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Robert Brace Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Spirit Transformation. He is a celebrity fitness trainer or Dame minister,
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Speaker 1: former ballet dancer, Weldness expert motivational speaker, founder, owner of
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation for the very first time,
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Speaker 1: Mr Robert brace Hey. Thank you for having me and
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Speaker 1: to lay out there. Man. Yeah, a lot that's going
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Speaker 1: on in your life, man, for credits are all about
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Speaker 1: huh yeah, yeah, but it's still good show. Okay, gotta
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Speaker 1: gotta give us the background on the accent. Okay. On
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Speaker 1: originally from London, England, and I moved to New York
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Speaker 1: in my twenties to be a professional ballet and modern dancer.
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Speaker 1: So that's where that's where the accents comes from. Now,
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Speaker 1: I was reading your by always a soloist ballet dancer. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I was a soloist at the Metropolitan Opera ballet Um.
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Speaker 1: That was one of the things I did during my career.
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Speaker 1: I actually paying in scholarship to the Albany School just
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Speaker 1: for the summer, I'm supposed to go back to England
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Speaker 1: and I just never made it back. I've been her
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Speaker 1: under since so um so yeah, well you know, I
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Speaker 1: really I brought that up solo wids. You know that
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Speaker 1: you have that by yourself. That means that you know, slouch,
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Speaker 1: you have to have your skill game together, oh for sure.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, coming to New York, New York, New York
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Speaker 1: as a beast and uh, you know, to to compete
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Speaker 1: here and especially to come from an other country, you
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Speaker 1: got to be serious affective game. Um so yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was good. I had a good trying perform in
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Speaker 1: female clientele UM and we you know, we'll get into
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Speaker 1: it in a bit. I imagine that we're about the mind,
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Speaker 1: body and soul. With my career as a dancer and
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Speaker 1: then I was also a minister in home for six
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Speaker 1: years where my wife I wanted a space where we
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Speaker 1: of the whole mind body and soul connector you know
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Speaker 1: Finnish community, is the mind body soul connector talk about that? Yes? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think when it comes to mind body and soul
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Speaker 1: and make the connection. And so what do I mean
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Speaker 1: in the most basic form is this? You know, like
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Speaker 1: people are typically looking for is UH spiritual qualities like joy,
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Speaker 1: like peace, a sense of control over their life, a
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Speaker 1: sense of control over their mind, and clear thinking. And
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Speaker 1: so we go to these built on the spiritual part
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Speaker 1: in search of these qualities. What I found when I
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Speaker 1: was dancing and when I started to move is that
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Speaker 1: I would I would be feeling these things that I
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Speaker 1: just thought it was because I was enjoying my dance
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Speaker 1: career and living my life. But once you really connect
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Speaker 1: give you a sense of calm and peace and actually
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Speaker 1: relieve the symptoms of depression and anxiety as much as
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Speaker 1: prescription meditation. So you move your body, you you work out,
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Speaker 1: you get joy, you get peace. Exercise gives your gives
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Speaker 1: too much and you need a sense of control over
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Speaker 1: It gives you and also more options to the brain
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Speaker 1: so you can think more clearly. I could go on,
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Speaker 1: but those qualities of joy, a peace, sense of control,
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Speaker 1: connecting with other people, increasing that sense of joy, love
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Speaker 1: and connection. We meditate at the end of every single workout.
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Speaker 1: Um the inducers we give at the end to give
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Speaker 1: the end of each session we meditate. We give our plants, cooling,
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Speaker 1: like the fact that can I just tell you this, uh, Robert,
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Speaker 1: I know you're dealing with women of color, but you know,
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Speaker 1: connecting part of it, is it? Well, absolutely absolutely, and
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Speaker 1: and what you just said is absolutely correct. Is helping
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Speaker 1: important at all. You know, we all want to be successful,
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Speaker 1: And so what we're doing at the beginning of the
20:08
Speaker 1: year is if anybody goes to my Instagram which is
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Speaker 1: at Robert brace be our a CD, and you hit
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Speaker 1: the link in a buyer, you will get twenty eight
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Speaker 1: days of workouts from my twenty challenge program, twenty eight
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Speaker 1: days of guided meditations with affirmations that relieve stress, fining
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Speaker 1: peace and set your intentions for the year, as well
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Speaker 1: as twenty eight days of the wellness motivation chips and
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Speaker 1: insight from our personal life right. And we're also doing
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20:47
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Speaker 1: you everything you need for a complete mind, body and
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Speaker 1: soul transformation UM, including everything that we do in our
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Speaker 1: twenty eight challenge, so that before you added exactly because
21:03
Speaker 1: you know this is what exactly is that? What what
21:08
Speaker 1: did you do? What were you did you change the
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Speaker 1: food eating habits or was it specifically as she worked
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Speaker 1: on in the day period. Are you still use the
21:17
Speaker 1: same technique or I know you've said you added the
21:19
Speaker 1: the the the meditation and the condition and all that.
21:23
Speaker 1: What was that original challenge about? Well, the original challenge, Yes,
21:28
Speaker 1: it's food and it's exercise. The background to that story
21:33
Speaker 1: as when I was dancing. I started to dance late
21:35
Speaker 1: my dance career. I started at fifty and I was
21:38
Speaker 1: lost enough to get into a program because I was
21:40
Speaker 1: still athletic and I had some flexibility. But part of
21:44
Speaker 1: that is I was on an accelerated program and um,
21:47
Speaker 1: it was great, but some of it they didn't really
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Speaker 1: teach me profit technique, so I ended up I was
21:54
Speaker 1: always getting injured, and then I was one day I
21:57
Speaker 1: was in a nun's class where they're doing the big tricks. Um,
22:00
Speaker 1: and you're doing all these giants and turning in and
22:03
Speaker 1: I came down from a jump and I heard a
22:05
Speaker 1: crack in my back and yeah, in my back, and
22:10
Speaker 1: I developed a terrible back injury. I couldn't walk, I
22:13
Speaker 1: can't move my net foward or back in the school
22:15
Speaker 1: at that time, because I was on spolarship, so that
22:17
Speaker 1: if you didn't, if you don't heal um, you're gonna
22:21
Speaker 1: lose your scholarship. And all I wanted to do at
22:24
Speaker 1: that time was dance, and so I dedicated that summer
22:29
Speaker 1: um six weeks to coming into the studio, and my
22:33
Speaker 1: job was to hear my body, deconstruct movement, strengthening it,
22:37
Speaker 1: make it more flexible so that I can be exactly
22:39
Speaker 1: what I needed to be to gain my sponsorships that
22:42
Speaker 1: but also to be the best dance for I could be.
22:44
Speaker 1: Got a sad effect of that was I transfer. I
22:47
Speaker 1: mean I came out and I was my absolute rich
22:49
Speaker 1: and my body was rich, and that the core right
22:52
Speaker 1: got that core right, huh, that care was I mean,
22:55
Speaker 1: it was intense. And so those principles are what I
22:59
Speaker 1: moved over into the challenge. Not that anybody is doing dance,
23:04
Speaker 1: but the principles of how a deconstructive movement, how we
23:08
Speaker 1: have a very serious attention to form and engaging the
23:11
Speaker 1: right muscles and a very detailed assessment of how we
23:15
Speaker 1: use the body is what I took that velocity and
23:18
Speaker 1: transferred it into weight training, resistance training that anybody can do.
23:23
Speaker 1: And that's how we came about with the twenty Day
23:26
Speaker 1: Challenge physical format, and then we have different meal plans
23:30
Speaker 1: that meet different people's needs. Um. So that's that's the
23:33
Speaker 1: story of how you know, times resformed. It was probably
23:37
Speaker 1: the scared, one of the scariest times in my life
23:39
Speaker 1: that you know what times you're mess into a message. So, um,
23:44
Speaker 1: that's what we're using now. But you know, the thing
23:46
Speaker 1: about it is there sometimes the best moments happened when
23:49
Speaker 1: you walk through fear and like I said, fear and scary,
23:53
Speaker 1: being being afraid, in overcoming that and not being not
23:56
Speaker 1: being pushed back because like you said, you were challenged
23:58
Speaker 1: by the fact physically if you don't if you don't
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Speaker 1: get it, get yourself physically right, you can lose your scholarship.
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Speaker 1: Out of that result became what we can we won't say,
24:07
Speaker 1: we can use the word your perfect body, your core
24:09
Speaker 1: is right, you were tight and then lead you to
24:12
Speaker 1: this whole, this whole system that you have now which
24:14
Speaker 1: is the basis of your brand. Yeah, that's exactly it. Wow,
24:20
Speaker 1: that's exactly it. So we're not so so when you
24:23
Speaker 1: talk about all these different formats. You know, because I'm
24:26
Speaker 1: talking about the twenty eight day workout program, then what
24:29
Speaker 1: is the resource solution? Is that still part of the challenge. Yes,
24:35
Speaker 1: So the twenty resolutions is a little bit about what
24:38
Speaker 1: I described earlier, setting your intentions for the year, right,
24:42
Speaker 1: So just resolutions, right, We want to you have resolutions
24:47
Speaker 1: who want to build a little deeper. We set your body,
24:51
Speaker 1: refocus your mind, and refresh your soul. Right. So withoud
24:55
Speaker 1: that you get all of the physical part of the
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Speaker 1: challenge that I just described, but you get the guided
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Speaker 1: meditations that will focus your heart, your spirit, your mind,
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Speaker 1: as well as the affirmations and wellness. It's we're all
25:09
Speaker 1: about changing the perspective of how people see their bodies.
25:13
Speaker 1: You know, you hear the phrase your body is your temple, right,
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Speaker 1: and yes, we have been We've got proven track record
25:21
Speaker 1: of changing bodies really quickly. But the interesting thing about
25:24
Speaker 1: that phrase is that when you think of a temple,
25:27
Speaker 1: um it's beautiful on the outside and and it's it's Onnate,
25:32
Speaker 1: But the temple is not a temple without the worship
25:35
Speaker 1: and the self discovery that goes on inside that time. Right.
25:39
Speaker 1: And so what we're focused on is helping you access
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Speaker 1: the best qualities of yourself, the self discovery that's going
25:47
Speaker 1: to lead you to greatness, all of your the vine
25:50
Speaker 1: given gifts. Focusing on that and letting that be the
25:54
Speaker 1: reason why you work on the outside of your temple, right,
25:58
Speaker 1: because we want the outside to reflect all of the beauty,
26:01
Speaker 1: the glory and the ability dibility that's inside. And so
26:06
Speaker 1: I think once we take away, um, you want to
26:09
Speaker 1: help people focus inwards because for us, it's not just
26:11
Speaker 1: about working out, it's about working in And once we
26:15
Speaker 1: help people focus inwards, typically they feel better about themselves
26:19
Speaker 1: than motivation is right, and they're able to get great results,
26:23
Speaker 1: but not just get great results, but to live a
26:26
Speaker 1: lifestyle of healthy living. Really this is really great. Uh,
26:31
Speaker 1: let's let's go back to this because I want to
26:33
Speaker 1: make sure that people take advantage of what you want
26:35
Speaker 1: to have you on the show, in studio and live
26:38
Speaker 1: stream events because you know, Peloton they really a lockdown
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Speaker 1: that market in the sense you know, when you pelling
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Speaker 1: on the bike you can participate with somebody. New Yard
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26:49
Speaker 1: enthusiastic about they're just just riding by themselves, they're actually
26:52
Speaker 1: competing and being motivated by other people than they have
26:55
Speaker 1: this new uh thing called the mirror. Well, you know
26:58
Speaker 1: you'll be in front of the herror and can add
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Speaker 1: with somebody simultaneously. Because I think, so I want to
27:03
Speaker 1: make sure that this is something you're saying you're doing
27:06
Speaker 1: right now in studio, out of your New York studio.
27:09
Speaker 1: There's on Mulberry Street these livestream and in studio events.
27:12
Speaker 1: Correct talk about that more detailed, because I wanted people
27:14
Speaker 1: to understand that they can go there be engaged physically.
27:18
Speaker 1: Our online that can be engaged as well, for sure.
27:22
Speaker 1: So what we do is we work for the many
27:26
Speaker 1: different influences and another influenced people, people who have connected
27:31
Speaker 1: in some way to the mind, body, soul connection. And
27:34
Speaker 1: we have events in our studio where they share their stories,
27:38
Speaker 1: they share their high as they say their loads, and
27:41
Speaker 1: we really get to the bottom of what motivates them
27:43
Speaker 1: to stay well and healthy. I mean live seeing those
27:46
Speaker 1: events as well as the workout, So you do different
27:49
Speaker 1: We do different kind of interactive workouts. It's yet really
27:52
Speaker 1: fun um different ways for people to explore their body
27:55
Speaker 1: as well as do the actual workout. And so if
27:57
Speaker 1: you sign up or if you go to my instagram
28:01
Speaker 1: Rubbert Brace and you hit the link in the bio
28:03
Speaker 1: and part of UMU and we send you twenty eight
28:07
Speaker 1: days of the workouts and the meditations. You will also
28:11
Speaker 1: get notified of when we're having these events, so you
28:14
Speaker 1: can show up to the studio or you can live
28:17
Speaker 1: stream them and get this so much wisdom out there,
28:20
Speaker 1: you know, I think if we connect with other people
28:23
Speaker 1: who who are on their own wellness mind, body, soldiourney
28:25
Speaker 1: and learned from their wisdom, it elevates all of us.
28:29
Speaker 1: And so they can connect to that from just signing
28:31
Speaker 1: up through the website there or just checking their Instagram,
28:34
Speaker 1: because they're always amounting the same thing, right right, Uh.
28:37
Speaker 1: Always my show is money making Conversation and always like
28:40
Speaker 1: for my guests to provide some information or some tidbit
28:44
Speaker 1: or some opportunity to show that you know, we always
28:47
Speaker 1: see the end results, but they're always there's always a
28:49
Speaker 1: journey to get to the end, because when you get
28:51
Speaker 1: to the end, you're still moving forward now absolutely, and
28:54
Speaker 1: people approach me about starting their business businesses type like this,
28:59
Speaker 1: what if vice would you give them? And to move
29:01
Speaker 1: forward a business plan to make sure that these these
29:04
Speaker 1: things are in place, and I think first and foremost, Um, well,
29:11
Speaker 1: I guess it's a two different things you're you're asking about.
29:14
Speaker 1: You know, what we should think about when starting a
29:16
Speaker 1: business or when starting a business business, which is understanding
29:19
Speaker 1: the principles of starting this type of business or some
29:22
Speaker 1: of the challenges you went through, like you said you
29:24
Speaker 1: were were some previous partners and now you're by yourself,
29:27
Speaker 1: so you know, those are different conversations. Yeah, I think
29:31
Speaker 1: that you have to trust your talents and your interests,
29:37
Speaker 1: and that sounds very basic, But what I mean is this.
29:40
Speaker 1: I came, I came out of the ministry, and I
29:44
Speaker 1: came back to did a bunch of different things that
29:46
Speaker 1: came back to training. I was training for other people.
29:49
Speaker 1: I had my own clients, and I would bounce around
29:52
Speaker 1: the city training, sending people in different locations. And you know,
29:57
Speaker 1: I used to have the mindset of man, you've done
30:01
Speaker 1: too many things. You were a dancer, and when you
30:03
Speaker 1: were a minister, and when I tried this entrepreneurial thing
30:06
Speaker 1: that didn't work out. You know, I was going through
30:08
Speaker 1: a period in my life. I was like, what are
30:10
Speaker 1: you doing all these different things? How do they fit together?
30:14
Speaker 1: And the more that people people started to connect with me.
30:20
Speaker 1: UM for the different stages of my journey. People started
30:22
Speaker 1: connect with me because they were attracted to the ballet background.
30:26
Speaker 1: Other people started to connect with me because oh, here's
30:29
Speaker 1: somebody who wants to stands the spiritual background. And then
30:32
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs started connecting you with me because you know, I
30:36
Speaker 1: had had a business and even though it didn't work
30:39
Speaker 1: out the first one, UM, I understood their struggle. And
30:43
Speaker 1: so then as I progressed, I started to see, I
30:47
Speaker 1: just need to be me. One of the things that
30:50
Speaker 1: I've been through m on what makes me and what
30:53
Speaker 1: make my brand? And you know the needs that I see,
30:57
Speaker 1: I see the need um all people. I don't want
31:01
Speaker 1: to say our gens just for black women. We train everybody. UM.
31:05
Speaker 1: And but you know the specific journey I had. I
31:08
Speaker 1: was raised by a single, single mother and UM, you know,
31:14
Speaker 1: she fought to give me the very best she and
31:18
Speaker 1: she was an immigrant from Africa and moved to England.
31:20
Speaker 1: She had dyslexia, so she was written off. She um
31:24
Speaker 1: started to make dresses for a living. She only made
31:26
Speaker 1: fifty cents address and that salary, she decided to put
31:30
Speaker 1: me through private school. And you know, I saw her
31:34
Speaker 1: work so much and not have the time to work
31:37
Speaker 1: on her own wellness until much later in life. And
31:41
Speaker 1: so even that experience of seeing my mother now enjoying
31:45
Speaker 1: wellness and then a few times she she stopped to
31:48
Speaker 1: play with us outside, how how much joy she had.
31:51
Speaker 1: You know, all of those things in my life and
31:54
Speaker 1: are real to me. And so that is what I
31:58
Speaker 1: used as the basic inspiration from my business. Now beyond that, um,
32:03
Speaker 1: then you just have to learn. It's just because you
32:05
Speaker 1: have the respiration and you have a certain talent. What
32:07
Speaker 1: I learned very quickly is you need to learn essential
32:11
Speaker 1: business principles. And I spent money on insultants. I spend
32:17
Speaker 1: money on courses. I spent money on books to try
32:21
Speaker 1: and learn from the best people. And sometimes you know,
32:23
Speaker 1: you're spending this money and you said, you know, I'm
32:25
Speaker 1: not seeing an immediate you know, r O, I, I'm
32:28
Speaker 1: not seeing an immediate return of my investment. But over
32:31
Speaker 1: the years, you know, those things come together, and it's
32:35
Speaker 1: about having the discipline to put the basic business principles
32:39
Speaker 1: into practice and what's your business grow from there? Because
32:44
Speaker 1: you know, one thing I'm a fund believer in is
32:46
Speaker 1: just because you have a talent and an experience does
32:49
Speaker 1: not necessarily make you an entrepreneur. Or makes you an
32:52
Speaker 1: entrepreneur is learning those business principles that you put into practice, um,
32:57
Speaker 1: you know, in the beginning, middle and end of your
33:00
Speaker 1: journey exactly. So so that's some I guess that's in
33:03
Speaker 1: my philosopy on that. That's that's an awesome philosophy. And
33:06
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