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Speaker 1: not what somebody told you to do. And that's when

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Speaker 1: all bets are off. Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rashawn McDonald. Our theme is there's no

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Speaker 1: perfect time to start following your dreams. I recognize that

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Speaker 1: we all have different definitions.

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Speaker 2: Of success for you and maybe the.

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Speaker 1: Size of your paycheck. It's time to stop reading other

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Speaker 1: people's success stories and start living your own. Keep winning.

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Speaker 1: My next guest, dear friend, is an Emmy Award winning

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Speaker 1: and two-time NAACP Image Award winning multimedia personality. That includes

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Speaker 1: Sirius XM's Cafe Mocha radio show, talk show co-host on

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Speaker 1: The Real, comedian, entrepreneur, and actress. She's on the show

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Speaker 1: to talk about her very, very funny memoir, I Tried

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Speaker 1: to Change So You Don't Have To. Please welcome to

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation, Lonnie Love.

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Speaker 3: Hey, what's up? Thank you for the time.

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Speaker 1: Lonnie, I'm going to tell you something. Let me just

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Speaker 1: read what I took from the book because I want

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Speaker 1: to set the stage before we start talking about this

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Speaker 1: very funny book and it Very funny book, memoir. And

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Speaker 1: reading this book just came from you. And reading this book,

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Speaker 1: you should remember that I am a comedian. I am

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Speaker 1: also a television host and an actress and electrical engineer.

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Speaker 1: This is my memoir and tells you about my life.

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Speaker 1: But it's a tale told from a comedian perspective, a

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Speaker 1: comic perspective. And I believe that this entitles me to

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Speaker 1: a good number of liberties. I reordered and combined events

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Speaker 3: I hope.

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Speaker 1: Make you smile or even laugh. But I have not

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Speaker 1: changed the reality of my life, where I came from.

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Speaker 1: And how I've got here today, ladies and gentlemen, Lonnie Lowe.

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Speaker 1: That's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: No, that's called when the attorney talks to you. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying, can you write something?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Lonnie, you know, you've been on the show before,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a big fan of yours. And, you know,

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Speaker 1: it always, you know, like... I always call you or

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Speaker 1: and you're just a gifted young lady and never be

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Speaker 1: down on yourself. And I read this book. It's a

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Speaker 1: journey from Detroit to Houston, Texas, to El Segundo, to

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Speaker 1: down some of my favorite chapters, like Chapter 8, when

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Speaker 1: funniest thing. The funniest chapter. I read a lot of

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Speaker 1: books now. I'm just telling you, I'm talking to Lonnie

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Speaker 1: Love now. This is her book now. This is her memoir.

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Speaker 1: I tried to change so you don't have to. I'm

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Speaker 3: I just think everybody should tell their journey and especially

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Speaker 3: I grew up in Detroit in the Brewster Project, and

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Speaker 3: Thank you. But it's a whole journey. And I just

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Speaker 3: So that's what you're reading. And it's just a love

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Speaker 1: It's an honest letter. And the thing about it is

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Speaker 1: you were surrounded by blackness. That's what I call in

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Speaker 1: your book. You mentioned it yourself. Surrounded by blackness protected you.

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Speaker 1: You know, a reason I like the book is that

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Speaker 3: And I think that it's important when they say a village,

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Speaker 3: So it's like when I meet people like the fabulous

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Speaker 3: Rashawn McDonald, we're able to connect because we down home people,

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Speaker 3: But I mean, the thing if anybody I want them

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Speaker 3: all the time. And I'm just waiting on your book, Rashad.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's coming, but I'm going to tell you something.

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Speaker 1: This book, I'm telling you, Barnes & Noble, you can

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Speaker 1: get online right now. The book is on sale right now.

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Speaker 1: successful great job on this book Lonnie great great job.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to an Emmy Award winning, she talks about

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Speaker 1: change so you don't have to. Amazon, number one. Barnes & Noble,

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Speaker 1: go get it. Lonnie Love, I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 2: It's a love story about her life, the people who

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lonnie, for calling my show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Rashawn, for the time. Blessings, brother.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Stay strong. Stay strong. If you want

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