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Speaker 1: conversations it's the show that she has the secrets of

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Speaker 1: success experience firsthand by marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I will know he's giving me advice to many occasions.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to hear from my man, Rashan McDonald

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Speaker 1: money Making Conversations. Here we come. Welcome to Money Making Conversation.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Rashan McDonald. I provide the consumer

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Speaker 1: and business owner access. Like he said, celebrity CEO, entrepreneurs

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Speaker 1: and industry decision makers. I recognized that we all have

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Speaker 1: different definitions of success. For some, it's a sizable paycheck.

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Speaker 1: Mine is helping people wake up and inspiring them to

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Speaker 1: accomplish their goals and live their very best life. These

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Speaker 1: for you. I want you to stop tripping over small

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Speaker 1: challenges and prepare to ride is above the bigger obstacles

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Speaker 1: that life will present to you. The Money Making Conversation

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Speaker 1: interviews provide relatable information to listen to our career and

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Speaker 1: financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, overcoming the arts, and how

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Speaker 1: to live a balanced life. My next guest would always

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Speaker 1: be one of my favorite actors because, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: But you know him as a singer. Can't take that

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Speaker 1: away from he's sexy. He's a singer. Over the course

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Speaker 1: Back at One. Oh watch still remember that our plane?

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Speaker 1: Oh Wowtification, Now that's fat far to twenty twining because

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to him to day. The year that he's

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Speaker 1: the money making conversations. My man, you'm laughing in the background,

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Speaker 1: Brian mcknights. Do you're messing me up? Brian? I was

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Sean McDonald. Well, you know I feel

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Speaker 1: after this question to go to the Kobe Bryant tribute

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Speaker 1: The question is where do we go from here? And

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Speaker 1: the thing that is great is and not that there

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Speaker 1: is a great thing about it, if you can take

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Speaker 1: somebody from it, the people who some of the people

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Speaker 1: who are protesting, people who are at the forefront of

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Speaker 1: this aren't of color. And this is something that I've

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Speaker 1: never seen in my lifetime that people who aren't black are,

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Speaker 1: you know, championing this cause. And I think that's one

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Speaker 1: of the good things that comes from this. And Hopefully

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Speaker 1: this conversation happens, we can have it uncomfortably and then

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Speaker 1: we never have to have it again. That's my hope.

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Speaker 1: And that's and that's that's a great hope. And I

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Speaker 1: think that when you when you because and this this

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Speaker 1: year and uh, and I'm not trying to get into politics.

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Speaker 1: It's just life, you know that we're talking about. And

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Speaker 1: you're you're tremendous musical audience and your emotion and things

444
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Speaker 1: that you sing about tapping into what we you know,

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Speaker 1: you've made me crying, you maybe laugh, you maybe dance. Okay, right, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's be real not you know, I've been in concerts

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Speaker 1: in the l A watching you understanding up going yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know you remember that I'm in the concert. I

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Speaker 1: want you had that silhouette. You just come out with

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Speaker 1: a silhouette. Remember that I go back with your baby,

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Speaker 1: I go back with you, and so and and and

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Speaker 1: and so. When you when then you look at the

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Speaker 1: pandemic and and you realize that African Americans are and

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Speaker 1: people of color or dying overtly of this of this uh,

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Speaker 1: this worldwide that some people call little plague, and and

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Speaker 1: it just forced me to change my value system and

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Speaker 1: how I approach the and how communicate things to people

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Speaker 1: and some ways I've become a pandemic expert on how

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Speaker 1: the handling your finances and how you live your life socially.

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Speaker 1: And then you have a family, you this is home now,

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Speaker 1: you know, how how did you deal with And I'll

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Speaker 1: just tell you my short story when I I'm comfortable

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Speaker 1: with it, Brian. But initially, man, I had problems going

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Speaker 1: out in the streets. I didn't know what to do.

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Speaker 1: They have gloves put the still, so I put the

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Speaker 1: mask on. I really was struggling, and it was in

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Speaker 1: somewhat way it's fearful of this, and I'm not saying

468
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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of it now, but I'm much more

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Speaker 1: comfortable because, like they said, this is the new normal,

470
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Speaker 1: and you learn to adjust to the new normal. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that is my wife has

472
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Speaker 1: been preaching distancing way before the way before it is

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Speaker 1: this happened. You know, she germs and touching people and

474
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Speaker 1: shaking hands. I shake hands after every show and she

475
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Speaker 1: was like, just you know, before you touch me, you

476
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Speaker 1: better go over there and get your hands real, real

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Speaker 1: clean and everything. You know. So we have been really looking,

478
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Speaker 1: you know, to be this way for quite some time,

479
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Speaker 1: so there hasn't been a lot of of of adjustments

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Speaker 1: necessarily for home bodies anyway. Um, there's two things. One,

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Speaker 1: I hadn't taken a break from doing shows and probably

482
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Speaker 1: fifteen years, so I'm sure that my voice, my body,

483
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Speaker 1: my mind needed a bit of a break anyway that

484
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Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't be taken. Uh So that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: And we've actually been able to spend time just together

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Speaker 1: the family. Our parents were here, we were having family

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Speaker 1: dinner every night, being together where we normally wouldn't be

488
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Speaker 1: unless we was a holiday. So is that part of

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Speaker 1: it's been good as well. So again we try to

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Speaker 1: find that silver lining and otherwise tough situation, but hopefully

491
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Speaker 1: this is educating people that you know, we all need

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Speaker 1: to be cleaner, we all need to sanitize all the

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Speaker 1: things that we need to sanitize, and just you know,

494
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Speaker 1: be cognizant when you're sneezing, when you're coughing. We've been

495
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Speaker 1: on airplanes or someone behind us just sneezing all over

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Speaker 1: the place, off and all over the plane. You know,

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Speaker 1: these are things that people are now hopefully are being

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Speaker 1: more cognizant about but as you go out to the

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Speaker 1: grocery store and go out the places, not everyone is

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Speaker 1: that hearing to this, and that's the part that can

501
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Speaker 1: be very frustrated. Absolutely, Now the twenty album extra this,

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Speaker 1: uh tell us, UH tell us the whole story about

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Speaker 1: getting the album, getting the singles? What what can I do?

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Speaker 1: What can I do? I got social media too? You

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Speaker 1: know you're shrying to built his own brand now, I

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Speaker 1: gotta I got a mailing list of ninety three thousand

507
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Speaker 1: going out this Wednesday. I got almost a million social

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Speaker 1: media followers on the Rashaan McDonald money making conversations. What

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Speaker 1: can I do for my good friend Brian McKnight, I

510
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Speaker 1: tell you just just talking to you now and knowing

511
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Speaker 1: that you're still in my corner after all these years. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a conversation that we can have because we

513
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Speaker 1: all need that, because everybody's on social media. Because because

514
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Speaker 1: of that, everyone becomes a celebrity of some notes. How

515
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Speaker 1: do you make how do you make your noise be

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Speaker 1: seen and be heard by people that are all over

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Speaker 1: the place. Anybody you would think, oh wow, now I

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Speaker 1: can just sell directly to my fans. Well, it's not

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Speaker 1: quite that easy because everybody has something to say. Everybody

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Speaker 1: has you know, it's tough to make your way and

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Speaker 1: navigate through this sea of people, um and the three.

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Speaker 1: You really need to lean on someone several someone's who

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Speaker 1: knew how to navigate that several of the great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's another great reason to be back in contact with

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Speaker 1: you because I've seen the things you've done. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I watch Stephen every day, watch his watch his meteoric rise,

527
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Speaker 1: and you know, it can't it can't be a coincidence

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Speaker 1: that you're standing next to all of these people who

529
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Speaker 1: have had the New York rides. And now that I

530
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Speaker 1: look back and say, man, he was in my quarterback

531
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Speaker 1: in the day, and I could have had that thing.

532
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Speaker 1: I'm still in your corner. So let's stop on that mat,

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Speaker 1: stop on that man. It's just that, you know, I

534
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: tell everybody just that, I just I just sat down

535
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,959
Speaker 1: on myself and just figure out who Sean McDonald wall was,

536
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: and like you, in the pandemic. This has been a

537
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Speaker 1: good thing for me as well, because from my from us,

538
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Speaker 1: from a spiritual, from us social, from a family standpoint,

539
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Speaker 1: I really it's a it's a crisis, an on going crisis.

540
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Speaker 1: But my whole life has been dealing with some type

541
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Speaker 1: of crisis, but building other people's careers and and things

542
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Speaker 1: like that. Now that I set back and I look

543
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Speaker 1: at what I can accomplish for myself, I know I

544
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Speaker 1: can do more for others who trust me, who really

545
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Speaker 1: trusts me, and and and when I look at your

546
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Speaker 1: music and I look at the times we you know say,

547
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Speaker 1: I'm one of these guys. But you might not say

548
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Speaker 1: hello to me or by to me, but I'm watching,

549
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Speaker 1: I'm watching, and I'm loving them. I'm going I just

550
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Speaker 1: give my life right. Because I give my life right,

551
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Speaker 1: I can do some right things for people that I love,

552
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Speaker 1: I respect, And you want to hear at the top

553
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Speaker 1: of the list of one of those lists, Brian mgnited,

554
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Speaker 1: I love, I respect, and I just wanted to bring

555
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: you on the show man just to talk and laugh

556
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Speaker 1: about some things. You probably think we're not important to me,

557
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: but they are important to me. And you can hear

558
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Speaker 1: come out of my mouth and just share story with

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Speaker 1: my my my fans on the money Making Conversation platform.

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Speaker 1: That's all. It's a funny thing because I'm one of

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Speaker 1: those people too. I probably would have never picked up

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Speaker 1: the phone and calls myself and said, hey, can you

563
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: look at this and tell me how I can do that?

564
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: Because watching you work, it's hard to know that you're

565
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Speaker 1: watching because you've seen very you know, a student about

566
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Speaker 1: what you're actually doing. And now hearing you say that

567
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Speaker 1: you were still watching it, it makes me feel good

568
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: because I was like, man, Ma Sean, you know he

569
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Speaker 1: he's doing all this, you know, he I wonder if

570
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: you could do something for me, but I don't want

571
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: to ask because he's dealing with somebody who's bigger than me.

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00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: Right now, Really get that that that thing about you

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Speaker 1: that says, you know, maybe not ra Sean, maybe there's

574
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Speaker 1: somebody else, but you know what, why not do with

575
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: the guy who's the best day? There you go, there

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00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: you go, there you go. Hey be man, thank you

577
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: for calling the show man. And again we will talk soon.

578
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: I gotta wrap up some scenes in the month of

579
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Speaker 1: August and September. We will talk. But again I'm a

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581
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Speaker 1: done for myself, Man, if my key was to be

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Speaker 1: this ain't by the contract. This is not even by

586
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Speaker 1: trying to give me a dollar. It's about my love

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Speaker 1: for you, by love for an individual who has just

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Speaker 1: do You're a game changer. Okay, Bryan, forget that. The

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Speaker 1: starting this year too. Together. I'm ready. I'm in your hands. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you man. We talked to it. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: of meaningful life. For more information, visit n m dot

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Speaker 1: org Slash Radio. Welcome back to money Making Conversations. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host Sean McDonald. My next guest is an Emmy

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Speaker 1: nominated actress, HBCU graduate activists, author, comedian, and most importantly,

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Speaker 1: a mother. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised

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Speaker 1: in Soudane. That's the first time I I've read I've

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Speaker 1: had on the show and known her for over twenty years.

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Speaker 1: That's the first time I've ever known that little negged

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Speaker 1: about her, so we will definitely be talking about that.

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Speaker 1: She's easily recognized from our frequent appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm,

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Speaker 1: developed called Following an Ice Cubes hit movie Next Friday,

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Speaker 1: had the all of the show on their own network network,

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Speaker 1: and many many many television appearance where she's co star

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Speaker 1: star and made special appearances. She is on the show

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Speaker 1: to discuss her weight loss campaign with weight Watchers. Weight

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Speaker 1: Watchers Oprahtta Opraghotta now weight Watcher. Weight Watchers offers a

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Speaker 1: scientifically proven program for weight loss and wellness with digital

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Speaker 1: studio and personal coaching solutions to help you meet your

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Speaker 1: weight loss goal. She's doing it with a crew called

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Speaker 1: the Post That's How Crew That's gonna guide y'all to

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Speaker 1: weight loss weight loss Heaven. Please walk with the money

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Speaker 1: making conversation. My friend Kim Whitley, do you know I

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Speaker 1: am over here holding my mouth. I am cracking up.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what an introduction weight loss having baby?

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Speaker 1: We're going to weight loss Heaven. You're hear me, Kim Whitley. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what you're talking about? Let's talk about Look on your

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Speaker 1: long time, kimp Okay, long time. Okay, you fine, you fine, Okay?

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Speaker 1: If we get up there, you know I would tell

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Speaker 1: people I lost weight, I lost twenty pounds because I

671
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Speaker 1: would tell you, ain't nobody paying me to tackle nobody.

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Speaker 1: Ain't nobody paying me to hit nobody? Why am I

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Speaker 1: walking around with these extra twenty parts? When I lost

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Speaker 1: that weight, I am a better person. I had to

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Speaker 1: change a lot of clothes because they were bagging loose

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Speaker 1: on me. But I brag about the fact that I

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Speaker 1: am not to seventeen. I am like, I'll go between

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Speaker 1: one night five and one seven on the daily daily

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Speaker 1: basis depending on what I eat the night before. So

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Speaker 1: I get up every morning that way myself. So I know,

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Speaker 1: and I've gotten I got an image of where I

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Speaker 1: got down to one eighty nine. I went a holo,

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Speaker 1: holo holder, that's way too low, Okay, I got like

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Speaker 1: you can see my toes on the scale, one eight

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Speaker 1: nine I went. I got down to one eight nine,

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Speaker 1: one eighty nine and and uh and so I know

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Speaker 1: the value of weight control are the value of uh

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Speaker 1: feeling different and then setting a goal and then achieving

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Speaker 1: a goal. And that's why I just said up at

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Speaker 1: the top of the show, I've known you a long time.

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Speaker 1: You're a beautiful woman. In fact, I recently saw your

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Speaker 1: the reaver Us charity event that you threw in your

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Speaker 1: back and you look beautiful there too. Now what led

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Speaker 1: us to this point weight Watchers and getting involved with

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Speaker 1: the weight Watchers Before we get to the posse, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about your first your personal journey. About the weight

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Speaker 1: Watchers content. Well, you know, uh, you know they've rebranded it.

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Speaker 1: It's called WW when it was weight Watchers, uh back

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Speaker 1: in the day. You know, I'm being honest with You've

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Speaker 1: never done it before. I've never been a Weight Watchers person. Um.

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Speaker 1: When they started saying, you know, w W, it's all news,

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Speaker 1: it's it's brand. You know, it's Brandon. I know that

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Speaker 1: I have and trying. You know, I'm always trying to

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Speaker 1: lose this weight. I think we're always trying to be

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Speaker 1: a better version of ourselves. And I'm telling you what, Sean,

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Speaker 1: when this pandemic hit, I said, the first thing I

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Speaker 1: said is Okay, we're about to be locked down. I

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Speaker 1: want to come out a better person than I went in, Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want this thing to come out and I

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Speaker 1: bust out and I look like I've been in jail

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Speaker 1: lifting weight. Like you don't lock down, but you can

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Speaker 1: come out better, right, Like I just came off the yard,

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Speaker 1: right right, As long as you got no dreads, Okay, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: car Rolls, You're gonna be good. Car Rolls. You really

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Speaker 1: look like I will be good, you know. And you

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Speaker 1: know it's just been a mother of a nine year

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Speaker 1: old boy who have a lot of energy and just saying,

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Speaker 1: you know we like you've always asked me questions like

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Speaker 1: what's your next five years look like? Where's the next

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Speaker 1: ten years look like? And if I really look back,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I've done things, but have I really

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Speaker 1: made a significant change? Um? I could be funny, I

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Speaker 1: can keep moving on, but really, what is the next

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Speaker 1: the one thing I can control is what I put

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Speaker 1: in my mouth and what I do with my body.

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Speaker 1: Anything else and a lot of things you know other

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Speaker 1: people can control. But if you can't control yourself, that

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Speaker 1: what what what are you doing? So you know that's

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Speaker 1: how I would say how it started, that the one

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Speaker 1: thing I can control will give me, um the confidence

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Speaker 1: to do other things. Because I can't control this, I

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Speaker 1: can make the outcome better and be stronger and and

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Speaker 1: um just healthier. So I think that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: You know, Um, I've been what I look at it

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Speaker 1: as weight loss and a diet. It never worked, it

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Speaker 1: always came back. But with w W I have, I've

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Speaker 1: learned to be healthy. I make better choices, and I

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Speaker 1: can cook for me and Joshua. So that's what I

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Speaker 1: was messing up with. I was making food for him

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Speaker 1: and I was trying to make food for me. Then

741
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Speaker 1: I'm going through this, you know, just eating and this

742
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Speaker 1: it was just out of control. And I'll be honest

743
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Speaker 1: with you for Sean, what I tell people, and not

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Speaker 1: just weight lost, but in life, go back and look

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Speaker 1: at your pictures because what we do is we take

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Speaker 1: a lot of pictures. We take a lot of pictures.

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Speaker 1: We used to front of out, which was better, and

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Speaker 1: we never looked out. But if you go back and

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Speaker 1: look at your pictures and see where you were or

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Speaker 1: how you're doing, it makes you accountable. And so I

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Speaker 1: looked back on some pictures. I was like, oh lord,

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Speaker 1: I was big and it was it was working with

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Speaker 1: it though, it was working with I have a picture

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Speaker 1: of me when I went the Emmies, I was bragging

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Speaker 1: about and then and then my staff went, boy, look

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Speaker 1: at those fat cheeks. You know who was on the

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Speaker 1: zoom call. I went, what you're talking about? Boy? He

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Speaker 1: was doing Chucky back in the day. That's my biggy Emmy.

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Speaker 1: I was on stage and Mario lope As. I thought

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Speaker 1: I was looking good. My suit was fine. But I

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Speaker 1: was two hundred and seventeen pounds when I won that Emmy,

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Speaker 1: turning in seventeen pounds. Now I'm one namey seven. That's

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Speaker 1: a difference. That's a different look, that's a different commitment.

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Speaker 1: And you know my waistline thirty six. So I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying to letting everybody, I'm an advocate of what you're

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Speaker 1: doing with w W. You know, we know we're all

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Speaker 1: our basis being a comedian. We're gonna be funny, but

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Speaker 1: when you move all funny aside, it's about how do

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Speaker 1: you feel and how do you look at What are

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Speaker 1: you most proud of. I brag about the fact that

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Speaker 1: I've lost twenty pounds and and that's important. You know.

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Speaker 1: The person who got me moving in that direction was

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Speaker 1: Morris Chestnuting. He got me moving in that direction to

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Speaker 1: look at weight loss and considering it and say, you

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Speaker 1: know you can I saw high good, he looked in

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Speaker 1: that that that that that that part two or best man.

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Speaker 1: I went, dude, what did you do? And he told

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Speaker 1: me he lost weight? Went okay, cool. So when I

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Speaker 1: looked at when I when I heard about this, I

780
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Speaker 1: immediately had to get you on the phone to re

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Speaker 1: interview you about this because, in fact, you know, I'm

782
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Speaker 1: proud of your acting, I'm proud of the comedy, I'm

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Speaker 1: proud of the fact that your mother, But I'm mostly

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Speaker 1: proud of this new commitment to yourself because sometimes we

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Speaker 1: have to sit back and make a commitment to ourselves.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I see the w W program is about.

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Speaker 1: It's a selfish moment for you to be able to

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Speaker 1: say you know something, Uh, I got to do something different,

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Speaker 1: and it's not cheating on myself. It's not looking sideways

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Speaker 1: in the mirror so I can find the best angle

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Speaker 1: that I look good. You know, we all got that angle,

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Speaker 1: you know. I call that that that mirror look where

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Speaker 1: you can just turn your head and you look a

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Speaker 1: little younger if you could just hold that look. But

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Speaker 1: guess what, you can't hold that look that look, hold

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Speaker 1: that look the whole that look. But w W is

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00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: trying to give you that twenty for an hour look though,

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Speaker 1: Well you don't have to hold nothing now, so I

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Speaker 1: don't even I don't even have to wear thanks anymore.

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Speaker 1: I was literally wearing all kind of girdles and thanks,

801
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: and then finally I wouldn't did this game show and

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00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: I realized I didn't have to put it on. I

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00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: was like, oh wow, it makes light a little easier.

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Speaker 1: And we're not talking a whole lot of weight. Uh

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Speaker 1: I am now like twenty six pounds down, um, And

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Speaker 1: it makes a difference, just like you said. It just

807
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Speaker 1: it makes me moved. I'm accountable because you know, if

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Speaker 1: I didn't say, oh I gotta work out, at least

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Speaker 1: get on the elliptical treadmill, right you know, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not talking to big workout, not like forty minutes fifteen

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Speaker 1: in the morning, me and you on the same page.

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Speaker 1: See see what you're not gonna do to Roushan is

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Speaker 1: act like I'm suddenly gonna be on a sportunator. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm in there just pumping on that that pumping iron.

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Speaker 1: It ever happened at rashane If. Steve Harb used to

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00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: always laugh at me when I when I told him

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Speaker 1: what I did in the gym, You go, really, I

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Speaker 1: go in there, I do twenty powder curl twenty per curvel,

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Speaker 1: doing like real quick, thirty third one third or I'm done.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, what are you doing? I said, I'm done.

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Speaker 1: I'm done. And so so that's now. Another thing I've

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Speaker 1: done is I'm stretching. Now. That has been something I've

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Speaker 1: found to be such a blessing for me. Now. I

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Speaker 1: never stretched in my life, and I realized that Kim

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Speaker 1: I was losing my swag, my stride. I was making

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Speaker 1: a conscious elf, conscious effort to be cool, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you know, as you get older, your your stride

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00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: gets shorter and your muscles gets started contracting. Okay, and

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00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: so that means that if. And that's why you see

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Speaker 1: people start taking those little bitty staffs to start bending

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Speaker 1: over the lot, or or they make a conscious effort

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Speaker 1: to reach out for something, or they walk or they

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00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: reach out real short. That's because people are not stretching.

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Speaker 1: And so now see see right there. See so now

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Speaker 1: you're twenty six pounds down and now you're stretching. Tell

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Speaker 1: everybody on the w W program, which Oprah Winfrey Ball

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Speaker 1: changing from Weight Watchers made WW tell us that next step,

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Speaker 1: how you feeling right now? Because we're gonna get into

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Speaker 1: the posse next. But I wanted to start the interview

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Speaker 1: Kim about your new journey because it has to be

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Speaker 1: a commitment. A lot of people want to. They want

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00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: to they want to just think losing weight is it's

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Speaker 1: something automatic. But see if you want to stay off,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I lost the weight, I lost this

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Speaker 1: weight in so I'm in and I kept it off, okay,

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Speaker 1: and and so and so even I'm gonna just tell

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Speaker 1: you this. In December, I was at nine and I

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Speaker 1: and I went whoa, whoa, and I ran over the

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Speaker 1: Golden Corral. I wanted the Golden Corral and and and hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: hey hey, and got crazy for a couple of days

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Speaker 1: in a row to get back up to one ninety five.

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Speaker 1: And so I'd like to say I jumped between one

853
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 1: ninty five and one ninty seven on the daily basis,

854
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: and I'm happy. So, but talk about that commitment of

855
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: being able to get on the w W program. And

856
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: also and then we would slide right on the end

857
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: of the posse that those ladies of twenty two queens

858
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: out there with you on this ride. Yeah, yeah, you

859
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: know it's um, I'm telling you. I was so excited

860
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: for the opportunity, uh, because I did not understand what

861
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: w W was about. And when I was presented with

862
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: the opportunity, it was a perfect time. Like I said, um,

863
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: and it just worked for me, like the first week,

864
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: you know. But you know, my friends, as we was

865
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: going to talk about, I needed to be accountable. So

866
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: you know, once they give you a coach, you're accountable

867
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: to them, you know, because you you they talk to

868
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: you that. Like you said, you wear yourself every day.

869
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: I weighed myself once a week because every day I

870
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: would be bad. Um, I will admit I weigh myself

871
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: every day. I get up at four o'clock I staggered

872
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: down the stairs to the basement and foll five. I

873
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: step on that scale now. And so I've committed to it.

874
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: And I'm just letting you know. That's just what shawns

875
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: ramp and don't don't work for you. No, You're right,

876
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: because it does keep you to check yourself. I have

877
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 1: some friends on w W and that does make you go, oh,

878
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: I gotta really drinkable water today or I gotta work out.

879
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: But I love it because the program is customized for me.

880
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: Uh and and once you're feel in all your what

881
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 1: you like and you know, I'm on the purple team.

882
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about that. It actually helped me.

883
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: They accountable, put my weight in, drink my water. It

884
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: has a tracking system. But the app, the w W app,

885
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: is the most incredible thing that has ever been made.

886
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: This app, I call it my genie in the pocket.

887
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: It's like I can grub when it will come out.

888
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: It'll give me a workout, it tells me how many

889
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,720
Speaker 1: points I have left. It'll give me free foods, which

890
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,720
Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm too close to ending on my points,

891
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: it'll say, oh, eat this, eat that. I eat all

892
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: kind of fruits and vegetables, which has what he is

893
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: doing is training me on how to eat. When all

894
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:26,399
Speaker 1: this is over and I go back on the road,

895
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: I might not grab that bag of cheeto. Instead, I

896
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: might just say, you know what, I'm gonna eat two

897
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: apples or whatever the case. But that's what it has

898
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: done for me. It really has uh kept me accountable.

899
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: And and it's not hard that I thought it was

900
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: gonna be hard. It it's so easy. And that's why

901
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: I want everyone to be on it because it's not

902
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: only about losing weight. It's just about a lifestyle and

903
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: being healthy and being able to cook healthy meals. And

904
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: we're not talking about masty meals with about good meals.

905
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: I made some uh some chili, some bean chili the

906
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: other day. The real point done it ship come on

907
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: So it has all kind of recipes in it. And

908
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,720
Speaker 1: say I wanted to work out, like you said of stretches,

909
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 1: I put in a little app. I'd like to stretch today.

910
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 1: A little app shows me a little person. They come up,

911
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:17,120
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Speaker 1: making conversations. I'm your host, Sean McDonald. Now, okay, now,

934
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: and may the posse which is now up to twenty

935
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 1: two women filled with family members, friends, colleagues and comedians. Okay,

936
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: because it's almost like, you know, you gotta grab people

937
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: your love first, you know, and then everybody get on board.

938
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: That's how the possit grows, you know, because she, you know,

939
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: she started out with convincing all the friends. Girl. You know,

940
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: you know you need to be on this with me.

941
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: That's that look girl, you know conversation you had with

942
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: a couple of girl. You know, if I'm doing this,

943
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: you need to be doing this too. Come on now.

944
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: So that was the start of the posse. Now it

945
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,720
Speaker 1: started in May with ten members. Now it has grown

946
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 1: to twenty two. So tell me how the posse works

947
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: right now, okay, And what's so crazy is the posse

948
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: started with all women, like you said, but now we

949
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: got three men of four men. Hold hold, hold hold on,

950
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: hold on okay, now now okay, now you mean I

951
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: could be a member of your posse? Yeah, so you

952
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: didn't tell me that you Okay, now you keep talking here.

953
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: You might need now now you might need to brut

954
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: You put your boy in there. Now, you put your

955
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: boy in the now because like I said, I got

956
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: bad eating habits because I'm not working with anybody. Okay,

957
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: my wife, she go out there with the dog. She

958
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: walked around the yard for an hour, come back in

959
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: the house. You know that's the schedule. I'm not walking

960
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,800
Speaker 1: the dog with hug I'm not doing that. The poor dog,

961
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: he in so good shape. Is ridiculous to me. That dog,

962
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: that dog coming to how it's going. Okay, dude, okay,

963
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: can you help me? Okay, because I that muscles. I

964
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: don't need walking walking with your wife. Okay. So so

965
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: now I'm just telling you truth. I'm talking to Kim

966
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: with We're talking about the w W programs. I gotta

967
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: stay focused with her because we're gonna mess Rock tell

968
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: jokes that air check going over, the Oprah Open gonna go.

969
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: She can't do no more public interviews and poel Joy

970
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: COLECXI gonna be in trouble. How you get them on

971
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: the add with this food. They weren't talking nothing about

972
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: They're talking about su Dan, They're talking about every HBC

973
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: you graduate. They say nothing about w W. Keep talking

974
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: about losing weight with Morris chest Nutris nothing to do

975
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: with my program. Okay, you want to look like that

976
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: you what your boy doing. So so you started with Tim.

977
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: Now you're up to twenty two. You got three guys

978
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: on the program. Tell us how how you how the

979
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: program started and how you start gathering ten and how

980
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: you grew to twenty two because I'm assuming that you

981
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: want to just keep growing your posse right, you know what,

982
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if my coach Alicia

983
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: can handle it. The policy, especially when you have comedians

984
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: they on there's cracking Joe. But what happened and be

985
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: honest with you. People started seeing the results. So we

986
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: had kins and like you know, say buddy, I invited buddies.

987
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: There's some friends I did invite Rashana and they were

988
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: like no, I'm good. Now They're like, uh, you think

989
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: I can get on that. I'm like what. So what

990
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: happens is they start seeing the results. There's those people

991
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: they come in there like oh wow, oh that really works.

992
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: So I said, you want to join us because you

993
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: do need you need support. And on the w W

994
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: app they have a connect uh community on that, which

995
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: is great because it's all a whole bunch of people.

996
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: It's like Facebook for ww you connect. We have our

997
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: own private group because it's my posse that we talked,

998
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: and we have a text chat that we talked because

999
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 1: we share recipes, we share ideas. Sometimes I will say,

1000
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: know a game two pounds, I don't feel good. I

1001
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: need to get better, and they're like, no, you can

1002
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: do it, Kim. And they'll say, try this recipe this week,

1003
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 1: do this, do that, And that has been absolutely amazing.

1004
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: So the post that keeps growing because once I was

1005
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: at eighteen pounds, everybody's like, oh wait a minute, people

1006
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: saw me. Then I got to twenty something pounds. Now

1007
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: I'm at twenty six pounds. So every time they see me,

1008
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: people are like, what are you doing. I'm like, I'm

1009
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: on ww And it works and it works. I have

1010
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: never done anything that's been so simple, Like usually I'm hungry,

1011
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,280
Speaker 1: I'm not hungry, like I eat real food. I've eaten

1012
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: fruit and vegetables like I've never done before because now

1013
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 1: they taste good. Um. You know, it's all the different

1014
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 1: recipes and ways. And then in the app it has restaurants.

1015
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: So like to say, if I went to my Dinhouse,

1016
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: Carls Junior, wherever I stopped, I would look in the

1017
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 1: apt first, because if I buying it and then look

1018
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: at it, I'm in trouble. But I look at and

1019
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 1: I say, okay, I got so many points left. What

1020
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: do I want? And they'll say, grier, you can get

1021
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 1: a grilled chicken fans. I'm like, oh, okay, I get that,

1022
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: and I put it in there and it's tracked and

1023
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,240
Speaker 1: I feel my points left. But what happens is wherever

1024
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: I go, Cheesecake Factor anywhere, I can put it in

1025
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: the app so I can live or you know, like

1026
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: so it makes it nice. And then guess what, we

1027
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: fall down the postive looking only be like, girl, I

1028
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: used a nice cream. I uce really I was really up,

1029
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: a surprised I had a birthday. Probably we ate, but

1030
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: then we say, okay, we had a fun, let's get

1031
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: back on it. And that's what's so great about that.

1032
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: And that's why having someone doing it with you and

1033
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: people like minded was shine. Like I was like, oh,

1034
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 1: I need you in my life more. When you have

1035
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: like minded people, it motivates you. You know, it makes

1036
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: you do what what you're trying to do and what

1037
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: you're trying to coptic. You've got people who are like

1038
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: here have these donuts here, let's lay around and let's

1039
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: do this and that. No, but I guess you might say,

1040
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: hey girl, you wanna go for a walk? Hey girl,

1041
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna make a nice salad. Like minded people,

1042
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: you move in the right direction. And that's why the

1043
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: post has been so very important um um to me,

1044
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: you know. And there's a lot of moms and you know,

1045
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's arranged. Which here's the deal, everybody,

1046
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,439
Speaker 1: we don't everybody needs to look better, feel better, wake

1047
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: up and realize that they're giving themselves an opportunity to

1048
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: have a better life. And that's that starts with you physically.

1049
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: You know, we have mental depression, we can have physical

1050
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: depression too, because when we look in the mirror, we

1051
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: can keep lying to ourselves, keep lying to ourselves. But

1052
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: sometimes that back ache is tied to too much weight.

1053
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,760
Speaker 1: Sometimes that back ache is tied to bad eating habits.

1054
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: And oh and then during the pandemic, we found that

1055
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: African Americans, people of color are you know, overtly or susceptible,

1056
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: took over their team hospitalizations and unfortunately sometimes that so

1057
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: I feel that what you're presenting right now with W

1058
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: W W. I know they're not promoting that as part

1059
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: of the cause, but our eating habits have to change.

1060
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Speaker 1: And I say our I'm talking about leading the campaign

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Speaker 1: for African Americans. We all brag about fried chicken, We

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Speaker 1: all brag about, you know, eating that that colar greens

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Speaker 1: with that hog, modern chip linens and corn bread and

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Speaker 1: all that good stuff. But guess what that can lead

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Speaker 1: you to an early grade, especially with the COVID ninteen

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Speaker 1: and Dr Anthony Fauci has stated that COVID nineteen is

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Speaker 1: not going anywhere because with anything, nothing's going to ever

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Speaker 1: be a one. Even the flu vaccine is only forty

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Speaker 1: of a cure or of effectiveness. It's forty, but they

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Speaker 1: have to put it out there. That's why when some

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Speaker 1: people get the flu vaccine they get shocked when they

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Speaker 1: get the flu anyway, well it's on the okay, So

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Speaker 1: when they release a vaccine for COVID nteen, it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be a d percent either. So right now, what

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Speaker 1: you're dealing with with w W is an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: be able to change people's lives and also when they

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Speaker 1: wake up feel better. Do you do? Don't you feel

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Speaker 1: a lot better when you wake up him. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I feel I can run up the steps. Before I

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Speaker 1: was hanging on the wall, hanging on the banister. I

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Speaker 1: feel much better. I have more energy. My daughter, she's laughing. Okay, Dad, Okay, Uh, really,

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Speaker 1: you're breathing hard just coming up the steps. Hey, leaving alone,

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Speaker 1: leaving alone. I'm just walking up steps. You swear I

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Speaker 1: was on a bike, riding hard sometimes walking up those steps. Now,

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Speaker 1: they are some fun things that in the group chats

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00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: that I want to talk about because I want to

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Speaker 1: let everybody know I'm talking to Kim Whitley. She's part

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Speaker 1: of this amazing w W campaign. Well, she's part of

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Speaker 1: a group. It's called the Posse. It's twenty two members

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Speaker 1: right now, and May it was only ten. She got

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Speaker 1: men involved. So men out there listening to this interview,

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Speaker 1: you can be part of the Kim Posse. All I

1093
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: want to know is that I'm gonna drop this into

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Speaker 1: my newsletter on Wednesday to any thousand my fans, and

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00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: I'm being encouraging people. So if you get a sudden

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Speaker 1: uh interest and people wanted to join your posse, I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna let you know, Kim, it's because of Rushan

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Speaker 1: McDonald because I want you to have a hundred. I

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Speaker 1: want you to have a two thousand. People want to

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Speaker 1: be part of your group because I know as a personality,

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Speaker 1: all your life as an entertainer, you know, that's what

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Speaker 1: we've done. We've entertained and we've shared, and it's a

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00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: responsibility to make people feel good. Now. I look at

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Speaker 1: you as a as a health entertainer. Now that's why

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00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: I'm feaching it. You are a health entertainer and because

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00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: you're out there now trying to make people feel good

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00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: about themselves and making that smile comes with longerity. That

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00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: smile comes because not only because you're making them feel good,

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00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: but they're feeling good about theirselves now. They have some

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Speaker 1: challenges that are in this track, like the Squad challenge

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00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: Drink Water, push Up. Just tell us about the squad

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Speaker 1: challenge because that sounds funny already, because I know where

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Speaker 1: the squad is and it can really make a man

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Speaker 1: or a woman out of if you if you're not

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00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: doing it right. And we gotta keep each other time

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00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: we're like, no, no, no, you gotta send that video.

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Speaker 1: So no, no, the video on our little group set. No, no,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna somebody I hit my squat. No, no, we're

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00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: gonna watch them and count them. So it's just to

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Speaker 1: get people moving and the group. So we always make

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Speaker 1: up like the day, like some days it was like okay, Tuesday, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: no smack day, you know, So we do things like that.

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Speaker 1: And really, I mean, if you think about it, with

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Speaker 1: all of us, we've lost the total of two hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy seven pounds collectively, so everyone has lost something,

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Speaker 1: others need to lose more, something only needed to lose ten.

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Speaker 1: But we have all done something together and it's made

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Speaker 1: us better for it, and we've become a family um

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Speaker 1: during this time. So it's it's just been fantastic. And

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Speaker 1: I encourage everyone, uh they want to join and and

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00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 1: get healthier. Uh. And and we don't say, well thirty pounds,

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00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: We say a pound of time or two pounds or

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe ten pounds of pounds, because when you say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I want to lose thirty pounds, it's just overwhelming. Like

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Speaker 1: this week, I was like, Okay, I just want to

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Speaker 1: get the five pounds, that's all, you know. Please join

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Speaker 1: me at ww dot com flash Kim Whitley And that's

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Speaker 1: where the why Kim Whitley. I really encourage everyone, especially mothers,

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Speaker 1: because we always put everyone else first and then you know,

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Speaker 1: try to help ourselves. Well. You know, I know this

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Speaker 1: about myself and losing twenty pounds is that you can

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Speaker 1: fall off that wagon. Real you can fall off and

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Speaker 1: you board your boys. See a little ice creams, you

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Speaker 1: cup kick with some white ice and and sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: just not enough to eat just two, Okay, I gotta

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Speaker 1: look at that third and fourth. So when you fall

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Speaker 1: off that wagon, you have to have people to encourage you.

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Speaker 1: Just say that's all right, come on back, come on back.

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Speaker 1: Because see that's what the w W program does for you.

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Speaker 1: It makes you. It gives you a program and you

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Speaker 1: can consistently win with And that's what it is. It's

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Speaker 1: like like you, like you said, like I told you earlier.

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Speaker 1: I can remember right februaryen I lost are lost twenty pounds,

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Speaker 1: twenty pounds. Now now in the some August, I'm still

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Speaker 1: at that twenty pound mark. That's because I had to

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Speaker 1: figure out myself. I had to figure out. Okay, Rashwan,

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Speaker 1: you're eating late at night. You can't eat like that

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Speaker 1: in the morning. You can't you can't put that on you.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can't r Sean look here now and

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Speaker 1: and and a lot of people don't realize that ice

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Speaker 1: cream is cool just a lot of not just a

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Speaker 1: lot of ice cream, you know. And so diets really

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01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 1: give a bad um a statement about what you really

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Speaker 1: can't eat, because it all comes down to portions. It

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Speaker 1: all comes down to being a sensible person, being mindful

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Speaker 1: of exercise, not a not ax. You're not trying to

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Speaker 1: win when the Olympics. You're not trying to compute with

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Speaker 1: the anybody to track and feel I'm talking about stretching

1169
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 1: while you're watching the morning news, you know, fifteen twenty minutes,

1170
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 1: get yourself, are trying to touch your toes, you know,

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01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: doing high steps so you can do some stomach crunches.

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Speaker 1: All this stuff I had to figure out so I

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Speaker 1: can be happy about myself. And so that's all you're

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Speaker 1: trying to do right now. That's it. I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to be happy and I want to feel better. That's

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Speaker 1: the thing that people that understand you chest want to

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Speaker 1: feel better. That's it. So, Kim, can we follow this

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Speaker 1: on your social media and on your social media? We

1179
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: can follow this on your social media, Yes, yes, yes.

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Speaker 1: My social media across the board is Kim Whitley k Y,

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Speaker 1: m W H I C L E Y and you

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Speaker 1: know that's Instagram, Facebook, and you know I talked about

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Speaker 1: my w W journey and people see pictures of me.

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01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: I did, uh before and after then and now um,

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01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: you know that people can see me, you know. And

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01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: we have some other ambassadors on there. But have you

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Speaker 1: seen tam La Man absolutely after Lula, you know, I

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01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: haven't gotten on the show yet because she was the

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Speaker 1: first one to make the announcement that she was an

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Speaker 1: ambassador for w W. So I gotta bring her on

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Speaker 1: the show and so so but you, my girl, I did.

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Speaker 1: I had to make sure that I take care of

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Speaker 1: you know you she family. But you you right there,

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Speaker 1: you're my little SI. Yeah, we're tight. And so so

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Speaker 1: this is what I need from your kimp. My newsletter

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Speaker 1: goes out this Wednesday, so please send me that before

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Speaker 1: and after photo and any links that I needed to

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Speaker 1: promote w W. And also so we can get this

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Speaker 1: thousand fans this Wednesday, and I want to promote you

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Speaker 1: and my subject line, you know, subject line, Okay, lose

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Speaker 1: weight with Kim. That's what We're gonna lose weight with Kim. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's the health She's the health entertainer. Now come on now,

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Speaker 1: I love it. But I want to thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on the show. But I'm getting back in touch

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Speaker 1: you with you because I got a project I want

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Speaker 1: to introduce you. See what you like. I think you

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Speaker 1: donna love the idea. But more importantly, you're doing what

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Speaker 1: I feel as a blessing, not only for yourself, but

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Speaker 1: for your son and for your friends. You're trying to

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Speaker 1: live a life that will give us a few more

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Speaker 1: days that we can tell you that we love you.

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Speaker 1: We tell you how important you are to be around

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Speaker 1: for us every day, and most importantly, your your your

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Speaker 1: blessings that you give to us, the smiles that you

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Speaker 1: give to us, the life that you give to us

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Speaker 1: on the daily base, enables us to feel better about ourselves.

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Speaker 1: That's what you do, Health entertainer. I appreciate you for

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Speaker 1: doing and w don love that. Al right, be strong,

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Speaker 1: He's both a talented artist as well as an inspiration

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01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 1: to people across the globe. Please working the money making

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01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: conversation my man, Raheem divan that I get it right,

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01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: rh I get it right. Well, you know the beautiful

1271
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 1: part about you and what right right now? What's c

1272
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: the in right now during the pandemic? What's the mean?

1273
01:07:55,880 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely solutely well, you know, I'm a fan of

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01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: what you are, what you represent, always been a believer

1275
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: of what you do on that stage. Just starting that

1276
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: stage first, man, because your live performances, man, keep you

1277
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: keep your in the chair watching going he hitting every

1278
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: note and then put your understory groove into the beat.

1279
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,560
Speaker 1: How the significance of the live performers and talked to

1280
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: us about that, man, because that is always to me,

1281
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: been a signature of Orahin. Yeah, I think that that's

1282
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: one of the things that regardless of you know who

1283
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: the manager is at the time, what label you on,

1284
01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, how successful or on the rise you are.

1285
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: That that connection that you make um as a live

1286
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:50,760
Speaker 1: performer with the audience is just something that it's especially experience,

1287
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's a spiritual thing. It's it's a it's

1288
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 1: a connection. Um. You know that that if you if

1289
01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 1: you successfully make it and you connect with that with

1290
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 1: that individual or those groups of individuals, um, they become fans,

1291
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:11,839
Speaker 1: they become you know, uh, supporters of your movement hopefully

1292
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:16,679
Speaker 1: you know uh exactly you know, and come and coming

1293
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: from an independent background and grassroots background, that was something

1294
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: earlier that I just connected with and understood. They're like, hey,

1295
01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: like if you're gonna be if you know, if you're

1296
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 1: pursuing this, then this is something that this is this

1297
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 1: is the area where you need to really like horn

1298
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: in or making records. That's cool. You go find records,

1299
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: you can go create the wreckords, you can go create um,

1300
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 1: the marketing, you can go create these things. But that

1301
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: that connection again that you make with the audience is

1302
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,719
Speaker 1: a direct thing, you know, um doing them. I've always

1303
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,639
Speaker 1: been that guy who was doing like the meeting greets

1304
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, so Um, in terms of my

1305
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: background and starting out how I started out in the

1306
01:09:57,200 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: U Street area, you know, Northwest BC and doing the

1307
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: open mix I learned earlier. I realized that I needed

1308
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: to have a tangible item that you know, that the

1309
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:10,439
Speaker 1: ladies and a felers can take home with them, you

1310
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and something they could play. Hey,

1311
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: I like that tune. Where can I get it? You know,

1312
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 1: this is before the digital wage and able to just

1313
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,600
Speaker 1: kind of pull it up on your phone or you know,

1314
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: uploading to your digital platform where they can get you know,

1315
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 1: absorb it. So that's just became part of my quote

1316
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: unquote hustle. Like just it just became. It just became

1317
01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: law that, Hey, whether it's one person in the room

1318
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:35,840
Speaker 1: or you got fifty thou people in the you know,

1319
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:40,600
Speaker 1: in the arena, that everybody deserves the same show, everybody

1320
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: deserves the same energy, you know. And um, it's just

1321
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: that it's just the connection, man, It's it's kind of

1322
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:49,759
Speaker 1: for me. It's it's really becomes second nature, the second

1323
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: nature thing. Um. But I never really I tried that

1324
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: to never take it for grant or at the same time,

1325
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 1: and that makes sense, well, I never I never felt

1326
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 1: that way and knowing you, you know, or I should

1327
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: run you. Whenever Steve Harvey I was ever in d C.

1328
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: I I couldn't get you on air enough. You know,

1329
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 1: come on, come on, man, sit in there with us,

1330
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 1: sitting in with us, man, because I was just a

1331
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: firm belief of you. But you know you. I made

1332
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: note of your incredible live performing skills. I'm speaking to Rouvon,

1333
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 1: you know, to the DC area, but global talent, singer, performer, poet.

1334
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: I'd like to believe um the pandemic hit. You know,

1335
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: Comedic friends of mine couldn't tour, Musical friends of minds

1336
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:35,759
Speaker 1: couldn't tour because you make your money performing live. And

1337
01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 1: how did that? How did that handle? How did it

1338
01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: affect you? And then your bandmates? How did that? How

1339
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 1: did you? How did that? How does that situation played

1340
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 1: out when it first shut down the country and playing

1341
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: out now, I'll be honest with you, like I kind

1342
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: of you know you always heard the whispers of these times,

1343
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: you know, the times that we live in, you know,

1344
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:57,559
Speaker 1: other it's from the biblical standpoint or just a common

1345
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: sense standpoint. So from me personally, I hit the ground running.

1346
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: I kind of I've always been Um, I've been an

1347
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 1: independent artist for the chen years and make it look easy,

1348
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: you know, if it's if it's if it's a situation

1349
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: where I've had to spend my last to kind of

1350
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: flip or to make to make it work. You know. Uh,

1351
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:20,559
Speaker 1: it's pretty much like my from conception like the music

1352
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:24,599
Speaker 1: to what happens on stage. Um and having a very

1353
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: small team and individuals that I trust they can you know,

1354
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:29,759
Speaker 1: that can help me bring my vision a light of course.

1355
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:32,360
Speaker 1: But you know when this happened, I just really I

1356
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: started to kind of educating myself. Okay, well what are

1357
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 1: the digital platforms? What how? The first thing I had

1358
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: to ask myself is how I'm prepared my How I'm prepared?

1359
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: Am I for this moment right now? Meaning like you know,

1360
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:47,040
Speaker 1: if if I could, if I couldn't leave this house.

1361
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,519
Speaker 1: You know, I got my studio set up, They've got

1362
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: my DSL lines, who I happen? You know, that's technology

1363
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: that you know, the internet, uh provider can service provider

1364
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: can provide you know. UM. So so I kind of

1365
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: like jumped into that, uh, into that arena, and you know,

1366
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 1: and I quickly realized, like you need to upraise some

1367
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: things you know you've been too depending on certain things.

1368
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:16,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, so I so I really dug into with that.

1369
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 1: I mean, of course, like definitely taking a huge uh

1370
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 1: financial hit on the shows and the concerts, um and

1371
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 1: the touring and stuff for that nature. But I just

1372
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:31,759
Speaker 1: I just really remain organic and and and and creating

1373
01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 1: activities for myself. Um the love the Love King Quarantine,

1374
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 1: I'll call it um And definitely for that for that

1375
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: first eight weeks, like I mean, I put myself on

1376
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 1: the schedule and the regiment and just you know and

1377
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 1: really connected with the fans and you know, around taking

1378
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 1: care of the day to day things that you know,

1379
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 1: dealing with the fan and the adjustment of it all.

1380
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:54,320
Speaker 1: And and it kind of gave me something that even

1381
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: now gives me something to uh to look forward to,

1382
01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: you know and to because you gotta keep that audience going.

1383
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:02,920
Speaker 1: You gotta keep you, you gotta keep the connection going.

1384
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: It is a job, you know, as much as I

1385
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 1: love what I do, and you have to maintain you

1386
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 1: create this brand and then out the blue they tell

1387
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: you you can't step on stages anymore. Just the list

1388
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 1: of things that we that we kind of restricted and

1389
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: constricted June so I had to. I had to do,

1390
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:20,640
Speaker 1: you know, creatives. I think that that's where you know,

1391
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 1: the hustler comes in. Um that, the ambition of h

1392
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 1: and the curiosity. You know, it's it's a it's a

1393
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: it's a it's a trying time. But I try to

1394
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 1: find a good and everything. Absolutely, and all these programs

1395
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 1: are you know that program protection pro payroll protection program

1396
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,720
Speaker 1: did that was any of that stuff an asset are

1397
01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 1: available to an independent artist like you who had a

1398
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:50,439
Speaker 1: traveling band and made you you know, you're living via

1399
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: live and all of a sudden the American said shut

1400
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 1: down was any of those? Definitely? Definitely, I mean being transparent.

1401
01:14:57,040 --> 01:14:58,960
Speaker 1: You know, I got some issues and I'm sorting out

1402
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: with you know, of course I RS but it's it's

1403
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: definitely it's been beneficial. Um but but but I also

1404
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:10,840
Speaker 1: try to make sure that it's not something that I

1405
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 1: make myself like live. You know, my friend, look look

1406
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 1: the cut your shot. Okay, you know I told all

1407
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: my comedic friends. So they got a six hundred dollar

1408
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: a week check. Go get it. Okay, you gotta go

1409
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: get it. You gotta go get you gotta go get it.

1410
01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 1: They make it available to you. But you know, I

1411
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: applied for the payroll protection program. Okay, yeah, because it

1412
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: guess what the second quarter? What no income coming. They

1413
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: cut down advertising, media, sales and everything. You couldn't do

1414
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: live events, you couldn't even advertise because we're no advertised advertising. Okay,

1415
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: so you know, ence shut down. A lot of major

1416
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: events were and second and early third and so now

1417
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 1: we're looking at the at the at the one as

1418
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:57,960
Speaker 1: a possibility. And then you hear about the Football's Pack

1419
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: five and the Power five talking about the may shift

1420
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: all their games to the spring. So it's so much uncertainty.

1421
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 1: And then but Jen, you still have to be right,

1422
01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 1: You still have to be the Poe. You still have

1423
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:13,040
Speaker 1: to you know, stand forward and stand straight and be

1424
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: a leader during these pandemic times. And when I say that,

1425
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 1: you you you know, this has been an amazing years

1426
01:16:20,280 --> 01:16:24,559
Speaker 1: for as incredible deaths. I consider the death of the

1427
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: sudden death of Kobe Bryant to be, you know, world shattering,

1428
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: and then the the the basic murder of George Floyd

1429
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 1: in front of the nation's eyes. And eight minutes, ever lower,

1430
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:39,640
Speaker 1: eight minutes, how has that, how has that affected you

1431
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 1: as a musical artist, as a family man, you know,

1432
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: a leader in this country and being a man of color.

1433
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 1: It's just sexually fremendously. I mean the good, the good

1434
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 1: in it is that my my way, My mind works

1435
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: in the way and wired like it's it's you know,

1436
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:01,719
Speaker 1: every day wake up trying to thinking, you know, thuls

1437
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 1: being thankful, And I say, what are trying to be

1438
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 1: alive with the time to being you know when I

1439
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: say that, um, it's kind of like you know what

1440
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 1: a trying to be in love with the things that

1441
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 1: you love, you know, whether that's my spiritual aspect um,

1442
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 1: still being in tune with what your art. You know.

1443
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 1: I heard some artists like the interviews or like saying

1444
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: like like slat out, like they can't even create right.

1445
01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: It's been a total of you know what I mean,

1446
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: Like I got records coming out, my new single which

1447
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 1: Marvin used to say it's old, and Marvin Gaye is

1448
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:36,640
Speaker 1: speaking about everything that I've seen, you know, in my

1449
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,640
Speaker 1: in my journey you know, uh after things that we

1450
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 1: see now, you know, it's a lot going on just

1451
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: just in my city, you know, in d c Um

1452
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: this past Saturday they had a drive block where almost

1453
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: thirty people were shot. It's people dying like daily, like

1454
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:58,679
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Um, just just on top

1455
01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: of everything else going on in the middle of a

1456
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 1: pandemic um you know, understanding where the economy is. It's

1457
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:08,679
Speaker 1: kind of like it's like, wow, these are the things

1458
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:13,680
Speaker 1: that Marvin talked about, you know, and it's amazing, amazing. Yeah,

1459
01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: there's far too many of of you dying, you know. Yeah, yeah,

1460
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:24,200
Speaker 1: and it's it's but yeah, and it's deep because you know,

1461
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people that feel like history repeats

1462
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 1: it so I just really repeat itself right before our

1463
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:32,280
Speaker 1: eyes and so so. So you said you're single. Is

1464
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 1: it out now? It actually drops on for this moment. Okay, okay, okay,

1465
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 1: now let's go down. Now you gotta come to me now. Okay, Now,

1466
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: social media goes out. You know I got a million

1467
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 1: social media followers. I'll drop it on Friday, you know

1468
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,640
Speaker 1: that Friday PM, and then I put it in my

1469
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: newsletter that goes out on win to the name three

1470
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:58,240
Speaker 1: thousand followers. That sounds good. So that's what the Independent's

1471
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:01,600
Speaker 1: gotta do. Independence gotta I gotta stay with the relationships

1472
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: they believe in them. Okay, Yeah, this is a reconnect

1473
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: you and I okay, because you know I love okay. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: money making conversations. I'm your host, Sean McDonald. So let's

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Speaker 1: talk about that single. Let's talk about this single. You

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01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: know you mentioned Marvin Gaye. You meant, you know, you

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Speaker 1: know that mercy, mercy, what's going on? Uh? Those those

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01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 1: those songs resonate today. There was about the Vietnam War

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01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: that he did the talking about you still talk about

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01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:37,640
Speaker 1: the injustice in the streets all that period. You had

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01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:42,000
Speaker 1: John Carlos and Tommy Smith. You know, just seeing now

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01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: these marches and then like you're talking about, then then

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01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: these out of control levels of violence and just not

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01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 1: just in Chicago, but happening all over this country. And

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01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 1: guess who'll becoming a victim? African Americans? Yeah, you sit

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01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,640
Speaker 1: down right, hei, what comes out of you? What? What

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01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,800
Speaker 1: just the direction of your What message are you trying

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01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 1: to say in your music? Now? Man? So you know,

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01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: of course, like the mother used to say, record is coming,

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01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's more old to you know,

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01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,879
Speaker 1: speaking on you know, whether you're talking about COVID nineteen.

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01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: You talk about um the climate of you know, where

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01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 1: it is to be a black man in this country

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01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:25,880
Speaker 1: after you know, all out of all and women, the

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01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 1: things that we've accomplished, you know, on this planet in

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01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 1: a very short amount of time. You know that I've

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01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:34,599
Speaker 1: been here, that we've been here, you know, and it's

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01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: still see um how prevalent um and detrimental um white

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01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: supremacy is and also a social classic supremacy, you know

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01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: what I mean, because you know, like the ministers says

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01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: Fai Kime said, you know, and peous um times when

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01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:57,479
Speaker 1: he's spoken, is that like you know, all black folks

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01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: ain't good, All white folks ain't bad, you know what

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01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:02,680
Speaker 1: I mean? And you know what I mean. So it's

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01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: like when you really when you really, when you really pinpointed,

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01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, and I just kind of feel like the

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01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,840
Speaker 1: world is in a place where it boils down. You

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01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 1: just have two sets of people. You've got people that

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01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 1: are loving. You've got people that are uh carry that

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01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,839
Speaker 1: um that want to see change and you know, across

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01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 1: the gamut you know, and and and and do their

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01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 1: part um. And then you have people that absolutely give

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01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:30,600
Speaker 1: zero you know, as you don't. I don't want to

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01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,719
Speaker 1: use fanis Union show, but they really give zero percent

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01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: concerned to the things that are going on, you know,

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01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:41,800
Speaker 1: very true. And when you say that, so you know

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01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 1: we're talking about you Love Life Foundation, that's when they started, correct, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 1: I had been called on to do a number of

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01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:54,559
Speaker 1: different things, primarily in the domestic violence sector in the past,

1542
01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: feeding the homeless, um, any number of things that affect

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01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: us as people lack and brown color, you know, first

1544
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:05,519
Speaker 1: and foremost in the in the cities. And I decided

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01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:08,600
Speaker 1: around fourteen and to start my start my foundation and

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01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 1: Love Life Foundation. UM. Some of the most recent work.

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01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:14,599
Speaker 1: I mean, when Kobe broke out, UM, I had an

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01:23:14,600 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 1: opportunity to to to even serve being a service to

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01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:21,679
Speaker 1: the to the first responders, UM, the nurses and the doctors,

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01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: you know, providing home cook meals for them, you know,

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01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: as they worked around the clock to fight COVID. So

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01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 1: that was one of one of the campaigns that we

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01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 1: did over the you know, the first um nine weeks. Uh.

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01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 1: Then of course, when you know, after the after the murder,

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01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 1: uh um a brother, and and and and the and

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01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 1: the uprisings that were taking place, we had to kind

1557
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:44,160
Speaker 1: of slow down on that because in certain places just

1558
01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:47,080
Speaker 1: wasn't safe. UM and and what was dope. I mean

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01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 1: we had women like on the front line and we're

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01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: cooking the food, delivering it, you know, risking their life

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01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:54,559
Speaker 1: to deliver it, UM to the hospitals. Want to give

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01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: a big shout out to h Alma's Catering and some

1563
01:23:57,560 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 1: of our other you know partners with the Love Life

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01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: Foundation here in the city. But if it's Baltimore, DC, Virginia,

1565
01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:09,480
Speaker 1: we over the last man ten weeks, we serviced um

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01:24:09,560 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 1: any number of like first responders, nurses, doctors, people at

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01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,720
Speaker 1: the testing sites you know, UM as well as as

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01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 1: well as those are this place right now because it's

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01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: you know, we're doing food banks most recently UM as well,

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01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, trying to just provide fresh fruits and vegetables

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01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:26,960
Speaker 1: for local families and stuff here with some of the

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01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 1: farmers and partner with them. So farmers just local Yeah,

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01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: just local farmers. They want to lend a hand. Um.

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01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 1: You know. Prior to COVID, UH, there was a school

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01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: I adopted in southeast where we have a program along

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01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 1: with Marketer's Table, um My Foundation and a few other

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01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:47,600
Speaker 1: organizations on the ground where we provide fresh fruits and

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01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: vegetables as well as um uh you know, we have

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01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: chefs come in and show them how to how to

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01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 1: make the smoothies and just healthy options, alternatives for the

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01:24:57,920 --> 01:24:59,880
Speaker 1: youth and for the families. Uh, you know, how to.

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01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: I go to the school once a month, you know,

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01:25:02,439 --> 01:25:04,640
Speaker 1: when I'm in town, and you know, you get on

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01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:07,439
Speaker 1: the first name basis with the kids. Then you know,

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01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 1: in Southeast it's a really cool experience. Things like that

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01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:13,920
Speaker 1: I missed, you know what I mean, because of course,

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01:25:13,960 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, schools to shut down. Um, you don't even

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01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: cool going back into the fall. And that's that's the

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01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 1: sad part about it, because we know when I when

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01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:24,720
Speaker 1: I hear our online education, and you know who that's

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01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: gonna affect. It's gonna be people of color because it's hard. Man.

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01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 1: We don't have the WiFi, we don't have the laptops

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01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,640
Speaker 1: of the tablets to be able to if we do

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01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: have it. You know, we don't have the parental structure

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01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: because our parents are probably going to be working. Their

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01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:43,439
Speaker 1: parents are probably gonna be working during the day, so

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01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: they don't have them away. They come home fatigue. It's

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01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 1: just it's just it's just a not a winning situation

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01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 1: that we have to stay on top of and like that.

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01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 1: So when I hear you talk about your love life foundation,

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01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: I have to go, man, this is this is this

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01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: is this is awesome. Well what could I do to help?

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01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 1: You know, you guys taking donations or what's going on there? Right? Oh? Definitely, yeah,

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01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:08,080
Speaker 1: we're constantly taking donations. Um, And like I said, with

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01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:10,640
Speaker 1: the donations, we do a number of things. Um, the

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01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:14,200
Speaker 1: Text School Scholarship Fund, which we assist students and have

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01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:16,920
Speaker 1: been assistant students for the last six years with the

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01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:18,880
Speaker 1: paying for their books and supplies for the first year

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01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 1: of college. UM. I have a heavy I'm heavily involved

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01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: in fighting domestic violence. I'm heavily involved and uh, you know,

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01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 1: to fight against sex trafficking, you know, and because that's

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01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: kind of gets sex track of the you know, domestic

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01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: violence makes the headline. The sex trafficking kind of kind

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01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:42,160
Speaker 1: of gets brushed aside because it's kind of like that

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01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:45,040
Speaker 1: bad word. You know. Yeah, we know it's happening, but

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01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to talk about it because

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01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:52,040
Speaker 1: you know, these are young girls who disappear. Yeah, young

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01:26:52,120 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 1: girls and young men, you know what I mean, right,

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01:26:54,240 --> 01:26:57,719
Speaker 1: And and it's it's it's uh, you know, it's it's

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01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:03,400
Speaker 1: it's it's quietly a billion dollars business, you know what

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01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:06,640
Speaker 1: I mean. Just just know, no difference than slavery or

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01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,040
Speaker 1: anything else, you know. And and and it just kind

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01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: of continues to happen and go under the radar, you know.

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01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 1: And um, so we have to definitely, as you know,

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01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 1: as individuals, as men, as black men, you know, we

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01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:21,000
Speaker 1: have to you know, you have to do a better

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01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:24,599
Speaker 1: job of protecting our women, I children, you know, um,

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01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: not only in this country but on the planet. Me personally,

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01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 1: I feel like black women is the most disrespecting on

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01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:32,639
Speaker 1: the planet, like period. Uh, you know, and and and

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01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:37,560
Speaker 1: you know, so I've always, um tell my best to

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01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 1: do my part, you know, lyrically on the record. You know,

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01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:43,200
Speaker 1: that's a conscious decision to make a record like Woman,

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01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:45,599
Speaker 1: you know, when everybody else is going against the grain

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01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:48,439
Speaker 1: and calling the women are different kind of other things

1636
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:52,480
Speaker 1: in the records, you know, which is really really really incredible.

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01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 1: Now I'm shifting gears because I'm going back to this

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01:27:54,960 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 1: song that's you're dropping on August now because I'm here

1639
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 1: all this community involvement. I'm here all this time. I'm

1640
01:28:04,080 --> 01:28:06,600
Speaker 1: sure you got pictures. I'm sure you got video. Is

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01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 1: that gonna be part of the video that's gonna drop

1642
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:12,360
Speaker 1: with it? Or you've got something else playing with that? Yeah? Yeah,

1643
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 1: right now, I see that, right, you know, I'm like,

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01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 1: give my hands and if you can't do it, just

1645
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 1: give me some photos. Brothers, I can put something together

1646
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:20,760
Speaker 1: for you. Oh no, I got, I got, I got.

1647
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:22,720
Speaker 1: I definitely had some stuff on the way on the

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01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 1: planet that's begun for that. Ironically, you know, uh, the

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01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: march on Washington is on the right. Yeah. So I've

1650
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: been on the fence about getting footage and then putting

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01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 1: out the video you know, in the in the weeks

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01:28:37,120 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 1: to follow, which I may go that route. Um. Ironically,

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01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 1: I had a photo shooting some conscient stuff, um last

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01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 1: night that I was doing because I'm also a part

1655
01:28:47,080 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: of the initiative for stopping frisk and some laws that

1656
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 1: are being um you know, presented to Congress uh in

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01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:56,360
Speaker 1: a few weeks, and so I'm excited about that. So

1658
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:58,719
Speaker 1: we kind of killed two birds in one stone and

1659
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 1: got the content and the essays for that, and then

1660
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:03,719
Speaker 1: to turn into a photo shoot for the album which

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01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: is titled with the Time to Be in Love and um,

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01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 1: you know, wrapping up mixes and stuff like that. Just

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01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: recorded a record card, Um, Lord Help Me, which is

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01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: what is inspired by old Donny Hathaway record Um that

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01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 1: was titled the same And it's kind of like, you know,

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01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:21,320
Speaker 1: just I mean, like some of the lyrics help me

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01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:28,439
Speaker 1: that Lord help me. Come on, I say, I say,

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01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 1: I say, I've seen babies. I've seen Babi's gun down

1669
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:38,479
Speaker 1: by drop by another hashtag, seen another mama cras. It

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01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:43,120
Speaker 1: seems like everything the birth of a nation, you've been

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01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: treated less a day and denied reparations. It makes me

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01:29:47,160 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: want to flip it. Trapping with my voter. I call

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01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 1: it politricks disrespect U. I write with the stop the

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01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 1: friss and killed the black Man and the story six

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01:29:56,720 --> 01:29:59,679
Speaker 1: a sign of the times, the market of piece until

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01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: let's justice will be no peace? Oh lort high help me?

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01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:10,719
Speaker 1: Oh lor no lor h. It's that in the water

1678
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:15,479
Speaker 1: and pull out the clouds. No resession and depression on

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01:30:15,600 --> 01:30:20,040
Speaker 1: the planets on the ride. But I feel your presence,

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01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 1: so I'm staying faithful. Yeah, So that's like the vibe whoa,

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Speaker 1: come on, come on, it's like, it's like a conversation

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Speaker 1: with It's like a conversation with God, you know what

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01:30:34,680 --> 01:30:37,760
Speaker 1: I mean, like because you got to have those right now,

1684
01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:41,040
Speaker 1: you know, you know, it's more importantly the beauty the

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Speaker 1: genius of you. I'm gonna throw that into the conversation

1686
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:46,599
Speaker 1: because I've always been a big fan. I sit back

1687
01:30:47,080 --> 01:30:49,599
Speaker 1: and I know I'm talented, and I look at other

1688
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:51,880
Speaker 1: people that, but I can never do you. I can

1689
01:30:51,920 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 1: never be raheed, you know, I can never be a

1690
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Speaker 1: skilled guy who just just just lyrically just threw it

1691
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 1: out there, just open your old on this show and

1692
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:06,120
Speaker 1: expose those raw nerves that drive you that they emote

1693
01:31:06,160 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 1: from your spirit to say, you know, you can bring

1694
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:12,160
Speaker 1: us to tears because you're telling the truth. But then

1695
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:14,320
Speaker 1: it's the business side. Now you got a new position

1696
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:16,640
Speaker 1: as an a R and the director correct at the

1697
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Speaker 1: labor talk about that, let's let's let's do let's close

1698
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:21,360
Speaker 1: out on the business side because it just was a

1699
01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:24,280
Speaker 1: nice journey. Man. You know, I'll tell yourself right, we're

1700
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:27,120
Speaker 1: back in the saddle. Man, don't you don't you don't

1701
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,360
Speaker 1: you let this be no another ten years? Brother, man,

1702
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna fight you're gonna fight, no fight, no, no,

1703
01:31:32,360 --> 01:31:34,400
Speaker 1: no no, I won't. I promise, I won't, I promise,

1704
01:31:34,479 --> 01:31:38,320
Speaker 1: I want. I'm excited that we connect with you. You know, yeah,

1705
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 1: so so so Uh. It's just crazy, man, because it's

1706
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:44,200
Speaker 1: come full circle. And I think that that's something that

1707
01:31:44,200 --> 01:31:47,320
Speaker 1: people gotta understand in business, that things do come from

1708
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:50,040
Speaker 1: full circle. And it's like, you gotta remain humble, you

1709
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:53,160
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta take every experience as a learning experience

1710
01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:56,440
Speaker 1: so that it's because it's preparing you for something. Now. Ironically,

1711
01:31:56,439 --> 01:31:58,680
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, the first tour that I

1712
01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:01,759
Speaker 1: ever did was with new edition Dirty Cities Blah mcknighte

1713
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 1: um God Blessed Soul geral LeVert was on a few

1714
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: days as well. And and now and now I'm I'm

1715
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:09,320
Speaker 1: ahead of A and R. The label which is s

1716
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 1: R G I L s UM out of connect based

1717
01:32:12,800 --> 01:32:14,760
Speaker 1: out of Connecticut. You back then, you know, we're backed

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01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:18,000
Speaker 1: by Universal and they took an interest in me just

1719
01:32:18,040 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 1: as an artist and started out um on that on

1720
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: that vibe, and it quickly kind of morph organically into

1721
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:29,160
Speaker 1: other things. You know, um Be being ambitious and wanted

1722
01:32:29,200 --> 01:32:32,479
Speaker 1: to have artists and careers and you know artists that

1723
01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:34,320
Speaker 1: I was involved in, whether it was from a man

1724
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 1: managing standpoint or mentorship standpoint, I've always had had interest

1725
01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 1: in and and being like behind the scenes on the

1726
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:47,240
Speaker 1: music scene for the for with with the intention of

1727
01:32:47,280 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 1: like preserving the culture for the type of music that

1728
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm making. And they're like that I enjoyed or that

1729
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:55,120
Speaker 1: we enjoyed, you know what I mean. So I've always

1730
01:32:55,280 --> 01:32:58,200
Speaker 1: fought for that, and I figured, like what better way

1731
01:32:58,240 --> 01:33:00,680
Speaker 1: to do that? You know, sometimes you just pouring to

1732
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:03,839
Speaker 1: yourself if the blessing just comes from actually like pointing

1733
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:06,800
Speaker 1: to other people and being part of other projects and

1734
01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, giving it having that opinion, you know. Um

1735
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:13,320
Speaker 1: and uh so you know they brought me on board. Um,

1736
01:33:13,840 --> 01:33:16,679
Speaker 1: you know, shout out to my labelmates, Brian McKnight, Uh,

1737
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,680
Speaker 1: Route trash Vant Uh is that we got We just

1738
01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:21,439
Speaker 1: sounded out for over there. It's got a new single

1739
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:24,639
Speaker 1: out just doing extremely well. Um. We got Johnny gil

1740
01:33:24,720 --> 01:33:27,880
Speaker 1: over there, who was on Rolph's new new new single. Uh.

1741
01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: And it's crazy again because when I talk about new audition,

1742
01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:33,120
Speaker 1: like I said, these guys, you know, being on tour

1743
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:36,000
Speaker 1: with somebody for thirty cities, you become like family that

1744
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:39,800
Speaker 1: become like mentors. You learn, you learn a lot. You know, Um,

1745
01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 1: Havan is over there as well, a Vivian Green quame.

1746
01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:46,760
Speaker 1: We got a lot of great music, um, you know,

1747
01:33:46,960 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 1: coming come coming out. Gene over Nelly is over there

1748
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:52,720
Speaker 1: as well. So you know, somebody like him, somebody like

1749
01:33:52,840 --> 01:33:54,280
Speaker 1: him to have like to be able to talk on

1750
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 1: you know, jump on the horn or it's on any

1751
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:00,920
Speaker 1: given day, were on, were on the checks to chain

1752
01:34:01,040 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 1: texts of messages where it's like over Nelly, you know

1753
01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 1: that the owner of the label you don't see I

1754
01:34:08,439 --> 01:34:13,920
Speaker 1: talked to day Yeah yeah, yeah, so dope, yeah, dope,

1755
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:16,760
Speaker 1: don't you know, don't produce is Tim Kelly, like you know,

1756
01:34:16,840 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's, Um, it's very surreal for me.

1757
01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:23,639
Speaker 1: You know, it's a very new situation. I'm learning. Um,

1758
01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's and it's about building this company

1759
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:29,000
Speaker 1: up and knowing that you know, I have some long

1760
01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:32,600
Speaker 1: term equity in it, you know, and that you know,

1761
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:36,080
Speaker 1: prayerfully we looked back ten fitching years from now and say, wow,

1762
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 1: I was part of something that was like it was

1763
01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:45,680
Speaker 1: dope I learned. You know, it's retirement. You think about retirement,

1764
01:34:45,720 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, and I never stopped

1765
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:50,200
Speaker 1: making music, but it's just, you know, just just a

1766
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:52,640
Speaker 1: different mindset. Appreciate you. I'm talking to the number one

1767
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Speaker 1: male independent Urban A c artists of the year in

1768
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Speaker 1: ten according to Media Base. Raheim von my Friend August

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. That's when the single drops. You've got to

1770
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:05,400
Speaker 1: get that stuff to me before then. And guess what

1771
01:35:06,640 --> 01:35:09,400
Speaker 1: this relationship man just got reunited. Man, We're about to

1772
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Speaker 1: make some history in the third and fourth quarter. All right,

1773
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Speaker 1: we'll be right back with more from Marsa McDonald and

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Speaker 1: money making conversations don't touch that down. Oregan donations save lives,

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Speaker 1: in with Dr Denay Simpson, Assistant Professor of surgery at

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Speaker 1: So this is my baby. This is a program that

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Speaker 1: almost on time. This morning. Mom is coming out the

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Speaker 1: front door, strong with a double armed kid carry. Looks

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Speaker 1: like dad has the bags. Daughter is bringing up the rear. Oh,

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Speaker 1: but the diaper bag wasn't closed. Diapers and toys are everywhere.

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Speaker 1: buckle for the toddler. And now the eldest daughter, who

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Speaker 1: looks to be about nine or ten, has secured herself

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Speaker 1: in the booster seat. Dad zips the bad clothes and

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Speaker 1: they're off. Ah, but looks like Mom doesn't realize her

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Speaker 1: coffee cup is still the roof of the car and

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Speaker 1: next guest is a wife, mother of four, entrepreneur, and

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Speaker 1: a TV personality where she is the start of own networks.

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Speaker 1: Love and Marriage Huntsville, the show's first season. Now it

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Speaker 1: ranked number one in this time slot across all broadcasts

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Speaker 1: and cable with African American women and total viewers. She

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Speaker 1: is currently the advisor to the College of Business and

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Speaker 1: Public Affairs at Alabama and M University and she's a

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Speaker 1: the show to day to talk about the second season

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Speaker 1: on Love and Marriage Huntsville. New episodes started airing Saturday,

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Speaker 1: July at eleven at a p m. Owned an owned network,

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Speaker 1: will be discussed in the new Democratic nominee Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: because she's like that. She's everywhere living and raising the

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Speaker 1: family and COVID nineteen becoming a social media influencer. She's

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Speaker 1: a star, y'all. I'm telling your engagements off the change

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Speaker 1: and she's a free she has these free master class

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Speaker 1: series on her Instagram account. We're really gonna talk about

1842
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Speaker 1: that because that's really what I'm excited about her branching out.

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01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 1: Last time we talked, that's what I wanted to do,

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Speaker 1: start building her brand, her skin care line, and most

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Speaker 1: importantly the hit reality show Love and Marriage hunt Field.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome the money making conversations. Melody s hoped, what's up?

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Speaker 1: Ruging McDonald? How are you doing it? Everybody who's tall

1848
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Speaker 1: being somebody in conversations today, I'm glad to be good good. Well,

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Speaker 1: I tell you something, you know the life that I

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Speaker 1: I appreciate about you, Melodie? You know, uh and is

1851
01:39:50,840 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 1: that you the first time I interviewed you on the

1852
01:39:54,520 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 1: Power Couple series. There was always a desire to be

1853
01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:01,920
Speaker 1: to build your brand, and I'm seeing it evolved. Tell

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01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:04,400
Speaker 1: us the steps that you put in place to make

1855
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:07,040
Speaker 1: this happen for me? You know what I will tell

1856
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Speaker 1: you this when it comes to brand building, you know,

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01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:11,720
Speaker 1: I've been working on that for some years now, um,

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01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:13,839
Speaker 1: and what I've learned. I've had some ups and downs,

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Speaker 1: you know, some trial and errors when it's come to that.

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Speaker 1: But what I've learned is that it's important to have

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Speaker 1: a team, right, a team of people who first of

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01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:25,200
Speaker 1: all believe in you. Because when somebody believes in you,

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Speaker 1: then they're willing to put in as much work as

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Speaker 1: you to make sure you get to where you're trying

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Speaker 1: to go. So you got to find people who believe

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Speaker 1: in you, who believe in what you're trying to do, UM,

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01:40:33,760 --> 01:40:37,679
Speaker 1: and just surrounding yourself with people who are like minded. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, recently on last Saturday's episode, you guys got

1869
01:40:41,439 --> 01:40:44,559
Speaker 1: to see our team right, and so on one side

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01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: of the table you had three people from L A M.

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01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: Who are part of our branding team. And on another

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Speaker 1: side of the table, you had Alabama natives who are

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01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: based right here out of Birmingham and they're part of

1874
01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:59,120
Speaker 1: our branding team. So we have people you know, who

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01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:02,120
Speaker 1: believe in us, who's worked with us for a while now,

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Speaker 1: and who are pushing for it to make sure that

1877
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Speaker 1: we get to the girls who we're trying to get to.

1878
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:08,280
Speaker 1: So when it comes to branding, UM, it's all about

1879
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Speaker 1: having the right team and the right people in your corner.

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Speaker 1: Hands down, we know, like that's that's important because like

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Speaker 1: my name is on the usual Rashan Rashan McDonald's my name,

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Speaker 1: and so when when people say it, you know, always

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Speaker 1: always get a kick out of it. Because of the

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Speaker 1: fact that that means that my message is getting out

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Speaker 1: there about me. But more importantly when you say you

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01:41:25,600 --> 01:41:27,680
Speaker 1: have a team in l a which I love, and

1887
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Speaker 1: then you have a team in Alabama, which means that

1888
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:33,600
Speaker 1: that keeps it more authentic because they kind of know

1889
01:41:33,880 --> 01:41:36,680
Speaker 1: the lifestyle because everybody. I hate when people come in

1890
01:41:36,680 --> 01:41:38,719
Speaker 1: the room and go, I know, you know you don't

1891
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:42,400
Speaker 1: you just seen me on TV Fact Fact and like

1892
01:41:42,479 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 1: you're saying, you know, those the people who understand, those

1893
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:47,840
Speaker 1: grass roots, who understand Alabama history, Alabama heritage, and how

1894
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:50,439
Speaker 1: you can pull those things in together. And then some

1895
01:41:50,520 --> 01:41:52,160
Speaker 1: of my team, like I said, they're, you know, right

1896
01:41:52,200 --> 01:41:54,840
Speaker 1: from Birmingham, So in terms of that whole piece of

1897
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,439
Speaker 1: history when it comes to the civil rights, when it

1898
01:41:57,600 --> 01:42:01,120
Speaker 1: comes to UM Birmingham Staffle, I mean all of that,

1899
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:03,040
Speaker 1: and I'm being able to find ways to pull me

1900
01:42:03,120 --> 01:42:05,760
Speaker 1: in with that. I mean, it's been amazing. So I'm

1901
01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:08,720
Speaker 1: so thankful. I thank God every day for the amazing

1902
01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: people He's put around me. For sure. Now let's talk

1903
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:13,400
Speaker 1: about that, because you said something interesting. This is I'm

1904
01:42:13,400 --> 01:42:16,920
Speaker 1: really you know something. I love talking to you because

1905
01:42:17,080 --> 01:42:20,640
Speaker 1: the energy is there and I know you're hidden in

1906
01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 1: the direction that you have a plan for. Like you said, Rishan,

1907
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:26,439
Speaker 1: this didn't start with with with this this reality show.

1908
01:42:26,760 --> 01:42:29,640
Speaker 1: I was hitting down this direction all along, and I

1909
01:42:29,680 --> 01:42:33,840
Speaker 1: just this is really accelerated it absolutely absolutely, So what

1910
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,559
Speaker 1: is your brain? What brand are you trying to design?

1911
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:38,439
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, let me just say what I said.

1912
01:42:38,479 --> 01:42:43,719
Speaker 1: I said the wife mother for entrepreneur, uh master classes

1913
01:42:43,760 --> 01:42:47,240
Speaker 1: on Instagram and cloud, social media influencer. What is your brain?

1914
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:49,840
Speaker 1: If you're trying to be yes and all of that

1915
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,640
Speaker 1: is a part of my brand. You know who I am, UM,

1916
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:55,719
Speaker 1: what I pushed for, what I advocate for, UM, being

1917
01:42:55,800 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 1: a mom, being a wife, being UM, still being able

1918
01:42:58,400 --> 01:43:00,320
Speaker 1: to be a boss and at the same time time

1919
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:04,960
Speaker 1: empowering others, UM, specifically for me as women, UM, finding

1920
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:07,479
Speaker 1: ways to empower others. So you know, I have my

1921
01:43:07,560 --> 01:43:09,920
Speaker 1: massive class that I do where I'm actually right now

1922
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,760
Speaker 1: doing live series where I'm getting free knowledge and free

1923
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:15,960
Speaker 1: information by bringing on guests who reached certain amounts of

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01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:18,479
Speaker 1: success and their careers and their lives. Then of course

1925
01:43:18,520 --> 01:43:21,599
Speaker 1: i have my massive class with Melody Hope Preservation Academy,

1926
01:43:21,600 --> 01:43:24,759
Speaker 1: where I'm helping people get into this multibillion dollar industry

1927
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Speaker 1: called property preservation. So I have and it mostly consistent women.

1928
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 1: So I have women who I've helped in terms of

1929
01:43:30,960 --> 01:43:33,719
Speaker 1: getting their e I N setting up lcs, getting business

1930
01:43:33,760 --> 01:43:36,880
Speaker 1: checking accounts, and then ultimately getting contacts and getting work

1931
01:43:36,960 --> 01:43:40,440
Speaker 1: orders that they're able to complete and make money. So um,

1932
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where for me,

1933
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:47,599
Speaker 1: my brand consists of you know, business. I'm a home builder,

1934
01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:50,559
Speaker 1: so being a being in business, but also being a wife,

1935
01:43:50,600 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 1: being a mom, and also helping others and bringing them

1936
01:43:53,120 --> 01:43:55,760
Speaker 1: along on their journey. Now, this is really important that

1937
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:57,160
Speaker 1: we are the reason I wanted to bring on the

1938
01:43:57,200 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: show because we all know TV, they get in the

1939
01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:02,439
Speaker 1: editing room, they tell a story they want to take

1940
01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:04,839
Speaker 1: off for ratings. You know it can it could be annoying.

1941
01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 1: It could be a very annoying to you Saturday night

1942
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: after the air. So it could be they said, because

1943
01:44:10,160 --> 01:44:12,479
Speaker 1: you know that can reflect on what people think. Okay,

1944
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:15,920
Speaker 1: and live in the reflection. Okay, you are an attractive

1945
01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:20,200
Speaker 1: or beautiful woman and you are in ma. You need

1946
01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:21,600
Speaker 1: to stop, you need to stop. You know you you

1947
01:44:21,640 --> 01:44:23,519
Speaker 1: know you you know you got it going over four kids,

1948
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:25,400
Speaker 1: don't look like you have one child? I'm gonna stop

1949
01:44:25,520 --> 01:44:30,880
Speaker 1: stop stop, and so so and so and then and

1950
01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:33,400
Speaker 1: then the reason when I saw the when I saw

1951
01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 1: the series, the master Class series, that's the side that

1952
01:44:37,960 --> 01:44:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm bringing it on the show to talk about, you know,

1953
01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 1: not any any picture because of the fact that you

1954
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:48,040
Speaker 1: know your your your your attractiveness, and the reality show

1955
01:44:48,920 --> 01:44:52,200
Speaker 1: who you really are can get lost and you're lost

1956
01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:55,400
Speaker 1: in your gain and knowing you is that you are

1957
01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:59,719
Speaker 1: an empowering person. You bought uplifting people, and you're about

1958
01:45:00,240 --> 01:45:05,600
Speaker 1: allowing women, especially entrepreneur why women an opportunity to be successful?

1959
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:12,720
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, And that's important. It's about and

1960
01:45:12,760 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to bring your class. So let's

1961
01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:17,439
Speaker 1: talk about Let's go back to the first, you know,

1962
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:19,360
Speaker 1: fingering their file before we get to the skincare and

1963
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:21,280
Speaker 1: these other things. Okay, let's you know home, because you

1964
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:24,559
Speaker 1: do about I'm gonna Last time I was talking to you,

1965
01:45:24,560 --> 01:45:27,439
Speaker 1: you wasn't talking this fast. You had that you had

1966
01:45:27,439 --> 01:45:30,720
Speaker 1: that little southern drawl down pat. Now you all New York,

1967
01:45:30,840 --> 01:45:36,040
Speaker 1: New York, kissing everything, talking fast and just everyone. No,

1968
01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:38,320
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm gonna yes, you know, I'm let me

1969
01:45:38,360 --> 01:45:41,360
Speaker 1: tell you I have had to learn to talk. Let's

1970
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:44,320
Speaker 1: go down. Then I have learned to talk fast only

1971
01:45:44,360 --> 01:45:47,360
Speaker 1: because I'm always doing a million different things, right, so

1972
01:45:47,479 --> 01:45:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm used to getting in and getting it out. Let's go,

1973
01:45:49,560 --> 01:45:51,640
Speaker 1: let's move okay, and what's net So you know what,

1974
01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:54,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. So almost slow it down? How about

1975
01:45:54,640 --> 01:46:00,040
Speaker 1: slow down? Slow it down? Slow it down to the

1976
01:46:00,360 --> 01:46:02,519
Speaker 1: don't slow it down because I'm to yourself, if I'm

1977
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:04,840
Speaker 1: in a Ferrari, I don't want to drive in the

1978
01:46:04,920 --> 01:46:06,960
Speaker 1: volks what. I don't want Volkswagen speed and I want

1979
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: Ferrari speed because you're a Ferrari right now. You know

1980
01:46:10,360 --> 01:46:12,479
Speaker 1: I met you you as a port Now you're a Ferrari.

1981
01:46:12,600 --> 01:46:19,479
Speaker 1: You know you out you don't get you, You're Ferrari. Now,

1982
01:46:19,720 --> 01:46:22,680
Speaker 1: now let's talk about this Ferrari, this masterclass. How did

1983
01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:26,360
Speaker 1: this idea come up? And each one? That's what I love.

1984
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:28,120
Speaker 1: See Sometimes I get mad at you. I go, what

1985
01:46:28,439 --> 01:46:31,880
Speaker 1: a great idea? Because right there, because right there you

1986
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:37,080
Speaker 1: have the title of what that class is about, under

1987
01:46:37,080 --> 01:46:40,720
Speaker 1: each each each date in the photo. Now let's talk

1988
01:46:40,720 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 1: about this because you talk about you have a team

1989
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:45,639
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, a team and in Alabama in the South

1990
01:46:45,680 --> 01:46:48,600
Speaker 1: and the West, you got Hollywood West and the southeast.

1991
01:46:48,600 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 1: You got all this going on, got good food, you

1992
01:46:51,040 --> 01:46:53,960
Speaker 1: got your your budding story. Can't go on the grocery

1993
01:46:53,960 --> 01:46:56,559
Speaker 1: store with our people. Look thank god for facial mask

1994
01:46:56,760 --> 01:46:58,200
Speaker 1: because now you can go on the grocery store and

1995
01:46:58,240 --> 01:47:04,640
Speaker 1: shop girls on the day. So let's let's talk about this,

1996
01:47:04,720 --> 01:47:08,479
Speaker 1: the incubating and the development period of the master class

1997
01:47:08,479 --> 01:47:11,519
Speaker 1: that's on your Instagram account. Absolutely So let me tell

1998
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:14,880
Speaker 1: you again, this goes back to having an amazing team. Right.

1999
01:47:15,280 --> 01:47:17,840
Speaker 1: So my graphic person who's a part my team, has

2000
01:47:17,840 --> 01:47:20,479
Speaker 1: been working with for sometime now. You know he handles

2001
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:23,760
Speaker 1: my website, handles my flyers, um, all of that, and

2002
01:47:23,800 --> 01:47:26,840
Speaker 1: everyone who's around me or works with me knows. Look,

2003
01:47:26,880 --> 01:47:28,439
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people who feel like I

2004
01:47:28,479 --> 01:47:31,639
Speaker 1: know everything. I make it clear to them. If y'all

2005
01:47:31,680 --> 01:47:33,960
Speaker 1: have an idea, if you have a suggestion, or if

2006
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm giving out an idea that you just think it's

2007
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:39,240
Speaker 1: crap and no good, like, feel free to talk to

2008
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:41,600
Speaker 1: me like we we just have all of us have

2009
01:47:41,720 --> 01:47:43,400
Speaker 1: that kind of open to me. You have some people

2010
01:47:43,640 --> 01:47:45,599
Speaker 1: who are in charge who don't think anybody can tell

2011
01:47:45,640 --> 01:47:47,400
Speaker 1: them any saying, or they don't want anybody to go

2012
01:47:47,400 --> 01:47:49,400
Speaker 1: against what they say. My team knows that's not me,

2013
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:53,639
Speaker 1: so they are all very comfortable with sharing ideas with me. Right.

2014
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:57,200
Speaker 1: So one story short, UM, my graphic person, UM, we

2015
01:47:57,200 --> 01:47:59,160
Speaker 1: were working on something that he was like, you know what,

2016
01:47:59,439 --> 01:48:01,640
Speaker 1: he was like, what do you think about? UM? I

2017
01:48:01,640 --> 01:48:03,360
Speaker 1: think it would be a good opportunity for you to

2018
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:06,400
Speaker 1: do something where you're actually doing like a class. So

2019
01:48:06,439 --> 01:48:09,960
Speaker 1: it started from there. Um, we went into conversation. Then

2020
01:48:09,960 --> 01:48:12,120
Speaker 1: they go to a what am I an exfort in? Well,

2021
01:48:12,160 --> 01:48:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm an expert in what I've been doing the past

2022
01:48:13,960 --> 01:48:15,960
Speaker 1: ten years. What I've been doing the past teen years

2023
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:18,479
Speaker 1: as being in this what has been a male dominated SRA,

2024
01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:21,120
Speaker 1: white male dominated industry for a very long time called

2025
01:48:21,120 --> 01:48:23,760
Speaker 1: property preservation. And that's what I've been able to do

2026
01:48:23,840 --> 01:48:25,880
Speaker 1: for ten years. That's what allowed me to resign from

2027
01:48:25,920 --> 01:48:30,320
Speaker 1: teaching UM after three years and has ultimately allowed me

2028
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:33,760
Speaker 1: to be a sole entrepreneur UM so as my only

2029
01:48:33,760 --> 01:48:36,240
Speaker 1: source of income. So I say, so entrepreneurs. So you know,

2030
01:48:36,280 --> 01:48:38,360
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where it was like, Okay,

2031
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:41,120
Speaker 1: that's what I'm an expert in, and that's the game

2032
01:48:41,120 --> 01:48:44,200
Speaker 1: I'm about to teach. So hence came the Master Class

2033
01:48:44,200 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 1: with Melody or Whole Preservation Academy idea. And so under

2034
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:50,479
Speaker 1: Master Class with Melody, you have the Whole Preservation Academy,

2035
01:48:50,479 --> 01:48:52,920
Speaker 1: which is where I teach about property preservation. I've had

2036
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:56,599
Speaker 1: about fifty students go through my class so far. UM.

2037
01:48:56,640 --> 01:48:59,599
Speaker 1: It has been amazing. They all get a personal touch

2038
01:48:59,680 --> 01:49:01,640
Speaker 1: for me, have Zoom meetings. I have one tonight. I

2039
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:04,960
Speaker 1: have Zoom meetings with them on Monday night. UM usually

2040
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:06,559
Speaker 1: last an hour to an hour and a half. They

2041
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:09,120
Speaker 1: all get my personal cell number, so I'm communicating with

2042
01:49:09,160 --> 01:49:12,320
Speaker 1: them through the week via text, via phone UM. And

2043
01:49:12,400 --> 01:49:16,240
Speaker 1: it's definitely very personable, very personal, and very one on one.

2044
01:49:16,520 --> 01:49:18,400
Speaker 1: So I've got about Like I said, I'm on my

2045
01:49:18,439 --> 01:49:20,320
Speaker 1: second class right now. So I've had a total about

2046
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:22,960
Speaker 1: fifty students go through my class. And then UM, I

2047
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:26,559
Speaker 1: decided from there, I wanted to do something UM that

2048
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 1: was kind of more regular and for anybody who's interested

2049
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:33,320
Speaker 1: in anything about business, not just property preservation. So I

2050
01:49:33,400 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 1: put together this Instagram life series. So we've had Mr

2051
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:40,240
Speaker 1: Donahue Baker and Donahue Baker he was with me last week.

2052
01:49:40,560 --> 01:49:43,120
Speaker 1: We discussed, um, you know, different ways to get funding,

2053
01:49:43,240 --> 01:49:46,040
Speaker 1: how to own UM multiple he has like over five

2054
01:49:46,120 --> 01:49:48,920
Speaker 1: hundred units that he that he owns, so you know,

2055
01:49:49,120 --> 01:49:51,519
Speaker 1: just different ways that you can make money and use

2056
01:49:51,600 --> 01:49:54,679
Speaker 1: money to capitalize and make more money. UM. Then we've

2057
01:49:54,680 --> 01:49:58,160
Speaker 1: got Mr O'Neill Parker who's coming in on tomorrow, twenty

2058
01:49:58,200 --> 01:50:00,400
Speaker 1: six years old, owns over two million and in real

2059
01:50:00,520 --> 01:50:03,639
Speaker 1: estate UM and it's being on investing, so we've got

2060
01:50:03,720 --> 01:50:06,719
Speaker 1: him coming in. Then we've got Duane Youl Wilkerson who's

2061
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:09,920
Speaker 1: going to talk about turning your talent into profits. UM.

2062
01:50:10,000 --> 01:50:13,320
Speaker 1: Cassidy Shepherd UM who's also part of my PR team.

2063
01:50:13,360 --> 01:50:15,360
Speaker 1: She's going to come in and talk about your business

2064
01:50:15,439 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: is your brand? So giving tips and things for people

2065
01:50:18,360 --> 01:50:20,600
Speaker 1: who are trying to build a brand. And then we

2066
01:50:20,640 --> 01:50:23,000
Speaker 1: have Misterical Harwell, who is the guru when it comes

2067
01:50:23,040 --> 01:50:26,080
Speaker 1: to business credit and personal credit. She's going to come

2068
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:30,160
Speaker 1: in and talk about that. So again free information, free knowledge,

2069
01:50:30,240 --> 01:50:33,040
Speaker 1: free gyms being dropped for people you know who are

2070
01:50:33,080 --> 01:50:35,400
Speaker 1: trying to still make twenty twenty. Make sure we're still

2071
01:50:35,439 --> 01:50:38,200
Speaker 1: sharpening our vision in twenty to fight all the upset

2072
01:50:38,240 --> 01:50:40,639
Speaker 1: that we've had this year. Okay, now is this gonna

2073
01:50:40,640 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: become a YouTube channel? Because that's where I feel it

2074
01:50:43,360 --> 01:50:46,479
Speaker 1: should go. You know that's what you feel was you

2075
01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:49,599
Speaker 1: know why? Um I like that idea, So you dropped

2076
01:50:49,600 --> 01:50:52,640
Speaker 1: an idea on me. I'm just telling you just the

2077
01:50:52,640 --> 01:50:55,599
Speaker 1: beauty of what you're doing. Okay. First of all, you know,

2078
01:50:56,000 --> 01:50:59,040
Speaker 1: you know you have a style. You know the fashion

2079
01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:01,080
Speaker 1: line companies. It's like, I'm just coming because I'm looking

2080
01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:03,439
Speaker 1: at this. I'm looking at this. Uh the little bird

2081
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:05,920
Speaker 1: he has you know what I'm saying. They have the

2082
01:51:05,920 --> 01:51:08,040
Speaker 1: scarf in the pocket. You know what I'm saying. You

2083
01:51:08,080 --> 01:51:10,760
Speaker 1: know this, this is this is dropping knowledge with with

2084
01:51:10,760 --> 01:51:15,280
Speaker 1: with was was styped what I'm saying. You know, you

2085
01:51:15,560 --> 01:51:18,040
Speaker 1: know you're like, there's like the Steave Harvey, you know,

2086
01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:22,000
Speaker 1: a visionary for that generation right there that you know

2087
01:51:22,240 --> 01:51:24,040
Speaker 1: he's passed, but you're about to pick him up and

2088
01:51:24,080 --> 01:51:26,240
Speaker 1: take it on to the Finnish slide and throw that

2089
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:30,439
Speaker 1: touchdown shoulder because style, because this is what I love

2090
01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:33,400
Speaker 1: about you. Okay. First of all, you do not deny

2091
01:51:33,479 --> 01:51:36,400
Speaker 1: that your mom and you're committed to being a mom. Okay.

2092
01:51:36,560 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 1: And that's what and that's where the modern day, especially

2093
01:51:41,479 --> 01:51:45,559
Speaker 1: black women need to see that. Guess what, And that's

2094
01:51:45,600 --> 01:51:47,599
Speaker 1: why I wanted you on the show to tell your story.

2095
01:51:48,120 --> 01:51:50,200
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no. This is start with

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Speaker 1: loving marriage Huntsville. That was part of the mission. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that was part of the plan. She loved Marriage Huntsville

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Speaker 1: is just part of It's more like, you know, you

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Speaker 1: you look at your chart and you have all these

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Speaker 1: options of what you can do, and you put this

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Speaker 1: on the sheriff as an opportunity. It happened, and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna move forward because of the fact that you you've

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Speaker 1: told me Richard, when you're not gonna get together, because

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Speaker 1: of the fact that you know there are the other

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Speaker 1: options that you want to do besides that. You I

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Speaker 1: see talk show and I go, okay, if you're preparing

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Speaker 1: with this Instagram Instagram, people can't find that. But you

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Speaker 1: can do this on a YouTube channel and you can

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Speaker 1: build subscribers and then you become a phenomenon. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I want to take that out of I wanted

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Speaker 1: That's what I had to do with my Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversation platform. I was all on social media and then

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Speaker 1: when I opened my Money Making Conversation YouTube channel, it

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Speaker 1: really showed me who I was. And because a lot

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Speaker 1: of people think I'm a baker. They see all those

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Speaker 1: cakes and everything, but when they go over their money

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Speaker 1: making conversation, that's who I am and they respect that. Now,

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Speaker 1: when I see you doing these master classes, if you

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Speaker 1: start setting up your YouTube channel, when they go over there,

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Speaker 1: they know that has nothing nothing to do with with

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Speaker 1: with with anything else but making people better, and especially

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Speaker 1: women of color, they can be better if they follow

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Speaker 1: your advice. And that's why I recommended each one of

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Speaker 1: these classes should be put over there, because what happens

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Speaker 1: is as you start building momentum and YouTube, every time

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Speaker 1: you upload a new show, and alert goes out to

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Speaker 1: your fan base that's on YouTube, and you should do that.

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Speaker 1: You gotta do that. You gotta do that. And so

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Speaker 1: this is just a shortly a short five week series, right, Um, yes,

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Speaker 1: well it's it's actually two weeks, so it's not a

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Speaker 1: personal week. I've got two people coming on this week,

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Speaker 1: two people coming on next week, and then I'm going

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Speaker 1: to launch another series with another, um you know, different guests.

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Speaker 1: But I appreciate and I'm thankful for everything you said,

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Speaker 1: and I'll definitely take that to my team. UM, I

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Speaker 1: do have a YouTube channel already. I just haven't been

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Speaker 1: uploading this content to it, UM, but I appreciate that

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Speaker 1: because that's an amazing idea. UM. And I think that

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Speaker 1: one thing I want to harphone that you mentioned was

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Speaker 1: about being able to do a lot even though your mom. Um.

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Speaker 1: That's one thing, to be honest that I want people

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Speaker 1: to know is that, you know, mom, you can still

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Speaker 1: be an awesome mom and still go after your dreams

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Speaker 1: and goes at the same time too. Is it gonna

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Speaker 1: be easy? No, it is does make it a little

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Speaker 1: more difficult, but it's possible. I literally just had my

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Speaker 1: baby in my hand and my phone in the other hand,

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Speaker 1: in my laptop sending my lap Yeah, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you're right. So you know, it's kind of one of

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Speaker 1: those things where you just do what you have to do,

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Speaker 1: UM and make no excuses, because there there are no excuses.

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Speaker 1: Even with all my kids. You know, I can remember, um,

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Speaker 1: my first daughter, Mariah, because we kept her at home

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Speaker 1: for like a year before we actually put her in daycare,

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Speaker 1: and so I can remember taking her to the office

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Speaker 1: with me, UM, having a playpen. There's an office for her. Like,

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Speaker 1: you just make it happen, you know, you do what

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Speaker 1: you have to do. To make it happen. So you know,

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Speaker 1: to all the moms out there, the hard working moms,

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Speaker 1: I want you guys to know, like, hey, keep pushing.

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Speaker 1: You can do it. Um, So what if you don't,

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Speaker 1: if you don't have a big support system, So what

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Speaker 1: don't let that be an excuse. Figure it out, make

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Speaker 1: it happen. And that's what I'm all about, is making

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Speaker 1: it happen. She is a former middle school teacher and

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs sought after speaker. You just heard the talk, man.

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Speaker 1: You know, I could just like just shut up. I

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Speaker 1: could ask you by folk questions. She's taken about twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes of my good time. That's how good she is.

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Speaker 1: Like her, I just I just say something. I just

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Speaker 1: I just brilliantly say I ask you a question, and

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Speaker 1: you just articulated. And I appreciate that. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm just being I just like to

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Speaker 1: keep it real. I'm very straightforward. I'm very you know,

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Speaker 1: undest and direct. And you know, it's one of those things,

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Speaker 1: like you said, it's not easy, but it's possible. And

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Speaker 1: of course with God, all things are possible. To remind

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Speaker 1: yourself where your strength and where your help comes from

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Speaker 1: and I say this all the time. God is my source. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's not my source. God is my source. God is

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Speaker 1: my source of my strength. God is my source of

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Speaker 1: my faith. God is my source of my money. God

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Speaker 1: is my source. UM. So you have to just remind

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Speaker 1: yourself of that. Um. And you know, while you're working

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Speaker 1: hard as a female and you're trying to make these moves. Also,

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Speaker 1: I believe, and you're feeling good about yourself and you're

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Speaker 1: feeling like, you know, you're happy with what you wake

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Speaker 1: up and see in the mornings when you look in

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Speaker 1: the mirror, which is hint why I created Embraced Beauty.

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Speaker 1: With your stop stop stop. You saw she just transitions.

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Speaker 1: She didn't even let me ask the question. And that's

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Speaker 1: why you would look good. And that's why, and that's

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Speaker 1: The line of products include cleans and tonetions and not

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Speaker 1: with you my God. You ask me. It's a pen y'all, y'all,

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Speaker 1: and I'm doing it. I don't know what y'all doing,

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Speaker 1: but I'm telling you what I'm doing. I am generating revenue.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making conversations. I'm your host, Sean McDonald.

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Speaker 1: But you know that that's why, that's why it's important,

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Speaker 1: Melody that you I'm telling because because you're my feet

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Speaker 1: on my on my Instagram. So I popped you your

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Speaker 1: pop photo pop up and go, you're just doing it.

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Speaker 1: Look at you. She is over there just posing and

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01:58:10,600 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 1: just just leaving people. Your your engagement and you become

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Speaker 1: a social media for now, we're gonna get back to

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Speaker 1: the embraced. Don't worry about that. You know, but but

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Speaker 1: but but embraced is tied to the brand that you created,

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Speaker 1: especially in social media. I got the I got the

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Speaker 1: you know, the love and the Love and Marriage hunt

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Speaker 1: Field Show. But did you expect the engagement and the

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Speaker 1: growth and social media that you've gotten? Um? I don't

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Speaker 1: feel like I had any expectations when it came to

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Speaker 1: the you know, because I wasn't doing it. The things

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Speaker 1: that I've done, I wasn't doing them, um thinking of like,

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Speaker 1: oh is this gonna makes me more popular? Of this?

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Speaker 1: I just believe in doing what I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: my purpose and whatever happens happened. So I tell people

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Speaker 1: I never have been one of the chase for celebrity. However,

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Speaker 1: is celebrity ends up with my purpose, then so be it.

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Speaker 1: Um So for me, it was always me chasing my vision,

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Speaker 1: my purpose, and my goals. Um So, definitely that's a

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Speaker 1: plus now that I do have. It has allowed me

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Speaker 1: to be able to reach more people, to have a

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Speaker 1: bigger audience, and ultimately be able to share my story

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Speaker 1: and my life experiences while encouraging people along the way.

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Speaker 1: That's a major plus for me. But it was never

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Speaker 1: the end goal for me, if that makes sense. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: What I like about you is that you know you

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Speaker 1: you learned to pivot. You see an opportunity, you flesh

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Speaker 1: it out, and you you seize it. But he sees

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Speaker 1: with a plan that way that that the like you

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Speaker 1: told earlier in the conversation, you usually limited roar. I failed,

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Speaker 1: you know, but I don't let that fair stop me

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Speaker 1: from being successful. I learned from it. So now so

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Speaker 1: now let's get back to Embrace. Because I pulled up

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Speaker 1: the website. See see I had to get I got

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Speaker 1: I used get a little conversation right there. So I

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Speaker 1: get back ahead of the creer with this conversation about

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Speaker 1: the embraced, embraced, beauty foam, embraced beauty, toner body, butter,

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Speaker 1: beauty body. Oh a moisturizer comming to the body coming

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Speaker 1: and a little private comming to let's talk about this embracetion.

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Speaker 1: You're beautiful. I love this. You're beautiful, embrace it come

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Speaker 1: on absolutely, so you know, UM, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just a wow. I appreciate you allow

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Speaker 1: me to share, you know, my info on your platform.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that. Um. So really was

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Speaker 1: when I was growing up, I suffered from something called

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Speaker 1: pitty riots is rosation, which is pretty much just a

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Speaker 1: dry rash. So um, you know, it was something I

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Speaker 1: used to complain about and so my actually my great

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Speaker 1: grandmother share with me a secret um of something to

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Speaker 1: use to help me. UM when I would have these breakouts,

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Speaker 1: usually during the fall months with this petty rice is rosation.

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Speaker 1: So what I decided to do is, I um wanted

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Speaker 1: to create a skincare line that incorporated that for people

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Speaker 1: who have that kind of an issue or issues with

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Speaker 1: dry skins. So I do have and of course I

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Speaker 1: do aligne so I'm always having to have my face

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Speaker 1: beat and makeup on. However, I've always been adamant on

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Speaker 1: making sure that underneath that that my skin is still glowing,

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Speaker 1: that my skin is still healthy, because your skin is

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Speaker 1: the largest piece of your body, so you got to

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Speaker 1: take care of it. Um. So for me, for me,

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Speaker 1: I UM just definitely said, you know, I want to

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Speaker 1: put these things together along with the things my great

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Speaker 1: grandmother has shared with me and put it into a product.

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Speaker 1: So I have a cleanser. Um. It's really um, to

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Speaker 1: be honest, it's what. It's a everyday regiment that you

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Speaker 1: can use as a cleanser, a toner moisturizer than a

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Speaker 1: lip primer, which of course you would put your lip

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Speaker 1: primer on before you put on your you know, lip

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Speaker 1: gloss or lipstick or things of that nature. Um. And

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Speaker 1: so that has been amazing. UM. I actually premiered it

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Speaker 1: on the show earlier. We filmed it, I think the

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Speaker 1: first part in the January, right before the pandemic. UM.

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Speaker 1: And then for me being pregnant, of course, when you're pregnant,

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Speaker 1: you have if your skin, you have dry skin and

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Speaker 1: things like that. So when I was pregnant, I went

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Speaker 1: ahead and got with my chemists, which I'm using a

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Speaker 1: black chemist out of Dallas, Texas, who I work with.

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Speaker 1: I actually met her through Marquell because she and Martell

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Speaker 1: went to high school together. But she has a very

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Speaker 1: very successful natural hair care line. So I got with

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Speaker 1: her and um, we came up together and put this

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Speaker 1: put my products together, and you know, worked for really

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Speaker 1: almost two years just making sure that it was the

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Speaker 1: way I wanted it to be. Two years too, because

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Speaker 1: in between of everything else that I'm doing, of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm always doing so many different things. So it was

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Speaker 1: about two years that we put in getting it the

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Speaker 1: way I wanted it. Um. Because I'm big on again branding.

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Speaker 1: Everything reflects my brand, so I gotta make sure everything

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Speaker 1: is top notch. We're not gonna short change things, right. Um.

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Speaker 1: So when I was pregnant, I came up with the

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Speaker 1: body lotion, the body oil, and the body but her

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Speaker 1: um and so that's what that's what Embrace currently consists of.

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Speaker 1: And I'm actually going to be having a live event

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Speaker 1: on social media when I'm actually gonna open the website

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Speaker 1: up for sales, Well, that's gonna be happening. I was

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Speaker 1: planning to do that by the time the episode aired

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Speaker 1: for the skin care line, but then the pandemic happened,

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Speaker 1: so things got pushed back, and you know, and then

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Speaker 1: of course I also have you know, my divorce happening

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Speaker 1: as well. THO was one of those things where I

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Speaker 1: just was like, okay, just hold up, let's stop for

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Speaker 1: a second. Um, But I'm actually going to have a

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Speaker 1: live event very soon. I'm going to open the site up.

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Speaker 1: People have the messaging me. They're waiting for it. They

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Speaker 1: want to get Sonna open it up and allow of

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Speaker 1: people to start purchasing. Well, first of all, you know,

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Speaker 1: there was a there was a moment of silence out

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Speaker 1: of respect of what you're doing. Okay, you already said

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Speaker 1: you you're gonna You've already gonna do a live event. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying. These these master classes are

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Speaker 1: preparing you for that live event. So what what what

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Speaker 1: do we get a sense of? You're gonna be like

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Speaker 1: a story like environment? Can people buy product online immediately

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Speaker 1: when you go to that live event? It will be

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Speaker 1: that's right? And when is the date? You have we

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Speaker 1: locked the date yet No, I don't have the day

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Speaker 1: d and yet it will probably be more in the

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Speaker 1: first of October range. How you know things are starting

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Speaker 1: to Yep, things are starting to move a little bit

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Speaker 1: better with COVID and the packaging and things like that,

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02:04:02,040 --> 02:04:03,880
Speaker 1: because of course most of the packaging, as you know,

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Speaker 1: come from China or at least pieces of it, and

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Speaker 1: so it's just a big thing. And I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm kind of picky, like I could

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Speaker 1: have changed up. To be honest, I should have changed

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Speaker 1: up my packaging and did a different but I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: I want exactly the way I want it and that's

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Speaker 1: just what it is. Um So, so yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: what I want to give to my consumer and ain't

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Speaker 1: changing it. So we just don't wait, you know, it

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Speaker 1: was one of those things. Hello, hello, meloy, Hello, you're

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Speaker 1: all good? Did you win? Ain't changing it? Come on now,

2358
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Speaker 1: how this beautiful articulate business woman ain't changing it? Ain't changing?

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Speaker 1: But don't body did my grandmama butter, y'all didn't stop

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Speaker 1: talking to me. Yeah, because I can do all of it.

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Speaker 1: I can. I can be all of those this is

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Speaker 1: you gotta keep be in the loop on that. We

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna change self numbers when it's called in.

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Speaker 1: But because I gotta still in touch with you. Now,

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Speaker 1: this this, this, this slogan of this name of your

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Speaker 1: beautiful embrace it embraced absolutely that so because we know

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Speaker 1: the M is for your first name, Melody, and then

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Speaker 1: so that how did that title, how did that slogan

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02:05:07,440 --> 02:05:09,520
Speaker 1: come up? And how did the name of the Beauty

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Speaker 1: Premier skin care line come up? Man, this is so funny.

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Speaker 1: So one day I was literally getting my makeup done. Um,

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Speaker 1: I was going somewhere my makeup artists. Um, he's been

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Speaker 1: a makeup artists for a few years now. He was

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Speaker 1: on my makeup and I was telling him about my

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Speaker 1: skin care line and what I was working on and

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Speaker 1: what my plans were, and so we just started talking

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Speaker 1: and in that conversation we were just saying, you know, yeah, people,

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Speaker 1: you know, they should be able to embrace you know,

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Speaker 1: who they are and their skin and there. And I

2380
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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, oh, you know, listen at us, you

2381
02:05:38,840 --> 02:05:40,560
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And we were just literally just

2382
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Speaker 1: having conversations. And so, of course, all of my family's name,

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Speaker 1: the kids, my husband, me, we all start with an M.

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Speaker 1: So we always play on the M word, like there

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Speaker 1: did we call them the eminem kids. We always play

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Speaker 1: on and so um, it was just like and I

2387
02:05:57,160 --> 02:05:59,960
Speaker 1: can play with this embrace and make this m capital

2388
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:02,080
Speaker 1: the lies and make this all flow the way I

2389
02:06:02,200 --> 02:06:03,880
Speaker 1: use the life of stuff to flow. And it just

2390
02:06:03,960 --> 02:06:06,320
Speaker 1: went from there and you know, and so it was

2391
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Speaker 1: really a conversation and us talking about it, me sharing

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Speaker 1: my idea of my skin care line and putting it out,

2393
02:06:11,160 --> 02:06:13,720
Speaker 1: and we're talking about how important it is for people,

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Speaker 1: especially you know, especially women because again, we do have

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Speaker 1: times when we have to be made up and look

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Speaker 1: to the tea and we're affected to look like a

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Speaker 1: pen all the time. But what do you look like

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Speaker 1: when you take that makeup off of your faith? And um,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, now you know, I gotta I gotta wrap

2400
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Speaker 1: up here because I can't. I can't ruin my reputation.

2401
02:06:31,760 --> 02:06:33,960
Speaker 1: But I wanted to talk about just you know, just

2402
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Speaker 1: get your you know, when we look at what you're doing. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and we's so many black women are doing. We are

2404
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Speaker 1: in a political season and you know, I'm encouraging everybody

2405
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Speaker 1: to register to vote. You know. Uh, we we know

2406
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Speaker 1: what's going on out there, but we gotta make a

2407
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Speaker 1: difference and we'll see the Democratic nomin need be a

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Speaker 1: woman of color Kamala Harris, what are your thoughts and uh,

2409
02:06:54,120 --> 02:06:55,920
Speaker 1: you know, and what what what are what are your

2410
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Speaker 1: goals and expectations for what you're trying to do to

2411
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Speaker 1: motivate the community to vote. Oh man, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you first of all, I think that this is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I shared this on an interview the other day.

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Speaker 1: I still remember when Obama got elected and how excited

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Speaker 1: I felt, and I felt like, wow, I can't do

2416
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Speaker 1: anything despite the color of my skin. I remember being

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Speaker 1: even more excited when he got re elected, saying no,

2418
02:07:16,560 --> 02:07:18,880
Speaker 1: waiting for them both and valid and stuff to come

2419
02:07:18,920 --> 02:07:20,480
Speaker 1: on in and look with those numbers gonna be like

2420
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Speaker 1: and he won again and it was like, oh my gosh, right,

2421
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Speaker 1: that whole excitement and that feeling that a piece of

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Speaker 1: inspiration and encouragement. It was just so um, that's the

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Speaker 1: same way I feel right now, like I feel like

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Speaker 1: and this time because it's a woman, so even more so.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're spending so much time trying to break

2426
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Speaker 1: that glass feeling, trying to remove certain barriers, and you know,

2427
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Speaker 1: first to have for us to have a black woman

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Speaker 1: who has the opportunity to have the second highest position

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Speaker 1: in this nation, I think that is what's up and

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Speaker 1: that is amazing, um, you know, charring. And so what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing, I have certain things that I'm working on.

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Speaker 1: One of them, um and you guys to be seeing

2433
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Speaker 1: that soon. I can't give too much information, but one

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Speaker 1: thing that I'm doing, I'm actually partnering with the city

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Speaker 1: UM here in Alabama in terms of UM increasing of

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Speaker 1: the census registration and working to get people out to

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Speaker 1: vote and working to have people making sure they're filling

2438
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Speaker 1: out this sensus so we don't lose seats, you know. UM.

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Speaker 1: And it's just I think all of us have to

2440
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Speaker 1: be willing to do our part, especially if you've been

2441
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Speaker 1: blessed with a platform, you have to be willing to

2442
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Speaker 1: do your part um when it comes to the political

2443
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Speaker 1: piece as well. So those are things I've worked when

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Speaker 1: I work on a lot of stuff behind closed doors

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Speaker 1: that people don't see or don't know about. But it's

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Speaker 1: about the work that's the most important. With my friend, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know what, you know what I love about this interview,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you've come back from we've covered we

2449
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Speaker 1: we've covered everything, but we didn't even talk about the

2450
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Speaker 1: TV show And that just lets because I wanted everybody

2451
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Speaker 1: to know your brain and you as as a as

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Speaker 1: a as a visionary, you as an educator, you as

2453
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Speaker 1: an uplift And I want to make sure all the

2454
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Speaker 1: all those little things got laid out correctly. And then

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Speaker 1: we come back later and talk about the show. But

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Speaker 1: this first interview me and you had to be about

2457
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Speaker 1: be letting everybody know this is who y'all see on

2458
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Speaker 1: TV every Saturday night. This don't not all the time. Now,

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Speaker 1: it depends now because I let me tell you now.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you know you rubbed me around with scorpio all

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Speaker 1: days to run me ruining. You know another ny, don't

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Speaker 1: worry about the Pisces. I calm you down. I calm

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Speaker 1: you down. You know Pisces is gonna be or we

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Speaker 1: get long, we get long, we get low, we get

2465
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Speaker 1: love melody. Don't you don't you mess with me. You

2466
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Speaker 1: better embrace it. You better imbrace it. You better embrace it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go. You're gonna let you go. Girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: There you stay strong again. You owe me. I'm already

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Speaker 1: gonna post about the starting tomorrow. I'll be posting on

2470
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Speaker 1: all my social media about the the Masterclass series. You

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Speaker 1: owe me A couple of things, especially when we do

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Speaker 1: the launch of the hours that we do this launch

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Speaker 1: of the Embraced skincareline. But of course I promote everything

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Speaker 1: that you do. And we we we we gotta, we

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Speaker 1: gotta get the right people in office and you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, and so we can make Americans right.

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Speaker 1: But be safe, be blessed, and we will talk soon,

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Speaker 1: my friends, and you better invite me back. I have

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