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

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,

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Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know he'll be interview with 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. Here

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Speaker 1: we come. I love that intro. It's what he likes

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Speaker 1: to do. What he likes to say was he's like

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Speaker 1: the comment on That's true. I like to comment on

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Speaker 1: a lot of things in my life and the life

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Speaker 1: and things I see in your life, and things I CEO, television,

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Speaker 1: things I read, and as I travel, you get to

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Speaker 1: experience a lot of different situations that allows you either

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Speaker 1: to compromise what you want to do or confront the

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Speaker 1: issues at hand. We're gonna talk about a lot of

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Speaker 1: things with my next two guests. One is the CEO

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Speaker 1: and found of James Town Music. He is a Grammy

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Speaker 1: nominated Billboard Music Art Award artists two times Stellar Award

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Speaker 1: artists J. J. Harrison and Youthful Praise going to their

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Speaker 1: first ever number one Billboard Top Gospel Airplay chart hit

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Speaker 1: with their single you Deserve It In He's John on

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Speaker 1: the show today with his wife to discuss their book

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Speaker 1: A Miracle Marriage, I Forgive You, I Trust You, I

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Speaker 1: Believe You, Volume one. They state that marriage is sacred,

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Speaker 1: marriage is powerful, but marriage has also been under attack

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Speaker 1: for quite some time. So on Money Making Conversations today,

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Speaker 1: we would discuss these things I mentioned in many upmore things.

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Speaker 1: Please working the Money Making Conversations JJ and Trina Hashton.

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Speaker 1: How are you pretty good? My friend? Pretty good? Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the show. Thank you for having me. I'm

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Speaker 1: always whether you are well, trainer, you're there, Yes, I'm here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having you. Absolutely as you saw, I

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Speaker 1: made some comments about myself, off and the family and

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Speaker 1: uh and a lot of people when uh you I'm

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Speaker 1: talking to two entrepreneurs here, small business owners. People are

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Speaker 1: living their dreams and their dreams are being put in

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Speaker 1: place through their goal setting, their consistency. Where is put

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Speaker 1: in perspective? Before we actually get into into the book,

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Speaker 1: the role of the family and uh, and it's in

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Speaker 1: your role of being successful as entrepreneurs. We we we

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Speaker 1: honestly believe that your family comes first. You believe families

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Speaker 1: is your first ministry. And now often say that God

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Speaker 1: does things in order. He's not gonna bless you with

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Speaker 1: this you know family, this wife, these children and then

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Speaker 1: But we believe that God there's things in order, so

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Speaker 1: that if you build your home and you do it

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Speaker 1: in the correct way, honoring your wife and teaching your

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Speaker 1: children the principles of God, that He will set things

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Speaker 1: in life for you when it comes to your career

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Speaker 1: and the things that you the people that you need

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Speaker 1: All of that for us come together when you put

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Speaker 1: your marriage and your family first. Because God is we

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Speaker 1: believe God is a god of order. So in doing so, UM,

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Speaker 1: if you if you've read our book, and I believe

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Speaker 1: you have, and maybe someone else out there has read it. Um,

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Speaker 1: when things were not in order in our household, uh,

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Speaker 1: things were not in order. For now that one of

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Speaker 1: just didn't seem to come together the way we needed

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Speaker 1: It's really when I was reading the book, it was

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Speaker 1: My man Todd Jones. Hey, Sean, how's it going pretty good? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, work where yet? Man? Because it's just just

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Speaker 1: I look up Entrepreneur magazine. Can't make this up for Shan.

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Speaker 1: but it was a gush. Yeah. Has had i've not

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Speaker 1: about let's talk about the name. How did you come

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about how how did you come up with

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Speaker 1: You know, I go to sleep, I wake up and

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Speaker 1: how guess what? And you're accepting of it. That's that's

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Speaker 1: And it fits perfectly because of the fact that when

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Speaker 1: yes you know, because a donut is a donut is

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Speaker 1: You could smell a donor being made, you could taste

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Speaker 1: it made. We had all these senses. It's an experience.

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Speaker 1: I love this guy. I love it because he got

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Speaker 1: you're in New York City. Now here's the thing about it.

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Speaker 1: This day you said, you create an interactive experience. Like

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Speaker 1: it and see it, and you create and you also

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Speaker 1: have a signature. Donna is the final cake, which is

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Speaker 1: another one of my favorite the carnival is desserts is

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Speaker 1: the final cake. So tell me exactly what is the

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Speaker 1: final dawn? Because I'm gonna feels like it's a ben

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Speaker 1: unique donut that can like signify who we are. So

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Speaker 1: I started thinking Brooklyn. I'm like, wait a minute, Cody Allen.

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Speaker 1: I could put it together. We go funnel cake donut bingo.

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Speaker 1: That was it. So it's a combination, just like a

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Speaker 1: I love it. I'm just if if you're ever in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: you gotta go buy and Steve because you you are,

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Speaker 1: you are, You're both locations now. You spend most of

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Speaker 1: your time at the Brooklyn location. The way actually because

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Speaker 1: we're building this franchise. Um, I'm you know, sometimes that's broken.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the Queen's you know, it depends on you know,

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing for the day. But um, usually you

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Speaker 1: can find me in Brooklyn. Uh. He's the man. Like

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Speaker 1: he said, if you cut him, he will bleed glaze.

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Speaker 1: He's the owner of co owner of Cousin doesn't they're

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Speaker 1: franchising out there. How can they reach out to you?

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Speaker 1: Uh learn more about the franchising process, taught, Well, you

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Speaker 1: But like I said, after a hundred twenty days, you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll have perspectives and you know, people could um see

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Speaker 1: what it is that we got. And we're actually, especially

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Speaker 1: the beginning stage, we're looking for individuals with high net

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Speaker 1: worth because what we want to do is sell them territories, sir,

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Speaker 1: you know, like buying minimumal ten franchises. Were also throwing

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Speaker 1: a mobile unit with that. That's how we've become the

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Speaker 1: By doing multiplication, that's how you become the fastest going

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Speaker 1: franchise franchise history. But Man Todd, thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: Please welcome, good friend. Long time been so long since

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Speaker 1: I've talked to because she has one of the best

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Speaker 1: laughs in Hollywood. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Producer

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Speaker 1: Extraordinary Holly Carter. Hi, hey, big timer, how are you

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Speaker 1: doing time? Okay, let's put the blast with the faith

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Speaker 1: and all this. But I'm mentioning all this stuff. This

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Speaker 1: has to be uh, you know, here's I was. I

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Speaker 1: was at NBC UNI and and I mentioned your name

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Speaker 1: and they just gushed with compliments about how professional you are,

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Speaker 1: that you are a creative genius, that you are a

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Speaker 1: producer extraordinaire, and it's just it's just watching you grow

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Speaker 1: your brand. Tell us about what is your brand? Ms Carter? Um,

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Speaker 1: you know what, First of all, that's so awesome. It's

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Speaker 1: awesome to know that you know, your reputation is speaking

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Speaker 1: for you and that means a lot to me. Um.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, my brand is redemptive, provocative, informative, entertaining,

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Speaker 1: and aspirational content. That's that's what I'm up. That's what

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Speaker 1: represents my faith, you know, my way of life. Um,

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Speaker 1: what I believe is? Now? What ask this question then,

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Speaker 1: because you're ended with it, What do you believe in

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Speaker 1: in terms of my faith? Well? You say, you say

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Speaker 1: your aspiration, your faith and what you believe in that

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Speaker 1: that was a lead off into something else. Besides that,

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Speaker 1: is it all tied to faith? Is it believed in

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Speaker 1: the storytelling that you want to tell or that the

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Speaker 1: people you want to have a relationship with when you're

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Speaker 1: producing these type of shows. What is that all tied to?

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Speaker 1: I guess I apologize for that confusing question, but that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm extending it beyond where you ended it, because

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Speaker 1: it's all about relationships, correct, got it? Yeah? I believe

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Speaker 1: in relationships that you know that God allows us to create, cultivate,

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Speaker 1: maintain um because you know, relationships are key and um.

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Speaker 1: You know, some relationships are seasonal reasonabal and then there's

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Speaker 1: some for a lifetime. And you know, I thank God

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Speaker 1: for the wisdom to know the difference in in the

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Speaker 1: three seasonal reasonable and and for a lifetime. There you

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Speaker 1: go on point, just trying to educate my audience to

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Speaker 1: understand how you are driving your concept because people approach

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Speaker 1: me all the time with creative ideas. I can make

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Speaker 1: a lot of money with this ra Sean, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: got it. But what's the basis of it? What's what's

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Speaker 1: the plan? Uh? What talent has attached to this and

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Speaker 1: so one of the things that I always enjoyed doing

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Speaker 1: was Emerged Summit. Are you still doing Emerge summits? Oh? Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're going into year eleven next year. Um that you know,

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Speaker 1: that is an extension of my purpose in Hollywood to

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Speaker 1: merge the sacred and the secular, bring opportunity and platforms

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Speaker 1: to other believers who are creative and you know, and

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Speaker 1: want to impact culture through entertainment. And so Merge is

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Speaker 1: a very very big part of what I do and

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Speaker 1: what I represent, and it will be a part of

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Speaker 1: my legacy. Now if it started traveling now, member, I

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Speaker 1: used to always go to l A. And then I

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Speaker 1: saw it on the East coast. Is it still based

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Speaker 1: on the in l A. Or is it traveling from

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Speaker 1: different to different cities. Well, we are one year on

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Speaker 1: in l A for the three day event, and then

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Speaker 1: the next year we travel um, you know, so we

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Speaker 1: are you know, it's a national event now, but each

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Speaker 1: every other year we're in a different market. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: what market was it in? This is the Merge Summer

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Speaker 1: we're talking about? Is Angeley for the complete weekend of education,

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Speaker 1: empowerment and entertainment. I used to always attended in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles names on the road. So what what market was

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Speaker 1: it in the summit? Well, this was the year that

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Speaker 1: it toured and so we were at essens in July.

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Speaker 1: So we curated UM three major conversations UM in July

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Speaker 1: at Essence Festival, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Okay cool? So

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Speaker 1: now will it be back in l A, back in

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Speaker 1: l A? Okay cool? Three days? Three days? Uh? And

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Speaker 1: so with that being said, when does it? When do

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Speaker 1: you start promoting that? Is it promoting at the top

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Speaker 1: of the year. How do you do that? We will

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Speaker 1: send out kind of a save the Day by October

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Speaker 1: uh this year for next year, and it's the last

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Speaker 1: week in August next year. Okay cool? Let me know

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Speaker 1: so I can support you through my social media fan

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Speaker 1: club members. I'd love to put that in my monthly

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Speaker 1: newsletter and promote your brand from the merged Summit. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I will certainly let you know. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for Sean. I appreciate that. Okay, Cool. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: what Let's talk about how did you come up with

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Speaker 1: creative ideas? Let's talk about let me dive into your

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Speaker 1: head of ms carter because your your platforms are our

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Speaker 1: faith based. Uh, how do you how do you how

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Speaker 1: do you sit around and just think of an idea?

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Speaker 1: Do you make a phone call? Do you do you

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Speaker 1: have a staff that you pitch to? How does the

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Speaker 1: evolution of creativity happen in your world? Um? You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a mixture of several things. Sometimes people bring me ideas,

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Speaker 1: other times I curate them based on something that I

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Speaker 1: want to do. Um and then and then there are

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Speaker 1: times when the team will generate an idea. So it

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Speaker 1: definitely varied, Like to show that's on NBC, I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: to show that's on d et calor Next six Things. Um,

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Speaker 1: that idea was brought to me and I developed it.

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Speaker 1: I brought in the team, we developed it, I sold it,

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Speaker 1: and that's how it got on the air. It was

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Speaker 1: kind of a germ of the idea, and we ended

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Speaker 1: up kind of refurbishing, kind of repackaging and redeveloping it

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Speaker 1: to what it is now. The idea that's on v

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Speaker 1: H one. It was just literally based on my relationship

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Speaker 1: with one of the stars of the show. It was

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Speaker 1: his continent, it was his business, and I thought this

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Speaker 1: would really make a good television show. Let's let's do

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Speaker 1: this and that's how that happens. That's love and listings, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's motherless thing. That's on one, and then we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the next big thing. This is only there's on

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Speaker 1: BT and that the judges Damon dash On their Tina Davis,

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Speaker 1: and there's twelve up and coming R and B and

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Speaker 1: hip hop artists through this. Basically, you say it's grueling development.

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Speaker 1: So I'm assuming that you start with twelve and you

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Speaker 1: end with one. That's how it works. On the next

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Speaker 1: big things. Yeah, there's there's one winner that's crowned the

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Speaker 1: next big things, and then after that, then after that

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Speaker 1: you move on. So I'm assuming that in your office

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Speaker 1: some where in Hollywood there's just a there's just just

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Speaker 1: giant pitch room, correct, mm hmmm. Yes. We have what's

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Speaker 1: called of development development time, and during that development time

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Speaker 1: we talked about new ideas, things that have been tip

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Speaker 1: people bring up um ideas, and and then we also,

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Speaker 1: you know, continue the development of current projects that are

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Speaker 1: on our slates. The thing about it that you know,

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Speaker 1: I asked you that question, Rachean, what what are you

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Speaker 1: most proud of? And when I think of Holly, I

643
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Speaker 1: think of the years I've known you. The thing that

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Speaker 1: I always loved about you was the Merged Summit. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna be honest with you. When I did those

646
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Speaker 1: I it was so many people who were there just

647
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Speaker 1: wanted information on how to win, how to learn, how

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Speaker 1: to how can I not make the same mistake over

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Speaker 1: and over again? And it was and it was, you know,

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Speaker 1: because she get mad at me because you know, you

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Speaker 1: you come there, you're not supposed to use any you know,

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Speaker 1: salty words, and I would use them periodically. There's just

653
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Speaker 1: like my mom on the side, Rashan, you know where

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Speaker 1: you at, Rashwan, you can't say that. And it was,

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Speaker 1: it was, it was, it was always. It was always

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Speaker 1: fun for me to participate because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: it was about paying it forward. And that really is

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Speaker 1: something I feel from a from a a person who

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Speaker 1: looked so far. You are changing the game, You're you're

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Speaker 1: blessing people, you're opening doors, and do you see it

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Speaker 1: there the same way I'm seeing it because of the

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00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: fact that I know you started and sometimes you can

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Speaker 1: be so deep in it and just producing it every year.

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Speaker 1: Now you put it on the road, which means there's

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Speaker 1: even more complexities to that being produced you took it

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Speaker 1: the essence this year. I've seen it in Baltimore, you

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Speaker 1: know every other years back in Los Angeles. Were originated

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Speaker 1: from am I am I saying too much? Or you

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Speaker 1: saying rash You're dead on with what what what? What

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Speaker 1: you're trying to achieve with the Merged Summit. No, you're dead.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's when you go back and you ask

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Speaker 1: what are your most proud of? You know, from a

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Speaker 1: project standpoint, I'm proud of all my projects. What makes

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Speaker 1: the clocks of suspecsional with what I said when you

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Speaker 1: talk about um my endeavors or my ventures or those

676
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: legacy moments, I think I'm really proud at the Merge

677
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Speaker 1: because that to your point, what it represents, what it

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Speaker 1: does for other believers, what it does for other creative people.

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Speaker 1: UM the fact that next year will be launching uh Inset,

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Speaker 1: which is Merge Extension Program, which will be a accredited

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Speaker 1: um UH Extensions College program for those who want to

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Speaker 1: take the Merge further. If it's a nine month program,

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Speaker 1: so that's an extension of Merge and it's a it's

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Speaker 1: another opportunity to give access, give platform, give opportunity. So

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Speaker 1: I am super proud of what Merge has accomplished, and

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for twenty to be even bigger. I want

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Speaker 1: to continue to provide opportunity, to continue to connect the

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Speaker 1: dots for people that really have a heart for entertainment. Well,

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Speaker 1: when you say bigger, just being nosy, what do you

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Speaker 1: say when you say you want to be bigger? Was

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Speaker 1: it a bigger facility, bigger more attendance, bigger talent to participate?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean when you say bigger? Bigger everything

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Speaker 1: I want? I need bigger. I need bigger partners to

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Speaker 1: make it bigger. I want more people to experience the opportunity,

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Speaker 1: and I want to create a bigger and better experience

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Speaker 1: for them. I really do. I need to be vision

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Speaker 1: oriented exactly what it says, visions awesome. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: this project, live action feature film for Fox Family based

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Speaker 1: on your father's life and development called Music to My Ears.

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Speaker 1: Talk about that, but it's really based on my dad's

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Speaker 1: uh life work, what he did with the homeless community,

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Speaker 1: um outreach to help change their lives. And so Devon

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Speaker 1: Franklin and I are doing this together at Fox Family.

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Speaker 1: We are now at the stages of a new script

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Speaker 1: and uh, hopefully we will land this plane by the

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Speaker 1: end of the year and be ready to go into

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Speaker 1: production next year. And what what now is? Is there

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Speaker 1: going to be a time period piece and going to

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Speaker 1: Act needs yeah, which with angels, and it's a it's

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Speaker 1: definitely like Sister Acts with angels. Uh, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of it takes place in heaven. So it's so it's

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Speaker 1: such a fun story. That's cool. Now, let messages. Are

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Speaker 1: you when I met you, you were managing talent? Are

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Speaker 1: that you just doing partnerships? No, I only do talent partnerships,

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Speaker 1: will I will manage the projects that have partnered with talent,

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Speaker 1: I don't longer do that. I know, I love it,

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Speaker 1: And I always tell people, you know, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: will not reach your dream. My next guest is one

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Speaker 1: of those people. Um I know because I met her

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Speaker 1: a long time ago, and we're gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 1: She's a celebrity interior designer Arthur and known trend setter

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Speaker 1: with twenty years of experience. She's a a vast range

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Speaker 1: celebrities such as Gabrielle Union good friend of Mine, Tsa

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Speaker 1: Campbell very good friend of mine, Tyra Banks I know

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Speaker 1: her will. She is also a lifestyle and design expert

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Speaker 1: for several TV networks such as HDTV, E Oxygen on

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Speaker 1: Network and starting in her own makeover show called Unboxed

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Speaker 1: with Nikki Chew on the Aspired Network. Please welcome to

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Nikki Chew. Hello, Hello, this is a

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Speaker 1: full circle moment. I have to tell you thank you

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Speaker 1: because right before that bio you just read me Matt Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: that years that twenty years. Yes, So this is this

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Speaker 1: actually means a lot to me to sit here, you know,

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Speaker 1: listening to the bio you just read about me, and

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Speaker 1: you really knowing me in the very beginning. Yes, you know.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's let's tell everybody that I was executive boost

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Speaker 1: show for the WB I created co created with Steve Harvey. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It was called Mobile Home Disasters where we will go

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Speaker 1: in and to mobile homes and make over, make them over.

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Speaker 1: And she was one of the designers that was higher

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, first of all, just uh, it's

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Speaker 1: people who are creative and renegade eighty three aid was

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Speaker 1: thing I loved about her. She had an opinion and

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Speaker 1: she held to it. Yes, yeah, and you know, and

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Speaker 1: I'm one of those people who are okay, really really

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Speaker 1: really I don't even know her. I don't know her,

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Speaker 1: and and and and and and that was a beauty

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Speaker 1: of that. And then so I look at the six

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Speaker 1: s's that you had coming from mobile home disaster. Air

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Speaker 1: B Good Time and then it went on just think

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Speaker 1: to see the Country Music Television Network afterwards. But a

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Speaker 1: you had a good concept of what you wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what was running to your mind at that

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Speaker 1: stage before we started moving forward to what you've accomplished

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Speaker 1: over the years. Well, first of all, anybody tells you

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna make over mobile homes, you know, as

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Speaker 1: a designer, that is on the list of what you'd

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Speaker 1: love to do. I'm not sure where you would find that.

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Speaker 1: So there was a lot of things that ran through

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Speaker 1: my head as it related to that. But as a designer,

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Speaker 1: the one thing that I absolutely love is a challenge,

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Speaker 1: and especially when it comes to a design challenge. So

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Speaker 1: that was actually a really exciting time because, first of all,

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Speaker 1: challenged to design a makeover for these mobile homes and

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Speaker 1: host with a comedian. So the concept was really original,

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Speaker 1: it was fresh, it was new, it was totally different

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Speaker 1: a lot of work, you know, and nobody really realizes

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Speaker 1: when you watch these television shows what happens, what you

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Speaker 1: see before your eyes, and the five days you have

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Speaker 1: And that's where the challenges that people say, I want

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Speaker 1: to be on TV, I want to be a designer.

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Speaker 1: But what you don't know is that you're about to

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Speaker 1: be awake for the next three days. I forgot about

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Speaker 1: that part because we were it was like it was

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Speaker 1: mobile homes, and these mobile homes were not good looking

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Speaker 1: I also had to do the exterior, so we had

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Speaker 1: to do a little landscape and so where they came up,

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Speaker 1: it looked pretty and then they walked in and oh

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Speaker 1: my god. Then you have to show them before pictures,

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Speaker 1: after pictures called mobile home disaster. And uh, I went

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Speaker 1: just naming. Then when I got a lot, I don't

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Speaker 1: have that much time on my show. Another way. The

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Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about first is the the

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Speaker 1: online design school called design that e DU That really

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Speaker 1: excites me. I have a daughter, she's a she's in UM.

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Speaker 1: She said, she's doing gaming and design, doing designs right

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Speaker 1: now and designs classes and all these different classes. So

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Speaker 1: when I this is something I would love for her

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Speaker 1: just to do because I think it's really cool. So

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Speaker 1: tell us what exactly is going on with design Mecca Etiu.

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Speaker 1: Design Mecca ETI you UM stemmed from an amazing amount

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Speaker 1: all ages, from young girls to women in their sixties

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Speaker 1: that would tell me their story that they absolutely loved design.

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Speaker 1: It was something they wanted to do, they were scared

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Speaker 1: to get into it. Where young girls who had gone

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Speaker 1: to college and they graduated and they were trying to

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Speaker 1: get into the design world and they just haven't had

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Speaker 1: any success. And majority these women were asking me to

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Speaker 1: mentor them, to teach them everything that I knew. How

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Speaker 1: did I get to where I was? How did I

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Speaker 1: get ten licensing deals in home to court? How did

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Speaker 1: I get on a TV show? How did I? And

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Speaker 1: and I just couldn't possibly reach everybody and Design Mecca

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Speaker 1: came from that. I need to put together a twelve

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Speaker 1: module course and curriculum that really teaches people things that

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Speaker 1: you don't learn at school. You know, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to take that traditional four year course at school and

901
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Speaker 1: pay all those tuition fees if you have a talent.

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Speaker 1: I didn't go to school to be an interior designer.

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Speaker 1: I went to school to be a graphic designer. Yes,

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Speaker 1: every single day I use my graphic design abilities. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying don't go to school, but design Mecca e

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Speaker 1: du is that additional schooling that you need to get

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Speaker 1: that little extra thing to push you a little further

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Speaker 1: in the I didn't know that. Oh now I'm learning

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Speaker 1: from experts in the field that I want to be in,

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Speaker 1: and the experts are gonna tell me those little nuances

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Speaker 1: that the users didn't teach because they're teaching you the groundwork, right. So,

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Speaker 1: how do you run the business? How do you engage

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Speaker 1: with clients? What happens when you have a difficult client?

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Speaker 1: How do you discern between a client's personality type and

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Speaker 1: how you're going to sell to them or pitch to them.

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Speaker 1: What happens if I have some ordering miss ups? How

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Speaker 1: do I brand myself as a designer in today's society.

918
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Speaker 1: All of these things that you need to learn to

919
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Speaker 1: will learn with Design Mecha et You. And the bigger

921
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Speaker 1: question for a lot of designers is how do I

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Speaker 1: now have my own homeline? Did you know that you

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Speaker 1: could get licensing deals or did you know you could

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Speaker 1: started on your own? You know, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: just don't even know where to begin. So that's what

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Speaker 1: we're teaching. I'm talking to Nikki Chew, star of the

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Speaker 1: show Unboxed. He is the executive producer and creator is

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Speaker 1: the second season of Inspired Network Wrap us up, tell

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Speaker 1: us about this show and tell us what they can find.

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Speaker 1: It's a syndicated as at different times, but tell us

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Speaker 1: about the show so we can be prepared about He's

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Speaker 1: excited about it even more. Okay. The show airs tonight

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Speaker 1: on Inspire a p m. Eastern Every Tuesday at apm

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Speaker 1: this season is so exciting. I have celebrity guests on

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Speaker 1: and to see their reaction, to see their spaces. These

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942
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Speaker 1: so I I am really excited, and we air tonight,

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Speaker 1: so I can't wait to see that. I'm watching for sure. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, amazing growth. I want to be a

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Speaker 1: part of that growth. So you know I've ready to

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Speaker 1: everybody know about your home designs. This is amazing. That's

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Speaker 1: you know, I know that this is about relationships, and

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Speaker 1: I will be supporting you even more so because we've

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Speaker 1: I gotta let everybody know to watch your show. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and be sure to follow me Nikki Chew Home on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of cool updates, tips and tricks

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Speaker 1: for design okay, thank you very much. I appreciate you.

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