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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: is 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. And in case you didn't notice,

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Speaker 1: I'm not broke. You know he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs,

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do,

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

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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: I am Rashan McDonald when I host the weekly Money

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Speaker 3: Making Conversation master Class show.

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Speaker 4: The interviews and information that this show provides are for everyone.

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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. My next guest is Georgia native

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Speaker 3: Eliat English.

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Speaker 4: She is an indelible.

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Speaker 3: Career in television, theater, film and the jazz clubes and

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Speaker 3: from all Moro television roles as Anti Ray on HBO's

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Speaker 3: Curry Enthusiasm, Love Her and Hell on Jamie Fox Show

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Speaker 3: That's where I met her, Mary Lewinz on Disney's Club.

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Speaker 3: Good Luck, Charlie, and it's hinting on Lifetime Movie of

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Speaker 3: the Week Pedals on the Wind. She was on the

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Speaker 3: show to talk about her career, upcoming YouTube show, and

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Speaker 3: the final season of Curby Your Enthusiasm, Please welco with

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Speaker 3: the Money Making Conversations, Masterclass Show.

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Speaker 4: Elliott English, How you doing, my friend.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing wonderful. Thank you for asking, how are you?

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Speaker 4: I'm ready to talk. I'm ready to talk.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready, I'm ready. It is a pleasure.

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's really excited to have you on the air because

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Speaker 3: you know, you and I met way back, and I

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Speaker 3: want to say about ninety eight when I was co

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Speaker 3: executive using the Jamie Fox Show, watching his career, watching

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Speaker 3: your career grow and blossom and grow to diversity. You

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Speaker 3: know when I said diversity, I just knew you was

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Speaker 3: an actress. Now I didn't know you could sing. You've

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Speaker 3: become an author. Talk about diversifying yourself along the way

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Speaker 3: long that path or any having their career.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well for me, Rashan, I know that when I

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Speaker 5: first moved away from home from Georgia, a little small

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Speaker 5: New York, I went there to begin my career in theater,

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Speaker 5: the things that I learned during theater you had to

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Speaker 5: be what was called at that time a triple threat.

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Speaker 5: You had to be able to act, you had to

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Speaker 5: be able to sing, and you had to be able

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Speaker 5: so I had to immediately, Thank goodness, I had already

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Speaker 5: started theater before I left Atlanta. I did two projects.

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Speaker 5: One was called I Feel My Goodness it was Manhattan

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Speaker 5: Yellow Pages, and the other one was called Blackbirds of

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Speaker 5: nineteen seventy eight. I was still in school when I

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Speaker 5: launch I guess what. I realized that that time was

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Speaker 5: Misbehaving the Fats Waller Musical, which was awesome. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: Go Ahead, which let on a little bit because small town, yes,

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Speaker 3: I started as a stand up comedian and from a

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Speaker 5: That's a great question, Rashan. And I'll never forget that

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Speaker 5: day when I arrived. You're making me go back and

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Speaker 5: God for my parents, my dad at that time when

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Speaker 5: I don't feel no ways tied. I've come too far

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna tell you some forty second screen

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Speaker 4: You couldn't walk two feet without being a lady of

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Speaker 3: You could walk two feet without somebody wanted to sell

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Speaker 4: We know I can remember that.

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Speaker 3: You know, my New York experience was very similar to

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Speaker 3: When people were watching this show or listen to the show.

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Speaker 3: Any advice that you can give them by, you know,

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Speaker 3: a little concious, better planner for that situation that you

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Speaker 4: What would you suggest I would.

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Speaker 5: Truly, in this day and age, I would tell young

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Speaker 5: I actually had some actors that I had worked with

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Speaker 3: Quite speaking earlier English on healing on the Jamie Fox Show, I'm.

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Speaker 4: Gonna leave with that.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get to Curvey on Tuesday, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: go back to what I first met her. You know,

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Speaker 3: this beautiful personality. It was nineteen ninety eight. I was

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Speaker 3: co executive use of the Jamie Fox show, Jamie's on five.

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Speaker 3: He just finished any given Sunday. The show was like

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Speaker 4: How did you get cash on the Jamie Fox Show.

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Speaker 5: the callbacks, I'll never forget my final callback. And actually, Rashana,

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you know this, I was actually

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Speaker 5: Jamie was there and I got the opportunity. He you know,

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Speaker 5: Jamie took me off script.

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Speaker 5: We had you know, we had a script that we

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Speaker 2: It was like going on this little roller coaster.

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Speaker 5: Ride with him and wherever he went, I was right there,

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Speaker 5: just an audition, it wasn't the show, and I believe

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Speaker 5: to be the one. I am so grateful. I can

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Speaker 5: never thank them enough. I can't thank him enough.

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Speaker 6: Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more

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Speaker 6: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making

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Speaker 6: Conversations Masterclass, hosted by Rashaan MacDonald.

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Speaker 3: Now let's get back to why she came on this show,

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Speaker 3: My show Money Making Conversation, Elliot English, you know she

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Speaker 3: really came on it for one reason.

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Speaker 4: All curb your enthusiasm.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, wow.

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Speaker 3: Created by Larry David, who also created a Sciinfield Show,

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Speaker 4: How did you get cast in the role of Auntie Ray?

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Speaker 4: Is Auntie Ray? Correct?

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Speaker 3: going through my memory bank and I forgot jabe Be

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Speaker 3: was really the one who's saying bag because Larry was

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Speaker 3: trying a good deed.

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Speaker 4: It was yes, he who clean clean in and.

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Speaker 3: Messed it all up for everybody because he was scamming everybody.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, and yes. And then he ended up

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Speaker 5: being Larry's best friend. Can you believe it? Larry ended

446
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Speaker 5: up datings. I loved it.

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Speaker 3: I loved it when we talk about this industry and

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Speaker 3: having Lungeerviy and I want to wrap this up.

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Speaker 4: I want to keep him.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for allowing me to discuss your journey and

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Speaker 3: the final seasons and Curby enthusiasm.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna miss you. But right now you have a

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Speaker 4: new series, a YouTube series.

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Speaker 3: It's called My Sister's and Me, a half hour multi

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Speaker 3: camera comedy that crosses three distinct generations. Tell us about

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Speaker 3: that and why are you doing it?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: My goodness.

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Speaker 5: Matty Carruthers, who you know. She also worked on the

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Speaker 5: Jamie Fox Show. And when Maddy was working on the

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Speaker 5: Jamie Fox Show, she and I became very very close

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Speaker 5: and very good friends, and we used to talk about

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Speaker 5: all the time, often about wanting to create a project

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Speaker 5: for me. I wanted us to create a project that

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Speaker 5: she and I could work on together, and so we

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Speaker 5: ended up being able to do that. And I'm talking

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Speaker 5: about Maddie. It truly is an awesome director, Rashan. I mean,

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Speaker 5: she started her career. I don't know if you know that,

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Speaker 5: she started her career with the iconic Norman Lear and

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Speaker 5: so when she got us, she's talking about directing.

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Speaker 2: Us with that show. It was just amazing.

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Speaker 5: And the storyline, which was wonderful for me, was that

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Speaker 5: there were these black sisters, vivacious, ageless black sisters who

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Speaker 5: had to live under the same roof without killing each other.

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Speaker 5: And my character, I played the me and my sisters

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Speaker 5: and me right, I'm the baby sister of the bunch.

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Speaker 2: So my character, who thought.

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Speaker 5: You know, now that my older sisters moved out, I

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Speaker 5: can now have my life. My bossy sisters are no

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Speaker 5: longer around, and I can go on with my life.

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Speaker 5: Well then they come back into my life and now

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Speaker 5: they are with their bossy attitudes and everything else. And

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Speaker 5: then it goes on from there. Guess what, I feel

484
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 5: like I'm a kid again. I feel like I can't

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Speaker 5: do anything. So you, everybody, I know, everybody can relate

486
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 5: to that, whether you've got to, even if even I

487
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 5: know a guy was telling me about his big sisters

488
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Speaker 5: when he was a little boy, and he his mother

489
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Speaker 5: told him, you're going to be the man of the house,

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Speaker 5: and you have to go be the man at the house.

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Speaker 5: And so he goes to his sisters and tells them

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Speaker 5: I'm the man of the house. And he says, she

493
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 5: punched him and knocked his teeth out. So everybody is

494
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Speaker 5: gone something with these older siblings. And so that's where

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Speaker 5: the real beauty and the fun comes in. And then

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Speaker 5: we got to figure out how to live together without

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Speaker 5: killing each other. And so I'm excited about that.

498
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Speaker 4: What's the future. What's the future for you?

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Speaker 3: A young small girl from coming to him byway up

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Speaker 3: Atlanta through New York in LA. You know you've done

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Speaker 3: Dan misbehavior, You've shown that you can do broadwood, You've

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Speaker 3: shown you can do sitcom. You've shown that you can

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Speaker 3: you can handle them stage of improv and scripted theater.

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Speaker 3: Now you producing and launching your own YouTube show in January?

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Speaker 4: What is the future? Twenty twenty four is here?

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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, and I'm I excited about twenty twenty four. Okay,

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Speaker 5: thank you so much for asking that question. And I

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Speaker 5: will preface it with I don't know if you knew

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Speaker 5: that in twenty eighteen, I dropped everything because I had

510
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Speaker 5: to come home and make sure my mom was okay.

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00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 5: I had to take care of my mom, and I

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Speaker 5: ended up becoming it changed.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 5: I thought I was just going to be come here,

515
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 5: make sure I was a companion, make sure you know,

516
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Speaker 5: she didn't wander off, make sure somebody was there with

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Speaker 5: her all the time. Well, she ended up getting an

518
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Speaker 5: infection in her toe and her big toe, and it

519
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,959
Speaker 5: created the whole trajectory of why I came here changed.

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Speaker 5: I ended up becoming her nurse. I had to learn

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Speaker 5: how to change dress wounds. I had to make sure

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Speaker 5: she was at the hospital. I was staying in the

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Speaker 5: hospital with her with however long she was there, I

524
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 5: was there. I never left her side. And so my

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00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 5: mom transitioned in twenty twenty, and so that I had

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Speaker 5: to take the rest of twenty twenty, you know, And

527
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Speaker 5: that was when thank god, it wasn't COVID, you know,

528
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Speaker 5: And so yeah, she didn't it wasn't COVID that took

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Speaker 5: her out and we were able to keep her protected

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Speaker 5: from that. So then in twenty twenty one, I needed

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Speaker 5: to process that. And so in twenty twenty two, I

532
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 5: was blessed with the opportunity. I am a member of

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Speaker 5: the Sigma Gamma Row. I got to give my sisters

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Speaker 5: a shout out. So we had our boulet in twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty two, and it was our one hundredth anniversary, and

536
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 5: so thank you so much, and so I sort of

537
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 5: like decided to get my feet wet. I ended up

538
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Speaker 5: being able to go. We had it in Indianapolis, Indiana,

539
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Speaker 5: which is where the original for started the sorority, and

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Speaker 5: I did workshops. I did workshops for the kids. I

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Speaker 5: was also, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. My sister was saying

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Speaker 5: something to me. What happened in seven? Original seven?

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00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 2: She said?

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00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 5: She corrected me, she's a sorrow, she corrected me. She said,

545
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 5: the original seven, not the original four.

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00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: So forgive me.

547
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep this in there.

548
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep this moment in there because this needs

549
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 3: because all scream sorrow, check it, all scream, get it right,

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00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 3: this moment in it.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry about So I love this.

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Speaker 5: Excuse me, seven not four.

553
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Speaker 3: I remember Megati five fraternity, so I know you go,

554
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 3: you know, you gotta get those facts right, Rashan, you

555
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about, not for it's seven.

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Speaker 5: So thank you, my sorrows. But so then look, don't

557
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 5: let me lose my train of thought though. Anyway, what

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00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 5: was happening at that time, Rashaan was kurb was looking

559
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 5: for me, and I didn't know. The moment I stepped

560
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 5: out to do something, they were looking for me. And

561
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 5: right after I finished and I came back from the

562
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Speaker 5: Boulet our one hundredth anniversary, which was amazing, It went awesome.

563
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 5: I ended up going in and filming this season of

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Speaker 5: Curb Your Enthusiasm. So when you ask that question, what's

565
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 5: next for me? You know my mom who is still

566
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 5: my heart, She's still my everything, and for her, she

567
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 5: tells me the sky is the limit. She's like, you can,

568
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 5: and you can go beyond the sky, go ahead and shoot.

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Speaker 2: So I'm back. I guess what I would say.

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Speaker 5: Eliot's back, like Antiray is back, and I'm ready now

571
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 5: to embrace it and to really do what I love,

572
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 5: every aspect of it. My singing, my acting, my dancing,

573
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 5: my writing. I still love to write. So as long

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Speaker 5: as I'm my heavenly father gives me breath to live,

575
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Speaker 5: I want to be everything he created me to be

576
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Speaker 5: and do everything he created me to do, so that

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00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 5: when it is done, all said and done, I get

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00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 5: to hear my father say, well done. You're good and

579
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 5: faithful servant. And I am looking forward to that, so

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Speaker 5: thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Content is keen, but more importantly you are Queen. You've young,

582
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Speaker 3: longevity in this business and good luck, and I can't

583
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Speaker 3: wait to see Kirby and three have the More importantly,

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Speaker 3: sisters and me premiering in January on.

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Speaker 5: Your January eighteenth on YouTube, that we're going to do

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Speaker 5: some We're going to re releasing webisodes of the show

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Speaker 5: on YouTube January eighteenth, twenty twenty fourth.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for coming on Money Making Conversations, Mastercline.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me and good Load and God

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Speaker 5: bless thank you you too, God, Please.

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