1 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's to show that she 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: advice to many occasions. In the case you didn't notice, 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know, he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do. 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: It's what he likes to ship. Now it's time to 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations, Money 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: Making Conversations. Two years going on two years and we 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: still and we were rocking and rolling. The brand is growing, team, 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: the brand is growing, the words getting out. The information 12 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: that we give is accurate and we care about people 13 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: who listen to our show because we get about information 14 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: to make them win. That's right information. That's what to 15 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 1: show us about information. Information from individuals who are out 16 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: there doing it in the streets, in the boardrooms, in 17 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: front of the cameras, behind the cameras. Small businesses, some 18 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: of them are driven by faith from a standpoint of 19 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: they put together faith in it. It motivates them through 20 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: imagery and motivates them through constant planning. It motivates them 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: through consistency. That is your angle. What angle do you take? Nothing? 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: No angles behind, but the angle did you take? I 23 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: want you to share on my show. I want you 24 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: to hear about it on my show. So when you 25 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: walk away from money making conversation, you said, Man, I 26 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,839 Speaker 1: can't miss with Sean. Have you heard about Rashawn show. 27 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: It's the show man everybody comes. I love to hear 28 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: everybody coming over Shawn show now. That's what I like him. 29 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: My next guest is one of those everybody coming over 30 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: Shan show now, but next years. That's so a long time, okay, 31 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: my sitcom world. When I was writing back there, Jamie five, Sister, Sister, 32 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: the Parker, all that good stuff back then before I 33 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: started managing my man. But next day is a two 34 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: time in double a CP Image Award nominated actress, producer, 35 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: Entrepreneurs He is entrepreneur. Having the ability to portray characters 36 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: ranging from a sophisticated young entrepreneur to a mentally challenged teenager, 37 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: has branded her as one of the entertainment industry's most 38 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: well respected actresses. She recently launched shop She's Got a 39 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: habit dot com, a retail marketplace. I went online and 40 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: checked it out. And an extension of this is living 41 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: dot com, a traveling lifestyle website and an e commerce 42 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: platform that she co founded with her husband, Terek Walker. 43 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: Please welcome for the very first time I had a 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: drum roll the money making conversations, Melinda Williams anute. First 45 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: of all, can I get again? I'm gonna work on 46 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: your rule. It's the funny point of but I never 47 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: tell my staff, uh, saying who's my point of my 48 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: producers that I'm gonna do it? Because not consistently. So 49 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: he's always back to scramming. And when I decide out 50 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: of my he had to say, drum gonna please, would 51 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: you just tell me? Brother? Would you just tell me brother? 52 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: But I'm doing great and you just said that you 53 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: just left Hot Atlanta before we got on the A. 54 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: I did. I just left Hot latter we Uh, we 55 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: were down there for my husband, Terk and I were 56 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: down there for the Wide Conference, which is rolling out 57 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: Magazine's conference as well as the Sisters in Business Expo. 58 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: So we were down there very busy running around in 59 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: the hot city. But really just you know, having a 60 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: good time and building our brands in the process. That's key. 61 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: I like what you said, building brands, that's important. We 62 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: hear people talking about it all the time. What when 63 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: you say building your brand, what does that mean in general? Well, 64 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: here's the thing. You know, we know we're all potential brands, 65 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: right um. You know, and with the onset of social media, 66 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: we all have begun to, you know, take branding ourselves 67 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: a bit more seriously. And you know, as an actress, 68 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: it's interesting because sometimes people separate them the world of 69 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: acting or the world the entertainment industry from entrepreneurial um 70 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: um efforts. As an actress, I've always been an entrepreneur. 71 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: I've always basically worked for myself, been in business for myself. 72 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: Now I've been contracted by studios, I've been contracted by producers, 73 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: but I've always been my own business. And so as 74 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: an actress, I've always understood that I have to market myself. 75 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: I have to brand myself because there is no there 76 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: isn't necessarily a company behind me. I am the company 77 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: um and so in building everything that I build, all 78 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: the businesses that I that I have. In the last 79 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: twelve months, I've launched three businesses and and those businesses 80 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: are all extensions of who I am, what my personal 81 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: life is, and you know what I enjoy doing on 82 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: a daily basis that I would be doing anyway. I've 83 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: just found ways to turn them into businesses and monetize 84 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: them so that my lifestyle becomes, um, you know, the 85 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: way I lived become the way I earn a living, 86 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: right right. There's there's an interesting thing about it because 87 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: you're you're, you know, still out there doing your acting 88 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: things as well as being an entrepreneurs. Have a twenty 89 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: two year daughter, and I saw the movie and I 90 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: got to sit down and see the movie that you 91 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: did on the TV one Love to Death and uh, 92 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: because you know, I don't know she's out there. I'm 93 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: hoping she's making all the right decisions, hoping that she's 94 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: going to meet the right people. When you do a 95 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: movie like that, does it what impact does it have 96 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: on you personally? And then people who watched the movie, 97 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: how do they receive what you're the message you've delivered 98 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: on the screen. Mm hmm, thank you for that question. 99 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because, as I said earlier, everything 100 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: that I do in my businesses is an extension of 101 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: who I am. I don't make any moves in business 102 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: that don't uh in, have it in some way or 103 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: will not in some way impact me personally. At the 104 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm a storyteller, right. I share 105 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: my stories, my personal stories, my business stories, and I 106 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: do that through the characters that I play as well 107 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: as the products that I put out. You know, anything 108 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: that is an extension of me as part of it 109 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: is personal to me. Um so. So. Having said that, 110 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: I took this role because yes, I had had my 111 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: own experiences with um domestic violence and intimate partner abuse 112 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: personally as well as you know, one in three women 113 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: will be abused in her lifetime. You know, Sorry and 114 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: sad to say it, but um so, I so, almost 115 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: everyone that I know has either been Every woman that 116 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: I know has either been abused or has known someone 117 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: close to them who has been abused. So as as 118 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: someone who's in the industry, and I feel qualified to 119 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: play the role, qualified because it came into my experience, 120 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: as well as qualified because it's what I do, um 121 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: um as a as an artist, I felt the responsibility 122 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: to tell the story and and bring a certain authentication 123 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: to it because of my personal experience. That's really important. 124 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: And that's why I wanted to at least point that 125 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: out from a from a personal side, because a lot 126 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: of times, you know, we just see roles that individuals 127 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: do and whether they whether they reach to get that 128 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: emotion where they reach to get a foundation of reality 129 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: for that to become authentic on the screen. And also 130 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: in things like that, you know, especially domestic violence. You know, 131 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: we say one out of three, but that's one of 132 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: the three that's been reported, all right, and that's that's 133 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: the scary number. That's the scary number that we have 134 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: to talk about. But I always want to bring out 135 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: a group of six sisters and I anything that allows 136 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: me to communicate a value system of uplifting level of 137 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,679 Speaker 1: communication about women, I will do it on this show. 138 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: And I had to bring that out as part of 139 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: my conversations with you and continue do amazing work like 140 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: that in the future. Now, thank you, I will thank you. 141 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: Good good. Now Now okay, now here's your boy. Okay, 142 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: I am a guy from going with switching gears, going 143 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: over to the yoga Okay, now, okay, okay, going over 144 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: to yoga. Okay, Now, what exactly is yoka? What exactly. 145 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: Oh Man, Yoka is interesting that it's it's it's a lifestyle, 146 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: it's a practice, it's an ongoing practice. A lot of 147 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: people when they think of yoga, they think of poses, 148 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: to think of exercising, They think of you know, great 149 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: abs and you know and and beautiful arms. But yoga 150 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: really is a mind, body and soul practice. So you 151 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: have the mind's part where you are quieting your mind. 152 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: Still in your mind, you're able to focus um and 153 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: and and for for us, it's about really focusing so 154 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: that we can manifest what it is we want to 155 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: happen in our lives. There's the spiritual part of it. 156 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: The spiritual practice this where we're recognizing in the world 157 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: um and trying to be a more loving individual to others, 158 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: and we're looking to recognize love in in other individuals 159 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: as well, which obviously that's not the whole of it. UM. 160 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: And then there's a physical obviously obviously the posing and 161 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: that's a discipline that, yes, there's a there's a wonderful 162 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: result in that, you know, you wind up with a 163 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: with a beautiful, strong, physical um body and presence. But 164 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: there's so much more to the physical practice of yoga. 165 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: Than people really truly understand unless they are they are 166 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: engaging in the practice itself. Now, you started a oneness 167 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: yoga studios in New Jersey with one of your what 168 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: your sisters are? One of your sisters. I have two 169 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: sisters and we're all we're a triangle. We're a partner, 170 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: just stretching out hot yoga that I hear about the 171 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: hot yoga too. You've heard about the hot yoga, yes, 172 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: you know ideally, you know, nobody wants to really practice 173 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: yoga in the cold, so some of it is practiced 174 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: at different temperatures. Ours isn't quite like the super hot 175 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: hot heating like become yoga, but we definitely practice it 176 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: in a warm studio because it's important for your muscles 177 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: to be warmed, um, so that you don't injure yourself 178 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: while you're practicing. Now, let's talk about the website. There's 179 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: an extension of this is leaving. Yes, that's Shops. She's 180 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: got a habit and it's and it's really right now, 181 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: it's it's my baby, right, um, you know, like if 182 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: this is leaving is my firstborn, Um, my new baby 183 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 1: is Shops. She's got to happen and it's really a 184 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: fashion and lifestyle extension of this is leaving. It's really 185 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: also a wellness but the emphasis is on women, UM 186 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: particularly of targeting women of color, because I feel like 187 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: there's a lot of sites out there who target everyone 188 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: else and and sort of consider women of color and 189 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: afterthought like, oh, you can get something here, you can 190 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: find something. I agree with you because of the fact 191 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: that when I was looking at these these these e 192 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: commerce portals that you're creating, you allowed because one of 193 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: the questions they sent over to me was talking about 194 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: using your following into your network to build UH network 195 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: and uh empowering others to do the same. Now, that's 196 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: that's a very unselfish statement for you to make. Where 197 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: does that come from? What does what? What? What? What 198 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: causes you to make a statement like that about helping 199 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: other people? My parents, I mean, at the end of 200 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: the day, my family. It's a reflection of the family 201 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: that I the way I was raised. I was raised 202 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: with two sisters, and my father always told us there's 203 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: nothing more important than your sisters. And so essentially I 204 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: have an affinity for for for sisterhood, for women and 205 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: for women of color. And it's a great time for 206 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: women right now, in particularly for women of color. And again, 207 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: the way that technology has evolved, it's gotten us to 208 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: a place where we can connect with one another immediately, 209 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: like right now, right away, there is no delay in 210 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: our connection. And so what are we using our platforms 211 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: and our connections for? And so I say we should 212 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: be using our networks to build our net work because 213 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: we now don't have to look outside of our network. 214 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: There are enough of us so we can get together 215 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: and partner up and help each other. We're all outs 216 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,679 Speaker 1: here trying to do it independently, and I feel like 217 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 1: that's the harder way to work. If we want to 218 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: work smarter, then we would connect with one another with 219 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: these tools that social media has given us to be 220 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: able to do so and and grow ourselves strong. Um together, 221 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: there you go with Linda Williams. Thank you for coming 222 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: on my show, Very Powerful. Now I'm gonna being um 223 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: Philadelphia next week for our three days. So I don't 224 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: know where you are, but your sisters that there turn 225 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: up the heat rash coming back. But thank you Lenda 226 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: for coming on this show. You're amazing and please, hey, 227 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: don't be a stranger. Can you come back to absolutely Okay? Cool. 228 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: And also we're gonna reach out to your people to 229 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: give us some banners and some posts. We can put 230 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: it on news letty thousand followers in my newsletter and 231 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: I got a pretty healthy followers and my Facebook page. 232 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: And I'll help you out because guess what which I 233 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 1: cannot allow myself to not. I'll do you because you're 234 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: doing it girl. I gotta do you. I gotta do you. 235 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: I gotta do Melenda keep winning, Okay, I will you too. Rashan, 236 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: thank you, appreciate you. We'll be right back with more 237 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: from Marsan McDonald and money making conversations don't touch that. 238 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: Restrictions may apply. 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Never pay for Kyle repairs again. 256 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: Just dial Star Star one seven on your mobile phone 257 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: now dial Star Star one one four seven. Hi, This 258 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: rou Sean McDonald. You're listening to money making conversation. That's right, 259 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: you are listening to money making conversation a show that 260 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: was created by me. I don't think created for the 261 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: overall production of the show. I just had to the idea. 262 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: I have a great team of people, relationships that I've 263 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: created over the years to come on my show, new 264 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: ones to hear about the show, people who support the show. 265 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: I'm just saying that you're never successful by yourself. You're 266 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: only successful by the people that you are are just 267 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: surround you. Did you surround yourself with and we surround 268 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: yourself with the right people who believe in you. Have 269 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: the same passion level that you have, then you can 270 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: consider the next level of winning, and winning is being 271 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: able to accomplish the task that you put in front 272 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: of you and reach the goals that you want to reach. 273 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: That's what I consider winning. When it can be financial, 274 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: women can be social, women can be health a lot 275 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: of ways. I myself, I've wanted many different ways. I 276 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: wanted through health, I want through money, I wanted through accolades, 277 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: awards and things like that. But in the end, it's 278 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: where you just determine the path of where you want 279 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: to be successful. It's important and we're listening to Money 280 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: Making Conversation host about me, Rashan McDonald. I'm giving you 281 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: an opportunity to listen to information that you can verify. 282 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: Just follow these people. Just just listen to these people. 283 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: Just go to their websites, go to their social media. 284 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: You'll see there's a consistent pattern of success. That's a 285 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: consistent pattern of promoting their brands, being able to articulate 286 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: their message. And that's a lot of problems that a 287 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: lot of people have. They have great ideas, but how 288 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: they how they getting that message out, how they they 289 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: what what are the consistencies of their brand messaging. That's 290 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: what you have to do. Chick fil A, you know 291 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: they do chicken that's what they do now. They everyone's 292 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: want to throw a soup out there, but they don't. 293 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: Never put the soup in front of the chicken. So 294 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: a lot of times people get confused about that. You know, 295 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Sometimes I looking at 296 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: Burger King. They're selling tacos. Boy, I don't know what's 297 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: going on over there. But I did go over there 298 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: and get the impossible burger. I do recommend the impossible 299 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: burger ate it back to back days. It is very 300 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: good something. But they do burgers now when they start 301 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: selling tacos, and then I got a problem with them again. 302 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: But guess she is a graduate of the University day 303 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 1: of Houston. I'm proud to say I am a graduate 304 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: of the University of Houston. I have a Math degrade 305 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: minor and sociology. My next guest is the CEO and 306 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: product inventor of s W n G Essentials skin Caroline. 307 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: Thirteen years ago. What began as a passion and necessity 308 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 1: quickly blossomed into an award winning skincare brand name by 309 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: Forbes twelve Coolest Gifts and Travelers and Best twenty five 310 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: Gifts for Fathers. This is FORBS Magazine. She has developed 311 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: patented skincare with targeted solutions for women and men for 312 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 1: skin conditions such as sensitive skin. I have sensitive skin, crisis, 313 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: ingrown hair, and hyper and hyper pigmentation. Please working the 314 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 1: money making conversations Lydia Evans, Hello, Hey, Lydia, Where are 315 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: you calling from? I am calling from Houston, Texas. How 316 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: are you you know, calling from my country? Okay, that's 317 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: what I was born and raised with the highs, with 318 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 1: the elementary school and phil War Texas that moved over 319 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: to Shady Dale, went the middle school to Northwood, then 320 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: with the high school in Forest Brook doesn't exist anymore. 321 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: That I went over over to the University of Houston 322 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: State there seven years got my degree. I just say 323 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,479 Speaker 1: that seven years because I wasn't smart. I would think 324 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:27,479 Speaker 1: that seven years because I was I was a party. 325 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: I didn't know how to combine academics and party into 326 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 1: one thing. Somebody said, boy, aren't you getting old? Are 327 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,439 Speaker 1: you being old for an undergraduate? Clay? I make a 328 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: side fire, got out of there till the day I die. 329 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: I'm a cute to the day I died with the 330 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: degree that they can't reposed people get that degree. They 331 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: can't reapoll your education. They can't say you got bad 332 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: credit with your education. Get that get that degree. Now 333 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: your universe using to graduate. Tell us about your experience 334 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: in college. How did it change your life? Oh my god, 335 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: college definitely may it a huge difference in my life 336 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: before I even get started. Thank you so much for 337 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: having me today. This is so exciting good and we 338 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 1: also know that this is this your This is not 339 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: a one off. You are a talented person. I created 340 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations to give individual small entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs 341 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 1: in general, uh, small business owners a voice because in 342 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: this business, social media has given us a voice. Now 343 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: giving the voice in the airways and podcasts and serious 344 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: exam and to rest your radio. That's the purpose of 345 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: money making Conversations. So I wanna let you know you 346 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: are a friend of the money Making Conversation family. Oh well, 347 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: thank you. I take that graatiously. I love to be family, 348 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: you know, a Saveners are all about family. Yeah, but 349 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: just really quickly. I when I first actually started going 350 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: off to college, I went off to Hampton University because 351 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: I got a scholarship there for pre mad and I 352 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: ended up getting gross out when it was time for 353 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: lab time in my sophomore year and changed my major. 354 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: When I changed my major it parallel. I actually ended 355 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: up getting homesick because I had found out there were 356 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: some new babies in my family. Everyone was sending me 357 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: pictures and I was like, no, I want to go home. 358 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: And I ended up transferring into University of Houston, one 359 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: of the best decisions I ever made. And I am 360 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,959 Speaker 1: a bona fide coud so I graduated with the I 361 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 1: actually switched over to the polar opposite, which was public 362 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: relations advertising, because I just did not want to see 363 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: blood and juts anymore. Yeah, but did thing about it 364 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: is that you switched over. But when I look at 365 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: your your life patting the skincare, uh, this is this 366 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: is I have to say medicine related, correct. I know. 367 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? How you just come full circle? I 368 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: laughed at that. I just celebrated my fortieth birthday recently, 369 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: and I just laughed at it all the time, Like, boy, 370 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: you could run, but you cannot hide from your call. 371 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that much. Well, I always tell 372 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: people that this is so good. Your your prime example 373 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: what I talked about in the show. I always tell 374 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: people that what you these decisions you make in your 375 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 1: early twenties, especially in that twenty one twenty to age range, 376 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: when you when you have that desire to be who 377 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: you are, your dreams and your visions, that passion of 378 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: that desire is really I always tell people, don't it's 379 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 1: not the resume that you sometimes are working on now 380 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: or creating now. It's what you wanted to do in 381 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: your early twenties and when you came out of high 382 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: school you had this desire to be special and unique, 383 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: that that that's what you're gonna make money on in 384 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: your forties and fifties. As you get older, and you're 385 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: the prime example of that, you're saying that you went 386 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: to Hampton on those scholarship made and then you you 387 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: transfer the universe us. But guess what you're doing now, right? 388 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: I know? And that's so crazy. I'm I'm actually going 389 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: to be speaking at this conference coming up called the 390 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: Boss Doctors Conference when I'm speaking on product development of 391 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: the doctors there and I just last I said, Lord 392 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: Have mercy, you are so funny. Well, you know that's 393 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: that that's the beauty of what I try to do 394 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: with the show. And you're and when I when I 395 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: you know, I did my little extra digging own individual. 396 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: They give me the portal with information and I started 397 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: doing my research. And and then one of my producers, 398 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: executive producers the show, she's a Hampton grad, so you know, 399 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: she quick she's quickly the point at that little HBC relationship. 400 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: You know, that's Samantha Taylor, you know, and so and 401 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 1: so it's all a boy menu. It's all about menu. Okay, 402 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: don't don't go to that Southern chilm just went too 403 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: far right there. Now, Now when you went to the 404 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: University Houston, now you said that what exactly is advertising 405 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: slash pr relationship from the universe Houston? What exactly is that? Okay? Well, 406 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: advertising relations is more of the forefront of marketing. So 407 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 1: marketing is the back in science um communing, you know, 408 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: like mindset, the numbers and all the rest of that. 409 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: Whereas with advertising public relations, that's the front end, that's 410 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 1: the face of the brand. Um. That's where the ideas 411 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: that are conceived in marketing come to life. Uh, in 412 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:05,479 Speaker 1: a tangible ad or anything like that. Um um, you know, 413 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: like a like a advertisement, a a campaign, um, a 414 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: press release. So it's just so funny. How coming full 415 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 1: circle as an entrepreneur, Like how detrimental that is to 416 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: the growth of a brand. And it's the core of 417 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: my studies and it has helped me a lot when 418 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: it comes to business. Now here's here's the other layers, 419 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: because she has so many layers. Remember she went to 420 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: Hamptons you know, medical scholar ship ready to go out 421 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: then just heal people. Then she goes your Ris Houston, okay, 422 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: advertising public relations. Then she gets licensed at the acclaimed 423 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 1: Institute of Cosmic Cosmetology and Aesthetics. Why did you make 424 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: that ship? Because that's the shift it really made you 425 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: three sixty correct, Yes it is Sean. Actually what happened 426 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 1: was all my life suffered from exema um, and then 427 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: as I got older, what I thought was excellent and 428 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: my scalp actually turned out to be pariasis. And um 429 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: I didn't understand Like when I was a younger girl, 430 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: like um, when I would have relaxes put on, why 431 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: my scalt would like forty five degree bird, not even 432 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: third degree bird. I couldn't understand why my skin was 433 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: so sensitive to the sun. Um. I couldn't understand why 434 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: it's my mom washed my clothes in in in detergent 435 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: and had like, um fragrances. Why I would itch and 436 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 1: scratch until I would lead in the in the corners 437 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: of my arms and and stuff like that. And so 438 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: as I got older, it was determined that I had 439 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,679 Speaker 1: eczema and then in my scalp aphoriasis. So I just 440 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: started making my own products while I was working full 441 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: time in my degree area, which was advertising UM. And 442 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 1: so it just kind of I used to hide my 443 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: arms and legs and stuff all the time. And after 444 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: I start using my products, I started showing a little 445 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: bit more skin at works, like wear short sleeve shirts, 446 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: wear skirts to the knee, um, And my coworkers just 447 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: kind of took note like okay, letty okay, And I'm like, girl, whatever, 448 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: my skin don't look like allegator. And so then that 449 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: pened up that conversation, and so then my co workers 450 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: that it created that dinalogue so that my co workers 451 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: start telling me, oh my mom in in in in 452 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: New York has excellent. Can you make her cream and 453 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: send it to her? Oh my sister in law in 454 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: Florida has exema? Can you make her cream and send 455 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: it to her? So it just kind of started very organically. 456 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was right under my nose. Now, 457 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: miss Evans, Okay, now let's talk about this. You just 458 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: talking about Okay, you just said make this. Okay, this 459 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: is like and you're not to catch you making a 460 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: sweepetator Pope, Okay, you're not you Okay? How you skipped 461 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: the major step? And how this whole process you made creams? 462 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: How did you make creams? Did you work with a 463 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: with a with a biologist, a scientist or somebody in medicine? 464 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: How did this whole process come about? I know it 465 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 1: was something that was for you personally, but you still 466 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: have to work with somebody correct um. As a matter 467 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: of fact, I actually didn't. I think that everything that 468 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: you had it goes back to what you were saying. 469 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 1: I think every tool that you need is within you, 470 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: um and and it's all you have to find it. 471 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: It's almost like I compare in life of video games. 472 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: It's like every single thing you need is right there. 473 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: You don't know, but it's right there in the bush. 474 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: All you gotta do is get this button and then 475 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: this hammer come out the bush that you need to 476 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: break this wall. All right, big timer, I appreciate it. 477 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: And when you get when the conference happens, when Carol's 478 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: data let us know what we're posted on our social 479 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: media and our fan club members need to be there. 480 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on my show, Lady Evans. Restrictions 481 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,239 Speaker 1: may apply plans and cost coverage. You may very call 482 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: Protected my Car for details. In these hard economic times, 483 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: you've got to do whatever you can to save money. 484 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: One of our biggest expenses can be our cars, especially 485 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: when unexpected repair bills here not anymore. 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Please 513 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: welcome back to Money Making Conversations. My people t t V. 514 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: Otherwise try and tell me. I'll ask you boy, it's 515 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: it's TV. We're back there, hey man, Let's get this 516 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: out the way right now. Troy Stephen a smith man, 517 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: go call me up and just start throwing your name 518 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: out because he's trying to do that to me. You know, 519 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: like I don't know nobody, you know, and he's gonna 520 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: throw out your name left and right. I have to 521 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: stop in middle, I say, I said, that's my boy too. Anyway, 522 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: you know, you know. Troy said, hey, come on, you 523 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: need to stop, man, You do you really need to start. 524 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: We came into the industry together. Come on now and 525 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: Philly both Philly. I know Philly Rays and Bread, but 526 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: like you, I can't know you though, and I just 527 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: check it down. I checked the Troy, I checked, I checked. 528 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm gonna sending this little drop to him, 529 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,719 Speaker 1: let him know I know Troy now, I also know Tom. 530 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: We're not vin un Okay, Okay, okay, Tom, Okay, Troy. 531 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna just change this. Why aren't you five hundred pounds? 532 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: Because I know who you're sitting next to? Okay, she 533 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: could cook? What are you doing? Or you portion get 534 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: me to be on get come on air and talk 535 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: about the food that my wife cooked. Right, it's not healthy, Okay, 536 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: the food, the food that she makes, she's not you're 537 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: not gonna have us. We have pound couple. I say 538 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: that the food we're not healthy. We not the power 539 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: company anymo. I'm gonna be on my own. I'm gonna 540 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: be so loo. But it is healthy. Oh my god. Okay, okay, 541 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: let's let's back it up there. Let's back it up there. 542 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: The food that she's eating healthy, but it looks so good. 543 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: Let me back up. Okay. Now see the food she's 544 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: always shown me, though I always look like it's restaurant quality. 545 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: Now is she throwing down that like that for you? 546 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: Trolling the kids like that too? Chef Tommy V. Sometimes 547 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: you let me call her Tommy. I mean it just 548 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: has to be. I mean we isn't. She cooked for everybody, 549 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: so I mean put that on record. So she cooks 550 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: for not only myself. She cooks for our children are 551 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: still at home. She cooks for our grands and we're 552 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: always having friends and families, family members over. So she 553 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: cooked for for everybody. The food always the only thing 554 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: that she didn't got a little pricky a little bit 555 00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: in a little later years in our lives. And I 556 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: relate ship where we said and grabbed the food with 557 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: our hands and stuff, right, right right now, everything has 558 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: to be on the plate with the napkin, with the 559 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: nice I just want to eat. That makes me. My 560 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: wife does that too. I was, okay, when did the 561 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: rules change? I've been grabbing for chicken for years now. 562 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,719 Speaker 1: I can't just grab for chicken no more. What we'reself 563 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: time before you eat. We gotta make sure we're taking pictures. 564 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: And I don't know about lifting my head up. I 565 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: got some cromebs on the side of my mouth and 566 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: wipe them with the pis you. I got a camera 567 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: in front of me or somebody videotape. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 568 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: We gotta stop all this. Oh my god, now this 569 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 1: this this this comedian who's on the phone right now 570 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: really is an executive for the NFL. He played in 571 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: the NFL for fifteen years, a corner back for the 572 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: Eggs for the egg Now who he's talking about is 573 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: the queid of the family. Her name is Tommy with 574 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 1: an I. No k She cooked, but she gives all 575 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: there's too she can give off. I met her and 576 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: she was on the me around. You know, how do 577 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: you meet somebody, Troy, how do you meet somebody who 578 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: invites you to lunch and you said, there going. I 579 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: don't know her that well. She's telling me what to do, 580 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 1: but she does it. It's such a uh I don't 581 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: maybe you can't have me your brother, but she tells me. 582 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: It's such a weight. I feel like I gotta do it, 583 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: though you gotta do it or something wrong? Right? Right? 584 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: Did she give you that look like I'm not gonna 585 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: get no more in those seconds? Okay? All right, Okay, 586 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: that makes sense what you're saying. I love it. Okay, 587 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: now she is not said one word yet. Has he 588 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: spoken yet? Okay, we spoke for six minutes, so it's 589 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: time to introduce the queen, the head coach, the head 590 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 1: coach of the coach. Okay, she called all the plays 591 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: you quarterback, sneaks, office and defense special teams. Please welcome 592 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: to money making Conversation, Tommy Fencing. I was just letting. 593 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 1: I was just letting y'all talk, letting y'all do y'all 594 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: things so I can hear all y'all little jokes and 595 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: your little nan again. But let me just back it 596 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: up and tell you why as your wife deserved your 597 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: food up on the plate, because we desire to make 598 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: sure you guys are treated with the best care possible 599 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: because y'all make stuff happen. What can what can and 600 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: I say now she articulated like that, all we can 601 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: say is can I get more? Can I get them? 602 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: You got to make sure you're all good and we're 603 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: all good. And the thing about it and she's she's 604 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: she's kind of like getting one of my producers, Tracy Logan, 605 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: because every time Tracy is around that she's taking photos. 606 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: Tracy has been to one of her retreats. Tracy was 607 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: recently up into in New York where a lot of 608 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 1: the food neckworks came by and to see her display, 609 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: because you know, this is this is this is a 610 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: power couple and uh and I we choked, Troy and 611 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: I joke, but as a her skills in the kitchen 612 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: are pretty impressive. And h what she doesn't do that 613 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 1: makes you mad. She doesn't do it enough. And social 614 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: media she doesn't post enough. And we don't talk about 615 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 1: that or air, you know, because you know we're talking 616 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: about business on air. You know. Because Troy he played 617 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,280 Speaker 1: fifteen years in the NFL, so he still has muscles. 618 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: I saw him at the Super Bowl in Houston getting 619 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: over on the wall. He could probably still at tackle 620 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 1: somebody and put a little hurting over ra Sean Rashaan. 621 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 1: They never played I'm a I'm a TV all pro. 622 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,720 Speaker 1: I am that I am an NFL Hall of Fame 623 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: couch potato. I can complain by hits. Why you didn't 624 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 1: hear him that hard? But part of some of these 625 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 1: hits they've given these days hurt me watching TV. The 626 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 1: new YouTube show stay awhile tell me tell me about that? 627 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:17,240 Speaker 1: This is funny boy, So say a while is um 628 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: We just launched it UM three, but I think it 629 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 1: was three weeks ago, and it is a YouTube show 630 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: and it is an open invitation for people to come 631 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,720 Speaker 1: and have a seat at our dinner table having an experience. 632 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: But what'd you say with Sean? I said, Wow, that's hot. 633 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: I need to get that link. Can you can you 634 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: share me with a link so when it does happen, 635 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: so I can just let my my my my followers 636 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: are always well, because that sounds like something that we 637 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 1: can like build momentum on. Correct. Absolutely, it's it's myself 638 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: hosting along with guests. Are our launched video in the 639 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: series is actually me and Troy cooking some barbecue beef 640 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,839 Speaker 1: sandwiches and we had and I'm putting it down. I'm sorry, 641 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: you heard it, Troy. Troy has to learn how to 642 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: cook because I need him to serve me as well. 643 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 1: This ain't no one side of relationships in the marriage. 644 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: You gotta make sure that he does for you and 645 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: you do for him. We do things together. So if 646 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: he don't know something, ladies tell him. Don't just complain 647 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 1: and don't just mumble and grumble. Let him know what 648 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,879 Speaker 1: your needs are. And I need my man to cook 649 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: for me, so I had to show him how to 650 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,360 Speaker 1: put it down in the kitchen. But anyway, so on 651 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 1: the on the show, it's myself hosting and then I'm 652 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: in the kitchen with Troy, and then some episodes with 653 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,080 Speaker 1: friends and the kids or we're going over and teaching 654 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: recipes along with also incorporating some nuggets of some invaluable 655 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: life lessons and keep fragments of words that you can 656 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 1: take away and apply to your life today to find 657 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 1: success where you are. Wow, that's what what? What was 658 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: the drive to do this type of show? Tommy? You know, 659 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 1: it's really important when when you have a platform of 660 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 1: any time in my opinion that you use it in 661 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: a way that has a positive social impact and also 662 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: show people that they can do things in a positive 663 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 1: way and you can have a lot of fun doing it. 664 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: There's this misconception that somehow wholesome living equates to you're 665 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: not fun, it's not exciting, you're not having a good time. 666 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,359 Speaker 1: But that's a lie. There's there's pure and genuine joy 667 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: and fun in this situation. And any time the family 668 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: comes together and you've got all those different personalities, you're 669 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: having a ball. And that's what we're doing. We are 670 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,399 Speaker 1: having a ball together and just loving on each other 671 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 1: and just infuse and hope in one another. I feel 672 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,000 Speaker 1: you gots are part of my life and on the problem, 673 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,279 Speaker 1: I just gotta introduced my wife into this relationship so 674 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: we can all have fun and start laughing together publicly. 675 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,759 Speaker 1: You know. She just an abstract person over there, you know. 676 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 1: And she she texts me after the after the interview, Well, 677 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:18,440 Speaker 1: when I'm gonna meet him, you're talking about it on 678 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: the rady. When When when we're gonna get the Philly 679 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,880 Speaker 1: wherever they are, When we're gonna meet him? You know? 680 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:27,359 Speaker 1: Any time? In closing it's football season, you know, how 681 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:36,280 Speaker 1: does the house change doing football season. Well, listen, football 682 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,239 Speaker 1: is who we are. It's been. Troy and I were 683 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: raised up in in the NFL. I was nineteen, he 684 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: was twenty four when we got married, and he was 685 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 1: just in the league. Here we go, go ahead, this 686 00:38:53,239 --> 00:39:03,880 Speaker 1: football football family. Go ahead you fake news, fake news, 687 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 1: the money making conversations. This is what we do. Other 688 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 1: people news take news, fake news. Will you continue, Tommy. 689 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,320 Speaker 1: So we have a son that plays high school football, 690 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 1: and we have two sons that played college football, and 691 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,799 Speaker 1: then you've got Troy with you know, the NFL on Sundays, 692 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: Mondays and Thursdays, and so it's a great time for 693 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,880 Speaker 1: us to continue that fellowship around food, doing tailgates, and 694 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 1: so we're able to travel to different cities. We have 695 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:43,399 Speaker 1: RV that we UM utilized to go to the games, 696 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,440 Speaker 1: and we have the ability to cook our food and 697 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 1: eat it on the road and hang out having a 698 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: good time doing it. So it's a great time of 699 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,399 Speaker 1: the year for us. We actually really look forward to 700 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 1: it every year. My friends, you listen to Troy and 701 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: they have my friends, they're your friends too, because they're 702 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,960 Speaker 1: sharing their life with um. Both of you, both of 703 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 1: you both of your special and you know that when 704 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 1: I say that publicly or privately, don't ever stop doing 705 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,759 Speaker 1: what you're doing. And again, I love both of you 706 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,840 Speaker 1: because the energy and the compassion and the great food. 707 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 1: And Tommy, I know you're doing it all about yourself 708 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 1: because he's just eating, just like I'm in my house. 709 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 1: You know. Don't worry about that brother over there. You know, 710 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,319 Speaker 1: don't worry about it over there. You're just like I 711 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,759 Speaker 1: don't worry about stephen A. Smith. I can't worry about it. 712 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 1: Don't you worry about it? Okay, we used to have 713 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:39,239 Speaker 1: a mutual friend and stephen A. Smith. Now we don't. 714 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 1: I love both of y'all, you know, So we're gonna 715 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,680 Speaker 1: talk all fair because y'all need to be on TV. 716 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,920 Speaker 1: Restrictions may apply. Plans and cost coverage may very called 717 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,640 Speaker 1: protected by car for details. In these hard economic times, 718 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 1: you've got to do whatever you can to save money. 719 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,760 Speaker 1: One of our biggest expenses can be our kind, especially 720 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,000 Speaker 1: when unexpected repair bills hit. Not anymore. If you do 721 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,839 Speaker 1: own a car trucker SUV made from higher you could 722 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: stop paying for KYR repairs. That's right. 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Just dial Star Star one seven on your 732 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,880 Speaker 1: mobile phone now to see if your car qualifies that 733 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,920 Speaker 1: Star Star on seven. Never pay for Kyle repairs again. 734 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,879 Speaker 1: Just dial Star Star one seven on your mobile phone now. 735 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:56,760 Speaker 1: Dial Star Star one one four seven. I said hello 736 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,879 Speaker 1: and said high that Mike was Will on the other side. 737 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,640 Speaker 1: I was ready that what happens? Will you just not focused? 738 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,840 Speaker 1: It ought to be successful. You have to be focused, 739 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 1: Sam said Rayshan. It would be nice if you spoke 740 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:14,040 Speaker 1: into the Mica versus. I don't know. I thought I 741 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:15,839 Speaker 1: was doing the stage play there. I was just like 742 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,960 Speaker 1: I thought it was a Broadway. You know Broadway you 743 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,560 Speaker 1: can project and then even ware in the back there 744 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,360 Speaker 1: they'll they'll be able to hear. And in a broadcast 745 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,000 Speaker 1: studio is not based on projecting. There's the direction of microphone, 746 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,239 Speaker 1: the directional and you better be in front of them 747 00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,560 Speaker 1: because they're not designed to pick up noise, even though 748 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,440 Speaker 1: they will pick up noise or surrounding noise. So your 749 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 1: boy was the way off chilter there. Then welcome to 750 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,560 Speaker 1: money making conversation. This is Rushan McDonald. This is another 751 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,720 Speaker 1: episode of helping people be smaller about their success stories, 752 00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,520 Speaker 1: helping people will understand that they can be successful. And 753 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: it's about entertainment. CEOs, celebrities, athletes, are entrepreneurs, small business 754 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,879 Speaker 1: owners called this show. They called this show because I 755 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,520 Speaker 1: get guests on this show that and I allow them 756 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:04,520 Speaker 1: to community kate their story. It's not about promoting myself. 757 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,760 Speaker 1: Is by promoting what they have done in their lives 758 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,400 Speaker 1: to be successful and their journey or their paths that 759 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,640 Speaker 1: they're creating for other people along the way, because it 760 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,719 Speaker 1: is about mentorship. Mentorship is the huge term there is 761 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,120 Speaker 1: out there now. And the millennials that really embrace the 762 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,760 Speaker 1: word mentoring, um, they have no problem uh seeking advice 763 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,600 Speaker 1: to be guided along the way, to be UH be 764 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 1: able to say, hey, I want to you have experienced, 765 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,799 Speaker 1: will you give me some knowledge? Will you show me, 766 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,799 Speaker 1: will you? But you have to be there every day, 767 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 1: and so I couldn't be there every day. So what 768 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,959 Speaker 1: happened with me was that I decided that I would 769 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,319 Speaker 1: allow myself this show Money Making Conversations, where every week 770 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,640 Speaker 1: I can come on the air and I can communicate 771 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,000 Speaker 1: and I communicate with various individuals all of the world. 772 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,080 Speaker 1: In fact, that how people coming on the show next 773 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,799 Speaker 1: month who are from Australia. I'll be doing a couple 774 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,960 Speaker 1: of German podcasts UH in November, so my brand is 775 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,200 Speaker 1: becoming very global. I'm very happy to say that I'm 776 00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: affecting people not only in the Great State of Georgia 777 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,080 Speaker 1: and the Great State of the United States, but also internationally. 778 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,879 Speaker 1: And that's what I do on Money Making Conversation. When 779 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:13,400 Speaker 1: you reach me, you can follow me on all my 780 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:18,239 Speaker 1: social media at Rashaw McDonald as at Rashaan McDonald on Facebook, 781 00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:24,000 Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram, Instagram Popular. We're ready. My final guest 782 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,280 Speaker 1: of this particular show is Uh. First time I'm speaking 783 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:28,920 Speaker 1: to him. I'm very happy to have them on my show. 784 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,000 Speaker 1: I've been watching I've been catching up on his new 785 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,840 Speaker 1: series series David makes Man. So we're gonna talk about today, 786 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,480 Speaker 1: But let me introduce exactly who he is. My next 787 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,320 Speaker 1: guest is an Academy Award winning screenwriter playwright. It's script 788 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,280 Speaker 1: in Moonlight black Boards Like Excuse Me in Moonlight black 789 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,360 Speaker 1: Boards Look Blue, is the basis for the Oscar winning 790 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:52,120 Speaker 1: film moon Like, directed by Barry Jenkins, for which Craney 791 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,080 Speaker 1: and Jenkins one and Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. He 792 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,480 Speaker 1: wrote the film High Flyingburg which I also saw it 793 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,640 Speaker 1: was on Netflix. Really really you should watch that, so 794 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,759 Speaker 1: next Flix right now. Mccraney's play includes ms Black for 795 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:09,560 Speaker 1: President cod with Tina Landau, their brother's sister plays Trilogy, 796 00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,719 Speaker 1: Head of Passes Without and Choo Boy, which is nominated 797 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,680 Speaker 1: for for Tony Awards. Please Welcome to Money Making Conversation. 798 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,640 Speaker 1: The executive doucer and creative owns as Oprah's Network, David 799 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:29,359 Speaker 1: makes Man Terrell Alvin McCraney. Hey, how y'all doing? How 800 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,640 Speaker 1: you do? My friend? Well? I'm well, Did I get 801 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,319 Speaker 1: everything right? Did I get everything right? And a lot 802 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:40,120 Speaker 1: to say about you, young man? I get everything right? Sure, sure, good? 803 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,799 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me. Good talking abou Where 804 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,399 Speaker 1: are you right now? Where you based there? Right now? 805 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:48,279 Speaker 1: And and uh tell me about what the yet right now, 806 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,040 Speaker 1: I'm born and raised in Miami, Florida, which is where 807 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:56,080 Speaker 1: I live currently. UM, and that was the basis for 808 00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,319 Speaker 1: UM A lot of what we do and did for 809 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,759 Speaker 1: the summer moonnight WI shout here in Miami. And the 810 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,359 Speaker 1: show David Makes Man takes place in Homestead, Florida, which 811 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:10,319 Speaker 1: is about UM, fifty miles south of Miami proper, uh, 812 00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,640 Speaker 1: the suburb of the metropolitan area. And UM, it's about 813 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:19,560 Speaker 1: a young man, David, who is just lost his best friend, 814 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,560 Speaker 1: his closest friend, and is trying to navigate his home 815 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:27,320 Speaker 1: life and his rise at a very prominent Magnet school 816 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,799 Speaker 1: in Miami. UM. So it takes place in the in 817 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,480 Speaker 1: the in the outer world and the inner world of 818 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,600 Speaker 1: this fourteen year old black boy on on Wednesdays. Well, 819 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,239 Speaker 1: you know, it's really interesting. So they're just from a 820 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,360 Speaker 1: business perspective, Now do you by by taking the show 821 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,239 Speaker 1: and shooting a movie in Florida or their tax breaks 822 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:49,360 Speaker 1: for productions of film and television productions in Florida. No, 823 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,640 Speaker 1: there used to be there used to be incentives in 824 00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:55,239 Speaker 1: Florida for filming in Florida as a state. UM, and 825 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,440 Speaker 1: now there are different municipalities that have taken on trying 826 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,520 Speaker 1: to make sure that production stay. So Tampa, I know, 827 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,879 Speaker 1: is trying to make sure that there is UM there. 828 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,320 Speaker 1: There's a sentence for filming in Orlando, which has Universal 829 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:12,440 Speaker 1: Studios and other studios UM Disney for example, try to 830 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,080 Speaker 1: make sure that when filming happens in the in the 831 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,719 Speaker 1: area that it is as gentivized. But now we lost 832 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,719 Speaker 1: that tax break thanks to some wonderful leadership in the 833 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,560 Speaker 1: government and UM and we we lost a lot of production. 834 00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,920 Speaker 1: So filming in Florida can be costly. But one of 835 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,080 Speaker 1: the ways in which we UM engaged that is that 836 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:37,120 Speaker 1: we hired locally. UM. We had an incredible producer, Wayne Morris, 837 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:41,520 Speaker 1: and an incredible crew UM designers and production and crew 838 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,560 Speaker 1: in Orlando that helped us UM at Universal Studios and 839 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,319 Speaker 1: off in and around the area. We shot a lot 840 00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,000 Speaker 1: of it on Dr. Phillips High School, which is right 841 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,040 Speaker 1: there in the middle of Orlando, and we got UM 842 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,600 Speaker 1: we were able to you know, maintain a budget and 843 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,880 Speaker 1: some a really great show. But UM it was important 844 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:01,840 Speaker 1: to film in Orleans. It was an important film in 845 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,440 Speaker 1: Florida because one that's where the that's where the piece 846 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,399 Speaker 1: is set uh and to you know, if if someone 847 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,000 Speaker 1: doesn't start bringing the business back there, then no one will. 848 00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:12,759 Speaker 1: And so we what we wanted to do a show 849 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 1: folks that there is a cost effective way to bring 850 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,640 Speaker 1: business back to an area that is really great and 851 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,000 Speaker 1: probably one of the best places to film. I mean, 852 00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:25,480 Speaker 1: the weather year round here is incredible. Um. In fact, 853 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:30,799 Speaker 1: our current president was trying to start a film, a 854 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,359 Speaker 1: film company, a film a lot here in Homestead, Florida. Well, 855 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,800 Speaker 1: I don't know how a lot of that got derailed, 856 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,239 Speaker 1: but probably uh through the taxi centers lost me. Um, 857 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:44,080 Speaker 1: he probably lost interest politics. That's what politics do, my friend. 858 00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,000 Speaker 1: They derailed. They push a good idea, but it doesn't 859 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,759 Speaker 1: always come back to have value to anybody's individual life 860 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,960 Speaker 1: or success stories. Now here's I'm a sitcom writer, you know, 861 00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,759 Speaker 1: the Parkers wrote Sister Sister Jamie Foxx show Robert town 862 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,479 Speaker 1: To And so you are considered what type of writer? 863 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,520 Speaker 1: And what of my what kind of writer? And yesterda 864 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:12,200 Speaker 1: we drama? Are you just you know, do your screenplays 865 00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,000 Speaker 1: for theater? Because I see a range of our different 866 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,839 Speaker 1: type of writing deals that you possess. So you just 867 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,759 Speaker 1: say that, So do you write for a particular like, 868 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,000 Speaker 1: this is a drama that you have on own? Correct? 869 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,680 Speaker 1: That is correct? Okay? Cool? And now just a series 870 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:32,600 Speaker 1: drama on own and uh that's ten episodes. Um. And 871 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,400 Speaker 1: we have a show brother who is M. D. Harris 872 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,719 Speaker 1: Lawrence right who wrote on things like shots Fired and um, 873 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,000 Speaker 1: the Biggie and Tupac story, um and things like that. Right, 874 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,040 Speaker 1: So here's interesting about your career. So, so you're from Miami, Florida, 875 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,840 Speaker 1: And so how does one on the show money make 876 00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,360 Speaker 1: a conversations? I try to just tell anybody's story to 877 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,080 Speaker 1: a certain degree because everybody sees the end results, and 878 00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,719 Speaker 1: sometimes the results will tell you the true path or 879 00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,920 Speaker 1: the path after you took off. Other individuals schooling successful 880 00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,560 Speaker 1: weether it's in business or film or entertainment or or 881 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,200 Speaker 1: some other form of success. How did you? How did 882 00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,719 Speaker 1: your movie? Your script get in the hands of the 883 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:17,120 Speaker 1: right people? Which one? Moonlight? Moonlight, Black Boys Look Blue? 884 00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,319 Speaker 1: So in the moon So I wrote in Moonlight when 885 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,240 Speaker 1: I was twenty two years old. I just graduated undergrad 886 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,680 Speaker 1: from DePaul University. My mother had died of age related complications, 887 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,440 Speaker 1: and so I wrote that script, um, because I wanted 888 00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,480 Speaker 1: to make a film or kind of visual depiction of 889 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,239 Speaker 1: what UM it was like growing up UH in Liberty City, UM, 890 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:40,920 Speaker 1: which is where the film takes place, and it was 891 00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,880 Speaker 1: shot UM, and then UM it sort of sat around 892 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,600 Speaker 1: for a very long time. I went on to the 893 00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:51,600 Speaker 1: Yale School of Drama UM to study UH playwriting and 894 00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:56,960 Speaker 1: screenwriting and UM. I graduated from there and wrote about 895 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,960 Speaker 1: six or seven plays UM, and I think I was 896 00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:05,320 Speaker 1: on my way to UM. I'd come back to Miami 897 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,360 Speaker 1: and shot a couple of short films that I've written 898 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,359 Speaker 1: UM with a group called the Borsch Film Festival. Then 899 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,000 Speaker 1: a man named Andrew Heavier told me about a young 900 00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,480 Speaker 1: young man who also grew up in Liberty City, not 901 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,920 Speaker 1: three or four blocks away from me, UM, named Barry Jenkins. 902 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,640 Speaker 1: And Barry had gone on to become a filmmaker as 903 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,440 Speaker 1: well a creative as well, and he had graduated from 904 00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,800 Speaker 1: Florida State Film UH from the film school at Florida 905 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,040 Speaker 1: State UM and was in San Francisco making a few films. 906 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:38,880 Speaker 1: That had made a film UH recently with Borsch called 907 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,759 Speaker 1: chlorophill UM that was based in Miami and one of 908 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,760 Speaker 1: one of the things that Bosch really wanted and similarly 909 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,840 Speaker 1: to what we talked about with David Msman is that 910 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,480 Speaker 1: coming back to the city and making h making film 911 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,280 Speaker 1: and making work there makes you know, bills an industry. 912 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,319 Speaker 1: And so they had brought Barry back to making film. 913 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,319 Speaker 1: They've also brought myself back. And while we were here, 914 00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,520 Speaker 1: we didn't talk to we didn't get a chance to 915 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:05,480 Speaker 1: meet but um, but through the internet we exchanged scripts. Um. 916 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,080 Speaker 1: And so Barry had Moonlight for about you know, about 917 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,279 Speaker 1: a year, and then he reached out to me and said, 918 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:13,759 Speaker 1: you know, I think I want to make this into 919 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,879 Speaker 1: him film. I said, I said, that's great. So that's 920 00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:21,319 Speaker 1: how that happened. Wow. And so when when when did 921 00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,560 Speaker 1: when he said who want to make this into a movie? 922 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,959 Speaker 1: Did money run through your mind? The opportunity? What? What 923 00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,320 Speaker 1: were you having any control over the script? Would you 924 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,520 Speaker 1: be would you be pushed out of the project? What 925 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,520 Speaker 1: were the thoughts that ran through your mind as a 926 00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,439 Speaker 1: as a as the person who who wrote the script? Um? 927 00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,600 Speaker 1: None of those thoughts were in my mind. In fact, 928 00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:46,200 Speaker 1: I think maybe naively, I was just I trusted Barry's 929 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,320 Speaker 1: integrity um, and which you know he has its face, 930 00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,399 Speaker 1: and so none of those things ran through my mind. 931 00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,279 Speaker 1: I thought, you know, here is a feature film that 932 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:59,600 Speaker 1: is about a young man coming of age in Liberty City. UM, 933 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,000 Speaker 1: in the artists of poverty. And people don't even know 934 00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,640 Speaker 1: where Liberty City is. Um. If you told them that 935 00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,560 Speaker 1: was in Miami, half of the people who you asked 936 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't even believe you. Um. And so you know, the 937 00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:13,719 Speaker 1: venture of it was certainly coming from a personally very 938 00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:17,359 Speaker 1: personal place. UM. And and the end result there too. 939 00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,560 Speaker 1: And very finally UM, you know, sort of redrafted the 940 00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,600 Speaker 1: script and showed it to me. I was like, this 941 00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,719 Speaker 1: is amazing. It's exactly what we started with and um, 942 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,840 Speaker 1: it takes that and we've weaves together in a feature 943 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,880 Speaker 1: length version what we what the voice of the pieces 944 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,920 Speaker 1: and when we finally shot it, even seeing it, I 945 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,560 Speaker 1: was like, this is a film that's very much of 946 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,759 Speaker 1: love letters to the place we grew up. So none 947 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,440 Speaker 1: of none of the ideas of money and you know, 948 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,360 Speaker 1: losing losing control ever sort of came came over me. 949 00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,399 Speaker 1: I would tell you this, Uh, your show David makes 950 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,960 Speaker 1: Span and every Wednesday on owned network that's Oprah's network. 951 00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,680 Speaker 1: It's very relatable. I would say that's in closing is 952 00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,360 Speaker 1: that this show allows a lot of people talk about 953 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,600 Speaker 1: athlete to come and getting out of the hood. This 954 00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,560 Speaker 1: show is talking about people like me. This is story, 955 00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,520 Speaker 1: this is me I was, I was done. So many 956 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,680 Speaker 1: people share this story. But academics can also get you 957 00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:11,839 Speaker 1: out of the hood, and people can help you get 958 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,600 Speaker 1: out of the hood. The relationships, that's what David makes 959 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,600 Speaker 1: Man is about. Very relatable. Thank you for coming to 960 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,759 Speaker 1: my show. I'm a fan as you're making millions of 961 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:31,919 Speaker 1: fans every Wednesday on your show. 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