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So take this time out with 26 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: us to learn, get inspired, and most importantly, reclaim your time. 27 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: Listen to Time Out a fair Play podcast on the 28 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 29 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: your podcasts. My next guest is Bryce Thompson. He is 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: a serial entrepreneur, event planner, investor in a business, mentor 31 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: to millennials. At the age of twenty five, Bryce is 32 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: considered an exception. He enjoys hosting events open to people 33 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: of all ages and walks of life, but he caters 34 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: primarily to the millennial mindset. Like every other black man 35 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: in America, Bryce has felt the stings of racism, which 36 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: which is sad. It's just twenty five, and think at 37 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: my age, and you know which, I understand the era 38 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: that I grew up in. It he wouldn't have to 39 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: experience that, but he is. He's been subjected to the 40 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: scrutiny and limitations of stereotypes and social structures designed to 41 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: box those who looked like him in the life of 42 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: mediography and of poverty. However, in spite of all this, 43 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: he's called out a plan for success that is centered 44 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: upon having an impact bigger than himself. He's the co 45 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: founder of trade House Investment Group and chairman of it 46 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: It'll All Makes Sense nonprofit. He's on the shore to 47 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: talk about his new book, Millennials Accepted and Accepted. Please 48 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: welcome to money Making Conversation. I'm calling a good friend 49 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: because from Houston, Texas or the Missouri city, I knew 50 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: exactly what that said. Bryce Thompson, you know, Bryce, how 51 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: you doing? How are you doing? I'm happy to be 52 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: or great? Bryce? Um that's that's you know, a twenty 53 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: five man like going on in this book, brother, like 54 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: going on a good last five years for sure. Well, 55 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: let's talk about the early years, because I think that's 56 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: what lays the foundation. Um off Air. I was just 57 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: telling you. I remember I was making decisions on where 58 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: I wanted to go to college. LE gonna tell you 59 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: some man, I didn't really want to go to college. 60 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: You know, but I just thought I wanted to be 61 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: a forklift driver. That's what I wanted. I was inspired 62 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: when I was sixteen years old my first job by 63 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: these by these guys, they were black men. They were 64 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: living a good life driving forklifts and unloading trucks and life. 65 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: I said, that's what I wanted to do. So I 66 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: always feel that what you see it in early life 67 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: could drive you to be what you can possibly be 68 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: as you start to as send what inspired you as 69 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: a young youth just to be the man that you 70 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: are today, and you're still climbing to be even a 71 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: bigger man than you are today. Talk to us about that, right, um, well, 72 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: more more more surface level, I would say, uh, or 73 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: or deeper rather, I would say my environment for one 74 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: of my my mom especially always made sure I was in, 75 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: you know, a really good environment. You know. First I 76 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: started with school, uh you know. Then she was very 77 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: particular about the people that I would hang around. So 78 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: I was always surrounded around people that were out doing 79 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: great things, like people that were out you know, striving 80 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: for massive success. So in turn that inspired me. And 81 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: then more serface level, my mom has always been an 82 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs she raised you know, me and my brother um 83 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: strictly off of entrepreneurial income pretty much our whole lives. 84 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: So that that really inspired me to go out and 85 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: make something out of nothing. And then even more surface level, 86 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: my older brother, uh, you know, he was the first 87 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: person that I saw graduate college, you know, going to 88 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: get a good job, and at the time for me, 89 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: you know, going out getting a good job, especially a 90 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: six figure income paying job. You know, that was you 91 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: know seen in that as a kid or you know 92 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: a college student. That was like my first figure of success. 93 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, cool, I gotta go to college. I 94 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: gotta graduate, I gotta get a good job. I gotta 95 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: be successful. I gotta you know, be able to go 96 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: out and support myself. So you know, early on, I'm like, 97 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: I have to go out there and do something. I 98 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: can't just stay at home and you know be you know, 99 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: a regular, regular schegler. Well absolutely, I think that. Uh. 100 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: And when reading this book, you know, millions accepted and accepted, uh, 101 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: because I always felt that when I was growing in life, 102 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: I have been the accepted you there word or the acceptiontion. 103 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: Guess basically what that is? You know, Well, people say 104 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: I thought differently, I you know, I projected I'll come 105 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: You know, I came from a black community. I grew up. 106 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: I went to high school in Forest Brook in Houston, Texas. 107 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: Is not even opening the more effective touring the school 108 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: down and as I so, my whole outlook was black. 109 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: You know, I got him a bus to go downtown. 110 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: Whenever black people on the bus. When I got back 111 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: on the bus to go back to my house with 112 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: other more black people on bus, it wasn't. I was 113 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: eight teens. I started to see diversity in my life. 114 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: And so when did you start seeing a diversity and 115 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,239 Speaker 1: like or was it always there? Because in your book 116 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: you talk about how your mother it was very important 117 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: that you have a diverse look perspective of life and 118 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: it really kind of opened you up. Correct, right, absolutely, Um, 119 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: I've pretty much lived a diverse life from as as 120 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: long as I can remember, I would say early on, 121 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: I you know, I remember being pretty much predominantly black, 122 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: middle school and elementary. More so elementary. I just went 123 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: to the neighborhood school and mis seriously, I don't went 124 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: to Coil Valley. I don't know if you ever heard 125 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: of Absolutely, Yeah, So I went to Core Valley Elementary School. 126 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: And from what my mom tells me, and I can't 127 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: really remember, but she remembers way way more than I do, 128 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: I stood out from a lot of other students. You know, 129 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: I made the best grades. I was at the top 130 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: of my class, and my teachers they recommended, right and 131 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: that my teachers recommended that she put me in, ah, 132 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: you know, a higher education like she put me around 133 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: you know, people that that that were learning at a 134 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: more elite level. So she started looking into, you know, 135 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: higher learning schools around the area. She started looking in 136 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: the private schools and then that's when you know, that 137 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: was my first time going to private school back in 138 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: the second half of like sixth grade. So I ended 139 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: up getting into a private school um in the in 140 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: the Houston area of Forben Foreben Academy. I don't know 141 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: if you've heard of Foreben Academy. I'm just by Houston, man, 142 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: I was raised and when I died, they're gonna bury 143 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: me in Houston. So that talking normal about Houston. I 144 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: know where the techet Lug hood is, I know where 145 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: we're Star Mills, I know we're a few Queers. I 146 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: know Salt May runs right smack down the middle of 147 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: Missouri City. I knew all that, So you just talk 148 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: normal me, man, we might have a good time on 149 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: this interview price. Oh yeah, you know more than other 150 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: let me. But yeah, So I went. I went to 151 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: Fort Been Academy, and that was like, that was the 152 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: first time where I wasn't in a very diverse UM 153 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: environment like I was. I was one of the very 154 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: few African Americans. Um. You know, most of the students 155 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: that I that I was going to school at the time, 156 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: they were they came from pretty rich, wealthy, well off 157 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: family household. So that wasn't me. It was a little more. 158 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: I was more of an outlier for the first time. 159 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: And but I still did really well in school. I 160 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: still did I still did really well in sports. And 161 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: then I went off to high school. I ended up 162 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: going back to public school. I went to Lamar. My 163 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: first year, I got back into a diverse environment, um, 164 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: but still at the top of my class I was into. 165 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: I was in the be program. Still doing really well 166 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: in school. Uh. And I also was playing sports at 167 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: the time. So sports is what put me back into 168 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: the private school environment because Lamar didn't have the best 169 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: basketball program at the time. UM. At least my freshman year. 170 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: I don't know how, I don't know what it is 171 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: right now, but I ended up looking into Westbury Christian. 172 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: Westbury Christian had like top, top notch basketball program my 173 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: freshman year, and I transferred back over the Westbury Christian. 174 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: That was the first time I was in a environment 175 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: where the education was a lot higher, but it was 176 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: also still diverse. So it wasn't like a situation where 177 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: you know, I was the only black kid, or I 178 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: was the only, you know, kid that didn't come from 179 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: a wealthy or rich family. It was it was a 180 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: little bit of everything. And then when I went to 181 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: Moor House, I went back into you know, this environment 182 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: of like, okay, this everybody's African America, everybody's black. But 183 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: the one thing that you know, really changed everything for 184 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: me was the fact that I was at more House 185 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: around a bunch of people that looked like me, came 186 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: from similar backgrounds, but the common denominator of all of 187 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: us was we really like everybody wanted to be successful 188 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: at more House like that was like that that was 189 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: a need. It was an assessment, like you needed You're 190 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: going to more House, that are just just having that 191 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: title attached to your name like you had to become 192 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: you had to become something, which which was really interesting 193 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: because you know, you wanted to go to Harvard, but 194 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: you technically with the Harvard you know. And that's more 195 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: when you look at the legacies that's tied to that 196 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: post from a from a from an academic standpoint, because 197 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: I'm always a proponent of advocate, I should say of 198 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: what HBCUs. You know, eighty percent of the black doctors 199 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: and Dennis come from HBCUs. Four the percent of the 200 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: members of Congress who are black come from Hbcusif of 201 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: the public who teachers who are black con from hsbc US, 202 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: of the st and just went up, I just study 203 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: came up of the STEM graduate to a black com 204 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: from hsbc U. So you went to Harvard, you know, 205 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,559 Speaker 1: and so and that that getting in an environment that 206 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: was equally academic competitive because even when you went to 207 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: West Christian Academy, that was a competitive environment. Because that 208 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: was just explaining everybody what he was talking about. Lamar 209 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: University in Houston, right off a West Tim is a 210 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,719 Speaker 1: football powerhouse. I mean that's a bad school. Now what's 211 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: in the Christian Academy? They recruit people like he might 212 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: be Bryce might be good, but they won't let him 213 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: know that they're bringing in full more goods. And so 214 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: that puts you in another competitive environment. So you've always 215 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: been in a competitive environment. You've always been challenged physically 216 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: to be better than the person sitting right next to you. 217 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: So that probably played very well for you in the 218 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: lanes that you're successful in now, correct, absolutely or now 219 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: with that being said, when you when you when you 220 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: had the option to go to Priview full Ride, full Ride, 221 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: the book talks about it, you know, and uh previous 222 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,719 Speaker 1: an excellent institution right down the street by forty five 223 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: fifty minutes from Houston, Texas. Dad took you down. Now, 224 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: but that cut didn't sit right from you. Why didn't 225 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: he sit right for you? Um? You know, for it 226 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: didn't give me that like even though I got a 227 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: full ride and you know, it wasn't too far from home, 228 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: I didn't for the first time, I just didn't feel 229 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,719 Speaker 1: like I would be competing at an elite level. I 230 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: felt like I wouldn't be, you know, surrounded around, you know, 231 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: a bunch of people that necessarily I don't know like that. 232 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: It was just that it factor that I was looking for, 233 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: and that's why I wanted to go to Harvard. Harvard. 234 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: You know it's Harvard. Like you hear Harvard, it's yo, 235 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 1: you go to Harvard. And then I'll tell them, like yo, 236 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to Prayer of you. And it was it 237 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: was more common coming from where I'm from, like you're 238 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas. Even from a Zuri City, Texas. Mostly 239 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: everybody is gonna go to you of h or tissue 240 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: or prayer of you. So for me, I wanted to 241 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: step outside the box as far as you know, a 242 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: school and the institution is concerned. And you know, I 243 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: graduated at the top of my class, like like I 244 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: was the number ten students, not not ten percent, but ten, 245 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: like ten people in my in my high school class. 246 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, like I, you know, let me, let 247 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: me apply to Harvard. Harvard never got back with me 248 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: and my mom. Last minute I came back from Prayer 249 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: of You, my mom my dad dropped me back off 250 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: at my mom's house and I, you know, I told her, 251 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 1: you know, they offered me a full ride and I 252 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't have to pay for school, and you know, she 253 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: still could see it on my face that it just 254 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: wasn't really doing it for me. And then she encouraged 255 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: me to apply to more House. Got in a more House. 256 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: They gave me, um, you know, a scholarship to a 257 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: pre program that they were having over the summer. I 258 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: went to the I went to the campus over summer. 259 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: I fell in love with it and at that point 260 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I have to come back in the fall. 261 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: This is the school that I'm going to. And I 262 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: just I ended up there. We'll be right back with 263 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: more money making conversations with the co owner of Trade 264 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: House Investment Group and the author of Millions accepted and accepted, 265 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: Bryce Thompson. It's finally here, the season of celebration. 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Welcome back to money making Conversations. 300 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: As I continue our conversation with the co owner of 301 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: Trade House Investment Group and the author of Millions, accepted 302 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: and accepted, Bryce Thompson, were congratulations because it changed your life. 303 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: You know when I say changed your life from a perspective. 304 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: My degree is in mathematics, okay, and my minors in sociology. 305 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: I graduated from University Houston, like I went to college 306 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: because like in your book and tell you talk about 307 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: you know, that's the way of the world. You know, 308 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: you go to high school, you graduated high school, and 309 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: then you go to college. You get this, you know, 310 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: five or fixed six figure degree. Next thing you know, 311 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: you're married. You're happy, that's been set well for you. 312 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: Again that good. I always love you follow your gut, 313 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,959 Speaker 1: you know, like I said. And so when you were 314 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: during an internship program in Cleveland, great job, great opportunity, 315 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: you know, eight to five. But every time you started 316 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: every day, the excitement of going according to your book 317 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: started diminishing. And that's when you start understanding and admitting 318 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: to yourself at such an young age, this is not 319 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: for me. Talk about that for sure. So first and 320 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: foremot let me just you know, just add on to that. 321 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: I drove an hour to work every single morning, and 322 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: that was, like, you know, that was a little different 323 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: for me, the first time I ever experienced anything like that. 324 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: So I'm driving an hour, so it's more so like 325 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: a seven to five or six to five. I had 326 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: to wake up at six, leave by seven, get to 327 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: work by eight, so it was more like a sixto 328 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: pob And as I'm driving, you know, you're driving and 329 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: you're waking up. Really, you know, it has to be 330 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: something to motivate you to do that every morning. And 331 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: for me, the only thing that was motivating me was, 332 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: you know, if I didn't make it to work on time, 333 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: they wouldn't offer me a job back, or you know, 334 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: I wouldn't get paid. But you know, it got to 335 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: the point where I felt like I didn't even want 336 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: a job back, Like I didn't even I didn't even 337 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: care if they offered me a full time, full time 338 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: job because this isn't you know, I felt like, this 339 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: is a part time job. And for me, it was 340 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: like a part time sacrifice. Like sacrifices are temporary for 341 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: you to live, you know, the way that you really 342 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: want to. So I understood for me that you know, 343 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: that job was something that I I necessarily had to 344 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: do to get to where I wanted to go at 345 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: the at the at that specific time. But for me, 346 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: it was just part of the really building a foundation. 347 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: Like I still you know, I owe that job, uh, 348 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: you know, as as far as being a reason to 349 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: my success now, like I you know, some of the 350 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: people that I met and some of the things that 351 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: I learned, and you know, just it was just a 352 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: humbling experience for me. And and now that I can, 353 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: I can speak to it a little bit different when 354 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,199 Speaker 1: I'm when I'm talking to people that are interested in 355 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: what I do, or you know, they want to be 356 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and they don't know exactly how to go 357 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: about it. But yeah, no, that that was the first 358 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: time I was making a little bit of money, like 359 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: I was making good money for college students. But you know, 360 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: I always remember, like I tell people, my experience that 361 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: I be and has always been a blessing because he 362 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: taught me structure. And that's what you're talking about right now, 363 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 1: all right, right, working that and in it stage with you. 364 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: You know, at the time, I didn't really understand what 365 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: it was. It just work to me. They sent me 366 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: off the courses and I would always based in Houston. 367 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: It would send me to Atlanta to train and and 368 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: and those same disciplines that I did I experience, I 369 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: still apply today. And so for my entrepreneur standpoint. Entrepreneur standpard, 370 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: when you're talking to people, you all you're doing is 371 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: about discipline. Like you said, you got up at six 372 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: to start driving in seventh to arrive at eight. That's 373 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: the same principle you have to do if you're an entrepreneur. 374 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: You just can't be just because you run your company. 375 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: I mean, you can't get up at seven one day, 376 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 1: eight o'clock the next day, or nine o'clock next day 377 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: or six o'clock next day. There has to be consistency. 378 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: And that's what your book talked about talks about it's 379 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: consistency as an entrepreneur, consistency to achieve your goals. Why 380 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: was that so important to you to reveal that side 381 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: of secrecy of secrets, you know, because we always want 382 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: to know the secrets to success. But that that that 383 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: that that's becomes a profound dialogue in your book, right um, Now, Yeah, 384 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 1: consistency is a big deal, and you know that's that's 385 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: really the difference. It's I find it to be easy 386 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: to be consistent when you know you're heading in a 387 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: direction of where you want to go. Like, you know, 388 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: when I was working that job, he it was a 389 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,479 Speaker 1: lot harder to consistently wake up every morning knowing that 390 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: this isn't something that I want to do. And no 391 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: matter how early I wake up, no matter how many 392 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: donuts I bring to the office, no matter how many 393 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: how much coffee I buy everybody at the office, I'm 394 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: still gonna get paid the same amount. I'm still gonna, 395 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, do the same thing that I did yesterday. 396 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: Like the project's never really changed, And you know, I 397 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: wasn't really living I felt I felt like I wasn't 398 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: really living in my purpose. I felt like I was 399 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: just another number, and once I became an entrepreneur, Yeah, 400 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: I can still wake up early, if not earlier, I 401 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: could stay up later, if not later, because every every 402 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: morning that I wake up, this is another opportunity for 403 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: me to do something that's gonna get me closer to 404 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: the lifestyle that I really only get to see in 405 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: my sleep. But you know, when you work in a job, 406 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: you can wake up earlier, wake up at the same time, 407 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: ware of a little later, You're still gonna get the 408 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: same results. You know, entrepreneurship it as far as the 409 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: consistency goes, it should be a whole lot easier for 410 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: anybody because one, you can't put a cap on your income. 411 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: As an entrepreneur, you can always do something to increase it, 412 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: and you can really focus on the things that you 413 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: love to do and make an income out of that, 414 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: find a way to support yourself out of that. Absolutely, 415 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: I'm talking to Bryce Thompson, the author of Millions Accepted, 416 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: Accepted and Accepted. One of the things that really now 417 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: we we've we we we we talked about a journey 418 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: after this point. We talked about the early stage from 419 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: grade school, middle school, high school, earliers of college. You 420 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: were focused to be an entrepreneur. You opportunely focused to 421 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: be a nine to five or for the hour week guy. 422 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: He's working on this engineering degree. And then suddenly your 423 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: older brother said the magic word to you, bit coin. 424 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: Bit coin change your life for seventeen come on now 425 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: and then. And then when you try to help out 426 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: this young lady, she stepped back on you. But you 427 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: think good that you didn't say her name, because she 428 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: probably track you down and beat you up. She know 429 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: you're trying to tell her, but she has so much doubt. 430 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: And that's what you can. Like you said, you can't 431 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: take everybody to success. You can talk to him about it, 432 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: but they have to have the dream locked in and 433 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 1: understand what you're trying to communicate with them. But that 434 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: that your older brother who would graduated from college, who 435 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: showed you the way. Here you are at more House. 436 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,959 Speaker 1: You have not completed college, but he showed you an 437 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 1: opportunity that it was too much to pass up. Talked 438 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: about that journey into into the world, a big calm 439 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: and also investments. Right. Um, Well, you, like I said 440 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: in the beginning, my my older brother, you know it 441 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: was one of my motivations to becoming successful and you know, 442 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 1: doing something and making something out of my out of myself. 443 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: So you know, when he gave me an opportunity, it's 444 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,479 Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna question I'm not gonna question it 445 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: too much, no matter what it is, as long as 446 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: it's legal, Like I'm not really gonna question it, of course, 447 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 1: you know, of course against my morals. But you know, 448 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: like we come from the same place as my older brother. 449 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: When he introduced me to you know, cryptocurrencies and investing, um, 450 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: it was it was like Chinese to me. It was 451 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: like a foreign language. But at the same time, you know, 452 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: I'm I wasn't scared to learn something new, especially being 453 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: at my job and that you know that that's why 454 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,479 Speaker 1: that job plays a significant part of my story because 455 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: I think I was more motivated because of what I 456 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: was going through, you know, as an employee over the summer. 457 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: So when he is the time and the time and 458 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: was just perfect. So when he gave it to me, 459 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 1: not only was I making I was making a little 460 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: bit of money. So it's hard to invest when you 461 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: don't have anything doing best, so I was it was 462 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 1: for the first time I was making you know, I had, 463 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: I had some pocket, I had some money in my pocket. 464 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: So I leveraged that money, that a little bit of 465 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: money that I had in my pocket, and I started 466 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: making a little bit of money on top of my money. 467 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: And you know, it wasn't a whole lot, but at 468 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: the time I realized, like, you know, this isn't a 469 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: lot of money, but this is for me, for a 470 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: college student, for the average person, you know, this this 471 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: could help him out a whole lot. And that was 472 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: the first time that I started talking about I started 473 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: telling my friends, I started you know, telling my family members, 474 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 1: start really showing them and like you said that, you 475 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: know the girl that you just mentioned, that's why. That's 476 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,239 Speaker 1: when I that's when I really ran into you know, 477 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: that that feeling of rejection that every entrepreneur is going 478 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: to experience, right that that rejection feeling like she she 479 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: rejected me. I tried to show her, tried to I 480 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: feel like it could help her, and she shot me down. 481 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: Made me feel like what I was doing wasn't a 482 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: big deal. And that was my first time experiencing that. 483 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: Not I I even old, you know, a lot of 484 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: my seat work, at least a significant part of my 485 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: success in early on to her like I really I 486 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,400 Speaker 1: appreciate that she that she you know, because you know something, man, 487 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: you have a lot of values like me. Bright. It's 488 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: just that I would tell people when they tell me 489 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: no or they reject me, my goal is to get 490 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: in front of you. I always tell people, I put 491 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: my car in front of your bumper. That's my goal. 492 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: If you if I'm in front of your bumper, that 493 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: means you can't go around me. And plus you have 494 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: to get my license and find out who in front 495 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: of me. So that's all too. You had that mentality, 496 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: so you put your car. Your goal is to put 497 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: your car in front of hers. Fortunately it didn't take much, okay, 498 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: because you mean just during it ran off the road. 499 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 1: That's how quickly you got in front of her. And 500 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: she said, on the side of the road called triple A. 501 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: But it was too late because you're going about your business. 502 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: But the beauty of this is the and the and 503 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: the sad part of this is that you know, spite 504 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: six says, despite doing the right way, you were stereotyped. 505 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: You know, you put in jail, told you're gonna be 506 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: in jail for ten days. It wasn't for your frapp 507 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: brother who was there and able to get you out 508 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 1: of jail, you know, telling what direction that would put you, 509 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: to tell her what stereotype situation that would have led 510 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,719 Speaker 1: to even more incarceration or more frustration. That's just you 511 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: know that even though you can do it right, because 512 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: of the nature of racism, it's still con stereotype you. 513 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: But the focused point of what I really like about you. 514 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: You know you started the Trade House Investment Group with 515 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: three of your boys. You know you also did that. 516 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: You also have the HBCU Scholarship campaign. Did you do 517 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: with the scholar app? And if anybody knows what the 518 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: scholar app is, it's an online search platform that helps 519 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: high school seniors you know, uh and current undergraduates and 520 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: graduate students match and win scholarships. In that he has 521 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: a HBCU scholarship. And by the way, Privy n M 522 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: is one of the school on this platform along with Hampton, 523 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: how you know, living Stone all in more House of course. 524 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,479 Speaker 1: So my whole thing is that when when I sit 525 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: down and talk to you, Bryce man, this this book 526 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 1: which I'm definitely gonna recommend to a lot of people. 527 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 1: In fact, I'm gonna feature you on my Motivational Monday. 528 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: So in a couple of weeks on Mondays, I feature 529 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: people I think who are making a difference in this 530 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: world and I highlight their success story. And your story 531 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: needs to be highlights. In a couple of weeks, I'm 532 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: gonna recommend people to get your book. Highlight you on 533 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: my Motivational Mondays. I've done everybody from Shack uh Rick 534 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: Ross was a couple of weeks ago, so uh to 535 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 1: this week. I think I got Will Packer was today 536 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: as Will Packer, He's been highlighted this week. So next 537 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: week I gonna be my man, Bryce Thompson. This book 538 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: is worth it, I'm recommending. I know people have told 539 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: you interview by Rushan McDonald get ready, But brother, I 540 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: was ready for you because you're an inspiration. You are 541 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: my You are what I worked hard to to make happen. 542 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: You know, I feel that anything that I do when 543 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: I welcome you into my studio, realized that it's a 544 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: blessed it for me because it's an honor to understand 545 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: your values that you were able to understand at such 546 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: an early age. I didn't figured it out to allud 547 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: forty Okay, you figured it out, you know, when you 548 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: was twenty two, all right, and you're willing to share 549 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: it to your scholarships through your I Am Millennial events. 550 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: The last one was at the hard Rock Stadium, you know, 551 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: with h your brother came over here brag and telling 552 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: me all these thousands of thousands of people showing up. 553 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: But I love both of y'all, man. But uh, And 554 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: just wrapping up this interview, rights anything you want to 555 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: say to your to your potential new fans and why 556 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: they should really invest in reading your book. Millennials accepted 557 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: and accepted. Um. One thing you know, I do wanna 558 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: you know, say some light on not really just anybody 559 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: that's a just supports me, but any upcoming entrepreneur um, 560 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: anybody that you know wants to to to make something greater, 561 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: to do something greater, to get some something greater, to 562 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: acquire something great. Uh. The one thing worse than not 563 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: having something or acquiring what you want to acquire is 564 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,479 Speaker 1: actually getting it and then losing it. So you know 565 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: what's big for me and just my whole journey and 566 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: how I came into the entrepreneurial space and what I'm 567 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna continue to share light on not just 568 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: in my book, but even specifically within my events. Um, 569 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: just as financial literacy. I think, you know, especially a 570 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: lot of people specifically of color, we you know, we 571 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: come into money or we work so hard to gain something, 572 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: but we never really understand the power of what it's 573 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: gonna be like once we have it, and we never 574 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: really educate ourselves on, you know, what what to do 575 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: when we actually get it. People know how to make money, 576 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: people know how to spend money, save money. Not a 577 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: lot of people know how to multiply money. So you know, 578 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: just the power of investing and knowing what to do 579 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: with your money and knowing how to move when you 580 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: acquire a certain level of success is gonna uh you know, 581 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: in turn allow you to keep it once you gain it. 582 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: And I think that's that's that's one of the most 583 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: powerful things that I want to share light on, especially 584 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 1: for young entrepreneurs that look look like me. Once you 585 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: once you actually get it, you know, our job is 586 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: to keep it, like our job is to have it 587 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: ten twenty thirty years down the line, so we could 588 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: pass it down to the next generation. But um, for Sean, again, 589 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: I appreciate the opportunity like you know, people tell me 590 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: about this, but I've been on fifteen twenty minutes early 591 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: to make shows on and I'm looking forward to you know, 592 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: hopefully talking to meet you in the future. Over will 593 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: Man again, thank you for coming on the show, Bryce Thompson. 594 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: He'll be featured on my Motivational on Monday on my 595 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: Facebook or almost a million followers on this so a 596 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: lot of people gonna see you. Millions accepted and accepted 597 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: and my man, thanks for coming on Money Making Conversations. Okay, cool, 598 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: I appreciate if you want to hear or see my 599 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: interview with Bryce Thompson, don't money Make a Conversation, Please 600 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: go to Money Making Conversation dot com. I am ro 601 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I am your host. 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