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Speaker 1: My guest is the founder of u x D Academy.

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Speaker 1: It has grown into a beacon for career switchers and

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Speaker 1: a traditional four year degree. He has prepared ux D

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Speaker 1: Academy to the fourth from the AI and Design Education.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to the Money Making Conversations Master Class, every train.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Everett, I'm doing well. It's my first

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Speaker 1: Well. Good. First of all, mister Swain, it's important that

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Speaker 1: people understand when you say AI, what does that mean.

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Speaker 1: Let's educate them about that first.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so AI is the book.

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Speaker 1: Because people are saying AI is taking job. Now, you

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Speaker 1: said AI will able people to have a career.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so. AI.

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Speaker 3: Artificial intelligence is a buzzword right now. Everybody's probably heard

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Speaker 3: it at some point. But there are two schools of

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Speaker 3: thought with AI. One, companies, unfortunately, are looking at AI

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Speaker 3: to replace people. And then there are the top companies

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Speaker 2: That they do not want to do.

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Speaker 1: Now, how did you how did you get started? Was

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Speaker 1: your this is very technically driven? Technically driven? Give us

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Speaker 1: a background? I asked you be their expert.

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Speaker 3: Now, yes, so you know what's interesting. I took an

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Speaker 3: aptitude test. I said I was equally analytical as I

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I went to school for that not knowing what graphic

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Speaker 3: graphic design. Once I graduated, I stumbled upon an article

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Speaker 3: I understood what that meant. I was like, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 3: I went to go that route, and then ultimately I

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about this because you in the area

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Speaker 1: giving our certificates, and this interview is about people who

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Speaker 1: don't want to go to a four year institution. With

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Speaker 1: that being said, is it people don't want to go

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Speaker 2: At K It's a combination of both.

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Speaker 3: I've been someone who is saying you don't need to

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Speaker 3: go to school for what I do, and it's it's

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Speaker 3: proven well over forty percent of tech companies do not

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Speaker 3: care about degrees anymore. They care about certifications. But ultimately

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Speaker 3: is your portfolio. Can you do the job?

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Speaker 2: Prove it? Let me see it.

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Speaker 3: So UXD Academy is literally showing people thirteen and older

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Speaker 3: how you can become an AI experience designer or an

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Speaker 1: You know, we've been drilled go to college, go to college,

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Speaker 1: go to college, go to college, get this degree. It's

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Speaker 1: wonderful lifestyle. Right now you're telling me a certificate?

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, People's eyes light up and say, wait, I

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Speaker 3: What do I need to do? That's more the reaction

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Speaker 1: How Now, with that being said, how was you XD born? Everett?

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Speaker 2: It was born from a question, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 3: So, my second job in my field, I had the

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Speaker 3: I said, I want to teach a work in a

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Speaker 2: Two weeks later we founded UXD Academy.

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Speaker 1: What gap do you see in education of workforce development?

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Speaker 1: That u XD Academy was created to film the gap in.

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Speaker 3: The workforce honestly, diversity and not just skin color.

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you that they can be frustration,

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Speaker 3: Can that create a problem. I don't think that's it

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Speaker 3: So I don't think it's much of a problem.

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Speaker 1: Now, good, are you a four year graduate? I am okay,

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Speaker 1: So you a four year graduate? Give me your degree

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Speaker 2: My background is I would say creatively driven.

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Speaker 3: So I was a graphic design major, which if I

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Speaker 2: The wealth back.

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Speaker 1: So how do you make money? It's money making conversations,

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Speaker 2: But the cool thing that I've done is within UXD Academy.

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Speaker 1: Everyone AI, what exactly is AI? You know it exploded

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Speaker 1: So how can you teach yourself AI? African American, black

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Speaker 3: So YouTube University, I learned, Wow, practically everything that I

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Speaker 2: I found great content creators. I followed them.

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Speaker 3: I tell people YouTube, Google and books taught me everything

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Money Making Conversations master Class with me

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Speaker 1: with Sean McDonald. Let's get into more details here. You

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Speaker 1: Wow, so underserved community. I will tell you I won't

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Money Making Conversations master Class with me

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Speaker 1: for Shan McDonald. And let me ask you this effort

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Speaker 2: But I'm dead serious most of the time.

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Speaker 1: But which is great. Like I said, you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're you hit that right on the head there.

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Speaker 3: I am very much passionate on the front facing website

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Speaker 3: working on it, but I've been told that you know

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Speaker 3: I could be very direct, very blunt, and sometimes it

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Speaker 3: comes off as harsh, but I'm like this, this is

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Speaker 3: Play like we have to we have to get on

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Speaker 1: It is it really, it really really is, And I

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Speaker 1: I just mentioned good Will here in Atlanta has a program.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are competing type programs out there that

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Speaker 1: That's a job waiting on you because that skill set,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's really amazing. It was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: because guess what, there're nobody here can build the chips. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: guess but they can if you train them. And that's

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. That's what we're talking about at u

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