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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 2: It's to show that she is the secrets of success

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Speaker 2: experience firsthand by marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I

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Speaker 2: will know he's giving me advice on many occasions. And

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Speaker 2: in case you didn't notice, I'm not broke. You know

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Speaker 2: he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry.

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Speaker 1: Decision make because it's what he likes to do. It's

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Speaker 2: Now it's time to hear from my man, Rashaan McDonald

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Speaker 2: money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. This is Rashan McDonald had to grab

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Speaker 1: the mic because I was in there dancing because you know,

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Speaker 1: we're about to talk about some great music. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, but I'm about to mention some

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Speaker 1: song gonna bring back some memories today because next month

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Speaker 1: is that's June is a Black music month, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk to music. But let me let me get

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Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversation master Class. As you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm your whole Rashaan McDonald. Our theme is that there

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Speaker 1: is no perfect time to start following your dreams. I

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Speaker 1: recognize that we all have different definitions of success. For you,

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Speaker 1: it may be the size of your paycheck. Mine is

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Speaker 1: inspiring you. That's right, you who are listening, You who

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Speaker 1: are driving, you, who are streaming this show nationwide? To

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Speaker 1: accomplish your goals and live your very best life, It's

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Speaker 1: time to start reading other people's success stories and start

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Speaker 1: living your own. The reality is is that when I

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Speaker 1: do this show and I look at myself, cause I

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Speaker 1: get up every morning at four thirty Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 1: I get up and I tell people when I get up,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a happy It's not about a happy get

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Speaker 1: up at four thirty in the morning. But to achieve

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Speaker 1: my dream, to achieve my goals, I have to get up.

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Speaker 1: I can't hit this snooze button. I can't think about

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Speaker 1: what if somebody else did what I needed them to

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Speaker 1: do so I can be successful. In the end, your

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Speaker 1: dream is your dream. To achieve your dream, to make

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Speaker 1: your dream happen, you have to make it happen. And

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Speaker 1: I always tell people this. Everybody has a gift, not gifts.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that gift. Let's hone in and that

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Speaker 1: one town, that one skill, that God has given you.

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Speaker 1: Lead with that gift, and don't let your friend's family

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

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Speaker 1: I will tell people this, between the ages of eighteen

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Speaker 1: and twenty four, you are invincible, You're immortal, You're a dreamer.

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Speaker 1: Can't nobody tell you nothing. When you get forty, fifty, sixty, seventy,

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Speaker 1: that you're invincible, that you're gonna live forever. Because even

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Speaker 1: So why should you not have the same mentality when

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Speaker 1: to live forever. Because your dreams, your legacy you create,

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Speaker 1: can make you a legend, can make you a memory,

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Speaker 1: can make you a person that has changed other people's life.

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was diagnosed for cancer, and when

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Speaker 1: that your light flashes before your eyes, and all I

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Speaker 1: it has not. So you have to live each day

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Speaker 1: with a goal, with a desire to understand that when

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Speaker 1: you wake up, have a sense of purpose when you

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Speaker 1: wake up, have a goal. When you have that goal,

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Speaker 1: I guess she's that person. One of my favorite people

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Speaker 1: favorite people. My guess it's Deana Williams. She's the broadcaster, celebrity, strategist, curator,

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Speaker 1: live event producer, celebrating fifty years in the music, broadcasting

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Speaker 1: and entertainment industry. Professional. That's what she is. She's the

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Speaker 1: going to talk about this. We talk about longevity because

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Speaker 1: to achieve that some of the archives are really now

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Speaker 1: She's established and she's going to get a big proclamation

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Speaker 1: in the city of Philadelphia. Please welcome the one and

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Speaker 3: How are you doing, Diana, ooh blushing, I'm another collar.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness for san Now you know I love,

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Speaker 3: love any opportunity to interact with you for a myriad

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Speaker 3: of reasons. One, you are so inspiring. You are when

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Speaker 3: blueprint to listeners, to viewers of success because you are

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Speaker 3: bringing on the air people who are grustlers, grinding and hustling,

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Speaker 3: and you are a master grustler. So I'm honored to

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Speaker 3: my daughter went to she went she attended school there,

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Speaker 3: and shout out to David Lynton and.

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Speaker 1: The oh David Lynton, he's sitting in here. Okay, he's

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Speaker 1: I was talking about that earlier. But when you say, like,

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Speaker 1: And when did you realize that you were seeing things

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Speaker 3: Well, salute to you again for helping craft the careers

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Speaker 1: Are the way everybody to have the articulate every word

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Speaker 3: You know? Back I come from the era of radio personalities,

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Speaker 3: That's that's what I come from. And while I am

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Speaker 3: Which one, oh my EXX you know, Piker Rock of

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Speaker 1: Don't go past that too fast, now, you know, South

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Speaker 3: You know Kenny Gamble, Leon Hoff, the great Drummer, Young Love,

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Speaker 3: Do you agree exactly? I completely totally agree. Black radio

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Speaker 3: Our archives last Friday were installed into the Library of Congress.

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Speaker 1: We know it was really interesting. Like I'm from Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 3: So one do you remember real Mother?

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Speaker 3: Well credit goes to Kenny Gamble. Again, we were a

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Speaker 3: With Sean, you know, it's not just it's all genres,

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Speaker 3: It's the three six ' five celebration. But June is

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Speaker 1: Now, now this is amazing when I hear all this conversation,

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Speaker 3: Often from R and B in jazz, no question about that.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely Now the National Museum of African American African American

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Speaker 1: Well, you know that a lot of people forget all that,

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Speaker 1: I wonder why she's an on song all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I just I'd actually like to just shut

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Speaker 3: Now, sure we're connected forever. So. Nashville is the home

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Speaker 3: You can see our galleries. We have seven galleries, fifty

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Speaker 1: Black Music Monty Wise, in Black Music Month. I wonder

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Speaker 1: why this happened in Philadelphia, but tell us about it,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I will tell you this. I was

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Speaker 1: and you know, you don't get old when people recognize you.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get.

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Speaker 3: Old in the fact that you have congratulations. You deserve it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you know, a congratulations on you because of the fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm just reminding everybody that you know, when people knock

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Speaker 1: what you're doing now or what you've accomplished. It's truly

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Speaker 1: a blessing. And for you to be honored in Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: in Black music monk, tell us about it and tell us,

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Speaker 1: you gonna take their wood? You're gonna walk around, take

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Speaker 1: some photos? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's beautiful. We're gambling. I as two of the

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Speaker 3: founders that live still in Philadelphia, are being recognized by

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia City Council on June eighth, and we are receiving

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Speaker 3: Black Music Month and still living. We're champions of music

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Speaker 3: which is the Grammy organization. Gamble is still very active

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Speaker 1: They just thought they just need to have a party

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Speaker 1: out there, you know. Missus Me and Missus Jones be

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Speaker 1: jamming the train, the sound of Philadelphia, it just be

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Speaker 1: you know, did the ship a horseship of horseship of

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Speaker 1: come on nine? They can just they can. It's really

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Speaker 1: amazing the genius. You have put the word genius because

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Speaker 1: it's something that that that I can't comprehend. My degree

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Speaker 1: is in math, so I know understand logic. I understand numbers.

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Speaker 1: I understand two plus two is four. But the creativity,

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Speaker 1: the process of being able to manipulate sound and put

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Speaker 1: together words and make those words just resonate not only

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Speaker 1: years but decades later. And the fact that you were

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Speaker 1: part of that is still a part of that. Being

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Speaker 1: able to tell this story on my show today, I

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Speaker 1: just want to thank you. I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: for taking the time to come one masterclass.

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Speaker 3: Oh thank you Rashaan for everything. Like I said, what

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Speaker 3: you do, you are a master.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. But again, let me just tell you

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Speaker 1: this now. You know, I'm just letting everybody know the

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Speaker 1: world know. She said, I wish I'd have met you earlier,

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Speaker 1: because you know, this is about the This is about

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Speaker 1: the fourth time I've interviewed you, Diana, Okay, and every

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Speaker 1: time we always say we're gonna get together. Remember the

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Speaker 1: first time we supposed to, we were working on some

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Speaker 1: TV show where we're gonna go, We're gonna be like

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Speaker 1: the Master sitting over here and you know, talk to

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Speaker 1: young people trying to make careers out of that went

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Speaker 1: no where because guess what, we didn't talk no more.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's not too late. It's it's never too late.

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Speaker 3: That's an advocate of it. It's never too late to

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Speaker 3: actualize your dreams.

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Speaker 1: She threw out a word that I knew nothing. I

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Speaker 1: never heard, actualize because you know why I would never

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Speaker 1: say that, because I will fumble through it.

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Speaker 3: Actual You wouldn't know, you wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I love the other incredible congratulations and you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: this is live this Live radio. I wanted people hear.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna get syndicated nationally through all my HBCU campuses

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Speaker 1: that carry my show and podcasts. But more importantly, you

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Speaker 1: are a You are an incredible person. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversation master Class, the one that

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Speaker 1: Queen she's the mother of Black music man that we

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Speaker 1: celebrate every June DA.

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

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Speaker 3: with rough Shawn McDonald,