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Speaker 1: Black Women's Expo in Chicago and now Atlanta and Dallas.

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Speaker 1: African American community. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Mary Green,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Mary, thank you for calling back.

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Speaker 1: We got time. Okay you have You're based in Chicago,

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