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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: This is Rashan McDonald. I am the host of money

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Speaker 1: to you. My Money Making Conversation dot Com guests, this

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Speaker 1: we call Laman Rutger Fmer Green Leaf co star now

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Speaker 1: starting and owns cooking Up Christmas, breast cancer survivor for

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Speaker 1: Shan Shaw talking her new book gat Stopping War Warrior Woman,

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Speaker 1: Tanya Holland, host of Tanya's Kitchen Table, and fashion stylers

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Speaker 1: Socia Stewart. My next guest is Lamon Rucker old friend.

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Speaker 1: He's an actor, educated activist, an entrepreneur whose career platform

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Speaker 1: has used it has been used to influence, educate, and

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Speaker 1: ignite communities through artistic and academic innovation. Lamon is starting

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Speaker 1: in a new Christmas movie on their Own network entitled

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Speaker 1: Cooking Up Christmas. He plays a professional baseball player, Donovan Jackson,

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Speaker 1: The chef role is played by Megan Holder. She starts

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Speaker 1: December fifteen at nine pm Eastern on Own. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to my Moneymaking Conversation show, my man, Lamon Rucker Man,

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Speaker 1: what's good? Thanks for having me? Man? Well, you know

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Speaker 1: you know we we we we we said with agreedlea.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: has been very very good to the Rucker hashood yeah yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I would I would love to say and vice versa.

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Speaker 1: be an asset everywhere I go. So absolutely blessed and thankful,

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Speaker 1: grateful to the own lions Gate Harpo family for m

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Speaker 1: And I'm incredibly excited. I think this is literally just

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Speaker 1: some some wonderful things in that, you know, in that

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Speaker 1: to Discovery Um, you know as well man, you know

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Speaker 1: be on some that geo stuff and everything else. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: don't get me excited that, lamar, because you know, relationship, financial,

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Speaker 1: Let's well, you know, that's that's what we kind of

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Speaker 1: when I asked you to come down to Disney for

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Not just trying to be the little fancy,

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Speaker 1: your host, Sean McDonald. There's Tuesday, December fift on on

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Speaker 1: at nine pm. You know it's family. You got some

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Speaker 1: this stuff that's supposed to make you hold yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: So tell us how this movie came on your came

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Speaker 1: is just an upgrade to washing your hands all the time.

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Speaker 1: But so so we're not asking people to do anything

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Speaker 1: outside of normalcy other than other than you can't hug

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Speaker 1: everybody you don't don't know, and you can't hug everybody.

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Speaker 1: Be more mindful of that. And so when you come

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Speaker 1: up when you gotta show a movie coming out like

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Speaker 1: Cooking Up Christmas, like I said again, premiers uh deceper

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Speaker 1: fifteen owned stars my man Lamar Rutger who has been

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Speaker 1: in everything and uh and then from an activist, if

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Speaker 1: you had to say anything and just wrapping up because

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Speaker 1: I can never just talk to you about your projects

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Speaker 1: because you are like you was honored this year by

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Speaker 1: Cafe mokel Radio. I saw that when you were honored,

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Speaker 1: so and I was really I was proud. I watched

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Speaker 1: that and you know, was on the big screen and

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Speaker 1: lending love was talking to you and everything, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are the man that, uh makes me feel good

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Speaker 1: about you, man, makes me feel good about the relationship

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Speaker 1: I have with you, we've created over the year. Tell

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Speaker 1: us about being honored by Cafine Moke Radio, Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean that and meant a lot, man. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: that's part of what I was saying earlier. Man. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know how it is as as a

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Speaker 1: as black men. Um, having the love and support, um

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Speaker 1: and encouragement of your sisters and of your you know,

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Speaker 1: a black love black woman in general is incredibly powerful.

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Speaker 1: So my respect for the ladies over there and what

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Speaker 1: they're living, the legacies that they're building, and the fact

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Speaker 1: that they also now created this vehicle to support and

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Speaker 1: acknowledge and uplift other people as well. It's incredibly powerful things.

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Speaker 1: So I was wonderfully honored, um always uh you know,

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Speaker 1: crew over there. Um. So you know, when we do this,

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Speaker 1: even when you and I, this is always this is

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Speaker 1: part of this is part of the love. But this

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Speaker 1: is also part of the accountability. You know. We know

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Speaker 1: that when we're out here walking our walk, that would

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Speaker 1: representing each other, you know, and every opportunity we get,

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Speaker 1: whether it's this direct or not, you know, it's always

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Speaker 1: about like, hey, how can I you know, make sure

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Speaker 1: I'm showing love, supporting and shining like on what this

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Speaker 1: person is doing, because if they're doing something wonderful then

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Speaker 1: and they're also a reflection of me and a reflection

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Speaker 1: of so many of the other people who are out

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Speaker 1: there doing something wonderful. So let's let's tell the story.

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Speaker 1: Let's show that, um, this great stuff is happening. You know.

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Speaker 1: Look look, you know, look around you know, so even

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Speaker 1: my organization, the Black Gents, like that's what we're about.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, yo, like, look at the look at

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald, Look at the Rushan McDonald's of the world.

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Speaker 1: Look at the other men out here doing what we

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Speaker 1: do on the regular. Hey, what are our sisters doing?

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Speaker 1: What are our mothers and daughters and you know and

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Speaker 1: lovers and grandmothers and whatever? What are they doing? Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's shine on our women. Let's uphold and uh and

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Speaker 1: love and you know, support, Like whatever our women and

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Speaker 1: sisters and children are doing, how can we do that?

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Speaker 1: Like that's like that's an incredible way to uh to

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Speaker 1: live and breathe. And anybody that's part of that type

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Speaker 1: of love proposition, anybody that's out here, um, fighting for

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Speaker 1: what's right even when nobody's looking like those are the

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Speaker 1: stories I'm always open to telling. And those are the

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Speaker 1: people that I love to lock arms with, you know,

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Speaker 1: So you speaking in this march with you, bro. If

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Speaker 1: I've always you know, as as a famous art work

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Speaker 1: where you locking arms like this, you know, and he's

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Speaker 1: reaching down like that, I've always envisioned that being the

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Speaker 1: role you playing, like because like like I said, he's

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Speaker 1: more than an actor, he's an activist, he's a he's

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Speaker 1: he's called. But his brother has been to Dollars with me,

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Speaker 1: to Steve Harvard camps. He's been to Orlando with me,

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Speaker 1: to the Disney Dreamers. These are these kids, Okay, he's

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Speaker 1: set aside the time I've been sitting on board with

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Speaker 1: him talking about how to break into the film industry

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So I got a track record with him,

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Speaker 1: and and showing what he's done in the black gents,

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Speaker 1: and him being an entrepreneur and and every like said,

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Speaker 1: These interviews always fun with me because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: we talked about his role and what he's doing on

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Speaker 1: the screen, but it always drifts back to the man

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Speaker 1: he is off the screen and cooking up Christmas is

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Speaker 1: just an opportunity to see his talents, he said, for

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Speaker 1: fifteen on the on Network, but more importantly, what he's

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Speaker 1: doing off the camera. You know when he's doing walking

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Speaker 1: down the street, when you're going, hey, Jacob Steep rocking boy,

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Speaker 1: I love you and Green keep rocking on the brother

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Speaker 1: your community of andft the Lament. Thank you, Bron, I

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Speaker 1: really want to take my pleasure man. Thanks always so

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Speaker 1: you know so uh so much fun to be here

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Speaker 1: with your bag. Like literally, we could do this even

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Speaker 1: with there were no cameras or whatever. Man, we'd be

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Speaker 1: just chopping it up, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 1: we don't chop it up. Like I said, I'll turn

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Speaker 1: you off air. Don't do this, man, just sit around

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Speaker 1: Atlanta all that stuff he was talking about. We could

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Speaker 1: do it now again. If you want to come to

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Speaker 1: want to thank lament Rucket for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: Please make sure you look up Cooking Up Christmas. It

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Speaker 1: I always said I wanted more. My father was from

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Speaker 1: So despite of you can still do it. And now

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Speaker 1: you left out some important moments of your father. Your

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Speaker 1: Louisiana from Houston, Texas. So I have no humble beginnings.

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Speaker 1: Drive through the Louisiana all the time to get to

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Speaker 1: back when I was doing stand up comedy. So let's

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Speaker 1: talk about those humble beginnings of your father, because basically

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Speaker 1: Watermelonal truck, ice team truck, come up. Let's talk about that.

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Speaker 1: You know. You know my father and I always asked him.

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Speaker 1: And my father always said, don't let people put boundaries

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Um you know it's so funny. I remember

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Speaker 1: You know it's true when when you hear you have cancer,

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Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, Rashan, I remember it's so clearly. Um.

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Speaker 1: And that's when I'm walking in now. Well, you know

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Speaker 1: it can come back. And when when my staff came

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Speaker 1: But when you're a survivor of cancer and still going

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Speaker 1: through life every day like it's a normal day, because

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Speaker 1: these things, Vitamin D. When when COVID hit, you know,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you. We're saying I have a regiment.

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Speaker 1: Take it seriously. And you know I wear my mask,

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Speaker 1: I social distance. I take this seriously. You know. I

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Speaker 1: is a real thing, a virus thing. Doesn't matter what

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Speaker 1: side you said, it really is. And that's why I

848
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Speaker 1: wanted to bring that up because and talking about different conversations.

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Speaker 1: It's my phone excuse. Is that my fault? What else

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Speaker 1: of that? I apologize for? Sean? No, don't worry baby,

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Speaker 1: where that you got a sharp suit on? So I apologize. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know I wanted to talk about we edited that out.

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Speaker 1: The worry about the thing about when I when let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the book. Now, you know, the unstoppable warrior woman.

855
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Speaker 1: Like I told you before we got on air. Two

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Speaker 1: of the people that you went to, you know, your

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Speaker 1: story led to stories because it's important. And now you're

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Speaker 1: you're you're two times yep, two times, you know, stage

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Speaker 1: four cancer survivor. Like I told him earlier, I don't know,

860
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Speaker 1: it could come back on me. That's the fear of answer.

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00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: You know, you can never walk out of the room

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Speaker 1: and say it won't come back. But you have to

863
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Speaker 1: do your due deal and just to stop it from

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Speaker 1: coming back, you have to live a healthy life. You

865
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Speaker 1: have to realize that you can't feel sorry for yourself.

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Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. This is how address you

867
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Speaker 1: know people. I wear this as a as a reminder

868
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Speaker 1: when when I'm doing TV shows. If anybody ever asked

869
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Speaker 1: me brashan, they said why you are that? I said,

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Speaker 1: because I'm a cancer survivor. That allows me to but

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Speaker 1: it then closer, let me see it right, you know,

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Speaker 1: it allows me to go in and tell them comfortably

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Speaker 1: a conversation about who I am because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people see a cancer or cancer victim or cancer survivor

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Speaker 1: look in a certain way, acting a certain way, walk

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Speaker 1: in a certain way, talking to a certain way. And

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Speaker 1: that's why I was important for me to bring you

878
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Speaker 1: on the show, because I wanted to show you know, yes,

879
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Speaker 1: you walk around with this fear. We actually walk around

880
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Speaker 1: with this this incredible uh negative thing that can happen

881
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: and stop your life in a heartbeat. But you can't

882
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Speaker 1: stop living your life. You can't stop looking like taking

883
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Speaker 1: control your life. People come around. You have to enable

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Speaker 1: them with happiness, having enabled them with motivation. And that's

885
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Speaker 1: what you're doing. And that's what the book that you wrote,

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Speaker 1: the Unstoppable Word Woman, that's how I led it to

887
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Speaker 1: all these other interviews, tell us about it. You know,

888
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Speaker 1: I realized that Huffington posted an article. I mean, Sam

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Speaker 1: Brashawn is unstoppable and everything she does, she's unstoppable, you know,

890
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Speaker 1: because I guess I remember being uh, Tom Joiner and

891
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Speaker 1: he said something. He said, it's so interesting that here

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Speaker 1: you are dealing in the missive stage for going to treatment,

893
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Speaker 1: and you're out there motivating people. Most people would be

894
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Speaker 1: depressed at home, don't want to talk about it, just

895
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Speaker 1: like let it overpass them, don't even don't even like

896
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: listen to them. They don't want to speak about it.

897
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: But here you are speaking about it, telling people that

898
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Speaker 1: they can still thrive, telling people don't live in fear.

899
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Speaker 1: He said, It's amazing. And when I realized I was unstoppable.

900
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Speaker 1: There are so many other people with a story, unstoppable

901
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Speaker 1: to so many other women because as you know, I mean,

902
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Speaker 1: these movements are coming me too, but it's the woman

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Speaker 1: that's coming out now. It's time for us to shine.

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Speaker 1: I played small for so long. I never realized my

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making conversations. Um, your host, Sean McDonald,

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Speaker 1: we'll realize it now your book now, Uh, you have

932
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Speaker 1: several chapters, and then the unstoppable creative women and how

933
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Speaker 1: they shine because you lead off with a statement, with

934
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Speaker 1: a motivational statement of a statement of truth. I'd like

935
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Speaker 1: to call it turning your personal vision into unstoppable success,

936
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Speaker 1: unstoppable healing of family and community, getting unstoppable, unstoppably healthy

937
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: against all odds, choosing unstoppable happiness. Of all those chapters,

938
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Speaker 1: you know, you know our help. Steve Harvard writes several books,

939
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: there was always one chapter that really hit home with

940
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Speaker 1: him in all these books. Of all those, of all

941
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: your chapters, which one resonated the most with you? You You know,

942
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: I like unstoppable happiness because we like to put our

943
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,320
Speaker 1: happiness on other people. We like to say, well, um,

944
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's because of my husband, I'm not there.

945
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: It's because of my partner, I'm not there. It's because

946
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: like stop putting your happiness on someone and find happiness

947
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: within yourself. You are the prize. When we start to

948
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: realize we're the prize, we are the superstars. You don't

949
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: have to search for anyone. You don't. You have everything

950
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 1: you need to be unstoppable. We just don't step into it.

951
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 1: And the book is forty women sharing forty stories of hope,

952
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: of challenges, of triumph, of of mistakes, of fear, of doubt,

953
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: of hardcore stories of rape, of perpies. I mean, it's

954
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Speaker 1: a lot of stories in the of a lot of things.

955
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: But it's true. That's what this that's what the book is.

956
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: A story of truth that leads to hope. Well, the

957
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: thing about it, that's what that's what impacted me. You

958
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: know this is I'm a male, but I was impacted

959
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Speaker 1: by their truth. Now, how do you you know you're

960
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: motivatorm you have relationships? How did you contact the individuals

961
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: and did you shape their stories? Or you just tell

962
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 1: them send me your thoughts? How did they How did

963
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,959
Speaker 1: the stories get into the book? Oh so good point.

964
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: I mean they sit stories and I helped shape it

965
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: because every I mean, you know, everyone's not a writer.

966
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: Everyone doesn't know how to put it. But but I

967
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: wanted to shape the stories. I shaped the stories around

968
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: the like sometimes you have to pull out things from

969
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: people because people don't even think they're unstoppable. People think

970
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,399
Speaker 1: their story is small, so I had to pull it out.

971
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: But in the stories, everybody's stories had greatness in them.

972
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Speaker 1: Every well, you didn't have one, right, And then the

973
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Speaker 1: journalists who went from New York to Africa and came back.

974
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Speaker 1: She was the journalists. They probably had the longest section

975
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: in your book as well. Yes, yes you know, yes, yes, yes,

976
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: that was a good one. So everyone's story, I I

977
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: told everyone. Everyone just had their own story. Everyone had

978
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: their own story, Everyone had their own jority and and

979
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,879
Speaker 1: that's life. Everyone has their own journey. When you saw

980
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: Summer longer, but that is life. I really liked her story.

981
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: I liked all of the story from a standpoint of

982
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: they gave nuggets of inspiration and also overcoming either a

983
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Speaker 1: physical or beautiful young young lady got shot, bully experiences,

984
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: you know, abuse, physical and mental abuse experiences going out there.

985
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,439
Speaker 1: But the one message that came out more and more,

986
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: it's like it's about you stop stop lending your gifts

987
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: to somebody that doesn't appreciate it. Stop motivating other people

988
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: who don't want your motivation. That was a message that

989
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: keeps screaming out through each page that I turned in

990
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: your book. Tell us about that, Rashan. You know, I

991
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: think what I try to get out of each story is,

992
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: like you said, Rashan, it's about you. Stop giving your

993
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: gifts away, stop giving your purpose away, stop giving stop

994
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: playing small, stop being mediocre. Every story I wanted you

995
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: to say, Wow, this is a nugget. Wow, this is

996
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: a nugget, right like you said. I mean, it's rape,

997
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: is bullying, it's somebody who lost a hundred and fifty pounds,

998
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 1: it's a cancer survivor. It's someone who tried to play small.

999
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: It's all of these. It's a journalist, it's someone who

1000
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: found their their their life. It's some I mean, I

1001
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: wanted everything. I wanted, stories of hardship, challenges, mistakes, but

1002
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: in the end, hope they made it to the other side.

1003
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: Because if you fall down and you can look up,

1004
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 1: you can get up. Well, let's talk about the four

1005
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: steps to mindset freedom. You know this is uh. I

1006
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: won't tell anybody we're part of the book, but it's

1007
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: a part of the book that that moved me. And

1008
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: there's a lot of the advice that I followed, and

1009
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,240
Speaker 1: I felt that when I read this, I go home

1010
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 1: run because we're on the same page. Because I'm gonna

1011
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: tell everybody this. There's certain things you have to do

1012
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: to be successful. You have to be consistent about it.

1013
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: There's a certain tone people aren't successful. They may be temporary,

1014
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: they might win the lottery, but eventually they might be

1015
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: the person who loses the money in debt because they

1016
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: get lazier to their approach and life. And there are

1017
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: certain principles about being successful. And when you start talking

1018
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: about the four steps the mindset that's in your book

1019
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 1: for Sean, let's talk about change your viewpoint. That was

1020
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: very important because I reason I say that because the

1021
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,800
Speaker 1: journalists that went from Africa from New York to Africa.

1022
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: Who is afraid to go to u c l A

1023
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: because it was too far away, but then she moved

1024
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: to Africa. That's changing your viewpoint. And I and I

1025
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: only just using an example that when you talk about

1026
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 1: change your viewpoint, because I was the person who for

1027
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Speaker 1: some reason New York to U c l A, which

1028
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: is in Los Angeles, too far away, but New York

1029
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: to Africa. Years later she was cool with it. You know,

1030
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 1: I think we we we get so stuck with our mindset.

1031
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: So change your viewpoint is be open for change, be

1032
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 1: open to change, and board change. Life begins at the

1033
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: end of your comfort zone. If you want to stay

1034
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,720
Speaker 1: the way you are, you will always be the way

1035
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: you are. If you want greatness, greatness is on the

1036
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: other side of that field. But a lot of times

1037
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: we're too afraid to go there because it's too hard,

1038
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: it's too far. We don't know what's gonna be there,

1039
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: we don't know how it's gonna be, and we stay stuffed. Right,

1040
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: if you want greatness, you gotta change your viewpoint and

1041
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: change your mindset and go for it. Absolutely can't be

1042
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: afraid of they unknown and unknown is happens every day.

1043
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: You have any life insurance, you all the insurance, your

1044
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: homeowners insure because it prepares you for the unknown. And

1045
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: that's what life is about. So if you're going out

1046
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: there worried about change, it, I might not I might

1047
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: not be seeing usful. I don't know that you might

1048
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 1: get an all the wheel accident. That's the part of

1049
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: our insurance exists. Stop running away from your past. Oh

1050
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: that's a good one, right, come on, come on now,

1051
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: come on, trying to go away from your past. See,

1052
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: your past makes you who you are. And if my

1053
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: father always said, don't run away from your past, embrace it.

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00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: I was poor. I grew up in a two bedroom

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00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: house with eight kids, living in a two bedroom house,

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00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: and we slept where we can sleep. We made it happen.

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00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: My past made me who I am, strong strength. You see,

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00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 1: people are embarrassed about their past. I remember coaching a woman.

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00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: She had made up this lie about she went to

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00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: Yale Um. She had made up this whole story. She

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00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: really did go to Yale, but she made up the

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00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: story that they were lived in Boca, that they had

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00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: this that was there. There was their country, that was

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00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: their summer house and winter house. And she she really

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00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: was from the projects of New York. She didn't want

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00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: to tell anyone to embarrassed. But let me tell you,

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00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: your story is who you are now. She tells her story,

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00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: so I can now tell her story. But now, like

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00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: your past, don't run away from it. Embrace it. It's beautiful.

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00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: It is your fingerprint and your footprint, that's what God

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00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: made you from your past from your story. Speaker girl,

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00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: she's speaking to truth. Stop blaming and start forgiving. That

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00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: is a problem a lot of people have. It ruins relationships,

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00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: It rules family dynamics. It can ruin business relationship because

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00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: you blame someone else. And I always tell people it's

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00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: a two way street in that blame. It is so true. See,

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00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: we love the blame because every time you point the

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00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.

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00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: I need to say that again. Yes, every time you

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00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: point the finger, three fingers are pointing back at you.

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00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: It's because blaming is easy. Taking responsibility is hard. It's

1082
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: hard to say I failed, I messed up. Yeah I

1083
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: was wrong, I did it wrong. That's hard because we

1084
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: want to be right, we want to be perfect. We

1085
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: want to say nothing's wrong, No, you were, you messed up.

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00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: Take responsibility. Let me tell you, I take responsibility way

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00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: more time than I blame because it's always too. It's

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00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: always two in that show, not one. It's two in

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00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: the marriage, not one. It's two in a friendship not one.

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00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: It's too in a partnership, not one. And the last

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00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: one is letting go. And that's so that's a good one.

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01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: Letting go, Well, that's a good one because we all,

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01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, we all have the

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01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: experience of holding onto a grudge, holding onto a mistake.

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01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: And letting go is a really powerful term because it

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01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be necessarily letting goals on the relationship.

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01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: It could be something that you've done and you have

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01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: not forgiven yourself for that. Talk about your version of

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01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: it for Sean. You know, letting go as hard because comfortable.

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01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 1: We love to be comfortable. We love to have what

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01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: we have. You know, it's so funny, something easy like this.

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01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: I tell my clients go to work. You know, if

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01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: you drive the work thirty minutes, you go the same way,

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01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: go a different way, go through your streets. No, I

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01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: don't want to go through the streets. No, take this

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01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: right and go No, no, no, it won't work. It'll

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01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: get me there. See if they don't let go because

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01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 1: I want to do it the way I want to

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01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: do it. I want to do it how I want

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01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: to do it, the way I want to do it.

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01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: People let that mess them up. In relationships and marriages

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01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: and friendships, you don't let go of the things like

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01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: try something new, you know, let go of that negative thinking,

1114
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: let go of trying to be right. Let go you

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01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: are going, We're gonna have a long time relationship. I'm

1116
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: gonna just tell you that ten years, fifteen years, be

1117
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 1: like your dad eighty five. You know, I'm just gonna

1118
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: be looking for the old women. The thing about it

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01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: is that because everything you're saying is the truth in life.

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I go home, I go a different

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01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: way just to see what life is down there, still

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01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: being careful, still not be an adventurous, just seeing a

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Speaker 1: different treat, seeing a different street, like passing the different

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Speaker 1: gas station. Because from a creative standpoint, you got to

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Speaker 1: be able to look at life differently. So that allows

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01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,919
Speaker 1: you to come home with a different attitude, come home

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01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: with not that same I saw it again, the same routine,

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01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: get off the fruy on that same exit, coming down

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Speaker 1: that same back road. I do it a lot, I

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01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 1: really do. So when you when you talk like that,

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01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: I go, wow, she is so dead on. Because out

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01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: of habit, I do these things. But I want to

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01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: before we wrap up, I want to this a great conversation.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show. The Unstoppable Warrior

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01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: Warmant released October twenty seven is available in bookstores now.

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01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: But she's tapping into an area this app that she's dropped,

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01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: mental health, mental health in the black community of the the

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01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 1: African American community. It's kind of like the Kurts. We

1139
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: don't want to admit, we don't twoot things, we don't

1140
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 1: want to met We don't want to met homosexuality in

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01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: the black community, and we definitely don't want to make

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01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: mental health issues in the black community. Talk about the

1143
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 1: importance of this new app that you're dropping in twenty

1144
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: we're shying yourself right. Look, you need to be a

1145
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: coach on there. You know, we have coaches speakers on

1146
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: I Love your energy. So we're gonna talk offline about that.

1147
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: We're launching it. Rids. We gotta stay together, girl, we

1148
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: got that shot. Yeah, you know, you know right now

1149
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,919
Speaker 1: I'm launching it's called You Are a Warrior. You Are

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01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: a Warrior W A R R I O R. They

1151
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: can sign up, Uh, they can sign up now. Um,

1152
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: it'll be coming soon. They get they get perks if

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01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: they sign up. Now. You know, it's something people are

1154
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: tired of Facebook. They call it fakebook and inst the

1155
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 1: fame right, you know, it's negative, it's always putting something

1156
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: out that's not positive. I want somewhere where people can

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01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: express themselves about depression, anxiety and stress, where we can

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01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: really talk to others and we can use avatars if

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01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: we don't want to share who we are, or we

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01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 1: can be ourselves. But it's time to get the help

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01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 1: we need. People are committing suicide. Open yards are up

1162
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: like no other bodies. Business medications are up. Um, people

1163
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,439
Speaker 1: are depressed in slumps. I just saw Sam Smith say

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01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: he was like, I've never been so depressed in my life. Um.

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01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: You know, staying inside, people feel closed in, not socializing.

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01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 1: People are and this is really bringing out this side

1167
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,840
Speaker 1: of people. It's really bringing this out. People want to

1168
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: an outlet, and that's what I'm going to give them.

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01:03:57,720 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: An outlet. You know, it's a place where it's a

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01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: man to health app. You can express yourself the first thing,

1171
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: sharing your story. We have quizzes on it, we have challenges,

1172
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: we have chat rooms, or you can talk to an

1173
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: expert that has four pillars motivation, personal development, self improvement,

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01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 1: and speaking to an expert. I want to be there

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01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: to help and and really talk about real stuff instead

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01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: of you know, we can listen to music. All day.

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01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: We can dance all day, we can talk about TikTok

1178
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:27,479
Speaker 1: all day, but deep inside we're crying. When Elon Musk

1179
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: says that I'm lonely, I need someone to talk to

1180
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: one of the wealthiest men in the world, in the

1181
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 1: world saying I feel alone right well, you know, and

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01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 1: and and that absolutely I think that successful people say

1183
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: that because who you talk to, and sometimes when you

1184
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: are successful, you can't show weaknesses and and you and

1185
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: that's a part of mental health. That's the challenge of

1186
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: allowing yourself to share weakness and who you show that

1187
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 1: weakness too, so you won't be backstad or you won't

1188
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: be undermined because you're showing these signs of weaknesses. But

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01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: that's all part of the mental health campaign that you're

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01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: trying to bring to the food front. And the reason

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01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm talking about that for Shaun is that the black community,

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01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: if we don't start accepting therapy as as being all right,

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01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: I going to see a therapist or going to see

1194
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: a psychiatrist's fine to deal with some some issues that

1195
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 1: you might have when you were growing up, or you

1196
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: might have in a relationship issues And instead of just

1197
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: going from one person to the next person. Basically destroy

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Speaker 1: a good man or a woman along the way because

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Speaker 1: you don't want to deal with your emotional or mental issues.

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01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: These are important. That's why I wanted to make sure

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01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,439
Speaker 1: that we talked about it. Tell people again about your

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01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: Warrior of the app before we wrap up. Okay, yeah,

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01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: so you are a Warrior of the letter. You are

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Speaker 1: a W A R R I O R dot com.

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01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 1: You can go and sign up. Please go and sign up.

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01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: You get perks. The first We're giving a thousand people

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01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: all kind of gifts and inspirational books and newsletters and perks.

1208
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: So please join it. But it's a it's a mental

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01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: health app that deals with depression, anxiety, and strength. And

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01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: we have four pillars that helps you motivation, self improvement,

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01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 1: personal development, and support. We have coaches to help coach

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01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:09,600
Speaker 1: you chat rooms. You can be in a guided chat

1213
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: room with a coach, or you can be alone just listening.

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01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,439
Speaker 1: We have a place where you can get meditation, um,

1215
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: you can do yoga, you can listen to videos, just

1216
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 1: whatever you need every day of the week. And we

1217
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: have a Warrior Wall express yourself. It's time that we

1218
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: start really in the black community speaking up and standing

1219
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: up I want this app to reach every black, seleab,

1220
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: middle class person, underprivileged person. I wanted to reach everyone

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01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 1: to help them. It's my mission to give back because

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01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: it's time. It's time for us to stop lying. It's

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01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: time for us to stop acting like we're okay. Like

1224
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 1: you said, stop perpetrating, Stop acting like we have everything

1225
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 1: in the bank, we're rich. Look at all this money

1226
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: on Instagram and then you can't pay your bills. Look

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01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: at all this and you can't read it right. Look

1228
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: at all this and you lost your home. Stop it.

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01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: Stop with the nonsense and the lines. It's time to

1230
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: stand up and speak up. And that's what you are.

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01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: Warrior is about. Sean with you, Me and you, We're

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01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 1: gonna make this app. I'm telling on Mondays. I do

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01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 1: motivational cards. I get people who are changing the world.

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01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make a motivational card for you to

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01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,800
Speaker 1: promote your book, to promote your brand. And it's gonna

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01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: talk about being a two time svant, survival, wicked, every

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01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: day living life. Not by what's happened to you, but

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01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 1: what could happen to you. And you are an inspirational

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01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,439
Speaker 1: You truly are a warrior. I'm gonna promote your book.

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01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna promote your app again. You're in my life

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01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: for the next thirty years. And tell Pops he my man,

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01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna be that way. Two. Okay, Yes, I

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01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 1: thank you, Raean. What a great interview. Love your spirit,

1244
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: love your inspiration. We're gonna stay in tight absolutely. My

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01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: next cass is one I write it on the show

1246
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: because she supported me. She's leading my brand and when

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01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: you start a new brand, you need relationships and she's

1248
01:07:56,120 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 1: always been one that has shown a strong light in

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01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 1: the direction of support of what I'm trying to do

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01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: with money making conversation. Her name is Sheila Bell. Sheila Bell.

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Speaker 1: The Bell has worked in the field of broadcast news

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Speaker 1: journalism and with the press for over thirty years. She's

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Speaker 1: the editor in chief and publisher of The Bail Report,

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Speaker 1: now entering his fifteen year publishing, has become one of

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Speaker 1: the top music industry go to platforms for gospel and

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Speaker 1: inspirational news. The Bill has interviewed and met some of

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Speaker 1: the most influential people in the world, including Nelson Mandela,

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Speaker 1: President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, President Barack Obama, Oprah

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Speaker 1: Win for Dick Gregor, Gretta, Scott King, Jesse Jackson, and

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Speaker 1: many more. In addition to producing The Bill Report that

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Speaker 1: is published Monday through Friday, The Bill Color currently produces

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Speaker 1: an anchors the syndicated radio news show The Bill Report

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Speaker 1: Entertainment News Update, now airing in fifty seven markets across

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Speaker 1: this country. Please welcome to money making Conversations. She said,

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Speaker 1: she got her game on for me today. The media journalist, producer,

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Speaker 1: and inspirational speaker, Sheila Bill, thank you so much. I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited to be here, so excited to be with you,

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Speaker 1: and thank you so much for that great introduction. I

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Speaker 1: felt I felt special for you, are you know, because

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Speaker 1: you know the thing about it when people come on

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Speaker 1: my show many years, Steve, Steve Harvey uh used to

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Speaker 1: always when I stopped doing stand up comedy, Steve said, man,

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Speaker 1: can you lease introduce me? Can you just come into

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Speaker 1: my show to just introduce me? And because he just

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Speaker 1: knew that, I knew you always got to set the

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Speaker 1: stage and everybody has value. And sometimes it's not enough

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Speaker 1: for me to say you're just the you know, the

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Speaker 1: the founder, the creative the Bell Report. Let's talk a

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Speaker 1: little history. Let's talk a little because when people hear

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Speaker 1: And that's why I have to put it out like that.

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Speaker 1: I can't just say you know your name and just say, well,

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Speaker 1: here's the question that you sent over me to ask.

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Speaker 1: I do additional research, and so the Bell Report is

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Speaker 1: something that's important to my brand. And that's why I

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Speaker 1: had to invite you on my show. I say, I

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Speaker 1: This morning. Mom is coming out the front door strong

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Speaker 1: they're off. But looks like mom doesn't realize her coffee

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Speaker 1: cup is still on the roof of the car, and

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Speaker 1: the AD Council. Well, I'm I'm thinking about all the

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Speaker 1: different people that you're talking to, the different lives that

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Speaker 1: are out there, and it's so much that's going on

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Speaker 1: right now. No one lives the same life. No one

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Speaker 1: thinks the same way. No one processes information the same way.

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Speaker 1: So when you're reaching out to different people on different

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Speaker 1: platforms and different arenas and different cities and different states,

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Speaker 1: looking at politics and people, and even when you ask

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Speaker 1: them what is your understanding and belief of God, everyone

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Speaker 1: has a different story to tell. Everyone's gonna view something differently.

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Speaker 1: No one processes information the same way. So when you're

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Speaker 1: talking to me or Jesse Jackson or Michael Eric Dyson

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Speaker 1: or Oprah Winfree, no one's gonna be looking at life

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Speaker 1: the same way because no one has gone through life

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Speaker 1: the same. Everyone has had different experiences up, down, good, bad.

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Speaker 1: Some people have money, some people don't. Some people are

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Speaker 1: challenge some people are not. And then sometimes when you

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Speaker 1: look at you are approached with the door and then

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Speaker 1: the door closes in your face. What do you do.

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Speaker 1: Do you sit back and do you complain or do

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Speaker 1: you realize that God allowed that door to close, knowing

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Speaker 1: that you are the fighter, and the fighter that's within

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Speaker 1: you needs to come out of you. And when it

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Speaker 1: comes out of you, you're gonna push harder, and then

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Speaker 1: you're gonna realize some things that you didn't realize before.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna learn some things about yourself that you didn't

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Speaker 1: know before, and you're gonna see that you're stronger than

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Speaker 1: you actually thought that you were. So when I look

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Speaker 1: at all the different people that you have interviewed, when

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Speaker 1: I think about all the time so that I've seen

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Speaker 1: you and the different people that you have decided to interview,

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Speaker 1: when it comes across my desk, and as an option

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Speaker 1: to put into the Bell Report, I put it in

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Speaker 1: the Bell Report with pride because I know that you

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Speaker 1: are not about buffoonery, You're not about foolishness. But you

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Speaker 1: want to make sure that not only the people that

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Speaker 1: you're interviewing that you give them an opportunity, but you're

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Speaker 1: also educating people who are listening to other people when

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Speaker 1: they are listening to you, and when they're listening to

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Speaker 1: your guests, and when your guests have something to say

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Speaker 1: that's worth listening to. It says a lot about you.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the people who you're interviewing, we

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Speaker 1: become an extension of you. So you're gonna make sure

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Speaker 1: whoever you interview has some sense about them to take

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Speaker 1: up this time space. Absolutely, because you're so articulate. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back with one of the courses. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about doing research and a stutter. You know, a

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Speaker 1: person who started as a young person, which led to

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Speaker 1: I'm sure ridicule jokes, and sometimes that leads to bullying.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people think the word

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Speaker 1: bully is a modern term. I can know that in

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Speaker 1: my middle school I was bullied, bullied. In my high

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Speaker 1: school years, I was bullied. Just didn't understand it. I

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Speaker 1: just know that. I just said they picked on me, mom,

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Speaker 1: they're picking on me at school. That's the term I

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Speaker 1: used instead of the word bullying. These kids picking on me. So,

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Speaker 1: as a young stutterer, how did you deal with that

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Speaker 1: and how did you overcome it to be so articulate

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Speaker 1: and so mindful and so motivational today, if you're talking

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Speaker 1: to the the young millennials and the Gene actually would say,

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Speaker 1: it's a god thing. But if you want to be

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Speaker 1: real about it, God healed me from what I was

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Speaker 1: going through. I was in the first, second, and third grade,

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Speaker 1: and the stuttering was so bad it would take me

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Speaker 1: a good two or three minutes to articulate three or

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Speaker 1: four or five words just to say. Back in the

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Speaker 1: day when we were in school, sometimes the teacher would say, hey, Sheil,

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Speaker 1: would you go to miss harris room and give her

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Speaker 1: this message? The message maybe tell Miss Harris that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be going outside to play to own the playground

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Speaker 1: at twelve o'clock. So, because they knew I stuttered, and

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Speaker 1: because my mom also taught in the same school that

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Speaker 1: we were in, they were trying to help me to

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Speaker 1: get out of it, to get out of that zone

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Speaker 1: of not feeling comfortable around people. Because even then, while

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Speaker 1: it was stuttering, I was also extremely shy. So by

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Speaker 1: the time I left the first grade and went up

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Speaker 1: to the second floor and I would tell Mrs Harris

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Speaker 1: the message. The message sort of went like this, ms

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Speaker 1: ms mss mss mss mss ms mss Harris, Miss miss

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Speaker 1: miss and it went on like that. So you're trying

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Speaker 1: to deliver this message. You got other kids looking at

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Speaker 1: you like what is the problem. And this went on,

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Speaker 1: and my mom tried to work with me. We will

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Speaker 1: read books on the front porch. She would try to

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Speaker 1: get me to calm down. But after the first, second

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Speaker 1: and third grade, third grade, I was told that I

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Speaker 1: was going to be going to a middle school for

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Speaker 1: the fourth grade. So the day that we were waiting

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Speaker 1: for the yellow cheese bus to come down the street

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Speaker 1: to pick us up to get on this bus to

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Speaker 1: go to Robert E. Lee Middle School, I heard this voice,

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Speaker 1: I'm going into the fourth grade. I heard this voice

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Speaker 1: that said slow down. They will hear you slow down.

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Speaker 1: And I remember just thinking, I'm hearing a voice. I

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Speaker 1: don't know where this voice is coming from, but it's

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Speaker 1: telling me to slow down. And something within me, maybe

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Speaker 1: down in my Sha Nana, that told me to slow

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Speaker 1: it down. And once I got that in my spirit

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Speaker 1: and understood, when I walked on that yellow bus, I

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Speaker 1: no longer started. It was just like that. It was

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Speaker 1: just like that a blessing. It was that. And and

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Speaker 1: now when you look at your life, now you're in

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Speaker 1: the creative side, journalistic side, media side, because that that

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Speaker 1: that ability to translate information is what your gift is.

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Speaker 1: Promote information what your gift is. Now, let's let's set

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Speaker 1: that in the world. We had a president who came

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Speaker 1: into office in and established a term called fake news.

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Speaker 1: As he exits, that's all he's about, is creating fake news.

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Speaker 1: When you review information like that, how has it impacted

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Speaker 1: how you report things, how you deliver information to our community.

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Speaker 1: What has helped me over the years to even have

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Speaker 1: the brand that I have today and to report the

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Speaker 1: news that I have today is integrity. And for years,

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Speaker 1: every time when I would write a story, I had

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Speaker 1: to learn really early that there are two sides to

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Speaker 1: the story. You can always write the story the way

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Speaker 1: that you want to write the story to favor the

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Speaker 1: person who you like, but you have to remember that

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Speaker 1: there are two sides to the story. So and being fair,

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Speaker 1: I've always been fair to everyone who I deal with. Integrity,

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Speaker 1: your name goes a long way. So even when I'm

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Speaker 1: on the air now, I praise one or four point

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Speaker 1: seven when I'm writing stories up on the Bell Report,

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Speaker 1: when I'm pushing stuff out on the Bell Report, Entertainment,

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Speaker 1: News Update, when I'm having a conversation, if I'm in

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Speaker 1: the pulpit, if I'm ministering, if I'm talking, if someone

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Speaker 1: just approaches me. It's about being true to who you

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Speaker 1: are so you can be true to other people. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's even about being transparent so people can know that

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Speaker 1: you're not trying to hide anything. So when the facts

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Speaker 1: do come out and when you see what is going

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Speaker 1: on for what it is, you just tell the truth.

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Speaker 1: And I'll never forget the day when Michael Jackson died.

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Speaker 1: I had people calling me, and it shocked me. They said, Bell,

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Speaker 1: we're calling you because we know if you say that

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Speaker 1: he I then we know that he died. Because we're

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Speaker 1: just not trusting the other media. We just can't. We

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Speaker 1: just can't believe it. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm

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Speaker 1: watching CNN and ms NBC and and be just like

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Speaker 1: everyone else trying to figure out what's going on. But

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Speaker 1: they were trusting me with that. But it spoke volume

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Speaker 1: to me, realizing that people are trusting me with information,

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Speaker 1: and when people trust you to tell the truth, and

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Speaker 1: when you think about the world that we're living and

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Speaker 1: now people want to have a relationship with people who

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01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:30,960
Speaker 1: can tell the truth because often people will twist it.

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Speaker 1: Look at social media. I'm looking at how social media

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Speaker 1: has played mind games with people as people have gotten

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01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:41,559
Speaker 1: so caught up trying to be something that they're not

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01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 1: trying to please people for a like or comment, just

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01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 1: so they can do whatever it is that they're trying

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01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 1: to do it. I'm like, be real to yourself. There's

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01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 1: too many games out here mentally, emotionally, spiritually. When do

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01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:55,760
Speaker 1: you find the time to back up to find out

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01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,200
Speaker 1: who you are and being true to yourself. If you

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01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:00,120
Speaker 1: can't be true to yourself, you can't be true the

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01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:03,720
Speaker 1: other people. And I really pride myself on doing the

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01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 1: best that I can to be honest and being truthful. Well,

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Speaker 1: the thing I love about your whole presentation is that

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01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: it's about branding. It's about marketing and UH and brand association.

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01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: I remember when Steve when I first started. I first

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01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:19,559
Speaker 1: I met Steven eighties six, when I was a stand

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01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:21,560
Speaker 1: up comback. I was headlining. He was my opening that

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01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 1: and didn't ainty to you know. Deaf Comedy Jam came

1488
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: through town and he was headlining the show. That asked

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01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:29,680
Speaker 1: me to come down and do a set, and he

1490
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 1: would always see his name on stage. Steve Harvest said

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01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:36,600
Speaker 1: this was Steve Harvey, Steve Harveys, Steve he was constantly

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01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:40,839
Speaker 1: branding himself and name recognition. If you didn't know what's performing,

1493
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna tell you. So the Bell Report. When I

1494
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 1: see the Bell Report that every time it's your last name,

1495
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,280
Speaker 1: it's part of the branding process. Tell us how that

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01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:54,520
Speaker 1: came about. The whole magazine and also the Bell Report

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01:20:54,840 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 1: name Report. It's it's such a gift from God, and

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01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:07,759
Speaker 1: how it came into fruition, it's it's pretty uh. Years ago, fifteen, sixteen,

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01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:11,640
Speaker 1: seventeen years ago. Now, my cousin Kevin was riding his

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Speaker 1: motorcycle out in Charlottesville. He had a motorcycle accident. His

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01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: mom called and she said, Sheila, let the family know

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01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:21,680
Speaker 1: what's going on with Kevin. Because what happened with him

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01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:26,599
Speaker 1: the motorcycle accident, He slid a tree branch limb went

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01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 1: through his eye. His son was behind him following him,

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01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:35,080
Speaker 1: and his son got involved in the same accident, but

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01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 1: his son was not to really hurt. They met like

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01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: him to the University of Virginia Hospital. And while all

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01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: this is going on, I'm now keeping the family, the

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01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: Bell family of where of what's going on. So what

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01:21:47,520 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 1: I had to figure out. That's when the Internet was

1511
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:51,679
Speaker 1: still pretty new, and I had to figure out, okay,

1512
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:54,639
Speaker 1: just put something on it. So I said, hey, hey,

1513
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: this is the Bell Report for the family. So I

1514
01:21:57,360 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: kept updating people what was going on, because I was

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01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 1: still doing news at that time of another radio station

1516
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: at another TV station. I was updating people what was

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01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: going on. And as he got better, I remember that

1518
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:10,799
Speaker 1: was an event that was going on in the city,

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01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:12,760
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, by the way, Kevin, if you're

1520
01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:14,720
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit better, there's an event that we

1521
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 1: can go to. And he said, hey, that's pretty cool.

1522
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 1: He got better, and then a couple of days later

1523
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 1: I said, I found out there were two more things

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01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 1: that's going on. So this went off all about a

1525
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: good week and a half and somebody in the family

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01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:30,519
Speaker 1: sent that Bell Report to somebody else and it started

1527
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:33,360
Speaker 1: to float. And about two or three weeks later, I

1528
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 1: got an email from a friend of mine in the

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01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: industry and who said, hey, I understand that you're sending

1530
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:41,240
Speaker 1: out a newsletter or something. Can you send out this

1531
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:45,640
Speaker 1: event as well? And here are five hundred additional emails

1532
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 1: that you can also have and distribute this to as well,

1533
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:52,840
Speaker 1: so a lifebub went off that made me think, alrighty,

1534
01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to hear about my cousin.

1535
01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:58,160
Speaker 1: Let me split these and keep the Bell Report for

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01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: the Bell Report for the family, and make the other

1537
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:03,799
Speaker 1: one the Bell Report for everyone else. And initially started

1538
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: with the split with the Bell Report, that stayed the

1539
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: way that that was. But when it came for the

1540
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,519
Speaker 1: Bell Report for the industry, I started to try to

1541
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 1: find information about what was going on and what was interesting.

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01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: We didn't have the type of websites with all the

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01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:21,000
Speaker 1: information that we have now. So I would drive from Richmond,

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01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: Virginia to Washington, d c. And pick up all the

1545
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 1: ethnic newspapers at Howard University to find out all the

1546
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:30,920
Speaker 1: different events that were going on. And I have to

1547
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 1: call these people to find out. And then it became

1548
01:23:33,280 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 1: like a community calendar of all these different events that

1549
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:39,280
Speaker 1: was going on and them having reporting skills. Then you

1550
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:41,719
Speaker 1: start to go to the different events, and you start

1551
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:45,160
Speaker 1: interviewing people, and you start taking pictures, and before you

1552
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 1: know at the Bell Report became two separate entities. And

1553
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 1: then I had family members who said, take me off

1554
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:52,679
Speaker 1: the other Bell Report, just keep me on the other

1555
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: Family Bell Report, and it just started to grow from

1556
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:57,599
Speaker 1: there and it has been growing ever since. And I

1557
01:23:57,640 --> 01:24:00,559
Speaker 1: think that we do well because we've try to make

1558
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: sure that we're not sending out emails all day long.

1559
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 1: We do have the website, but people want that email

1560
01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: directly to their email front door, so we send it

1561
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 1: out late at night. We send it out in the

1562
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: noon day around twelve noon, just twice a day. But

1563
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 1: if you are to print it out, it's maybe anywhere

1564
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:20,679
Speaker 1: from eighteen to twenty two pages of information that's going

1565
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: on in the gospel community, from what's happening with the

1566
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:27,519
Speaker 1: record labels, the gospel artists, the conventions, whatever is going on.

1567
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:30,600
Speaker 1: People call me, send me stuff to publicists and what

1568
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:33,599
Speaker 1: the beauty is about the Bell Report? Which is why

1569
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,840
Speaker 1: no God gave this coming? You have all this information

1570
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 1: out there, People have websites, people are over the place,

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01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:44,640
Speaker 1: But how do people know how to get to your website?

1572
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:47,360
Speaker 1: How do they know that if you if you're trying

1573
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 1: to publish it. So I'm like, hey, the Bell Report

1574
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: goes to everybody, and people have gotten so mentally lazy.

1575
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 1: If you will give me what I can get and

1576
01:24:56,840 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: just send it to my email. So by sending it

1577
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: to the email. It's right there, everything that you need,

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01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,600
Speaker 1: everything that you want, and we also put links and

1579
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 1: other things and the reports if people want to go there.

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01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:09,560
Speaker 1: But the Bell Report has done really well. It's a

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01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 1: blessing from God. Even told me how to make a

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01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:14,080
Speaker 1: couple of coins from it. And when I'm pushing it

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01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:16,719
Speaker 1: out and it helps pay my bills, and I thank

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01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: God for you know, God gives you all the things

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01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 1: that you need, It gives you the talents that you need,

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01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,040
Speaker 1: but He's trusting you with what he has giving you

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01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: as well. So I just try to make sure what

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01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:28,400
Speaker 1: the gifts that God has given me that I use

1589
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 1: them to help people. But I also make sure that

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01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: I'm using them to the glory of God and letting

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01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: God know every day that I wake up that he

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01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:37,640
Speaker 1: can trust me with what he's trying to bless me with.

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Speaker 1: your host Sean McDonald. You know this is a great story, um,

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Speaker 1: and you to speak of God and He prepares you. Right.

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Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, I'm gonna share stories that's going to

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Speaker 1: be relatable to you. In twenty fifteen, I was diagnosed

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Speaker 1: with thyro or cancer and and and it really was

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01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: a game changing for me mentally because I wouldn't expecting

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01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 1: that if the fact that I've done my annual exam

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01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 1: when December and with the dentists and my doctor and

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01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: everything was good, and it was I walked into the

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01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:24,840
Speaker 1: bloodwork and the doctor was doing the bloodwork said can

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01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 1: I just to touch your throat, touch your neck, you know,

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01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,840
Speaker 1: just something that wasn't normal. And then she said, can

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01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 1: I do a bobsy on this little this little lump

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01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 1: right here? And she did the bobbousite to turn out

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01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 1: to be cancerous. And I always tell people when somebody

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01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:45,120
Speaker 1: tells you the worry cancer, I don't care where you're

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01:27:45,120 --> 01:27:49,080
Speaker 1: in life. It shuts you down mentally. I mean, death

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01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:52,760
Speaker 1: immediately takes upon your spirit. Uh. It's a sense of

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01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:55,160
Speaker 1: a sense of you know, they go, don't tell you

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01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:56,639
Speaker 1: how many times they can tell you, well, you know

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01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: the survival rates good, It doesn't it doesn't click with

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01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 1: you at all. But when I didn't tell my family

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01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: right away because I wanted to take all this in

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01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 1: and it was it was really when I realized that

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01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 1: you know, faith prepares you for an opportunity to ascend

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01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: that or perspective of your life. And I would tell

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01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 1: you this, mill I walked away with that situation when

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01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:21,839
Speaker 1: I finally to my family because I was very comfortable

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01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 1: where my life was at at that point. And I'm

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01:28:23,960 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 1: still comfortable to that that. You know, you know, you

1645
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:28,680
Speaker 1: look at your life. What have you accomplished? Or you're

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01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 1: a good person. Have you done things unselfishly in your life?

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01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:35,360
Speaker 1: Have you enabled other people to achieve? Have you reached

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01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:37,439
Speaker 1: your goals or you're achieving your goals, or you're living

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01:28:37,439 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 1: the life that you want to live. And I was

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01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 1: just checking off all these boxes and I would you know,

1651
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready to check out, but if I was

1652
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:50,240
Speaker 1: going to check out, I was comfortable with the process.

1653
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: And that's where I met with my life. And I

1654
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: try to tell everybody you know, don't hold off any

1655
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 1: opportunity or a dream possibility. And so when I read

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01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 1: about you being diagnosed in twenty sixteen, I want you

1657
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 1: to share your experience on my show because I try

1658
01:29:04,479 --> 01:29:06,759
Speaker 1: to be very honest with you. This is my experience,

1659
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:09,759
Speaker 1: but everybody has a different experience because it's so impactful.

1660
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 1: I lost my sister to breast cancer, so I know

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01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 1: what it can do to you and how I can

1662
01:29:14,200 --> 01:29:17,280
Speaker 1: devastate a family and take away somebody you love the most.

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01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:20,679
Speaker 1: But it happened to me and I was able to

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01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 1: deal with it professionally because that's what it was. It

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01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:25,600
Speaker 1: was a professional moment for me to be able to

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Speaker 1: deal with it because I put my life in perspective

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01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,639
Speaker 1: and I've never ever gotten up saying what I could

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Speaker 1: not do. I just tried to do it, and I

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01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: tried to do it at and that's my story and

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Speaker 1: that's my life, and that's why I live it every day,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I created this money making conversation platform

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Speaker 1: so I can talk to amazing people like you because

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Speaker 1: your story is inspirational. Were important that you get to

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01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: share it on the platform that thousands of people can

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01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:53,799
Speaker 1: hear your turn. It's well, like you said, it's amazing

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01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:56,360
Speaker 1: when you get diagnosed or something like that, you are

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01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 1: never prepared for it. And when I initially got that

1678
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:03,400
Speaker 1: test and they let me even back up. When I

1679
01:30:03,439 --> 01:30:05,759
Speaker 1: was at the radio station, they were talking about having

1680
01:30:06,280 --> 01:30:08,920
Speaker 1: healthfare and somebody said, you know they're gonna be doing

1681
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 1: mammograms there and I had not had one, had not,

1682
01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: But when I was invited to go, I knew when

1683
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 1: I went, my life was going to change. I just

1684
01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 1: I just knew it. And I went that Saturday. I

1685
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 1: walked up those three steps. There was a young lady

1686
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:26,439
Speaker 1: sitting in that little lab area of a I call

1687
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 1: it the Mamma Grandma Bile because it was a mobile

1688
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:31,639
Speaker 1: that was there. There was a young lady sitting there,

1689
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:33,360
Speaker 1: and when I walked and I looked at her, I said,

1690
01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 1: my life will never be the same, and she just

1691
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: looked at me and tilted her head. They called me back.

1692
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:42,720
Speaker 1: They did three or four images. They said, we'll call you.

1693
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:46,160
Speaker 1: There's something wrong. Wednesday they called. They said we found

1694
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:49,839
Speaker 1: some crystallization and I had to go to the hospital

1695
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:52,000
Speaker 1: to further that. I went to the University of Virginia,

1696
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:54,400
Speaker 1: which is where I got everything originally done, because I

1697
01:30:54,439 --> 01:30:56,080
Speaker 1: didn't want to really deal with it here where I

1698
01:30:56,080 --> 01:31:00,280
Speaker 1: am Richmond. When I got there and they started taking wages,

1699
01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 1: I think by the time they were on image number

1700
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:06,560
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen and started to get real, I said okay,

1701
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:09,559
Speaker 1: and I started to get some emotions there. Then they

1702
01:31:09,640 --> 01:31:12,160
Speaker 1: wanted to take a biopsy. And when they took the

1703
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 1: biopsy and the doctor looked at some things, and I said,

1704
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:17,519
Speaker 1: do we have a problem? He says, we have a problem.

1705
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:19,760
Speaker 1: So we gathered him that And when I gat through

1706
01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:23,000
Speaker 1: that and I went outside, that was that one moment

1707
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 1: when I had to sit down and get myself together.

1708
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:29,320
Speaker 1: I had to process it and to mentally figure out

1709
01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:32,679
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I mentally make some decisions. How

1710
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 1: are you gonna handle this? Are you gonna fall apart?

1711
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be strong? It's not about why is

1712
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: that God's trusting you with this assignment? So let's handle this.

1713
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:45,240
Speaker 1: Your mother passed away from bone cancer, handle it. You

1714
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:47,920
Speaker 1: are here. And after I gat through that, it was

1715
01:31:48,120 --> 01:31:50,519
Speaker 1: sordered like it was sort of like saying, game on,

1716
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:54,559
Speaker 1: let's do this. And that's the mindset that I took.

1717
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 1: And I was supposed to have six chemotherapy treatments. I

1718
01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:01,960
Speaker 1: was supposed to through the whole nine. But well, so

1719
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:05,640
Speaker 1: interesting when you are in a position like that, the

1720
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 1: first thing you start figuring out is, Okay, I gotta

1721
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:11,600
Speaker 1: figure out how to handle this. But then when you

1722
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 1: meet when you meet with a doctor, you really don't

1723
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 1: know what to ask. You don't know what to do,

1724
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:22,120
Speaker 1: you don't know how to feel, you don't know what

1725
01:32:22,200 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: direction to going because you've never been in this uncharted

1726
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 1: territory before. You're now dependent on this doctor to give

1727
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:32,599
Speaker 1: you the best advice possible what you should do, how

1728
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:35,400
Speaker 1: you should handle it, what treatment you should take. So

1729
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:38,679
Speaker 1: what they were telling me after I started digging because

1730
01:32:38,680 --> 01:32:41,000
Speaker 1: I don't mind digging and getting research. But what this

1731
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 1: doctor told me um, I didn't agree with. And they

1732
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 1: were telling me that I needed to have surgery first,

1733
01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 1: and I needed to do this and that and and

1734
01:32:51,320 --> 01:32:53,160
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm like, wit, I'm like, but if if

1735
01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 1: you have surgery first and you you do have a

1736
01:32:56,439 --> 01:32:59,400
Speaker 1: large I had an eight uh an eight centimeter tumor,

1737
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:03,240
Speaker 1: said why don't we do the chemo first to shrink

1738
01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:07,240
Speaker 1: it and then do the surgery to remove it. But

1739
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 1: then they didn't give me all the options. They were

1740
01:33:09,880 --> 01:33:12,520
Speaker 1: telling me that I could have both in my breasts removed,

1741
01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:16,520
Speaker 1: and it was really a mess. So after I initially

1742
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:19,720
Speaker 1: got a port in and then I had my first

1743
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:24,919
Speaker 1: chemo therapy treatment. Uh that went pretty well. Two weeks

1744
01:33:25,320 --> 01:33:29,679
Speaker 1: into the first chemo treatment and I was finding out

1745
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:32,640
Speaker 1: some tightness in my chest, and then the port got infected.

1746
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,960
Speaker 1: And after the port got infected, and I was calling

1747
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:39,760
Speaker 1: the hospital and uv A and I'm in Richmond. They

1748
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 1: were saying, when you need to get to the emergency room.

1749
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 1: And then when I got to the emergency room, then

1750
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 1: we found out that the port was infected, had a

1751
01:33:46,439 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 1: wounded infection out of blood infection, and they had to

1752
01:33:48,920 --> 01:33:51,640
Speaker 1: take the port out. Then I wasn't admitted to the hospital.

1753
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:53,880
Speaker 1: Then I had mercer. Then I got out of the

1754
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:55,800
Speaker 1: hospital about a week and a half later that I

1755
01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 1: was on Banca vica marris banka, whatever that drug is,

1756
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 1: for about twenty one days. Then after that got cleared up,

1757
01:34:03,560 --> 01:34:06,680
Speaker 1: I went back to treatment for my chemo, which was

1758
01:34:06,880 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 1: treatment number two. Okay, Treatment number three was a little

1759
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:15,679
Speaker 1: rough because by this time I was going through losing weight.

1760
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:18,719
Speaker 1: I was down eighty five pounds, the hair was gone.

1761
01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:21,320
Speaker 1: I was also in the middle of pulling together an

1762
01:34:21,360 --> 01:34:24,719
Speaker 1: event at my church called the Gift, and that Gift

1763
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:27,479
Speaker 1: helped me to propel and push through what I was

1764
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:29,639
Speaker 1: going through. The Gift was a program that I put

1765
01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:32,080
Speaker 1: together that was going to be helping out people who

1766
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:34,799
Speaker 1: were caregivers of people who were also dealing with cancer.

1767
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:37,040
Speaker 1: But that gave me that fight, and that gave me

1768
01:34:37,120 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 1: something the focus on. After that third treatment, though it

1769
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 1: was just rough, but I made it through, and then

1770
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:46,759
Speaker 1: we went to the fourth treatment. At the fourth treatment,

1771
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:49,800
Speaker 1: I asked them the doctor, I said, do you think

1772
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:52,759
Speaker 1: you that we might be able to wrap this up

1773
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:56,840
Speaker 1: at treatment number five? She said, well, let's see. At

1774
01:34:56,920 --> 01:35:00,720
Speaker 1: this time, remember they took the poor out. So when

1775
01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:02,599
Speaker 1: I left the hospital this time, and now I had

1776
01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:05,320
Speaker 1: a pick in my arm. So the picus was getting

1777
01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:08,360
Speaker 1: the chemotherapy treatment for the second treatment, the third treatment,

1778
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:11,880
Speaker 1: and the fourth treatment, so I'm thinking on the fifth treatment, hey, hey,

1779
01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:14,160
Speaker 1: we're done. We're gonna wrap this up. When I get

1780
01:35:14,160 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: there for the fifth treatment, they can't get a return

1781
01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 1: on the blood. They're trying to get a return on

1782
01:35:19,439 --> 01:35:21,640
Speaker 1: the blood, and then they said, we're gonna have to

1783
01:35:21,680 --> 01:35:26,679
Speaker 1: take the pick out. And this happens. This is when

1784
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:29,080
Speaker 1: you have to go back and have a little talk

1785
01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:31,760
Speaker 1: with Jesus and praying that he would make everything all right.

1786
01:35:32,479 --> 01:35:35,000
Speaker 1: And I had to trust my faith to get me

1787
01:35:35,080 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 1: through this moment because at this moment, they called my

1788
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:43,960
Speaker 1: doctor's back downstairs, and as much of a fighter as

1789
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:46,559
Speaker 1: I am, and the doctors realized I was trying to

1790
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:49,680
Speaker 1: hold them to this pickline because they already took the

1791
01:35:49,720 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 1: port out. So if you took the port out, and

1792
01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:53,960
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, if you take the pick out, what are

1793
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:56,519
Speaker 1: we gonna do next, because we have either one or

1794
01:35:56,600 --> 01:36:01,240
Speaker 1: two more treatments left. So they're looking at me. I'm

1795
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:05,360
Speaker 1: looking at them, and it was this moment of silence

1796
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:08,599
Speaker 1: because I had to get it in my head and

1797
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:13,000
Speaker 1: I said, go ahead and take the pick out. Take

1798
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 1: the pick out. But it's on the third time that

1799
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 1: I meant it and I trusted God and I said

1800
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:24,080
Speaker 1: take the pick out. And they took the pick out.

1801
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:27,840
Speaker 1: They sent me to the emergency room. They wrapped my

1802
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:31,799
Speaker 1: arm up. I went home. I got dressed from my event,

1803
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:36,519
Speaker 1: the gift at my church with seats over three thousand people.

1804
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:40,280
Speaker 1: I got there that evening I could barely walk. I

1805
01:36:40,360 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 1: have a black shawl wrapped around my arm. The stuff

1806
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 1: in my arm is gradually oozing out and crystallizing. I've

1807
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 1: got two cousins looking after me when I walk on

1808
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:53,439
Speaker 1: the pulpit that evening that I'm so called co hosting,

1809
01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:56,720
Speaker 1: barely can walk a good chunk of my church was

1810
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,720
Speaker 1: there who did not know that I was going through

1811
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:06,240
Speaker 1: all of this. They have seen me MC many of concerts, host, radio, TV,

1812
01:37:06,600 --> 01:37:10,559
Speaker 1: the whole nine. But when I walked on that platform,

1813
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:14,760
Speaker 1: there was silence. There was you could hear people gasping,

1814
01:37:15,200 --> 01:37:18,160
Speaker 1: you could hear people in shock, and I saw people cry.

1815
01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:20,720
Speaker 1: And I think because I had not had a chance

1816
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 1: to be in church about two or three months, I

1817
01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:27,000
Speaker 1: was emotional. But we got through it. That was that Saturday.

1818
01:37:27,479 --> 01:37:29,600
Speaker 1: It was a great program to Caitlin carb is my

1819
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: special guest. She came up with her dad and it

1820
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:38,439
Speaker 1: was just a beautiful thing. People and then years ago,

1821
01:37:42,760 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: crazy and she's dating a football player. Now right, it's crazy,

1822
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:50,960
Speaker 1: that's her person. Sorry, but right, so she's there. It's

1823
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:54,839
Speaker 1: just an amazing moment. We finished with the program. Sunday comes,

1824
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:58,519
Speaker 1: Monday comes, I'm going back to get this pickline in

1825
01:37:59,240 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: and we really lies that. Okay, this isn't gonna happen.

1826
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 1: Let's wait and see what the m r I does.

1827
01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 1: So we finally get clearance in the m r I.

1828
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:11,720
Speaker 1: We walked down to to the office and it was

1829
01:38:11,760 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 1: a fireplace there. I said, I'm gonna take this picture,

1830
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:17,640
Speaker 1: believing God's gonna heal me. So we walked through. We

1831
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:20,240
Speaker 1: go to the back. I'm about to get this m R.

1832
01:38:20,320 --> 01:38:23,360
Speaker 1: I done. The nurse she comes over to me. She says,

1833
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:25,880
Speaker 1: would you mind if I pray for you? I said,

1834
01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:30,559
Speaker 1: come on, somebody, she prays for me. I walked back.

1835
01:38:30,640 --> 01:38:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm laying down on this table. This was on Monday

1836
01:38:34,280 --> 01:38:37,360
Speaker 1: or Tuesday. We're waiting for the phone call to come back.

1837
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:41,559
Speaker 1: The lady founding calls. Carol calls me on Wednesday morning.

1838
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 1: I missed the call. I have to call her back,

1839
01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:49,240
Speaker 1: I said, Carol. She said, Sheila, we got the results,

1840
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:54,160
Speaker 1: and her voice dropped. I'm still trusting God. And she says,

1841
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:57,320
Speaker 1: I want you to know that we didn't find any cancer.

1842
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: All the cancer is on. So you have a great

1843
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:07,720
Speaker 1: Christmas and you enjoy yourself. What I thought right there,

1844
01:39:07,720 --> 01:39:10,439
Speaker 1: because I remember when the doctor told me. The doctor

1845
01:39:10,479 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 1: told me said, you know, because we always have the

1846
01:39:13,160 --> 01:39:15,720
Speaker 1: feary coming back. But the doctor came in my room,

1847
01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:18,559
Speaker 1: he went, you are you cancer free? Then he just

1848
01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:21,280
Speaker 1: walked out. I went, what did he just said? Did

1849
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:23,960
Speaker 1: he say he just walked out? You know? It just

1850
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:26,360
Speaker 1: said you good, you can just walked out. I went

1851
01:39:26,400 --> 01:39:28,960
Speaker 1: did he just say cancer free? Did he say I'm

1852
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:34,280
Speaker 1: cool and clear? I just went, I gotta confirm this again.

1853
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 1: I ran up and down. It's all that, and I

1854
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:39,800
Speaker 1: just saw, I went, what did you just say? Okay?

1855
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 1: Because you just casually said that I was cancer free? Yeah,

1856
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: you're you're good. You're good, You're good. I went, thank you.

1857
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:51,320
Speaker 1: But I'll just let you know that you can't say

1858
01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:57,640
Speaker 1: something like that casually. Yeah, so you know what I'm saying. So,

1859
01:39:57,920 --> 01:40:00,600
Speaker 1: but people don't value They just give you information and

1860
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:04,639
Speaker 1: think is trivial, but they don't know the emotional journey

1861
01:40:04,680 --> 01:40:07,599
Speaker 1: that you're on because this is life and death information

1862
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:09,960
Speaker 1: that is being given to you. So I know when

1863
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 1: you was giving that information, it's like, oh my god,

1864
01:40:14,080 --> 01:40:17,280
Speaker 1: it's this. It's just real. It's true, you said, you

1865
01:40:17,320 --> 01:40:21,120
Speaker 1: start doubting yourself, you start contradicting information, and then you

1866
01:40:21,160 --> 01:40:23,840
Speaker 1: have the process. It is being real. So it was

1867
01:40:23,880 --> 01:40:27,000
Speaker 1: a moment when they said waiting to exhale, You finally

1868
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:30,920
Speaker 1: did to exhale at that moment, and I did, and

1869
01:40:31,280 --> 01:40:33,600
Speaker 1: it's just amazing how you feel after that, and you

1870
01:40:33,680 --> 01:40:36,920
Speaker 1: have time to heal, and even I had to have radiation,

1871
01:40:37,520 --> 01:40:40,559
Speaker 1: and you know, people have really bad side effects radiation.

1872
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: I found a friend who knew somebody who knew somebody

1873
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 1: who knew somebody who was making this cream up in Washington,

1874
01:40:46,360 --> 01:40:48,880
Speaker 1: d C. And I said, hey, I'll take two jars

1875
01:40:48,920 --> 01:40:50,559
Speaker 1: of it. They said, put it on there before the

1876
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: treatment starts, and I did that. I got less in

1877
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:58,280
Speaker 1: a sun less than a sunburn of a burnt on

1878
01:40:58,400 --> 01:41:02,639
Speaker 1: me from thirty three rounds radiation less. That was it.

1879
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:05,439
Speaker 1: I think God for it. God was with me through

1880
01:41:05,479 --> 01:41:09,320
Speaker 1: this whole situation. And it's amazing when you were talking

1881
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:11,720
Speaker 1: about when you have to tell your family members. I

1882
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:14,280
Speaker 1: remember I told my niece and my nephew, and I

1883
01:41:14,320 --> 01:41:17,200
Speaker 1: thought that I was gonna fix it up. I said, hey,

1884
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:19,800
Speaker 1: I got a little something that's going on. But the

1885
01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:22,120
Speaker 1: doctor said, I'm gonna be okay. I'm thinking I'm doing

1886
01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:24,240
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1888
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1889
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Speaker 1: So after the niece and the nephew and the brother

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Speaker 1: and the sister, I didn't tell anybody else because it

1891
01:41:33,520 --> 01:41:36,599
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01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:40,439
Speaker 1: like not you, not you, she rebell not know. It's

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01:41:40,479 --> 01:41:43,000
Speaker 1: like people just couldn't comprehend or would not accept it.

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Speaker 1: And my sister she wouldn't accept it. She just she

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Speaker 1: just wouldn't accept it. And I think we were thinking

1896
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:50,680
Speaker 1: about my mom. But I just think about what you

1897
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 1: were talking about. Sometimes when you go through something, you

1898
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 1: become more concerned about the family members than taking care

1899
01:41:57,400 --> 01:42:00,240
Speaker 1: of yourself. And you have to take care of yourself little.

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Speaker 1: So to go through that, the surgery and the radiation

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Speaker 1: that I'm okay. It's it's just amazing to be here more,

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Speaker 1: to have a testimony, to share and give God all

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Speaker 1: the glory for You're more than okay, Sheila. I want

1905
01:42:17,080 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 1: to thank you for coming on my show. Can we

1906
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:21,519
Speaker 1: do this once a quarter? Can we have a Can

1907
01:42:21,560 --> 01:42:24,719
Speaker 1: we love to? I love your energy, I love your smile,

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01:42:24,880 --> 01:42:27,760
Speaker 1: I love your personality. I love how you just make

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01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:31,200
Speaker 1: this such a comfortable atmosphere, just to share and to

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Speaker 1: be transparent and to also prayerfully helping other people who

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Speaker 1: may be going through some of the similar things that

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Speaker 1: we have gone through. I'll tell you you're I'm a

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Speaker 1: fan of yours. I wanted to get you on the

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Speaker 1: show once a quarter. We're gonna have to you a

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Speaker 1: girl Land to Alams on the show. You know at

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Speaker 1: least three times a year. She's like my mentor. She

1918
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Speaker 1: And I have to treat you like another sister because

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Speaker 1: you're my sister. For rich She's my sister from Houston

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Speaker 1: while I was born and raised. So bail report, I

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Speaker 1: every day because we are sisters and brothers are a life.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on money making conversation. Okay, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for having me have a great one,

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Speaker 1: and God bless you're real good. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. The Cafe Moka Swag Award is a

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Speaker 1: celebration of black men who are making a difference in

1948
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Speaker 1: our community by empowering others to reach their life goals,

1949
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Speaker 1: from civic leaders, businessmen, activists, celebrities and everyday dads. The

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Speaker 1: Kafee Mocha Swagg Award winner this week is Prince Donnelle.

1951
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Speaker 1: He's one of the visionaries behind Jumping Jack Taxes. He

1952
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:49,599
Speaker 1: wants to make entrepreneurship possible, creating generational wealth by serving

1953
01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:53,679
Speaker 1: the communities we come from and providing access to financial literacy.

1954
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Speaker 1: Prince Donnelle's goal is to take a piece of this

1955
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Speaker 1: billion dollar tax industry and push the profits back into

1956
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Speaker 1: our community. It's not about taxes, it's not about what

1957
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Speaker 1: industry that you go into, but it's about all of

1958
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Speaker 1: us pulling our dollars together to achieve a common goal. Now,

1959
01:45:09,200 --> 01:45:10,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to go to each and

1960
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Speaker 1: every one of them because the understanding group of economies

1961
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Speaker 1: and sharing and say, hey, there's this there's this block

1962
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Speaker 1: that has all these abandoned buildings. How about all of

1963
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Speaker 1: our partners. Let's all of us put our money together

1964
01:45:21,680 --> 01:45:23,920
Speaker 1: and let's all buy that block together, and we all

1965
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Speaker 1: have a piece of that ownership. The Cafe Marchas Swag

1966
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Speaker 1: Award represents men who have strength, whose wisdom is assertive,

1967
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Speaker 1: and who is genuine in their spirit. My next chaster

1968
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Speaker 1: chef Tanya, she's the executive chef and owner of the

1969
01:45:39,560 --> 01:45:42,839
Speaker 1: internationally right now and they love Brown Sugar Kitchen restaurant

1970
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Speaker 1: located in Oakland, California. She's the author of the Brown

1971
01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:49,759
Speaker 1: Sugar Kitchen cookbook and New Soul Cooking. Chef Tanya competed

1972
01:45:49,800 --> 01:45:52,679
Speaker 1: on the fifteen season of Top Chef on Broadway, Brobo

1973
01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:56,839
Speaker 1: Excuse Me, Feature judge on the Food networks Are and Chef, PBS,

1974
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Speaker 1: The Great American Chefs Tour, and TV ONANS My Mama's

1975
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 1: Throws Down, I Love That Time. She now owns her

1976
01:46:02,600 --> 01:46:05,280
Speaker 1: own show on the own network that airs every Saturday.

1977
01:46:05,680 --> 01:46:08,960
Speaker 1: Chinese Kitchen Table showcases the beauty of cooking local while

1978
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:12,679
Speaker 1: thinking Global, which features new spins on classic classic dishes

1979
01:46:12,920 --> 01:46:15,120
Speaker 1: and tips on how to cook like a pro. Please

1980
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Speaker 1: work with the money making conversation for the very first time,

1981
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Speaker 1: Chef Tan you, how are you doing great? Thanks for

1982
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Speaker 1: having me. It's good to be here. Well, it's always

1983
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Speaker 1: good to talk to somebody about food, Okay, and you're

1984
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:28,680
Speaker 1: one of the best at it. But before I get

1985
01:46:28,680 --> 01:46:31,760
Speaker 1: started there, let's talk about you being on these competition

1986
01:46:31,800 --> 01:46:34,439
Speaker 1: show that mentality of being able to go in there

1987
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Speaker 1: and being able to not only be a contestant at times,

1988
01:46:37,960 --> 01:46:41,320
Speaker 1: but also judging. What's the mentality tied tow all that

1989
01:46:41,360 --> 01:46:43,800
Speaker 1: because you have to be good at what you do

1990
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:46,960
Speaker 1: and you have to be spontaneous and creative. Yeah, I

1991
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:50,200
Speaker 1: think it's um, it's all about preparation and you know,

1992
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:53,439
Speaker 1: the work you've done in your career along the way,

1993
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:57,920
Speaker 1: and knowing what is a standard of excellence. Uh that

1994
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:03,439
Speaker 1: could be taste, presentation, um, anything, and you know, just

1995
01:47:03,479 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 1: to stay focused. I've always had a strong focus as

1996
01:47:06,360 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 1: I've been working and just noticing not only what I'm

1997
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Speaker 1: doing in my business, but what others are doing, my

1998
01:47:11,680 --> 01:47:15,640
Speaker 1: colleagues across the country, across the world. And you know,

1999
01:47:15,760 --> 01:47:20,160
Speaker 1: I've published, I've read a bunch, so I'm now trusted

2000
01:47:20,400 --> 01:47:23,080
Speaker 1: as an expert in my field. So that's really you know,

2001
01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:25,439
Speaker 1: it's a great thing. Well that are you not only

2002
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:27,680
Speaker 1: trust that you wanted the best? So let's go and

2003
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:30,120
Speaker 1: put the word best and trusted. Because the fact that

2004
01:47:30,200 --> 01:47:32,479
Speaker 1: you have a show there's on the own network that

2005
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:35,599
Speaker 1: airs every Saturday, you know, chin just Kitchen Table. Tell

2006
01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 1: us about that show. Yeah, the show has been something

2007
01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:42,559
Speaker 1: that I've envisioned for well over a decade, UM, since

2008
01:47:42,600 --> 01:47:45,160
Speaker 1: I had my show in the Food Network Melting Pot

2009
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,800
Speaker 1: in early two thousand's, I've been wanting to get back

2010
01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:50,320
Speaker 1: on have my own show, something that would really highlight

2011
01:47:50,360 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 1: my personality in my style, UM, that I could shape

2012
01:47:54,200 --> 01:47:57,320
Speaker 1: um and not be pigeonholed by a production company or producer.

2013
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Speaker 1: And this really happened here, so I'm really pleased with it.

2014
01:48:01,160 --> 01:48:03,639
Speaker 1: I started off this season with a lot of my

2015
01:48:03,960 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 1: you know, my standards, my greatest hits as far as recipes,

2016
01:48:07,800 --> 01:48:09,760
Speaker 1: but I'm able to tell a story of how I

2017
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:14,320
Speaker 1: got to them and including my family background. I bring

2018
01:48:14,400 --> 01:48:17,759
Speaker 1: some friends in at the end of each show and

2019
01:48:17,920 --> 01:48:21,479
Speaker 1: break bread with them and share experiences and stories, and

2020
01:48:21,720 --> 01:48:24,240
Speaker 1: that's really what I love. I love hospitality, and I

2021
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:28,559
Speaker 1: love the opportunity to uh teach people how to cook

2022
01:48:28,600 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 1: good food. You know, that's healthy, that's simple, and um,

2023
01:48:32,240 --> 01:48:35,200
Speaker 1: the taste delicious. Well, you know, I watched the show

2024
01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:37,920
Speaker 1: and some of your friends bringing they look like they're

2025
01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:41,120
Speaker 1: hungry when they come into the kitchen, you know the course,

2026
01:48:42,120 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 1: they look like you're not cooking fast enough. Give me

2027
01:48:44,400 --> 01:48:48,679
Speaker 1: that Stapp already played already so perspective. And I love

2028
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Speaker 1: the fact that you're talking about Rishawn. I don't want

2029
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Speaker 1: to just be on TV. I want to be on

2030
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Speaker 1: TV talk about my brain, talk about my perspective, my

2031
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: point of view. You know, one of my favorite shows

2032
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:00,720
Speaker 1: on Netflix is called The Chef Table, when they yeah,

2033
01:49:01,439 --> 01:49:06,280
Speaker 1: just a beautiful it's beautifully produced shows for sure. And

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Speaker 1: so when I watched this show, you know, I'm glad

2035
01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:11,040
Speaker 1: you you've seen it and the Rodney's being on my

2036
01:49:11,080 --> 01:49:12,800
Speaker 1: show and I'm a big fan of here. I have

2037
01:49:12,840 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 1: a lot of shifts that come on my show and

2038
01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:17,559
Speaker 1: because they know I recognized their story and want to

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01:49:17,680 --> 01:49:20,040
Speaker 1: let them tell their stories, you know, because you know,

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01:49:20,400 --> 01:49:22,800
Speaker 1: you know, I just had chef or Dwado Jordan, one

2041
01:49:22,800 --> 01:49:25,320
Speaker 1: of my good friends know him, and uh, you know,

2042
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:27,960
Speaker 1: and we were talking about black chefs, you know, because

2043
01:49:28,439 --> 01:49:31,720
Speaker 1: you know, from black chef to ownership, you know, that's

2044
01:49:31,760 --> 01:49:33,320
Speaker 1: another thing because a lot of times, you know, the

2045
01:49:33,360 --> 01:49:36,720
Speaker 1: history is that we're just good cooks, good maids, clean

2046
01:49:36,800 --> 01:49:40,719
Speaker 1: to people, give waitresses, but then not being recognized as owners.

2047
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:42,880
Speaker 1: What you are an owner and now and now and

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01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:46,920
Speaker 1: not be recognized as top flight international chef because sometimes

2049
01:49:47,240 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 1: we're just pigeonholes as the you know, the mom pop

2050
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:54,479
Speaker 1: chef back there, sweeper take the corn bread and all

2051
01:49:54,520 --> 01:49:56,760
Speaker 1: that good stuff. What have you done as far as

2052
01:49:56,840 --> 01:49:58,760
Speaker 1: your brand? It's what you've done. And I'm not saying

2053
01:49:58,760 --> 01:50:01,040
Speaker 1: you out there trying to change the world, but you're

2054
01:50:01,080 --> 01:50:03,200
Speaker 1: trying to deliver your personality and that' and this is

2055
01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:05,720
Speaker 1: what you do with what you can do. Yeah. And

2056
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:08,000
Speaker 1: then and actually I am trying to change the world.

2057
01:50:09,920 --> 01:50:14,160
Speaker 1: I have I gonna help you great one thing that um,

2058
01:50:14,200 --> 01:50:17,759
Speaker 1: and that's something I've aspired to do for many many years. UM.

2059
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:21,639
Speaker 1: I haven't written down from a diary when I was um,

2060
01:50:21,760 --> 01:50:24,479
Speaker 1: uh probably you know, a young teenager. I said, I

2061
01:50:24,520 --> 01:50:26,680
Speaker 1: don't know what I want to do. Whatever it is,

2062
01:50:26,760 --> 01:50:29,599
Speaker 1: I want either to be famous or to change the world.

2063
01:50:31,080 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping to, you know, make some change and impact. UM.

2064
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Speaker 1: I've just been voted onto the board of trustees of

2065
01:50:37,720 --> 01:50:40,920
Speaker 1: the James Beard Foundation, which you know is the organization

2066
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: that really recognizes restaurant awards. Yeah, and I'm going to

2067
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:49,080
Speaker 1: be chairing all the awards, so you know, I will

2068
01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:53,080
Speaker 1: be definitely looking to make sure that these opportunities are

2069
01:50:53,120 --> 01:50:57,800
Speaker 1: now diverse and equitable and inclusive. And that's exciting. I've

2070
01:50:57,840 --> 01:51:00,519
Speaker 1: also done a lot of culinary diplomacy work with the U. S.

2071
01:51:00,520 --> 01:51:04,719
Speaker 1: State Department, traveling around the world representing the United States,

2072
01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:09,880
Speaker 1: but also introducing soul food to different cultures in Kazakhstan,

2073
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:13,400
Speaker 1: in Mexico and Hong Kong and Singapore. I've gone to

2074
01:51:13,520 --> 01:51:15,439
Speaker 1: so far. I'm supposed to go to Japan and Type

2075
01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:18,640
Speaker 1: one this year, but hopefully it can go towards the

2076
01:51:18,760 --> 01:51:24,000
Speaker 1: end of UM And I'm just passionate about that. I think,

2077
01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:28,600
Speaker 1: you know, food brings people together. It just really demonstrates

2078
01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:33,200
Speaker 1: our common denominators. Um And it's just it's you know,

2079
01:51:33,240 --> 01:51:36,560
Speaker 1: it's empowering. Everybody should be fed, everybody should know we

2080
01:51:36,640 --> 01:51:38,320
Speaker 1: should learn how to cook at least one or two

2081
01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:42,679
Speaker 1: dishes for survival. Um And I'm just trying to grow

2082
01:51:42,760 --> 01:51:45,920
Speaker 1: my brand in you know, the hospitality fields and working

2083
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:48,840
Speaker 1: on my next cookbook, hopefully continue to do the show

2084
01:51:49,560 --> 01:51:53,240
Speaker 1: and open the restaurant again when we have the restrictions,

2085
01:51:53,360 --> 01:51:58,479
Speaker 1: you know, really of them really been a state. There's

2086
01:51:58,479 --> 01:52:02,679
Speaker 1: really been locking down, uh, ability for restaurants to exist.

2087
01:52:02,760 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 1: I aimed to work. Now let's talk about you mentioned

2088
01:52:05,160 --> 01:52:08,640
Speaker 1: words so food and I'm from Houston, Texas, going and

2089
01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 1: raised and so from a southern board. So what is

2090
01:52:11,720 --> 01:52:13,920
Speaker 1: soul food to you? Because you talked about it, and

2091
01:52:14,080 --> 01:52:16,960
Speaker 1: because my version of soul food is I Tennessee has

2092
01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:19,920
Speaker 1: been shifted into you see it in buffets and things

2093
01:52:19,960 --> 01:52:22,120
Speaker 1: like that. But when you put other people said, now

2094
01:52:22,160 --> 01:52:24,640
Speaker 1: that's not so food, Roshan. So what is so fu

2095
01:52:24,760 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 1: when you're talking about so food, Well, I think anywhere

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Speaker 1: you find African Americans in this country, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's rooted in the south. Uh. The cuisine created by

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Speaker 1: the enslaved people. I mean the first fusion cuisine. That

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Speaker 1: really the first American cuisine excuse me, um. And then

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Speaker 1: you know, black folks migrated to the northeast, to the northwest,

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Speaker 1: to Chicago, Midwest. Um, here from Houston, Texas. My mom's

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Speaker 1: from Shreeport, Louisiana. My dad's from Virginia. Their soul foods

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Speaker 1: are different. But it's going to be based on excuse me,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the cuisine that our ancestors created with

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Speaker 1: the ingredients they found here, the ingredients they brought and

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Speaker 1: what they were given. You know, um, really humble cuisine.

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Speaker 1: But then you know myself, Eduard oh Mashma, we're taking

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Speaker 1: to the next level. We're bringing in our more refined techniques. Um.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to bring in sustainability and organic products and

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Speaker 1: really bring the cuisine into the next century. It still

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Speaker 1: represents us and our heritage UM, which is so rich

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Speaker 1: you know in the African just diaspora, if you expanded

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Speaker 1: to West Africa and North Africa, the Caribbean, we have

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Speaker 1: so much to work with and we've given um so

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Speaker 1: much to this world in terms of flavor and food ways,

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01:53:43,880 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 1: and if it's up to me, I'm just going to

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Speaker 1: make sure that we keep getting more credit for that

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Speaker 1: because it's it's really important. Absolutely. By the way, my

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Speaker 1: parents were born in Streeport in Louisiana, so I just

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Speaker 1: want to let you know we have a little little

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Speaker 1: roots there together. We bear familiar with that part of

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Speaker 1: the country. Like I said, my mom and dad were

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Speaker 1: born in Streeport, basically Bosier, louis What you know is

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Speaker 1: like I know exactly that is. Now, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: your show. We kind of mentioned a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Tanya's kitchen table and basically you know, the classic dishes,

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Speaker 1: tips on how to cook like a pro, but also

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Speaker 1: a spin and uh one of the spans you did

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Speaker 1: on the famous Creole dirty rice, you know which I

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01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:27,719
Speaker 1: love dirty rice. I've never cooked it, I'll be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, but you have two versions of it. You

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Speaker 1: have one with me, and you have a vegan version. Versions,

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Speaker 1: the vegan version, talk to us about that. Well, I

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Speaker 1: have a classic, like you said, with sausage and the

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Speaker 1: chicken lagers. Come on, come on, come on, come on,

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Speaker 1: than come on, come on stop. That's my personal favorite too,

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Speaker 1: but especially living in California and you know now, but

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Speaker 1: when I opened in two thousand and eight, a lot

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Speaker 1: of vegetarians, a lot of vegans in the community, and

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to take care of them. And um,

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Speaker 1: I love cooking fresh vegetables. So it's really the creole

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Speaker 1: spices in there, the Worcester sauces in there, but it's

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Speaker 1: more vegetable forward, and and it's a favorite. People love it.

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Speaker 1: And you got the spinach in there, right, the baby spinish,

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Speaker 1: just ye baby spinach at the answer. Just some extra

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Speaker 1: freshness and it's and it looks fantastic. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it looks very easy to do. Of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do a lot of chopping the green onions

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Speaker 1: and the peppers, and you know it's a little working.

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Speaker 1: They're browning it out, so you know, but you made

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Speaker 1: it look easy for me. I saw it one time

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Speaker 1: and I remembered. So that's a that's a talent because

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you watch these recipes, you go, you

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Speaker 1: get lost in the process, and I want to follow you.

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01:55:37,720 --> 01:55:40,000
Speaker 1: I go, Okay, cool, that's really quick because you know,

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Speaker 1: you you have the ability to talk and and uh

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Speaker 1: and demonstrate the same time. A lot of people can't

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Speaker 1: do that. They'll stop and then mixing they stop. Because

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Speaker 1: your ability to talk and demonstrate the same time, it

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Speaker 1: makes the process so much easier to understand and gives

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Speaker 1: credibility that I can do it too. Thank you. Thank

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you feel that way. Yeah, I can't now.

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Speaker 1: One thing that my wife for her birthday I made her.

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Speaker 1: I I grew some salmon. You know, I ain't really

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Speaker 1: how easy it was to do salmons and you know,

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Speaker 1: some some sea salt and some lemon and something with

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Speaker 1: the partially and she she thought I did the best

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Speaker 1: thing in the world. And I took a bow for that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now you do you do it or something with color

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Speaker 1: greens and creole mustard sauce. And I talked to us

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Speaker 1: about that, and just tell you how you just do

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Speaker 1: these different spins on your show that makes your show

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Speaker 1: that airs every Saturday on their own network, and it's

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Speaker 1: really fantastic. I was, you know, I know we shot

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Speaker 1: on time, but before we want to make sure you understood.

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Speaker 1: I really respect what you do and I a my

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Speaker 1: skill set. Okay, tell us about that salmon and those

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Speaker 1: we're short today, but I'll have to come back. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I took the salmon, the colored green leaf and

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Speaker 1: blanched it so you put in boiling water to its softens,

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Speaker 1: and you put in ice water so that it stops

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Speaker 1: the cooking process, but available it also helps it stay green.

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Speaker 1: And I took that and I wrapped salmon seal at

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Speaker 1: that seasoned with some salt to add some olive oil

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Speaker 1: and some time fresh time, and wrapped it and then

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Speaker 1: I steam it uh in a steam basket altogether in

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Speaker 1: until the salmon is cooked. Probably I like to cook

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Speaker 1: it medium, so long your steam and how long minutes?

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Speaker 1: Thirty minutes, No, probably it's between fifteen and twenty, depending

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Speaker 1: on the weight of the salmon. Sala. Look at your

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Speaker 1: It's a storybook world for them. You look and see

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Speaker 1: a tree. They see the wrinkled face of a wizard

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Speaker 1: with arms outstretched to the sky. They see treasure and pebbles.

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Speaker 1: They see a windy path that could lead to adventure,

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Speaker 1: Our imagination, our sense of wonder, and our family bonds

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Speaker 1: grow too. Because when we disconnect from this and connect

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Speaker 1: But that you actually you put what you do, you

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Speaker 1: good green around the outside like a little envelope and

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Speaker 1: then when when when does the sauce coming to play there?

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Speaker 1: So the fox is on the side and I make

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Speaker 1: it in a blender. It's um creole mustard with mustard

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Speaker 1: seeds and um egg yokes. It's it's a delicious, easy,

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Speaker 1: easy sauce and some spice in it. Really good. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I will be doing that menu when

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Speaker 1: I saw the whole. First of all, I love collegrees.

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Speaker 1: Let me just tell you that. Yeah, yeah, that's why

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Speaker 1: I know you got to come back, because we really

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Speaker 1: got to get dig deep into this conversation because I'd

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Speaker 1: love to I'd love to talk to you more about

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Speaker 1: it and sort of my philosophy behind you know, how

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Speaker 1: I cook and well because it's it's just natural. And

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Speaker 1: plus we got some southern roots and some kinship down

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Speaker 1: I just finished the call with Odd Water recently and

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Speaker 1: he was talking about chipling, So we gotta get down

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Speaker 1: to that chipling conversation cause I know you know about that.

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Speaker 1: I know so, but I thank you. I want to

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Speaker 1: tell everybody. Your show airs every Saturday on the On Network.

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Speaker 1: is Sasage Stewart. Her passion for fashion started as a

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Speaker 1: little girl when she spent hours on end in fabricy

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Speaker 1: stores with a fashion designer mall while pursuing her degree

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Speaker 1: in college. She would sell her designer items on eBay

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Speaker 1: to pay her way through college. After college, to be

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Speaker 1: in the careers at licensed respiratory therapists, and despite job security,

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Speaker 1: she pivoted into a full time entrepreneurship. Believe me, that

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Speaker 1: job right there will always have an employment available to it.

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Speaker 1: She's currently the see or Vault by Shopper Sasha. She's

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Speaker 1: currently CEO of the Vault by Sasha. The Vault by

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Speaker 1: Sasha offer the variety of limited items, rare and like

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Speaker 1: e collected pieces including swimwear, tops, bottoms and accessories to

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Speaker 1: Sasha Stewart. He had a lot to say that for

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Speaker 1: some reason fumble off today and I apologize over your intro.

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Speaker 1: But the CEO of the Fault of the Vault by

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Speaker 1: Sasha tell us about that. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: having me around. You know, two days ago I read

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Speaker 1: about you in the Rolling Out magazine article and video.

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Speaker 1: So you've been doing your doing a media run I have.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's been a ride. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just so good to be recognized and you know, for

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Speaker 1: doing just something that I love to do, you know,

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Speaker 1: so it's it's been very wonderful. Um um My my

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Speaker 1: my loyal customer based it is just like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: you know, me starting out and tonight because we don't

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Speaker 1: know Sasha. And I'm not saying that negative thing because

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Speaker 1: sometimes people they jumped to the end of their story.

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Speaker 1: You have such a great story. Like I said some

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Speaker 1: in your credits, you and your mom was a fashion designer.

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Speaker 1: Talk about your mom and her influence that led you

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Speaker 1: the medical field. You felt that was gonna be your

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Speaker 1: life for the hours a week taking care of people,

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02:03:36,600 --> 02:03:38,560
Speaker 1: but you peeled it out of that. So let's talk

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Speaker 1: about your mom's influence then going to medical school and

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02:03:41,800 --> 02:03:44,080
Speaker 1: while in medical school I shouldn't say medical school with

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02:03:44,160 --> 02:03:47,200
Speaker 1: the college and got your degrees of therapists and talk

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02:03:47,240 --> 02:03:51,880
Speaker 1: about that whole experience with your mom leading to that. Yes, absolutely,

2310
02:03:52,000 --> 02:03:55,920
Speaker 1: so my mom is a huge influence on while you

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02:03:56,080 --> 02:04:00,520
Speaker 1: decided to go with entrepreneurship. She was a fashion designer

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02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:04,040
Speaker 1: and she she loved it, she loved it, but I

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02:04:04,080 --> 02:04:07,640
Speaker 1: think for me she wanted the stability, you know, so

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02:04:07,800 --> 02:04:10,600
Speaker 1: she you know, encouraged me to go to school and

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02:04:10,640 --> 02:04:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, get a degree and things like that. So

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02:04:13,040 --> 02:04:16,840
Speaker 1: but as a kid, I it was already ingrained in me.

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Speaker 1: You know, all of these fabulous you know, fabrics and

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02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:24,800
Speaker 1: silhouettes and things. So I'm just like I loved it.

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02:04:24,880 --> 02:04:28,040
Speaker 1: And even in high school, I was voted best dressed.

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02:04:28,160 --> 02:04:31,560
Speaker 1: I was you know, in the fashion club. We did

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02:04:31,600 --> 02:04:34,520
Speaker 1: fashion shows and things like that. So that was just

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02:04:34,560 --> 02:04:38,080
Speaker 1: a part of my outlet, like my creative outlet, and

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02:04:38,080 --> 02:04:42,360
Speaker 1: and we just had fun doing it. So Um, as

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02:04:42,400 --> 02:04:47,800
Speaker 1: a child, she would create, um, wedding dresses, prom dresses,

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02:04:48,200 --> 02:04:50,720
Speaker 1: especially with ages. She even made her own wedding dress.

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02:04:51,160 --> 02:04:55,560
Speaker 1: So it's all the creativity and everything has always been there.

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02:04:56,000 --> 02:04:58,680
Speaker 1: So um, you know, growing up, she's like, you know,

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02:04:58,760 --> 02:05:01,400
Speaker 1: always encouraging me to go to school, which is good.

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02:05:01,840 --> 02:05:05,000
Speaker 1: And she's now she's a nurse. She's a I see

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Speaker 1: you nurse as well, so it was kind of following

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02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:10,200
Speaker 1: her footsteps. My grand both of my grandmothers are also

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02:05:10,280 --> 02:05:14,040
Speaker 1: nurses as well, so um, you know, they just like

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02:05:14,200 --> 02:05:16,400
Speaker 1: the stability for me, just in case, because you know,

2334
02:05:16,880 --> 02:05:20,760
Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur, being an entrepreneur is is hard, you know,

2335
02:05:21,240 --> 02:05:25,200
Speaker 1: and you don't have that stability and that's actually what

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02:05:25,360 --> 02:05:28,920
Speaker 1: drives me. So when I was in college and I

2337
02:05:28,960 --> 02:05:31,880
Speaker 1: would want extra money to do things, you know, other

2338
02:05:31,960 --> 02:05:34,880
Speaker 1: than pay tuition and things. So I would sell my

2339
02:05:34,960 --> 02:05:40,000
Speaker 1: stuff on eBay and um, like anytime I needed to

2340
02:05:40,040 --> 02:05:42,360
Speaker 1: get extra money and I didn't necessarily want to work

2341
02:05:42,360 --> 02:05:45,520
Speaker 1: at extra ship, I would sell stuff and you know,

2342
02:05:45,640 --> 02:05:48,280
Speaker 1: model it and you know, set it up on my

2343
02:05:48,520 --> 02:05:52,040
Speaker 1: little I had like this area with you know, red lighting,

2344
02:05:52,160 --> 02:05:54,839
Speaker 1: and I would you know, take all kinds of pictures

2345
02:05:54,880 --> 02:06:03,280
Speaker 1: and stuff. So then like T shirts or time, I

2346
02:06:03,440 --> 02:06:08,720
Speaker 1: was such a like I'm just like such a fashioned

2347
02:06:08,760 --> 02:06:12,600
Speaker 1: person that I would like stalk sales. So if it

2348
02:06:12,760 --> 02:06:15,600
Speaker 1: was a sale going on, I would get something on

2349
02:06:15,720 --> 02:06:18,480
Speaker 1: sale and then get extra coupons and things on it

2350
02:06:18,480 --> 02:06:20,880
Speaker 1: it was like a super cool item, or if it

2351
02:06:21,000 --> 02:06:24,240
Speaker 1: was a really popular item, I would get those and

2352
02:06:24,280 --> 02:06:28,440
Speaker 1: then you know, since it's limited, people would want it,

2353
02:06:28,800 --> 02:06:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, and I would have it. So I would

2354
02:06:31,680 --> 02:06:35,879
Speaker 1: have those limited edition pieces and know how highly covedent

2355
02:06:35,920 --> 02:06:39,240
Speaker 1: they were, and people was just like you know, knocking

2356
02:06:39,280 --> 02:06:40,560
Speaker 1: down my door like, oh my gosh, I need this.

2357
02:06:40,640 --> 02:06:42,600
Speaker 1: Do you have to send another size? Can you get more?

2358
02:06:43,200 --> 02:06:47,160
Speaker 1: So I knew at that time that this could be

2359
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:50,160
Speaker 1: a business for me, you know, but I was still

2360
02:06:50,200 --> 02:06:53,520
Speaker 1: a little bit nervous to do that. So I still

2361
02:06:53,600 --> 02:06:56,960
Speaker 1: kept going to school and everything, but you know, with

2362
02:06:57,080 --> 02:06:59,960
Speaker 1: the you know, in the weekends and when I didn't

2363
02:07:00,080 --> 02:07:02,480
Speaker 1: have school, I mean when I didn't have school, when

2364
02:07:02,560 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 1: I didn't have work, I was just ready to take

2365
02:07:04,640 --> 02:07:07,400
Speaker 1: off the scrubs and put on something cute. And people

2366
02:07:07,440 --> 02:07:10,520
Speaker 1: would always ask me, oh, well, where'd you get that from,

2367
02:07:10,560 --> 02:07:13,400
Speaker 1: the same how they would, you know, be on eBay

2368
02:07:15,160 --> 02:07:17,880
Speaker 1: because you said something out that was really important about

2369
02:07:17,960 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 1: your grandmother and your mom. They would there, your mom

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02:07:20,720 --> 02:07:22,560
Speaker 1: is currently your nurse, you know, and your grandmother was

2371
02:07:22,600 --> 02:07:25,480
Speaker 1: a nurse, and then you went into a medical align field.

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02:07:25,520 --> 02:07:28,240
Speaker 1: That's a therapist. Okay, So and I know they're dealing

2373
02:07:28,280 --> 02:07:32,240
Speaker 1: with COVID, well you are, tell them about your experience

2374
02:07:32,280 --> 02:07:34,720
Speaker 1: and their experience and dealing with COVID in the reality,

2375
02:07:34,800 --> 02:07:37,880
Speaker 1: because you know that's a that's a portion of the country.

2376
02:07:37,960 --> 02:07:41,640
Speaker 1: Don't take COVID very seriously, and don't take mask wearing

2377
02:07:41,760 --> 02:07:46,920
Speaker 1: very seriously. To us about that, it is very important.

2378
02:07:47,360 --> 02:07:51,120
Speaker 1: You know. I'm very involved still with my UM. I'm

2379
02:07:51,160 --> 02:07:54,480
Speaker 1: still licensed as a respiratory therapist. I haven't given that up.

2380
02:07:55,080 --> 02:07:59,120
Speaker 1: UM don't. But you know, my mom being a nurse,

2381
02:07:59,560 --> 02:08:03,320
Speaker 1: she deals with it every day. You know, she's she luckily,

2382
02:08:03,680 --> 02:08:07,480
Speaker 1: thank god, she's been safe throughout it because she is very,

2383
02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:10,040
Speaker 1: very careful. But she wears a mask. She wears a

2384
02:08:10,120 --> 02:08:13,520
Speaker 1: mask every day at work all day. It's not you know,

2385
02:08:13,600 --> 02:08:16,000
Speaker 1: taking it off and putting it back on, because you know,

2386
02:08:16,080 --> 02:08:18,400
Speaker 1: it still does linger in the air and you may

2387
02:08:18,440 --> 02:08:19,880
Speaker 1: get a whiff of it as soon as you take

2388
02:08:19,920 --> 02:08:22,200
Speaker 1: your mask off, you know, especially in the hospital setting.

2389
02:08:22,600 --> 02:08:25,760
Speaker 1: So every day she's exposed to that and it and

2390
02:08:25,800 --> 02:08:28,560
Speaker 1: it concerns me. But I do know that she's you know,

2391
02:08:28,640 --> 02:08:31,040
Speaker 1: really safe. Um. But yeah, a lot of her co

2392
02:08:31,240 --> 02:08:35,880
Speaker 1: workers have gotten it. It's real. I've I've I've had

2393
02:08:36,080 --> 02:08:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, people that I know got it. And you know,

2394
02:08:39,360 --> 02:08:43,280
Speaker 1: I keep seeing all these different you know, Instagram people

2395
02:08:43,520 --> 02:08:47,160
Speaker 1: and um, you know even people in the news that's

2396
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:51,160
Speaker 1: suching it. It's it's real and you have to be

2397
02:08:51,360 --> 02:08:55,480
Speaker 1: diligent to not get it. Now. And this was something

2398
02:08:55,520 --> 02:08:57,600
Speaker 1: I want to interest in your conversation. I try to

2399
02:08:57,640 --> 02:08:59,720
Speaker 1: listen with people are talking. You're talking with your mom

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02:08:59,720 --> 02:09:01,920
Speaker 1: and you the fashion designer and now she's a nurse.

2401
02:09:02,400 --> 02:09:05,200
Speaker 1: And then will you say how why would you say

2402
02:09:05,200 --> 02:09:08,839
Speaker 1: the importance of social media has enabled you to pivot

2403
02:09:08,920 --> 02:09:11,920
Speaker 1: out of being in the medical field into the fashion

2404
02:09:11,960 --> 02:09:17,400
Speaker 1: design field and be successful. How important is your social media? Um?

2405
02:09:17,520 --> 02:09:22,800
Speaker 1: Social media is huge because that is one of the

2406
02:09:22,840 --> 02:09:27,360
Speaker 1: biggest outlets out there to get anything that you want

2407
02:09:27,400 --> 02:09:35,120
Speaker 1: to do. Like but Instagram, um, YouTube, let's see, um,

2408
02:09:35,320 --> 02:09:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, Facebook, any all of these social media is

2409
02:09:40,400 --> 02:09:43,080
Speaker 1: is very important to your business if you ask me,

2410
02:09:43,240 --> 02:09:46,240
Speaker 1: because a lot of times that's where people just you know,

2411
02:09:46,320 --> 02:09:52,040
Speaker 1: scroll and and you know they'll just they'll just find you.

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02:09:52,040 --> 02:09:54,120
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure how these people find me

2413
02:09:54,160 --> 02:09:57,920
Speaker 1: sometimes because I post. Like when they share your post,

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02:09:57,960 --> 02:10:00,040
Speaker 1: they like your post, I go to your I've and

2415
02:10:00,360 --> 02:10:03,360
Speaker 1: so it's all your feed line. And first of all,

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02:10:03,800 --> 02:10:07,640
Speaker 1: your dynamic, you're you're very attractive, and and your clothes,

2417
02:10:07,720 --> 02:10:09,800
Speaker 1: you know, they're not for everybody. And that's a positive

2418
02:10:09,800 --> 02:10:13,919
Speaker 1: statement there, darn you know what I'm saying. That's right, everything,

2419
02:10:14,040 --> 02:10:16,320
Speaker 1: it's not going to be for every guy, right right, right,

2420
02:10:16,680 --> 02:10:21,120
Speaker 1: if you're willing to, you know, take a rent and

2421
02:10:21,360 --> 02:10:27,360
Speaker 1: get out your comfort. Let's let's back up. This is

2422
02:10:27,360 --> 02:10:29,120
Speaker 1: not this is not risk Gate clothes. So I'm just

2423
02:10:29,160 --> 02:10:32,680
Speaker 1: wanting to say, you know this is this is not

2424
02:10:32,760 --> 02:10:36,280
Speaker 1: church cloes either, but but this is like you know,

2425
02:10:36,880 --> 02:10:39,240
Speaker 1: if you if you are a fashion confidence, you want

2426
02:10:39,240 --> 02:10:41,720
Speaker 1: to see something unique, eclectic, like the word I messed

2427
02:10:41,760 --> 02:10:45,640
Speaker 1: up in your intro eclectic different and shows your shapes,

2428
02:10:46,040 --> 02:10:49,960
Speaker 1: your your your body, and you're not afraid to show

2429
02:10:50,080 --> 02:10:53,080
Speaker 1: and and and show people that you feel good about yourself.

2430
02:10:53,320 --> 02:10:55,760
Speaker 1: Did you feel you look good? And you will just

2431
02:10:55,840 --> 02:10:57,600
Speaker 1: let everybody when you walk in the room, you want

2432
02:10:57,600 --> 02:10:59,480
Speaker 1: to take control of the room. Well, she got the

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02:10:59,480 --> 02:11:02,720
Speaker 1: pieces for you, okay, exactly. And I have a lot

2434
02:11:02,720 --> 02:11:06,040
Speaker 1: of oversized things, and that was also what I think

2435
02:11:06,160 --> 02:11:10,160
Speaker 1: attracted people to my store because I have so many

2436
02:11:10,240 --> 02:11:13,600
Speaker 1: oversized items. Like even like something right now that I

2437
02:11:13,680 --> 02:11:16,840
Speaker 1: have on this is actually like two sweaters and one

2438
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:20,080
Speaker 1: so it's like one you see one side it's a puncho,

2439
02:11:20,200 --> 02:11:22,880
Speaker 1: so I can decide to put the other top on

2440
02:11:23,000 --> 02:11:25,520
Speaker 1: top of here. So just like things like that that's

2441
02:11:25,560 --> 02:11:27,520
Speaker 1: really unique that you can kind of switch out of

2442
02:11:28,200 --> 02:11:32,120
Speaker 1: and you know, have fun with for one sleep puncho

2443
02:11:32,200 --> 02:11:34,960
Speaker 1: and then it's a shirt underneath. So things like that,

2444
02:11:35,040 --> 02:11:36,440
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out what was going on.

2445
02:11:36,520 --> 02:11:39,200
Speaker 1: That's what's going on. I see, I see full white

2446
02:11:39,200 --> 02:11:45,240
Speaker 1: on the right. Now see this color like beautiful knitted

2447
02:11:45,280 --> 02:11:48,200
Speaker 1: type design with three white buttons in the middle, and

2448
02:11:48,240 --> 02:11:51,280
Speaker 1: it's like a short top okay, and has one sleeve

2449
02:11:51,400 --> 02:11:53,560
Speaker 1: like a punch to the right. It almost feels like,

2450
02:11:53,600 --> 02:11:56,120
Speaker 1: you know, a bullfighter. If I would say, if I

2451
02:11:56,200 --> 02:11:59,200
Speaker 1: just say what you would look like she's like, what

2452
02:11:59,240 --> 02:12:05,200
Speaker 1: the what the when the bullfighter comes by your baby

2453
02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:06,920
Speaker 1: the way? But it's not that high to cut off

2454
02:12:06,920 --> 02:12:11,760
Speaker 1: at the waitsline. It's really strict. That's pretty hard. I'm

2455
02:12:11,760 --> 02:12:15,000
Speaker 1: glad you like my description. You know, they go, yeah, great,

2456
02:12:18,840 --> 02:12:22,480
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do a online fast and the host

2457
02:12:23,080 --> 02:12:27,240
Speaker 1: for the vault this is the vault, okay when Rushan

2458
02:12:27,400 --> 02:12:29,920
Speaker 1: McDonald know he's gonna stomble a little bit, but he's

2459
02:12:29,920 --> 02:12:35,040
Speaker 1: all good, okay, because let me just straighten that right now.

2460
02:12:35,240 --> 02:12:37,720
Speaker 1: The Vault by s offers a variety of leting in

2461
02:12:37,760 --> 02:12:40,520
Speaker 1: addictions rare and they clicked it. This is including the

2462
02:12:40,560 --> 02:12:44,160
Speaker 1: swim where tops, bottoms and accessories to turn heads. We

2463
02:12:44,200 --> 02:12:46,160
Speaker 1: already just at that and make a statement as your

2464
02:12:46,200 --> 02:12:49,160
Speaker 1: next event. When your next event could be a pool party,

2465
02:12:49,400 --> 02:12:51,600
Speaker 1: your next event could be walking into a club and

2466
02:12:51,600 --> 02:12:53,560
Speaker 1: don't arrive a time you want to ride there late

2467
02:12:53,600 --> 02:12:56,400
Speaker 1: when it's pack. When you walk in, people will go wait,

2468
02:12:56,560 --> 02:12:59,960
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna post you on something. You're gonna be

2469
02:13:00,600 --> 02:13:03,640
Speaker 1: You're going to be the one. Now that's really you know,

2470
02:13:03,720 --> 02:13:06,720
Speaker 1: I you have to be confident. These are closed for

2471
02:13:06,760 --> 02:13:11,000
Speaker 1: a confident person. Correct, Yes, yeah, I believe so. And

2472
02:13:11,040 --> 02:13:14,840
Speaker 1: the thing is, even if you're not that confident and

2473
02:13:15,120 --> 02:13:18,640
Speaker 1: you wear these items and then you get all these compliments,

2474
02:13:19,000 --> 02:13:21,480
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna be like, wow, oh my gosh,

2475
02:13:21,560 --> 02:13:24,720
Speaker 1: like maybe I can, you know, be a little bit

2476
02:13:24,720 --> 02:13:28,800
Speaker 1: more adventurous with my clothing. So and then you know,

2477
02:13:28,840 --> 02:13:31,840
Speaker 1: I did, and I had so many repeat customers because

2478
02:13:31,880 --> 02:13:33,800
Speaker 1: of that. They're like, oh my gosh, I got so

2479
02:13:33,840 --> 02:13:37,520
Speaker 1: many compliments on your items. I'm definitely shopping again. You

2480
02:13:37,600 --> 02:13:40,760
Speaker 1: made my birthday great or oh my gosh, I was

2481
02:13:40,800 --> 02:13:43,960
Speaker 1: the head turner at this event. Tell me that all

2482
02:13:44,120 --> 02:13:47,800
Speaker 1: the time, and it makes me so happy. That's Good's

2483
02:13:47,840 --> 02:13:50,000
Speaker 1: good to know. So what are you doing with these

2484
02:13:50,000 --> 02:13:52,360
Speaker 1: people who are like telling you they hurt? Are you

2485
02:13:52,440 --> 02:13:54,960
Speaker 1: like like like you need to have a vault day?

2486
02:13:55,200 --> 02:13:57,240
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Well, you you do, like,

2487
02:13:57,400 --> 02:14:01,240
Speaker 1: uh display all these fashion you know, because because you know,

2488
02:14:01,400 --> 02:14:04,160
Speaker 1: Rihanna does that really well. I love Rihanna. Rihanna gets

2489
02:14:04,200 --> 02:14:08,080
Speaker 1: regular folks commercials, you know that. I mean they're regular

2490
02:14:08,120 --> 02:14:10,920
Speaker 1: people too. They do a commercials and they sell and

2491
02:14:10,960 --> 02:14:13,720
Speaker 1: so you're telling me, really, in a sense, you got

2492
02:14:13,800 --> 02:14:16,840
Speaker 1: regular people who buy your clothes and they marvel at

2493
02:14:16,840 --> 02:14:19,560
Speaker 1: your clothes. I would love to see some of them reposted,

2494
02:14:19,960 --> 02:14:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, not saying I follow you all the time

2495
02:14:22,280 --> 02:14:23,720
Speaker 1: and go to your feet all the time, but I'd

2496
02:14:23,760 --> 02:14:26,640
Speaker 1: love to see some of those reposts of individuals doing

2497
02:14:26,760 --> 02:14:29,280
Speaker 1: videos and things like that, because you really really got

2498
02:14:29,280 --> 02:14:32,680
Speaker 1: a great line. Thank you. They do. They tag me

2499
02:14:32,800 --> 02:14:37,000
Speaker 1: all the time, and they look amazing. Because then people

2500
02:14:37,040 --> 02:14:38,960
Speaker 1: will think like, am I gonna look like you and

2501
02:14:39,040 --> 02:14:41,920
Speaker 1: it or it's it gonna look right on me? Yes

2502
02:14:42,120 --> 02:14:45,240
Speaker 1: it is. And then when they see and then they

2503
02:14:45,240 --> 02:14:48,240
Speaker 1: are so happy, and I repost them all the time,

2504
02:14:48,280 --> 02:14:50,680
Speaker 1: and like in my stories, I'm always they send me

2505
02:14:50,720 --> 02:14:53,440
Speaker 1: pictures all the time, and if it has a great

2506
02:14:53,480 --> 02:14:56,800
Speaker 1: lighting and you can still see the item, I'm like, oh,

2507
02:14:56,960 --> 02:15:00,840
Speaker 1: you're reposting, reposting, reposted. So if you look on there,

2508
02:15:01,000 --> 02:15:03,280
Speaker 1: if you look at my feet, it's it's plenty of

2509
02:15:03,520 --> 02:15:08,640
Speaker 1: customer satisfactor. Yeah, Now let's talk about you as an entrepreneur.

2510
02:15:08,880 --> 02:15:11,080
Speaker 1: You know, but like I said, uh, you still I

2511
02:15:11,120 --> 02:15:15,440
Speaker 1: love the fact that you still certified aspiratory thirties. You know.

2512
02:15:15,760 --> 02:15:17,520
Speaker 1: I think that if you have a degree and you

2513
02:15:17,600 --> 02:15:20,600
Speaker 1: have something that you can put on your wall, maintain

2514
02:15:20,680 --> 02:15:24,000
Speaker 1: ownership of that. You know, it's gonna very hard for

2515
02:15:24,040 --> 02:15:27,280
Speaker 1: that and then be saying five years now, you go,

2516
02:15:27,880 --> 02:15:30,240
Speaker 1: I should still be certified because it's a good story.

2517
02:15:30,280 --> 02:15:32,160
Speaker 1: It's a good story to tell about your career to

2518
02:15:32,200 --> 02:15:35,640
Speaker 1: say you still license, you licensed to save lives. Let's

2519
02:15:35,640 --> 02:15:38,040
Speaker 1: be real about this, you know, and you're not licensed

2520
02:15:38,040 --> 02:15:40,120
Speaker 1: to for it to be your b plan. You're not

2521
02:15:40,160 --> 02:15:42,800
Speaker 1: going back. But it's something it's part of your legacy,

2522
02:15:42,840 --> 02:15:46,160
Speaker 1: part of your your education that you that you spent

2523
02:15:46,280 --> 02:15:50,240
Speaker 1: hours and years to accomplish. Maintain that. I admire that.

2524
02:15:50,480 --> 02:15:55,360
Speaker 1: Now now you're entrepreneur, entrepreneur branding you know. Uh how

2525
02:15:55,520 --> 02:15:58,520
Speaker 1: let's let's let's break down this conversation a little bit, Brandon,

2526
02:15:58,880 --> 02:16:03,360
Speaker 1: talk about that what is the brand of SAH? So

2527
02:16:03,800 --> 02:16:08,160
Speaker 1: with branding, I feel like you have to be authentic,

2528
02:16:08,880 --> 02:16:14,280
Speaker 1: completely authentic, completely you. So the vault is me, you know,

2529
02:16:14,720 --> 02:16:20,440
Speaker 1: So I'm giving pieces of myself too to whoever is

2530
02:16:20,560 --> 02:16:23,520
Speaker 1: wanting some basically, you know what I mean as far

2531
02:16:23,560 --> 02:16:28,200
Speaker 1: as my creativity and and I just like I said,

2532
02:16:28,200 --> 02:16:31,919
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful that people see my vision and they're

2533
02:16:31,960 --> 02:16:37,119
Speaker 1: like willing to take rest with their fashions. So with branding,

2534
02:16:37,760 --> 02:16:41,440
Speaker 1: you have to say true and authentic to who you are,

2535
02:16:41,560 --> 02:16:44,280
Speaker 1: because after a while, it's gonna show like if you're

2536
02:16:44,280 --> 02:16:46,680
Speaker 1: not like you know, you were the same, you were

2537
02:16:46,720 --> 02:16:49,440
Speaker 1: this person at first, and then you really couldn't keep

2538
02:16:49,480 --> 02:16:52,320
Speaker 1: up the facade and then next thing, you know, like

2539
02:16:52,560 --> 02:16:55,280
Speaker 1: things are not the same or you you know, you're

2540
02:16:55,360 --> 02:16:57,480
Speaker 1: gonna end up being exposed, you know what I mean.

2541
02:16:57,800 --> 02:17:04,120
Speaker 1: So it's just better to just be yourself and just

2542
02:17:04,120 --> 02:17:08,720
Speaker 1: just you know, just what you said, You've said it,

2543
02:17:08,760 --> 02:17:10,840
Speaker 1: you know, in the sense, to be with yourself, Be authentic,

2544
02:17:10,879 --> 02:17:14,160
Speaker 1: be consistent. That's true, right there, Be consistent because I

2545
02:17:14,160 --> 02:17:17,160
Speaker 1: would tell people you can fake it. You heard that,

2546
02:17:17,240 --> 02:17:18,800
Speaker 1: turn fake it till you make it. That doesn't work

2547
02:17:18,800 --> 02:17:21,480
Speaker 1: it in social media to me, because it's gonna play

2548
02:17:21,520 --> 02:17:23,560
Speaker 1: itself out and you're gonna lose your followers and lose

2549
02:17:23,600 --> 02:17:26,640
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Your authenticity. You have to be organic

2550
02:17:26,720 --> 02:17:28,240
Speaker 1: and you have to be consistent. That's the that's the

2551
02:17:28,320 --> 02:17:30,440
Speaker 1: term I always use them when I'm talking about branding,

2552
02:17:30,520 --> 02:17:33,160
Speaker 1: talking about marketing. Is that your idea? If you want

2553
02:17:33,160 --> 02:17:34,640
Speaker 1: to push it out there, you can't push it on

2554
02:17:34,680 --> 02:17:37,480
Speaker 1: Tuesday and forget to do it till two weeks later

2555
02:17:37,560 --> 02:17:42,240
Speaker 1: and then go, Okay, where's my reaction? Now? You have

2556
02:17:42,360 --> 02:17:44,840
Speaker 1: to be consistent for sure. Let's talk about let's talk

2557
02:17:44,879 --> 02:17:46,840
Speaker 1: about you. You You know your fashion, you was inspired by

2558
02:17:46,840 --> 02:17:49,320
Speaker 1: your mom, and we know you're smart, we know you're beautiful.

2559
02:17:49,680 --> 02:17:52,760
Speaker 1: How do let's talk about the the the actual brand,

2560
02:17:52,840 --> 02:17:56,080
Speaker 1: actual clothes, the actual product. How does that go about

2561
02:17:56,120 --> 02:18:00,000
Speaker 1: being created? And are you tied to a distributor or

2562
02:18:00,040 --> 02:18:06,080
Speaker 1: what does that work? No, I actually have several that

2563
02:18:06,200 --> 02:18:09,560
Speaker 1: I work with, so you know, you gotta mix it

2564
02:18:09,640 --> 02:18:13,240
Speaker 1: up a little bit because, uh then a lot of

2565
02:18:13,280 --> 02:18:18,200
Speaker 1: people will start following you, and uh like other brands

2566
02:18:18,360 --> 02:18:21,240
Speaker 1: will start following you and just kind of doing every

2567
02:18:21,240 --> 02:18:24,480
Speaker 1: single thing that you're doing in that are doing their

2568
02:18:24,480 --> 02:18:27,440
Speaker 1: own head. So I have to mix it up. So

2569
02:18:27,920 --> 02:18:31,039
Speaker 1: that's what I do. It's you know, it's I have

2570
02:18:31,200 --> 02:18:34,039
Speaker 1: people from all over the world that I work with,

2571
02:18:34,320 --> 02:18:38,160
Speaker 1: and it just keeps it mixed up keeps it spicy,

2572
02:18:38,240 --> 02:18:42,959
Speaker 1: but also still maintains the integrity of the vault and

2573
02:18:43,000 --> 02:18:46,680
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to express, uh as far as you know,

2574
02:18:46,840 --> 02:18:51,120
Speaker 1: creative to wise, uniqueness and things like that. So yeah,

2575
02:18:51,240 --> 02:18:54,760
Speaker 1: it's hard, and that's a full time job in itself,

2576
02:18:54,840 --> 02:18:58,480
Speaker 1: just looking for the merchandise and sourcing the things that

2577
02:18:58,520 --> 02:19:00,800
Speaker 1: I want to put in the store, for sure. So

2578
02:19:01,080 --> 02:19:04,080
Speaker 1: you have to put in the vault going every day.

2579
02:19:04,200 --> 02:19:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm branding you now, put in the vault, not the store.

2580
02:19:07,480 --> 02:19:11,720
Speaker 1: Put in the vault. It's a funny thing about you know,

2581
02:19:11,680 --> 02:19:13,480
Speaker 1: when I look at my brand and watch you going

2582
02:19:13,520 --> 02:19:16,400
Speaker 1: and periodically where my more staff we do weekly meetings,

2583
02:19:16,760 --> 02:19:19,120
Speaker 1: and then I see that, you know, people in Ireland,

2584
02:19:19,959 --> 02:19:24,760
Speaker 1: uh listening and following my you know, Australia have a

2585
02:19:24,760 --> 02:19:27,200
Speaker 1: big follow In Australia, we were like, really, okay, I

2586
02:19:27,240 --> 02:19:30,039
Speaker 1: got Canada, I expect Canada, but when we started going

2587
02:19:30,200 --> 02:19:34,760
Speaker 1: to Ireland and Germany and in Australia kind of like wow,

2588
02:19:35,120 --> 02:19:37,160
Speaker 1: and I know you, I know you're a person that

2589
02:19:37,560 --> 02:19:41,040
Speaker 1: starts to understand your brand, but what places surprise you

2590
02:19:41,160 --> 02:19:45,760
Speaker 1: that you have started to develop your following. Um UK.

2591
02:19:46,440 --> 02:19:51,160
Speaker 1: I was so that people in the UK we're talking.

2592
02:19:53,120 --> 02:19:57,560
Speaker 1: The fashions in the UK are so amazing. I think

2593
02:19:57,560 --> 02:20:02,040
Speaker 1: that they're so fashionable and chice and just you know,

2594
02:20:02,280 --> 02:20:06,640
Speaker 1: very sophisticated. So I'm like, wow, like that type of

2595
02:20:06,760 --> 02:20:10,760
Speaker 1: customer is looking for me. I shipped worldwide. And also

2596
02:20:11,320 --> 02:20:15,200
Speaker 1: my my both of my parents are Jamaican, and I

2597
02:20:15,240 --> 02:20:21,240
Speaker 1: got recognized and that um and the Jamaican Observer, which

2598
02:20:21,320 --> 02:20:24,920
Speaker 1: is the Jamaica's number one newspaper, And it was funny.

2599
02:20:24,959 --> 02:20:27,880
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that my my dad. I called

2600
02:20:27,920 --> 02:20:30,680
Speaker 1: my dad because I got it and I got a

2601
02:20:30,840 --> 02:20:34,600
Speaker 1: email and my dad and I was like Jamaican Observer.

2602
02:20:34,720 --> 02:20:36,560
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, let me check that out. So

2603
02:20:36,600 --> 02:20:38,320
Speaker 1: I said, let me call my dad. And my dad's

2604
02:20:38,520 --> 02:20:42,080
Speaker 1: super smart, the history buff like super smart. So I

2605
02:20:42,160 --> 02:20:44,879
Speaker 1: was like yeah, I said, um, I said, you have

2606
02:20:44,920 --> 02:20:48,680
Speaker 1: a kind of the Jamaican Observer. Um um um um

2607
02:20:48,720 --> 02:21:06,320
Speaker 1: dead um all um um um all this. Really you've

2608
02:21:06,320 --> 02:21:10,000
Speaker 1: been classy. You've been classy, You've been everything, got this

2609
02:21:10,080 --> 02:21:15,960
Speaker 1: beautiful top on, teeth clean everything. Um dad. Okay, I'm okay,

2610
02:21:15,959 --> 02:21:18,080
Speaker 1: I want to check myself. Okay, I just wanted to

2611
02:21:18,200 --> 02:21:23,280
Speaker 1: check myself. So I said that you've heard of the

2612
02:21:23,400 --> 02:21:26,800
Speaker 1: Jamaican Observer and he's like, of course, He's like, that's

2613
02:21:26,800 --> 02:21:30,480
Speaker 1: our that's our main newspaper. So I was like really,

2614
02:21:30,680 --> 02:21:34,960
Speaker 1: and I said, well, they wanna interview me? He's like really,

2615
02:21:35,040 --> 02:21:39,039
Speaker 1: I said yeah. So I was super surprised than Jamaica

2616
02:21:39,200 --> 02:21:46,760
Speaker 1: even wanted to, you know, feature me, and um, I

2617
02:21:46,840 --> 02:21:58,040
Speaker 1: heard that now, I heard, um you. I didn't even

2618
02:21:58,080 --> 02:22:03,600
Speaker 1: realize until you said, Okay, so yes, well, you know,

2619
02:22:03,680 --> 02:22:06,320
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about one. You know, it's you know,

2620
02:22:06,320 --> 02:22:08,720
Speaker 1: we're coming to the end of this year and I'm

2621
02:22:08,760 --> 02:22:11,959
Speaker 1: a planner. You're a planner. You know, your your visionary.

2622
02:22:12,160 --> 02:22:15,400
Speaker 1: You know we're fashion and fashion this seasonal. You know,

2623
02:22:15,480 --> 02:22:17,640
Speaker 1: you you know what you're doing the summer. You can't

2624
02:22:17,640 --> 02:22:19,080
Speaker 1: do the fall with you doing the phone, you can't

2625
02:22:19,080 --> 02:22:23,240
Speaker 1: do in the spring. Okay, what what are we looking for? What? What? What? What? What?

2626
02:22:23,320 --> 02:22:26,320
Speaker 1: I did you have on the world of fashion that

2627
02:22:26,360 --> 02:22:31,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring to you know, to the ladies. Well, I,

2628
02:22:32,040 --> 02:22:38,000
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm always tuned in, so I'm always

2629
02:22:38,040 --> 02:22:43,720
Speaker 1: looking at trends. And I don't usually follow trends, but

2630
02:22:43,840 --> 02:22:46,800
Speaker 1: I'll look at them so I kind of see what

2631
02:22:46,800 --> 02:22:48,720
Speaker 1: they're watching in the world is going and of course,

2632
02:22:49,560 --> 02:22:55,960
Speaker 1: so I'm so aware of this now that trying not

2633
02:22:57,040 --> 02:23:05,160
Speaker 1: I love, I loved you know, I've been down the

2634
02:23:05,240 --> 02:23:10,560
Speaker 1: interviews this country. My instagram follows on fire and he

2635
02:23:10,720 --> 02:23:19,920
Speaker 1: called it um um dad um um. Oh my gosh.

2636
02:23:20,520 --> 02:23:27,800
Speaker 1: So and I just anything that's different is going to

2637
02:23:27,959 --> 02:23:32,959
Speaker 1: catch my eyes. So anything depending on um, you know,

2638
02:23:33,040 --> 02:23:36,400
Speaker 1: like you said, the season, but summertime, I'm gonna make

2639
02:23:36,400 --> 02:23:41,480
Speaker 1: sure that you know, it's gonna be nice, cool colors, cotton,

2640
02:23:41,920 --> 02:23:46,120
Speaker 1: organic cottons and everything is definitely very important because you

2641
02:23:46,160 --> 02:23:48,440
Speaker 1: want to stay cool and cute. So I try not

2642
02:23:48,520 --> 02:23:50,920
Speaker 1: to do a lot of synthetic fabrics and stuff in

2643
02:23:50,920 --> 02:23:56,400
Speaker 1: the summer and things that's also gonna camouflage things that

2644
02:23:56,480 --> 02:23:59,879
Speaker 1: you may not be somewhere ready for, you know. So

2645
02:24:00,400 --> 02:24:06,000
Speaker 1: that's what I because all the time the Vault by

2646
02:24:06,040 --> 02:24:09,039
Speaker 1: Sasha is it is it your store or it is

2647
02:24:09,040 --> 02:24:13,240
Speaker 1: the People's store? What is it? It is? It's the

2648
02:24:13,280 --> 02:24:18,199
Speaker 1: people's store. Okay, it's it's it's the people's store for sure,

2649
02:24:18,640 --> 02:24:26,320
Speaker 1: But it's my my vision, my vision, yeah, or what

2650
02:24:26,440 --> 02:24:30,879
Speaker 1: I want the people to wear people because because that's

2651
02:24:30,920 --> 02:24:32,640
Speaker 1: what a lot of people can get. Because you're so

2652
02:24:33,440 --> 02:24:35,879
Speaker 1: you're you're you have an opinion, and which is good

2653
02:24:35,920 --> 02:24:37,800
Speaker 1: because in fast you gotta have an opinion because your

2654
02:24:37,800 --> 02:24:39,920
Speaker 1: opinion has to be able to cut through the clutter

2655
02:24:39,959 --> 02:24:43,080
Speaker 1: the noise of what people should wear and should not wear.

2656
02:24:43,400 --> 02:24:46,520
Speaker 1: And also you have to be um confident. And that's

2657
02:24:46,520 --> 02:24:49,200
Speaker 1: what I said. I'm saying as a buyer, she's a

2658
02:24:49,200 --> 02:24:52,240
Speaker 1: confident person because she's going in saying, you know something

2659
02:24:52,240 --> 02:24:54,359
Speaker 1: like that topic you have on I'm telling it's fantastic.

2660
02:24:54,400 --> 02:24:58,160
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful top tier. And anybody who's watching the video,

2661
02:24:58,160 --> 02:24:59,800
Speaker 1: I know it's plays back on podcasts if you can

2662
02:24:59,800 --> 02:25:03,240
Speaker 1: get about YouTube channel to see this tops outstanding? Is

2663
02:25:03,440 --> 02:25:05,920
Speaker 1: this topic a viral? This is really great, It's really

2664
02:25:06,280 --> 02:25:09,560
Speaker 1: it's really walk in. You know you you're a nightclub Look,

2665
02:25:09,760 --> 02:25:12,040
Speaker 1: you know you can you can wear that in church

2666
02:25:12,160 --> 02:25:15,720
Speaker 1: right there? That's that's a church topics. Absolutely see she'd

2667
02:25:15,720 --> 02:25:18,760
Speaker 1: go to church. I'm telling when you get a top

2668
02:25:18,840 --> 02:25:28,440
Speaker 1: that you can wear the church in the nightclub. I'm

2669
02:25:28,480 --> 02:25:31,640
Speaker 1: talking about girl. You know you're coming from the nightclub

2670
02:25:31,680 --> 02:25:34,680
Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the morning. You time you just

2671
02:25:35,040 --> 02:25:37,680
Speaker 1: fall asleep in your bed, you just get on up

2672
02:25:38,160 --> 02:25:41,240
Speaker 1: and go to churches praise the Lord in the nightclub look,

2673
02:25:41,400 --> 02:25:51,360
Speaker 1: and nobody will know. Nobody, I'm telling you. And that's

2674
02:25:51,440 --> 02:25:55,119
Speaker 1: the thing. I don't have a lot of provocative clothes

2675
02:25:55,240 --> 02:25:58,840
Speaker 1: in the ball. So, like I said, it's oversize things.

2676
02:25:59,320 --> 02:26:03,520
Speaker 1: It's cool silhouettes, its patterns, mixed prints, things like that.

2677
02:26:04,040 --> 02:26:08,720
Speaker 1: So it's definitely wearable in so many different circumstances. Well,

2678
02:26:08,800 --> 02:26:12,200
Speaker 1: so I've already told you, Okay, the Vault by Slasha,

2679
02:26:12,480 --> 02:26:14,760
Speaker 1: you know she's gonna she's gonna turn it out in

2680
02:26:15,600 --> 02:26:18,480
Speaker 1: one she's already turning out. Instagram is on fire. And

2681
02:26:18,560 --> 02:26:20,560
Speaker 1: I asked that question because I wanted to know, because

2682
02:26:20,879 --> 02:26:23,480
Speaker 1: you know, the Vault by Sasha is a clothing line

2683
02:26:23,520 --> 02:26:27,400
Speaker 1: design for the people. But now she didn't said clothing lines, accessories,

2684
02:26:27,520 --> 02:26:31,280
Speaker 1: you know, tops, swimwears all these things that make you

2685
02:26:31,400 --> 02:26:33,840
Speaker 1: look good and feel good. And he also has the

2686
02:26:33,879 --> 02:26:35,800
Speaker 1: clothes that, you know, if you don't feel good about

2687
02:26:35,840 --> 02:26:37,880
Speaker 1: certain parts of your body, you can She has fashion

2688
02:26:37,920 --> 02:26:39,440
Speaker 1: that can hide the little thing and to make you

2689
02:26:39,480 --> 02:26:41,600
Speaker 1: still look like you've got it going on. And when

2690
02:26:41,640 --> 02:26:43,800
Speaker 1: you walk in that room, you know, everything is still flowing,

2691
02:26:43,879 --> 02:26:46,720
Speaker 1: everything is still rolling right, left and right. And she

2692
02:26:46,800 --> 02:26:49,720
Speaker 1: has oversized clothes, full figure clothes. So These are things

2693
02:26:49,800 --> 02:26:52,720
Speaker 1: that you can look at in the vault by Sasha

2694
02:26:52,760 --> 02:26:54,560
Speaker 1: and walk away with a smile on your face. I

2695
02:26:54,600 --> 02:26:56,320
Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming on my sol sauce.

2696
02:26:56,480 --> 02:26:59,920
Speaker 1: You know, I know I've been messing with you finding me.

2697
02:27:00,080 --> 02:27:05,080
Speaker 1: You're so funny, you know the ba Jamaica y'all. Mom,

2698
02:27:05,400 --> 02:27:13,920
Speaker 1: you know I'm saying. You know I read don't go,

2699
02:27:14,320 --> 02:27:17,080
Speaker 1: you make it happen. But again, I'm I'm so proud

2700
02:27:17,160 --> 02:27:20,600
Speaker 1: that the fact that you as an entrepreneur because I

2701
02:27:20,760 --> 02:27:23,520
Speaker 1: Ustory five am and so I knew it was a

2702
02:27:23,640 --> 02:27:27,840
Speaker 1: hard decision to walk away from Guarantee Health Interfits retirement.

2703
02:27:28,200 --> 02:27:29,920
Speaker 1: And like I said, the job you had in the

2704
02:27:30,000 --> 02:27:33,560
Speaker 1: medical field, that's not going anywhere. It's an in demand profession,

2705
02:27:33,640 --> 02:27:36,960
Speaker 1: especially with COVID, it's really in demand right now. And

2706
02:27:37,080 --> 02:27:39,360
Speaker 1: so but you know, but you have to follow your dream.

2707
02:27:39,400 --> 02:27:41,320
Speaker 1: You have to be committed to a plan that it's

2708
02:27:41,360 --> 02:27:43,440
Speaker 1: gonna make you feel good about yourself when you wake

2709
02:27:43,520 --> 02:27:46,320
Speaker 1: up in the morning. And I your smile is fantastic,

2710
02:27:46,440 --> 02:27:48,400
Speaker 1: and I always know that. You know, if you haven't

2711
02:27:48,959 --> 02:27:50,280
Speaker 1: when you want to launch your name, let me know.

2712
02:27:50,400 --> 02:27:53,120
Speaker 1: I have my team posted on my social media. Have

2713
02:27:55,320 --> 02:27:58,280
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that I got you. I got you

2714
02:27:58,400 --> 02:28:01,160
Speaker 1: because I have some events coming there. You go, like,

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Speaker 1: know absolutely when you come, let you know I have

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Speaker 1: a fashion show coming up. It's a lot of fashion.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of fashion show virtually this no, this

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Speaker 1: virtual as well. Okay, but I do have some special

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Speaker 1: invite to guests if you live in Atlanta, because I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to, you know, do like a huge thing

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Speaker 1: that second invite only um at the events space. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be in Buckhead. But if you would like to

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Speaker 1: watch it, okay, I like to because you I gotta

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Speaker 1: So I can just start promoting that. I'm gonna early

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Speaker 1: promote you got to day December seventeen seventeen, all right,

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Speaker 1: the Vault by Sasha Her fashion show. Ra Sean McDonald

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Speaker 1: She also will be virtual December seventeen. Mark that down

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Speaker 1: But more importantly, I really appreciate you. I really do.

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Speaker 1: almost all right, I would talk to you soon, Okay,

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