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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 incasion didn't notice, I'm not broke.

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Speaker 1: You know, he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry

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Speaker 1: decision make because it's what he likes to do, It's

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Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan McDonald money making conversations. Here we come. Ah, Yes,

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Speaker 1: money making conversation. The brand that grows, the brand that tails.

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Speaker 1: All this is money make. You know, it's a difference

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Speaker 1: in my voice. There's a difference in my voice. There's

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Speaker 1: a proud, a proud flavor, a robust version of my

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Speaker 1: voice because I have the power twins on my show today.

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Speaker 1: That means you have to give extra You just can't

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Speaker 1: talk normal. You have to talk about because they're here

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Speaker 1: to talk about things that I talk about on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis on this show that I promote on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis. Success, believing in yourself, having relationships, look at

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Speaker 1: yourself in that mirror and say you can do it.

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Speaker 1: Not just say it, but believe in it. Walk through

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Speaker 1: the people who say you can't do it. Surround yourself

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Speaker 1: with relationships, respect your family. That's what they do. The

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Speaker 1: Power Twins. Now, one was born five minutes apart from

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Speaker 1: the other, but they are still twins because that's what

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Speaker 1: As I said earlier, my next guests are Twins. Hustlers, Media, mazings, Balls, Ladies,

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Speaker 1: and as All Magazine called them, Power Twins. One is

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, innovative marketer, and revenue producing executive who has

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Speaker 1: spent the last two decades at the intersection of marketing, branding, tech, media,

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Speaker 1: and entertainment. Her sister is a two time Emmy Award

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Speaker 1: winning television producer as am I a two time Emmy

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Speaker 1: Award winning television US. But what I am not is

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Speaker 1: the VP of Branded Entertainment and Media Innovation at CBS

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Speaker 1: Television Network. That is her. They're on the show to

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Speaker 1: day to talk about their new book, which I've read

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Speaker 1: so fast. The very first time I went back and

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Speaker 1: Ladies Power Twins. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Trisha

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Speaker 1: and Antoinette Clark with in Need. Welcome Ladies, hid We

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Speaker 1: love your energy already. Come on. You gotta make it happen.

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Speaker 1: You got to make it happen. The beauty of this

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Speaker 1: that because you know what, she's in college. My wife

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Speaker 1: will kill me. What did you say that? Now? Neither

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Speaker 1: gonna find what your daughter is going to go and

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Speaker 1: they bother her. But but this book I gotta lettle

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Speaker 1: read because it's it felt so um so because you

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Speaker 1: because I'm hearing about two success stories in one book

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Speaker 1: because of the I like to say that the ladies

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Speaker 1: in your life were mentors, and not only from the

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Speaker 1: It was to democratize success for people that look like us.

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Speaker 1: And for so long we've been looked at as anomalies

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Speaker 1: moving forward with purpose and a and of action. That's

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Speaker 1: part two helps you look outside of yourself that is

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Speaker 1: where you your crew looks like. It really interesting because

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Speaker 1: a lot and so if you if you don't try

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Speaker 1: to seek some of that knowledge, you know, your career

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Speaker 1: can go by. And now you're just sitting there like

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Speaker 1: what do I do? Now? See we're just talking about you,

430
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Speaker 1: and they're just talking about Rashan McCown. But to accomplish

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Speaker 1: the task that you're you have a team. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the team that surrounds Chris paul Man. Listen, my

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Speaker 1: my team is unbelievable and match let's give us some blog.

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Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,

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Speaker 1: if you if you show me, if you show me somebody,

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Speaker 1: Uh that doesn't have an amazing team around him, and

437
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Speaker 1: they're lying. And I'll tell you first and foremost that

438
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Speaker 1: it's not me, like I'm glad that I can be

439
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Speaker 1: the voice and whatnot, but my team, which consists of

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Speaker 1: a number of number of people. But I mean, I

441
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Speaker 1: had to I never started my wife everything. I mean

442
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Speaker 1: when my wife since I was eighteen years old, and

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Speaker 1: she she is absolutely the point guard of the family.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just play it for my team. Um.

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Speaker 1: But then I got my my parents. I'm so blessed.

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Speaker 1: I'm fortunate to have a mom and dad. Uh my

447
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Speaker 1: older brother who is my business manager. Also have a

448
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Speaker 1: woman named Carmen Wilson who is unbelievable, unbelievable, and it

449
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Speaker 1: goes on and on. We're really a family when it

450
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Speaker 1: when it comes to our operations, and that's really important

451
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Speaker 1: because family. I look back in my life. I tell

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Speaker 1: people when I comment club and Nanny too, it was

453
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Speaker 1: my family who worked the door. It's my family who

454
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Speaker 1: set people down. I wouldn't be here without my family.

455
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Speaker 1: So I understand the value of your conversation because it's

456
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Speaker 1: that support system that can be family, can be friends,

457
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Speaker 1: but you gotta have that support system. And I want

458
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Speaker 1: to apologize right with Chris, I jumped the club sixty one. Really,

459
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Speaker 1: I want to get back over to where we really

460
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Speaker 1: originally brought you on the phone and talk about the Business, Entertainment,

461
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Speaker 1: Media and Sports event this happening September at the Alumni

462
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Speaker 1: Foundation Center. Please tell us in more detail exactly, Uh,

463
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Speaker 1: it is what the agenda is gonna be. I know

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Speaker 1: we have twargion fifty North count Ant students. Talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about that. So, Uh, the students, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna participate in a class, right, and they'll discuss case studies.

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Speaker 1: So that's what we did when I went to the

468
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Speaker 1: class at Harvard. So we'll have case studies. And it's

469
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Speaker 1: cool because one of the case studies is on the

470
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Speaker 1: ways like my brother, one of my really close friends,

471
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Speaker 1: and we'll get a chance to go over some of

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Speaker 1: his business things that he's had over the years and

473
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Speaker 1: decisions that he had to make, the same thing we'll

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Speaker 1: do for the Walt Disney Studios, which is a huge company,

475
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Speaker 1: major company. Um, And we'll get to have discussions and

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Speaker 1: I think the nicest, the best thing about the classes

477
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Speaker 1: that provide brainstorm and then you also get a chance

478
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Speaker 1: to get some real information that a lot of times

479
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Speaker 1: people don't know. That's why I'm so excited to be

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Speaker 1: a part of it. Also because you know, I've been blessed,

481
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Speaker 1: like I said, to be in some of these rooms

482
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Speaker 1: and some of these decisions on how they've been made.

483
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Speaker 1: So to talk to the students and let them ask

484
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Speaker 1: questions and you know, basically get behind the curtain on

485
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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of major deals. You know

486
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Speaker 1: it really when you talk about the Walt Disney brand,

487
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Speaker 1: and this is what he's really saying. When you Okay,

488
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Speaker 1: let's look look at the Walt didn't brand. Let's break

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Speaker 1: that down ESPN, Hulu, Fox, Okay, Disney plus E ISBN

490
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Speaker 1: plus all of the parks. So when you just grab

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Speaker 1: Disney Alan, you got the whole gaming right now worldwide.

492
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Speaker 1: They got the six highest grossing movies in the world.

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Speaker 1: It's Walt Disney owned ABC don't want to forget a

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Speaker 1: free form. So when you're talking about is he alone?

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Speaker 1: It just it will just shock these young people to

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Speaker 1: know that how far it's brand did you associated with?

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Speaker 1: You might say, h picks are Marvel. Oh he's gonna

498
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Speaker 1: he's gonna check me now, he's gonna he's gonna check

499
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Speaker 1: me like, I'm just messing with you, Chris, just messing

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Speaker 1: with you because you're right, it's so much til Black

501
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Speaker 1: Panther absolutely absolutely, yeah, yeah, So all of these different

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Speaker 1: types of things. First of all, I want to let

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Speaker 1: you know thank you for coming on my show. I

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Speaker 1: want to let you know, please um anything you promote.

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan based in Houston. Still got a home

506
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Speaker 1: in Houston. I live in Atlanta, I've been in New York.

507
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot of things. I am a fan.

508
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Speaker 1: I went to the University of Houston. I also didn't

509
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Speaker 1: not go to an HBCU school, but I'm you know,

510
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Speaker 1: I would endown at my university Houston. But I am

511
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Speaker 1: going to be a major player as far as a

512
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Speaker 1: voce for HBCU schools. So no, whenever you need to

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Speaker 1: come our way, Chef n Smith Way, ras Sean mcdonaway,

514
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Speaker 1: Ricky Smiley Way, we will be there for you, brother,

515
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Speaker 1: because HBCUs need that voice. What did you say that here?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, my brother, and you've been thank you for

517
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Speaker 1: getting on this call. And I appreciate you, man, and

518
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Speaker 1: keep your family high man, because guess what they're the

519
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: reason you're strong. Okay, we'll be right back with more

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Speaker 1: from Rashan McDonald and Money Making Conversations don't touch that dot.

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Speaker 1: As host of money Making Conversations, Rashan McDonald is uniquely

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Speaker 1: positioned to provide a step by step, easy to understand

523
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: blueprint that drives listeners to realize their dreams and aspirations.

524
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Speaker 1: Until you do the business plan or incorporate or actually

525
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: create that product or start selling products, the universe doesn't

526
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Speaker 1: have to deal with money Making Conversations continues online at

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Speaker 1: www dot money Making Conversations dot com. But next guest

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Speaker 1: is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He's a series

529
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Speaker 1: regular on ABC's hit drama A Million Little Things, starring

530
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Speaker 1: is the character Rome Howard. He is back on the

531
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Speaker 1: show to talk about the first season and the upcoming

532
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Speaker 1: second season, and I want to share some very important

533
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Speaker 1: advice that he gave me. He's the first born American

534
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Speaker 1: with Trinidadian descent. He has lived from Baytown, Texas to

535
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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. Please welcome back the Money Making Conversations Rominy Malcolm. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Dan. That's a nice interes. Let's talk you

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Speaker 1: the best central. I have a guy, right there. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Sean, appreciate that good. I'm happy to

539
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Speaker 1: be here. And and I want to know if I could,

540
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Speaker 1: if I could piggy back on what you were saying about,

541
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Speaker 1: you know, if you have a plan that you can

542
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Speaker 1: make it. Am I allowed to do that? Or do me? Now?

543
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Speaker 1: It just show us about to do your thing. I

544
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Speaker 1: just want to say something, you know. Uh, you know. Look,

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Speaker 1: one of the other things that really inhibits people, I believe,

546
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Speaker 1: from actually realizing their dreams is simply they have this

547
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Speaker 1: preconceived notion of what the process should be like. So

548
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: what that means is they think from what they take

549
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Speaker 1: things to face value, that they take the success they

550
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: see your face value, and then so they go into

551
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Speaker 1: it and they I don't care if you're just selling jewelry,

552
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: making YouTube videos, or running a fortune five hundred company.

553
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: The bottom line is that people are doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of additional work beyond what you're seeing and you know,

555
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: at face value. So in other words, there's so much

556
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Speaker 1: extra work that goes on behind the scenes. And I

557
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: don't don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about paying dudes.

558
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: Yes there's paying dudes, but there's also simple strategies and

559
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: techniques that we need mentors and we need non parvental

560
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: care in adults to inform usel because we hadn't walked

561
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Speaker 1: that path. And it's those little bits of insight that

562
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Speaker 1: saved us so much time. I wish I had known

563
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: that when I was younger. I caught to be a

564
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Speaker 1: lot further ahead of my own life. That's all. But

565
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Speaker 1: isn't that part of the growing process process to you know?

566
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Speaker 1: Because I always go back and I always tell people

567
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Speaker 1: what you learn in your twenties, it's really what the

568
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: structure of what you're going to be successful in your

569
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: forties and your fifties, because that's when you were fearless.

570
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: That's when you had the dreams, and if anybody told

571
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: you a question, you you tended to ignore that. But

572
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Speaker 1: as you got older, you got into relationships and you

573
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Speaker 1: start worried about the position you are in life. You know,

574
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Speaker 1: that fear of change, that fear of I bet, I bet,

575
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Speaker 1: I've been a hold back on this. So the whole

576
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Speaker 1: back what you say, right, No, but no, But there's

577
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Speaker 1: some value to that though, because you know something real talk.

578
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Speaker 1: I have to say that there was definitely a fearlessness uh,

579
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Speaker 1: you know, in my youth. But also what there was

580
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Speaker 1: was this uh lack of awareness of self. Because of

581
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Speaker 1: that lack of awareness of self, I had these unaddressed issues.

582
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Speaker 1: So by not knowing myself and not knowing what I

583
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: was capable of, I was kind of afraid that would

584
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Speaker 1: composed myself if any sense, very much. A lot of

585
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Speaker 1: people tell me, Yeah, people say, yo, well, I'm you're

586
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Speaker 1: so underrated. I'm not underrated, really, I'm just scared. So

587
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Speaker 1: I'm the dude to avoid a lot of the avoided

588
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Speaker 1: a lot of great opportunities simply because I was afraid

589
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Speaker 1: that I would be suppose it is not being worthy

590
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Speaker 1: or good enough. So I actually took I I actually

591
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: took refuge, and I found uh joy in being able

592
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Speaker 1: to be the side dude, being able to be the

593
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Speaker 1: supporting actor, you know. And you know that was really

594
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Speaker 1: a biproduct of just like deeper insecurity that hadn't been

595
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Speaker 1: addressed real talk. So I think that you know, we

596
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: have a fair defensive with kids, but there's a subconscious

597
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: thing as well where maybe we've been convinced by you know,

598
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Speaker 1: by our environment that we're not worthy. Not saying that

599
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: it's true we've just been convinced of it, and so

600
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Speaker 1: I think sometimes there's a lot of value in northern

601
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: in northern American countries, we tend to overlook, uh, the

602
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: need to resolve those issues as we pursue success. You know,

603
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: it's not just about willpowers. There is a resolve. Most

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Speaker 1: of the wealthy people that helped me make my movies,

605
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: that helped me make my money, they have all had

606
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Speaker 1: to put themselves in that vulnerable position of getting to

607
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Speaker 1: know themselves better. Because on the on the movie Prison Logic,

608
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Speaker 1: there was you did when you came on the show

609
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Speaker 1: last time? That was a crowdfunded movie. Correct, it was

610
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Speaker 1: a cloud on the movie. Now here was my strategy

611
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Speaker 1: on that. This is the prime example of what I'm

612
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Speaker 1: saying about getting to know the ins and outs of something.

613
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Speaker 1: I UH did so much research on cliud funding had

614
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Speaker 1: no idea that it wasn't just about you know, starting

615
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Speaker 1: up and asking your fans of money. There was so

616
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Speaker 1: much strategy and to be quite frank, like that cloud

617
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: funding game as shady as hell, and you you would

618
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Speaker 1: not believe it. All the all the skulls that we

619
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Speaker 1: could go on behind the scenes and being able to

620
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Speaker 1: learn and understand that. But what I did was I

621
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Speaker 1: used the cloud funding campaign to attract investors. So here's

622
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Speaker 1: the prime example of a strategy you might not know.

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Speaker 1: You never asked for a hundred percent of what you

624
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Speaker 1: want when you're running a cloud funding campaign. Always asked

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Speaker 1: about fifty because statistically, a successful cloud funding campaign will

626
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Speaker 1: be funded on average between two hundred to a thousand

627
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Speaker 1: percent of asking. So that means that if you're asking

628
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Speaker 1: for a hundred thousand and your campaign is successful, your

629
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Speaker 1: gaarmantee to make somewhere between two hundred thousand and a million,

630
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Speaker 1: you get so so the my math might be up

631
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Speaker 1: there you saw. I got a little secure when I

632
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Speaker 1: saw that, calculating the point you're all comedians. You're all comedians, right,

633
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Speaker 1: um so so anyway, so what I did was I

634
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Speaker 1: made the crowd fund the campaign successful by asking for

635
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Speaker 1: half of what I wanted, and then went to investors

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Speaker 1: show infestis, look, this campaign is hot and people like

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Speaker 1: to see your train this role. And like my manager

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Speaker 1: told me, sometimes you gotta start your party and then

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Speaker 1: sending out the invitations. And that's kind of what I did.

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Speaker 1: and motivated the investors, and so we ended up doing that.

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Speaker 1: Um I made the movie. I saw the winning stuff

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Speaker 1: at all these different festivals, and I didn't even listen.

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Speaker 1: gonna submit to them festivals. We went to them festivals.

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Speaker 1: We was winning Best Lead Audience Audience Awards. That edited

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Speaker 1: the death music lesson. Right then James Littlepez for Will

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Speaker 1: Packer's company, saw that I loved it, took it to

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Speaker 1: phone with In fact, that's my Instagram post this morning.

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Speaker 1: I got on the phone with them, and the next

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Speaker 1: thing you know, we were selling it to Smith Global Media,

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Speaker 1: which is will Will Smith's brother, Hay Smith. First time

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Speaker 1: they found so much Likelih. But anyway, so that movie

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Speaker 1: comes out next year to February. We look for it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know we have so much great things we've talked

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Speaker 1: about so far. I'm gonna wrap up this particular break.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the movie that's coming out in November

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Speaker 1: called Holiday Rush that's coming on Netflix. Let's let's wrap

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Speaker 1: coming out of the Netflix in November. Correct, man, let

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Speaker 1: me tell you something that I don't know. If you

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Speaker 1: He did like three Neighborhood Awards. He directed like three

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Speaker 1: that that's first of all, ask my brother. This dude

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Speaker 1: ever met. This dude. He's directed Kevin Hard to stand ups,

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Speaker 1: he's hit him in their prime. Right. So he's like, Yo,

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Speaker 1: let me tell something. I felt insecure making the whole

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Speaker 1: Because you're not sure, he says, You're not supposed to

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Speaker 1: what happened. So here what happened. I So we make

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Speaker 1: you how much I enjoyed watching this movie. I play

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Speaker 1: new values because we can't get we can't be super

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Speaker 1: the story about the family learning real value. Season two

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Speaker 1: premiere of A Million Little Thing, when the stars of

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Speaker 1: how we're talking man wife for the best friend she died.

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Speaker 1: you know, with his character about to commit suicide. Then

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Speaker 1: And then into deliver room and he's just standing there going, huh.

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Speaker 1: you twists. I can't wait. I mean, I'm so grateful.

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Speaker 1: Do you actually quote Michelle I it needs a lot

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Speaker 1: that you took time to watch the show. Man really

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Speaker 1: And think like a man, and think like a man too.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And they gave giving me momentum,

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Speaker 1: your star power, give me momentum to get other people

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Speaker 1: this time, I had to be ready for you because

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, you blessed me. Okay. Man, Yeah, y'all,

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Speaker 1: y'all have been y'all have been lessons in my life.

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Speaker 1: do is just give your gratitude my brother. And of

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Speaker 1: course of course your your your insight, counts, your your wisdom,

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Speaker 1: here talking, you're me talking. I feel like we gossip

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Speaker 1: in absolutely everybody Catch my man. A Million Little Things

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Speaker 1: premier Thursday, September twenty six, nine p m. East West

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Speaker 1: back in November for holiday. Rush Okay, Hi, this is

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Speaker 1: Rushan mcdowe, the host of Money Making Conversations. You say

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations. La La Anthony. We met you know used

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Speaker 1: that motivated me too because I would see all amazing

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Speaker 1: things you guys are doing it not just being on

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Speaker 1: the radio at that time and even now you know

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations. The incredible Nick Cannon, you truly one

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Speaker 1: this this show, Money Making Conversation host about Roshan McDonald

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Speaker 1: is a motivational show. It's an inspirational show and show

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation. But my next interview really it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: My next guest first introduced Texans to their mouth watering

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Speaker 1: especially for minorities. In three short years, the Houston couple

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Speaker 1: become a popular Houston spot, hot spot with late night

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Speaker 1: to money Making Conversation. One of the owners of Turkey

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Speaker 1: Leg Hug Turkey Leg, the originators of the world famous

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Speaker 1: stuff turkey Legs. Please welcome. Killa Price. I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 1: um you know, just saying your name, MS. Price makes

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Speaker 1: with hard work and faith and all that good stuff

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Speaker 1: and people surrounded. Let's talk about how you feeling about this,

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Speaker 1: because right now I'm feeling hongry. I think it's definitely

849
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: something that we prayed about. Um. We never in a

850
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: million years did we imagine that it would be to

851
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: this extent. But every day of the journey, we take

852
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: it one day at a time, and one day at

853
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: the time means what because your business because you expanding.

854
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that later. Expanding the business. I'm

855
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: sure people just dropping all these ideas about franchise and

856
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: gr y'all could be the next such and such, and

857
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: you have to take that in stride because the fact that,

858
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: like I said, what were you when I was at

859
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: the livestop? Where were you have before? Before I was

860
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: at the livestop? But before that, my husband had a

861
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: repo company. He was recoring our v trailers and I

862
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: myself was that you your project manager for a litigation firms.

863
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: So neither one of us had culinary background or culinary experience. Um,

864
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: you know, was something that that happened he had. We

865
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: had the idea we were disappointing to you know, with

866
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: the rodeo, we were shuttling people into the rodeo. So

867
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: food wasn't even our main focus at that point in time. Um,

868
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: and our main focus was shuttling people into the rodeo.

869
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: We just had a barbecue pit on the field in

870
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: the field where we were shuttling the people, and we

871
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: had turkey legs, food and sausage on a stick. And

872
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: you know, we came up with the idea that we

873
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: were just going to feed people while they were waiting

874
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: to go inside at the rodeo. And my husband, he,

875
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: you know, his thing was just repost for us social media,

876
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: social media. Everything is social social media reposed for us.

877
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens, and it just snowball from there.

878
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: So the fact that he had the foresight and understand

879
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: the value of social media, and you got the these

880
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: giant pizzas and you know, I'm gonnae to yourself, you

881
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: know because will you say your clienteles African American? Yes, okay, cool?

882
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: I want just before I make to stake because black

883
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 1: people like value for their money. Okay, so correct, you

884
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: see you see this giant I'm telling you so that

885
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: giant turkey leg and then like any any restaurant you

886
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: I can say this, and black people they can, they

887
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: can confront me on this. But if you if you

888
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 1: take a black pot to the restaurant when they can't

889
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: go home with a doggy bag, you got them. As

890
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: a customer, you do, you do, and we made that's

891
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: one of the things that we've always made sure that

892
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: you know our price points. It may not be for everyone,

893
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: but people pay for what it is that they want,

894
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: and we make sure that you get the value as well.

895
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: So you're paying. But you also, I mean, all of

896
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: our plates are sharable. We give you a lot of foods,

897
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: a lot of food you sure do so, so you

898
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: understood that, you know, and I would tell you that.

899
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: Just let's talk about the basic turkey leg. Okay, I've

900
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: I've tried to man up. I've been at Disney, I've

901
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: been an amusement park, and I'm trying to man up.

902
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: Go get my turkey leg. Canna say, I'm gonna finish

903
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: this and lord, note it has beaten me every time,

904
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 1: just the turkey leg okay, has beating your board back. Okay,

905
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 1: I'm looking about trying to hand this off to somebody

906
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,399
Speaker 1: because you know, when you're walking to our amusement park.

907
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: You got the turkey, la, you gotta do something with

908
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: it because you're not eating anymore. Okay, so you go

909
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: in the restaurant and then y'all, I'm gonna say, call

910
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: y'all crazy because y'all not all stuffed it. Yeah, it's

911
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: crazy people thinking like that. You're crazy. People are geniuses. Okay,

912
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,919
Speaker 1: it's a genius about this whole thing that they took

913
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: a basic piece of meat that is that it's impossible

914
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: for a normal person to eat. Then they're gonna go

915
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: just the crazy part. We're gonna put something else in there,

916
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: extra stuff, extra stuff. And then so so that's the part. Now,

917
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: when y'all was I was shuttling people in, you didn't

918
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 1: have the stuff part of the campaign yet. Correct. Okay,

919
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: when did that craziness developed? Kill? When who thought that?

920
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: I live know what you who thought of that? I

921
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 1: have to give credit? What credit is? It was? That

922
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: was his idea to stuff to turulate. See he out

923
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: there to people, to people, they think of stuff like that.

924
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because he knows he knows the

925
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: value of extra cause see I used to when I

926
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: when I was when I was living in Houston, I

927
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: used to onload trucks and the food trucks come by.

928
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: So everything you look at you always want some extra

929
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: and all your your fantasized. But if I got this,

930
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: I put this over top. See he's one of he's

931
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: one of the people you should put food on the plate.

932
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: He don't care if it touches. Some people don't like that.

933
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: And I'm that person that doesn't like that. I'm saying,

934
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: but he don't care. It's all going down one one pipe.

935
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: That's the same thing. See he liked me, he like.

936
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: So what they have done, these crazy this crazy couple.

937
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that this amazing restaurant called

938
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:03,439
Speaker 1: the Turkey Leg Hut in Houston, Texas, have said, look,

939
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: we got this big old was meat. We're gonna jazz

940
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: it up. Now, what was the first thing. What was

941
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 1: the first jazz that you added to the beat? There?

942
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: The first jazz that we added was the dirty rice.

943
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: I was the first. Ya, Yes, they knew exactly. And

944
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: then thereafter we had the shrimp. And now Alfredo saw

945
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: see they went jazzy right there had to be a

946
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: little higher than normal though that You just don't add

947
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: shrimp on a turkey leg and just keep it normal

948
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: for you now see dirty rights. You can keep that

949
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: reasonable right there, but that you gotta have to see

950
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: the thing about just I love about what I'm talking

951
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: about it because see when people come in the restaurants

952
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,439
Speaker 1: like that, you gotta have a price point. I learned

953
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: that from Thorn concert. Everybody. Everybody don't want to buy

954
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: the twenty dollar ticket. Some people want to. They wanted

955
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: Pacific one to seventified dollar ticket because they think it

956
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: has more value. Alright, so certain client teller they have

957
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: they want that high end. This is very true. Yes, otherwise,

958
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: and that's actually our best seller. See I know it's

959
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: my fond and that goes back to people pay for

960
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: what it is that they want. Okay, cool, now, I

961
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: don't think I missed this question. What gave you the

962
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: idea to stuff or turkey leg? Like I said, that

963
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: was my husband's idea, you know, he we were playing

964
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: around with everything. You know how we the original turkey leg,

965
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: the regular turkey leg. It has stuffing in it, but

966
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: it's it's stuffed with different seasonings, um, different vegetables, things

967
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: that we I mean, you know, things that we've incorporated

968
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: into the turkey leg. So it's not a regular turkey leg.

969
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: It's not a walk around the fair holding turkey leg.

970
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: It's there's a process to how we do our turkey legs.

971
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: And then thereafter, you know, he was like, you know

972
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,760
Speaker 1: we you know, we always try to challenge each other, slim,

973
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 1: if that's what he calls me, slam, I think we should,

974
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: you know, maybe stuffing with dirty rice. And I'm like,

975
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: what dirty right, Yeah, I'm telling you it's gonna work.

976
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: It's don't work. And I'm like, okay, I don't see it,

977
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: but let's do it. And so when we went into

978
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: the brick and mortar, we stopped the turkey leg and

979
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: just like you know, when I was trying to tell

980
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: him about the season and and he told me we

981
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: didn't need to do it, the same thing happened. People

982
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: came from everywhere to try to stop circulate. Now, that's

983
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 1: that's really amazing. So so let's talk about your journey. Okay,

984
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: before that, you had two jobs that were not not

985
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: not cool and very related. That's not what you guys, correct.

986
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: You had to transportation, you transporting people back and forth.

987
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: You decided to feed the people. Are you transporting them?

988
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: Make a little extra money on side? That's all. That's

989
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: just like a little bobby stand, you know, we're doing

990
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: to come out of the nightclub at three o'clock in

991
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: the morning. You always had the guy there with the

992
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: with the hot links, you know, and they some reason

993
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: they taste real good at three o'clock in the morning.

994
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: Same hot link. It during the daylight don't taste to say,

995
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: but three o'clock in the morning, that hot link was

996
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: was cracke. And so that's true. The whole part about

997
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 1: moving towards the brick and more, which is the which

998
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: is the really the fear part of it, the business

999
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: planning part of it, because you're about to take a

1000
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 1: rich because you gotta sign a lease and you have

1001
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: to have a certain level of you know, inventory to

1002
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: say this is going to be successful. Walk us through

1003
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: that process, because that's what money making conversation is always about.

1004
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: We have a look about a minute, leyoff. We don't

1005
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: I like to wrap that thought up in the next break,

1006
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: but please start us all about the whole process of

1007
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: the bricket mortar. So you know, our how we started

1008
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: was very unique. It wasn't you know, the typical you know,

1009
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna seek brick and mortar and this is what

1010
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. It was actually got a phone call

1011
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: from someone that he went to school with about a

1012
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: location that UM didn't have much business and with the

1013
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: following that we had garnered while we were out there

1014
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: in the field. It was like, hey, you know you

1015
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: all have a following, would you be interested in coming

1016
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: and you know, just checking out the kitchen seeing if

1017
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,720
Speaker 1: this is the place that you all want to continue

1018
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: to sell turkey legs and UM, and that was it.

1019
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 1: So we you know, we went over there. We didn't

1020
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: know anything about running a restaurant. Everything with us and

1021
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: I think that's why we appreciate it so much more

1022
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: has been trial and error. White people, they were standing

1023
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 1: along restaurant life'll do that. That's very true. Black people.

1024
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: They're very impatient people, very impatient people. It has to

1025
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: be something behind that dope that they're gonna keep that place.

1026
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,479
Speaker 1: That's why when somebody cuts in front of him, there's

1027
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: a problem all give doing. If it's if it's uh,

1028
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, Oh Steve, I don't care. I don't care. No,

1029
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: they don't, they don't, They do not care, and they

1030
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: get upset, get upset now, so on Tuesdays. You also

1031
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: do a live music at the at the Rig. You

1032
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: know turkey leg hut Okay, correct, Yes, we do live

1033
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: band seven thirty every Tuesday. But you can do You'll

1034
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: be jamming. You know your turkey leg jamming. You know

1035
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,919
Speaker 1: your turkey leg to music, grooving to the beat. Yeah,

1036
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 1: the kid, y'all on fire. You guys are on fire.

1037
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: You love No, No, I gotta ask this, you know.

1038
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: I'm all right. Like I said, I graduated from the

1039
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: University Houston. Have they have they on you yet as

1040
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: a as a as an alumnus of the school. We

1041
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: yet have they honored you? No? Not chet. I mean,

1042
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the my my, the coaches

1043
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,919
Speaker 1: come in, they bring a lot of the women's women's South.

1044
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna change that. We're gonna change that. Okay,

1045
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a little call because we're Sean McDonald

1046
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: telling you you're special. You're one our one of our

1047
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: shining lights of the University of Houston. I have a

1048
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: dollarship programs, got an endownment. I'm about to lay down

1049
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: lower with my wife for Universe Houston next month, and

1050
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: so we're gonna come back after. We're gonna come back

1051
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: a celebrated Turkey legod because I'm bringing up by there,

1052
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: probably bring everybody over there. Okay. So I want to

1053
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: let you know that I'm proud you took your time

1054
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: to come on my show. I'm proud that you did.

1055
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: You shared your story and you honestly shared your story.

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Speaker 1: And it's about effort, it's about dreams, it's about being

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Speaker 1: able to accomplish something through hard work and education. But again,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see me on Friday. I'm gonna be well

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Speaker 1: dressed now. I can't come in there not looking like

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Speaker 1: I'm right, you know. But I know I better come

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Speaker 1: earlier because I can't cut in front of your crowd.

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Speaker 1: But you keep winning. And please tell your husband next

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Speaker 1: time we do this show, I need him. I need

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Speaker 1: to talk to my board Lynn. Okay. As host of

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Rashan McDonald is uniquely positioned to provide

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Speaker 1: a step by step, easy to understand blueprint that drives

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Speaker 1: listeners to realize their dreams and aspirations.