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Speaker 1: It's the show that she has the secrets of success

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Speaker 1: If it come, happy, Happy New Year, Happy New Year

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Uh. This listening to money making conversations that

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Speaker 1: with Stephen A. Smith. Foods are recovering from COVID, my blessings.

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Speaker 1: I've been talking to him on a daily basis. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And but a lot of people are recovering from COVID

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Speaker 1: So this is something that's not going away. It's uh,

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Speaker 1: let COVID win. I'm gonna keep my energy up because

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Speaker 1: guess what. I'm on this show because people have given

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Speaker 1: me the opportunity to speak to you every Tuesday. And

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Speaker 1: when I speak to you, I want to let you

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Speaker 1: know tomorrow is a better day. Today it's a great

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Speaker 1: day because you're listening to me. Not only are you

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Speaker 1: listening to me. But you're in a position to change

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Speaker 1: your life. You can't. You can change your life. You can.

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Speaker 1: You can stop your car, you can get out of

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Speaker 1: do anything you want. Those are decisions that you make.

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Speaker 1: They may seem small to you, but there are major

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Speaker 1: it's been a busy week so far from me. Um

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Speaker 1: Yesterday I was on Good Day Atlanta talking to sharing

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Speaker 1: This's to the top of the year. This is when

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Speaker 1: stills has happened, but you can kind of reset. You

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Speaker 1: And what I don't want you to do is not

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Speaker 1: It's a new year and this time and this time

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Speaker 1: of year, always talk about making changes in our lives.

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Speaker 1: Just I'm listening to you. I'm listening to your unvail,

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Speaker 1: capacity to change the world. We know what you know

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Speaker 1: I was just talking about. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: heard the earlier part of the shows. By bragging, you

428
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Speaker 1: bragging and promoting and as black people, we do you

429
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Speaker 1: know we don't understand that because we were trying to

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Speaker 1: tend to humble ourselves and say, hey, don't talk, don't

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Speaker 1: promote yourself. You know you can't. You can't brag about

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Speaker 1: your success. You know that's gloating and you gotta be

433
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Speaker 1: able to market yourself. I know you. You took me

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Speaker 1: on the tour of this facility. I saw the early

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Speaker 1: stages when it when it wasn't complete. Now I saw

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Speaker 1: the brilliance of it. I saw that and you and

437
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Speaker 1: you was telling me what we're gonna do this, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do this, We're gonna have this location over here,

439
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 1: and you just walk me to room, the room, the room.

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Speaker 1: And if you didn't talk like that, James, about the facility,

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Speaker 1: I would not have been inspired by that. Talk about

442
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: how people mix message when you're trying to trying to

443
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Speaker 1: grow your brand, trying to talk about your business, and

444
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: then you can be met with oh you're just gloating,

445
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Speaker 1: Oh you just bragging? Are you just too much? You

446
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: know I've battled with that because and I think that

447
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Speaker 1: the words that escapes all of it is authenticity. If

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Speaker 1: you are true to your brand, if you're true to

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Speaker 1: your mission, if you truly believe in what you're doing

450
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Speaker 1: and it comes off as authentic, I think you start

451
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Speaker 1: to mitigate some of those kind of societal community issues

452
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Speaker 1: because people can feel the energy. They can feel that,

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Speaker 1: you know what, this brother right here is absolutely in

454
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Speaker 1: it for the right reason. Ain't bragging. He's just seeing

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Speaker 1: a vision and I want to catch that vision. So

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Speaker 1: I think that is one of the things that that

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Speaker 1: needs to be lifted up. And when we started talking

458
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Speaker 1: about entrepreneurship and small business, are you true to it?

459
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Speaker 1: And if you're true to it people who know Now

460
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Speaker 1: he's an interesting thing about it. Now, Rice or Russell

461
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Speaker 1: Center invest in Black entrepreneurs, strengthens back, strengthens businesses, and

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Speaker 1: create community. Those three things I took out of my

463
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Speaker 1: you know, doing my research and everything about the center.

464
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Speaker 1: Now when I walk through that, how does one who's listening,

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Speaker 1: how does want to get involved? And what type of

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Speaker 1: individuals come to your facility for success? You know, I

467
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Speaker 1: sold HBCU model. I think the far too often we

468
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Speaker 1: start programs with the only goal in informative. We need

469
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Speaker 1: things that are focused on being transformative. And so I

470
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Speaker 1: need to be able to help the guy that's leaving

471
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Speaker 1: the post office after fifteen years and just wants to

472
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Speaker 1: start out on this leaving all the way up. The

473
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Speaker 1: person is trying to scale a business north of fifty

474
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Speaker 1: or undred million dollars. So our big idea platform inspired develop, execute, accelerate, scale,

475
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Speaker 1: allow somebody at the earliest stages of an idea. Who

476
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Speaker 1: we're also there to help somebody at the later stage

477
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Speaker 1: of the growth in scale. UM. You know we we

478
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Speaker 1: we are because who we are, we had to cast

479
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Speaker 1: a wide net to make sure that we're able to

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Speaker 1: provide hope to people. Man, I mean, post pandemic, We're

481
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Speaker 1: gonna need more of the symbols of hope. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: need institutions to manufacturer, and we hope to be one

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Speaker 1: of those institutions. So we are currently UM Industry Agnostics.

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Speaker 1: If you have a dream, if you have an ambition,

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Speaker 1: you want to start a business, you want to grow

486
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Speaker 1: a business, we have a platform to help you do that,

487
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Speaker 1: meets you where you are and help you get to

488
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Speaker 1: where you're trying to go. You're really interesting. When I

489
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Speaker 1: hear you talking, I hear about a the word entrepreneur. UM,

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Speaker 1: I have an idea what that is? I really do

491
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Speaker 1: but also know a lot of people don't have an

492
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Speaker 1: idea what there is, you know, because the word small

493
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: business pops into that word. That's not the same thing

494
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Speaker 1: as a small business owner and entrepreneurs. That's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: What what what what what? Because there's there's so many

496
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Speaker 1: words out there, we get confused and you have so

497
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Speaker 1: many ways you can get a small business loan, and

498
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Speaker 1: you can't get a small business loan. The PPP out there,

499
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Speaker 1: they covidcame, that Kevi, we went that COVID back, got

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Speaker 1: a free called Armacron. You know, it's like, what do

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Speaker 1: we go if if a person is trying to go

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Speaker 1: out there trying to break change, we realize that you know, unemployment.

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Speaker 1: You know, people don't even want to return back to

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Speaker 1: for their all week jobs. They don't They stayed at home.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to go back. They feel as a

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Speaker 1: different life emotionally, they don't want to deal with the

507
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Speaker 1: stress of what that company or that corporate world was

508
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Speaker 1: offering them. Now they want to be an entrepreneur. How

509
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Speaker 1: do they break that cycle and take advantage of the

510
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Speaker 1: opportunities you guys are providing at the Russell Center. You know,

511
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Speaker 1: I see him different and everybody as their own finishing

512
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Speaker 1: to what entrepreneurship is, what it's not. Um, I'm just

513
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Speaker 1: a firm believer. Entrepreneurs and problem solvers and small business

514
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Speaker 1: owners are ones that can capitalize on opportunities. You know,

515
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Speaker 1: Entrepreneurs look at a landscape and see what's not there

516
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Speaker 1: and they try to create it. They try to fill

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Speaker 1: that gap in In my opinion, entrepreneurship is literally a

518
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Speaker 1: problem met with an economic solution. Now you may involve

519
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Speaker 1: into becoming a small business owner. You've got a repeatable

520
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: business model, whether you're not just working on the business

521
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: for the business works for you. I think they're different,

522
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: and I think they're wired. You and I could go

523
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: and buy Tim Popeye's franchises and we be in business

524
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Speaker 1: and we make decent money, but we haven't solved a

525
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Speaker 1: big problems. And I think entrepreneurs are uniquely equipped to

526
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Speaker 1: solve the big problems in society faces and they make

527
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Speaker 1: money doing it. Wow, we will be right back with

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Speaker 1: more money Making conversation with Rushan McDonald. You are now

529
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Speaker 1: tuned into the money making conversations. Minute of Inspiration with

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. I sat down with my man Todd Delaney

531
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Speaker 1: at the age of eighteen, he was focusing on pursuing

532
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Speaker 1: his baseball career and was drafted by the New York Mets.

533
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Speaker 1: During this pursuit, he realized there was a higher call

534
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Speaker 1: it on his life and left the world sports to

535
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Speaker 1: pursue a career as a gospel recording artists. He is

536
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Speaker 1: revered as one of the influencers of the next generation

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Speaker 1: of gospel music. Here's what Todd Delaney had to say.

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Speaker 1: The crazy thing about so how much we put so

539
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: much emphasis on force in America, Like if you make

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Speaker 1: it to the top of the sports, they think that's

541
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Speaker 1: the greatest thing. But for me, impact, impact was the

542
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Speaker 1: was the greatest thing. I said, Man, how can I

543
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Speaker 1: impact the world? Don't ever chase the dollar? You know

544
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying that it's not that it's not the dollar,

545
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: chase the impact. How can you make an impact on

546
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Speaker 1: other people's lives and the money will chase you? And

547
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Speaker 1: so I'm in a really beautiful place right now. If

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Speaker 1: you were to listen to this full interview with Todd

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Speaker 1: Delaney is available on Money Making Conversation dot com. Look

550
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Speaker 1: at your children eyes to see the true magic of

551
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Speaker 1: a forest. It's a storybook world for them. You look

552
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Speaker 1: and see a tree. They see the wrinkled face of

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Speaker 1: a wizard with arms outstretched to the sky. They see

554
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Speaker 1: treasure and pebbles. They see a windy path that could

555
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Speaker 1: lead to adventure, and they see you. They're fearless. Guide.

556
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Speaker 1: Is this fascinating world? Find a forest near you and

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Speaker 1: start exploring and discover the forest dot org brought to

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Speaker 1: you by the United States Forest Service and the Council.

559
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: Now let's return to money making conversation with Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to the president and CEO of RICE with

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Speaker 1: the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs. Georgia bull Dog. At

562
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Speaker 1: least had to bring that up on you, this thing.

563
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Speaker 1: I could not when you said you went to Georgia.

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Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't leave phone calls when I bring

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Speaker 1: it up to Georgia bull Dog. How are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling? It is the show to be

567
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Speaker 1: national camp you, George bull Dog. We're gonna go on

568
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Speaker 1: a record. See that's all I'm saying that you cannot

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Speaker 1: be in this city and not because I remember when

570
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: I met you. Man, if we half our conversation, Man

571
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: was about to George the bulldogs and to see them

572
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Speaker 1: about to about to do it, right, dude, take down

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Speaker 1: that big bad Alabama next month. It's gonna be special. Brother.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't have said a better. Big Bad Alabama's conform

575
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Speaker 1: to go down hungry. These dogs want to eat. And uh,

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Speaker 1: it's just our time at a long time. If we

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Speaker 1: held up a ray you know, you know, I always

578
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: doing researcher about this big ideas model, and you brought

579
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Speaker 1: it up in conversation, and we always talked about catchy phrases.

580
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Speaker 1: We always talk about things that you know to get

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Speaker 1: people noticed. You. Now, if I just want to slow

582
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Speaker 1: down in this break and find out exactly what you

583
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Speaker 1: meant when you say big idea model, What exactly is

584
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: that our big the ideas model. It's um when I

585
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: said I took a page out of the HPU book,

586
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: is looking at how I can be a green freshman

587
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: and not know anything and I start freshman year. I'm

588
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: not taking senior level of course because I am not ready.

589
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: And if I don't master everything that freshman year, I

590
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: don't become a sophomore. If I've not completed all of

591
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Speaker 1: my court work, I don't graduate. So in our platform

592
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Speaker 1: we don't really believe in social promotion because I think

593
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: part of the issue is in the marketplace. Far too

594
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: often the programming is just based on time, not already

595
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: and so inspired developed execute accelerated scale takes a company

596
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Speaker 1: from just a concept to to actually a concept or

597
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: like a curiosity concept, and then a company company to

598
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Speaker 1: customers customers that you know, to scale, and so we're

599
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: moving someone along a continuum of engagement rather than just

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Speaker 1: a programmatic approach. But also, brother, I go, I want

601
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Speaker 1: to say again from a model, if you, if you,

602
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Speaker 1: and I went out and talked to a brother from

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Speaker 1: more House or Howard or sister from Spelman and asked

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Speaker 1: them to talk for two minutes about their experience of

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00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: their their institution. Although they spent over two hundred thousand

606
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Speaker 1: dollars on their education, spent nine of their time in

607
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Speaker 1: the classroom. When we asked them to talk for two

608
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Speaker 1: minutes about their time at Spellment, they're not gonna bring

609
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Speaker 1: up a single class they took. It was about the community,

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Speaker 1: the culture, the covenant of what it meant to be

611
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Speaker 1: a more houseman or a spellboun woman. You wrapped that

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Speaker 1: around the world class curriculum, World class instructors. Now you've

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Speaker 1: got something that's more than just a program, and it's

614
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Speaker 1: exactly how we were building our big ideas. Platform do

615
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Speaker 1: not just to be about programming and information sharing, but

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Speaker 1: how can we be transformationals? Wow? Oh yeah, Roy? He

617
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Speaker 1: from Roy, You're still on the call on the line

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Speaker 1: from Stone Mountains. How you do on line with Roshan McDonald,

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Speaker 1: Mr James Bailey? How are you doing? Got a question

620
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Speaker 1: for us? Like you want that for comments? I'm good,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. I have a sort of like a two

622
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Speaker 1: part question here. Um. Now, I just saw a quote

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Speaker 1: from Drake and this is kind of you know. Got

624
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Speaker 1: me is that you know what you all were talking about,

625
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Speaker 1: you know the different things that you do, and you're successful,

626
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Speaker 1: and you know you have other people around and you

627
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: think you know you're you're talking about your success stories,

628
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: but they feel like you might be brack. Now I might.

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Speaker 1: I worked like seven days a week, I'm always doing something.

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Speaker 1: I am an entrepreneur. I can consider myself and be

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, but I'm not the type of person. I've

632
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Speaker 1: heard the old sayings saying that you would have to

633
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Speaker 1: find new friends if your friends can't educate you, if

634
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Speaker 1: you're the smartest one in the group, or whatever the

635
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Speaker 1: case may be. I don't like switching and you know,

636
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Speaker 1: getting new friends. I I like the friends that I have,

637
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Speaker 1: but some of them just can't relate to my success.

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Speaker 1: And you know, not necessarily saying that they show it,

639
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: but I feel like all the time when I'm talking

640
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: about things, I'm bragging about different things that I'm doing

641
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: in my life. So I mean, how do you do?

642
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: What are you doing that? Chast'na right over to Mr

643
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: Bailey because that's why I love his facility is the

644
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 1: innovation Center because when you're walk into you're not bragging,

645
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: You're talking to mentors, You're talking to peers. Isn't exactly

646
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: what you're doing over there is making people like Row

647
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 1: be comfortable. Am I correct? Bailey brother, It's all about

648
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: It's all about belongings and Roy, thank you for the question. Man.

649
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: You know your friends or your friends and you know,

650
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily described to the no new friends model

651
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 1: because you gotta find your tribe and this business. When

652
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: you're an entrepreneur, it is a very lonely place. The anxiety,

653
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: the depression, the self esteem hits that you take. You

654
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: need to be fortified by people that you see it.

655
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just need to hear somebody say, man, that's

656
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: gonna work, or I believe or I see it, or

657
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: I can help. And you've got to expand and be

658
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: willing to expand your network, because there an entrepreneur with

659
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: no network ain't an entrepreneurs that's gonna be around for

660
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: very long. And an entrepreneur that is willing to expand

661
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: that network to feel the needs to he or she

662
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: has is the one that's gonna prosper. Brothers, find your tribe,

663
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: and Rashawn is absolutely right, you know, keep your friends

664
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Speaker 1: on the outside of entrepreneurship that may not see it,

665
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: but find this safe space to fail and fly where

666
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: you can be surrounded by people that see it and

667
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: think it like you. Brother, It's critical critical to your

668
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: to your success going forward. I MEAs you this with

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Speaker 1: with with raw still on the call here, James, how

670
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Speaker 1: can your your facility, your center be an asset to

671
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Speaker 1: somebody like him? Can you help us that? Yeah? I

672
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: mean I think that wherever Roy is and wherever you are, brother,

673
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: on your journey, we're able to look at a company

674
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: for where they are and then prescribe a pathway to

675
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: where they want to be, uniquely tailored to their growth trajectory,

676
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: not just some other things. Maybe he doesn't want to

677
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: be the next Facebook or the next Google or the

678
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: next Amazon. Let us focus on Roy the entrepreneur, Roy's business,

679
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 1: Roy's vision, and help fill in the gaps that will

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00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: help them get there. And you know, on top of that,

681
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: Rashan outside of the classroom date back to that HBCU model.

682
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: Part of the power of the HBCU model is it

683
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: a lot of the learning happens outside of the classroom.

684
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Speaker 1: That's where you meet your best friend. That's where you

685
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: pledge your fraternity, That's where you meet the girl that

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00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: you fall in love with. That's where you find the

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00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: people that stay with you for the rest of your life.

688
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: And if we create this community and this covenant, entrepreneurs

689
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: like Roy get absorbed into it, they start to fill

690
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: those gaps of people that they need in their life

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00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: to be successful. Yes, it did. And uh, the next

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Speaker 1: question was gonna be about getting intour you know, because

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Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes I'm staggnant and you know, I

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00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: think that I'm doing so and I just I really

695
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: need some mentorship to be able to help me with

696
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: and guide me at this level. You know, James, I

697
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: started this show because you know, Monimating Conversation platform is

698
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 1: a mentoring platform. Because you go to my website monimating

699
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: conversation dot com, you see interviews like I'm doing with James.

700
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: You can hear them and listen to the back and

701
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: and it's broken down to different categories from entertaining to

702
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 1: sports two to entrepreneurship. All these different directors and writers

703
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: and all these different categories that you can listen Tobody speak.

704
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,959
Speaker 1: But I know I get that a lot of James

705
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,959
Speaker 1: people asking for mentors where they can go. I can't

706
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: always answer that question. Can you assist? Can you give

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00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: some lane of some light to somebody like Roy on

708
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: what they can go to get mentorship? Yeah, it's part

709
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: of our platform. It's it's matching you with the people

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00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: that you need to be successful. And mentorship comes in

711
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: a lot of form. There's a higher level that I

712
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: call sponsorship, the people to believe you enough to not

713
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 1: allow you to fail. Um. So you know, Roy, if

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00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: it's if it's places like the Russell Center, or as

715
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: places like the Urban League, or they're in Atlanta, we

716
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: are uniquely positioned because we have so many organizations that

717
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: are working to help black businesses grow. I just urge

718
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: you to have the courage to reach out and to

719
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: raise your hand, to be vulnerable enough to say, hey,

720
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: I need help, as you've done on this called my

721
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: friends and saying I need a mentor to keep me focused,

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00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: to keep me forward. Um, and you need that. You

723
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: need that tribe around you to keep you moving, brother,

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00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: And we'll be happy to help. If you go to

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00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: our site Russell Center dot org. Uh, fill out the information.

726
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: Somebody from our office will reach out. Brother. I believe

727
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: we're bringing on new companies to stakeholders in February. Uh

728
00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: so yeah, brother, we're here to help protecting my call.

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00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: You know, I just tell Mr Bailey, Mr Bailey right here,

730
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: he's a regular contributor. He don't know it yet, but

731
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: here a regularly contributor. Money may confortation, you know, Mr Awesome,

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00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: I look forward to it. You know, when we we

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00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: we we we we're you know the whole purpose of

734
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do here. And you're having used

735
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: my first guest because you know, if the people always

736
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: start out with these goals, I'm gonna you know, it's oh,

737
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: I can do some new resolutions. Now I can lose weight,

738
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: or I can start a business, or I can I

739
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: can be a better parent, or a better husband, a

740
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: better wife, or better just a better person than there's

741
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: a better business person. So that's why I felt I

742
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: needed to launch with your voice, your unique sensibilities, to

743
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: let people know this is the top of the year.

744
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: This is a moment where you can change things. But

745
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: don't forget. Whatever you did wrong in one gonna follow

746
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: you into two and so. But that doesn't mean the

747
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: opportunities for change of success can be denied. You talk

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00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: to us in in in in some terminology, how your center,

749
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: how your philosophy can get people rooted in sadness, rooting

750
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: in depression, rooted in doubt, to move forward positivity whether

751
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: you become what you behold. And if you're surrounded by positivity,

752
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: you know, chances are you gonna rub off on you know.

753
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: The thing that I do love about the Center is

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00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 1: this is think of a black man seventy four years ago,

755
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: Heavenly audacity and the Jim Crow segregated racist South to

756
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: build a headquarter building. It's a full city, black wide

757
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand square feet, the courage that that entrepreneur had, Mr. H. J.

758
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: Russell Senior, that energy still lives in the building, man,

759
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: and that building is gonna be here for fifty more years.

760
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: So when you talk about falling and failing and flying

761
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: and storing, we've always missed that that that common denominator,

762
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: that thing that is always there to pick us up

763
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: when we fall or to celebrate us when we fly.

764
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: And this is again more than just a building, more

765
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: than just a program for the Russell family and the

766
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: Russell family of businesses. This institution has been a beacon

767
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: the hope in this city for multiple decades and now

768
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to build on that legacy. Brother.

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00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, again, back to that surround yourself with with

770
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: with positivity, surround yourself with other people that are striving,

771
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: that are growing, that are struggling just like you. It's

772
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: the kind of community that's necessary for our community to thrive. Wow.

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00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: When we come back on out that break, I want

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00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: to I want you to talk a little bit more

775
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: about the Russell family. We will be right back with

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Speaker 1: more money making conversations with your hosts. For Sean McDonald

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Speaker 1: Families and the Council. Welcome back to money making Conversations

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00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: with your host, Rashwan McDonald. I want to give away

788
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: five ideas I called five tips on improving your ability

789
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: to win. If you want to add to this a

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00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: little bit on the on the on the other side

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00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: of the break, please do, James, because you do. I

792
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: respect you. You know. Number one, Identify your strengths. That's

793
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: very key because a lot of people don't understand that

794
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: you might have a product that they liked that don't

795
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: mean that anybody else would like it. Identify where you

796
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 1: could use some improvement right there. That means criticism. See

797
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people can't handle criticism. They can't handle

798
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: somebody coming up to tell them, Hey, you know, if

799
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 1: you worked a little harder at this, you can be

800
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: better if you if you if you study a little harder,

801
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: you could be smarter. If you exercise a little bit more,

802
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: you can be stronger. That's called improvement. Consider the benefits

803
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: of change. Change can be moving. Change could be a job.

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00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: Change can be a relationship. Change could be a mindset.

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00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: Change can be an ability to think out of the box.

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00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: The fourth set specific goals. You know you talk about

807
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: this all the time at the Russell Center setting goals,

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00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: and I hear that word all the time going out

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00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: on faith. I'm gonna tell you right up front, I

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00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: hate when people say that. I don't know how you

811
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: can be successful going out on faith if you don't

812
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: have a plan. And finally, be consistent, if you're not

813
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: consistent with who you meet, who you talk to, how

814
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: you always tell people if you If you have a

815
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: business and you ain't consistent on what time you open

816
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: the doors, you don't have a business. I started this show.

817
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: You know, my my company is like twenty miles away

818
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: from here. I close my shop up, all my employees

819
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: go I get my car getting traffic, I come here

820
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I'm trying to change your life. I'm trying

821
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: to change your life in a lot of different ways.

822
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: And when I bring a person like change Bailey on

823
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: to talk about centers that you may not know, like

824
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: you talked about the Urban League, you know, the Small

825
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: Business Administration, you know, all these these are locations where

826
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: you can go for mentorship, you know, talking to strangers.

827
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: Because that's a lot of things people need to understand.

828
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: Is that my life that I live right now wasn't

829
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: tired the people that I knew. It was tied to

830
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: people who saw something in me and made sure I

831
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: ascended to what I they thought I could possibly be.

832
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: So don't always expect it to be your pastor, or

833
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: your parents, or your wife, or your or your best

834
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: friend or your co workers. It could be strangers can

835
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: be your mentors. And that's why he mentioned the word

836
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: Urban League, That's what I'm saying, small Business Administration, That's

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Speaker 1: why I mentioned Russell Center. You're gonna walk into a

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00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: building filled with strangers, and that's the community that he's

839
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: talking about, that community that the Russell Center is creating

840
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: over there. It's right you can. There's a stone's throw

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00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: from HBCUs. That's what he's talking. That's why he keeps

842
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: mentioning HBC using. It's right down the street from Mercedes Binds.

843
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: If you make it right down MLK, you're gonna run

844
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: right into all those HBCUs, Marris Brown, Spellman, Clark, Atlanta University,

845
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: you're gonna run into all of them. More House. But

846
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: if you keep straight, you're gonna run right into the

847
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: Russell Center. And it's a family that made the decision

848
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: that what they got they want other people to at

849
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: least consider the possibility of achieving or having through entrepreneurship.

850
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: Tell us about that, Jay, and that's really why you know.

851
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell your story, but I wanted to

852
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: close talking about the family that's enabling these changes to happen.

853
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: In this great Signif Atlanta your turn, it's a powerful

854
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: leg It's hard to talk about world without talking about them.

855
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're black at Atlanta and do existence,

856
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: you have to think, permit sent Uh. He integrated the

857
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce at the city and the state level

858
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: build half of our skyline. The brother had a pool

859
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: inside his house at thirty years old, where a young

860
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: dr King used to go swim and try to figure

861
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: out how he wanted to change the world. Um. And

862
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,879
Speaker 1: even when we think about where the building is located, Uh,

863
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: he built that building there intentionally. When you talk about

864
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: those schools that are right across the street, we four

865
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 1: years ago, you couldn't go to the University of Georgia,

866
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: you couldn't go to Georgia Tech, you couldn't go to Emory.

867
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: So when our when our students used to matriculate from

868
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: all over the world to go to these schools, he

869
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: knew that they needed to see the physical manifestation of

870
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: what was possible for people that look like them. So

871
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: he built his headquarter building intentionally on a hill directly

872
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 1: across the street from all of those schools, to be

873
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,439
Speaker 1: a beacon and to be an inspiration. And we hope

874
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: to be that continuously for what we're doing right now

875
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: for entrepreneurs a small business owner. So the Russell family,

876
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: even today after his death, h Russelling Company is the

877
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: largest black owned construction firm in the country. Their their

878
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 1: airport concession company, the Sensions International, is one of the

879
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: largest Semit countries. M a legacy that now has gone

880
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: into a third generation, and uh so it's a powerful legacy.

881
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 1: But again, when I say you become much, behold Sean.

882
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: We don't have enough examples of generational wealth to truly

883
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: aspire to, and the Russell family happens to be one

884
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: of those shining examples of black excellence and black wealth

885
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: and it stood the test of time and survived the generation.

886
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: You know, the interesting thing about I'm gonna use the

887
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: word frustration because of the fact that I know it's

888
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: a lot of people listening to this show as a

889
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: little I know, you encounter people on the regular people

890
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: regular basis, who want to who want to start their

891
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: own business, got this great idea, don't know what to

892
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: do with it. They hear the word entrepreneurship, but they

893
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: don't know what that means. They don't know what the

894
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: definition of what that means. And when I say that,

895
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: I say Russell's Center, I know some people they're gonna

896
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: ignore it, just like they ignore anything else in life

897
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: that that's not an option, that's something that Oh I

898
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: wish I the word I wish comes become a dominant

899
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: part of the conversation. How can we get more African

900
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: Americans involved? That I guess that's the question I want

901
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: to ask you, and guess what, I'm not expecting you

902
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: to answer it correctly. But I know you are a

903
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: deep thinker. I know you encounter these questions a lot

904
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: more than I do. And you and you see more

905
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: people frustrated, and you see more dreamers than I do

906
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: sometimes because I just go to work and I come

907
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: here on Tuesday and I interview people who who called

908
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: me so talk about that whole journey because they come

909
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: through your door, James, and they you can see that

910
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: brightness in their eyes, that energy and their face. How

911
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: do you build on that as an entrepreneur somebody who's

912
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: seeking that dream? I mean one you got to decide.

913
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 1: And this is the part that it is frustrated, brother,

914
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: because that's the part you can do nothing about. If

915
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: you're looking to go from good to great. Great takes

916
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: a certain amount of effort. Great takes a certain amount

917
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: of grit, a certain amount of commitment, a certain amount

918
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: of toughness. I love the tips that you gave before

919
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: the break. It has a certain level of humility to

920
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: attached to it. And you've literally just gotta make decision.

921
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 1: Do I want to be average or good? Or do

922
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: I want to be great. And if you want to

923
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: be great, seeking out those organizations, those strangers that you

924
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: talked about, those mentors, those people, those places that you

925
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: need to be in that will fortify your greatness. Uh,

926
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: that will sustain that self esteem, that will improve that

927
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: self confidence. Uh, and that will show you the way

928
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,760
Speaker 1: I mean. And and so for me, I have grown

929
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: to the point then let us focus on those that

930
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: want to be great, because I think the more of

931
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: those that we focus on, rather than taking some of

932
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: our energy for those that are just content with being good.

933
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: If I get enough for Sean McDonald's out there, I

934
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: know that I got a better chance of inspiring the

935
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: next Rasan McDonald from being good. Degree. And so, you know,

936
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: focusing a lot of those energies on the people that

937
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: are saying I'm ready, let's go, and hoping that the

938
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: energy that we create with that that small nucleus permeates

939
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: into the community inspires others to make that leap. No, James,

940
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: you know, we've we've seen how Mr George Floyd incident,

941
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: how this America has that's changed. My wife and I

942
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: we we we look at television and we see diversity

943
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: casting in these movies and streaming. And we know four

944
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: or five years ago that was a white person, not

945
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: a black person. I know that for a fact five

946
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: years ago that there was rather tear down cheerios because

947
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 1: the little white kid woke up the black dad. Okay.

948
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: So I know changes are happening, and changes have to happen.

949
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: And what I've noticed is how the corporate As an entrepreneur,

950
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: you know, you have the diversity suppliers at these major

951
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: corporations now and there's a shift now and then you

952
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: hear the terminology diversity, equity and lusion. Uh d e.

953
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: I how can we see these changes? And you've been

954
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,760
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, how can we guide young people or people

955
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: in the for these people in their sixties, because there

956
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: you can be sixty years old. You can still start

957
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: your own business. Don't think you can. Sixties the new forty, okay,

958
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: and so let's make it work. So how do how

959
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: can we take advantage these shifts? James? And as we

960
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: close out this this this great interview with you and

961
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: advise people to contact you over to Russell Center for

962
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: more advice, more mentorship. You know, make the mistakes we

963
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 1: were in the moment, and I don't know how long

964
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna last. There was this great awakening, uh, this

965
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: great you know understanding, and this great of course to

966
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: be more diverse, to be conclusive. But we can bank

967
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: on that last thing forever. Our real goal right now

968
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: is how do we take this moment and make a

969
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: true movement. How do we grow the businesses that can

970
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 1: hire our own people. We don't need the initiatives because

971
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: we have a company for the people in our company,

972
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: I mean people people from our community. I just think

973
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: that we have this window in time for those of

974
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: us that have the ability to go, for all those

975
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: of us that have the ability to actually capitalize on

976
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: opportunities to build relationships, to build structures and infrastructures, to

977
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: build companies that can hire our people. We need to

978
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: buckle up because there is no guaranteed that this level

979
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: of consciousness is gonna last for the next decade. And

980
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: so if there was ever an urgency for for black thinkers,

981
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: black innovators, and black ideas, black business people, black dreamers

982
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:46,240
Speaker 1: to put that dream to work is right now. Because

983
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:51,399
Speaker 1: if we start freting our own infrastruction on companies, on platforms,

984
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: our own manufacturers at that point, but then we don't

985
00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: need another George Florida. Wow, I'm tell m Aimes, Uh,

986
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 1: you were the perfect first guest of the year. You know,

987
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna make this an annual thing. You're gonna always

988
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: be my first guest of the year because of the

989
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: fact that you know so you know it's really you know,

990
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: we were met and we have not reconnected, but the

991
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: life gives you these different paths, and now we're reconnecting

992
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: in the format. I feel it's gonna help thousands, especially

993
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: thousands in the city of Atlanta, and I want to

994
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: continue to drive people over to the Russell Center. But

995
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: more important, I want to tell everybody mentorship is where

996
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: you find it. You don't have to be anybody. You know,

997
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: it can be a stranger who recognizes that you have

998
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: a gift and a sense of purpose to change somebody

999
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: else's life. Keep doing that, James, thank you for coming

1000
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: on money. Make a conversation. Brother, brother, I am you

1001
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: keep that's what you are. And uh, thank you. We

1002
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: talked to and tell out everybody at Russell I'm coming by. Man,

1003
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna eat and then gonna go over. I'm gonna eat.

1004
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: I even across streeting and THENNA walk on over. Hey,

1005
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: next time you have passed, I got your brother. Okay,

1006
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: I appreciate you man, God bless you man. Happy New

1007
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: Year again. This is how the show is. This is

1008
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: your show. Don't disappoint me and I participate in this

1009
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1010
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1011
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1014
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