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Interview of the Week: Amar’e Stoudemire tells how a former 6x NBA All-Star Player, now assistant Coach with Brooklyn Nets and develops business ventures Stoudemire Farms and Stoudemire Wines · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Mari Startermira the six time NBA All Stories currently an
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  Speaker 1: assistant player developer coach for the Brooklyn Nets, and he's
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  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur get it entrepreneur. Omar is the first and
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  Speaker 1: only black kosher winemaker. Amri's owned star Starter Mira Farms,
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  Speaker 1: an organic, family run farm in Duchess County, New York,
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  Speaker 1: which raises black angers. Amar wants to raise awareness about
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  Speaker 1: struggling black farmers and teach the next generation a three
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  Speaker 1: sixty degree view of wellness, which includes not only exercising, food,
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  Speaker 1: but financial wellness and community service A. Mari is also
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  Speaker 1: currently pursuing his master's degree in business from the University
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  Speaker 1: Mary I Am. That's to you, y'all. Do you please
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  Speaker 1: more show, Amri out of mind, man, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, sir, I'm feeling good, brother, feeling good. No,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Maria, I would tell you something. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big NBA fans, so I can I can see those
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  Speaker 1: uh those lives from Steve Nash to you and you
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  Speaker 1: slam ducking and you was was like you were an
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  Speaker 1: incredible athlete in the NBA. And talk about that portion
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  Speaker 1: of feeling invincible, feeing all world because you were all world.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that whole part of your life and then transhing,
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  Speaker 1: the transitioning out of the game. We want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it as well, but just talk about when you're
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  Speaker 1: the top of your game athletically. You know what, when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're playing the game at the high level, UM,
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  Speaker 1: you put in so much work to to reach a
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  Speaker 1: level of expertise in your craft. I think for me,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to somewhat strive for greatness and my
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  Speaker 1: and my feeling to be able to try to reach
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  Speaker 1: my full potential. So when you're in that space, man,
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you're just in a different world. You're
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  Speaker 1: in a different stratosphere. UM. And so the energy along
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  Speaker 1: kind of cords in with with your plan and succeeding
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  Speaker 1: at whatever you're doing. And for me it was basketball playing,
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  Speaker 1: going to the you know, conference finals, planning, Olympics, all
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  Speaker 1: Star Games, and all NBA. All these were incredible accolades
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  Speaker 1: that I felt amazing during that stretch. Now, when you
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  Speaker 1: when you feel amazing, like you was saying, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: any point in that part, there's you know, because you
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  Speaker 1: kind of had your game when it wasn't social media,
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  Speaker 1: and the social media is now so prevalent, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you own social media now, But when social media
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  Speaker 1: made a difference in who a Mari stottom Rar is
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  Speaker 1: if he had it when he played, yeah for sure
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  Speaker 1: with me. When I played, I was I was one
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  Speaker 1: of the first guys to put together All Star campaign
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  Speaker 1: like a like a mini TV show trying to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that goes over the you know, uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting fans get out there to vote right on the
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  Speaker 1: vote initiatives. Uh. So I was the first guy to
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  Speaker 1: kind of start that whole movement. And I was also
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  Speaker 1: one of the first guys. So I have my own
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  Speaker 1: uh uh YouTube show, you know so, YouTube channel, I
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  Speaker 1: should say so back back in the early two thousands,
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  Speaker 1: I started a YouTube channel and I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: just you know, recruiting all this content, even back in
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  Speaker 1: the early two thousands, for all the social media came out.
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  Speaker 1: So I was for sure out of the curve. And
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  Speaker 1: if I would have had social media back then, I
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  Speaker 1: would have took for advantage of it. You've been a beast,
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  Speaker 1: You've been a social media beast. Well I liked this,
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  Speaker 1: they say, well, I liked in the game. But you
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  Speaker 1: know the thing about it, man, when you're you're so
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  Speaker 1: articularly you're so you, so you you resonate at a
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  Speaker 1: high level of professionalism, and so there's so many stereotypes
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  Speaker 1: of the black athletes. How do you break that mode?
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  Speaker 1: How did you break that mode? Because you know, even
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  Speaker 1: when you were successful, they're still gonna be stereotypes. How
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  Speaker 1: do you go through dealing with that or do you
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  Speaker 1: deal with it at all? You know what? I think
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  Speaker 1: the idea has been able to to step outside of
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  Speaker 1: your box. Right. You know, I grew up in a
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  Speaker 1: small town of Florida, and I was also raised in
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  Speaker 1: New York and so always in my community box. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and so for me, I was able to step outside
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  Speaker 1: the box and learn new things, uh, advance my conversation
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  Speaker 1: advanced my thinking, and so I think that helped me
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  Speaker 1: somewhat advanced mentally, you know, and so educational wise, I
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  Speaker 1: was able to somewhat pursue education, continue reading and just
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  Speaker 1: trying to trying to improve myself over the years. I
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  Speaker 1: think that helped me somewhat, you know, iron out or
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  Speaker 1: straighten out my conversations and my way of thinking about business.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, you assisted one of your one of your titles,
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  Speaker 1: because you're run our sus Man, I I put up
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  Speaker 1: there if I mentioned everything that you almost a reality show,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a camera should actually follow you around. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got the farm, you got the wine, you got
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  Speaker 1: the education, and you also assistant player development coach for
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  Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets. Tell us exactly what that is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so right now it's my first ship being a part
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  Speaker 1: of like a coaching staff. Right. Actually, I played over
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  Speaker 1: season Israel in the championship there. I got the m
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  Speaker 1: v P last season and so I was looking to
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  Speaker 1: go back over season play another year. But when I
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  Speaker 1: got the opportunity to coach with the Nets. Uh, my
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  Speaker 1: role now is to to to help develop players, but
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  Speaker 1: at the same time learn from the front office and
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff to see where I want my future
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  Speaker 1: to go, whether it's front office work or whether it's coaching. Okay, cool, now, okay,
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  Speaker 1: now the Brooklyn Nets. Brother, now you you you were
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  Speaker 1: special when you played there. Imorry, I ain't gonna lot
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  Speaker 1: to you. Now you get to see three players I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about Kevin Durant, James Harden, Kylie R. As a player.
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  Speaker 1: How would you guard them? Oh? What is their greatest
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  Speaker 1: asset as a player? Individuals? I mean, you can't really
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  Speaker 1: guard him. He's got this guy a special These gots
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  Speaker 1: are special offensive players that you just cannot find way
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  Speaker 1: to guard these guys. And you know the strengths is
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is a complete all around playercentage guys like
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  Speaker 1: six or eleven, and he plays like a guard. He
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  Speaker 1: shoots the ball with the best of him. He's sure,
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  Speaker 1: he's for sure one of the all time great scores
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  Speaker 1: that we the game. I've ever seen. Uh. Kyrie Irving
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  Speaker 1: is a point guard that is so creative. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you can never you could. I mean I have never
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  Speaker 1: seen a guard that's this creative before. As far as
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  Speaker 1: the way he finished around the basket, by the way
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  Speaker 1: he gets a shot off, the way he approached the
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  Speaker 1: game is sensational, and then James Harden. Before we get
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  Speaker 1: to James Harden, let's let's stay on Kyrie because I
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  Speaker 1: he I mean, he's incredible. Man Like, Like I watched
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  Speaker 1: him every day and practice. As you know, I'm was
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  Speaker 1: every game and what I see every night is always
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  Speaker 1: every every game I turn, you know, I have a
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  Speaker 1: moment in the game where I just like just shave
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  Speaker 1: my head like this. And I'm a guy who's seen
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  Speaker 1: at all I've been running over. But but Kyries are different.
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  Speaker 1: of James Harden to Houston. Didn't know he was that great.
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  Speaker 1: He was a sixth man at the Oklahoma thunders and uh,
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  Speaker 1: your eyes? As an former athlete and as a as
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  Speaker 1: a coach, Well, James is also a creative in his
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  Speaker 1: own way, right, So make these guys special. The creativity
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  Speaker 1: that one bring to the game that the game have
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  Speaker 1: never seen it make you a special player, right. And
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: so with James, his creativity, being able to draw fouls,
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• 9:33
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  Speaker 1: but you also we're gonna talk about the other two businesses,
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  Speaker 1: when I introduced you to talking about financial wellness and
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  Speaker 1: community service because it was together and I think they
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  Speaker 1: do run together. So because throughout your career, I always
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  Speaker 1: knew about you community service. Now, what is that conversation
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  Speaker 1: that you're trying to create when it comes to financial wellness? Well,
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  Speaker 1: financial wellness is important. I mean, obviously we had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of systemic racism where a lot of the African
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  Speaker 1: American culture have been somewhere behind the paradigm when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to being able to obtain wealth and pass their
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  Speaker 1: wealth down to the next generation. Um, and so we're
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  Speaker 1: somewhere behind schedule. We have to play the catch up game,
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  Speaker 1: uh for us now. And I think, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they become an adults, that can have a hair
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  Speaker 1: start on a head start in the financial space moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to be able to have that financial
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  Speaker 1: literacy for sure. Well, you know an interesting thing when
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  Speaker 1: when I'm hearing you talk about your brain and your career.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, you know, uh, if you ever want
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  Speaker 1: to go back on TV, please call me tomorrow. You're
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic brother, you know. You know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you have a TV representative, but please call ra
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDonald because you're you're special brother. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what they paying. You'd be on the Assistant
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  Speaker 1: Player Development Code, but you need to be on TV. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: h your insights incredible, great smile and say I'll be
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  Speaker 1: breaking it down. May you do you know, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: might knowing the google me a little bit. You you'll
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  Speaker 1: find out when I tell you you're special. Man, you
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  Speaker 1: go that brother does know what you're talking about. But
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  Speaker 1: when But I had C. J. McCullen on one show twice.
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  Speaker 1: Now he has a wine line that's sold out as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got into wine business. But you know, but
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  Speaker 1: you're a black kosher winemaker. Please tell us the significance
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  Speaker 1: of that, well being Bill his first, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's another black culture wine make graphs in the world,
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  Speaker 1: man um and so I wanted someone trange that narrative.
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  Speaker 1: Also is being able to now step into a coatural
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  Speaker 1: spaces space where where health is wealth, right, um and
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: so and so you know, the winery out of out
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: of Israel was important for me to get involved in
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: because you know, obviously having the Biblical ties and knowing
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: that throughout the whole bit context there's always been wine
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  Speaker 1: involved in the Bible, right, So I wanted to kind
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  Speaker 1: of back with that soil and create a juice that
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  Speaker 1: people here in American drink and be a part of
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  Speaker 1: Israel like they can be a part of that biblical connotation. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how the resinally started and then now I
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  Speaker 1: just released two more bottles that's made in California. There's
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  Speaker 1: there's a cabinet Savoon that's cab that's made in California.
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  Speaker 1: Amar said that again seven I got, I got particularly
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  Speaker 1: like you. How do you say that? Man? Just let
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  Speaker 1: it roll off your lip? Kevin Savenon, what do you say, brother?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: You need to stop man. You're a smooth operative brother.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on say it one more time? What
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  Speaker 1: you saying? That's the that's the cabinet Savona from California.
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  Speaker 1: And I have a I have a petite bird dough
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that's also rose, also California. Right now, Why you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: two years ago reading USA Today and they was talking
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: about NBA players and why why it was such a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: popular uh drink. And NBA players walk around with little
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: cases with wine in the little cases and they travel
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: with their wine. Why is that the case? Well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I think the NBA nowadays is becoming a
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: luxury brand. A lot of the players that are in
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the NBA and have played in the NBA are you know,
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  Speaker 1: their brands are considered to be luxury brands. So why
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: is a part of their luxury connotation so I think
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  Speaker 1: when a lot of the guys who like to go
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: out and have generas you know, five star restaurants, mission
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  Speaker 1: the restaurants, they want to sit down and drink wine.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: You want to smoke cigars, they want to drink whiskey
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and chill lacks, have a good fun night. Those are
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: those are the ideas that a lot of NBA guys
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: are thinking and so getting into that wine space kind
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: of goes with their brand. Now, now let's go up
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to another part of your entrepreneur career. Is that's why
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I love about you. It's not like you your pigeonhole. Okay. Now,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the the start of Mire Farms, which is the organic
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: family run farm in Duchess County, New York. That is
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: his black angers talk about how did that come about
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  Speaker 1: in your life? Who turned you on to the opportunity? Well,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know, it's funny. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: grew up in a small town in Florida, which is
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: like you know, it's like a farmtown kind of type. Deal.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Also lived in New York for a while. Right, So
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather was my grandfather, Jack was an entrepreneur himself.
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  Speaker 1: He had like he fish in the morning. He had
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: grape vines and peace trees in the backyard. He would
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: have you know, all these different agriculture uh elements and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you know at his home. And so when I when
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I go to my grandfather's house, I would see all
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: this and I would see how he works in until
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the soil. And so I was like, there's an opportunity
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that came along my way here in New York where
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a friend of mine we're moving to Italy, and had
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: this massive ranch out upstate New York. And they're like, hey,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we you know, we have this ranch. We're just you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: really just trying to get rid of it. And so
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, sure. You know, for me, my initial
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  Speaker 1: thought was having a nice get way place for the family.
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  Speaker 1: They can have a nice vacation, uh and go out
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the log cabin, relaxed, light up, the light up, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: fire pit. Um. But then I turned it into a
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  Speaker 1: working farm. And so I used about a hundred and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: eighty five acres of it, and I brought in some
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: black angers. I brought a farm hand. And now, and
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: this is about seven to ten years ago, so are
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you and the horse? No, I have no horses. Okay,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you're not riding the har you do how do you
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: get out there and and and corral the the anger?
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: What do you do? You know? Up what you're out
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: there doing? Yeah, I got, I got, I got the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a t V A TV. You rolling, huh yeah, man,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: so so so the farm hand actually whenever, whenever, whenever
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you go on the farm, you have like a certain
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: feed and the cows that come to you, you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: because they're come right to you, and you can somewhat
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: you know, showing which way to go, and you fence
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: some men depend on which which other land you want
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: them to graze, right, because you have some parts of
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: some parts of the land it needs to grow back,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and so you take them to another part of the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: land fencing mailer the graze that right, and then you
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: reread them out that way, uh, field by field. But
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it's an easy deal, man, you know, it's it's it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: an easy deal and it's fun because now there's a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: new there's a new situation now with the American government
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: that now are giving back to the black farmers. Yeah,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: because before um um, you know, there was like I
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: think like sixteen percent of the population were black farmers,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and now it's down to like point two percent of
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the farmers that are black. And so now the government's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: are gonna re issue that and try to enhance black farmers.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So I was also ahead of that curve as well.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: You know, Congressman uh Lindsay Graham called it reparations, that's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: what he was calling. That was in this deal, you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: funding for black farmers. You know, when you when you
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: are a man of many hats, what you know, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: won't use the word one had are you most proud
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: of win? Now? But what allows you the ability to multitask? Well?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I think for me, everything that everything that I get
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: myself involved in, our passions that I love doing right
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and and I also learned about it first. I learned
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: about it and understand it first before I really get involved. Um,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and so it allows me to do it naturally. You know.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I feel like if you force something you're not too
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: sure about it, then it makes it it doesn't look
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: as natural, doesn't feel as clean, it doesn't feel as right,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you know. So, uh, everything that I do is based
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: upon like my passions, what I enjoy doing. How can
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I now pass this down to the next generation right
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and set the tone for for them? So let's talk
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: about that next generation that you talk about a wellness
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and and then you talk about that, you know, so
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they won't struggle. You know, do you feel a responsibility?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to put your onw but I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: hopefully we're just having a really good conversation with a
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: successful person who has been successful with so many this
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: level as an athlete, now as an academic because you
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: got give your masters, you got about god to degree
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you can't get, you can't skill to get that. So
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you've been successful at that level as well. Your entrepreneur,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have step on in the beauty of having
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: land always My dad just always say God ain't making
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: no more land. So when you buy the land, that's
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: an investment. Did you should hold on too? So that's
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a smart move on your part right there. But when
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you talk about next generation, what is your responsibility especially
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: in wellness because in twenty we discovered how a global
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: pandemic can affect African Americans and we saw the George
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Flaw situation. What role did you feel you've had to
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: play and what role did you play from the pandemic
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: side and from a civil unrest and trying to try
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to get people understand that we are and we should
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: be represented properly as African Americans. Yeah, for sure. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: mean I think I think my ideal of it is
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: being able to understand our heritage, sir. And I think
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: that's key because I'm sure, I'm sure it's governmental facts
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and paperwork in the files there, but a lot of
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the African Americans that were brought to America from like
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the children of Israel, from a you Dan that you
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Dan region. So for us, for me, what I always
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: try to connect the people with is being able for
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: them to reconnect with the Bible so they can understand
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: their heritage and then start to follow suit in that way.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And so that isn't that's an important message for me
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to someone give to the children because we have our
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: heritage only goes back to slavery, you know at one point,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: like we've we've been there's so many different titles of
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: heritage that we've been given. Whether it's Black, it's Negro,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: whether it's African American, whether it's you know, whatever these
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: names are. But what's our heritage, and our heritage is
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the Bible. Our here, our heritage is inside the history book.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Not important for us to reconnect with that and to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: understand what that means and do your own particular learning
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to figure that part out and then go from there.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Oh man, it's been a wonderful conversation, Tomora. Man. Uh,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you're special, brother. But because you know that, and I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: hope you understand that the gifts that you've given to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: us as an entrepreneur, as a leader, as a as
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a person who's understands the value of education, as a landowner,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: which is beautiful for black people to say that, because
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we know that land has been stripped away from us
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: illegally at times, uh, from a scam way, and we're
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: not and not being in the position to make money
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: from the land that we buy. And you were smart
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: enough to see there was value in it and having
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the black angers for me raising uh as these these cattle,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I'm up there and making money off of it. Continue
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to do what you do, Man, I want to. I
• 25:31
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• 25:45
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• 25:57
  Speaker 1: because you know, a lot of time people they image
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