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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host, Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: I recognize that we all have different definitions of success.

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Speaker 1: For some is a sizeable paycheck. Mine is helping people

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Speaker 1: wake up and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and

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Speaker 1: we do Money Making Conversations. Bring people on my show

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Speaker 1: to let them tell you their story, and you take

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Speaker 1: your dreams. I want you to stop tripping over small

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Speaker 1: challenges and prepare to rise above the bigger obstacles that

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Speaker 1: life will present to you. My next guest is Kevin Blood,

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Speaker 1: so we go all the way back to the Hoodie

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Speaker 1: Awards in Los Angeles, California, before he opened Blood Cells

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Speaker 1: Ball in Q on Lobrea, which I've been too many

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Speaker 1: times in Los Angeles. Kevin's is a chef, television personality

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Speaker 1: and two times Steve Harvey Hoodie Award winner. In two

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Speaker 1: Blood Souls, Ball and Q, which I talked about earlier.

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Speaker 1: It is right there on Librea, right there, man, you

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Speaker 1: it's just a beautiful, uh display of food, people in

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Speaker 1: their cross sectional people. Uh. Concession stand at the l

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Speaker 1: and a sprawling restaurant and ball called sant Antone by

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Speaker 1: Blood so BBQ in the crowd Casino and Melbourne him meant,

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Speaker 1: y'all your born Australia. That's where the International Park comes

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Speaker 1: from the legend of Blood. So BBQ begins, of course

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Speaker 1: the counter of Texas. That's right south of Dallas, Texas.

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Speaker 1: The reason I know. I'm from Houston, Texas, so I

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Speaker 1: passed through Colt Towner many times. I get up to Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Come on now where the Blood Show family has been

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Speaker 1: perfecting the craft of slow, slow smoked meats for five generations.

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Speaker 1: But while his family roots for Lady in Texas, Kevin

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Speaker 1: himself was born and raised in Compton, California. That's where

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Speaker 1: I met him. Now he is a television star. Like

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Speaker 1: I said earlier, he big time television star, sitting up.

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Speaker 1: That man got make up in anything land on. You

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Speaker 1: can catch him judging on Netflix the American Barbecue Showdown.

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Speaker 1: I've seen every episode. I'll also seen him on the

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Speaker 1: Food Chanleler Cookie Network. I've seen him on the bar Rescue.

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Speaker 1: I've seen this brother everywhere. Please working the money making conversations.

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Speaker 1: I want to call him a dear friend and a

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Speaker 1: guy I feel so blessed to talk to right now

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Speaker 1: on my show today, my man and Kevin Blood too.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, sir man? I am good. After that

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Speaker 1: in the duct interview over, I'm good smiling. Well, I

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Speaker 1: the legend on Thursday. That's my Let me just let me.

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Speaker 1: Let me make it perfectly clear. I would not be

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Speaker 1: doing probably none of this extra stuff if it wasn't

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Speaker 1: for winning that first Hoodie award. Man, I would never

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Speaker 1: forget that. I remember talking to you backstage was so

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Speaker 1: want to say, Man, I appreciate you. I appreciate everything

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Speaker 1: really missed the Hoodie Awards. I really do because win

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Speaker 1: Please don't show that, man, Please gona send it to you.

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Speaker 1: I got them all, my got that time history of

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Speaker 1: It's always been about the people. It's always recognizing the

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Speaker 1: who should do my backstage celebrity streaming? She said, Kevin

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Speaker 1: is on Libraya. I said, he got a spot on Libra.

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Speaker 1: the thing about coming to this place, like when you

426
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,679
Speaker 1: get your meal, you get that double meat, triple mea

427
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: the order. Because I'm a kind of guy man, people,

428
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,119
Speaker 1: I was saying, man, you're small. You know that food. Hey,

429
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 1: stay off my plate, Stay off my plate. Stay we

430
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 1: need we need to. And so what happens when you

431
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,200
Speaker 1: have by five people at the table okay, and all

432
00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,199
Speaker 1: that food come to the table. You get attention man,

433
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 1: because it looks so beautiful because every one of the

434
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 1: plates is look immaculate as far as we won'ta say

435
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,439
Speaker 1: you work is immaculate. Everything's nothing running off the sides,

436
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,680
Speaker 1: nothing too small. The portions are good. That's why I

437
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: just love what I what I eat. That's why when

438
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 1: I kind of sneak in because Chang. I'm gonna tell Kevin,

439
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 1: you know, you ain't what problem problem because it's about

440
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,119
Speaker 1: of respect. That's why I started the Hoodie Awards, man,

441
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 1: because it's about showing love. Man. The fact that you guys,

442
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 1: you still believe in it just excites me even more. Man.

443
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 1: And and and the fact that the fact that you

444
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,120
Speaker 1: you're doing so well and you your TV so talk

445
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 1: about how did the television stuff start for you? And

446
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,439
Speaker 1: how would you how would you were you nervous? Did

447
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 1: you know? What? Did you? Did you play it off?

448
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 1: How did it all kick off for you? Kevin? What

449
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 1: my first one? And it's so funny, my niece, because

450
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just like, shoot, this is maybe two thousand ten, Kevin.

451
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 1: I'm uh, I'm still knee deep in the compter location.

452
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 1: So uh uh. This producer called and said, hey, we

453
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 1: really want to get you know, Kevin Bluss. He happened

454
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 1: to be at the restaurant. I didn't know who he was,

455
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: you know, in the restaurant, in the kitchen, we clowned

456
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 1: in the back, We clowned and cracked jokes in bag.

457
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: So the dude heard me back there clowning. So I've

458
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,640
Speaker 1: never even seen it, didn't know who he was, and uh,

459
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: he kept calling and he kept always he got my

460
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: niece itself on him met his calls and she's like, um,

461
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 1: this guy wants you for for a TV show. And

462
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 1: I was like what TV show? Bar Rescue? And I

463
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 1: never heard of it, you know, never heard of the show.

464
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: And that just and that he kept calling, and then

465
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 1: one day she said, look, this dude need a video.

466
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to your house and do this video.

467
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: So we we went to the house and started the

468
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: video of just you know, me interviewing and whatever whatever.

469
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 1: But before the thing was even set up, it's me

470
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: cussing her out and like, God, I ain't got my time.

471
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 1: She's my name. Who he's throwing souls is and this man.

472
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 1: So when she sent it, she sent the whole thing

473
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: and John Taffery's seen anything. Now, I gotta have this dude,

474
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: I gotta have the bam bam bam. Uh and I

475
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,159
Speaker 1: got into funny story. I'm gonna keep the shore. But

476
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 1: for my first episode was in Kansas City. Uh, I

477
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: think it was called Boondocks or whatever. The show never

478
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: was supposed to air because so we saved this boar.

479
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this dude is. That's when I learned to

480
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: between like, oh southern racist are Southern rocker? This dude

481
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: was a Southern rocket. We we actually are good friends

482
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: now and you know Southern rocket they like rapp and

483
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: country and on thinking he was a racist. But anyway,

484
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: we get into it on the show. I'm like, you know,

485
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put hands on this food and all on

486
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,120
Speaker 1: the show. But he didn't have no reverse. He didn't

487
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: have no reverse, so he wasn't no pump you know

488
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get you

489
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: are you gonna get? But anyway, so it's so crazy,

490
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: So it takes about a couple of months for them

491
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: to do it. So the night before the show was

492
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: supposed to hear, which was Thanksgiving weekend that year, I

493
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: can't think of in that the exact year, he was

494
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 1: having a party at his bar and got I was

495
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: smoking a big time country singer at his bar and

496
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 1: they got into it, had a fight to do kind

497
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: of got the best and Chris Chris Shotton killed them

498
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: the night before the show was supposed to so they

499
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 1: had to pull up the show. But the show accidentally

500
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: aired on the replay later on that night. And it's

501
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: a big old thing and all that, but I'm saying,

502
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm getting into this food. This food go to. He

503
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: could have went to the back and out of gun

504
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: on me, you know, but that was my first episode,

505
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 1: my first job. Then John Tapper is like huge in

506
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: my life, like you guys. So, I mean, this dude

507
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: is as far as business and bars and the things

508
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: that he knows. And like I said, the teen episodes later, Man,

509
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 1: he keeps me busy. In fact, he called me the

510
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: other day to congratulate me because the Netflix show is

511
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: doing so good. Number one after last week is the

512
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: number one unscripted show on Netflix and it's doing well. Man.

513
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: First of all, that we're talking about the American Barbecue showdown, okay,

514
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: and they got some characters on there. And your girl

515
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 1: up from Mississippi. She's the real deal who cooks the

516
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 1: whole hall. Did you know ever? Photo show are just

517
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: new off I knew ever. If I knew ever, that

518
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: was our first time meeting. And uh, she's incredible. I

519
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: mean she's a legend. She's a legend, and uh, and

520
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised some of those Cooks to be first time.

521
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: I mean, they did such a good job of getting

522
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 1: that cast together. I mean, we're hoping for a season two,

523
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: but you've got some of the producers might not even

524
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: want to do a season two because he said, some

525
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: things just need to be left untouching. To get that

526
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: the cast of uh, the pit masses that they had,

527
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: and the attitudes and the personalities, it's hard to you

528
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, it's hard to strike gold twice,

529
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, and you're part of well, you know you,

530
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: I know you'll be back because it's part of your brain,

531
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: it's part of you. It's just part of what you do.

532
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: That that like, you know, when I put the press

533
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 1: relead that police out, you know, they said, I said

534
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: with Kevin's name first, Kevin Bloss's name first on the

535
00:25:54,560 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: press release. That press release was reached a hundred million people. Wow.

536
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: Picked when you start talking about audience picked up our

537
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: different websites and they started putting that numbing together a

538
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: hundred million people. And that's what relationships do, Kevin. And

539
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about this whole conversation is that

540
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: you respect the process, you understand the process. Just drop

541
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: just drop some jewels on people about the value of relationships, Kevin.

542
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like I said when you when you

543
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: say look at look out, I would not be here

544
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for people looking out for me. And

545
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I always say, uh, Russia's uh.

546
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: I don't give to be blessed. I'm blessed, so I

547
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: give you know, it's not no secret recipe that this

548
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 1: you know, it has to come from your heart. Like

549
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: I try to tell people, love to to talk about

550
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: all the funerals and stuff we paid for um, you

551
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: know with blood cells. Okay, let's also talk about the

552
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: scholarships and how many kids we put through college to

553
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: more of the good things that outweigh the bad things.

554
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: And God has put me in position to help like that.

555
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying, and and it it it

556
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: comes that, That's what it's It's like, it's so weird,

557
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: it's just And I try to tell people it has

558
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: to come from your heart and it's natural. The blessing

559
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: is gonna keep ringing in if you do what you're

560
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: posted to do. And how was you raised? You was

561
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: raised to give you know me us as black posting.

562
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, coming up, what we had, all

563
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: we had was food and and love and hugs and

564
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: all that, and like we gotta we gotta go back

565
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: to that, man, we gotta we gotta go back to that.

566
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: And you gotta want to put the work in. It's

567
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: hard work. Like people want to get a business. I know,

568
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: you know, a business is gonna be the hardest job

569
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: you ever had in your life. Right and if you

570
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: don't have that mint that's why everybody can't do with

571
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: a business is gonna be the hardest job in your

572
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I said it due something. I want to

573
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: be like you. I want to you know, be able

574
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: to live in Texas and this and not this and that.

575
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: I said, okay, well you ready to go eight years

576
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: without off day? You know what I mean, I'm gonna

577
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: post that all the motivational card, Kevin, don't put that

578
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: on my way. Are you ready to give eight years

579
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: date when open up? Let me tell you when I

580
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: first opened up blood Shoes, I was still d Jane,

581
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: so I would have I would I would get to

582
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: blood Tows at uh four o'clock on a Saturday morning

583
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: and uh be there until seven o'clock. Home at night,

584
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: go home, take a shower, pack my gig up, and

585
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: go do a DJ gig. Get back about two three

586
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: in the morning, take a shower, and go up to

587
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: blood shows to take briskuts off and get ready for

588
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: the day. Two hours straight. And that went on for

589
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: the first almost year and a half of my business

590
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: because I was at one time, I was just DJ

591
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: and and catering. So I was bucked, you know, But

592
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: I had to do what I had to do. I mean,

593
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: my daughter wrote wanted to car wish I had it.

594
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: She said, my daddy, if you knew the work my daddy,

595
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: it was called my Daddy's not overnight success. My daddy

596
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: would come in at three in the morning. I would

597
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: just hope my father got at least one hour of sleep,

598
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: and I know he didn't. My Daddy's not an overnight success.

599
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: And they got to know everybody's path. It's not gonna

600
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: be that way, you know, but it's tough, especially when

601
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: you and I would and I know you know, when

602
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: you know money making conversations. I would tell anybody, if

603
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: you can, please have the money and the backing to start,

604
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: because when you start on a shoestring budget, that's why

605
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: a lot of them don't make it because you need that.

606
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: And us as a community, that's why we need our

607
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: own banks and we need because we can't these younger

608
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: they can't get the loans. You know. They want you

609
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: to to be experienced to get a small business man

610
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: a loan. But you you need the small business man

611
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: only get going, you know, and they and they and

612
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: they have to understand that. Then as you grow, get

613
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: get you know, get with a good team. I have

614
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: a good team behind me. There's no way I could

615
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: do what I'm doing if I didn't have the team

616
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: that uh I have working you know with with you know,

617
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: the blood shows, LLC. The people that we have, the

618
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: things that have been done, the doors that have opened,

619
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: to get tied straight, to get on the bread, to

620
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: get in those conversations that we need to be in

621
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: so we can have a voice, you know. And that's

622
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: the whole thing. You have to have a good team, man,

623
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: And then you got to trust the team. You might

624
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: be the quarterback, but you need some good receivers, line,

625
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: running backs, coaches, you know, on the sidelines, cheering your

626
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: own cheerleaders, all that stuff, man. And more importantly, you

627
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: need fans in the stands. That's called customers people and

628
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: how you keep them by putting out a good product. Absolutely, Kevin,

629
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: I just want to thank you, man, and uh look,

630
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: don't hang up, come and wrap up this show. I

631
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: want to get the number and so we can stay

632
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: in touch. But uh, I just love you, man, I

633
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: just love you, man. Man, I got so much love

634
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: and respect for you. Bro, it's like it's it's unwavery

635
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: man real talk. You know, because of the fact that

636
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Speaker 1: I know where you came from. I know, I know,

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Speaker 1: and I know that what I've been doing all my

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Speaker 1: life and two people, I've been doing this since all

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Speaker 1: the eighteen years old. For some reason, God just just

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Speaker 1: said this is what you do. You uplift people. You

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Speaker 1: you don't somebody's behind you. You don't run off and

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Speaker 1: leave them. You extend their own or our hand. And

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Speaker 1: that's where the Neighborhood Awards and that's what the Hoodie

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Speaker 1: Awards was. And to see you have such a reaction

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Speaker 1: in it, and there's a lot of people like that. Man.

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Speaker 1: I'll be in DC. People to come on that you

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Speaker 1: ain't gonna bring it back, Come on that stop. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about barber shops I'm talking about high school churches, Detroit, Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: all over this country. Stopped me for real, man, for real,

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Speaker 1: I said, look, thinking about it. Well, we're thinking about it, man,

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Speaker 1: I got something else, Gona, we're gonna jump off. But

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Speaker 1: we're talking about her brother because I understand exactly what's

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Speaker 1: going off, what's going on in life, and I know

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Speaker 1: its need, especially during these times or the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: black unrest, because you know, somebody messed up with this

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Speaker 1: pregnantlated to date, had their knee on her, the police,

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Speaker 1: and that it's not gonna stop, man. And we gotta

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Speaker 1: go out there and vote. We gotta register the vote.

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Speaker 1: And I'm voting in person, my friend, I am voting

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Speaker 1: in person. I'm not messing around with no mail in ballot.

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Speaker 1: I'm not messing around with that. I wanted somebody to go,

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Speaker 1: here's your card. Sure you've officially voted, because I want

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Speaker 1: to people understand that if you want something to life,

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Speaker 1: no matter what it is, a business, you want to graduate,

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Speaker 1: you want to be in a relationship for a long time,

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Speaker 1: it's hard work. It's hard work, and voting it is hard.

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Speaker 1: If he got stand in that line, if it's raining,

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Speaker 1: if it's storming standing that line, because if I don't

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Speaker 1: make a change, it's gonna be uh four more years

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Speaker 1: of a life that would never be good, especially for

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Speaker 1: people you aren't making it. And I'm just talking about

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Speaker 1: you know, we we we've crossed a little line there, Kevin.

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Speaker 1: We could survive the ignorance. I'm not. But again, if

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Speaker 1: I'm making it and my people ain't making it, then

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Speaker 1: I'm not making That's right. You ain't making it, because

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's a burden, you know. And I always

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Speaker 1: take you too, And I know we're wrapping. But it

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Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago when we talk about standing the lines.

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Speaker 1: I meant my son was at a play football at

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Speaker 1: Utah and he called me one day and he was

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Speaker 1: just upset and he was like that he was wing

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Speaker 1: a sixty five. I said, yeah, Mark. He said, the

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Speaker 1: Voters Act was made uh June or whatever six, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: whatever was he said, So when you was born, black

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Speaker 1: people couldn't vote. So he said, my granting them couldn't vote?

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Speaker 1: I said no, And if if it hit home with him,

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Speaker 1: like he knows people, he couldn't believe that he knew

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Speaker 1: black people that couldn't vote at the time. And if

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Speaker 1: people don't think certain things can happen again. Like I

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Speaker 1: tell people all the time, I'm not a conspiracy theorist,

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Speaker 1: theory of sporist or whatever I said. But when they came,

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Speaker 1: when got the brothers from Africa for slavery, said they

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Speaker 1: were living normal life, normal life. I said, please look

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Speaker 1: at the big picture on everything. Please look at people

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Speaker 1: trying to line up with with Russia and things like that.

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Speaker 1: Just always look at the big picture, man, and get

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Speaker 1: out there and vote. Man, it's just this. I never

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Speaker 1: thought we would be to this time again, and we are.

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Speaker 1: And if this don't bring us all together, and like

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Speaker 1: I said, you can't say certain things aren't different, because

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was in l A for the ninety

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Speaker 1: two rides. You know what I mean. You brothers and

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Speaker 1: Hispanics out there, But now look at who's out there now.

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Speaker 1: It's white, black, Hispanic together. And like I said, maybe

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Speaker 1: not in a lifetime, but I feel like once you

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Speaker 1: have kids, ain't it's about maybe in a lifetime and

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Speaker 1: a lifetime after that, racism might not exist no more,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And that's what I try

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Speaker 1: to work towards. Man. But we gotta do it. You know, Yes, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: I would appreciate you coming on money making conversations with

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Speaker 1: a two time I said two times Steve Harvey Hoody

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Speaker 1: See he know, I know, he know, I know juniors

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Speaker 1: graduating class the Bishop College and don't know my sister

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Speaker 1: went to school Bishop College. I know what you're talking about. Man.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more from Marsan McDonald and

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Speaker 1: rights attorney Ben Crump. The police for justice is simply

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Speaker 1: this Crump said. Dr Martin Luther King said, he who

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Speaker 1: truly is an epidemic of how they are destroying the

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Speaker 1: lives of so many young people of color, whether they're

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Speaker 1: the laws. We're trying to make be an education for

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Speaker 1: young people, but also for white people who want them

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Speaker 1: to understand. Look at what you're doing to our future.

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to speculate and say, oh, we

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Speaker 1: never knew. You can't say we didn't know. The question

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Speaker 1: have the knowledge. The Cafe Morka Swag Award represents men

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Speaker 1: who have strand, whose wisdom is assertive, and who is

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Speaker 1: genuine in their spirit. Welcome back to money making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sean McDonald. My next guest. Randy Williams

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Speaker 1: is the president of Tally and Twining, a company that

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Speaker 1: designs and manufactures luxury watches and necessaries. Since starting the

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Speaker 1: company of fourteen, ranting this game national media attention with

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Speaker 1: Features and Men's Health, Black Enterprise, Huffing and Post Essence,

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Speaker 1: Blavety New York, New York Magazine, and Cosmopolitan. The company

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Speaker 1: names comes from an intersection that was formerly the center

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Speaker 1: of a notorious crime ready neighborhood in Virginia and reason.

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Speaker 1: In recent years, the neighborhood has been completely revitalized and

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Speaker 1: those same families now have the opportunity to own a

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Speaker 1: place where the dark past now has a bright future.

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Speaker 1: Talian Twine represents the future. It's not about how you start,

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Speaker 1: is about how you finish. Please welcome to money making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: The Owner, Founder, CEO, all the titles to go with

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Speaker 1: the leader of the pack, my man, Randy Williams, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for having me great intro. Well you

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Speaker 1: submit that that you got Stephen A. Smith doing your intro.

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Speaker 1: That's legendary. Man. I love that. Hey man, the first

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Speaker 1: of all, I love when people recognize his voice. That's

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Speaker 1: my man, man, and he lays it as only Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith concern I'm not broke, that's true. Well, this is

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Speaker 1: just what this show is about, talking to people who

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Speaker 1: are trying to gain their footh haul and in the

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Speaker 1: financial community, especially people of color. They have kind of

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Speaker 1: like been left out over the years. We haven't been

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Speaker 1: giving a blueprint or had the necessary means to figure

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Speaker 1: out figured out. You know, they tell us to go

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Speaker 1: to school, we get an education, but that that'sn't a

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Speaker 1: blueprint for success. That's to tell you how to become

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. Tell us how I got started for you, Randy,

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Speaker 1: a lot of trial and error and you know, like

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Speaker 1: you said, there isn't a blueprint. But if you want

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Speaker 1: to become an entrepreneur, you gotta go out and try

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Speaker 1: a few different things and kind of learned along the way.

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Speaker 1: So you know, fail feel that business a lot, and

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Speaker 1: all you need to be right is one time, right now,

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Speaker 1: be right now. You're an HBCU. Grat Okay, Why why

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Speaker 1: an HBCU for your education? Yeah, well it's not a

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Speaker 1: deep answer for me. They're the ones who accepted me.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was close to the whole. It was affordable.

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Speaker 1: You know, as a as a young man being raised

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Speaker 1: by my grandmother, we can't have a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: money saved up for me to attend college. So I

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Speaker 1: was less enough to have a decent g p A.

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Speaker 1: And you get in the Albany State University man, so

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Speaker 1: I had to. Um. I was thankful for that opportunity.

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Speaker 1: It gave me a great cultural experience, you know. Um

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Speaker 1: I actually didn't recognize the value of hbc US until

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Speaker 1: I attended one man. But it was a great experience.

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Speaker 1: When you said the value, what does that mean when

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Speaker 1: it's the value of an HBCU until you attended it.

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Speaker 1: So basically, like I said, they let you in, you

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Speaker 1: were thankful, you can continue education, but you usually understand

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Speaker 1: the other things that it brought to the table able

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Speaker 1: that now you see as a benefit. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: a huge cultural experience. You know, it's a celebration of blackness,

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Speaker 1: and it's an environment where instructors and professors make you

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Speaker 1: feel seen, and that's something that's missing in corporate America.

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Speaker 1: It's they're kind of like UM an incubator, Like they

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Speaker 1: have business incubators for businesses that kind of give you

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Speaker 1: a great push to start. That's what it does for

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Speaker 1: Black American man HBCU as an incubator to prepare you

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Speaker 1: for the corporate environment that you're gonna face after graduation.

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Speaker 1: And now that's called life after college, which we were

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Speaker 1: talking about now now and one of your questions that said,

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Speaker 1: you had previous businesses that have failed. Can you talk

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Speaker 1: about those before we got into the success story of

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Speaker 1: Italian Twine? Yeah? Sure, Um. The biggest failure I had,

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Speaker 1: I guess in terms of money was you know, trying

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Speaker 1: to get into real estate and right at two thousand

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Speaker 1: seven and two thousand eight, UM and right where you

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Speaker 1: are in Atlanta and losing my shirt. You know. So

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Speaker 1: that was one of the biggest lessons, is you know,

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Speaker 1: hopping into stuff without taking the time to properly educate

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Speaker 1: yourself on how to do it. So basically you saw

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Speaker 1: an opportunity, didn't do your research like you said, and

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Speaker 1: that that that famous year two thousand and eight, and

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Speaker 1: when everything went from success to horror, I mean from

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Speaker 1: a nightmare was find Nobody could explain it because they

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Speaker 1: had already the system had already had kind of like

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Speaker 1: pushed this limit on loans, pushed this limit on corporations

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Speaker 1: and needed bailout, and the stock market was the bubble burst,

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Speaker 1: and you part of that. I was part of America,

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Speaker 1: was part of that. Nobody was left, you know, you

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Speaker 1: were by Oprah. However, value just dropped and all these

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Speaker 1: major players in the tech game started suffering, and all

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Speaker 1: that those those levels of income that they thought were

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Speaker 1: gonna be there forever went away went away. Tally Entwine, Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, We're not not trying to

846
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 1: be negative or anything. I just I and Wining watches

847
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: it all I had in my mind. Um, I just

848
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: didn't wear I watched. I stopped warting to watch, probably

849
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: about inighties six, I stopped wearing to watch and uh,

850
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: and then um because somebodw I can always find the time.

851
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: You know, you have a phones, you have I'm very

852
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: good at knowing my time where I'm at, And so

853
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: that's where I would perceived watches to be time. Now.

854
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 1: I look at watches now as accessories, as as part

855
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: of the as part of your style, part of my

856
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: culture now. And so a friend of mine, uh, she

857
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: executive producer a family few, as a birthday president, president,

858
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: she Christmas friends. He brought me a watch and I

859
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: let it sat there that I was determined just to

860
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: hold true to Rushan. I'm not gonna wear watching I

861
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: bought all these years watching I wear watching that, and

862
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: I and I and I realized that sometimes you have

863
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: you have to change goals to be successful, you have

864
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: to change your the way you do business. And putting

865
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: on that watch really changed the way I I did

866
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 1: business and how I approached myself became more flexible. And

867
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: so I I used that as a as a lead

868
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: into the conversation that sometimes people who might say, what

869
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: does the watch bringing to the why I did the

870
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: where I watched where a watch changed the way I

871
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: approach life, Randy, and and if it allowed me to

872
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: be flexible, it allowed me to be fashionable because I

873
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: got like three different ones, you know, and I've just

874
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: found about your brand. So I'm out to perch me

875
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: a couple of your brand. That's how I've gotten that.

876
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And uh and so so

877
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: let's talk about you. You've heard my story and how

878
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: the impact of who the watch can have. It made me. Uh,

879
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: I felt it made me made me because I wear

880
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,439
Speaker 1: suits all the times. Tailor made suits, so it made

881
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: my my my my clothing balanced. I felt because I

882
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: didn't have anything, because if you don't have anything on

883
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: your wrist, it's just naked there. It's just it's just

884
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: it's just skin. Now I have this watch, and I

885
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: can't tell you. Sometimes your people see me as I

886
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: I like your watch, and I don't even know because

887
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: I because I'm a guy who pointed out them. Very

888
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: active with my hands and then on my other I'm

889
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: a cancer survivor. So I have this little chain on

890
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: my right hand, on my right hand where reminds me

891
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: and asked me about it. I always tell them about surviving.

892
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: And so I have a watch that is on my

893
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: left which talks about my culture, my balance, and my

894
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: watching them all right, I got a risk chain that

895
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: talks about survival. And so when I when I, when I,

896
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: when the opportunity came about to interview you, I just

897
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: really wanted to know what was the driving legacy of

898
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: watches for you and the unpacking can have them a

899
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: person like me. Yeah, most of our customers have that

900
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: same story as you have. Somebody got it for him

901
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: gifts as a gift and they weren't really into him,

902
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: but once they started wearing, it's kind of one of

903
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: those things where you feel like, man, I don't want

904
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 1: to go out without one now. And my personal story

905
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: is during our senior trip in high school when on

906
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: the cruise went to the Bahamas, I went in to

907
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: one of these little local shops and they had a

908
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: fifty dollar guests watching there and I had never won

909
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: a watch before, but buying that, I spent my last

910
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: little money that I had. I bought that watch and

911
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: to bring it back home. That was the first time

912
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,959
Speaker 1: I felt like a grown man, you know. I felt

913
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 1: like I have become a man and now I can

914
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: go on to college and face the world. And that

915
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: kind of was coinciding with me going to college. At

916
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: the same time I got my first watch, and so

917
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: that it became important to me for that reason, you know.

918
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: So again, just like you, I was a business major

919
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: and we wore a lot of suits, and I felt

920
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: like that watch really in hand that and gave me

921
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: that professional polish that I was looking for. And um,

922
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: how did you get in the watch business? You know,

923
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: like I said, you know people couldn't You know that

924
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: doesn't the first African American? Okay, and you you're getting

925
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: into the watch business and talk about that step because

926
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: of course, you know, it's this natural conversation to you.

927
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: We're all money making conversations. So I'm trying to walk

928
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: people through the steps of how you can get to

929
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 1: your dream. And it's not normal because you just can't

930
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: go to the next door and just talk to somebody.

931
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: I want to store. I want to get in to

932
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: watch it. They look at you like, Okay, now you

933
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: talk about the Bahama trip. Okay, that's a long ways

934
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: from what We're a long ways from Bahamas. Because of

935
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: the fact that you know Italian and Twine we talked

936
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: about how that is from from a street name in

937
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, Like my business is thirty and fifteen media,

938
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: thirty and fifteen media. The number thirty fifteen is from

939
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: the home that I was born in that was in

940
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: the hood and uh and it was six bed room.

941
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: It was will six bear was six, six sisters and

942
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: two brothers. My both my parents who lived in a

943
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 1: two bedrooms shotgun house. So when I read that, Tali

944
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: and Trying, it's a lot of thing that you're doing

945
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: in your life that's very relatable to what I do

946
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: and what I what I stand for. And that's why

947
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: I feel that I always want to keep you in

948
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: my life because I feel that we have a certain kinship.

949
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: But again, you young man, wanted to do go into

950
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: the watch business. How does one get into the watch business? Yeah?

951
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: Through um so, through a lot of trial and error

952
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: and other businesses. You realize that in order for a

953
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: business to be successful, you have to fulfill a need,

954
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: fulfill a gap. So there's something missing or there's a

955
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: market that's not being served that could benefit from what

956
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: you have to offer. And so, as a consumer of watches,

957
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of our people should really

958
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: take note of that is a lot of things that

959
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: you consume um represent an opportunity for you. And so

960
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: I was collecting a lot of watches, but I figured

961
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: out something. Most of the brands that were affordable, meaning

962
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: under a thousand dollars, they were just mimicking the more

963
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: expensive brand. So it was a lot of repetition in

964
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: the market. And I wanted to wear something different, you know,

965
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: I said, if I had a watch, I would change this,

966
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: I would change that, my band would look like this.

967
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: And after while, I realized that that represented a huge,

968
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: huge opportunity for me to get into business and designed

969
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: my own watch. Now how I was gonna do that,

970
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: I had no idea, and so that's when I went

971
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: to YouTube and Google university and kind of figure out

972
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: the steps to step by step. I started with a

973
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: sketch and then I eventually contacted the manufacturer. UH. They

974
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: helped me bring that to life, order some samples, and

975
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: once I got the samples the way that I wanted them,

976
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: you know, over the course of about a year year

977
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: and a half, that's when I decided to launch, and

978
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: we launched via the crowdfunding site kickstarter to raise money

979
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: for our first shipment. So you went out there. I've

980
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: heard people say Kickstarted, what what engaged people want to

981
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: contribute to your brain? What did you do? What was it?

982
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: What was your platform? What was your what made them

983
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: want to go, wow, I want to I want to

984
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: contribute to this. And how does kick started work when

985
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: someone contributes to it? Do they are they part owners?

986
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: They have a little percentage of your brand? How does

987
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: that work? M um? Well, my platform was just what

988
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: I told you, So here's something new for the market.

989
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: Here's something that is not going to be a replica

990
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: of all the other watches that are out. So that

991
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: was my main platform. And then also I started with

992
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: the interchangeable band, so I have these canvas bands that

993
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 1: we can change. You can give your watching completely different looks.

994
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,439
Speaker 1: So those are my two platforms. And then the way

995
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: kicks Started works is it's basically a pre order system.

996
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: So in order to get your products early, people will

997
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: pay um ahead of time and they will get a

998
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: discount off of the retail price. Right, So let's say

999
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: my goal was to raise and so I knew I

1000
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: needed I think maybe a hundred and hundred and fifty

1001
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: backers to pre order the Watch, who believe in what

1002
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: we were doing, who believed that we would be able

1003
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: to get the main manufacturing process done to go ahead

1004
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: and pre order and an exchange. They were able to

1005
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: get a steep discount off of the initial watch. But no,

1006
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: they are not part owners, so they just they basically

1007
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: we just ordered their product at a discount. Yes, sir,

1008
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: Some crowd fund the platforms at work like that where

1009
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: you do get ownership. But I didn't do that. Absolutely,

1010
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: you didn't thankful for it, aren't you? You know, because

1011
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 1: we all have dreams. The thing about when the dream

1012
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: that comes successful and then people look around tapping you

1013
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: on the show talking about what my chick it's about

1014
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty of them? Ready, that that gets

1015
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: pretty hugly real fast man, Well hundred, I'm talking about

1016
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: where my check at. You know. Look, man, look, let

1017
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: me give you back your two dollars. Okay, you can

1018
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: go about your business all right? Sorry, no, no, no,

1019
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: that's not what my contracts say. My contracts saying I

1020
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: owned some of this and I want my share. Man.

1021
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: You be here for screaming up and down now when

1022
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these bands. Man, you know, because on

1023
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: your site right, and the different look it's what you know,

1024
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: the large face is, they're very clean. Your you're watches,

1025
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: uh don't have numbers on them? Was what that was?

1026
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: That the look that you were seeking. Yeah, that's the

1027
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: look that I was seeking, because again, I wanted to

1028
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: do something that wasn't traditional. And you said it earlier.

1029
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: We don't really use our watches for telling time now.

1030
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: It's more of a fast accessor, and so I wanted

1031
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 1: to give it a unique look. So we only have

1032
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: the number seven on all of our watching and why

1033
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: is that? Well, the number seven represents completion. So I

1034
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 1: told myself when I started talenting Twine, I was gonna

1035
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: finish what I started. You know, you know a lot

1036
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: of times as entrepreneurs we started stuff and thinking of stuff.

1037
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: Don't I love you boy? I number seven? You know,

1038
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: you know seven days in the week. You know what

1039
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying, You gotta complete your prod. That's right. And

1040
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: then there's also something very recognizable. Man. I imagine people

1041
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: being out in the store looking over at somebody's wrists

1042
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: and seeing that up and say, hey, is that a

1043
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: talious one? You're listening to money making conversations with Rashan

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1046
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Speaker 1: new features yourself. So when something breaks, it could cause

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Speaker 1: money making conversations. I'm your host, Sean McDonald, so you know,

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Speaker 1: or they go why just or creature conversation, you know,

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00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: or as a conversation exactly what type of watching? Because

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00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,919
Speaker 1: that in the end, man, that's really all you're trying

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00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: to create. Like I said, you know, people try to

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00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: create ice breakers. And first of all, it's a beautiful watch,

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00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: and then that number seven on it. You know, if

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00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: somebody is is just or seven, then you explain it.

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00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: Then you get to a conversation with somebody and now

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00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: all of a sudden there's a great ice breaker. But

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00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: the but the look in the fashion is really so

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00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: this is really I think a very timely watch. So

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00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: what with the official launch date for this watch, Randy,

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00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: We launched in November two thousand, November, right before Christmas,

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00:53:54,840 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: smart move, right before christ Okay, so everything's online, correct, Yes, sir?

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00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: We sell directed consumer. Um, we don't do any retail

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00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: right now. Okay. So COVID hit, the pandemic hits, the

1082
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: country shuts down. What does that do for your brain?

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00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: We saw increase in sales, you know, because people were

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00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: at home. Um, and unfortunately the social unrest also added

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00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,399
Speaker 1: a boost to our business. You know, as people begin

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00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: to seek out black owned businesses, you know, so you know,

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00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: it kind of validated my thinking from the beginning was that,

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00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, eventually traditional retails gonna continue to continue to

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00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: slow down and people are gonna want to owner their

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00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: products online. They're not gonna want to put up with

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00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: the higher prices at retail, They're not gonna put up

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00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: with the bad customer service. They get a retail um

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00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: and so I kind of pushed all my chip to

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00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: the table to be saying that we're gonna do directly

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00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: consumer and sell online only. We actually turned out so

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00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: some major contracts from some traditional retailers to keep our

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00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: brand intact. When you say that, what do you mean

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00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: you you to keep your brand intact? What does that mean? Yeah? Meaning, um,

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00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: let's say we we got a um A purchase order

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00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: from from North from Fly and we chose not to

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00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 1: do it. Because when you shop at North from your

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00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:20,720
Speaker 1: northroom's customer, they control the social they control the customer service.

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00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: They can talk to you how they want to, they

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00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: can ship in whatever time frame they want to, and

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00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: ultimately you become their customer. As a direct and consumer business,

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00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: you maintain the connection with all of your customers. So

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00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: I can say, hey, Mr Williams, thank you for your

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00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: purchase last month. You want to know if you'll be

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00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: interested in one of our leather bands to accompany the

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00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: watch that you purchase, or I can send you a

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00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: card on your birthday, or I can send you a

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00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:50,240
Speaker 1: free gift in the mail prior to the holidays. And ultimately,

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00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: the value in today's market is having that customer base.

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00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: There's no need to give it away to somebody just

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00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: because you know their name and they've been around for

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00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,839
Speaker 1: a while, because you're ultimately providing the value. Wow, I'm

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00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: talking to Randy Williams. He's the president of Italian Twine, accompaniate,

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00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: the designs and manufacturer luxury watches and accessories. He started

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00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: November fourteen. And you're really good at getting UM media

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Speaker 1: to look at your brand. How you're accomplishing that task,

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00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: because that's the number one talk that people talk a

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00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: he man, I I can I get promotion I can

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Speaker 1: get from I can get all the cole written on

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00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: my product. First of all, out to have a good

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00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: looking product. But you're you when I look when I

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00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: when I'm doing this interview, you have a very interesting

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00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: personality with interesting meaning is good because you have a plan,

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00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: you have a conversation. You know, you're you have all

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00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: the right things to say about who you are and

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00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: why you're doing this. You know, like that number seven

1131
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: is really slick. You know, interchangeable watches, you know. I

1132
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: know when I was marketing Steve Harvey's first book, they

1133
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 1: always put out a little phrases out of the book

1134
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: so you can when you go to an interview. These

1135
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,320
Speaker 1: are buzzwords and people jump on them. So what is

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00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: your degree in randy market My degree is that marketing.

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00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: So all listen, this is all part of the big plan. Really,

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00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Part of the big plan

1139
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: it because everything you do is like not I won't

1140
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: say marketing one on one, but guess what. You have

1141
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: all the right little layers and buzzes and statements to

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00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: be able to say, I'm an interesting guy. You can

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00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: put me on TV, I can talk if you write

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00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: about me. Guess where I got stuff to put in print?

1145
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: And it all comes back to a product that looks outstanding. Man,

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00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: Thank you man. I'll tell you what, Sean, it's like this, Um,

1147
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: I think I like it to I attributed to self awareness.

1148
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: So it's just like when you go from being a

1149
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: young man to an older man, you understand who you

1150
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: are more and you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

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00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: You're not just doing something to make money or you're

1152
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: not just doing something for attention. And I wanted Italians

1153
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: wanting to be a brand like that that understood it,

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00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: so that had these principles and these values that were

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00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: built into the brand, and we weren't kind of following

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00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: the trends and following was popular. And so that's how

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00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: I think about it. And to answer your question about

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00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: how we got the media, I have no idea. We

1159
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: have never had a pr agency. We don't reach out

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00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: to media outlets. Somehow we get UH coverage and I

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00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: just consider it a blessing. I just say that that's

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00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: God's grace. And I really don't have a strategy for

1163
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: that one. But I go to the website. I see everybody,

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00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I see I see the strategy.

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00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: You know, from the marketing standpoint, I see Men's Health,

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00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: Black Enterprise, he poses Plavity, Mashable. They not New York

1167
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: cost Bottom Ebony. That right there. Let everybody know, we'll

1168
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: brand is being recognized by all the top media outlets.

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00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: That means that you are you're very much aware of

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00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: who you are and the story you're trying to tell.

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00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: Now you have a men's line and you have a

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00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: women's line. Okay, I'm assuming you started with the men's

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00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: line first. Correct, Yes, sir? When did you get smart?

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00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: Got to bring it on the women because they're the

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00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: one they're they're the ones who really they're the ones

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00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: who buy two or three things. You know, they got

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00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: a dress for this, they got a dressed for that.

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00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: You know when when when did that pop up? Realize

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00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: that the women? I'm assuming that the women are the

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00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: biggest buyers. Correct, it's about yeah, so, which which I

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00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: like because that means that you have a pretty much established,

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00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: especially on the men's side, a certain dollar value customer. Yeah, yeah,

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00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: I would say so. I think two years in I started,

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00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: I couldn't resist it anymore because I wanted tally trying

1185
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: to be men's brand, because that's who I knew how

1186
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: to market too. I was so afraid of trying to

1187
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: market the women. I didn't want to mess up in

1188
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: the way that I was communicating with them. But after

1189
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 1: a while, man, after get email and email and call

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00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: and call, it was women buying gifts for men as

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00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: much as there were men shopping on our site, and

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00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: so it just represented a no brain I mean, the

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00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: people actor and they wanted, uh, a watch that match

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01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 1: their husbands. They wanted to give set and so I

1195
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: just kind of took that feedback and you know, I

1196
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: had to slap myself against the head. It's like, what

1197
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know, why aren't you selling women's

1198
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: watching or so we rolled that out and you know,

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01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: it instantly wasn't hit. And what I love about having

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01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: female customers is when they love a product, they are

1201
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: going to talk about it, They're going to discuss it,

1202
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: they're going to share it. And that's really one of

1203
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: the things that has allowed us to grow. You know.

1204
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 1: The thing that I really like about what I'm seeing

1205
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: here in on your line is that, man, these watches

1206
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: look sexy. Man, you know, because you know, I I

1207
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: here's a guy like I said, what intoen I put

1208
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: a watch back on my body, okay, And so I'm

1209
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: watching these watches. Man. You who's ever taking these photos? Man?

1210
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: They really know how to make these watches look man,

1211
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: I want that to watch with my risk. Man, I

1212
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: mean these are I mean, these are some attractive looking

1213
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: photos that look so are you involved in the selection,

1214
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: you know, like when looking for Let's go back when

1215
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: you have had this Playball magazine? You know he went

1216
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: through all the pictures, He's made all final selection on

1217
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 1: the photos that went on into the magazine. How involved

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01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: in you? Because I'm just telling you, man, this is

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01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 1: the These these photos with the watch, it almost like, Man,

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01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: I can put that watch on my all right there

1221
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,439
Speaker 1: with that shirt. I put that watch with my blue suit.

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01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: This is what you're selling. You're selling is not. I

1223
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: don't need to see the full body. I just need

1224
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: to see high looks on my wrist. And that's what

1225
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: you're doing. Somewhere along the line, Randy, You've tapped into something, man,

1226
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 1: And uh and I'm just trying to m and this.

1227
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: I know it's I know over time I figured out.

1228
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 1: But his interview. You're special, dude, You're special and understanding

1229
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: what excites people. What what You're making a watch value

1230
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 1: to me? You're making me want to buy your watch

1231
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: when I go through this website. You're making me want

1232
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: to like, not just one watch, I want to try

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01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: a couple of them, you know, two or three, because

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01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: you know black goes are black or gray, brown goes blue.

1235
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: You know browns can go with great. So you can't

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01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: just put a watch on with everything. I've learned that

1237
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: you know you when you have a value customer, Like

1238
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: I said, you go in my house. I got like

1239
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: four or five watches because I got my silver, my platinum,

1240
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: because different suits I put on, I have to look

1241
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: a certain way. Now. My two favorite colors are my

1242
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: black and my brown wrist bands. But one of the

1243
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: big sellers for your watches that you can interchange bands, correct, yes, sir, yes, sir.

1244
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: So let's go back to the selection of these photos

1245
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: and start. I forgot about that. No, I didn't forget

1246
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: about that. How did these pictures get on your website?

1247
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: Because they are they're like making me want to like

1248
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: put out my American Express to start dying. And right now,

1249
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you're making me sick right now, Randy, I'm

1250
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:46,959
Speaker 1: telling you, man, brother, I got I will be buying

1251
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: a couple of these watches. Brother. Well, it's a it's

1252
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: an important part of the process. So like you know,

1253
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 1: you're like custom suits and you go in and you

1254
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: get greeted by someone. They measure you, they ask you questions,

1255
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: they find out about just a really personal experience. And

1256
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: so as an online business, we don't have that person

1257
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 1: to person touchpoint. So we have to try to make

1258
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: the website as attractive as possible so that people can

1259
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:15,360
Speaker 1: understand the real value of the watch that they're going

1260
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: to be getting. So we try to photograph it from

1261
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: all angles. We try to photograph have photographs of people

1262
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: wearing it in their element so that we can really

1263
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: tell that story without having that one on one contact.

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the hurdles that we have to

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Speaker 1: get open. So that means our website has got to

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Speaker 1: be ten times better and more attractive than it would

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Speaker 1: be if you had that in story experience. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm really involved there today with the marketing and the

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Speaker 1: photography and video selection, and I really enjoyed that part

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Speaker 1: of my busines the business. It is actually my favorite part,

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Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. So what is the warranty I buy to watch?

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Speaker 1: You know a couple of watches that I really like,

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Speaker 1: the sold sold out, the ALREADYO top of so what

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Speaker 1: just just what do you select to watch? What's the

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Speaker 1: window and what's the warranty on your watches. We have

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Speaker 1: a two year warranty on our watches to the big

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Speaker 1: thing happens, get it, get replaced, which is unprecedented in

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Speaker 1: our pride. That's incredible. Two years year warranted. And also

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Speaker 1: you can return a product and definitely you know, if

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Speaker 1: you got it and you haven't used it, as long

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Speaker 1: as something used, will always be able to refund you

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Speaker 1: or exchange it for you. So we have a very

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Speaker 1: generous return policy because we really believe in our product.

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Speaker 1: Now this this this black metal band, the one that

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Speaker 1: sold out, you know, of course it will be you know,

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Speaker 1: you know I would pick the one that sold out,

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Speaker 1: you know, crazy like that that that charcoal band on it.

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Speaker 1: That's cold right there, man. I just love the women,

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Speaker 1: the women lines, man, I love that that that that

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Speaker 1: pink band, that blue band. Man, you know you you're

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Speaker 1: just making a killing of that pink watch right here. Man,

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Speaker 1: the pink leather band. That's outstanding. There's a pre order

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Speaker 1: shipping by octob wards. That mean pre order shipping by

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Speaker 1: October fifteen. The roles go, what does that mean? When

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Speaker 1: I see that? Well, um, we were expecting to be

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Speaker 1: a hundred percent improvement over what we did last year

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Speaker 1: in terms of sale. But somewhere in the first three

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Speaker 1: months of the year, we that catapulted over year and

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Speaker 1: uh we sold out everything man, so um, we had

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Speaker 1: to start making them available for pre order. UM. So

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Speaker 1: we'll be shipping those pre orders are actually within the

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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, UM, and then after that hopefully

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Speaker 1: we can have them stopped and we'll be shipping directly

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Speaker 1: from the site. We know on this shipping two to

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Speaker 1: three business days. But you know, the man has been

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Speaker 1: so strong this year that we've had to switch over

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Speaker 1: the pre orders. Well, Randy, all I gotta say, man,

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Speaker 1: all right, if you don't mind, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: put you in my news letter goes out there thousand subscribers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on my shopping thank You uh,

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Speaker 1: which is on my Money Making Conversation and also on

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Speaker 1: my um Money Making Conversation as well as on my

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Speaker 1: um my HBCU Awards UH website that just launched this month.

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Speaker 1: And my whole thing is that you have a great business.

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Speaker 1: I am a customer and you my name will pop

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Speaker 1: up on your site as a as a buyer because

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Speaker 1: of the fact that, uh, you're special, man, not just

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01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: a just special from a standpoint of the product. But

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01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: if you have unique qualities and a unique understanding of

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Speaker 1: how you want to be viewed, It's not about to check.

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Speaker 1: It's about the brand. I always tell people, always tell

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Speaker 1: people this. You know, I don't really chase money. I

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Speaker 1: changed relationships and I changed and I control my brand.

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Speaker 1: And if you do all those things, then you will

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Speaker 1: make money and you'll be able to control your destiny

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Speaker 1: and your future. But if you start giving away your

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Speaker 1: brand for a check, then gets what you have to

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Speaker 1: cater to them. And you're absolutely right. It's like it's

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Speaker 1: like I always always go back to what I's to

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Speaker 1: do with uh with with Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme, man,

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01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: when that little sign came home, you stopped and you

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Speaker 1: had best hot Donna in the world. Then they start

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Speaker 1: going in the grocery stores, they start going to stops,

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01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 1: and you crat that doing up Cole was hard. And

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Speaker 1: that's what you're saying about Norstrom. I don't want anybody

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01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: to market my brand along with a lot of other

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01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: watches and make it competitive and telling you this is

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Speaker 1: this and this does this come to me. I'm gonna

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01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: give you two years. I'm give you loyalty, I'm gonna respect,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you the truth about my product.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you're doing on Italian Twine. I respect

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Speaker 1: that and I love you for a brother. Thank you,

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01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: thank you man, Thank you for the kind words. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. No, no, we were looking at kind words.

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01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: I gotta start marketing. I gotta jump up there. I

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01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: want my little money making conversation go up there with

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Speaker 1: a huff Post and uh ebond and you know what

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Speaker 1: I gotta do that. I gotta I gotta get up there.

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Speaker 1: Man talent, come on. But thank you for taking the

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01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: time to come on this show. And I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: man and uh mad respect and I will always and

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01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 1: like I said, everything I do on money making conversations,

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01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 1: there's no check attached to it. It's about promoting positive

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01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: individuals who are trying to make are different. Because you

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01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: you create taxes, you create employment, you can an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to make this country a lot better. That's what entrepreneurs do.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to recognize you for your efforts. Man,

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01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I love what you're doing. Man, keep

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01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: up the work. I know it's hard working it into

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01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 1: your schedule, man, but we really need to continue. So thanks.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate all Right. There. You want to hear more

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Speaker 1: money Making Conversation interviews, please go to money Making Conversation

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Speaker 1: dot com. I'm ra Sean McDonald. I'm your host. My

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Speaker 1: next guest. Rhodesia Howardtons were several hats in the entrepreneur

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Speaker 1: lifestyle space. She currently serves as owner and CEO of

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Speaker 1: Credit Medics LLC. She's co founder or Go Get Crown,

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Speaker 1: nonprofit organization for women empowerment, and co owner of Get

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Speaker 1: Well Urgent Care medical Facility. Come from a poverty, strict

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Speaker 1: and neighborhood and have an escaped the statistics, Howardton has

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Speaker 1: found her purpose and passion, which is encouraging others and

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Speaker 1: helping tom to reach their fullest potential and cheering them

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Speaker 1: on to the finish line. Please walk on to Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation. Rhodisha Howardton's good morning, good morning, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so much. Well. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you know when I when I hear the word thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming on the show Money Making Conversation. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate all guests who will take the time to

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Speaker 1: deliver nuggets or inspirational information or define information that you

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01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: can use to make themselves successful. Because I have women

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Speaker 1: dominate my listenership by sixty percent of my audience women. Uh,

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01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 1: eight percent of my audience is under the age of

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01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 1: forty four, and so that means that they have an

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01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial mindset and they want to they want to be

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01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 1: information that will help them win. Why did you look?

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Speaker 1: I mentioned three organizations in your credit Let's start out

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01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: with credit Medics in the in the middle of pandemic

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01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 1: and financial Uh, the average person financial sitter rich, is

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01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: in disarray. Does credit Medics help them or can be

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Speaker 1: a role to play? They try to get them through this?

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Speaker 1: Uh these difficult times. Well, absolutely, before the pandemic we

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Speaker 1: have we have really changed thousands and thousands of our

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Speaker 1: clients lives by just educating them or financial literacy. You'll

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Speaker 1: be surprised. You know, I come from you know, an

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Speaker 1: urban community, and you'd be surprised how many of us

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Speaker 1: are never taught about credit. America has ran on credit

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Speaker 1: and at these times, you you literally can use credit

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Speaker 1: to survive, you know, if you got laid off, if

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01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 1: you know they cut back when your hours. There are

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Speaker 1: lines of credit that you would have access to if

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Speaker 1: you were able to qualify for these lines of credit.

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Speaker 1: You could use these lines of credit to survive until

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Speaker 1: your income picks stack up and the bates have given

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Speaker 1: me personally, on my on my personal line, I have

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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars um as the next on my

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Speaker 1: line personally, and I have a few of those. So

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Speaker 1: if I was to fall on hard times, that could

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Speaker 1: carry me until I can figure it out, until I

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01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:59,120
Speaker 1: create could create another strain line and income or just

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01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 1: to be able to survive. So credit is super duper

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Speaker 1: important to be able to leverage, to be able to leverage,

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Speaker 1: not just even during these times, you know, to be

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Speaker 1: able to leverage to create generational wealth for you and

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Speaker 1: your children. So it's very important and credit metics has

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Speaker 1: assisted thousands and thousands of clients. I'm talking about home ownership,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about personal credit. I'm talking about business credit.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about establishing new businesses. I'm talking about expansion.

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Speaker 1: All of that we know. Thank you for the energy

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Speaker 1: and thank you for the points um about credit and

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Speaker 1: about your credit score. When need credit? When did that?

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Speaker 1: When I in your bio. Can you when when I

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Speaker 1: when I read the statement poverty stricten neighborhood, what is that?

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Speaker 1: What is that type of environment? And how long did

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Speaker 1: you live in that? And how did that motivate you

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Speaker 1: to who you are today? That coming in and being

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Speaker 1: raised in that type of environment. So honestly, when I

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Speaker 1: say poverty stritching, I was raising what we were called

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Speaker 1: the hood. You know, a lot of inner city urban

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Speaker 1: can n of these are you know, cause the hood

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Speaker 1: we're living in poverty, very low income, you know, lack

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Speaker 1: of education, A lot of the things that I have

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Speaker 1: seen I should not have seen as a child. But

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Speaker 1: I never used that as a crutch. I never used

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Speaker 1: that as um a source of discouragement for me. I

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Speaker 1: used that as encouragement for me. I used that as

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Speaker 1: an example of I did not want to be like that,

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Speaker 1: and I knew as a child. UM. The fortunate part

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Speaker 1: of my childhood was I was able to travel a

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Speaker 1: lot and my my dad who raised me because I

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Speaker 1: was raising a single parent household and usually you hear

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Speaker 1: you know the mother was a single mind, but it

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01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 1: was my dad and we didn't have a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: But my dad saw the importance of connecting us with

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01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 1: people who could offer resources that he could not. So

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Speaker 1: we traveled a lot, and me being able to travel

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Speaker 1: outside of that environment, I was able to see that, Hey,

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Speaker 1: life is bigger than this. Life is bigger than living

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01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: in poverty and being content with being poor and not

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Speaker 1: being able to have access the resources and not being

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Speaker 1: able to live a great life growing up. Excuse my friend,

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Speaker 1: I saw a lot of rich white people on TV.

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Speaker 1: But when I begin to travel, I saw that white

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01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 1: people weren't the only people that were able to be successful.

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Speaker 1: Black people could be too. So that for me was

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Speaker 1: the eye opener, and that for me challenged me to

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01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: think bigger. You know, um, first of all, what you're

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01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 1: sending is absolutely correct, is about getting out and seeing

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Speaker 1: a bigger world because when you re reports and I

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Speaker 1: I've been able to do a lot of social work

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Speaker 1: and a lot of environmental My minor is in sociology

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Speaker 1: and uh a lot of black people within the intern city.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in inter city fifth Ward if it's

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Speaker 1: just used in Texas, so I know exactly when you

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Speaker 1: say the hood. I was born and raised in the

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Speaker 1: hood fearth Ward and so and so the average black

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Speaker 1: person who lives in the environment, don't really get out

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Speaker 1: of that environment. In fact, they live, they and they

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Speaker 1: work or if they want to call it work, and

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Speaker 1: they can die, and that can munity and never know

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Speaker 1: there's a downtown. Never know there are other layers of

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Speaker 1: life outside their movie theaters. They can go to their restaurants,

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Speaker 1: they can they can participate in a fine dining and

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Speaker 1: all these things because of the fact they've never been

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Speaker 1: exposed to that. And I really, I really like when

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01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 1: you said that because a lot of people they take

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01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: that for granted, who have been exposed. They think that's normal,

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01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: and it's not normal in the Inn city. It's not

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01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:27,680
Speaker 1: normally at all. Right, That exposure is so important, you know,

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01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: because you're only going to go as far as you

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01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 1: think you can go, or see yourself going. So when

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01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:35,679
Speaker 1: you see other people. That's why a lot of people,

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01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, speak down about social media. But one of

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01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 1: the things I like about it is it gives us,

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01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 1: gives us a lot of access to see a lot

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01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: of young black people, right, believable, and it's believable. So

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01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 1: it's you look like me and I and I looked

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01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 1: like you, and you're saying, hey, I came from the hood,

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01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:54,720
Speaker 1: and I see you doing really well. You're running your

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01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: successful break own business, and you're you're living a beautiful

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01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: home and your children, you're raising your children. You know

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01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: more with more world I use, and you know to

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01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: be good, upstanding citizens. And I see driving nice cards

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01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 1: and you're traveling the world. That will be inspiring to me,

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01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 1: and most importantly, it would make me realize that I

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01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:15,560
Speaker 1: can obtain that too. And that is so true. I

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01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 1: always tell people I love to having an individual like

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01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:20,600
Speaker 1: you who talk about credit. And I tell people that

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01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:24,679
Speaker 1: when I was eighteen years old, Ms. Howardton, for some reason,

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01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: I understood I had to have good credit. I was

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01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to protect my credit. I wanted credit. When

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01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: somebody told me the credit establishes you a better life

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01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,719
Speaker 1: for you, I knew that, Okay, I'm gonna get good credit.

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01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: I got and I got my my They're closed and

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01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 1: I had my Montgomery Wards card back then, my Serious

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01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 1: card back then. Then I finally upgrade and got my

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01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: my American Exprest Green card. A big deal. I would this.

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01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: I would dank this. That Serious card back in the

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01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,600
Speaker 1: day was bigger than the American Express back in the

1508
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: day because you got your serious car, you were you

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01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: were the bar right there. So when I got that

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01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 1: serious card, I knew my credit was hit in the

1511
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 1: right direction. What age were you when you realized the

1512
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 1: importance of credit? You you want to hear something funny,

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01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:14,720
Speaker 1: So I told you. I was raised by my dad.

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01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:19,960
Speaker 1: My dad was horrible with bills, horrible. I remember coming home,

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01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: let me cut off. I'm like, Dad, wait a minute,

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01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: I flicked the sweats. Now we ain't got an electric

1517
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: over here. But it was because he just wasn't um.

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01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: He wasn't conscious of just making payments on time, and

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01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 1: it was sometimes we didn't have it, and you know,

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01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: he did what he had to do to make it work.

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01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: But then it was times when he did have it,

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01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:40,360
Speaker 1: and he just would forget. So I didn't learn that

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01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:43,759
Speaker 1: from my dad. I remember when I turned eight, team

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01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,600
Speaker 1: and a lot of we were graduating high school and

1525
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: a lot of my friends were going to get store

1526
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 1: cards because they were so easy to get. So they

1527
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 1: were getting like structure and Dad and m expressing all

1528
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:58,639
Speaker 1: these cards, and I remember us going shopping and them

1529
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: just you melt max the part out and I would

1530
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 1: be very very very conscious, like, oh no, I don't

1531
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:05,640
Speaker 1: want to get too much because I don't want to.

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01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to not be able to afford the payments.

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01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: So I was already thinking like that. I don't know

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01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:14,400
Speaker 1: where it came from, but I was already responsible was

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01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:17,759
Speaker 1: my finances at eight team. So now when my friends

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01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:21,519
Speaker 1: those accounts want into collection status. I continued to build

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01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 1: and I continued to build, and at the age of

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01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:28,560
Speaker 1: twenty one, my dad gifted me a duplex. So I

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01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: had a duplex at twenty one where I lived in

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01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 1: one unit and then I've rented the other unit out,

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01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: and then when I moved from there, both units were

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01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 1: rented out and it became a source of income for me.

1543
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,559
Speaker 1: But I always looked at finances and money and credit differently,

1544
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: and it wasn't even I guess it just was self taught.

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01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: It was just natural for me. But it was so

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01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: important to get that at that age, it really was.

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01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Rhodesia Howarton. She's the owner and founder

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01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: of Credit Medics LLC, which is a leading national credit

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01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: and business counsel consulting firm located in Philip off your

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Speaker 1: p A. This is one of two comp three companies.

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01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to her about but I wanted to

1552
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,680
Speaker 1: expand on this because we, like she said, she was

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01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,600
Speaker 1: doing this before the pandemic, and it wasn't something that

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01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: she just started last week. And she's been changing lives

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01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,559
Speaker 1: and improving credit scores and making people understand the value

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01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: of credit and why credit is so important to you.

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01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 1: But we are in the middle of the pandemic and

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01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: people's credit scores are being damaged, and like you said,

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01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:26,960
Speaker 1: your dad he didn't understand the value what that meant

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01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: to his credit score, but it didn't stop him from

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01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: being successful. It made me just a little bit more harder.

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01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: How serious should you take your credit scores? You should

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01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 1: take your credit score is very serious. Any um credit

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01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: or any line of credit that you are trying to

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01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 1: apply for to get an approval, they are going to

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01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 1: review your credit scores. They're going to inquire about you,

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01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: which is what we call an inquiry. So anytime you

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01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: apply for a line of credit, whatever that whoever that

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01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: creditor is, they are going to inquire about you. What

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01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: you need to understand, and it's simplest form is your

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01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 1: credit scores and your credit report is your financial portfolio.

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01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:10,439
Speaker 1: So that is even gonna tell a credit creditor one

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01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 1: that you are credit worthy and trustworthy enough for me

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01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,559
Speaker 1: to go ahead and lend you this credit based off

1575
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 1: of your existing payment history. So if you already have debt,

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01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: and what do we call debt your card now, okay,

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01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: if you have a cardinal, you have student loan debt,

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01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: if you have a mortgage, um, if you have personal loans,

1579
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. If you have credit cards,

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01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 1: if you are currently late on your existing debt, and

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01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: a creditor goes to pull your credit and they see that,

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01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 1: why would they want to lend you new debt? They

1583
01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 1: will not. So it's so important because that's going to

1584
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: determine if you get approved in that based off of

1585
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 1: your existing payment history. And the other thing would be

1586
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 1: your credit utilization, which pertains to revolving credit. So you

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01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:55,639
Speaker 1: know you mentioned early SAAR Serious card, so serious card.

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01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,640
Speaker 1: What would be considered as a revolving credit card. It's

1589
01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:02,799
Speaker 1: a retail card on dells may seez wal Mart Target.

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01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: Those are considered as revolving retail store cards. And then

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01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 1: you have your major credit cards in American Expressed master Card,

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01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 1: Visa Discover, which is another form of revolving credit You

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01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 1: don't want to have large balances on these credit cards.

1594
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: You should only be using thirty percent at max of

1595
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: your credit list. When you see that, you're going to

1596
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 1: see a drastic decline in your scores. So that's another

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01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 1: thing that lenders look at to determine if they feel

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01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 1: like they can trust you. So just imagine if you

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01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: have a friend, Okay, well, let's say Rasshan, I said

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01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 1: the correctly, Rushian Shane Rashan, Rashan. If you lent me money, right,

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01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,720
Speaker 1: you say, okay, I come to you, say, Rashan, can

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01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: I borrow you know, a hundred dollars until next month

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01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:51,880
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pay you back? And you say, you

1604
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:53,640
Speaker 1: know what runs You're sure I'm gonna give it to you.

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01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: So then I borrow the money from you. Next month comes,

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01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: you don't hear from me, right, So then another month go,

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01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: you don't have from me. So now you start to

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01:21:01,320 --> 01:21:03,479
Speaker 1: get word. You say, listen out of game. Wright needs

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01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:05,640
Speaker 1: your money off a good face, and he's supposed to

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01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 1: She's supposed to give me my money back. So now

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01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 1: our friends Sean, who is also you know, a mutual friend.

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01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,320
Speaker 1: I go to him and I say, Sean, can I

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01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 1: want a hundred dollars til next month? And Sean is like,

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01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 1: you know what, I remember Rashan telling me that I

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01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:23,320
Speaker 1: need your brow money. Let me go ask him. And

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01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: Sean comes to ask you, Hey, RO needs you to

1617
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 1: tell you many. You say, man, don't you learn RO

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01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 1: needs you no money? I don't wait three months. I

1619
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:32,040
Speaker 1: ain't gotta dime yet. So that's the same way that

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01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:36,680
Speaker 1: a lender looks at your payment habit and your utilization

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01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:40,200
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making conversations. I'm your host, Sean

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Speaker 1: McDonald ll. You know I love it because that is

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01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:53,640
Speaker 1: a straight street talk right there, that street talk one

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01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 1: on one, street talk one on one right there. You know,

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01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, man, and don't and don't show up and

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01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:02,200
Speaker 1: don't show up. She got some new shoes on. Don't

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01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:15,000
Speaker 1: show off. Some seafood, eat some seafood that come. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know you got some strip on your plate, you know,

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01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 1: a pile of strip, and you owe me a hundred dollars.

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01:23:24,280 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 1: Don't do that to me because I love that you

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01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 1: would I wouldn't love that you were natural. That's what

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01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:30,960
Speaker 1: you're so successful because sometimes you got to talk to

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01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: people in the natural form so they can understand what

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01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:38,600
Speaker 1: And that's what I do. I speak the language of

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01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 1: my people, yes, and break it down as simple as

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01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: I can. Well, okay, now, no, not right now. Our

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01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 1: people they're struggling and during this pandemic, and then you know,

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01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: the credit scores are being damaged. And we all know

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01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 1: when you hear that word thirty percent. And sometimes I

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01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:57,640
Speaker 1: suggest people take a cash advance and you part of

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01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: that canshervance to make your minialment monthly payment so your

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01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 1: cred school don't go messed up. You put yourself on

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01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 1: automatic payment on the minimum of my mouth, okay, and

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01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: that way you you part of that advantage that you took,

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01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: said it aside, so you make those minimum one payments

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01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 1: doing this pandemic run that were your credit scores like you,

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01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:19,759
Speaker 1: you agree with you, you cannot allow your credit score

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01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:22,680
Speaker 1: to get damaged. It get damaged. You just you just

1672
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 1: defaulted into a worse situation for yourself. But how can

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01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: these people survive? And when I say this, people of color,

1674
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: minorities you know people who are already struggling. And you know,

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01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: the first of all, they gave us the twel hunt

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01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: and all stimulus check, and then they gave us a

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01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:41,000
Speaker 1: six weekly check that they did July thirty one. And

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01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:45,680
Speaker 1: now that they told us that the CDC can suspend evictions.

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01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 1: But then at the end of the year, you owe

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01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:50,120
Speaker 1: that money for the rent you didn't pay. How can

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01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:54,120
Speaker 1: we get around? You know, amagine getting caught up after

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01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: you already behind right and you don't have no income.

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01:24:57,240 --> 01:25:00,639
Speaker 1: Now how crazy is that? You know how? I agree

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01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:02,840
Speaker 1: with what you said, you know that cash advance. But

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01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: once again that goes back to see, here's the thing

1686
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:10,640
Speaker 1: I tell people to already be prepared. One of the

1687
01:25:10,720 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 1: things that I have been blessed and fortunate to do

1688
01:25:14,040 --> 01:25:17,880
Speaker 1: is to always stay prepared financially, because even when things

1689
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:20,680
Speaker 1: are good, I still don't go crazy. I have I

1690
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: have very great discipline with my finances. So although I

1691
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: would be you know what you would call I'm successful

1692
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 1: and I have money, I still don't spend like I

1693
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:34,160
Speaker 1: have money. I don't. And I'm realizing that as I

1694
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:37,919
Speaker 1: begin to hang around people who are who have their finances,

1695
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: their finances are stable. I'm realizing that a lot of

1696
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:44,880
Speaker 1: them don't make unnecessary purchases, so you have to be prepared.

1697
01:25:44,920 --> 01:25:47,679
Speaker 1: But now we're in a situation so a lot of people,

1698
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 1: and I know some of my associates, they have taken

1699
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: that twelve hundred dollars and just blew it. They have

1700
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: taken the unemployment checks and I've known, I know people

1701
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: who have gotten ten thousand dollars and twenty thousand dollars

1702
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you got that money, I'm like, what

1703
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 1: are you going to do with it? And it's scoring already,

1704
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 1: but that could have helped them over just by making

1705
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: the minimum payment. It will hold you over so that

1706
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: you won't ask any late payments reporting That will decline

1707
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 1: your score. Your scores will drop anywhere between thirty to

1708
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:22,640
Speaker 1: seventy points from one late payment. Wow, And can you

1709
01:26:22,760 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 1: tell them how those how those those scores are reported? Uh,

1710
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:30,439
Speaker 1: not trying to complicate the conversation, but people need to

1711
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:35,559
Speaker 1: know that, you know, electronically in that world, then people

1712
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:39,719
Speaker 1: track you. They track you, and they track your main rabbit. Always.

1713
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 1: It always amazes me, Rhodesia when I put my credit

1714
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: card in and I mean, like seconds, I needs seconds

1715
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: later it say has approved that that even today that

1716
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: boggles me God that the model of computer forces tied

1717
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:56,400
Speaker 1: to that is incredible that because i know, at the

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01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: same same time, obtenously, I'm sure hundreds of thousand people

1719
01:26:59,880 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: are pushing their card in that same type of machine

1720
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 1: or card card reader and time obtainionsly and it's hitting

1721
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: the word approved immediately. All rejection depended on where you are.

1722
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:13,479
Speaker 1: Is data. All of it is is data, and it's

1723
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:16,679
Speaker 1: and it's like you said, it's tracking. Their tracking your payments,

1724
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:20,479
Speaker 1: they're tracking your utilization. They're tracking even down to where

1725
01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 1: you live at. You know, anytime you put on an application.

1726
01:27:22,439 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if people are aware of when you

1727
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 1: pull your credit every address that you have lived at

1728
01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: that you used to apply for something shows up on

1729
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:33,600
Speaker 1: your credit report. So it's definitely attracting system. But the

1730
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:36,919
Speaker 1: credit bureaus are nothing but data companies, a billion dollar industry.

1731
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 1: They get paid to collect data, to report your behalf

1732
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 1: to then sell to the bigger banks and financial institutions.

1733
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:48,640
Speaker 1: That's all it is. Now one of your favorite are

1734
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 1: I could say nonprofits that you are tied to are

1735
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 1: associated with our creators called go Get crowned, tell us

1736
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:57,600
Speaker 1: about why you start that work not. I have my

1737
01:27:57,680 --> 01:28:02,519
Speaker 1: points about actually, actually it's queening now. I changed it

1738
01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 1: to queening um and I do. I do a mentorship

1739
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: program for young girls between the q r Q you

1740
01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: E E N I N G yes. And I also

1741
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:20,599
Speaker 1: wrote a book called Queening on Amazon. So so Queening

1742
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: is a non practic organization for young black women okay

1743
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:29,240
Speaker 1: from the ages of fourteen to twenty one. And it's

1744
01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 1: basically me giving them all of the life skills that

1745
01:28:32,240 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 1: I have acquired over the years. I'm talking about, you know,

1746
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:38,640
Speaker 1: teaching them how to see money as a tool and

1747
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 1: not as just this tangible thing to just spend spend

1748
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 1: since since spend teaching them how to invest. I'm also

1749
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: a real estate investor, and I have several female friends

1750
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: that are real estate investors. I bring them in to

1751
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: talk to my girl so that they can see other

1752
01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: young black success for women or minority women who because

1753
01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:59,600
Speaker 1: we have some Latinos also who looked like them and

1754
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: curse from communities where they come from, so they can

1755
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:05,320
Speaker 1: see the example. I also bring in my other entrepreneur

1756
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 1: friends from different industries. So some of my girls and

1757
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:10,000
Speaker 1: the start of the program will ask them, you know,

1758
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:12,639
Speaker 1: what interests you do you have an idea of where

1759
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:14,799
Speaker 1: you want your life to go or where you seeing yourself,

1760
01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:17,920
Speaker 1: where you see yourself in the next five to fifteen years.

1761
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:20,519
Speaker 1: So whatever that industry is that they choose, I try

1762
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:23,040
Speaker 1: to get somebody to come in from that industry to

1763
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:25,799
Speaker 1: UM talk about their experience, the ups and the downs,

1764
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:28,360
Speaker 1: the highs and the lows, and then also ask them

1765
01:29:28,400 --> 01:29:31,760
Speaker 1: if they with my mentoring my girls based off of

1766
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:34,200
Speaker 1: the industry that they choose, because I feel that that's

1767
01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 1: super important to to have a mentor UM. A lot

1768
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 1: of things could be prevented a lot of trial and

1769
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,680
Speaker 1: error if you have a mentor who can help you

1770
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: and assist you that you have access to along your journey.

1771
01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: I feel like that's very important. So we teach you

1772
01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 1: home ownership, We talk about, you know, self esteem. We

1773
01:29:54,040 --> 01:29:58,120
Speaker 1: talk about African culture and the beauty of being Africans

1774
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: and celebrating our feature is and celebrating our culture. We

1775
01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 1: talk about money management, we talk about it. That's when

1776
01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:06,760
Speaker 1: we talk about all different types of life things that

1777
01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:10,559
Speaker 1: could actually enriching you know, their lives. I'm tell you, Nicia,

1778
01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 1: you're one of my favorite people. You know, we you know,

1779
01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:17,639
Speaker 1: you know we we we we we. We didn't connect

1780
01:30:17,680 --> 01:30:20,120
Speaker 1: originally on our original set time. I would maybe she

1781
01:30:20,160 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: don't want to talk to maybe maybe maybe you don't

1782
01:30:24,080 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 1: want to talk to Rachelle McDonald the money maker. No, no, no,

1783
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: you got it going on, queen, Come on that you

1784
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:32,759
Speaker 1: know I'm talking about Nisha Howardtons. Okay, we've already talked about.

1785
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 1: You know, one of the businesses which is a CEO.

1786
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:38,440
Speaker 1: She's a CEO found up Credit Medics now the nonprofit

1787
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:40,080
Speaker 1: which is mentoring. The reason I said you're one of

1788
01:30:40,080 --> 01:30:42,080
Speaker 1: my favorite people because that's why I established Money Making

1789
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 1: Conversation for mentoring, because I can't mentor a lot of people.

1790
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:48,439
Speaker 1: People always approaching me. So I just said, I mentor

1791
01:30:48,479 --> 01:30:51,080
Speaker 1: you by providing you with free information. Because that's what happens.

1792
01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:53,799
Speaker 1: You can upload. I upload these interviews on my YouTube

1793
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 1: channel for free, upload on my website for free. All

1794
01:30:57,200 --> 01:30:59,120
Speaker 1: people have to do is just search and you can

1795
01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:02,240
Speaker 1: you can hear an incredible person like you telling them

1796
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:05,720
Speaker 1: why they have to protect their credit, tell them how

1797
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:08,640
Speaker 1: they can protect themselves. And also the other side of

1798
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:10,720
Speaker 1: the table, they can find out about you and go

1799
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 1: to you and take advantage of your services, take advantage

1800
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:15,679
Speaker 1: of what you're trying, how you're trying to change lives

1801
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 1: with this mentorship program and letting people know the empowerment

1802
01:31:19,120 --> 01:31:21,920
Speaker 1: of looking in the mirror, recognizing that the face that

1803
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: they see, the color that they see, can be successful,

1804
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:29,280
Speaker 1: is beautiful, is worth standing strong, don't let the negative

1805
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:31,640
Speaker 1: pull you down. And that's what you're saying with the

1806
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:38,360
Speaker 1: Queenan program correctly, absolutely, absolutely, And I love the interaction

1807
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:41,800
Speaker 1: with these the young women. And then so it's so

1808
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,080
Speaker 1: it's so crazy because the mentorship that I did um

1809
01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: three years ago. My girls in that class, two of

1810
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 1: them I have hired and they work for me. And

1811
01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:54,360
Speaker 1: just to see the progress in the confidence and the

1812
01:31:54,479 --> 01:32:00,160
Speaker 1: self esteem, by itself touches my heart. It touches my part.

1813
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:02,800
Speaker 1: And just to have them up under me. One of

1814
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 1: my one of my men took min tees Um came

1815
01:32:05,560 --> 01:32:07,040
Speaker 1: to me. She said, miss meech, I'm ready to buy

1816
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:08,720
Speaker 1: a duplex. I said, whatever I gotta do to make

1817
01:32:08,720 --> 01:32:12,960
Speaker 1: it happy for you, Let's do it. You know. She

1818
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:14,960
Speaker 1: could say, hey, missie, I want to go buy a

1819
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: channel back. But this time, miss me, I want to

1820
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:19,519
Speaker 1: get to but you know what I'm saying. So that's

1821
01:32:19,560 --> 01:32:24,760
Speaker 1: touching to me. Putting that, putting that crown on your head.

1822
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:27,400
Speaker 1: You know what, you got your black I'll checking you

1823
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 1: know miss credit Man, you know good that girl the

1824
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 1: queen and I like that Thilano queen e. But before

1825
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:37,640
Speaker 1: we wrap up, a queen and I wanted to talk

1826
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:39,680
Speaker 1: about to get well urgent care, which is like a

1827
01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:42,720
Speaker 1: medical facility. Is that it's that part of the franchises

1828
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:45,439
Speaker 1: or this an individual location that you are Actually that

1829
01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 1: was just that was just an investment that came um

1830
01:32:49,439 --> 01:32:51,560
Speaker 1: that came up. Somebody asked me, did would I'd be

1831
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:53,720
Speaker 1: interested in investing in the urgent care clinic? And at

1832
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:55,640
Speaker 1: the time I didn't know anything about it, right, I

1833
01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:58,599
Speaker 1: honestly did not. I started to do my own research,

1834
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 1: and of course, with any of the investment, it's risky.

1835
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:05,919
Speaker 1: You know. I always tell people, don't you know, invest

1836
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: money that you're expecting to get back, it's really a risk.

1837
01:33:10,479 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: Rather I mean real estate is the risk is you

1838
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:16,439
Speaker 1: know less less, But in any investment is going to

1839
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:18,080
Speaker 1: be risky. So I didn't know anything about it at

1840
01:33:18,120 --> 01:33:19,519
Speaker 1: the time, and I just felt like, hey, let me

1841
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:22,240
Speaker 1: just shoot my shot. And I did it, and it

1842
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:26,000
Speaker 1: was one of my friends. Her husband was actually a doctor,

1843
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 1: and he was even as a doctor, you're still an employee.

1844
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 1: And he was working for UM I think it was

1845
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: Pimont Medical Facility facility and what he was. He decided that,

1846
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:40,240
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't want to be an employee anymore.

1847
01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:43,040
Speaker 1: He said, you know, I'm overseeing five of these urgent

1848
01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 1: care clinics and I'm seeing these invoices. I'm seeing these

1849
01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:53,600
Speaker 1: invoices that I'm like, no, people, you're looking at his

1850
01:33:53,800 --> 01:34:01,640
Speaker 1: check n check look at that, and it's breaking down.

1851
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:04,679
Speaker 1: Youre he's looking at the white folks running around here. Okay, okay,

1852
01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 1: making all this good money. Okay. He said, oh, they're

1853
01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 1: making this, making this women, and I'm making this. So

1854
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 1: he started, you know, started women. So he decided that

1855
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:20,560
Speaker 1: he wanted to do his own urgent care and he

1856
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:23,160
Speaker 1: was looking for investors. And his wife was a friend

1857
01:34:23,200 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 1: of mine, and she you know, brought the opportunity to me.

1858
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:28,040
Speaker 1: She said, you know, would you be willing to invest? UM.

1859
01:34:28,439 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 1: I did my research, and I just went ahead and

1860
01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:33,599
Speaker 1: just you know, and some of his own faiths too,

1861
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:35,639
Speaker 1: you know, because you can do all the research, you want,

1862
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,000
Speaker 1: but some of it, you know, like I said, you

1863
01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:41,080
Speaker 1: have to you have to sit down and go toothless

1864
01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 1: tools for now. What I'm talking about this is when

1865
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: you say, let's let's talk about get well urgent care.

1866
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:50,360
Speaker 1: First of all, it's medical and we all know, okay,

1867
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 1: people gonna die. People don't get sick. Okay, that's that's

1868
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:57,640
Speaker 1: the fact of life, okay. Now, And so with that,

1869
01:34:57,800 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: and so the investment part of ability possibilities like ore,

1870
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:02,720
Speaker 1: where are they putting it at? That's all you have

1871
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:05,400
Speaker 1: to worry about. Who's running it and where are they

1872
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:08,360
Speaker 1: gonna put it at? Because I've seen these urgent cares

1873
01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:10,680
Speaker 1: and they and they always got cars park out in

1874
01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:13,120
Speaker 1: front of them, okay, And that means that people need

1875
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:17,840
Speaker 1: that service. And so so from a standpoint of your research, you,

1876
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,120
Speaker 1: like you said, you're riding on the statement that I

1877
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:22,320
Speaker 1: just said, people are gonna die and people are going

1878
01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 1: to get sick. Okay. So with that being said, how

1879
01:35:28,080 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: do you participate? Are you do you go buy your facility?

1880
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:33,000
Speaker 1: You're an investor? Do you check on it? Do you

1881
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:36,880
Speaker 1: have board meetings or what? How do you do? I

1882
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:40,440
Speaker 1: sit on the board and I'm really just a silent investor.

1883
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:44,679
Speaker 1: So of course I get you know, quarterly checks based

1884
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:47,599
Speaker 1: off of my sacility of equity in the company. Right

1885
01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 1: now that is here. Or do we see more franchises

1886
01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:55,479
Speaker 1: that you will be associated with or you said rou Sean,

1887
01:35:55,520 --> 01:35:57,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna see how this plays out for the next

1888
01:35:57,360 --> 01:36:02,160
Speaker 1: one or to actual league. Um, I'm probably not going

1889
01:36:02,200 --> 01:36:10,599
Speaker 1: to do any more business with them right there, right there?

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Speaker 1: See did I tell you? Did I she's one of

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Speaker 1: my top people now because seem you cannot win being fake,

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Speaker 1: you can win right there right But what I am

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Speaker 1: working on, it's free times in my million dollar business,

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Speaker 1: Credit Medics. Cool. Cool, that's what I'm doing. Cool. And

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Speaker 1: in the process of doing that right now, trying to

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Speaker 1: um create a software to make it very very very

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Speaker 1: um manageable and um very easy to navigate through and

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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So that's the only piece

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Speaker 1: that's missing to Credit Medics, and then I will franchise

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Speaker 1: my business. Well, my friend, I want to let you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: I got a newsletter that goes out to my fans

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Speaker 1: named some thousand, ninety plus thousand fans every two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I want to put you all Credit Medics in there,

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Speaker 1: because like I said, you move to the top of

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Speaker 1: the food chain with me because you keep read, keep

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Speaker 1: on because see the thing, the reason the reason I

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Speaker 1: say that is that we have a lot of relatable

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Speaker 1: values that I come from the inner city and and

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Speaker 1: I realized that, you know, when I was exposed to

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Speaker 1: information outside of the inner city, I am the person

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Speaker 1: I am today. So I'm always a proponent. And also

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Speaker 1: I give back. I give back in so many different ways.

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Speaker 1: And like said, money, money and conversations. Just wanted the format,

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Speaker 1: but I work with HBCU platforms should information to exposure

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Speaker 1: at such a high level. And so all I know

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Speaker 1: is that you have a friend in Rashaan McDonald. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad we was able to pull off this interview

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Speaker 1: and portaling porting your nonprofit organization is beautiful. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: promote that. And you look fantastic on social media, which

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Speaker 1: all black old with the crown on, putting it tilting

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Speaker 1: into the lab, you know, doing your thing, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, so how can we reach out to you?

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Speaker 1: Tell us, Mr Niche show. So you can actually go

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Speaker 1: to my website and you will see we have like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, so many different services available from first

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Speaker 1: time home ownership to building business credit business consulting. If

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Speaker 1: you're a business owner already, I feel like in our

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Speaker 1: community and I just moved into a bigger, phenomenal location.

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Speaker 1: My office is beautiful and there's enough space for me

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Speaker 1: to actually have it's like a conference area, a seminar.

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Speaker 1: We can have seminars. So I'm gonna be offering monthly

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Speaker 1: free workshops to existing business owners black small business owners

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Speaker 1: because I feel like that's a piece that's missing. You

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Speaker 1: can be really skilled at whatever it is that you

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Speaker 1: do in talented, but if you don't know the business

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Speaker 1: side of it, your business will suffer. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be offering free classes to small black business owners. So

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Speaker 1: you can go to Credit Medics and that c R

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Speaker 1: E d I T M E d I c S

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Speaker 1: one zero one, Credit Medics one on one dot com

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Speaker 1: for all of our services UM And you can find

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Speaker 1: me on Instagram at Credit Medics one O one and

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Speaker 1: you can find me on Instagram. My personal page is

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Speaker 1: at my zerati niche and that's m A S E

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Speaker 1: r A t I n E E S eight And

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Speaker 1: I thank you so much for having me, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for sharing your platform with me. UM Peace and blessing

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Speaker 1: to everyone listening. I'm loving on y'all. Okay, I'm loving

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. Thank you for coming on the show. She's amazing.

1950
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Speaker 1: She's at the top of the food chain with money

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Speaker 1: making conversation. So we're gonna be hearing from game, especially

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Speaker 1: when you are when you when you get that software,

1953
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Speaker 1: that software done right and be able to franchise and

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Speaker 1: bring it to Rashad McDonald's so I can sell it

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Speaker 1: to my people first and put the word out about

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Speaker 1: it because I believe in you, because you're a real

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Speaker 1: talker and you don't try to sell false hopes. And

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Speaker 1: that's important in the today and pandemic, when we're being

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Speaker 1: overtly affected by the virus, being overtly affected by the

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Speaker 1: financial crisis that is creating in our household. We need

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Speaker 1: information to overcome those obstacles. And my friend Ms. Howardton's

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Speaker 1: she provides it. Thank you for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you have a good one. All right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: If you want to hear more money making Obversation interviews,

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Speaker 1: please go to mind Making Conversation dot com. I'm Rashan McDonald,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host. We'll be right back with more from

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Speaker 1: Marsan McDonald and money Making Conversations don't touch that. Oregan

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Speaker 1: donations save lives and some organs can even be donated

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Speaker 1: by a living donor. August is National Minority Donor Awareness Months.

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Speaker 1: So let's check in with Dr Denay Simpson, Assistant Professor

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Speaker 1: of Surgery at Northwestern Medicine, tell us about the African

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Speaker 1: American Transplant Access Program. So this is my baby. This

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Speaker 1: is a program that I have dreamt about creating since

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Speaker 1: I became interested in transplant as a trainee, and it's

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Speaker 1: a program designed to address the significant disparities that are

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Speaker 1: African American patients space. The program is designed to educate

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Speaker 1: patients about transplant, let them know what transplant can provide

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Speaker 1: to them, and to help them access the resources that

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Speaker 1: they find so scarce and so challenging to access in

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Speaker 1: order to get them on the fans plant tack and

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Speaker 1: back to you know, some type of meaningful life. For

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Speaker 1: more information, visit n M dot org, Slash Radio. Him

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Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald's the host of Money Making Conversation. The Cafe

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Speaker 1: Moka Swag Award is a celebration of black men who

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Speaker 1: are making a difference in our community by empowering others

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Speaker 1: to reach their life goals from civic leaders, businessmen, activists,

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Speaker 1: celebrities and everyday dad's. The Cafe Mocha Swagger Award one

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Speaker 1: of this week is Dr Shaun Woodley, a graduate of

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Speaker 1: Hampton University. Dr Shaun Woodley has dedicated his professional career

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Speaker 1: to education. He is the architect behind the Educated movement

1991
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Speaker 1: Teach Hustle Inspired. He has written the best selling book

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Speaker 1: mc means Moved the Class How to Spark engagement and

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Speaker 1: motivation to urban and culturally diverged classrooms. I firmly believe

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Speaker 1: that education it's a key that can unlock so many

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Speaker 1: doors in so many different directions. We need to be

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Speaker 1: sure that the bright young scholars in the four walls

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Speaker 1: of these classrooms across us and you are being exposed

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Speaker 1: so that they have something to shoot for an education

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Speaker 1: get do that. The Cafe Marka Swag Award represents men

2000
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Speaker 1: who have strength, whose wisdom is assertive, and who is

2001
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Speaker 1: genuine in their spirit. Welcome back to Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Sean McDonald. My next guest, Glenn Robinson.

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Speaker 1: The third is an NBA basketball player. That's what you

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01:42:21,520 --> 01:42:23,160
Speaker 1: know when you see somebody, But that's all you think.

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Speaker 1: But life is more than just being an NBA basketball player.

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Speaker 1: His A r I Foundation, which stands for Angels Are

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Speaker 1: Really Indeed, as a nonprofit organization aimed at empowering fathers

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Speaker 1: and helping create deeper bonds between fathers and their children.

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01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:41,920
Speaker 1: They're also they also provide resources to help elevate fatherless

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Speaker 1: children and families. Glenn was inspired to launch his initiative

2011
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Speaker 1: after the birth of his daughter Ariana Arianna help him

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Speaker 1: super saying it correctly, and wanted to shine a light

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Speaker 1: on the importance of the relationship between children and their fathers.

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Speaker 1: Glenn highlights fathers and their stories on his Instagram page

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Speaker 1: and wants to shine and light on someday amazing work

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Speaker 1: they're doing. Please work with the money making conversation, my man,

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Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson, the third are you doing today? I had

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Speaker 1: to get a lot out there live before I spoke

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Speaker 1: to you, man, A lot, a lot, because you know

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Speaker 1: the thing about it. First of all, Uh, what are you?

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Speaker 1: What are you calling it from right now? I'm calling

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01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:26,080
Speaker 1: it from Indiana, Indiana, Indiana, Indiana. So I'm based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Syndicate nationally on podcasts and all that good this series XM.

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Speaker 1: The beauty of bringing an individual or what I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk to you about first of all was why

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Speaker 1: they why was their need for you to do a

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Speaker 1: foundation like this. I think that is uh a need

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Speaker 1: you know in our community, especially our Black communities, to

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Speaker 1: feel that that that for us fathers you know, first off,

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Speaker 1: and to feel that fatherhood role if the father is

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Speaker 1: not around, you know what, meaning just stepping up and

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Speaker 1: empowering other parents, other fathers, UM doing what you can

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Speaker 1: to help um. You know, our young kids grow up

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Speaker 1: in today's society, I think they need all a mentorship

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Speaker 1: and all the help that they need. And having a

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Speaker 1: daughter myself and going through this process, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just know how much my daughter means to me, and

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Speaker 1: as she grows every day is important, you know. So

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Speaker 1: if I'm able to help other people and just have

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Speaker 1: that same type of impact in their lives and spread

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Speaker 1: that that that knowledge you know, around, I think that

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Speaker 1: we can we can start to have more successful communities

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Speaker 1: and more successful children in our communities. That's really important

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Speaker 1: that you say that. Really, I I have a daughter,

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Speaker 1: uh she's only child, and just having a child in general,

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Speaker 1: giving life really changed my perspective because in a way,

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Speaker 1: you know, we all live a selfish life. We just

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Speaker 1: want to do what's what's best for us, what's what

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Speaker 1: we gotta do to get what we want. And when

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Speaker 1: you have a child, that changes your value system. Talk

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Speaker 1: about how to change your value system, Glenn. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: hangs a lot, you know. I think being a professional athlete,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just finished my six season. Uh, I

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Speaker 1: finished with the Philadelphia has haventy six is this year, um,

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Speaker 1: and I'm now a free agent. But looking at how

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01:45:02,920 --> 01:45:05,599
Speaker 1: I was as a rookie and then now after six years,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I have a daughter who's to um,

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Speaker 1: you know, my time management changed, you know, my responsibilities

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01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:14,680
Speaker 1: obviously change, you know. UM obviously my finances and what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing with my money, UM changed a lot. You know.

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Speaker 1: So it matures you, and it makes you grow up,

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Speaker 1: um in several different ways, you know. And I think

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Speaker 1: that if it wasn't for my daughter, UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just see how far you know back that you

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01:45:27,520 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 1: tend to be and you think that you know everything,

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01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:32,160
Speaker 1: but you really don't, you know, And and and you

2067
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:34,160
Speaker 1: know it's funny how how that how that comes out.

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Speaker 1: It really is amazing. I know that. Uh, I would

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Speaker 1: tell people the the best time I have with my daughter,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't she when you know, when she was about gets

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Speaker 1: up to about eight months, that's when she wasn't able

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Speaker 1: to push off. Then they started pushing off. Then also

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Speaker 1: they think they ruled the world. But when she was

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Speaker 1: just falling asleep on my chests and you know, laying

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Speaker 1: next to me and just just barely you know you

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Speaker 1: use proper upland and then they leaned on one side

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Speaker 1: because they didn't I mean also control to me, man,

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Speaker 1: those those memories stick with me. Man, that all the

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Speaker 1: memories stick with me, but that memory of it just

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Speaker 1: being able to fall asleep on my chest and and

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Speaker 1: lay next to me, and just realizing that how much

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Speaker 1: power I have, and shaping a mind, how much power

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Speaker 1: I have, and delivering a good person to this world.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure when I read your intro and I read

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Speaker 1: the research on you, it really almost messed you up

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Speaker 1: a little in a good way. The responsibility. Yeah, yeah,

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01:46:32,640 --> 01:46:37,320
Speaker 1: yeah it did. Uh. You know, first off, I thought

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Speaker 1: I was, you know, obviously being a basketball player. You know,

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Speaker 1: I thought my first kid was gonna be a boy.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were gonna play basketball. You know, I

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Speaker 1: thought that it was gonna be all my way, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and and and God and life got a funny

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01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:52,520
Speaker 1: sense of humor and you know how you really expected

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Speaker 1: and you know, and and my biggest blessing in my life,

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Speaker 1: that's been my daughter, I think, just because of the

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Speaker 1: alleys that I've been able to create, you know, surrounding her.

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Speaker 1: And that's the reason why I started the foundation is um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have a boy, you know, my

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Speaker 1: last name in a sense, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: men tend to worry about that, you know, And I

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01:47:12,200 --> 01:47:14,559
Speaker 1: think that I just wanted to show her my genuine

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01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 1: love and create something that she'll see and look back

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01:47:17,080 --> 01:47:19,920
Speaker 1: one day and she'll pick up this foundation because it's

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01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 1: named after her already, and she'll she'll realize, you know,

2105
01:47:23,160 --> 01:47:25,559
Speaker 1: what we've created, and how many people that we've helped,

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01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:29,120
Speaker 1: you know, and growing up and and as she grows, Um,

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01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:31,400
Speaker 1: I do have that influence on her life. And I think,

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01:47:31,479 --> 01:47:33,599
Speaker 1: like you said, that's the biggest thing that we can

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01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:36,840
Speaker 1: control as parents, is you know, we we do have

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01:47:37,000 --> 01:47:39,280
Speaker 1: a lot of influence in their lives. As they tend

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01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:41,720
Speaker 1: to get older, you know, so that, um, they're going

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01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:44,400
Speaker 1: in the right path, you know, whether that's racism, whether

2113
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:47,759
Speaker 1: that's schooling and education, whether that's you know, career paths,

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01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 1: whatever that is. I think that they contend to kind

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01:47:50,520 --> 01:47:52,760
Speaker 1: of put put themselves on a decent past if they

2116
01:47:52,840 --> 01:47:55,519
Speaker 1: have that influence around me. We know, we're talking about

2117
01:47:55,880 --> 01:48:00,080
Speaker 1: changing people's lives. We're talking about controlling destiny. And you

2118
01:48:00,120 --> 01:48:03,000
Speaker 1: know this season you played for the Philadelphia seventy sixers

2119
01:48:03,080 --> 01:48:06,479
Speaker 1: and you got to experience the bubble down in Orlando, Florida,

2120
01:48:06,520 --> 01:48:09,160
Speaker 1: and basically you didn't have control of your life anymore

2121
01:48:09,280 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 1: at that point, I believe. Can you tell everybody I

2122
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:14,760
Speaker 1: had cg Color alone that last week and he had

2123
01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:18,640
Speaker 1: me laughing just talking about how I was from your perspective,

2124
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:20,839
Speaker 1: and tell us that this walk us through the steps

2125
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:25,240
Speaker 1: of how controlled the testing process of living life in

2126
01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:27,439
Speaker 1: the bubble. If there was some good thing, tell us

2127
01:48:27,439 --> 01:48:29,880
Speaker 1: about it, the annoying things you can tell about, tell

2128
01:48:29,920 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 1: us about it, because you had no control of your

2129
01:48:32,160 --> 01:48:35,280
Speaker 1: life at that point. Glenn. Yeah, you know, I think

2130
01:48:35,680 --> 01:48:38,800
Speaker 1: the hardest decision was, you know, they gave us a choice,

2131
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:40,320
Speaker 1: do we want to go or not? You know, do

2132
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 1: you want to receive your paycheck and go to this bubble.

2133
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:46,200
Speaker 1: And we didn't know anything much about the virus at

2134
01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:48,599
Speaker 1: that point, and we didn't know anything what this bubble

2135
01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:50,920
Speaker 1: was gonna be like. So I had to make the

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01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: decision to lead my two year old daughter, which was hard,

2137
01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:57,479
Speaker 1: but you know, I didn't want to leave my teammates down. Um.

2138
01:48:57,920 --> 01:48:59,720
Speaker 1: I wanted to go do my job. I want to

2139
01:48:59,760 --> 01:49:02,559
Speaker 1: go try to win a championship. And then my main

2140
01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 1: concern concern was just staying. Say, you know, so if

2141
01:49:05,479 --> 01:49:07,200
Speaker 1: we had to test every day, that's what we had

2142
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:10,640
Speaker 1: to do, even though, like you said, it wasn'tnoying, but um,

2143
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:13,960
Speaker 1: we test literally every day for the coronavirus um. And

2144
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:17,160
Speaker 1: they would stick the Q tip up your nose, um,

2145
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:20,320
Speaker 1: and they would swab us mouth and and nose every

2146
01:49:20,360 --> 01:49:23,679
Speaker 1: single day. Um. You know, the first two days there

2147
01:49:23,760 --> 01:49:26,760
Speaker 1: we were in quarantine. You couldn't leave your rooms, and

2148
01:49:26,840 --> 01:49:29,320
Speaker 1: they would bang on your door and just drop your food,

2149
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:30,880
Speaker 1: you know, at your door, and you will open it.

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01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:33,120
Speaker 1: Nobody would be there. You grab your door and close it.

2151
01:49:33,360 --> 01:49:35,519
Speaker 1: You grab your food and close the door and then

2152
01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: open you up your box lunch or boxes dinner, you know.

2153
01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:48,360
Speaker 1: And that was the first two days they sprinting down

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01:49:48,360 --> 01:49:51,360
Speaker 1: the hall you COVID natine not even on the hallway

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01:49:51,439 --> 01:49:54,160
Speaker 1: no more. If it was there, That's that's funny, man,

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01:49:55,120 --> 01:49:57,360
Speaker 1: you know. But my overall experience, I think it was

2157
01:49:57,400 --> 01:49:59,559
Speaker 1: a lot better than I thought it was gonna be. Um.

2158
01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:03,080
Speaker 1: You know, the food got better. They started opening up

2159
01:50:03,120 --> 01:50:05,680
Speaker 1: things for us such, you know, such with Gough, Um

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01:50:06,160 --> 01:50:09,640
Speaker 1: we could go. You know, they had a pool for us,

2161
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:13,000
Speaker 1: you know, allowance for us, um, a bar for us.

2162
01:50:13,120 --> 01:50:16,200
Speaker 1: It was. It was a lot of different things, a barbershop. Um,

2163
01:50:16,439 --> 01:50:18,760
Speaker 1: so there was. Life started to get a little bit

2164
01:50:18,840 --> 01:50:22,200
Speaker 1: better after day probably thirty year around there. But I

2165
01:50:22,360 --> 01:50:24,519
Speaker 1: was I was trapped in there for forty five days

2166
01:50:24,640 --> 01:50:27,080
Speaker 1: before we lost and and and we exited out and

2167
01:50:27,160 --> 01:50:29,720
Speaker 1: came home. M But that was an experience that I'm

2168
01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna tell my daughter about my grandkids about. Um. You know,

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01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:34,400
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of people won't be able to

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01:50:34,479 --> 01:50:37,040
Speaker 1: experience that. And I'm just thankful that I came out

2171
01:50:37,080 --> 01:50:39,439
Speaker 1: of it healthy and and and still you know, remain

2172
01:50:39,560 --> 01:50:42,719
Speaker 1: the same and so so and so far, no one's

2173
01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:48,920
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID eighteen at the NBA bubble. They haven't,

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01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:50,680
Speaker 1: you know, And I think that that's the only way

2175
01:50:50,720 --> 01:50:52,639
Speaker 1: that you can do is if you're gonna have sports,

2176
01:50:52,720 --> 01:50:54,800
Speaker 1: you have to do it in the forum that they did,

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01:50:54,960 --> 01:50:56,640
Speaker 1: and it was hard to do. It was strict, and

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01:50:56,680 --> 01:50:58,400
Speaker 1: they spent a lot of money, I think a hundred

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01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:01,080
Speaker 1: and fifty million to keep us safe. But I think

2180
01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:02,600
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it, you have to do it

2181
01:51:02,720 --> 01:51:04,439
Speaker 1: like that. If you want to keep people safe, well,

2182
01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:07,679
Speaker 1: the more important thing is that just like me, Glenn,

2183
01:51:07,720 --> 01:51:10,759
Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Glenn Robinson, the third UH. He's plays

2184
01:51:10,960 --> 01:51:14,280
Speaker 1: currently for the Philadelphia seventy sixers. The name sounds familiar.

2185
01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:19,519
Speaker 1: He has a father father, University of Mixican shop shooting dad.

2186
01:51:19,720 --> 01:51:23,800
Speaker 1: I remember their run. I remember that run. Man, oh boy,

2187
01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:26,760
Speaker 1: I tell when they run and then it came to NBA. Man,

2188
01:51:26,880 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 1: I just hate that shot, man, I hate it. And

2189
01:51:29,640 --> 01:51:31,760
Speaker 1: it's like Steph Curry shot, you know when it goes

2190
01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:34,960
Speaker 1: up and like how could he miss? Type shot? And

2191
01:51:35,040 --> 01:51:37,559
Speaker 1: that was your father's gift and you followed your father

2192
01:51:38,120 --> 01:51:41,640
Speaker 1: was It wasn't an option that Glenn to not play basketball.

2193
01:51:41,680 --> 01:51:45,040
Speaker 1: Can you play tennis? Can you play for my wide receiver?

2194
01:51:45,200 --> 01:51:48,680
Speaker 1: Been the next Julius Joe Julian June well, I can

2195
01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 1: think of his name right there, being a wide receiver.

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01:51:50,960 --> 01:51:53,120
Speaker 1: What were your options there? Brother? He he just looked

2197
01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:54,560
Speaker 1: at you put a ball in your hand when you

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01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:57,400
Speaker 1: can basketball in your hand. That was it, what was apting.

2199
01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:01,040
Speaker 1: It's funny I tell people story of the time I

2200
01:52:01,160 --> 01:52:03,400
Speaker 1: was born premature. So I was born three months early,

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01:52:03,880 --> 01:52:07,280
Speaker 1: and I was months in the incubator, and my dad

2202
01:52:07,360 --> 01:52:09,720
Speaker 1: and mom put a little produced you know, they put

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01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:13,519
Speaker 1: a little mini basketball and my incubator when I was young.

2204
01:52:13,560 --> 01:52:15,599
Speaker 1: So I like to tell everybody, I've been playing ball

2205
01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:18,360
Speaker 1: since I was since I was an incubator six months.

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01:52:20,920 --> 01:52:23,320
Speaker 1: But no, you know, that was one of the things

2207
01:52:23,360 --> 01:52:25,839
Speaker 1: I was always grateful for my mom and dad, especially

2208
01:52:25,920 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: my dad being a number one pick um, you know,

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01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 1: in ninety four and really being a man that in

2210
01:52:31,600 --> 01:52:35,120
Speaker 1: that air. Um. He never forced it on me. You know,

2211
01:52:35,280 --> 01:52:38,519
Speaker 1: I played football growing up. I played other sports growing up,

2212
01:52:38,560 --> 01:52:41,000
Speaker 1: but I fell in love with basketball, and I followed

2213
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:44,040
Speaker 1: his footsteps in that sense. But you know, um, I

2214
01:52:44,160 --> 01:52:47,280
Speaker 1: think that I've always tried to remain you know, a

2215
01:52:47,400 --> 01:52:50,440
Speaker 1: different person, you know, and not just follow his footsteps,

2216
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:53,360
Speaker 1: but create different paths, you know, throughout my career to

2217
01:52:53,439 --> 01:52:55,920
Speaker 1: kind of separate me. And you know, he never had

2218
01:52:55,960 --> 01:52:59,360
Speaker 1: a foundation, Um, but he did give back to the

2219
01:52:59,439 --> 01:53:02,560
Speaker 1: kids again Indiana where we're from, and what holds a

2220
01:53:02,600 --> 01:53:05,640
Speaker 1: free basketball camp every year. Um. So I continue to

2221
01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:07,880
Speaker 1: do that, that same thing, and on top of that,

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01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm doing my foundation. Angels are real indeed who were

2223
01:53:11,920 --> 01:53:14,640
Speaker 1: helping empower other father So I try to take what

2224
01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:17,560
Speaker 1: he's done and model his example, but also continue to

2225
01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:19,519
Speaker 1: make it better and elevate it even more and reach

2226
01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:22,800
Speaker 1: even more people, because, um, the more people we can reach,

2227
01:53:22,920 --> 01:53:25,080
Speaker 1: even if it's just a few kids, who knows how

2228
01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:27,639
Speaker 1: their lives will change. You know, I'm glad. Uh, I'm

2229
01:53:27,760 --> 01:53:30,840
Speaker 1: enjoying this interview with you. Your your very unique voice,

2230
01:53:31,680 --> 01:53:33,400
Speaker 1: and and you just happen to be able to dribble

2231
01:53:33,400 --> 01:53:36,360
Speaker 1: a little basketball, okay, and and I respect. And I'm

2232
01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:38,320
Speaker 1: gonna tell you I'm one of the little You know,

2233
01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:40,800
Speaker 1: everybody thinks they can play bad, but I can really

2234
01:53:40,840 --> 01:53:43,360
Speaker 1: play ball. But I was one of them hard headed people.

2235
01:53:43,400 --> 01:53:45,320
Speaker 1: I thought the coach is gonna eventually come to a

2236
01:53:45,840 --> 01:53:48,599
Speaker 1: neighborhood park see me and tell me I can start.

2237
01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:50,720
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go out there practice they were

2238
01:53:51,120 --> 01:53:53,479
Speaker 1: I was that arrogant you know, I was as I was,

2239
01:53:53,560 --> 01:53:55,639
Speaker 1: as the neighbor would say, I was all Park gLing,

2240
01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:58,040
Speaker 1: I was all Park. I was a bad boy and

2241
01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:00,479
Speaker 1: uh and so. But you know, when I look at

2242
01:54:00,520 --> 01:54:03,320
Speaker 1: the NBA and I look at the ability to play

2243
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:07,120
Speaker 1: an NBA, man, that's special man. You know, that's that's

2244
01:54:07,160 --> 01:54:10,840
Speaker 1: a unique talent. What does it take to be uh

2245
01:54:11,760 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: uh NBA player? Because I from a mindset standpoint, from

2246
01:54:17,160 --> 01:54:20,000
Speaker 1: a physical standpoint, I knew what I could do. But

2247
01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:22,240
Speaker 1: I know I didn't have the ability because first of all,

2248
01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:24,360
Speaker 1: I didn't have the discipline to be an NBA player

2249
01:54:24,360 --> 01:54:27,320
Speaker 1: because I wouldn't even I wouldn't even audition or going

2250
01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:29,479
Speaker 1: for the basketball practice because I thought I was better

2251
01:54:29,520 --> 01:54:31,880
Speaker 1: than everybody else. So what does it take to be

2252
01:54:31,920 --> 01:54:35,840
Speaker 1: an NBA player? Yeah, I think the biggest things that

2253
01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 1: I've noticed, and like we talked about, I just finished

2254
01:54:38,040 --> 01:54:40,440
Speaker 1: my sixth season in the NBA. So you know, for

2255
01:54:40,600 --> 01:54:42,600
Speaker 1: whatever it's worth, you know, I've been able to stick

2256
01:54:42,680 --> 01:54:45,160
Speaker 1: in this league after seeing a lot of people come

2257
01:54:45,240 --> 01:54:47,560
Speaker 1: in and out the league. I was drafted second I

2258
01:54:47,680 --> 01:54:50,560
Speaker 1: was drafted second round, and it's only a small percentage

2259
01:54:50,600 --> 01:54:52,600
Speaker 1: of players that I'm gonna tell you something when you

2260
01:54:52,680 --> 01:54:54,520
Speaker 1: went pro. I was mad at you. I was mad

2261
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:57,040
Speaker 1: at you. I was like, what is he doing? What

2262
01:54:57,160 --> 01:54:59,560
Speaker 1: is't he was a good busio team too? What do

2263
01:54:59,600 --> 01:55:06,480
Speaker 1: you continue with? I just want to get that out years.

2264
01:55:08,760 --> 01:55:10,920
Speaker 1: I was young, you know, I had just turned twenties,

2265
01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:13,000
Speaker 1: you know, but and I had no idea about the

2266
01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:16,040
Speaker 1: whole business. But um, you know, I think after being

2267
01:55:16,080 --> 01:55:19,600
Speaker 1: around now for a few years, Um, what really separates

2268
01:55:20,080 --> 01:55:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, NBA players and a lot of players that

2269
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:25,240
Speaker 1: I've seen, and um, discipline and all those things that

2270
01:55:25,360 --> 01:55:28,240
Speaker 1: you've said. But just to break it down to simple terms,

2271
01:55:28,400 --> 01:55:31,200
Speaker 1: is whatever you got going on in your life, whether

2272
01:55:31,320 --> 01:55:35,560
Speaker 1: as women, whether that's finance issues, its family issues, kids,

2273
01:55:35,720 --> 01:55:37,360
Speaker 1: whatever that's going on in your life, you have to

2274
01:55:37,400 --> 01:55:40,160
Speaker 1: find some way. When you were able to come onto

2275
01:55:40,200 --> 01:55:43,760
Speaker 1: the court everything that happens in those lines, you're able

2276
01:55:43,800 --> 01:55:46,320
Speaker 1: to take your discipline and your hard work and you're

2277
01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:49,520
Speaker 1: able to turn it into success by focusing and locking in.

2278
01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:52,800
Speaker 1: You know, when when when this distractions out there and

2279
01:55:52,880 --> 01:55:56,240
Speaker 1: you're not able to focus your mind, um, it can

2280
01:55:56,320 --> 01:55:58,440
Speaker 1: really mess you up. You know. And NBA players and

2281
01:55:58,880 --> 01:56:01,120
Speaker 1: athletes in general, we already got a lot going on

2282
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: the money that's thrown at us people. That's thrown at us. Um.

2283
01:56:04,880 --> 01:56:07,640
Speaker 1: And and that discipline is what you have to have. Well,

2284
01:56:07,680 --> 01:56:10,920
Speaker 1: you know I've been uh, but I participate in the

2285
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:13,880
Speaker 1: high level, as we say, in the entertainment game. So

2286
01:56:13,960 --> 01:56:17,160
Speaker 1: I know discipline is important because it does come to you.

2287
01:56:17,240 --> 01:56:21,480
Speaker 1: It always amazes me how I'm financially able to do

2288
01:56:21,600 --> 01:56:24,080
Speaker 1: a lot of things, but I get free meals, I

2289
01:56:24,080 --> 01:56:26,080
Speaker 1: can get discount on my clothes, and my wife just

2290
01:56:26,120 --> 01:56:28,400
Speaker 1: looks at me to go, really, really, this is gonna

2291
01:56:28,400 --> 01:56:31,120
Speaker 1: be fu and uh. And because I always make a

2292
01:56:31,160 --> 01:56:33,000
Speaker 1: point of now I got you, I gotta I paid

2293
01:56:33,040 --> 01:56:35,720
Speaker 1: when I go in because it's because I'm an entrepreneur.

2294
01:56:35,920 --> 01:56:38,600
Speaker 1: So I know being an entrepreneur, you know you have

2295
01:56:38,800 --> 01:56:41,360
Speaker 1: to be with respect people and and tell them that

2296
01:56:41,760 --> 01:56:44,480
Speaker 1: their brain has value. And so when I look at

2297
01:56:44,520 --> 01:56:46,800
Speaker 1: you and and and this conversation the first time we

2298
01:56:46,840 --> 01:56:49,800
Speaker 1: ever talked. But I as a as a person who

2299
01:56:49,880 --> 01:56:52,920
Speaker 1: talks to a lot of people, Glenn, Um, I'm a

2300
01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:55,600
Speaker 1: fan just just this conversation, and I want to maintain

2301
01:56:55,640 --> 01:56:59,360
Speaker 1: a relationship with you because your your your your success

2302
01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:03,000
Speaker 1: and your your your brand is beyond the court. It's

2303
01:57:03,040 --> 01:57:05,400
Speaker 1: beyond the court. Man. I don't know if anybody told

2304
01:57:05,400 --> 01:57:08,000
Speaker 1: you that, but just hearing how you talk, you know

2305
01:57:08,120 --> 01:57:10,680
Speaker 1: you God just gave you the gift, your gift at

2306
01:57:10,720 --> 01:57:14,480
Speaker 1: someplace else, brother, and you just need to find it

2307
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:17,000
Speaker 1: and hold on to it and get the right people

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01:57:17,040 --> 01:57:19,760
Speaker 1: around you. And I'm not telling you to quick the NBA.

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01:57:19,920 --> 01:57:24,280
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you this. This foundation, you know, uh

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01:57:24,520 --> 01:57:26,880
Speaker 1: that you started. The mission is to empower fathers with

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01:57:26,960 --> 01:57:29,160
Speaker 1: their central resources that will allow them to be the

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Speaker 1: best dads they can be. We will also provide assistance

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Speaker 1: to fatherless children and families. Tell us about that part,

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01:57:35,720 --> 01:57:39,040
Speaker 1: providing assistance to fatherless children and families. How does that work?

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Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson the third Yeah, when I first, you know,

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01:57:43,040 --> 01:57:46,080
Speaker 1: started my foundation, Uh, I was playing for the Warriors

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01:57:46,160 --> 01:57:49,040
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this year, and uh, there was

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Speaker 1: a there was a family in my building who had

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01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:54,240
Speaker 1: just one day they placed off a lottery. Uh. They

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01:57:54,280 --> 01:57:57,160
Speaker 1: didn't have, you know, very much money. Uh they they

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Speaker 1: they you know, income wasn't very high. What paint for

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01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:03,560
Speaker 1: rent was very low because they wanted to do a lottery. Um,

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01:58:03,960 --> 01:58:06,160
Speaker 1: but she couldn't get in the door. I was just

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Speaker 1: moving in as well, and myself and my brother here

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Speaker 1: you're younger than me three hundred pounds, big dude. You

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Speaker 1: know he he actually played football, I hope. So, so

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Speaker 1: we helped this lady out. Her name was miss c

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Speaker 1: C and um, she broke down to the front desk, Um,

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01:58:24,920 --> 01:58:26,920
Speaker 1: you know, thank you to Glenn and Jelyn for for

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01:58:27,000 --> 01:58:30,080
Speaker 1: the help, and would love to cook for them one day. Um.

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Speaker 1: So we ended up going in and to her spot

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01:58:33,360 --> 01:58:36,480
Speaker 1: and she cooked us food, fried chicken mac and cheese.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't had a home, couldn't meal in a while,

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Speaker 1: you know, I wrote a lot. That's a meal, you

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01:58:42,000 --> 01:58:44,360
Speaker 1: fried chicken mac and you're already starting at the at

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Speaker 1: the at the they said that the at the core

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Speaker 1: of good home cook meal right there, brother exactly. So

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Speaker 1: so we were getting ready to eat, and my brother

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01:58:53,880 --> 01:58:56,920
Speaker 1: and I we sit down and she just had two chairs. Um,

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01:58:57,360 --> 01:59:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, to to just patio picnic chairs. Um, and

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01:59:01,920 --> 01:59:03,880
Speaker 1: you know we ate. And after that, my brother lived

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01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:05,360
Speaker 1: at me and he was like, you know, you've been

2343
01:59:05,360 --> 01:59:08,160
Speaker 1: talking about this foundation. I think the first family. I

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01:59:08,200 --> 01:59:11,000
Speaker 1: think the perfect opportunity would be to help them. Um,

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01:59:11,200 --> 01:59:13,520
Speaker 1: you gotta get them a table at least. And I

2346
01:59:13,680 --> 01:59:16,120
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, you're right, and we went.

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01:59:16,600 --> 01:59:18,720
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks later. I surprised her, told her

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01:59:18,760 --> 01:59:20,600
Speaker 1: that we were gonna help get lunch. I was gonna

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01:59:20,640 --> 01:59:24,480
Speaker 1: take her out. Um. She does her husband, she's actually

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01:59:24,560 --> 01:59:28,160
Speaker 1: been involved in you know, domestic violence. She has two children, UM,

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01:59:28,280 --> 01:59:30,720
Speaker 1: no father involved in the house. And she's worked two

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01:59:30,800 --> 01:59:33,840
Speaker 1: or three jobs her you know, their whole lives. Um.

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01:59:34,240 --> 01:59:36,800
Speaker 1: And spend her last thirty dollars to prepare that meal

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01:59:36,880 --> 01:59:40,360
Speaker 1: for my brother. Not because we watched her hitting the house. UM,

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01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:43,000
Speaker 1: and I told her we were gonna go get some lunch. UM.

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01:59:43,120 --> 01:59:46,440
Speaker 1: I furnished her whole apartment twenty six pieces of furniture.

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01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:50,040
Speaker 1: And they were sleeping on the ground, all three of them.

2358
01:59:50,560 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 1: And they now got bed to sleep on that night. UM.

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01:59:53,640 --> 01:59:55,240
Speaker 1: And she she just called me the other day. And

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01:59:55,320 --> 01:59:57,720
Speaker 1: her son just became a father, and she's now a grandmother.

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01:59:57,800 --> 02:00:01,200
Speaker 1: And I still maintain that relationship. And UM, those are

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02:00:01,240 --> 02:00:03,400
Speaker 1: the type of families, UM, that we that we help

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02:00:03,840 --> 02:00:07,200
Speaker 1: when we talk about fatherless children, and and and and

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Speaker 1: her son. UM actually told me that I'm the reason

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02:00:10,080 --> 02:00:12,360
Speaker 1: why he wanted to get a job. He went and

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Speaker 1: got h He just started as an electrician. Um. He's

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02:00:15,080 --> 02:00:17,120
Speaker 1: on a path of success and as a father. So

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Speaker 1: those those stories and those type of things that we

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Speaker 1: do that mean a lot more than, like you said,

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Speaker 1: anything that I can do on the basketball court. I'm

2371
02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:27,000
Speaker 1: able to help that family take them basically from off

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Speaker 1: the streets. And now that because I spent a couple

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Speaker 1: of thousand dollars, you know, on them, not even a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, but to get them in a decent

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Speaker 1: back to money making conversations. I'm your host, Sean McDonald. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know it's really interesting, man, because I've been fortunate

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Speaker 1: to change people's lives, you know, with with emotional assistance,

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Speaker 1: physical assistance, financial assistance. And people just want to let

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Speaker 1: you know that they're human, that's all. And once you

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Speaker 1: can remove, uh, you know, a layer of embarrassment, and

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Speaker 1: It allows you to focus on who you really are

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Speaker 1: and can be. And that's what you did for them.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you allow them to walk into that

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Speaker 1: apartment not stressed, to walk out feeling good because they

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Speaker 1: felt like humans again. And and that that's why, that's

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Speaker 1: why I was just when I when I when this

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Speaker 1: interview with scheduled. You know, they they you know, we

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02:02:31,760 --> 02:02:33,440
Speaker 1: have a meeting all the time, Glenn, who who are

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Speaker 1: gonna bring? What? What did he do? Because I'm not

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02:02:36,240 --> 02:02:38,880
Speaker 1: just gonna bring black basketball players on my show. And

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02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:41,680
Speaker 1: they that did my research and I went wow wow,

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02:02:42,040 --> 02:02:44,920
Speaker 1: But what what is impressing me more is you? Though?

2418
02:02:45,840 --> 02:02:50,000
Speaker 1: Is you? What? What's what's what's the driving force of you?

2419
02:02:50,600 --> 02:02:54,160
Speaker 1: Because a foundation is what it is. But the success

2420
02:02:54,200 --> 02:02:57,919
Speaker 1: of the foundation is the the is the leader, the founder,

2421
02:02:58,800 --> 02:03:00,720
Speaker 1: the person who wakes up thing. Anybody go to sleep

2422
02:03:00,760 --> 02:03:02,440
Speaker 1: thinking about trying to make it big or try to

2423
02:03:02,720 --> 02:03:05,880
Speaker 1: try to try to save more people than sometimes you

2424
02:03:06,320 --> 02:03:08,320
Speaker 1: umtually you know, you can only put your arms around

2425
02:03:08,360 --> 02:03:10,440
Speaker 1: so many people at one time. Sometimes we try to

2426
02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:13,240
Speaker 1: trying to try to expand and hurt your back. So

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Speaker 1: before you hurt your back, man, tell us about you. Man,

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02:03:16,520 --> 02:03:20,400
Speaker 1: tell us about you. Man. Yeah, I mean, I uh,

2429
02:03:20,920 --> 02:03:24,040
Speaker 1: you know everything that I got, you know, I've seen, Um,

2430
02:03:24,440 --> 02:03:27,960
Speaker 1: you know, my dad was successful. He had you know,

2431
02:03:28,120 --> 02:03:30,640
Speaker 1: money and cars and things like that, But that never

2432
02:03:30,840 --> 02:03:33,480
Speaker 1: was my purpose or what drove me because I've seen

2433
02:03:33,520 --> 02:03:35,680
Speaker 1: that and I was fortunate enough to see that with him.

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Speaker 1: But I grew up in the house with my mom

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Speaker 1: and my grandma. My grandma's from Mississippi, you know, my

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Speaker 1: mama and grandma. Currently they still live, uh, you know,

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02:03:44,240 --> 02:03:46,480
Speaker 1: close to Gary, Indiana. So we met West people and

2438
02:03:46,520 --> 02:03:48,440
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they care about who

2439
02:03:48,480 --> 02:03:51,360
Speaker 1: are you as a person rather than whatever else that's

2440
02:03:51,440 --> 02:03:53,640
Speaker 1: going on. Is at the end of the day, when

2441
02:03:53,640 --> 02:03:55,960
Speaker 1: I look at myself in the mirror, what have I done?

2442
02:03:56,120 --> 02:03:58,240
Speaker 1: Who am I as a person? And I feel and

2443
02:03:58,360 --> 02:04:01,160
Speaker 1: as I walked through just finding my purpose, I know

2444
02:04:01,440 --> 02:04:03,040
Speaker 1: that I don't know my I don't I feel like

2445
02:04:03,080 --> 02:04:06,360
Speaker 1: I don't know my exact purpose or mission yet, but

2446
02:04:06,480 --> 02:04:09,800
Speaker 1: it's coming and through this foundation, like you said, Um,

2447
02:04:10,000 --> 02:04:13,560
Speaker 1: I've realized that, you know, it's about helping the masses

2448
02:04:13,600 --> 02:04:16,640
Speaker 1: of amount of people. From what I do as a

2449
02:04:16,680 --> 02:04:19,240
Speaker 1: professional athlete. You know, I'm able to take you know,

2450
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Speaker 1: my six years experience as an athlete and able to

2451
02:04:22,720 --> 02:04:25,080
Speaker 1: talk to kids, able to help fathers, you know, different

2452
02:04:25,080 --> 02:04:28,480
Speaker 1: alleys of people that I can reach. Um, and affecting

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02:04:28,520 --> 02:04:31,200
Speaker 1: people's lives. That's just who I am in and since

2454
02:04:31,280 --> 02:04:33,320
Speaker 1: I was first in the league, you know, I would

2455
02:04:33,360 --> 02:04:35,880
Speaker 1: find kids to kind of help out here and there,

2456
02:04:35,960 --> 02:04:37,880
Speaker 1: or go to the hospital and visit the sick kids

2457
02:04:37,920 --> 02:04:40,120
Speaker 1: and play video games with them. It's just been who

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02:04:40,200 --> 02:04:43,000
Speaker 1: I am. And I found a way to create a

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Speaker 1: team around my foundation and we meet weekly on different

2460
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Speaker 1: ideas that I have a different you know, suggestions that

2461
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Speaker 1: they might have a families to help. So I put

2462
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Speaker 1: a real structure around this because I know that I

2463
02:04:53,800 --> 02:04:56,840
Speaker 1: take from being a father and having my daughter and

2464
02:04:57,200 --> 02:04:59,400
Speaker 1: um me just being in her life as a blessing.

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02:04:59,520 --> 02:05:01,440
Speaker 1: So you know, I want to be able to take

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Speaker 1: that and help others to just be that role and

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02:05:03,920 --> 02:05:06,520
Speaker 1: kind of model figure for them, because you know, they

2468
02:05:06,600 --> 02:05:08,920
Speaker 1: look at professional athletes and a lot of people do

2469
02:05:09,440 --> 02:05:11,680
Speaker 1: at superheroes and this and that. But like you said,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're the same as you.

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02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:16,280
Speaker 1: We put our pants on, the same thing as everybody else.

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Speaker 1: And if they're able to understand that in some type

2473
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Speaker 1: of way and you're able to come to terms and

2474
02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:22,800
Speaker 1: them to look at you as a as a human

2475
02:05:22,880 --> 02:05:25,120
Speaker 1: being and a decent human being, because we already know

2476
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Speaker 1: how people think about athletes, then they're able to connect

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Speaker 1: with you. And I've noticed that. Well you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: connecting with you right now. Okay, and so, uh, I

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Speaker 1: know you just got some swag down here that you're

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Speaker 1: selling on your website. You know, got you know, some

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Speaker 1: selection when you're sold out on the on the black

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Speaker 1: T shirt, they're sold out. You got the hoop, got

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Speaker 1: the jersey, got that the dad had, got to pull

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Speaker 1: over hoodie. You know. So I'm telling what I got.

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Speaker 1: I got a newsletter goes out to an eighty thousand

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Speaker 1: people and uh and I'm it goes out by monthly

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Speaker 1: until next week. I'm gonna drop your store, your your

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Speaker 1: store into my newsletter and then recommend people browse your

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Speaker 1: your you and then and then ilso on my website,

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Speaker 1: I have a store, and I'm if you don't mind,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop your your swag gear on there for

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Speaker 1: potential purchase as well, because that's what I do with

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Speaker 1: money making conversation. This because you know, this is amazing.

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Speaker 1: This is a free format. Man. You know, my my

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Speaker 1: blessing is coming aware, my blessing talking to you because

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Speaker 1: I get to beat you man, I'm going like this

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Speaker 1: brother here, man, if this brother like because I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to this is how this is how I think. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out how I can help this

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Speaker 1: brother raise money because see what I don't like here, man,

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Speaker 1: When I was managing Steve Harvey, uh never you know,

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Speaker 1: and uh you know he's to spend his money. He

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Speaker 1: he's a brag about it. I spend my money on

2504
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Speaker 1: my foundation. I go do Now, you really need to

2505
02:06:49,880 --> 02:06:54,160
Speaker 1: be spending somebody else's money that keep your money in

2506
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Speaker 1: your foundation, build your brand so other people have value

2507
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Speaker 1: in what you were saying, and then they give you

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Speaker 1: money and you can do more. And so that's my

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Speaker 1: that's my thoughts is running through my mind with you,

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Speaker 1: it's it's people out that d there Michigan need to

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Speaker 1: be on here making some donations. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You know all at I'm just telling you how I

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Speaker 1: think because you go to university. You know, I'm excited. Hey, brother,

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Speaker 1: you know like I'm gonna give you after this call

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Speaker 1: if you want to give myself number. Anytime you have

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Speaker 1: a good or bad thought, you called me. Okay, this

2522
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Speaker 1: is what I do for a liver. Girl. You if

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Speaker 1: you don't even know who I am, google me. Brother.

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Speaker 1: All I do is make people famous. All I do

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02:07:54,360 --> 02:07:56,920
Speaker 1: is make corporations a lot of money. Because I think

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Speaker 1: that's my skill. That's you know, when I was eighteen

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Speaker 1: years old, I realized that was my gift. I just

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02:08:00,720 --> 02:08:02,920
Speaker 1: didn't then't understand it until I was in my authorities.

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Speaker 1: I just always used word like I'm just at the

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Speaker 1: right place at the right time. I'm just lucky like that.

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02:08:07,640 --> 02:08:09,960
Speaker 1: And then I realized, you know, that's what you do.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's what you that's your gift. You're able

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02:08:12,400 --> 02:08:15,760
Speaker 1: to look at things and evaluate people and really push

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Speaker 1: them to lenings and give a clear understanding of what

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Speaker 1: they can do with their lives because so many people don't,

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Speaker 1: you know, because you know, they've been told what they're

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02:08:23,000 --> 02:08:25,160
Speaker 1: supposed to do. Like and I was, I was told

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Speaker 1: to go to college. I got to college, which was

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Speaker 1: truly a blessing for me. But I realized that wasn't

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02:08:31,800 --> 02:08:34,400
Speaker 1: what and my degree is in mathematics, and I went

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02:08:34,480 --> 02:08:36,160
Speaker 1: to work like I was told. I went to work

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Speaker 1: for IBM. Then I realized, this ain't what I want

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02:08:38,600 --> 02:08:41,480
Speaker 1: to do. This ain't what I want to do. And

2544
02:08:41,600 --> 02:08:44,880
Speaker 1: so so I'm listening to you. You're successful as NBA player.

2545
02:08:44,880 --> 02:08:46,840
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now. I don't during how

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02:08:46,880 --> 02:08:48,640
Speaker 1: many teams you've been on because you're in the n

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02:08:48,720 --> 02:08:50,480
Speaker 1: b A. You played in the n b A. I

2548
02:08:50,600 --> 02:08:52,920
Speaker 1: know how hard it is. The D league is full

2549
02:08:52,960 --> 02:08:57,920
Speaker 1: of people want to be you, you know, and so

2550
02:08:58,120 --> 02:09:00,600
Speaker 1: and so so. But then what is bigger than that?

2551
02:09:00,840 --> 02:09:04,120
Speaker 1: You know. Look, as great as Lebron is what he

2552
02:09:04,280 --> 02:09:07,800
Speaker 1: does away for the league, I respect way more, way

2553
02:09:07,880 --> 02:09:12,040
Speaker 1: more because I know God gave him the ability to dribble,

2554
02:09:12,200 --> 02:09:14,720
Speaker 1: to dunk, the i Q, to be able to be

2555
02:09:14,840 --> 02:09:17,720
Speaker 1: the best basketball player in the world. But everything else,

2556
02:09:17,760 --> 02:09:21,520
Speaker 1: he's thinking about everything else you're thinking about, Glenn, that

2557
02:09:21,680 --> 02:09:24,400
Speaker 1: wasn't part of the equation when people were telling you

2558
02:09:24,480 --> 02:09:26,680
Speaker 1: what you were supposed to do, telling you what you

2559
02:09:26,760 --> 02:09:29,080
Speaker 1: were capable of doing. This is something that you have

2560
02:09:29,920 --> 02:09:32,240
Speaker 1: matriculated through life and said this is who I want

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02:09:32,280 --> 02:09:34,240
Speaker 1: to be, This is what I want to represent this

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02:09:34,400 --> 02:09:36,520
Speaker 1: and and it was borne out by the birth of

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Speaker 1: your daughter. Man, I'm telling him, I'm inspired talking to you, brother,

2564
02:09:40,720 --> 02:09:42,520
Speaker 1: and believe me, I've done a lot for you to

2565
02:09:42,560 --> 02:09:48,880
Speaker 1: be inspiring me. Appreciate that's here and I appreciate you

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02:09:49,000 --> 02:09:51,240
Speaker 1: having me here today. Well, the thing is is that

2567
02:09:51,400 --> 02:09:53,880
Speaker 1: man to be successful, Glenn, And that's what money making

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02:09:53,920 --> 02:09:57,120
Speaker 1: conversations all about. His creating relationships people here this and

2569
02:09:57,560 --> 02:09:59,880
Speaker 1: and then hear our conversation and your fan bras who

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02:10:00,360 --> 02:10:03,360
Speaker 1: hopefully great some more followers. But more importantly, it's creating

2571
02:10:03,400 --> 02:10:07,080
Speaker 1: relationships and creating a brain awareness of who is exactly

2572
02:10:07,280 --> 02:10:10,680
Speaker 1: is Glenn Robinson the third beyond basketball and beyond basketball,

2573
02:10:10,960 --> 02:10:13,280
Speaker 1: you're a person who cares about making other people's lives

2574
02:10:13,360 --> 02:10:16,440
Speaker 1: better that are not directly tied to you. They're not

2575
02:10:16,520 --> 02:10:18,880
Speaker 1: your cousins, ain't your aunt, nature sustain your brother, ain't

2576
02:10:18,880 --> 02:10:21,600
Speaker 1: your child or your girlfriend or your wife. They're just

2577
02:10:21,680 --> 02:10:27,600
Speaker 1: people that you know need a helping hand. And we

2578
02:10:27,840 --> 02:10:30,600
Speaker 1: were at the University of Michigan, my brother, there are

2579
02:10:30,600 --> 02:10:33,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people over there with that can help

2580
02:10:33,320 --> 02:10:36,800
Speaker 1: you with this because it's it's phenomenal and you are

2581
02:10:36,960 --> 02:10:40,120
Speaker 1: very articulate man. And you can talk. Brother. I don't

2582
02:10:40,160 --> 02:10:41,880
Speaker 1: know if anybody told you, but you can talk. Man.

2583
02:10:42,480 --> 02:10:44,960
Speaker 1: You know you just need to go and realize what

2584
02:10:45,080 --> 02:10:49,440
Speaker 1: I just told you and just keep talking. Glynn, Just

2585
02:10:49,560 --> 02:10:54,240
Speaker 1: keep talking, brother, I'm keep talking. Brother. I'm telling you, Man,

2586
02:10:54,480 --> 02:10:57,960
Speaker 1: I'm way impressed with you. Brother, I do so if

2587
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Speaker 1: you don't have to drill another basketball, if you keep talking,

2588
02:11:00,760 --> 02:11:03,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna be making way more money just because your

2589
02:11:03,640 --> 02:11:06,320
Speaker 1: ability to talk than your ability to drible. I'm just

2590
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:09,720
Speaker 1: gonna tell you that, believe that bleed up the passion

2591
02:11:09,800 --> 02:11:13,760
Speaker 1: that I hear and the ability to articulate who you

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02:11:13,840 --> 02:11:17,400
Speaker 1: could be in life. You are impressive. Man. I I

2593
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Speaker 1: can I can only say that to you verbally because

2594
02:11:21,120 --> 02:11:22,960
Speaker 1: of the fact that you have to believe that yourself.

2595
02:11:23,520 --> 02:11:27,800
Speaker 1: You have to wow man. Man, I tell you I

2596
02:11:27,880 --> 02:11:30,080
Speaker 1: love this show. I love I love I love reading

2597
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Speaker 1: what they said A diamond and the rough. You see

2598
02:11:32,680 --> 02:11:35,920
Speaker 1: your diamond and the rough? Brother. I just look. No,

2599
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Speaker 1: You'll be walking around and you see something just sparkle

2600
02:11:38,720 --> 02:11:41,280
Speaker 1: on the ground and go, what's that? You know? I

2601
02:11:41,720 --> 02:11:44,640
Speaker 1: looked down there, what's that? That's the third picked them

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Speaker 1: up do something. We're gonna do something. Love you, man,

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Speaker 1: I love you, Man, I love your brother. Angels are real, indeed,

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Speaker 1: man helping fathers become barrel in fatherhood and helping families

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Speaker 1: without one. Founded by Glenn Robinson the Third Glenn, my man,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling your brother, as God is my witness, You're

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Speaker 1: gonna make way more money talking than drippling in your

2608
02:12:14,920 --> 02:12:18,280
Speaker 1: life because you care about people and you want to

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02:12:18,320 --> 02:12:21,160
Speaker 1: make a difference in people's lives. And it all starts

2610
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Speaker 1: with your ability to think and articulate. And you do

2611
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Speaker 1: it very well. You just haven't accepted it yet. Accepted. Man,

2612
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Speaker 1: Gonna go for it, brother, gonna go for it. You

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02:12:32,320 --> 02:12:34,640
Speaker 1: walk on that damn University music camping with a with

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Speaker 1: an E p K and a sizzle real and walk

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Speaker 1: out of there with several millions of dollars. Brother, No

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Speaker 1: more spending your money, no more, no more, no more,

2617
02:12:42,880 --> 02:12:46,760
Speaker 1: no more, no more. Let's stay in touch. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: everything and it's a pleasure. Okay. Man, Again, I didn't,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't just utter those words so I

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Speaker 1: can just sweat on on the microphone these words so

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Speaker 1: you can give it. Alright, Brother, I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming on this show, Glenn, and we were

2623
02:13:00,000 --> 02:13:02,480
Speaker 1: will be in touch man, because like I tell you, man,

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02:13:02,880 --> 02:13:05,960
Speaker 1: to hear somebody like you talk and you're young because

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't figure out, because I didn't figure

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Speaker 1: out my my success path until I was in my forties.

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Speaker 1: And believe me, I had a lot of Mercedes bends

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Speaker 1: and a lot of big houses along the way, a

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Speaker 1: lot of good times and a lot of times I

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Speaker 1: wish I wouldn't have participated in. But they were all

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Speaker 1: good memories right now, because when you get old, all

2632
02:13:21,960 --> 02:13:27,160
Speaker 1: you can live off your memories. Okay, but uh, but again,

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Speaker 1: my brother, thank you for coming on money making conversations. Okay, yes,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot. I appreciate some time. Yeah, get my

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Speaker 1: contact information we can hook up. But but again, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna put you your whole or your whole squag in

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Speaker 1: my not this week's but next Wednesday's newsletter. And uh,

2638
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Speaker 1: just to get the word out, man, I'm I'm a

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Speaker 1: Glenn Robin the third fan. We're gonna get these angels

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Speaker 1: are real, indeed brand off that love that logo, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it's outstanding. We're gonna get it off. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be on fire. Man. I'm just telling me, you're

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02:13:56,840 --> 02:13:59,680
Speaker 1: walking around two many millionaires. Brother, be spending your own money. Now,

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Speaker 1: stop that. Stop that today. Okay, we're good, brother. We

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Speaker 1: talked soon. Man, go bye. Okay. If you want to

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Speaker 1: hear more money Making Conversations, please go to money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversation dot com. All the interviews are there. I'm ras

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Speaker 1: Sean mcdown. I'm your host.