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Brought to you 10 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: by the United States Forest Service and the AD Council. 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: On April four, Dr Martin Luther King was shot and 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: killed in Memphis. A petty criminal named James Earl Ray 13 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: was arrested. Case closed right. James Sylvy was upon for 14 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: the official story. Some of the evidence, as far as 15 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: I was concerned, did not match the circumstances. This is 16 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: the MLK tapes. The first episodes are available now. Listen 17 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: you get your podcast. Hi. Welcome to Money Making Conversation. 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: I am your host with Sean McDonald. It's time to 20 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stores and start writing your own. 21 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: I tell that the people every time you listen to 22 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: show and watch this show because I always tell people 23 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: they talk about the gifts, they talk about passion. I 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: always tell you leave with your gifts and don't let 25 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: your age, friends, family, or coworkers stop you from planning 26 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: or living your dreams. My interviews I do on money 27 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: Making Conversations is about giving you access to celebrity ceo, 28 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision maker. My next guest is Tressa 29 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: as a Real small Wood. She's an award winning book 30 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: publisher and movie producer. Trussed is the CEO of Life 31 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: Changing Books l c B and co founder Megamind Media LLC. 32 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 1: In two thousand three of The Right in her first novel, 33 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: her very first novel, Tressa Wow resign from her teaching 34 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: tenure in the Maryland Schools District for fulfilling her dream 35 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: of becoming an entrepreneur. Since then, l c B had 36 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: published over a hundred and sixty two titles and print indigitally, 37 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: becoming one of the leading independent publishing striving in the 38 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: literary industry today. Since lunch of Megamind Media, Tressa has 39 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: produced several award winning movies which have been adapted to 40 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: UH to film and tell TV shares for networks such 41 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: as Viacom, BT Networks, TV one, b t Her Urban 42 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: Movie Channel, and more. With such a large varior content, 43 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: Tresler has positioned Megamind Media to become one of the 44 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: fastest growing film production company from book to film adaptations 45 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,239 Speaker 1: in America. Please working the money making conversations. I'm gonna 46 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: calling my good friend because you know, I saw a 47 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: movie last year. She didn't know I saw a mo 48 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: all in. You know what I'm saying with a little 49 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: mama at least Neil Tressor as a real small wold 50 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: just ma'am that I know about you. I know about 51 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: you before you knew about me. Oh that's so dope. 52 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. As I shared earlier, 53 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 1: there's no better place to be on a Monday, money 54 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 1: making Monday, talking about money making conversations with you. Thank 55 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: you so much. I appreciate you. Know when I it 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: was really interesting because uh my staff, when they always 57 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: bring names up to me about people who will be 58 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: interesting guests because what they're trying to do. I try 59 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: to get the guests to tell their story, their journey 60 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: because we all want to be a version of you. 61 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: I always tell people, don't be Rashan mc. Don't be 62 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: a version of yourself, a better version of me, because 63 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: you because you gotta learn from your mistakes and you 64 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: gotta understand why you're successful. Trying to implement, trying to 65 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: trying to duplicate me a version of me can't work. 66 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: So in your intro, it says, after your first novel, okay, okay, 67 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: now I answer this question. Was it a hit selling novel? 68 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: Just hey, Rahan, I got it out there. I decided 69 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: to exit. Yeah, so you know what it was. It 70 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: was an unexpected hit um. I was actually teaching a 71 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: year prior to that, never had any thoughts about writing 72 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: a novel or going into the book publishing industry. But 73 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: obviously that was my faith. Because I was pregnant in 74 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: three unsen I was on recess duty, having all of 75 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: these issues with pregnancy and ended up going to the 76 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: doctor thinking that something was wrong. Something was wrong, but 77 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't detrimental. They said, hey, right now, you gotta 78 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: go on bad rest at this very moment for the 79 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,559 Speaker 1: next six months until you deliver. So that was life 80 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: changing for me. I went on bad rest at that 81 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: very moment and one of my family members came over 82 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: and I kept saying, what am I gonna do? Six months, 83 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: I got this little bell here ringing it so my 84 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: husband could bring me some food. I was like, this 85 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: is not gonna work. I'm I'm too ambitious for this, 86 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: and she said, you should write a book. That was 87 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: the start. I literally started listening to some stories um, 88 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: of some things that were happening at her job, and 89 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: that was the inspiration to pend my very first novel, 90 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: A Life to Remember. UM. By the time that my 91 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: daughter was born, her name is Bailey. She's nineteen years 92 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: old now, so that tells you how long ago that was, UM. 93 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: And so I published that book after all of the 94 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 1: naysay has kept saying, don't publish it on your own. Uh, don't. 95 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: Self publishing is not the way to go. I didn't listen. 96 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna learn to do it myself, and 97 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it well. And I did that. UM. 98 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: I published the book in my first two months. I 99 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,239 Speaker 1: was able to make forty dollars and sold five thousand 100 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: copies independently self publishing, and so it was a huge success. 101 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: I never went back to work and I started building 102 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: my book, my book Empire from their life changing books. 103 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: Now it is yours, your book empire, tied strictly to 104 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: your talent, or you're bringing outside writers, or you out 105 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: there nurturing other talents under your megamond uh So definitely 106 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: I started nurturing other talent um instantly. You know, when 107 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: you're when you're good at something, other people like you 108 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: said they want to emulate that, they want to duplicate it. 109 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: And so because of my teaching um spirit, I said, 110 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: let me teach others to do what I do UM. 111 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: And so by two thousand and five, which was you know, 112 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: four years after that happened for me, I'd already had 113 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: about thirty authors under my label Life Changing Books, and 114 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: although they were writing books, I was still writing myself. Um. 115 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: To date, I've written seven books myself, and all of 116 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: the others are written by outside authors who came to 117 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: me and wanted to be a part of my team. 118 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: And your team consisted. Because now we're just talking about 119 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: you only on only interview in you, Okay, when I 120 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: hear a six two books digitally and the heart back 121 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: or paperback all me you you're telling me you're one 122 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: woman operation. Well, well, let me say this obviously As 123 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: you grow, you're able to bring in people who do 124 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: things better than you. So, for example, I'm not a 125 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: book editor, I go and hire editors to edit the books. 126 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, a big marketing firm, but I 127 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: know how to go and hire the marketing firm to 128 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: make that happen. So, you know, it's been really really 129 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: successful for me, which has really put me in position 130 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: because of all the content that I owned. It put 131 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: me in position to transition into the movie industry with 132 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: a company that I created inteen called Mega My Media. Okay, cool, 133 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: I love this story. We're talking about a person who 134 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: I have to say that, Okay, you became a writer now, 135 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: but you were it was an educator, you know, high 136 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: school level, elementary school level. So what made this transition 137 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: other than the fact that he was in bed for 138 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: six months? You know, bid rescued your daughter, who's an 139 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: eighteen years of age right now, What really clicked in 140 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: your head to say this is a possibility. Well, I 141 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: feel like I've always had the entrepreneurial spirit in me. Um. 142 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: Growing up, I watched my grandfather literally have six and 143 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: seven different jobs, and I didn't understand it back then. 144 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: We just kept saying, well, what is he doing now? 145 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: Why is he going here? What is this all about? 146 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: And he taught me as I was growing up, So 147 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: it was just something that was just in me that 148 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: by the time I graduated from college, I knew, Okay, 149 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: my family said I need a college degree, but let 150 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: me tell you this. I know that I want to 151 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: be an entrepreneur. I just didn't know what type of entrepreneur, 152 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: what industry it was at the moment. And then once 153 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: I started teaching, I fell in love with helping others. 154 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: That was big for me. Uh And so I do 155 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: believe that outside of being on bad rest and given 156 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: that opportunity, I would have gone into entrepreneurship at some 157 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: point anyway, just because it was always in me. But 158 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: that was the moment where I said, this is it. 159 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: This book is successful. It's all about writing and creating content, 160 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: which is my thing. I love it. I can create 161 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: for days. And so that was my moment and I 162 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: just took advantage of it. And I think a lot 163 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: of times people get their opportunities but they don't execute 164 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: on it. They say I want to do something, but 165 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: they don't push forward. And that was something that I 166 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: was all I was really waiting for that moment to 167 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: figure out what it was. What was my passion, what 168 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: was my gift? I want to that you know, I 169 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: look at my life and a lot of people you 170 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: do a lot of things. Well, first of all, I 171 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: do what I enjoyed doing. Let's gonna be you know 172 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I remember when you were finding your 173 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: dreams Steve Harvey, and I was in l A two 174 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: thousand on the local radio station named two point three 175 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: to B. They're finding our dream started making decisions in 176 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: our life that some people because a lot of people 177 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: was wondering why was he doing local radio when you 178 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: know Bernie was doing the movie, Sid was having those 179 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: Super Bowl commercials. And so you have to define your 180 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: path and stick with your path and then see if 181 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: you have if you have a plan, and so I 182 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: have to believe that when you made the decision to 183 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: walk away, I know, four your thousand dollars and two 184 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: months is a lot. That's that's nice. You know you 185 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: started adding that up over years period. You know you've 186 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: elevated the tax bracket. But still that had to be 187 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: a plan. What was the plan tied to you leaving 188 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: your your your educational background because you wanted to be 189 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: a school teaching with the school to build school teacher. 190 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,319 Speaker 1: You were. You were teaching and changing and shaping young minds. 191 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: But at one point you say, it's about me and 192 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 1: what I want to do too, and how I can 193 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: change mind this way too as well. Correct? Correct? Correct. 194 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:14,079 Speaker 1: I think the defining moment for me came with um, 195 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 1: my husband saying yes, let's do it, because you know, 196 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: everybody around me said no, wait a minute, you just 197 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: went to school to get a masses and education just finish. 198 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: Why are you now leaving this industry and why are 199 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: you taking this chance? Um? I remember family member saying 200 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: you got summers off, and I said, and I'm gonna 201 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: have the rest of my life off in a manner, 202 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna really go and do this. But my husband 203 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: was the one who said, I got you, let's do it. Um. 204 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: He did ask me about my strategy. You know, how 205 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: are you gonna do this? Are you personally gonna be 206 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: the one writing the books constantly? And I said no, 207 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do complicate my success. I'm gonna build a 208 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: publishing house just the same way you see other big 209 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: publishers out here have been doing and it's gonna be 210 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 1: a learning process. So I would say in my very 211 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: first two years, I made so many mistakes, just you know, 212 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: just a lot of my takes, but I learned from them, 213 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: and I started gaining mentors, and I said, I want 214 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: to find the people who are shaping these bigger companies, 215 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: bigger publishing houses, that let them show me what to do. 216 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 1: And by the time I got a couple of contracts 217 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: with like Borders Books back then and Walden Books, those 218 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: were big entities that were interested in helping um female 219 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs at the time. Uh And by the time I 220 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: got those contracts and being able to walk into those 221 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: bookstores and seeing my name on the books on the 222 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: in the in the front window and on the shelves, 223 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I got this now. And so 224 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: I knew at that point that the strategy work. But 225 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: but my husband was the key to that with saying, 226 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna support you in this. I'm trying 227 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: to tredsfer as a real small wood the creative life 228 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: changing books as well as megamind Media. And when I, 229 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: when I, when I, when I listened to you, you know, 230 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: there's always uh I wouldn't say the word disconnect because 231 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: it's almost here, like how you know, you know, how 232 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: does this happen? Because you know you have Amazon out there, 233 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: you have borders, they got they got marketing machines. You know, 234 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: they got advertising dollars. You know they you know you 235 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: you you can say their name. You know, Megamond doesn't 236 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: pop into your mind unless you think of someone some 237 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: animated movie or something like some superhero or something villain 238 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: or something like that. That's when you think of Megamond. 239 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: But how did you believe in yourself so much and said, 240 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: you know something, I I can do this to other people, 241 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: not only myself, but I can do like kelpt me 242 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: slide into that lane understanding because of the fact that 243 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: at the beginning of my show, I always tell people 244 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: to lead with their gifts and don't let your age 245 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: friends and family and co workers and that's what you 246 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: what's happened in your life? Co workers and friends and 247 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: families say, but you you you you you put your 248 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: school for this. I would school to beth my degree 249 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: in mathematis and sociology. Okay, wow, oh I love it. Okay, 250 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 1: so you you you're talking to the right person when 251 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: just saying that degree is something I love. I brag 252 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: about it. I put it on my wall. I tell people, 253 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: probably I have a degree of mathematic but that doesn't 254 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 1: define who I am or who that can be. Now 255 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: you're doing the same thing. You went against the grain. 256 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: Because even though you're not Simon and Suite Schuster, even 257 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: though you're not Amazon, even though you're not Harper College, 258 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: what made you believe the Trensian as a real small 259 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: wood could do this? Yeah? Well, one, faith plays a 260 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: big part of my life. Um, I am always uh 261 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: in prayer. Obviously, we know that you have to do 262 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: more than just pray. You gotta actually do some work, right. Yeah, 263 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: that's that's really big for me. And so you know, 264 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,839 Speaker 1: I feel like if you map out a strategy, if 265 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: you really believe in yourself enough and so people love 266 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: to say I believe in myself, but do you really 267 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: believe in yourself when things when things start failing, when 268 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: you are not succeeding, do you give up or do 269 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: you hang in there? Again? I really always take it 270 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: back to my childhood. I've watched my grandfather failed, but 271 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: I watched him still get up and go to the 272 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: event or to the gig or whatever was happening. Um, 273 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: and we did a lot of you know, talking about 274 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: how did we turn this around, how do we stay 275 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: in the game, how do we make it work? So 276 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: I think from me learning that at an early age 277 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: and then growing up myself and and saying, hey, I 278 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: want to do this. You know, walking away from your 279 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: job doesn't mean you get the opportunity to go back 280 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: to it. It doesn't mean you get the opportunity to backtrack. 281 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: At this point, once I made that commitment to go 282 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: for it, I was in it. Even when even the 283 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: years that weren't as great, I was in it. Even 284 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: when the rejection came. I was in it, and I 285 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: took and I stayed in it. Even when I started 286 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: making my media. My first movie almost took me all 287 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: the way out. I was like, Lord, why why did 288 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: I get into this business? What is going on here? 289 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: But I knew I wasn't going to quit. I knew 290 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: I was going to keep going. Um. It's it's something 291 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: where you have to tell yourself, I got this despite 292 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: the setbacks, despite the challenges. But you also have to 293 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: be real with yourself and know that those things are 294 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: going to happen. I think people try to fool themselves saying, oh, 295 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: you know on social media, this person is doing this 296 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: and this. You know you'll see me on the red 297 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: carpet all the time, But you you have no idea 298 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: what I went through to get there, you know. So 299 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: I just I think people need to understand. Don't just 300 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: say you believe in yourself. You really gotta believe in 301 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: yourself enough to push through it all. 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Find a forest near you and start exploring. 332 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 1: I Discover the Forest dot Org, brought to you by 333 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: the United States Forest Service and the AD Council a trust. Um, 334 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: you know it's really great when I'm listening to your motivation. 335 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: And you know, like I said in when I saw 336 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: your movie All In that you executive produced and your 337 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: wrote starting an Elast Neil as well as Little Mama 338 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: the Rapper, Um, I was first of all, you gotta 339 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: have talent on the screen to really make the words 340 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: and the and the plot have any substance. Okay, you 341 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: know you can, you can have all You have a 342 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: great book. If it's not directed correctly or written correctly, 343 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: then the translation is nothing. And Little Mama, if you 344 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: don't know about her skill set, please join the club. 345 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: She's very talented. Of course, at least Neil is. You know, 346 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: her role is played her mama in the movie, and 347 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: the Little Mama had three kids, you just dragging around 348 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: all over the town and trying to just find her 349 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: place in life. Or your movies female centric or female 350 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: focused movies? Yeah, yes, absolutely most of them are uh 351 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: female focus. But also what's very unique about the movie 352 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: that you're speaking of All In. You know, as an 353 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: African American screenwriter, you have the ability to change the 354 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: narrative right, so at Megamond, any movie that you see 355 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: from me, it is going to show African Americans in 356 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: a good light bottom line. So in the movie All In, 357 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: Little Mama didn't start off in a good light, right 358 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: she begin but by the time you got to the end, 359 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: what was happening. She was an entrepreneur, She opened up 360 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: her shop and all was well. Right. So that was 361 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: me I had. I had the the the decision making 362 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: opportunity as to how I was going to end that film. 363 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: And so I believe that the more content creators that 364 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: we get out there who have that same mission, where like, 365 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: how are we gonna look on screen? You know? And 366 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: so I wrote another movie, UM that was based off 367 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: of a book from Life Changing Books called The Available Wife. UM. 368 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: This movie is actually airing on BT this month. But 369 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: when you watch how these African American females look, you're 370 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: gonna say to yourself, oh my goodness, like who did this? 371 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: Who did this? The moment that you see them, they 372 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: have nice, nice careers, entrepreneurs. Everywhere they look good, they are. 373 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 1: Everything that they do is gonna put you on another level. 374 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: So we don't have to always put ourselves in movies 375 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: where we are the underdog. But that doesn't have to happen, 376 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: but it starts with who has the pen, who's doing 377 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: who's doing the writing, and who's making the decisions. Interesting 378 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: thing about it because we all talk about budgets, okay, 379 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: and that that's you know, who you know because you're 380 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: getting some amazing talent and I know your budgets, aren't 381 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: you know, we're not talking about Will Packer budgets. And 382 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: some of these, even his movies are the most profitable 383 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 1: movies in the in the in the Hollywood history is 384 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: Will Packer movies. So when you when you start looking 385 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: at new talent of veteran talent bringing them to your project, 386 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: how do you have the casting? Yeah, so we typically 387 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: connect with the agents that have either seen our product 388 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: or know someone who knows us, right, because it's all 389 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: always about who you know. In the very beginning, when 390 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: I produced my very first movie, nobody knew who we were, 391 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: so it was very difficult to get talent. But once 392 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: they saw Secrets, UH centers wanted some of the movies 393 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: that I did first, they then said, oh this is 394 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: this is a great you know, a great company to 395 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: go and work for. I know they're gonna be treated well, 396 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: I know they're gonna look good on screen, and so 397 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: from there has become very easy. So now, for example, 398 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: I'm casting for a new movie as we speak. You know, 399 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: when when we're being introduced to certain agents, we're just 400 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: really send it over are real and saying, hey, here's 401 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: a new movie that we're doing, here's the script, and 402 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: and it's it's much easier now. Um, and our budgets, 403 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: like you said, we don't have the mega budgets, but 404 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: at our budget level, talent knows that, oh we're gonna 405 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: be seen in a good light. And this is something 406 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: I want to be a part of absolutely, because now 407 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 1: when you can, would you consider your movies independent productions 408 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 1: or how how how is that featured? Yeah, we're we're 409 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 1: consentering independent filmmakers. Okay, Now that's that's the beauty of 410 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: your industry. Because of the fact that now when I 411 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: when I after reference all In, because that's the movie 412 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: I saw that fell in love with your talent. I 413 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: fell in love with the concept and it was a 414 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: feel good story and it goes back to me. And 415 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: that's why I relate to your a lot, because I 416 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: wrote Sitcom's Sister Sister. You know Jamie Foxx the Parkers, 417 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: and it was all about you know, heavy said women 418 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: feeling good about themselves. That was the Parkers. Jamie Foxx 419 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 1: was an entrepreneur, young man finding themselves. And when when 420 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: I went to the series in the last two years, 421 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: we took him out of the hotel and made him, 422 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: made him a business, put him in a professional business world. 423 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: And then sister sister. That was two twin teenagers coming 424 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 1: of age because we took him from high school to college. 425 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: And I always feel good about that, and that my 426 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: whole brand. If you look at what we did with 427 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, it was always about uplifting black people. Same 428 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: thing I'm doing with stephen A. Smith. So it's about 429 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: the positive image that you create that we are now 430 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: getting now. You know, when you started way back in 431 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: the early two thousands, you know, when nobody out there 432 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: wanted black content. Nobody was looking for us. What do 433 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: I want to feel us? You know? And then you 434 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: battle with TV want you battle with Open Network, you 435 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: bad little bat, just to try to get a little 436 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: little meat with your stuff. How is the reaction been 437 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: to your brand now that suddenly people want black content? 438 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: We got the Netflix out there the Amazon, the Hulse 439 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 1: on it, a new network coming out of this time 440 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: to the oh Hulu relationship. What is happening with your brain? Girl? 441 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: You gotta be feeling good about yourself. Your faith is 442 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: paying off. Yeah, yeah, hard work pays off, I'm telling you. 443 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: And so when I think about it, I'm so glad 444 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: that you brought that up, because I always tell people 445 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: it's a part of staying through it all, like saying 446 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: the course. When when I first did Secrets in sixteen, 447 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: we took it to a b FF, very first time 448 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 1: doing any of this. I remember being in the movie 449 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: theater for the screening and actually looking around going, wait 450 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: a minute, this is real. This is really real. Now 451 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: people are in here watching this movie. And so God 452 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: bless me big time because right after the screening, I 453 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 1: met one from BT and they said, hey, you need 454 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: to meet such and such. They're gonna call you next week. 455 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: And that happened. Um got a call from BC the 456 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: very next week and said, hey, we want to license 457 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,959 Speaker 1: this movie. So staying the course, staying committed. I didn't 458 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: I didn't even know that that was going to happen 459 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: to me. I honestly was going there saying I'm gonna 460 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: take a chance on myself. I'm gonna market this film 461 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: like crazy. See who shows up at my screening, and 462 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: if nothing happens, I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna figure 463 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: it out. I'm gonna get it on somebody's network. But 464 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: it happened very quickly, and from there the train has 465 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: not stopped moving. Look at your children's eyes to see 466 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 1: the true magic of a forest. It's a storybook world 467 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: for them. You look and see a tree. They see 468 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: the wrinkled face of a wizard with arms outstretched to 469 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,679 Speaker 1: the sky. They see treasuring pebbles, they see a windy 470 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: path that could lead to adventure, and they see you. 471 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 1: They're fearless. Guide. Is this fascinating? Help find a forest 472 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 1: near you and start exploring a Discover the Forest dot 473 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: org brought to you by the United States Forest Service 474 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,959 Speaker 1: and the ad Council. Hi everyone, Al Roker here as 475 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: a guy with his own catchphrase. I appreciate that Smokey's 476 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: only said only you can prevent wildfires, but I'm filling 477 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: in because there's a lot more to report, like when 478 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: they're parched or windy conditions out there, you gotta be 479 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: extra careful with things like burning yard wage. 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Oh, Mom has 490 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: just nailed the perfect car seat buckle for the toddler. 491 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: And now the eldest daughter, who looks to be about 492 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: nine or ten, has secured herself in the booster seat. 493 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: Dedad zips the bad clothes and they're off. But looks 494 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: like Mom doesn't realize her coffee cup is still on 495 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: the roof of the car. And there it goes. Oh, 496 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: that's a shame that mud was a fan favorite. Don't 497 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: sweat the small stuff. Just nailed the big stuff, like 498 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: making sure your kids are buckled correctly in the right seat. 499 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 1: For their agent's eyes learn more. N h T s 500 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: A dot gov slash the right Seat visits n h 501 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: T s A dot gov slash the Right Seat brought 502 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: to you by Nitza and the ad Council. Well has 503 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: a good train. Now that now you have some project 504 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: coming out on up on bat Her, tell us about 505 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: the tell us about the the process of Megamind, of 506 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: of taking these books and adapting them for film. You know, 507 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: we all know you to brain Child. You know you 508 00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:00,239 Speaker 1: are the Megamind. Talk to us about that dress him yes, yes, 509 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: so so obviously with Megamond, our primary goal is to 510 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: take the books that are in the book catalogs from 511 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: life changing books and adapt those into the movies. So 512 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: that's the primary goal. However, along the way, when people 513 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: see that you can produce UM, that you're putting out 514 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: good content, of course they're gonna tap into you to 515 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: do projects with them as well. So the partnership with 516 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: bet her Um with these health initiatives came with UM. 517 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: One of the executives over there, Loisa bates Um, she 518 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: was looking for someone to UM partner with them on 519 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: the health initiatives. So they have a series called The 520 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: Waiting Room, The Couch and now the Hotline. All of 521 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: these series, UM are projects that highlight health issues or 522 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: some type of of issue that African American women face. 523 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: So for example, The Couch touches on mental health. UH, 524 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: the Waiting Room touches on breast cancer awareness, and now 525 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: the Hotline touches on domestic violence. And so this is 526 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: a series that UM, you know obviously you know bt 527 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: her feels really strongly about and I am actually the 528 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: producer for for that series. And so we bring in 529 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: celebrity directors. We've had Vivica Fox, Mona Scott, Young, Victoria 530 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: Raoul and that's a bell callaway. Uh. The list goes on, 531 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: but they basically come in, they take us an episode 532 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: and they direct that episode. And the reason why we 533 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: tapped into uh, celebrities to do this is because we 534 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: know when they speak, people listen. So when you have 535 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: a Shirlelee Ralph talking to you about why you should 536 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: go and get a mamogram early uh and why she 537 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: decided to direct a an episode about breast cancer awareness. UM. 538 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: So these these short films episodes are very very powerful. UM. 539 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: We have a set of them coming out in July 540 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: for The Couch, which are the Mental Health UM series. 541 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: The Vivica Ain't fox Uh movie that she directed was 542 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: that shot d C area. Yes, we shoot all of 543 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: our movies in DC. It was so funny because I 544 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: woll just tell you a little funny story because one 545 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: of the locations that she chose was a very good 546 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: friend of mine. Did you guys use Laura Foods? It 547 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: was her. So so we are so im on the phone, 548 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: We're talking to Laura and then she walked the Foxes 549 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: in my office directed. It is so funny that you're 550 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: saying that because I knew exactly the project that you 551 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: were talking about there was recently shot, by the way, 552 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: it was shot this year. Yeah, and we actually shot 553 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: two series at Laura's UM facility. We did one with 554 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: Dandy Smith and Mona Scott Young her film was shot 555 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: there as well. Um. And you know, obviously I know 556 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: Laura just because she's amazing when it comes to money. Yes, 557 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: and she talked about you to me before, Rashawn, but 558 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: I actually did not make the connection. So now, well 559 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,239 Speaker 1: good because now you know because of the fact that 560 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: the a it was so funny, I said, I gotta 561 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: ask what the deificant shoot that in DC? Because it 562 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: was recently done. But when I look at these projects 563 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: and other people, you're evolving as a brand. You are 564 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: a brand now. You know, you may have whout on faith, 565 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: you may have you know God told you you need 566 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: to send the bed for six months and get you 567 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: a little ring bell, and you wrote a book, but 568 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: you are a brand. What responsibility comes with you being 569 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: a brand tresser as a real small wood Yeah? I 570 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: think for me, um, the responsibility that I take is 571 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: number one. I said before, I get to control the narrative, right, 572 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: because we are we have a lot of eyeballs on 573 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: us now. So even if I wanted to act crazy, 574 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 1: I can't, right because there's too many people watching me. Um. 575 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: I take the fact that although I don't teach in 576 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: the classroom, I'm still an educator and there are a 577 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: lot of young people watching me, following me, wanting to 578 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: duplicate my success, and so I don't take that lightly. Um. 579 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: So responsibility for me is that I watched what I do. 580 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: I make sure that I am pulling other people up 581 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: and showing them what to do. Um, And I am 582 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: encouraging people all the time to go for it, but 583 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: go for it with a plan, right. Right, and then 584 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,719 Speaker 1: then the plan is that you know it can that's 585 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: be just faith. It has to have a plan tied 586 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: to I always tell people you go out on faith, 587 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: but somewhere along life you better have some reason or 588 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: budget tied to that. That that that faith. And when 589 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: I when I look at what you're doing, what you 590 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: I gotta ask this question because we said, you know 591 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: your your books are female centric, because people come to 592 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: me all the time. You know, I can't get everybody 593 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: at Simon Schuster or Harper College or some of the 594 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: major labels out there. Do do you how do you 595 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: how do you? I guess screen people who want to 596 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: bring novels or memoirs to your to your your book 597 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: label LCB. Yeah, we have a screening process, so pretty 598 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: much we send all traffic to um trust the ozaail 599 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: dot com and from there people who want to go 600 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: to casting they can figure it out, you know, once 601 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: they get to the site if they want to, you know, 602 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: submit a project. It's an easy way for me to 603 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: streamline everything all questions straight to that site. Because of course, 604 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: if I'm doing radio interviews and all these different things, 605 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: I can't always try to figure out how to help 606 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: somebody answer each individual question. So we send everybody right 607 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: there and they can get all the answers that they 608 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: need in terms of um, you know, us looking at projects, 609 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: whether it's a screenplay, it's a novel or whatever, it is, 610 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: okay cool. So so if someone because I'm I'm gonna 611 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: send up some people, you're wait now because I have 612 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: no I'm just now i have no clue as to 613 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: what to do because I'm not familiar with because Amazon 614 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: takes a lot of your money. To my understand, you know, 615 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: when you do self publishing, and so when you talk 616 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: about self publiclashy, are you going through Amazon? How how 617 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: does your self publishing system work for you? Yeah, we 618 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,719 Speaker 1: still utilize Amazon. It's obviously not the only outlet that 619 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: we have, but you know, we use Baker and Taylor, 620 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: we use Ingram. Amazon is just easy for everyone, you know, 621 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: whether I think I'm always in this love hate relationship 622 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: with Amazon, but at the end of the day, it's 623 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: easy access. And because America loves Amazon, they go there 624 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: for my films, they go there to buy my books. 625 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: But ultimately we get a chance to disseminate the information 626 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: when they come to trust at azarel dot Com. So 627 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,719 Speaker 1: it's just the easy I love it. First of all, 628 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: let's not just say America, but the world loves Amazons 629 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: to you. You know, they can be buying your books 630 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: in Africa and the Caribbean and Spain, in Europe, in 631 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: Russia because they're watching my movies over there. Toober Shot, 632 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: I get d m s all the time. But that's 633 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: what that That's what I'm saying is that you are 634 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: brand now. And so you know, I know, I'm going 635 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: to continuous conversation because you know, you're so enchanting and 636 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: from the standpoint of you know, when I when I 637 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: when I've come across people like you who are naturally talented, 638 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's always the next level when I'm 639 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know, what's the next level 640 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: for you. That's why we have to talk more off 641 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: the air because of the fact that I see gifts 642 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: in you. I'm not saying you're satisfied, I'll never say that, 643 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 1: but what are the next step? Because you you you know, 644 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: you you know big dollar you should beat some big 645 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: dollar projects. You know, you should be a PI you know, 646 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: twenty five million dollar budgets. If they're throwing around the 647 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: Netflix and all this stuff. You should be doing those things. 648 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: And so I'm I'm claiming it, speaking into exist. I'm 649 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: just trustful. I don't just talk like that's just because 650 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: you know you look good. I'm talking about because you're good. Okay. 651 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: So you know if you uglies think I talked a 652 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 1: way because you're good, girl, you're good, all right. So 653 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: so in the future, let's let's let's stay in touch. 654 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 1: And I just want to share your story on money 655 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: making conversation about how you made a decision as a 656 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: elementary high school. You have a master's degree in education 657 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: and you decide, you know, someone follow my dream and 658 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: the Nate says, your friends, your family, your co workers 659 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 1: told you, hey, care, are you crazy? Same people told 660 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,479 Speaker 1: me when I was leaving IBM be a standard comic. 661 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: It said, you're not gonna be edin Murphy. I never 662 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,280 Speaker 1: told you I wanted to be Edie Murphy. I told 663 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,800 Speaker 1: you I want to be richer prior you're assuming something 664 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 1: I never All I want to do is just be 665 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: ras Sean McDonald and guess what, It's riped out for me, 666 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: and it's working out for you. And that's what one 667 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: of making conversations about then people hear these stories of 668 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 1: success to let them know if you follow your faith 669 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 1: with a plan and a budget, you can win too. 670 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 1: But no, there's gonna be some low roads, the low roads. 671 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: Go to let you know how to not fall back 672 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: into the low roads. The high roads when they come. 673 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: Let you know what it takes to stay at the 674 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,960 Speaker 1: high road because to your success. And and thank you 675 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,839 Speaker 1: for coming on Money Making Conversation, Trusting. Thank you so 676 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: much for having me. I really really love this conversation. 677 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: I'm glad you and I'm glad you was able to 678 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: put two and two together with Laura Foods. Now you 679 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: know talking to me about you. That's my girl. But 680 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: again she swarts, he knows how the henling your money 681 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 1: and she's a hard worker. Again, come back on my show. 682 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 1: We need to promote something else and also just tell 683 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: your story to my fans who will boast audio as 684 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: well as video for money Making Conversations. Okay, awesome, Thank 685 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: you so much. Have a great day. Okay, So if 686 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: you want to hear or see any of my interviews 687 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: all money Making Conversations, please go to money Making Conversation 688 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: dot com. I'm Rashan McDonald. I am your host In 689 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,359 Speaker 1: this season of giving, Coals has gifts for all your 690 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,760 Speaker 1: loved ones. 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