1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: If you're about to make a change in your life 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: and you feel uncomfortable, that's. 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: The best feeling you can have because for the first 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 2: time in your life, you're making a decision that's going 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 2: to be best for you and not what somebody told 6 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,799 Speaker 2: you to do. And that's when all bets are off. 7 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation master Class. I'm your host, 8 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: Lushan McDonald. Our theme is there's no perfect time to 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: start following your dreams. I recognize that we all have 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: different definitions of success. For you and maybe decide to 11 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: your JA it's time to stop reading other people's success 12 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: stories to start living your own. Keep wedding, Yes, sir, 13 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation master Class. The reality is 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: this is a live show, which means that sometimes I 15 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: might make a mistake and it cannot get corrected. But 16 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: I will tell you when I make a mistake, it 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: will be an honest mistake, and I don't make many. 18 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 3: When you listen to Money Making Conversations master Class. The 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 3: interviews and the information that this show provides are for everyone, 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 3: and I always tell people it's time to start reading 21 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 3: other people's success story. I say that a lot because 22 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 3: we always want to be something that we are not. 23 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 3: You know, I knew long time ago I couldn't sing, 24 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 3: even though I wanted to play basketball. I knew I 25 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 3: couldn't dunk. So I had to figure out my goals. 26 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 3: My goal wasn't tied to athleticism, and my goals wasn't 27 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 3: tied to music. I had figured out my strength. There's 28 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 3: a lot of people running around here trying to be 29 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 3: what they cannot be. Means you're reading other people's success stories. 30 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 3: Start planning a success story that you can win with. 31 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 3: That's why I always they keep winning. I say keep 32 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 3: winning because I'm trying to encourage you to not settle 33 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 3: because people have told you this is what you're supposed 34 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 3: to be doing. Keep winning means keep looking forward, keep 35 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: moving forward. I have a catchphrase, standing ahead of the ignorance. 36 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 3: That means that there are people out there who are 37 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: trying to stop you from being who you are capable 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 3: of being, because they're going to kick you in the 39 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 3: area that makes you comfortable comfortable to them. Let's get 40 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 3: this show started. My guess is a game changer. He's founding, 41 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 3: the CEO of the National Center of Urban Solutions and 42 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: created the African American Male Wellderness Walk Run Initiative. He's 43 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 3: on the show to talk with that his career, things 44 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 3: he's overcame, and things that most people say. Hey, I'm 45 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 3: tired life is not giving me an even deal. I'm 46 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 3: just gonna sit back and cry, not this guy. Please 47 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 3: welco with the Money Making Conversation Masterclass. The incredible John Gregory. 48 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: How you doing John? 49 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing great. 50 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,839 Speaker 3: John. We came together. You know, we were both black men, 51 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 3: and we've also been frustrated by health awareness of our community. 52 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 3: Tell us how that impacted you. 53 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 4: Well, let me say, first of all, I am grateful 54 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 4: that you're having this conversation with me. I was ever 55 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,399 Speaker 4: so um pressed with your energy and your synergy, and too, 56 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 4: I wake up every morning and look in the mirror 57 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 4: and say I'm a winner. I lived by that model. 58 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 4: About twenty years ago, I was going to work for 59 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 4: this program, and I was trying to figure out why 60 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 4: black young men weren't going to work between the ages 61 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 4: of eighteen and thirty and so I was doing a 62 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 4: research project and I was like, let me figure out 63 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 4: why these prodents. Are they lazy? Is they got some 64 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 4: of the memo going on? What is really going on? 65 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 4: And I did a project and I required that the brothers. 66 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 4: I got about one hundred brothers a job and I 67 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 4: required them from the ages of eighteen to thirties. When 68 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 4: they got ready to pick up their paycheck, they had 69 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 4: to get a biometric screen. And after one hundred and 70 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 4: twenty days of the biometric screens, the nurses came to 71 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 4: me and said, let's take greatly. These young men are sick. 72 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 4: They have high reproos, they have high blood pressure, they 73 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 4: have high cholesterol, and three of these guys need to 74 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 4: go see a doctor right away. And after somebody said, John, 75 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 4: what are we going to do? And I was like, 76 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 4: I don't know what we're gonna do. I said what 77 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 4: do white people doing. I was like, oh, they walk. 78 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 4: I was like, you know, they got dress cancer, they 79 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 4: got kidney walks, they got sympath ida, they do all 80 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 4: of that. So I looked there was no one dressing 81 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: this issue. And then a doctor came to a meeting 82 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 4: I was having and he said, black men are dying, 83 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 4: and nobody kids, and they're dying of preventable reasons. And 84 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 4: so I was walking was starting that first step trying 85 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 4: to get us to a solution. 86 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 3: But you know when you when you when you're starting 87 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 3: a new idea, John, that's when you have the biggest doubters, 88 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: the biggest people there to say, why or why are 89 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 3: you doing this? Don't nobody, nobody, Nobody's gonna show up 90 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 3: because it's walking. 91 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 4: You know. 92 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 3: You know black people out there, you know, they's the 93 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 3: stereotypes you're battling with. Like you said, you you battling 94 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 3: stereotypes when you was talking about trying to employ young 95 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 3: men between this age that people were telling you that 96 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 3: they don't want to work, but you hadn idea. I 97 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 3: want to talk about the obstacles you had to overcome 98 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 3: to even make the idea of reality, which is in 99 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 3: now eighteen cities. 100 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 4: Well, you know I had to Well, I guess I 101 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 4: never really see obstacles because where I come from, I 102 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 4: see obstacles as opportunities. And when I did this, you know, 103 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 4: I knew that and I'm about of solutions. And so 104 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 4: you know, all over the country we're talking about black men, 105 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 4: black boys, and the they've been a report without came 106 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 4: out in about four years ago and said that black 107 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 4: men by the year twenty thirty was going to be 108 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 4: at the bottom of the total toe and so you know, 109 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 4: when I look and see that, it motivates me to 110 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 4: do something. So even when I started this, I didn't 111 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 4: worry about who was going to believe in me. I 112 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 4: just call them brothers up. So I caught the captains 113 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 4: up until MCCUs is coming, the albums was coming. I 114 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 4: called them back. He said the methodism was coming. So 115 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 4: you know we competitive right, right, And when our brothers 116 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 4: got out there at seven in the morning and they 117 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 4: saw about seven hundred brothers out there, they was it motivated. 118 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 3: And this is in Columbus, Ohio. 119 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 4: Right, This is in Columbus, Ohio. And they're the ones 120 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 4: that came back and said, we got to do this again, right, 121 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 4: They said, this is because it was networking. It was 122 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 4: brothers talking and brothers. We were all on the phones. 123 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 4: Called the news media precent. Hey, if we were on 124 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 4: shooting each other, you'd be covering this. It became a 125 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 4: rally call for black votes because it was something that 126 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 4: black men were doing, and so they said we got 127 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 4: to do this again. The next year we had eighteen 128 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 4: hundred black men show up at seven o'clock in the morning. So, 129 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 4: you know, twenty years later, they have thirty thousand people 130 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 4: show up every year to participate in this event. 131 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 3: Now, the thing about it, now, this is the event 132 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 3: that's open to all genders with ladies. You want to walk, 133 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 3: please come. In fact, we may need you to help 134 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 3: bring some of these black men to these events because 135 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 3: when we fill in honorary that ain't for me. Let 136 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 3: me just throw some facts about this event that really 137 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 3: made me an advocate of the African American Male Wellness Agency, 138 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 3: which creates this Black Men Wellness Day, which is happening 139 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 3: in Houston, Texas April twenty seventh on the campus of 140 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 3: the University of Houston. I am the honorary chair. I 141 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 3: would let everybody know I'm proud to say that. But 142 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 3: what I also want to say is that in one 143 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 3: of the events last year, and it's a new compass Ohio, 144 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 3: excuse me, in Houston, Texas, five thousand men were screen 145 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: as black men were screen, fifty six percent did not 146 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 3: know they had high blood pressure. 147 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:51,679 Speaker 4: Listen to me, it's eighty screen had high blood pressure 148 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 4: and of them didn't even know. 149 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 3: Wow. And then twenty percent of the men scream went 150 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 3: to the er immediately correct. This is in Houston Texas. 151 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,119 Speaker 4: That's in every walk we have across the country. Twenty 152 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 4: of the men of the screen have to go to 153 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 4: the emergency room and neediately. 154 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 3: And then you also screamed men for prostate cancer. 155 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 4: We screamed project cancer, we screamed I was just in 156 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 4: a medium in Detroit and they talked about last year 157 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 4: we also do HIV screening, and they talked about the 158 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 4: number of men to tested positives for HIV and HIV. 159 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 4: White men don't even die at HIV anymore. Black men 160 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 4: have the alarming rate of dying of HIV. 161 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 3: And when you when you start talking about you know, 162 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 3: we can trivialize this, you know, because when I say that, 163 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 3: because we don't talk about it, we just think it's 164 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 3: all cool. You know, it's not me. But the facts 165 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 3: are there, you know. I just looked at did a 166 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 3: little hor on myself John about a study there showed 167 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one that you know, the average age 168 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 3: expectations when you combine all racial ethnic groups to seventy 169 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 3: six point one years. Now when you start breaking it 170 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 3: down in each race, you know, Hispanics is seventy seven 171 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 3: point seven years, Whites' is seventy six point four years, 172 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 3: Asians is eighty three years. Who's at the botto Blacks 173 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 3: seventy point eight years. And that's what this walk is 174 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 3: all about. We are dying faster than any racial group. 175 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,719 Speaker 3: I'm talking about black men in any racial group that's 176 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 3: out there, and we can stop that by understanding our health. 177 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 3: And that's what this is racist all about. 178 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 4: Correct, yes, sir. And actually it's depending on where you live. 179 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 4: So in Jackson, Mississippi, which is the sickest city of 180 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 4: an America, but behind men the number is a twenty 181 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 4: year gap. In some places like Atlanta, then the gap 182 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 4: might be fifteen twelve years of gap. It depends on 183 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 4: where you are in America where that gap is. We 184 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 4: know that on average, black men live twelve years of 185 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 4: less than white men. 186 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 3: And that's and that's so when you do an event 187 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 3: like this, because you know you're doing eighteen of them 188 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 3: or different times of the year. I'm fortunate to be 189 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 3: a member of the involved in the group and in 190 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 3: Houston at the on the campus of University of Houston, 191 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 3: April twenty seven. Like you said, the race starts at 192 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 3: seven am. Are there any fees for runners to participate? 193 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 4: There is no one thing we do with this event, 194 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 4: and we thank companies like Johnson and Johnson and jen 195 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 4: and Tech and a Jilly ad On Abbot because it's 196 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 4: totally free. We live that if we put a B 197 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 4: on this, black members gonna say, I ain't got that 198 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 4: kind of money to pay for that. I'm not gonna 199 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 4: pay to go walk. And so even we do it, 200 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 4: it's a free event. Everything's pensive. Screenings are print free, 201 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 4: there's docus there to interpret. The results are free. You 202 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 4: get all kinds of different kinds of screen you get it. 203 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 4: Some places you get e KG you get make it 204 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 4: a limitar of liberty. I can even pronounce it screening 205 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 4: appro sate. All this is free. It's all free, and 206 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 4: it's free. Like you said, everybody's welcome to town. Blacks, whites. 207 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:28,119 Speaker 4: Women always tell women if you're looking for a husband, 208 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 4: at least you know he's trying to be wealthy, ye 209 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 4: know healthy. 210 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 3: Well, you know the thing about it, you know, I 211 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 3: first of all applaud you. I applaud you because of 212 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 3: the fact that you know, we kind of laugh about 213 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,719 Speaker 3: our eating half of something about the black community. It 214 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 3: showed his colors in the COVID period because we were 215 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 3: the highest death We had the highest death rate and 216 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 3: a lot of it was tied to our cholesterol level, 217 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 3: high blood pressure level, and obesity. And we you when 218 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 3: you turned that corner, did did COVID change anything from 219 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 3: the perspective because you started you event prior to COVID, 220 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 3: thed COVID happened. What's the what's the lifestyle approach that 221 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 3: the black male community is exhibiting to you? Now? 222 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 4: I would say we still when you're talking about just 223 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 4: last year five screening, five outs and black men and 224 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 4: eighty five percent have high blood pressure and fifty six 225 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 4: percent them neatly. Even now, we still have not taken 226 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 4: this very seriously and it's so preventable. All you can 227 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 4: do is go to the doctor, know your numbers and moves. 228 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 4: So you know, even during COVID, when the revelation became, 229 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 4: you know some of that. It's just it's unfortunately in 230 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 4: our society, we've had a lot of elicit racial bias 231 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 4: is around long help. It's like, you know, we're doing 232 00:12:55,559 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 4: a study continue group obspondagers and you know I went 233 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 4: to them and said they have they got ten social 234 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 4: determines of health. I'm like, how do you got ten? 235 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 4: Social determines of health. You should have eleven you got 236 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 4: If you don't have technology in your home, if you 237 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 4: don't have the ability to do telling health, you don't 238 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 4: get to see about you right away, maybe three three 239 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 4: three months before you can get a doctor. Telling health 240 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 4: gets you a doc. That's what COVID reveals that the 241 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 4: systems that have been put up really does not help 242 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 4: a lot of black folks become more healthy because the 243 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 4: systems that we have to navigate, or the this ad 244 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 4: biases that physicians have when they see a black person, 245 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 4: what they don't offer them, like peripal art disease. It's 246 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 4: a screening that you're supposed to get around your legs 247 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 4: and if the numbers in your legs are different than 248 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 4: the numbers in your arms, then there's an indication that 249 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 4: you have a blood flow problem. And it also is 250 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 4: a way that you can stop amputation. Do you know 251 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 4: that there really is no reason why person should be amputator? 252 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 4: How many black people are still getting amputated because we 253 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 4: don't happen we go to our doctors. Well, how come 254 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 4: you don't tell us about this? Well, they don't tell 255 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 4: us about it because they don't think we can afford 256 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 4: it our insurance with Covenant so you can have welcome 257 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 4: solictic bias, which was the revelation of COVID of how 258 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 4: black people are sicker because we are not getting the 259 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 4: same treatment. 260 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 3: Well, I'm talking to John Gregory and we're going to 261 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 3: continue this conversation. I'm also the honorary chair for the 262 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 3: Black Men's Wellness Day that's happening in Houston, Texas. That's Saturday, 263 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 3: April twenty seventh, seven am. We're gonna start walking and 264 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you something. If you're in Oklahoma, Arkansas, 265 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 3: you know, any of the Connecting States, Texas period. Hear 266 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 3: my voice, come join us April twenty seven. The office free, complimentary, 267 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 3: as they say on NPR. But one thing we are 268 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 3: trying to do is make your man, your dad, your friend, 269 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 3: your partner, your cousin, your best friend, live a better life. 270 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 3: And that's because we care. We right back when mister 271 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 3: John Gregory own Money Making Conversation Masterclass. 272 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 5: Don't go nowhere, Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right 273 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 5: back with more money Making Conversations Masterclass. Money Making Conversations 274 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 5: Masterclass continues online at Moneymakingconversations dot com. And follow Money 275 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 5: Making Conversations Masterclass on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Welcome back 276 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,359 Speaker 5: to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashaan MacDonald. 277 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: I'm speaking to mister John Gregory. He's the founder and 278 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 3: CEO of the National Center of Urban Solutions. That's one 279 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 3: part we've been talking about the African American Male Wellness 280 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 3: Run Initiative that I am an honorary chairl for April 281 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 3: twenty seventh in Houston, Texas. But I want to bring 282 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 3: up something about you, sir. You lost your sight and 283 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 3: let's discuss that, because I think that when one gets 284 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 3: in life, you can get down on yourself. You know, 285 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 3: you can say, hey, life is not dealing me an 286 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 3: even hand. Tell us about your backstory or how you 287 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 3: lost your site and how did you overcome that. I 288 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 3: know it's a daily overcome, but it had to be 289 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 3: an emotional hurdle to jump to be the positive person 290 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 3: I always meet whenever I see you. 291 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 4: Well, eight years ago, I had been to New Orleans 292 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 4: playing the walk, was coming home, got on an airplane 293 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 4: and I noticed that I had some cloudliness in my 294 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 4: eyes and I was like, but then when I was 295 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 4: coming home, my eyes are clear. I was like, I'm fine. 296 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 4: The next morning, I woke up and I looked and 297 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 4: I said, I can't see. I went to the doctor. 298 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 4: The doctors was like, this is temporary. I had eye surgery. 299 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 4: I had three of the finest eye doctors in the 300 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 4: country operate on me. They said, you'll be okay in 301 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 4: six weeks. It never got clear. But you know, the 302 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 4: funny thing is is that I never really thought about 303 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 4: it being blind because I knew that number one, I 304 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 4: had a company to write, and number two is that 305 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 4: I didn't think I didn't like to be over. So 306 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 4: you know, even today, I went to get eye surgery, 307 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 4: I went to work that afternoon and I haven't missed 308 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 4: a day of work since. But in the midst of that, 309 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 4: I ended up having two bouts of cancer. I also 310 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 4: had a disease that that I got a an infection 311 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 4: in my back that went to my foot, and for 312 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 4: about six months I was on this medication because I 313 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 4: had a severe infection. So those back eight years, you know, 314 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 4: I was really going too. But never even in my 315 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 4: cancer and the radiation and what have you, I didn't 316 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 4: miss I didn't miss work. I'd go do the rats 317 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 4: and that a woman told me some of the hospitals. 318 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 4: She said, you could choose the men, or you could 319 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 4: choose to go home and die. That's what you can choose. 320 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,959 Speaker 4: And so from her saying that I've learned to be blind, 321 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 4: and I've learned that, you know, life is a little different. 322 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 4: I tell people all it's on, I can't see. I 323 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 4: do comedy shows, you know. I I does not stop. 324 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 4: The only time I probably really thought about it was 325 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 4: that people been telling me I should get a stick. 326 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 4: I'm blind, not blind, I'm telling me I need to 327 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 4: get a stick. So I got a stick and I 328 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 4: was like, well is stick don't tell you which direction 329 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,719 Speaker 4: to go? So, you know, I thought about it for 330 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 4: a minute. I could a stick away and said, you 331 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 4: know what, I'm okay. But blind has been isn't interesting 332 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 4: experience because I've had to learn to I still dress 333 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 4: myself and people asking me you dress really nice, and 334 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, I'm figuring this out. They a little 335 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 4: longer to do stuff. My wife told me one day, 336 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 4: she was like, when's take this long. I was like, dug, 337 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 4: but no, I mean and I can see where. You know, 338 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,479 Speaker 4: if you have you ever been in the airport, how 339 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 4: many blind people. You see in the airport, here we 340 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 4: go places you had. I even asked, I said, what 341 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 4: do y'all do with all the blind people? Because I 342 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 4: never hardly saw any blind people, and now that I'm out, 343 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 4: I still don't see a lot of blind people. 344 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 3: Now you think that's due to people just wanted to 345 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 3: be h comfortable or not wanted to be uh stared 346 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 3: at or feel that a feel they are are annoyings. 347 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 4: When you say that, I would they know if somebody 348 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 4: was staring at him, they well, you know you, you 349 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 4: you know you, you know. 350 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 3: We walk in the room and you just feel uncomfortable. 351 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: That room makes you feel uncomfortable. You ever been you've 352 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 3: been in those type of rooms? Now you know, John, 353 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 3: you go, man, this ain't the room I. 354 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 4: Feel like. I mean, I just tell you I used 355 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 4: to feeluncomfortable when I was young because I grew up 356 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 4: in an all white neighborhood. Right now, when I went 357 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 4: around black people, I'd be like, hey guys, and they 358 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,360 Speaker 4: would be like hey guys. But after that, I never 359 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 4: really felt uncomfortable. I don't even think about it. Now 360 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 4: that I'm blind, I can't see you. I beg on 361 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 4: something I can't see anyways. So I don't care what 362 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 4: you're doing. 363 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 3: That's right and that that's the motivation. But I think 364 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 3: it's key when I when you look at yourself, and 365 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 3: I just wanted to share that story because you're a 366 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 3: motivator and I think that's important. Like I'm a cancer 367 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 3: survivor too, and I know when I was announced what 368 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 3: it was announced to me, I had cancer. Cancer is 369 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 3: a powerful word. Once you hear that word, it sends 370 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 3: you own a story about I don't care what the 371 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,479 Speaker 3: doctor says. He said cancer. So you have to make 372 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 3: a decision what that means to you in your life. 373 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 3: Like you said that person, you could live or you 374 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 3: can just go home and cry, because either way it's 375 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 3: going to you not cancer is going to be with you. 376 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 3: Even when they say you're cured of cancer, you still 377 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 3: have cancer. You know, you just walk up the room. 378 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 3: So you have to go through your annual checkups and 379 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 3: everything hopefully it doesn't come back. But when I look 380 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 3: at your life, man, you know, not only do have 381 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 3: the black men's wellness, but you're also a forerunner in 382 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 3: the training of blacks for technology. How did that come about? 383 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 4: Well, we do. I started out doing a Welfare of 384 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 4: Work program because I was like, you know, winlfair was 385 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 4: the worst thing that could ever happen to the black community. 386 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 4: Free free, free, free. And so I was working in 387 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 4: this community. It was drug and fester and it came 388 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 4: on me that well, we need to do was get 389 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 4: people jobs and education, and so, you know, I started 390 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 4: training people, getting them up. We've gotten thirty thousand women 391 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 4: off of public assistance. And then as a workforce change, 392 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 4: I was like, we need to make sure that we 393 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 4: are training black people to take these technology jobs. You know, 394 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 4: it's it's no longer called the white collar or the 395 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 4: blue collar. It's called new column worker. And the new 396 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:12,719 Speaker 4: color worker is the worker that doesn't need a college degree. Oh, 397 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 4: they can go get a job. And so we're training people. 398 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 4: We're the only black owned company in the country that 399 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 4: Amazon allows to do their Amazon products, and so you 400 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 4: can come to us and get a fiber opts six 401 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 4: certification and get a job making twenty six twenty seven 402 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 4: dollars an hour without any formal education. So that's how 403 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 4: this is just another way for us to make sure 404 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 4: that black people have become self sufficient and take care 405 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 4: of themselves. You know, they did the study where you 406 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 4: get people employment and education, crime drops where they have 407 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 4: just community policing, crime stays stagnant. So if we want 408 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 4: to resolve the finance and all that, we got to 409 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 4: make sure we're giving people opportunities to be self supphistient. 410 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 3: So that's the National Center of Urban Solutions that you founded. 411 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 3: That that that does the tech training through Amazon. 412 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 4: Yes, Amazon, Google, Advanced Manufacturing, all of that. You can 413 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 4: come to us stn a e KG. You can come 414 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 4: up to get every one of those contentials that you 415 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 4: would get at a two year of college. 416 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,959 Speaker 3: Now, with that being said, because we get hooked, one 417 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 3: of the thing that annoys me so much, John, is 418 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 3: that when you when it comes to technology, we're the 419 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 3: ones that always get shut down, you know, you know, 420 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 3: even down to a phone. 421 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 2: You know. 422 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 3: But when you look at it, because your personality, you're unique. Guy, 423 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 3: You're just like me in a lot of ways. Because 424 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 3: you know, I've never ever thought that I couldn't do anything. 425 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 3: I just somehow managed to do it because the right 426 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 3: people stepped in my life and also believed I could 427 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 3: do it too. So when you look at yourself and 428 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 3: give some advice to people, look at the physical setbacks 429 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 3: you had and the fact that you know you've been 430 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 3: a motivator. What advice would you give people and why 431 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 3: should they be coming to this race other than the obvious, 432 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 3: you know, to save their own life. Possibly, well that. 433 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 4: Should be coming to see you, uh, And we're very 434 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 4: grateful that you're there. I mean, you're going make a 435 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 4: life bent uh and exciting event. And people are very 436 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 4: exciting in Houston that you're involved in engaged and so 437 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 4: don't think we're just gonna use you in Houston. But 438 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 4: people should come because it's an opportunity to email your 439 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 4: car and when your car light goes on, you take 440 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 4: it to the shop. And so men know more about 441 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 4: their automobiles than they do with their bodies. And so 442 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 4: this is an opportunity for you to come and get up, free, 443 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 4: tune up, and get your body checked. And I said, 444 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 4: like with women, women you get checked too. We have 445 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 4: seniors there. There's a place where seniors get get some 446 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 4: opportunities to get checked. One of the things we don't 447 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 4: talk about in our comunit years is all teimate's but 448 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 4: there are ways that just get checked to see if 449 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 4: you handing down the Alzheimer's patch. So it's a place 450 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 4: to get information and knowledge of the eggs, you can 451 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 4: live a little longer. I mean, the body says I've 452 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 4: come to give your life, and that more abundantly. We 453 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 4: want people to have abundant life. 454 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 3: Wow, April twenty seventh on the campus of the University 455 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 3: of Houston. That's in third Ward, Texas, right down the 456 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 3: street from Texas Southern University. We're going to be there 457 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 3: at seven am. In fact, I be in town early. 458 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: You know, we probably get together, go to some of 459 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 3: my favorite eating haunts and do our thing. But more importantly, 460 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 3: if you are near and you know a relative that 461 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 3: lives in the Houston area, we're talking about the Golden Triangle. 462 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 3: We're talking up in Dallas, we talked down to San Antonio, 463 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 3: we're talking up at Austin. Tell them to be there 464 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 3: April twenty seventh. Last year, they had five thousand men 465 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 3: show up for this free walk. Now let's say free 466 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 3: walk for these free health screenings that are happening. I'm 467 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 3: just telling you it's something that It's not a gender issue, 468 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 3: is not a racial issue, is a people issue. If 469 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 3: we don't start helping each other live a better life, 470 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 3: educating ourselves, encouraging people who around us that we say 471 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 3: we care about because sometimes you know, we can get 472 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 3: a point, we just tie. I don't want, don't I'm 473 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 3: just tired of telling them to live the right life. Right. 474 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 3: He gonna eat what he's gonna eat. No, No, If 475 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 3: you show him there's other people who care about it. 476 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 3: If you show up on April twenty seven at seven am, 477 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 3: actually before seven am, because the race starts at seven am, 478 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 3: you will find a lot of people. You'll find a 479 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 3: community that believes in You'll find a community that understands 480 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 3: that on this day, we want you to live another day. 481 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 3: And I always tell you the difference that you can 482 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: make in somebody's life, in your life if you live 483 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 3: one more day, is a wonderful thing. John. I want 484 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 3: to thank you for calling Money Making Conversations master Class, 485 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 3: and I know we're gonna talk before April twenty seven, 486 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 3: but in the meantime, I appreciate you taking the time 487 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 3: to call Mishelle. 488 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 4: Thank you, and thank you for who you are and 489 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 4: the difference you're making in all people's lives. 490 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 3: Appreciate you, my friend, and you are as they say 491 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 3: the man, John, greg I was wanted to call you 492 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 3: like me. You like chaff. Man, We're gonna you like 493 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 3: just chaff for me. You know you're bad. Shut your mouth. 494 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 3: Talk about John Gregory, well he can dig it talk you. 495 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 3: So I appreciate you. 496 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 4: Man. 497 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 5: Bye bye, thank you for joining us for this edition 498 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 5: of Money Making Conversations Master Class. Money Making Conversations Master 499 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 5: Class with through Sean McDonald is produced by thirty eight 500 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 5: fifteen Media Inc. More information about thirty eight fifteen Media Inc. 501 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 5: Is available at thirty eight fifteen media dot com. And 502 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 5: always remember to lead with your gifts