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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 2: It's to show that she is the secrets of success

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Speaker 2: experience firsthand by Marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I

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Speaker 2: will know he's giving me advice on many occasions. And

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Speaker 2: in case you didn't notice, I'm not broke. You know

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Speaker 2: he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry decision make

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Speaker 2: because it's what he likes to do, it's what he

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Speaker 2: likes to share. Now it's time to hear from my man,

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Speaker 2: Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: It's always good to start out your day with positivity, happiness. Well,

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Speaker 3: I'm happy the weather was not burning down on my

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Speaker 3: so guess what I'm here to just bring on some

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Speaker 3: guests that's going to change your life with information And

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Speaker 3: I'm Rushan McDonald. If I didn't introduce myself, it was

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Speaker 3: introduced prior to that. I'm your weekly host of money

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Speaker 3: making conversation, masterclass and interviews and information that this show

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Speaker 3: provides is for you.

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Speaker 1: It really is.

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Speaker 3: It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and

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Speaker 3: start living your own.

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Speaker 1: But let's get this show started.

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Speaker 3: My first guess is a proud supporter of my home

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Speaker 3: radio station, WCLK. His name is Thomas Barnes. Thomas Bonne

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Speaker 3: is a product of the Atlanta Public school system. That's

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Speaker 3: important because a lot of people the public school system

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Speaker 3: gets a negative a lot of times when they talked

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Speaker 3: about education. He attended Morehouse College and he has a

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Speaker 3: degree in management from Georgia State University, and an emphasis

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Speaker 3: on that management degree is CIS Information Systems. He's an

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Speaker 3: example of seeing an opportunity and pursuing an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: the fullest. He did not let COVID a stereotyping stop

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Speaker 3: him from pursuing his dreams. Thomas owns Experimax, a complete

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Speaker 3: retail computer store where they specialize in sales, service, and

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Speaker 3: support of all things Apple. Please work with the money

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Speaker 3: making conversations, Master Class, Thomas Barnes.

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Speaker 4: How you doing, Thomas, it's evening good, evening good, even

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Speaker 4: if mister McDonald, are you sir? I'm doing great. Thank

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Speaker 4: you for having me to see you that. I'm humble,

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Speaker 4: I'm great.

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Speaker 3: Opportunity Thomas, A black man owning a computer store?

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Speaker 1: Is that normal? Come on, come on.

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Speaker 4: I would have to say it absolutely is not. I mean,

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Speaker 4: quite candidly, my background, as you mentioned, is it in

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Speaker 4: the IT space in general, we as a people a

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Speaker 4: minority in business ownership, having a computer store, any type

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Speaker 4: of technology related store. That's even a smaller number. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say I one of one, but one of.

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Speaker 3: A few because you have to chuckle because I know

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Speaker 3: like that. But that's the honest space that we are in.

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Speaker 3: And that's why I mentioned the fact that you know

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Speaker 3: in your introduction that Atlantic Public School a student, that's

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Speaker 3: where you came from. Because interested the kids, the kids

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Speaker 3: formats because I came from public school, and we get stereotyped,

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Speaker 3: and you talk a little bit about overcoming those stereotypes.

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Speaker 3: As you described to us, who is Thomas Bonds.

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Speaker 4: I'll be very honest with Atlanta's home as I mentioned,

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Speaker 4: as you just mentioned, I am a product of Atlanta

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Speaker 4: Public Schools, graduated from Venician Hills Elementary. Thereafter I went

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Speaker 4: went to Theale High School, they were opened a vocational

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Speaker 4: And actually, once I received my septance letter from more House,

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Speaker 1: And why didn't you want to do electrical engineering? Why

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Speaker 4: I don't know how, I guess the best way I

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't necessary to say it becomes mundane. But for me,

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Speaker 4: I wanted to do something different, something more. And again

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Speaker 3: It's interesting about your story is that it's about influencers

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Speaker 3: when I get you to tell your stories, because like

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, when I was growing up, you know,

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Speaker 3: my father's a truck driver, nothing negative about that, and

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Speaker 3: I was influenced. The first job he ever gave me

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Speaker 3: That's why I brought up the Atlanta public school system,

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Speaker 3: just by making an impression of what they can be,

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Speaker 3: in your life, correct, Thomas, That is true.

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Speaker 4: I was very fortunate. I can honestly say I was

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Speaker 4: very fortunate. My upbringing, my grandparents, my mother I had,

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Speaker 4: But of course Atlanta is home for me and for me,

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Speaker 4: I'll never forget. This is very important, now that I

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Speaker 4: He answered the question why not a HBCU. I honestly

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Speaker 4: And I said, my senior year comes about. I took

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Speaker 4: So I wanted to go into engineering, and looking back

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Speaker 4: several other schools I never even really bothered to apply again,

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Speaker 4: I applied to more House. That was kind of where

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Speaker 4: It's history, uh, the legacy of MOREHT.

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Speaker 3: But you wouldn't even have considered that unless your uncle

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Speaker 4: Very honest with you again, my my late uncle iy Richard. Wow.

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Speaker 4: Just even thinking about him, his influence on me makes

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Speaker 4: me wow. Yeah, honest, what you just said is true.

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Speaker 4: I mean until he said that to me Christmas time

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Speaker 3: You know then, because you know, when I bring guests

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Speaker 1: It's really about people playing a role, you know, subtly.

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Speaker 3: You know, all he was doing was making a suggestion

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Speaker 3: educate your self because there are opportunities out there that

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Speaker 3: they say this is where you should go.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily that's true.

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Speaker 3: Options are available if you show curiosity, if you show research.

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Speaker 3: And that's what led you to more House, which was

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Speaker 3: negaive about Georgia Tech. Can I say anything neggara about

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Speaker 3: University of Georgia. I went to the University of Houston,

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Speaker 3: but I did consider going to Southern University in Baton Rouge.

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Speaker 3: I remember I went down there doing the uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: The colors were blue and gold, the mascot was Jaguar.

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Speaker 3: That was my high school. And I say, and that

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Speaker 3: so that that that's that's what I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: to the Universe Houston. That's a whole nother story. But

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Speaker 3: when I look at you, a guy who has been

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Speaker 3: who have been used academics to be successful. That allows

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Speaker 3: How did that come about?

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Speaker 4: I'll be very honest with you, Rashaan. Since a very

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to Thomas Barnes.

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Speaker 3: He did not let COVID a stereotype and stop him

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Speaker 3: a complete retail computer store where they specialize in sales,

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Speaker 3: service and support of all things apples. And as we

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Speaker 4: So great question. So for starters, I just always been

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Speaker 4: You're going to make money. Why do I say that? Simple?

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Speaker 4: I never forget my freshman year of our college at Morehouse,

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Speaker 4: We don't get these things first. When you talk about education,

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Speaker 4: So you talk about technology, That's just something I've always

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Speaker 3: Why do you need two phones? You just tell me.

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Speaker 3: Respect and so so, But is there age group that

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Speaker 3: But I think when I when I talk about your business,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that virus's let's talk about that.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you somebody, I've hit some buttons and

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Speaker 3: then it comes back and tell you if you if

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Speaker 1: What is real and what's not real? When you get

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Speaker 4: To be extremely careful in this day and age. With that,

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Speaker 4: I can assure you. Within the last six months, I've

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Speaker 4: You have to be extremely careful. I myself, and I'm

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Speaker 4: So we talk about viruses. That is something we can

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Speaker 4: I will talk again soon. Be blessed and have a

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