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Speaker 1: If you're about to make a change in your life

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Speaker 1: and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best feeling you can

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Speaker 1: have because for the first time in your life, you'll making.

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Speaker 2: A decision that's going to be best.

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Speaker 1: For you and not what somebody told you to do.

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Speaker 1: And that's when all bets are off. Welcome to Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, Rashaan McDonald. Our theme

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Speaker 1: is there's no perfect time to start following your dreams.

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

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Speaker 1: For you and maybe the size of your Aham, It's

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Speaker 1: time to stop reading other people's success stories to start

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Speaker 1: living your own. Keep winning. My guest is Pinky col

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Speaker 1: she said Jamaican American entrepreneur and founder of Slutty Vegan,

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Speaker 1: a plant based burger restaurant chain based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: She first became vegan in twenty fourteen and opened her

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Speaker 1: first Slutdy Vegan food truck specializing in Viggian burgers, in

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Speaker 1: September of twenty eighteen. I interviewed her in August of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. She was just starting to blow up and

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Speaker 1: become that national brand. Now she has opened restaurants and

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Speaker 1: created the Pinky Cold Foundation, which seeks to empower generations

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Speaker 1: of color to win in life financially in the pursuit

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Speaker 1: of their entrepreneurial goals. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation Masterclass,

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Speaker 1: the One and Only Pinky Coal.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I better.

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Speaker 2: Right, I better be right you. You? You all over

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Speaker 2: the good place.

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Speaker 1: Some people could be all over the place, but you

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Speaker 1: all over the good place. Pinky, tell me what's going on,

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Speaker 1: young lady.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I got so much good stuff going on.

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Speaker 3: First of all, it's so good to make your acquaintance again,

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Speaker 3: and just to be here, so it amaans that I've

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Speaker 3: been consistent here. I got so much great things going on.

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Speaker 3: You know, if if you have been living under a rock,

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Speaker 3: I grace the cover.

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Speaker 2: Of Essence, Nag stop me.

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Speaker 1: I should have started with that. Come on, now, rushall,

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Speaker 1: slap yourself.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I saw you on the cover. Now see I'm a

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Speaker 1: little bit older than you. Okay, Now we talked Piky Cole.

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Speaker 1: She was on cover Essen Jap. Now that is something

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Speaker 1: you started an interview with now, Because I grew up,

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Speaker 1: I grew up in the Jet magazine and the Ebony era.

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Speaker 1: You know when you was on the cover of Ebony Jet,

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Speaker 1: you know you that was like and see and I'd

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Speaker 1: like to believe that Essence is that magazine level that

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Speaker 1: I grew up the Jet magazine and the Ebony magazine

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Speaker 1: and so so when you got on the cover of

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Speaker 1: Eboney and Jet, family, friend, enemy a girlfriendhod, everybody wanted

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Speaker 1: to be next to you. Now tell me what, tell

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Speaker 1: me how it came about, and tell me the experience

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Speaker 1: and what did it do to your brand? Piky Cole

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Speaker 1: being on the cover of Essence magazine, the number one

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Speaker 3: So John, I manifested it like I always said that

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be able to cover, Like, how are you

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Speaker 3: gonna do that? You ain't no celebrity. I said, I

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Speaker 3: you know, oftentimes when you say those things, those things

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Speaker 3: become real. So every opportunity that I got when I

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Speaker 2: I got on their nerves about it. Hey, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to be on Essence. When is my day?

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Speaker 3: So I finally got the opportunity to talk to the

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Speaker 3: Essence really shifted my brand to a new level, right

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Speaker 2: And even if you didn't want to know about Study.

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Speaker 3: Begon, you learned about Pinky col you learned about some

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Speaker 3: You know what they say, yesterday's prices not todays right,

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, it was life changing, but it

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Speaker 1: like regular You regular folks, and when regular folks become successful,

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Speaker 1: as dreamers, we see as being possible. And I think

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Speaker 2: Talk about that, listen.

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Speaker 3: I've always been a dreamer and I've always been a believer.

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Speaker 3: When people see me, they see hope, and just like

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Speaker 3: happen if you really have confidence in yourself and you

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Speaker 2: So when people see me, I'm not just doing this

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Speaker 3: And I'm showing you that that, yes, nothing is impossible.

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Speaker 2: You can literally meet a girl from around the way.

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Speaker 3: I'm from East Baltimore, got lots in my head. I

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Speaker 3: showing you that you can look like, be like, talk

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Speaker 2: That you can do all the things that you put

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Speaker 3: Look, I woke up, I got on a T shirt

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Speaker 3: And I got big interviews all day, and I'm showing

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Speaker 2: To fit the status quo. You can do everything that

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, first of all, doing Clarktland University's commencement

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Speaker 3: I went to Clarktland University. I graduated thirteen years ago.

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Speaker 3: And when I got the opportunity to be the commencement speaker,

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Speaker 3: You know. It's interesting because I actually was invited to

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Speaker 1: They got to choose what.

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Speaker 3: So when I got the opportunity to do SAU, it

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Speaker 3: And aspiration and the losses and I'm going to help

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Speaker 3: showed is is no, I'm not paying all of your tuition.

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Speaker 3: But what I'm going to do is I'm going to

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Speaker 3: you've been thinking about, if you have something that's been

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Speaker 3: making your belly leap, now is the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: To move on it. Because I literally gave you the

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Speaker 3: I'm paying for it and I'm hoping hopefully they get

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Speaker 3: to pay it forward too.

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Speaker 4: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making

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Speaker 4: Conversations master Class hosted by Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: You know and that journey of figuring yourself out because

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Speaker 1: you became a vegan in twenty fourteen. What made that

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Speaker 1: transition to say I can become an entrepreneur too based

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Speaker 1: on whatever my lifestyle.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I grew.

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Speaker 3: Up in a vegetarian household, So the transition wasn't as

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Speaker 3: hard as a lot of people think because I grew

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Speaker 3: up in a world where we eat an eye to food,

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Speaker 3: rice and peas every day. Like I didn't grow up

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Speaker 3: eating cheeseburgers and fries. Like I didn't grow up going

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Speaker 2: That was a treatment.

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Speaker 1: That's where you got that pretty skin, the pinky stay

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Speaker 1: away from the fries and all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't grow up eating I didn't even grow

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Speaker 3: up eating candy. But you know, I attributed to my

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Speaker 3: mother because she's a Rastafarian. So I grew up with

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Speaker 3: a very natural mom who didn't wear makeup, she she

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Speaker 2: She was very natural eating, like, very holistic.

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Speaker 3: So in two thousand and seven, actually I stopped eating

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Speaker 3: meat all together, so I was just eating fish and

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Speaker 3: then in twenty fourteen, I decided to go vegan. And

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Speaker 3: I know the difference because my first restaurant was called

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Speaker 3: Pinky's Jamaican and American restaurant.

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Speaker 2: And I sold your chicken. I sold, I sell and

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Speaker 2: I said all the foods I did not eat, but

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Speaker 3: To the people telling them that it tastes good, like, hey,

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Speaker 2: But I didn't eat that.

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Speaker 3: So when I realized with something that I would never

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Speaker 3: do again, I was not in alignment with my purpose,

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Speaker 3: I wasn't being honest, and my business didn't succeed because

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Speaker 3: of that, and I had a grease fire and I

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Speaker 2: And when I got it back, I got.

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Speaker 3: It back through Sludy Vegan because I was literally walking

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Speaker 3: in my purpose and walking in my assignment. I am

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Speaker 3: fully vegan. I like to give my vegan my friends

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Speaker 3: if they could see the difference. And now I get

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Speaker 3: to capitalize off my lifestyle by having a business and

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Speaker 3: using my platform and resources to help people.

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Speaker 2: Fort to reimagine food.

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Speaker 3: And that is why my business has been able to

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Speaker 3: be so successful and work because I'm walking in my path,

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Speaker 3: I in lying to the people, I'm being.

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Speaker 2: My authentic self and it just works.

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Speaker 3: And I'm happy that I get to do what I

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Speaker 1: Now eat Plants b I T H mouth water and

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Speaker 1: T eight celebrate Cole's belief that it's fun and as

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Speaker 1: offer Collar egg rolls, which sounds amazing to her Black

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Speaker 1: peak coliflower, coliflower pull, boar, pull boar. It says ninety one.

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Speaker 1: Why ninety one is that they just counting ainty one

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Speaker 1: that you know, because you always have a method to

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Speaker 1: your madness. It's ninety one in particular as a particular number.

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Speaker 1: Why you said ninety one? It was just ninety one recipes.

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Speaker 3: Ninety one was just a sweet spot. He had kinds

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Speaker 3: of recipes. But I'm the person that I want the

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Speaker 3: so yeah, we had.

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Speaker 2: Some more recipes. Ninety one was just a number. It

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Speaker 2: just really just like it was just a really good

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Speaker 2: sweet spot for like the best recipes. I wanted the best.

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Speaker 3: And this cookbook specifically is not just for the vegan.

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Speaker 3: It's for the person who likes to eat meat. There

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Speaker 3: you go, this is the person that just liked really

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Speaker 3: all the recipes that were in the book were good recipes,

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Speaker 3: whether you were vegan or not. You know, oftentimes we

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Speaker 3: have a misconception that if it's vegan, it don't taste good,

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Speaker 3: it's playing the slaver. Ain't good Like, I wanted to

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Speaker 3: eliminate all of that and just make a really good

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Speaker 3: cookbook that serves really good food. And as long as

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Speaker 1: The thing about it is that so many people champion you,

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Speaker 1: and I think that I just love you as a person.

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Speaker 1: I love you as an entrepreneur. You're so spirited. Where

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Speaker 1: is that coming from? You mentioned your mom, But it

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Speaker 1: also has to be your surrounding people around you who

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Speaker 1: are also believe in you.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 3: I think it's partially that I've always had this and

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Speaker 3: it may sound weird, but.

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Speaker 2: I believe in good karma. I believe when you show

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Speaker 2: up in the world as a good person, the world

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Speaker 2: is going to.

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Speaker 3: Come back and be good to you. And I live

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Speaker 3: my life very honest. I don't lie, I don't still,

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Speaker 3: I don't cheat. When I lay my head down at night,

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Speaker 3: and I do right by people, and I give back

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Speaker 3: and I pay it forward. And because I do those things, one,

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Speaker 3: my blessings just keep unfolding for me. And two, I

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Speaker 3: know that the universe sees me and God is blessing

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Speaker 3: me because of how I live my life and how

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Speaker 3: I'm a model that you can be a good person

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Speaker 3: and you can still get all the things that you

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Speaker 3: want and you ain't got to be mischievous.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to do any of that.

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Speaker 3: So I realized at a very young age that I

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Speaker 3: had a gift, and I didn't quite know what that

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Speaker 2: Knew that I wanted to make an impact in the world.

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Speaker 3: As a kid watching Golden Girls with my grandmother and.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, like being really in the.

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Speaker 3: Trenches with some old folks, and I realized that I

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Speaker 3: my life like that all of the time. Am I perfect?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely mine? I ain't gonna sit here and say I am.

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Speaker 3: I'm not the perfect CEO. Sometimes I might not be

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Speaker 3: the perfect spouse. I might not even be the perfect

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Speaker 3: and I realize that when you show up as a good,

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Speaker 3: wholehearted person, the universe will reward you and you will

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Speaker 3: get all the things that you pray about every single day.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, I'm ask you just quoting Pete

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Speaker 1: am I looking at the modern day Oprah Winford.

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Speaker 2: You know what's so funny?

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Speaker 3: A lot of people which is a very big compliment,

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Speaker 3: almost too big for me.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to catch up, but a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of people say that you know, and I'm like, it's

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Speaker 3: such an honor to even be associated with somebody of

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Speaker 3: me that one s Okay, Pinky, you got a big

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Speaker 3: responsibility here because there's a lot the little girls and

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Speaker 3: I have to make sure that not only am I

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Speaker 3: up because there's so many people watching me. So I

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Speaker 3: will take that compliment as often as you want to

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Speaker 3: give it, I will take it.

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Speaker 1: We will take it because I'm just saying, is that

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Speaker 1: I just see you on television, I just see you

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Speaker 1: in that medium. And because of the fact the reason

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Speaker 1: I say that Oprah had something to say, that's why

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Speaker 1: she was successful, That's why she still is successful. She's articulous,

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Speaker 1: she was smart. She also graduated over a HBCU, but

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Speaker 1: also a person who had a background that that that

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Speaker 1: that was constantly moving forward, constantly moving forward. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you like to me, you're ahead of Oprah when she

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Speaker 1: was when she broke out. So you have a resume

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Speaker 1: of being able to teach. You're teaching people, You're delivering

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Speaker 1: a message. And I just say that, are you the

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Speaker 1: modern day version of Oprah because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: we all have messengers at different levels, and I see

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Speaker 1: you as a messenger. This is a leap from two thousand,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty when we first met, which I knew you

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Speaker 1: before that, But I see I'm more polished. I see

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Speaker 1: a much more enlightening lightning you. Usually you feel happier too,

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Speaker 1: and I saying you weren't happy, then talk to me, girl.

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Speaker 2: I am in love. I'm happy. I got good people

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Speaker 3: You have a good team, when you got people that

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Speaker 2: Want nothing from me. But want you to succeed and

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Speaker 2: want you to win.

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Speaker 3: And I'm very intentional about who I am inviting into

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Speaker 3: my circle these days. And I'm just living freely. You know,

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Speaker 3: the last time that I interviewed with you, I was

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Speaker 3: still in the kitchen. I was flipping burgers, shaking friess,

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Speaker 3: I was being the janitor, I was being hr I

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Speaker 3: was doing all those things. And while I was doing well,

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Speaker 3: I was hustling backwards because I wasn't properly delegating my

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Speaker 3: stepped outside of my business and started delegating and finding

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Speaker 3: the right talent to help the business grow, I see

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Speaker 3: the shift in my attitude and and my energy and

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Speaker 2: So I'm at a really really good place right now.

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Speaker 1: So before we shift out here, the first book Eat

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Speaker 1: Plants b I t H. I can't say the word,

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Speaker 1: but it's right there that the little Astra native went vegan.

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Speaker 1: Recipes that will blow your meat loving mind. Find This

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Speaker 1: book is Pinky Coal. It's Simon Schuster, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna tell y'all fans of hers, that's how you become

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Speaker 1: number one. I've been fortunate in my life to deliver

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Speaker 1: three number one New York Times bestseller and the way

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Speaker 1: you get there if you want are a fan of

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Speaker 1: Pinky Cold and you want a great book, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I like desserts, I like meat, but I'm buying this

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Speaker 1: book because I like good food and of recipes. We

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Speaker 1: can't discuss it now, the recipes because you know, give

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Speaker 1: aay the recipe why you're gonna buy the book. But

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Speaker 1: what we can do is say, you know a history,

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Speaker 1: you know honesty. Her book is worth buying because I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna buy it. But again, Pinky, you know, two years

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Speaker 1: was too long, but it's been firm, watching the growth

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much again to have me. And I

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Speaker 2: cannot wait till you come to say week.

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Speaker 1: And come hey baby, I'm there. I'm seriously, I really,

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Speaker 1: I'm committed. In fact, I went to the one I

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Speaker 1: went to the one over off of I think the.

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Speaker 2: Loot Oh yeah experience.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I see your boyer about that location because he

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Speaker 1: in bitness. See I'm snuck in behind him. Yeah excellent,

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Speaker 1: I see. But I said, when I again, I'm like you,

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Speaker 1: I try to be authentic. I don't try to just

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Speaker 1: talk to people when I and and just say nice things.

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Speaker 1: I've experienced your brand. I love what you're doing and

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Speaker 1: I and you represent positivity. And I kid you not.

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Speaker 1: You are our Oprah of this era. And don't don't

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Speaker 1: walk away from that, don't stumble. You will be on TV,

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Speaker 1: young lady, and you are going to be a bigger

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Speaker 1: are Okay?

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Speaker 2: I received that. Yes, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for joining us for this edition of Money

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Speaker 4: Making Conversations Masterclass. Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan MacDonald

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