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Speaker 1: the people are nutty, let me just tell you. And

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Speaker 1: it's like it's like I'm the Queen of the Land

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Speaker 1: of the Misfit Toys. Like there's that when I worked together.

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Speaker 1: You're very animated. You know what I'm saying. You animate.

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Speaker 1: You one of the people that your your your face

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Speaker 1: is made for TV because you you can deliver or

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Speaker 1: time I don't even know I'm doing it. My face

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Speaker 1: just does it. Um. It's like people then say to

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Speaker 1: me like, oh, you want to play poker, because any

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Speaker 1: But I mean it's it's the people, I mean, start

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Speaker 1: number one thing people ask me, like, are the people

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Speaker 1: it's amazing what they do, and it's just so that's

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Speaker 1: then they take that stuff home with them and their

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Speaker 1: families eat better, they cook better. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: as amazing the nice things that come from it. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about before we go about writing the

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Speaker 1: cookbooks that you've think what goes into the mindset and

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Speaker 1: person who is actually making it, because I want them

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Speaker 1: a lot of times people are like, oh, I tried

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Speaker 1: and it's it might not be about the person. It

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Speaker 1: That's key. I'm just going to let you know, because

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Speaker 1: they're not going to make any more of my recipes

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Speaker 1: to feel. I also want people to feel this sense

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Speaker 1: And I want people to feel that. He like five

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Speaker 1: You just don't understand. Do you ever listen to yourself

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Speaker 1: Just you're just animated on the radio. You go like

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Speaker 1: And I will put it t I'll put it on

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Speaker 1: don't change, don't, don't don't don't keep that animation, keep

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Speaker 1: that spirit. And I'm so happy you called me. And

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Speaker 1: my friend Thank you so much for having me. This

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Speaker 1: McDonald's going to be in Dallas, I'm all over the

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Speaker 1: world with her. She's the president of MGPG Events and

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Speaker 1: the creator and founder of the Black Women's expot in

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Speaker 1: It is the nations longest running empowerment exposit expo for

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Speaker 1: the African American consumer. My guest has an extensive background

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Speaker 1: and expertise and community outreach, creating the effective public relationship

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Speaker 1: campaigns for clients and has guided her team of professionals

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Man Money Making Conversations. Mary Green, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mary, thank you for calling back. We got time.

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Speaker 1: Okay you have You're based in Chicago, correct Mary, and

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Speaker 1: as Mary as Mary m E r R Y. Mary,

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Speaker 1: come on everybody straight, because she corrected me. When I

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Speaker 1: met her the very first time in Chicago we shot

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Speaker 1: his empty r R Y. I met with her my

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Speaker 1: good friend Echo Robinson. Uh produced up at the V

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Speaker 1: one O three in Chicago Radio. And Uh, that was

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Speaker 1: the first time we met up in Chicago. And that

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Speaker 1: was that was before you had uh the Atlanta location,

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Speaker 1: That was before you had the Dallas location of Black

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Speaker 1: Women's Exposed. So tell us about that that first meeting

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Speaker 1: that we had and division at what it was then

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Speaker 1: what it is now. Well, that very first meaning you know,

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Speaker 1: we were after your client at the time, Mr Harvey,

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Speaker 1: to be a part of our show in Chicago. We

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Speaker 1: are celebrating this year our anniversary, very very excited about

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Speaker 1: next year being twenty five years. Believe it in not

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Speaker 1: Rashaan that we have been bringing this exhibition not only

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Speaker 1: to the Chicago market, but over the last time ten years,

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Speaker 1: we've been around the country in different markets, from Atlanta

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Speaker 1: with t d J's to um to Detroit to Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: So we've been around Orlando, UM. But we started our

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Speaker 1: three city tour um this year UM and we're very

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Speaker 1: excited about Atlanta second time. Much more excited about Dallas

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Speaker 1: because our titles Ponsor is now headquartered in Dallas, and

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Speaker 1: so toy Yoa is very excited about having us there

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Speaker 1: as well, and we're very excited to be there. It's

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Speaker 1: important to have those sponsors to drive these events, to

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Speaker 1: keep the ticket prices where they're at. Tell us about that.

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Speaker 1: The role of the sponsors and events like exposed, Well,

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Speaker 1: it couldn't be done without them. Uh. You know people

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Speaker 1: always ask you know, you've at mcarmas places in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: one of the largest convention centers of the country. How

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Speaker 1: are you able to do that? Most most events aren't

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Speaker 1: there that African American and be honest with you, We

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Speaker 1: are the consistent an American event that's been held that's

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Speaker 1: painful year. The only way you can do it, because

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Speaker 1: they're gonna charge the prices they charge, is that you

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Speaker 1: have you know, each the corporate support and corporate sponsors.

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Speaker 1: And over the years we've had to you know, United Airline,

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Speaker 1: States Farm, you know, Walgreen, you know on the banks,

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Speaker 1: you know. So that's the only way we we we

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Speaker 1: the show happened at the level that we think it

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Speaker 1: should be. And we started that from the very beginning

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Speaker 1: where McCormick from the very first show and we're still there.

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Speaker 1: I'm McCormick is a bad boy, the boy and they

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Speaker 1: charged bad boy prices. They started boy unions. So we

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Speaker 1: have to keep up with corporate office have to pay

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Speaker 1: for that. And you're right, the ticket blow. It keeps

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Speaker 1: the exertable low so that any African American business owner

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Speaker 1: that has a product of service they want to some

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Speaker 1: they can come to the show and do that very

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Speaker 1: very little. Now and then the Black Women's Expo. It

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Speaker 1: tackles issues topics. When you say that, what do you mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, we in the me to generations, you know, now, uh,

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Speaker 1: we see, we see black women that are really especially

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Speaker 1: in the entertainment. I know you have a Regina King

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Speaker 1: being your keenagepooker, but when you look at the Flicia Henderson,

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Speaker 1: the Marl Brocker Kills, you know they're able to do

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Speaker 1: Vine's you know, the Courtney Camps. These are women that

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Speaker 1: are dominating television, just a few of them and so so.

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Speaker 1: So that's the the African American woman is becoming a force.

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Speaker 1: Does that coincide with the success of your expo? Exactly,

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Speaker 1: it coincast with the success of it. And those women

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Speaker 1: we can do about it. So yeah, that's that's a

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Speaker 1: big part of our show. You know, we don't want

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Speaker 1: it's definitely you know, we do fifty fifty. We've got

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Speaker 1: So that means that's a Friday, that's a Saturday in

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Speaker 1: day a different experience that they should come on each

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Speaker 1: every day or at least twice during the weekend because

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Speaker 1: there is something different every day. We don't repeat necessarily

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Speaker 1: unless there's a session that is us outstanding that will

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Speaker 1: But it is a different experience. I mean where you've

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Speaker 1: So you know, we've got genuine on Sunday performing. We've

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Speaker 1: it's the on Sunday as well. So every day is different.

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Speaker 1: You were talking about OWN before we left. Now you

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Speaker 1: can slow down and tell us the excitement of OWN

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Speaker 1: bringing three television shows to the Black women. I know

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Speaker 1: how powerful that is to bring that. And they're branding

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Speaker 1: what's so exciting is their new show which is called

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Speaker 1: But she will choose one business owner that will be

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Speaker 1: you know issues that you're having financial, financial issues, those

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Speaker 1: but one one business owner will get an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: But they're also bringing three you know of the actors

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Speaker 1: Are we definitely there on Saturday to meet all these people?

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation, Tom Bill. You what

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Speaker 1: be successful, that would allow me to translate my potential

850
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: shoal into actual ability. And so wanted to give that

851
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 1: to them, and so we created the show, and it

852
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: was all about bringing on people like you that have

853
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: been tremendously successful, and to show them that they're essentially

854
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: universal principles of success. That they've been hearing me say

855
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: all these things. But it's one thing to hear from

856
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: one person. It's another to hear from you know, dozens

857
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: and dozens and dozens. So um, that was the genesis

858
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: of the idea and my whole mission in life. The

859
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: thing that I am absolutely put on this earth to

860
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: do is to in my words, pull people out of

861
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: the matrix, so to set another way, to give them

862
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,760
Speaker 1: an empowering belief system. And I think that most people

863
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: are held back by a set of limiting beliefs. They

864
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: don't even realize we're choices. They just think that their

865
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: truth and the reality of people confuse their massive biases truth.

866
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: And because of that, people don't even try to do

867
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: things that they would otherwise be completely capable of learning. Um.

868
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: And so that's my mission, men, is to through media,

869
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: through both fiction and nonfiction, give people that set of beliefs.

870
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: And that's that's really you know, sa my When you

871
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: just talk about people as fear, isn't it though, Fear

872
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: stops people. Fear of change, fear of failure, fear of

873
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: somebody criticizing them for making that change and it fails.

874
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that blocks block people

875
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: from being successful, no question. And when you when I

876
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: talk about beliefs, I'm talking about those things that lead

877
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: people to be afraid, such as failing means I may

878
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: failure that. You know, the things that I've done up

879
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: to this point in my life determine what I'm capable

880
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: of in the future, and that fills them with fear.

881
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: And so, like you're saying that, the way that all

882
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: of that stuff manifests is a neurochemical reaction which makes

883
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: your heart raise, which makes your palm sweat, which makes

884
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: you convinced that if you do this and mess up,

885
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: that it's going to destroy your life. And because people

886
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: get caught in that fear trap, they don't ever find

887
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: out whe they're actually bole of doing. And so what

888
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: I want to do is get rid of that fear

889
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: by attacking the underlying beliefs that feed into that fear. Okay,

890
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: let's back up a little bit. I have to start

891
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: off by mentioning the impact theory, because that's the show

892
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 1: I recently appeared on, where he hosts as a weekly

893
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: show appears on his YouTube channel. You can go back

894
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: and you can go there by the way and subscribe

895
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: to the channel, and every time he has a new episode,

896
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: they will flag you or sent you a notification to

897
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: UM to watch the new episode, and you can also

898
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: watch the past episodes. UM. It all started, like you said,

899
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: you know, you scrounging for money on your couch and

900
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: took us back to that moment because that that that

901
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: that's a moment where you overcame fears, where you you

902
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: have to convince people to believe in your vision. And

903
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: we talked about turning the idea into a billion dollar company.

904
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: Took us to that moment and that short journey. I

905
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: say short because of the fact that we don't have

906
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: a few minutes on this radio show to communicate it,

907
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: so we'll sound short. But but tell us about that

908
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: start and then some of the humps and the bumps

909
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: of their journey. Yeah, for sure. So I went to

910
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: film school, wanted to be a filmmaker, want to tell

911
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: great stories. I had no idea how to break into

912
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: the industry. This is back in the nineties. There was

913
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: no YouTube, there was no short cut. So I I

914
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: didn't have money, you know, I grew up a family

915
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 1: that teetered between blue collar and white collar. So I

916
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: don't know how to raid a hundred dollars dollars that

917
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: might as well have been a hundred million dollars. I

918
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: had no idea how to do it. And I met

919
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: the two entrepreneurs and they said, look, if you want

920
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: to control the art, you got to control the resources.

921
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: Us get rich and then you can build your own studio.

922
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: And I was just young enough and just not eve

923
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: enough to say, cool, yeah, let's right. I thought it

924
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 1: would take eighteen months. Sadly it did not quite work

925
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: out like that, but it did teach me that anyone

926
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: could become an entrepreneur. I didn't have to be born

927
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. And there was a huge thing because I'm

928
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: not a born entrepreneur at all. Like I was, I

929
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: had a paper route. I was too scared to go

930
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: knock on the doors to collect the money, so I

931
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: was delivering the papers for half the money that I

932
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: could have been. I mean, just like I have no

933
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial instincts. And then being in a business and having

934
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 1: the opportunity to just through sweat would get better and

935
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: pour myself in and outwork everybody and really grind it out.

936
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: I began to get good at business, and so I

937
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: ultimately realized, what are the you know, beliefs and things

938
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: that you need to have to not be paralyzed by

939
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: furiously and go out and execute. It's really about skills.

940
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: So I needed to be good at marketing. I had

941
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: to learn that that was the skills that I thought

942
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: that I could really get extraordinary at. And so I

943
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: poured myself into that. And the most important thing on

944
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: my journey that I learned to keep this nice and

945
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 1: brief without what I built my self esteem around mattered,

946
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: and it mattered a lot. So instead of arguing for

947
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: dumb ideas just because they were mine and it made

948
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: me feel good or smart, I needed to always be

949
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: a learner. And if I could always be a learner

950
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 1: and take pride in being willing to admit when I

951
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: was wrong and to learn what the right answer really was,

952
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: to admit that I'm not yet good enough, and to

953
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: sit at somebody's feet and learned from them humility, to

954
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: really be hungry for the knowledge instead of hungry for

955
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: the phrase, then I could really become something. And so

956
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: that notion of becoming something instead of trying to think

957
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: I'm cool now that I could become someone cool in

958
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: the future. That changed my life. And so I just

959
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: began acquiring skills relentlessly that had, you know, use in

960
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: the business and so made me a better businessman, made

961
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: me a better leader, a better marketer, better at conceptualizing products,

962
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: all of it. And so that was how I took

963
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: myself from you know, knowing nothing about business, uh, to

964
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: running a billion dollar companies. Now, let's talk about the products.

965
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: How do you how do you you know these products?

966
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: The whole thing is about making products that that is

967
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: healthy but taste good and enjoyable. Because when you go there,

968
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: he gives you this giant gift basket and I mean

969
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: it's giant. They got all kind of products in there.

970
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 1: And believe me, your bar aid it all the way

971
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: to the airport, you know, because you know, you get

972
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:55,959
Speaker 1: in the l a you don't have time to stop.

973
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: So I looked at that saw that basket, went okay,

974
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: let me just talk grabbing things and it was really good.

975
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 1: It was really so So that was the mindset to

976
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: that was the marketing angle. Look if this is good,

977
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: but it's healthy, but it's gonna taste good because it's

978
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: like a lot of stuff that is healthy. People run

979
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: from it because I can't stand that taste. I'd rather

980
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: say chubby, I'd rather die early. But you said, look,

981
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: this is good for you, but it also you're gonna

982
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:23,800
Speaker 1: enjoy the taste. That was the slogan, or that was

983
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: the angle of the approach and developing the brain. Yeah,

984
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: for sure. So our thing was far better to leverage

985
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: behavior than to try to change it. So you can

986
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: say that I'm gonna be like in church. I'm in church,

987
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: say that one were tapped. It's better to leverage behavior

988
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: than to try to change it. So people are a

989
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: certain way. People are going to eat food that tastes good,

990
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: whether it kills them or not. They don't care, like

991
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:52,479
Speaker 1: it's just so good. So we thought, okay, well people

992
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: are gonna do that anyway. Could we take that food

993
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: that people want to eat and make it healthy for them,

994
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: because if we could do that, then we could really

995
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: change of us. Okay, you're talking to the guy, the

996
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: guy Christal cream App. You know I go to five Guys,

997
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: get the five guys super fries. I'm taking you know,

998
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: I get that, I get the I get the fat

999
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: burger with the double king with the cheese, and you know,

1000
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm one of those guys. So so I'm

1001
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: in the car and I see Quest over there. You

1002
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: know I talked about that looks too. It looks it

1003
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: looks healthy. That looks like something that and I grabbed

1004
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: one of because it looks like you know those those

1005
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,760
Speaker 1: look that packaging. You know that that that that tastes

1006
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: you eat it, but it ain't gonna be right for you.

1007
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: Boy one, ate two, then three. I was so happy.

1008
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: In fact, if you go to my house right now, sir,

1009
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: I do have it in my cabinets. Sir, you have

1010
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: made me a new healthy nutrition and my my, my

1011
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: staff all knows me. I I am a banana split guy. Tom.

1012
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: I am a guy who will eat uh shake uh

1013
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: to shake. I eat my dessert before I eat my meals.

1014
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: So I am that guy. I'm that guy you go

1015
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: give a shot. But you didn't look like you do

1016
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yes I do, sir, Yes I do.

1017
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: I am a a wacky eater, but it was great

1018
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: that you created a product that that slowed me down

1019
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: but allowed me to have the taste that I want,

1020
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: the sweech that I want to kind of want and

1021
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: all that good stuff and come here to you turned

1022
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: the guy like me and I'm your customer that you

1023
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: were trying to reach. Correct that I would tell you.

1024
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: So you know when you look at something and you uh,

1025
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: my program director Adele, he saw the link, he win,

1026
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: did you see this link? Just like you're talking to

1027
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: the camera, you're telling everybody it's just great. So when

1028
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: I see something like that happening in life, and I

1029
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: really realized it's a very sincere interview that you're giving me.

1030
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 1: And then when I met you, met your wife, Lisa,

1031
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: met the whole staff, it was like walking into a family.

1032
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 1: It wasn't walking into a guy who's been successful at

1033
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: a level that most people don't understand. You were willing

1034
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: to be able to tell the world right now, come

1035
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,479
Speaker 1: to me. I got some information on want to share

1036
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: it if you, if you listen to me, I can

1037
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: help you get to your dream. And that's all impact

1038
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: theories about an amazing host. Tom. I want to thank

1039
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: you for coming on my show. Thank you for sharing

1040
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: these moments of inspiration that we're gonna share it to

1041
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: the part my part of the world, my part of

1042
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: the world, but more importantly, let me continue this relationship

1043
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: by exposing people to all these great guests that he

1044
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: has on this show, not just me, because I will

1045
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: not be selfish and stop this train of information that

1046
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: you're trying to put out. My brother, you need to

1047
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing, and we're gonna stay in

1048
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: this relationship at a very high level. Okay, thank you, alright,

1049
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: you pay safe and keep winning. Keep winning, my friend,

1050
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: thank you. Alright. You've been listening to money making conversation.

1051
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: Just ra Sean McDonald. Like you said, every Friday you

1052
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: can hear me. Every Sunday you can hear me, and

1053
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: definitely live on Mondays. When I was an FBI agent,

1054
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: I was aware of home title fraud. There was little

1055
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: we could do to stop it. Now there's home title lock.

1056
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,399
Speaker 1: This online bank was for closing on us. They even

1057
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 1: had documents that I signed for a home equity loan.

1058
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: Only I didn't want a nightmare. I didn't have home

1059
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: title lock then, but you bet I haven't. Now your

1060
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,799
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