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

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

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Speaker 1: we all have different definitions of success. For you and

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

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Speaker 1: My next guest, Different is an Emmy Award winning and

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

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Speaker 1: tried to change so you don't have to. Please. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Money Making Conversation, Honey.

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Speaker 3: Love, Thank you for the time.

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Speaker 1: Loney, I'm telling you something. Let me just read this

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Speaker 1: little from what I took from the book, because I

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Speaker 1: writing talking about this very funny book, and a very

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Speaker 1: funny book memoir. In reading this book just came from you.

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Speaker 1: In reading this book, you should remember that I am

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Speaker 1: Loney. You know, you know you've been on the show before,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a big fan of yours, and uh you

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Speaker 1: this book. It's a journey from Detroit to Houston, Texas

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Speaker 1: I read a lot of books. Now I'm just telling.

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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 people.

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Speaker 3: Know, it's a whole journey, and I just wanted the

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you, well it's coming, Babba tell you I'm

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Speaker 1: It's it's really an amazing story, very funny, but very

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