Speaker 1: My guest is the founder of u x D Academy.
Speaker 1: It has grown into a beacon for career switchers and
Speaker 1: aspiring designers who lack the means or desired to pursue
Speaker 1: a traditional four year degree. He has prepared ux D
Speaker 1: Academy to the fourth from the AI and Design Education.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to the Money Making Conversations Master Class, every train.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Everett, I'm doing well. It's my first
Speaker 3: time in Atlanta, so I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Well. Good. First of all, mister Swain, it's important that
Speaker 1: people understand when you say AI, what does that mean.
Speaker 1: Let's educate them about that first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so AI is the book.
Speaker 1: Because people are saying AI is taking job. Now, you
Speaker 1: said AI will able people to have a career.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so. AI.
Speaker 3: Artificial intelligence is a buzzword right now. Everybody's probably heard
Speaker 3: it at some point. But there are two schools of
Speaker 3: thought with AI. One, companies, unfortunately, are looking at AI
Speaker 3: to replace people. And then there are the top companies
Speaker 3: that are using AI to amplify their people. So giving
Speaker 3: them AI as a means of a co pilot to
Speaker 3: help them with roles or tasks.
Speaker 2: That they do not want to do.
Speaker 1: Now, how did you how did you get started? Was
Speaker 1: your this is very technically driven? Technically driven? Give us
Speaker 1: a background? I asked you be their expert.
Speaker 3: Now, yes, so you know what's interesting. I took an
Speaker 3: aptitude test. I said I was equally analytical as I
Speaker 3: was creative, and I should do graphic design.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I went to school for that not knowing what graphic
Speaker 3: design was, and then I couldn't find a job in
Speaker 3: graphic design. Once I graduated, I stumbled upon an article
Speaker 3: that says, what is UX user Experience design? And so
Speaker 3: I understood what that meant. I was like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: the one who gets to design how a product or
Speaker 3: digital product works and so they make more money. So
Speaker 3: I went to go that route, and then ultimately I
Speaker 3: decided to teach people how to do the same.
Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about this because you in the area
Speaker 1: where there are a lot of professional schools that are
Speaker 1: giving our certificates, and this interview is about people who
Speaker 1: don't want to go to a four year institution. With
Speaker 1: that being said, is it people don't want to go
Speaker 1: to a four year institution or does people want to
Speaker 1: or feel they can be success be successful without going
Speaker 1: to a four year institution.
Speaker 2: At K It's a combination of both.
Speaker 3: I've been someone who is saying you don't need to
Speaker 3: go to school for what I do, and it's it's
Speaker 3: proven well over forty percent of tech companies do not
Speaker 3: care about degrees anymore. They care about certifications. But ultimately
Speaker 3: is your portfolio. Can you do the job?
Speaker 2: Prove it? Let me see it.
Speaker 3: So UXD Academy is literally showing people thirteen and older
Speaker 3: how you can become an AI experience designer or an
Speaker 3: AI automation expert without a degree.
Speaker 1: You know, we've been drilled go to college, go to college,
Speaker 1: go to college, go to college, get this degree. It's
Speaker 1: wonderful lifestyle. Right now you're telling me a certificate?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, People's eyes light up and say, wait, I
Speaker 3: don't have to go into this massive amount of debt
Speaker 3: to get this type of job that's paying you one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty two hundred thousand dollars. Sure, sign me up.
Speaker 3: What do I need to do? That's more the reaction
Speaker 3: that I get. It's not so much of like a
Speaker 3: disbelief like wow, I could I can do that with
Speaker 3: a degree. It's more like tell me how and show me.
Speaker 1: How Now, with that being said, how was you XD born? Everett?
Speaker 2: It was born from a question, to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: So, my second job in my field, I had the
Speaker 3: rare opportunity of working for a black manager in the
Speaker 3: ux space, and it's extremely rare, and so I after
Speaker 3: a few months working on his team, he asked me.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do with this career?
Speaker 3: I said, I want to teach a work in a
Speaker 3: corporate space for about ten years and then teach it
Speaker 3: at the university level. He asked me, why do you
Speaker 3: have to wait to teach people? The girlfriend I had
Speaker 3: at the time, I helped her successfully switch her career
Speaker 3: and become a designer. He said, you talked to girl, right,
Speaker 3: why can't you teave people now?
Speaker 2: Two weeks later we founded UXD Academy.
Speaker 1: What gap do you see in education of workforce development?
Speaker 1: That u XD Academy was created to film the gap in.
Speaker 3: The workforce honestly, diversity and not just skin color.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about diversity and background.
Speaker 3: One of the things I did not like about the
Speaker 3: industry was the gatekeeping aspect. People were very pretentious against
Speaker 3: people who did not have a degree. And then a
Speaker 3: few years later company said we don't care about degrees,
Speaker 3: and so the gap that I'm feeling is showing people
Speaker 3: from all backgrounds, Hey, you can learn this, and let
Speaker 3: me go ahead and create a curriculum that allows you
Speaker 3: to perform better than people who have the degree.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you that they can be frustration,
Speaker 1: there can be in office. No, I won't use your
Speaker 1: anger because there are people out there that go to college,
Speaker 1: get your degree, may be in debt or may not
Speaker 1: be in debt, and then somebody with a certificate comes
Speaker 1: along and is competing competitively from a financial or salary standpoint.
Speaker 3: Can that create a problem. I don't think that's it
Speaker 3: can create a problem. But I think that was a
Speaker 3: problem I'd say probably four years ago. Not so much
Speaker 3: anymore because so many people are entering I have entered
Speaker 3: the field without a degree from a four year institution,
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's much of a problem.
Speaker 1: Now, good, are you a four year graduate? I am okay,
Speaker 1: So you a four year graduate? Give me your degree
Speaker 1: background for it? Because this everything you're talking about is
Speaker 1: technically driven. Okay, talk about you.
Speaker 2: My background is I would say creatively driven.
Speaker 3: So I was a graphic design major, which if I
Speaker 3: had to boil it down to Layman's termsraphic designers about
Speaker 3: creating pretty graphics or pretty images using color theory, psychology,
Speaker 3: and things of that nature to create a banner, an image,
Speaker 3: a poster.
Speaker 2: Or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Well, that's sort of died a little bit with the
Speaker 3: advent of AI tools like Canva and things like that.
Speaker 3: Now I don't need to have a degree in graphic
Speaker 3: design to create pretty images. I could just use Canva
Speaker 3: to do it. And so I made the switch. I
Speaker 3: reverse engineer my career. I actually said, Okay, I'm creating images,
Speaker 3: or at least what the school taught me is to
Speaker 3: create images. But I'm seeing where the money is money
Speaker 3: is actually creating digital products. So I reversed engineer at
Speaker 3: that taught myself how to do it, and I'm sharing.
Speaker 2: The wealth back.
Speaker 1: So how do you make money? It's money making conversations,
Speaker 1: mass to classes. How do you make money?
Speaker 2: So I make money a couple different ways.
Speaker 3: Won by a consultant as a consultant for companies to
Speaker 3: create digital products. Right now, it's the buzzword is AI,
Speaker 3: so AI agents automated workflows.
Speaker 2: But the cool thing that I've done is within UXD Academy.
Speaker 3: I have built an AI experience agency called our Table,
Speaker 3: and it's a way for me to not only it's
Speaker 3: a way for me to create a learn and earn
Speaker 3: pipeline where I can train people at UXD Academy. I
Speaker 3: take the top ten percent of those and employ them
Speaker 3: at our Table on a project basis. So I go
Speaker 3: out and get small business clients via our Table, and
Speaker 3: then I bring that work into the school so that
Speaker 3: way my apprentices can see what real, real world work
Speaker 3: looks like.
Speaker 1: Everyone AI, what exactly is AI? You know it exploded
Speaker 1: chat gt GPT right that came out like two years
Speaker 1: ago and did it? But it's been out longer than that.
Speaker 1: And so then you say, I'm a self taught AI person,
Speaker 1: So how can you teach yourself AI? African American, black
Speaker 1: person of color? And are you consulting? How are you
Speaker 1: continually able to educate yourself and stay in front and
Speaker 1: stay up because ever changing industry?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 1: How did you make decision to teach yourself because you
Speaker 1: went to be a graphic designer that's what you've been
Speaker 1: trained in. This feels way more technical, it is well.
Speaker 2: For for sure.
Speaker 3: So YouTube University, I learned, Wow, practically everything that I
Speaker 3: needed to learn about this from YouTube.
Speaker 2: I found great content creators. I followed them.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 3: Creating the waves or behind directly behind the people who
Speaker 3: are making the waves.
Speaker 2: So I just stay right in that lane and follow
Speaker 2: what they're doing and test it out.
Speaker 3: I tell people YouTube, Google and books taught me everything
Speaker 3: I know about AI and what.
Speaker 1: Is AI when a standpoint of the reason I keep
Speaker 1: harping there because you know, a year ago, i'd use
Speaker 1: AI lot. From a standpoint of I have my podcast.
Speaker 1: It translates my podcast, It gives me a descriptions, it
Speaker 1: tells me give me some marketing campaigns and things like that.
Speaker 1: Am I under selling the more I can do with AI?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I like to tell people AI. Just think
Speaker 2: of it as the.
Speaker 3: It's the smartest person you know or the smartest intern
Speaker 3: that you know, and you can train that intern to
Speaker 3: work specifically for you. In a nutshell, that's why, and
Speaker 3: AI really is like the greatest mimic on Earth. It's
Speaker 3: just learning from things that we've already produced. It's not
Speaker 3: really creating anything. It's more like mimicking and guessing based
Speaker 3: off of its data. And so we have to feed
Speaker 3: it good data and it'll give us a good output.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Money Making Conversations master Class with me
Speaker 1: with Sean McDonald. Let's get into more details here. You
Speaker 1: actually Academy teaches design, design tools and AI.
Speaker 3: How So I have an online platform built on school
Speaker 3: skol and effectively what I do is I've created my
Speaker 3: own curriculum in video format, so I put that on
Speaker 3: that platform. But it also serves as like a combination.
Speaker 3: The platform serves as a combination of LinkedIn Google Classroom,
Speaker 3: so people can post which I encourage people to share,
Speaker 3: Hey I built this, and then every two weeks I
Speaker 3: do a free class where I show people, Hey, here's
Speaker 3: what I'm actively working on, and here are the.
Speaker 2: Tools that I'm using to build what I am building.
Speaker 3: And so people can come in and ask me those
Speaker 3: type of questions and then thirdly a mastermind a weekly
Speaker 3: mastermind group where people can get guidance from me and
Speaker 3: helping build their portfolio as well as working on client work.
Speaker 1: Wow, so underserved community. I will tell you I won't
Speaker 1: get on a soapbox bodyess, but I will tell you
Speaker 1: that I feel that for the first time in history
Speaker 1: that people of color, black people who are on these
Speaker 1: programs or whether you can call the welfare program programs,
Speaker 1: that well you actually with these certificates, like you said,
Speaker 1: you don't have to go to a four year school,
Speaker 1: four year college or to your junior college.
Speaker 2: Well, you can change your life in a manner more literally.
Speaker 1: Listen, Please let my let my listeners hear this by
Speaker 1: going to your website and seeing the results because living
Speaker 1: a life on section eight of staff programs, you don't
Speaker 1: have to do this. No, you can live a better life,
Speaker 1: live in a better community. I would tell you that
Speaker 1: living in those communities under those programs force you to
Speaker 1: maintain a certain lifestyle, force you to live a certain way.
Speaker 1: For you at u XD Academy can bridge a gap
Speaker 1: of academic freedom, financial freedom not only for the individual,
Speaker 1: but for their family members and their family and family
Speaker 1: members talk to us. You can soapboxes if you want to.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: The job I had before my career as a designer,
Speaker 3: I worked at a mortgage linding bank.
Speaker 2: I hated it.
Speaker 3: I was making about fourteen dollars an hour, and I
Speaker 3: got to the point where I said, I hate my situation.
Speaker 3: I don't like this, and so I leveraged YouTube University
Speaker 3: and went down a rabbit hole and started teaching myself right.
Speaker 3: The routine that I had was I would get up,
Speaker 3: I would go to work from seven to three. Then
Speaker 3: I would work out from three to four, and then
Speaker 3: from five to about two am. I am learning, I'm building,
Speaker 3: I'm redoing my portfolio. I am putting my best foot
Speaker 3: forward so people can give me a chance.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, that took me about three years.
Speaker 3: Took me about three years, but somebody gave me a shot,
Speaker 3: and I haven't looked back since I started.
Speaker 1: When I got my.
Speaker 3: First job, I made seventy five thousand. The second year
Speaker 3: I made one hundred and five. The third year I
Speaker 3: made one hundred and forty. So it's just gone up now.
Speaker 3: Part of that I do know how to speak, I.
Speaker 2: Know how to interview, will hered you well.
Speaker 3: However, my portfolio is what got me that, and so
Speaker 3: I am literally showing not only just people that looks
Speaker 3: like us, but hard working people. A you follow what
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, you can change your life in under
Speaker 3: a year and a half.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that next step, what do they have to do?
Speaker 1: Will you say? Follow what I'm taking telling you? Where
Speaker 1: they're going to have to go to follow what you
Speaker 1: are telling us in this interview?
Speaker 2: Perfect?
Speaker 3: So of course you can go to my website, yes
Speaker 3: UXD dot Academy. From there, it'll launchpad you straight into
Speaker 3: the free community.
Speaker 2: I offer a free community. That's the thing. I'm giving
Speaker 2: away my information for free. What you're paying for is
Speaker 2: my guidance.
Speaker 3: So I take a do it yourself approach because that's
Speaker 3: what I did. So I'm going to give you the
Speaker 3: meat and potatoes of all the courses you need to take,
Speaker 3: the certifications.
Speaker 2: You need here, all the books you need to read.
Speaker 2: I give you all of that, so there are no excuses.
Speaker 3: If you want to take your own time, sure you
Speaker 3: can get there in under two years. But if you
Speaker 3: want that guidance, well then that's where you're going to pay.
Speaker 2: It's just hey, let me give you the course. Correction
Speaker 2: that you need.
Speaker 1: Lit's say you have a graphics you have a four
Speaker 1: year degree. I'm trying to really reach the people who
Speaker 1: have neither that's lost here in this interview for the
Speaker 1: very first time, trying to understand where they can fit
Speaker 1: in it, trying to disseminate reality from their reality.
Speaker 2: Talk to me.
Speaker 3: So for that person that you described, what I teach
Speaker 3: people are AI tools, specifically no code and low code tools.
Speaker 3: So no code is exactly how it sounds. You don't
Speaker 3: have to know any code in order to use this tool.
Speaker 2: If you know some code, then that means you can
Speaker 2: take a low code tool and push it to the
Speaker 2: max because you actually know the language. That's me no cue,
Speaker 2: so you know the language.
Speaker 3: But you can literally build a chatbot an agent in
Speaker 3: ten minutes with these tools, and I'm teaching you how
Speaker 3: to do that and then how to do it on
Speaker 3: a larger scale. So I would say again, you actually
Speaker 3: Academy's YouTube channel is a great place to start, but
Speaker 3: in my community, I also list out the YouTubers that
Speaker 3: I learned from. Right, and you watch one video, You're
Speaker 3: going down the ramp hole and you can see the
Speaker 3: phone that you have in your pocket.
Speaker 2: That's more than enough to get you to it right.
Speaker 1: And we know everybody lives off their phone nowadays, so
Speaker 1: you know there are just many computers for sure. I
Speaker 1: was those of my picking my phone. This is pretty heavy,
Speaker 1: it is, you know it was supposed to be just
Speaker 1: because they small don't be in their light exactly, which
Speaker 1: means that a lot of technologies is crammed into that.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Money Making Conversations master Class with me
Speaker 1: for Shan McDonald. And let me ask you this effort
Speaker 1: in the next twelve to eighteen months, what major AI
Speaker 1: trends or technologies you believe will have the biggest impact
Speaker 1: on a small business. I'm a small business. This shows
Speaker 1: about small business businesses and entrepreneurship.
Speaker 3: Talk to us, so I would say automated workflows, AI
Speaker 3: agents and AI powered customer experiences. Those are going to
Speaker 3: be the three biggest I say, major shakeups in the
Speaker 3: next twelve to eighteen months.
Speaker 2: This year was dubbed the Year of the Agent, which.
Speaker 3: Effectively I just tell people an agent is a suped
Speaker 3: up chat bot that can perform tasks for you on
Speaker 3: its own or with you.
Speaker 2: That's all it is.
Speaker 1: And the reason you're on this show is that I
Speaker 1: know that the world we live in is changing. The
Speaker 1: way we view opportunities has to change too. And when
Speaker 1: I saw what you were developing or have developed short
Speaker 1: term opportunities through academic training, I'll point an example to
Speaker 1: my audience. I'm based in Atlanta and Goodwill offer the
Speaker 1: program where EV installations, and they were offering a paid
Speaker 1: training period, and then after that paid training period was
Speaker 1: over with, then you had a full time salary that
Speaker 1: was over sixty five thousand dollars no education, and we're
Speaker 1: talking about less than six months. This whole period, this
Speaker 1: whole lifetime experience was changing. What are the obstacles in
Speaker 1: your business and how have you overcome those obstacles.
Speaker 3: The obstacles I have are trying to partner with educational institutions.
Speaker 3: They still operate very in a very archaic way, and
Speaker 3: so they are very much reluctant to change. I am
Speaker 3: trying to convince them, like, hey, this is where we
Speaker 3: are now. You need to adopt and need to train
Speaker 3: Pece based off what's happening now. So that's been an
Speaker 3: obstacle to try and convince them of that. However, I
Speaker 3: don't spend that much time trying to convince people what
Speaker 3: they can't see. I go and listen to the people
Speaker 3: who I'm trying to help, and they give me a
Speaker 3: great perspective because they are telling me what their problems
Speaker 3: are and I'm attacking that head on. So I would
Speaker 3: say the biggest obstacle is just not knowing where the
Speaker 3: hell I'm going sometimes.
Speaker 2: But I am grounded in what I'm doing and the
Speaker 2: purpose that I'm doing. It allows me to overcome that.
Speaker 1: You know, big fear. It's kind of an interesting interviewing
Speaker 1: you because you use the word AIAI so much. And
Speaker 1: the number one fear in the people who don't know,
Speaker 1: especially in the minority community, is that AI is going
Speaker 1: to take their job. I believe there are from a
Speaker 1: robotic standpoint, jobs are going to be replaced. But again,
Speaker 1: somebody got to run the robot. Somebody gotta program the robot.
Speaker 1: Somebody gotta be able to organize a strategy to advance
Speaker 1: the services of that robot. AI. I don't believe it
Speaker 1: is going to replace the job. It's going to create
Speaker 1: options for a job. When I say that, Everett, am
Speaker 1: I incorrect?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think you are AI will replace some job.
Speaker 2: Yes it will.
Speaker 3: So there are some reports I believe it was MIT
Speaker 3: came out with a study and showed that ninety five
Speaker 3: percent of AI polot programs failed. That's at the enterprise level,
Speaker 3: that's not at the small business level. Small businesses have
Speaker 3: sewn about eighty percent of positive ROI from using AI.
Speaker 3: And that is where the biggest opportunities are going to
Speaker 3: be is to help small businesses introduced safely, introduce AI
Speaker 3: to them so that way they can scale.
Speaker 2: That is going to be the biggest opportunity. And that's
Speaker 2: where I flourished.
Speaker 3: And companies that are less than fifty employees, they need
Speaker 3: help and giving them AI by way of automating certain processes,
Speaker 3: giving them AI what I call AI co workers, which is.
Speaker 2: Just you know, effectively chat GPT as.
Speaker 3: A coworker, right right, So those are going to be
Speaker 3: the biggest opportunities from a small business standpoint.
Speaker 1: You know what. I again, Everett, thank you for coming
Speaker 1: on the show. I'm an interview and the founder of UXD.
Speaker 1: Before we move forward, is there an app.
Speaker 2: The platform that we learned on school that there isn't
Speaker 2: that for that?
Speaker 1: Okay? Cool? Talk to us about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So again, I built my curriculum on a platform called
Speaker 3: School that's skool relatively new.
Speaker 2: It's competing with products like Kajabi Go High Level. I
Speaker 2: like School quite a bit. They do have a mobile app,
Speaker 2: so again there are no excuses with me. You could
Speaker 2: download the app.
Speaker 3: And launch into my free community and right there you
Speaker 3: have all the access to people as well as to
Speaker 3: resources that you need to learn this business.
Speaker 1: So because of the effort, what's your legacy?
Speaker 3: My legacy is I want other kids to have that
Speaker 3: mentality when they go through my course and say, oh no,
Speaker 3: I can create my own reality with this. If I
Speaker 3: could have helped a minimum hundred thousand kids, yeah, if
Speaker 3: I could help one hundred thousands, and it is a lot.
Speaker 3: But I believe in focusing on the future doesn't mean
Speaker 3: that somebody above forty can't learn it. I have people
Speaker 3: who are fifty five in my class learning and they're
Speaker 3: doing great. But I really want to focus on the
Speaker 3: youth and to show them another option exposure. If I
Speaker 3: can help one hundred thousand efforts out there, that would
Speaker 3: be my legacity.
Speaker 1: Well, I like that because of the fact that the
Speaker 1: youth really controls or changes the future. You know, you're
Speaker 1: younger than me, I'm pouring into you. Hopefully by pouring
Speaker 1: into you, you won't make the same mistakes. That's the
Speaker 1: whole core of this show. Money making conversations masculine. I
Speaker 1: want to I want people to hear you going, that's
Speaker 1: a better job. There's a better lifestyle for you at
Speaker 1: u x D Academy at least just look. Do your research.
Speaker 1: He's already told you that. You go on YouTube and
Speaker 1: verify what he's doing. He's just organized, and I think
Speaker 1: that's the key component. You go to the website. He's
Speaker 1: really hysterical. He has a video of himself. He's just
Speaker 1: he's like a pitch man. He's just he's just constant,
Speaker 1: just he's very entertaining. In fact, I would tell you this,
Speaker 1: you're after watching your videos, you're not as hyped as
Speaker 1: your website.
Speaker 3: Why is that that's actually my natural disposition to be
Speaker 3: honest with you. And it's because like I'm actually in
Speaker 3: the wise learning I do need to work on, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, animating my voice a little bit more. And
Speaker 3: that is that I'm going to be doing as far
Speaker 3: as helping out with the editing too, like show the
Speaker 3: funnier side.
Speaker 2: But I'm dead serious most of the time.
Speaker 1: But which is great. Like I said, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying nothing negative here, but like I'm letting you know,
Speaker 1: I've done my research. I'm watch it on go. He's
Speaker 1: very entertaining. I mean, I'm gonna just put it this way.
Speaker 1: There's a passion on your website. And that passion is
Speaker 1: driven by because frustration, I think, you know, because of
Speaker 1: the fact that people don't know and sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to be amped up a little bit for sure to
Speaker 1: try to get their attention to show this there's a
Speaker 1: better way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're you hit that right on the head there.
Speaker 3: I am very much passionate on the front facing website
Speaker 3: of things because I have to get I have to
Speaker 3: get your attention and sometimes and I look, I've tried
Speaker 3: working on it, but I've been told that you know
Speaker 3: I could be very direct, very blunt, and sometimes it
Speaker 3: comes off as harsh, but I'm like this, this is
Speaker 3: no laughing matter, especially when we think about I'm gonna
Speaker 3: bring them out to my soapbox to people of color,
Speaker 3: black people, Look, we are at the bottom and a
Speaker 3: lot of metrics, so there is no time for play.
Speaker 3: Play like we have to we have to get on
Speaker 3: the ball. AI is our opportunity to do that.
Speaker 1: It is it really, it really really is, And I
Speaker 1: hope more and more interviews. I do like that. I
Speaker 1: try to be consistent. I'm not saying a lot of people.
Speaker 1: In fact, nobody's doing what you're doing. But there are
Speaker 1: other certificate programs out there. Google has a cificate scholarship program.
Speaker 1: I just mentioned good Will here in Atlanta has a program.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are competing type programs out there that
Speaker 1: are presenting salaries that can put you in a middle
Speaker 1: class and came immediately as soon as you pass it.
Speaker 1: That's a job waiting on you because that skill set,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really amazing. It was like, you know,
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