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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: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do,

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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. Racism is in Hollywood. Agism is in Hollywood. Stereotypes, steeotyping,

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Speaker 1: it's in Hollywood. And sexism most definitely it's in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: But this is this is a world that we have

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Speaker 1: to that people want to participate in, and I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be a part of it, but I had to

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Speaker 1: deal with the reality of it. But also when you

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Speaker 1: look at reality, they're stereotyping. They're people who think that

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Speaker 1: this is how, this is what people want, this is

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Speaker 1: what you should look like, this is what you should be.

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Speaker 1: You should be this side, wear your hair color this color,

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Speaker 1: you should you should be this skin tone. These are

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Speaker 1: stereotypes that that can force you to sometimes throw your

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Speaker 1: that I'm interviewing a fantastic actor, actress Shiniko Shande. She's

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Speaker 1: one of the stars of Harlem, and as as we

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Speaker 1: wrap up this interview, I just wanted her to talk about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the growth process, being able to come to

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Speaker 1: overcome the art, to overcome the negativity, and being in

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Speaker 1: a good position. Shaniqua, I hope I didn't put you

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Speaker 1: on the spot, but I know that you're a person

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Speaker 1: who has a strong opinion and a person who's a survivor.

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Speaker 1: A survivor and the fact that you know you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna let anybody close adorn you that you can actually

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Speaker 1: open tell us about your experiences, are being able to

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Speaker 1: overcome stereotypes in Hollywood as an everyday life as well.

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Speaker 1: I keep my dreams close to me. I keep what

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Speaker 1: I'm going for um surrounding me and whether that is

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Speaker 1: like watching films in case there's a low day, watching

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Speaker 1: films and music and things that are inspiring. I used

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Speaker 1: to have a dream wall when I was in my

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Speaker 1: just all of just keeping visuals of everything that I

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Speaker 1: faith as practiced and as strong as possible. I think

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Speaker 1: it's sometimes silly, but I think we got it. Takes

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Speaker 1: like believing in yourself the way Kanye belief for himself,

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Speaker 1: which issues like not quite irrational but maybe a little

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Speaker 1: You have to be like flick with like the oil

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Speaker 1: of self, so that stuff can fall like off of you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm realizing how much we are all used and

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Speaker 1: be connected. And so I personally don't only do it

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Speaker 1: people who love me, of curvy chocolate, other people who

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Speaker 1: don't see themselves, people who feel other people who don't

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Speaker 1: see see themselves when they see here the time, leading woman,

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Speaker 1: so wanting people to see themselves one, people to feel represented,

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Speaker 1: wanting people to feel empowered enough to turn their light

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Speaker 1: Talk about it now, stop, do a pep talk, as

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Speaker 1: you must, because it's we're so used to operating in

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Speaker 1: order to conquer anything, you have to be a little

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Speaker 1: bit outside of that reality. And so keeping your mind

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Speaker 1: things I can't control and miss the blessing of my work.

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Speaker 1: But to say all of that, I always has been

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Speaker 1: can have to fear if you ain't doing it. Preach, preach, preach,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show because I I

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm fortunately have to be able to interview

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Speaker 1: share their ups and downs and their and their their

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass Show