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Speaker 1: My guests is Sean Berry. He is defiled and CEO

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Speaker 1: of the Metro Sports and Entertainment Group Metro e Sports.

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Speaker 1: The sports industry at this point annually is exceeding three

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Speaker 1: billion dollars. The Metro Metro Sports and Entertainment Group, which

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Speaker 1: we like to call Metro e Sports, is a technology

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Speaker 1: based based in Philadelphia, education media and custom e sports

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Speaker 1: event management company committed to attracting, engaging, entertaining, and educating

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Speaker 1: a broad and diverse group of expiring gaming and technology enthusiasts.

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Speaker 1: Sean has specialized in creating high profile and high value

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Speaker 1: nationally televised custom sports event applied to content. Because you

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Speaker 1: know now she's all the streamings out there, everybody won't content?

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Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation master class, the

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Speaker 1: one and only out of Philadelphia. He's a happy man

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Speaker 1: this weekend. We'll find out next weekend. Sean Berry, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing, sir? Good morning? How do you know?

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Speaker 1: You know when you see the Philadelphia we're talking about

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Speaker 1: only one philip Offer team right there. The Eagles were

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Speaker 1: talking about the seventies sixers. We talk about the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: Will talk about one fill it upfer team right now

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Speaker 1: as the Eagles feeling good in Philly right now, huh Man,

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Speaker 1: Philly special bro Philly got hard Philly. It's a whole

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Speaker 1: vibe to it. Well, Well, the great thing about it,

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Speaker 1: I've interviewed a lot of Uh I said, when you

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Speaker 1: say diverged, when I say diverse, I'm talking about from

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Speaker 1: the financial I'm talking abou African American people of color,

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Speaker 1: people from the entertainment spectrum, people from the novel e

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Speaker 1: sports section. Now I'm speaking to you. I have a

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Speaker 1: daughter who just graduated from University Houston, Magnacole Laudi gaming

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Speaker 1: designs media marketing because she wants to go in this field. Now,

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Speaker 1: is there a place for a young female to make

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Speaker 1: her mark in the gaming industry? Man? Absolutely? I mean

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Speaker 1: you know, first of all, as a whole, it's an

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Speaker 1: industry that, um, it makes a ton of money. You know,

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Speaker 1: three billion dollars. Like you said, it's growing. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think it grew something close to through the pandemic. Um.

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Speaker 1: You of all, people play games, um, but we as

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Speaker 1: a people, I'm talking about people of color over index

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Speaker 1: as consumers. And so when you think about an industry

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Speaker 1: making that much money, um, they've got to be responsible

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Speaker 1: so you know, females of color, males of color, UM,

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Speaker 1: but women in specific have so many opportunities now that

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Speaker 1: weren't afforded and need to do more. And now with

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Speaker 1: that being saying, how did you get into the business.

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Speaker 1: You know I always be Philly based. Well it's it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: So I'm from Philadelphia, so I was. I come from

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Speaker 1: the traditional sports world. I don't come from E sports

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Speaker 1: at University of Pittsburgh, wasn't good enough to play in

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Speaker 1: the league. UM. Spent years in corporate America, and I

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Speaker 1: started a sports event and media company UM. And what

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Speaker 1: I was doing was I was essentially traveling the country,

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Speaker 1: identifying the top young athletes in every major market and

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Speaker 1: creating showcase events. That platform grew I think three years.

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Speaker 1: if you can think back Todd Gurley, Jared Golf, the

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that so I had asked you something,

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Speaker 1: gather the information and found out the value of that request.

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Speaker 1: Talk about that moment, because a lot of people would say, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not my area of expertise. Why didn't you just

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Speaker 1: okay that you're knocking on the wrong door. Statement that

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Speaker 1: the call that I got was from the president of

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Speaker 1: so I started to research and try to understand the industry.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think anybody, particularly an investment community

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Speaker 1: market right. So there's all this rapid growth, it's worth

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Speaker 1: And so what that said to me was there's an

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Speaker 1: opportunity if you can organically and authentically reach our folks

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Speaker 1: a real opportunity here. Well, here's just just education. Could

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Speaker 1: I hear things like Fortnite? Uh here with Travis gott

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Speaker 1: Uh that like these are just digital skins that you

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Speaker 1: can't take them with you. They just think that you

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Speaker 1: buy online and the people are purchasing. Break down why

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Speaker 1: I mean, so let's go back right. So, anytime you

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Speaker 1: traditional sports perspective. If if you rushan own a stadium, right,

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Speaker 1: that's how you make your money. But when you own

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Speaker 1: be a part of my consumer audience. Right, And so

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Speaker 1: the opportunity UM comes in, you know, event participation, UH competition,

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Speaker 1: and then brand representation We'll be right back with more

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Speaker 1: money Making Conversations master Class with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Sean Barry, he's defied the CEO of the

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Speaker 1: Metro Sports and Entertainment group he's based out of Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: Metro E Sports. When I when I your personal color,

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Speaker 1: like you say, we over index, but the white consumer

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Speaker 1: we're trying to working on it, right, So I am.

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Speaker 1: I am diligently working on it because I know something.

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Speaker 1: And what I know is that the value of an

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Speaker 1: anything that you add our culture too, it becomes instantly

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Speaker 1: all the leadership in the industry, whether it's vps or UH,

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Speaker 1: and I know that we over index as consumers. There

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Speaker 1: You always talk about athletes. Athletes actually play these games.

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Speaker 1: So so now when you talk about your brand, you

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Speaker 1: Are you using social media? How are you maintaining your

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Speaker 1: But the other thing that I'm able to do, or

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Speaker 1: So we've partnered with the school district here where UM.

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Speaker 1: If you like playing the games, we can teach you

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Speaker 1: is to attach the benefit to the participation. Right. So

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Speaker 1: time to coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Well, thank

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