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

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,

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Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know, he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs,

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Speaker 1: It's what he likes to share. Now it's time to

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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here

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Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, it is ras Sean McDonald money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversations as usual. I bring top talent, top knowledge, top information.

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Speaker 1: Knowledge and information can be perceived to be the same thing,

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Speaker 1: but I disagree. It's how you get the information, and

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Speaker 1: you take that information and you shape it into some knowledge,

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Speaker 1: and you shape that knowledge into an opportunity. You shape

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Speaker 1: that opportunity into a goal, and when you make that goal,

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Speaker 1: you can start playing in success. My next guest is

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Speaker 1: a fashion expert, actress and TV personality. I first noticed

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Speaker 1: her on the show in the Style Network called How

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Speaker 1: She's on the show to promote her new series, Holy

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Speaker 1: Moldy on ABC. The show premiers jew and executive and

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Speaker 1: is executive produced by NBA superstar Steph long Range Curry

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Speaker 1: of The Golden State Warris Please working with the Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations Emmy Award winning co host of The Real

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Speaker 1: Genie My Well, thank you. The energy is what I

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Speaker 1: expected none. You are the true energy of the Real

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Speaker 1: You know that, right? I mean, you know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: hype about life because you know, I have a great

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Speaker 1: I had to wait on this show. Holy Moly. I

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Speaker 1: when the Style Network was just no longer existing anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's when I first show you. And then, like I said,

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Speaker 1: when I had pulled over, you know, you started looking

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Speaker 1: gonna get these titles, right, Emmy Award winning Genie. Now

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Speaker 1: it's just a lot of problem. My mom polishes that

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Speaker 1: little background by Rashan McDonald. This is kind of like

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Speaker 1: I know how much fun I personally had and and

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Speaker 1: that's Curry. So there's so many elements that make you

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Speaker 1: It is so much fun. Well, okay, first of all,

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Speaker 1: they get the contestants. How did they get me to commit? No, No,

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Speaker 1: the contestants who play the game, how did they find them?

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Speaker 1: So Jarvis Boards, what we do is we bill stand

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Speaker 1: instinct to work with your hands, and it started with

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Speaker 1: people feels should be on calendars and stuff. And now

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Speaker 1: they're going to people who are just regular every day

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Speaker 1: people that we work with, that we go to if

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Speaker 1: we're going to a fast food restaurants. And these are

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Speaker 1: the people who, guess what, are resonating with the viewers

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Speaker 1: right exactly because they can see themselves, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. So there's something that I guess it's not

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Speaker 1: only relatable, but it's like wow, okay, it's three dimensionality now,

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Speaker 1: but there still is an acting style correct that they

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Speaker 1: want from you, right because you know you you you

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Speaker 1: know you have you have a versatile platform or different

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Speaker 1: roles you play. So you come in and and that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's an incredible testament to why you keep working.

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Speaker 1: You keep working for a region and so so now

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Speaker 1: you have this role and you know, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like a soap opera, not not to dated format, but

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Speaker 1: it's still a style because I've seen her work and

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Speaker 1: I love the way she sells a lot of projects

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Speaker 1: on this this type of style. Or you just with

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Speaker 1: just you and you just built your character based on

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Speaker 1: being a seasoned actress. Wow, thank you. You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say it's it's not a soap opera

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Speaker 1: or a soap opera style. What it is. It goes

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Speaker 1: back to that three dimensionality and I was talking about

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Speaker 1: and these characters being so crafted for real, they're really

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Speaker 1: crafted like we would get a script because we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: know and then you show up the table reading it side.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, this is where I gotta go.

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Speaker 1: So it really made us call on every single emotion

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Speaker 1: into the core of who we are and to representing

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Speaker 1: people because we all have a past. And the show

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Speaker 1: was sought in a lot of flashbacks. You know, he

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Speaker 1: becomes her character. Um, it's a recurring character. So it's

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Speaker 1: kind of told through her eyes and flashbacks, but how

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Speaker 1: it brings us all to get there, or how it

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Speaker 1: brings us all apart. So it's an evolving, it's an unraveling,

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Speaker 1: it's an unlayering, but it's also holding it together, putting

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Speaker 1: on that face because I guess, well, we're the you know,

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Speaker 1: we're the bomb hotel. You know, I've got guests, we're

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Speaker 1: doing this, that and the other. But you know, internally

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Speaker 1: we're kind of falling apart in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 1: but keeping it together. So it's that inner struggle, it's

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Speaker 1: that outer struggle to hold it together and keep up

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Speaker 1: that to thought. So it's a lot of moving pieces

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Speaker 1: that I mean, it really pulled with the heart strength.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: it's funny, it's sexy, it's it's a little you know,

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Speaker 1: all over the place. I really haven't seen anything like

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Speaker 1: that on t V in a minute. So you know

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Speaker 1: how it is going to be hotel. It's beautiful, it's beautiful,

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Speaker 1: you know just how it shot. Now they that hotel setting,

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Speaker 1: and so with that being is in that hotel setting,

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Speaker 1: we're getting they celebrity you know, kind of like checking

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Speaker 1: into the hotel being themselves, or it's just keeping it

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Speaker 1: to scripted. Uh, It's it's pretty scripted. They didn't do

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Speaker 1: the stunt casting, which I'm really excited about, which makes

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Speaker 1: it even more believably because it doesn't take you out

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Speaker 1: of that round right here. It's in Miami. Now, everybody

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Speaker 1: go to Miami. We do have no go ahead. Everybody

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Speaker 1: come to Miami. So it's believable that your hotel can

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Speaker 1: have a d Wade show up, can't have a you know,

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Speaker 1: any anybody of credibility show up down that shoot the

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Speaker 1: movie or television show or down there on vacation of

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Speaker 1: getting the way. So it's interesting. I just think that

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Speaker 1: long term. First of all, it's a great concept. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: that being a part of this series. It's called the

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Speaker 1: Grand Hotel. Uh. Premiers January seven, June seventeenth, on a Monday,

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Speaker 1: Une seventeen. Now five days later, on June twenty two,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be hosting the African Pride by African Pride

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Speaker 1: your back, got you coming back now, come on that.

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. You're coming back. Come

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Speaker 1: on now we praise them through song, music and dance,

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Speaker 1: the blow the trumpet and the horn. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: but I'm really excited. This has been like my seventh year,

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Speaker 1: particular audience, but this particular genre. Music has always been,

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Speaker 1: the nation and the world take the stage. And this

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Speaker 1: year it is sponsored by Askin Pride and it was

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Speaker 1: We've been in Atlanta, but Dayton, Ohio is the home

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Speaker 1: of Dr Cartwright, who is been the executive producer j seventeen.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be on National TV ABC the premier of

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Speaker 1: You're listening to money making conversations. As you know. I

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Speaker 1: My next guest is a successful person, big fan of

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Speaker 1: player Joe Joe White. He was still with the importance

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Speaker 1: political science, psychology, and theater at Dartmunt College. He's currently

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Speaker 1: starting in ambitions a new night time drama from producing

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Speaker 1: My man will Packard did two movies with him and

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Speaker 1: He's surrounded by the All Star casts and includes My Girl.

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Speaker 1: of two high powered African American families that class and

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Speaker 1: connect professionally and romantically in the hot Atlanta. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations, my man, Brian White, Hey, brother,

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Speaker 1: how are you? Thank you for having me on? Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, thank you, man. Let's let's let's let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the wet right now. You're you? Are you?

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Speaker 1: You send at the house? You you do? You're acting

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Speaker 1: on some set? What's going on? Man's yeah, right now

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Speaker 1: I'm at the house. We were getting some work done. Um,

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Speaker 1: get ready to head out on the road and promote ambitions.

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Speaker 1: We're getting ready to go to Miami and breaking my

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Speaker 1: family with me. My wife's family, she's from Argentina, some

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Speaker 1: of her family lives in Miami. Sort of bringing my

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Speaker 1: daughter so they can meet them, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just celebrate the life being good. Well, you know that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's a lot of good eating meat, meat, meat. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of seafood, a lot of seafood down there. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So when you when you start looking at your career,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'll go through your resume and I put

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Speaker 1: your father's name, Jojo White, and being a sports fan,

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Speaker 1: being a person of African American descent Roshan mcgaunt. Let's

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Speaker 1: meet Jojo White, watching him succeed in the climate of Boston,

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Speaker 1: watching him succeed on a basketball team like the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 1: What was that like? Because for me it was important

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Speaker 1: feel that I can make it too. Yeah it uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean it was very educational. Uh. It was also

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Speaker 1: I was close with my dad, but I lived and

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Speaker 1: because he was not living in Boston. Uh in my

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm aware of everything he's doing, but I

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Speaker 1: when I was free on a hardline phone and we

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00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: could talk, but that wasn't often. So UM, I learned

850
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: how this kind of lifestyle that I'm in now works

851
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: and how it can work better. Uh when with the

852
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: knowledge that I have of what you know can potentially

853
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: be done using technology to make sure that my daughter

854
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: h has an even better experience than maybe my siblings

855
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 1: and I did with the with the challenges of distance.

856
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: And by the same token, I learned all the great

857
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: ways my dad uh maneuvered through space. I learned through

858
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: his his lessons. He was in the sixty eight panem

859
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: Games and in the sixty nine Olympics, and that that's

860
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: the black Gobl Olympics movie. Glory Road is about that.

861
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the things I learned from

862
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: my god's father read our back, um, you know, telling

863
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: my dad did not get on that podium. Don't uh

864
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: let your fans know about your politics and your opinions

865
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: before you've won them some trophies. Uh, they don't care.

866
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: That very clear to his number one draft pick in

867
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixty nine that that that's something that

868
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: he should not do. So you'll notice my father is

869
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: absent from the glove being raised celebration and instead of

870
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: celebrating with his teammates the moment and not making it

871
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: more than that. Um, and you know, recognizing his place

872
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: and his position and and always being happy to be

873
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: a part of something positive. It is an asset that

874
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: my father definitely demonstrated and passed on to me. Is

875
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: as something that's very valuable. Congratulations, because I guess what

876
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: what I thank you, you know, because I guess what

877
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: what individuals do when you have so few role models,

878
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: and you know, back then, you know, you have a

879
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: lot of role model because of social media, because the media,

880
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,959
Speaker 1: because of the way the system works nowadays, that relationships

881
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: can be expanded on, and back then you were limited

882
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: on who you can talk to, limited on how you

883
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: can talk to him and where you can go. And

884
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: because of the fact that he was featured in a

885
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: market and Boston had a lot of success with a

886
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: lot of African American talent, but he was definitely in

887
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: a market that was perceived to be not favorable to

888
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: the African Americans and he exceeds very much so and

889
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: what he what I think that the lesson at the

890
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 1: you know, when I look at the when I reflect

891
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,439
Speaker 1: from now in hindsight, what Dad didn't do is he

892
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: he didn't talk a lot. He walks off and carried

893
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: a big stick. And so in the beginning of his career,

894
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: he came in hungry to prove himself as worthy of

895
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: the number one draft picks and as soon as you know,

896
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: they got a ring um he started the Jojo White

897
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: Growth League and his foundations and started speaking tours and

898
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: started doing the things with red support at that point

899
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 1: that we're quote unquote appropriate and just what it taught

900
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: me was a lot with the social media era, where

901
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: everybody leads with how great they are when you know

902
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: they haven't really accomplished anything, and instead, instead of being great,

903
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: they're worried about being famous or being recognized for that greatness.

904
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: And and that's the opposite of the approach that I

905
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: was shown and demonstrated by my father, and and the

906
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: approach that I tried to apply to my craft currently,

907
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: which seems to be the opposite of you know, the

908
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: motto or the credo not real, not really, because every

909
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: role you play I watch, your credit or your career

910
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: is yours. Dignity is strength. Uh. You articulate, you're a

911
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: good looking guy. Uh, and you always come across as

912
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: a strong, a strong, independent person and no matter how

913
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: extreme your characters are. And uh, I just wanted to

914
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk about your father, and we're

915
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: gonna move on, but I want to just bring up

916
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: the fact that it was referencing his dad, the legendary

917
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: Boston Celtic star Jojo White, and how the impact he

918
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: played on the community as a player and also on

919
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: in his personal life. But more importantly, when I look

920
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: at your characters that you play now, it explains a

921
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,479
Speaker 1: little bit about you, know, your your physicality. It also

922
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: explains your daring its you know, because one of the

923
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,919
Speaker 1: favorite characters that you that I recently saw you play

924
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: was on Ray Donovan and uh, and how do you

925
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: prepare for a crazy character like that? I'll let you

926
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: in on a couple of secrets. David Hollander, Uh, the

927
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: creator of Ray Donovan. UH, gave me the opportunity in

928
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: season one to to join the show. And Uh. As

929
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:13,479
Speaker 1: season one went on, we had a lot of fun

930
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: and he came to me and he said, hey, you

931
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: really seem to get the black comedy that is Ray

932
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 1: dout of it. And I said, that's how I saw it,

933
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: you know, when I made my audition tape. You know

934
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: it's it's it's very dark, but there's an underbelly of

935
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: humor um in a lot that they do as dark

936
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: as they get, you have to laugh at it. And

937
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: he goes, all right, exactly, so I have some things

938
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: in mind for season two and you know, just so,

939
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: are you open to play and to go with me

940
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: if I get pretty crazy? And I absolutely, Man, I'll

941
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: be a huckleberry. And uh. You know, he came back

942
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: to me over the summer and said, we don't have

943
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 1: a lot of He actually said this, he said, we

944
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of writers of color on the

945
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: staff and they don't have any. And he said, we'd

946
00:51:55,440 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: like to you know, I would never uh be outlandish

947
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: as to try to create the dialogue for you and

948
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: this type of arc, and I'd like your input. I'd

949
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: like you to help us. And so we did a

950
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: table read with all six with six scripts at the

951
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: time you usually do one. And I got a chance

952
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: to read them and submit some some feedback, some basic feedback,

953
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: some thoughts to them that they then incorporated, uh to

954
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: help shape some of my dialogue. And it was really

955
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: an honor and a privilege that's you know, uncommon to

956
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: be involved at all. And it helped me prepare for

957
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: and be aware of what was to come and try

958
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: to help ground it a little bit more because it

959
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: was it was outlandish, but you know, Pooch and I

960
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: and Donald phase on coming out of season one, wanted

961
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: to try to take this and run with it and

962
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: make it this entertaining and as thought provoking and as conversational,

963
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: like a conversation inspiring as possible. So hopefully, you know,

964
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: it was it was taken with with all that laughed

965
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 1: with and and thought about, and uh, you know, feel

966
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: a lot of conversations about a lot of what John

967
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: Waite was saying. Why how life is for people of

968
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: color like pooch in not only a black world, but

969
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: the black man inside that family. It's a microcosm of

970
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: the world. Absolutely about equal footing. When his father feels

971
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: like that, well, you gotta come back, Brian, you gotta

972
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: come back again. We're talking to Brian White. Great series,

973
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: Good Friends. Sheila Duckworth. That's my girl, Brian, Brian Willpacker,

974
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: you know that's my boy. Please check out the new

975
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: series called Ambitions on the Own Network, premiers this month

976
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: the month of June, particularly on the date of June eighth.

977
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: My man, thank you. Appreciate nine Central. There you go.

978
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: I love it, appreciate he knows how to sale. Hey,

979
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: this is Tasha Evans and I love to eat a

980
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981
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Speaker 1: O N and McDonald has spelled just like the famous

984
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Speaker 1: restaurant chain guys. Rashaun is looking for great bakers for

985
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Speaker 1: his Baker Spotlight. He wants to brag on his fans

986
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Speaker 1: our house while I was at work and a friend

991
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Speaker 1: recommended Blink. I was skeptical, but decided to give it

992
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Speaker 1: a shot, and I bought a Blink camera system. With

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999
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Speaker 1: Blink app and I saw it was just my cool

1003
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Speaker 1: tell you about the host of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald.

1010
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: He's a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand

1011
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1012
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Speaker 1: Emmy Award winner, three time n double A cp Image

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Speaker 1: Award winner, sitcom writer, stand up comic, former IBM executive,

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Speaker 1: and has a degree of mathematics. More importantly, Rashan McDonald

1015
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