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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 occasion 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 makers. It's what he likes to do, it's what

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Speaker 1: he likes to share. Now it's time to hear from

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Speaker 1: my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations Here we come.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I'm your host, ra Sean McDonald.

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Speaker 1: It is important to understand that everybody travels a different

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Speaker 1: path to success. That's because your brand is different, the

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Speaker 1: challenges you're facing your life are different. So stop reading

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Speaker 1: other people's success stories and really start writing your own. Now.

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Speaker 1: You can be motivated by the success because their stories

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Speaker 1: can offer your direction and help you reach your goal

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Speaker 1: through your planning and committed effort. My next guest is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite Melody Hope. She's a producer and

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Speaker 1: started own series Love and Marriage Hunt Field entrepreneur. She's

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Speaker 1: a home builder that this series follows three power couples

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Speaker 1: longtime friends, I don't know if they're long time friends

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Speaker 1: no more. Melody and Martel Hope, fire doctor, part a

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Speaker 1: girl plitician and also that's my friend brother and Kimmy

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Speaker 1: and Maurice, I don't know Kimmy and my board. More

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Speaker 1: recent he tried to be a businessman in the Huntsfield

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Speaker 1: I don't know, and love and Marriage and Husbield. But

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Speaker 1: she has also hosted one of my favorite shows, behind

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Speaker 1: every Man, which is also on the own. Please work

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Speaker 1: in the melody for them about to say her name,

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Speaker 1: Please work with the money Making Conversations, my friend Melody Hope.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, Melody? Hey, I'm doing great. How are you?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's always just a pleasure being able to

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Speaker 1: be a part of your show. You are so phenomenal,

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Speaker 1: so inspiring and encouraging. So I'm just very thankful for

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Speaker 1: the opportunity. Well, you know, it's really interesting about your

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Speaker 1: whole career and just go track it, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you came into my life and the first aid of

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Speaker 1: you I did on Money Making Conversation with you and Martel,

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Speaker 1: and it was a it was an inspirational interview out

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Speaker 1: a couple that work their way through high school and

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Speaker 1: beautiful kids. And then the second time I got you

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Speaker 1: on the show, used by yourself. And now the third

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Speaker 1: time I have you on the show. I saw the episode,

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Speaker 1: the premiere episode of I would after the episode, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna really be by yourself? After that three episode, you

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Speaker 1: buy yourself down. You ain't kind of by yourself. You

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Speaker 1: buy yourself ain't trying to change. Well, I understand because

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're fans of the show, I'm a

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Speaker 1: fan of the show, and you brought me into the series,

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Speaker 1: you know, and my boy Carlos came. He created his

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Speaker 1: of docuseries type dramas. Here's another series on on on

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Speaker 1: called Bell Collective. But we're talking about love and marriage

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Speaker 1: Huntsville and the question. You know, this ain't a messy show.

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Speaker 1: This is a show about watching an entrepreneur, watching a

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Speaker 1: young lady. I just still consume you very young, an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: absolutely correct in terms of the growth that you've seen.

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Speaker 1: And that's really because you know, as you go through

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Speaker 1: And that's really what my viewers have been able to

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Speaker 1: you guys have been able to really, you know, as

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Speaker 1: I did an interview earlier and I shared with them that,

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Speaker 1: especially when Martell talked about he going to the custody

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Speaker 1: and then boom, just like that, there's a change. And

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Speaker 1: so at first, you know, of course, you you know,

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Speaker 1: the heartbreak and the disappointment and the tears and the

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Speaker 1: depression and all of those things that come with um,

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Speaker 1: you know, something as major's infidelity hitting your marriage. I

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Speaker 1: went through all of that, and UM, I went through

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Speaker 1: a lot of different layers of it. So UM for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, going through those things and experiencing such a

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Speaker 1: big change in life. And then I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: I was gonna have to play it out on national television.

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Speaker 1: Even so, that was another thing, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: When we started filming the first season, UM, I had

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Speaker 1: just recently found out about, you know, what had been occurring. However,

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Speaker 1: I thought everything was done over and we were good.

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Speaker 1: Well right when we started shooting, I find out, oh,

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Speaker 1: it ain't done and over we ain't good. So that's

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Speaker 1: when people got you know what I'm saying, kind of

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Speaker 1: got all the other um, and so all the other

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Speaker 1: emotions and other sides of melody, the angry side. Um.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I didn't expect that that was something

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Speaker 1: that was gonna be played out on TV. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think that was gonna be continue to be a part

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Speaker 1: of my life story, my marriage story. UM. And so

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Speaker 1: now here I am, you know, going through a divorce

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Speaker 1: with four children, um and trying to make sure that

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Speaker 1: I'm taking care of me and keeping myself together, but

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Speaker 1: then also making sure that I'm you know, there for

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Speaker 1: my kids and helping them to keep it together too. Um.

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Speaker 1: And at the same time, still refusing to allow the

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Speaker 1: choices of someone else to affect my purpose and the

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Speaker 1: goals that I have set for myself. So it's a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot, and it's a lot of moving pieces.

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you, I just get up every

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Speaker 1: single day and I start moving those pieces absolutely. You know,

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night you can see her series. All right,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it your series Loving Marriage Hunt Fell.

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Speaker 1: That's That's why I watch. I'm just doing on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I'm not just watching everyboun show. I watched a girl Melody. Now,

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Speaker 1: guess what it's gonna be this Saturday. Gonna be back

467
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Speaker 1: to back melody, Hope melody, Hope, hid to night. That's

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna up to our block. Behind every Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm just later everybody know she Carlos King makes me mad? Now?

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Speaker 1: This is this series? Right? Is this car? She got me?

471
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Speaker 1: He got me mad? See because see I watched this

472
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Speaker 1: series that you're hosting, and I'm mad. I'm going to

473
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Speaker 1: like he thought of this song because it's such a

474
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Speaker 1: beautiful series, because I got six sisters. So why did

475
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Speaker 1: I think of this? Because you know you have you

476
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Speaker 1: have more Kurt Franklin and his wife Tammy on the show.

477
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Speaker 1: You have the wife of white Cliff John on the show.

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Speaker 1: You have the wife. I didn't even know that uh

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Speaker 1: Neil was married. Seriously, I didn't know he was married.

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Speaker 1: And that the only he's on He's on the show,

481
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Speaker 1: and it's it's like DJ Envy and his wife, but

482
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Speaker 1: it's the wife's who are the stars of the show.

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Speaker 1: Behind every Man? How did you become a part of

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Speaker 1: this series? And I'm just about one thing I'm gonna

485
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Speaker 1: tell you the truth about this is an engaging series.

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Speaker 1: Well done. The women, you get a personal journey about them.

487
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Speaker 1: It's not as serious that if they're trying to hook

488
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Speaker 1: you in with a famous husband. No, no, no, it's

489
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Speaker 1: about these women. How they have survived physical drama, sometimes abuse, sometimes,

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Speaker 1: near life death experiences sometimes and each one of them

491
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Speaker 1: have survived and they've coming to the lives of these

492
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Speaker 1: famous men helped them to be successful along the way,

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Speaker 1: and they have sustained longevity in their marriage and blossom

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Speaker 1: to a loving relationship. How did you give a volva

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00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: Behind every Man? Well, you know that's why it's so important, um,

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00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: to speak out loud your goals and your dreams and

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Speaker 1: speak those things into existence. UM. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: I shared with Carlos a long time ago, you know,

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Speaker 1: my goals in terms of hosting and acting and things

500
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Speaker 1: like that. And so when the when the opportunity came,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he was awarded the opportunity to do

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Speaker 1: Behind every Man, you know, he reached out to me.

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Speaker 1: He said, hey, so guess what, And I'm like what

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Speaker 1: And he was like, We're gonna do another show. This

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Speaker 1: is what's gonna call and we want you to host.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what, really are you serious, and so you know,

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00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: it went from there and um it was another again,

508
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: something filmed during the pandemic, so of course we had

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Speaker 1: different parameters. Of course, we would have loved to have

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Speaker 1: had it where you know, I could have flown into

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Speaker 1: different places and actually sat down in person with these individuals,

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Speaker 1: but we've got to be safe. So we still made

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Speaker 1: it happen and made it, you know, made it work. Um,

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Speaker 1: and for me, when he called me that day, I'll

515
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Speaker 1: never forget. And he had his other producer, Angela on

516
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Speaker 1: the phone as well. I teared up when he shared

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Speaker 1: with me what Behind every Man would be about. And

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Speaker 1: here's why. Um, you know, I'm big on women empowerment.

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00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm big on strong women and women, you know, just

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Speaker 1: being coming together and really pushing one another and being

521
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Speaker 1: able to be then tick and transparent and share your journey,

522
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Speaker 1: share those you know, we love the glamour, we love

523
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: the show off, the Rose Royce, the Lamborghinis and all

524
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: this thing. However, right, being able to show the times

525
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: that weren't so good and talk about that, which is

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Speaker 1: what really helped you move to the next level. I

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Speaker 1: love when people can be transparent. I think that's the

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Speaker 1: reason that a lot of people connect with me on

529
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Speaker 1: love and marriage Himesville. So when he shared that with

530
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Speaker 1: me and I heard what it would be about, I

531
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: just literally teared up. I said, wow, Wow. It was

532
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: just something within me. And I'm big on intuition and

533
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: being led by the spirit, and there was just something

534
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: within me that was like, Yes, this right here is

535
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Speaker 1: God sent for you. The experiencing what I was experiencing

536
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Speaker 1: in my marriage and knowing that, you know, it wasn't

537
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: going to be too much longer before it wasn't you know,

538
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: I wasn't married anymore. It wasn't about that. It was

539
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: about what I love to do, shine a light on

540
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: other women, like you know I do my Mamoss with

541
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Speaker 1: Melody event Um, I always award women Women on Woman

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Speaker 1: on Purpose, award, Um still I Thrive Woman of the

543
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Speaker 1: Year and all these different things. And so any way

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Speaker 1: that I can, um just really shine a light on

545
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: women who are doing some amazing things, That's what I

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Speaker 1: love to do. And so this was just I mean,

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Speaker 1: this was perfect and it was truly an amazing experience. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, I'm a fan. I get to

549
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: see you back to back, the back to back to back.

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00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: I know that, Melanie. I want to I wanna. I

551
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: want to back the back the back Melanie whole Saturday

552
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: on Network because you're gonna do it. You're gonna do it,

553
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: because we all over here. Oh there you go, there

554
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: you go. The thing about it is that I'm so

555
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: proud of you, and uh, I watched this journey, you

556
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: know when I said that I'm sincere, and I know

557
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: you do a lot of interviews and watching you grow

558
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: and like and so I've seen this journey play out.

559
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: And when you come on my show, we can have

560
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: honest conversations. And the only thing only negative in your

561
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: little book is you come to Atlanta and you don't

562
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: come see your board. Okay, because I bought a new building.

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Speaker 1: That happen again. I bought a little bit. I gotta

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Speaker 1: show y'all. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta you gotta

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Speaker 1: take a picture by my new business sign all that stuff.

566
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Speaker 1: I gotta. I gotta get some of your shine on

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Speaker 1: my building. Okay, let's do it. Let's do it absolutely well.

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Speaker 1: I will to hold you but again, thank you again again.

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Speaker 1: You know, any time your flyer come out, I gotta

570
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: promote you. This weekend and uh, you know your Siroty

571
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: remember and all that good stuff, and uh, girl, you know,

572
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: keep winning and keep I got your support and your brother.

573
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: You can tell your brother to call me with a

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Speaker 1: little time behind here in Atlanta as himself. You know,

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Speaker 1: he got nothing to do, absolutely so that would be great,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I love you already know. I love you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for you know, you're always opening your doors

578
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: and opening you know, but just being welcoming with me

579
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: coming in on the show. I appreciate that so much.

580
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: It's kind of like like you said, sometimes they're just

581
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: those God given connections. And I feel like from the

582
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Speaker 1: first interview, we've just always You've been what you're saying

583
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,479
Speaker 1: that you are. You've been encouraging. UM. You let me

584
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: know multiple times that I have your support, and I

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00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: really appreciate that, UM, and I love you know. We

586
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: have to pull strength from one another, especially when we're

587
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: going through different, you know, difficult times. It's so important

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00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: for us to pull strength from one another. And you,

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00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: my fans, the viewers of Love and Marriage Huntsville, everyone

590
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: has been my family, my management team, everyone has just

591
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: been so amazing and I know I wouldn't be where

592
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: I am right now. If it wasn't for all of

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Speaker 1: you awesome. Well, she's the star of a Saturday night

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Speaker 1: on the Own Network, Loving Marriage, Huntsville and um you

595
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: know behind every Man. Wow, that's my show. She's the star,

596
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Speaker 1: Melody Holte Melody, thank you for coming on Money Making

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