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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 to 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 am your host, Rashwan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I recognized that we all have different definitions of success

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Speaker 1: for some and suscisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake

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Speaker 1: up and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live

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Speaker 1: their very best life. These are my passions and that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm going to do for you. When you listen

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations, I want you to stop tripping

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Speaker 1: over small challenges and prepare to rise above the bigger

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Speaker 1: obstacles that life will present to you. My next guest,

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Speaker 1: Ali Brooks, is a native of San Antonio, Texas. I'm

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Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas, so it's gonna be a good call.

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Speaker 1: All my calls are great, but when I get a

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Speaker 1: texting on the call like, I'm even more special. She's

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Speaker 1: a multi platinum singer, songwriter, dancer, so with Dancing with Stars, actress,

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Speaker 1: and author of the newly released memoir which I have read,

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Speaker 1: Finding Your Harmony, Dream Big, have faith and achieved more

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Speaker 1: than you can imagine. She's a former member of the

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Speaker 1: girl group Fifth Harmony, which kicked off her music career

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Speaker 1: the American singing competition The X Factor in twelve. She's

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Speaker 1: not pursuing her solo career. Alis on the show to

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Speaker 1: talk about the inspiration behind the book Finding Your Harmy

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Speaker 1: and the process of putting this book together, the messages

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Speaker 1: about faith, how positive approach to life and determination she

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Speaker 1: is sharing with her story and being a remote and

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Speaker 1: being a role model. I tell you for young people,

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Speaker 1: please working to money making conversations. My dear friend Texan

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Speaker 1: Ali Brooks. Hello, is such an awesome intro. I am

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Speaker 1: so happy to be on your show today. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: be on the show because you're young. People young, but

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Speaker 1: you're talking like an old person in this book, which

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Speaker 1: is a good thing because that means it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of maturity. It's a lot of maturity. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: the old spirit you was, he was premature born, you know.

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Speaker 1: And and when I was reading in the book, and

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Speaker 1: the lungs camp. But your lungs were strong, your strong LANs.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about you as an individual, because I

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Speaker 1: always find out when a young person writes a book,

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Speaker 1: I go, what they're gonna talk about? What they're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about life? Okay? And then but you hear a

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Speaker 1: lot of life, starting with you being a PREMI and

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Speaker 1: let's let's talk about that. And and your parents. Your

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Speaker 1: brother Brandon had already been born and living his life.

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Speaker 1: I think he was four years four years older than

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Speaker 1: you're correct, yes, and uh. And you came out screaming

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Speaker 1: your parents, uh, and your san Antonio. So I love

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Speaker 1: the fact that your father can cook. So tell us

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Speaker 1: about your father, because I have a daughter. So my daughter,

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Speaker 1: Well I love my dad so my to me, my

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Speaker 1: so even though I'm I'm super young, you can tell

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Speaker 1: I've lived a lot of life. I've had so much

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Speaker 1: My faith has been tested but also strengthened in such

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Speaker 1: He's the life of the party. He loves to you know,

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Speaker 1: ali that we're making them the best in the where

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Speaker 1: Yes you can. I like, seriously, he just knows how

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Speaker 1: and they are so good and not my dad's okay

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Speaker 1: because because you just don't even know who you're talking

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Speaker 1: I am an award winning baker. Okay, absolutely, see see

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. You need to do no hard

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Speaker 1: You got. I'll read your book. I know it backwards,

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Speaker 1: your cat Bobby, I know my name. But did you

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Speaker 1: It's so true, and that's awesome of your daughter's shout

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Speaker 1: of three years old. And was it has been an

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Speaker 1: inspiration for your career. Reason I know because her to well,

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Speaker 1: because at the Houston Livestock Show a Rod video she

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Speaker 1: said a record because on Sunday Night was like Hispanic

427
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Speaker 1: night on Sunday Night and it all and it was

428
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Speaker 1: always the biggest crowd every year has always been Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night at the Eastern Livestock Show Rodeo and she came

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Speaker 1: down there and and look great, finest all get up.

431
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Speaker 1: But she was she was she was a crossover act.

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Speaker 1: That's what I loved about. She was crossed because she

433
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Speaker 1: appealed to me her talents, her graciousness, and let's talk

434
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Even today in Houston, they had some

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Speaker 1: I think some some uh Selena candles. Uh. They sold

436
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Speaker 1: out in the hour. You know, T shirt, They sell

437
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Speaker 1: out any type of memory barrewer is always, always sells

438
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Speaker 1: out strongly in the UH community. So she has been

439
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Speaker 1: inspiration to you at a young age. She died when

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Speaker 1: she was twenty three years old, and now you've been

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Speaker 1: inspiration now for women today. And I just think that's

442
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Speaker 1: hand in hand that that you're carrying on her legacy,

443
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Speaker 1: not only from from who you are, and also from

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Speaker 1: the fact that because she was born in the area

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Speaker 1: where you're, where you're from, and just talking about her

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Speaker 1: as an inspirational person and your message that you're trying

447
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Speaker 1: to deliver from this fantastic book that I had such

448
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Speaker 1: a great tyrine finding your harmony. Bo oh my gosh, Well,

449
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for that. That means man, more

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Speaker 1: than I could ever say. I just I just loved

451
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Speaker 1: Felina so much. I have since I was literally in diapers.

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Speaker 1: And what I loved about her the most was her beautiful,

453
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Speaker 1: just radiant spirit. She shined so much light and love

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Speaker 1: to her friends, to her family. She made people believed

455
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Speaker 1: that they could shape their dreams. And for me, you know,

456
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Speaker 1: even a young Mexican American little girl, seeing someone who

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Speaker 1: looked like me, who was able to in a way

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Speaker 1: reach her dreams was so beautiful and powerful for me.

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Speaker 1: And her voice, her message she was She was a

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Speaker 1: positive role model for so many people. And I can

461
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Speaker 1: just go on and on about why I love her,

462
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: and again, it's just all about her extraordinary spirit. She

463
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Speaker 1: just shines so bright and it still makes me so sad.

464
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I know that her legacy

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Speaker 1: is being carried on generation after generation, and that's what

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Speaker 1: I felt. You know, when I was young, I always said,

467
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Speaker 1: I want to honor her wherever I can, and I sing,

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Speaker 1: you know, her songs and pay tribute to her whenever

469
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Speaker 1: I can. And the fact that I can write about

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Speaker 1: her in my book is an honor um and it's

471
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Speaker 1: it's it's just incredible because recently last year I got

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Speaker 1: to become friends with Suzeki, Dania and her family, you

473
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Speaker 1: know Selena's family, and that was just a highlight of

474
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Speaker 1: my whole life. Um. But that's my goal, is to

475
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Speaker 1: just continue to spread her beautiful legacy for as long

476
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Speaker 1: as I live, because she was that incredible of a human. Well,

477
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Speaker 1: I'm showing you are incredible to such a fun time.

478
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Speaker 1: My time is up. I don't want to you know,

479
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Speaker 1: we in our relationship, it's over. It's alex Alec. Look,

480
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Speaker 1: you know you probably need to go well, you know,

481
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, so you can't do anything there. But the

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Speaker 1: tomores are in San Antonio and the food of flower

483
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Speaker 1: to tears in San Antonio. But you can't make something.

484
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Speaker 1: But the beauty of why I brought you on the

485
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Speaker 1: show is to let people know beyond singing, because a

486
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Speaker 1: lot of people just see people as a singer for

487
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Speaker 1: the gift that they know, and I just wanted people

488
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Speaker 1: to know how fun you are, how relatable you are,

489
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Speaker 1: and how you have such a tremendous passion to change lives.

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Speaker 1: That's what you get when you read this book. You

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Speaker 1: I I found it at the detail. I found the

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Speaker 1: you know that I'm just gonna break it down. You

493
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Speaker 1: know she was she was she was a premy okay,

494
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Speaker 1: and um, we know the mortality rate on that for girls,

495
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Speaker 1: they are stronger than boys. Just written in the book,

496
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Speaker 1: I'm just doing you know. Um. You know she's from

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Speaker 1: a Hispanic community, like I'm from a black community. A

498
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: lot of people tell us we ain't gonna make it,

499
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Speaker 1: and they tell us who what we can be in

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Speaker 1: the stay in that lane. And our parents didn't do that.

501
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: Her parents didn't believe that, and uh, and and and

502
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Speaker 1: so and even you know when she when she was

503
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Speaker 1: blessed to get on the show X Factor and become

504
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Speaker 1: a part of Fifth Harmony, she realized that wasn't her dream,

505
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Speaker 1: you know, and she living her dream now realized that's

506
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Speaker 1: so much that it called her to gain weight, It

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Speaker 1: called her to to uh as they say, you redirect

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Speaker 1: her pain as you reread her pain to eating, and

509
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Speaker 1: she overcame that. So you have you have a discussion

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Speaker 1: about that in the book, which is relatable to a

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Speaker 1: lot of young people, male and female. And then she

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Speaker 1: talks about you know, going out on faith and going

513
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Speaker 1: out there and when you go out on faith or

514
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Speaker 1: you go out there and you're unknown, a lot of

515
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Speaker 1: people don't because they the unknown is what it is.

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Speaker 1: You know, you have to trust yourself. You have to

517
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Speaker 1: have people around you, and you've done that. Your parents

518
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Speaker 1: around you, wheels around, your charms around you. You know,

519
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Speaker 1: all these people have been around you, and I just

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Speaker 1: I want you much success. Now. I've home in Houston

521
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Speaker 1: and my headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. So if you ever

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Speaker 1: get to Atlanta, I mean a mesta. Right now, I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling my very first movie. That's correct, my headquarters right

524
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Speaker 1: here in Atlanta, right right in Atlanta. So I did,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I've got to get your information and

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Speaker 1: we've got to make them to happen because you are

527
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Speaker 1: so awesome. I'm so blessed that even just talk to you,

528
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Speaker 1: and the fact that you cherish and value my story

529
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Speaker 1: and what matters to me and my family and those

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Speaker 1: who who paved the way for me. It's it's it's

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Speaker 1: a real blessing, sir. Just just thank you from the

532
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Speaker 1: bottom of my heart for for knowing, um what's important

533
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Speaker 1: to me and for sharing that with your audience and

534
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: and understanding my heart. You know, it's not about oh,

535
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: just a singer. No, it's about the heart and the

536
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Speaker 1: spirit and the story. So I thank you for valuing that.

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Speaker 1: And we have to keep in touch and stay in touch,

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Speaker 1: so you gotta get me your info. Okay, well let

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Speaker 1: me say goodboute. Everybody hold on and we're spreading info

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Speaker 1: after that. Okay, this has been money Making Conversations with

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Speaker 1: my fantastic guests, Ali Brook. That's Brooke, Where to eat

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Speaker 1: Eat and finding your harmony. She's fantastic, dream big, have faith,

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Speaker 1: which is very important. She's had has had it all

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Speaker 1: in her family is tied to faith. Um is amazing

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Speaker 1: to achieve more than you can imagine. That's important part

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Speaker 1: of this conversation because you know, we tend to limit

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Speaker 1: our dreams based on where we come from. And that's

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Speaker 1: what that line is saying, achieved more than you can imagine.

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Speaker 1: And if you have faith and you dream big, you

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Speaker 1: can find your own harmony. I want to thank everybody

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