening to Frank Sinatra, like

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Speaker 4: she said that it was her dream for her daughter,

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Speaker 4: and I just naturally, naturally fell in love with it.

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Speaker 4: But I love the conversation that you the point that

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Speaker 4: It's called make Jazz Trill Again. And basically it's sort

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Speaker 4: like Stride and like house parties and rent parties, where

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Speaker 4: jazz music was the music that people were dancing too,

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Speaker 4: and fellowshipping with. But the time it kind of became

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Speaker 4: very institutionalized. It became a sit down type of music,

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Speaker 4: to it. So I sort of have a vision of

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Speaker 4: jazz was more accessible, where it was for the young people,

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Speaker 4: which time it sort of became this old white thing.

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Speaker 4: All the audiences are old white people. I like all

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Speaker 4: all people. I love all people, and music is for

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Speaker 4: everyone now right, But how beautiful would it be for

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Speaker 4: if it be an audience filled with black and brown faces,

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Speaker 4: specifically young people, and even be old Sometimes some artists

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Speaker 4: because the music is a little too avant garde or something.

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Speaker 4: But what I love the conversation of how can we

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Speaker 4: bring all audiences together?

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Speaker 5: And also jazz is such it's the most shoeless form

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Speaker 5: of musical expression. I believe it's involving improvisation, and nothing's

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Speaker 5: more honest than speaking your mind musically in the moment,

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Speaker 5: something that you can't write, that you can't prepare. I

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Speaker 5: mean to me, that is the highest performance of what

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Speaker 5: our mankind can do. You know, it's doing a beautiful

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Speaker 4: Something that is amazing. And so I'm really committed to

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Speaker 3: From this great, great conversational piece that you just gave us.

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Speaker 3: and people have missed the rebelliousness of jazz, the coolness

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, we're in an interesting time right now,

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Speaker 4: and this might be a conversation for probably another segment

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Speaker 1: Jazz, melon medland.

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Speaker 3: I'm running over holder thought because I don't want to

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Speaker 3: Lives of Melany Jars. This is awesome is that you

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Speaker 7: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 7: of Inspiration with Rashawn McDonald.

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Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Rashaan McDonald from Money Making Conversation Masterclass, which

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Speaker 3: Cassandra Commings. She explains the importance of understanding and stepping

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Speaker 3: into who you are.

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Speaker 8: I've always sort of played my beauty down a little bit,

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Speaker 8: and I would say in recent years, I told myself,

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Speaker 4: This is who I am.

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Speaker 8: I have the brains that comes with a pretty face,

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Speaker 8: and coming from Oakland, you know, we don't do a

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Speaker 8: You really had to show and prove in different ways.

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Speaker 8: You know, pretty has privileges that I really needed to

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Melanie Charles, her CD.

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Speaker 3: Her album was raved About in twenty twenty two by

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Speaker 3: on the show and we had a nice conversation, you know,

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Speaker 1: Continue that conversation.

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Speaker 4: So the term is band, which is short for Black

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's quite controversial, and I'm still a

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Speaker 4: band concept is that it draws light on this is

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Speaker 4: all black American music. When you talk about James Brown,

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Speaker 4: even though you say that it kind of took the

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Speaker 4: but that's something else is directly connected to jazz musics,

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Speaker 4: and that's the fact, you know, James Brown had all

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Speaker 4: And that's also another piece of why I'm so committed

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Speaker 4: would not be hip hop, which was so beautifully celebrated

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Speaker 4: on the grand Piece the other day. I know everyone's

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Speaker 4: really excited about it. Don't judge me, mister McDonald. I

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Speaker 3: You cheer when I said, Snoop it's my name, Okay.

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Speaker 4: You know, so like Snoop I mean to me, Snoop

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Speaker 4: is so jazzy to me. His delivery to me has

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Speaker 4: Nina Simone said, Jazz is a reflection of the time.

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Speaker 4: So you know, the jazz of today isn't necessarily the

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna tell you.

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Speaker 3: I come up to New York and howl at you,

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Speaker 3: But talk about performing at a legendary place like the

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Speaker 4: does all the movies.

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Speaker 1: There you go, There you go.

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Speaker 9: And then I recently, actually I saw Macy Gray there recently,

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Speaker 9: and I love her, and so she'd be able to

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Speaker 9: hit the stage and following the footsteps of these incredible,

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Speaker 9: powerful women is such an honor. And I have an

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Speaker 9: amazing set together prepared. I'm going to give some of

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Speaker 9: my Haitian folk music. I'm gonna do a little bit

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Speaker 9: of standards, and I'm gonna do some more of my tradition,

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Speaker 9: my more trill music, more my more current fresh sounds.

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Speaker 9: So maybe we gotta get you what tickets to New

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Speaker 9: York to celebrate, can I can I just.

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Speaker 1: Tell you that you don't have to get me one.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying that The only only the

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Speaker 3: thing is is that I am in my mind when

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Speaker 3: I saw that day that went wow, Man, She's performing

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Speaker 3: on my birthday. That is so cool. So I know

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Speaker 3: that it's in my brain right now. So if you

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Speaker 3: see a strange guy in the back ball ahead, I'm

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Speaker 3: have a little cool black cap head on, like a

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Speaker 3: look like Elliott Nest type hatles so probably work.

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Speaker 1: So you go, that must be ra Sean McDonald. He

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Speaker 1: said he's gonna come in and shed it.

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Speaker 3: But before we go, I want to go through like

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Speaker 3: some of the songs that you had on this because

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Speaker 3: God bless the.

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Speaker 1: Child all Africa.

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Speaker 3: The music is the Magic pay Black Women, the interlude

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Speaker 3: go Away Little Boy.

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Speaker 1: You know some of these songs.

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Speaker 3: Why did you choose the song Woman of the Ghetto

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Speaker 3: the direction because this is a reimagined by Melanie Charles.

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Speaker 1: You know, these are certain.

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Speaker 3: Beats beginning to see the Light reimagined by Melanie Charles.

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Speaker 1: What a difference.

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Speaker 3: Reimagined by Melanie Charles. Tell us about your whole approach

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Speaker 3: to this wonderful album.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Well, I love these songs. These

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Speaker 4: songs are songs that I grew up with my mom

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Speaker 4: playing them on the radio. And I was approached by

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Speaker 4: Verse Records to make a remix album, but I told them, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I'll do it, but I'm not gonna do it the

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Speaker 4: way everybody else has done it. I'm going to do

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Speaker 4: it my and so it's not going to just be

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Speaker 4: a regular remix. It's going to be a reimagining. And

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Speaker 4: you know, to me, the reason why we like certain

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Speaker 4: types of music is if there's the sense of nostarbook

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Speaker 4: to them. And so all of those songs that you

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Speaker 4: listed either our mother, our grandmother, or auntie or uncles,

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Speaker 4: few of those songs were playing those songs, and I

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Speaker 4: wanted to sort of put my own spin on them.

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Speaker 4: And what I love the most about, you know, what

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Speaker 4: I was able to do with Women of the Ghetto

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Speaker 4: and go Away Little Boy and Sarah Arns detour Head

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Speaker 4: was there are among with prand almost duettings with these women,

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Speaker 4: and I'm sort of almost like how I remember when

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Speaker 4: I can call a native potogetterble, you know, sort of

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Speaker 4: like continuing on in that tradition of hearing the sounds

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Speaker 4: from the past and bringing them to the presence. And

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Speaker 4: so that's what this album was about.

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Speaker 3: Two of the songs I like on this go Away

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Speaker 3: Little Boy and God Bless the Child. And first of

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Speaker 3: all those, God Bless You Child is a very difficult

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Speaker 3: song to sing, and it is it is a very

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Speaker 3: power for and then go Away a little more because

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Speaker 3: you know, I can hear the vocals in my head

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Speaker 3: simultaneously with the beat, and it just really it just

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Speaker 3: time stands still for me in a good way because

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Speaker 3: it allows me to you know, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: Melanie is like what people don't understand about life is

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Speaker 3: that we wake up soon you wake up.

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Speaker 1: Stress is in our life.

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Speaker 3: Stress is in our life, and so music like this

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Speaker 3: allows us to continue to move forward in a very

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Speaker 3: tempoed manner. And that's why I wanted to bring you

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Speaker 3: on the show, and I wanted to give you your flowers,

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Speaker 3: and not because you don't need it, because you're super

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Speaker 3: talented and you got gifts and you understand the music

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Speaker 3: and you are and you're a champion and an ambassador

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Speaker 3: for the music. But more importantly, what is the future

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Speaker 3: for you as we move forward with Jazz? I know

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Speaker 3: you got the concert here, and I want to talk

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Speaker 3: about the podcast. That's what I probably run out of

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Speaker 3: time talking about that podcast because you start in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 3: so you've been a visionaire. My podcast just started to

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. So use a visionaire before me.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Red spaces for me thinking of the mcdalads, and yes,

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Speaker 4: I'm very excited about the major Ashua Again podcast. I

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Speaker 4: have been invested in sort of creating a space for

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Speaker 4: people who are interested and curious about Jess to have

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Speaker 4: real conversations in a natural way. And I was really

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Speaker 4: excited to step with you because I was snooping around

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Speaker 4: on your website and I saw there was a photo

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Speaker 4: of you and Kevin Hart, and my heart dropped because

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Speaker 4: I was just watching Kevin Hart's documentary The One Don't

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Speaker 4: f This Up, and I was so inspired and how

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Speaker 4: he spoke about making mistakes and trying and commitment and

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Speaker 4: working out and fitness and finances. And to see you

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Speaker 4: in a photo with him, it was a sign, Ah,

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Speaker 4: I'm on the right path. I'm doing the homework, and

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Speaker 4: the universe is connecting me with the right people to

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Speaker 4: have the right conversations. Very excited about my future. I'm

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Speaker 4: grateful for my family, from my incredible team. I'm grateful

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Speaker 4: to be meeting people like you, and the sky's the

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Speaker 4: limit for truth.

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Speaker 1: Well, to know the.

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Speaker 3: Fact that you have a show, two shows, not just

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Speaker 3: one show on the twenty seven at the Blue Note

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Speaker 3: in New York City, the West Village. That the village area,

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Speaker 3: which is like you know, great food, great atmosphere, great people.

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Speaker 3: That's a different version of what New York City is

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Speaker 3: down there. I to go down there and perform at

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Speaker 3: the Boston Comedy Club. I used to go down there

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Speaker 3: with It was down there with John Stewart was down

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Speaker 3: there with me. Ray Romano was down there and then

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Speaker 3: his lyric was down.

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Speaker 1: There with me.

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Speaker 3: It was just it was just we were just down there,

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Speaker 3: just just trying to figure out how to be funny.

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Speaker 3: And that's what life is about, figuring out yourself and

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Speaker 3: your goals and your expectations. And allow me to have

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Speaker 3: a conversation with you and listen to your town, listen

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Speaker 3: to my world, because you know I'm not a jazz expert.

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Speaker 3: And you know I did play musical instruments when I

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Speaker 3: was in junior high I was a first chair B

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Speaker 3: flat clarinetis and I also tenor and auto saxophone. But

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you something, I could not mess with

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Speaker 3: that flute, Okay. And that's what you do better than

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Speaker 3: anybody I.

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Speaker 7: Know, so much.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. We'll talk soon, and again, good luck

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Speaker 3: on your show in New York City. Before we go,

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Speaker 3: how can we get in touch with you?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: And uh give out the social media information?

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Speaker 10: Well, for those who.

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Speaker 4: Are on the Instagram, you can find me on Melanie

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Speaker 4: Charles is the flower. My website is ww dot Charles

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Speaker 4: dot com. You can find me on Twitter at Melanie Charles.

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Speaker 4: But honestly, if you go my name Melonie Charles comes

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Speaker 4: up there you go.

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Speaker 3: See that means that the se O to se O

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Speaker 3: or just Google. Y'all don't really care about black women.

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Speaker 1: Google. I love it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Melanie Yeage,

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Speaker 3: we'll talk soon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're awesome. Coming up next, Balley Evans.

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Speaker 3: Now, like I told you, this is about black girl

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Speaker 3: magic in the entertainment industry. She's straight Hollywood. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: hear her story, hear her journey. It's not over now.

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Speaker 3: I'm not acting like she's there yet because she's always

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Speaker 3: climbing every time I see you on TV talking to her.

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Speaker 3: And what I always say about Brieley, this guy's the limits.

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Speaker 3: She's on the phone, don't go anywhere. After the commercial break,

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Speaker 3: I'll be introducing her to the world through Money Making

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Speaker 3: Conversation Masterclass.

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Speaker 7: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 7: of Inspiration with Rashawn McDonald.

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Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Rashan McDonald. A Money Making Conversation Masterclass with

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Speaker 3: your daily minute of inspiration. This week, I sat down

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Speaker 3: with director, executive producer, and head writer of the hit

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Speaker 3: series First Killed on Netflix, Felicia Henderson. She explains how

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Speaker 3: being open minded in the writing room can lead to

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Speaker 3: a well balanced project.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm a big believer that the writer's room

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Speaker 6: should have the experience that you're depicting on the screen.

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Speaker 6: I also wanted to make sure there was as one

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Speaker 6: queer person in the room who everybody was looking at

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Speaker 6: going and now we turn to you as the queer expert, right,

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Speaker 6: because you know, it's like all experiences, there's no such

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Speaker 6: thing as a monolithic experience or whatever it is that

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Speaker 6: you are. It was important, you know, for all the

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Speaker 6: experiences that I thought we were going.

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Speaker 1: To be depicted right right.

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Speaker 3: If we were to listen to this full interview with

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Speaker 3: Felicia Henderson, it's available on Money Making Conversations dot com.

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Speaker 3: My guest has been we've been missing each other. We

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Speaker 3: scheduled and we have to unschedule. But I got her

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Speaker 3: today on live radio. I guess it's Breeley Evids. She's

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Speaker 3: an actress, vocalist, voice over talent and philanthropist. Weether Bresley

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Speaker 3: is making you cry and the drama and she is

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Speaker 3: that kind of actress laugh in a comedy. She is

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Speaker 3: that kind of an actress a challenge you intellectually. Through

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Speaker 3: her thought provoking podcast interviews, she finds time the keynote

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Speaker 3: speak on being a curvy girl and unapologetically unique. Currently

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Speaker 3: stars and Cold and Wendy. This original series follows the

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Speaker 3: lifelong hustle of young females as they navigate their careers

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Speaker 3: on Chicago's tough south Side. It premiered on WE TV

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Speaker 3: and They're All Black Network. Really is on the show

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Speaker 3: to discuss her career, charitable work, and new show Cold

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Speaker 3: and Wendy. Her characters GG Please Work with the money

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Speaker 3: making conversations Masterclass, Breeley Evans.

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Speaker 4: Yay, thank you, Hey Brill?

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Speaker 3: Did I put it up? Did I put you out there?

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Speaker 3: Did I put you out there?

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Speaker 10: You put me out there so cold?

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Speaker 3: I was, well, you know, first of all, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna mention another show, family Business. Okay, b deep up,

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Speaker 3: that's right, because you know you can see we're gonna

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Speaker 3: talk about Cold and Windy, but let's go to the

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Speaker 3: family business. You know, that's when you was getting all

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Speaker 3: you know, romantic romantic lord, you know, currly romantic? How

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Speaker 3: is gonna let this scene go?

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Speaker 4: How?

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Speaker 1: First you don't let this go?

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Speaker 10: Let me tell you something. All of my uncle, my daddy,

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Speaker 10: my MoMA, all of us, y'all got to go. Oh lot.

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Speaker 10: I said, this ain't for y'all to watch. But they

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Speaker 10: love the show. They love the show.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you know, it's always beautiful breally to watch talented people,

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Speaker 3: you know, And our relationship goes for years. We've known

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Speaker 3: each other for years, you know, when you was doing

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Speaker 3: red carpet interviews and and you contact me for advice

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Speaker 3: or you said, for Sean, what we do here? And

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Speaker 3: then you disappear, give it your caribby, hoping you come back.

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Speaker 3: We should what do you think I should do?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're back, Hume, okay, all right, and then you

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Speaker 1: go out there. Next time I see your Samley.

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Speaker 3: Family Business, I interviewing your on the show, you know,

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Speaker 3: another show after that. But the beauty of it is that,

656
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Speaker 3: you know, we want to talk about full figured Kirby,

657
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Speaker 3: you know, because that is always That's why I just

658
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Speaker 3: love about watching your role on Family Business.

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Speaker 1: It was a romantic role.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't wasn't it wasn't for last You wouldn't have

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Speaker 3: made you weren't school teacher. You wouldn't on the side,

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Speaker 3: you know, you know, supporting the fine chick. You know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. It wasn't like that. Talk about that

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Speaker 3: character and talk about the importance of being able to

665
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Speaker 3: have an identifiable character that you felt relatable, that you

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Speaker 3: felt was an embracing who you really are.

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Speaker 10: Can I just say the opportunity to be on Family

668
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Speaker 10: Business was first off, incredible. That production team Tried Destined

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Speaker 10: were the first to make me a leading lady in Hollywood.

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Speaker 10: So they brought me back in the demand in three B.

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Speaker 10: In that movie, they brought me back again to round

672
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Speaker 10: out the ensemble cast for Family Business as a nurse.

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Speaker 10: Sonya Sonya Brown is my character's name, and this character

674
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Speaker 10: ended up with their oldest son you and then we,

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Speaker 10: as everyone saw on the finale, we ended up getting married.

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Speaker 10: So this opportunity to play a love interest to someone

677
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Speaker 10: be sexy and in my full self was so important

678
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Speaker 10: because I feel like I represent more than half of

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Speaker 10: the women who are watching this right number one, And

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Speaker 10: so just to let people know, like we don't always

681
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Speaker 10: have to be the funny friend and the you know,

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Speaker 10: the chick on the side. We can actually be the

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Speaker 10: main character because in real life we are. So I'm

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Speaker 10: happy to be the face of the body of the

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Speaker 10: curry girl out here in Hollywood. I'm happy to take

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Speaker 10: on that opportunity in that role. It's been wonderful for me.

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Speaker 10: And can I tell you this, It used to be

688
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Speaker 10: a challenge when I first came to this business. I

689
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Speaker 10: gotta lose weight.

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Speaker 3: I know, conversations, you know, And it is sad because

691
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Speaker 3: you know, it's hard enough to go in for an edition, okay,

692
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Speaker 3: because you're just compared to then you're going in an

693
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Speaker 3: audition worrying.

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Speaker 1: About if you the right physical type.

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Speaker 3: And also also you you know, your your agents are

696
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Speaker 3: the people who represent you will say, well, you know

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Speaker 3: this ain't your type.

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Speaker 7: Well what do you mean?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: And then why can't you be that love a you?

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Speaker 3: Why can't people see you as being attractive at your

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Speaker 3: weight size or your shape size? And that really had

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Speaker 3: the not only kind of like bringing unnecessary stress in

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Speaker 3: your life, but frustration too.

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Speaker 10: It did, It really did. And the thing about it

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Speaker 10: is I wasn't losing the weight fast enough. I even

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Speaker 10: I don't know if you know this about me, But

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Speaker 10: I was the face of Jenny Craig from twenty thirteen

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Speaker 10: and fourteen and lost forty four pounds with them, Right,

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Speaker 10: So I at one point in my life I did

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Speaker 10: bring the weight down, but I noticed I work more.

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Speaker 10: Hear me now, I worked more and work more as

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Speaker 10: a curvy girl. But who is healthy? There's a thing

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Speaker 10: as just because your sin does not mean you are healthy.

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Speaker 10: And I want people to know that you can be

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Speaker 10: as thick as you are and have stamina and be

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Speaker 10: able to endure, can still do cardio at top rates.

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Speaker 10: Like don't don't please, don't believe that if you're curvy

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Speaker 10: that you on your way to the grade. That is

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Speaker 10: just not true.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, you know, you know it's really interesting, like

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Speaker 3: I've been, i'n't had a pretty interesting life from a

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Speaker 3: writing standpoint, you know, I wrote with Steve Harvey's first sitcom,

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Speaker 3: Me and the Boys, and then at Robert Townsend Parenthood,

727
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Speaker 3: and I did Darcinel Hall and the Twins, T and

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Speaker 3: Tamara Mora's sister's sister at Jamie Fox Show. But the

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Speaker 3: show that I always go back and talk about is.

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Speaker 1: The Parkers, And that's right, and that Parker's because reasons.

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Speaker 3: That was so special for me because I come from

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Speaker 3: a family of six sisters, My mom was overweight, and

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Speaker 3: so it was about even though it was a comedy

734
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Speaker 3: and sometimes it went over the top.

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Speaker 1: But they they look good.

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Speaker 3: They talked about how good they were, They talked about

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Speaker 3: being sexy, they talked about wearing good clothes, and they

738
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Speaker 3: weren't not maids, you know, you know, they were strong.

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Speaker 3: But you know, comedy cans allow you to go for

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Speaker 3: the joke first. But I always fought. Monique knows that

741
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Speaker 3: I always fought for her character to have dignity, not

742
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Speaker 3: to be silly heart, you know. And so that show

743
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Speaker 3: right there, the Parkers always when people always talk about

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Speaker 3: all the shows I worked in sitcom, and I'm proud

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Speaker 3: of all my work, but that one show that Sarah

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Speaker 3: Andnie Johnson allowed me to consult on and help her

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Speaker 3: produce is one of the shows that I always go

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Speaker 3: back and go That's one of my favorites because of

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Speaker 3: the fact that I know how Hollywood has always described

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Speaker 3: black women over the years as being the butt of

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Speaker 3: the joke, being maids, being nannies, and we had an

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Speaker 3: opportunity to take two women who weren't that traditional you know,

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Speaker 3: petite or size seats.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying them numbers they want to

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Speaker 3: stay in that they call fine, you know, And I.

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Speaker 10: Tell you then, when I think of the Parkers, I

758
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Speaker 10: don't even think about weight at all, right, I think

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Speaker 10: about funny. I think about real life situations that I

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Speaker 10: was going through as a young person that she was

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Speaker 10: going through on the show. It was like, this is

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Speaker 10: the same, Like I mean, I don't think anything about

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Speaker 10: weight at all, Like literally, I don't.

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Speaker 3: And that's important for people to hear when they listening

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Speaker 3: to the show because sometimes, you know, you look at

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Speaker 3: you look at your children, you look at yourself, and

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Speaker 3: you start questioning what other people think instead of questioning

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Speaker 3: how you feel. Do you feel good about yourself? Because

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Speaker 3: like you said, you know, having a weight doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 3: mean high blood pressure, doesn't necessarily mean that you technically

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Speaker 3: out of shape. They're skinny people out there who can't

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Speaker 3: walk up a flight of steps.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, you walk up steps and they need hurt.

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Speaker 3: Okay, skinny people okay, And so so don't don't don't

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Speaker 3: don't equate. Wait, a sun eyes to how how a

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Speaker 3: person is doing internally, emotionally and physically speak.

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Speaker 1: So you have to have to bring your own to bring.

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Speaker 3: That was one of the thing I wanted to talk

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Speaker 3: about on you, and I'm glad we're getting into that

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Speaker 3: because you know we can finally have that on this conversation.

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Speaker 3: Before we go to break, I want to ask you this,

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Speaker 3: the way Lizzo has done our career, how much has

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Speaker 3: she played a major factor in Hollywood or just the

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Speaker 3: entertainment energy you said telling everybody just shut up.

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Speaker 10: I believe she's played a major role.

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Speaker 4: And I'll double down by.

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Speaker 10: Saying I played a major role too, because I got

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Speaker 10: to a place where I said, you know what, I'm

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Speaker 10: going to be authentically me, and when we step into

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Speaker 10: our authentic sales, no matter how we look, that's when

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Speaker 10: the magic happens. That's why I'm always working and not

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Speaker 10: calling you for.

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Speaker 4: Sixty months because.

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Speaker 10: I cannot stop working. I literally graduated show when the

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Speaker 10: show is done, and I'm so grateful. But I know

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Speaker 10: superpower is being my most authentic self. That's it.

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Speaker 3: Well, all I know is when I'm watching Family Business,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, and watching you handle your

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Speaker 3: love business.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, there isn't the girl I know that ain't brill.

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Speaker 11: I know.

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Speaker 1: Brill because because they.

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Speaker 3: Have these these are these what they call what what

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Speaker 3: coaches on you know, making sure you comfortable and you know,

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Speaker 3: and so tell us what that conversation was like, you know,

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Speaker 3: when you was getting romantic and everything on family business.

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Speaker 3: Break it down to my audience here, because they never

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Speaker 3: I've never had a guess.

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Speaker 1: If they had a role like yours on my show.

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Speaker 10: So do tell you this. What's so amazing is Sean Ringo,

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Speaker 10: who plays Junior on the show.

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Speaker 1: Who I met the other day.

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Speaker 10: Oh my god, love Sean, love his wife. Hey, y'all

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Speaker 10: actually have a conversation and we say, what are you

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Speaker 10: comfortable with? How can I make you feel comfortable in

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Speaker 10: this situation? We do ask a Forducers to lock the

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Speaker 10: set down. Only who needs to be in the room

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Speaker 10: is in the room. So we are We definitely make

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Speaker 10: sure we take care of each other in that way.

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Speaker 10: Where is it okay to touch? Where is it not

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Speaker 10: okay to touch? We most definitely craft what you see.

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Speaker 10: It is just not a free for all. It's not

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Speaker 10: it's not that at all. It's definitely a dance that

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Speaker 10: we are doing that has been choreographed.

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Speaker 3: Okay, oh but but but what did mama say?

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Speaker 1: Though, But what did mama say?

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Speaker 10: Mama said, Lord, have mercy. She's the people at the

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Speaker 10: church going.

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Speaker 1: And it's so funny.

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Speaker 3: I saw Sean at the church when I when I

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Speaker 3: ran into him, you know, at the church. I just

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Speaker 3: I just smiled and laughed at him. I just laughed

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Speaker 3: at him.

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Speaker 10: I love that. Well, if my uncle Jonathan Slocum and

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Speaker 10: who actually puts videos up on his page, Lord, my niece, oh,

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Speaker 10: I know she ain't doing it, so he makes a

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Speaker 10: big joke of it. But it's really funny that. I mean,

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Speaker 10: I just think it's really funny because we end up laughing.

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Speaker 10: You know, they go they yo cut and we're laughing. Awesome,

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Speaker 10: we're not all in those sexual moments.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know the thing about it, we're joking because

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Speaker 3: it's all professionally done, you know, And that's what Hollywood is.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is a fantasy. It's smoking mirrors.

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Speaker 3: And but we're just talking about and the extending this

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Speaker 3: conversation because we're about to go to break is the

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Speaker 3: fact that you are in a romantic role it's about you.

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Speaker 3: It's about it's not about a joke. It's a real

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Speaker 3: romantic relationship. And that's where Hollywood has come and especially

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Speaker 3: for women of color. And I just want to congratulate

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Speaker 3: you on that. And I'm so I'm so happy to

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Speaker 3: see that, and you are. You are busy. But when

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Speaker 3: we come back, when we talk about.

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Speaker 10: You a legend, it means so much.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: And when we come back, when we talk about this

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Speaker 3: other shew that you're picking up a check on Carl

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Speaker 3: Cold and Wind. More Money Man Conversation master Class with

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Speaker 7: You are now tuned into the money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 7: of Inspiration with Rashawn McDonald's Hi with.

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Speaker 3: Sean McDonald for Money Making Conversation Masterclass with your.

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Speaker 1: Daily Meaning of Inspiration.

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Speaker 3: Recently, I spoke with starv Owns Love and Marriage Huntsville producer,

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Speaker 3: beauty entrepreneur, founder of Seventh Avenue Premier Skincare, home builder, author,

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Speaker 3: motivational speaker Melody Hope. She explained the fulfillment that comes

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Speaker 3: with inspiring and coaching young entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 11: You know, I just say it's a complete blessing. Then

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Speaker 11: opportunity to help them become entrepreneurs and start businesses in

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Speaker 11: property preservation, which is a multi billion dollar industry that

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Speaker 11: has been a white, male dominated industry for a very

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Speaker 11: long time. Most of my students, however, have been African

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Speaker 11: American women, and it has been phenomenal, phenomenal. I'm very

873
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Speaker 11: thankful to God for that whole avenue being open for me.

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Speaker 3: Listen to this full interview with Melody Hope. It's available

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Speaker 3: on Moneymaking Conversations dot com. I'm speaking to actress, vocalists

876
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Speaker 3: valse Over talent and philanthropist Briley Evans. She's a new

877
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Speaker 3: show called co Old and Windy stars two young females

878
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 3: whose career paths is set on the South Side of Chicago.

879
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 3: I lived in Chicago for five years when I was

880
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Speaker 3: up there doing the Steve Harvey talk show, so I

881
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 3: know it can get cold up there. When did they

882
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Speaker 3: tape this show? Was it in the wintertime or in

883
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 3: the summertime? Did they tape this series? Really?

884
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Speaker 10: Forget about what time of the year was We take

885
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Speaker 10: it in Atlanta?

886
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Speaker 6: Really, yes, So.

887
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Speaker 3: They did all the b roll So they did all

888
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 3: the b roll up in this level. Oh girl, I

889
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Speaker 3: had I had some cold stories for you. I had

890
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Speaker 3: them already, now they fooled me. That is outstanding productor.

891
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 10: Oh, I can't wait to tell the producers Kenny Young,

892
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Speaker 10: you hear that, Yes, Director.

893
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna telling because I lived at there five years.

894
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 3: And let me tell you something.

895
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Speaker 12: Winter is is September to June. Okay, you know it

896
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Speaker 12: is crazy cold.

897
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Speaker 3: But this is series Cold and Wendy for two actors.

898
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about your character before we get into them.

899
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 3: What excited you about the role and playing this particular

900
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 3: character because it's a drama.

901
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 10: First of all, Yes, it is a drama. And I

902
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 10: play the aunt to the two main characters, right, and

903
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 10: their names respectively, Cold and Wendy. They are a rap group.

904
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Speaker 10: And I raised those two girls as my own because

905
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Speaker 10: their mothers, you know, were on drugs and just weren't

906
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Speaker 10: raising them right. So I took those girls as my

907
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Speaker 10: own and raised them up. Playing this role, I mean,

908
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 10: I smoke about fifty level cigarette and I don't smoke

909
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 10: in real life. This is a learning her for me.

910
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Speaker 10: But she's a rock.

911
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Speaker 8: You know.

912
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Speaker 10: It's so important to have that rock in your family

913
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Speaker 10: but also in your community. So she's the one that

914
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 10: holds down the block. Right, she's that Unties house you

915
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 10: can go to for refuse. You know, she has a

916
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Speaker 10: candy store in her basement where all the kids come

917
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Speaker 10: during the day to buy their little penny candies and

918
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Speaker 10: put cheese on their doritos. But then at nighttime, that

919
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 10: same space turns into her lounge where we come and

920
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 10: play cards, play spades and dominoes and top mess and

921
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Speaker 10: drink a little brown liquor.

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Speaker 1: Right, you know, right.

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Speaker 5: You know.

924
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Speaker 3: The interesting thing about it is that the reason I

925
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Speaker 3: love the series is because there are so many stereotypes,

926
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Speaker 3: especially when you say South Side of Chicago. Yes, there

927
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Speaker 3: is violence that happens in the communities, but sometimes we

928
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 3: forget there are people who are living normal lives, who

929
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Speaker 3: are successful, who kids do go to college, who do

930
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Speaker 3: aspire to be special and unique. And if we don't

931
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Speaker 3: have that story told, realistically told, then we just were

932
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Speaker 3: kind of like, let that community.

933
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Speaker 1: Just go to waste.

934
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Speaker 3: We're like saying, hey, they don't go over there. You know,

935
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Speaker 3: Black people be afraid to go over there because they

936
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Speaker 3: can get they can the rumors of that community can

937
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Speaker 3: be done like that. I know that because I lived

938
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Speaker 3: in La fifteen years. It was the same thing that

939
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Speaker 3: happened to wats. It was the same thing that happened

940
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Speaker 3: in South Central. It was the same happen to all

941
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Speaker 3: those communities. You say, don't go over there, don't go there.

942
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Speaker 10: Do in Oakland. I'm from Oakland, California. I'm a native

943
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Speaker 10: of Oakland, and we get the same bad rap. So yeah,

944
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Speaker 10: I totally get it.

945
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Speaker 3: And so and so when you when you get a

946
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 3: role like this, and do you ever feel because we're

947
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Speaker 3: gonna get into your foundation here in a minute, because

948
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 3: you're you're such a voice of reason, the voice of change,

949
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Speaker 3: and then you're very your talented comedic actress too, And

950
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Speaker 3: so is it like, hey, rashon, whatever hits my desk,

951
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 3: that's the role I'm gonna do. Are you trying to

952
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 3: pursue a particular lane of success for your talents?

953
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Speaker 10: Now, I'll be very, very honest with you. When in

954
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 10: my first half of my career, which is why I'm

955
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Speaker 10: probably over sixty projects in since I've been doing this,

956
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Speaker 10: I used to take what came to me because I

957
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 10: didn't get every role I went out for. So every

958
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 10: role I went out for was very specialized. Obviously because

959
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 10: I'm a curvy girl. Man were talking about. That was

960
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 10: specialized for me. So most things that came across my

961
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 10: desk were a yes already because it hit my category

962
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Speaker 10: later in life where I am now, I slowed down

963
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Speaker 10: all the way. I have just started feeling comfortable to

964
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Speaker 10: say no, I'm going to pass on that supporting role.

965
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Speaker 10: You I know I do the supporting roles. Well, I'm

966
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Speaker 10: ready to do more leads now. I'm more so crafting

967
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Speaker 10: what I want to do. So in crafting this thing,

968
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Speaker 10: it's much different.

969
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,760
Speaker 3: It's much it really is, because I'm just tell everybody

970
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 3: what she's saying is and I had to do it myself.

971
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Speaker 3: I remember when I wanted to start, you know, I

972
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Speaker 3: was doing stand up. I didn't want to take every gig.

973
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Speaker 3: I remember I had the biggest financial offer I ever had.

974
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Speaker 3: I turned down because I didn't want to perform in

975
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Speaker 3: a nightclub on New Year's Eve and everybody they gonna

976
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 3: turn off the hip hop music and here's Rashaan. I went, wow,

977
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Speaker 3: I'm not time out, but we're gonna give this my money.

978
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Speaker 3: I said, nah, I passed that. That is not the world.

979
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Speaker 9: I want money.

980
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's what and.

981
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Speaker 3: That's what you're saying. It's not about the money. It's

982
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 3: about let's just put it away. It's not about the money.

983
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Speaker 3: It is about the money because we need money to survive.

984
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Speaker 3: But we can't lead with the money. That's all we're saying.

985
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Speaker 1: You can't lead.

986
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 3: You have to one day wake up and say I

987
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 3: have a standard of what I want to do with

988
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 3: my life and this is not one of them. Amen,

989
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 3: that's what we're talking about, correct, Breeley.

990
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 10: That is exactly what we're saying, because I had to

991
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 10: say that to myself, like, you know, what kind of

992
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 10: legacy do you want to lead? And there's certain I mean,

993
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 10: everybody's story is worth being told. I'm not saying that,

994
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 10: but what I'm saying there are certain stories that I'd

995
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Speaker 10: like to tell, so I am focusing on those. I've

996
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 10: now put my hand in being a producer and a director,

997
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 10: so now I get to write the story. I'm on

998
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,720
Speaker 10: the other side of the camera making sure that stories

999
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 10: get out that I personally would like to highlight.

1000
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 3: You know, it's important that you're saying controlling your narrative

1001
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 3: because now that we see, you know, the unfortunate situation

1002
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 3: they have with George Floyd when he was murdered in

1003
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 3: many a half. Yes, you know, there was an explosion

1004
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 3: of diversity and content and networks and things like that.

1005
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 3: How has that played a role in your life as

1006
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 3: a working actress, now working producer and director of giving

1007
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 3: you opportunities because now you're being brought in for roles

1008
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 3: that may have just specifically went to a white actor,

1009
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 3: a white actress.

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00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 10: You know what I'm saying, yes, and so I'm grateful

1011
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 10: for the opportunity. It's unfortunate that it rides on the

1012
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 10: backs of my people in that way, but that's why

1013
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 10: I'm making sure that what I say yes to is

1014
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 10: gonna make a difference moving forward. Just like the show

1015
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 10: that I'm on now, Cold and Windy, It's making us

1016
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 10: remember that there are those aunties that maybe not be

1017
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 10: not blood to you, but Auntie's matter. We need those

1018
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 10: women who we can look up to, get advice from,

1019
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 10: take the hard lessons from, who love us, who tell us,

1020
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 10: you know, that ugly truth when we need it. So

1021
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 10: telling those types of stories really means a lot to me,

1022
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 10: because I know I had that, I wouldn't be who

1023
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 10: I am today without those strong women who guided me,

1024
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 10: you know, in my young teenage to twenty somethings, you know,

1025
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 10: so it, you know, really makes a difference. And I'm

1026
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 10: like I said, it's unfortunate that this is the way

1027
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 10: the industry opens up to us, you know, where they

1028
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 10: see all the bad things happening. But I'm grateful that

1029
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 10: I can have a voice to stand up for my

1030
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 10: people in that way.

1031
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 3: I'm talking to Brillley Evans, one of the stars of

1032
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 3: the show on WE TV and All Black Network Are

1033
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 3: Cold and Wendy, but she also is a philanthropist. She

1034
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 3: has a foundation called water Walkers Worldwide, founded by her

1035
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 3: Briley Evans, is a nonprofit organization to inspire others to

1036
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 3: overcome their fears and to walk on water towards their dreams.

1037
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 3: Such a powerful statement. Tell me why there's need for

1038
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 3: your foundation and what type of work are you doing

1039
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 3: to inspire people?

1040
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 10: Okay, this is my life's work. I believe that God

1041
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 10: is allowing me to be on this front stage of

1042
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 10: film and television so that this kind of work can

1043
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 10: get done. A project that we're working on right now

1044
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 10: is called from nine to five to Wow. Nine to

1045
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 10: five to Wow allows people to realize I can do

1046
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 10: my God given gifts and make money from it. I

1047
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 10: just don't have to have a job, a regular job

1048
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 10: somewhere that I don't like. I'm not happy, you know,

1049
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 10: getting up every day. We want people to be leaping

1050
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 10: out of bed with their opportunities. So with this work,

1051
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 10: we are highlighting small minority businesses and we're giving them

1052
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 10: celebrities to endorse their products. Wow, I've been pairing celebrities

1053
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 10: with these what we call big businesses, but what the

1054
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 10: world will call small businesses. We pair celebrities with them

1055
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 10: to endorse their product, try their products, out, wear their clothes.

1056
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 10: And I remember you gave me advice years ago, you said, Brayley,

1057
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 10: I look at your social media. People love when you

1058
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 10: wear these outfits. You see the clothing mine. Remember you

1059
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 10: told me this program we have now implemented where people

1060
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 10: send their items in and I literally model wear them out,

1061
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,320
Speaker 10: you know, in my daily life. Give them that footage

1062
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 10: back and they're able to use it for their business.

1063
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 10: We actually gave out two grants at the end of

1064
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 10: twenty twenty two to two businesses that did that. They

1065
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 10: take these, you know, the content that I send them,

1066
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 10: and they do wonders with it to further their business. So,

1067
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 10: but thank you for having me everybody. You guys can

1068
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 10: reach me on social media at Brayley Evans, b R, E, L, Y, E,

1069
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 10: V A and s across all that spacebook that's TikTok.

1070
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 10: I'm on YouTube, all of them, Brayley Evans. Even my

1071
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 10: website is Brayleyevans dot com. Get in touch with me

1072
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 10: if you're looking to expand your business or need some advice.

1073
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 10: Even do one on ones with actors. I call it

1074
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 10: Mastermind conversations. So also connect with the mastermind and what

1075
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 10: God has for you. So it's just my heart to

1076
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 10: give back. You know, I wish I had a meet

1077
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 10: who you are.

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00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: You're fantastic. Everybody.

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Speaker 3: Applause to Braley Evans and thank you for coming on

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Speaker 3: Money Making Conversations Fans.

1081
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 1: I see y'all next Tuesday. Okay, love you too.

1082
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 10: Good Bye everybody.

1083
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Speaker 1: Bye BA.

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00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 3: Braley Evans Money Making Conversation Mass and Class. Thank you fans.

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Speaker 7: Let me tell you about the Money Making Conversations master

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Speaker 7: Class hosted by Rashaan MacDonald.

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Speaker 1: People always talk about their purpose or gifts.

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Speaker 7: If you have a gift, lead with your gifts and

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Speaker 7: don't let your friends, family, or coworkers stop you from

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Speaker 7: planning or living your dreams.

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Speaker 10: The interviews and information on his show are for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Don't let change scare you.

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Speaker 7: He's here to educate you because it's time to put

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Speaker 7: your dreams into action. The show money Making Conversations, masterclass interviews, CEOs,

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Speaker 7: small business owners, influencers and celebrities.