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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, ras

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Speaker 1: Shan McDonald. I recognized that we all have different definitions

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Speaker 1: of success. For you, it may be the size of

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Speaker 1: your paycheck. Mine is inspiring people to develop a plan

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Speaker 1: to reach their dreams. It's time to stop reading other

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Speaker 1: people's success stories and start writing your own. You can

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Speaker 1: only exceed expectations by believing in yourself. People always talk

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Speaker 1: about purpose of gifts. You read about that all the time,

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Speaker 1: or he had hyped in social media. If you have

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Speaker 1: a gift, lead with your gifts and don't let your friends, family,

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Speaker 1: or co workers stop you from planning or living your dreams.

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Speaker 1: My guests is Kelly Jenrette. She's an Emmy nominated actress

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Speaker 1: currently starting them and seed up your hit series All

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Speaker 1: American Homecoming in twent eight teams, she and her husband

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Speaker 1: became the first African American married couple to be nominated

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Speaker 1: for Emmies. In the same year. As we know how,

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Speaker 1: Emmy was on the hit series Handmad's Tale, which I

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Speaker 1: another one of my great series that I love as well.

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Speaker 1: She's based in Atlanta, so she took time to come

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Speaker 1: on our show to talk about to spend off and

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Speaker 1: her character she's the president. We have a president on

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Speaker 1: the show. Please welcome, come, Money Making Conversation master class,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Jenrette. How are you doing, Kelly? I don't doing well.

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Speaker 1: How are you you know? Um? Uh, my own character.

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Speaker 1: She was on the show when it was show premiered,

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Speaker 1: So so he said, this guy really knows the series.

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Speaker 1: So because so I, you know, I tried to do

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Speaker 1: my prep work, Kelly, and I was trying to jump

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Speaker 1: generic question, because when you have a series as as complex,

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Speaker 1: I want to say that complimentary character complex is yours.

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Speaker 1: How do you how do you slide in and out

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Speaker 1: of this whole process in the script development? Well? Uh,

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Speaker 1: I think the thing that I focused on is just

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Speaker 1: just so well, it's easy to kind of slide into it.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like the character of Mara is very

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Speaker 1: own thing. Like I watching Netflix a lot and the

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Speaker 1: of this show. I'm not trying to put you on

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Speaker 1: I'm sure people on the street stop you. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they make comments of why they watch the show. Well

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Speaker 1: in your character as well. What is the driving force

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Speaker 1: to the fan viewership? I think because it's something that

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Speaker 1: You know, seeing a group of people come together to

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Speaker 1: feel like the family aspect of the show, the relatability

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Speaker 1: and that's a good thing because I feel that everybody

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Speaker 1: Some people say that watching that series change their lives

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that, and I also want to talk

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Speaker 1: to other other characters. But I wanted to get that

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Speaker 1: because we don't talk about these things. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a beautiful thing to be a

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Speaker 1: part of a show that isn't afraid to kind of

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Speaker 1: the way that storyline is working itself out for the

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Speaker 1: for the head coach, but also when I look at

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Speaker 1: because we always talking about the marching band, We're always

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Speaker 1: I'm very fond of that storyline and then seeing baseball

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Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. And

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Speaker 1: this is not about the marching band. This is not

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Speaker 1: story I think everybody knows, But HBCUs do have golf teams.

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Speaker 1: Handmaid's Tail, now, that's a pretty rough series. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: And that character you played that Handmaids Tail was nothing

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Speaker 1: and handmade's tail wasn't prissy. Well, see, I think you

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Speaker 1: I think it's important for your fans to hear you

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Speaker 1: say that, because everybody wants to be you. You might say, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: acting classes, you're still going to acting classes. Oh night,

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Speaker 1: and here in twit twent two, you're still going to

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Speaker 1: money making conversation, Master Glass, You're you're a blessing. The interview.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much. Thank you for the

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Speaker 1: life that you spoke into my life. I receive it,

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Speaker 1: I hear you, and I will move according me. There

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Speaker 1: you go, there you go. Well, now we're gonna come on,

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Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on, come on, come again.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You keep that laugh. That's what I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to that laugh right there. Keep their spirit high and

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Speaker 1: we'll talking soon, okay, because I keep my I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: keep a little monitor on you. I keep my little

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Speaker 1: monitor and if I see you directed anything. You know,

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Speaker 1: your first phone call gonna be your book. Not to

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Speaker 1: say that I told you so, just to say what

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Speaker 1: prompted the jump though, what prompted the jump, Be safe,

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Speaker 1: that we talked soon. Love you,