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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: advice to many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,

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Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs,

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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here

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Speaker 1: we come. Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Rashean McDonald. It's important to understand that everybody travels a

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Speaker 1: different path to success their challenge. Use your face in

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Speaker 1: your life. They're be different. So it really tell everybody

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Speaker 1: stop reading your stop reading other people's success stories. That

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Speaker 1: really started writing your own. Now you can be motivated

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Speaker 1: by this success. I always tell people about that you

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Speaker 1: can read their stories, but remember it's their story and

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Speaker 1: it's portant you started writing your own story and starting

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Speaker 1: your own goals and start playing in and being committed

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Speaker 1: to your own personal effort. My next two guys about

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Speaker 1: being committed to their effort, being commoted to a plan.

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Speaker 1: And actually, I'm for sure when they started talking about

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Speaker 1: this dream, people probably looked at them sideways told him

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Speaker 1: that was impossible, that could only be one b et.

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Speaker 1: You know, people, I always tell people, don't let your friends,

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Speaker 1: your your relatives, your church followers, or anybody even somebody

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Speaker 1: you love who loves you swear you from your dream.

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Speaker 1: I want to tell people also that if you try

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Speaker 1: to be a doctor, don't talk to a mechanic. Vice version,

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Speaker 1: try to be a mechanics, don't talk to a doctor.

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Speaker 1: So you have to go to people who understand you.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I created Money Making Conversation. My next

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Speaker 1: two years are my Keith Lupton and Win Wait the

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Speaker 1: second I call him w W two. There two of

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Speaker 1: the followers of TCP Network. TCP stands for the Cultural

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Speaker 1: Professional Network. They recently took their business up in another

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Speaker 1: notch in this new year, bringing their content on Roku,

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Speaker 1: which is really really important, launching their real CoA channel

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Speaker 1: TCP TV. TCPTV aims to give people all color and

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Speaker 1: other disenfranchise groups of voice on this platform and supports

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Speaker 1: this community through broadcasting content, community service events, and media

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Speaker 1: literacy camps for kids. Please work with the money making conversation,

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Speaker 1: my friends, because we've been trying to get this connected

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Speaker 1: by three weeks. Marquetes Loveton and he's not in studio,

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Speaker 1: but if my man the w W two William wait

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Speaker 1: a second, thank you for having us, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: having us. You know you know you got anything like that,

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, guys, you know there's a conversation

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Speaker 1: the Cultural Professional Network, and uh, you know sometimes I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna reference you Markees and something reference you within. But

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Speaker 1: also build name and brand recognition. That's what it's about

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Speaker 1: when you come on shows like this, so people walk

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Speaker 1: And I want to just start the interview saying congratulations

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Appreciate it. It was it was

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Speaker 1: we have to date about about forty people, uh that

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Speaker 1: when you say dream come true, what is the dream? Uh?

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Speaker 1: The dream? The dream is all right, UM, if I

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Speaker 1: On the right hand side, you have your local news

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Speaker 1: And as we said, let me ask you now, William.

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Speaker 1: So we have a tyler call say less. Well, what

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Speaker 1: the opposite, because we saved the most UM that is exactly.

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