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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host with

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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I recognized that we all have different definitions

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Speaker 1: of success. For you, it may be the size of

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Speaker 1: your paycheck. Mine is inspiring people to accomplish their goals

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Speaker 1: and live their very best life. It is time to

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Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories and start writing your own.

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Speaker 1: People always talk about their purpose a gift. If you

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Speaker 1: have a gift, leave with your gifts and don't let

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Speaker 1: your friends, family, or coworkers stop you from planning or

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Speaker 1: living your dream. My next guest is Sean Robinson. She's

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Speaker 1: an Emmy Award winning journalists, television personality, author, producer, philanthropists,

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Speaker 1: and she has a group, an Amazing Girls Activities empowerment

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Speaker 1: activist organization. She's a proud graduate of an HBCU Spellman

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Speaker 1: University in Atlanta, Georgia. Sean established the Seawan Foundation for

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Speaker 1: Girls with Nurtures and supports underserved underrepresented girls and young

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Speaker 1: women in the areas of stem health, arts, unity, and neighborhoods.

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Speaker 1: Sean is the executive producer of the very entertaining a

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Speaker 1: seven Deadly Sin series on Lifetime. We've been discussing her

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Speaker 1: two new films that can currently be seen on Lifetime

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Speaker 1: Wrath a seven and seven definitely sin story and Greed

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Speaker 1: a seven deadly sinning story. Please work with the money

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Speaker 1: making conversation Masterclass, my differend and good person. It always

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Speaker 1: leads me down the road of happiness. Sean Robinson, how

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Speaker 1: are you? You know? These are always really really cool

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Speaker 1: conversations because you know, we've known each other, we have

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Speaker 1: to say, twenty years, twenty plus years, and we've seen yeah,

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Speaker 1: other get a clear understanding of finding our voice. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I know when I in twenty six two,

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Speaker 1: me to find my voice, you know, because I would

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Speaker 1: still managing to Steve Harty and not receiving checks because

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Speaker 1: that brand has been so established. And so you you

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Speaker 1: had a similar You had established a relationship with an

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Speaker 1: entertainment magazine that was that was a blessing and occuraged

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Speaker 1: because people knew you from that, but then you wanted

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Speaker 1: to get away from that. But now as part of

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Speaker 1: your resume. So now the blessing is part of your

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Speaker 1: asset because your brand is now unders So many different

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Speaker 1: positive umbrellas talk about pivoting and then being able to

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Speaker 1: I think that when you reach what is considered by

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Speaker 1: so I was. I was at a you know, a

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Speaker 1: entertainment shows were that they had a different type of

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Speaker 1: influence than they have today. Like, for example, if you know,

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Speaker 1: if Beyonce had a new album out, or if George

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Speaker 1: So it's a it's a lot different today and there

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Speaker 1: And so Lust and Envy aired last year. This year

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Speaker 1: it's Wrath and Greed. So um, yes, and so to

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Speaker 1: for me. Will you please slow down? We talked. This

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Speaker 1: ain't no like a five minute of you. We talked,

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Speaker 1: We talked, were talking. We'll be right back with more

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations master Class with Rushan McDonald. I've

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Speaker 1: seen every one of them. Okay, it's four so far,

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Speaker 1: Robinson and I want to win. That's the story. I

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