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Rushion Interviews Stars of the TLC series "Doubling Down with the Derricos" & founder of Big Dave's Cheesesteak, Derrick Hayes! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I am your host,
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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. I recognize that we all have different definitions
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Speaker 1: your friends, family, or coworkers stop you from planning or
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Speaker 1: living your dreams. My guest today is Derek D. Hayes.
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Speaker 1: He was recently featured on the couple of Ess magazine.
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Speaker 1: His vision for his restaurant, Big Dave's Cheesecake beginning twenty fourteen,
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Speaker 1: as he aimed to merge his passion for community, food
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Speaker 1: and business. Well started as a small water Water Water
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Speaker 1: ice shop in seven half roughly seven Undrefify square, food,
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Speaker 1: Shelled gas station and Dunewoody, Georgia. Since twenty sixteen has
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Speaker 1: generated nationally on Big Day's Cheesecake. If you've not been there,
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Speaker 1: I recommend you go there. He's right down the street.
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Speaker 1: For my business, my staff, they need, they need to
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Speaker 1: have stock in these business that's how much they go. There,
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Speaker 1: a thriving cheesecake empire with store and mobile locations all
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Speaker 1: across metro Atlanta. Hayes is also the founder of Dave
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Speaker 1: and Derek Hayes Foundation and co owner a vegan cheesecake concept,
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Speaker 1: Thinkies with Sloody, Vegan Atlanta CEO and vegan restaurant phenom
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Speaker 1: Pinky Colt in twenty twenty one. Hayes passion for community
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Speaker 1: and food leading him an illustrious spot as a for
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Next one thousand on a reap Let's
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Speaker 1: because sustus journey into Big Dave's Cheesecake, being a community leader,
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Speaker 1: being bigger than food. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations
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Speaker 1: Master Class, Derek D. Hayes. How are you doing, sir?
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Speaker 1: I'm good man. Thank you so much, mister Vshan McDonald
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Speaker 1: for having me. Man. I appreciate your brother. Hey Man.
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Speaker 1: They had to lay it out there for you, Derek,
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Speaker 1: because you know, because now you did, Man, that was good.
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Speaker 1: You know sometimes hearing you know the stuff that you did,
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Speaker 1: you know along the way, it feels good. You know,
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Speaker 1: oh your heart rate, you know, somebody else honoring it.
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Speaker 1: So it's always a blessing. Well, the thing about it
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Speaker 1: is you should be because sometimes as I have a segment,
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Speaker 1: I do a local show or bus show syndicates, and
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Speaker 1: I do it live every Tuesday. I love to invite
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Speaker 1: you on it, by the way, on w c OK
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Speaker 1: every Tuesday, and it's called a bragging segment, and I
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Speaker 1: encourage people to call in and talk about there what
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Speaker 1: they've done. Because we tend to be too humble about
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Speaker 1: our business. I always encourage people to remind them that,
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Speaker 1: you know, McDonald brags, Ford brags, and we need to
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Speaker 1: brag about what we do. So everything that you have
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Speaker 1: accomplished part of your success story. It's not what we
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Speaker 1: see when we get that sandwich because the cheesecakes that
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Speaker 1: because what happens was there's a journey to get there.
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Speaker 1: So how did I hit the date? Twenty fourteen? I
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Speaker 1: hit the small gas station. I hear seven hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty square feet, which is the size of my parting
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Speaker 1: in college. So I know what that feels like. So
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Speaker 1: talk to us about it because obviously there was a
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Speaker 1: walk kid that wasn't a sit down diner. Tell us
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Speaker 1: about the whole concept of what you are turned into
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Speaker 1: an empire so far and it's growing. Well. Well, first, um,
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Speaker 1: I want to start off with saying the mission. And
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Speaker 1: you know, and an honor was my father, you know,
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Speaker 1: that was everything that the reason why I built big days.
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Speaker 1: Um it passed away from lung cancer and two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine and my dad, Diane wish was for me
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Speaker 1: to you know, stand on my own ten toes and
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Speaker 1: change my generational patterns and you know, not to get
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Speaker 1: in trouble. And you know, he worked this whole life
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Speaker 1: and he thought he left for a lot behind and
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Speaker 1: he didn't. So I was able to see a blue
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Speaker 1: collar work of my whole life and now transpiring to
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Speaker 1: me building my brand and I and my father. It
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Speaker 1: was it was, you know, a lot of hard work,
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Speaker 1: but it was something that my mission and my passion
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Speaker 1: what I really wanted to do, because just think about it,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people build brands just for money, you know.
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Speaker 1: I built this for a purpose of really, you know,
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Speaker 1: believing that my father, you know, his dreams and where
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Speaker 1: he wanted before he left fair So it actually helped
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Speaker 1: me and tricked me into winting more out of my
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Speaker 1: own self. So when I built Big Days, I didn't
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Speaker 1: know anything about business. I didn't know how to you know,
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Speaker 1: pay sales and use texts. I didn't know anything about
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Speaker 1: you know, getting ADP. I didn't know anything about food calls.
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Speaker 1: All I wanted to do was better my life and
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Speaker 1: you know, get out of situations I was in at
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Speaker 1: the time. But in the midst of all of this,
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Speaker 1: I was able to start in a small gas station
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Speaker 1: because nobody want to rent me in space out you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm going all over Atlanta. I'm saying, you know, I
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Speaker 1: got the money, you know, I you know I need that,
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Speaker 1: you know, need the space and everybody's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: or you don't have the business experience. It only took
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Speaker 1: me this one shot. I always learned this and like
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Speaker 1: one shot can change your life forever. And that gas
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Speaker 1: station was my shot because that Indian guy rented me
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Speaker 1: that space. And you know, I had no business experience,
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Speaker 1: and I was able to make that nationally known, you know,
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Speaker 1: in seven years of my hard work. Now along the way,
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Speaker 1: I had a lot of roller coaster rides. You know,
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Speaker 1: I got taken advantage of a lot by contractors, even
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Speaker 1: you know, employees, you know, because I had a you know,
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Speaker 1: soft heart, you know, you know, I wanted to see
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Speaker 1: everybody grow at the time. But it built my tough
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Speaker 1: skin along the way because I had to understand for
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Speaker 1: me to scale this business, I had to become a
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Speaker 1: real entrepreneur. So I started really you know, doing my
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Speaker 1: Google university, my YouTube university. I'm learning, you know, how
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Speaker 1: to really you know, do these things. And so I
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Speaker 1: don't get taken advantage of because I didn't finish school.
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Speaker 1: You know, I got a high school, the Plumba, but
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Speaker 1: I don't, you know, I didn't finish college. So and
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Speaker 1: I got forty some tattoos on my body, so I
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Speaker 1: don't look like the average CEO. So when people look
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Speaker 1: at me, you know, I gotta come on my things
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Speaker 1: together so they could take me serious. And the way
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Speaker 1: I did that that was to build multiple successful businesses
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Speaker 1: alone a way throughout the years. And let's go back
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Speaker 1: to the first one. Let's go back to the first one,
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Speaker 1: because I don't want people to miss these tremendous steps.
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Speaker 1: Because you know, first of all, I love your story.
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Speaker 1: Just a regular guy, a regular guy with a dream
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Speaker 1: driven by a passion that was motivated by your passing father.
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Speaker 1: That's that's that's hot. And a lot of people got
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Speaker 1: that passion. Yeah, they got that passion, Derek. But then again,
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Speaker 1: what takes him to that next step? Now, when you
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Speaker 1: saw this gas station, there's a gas station seven hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifties roughly, they said, you said seven forty nine.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, s something, give one most grate
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Speaker 1: foot seven fifty seven from scrapfort Why and what area
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Speaker 1: of time was they were done with it? But what
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Speaker 1: area of done with it? And why did you think?
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Speaker 1: And what you had to bring in it? Because this
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Speaker 1: is a gas station. Now you're cooking in the gas station.
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Speaker 1: So talk about that set up and then being able
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Speaker 1: to sell the concept to the community and to your friends,
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Speaker 1: because the friends really is a hard sale because they're
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you it's not a smart idea. So so
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Speaker 1: that's how I actually winded up in the kitchen cooking
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Speaker 1: myself because I tried to get a cook to cook
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Speaker 1: the cheese steak and my friends was like, nah, it's
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Speaker 1: not home. And not to mention, I am in this
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Speaker 1: little gas station with one grill and one fryer and
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Speaker 1: it's all electric. You know. I don't know if a
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Speaker 1: lot of people know, cooking on electricity and cooking on
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Speaker 1: gases totally different because the grill goes in and out.
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Speaker 1: You know, a temperature is different. When you pick colds
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Speaker 1: no items on there, you lose temperature. So I had
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Speaker 1: to actually learn how to cook on these disadvantage um
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Speaker 1: you know, equipment that I had, and then I was
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Speaker 1: cooking on used equipment at the same time. I had
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Speaker 1: no no employees at the time. It's just me being
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Speaker 1: a cash are the cook, accounting um inventory anything that
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Speaker 1: I had to do to make it because I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be successful in the way I had to do
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Speaker 1: that was pick myself in all these situations to be
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Speaker 1: able to you know, work hard to do that myself,
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Speaker 1: because I didn't have the money at the time to
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Speaker 1: to you know, get people that help me. Because at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I blew my money no
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Speaker 1: I and I spent my last no building big Dave.
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Speaker 1: So I really had to get it out the mud.
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Speaker 1: So I would say that self belief is more than
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Speaker 1: anything that I had to do along the way. It
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Speaker 1: is believing in myself. If you don't believe in yourself,
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Speaker 1: there's no way that you can get somebody else to
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Speaker 1: believe in you. So when I started believing to myself more,
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Speaker 1: I started to get you know, a little bit of traffic.
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Speaker 1: And to be honest, man, I tell everybody, Eve the Rapper,
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Speaker 1: Eve Man. She was a big play, you know, a
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Speaker 1: big part of my story because in the midst of me,
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Speaker 1: you know, going through this year and now open, I
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Speaker 1: don't have no traffic. Still I'm going under you know.
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Speaker 1: Of course, if you can't pay the bills, eventually you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to shut them doors. And she posted me
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Speaker 1: on her social network. Man at this I made a
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Speaker 1: chicken cheese steak for her, man, right, And you know,
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Speaker 1: so I did I did. I did because rapper Eve famous,
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Speaker 1: you know, great following, so loyal following first of all.
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Speaker 1: And so where were you at for that connection to
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Speaker 1: make that you know her? Or did you find out
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Speaker 1: about your fuse recommended your food to about that? I
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Speaker 1: was a friend. It was a friend. It was a friend,
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Speaker 1: a friend of a friend. And she was shooting barbershop,
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Speaker 1: you know, she was shooting the movie. And I waited
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Speaker 1: all the day for her to come, like a kid
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Speaker 1: on Christmas and I'm talking about she ain't come. Man,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know I didn't get discouraged that. I said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna keep on fighting. And the next
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Speaker 1: day she really came. And as I was making this
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Speaker 1: chicken cheese steak, you know what she told me. She said,
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Speaker 1: if this sandwich is good, I'm gonna post it on
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Speaker 1: my social media networks. Now you gotta think about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm a kid from Philly, all my rest siss I
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Speaker 1: exhausted everything, and now I'm like, shit, my life depending
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Speaker 1: on this. I got to make the sandwich the best
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Speaker 1: I can make it. And when I made this sand
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Speaker 1: when she bit it, she went't crazy. She said, oh man,
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Speaker 1: you brung me home. And she put it on every
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Speaker 1: social media outlet she had at the time. And when
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Speaker 1: I tell you, the next day, I made five thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: That was my biggest day ever at the time. And
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Speaker 1: it was just up from there. I started to be
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Speaker 1: able to get the community more involved because they see traffic,
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Speaker 1: you know, people eat off of their eyes. You know,
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Speaker 1: they see lines, they say, well, I gotta be good.
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Speaker 1: So I was able to start building lines. And then
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Speaker 1: the next part of my journey that was a very
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Speaker 1: big part of my mission, was in twoy eighteen, UM
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Speaker 1: I was picked to go to a sandwich competition in
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Speaker 1: Orange Beach, Alabama, and I ranked number seventh in the world. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Orange Beach, Alabama sandwich competition. Okay, now this ain't New York, Dallas,
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Speaker 1: you not even Atlanta. You're an Orange Beach, Alabama sandwich competition.
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Speaker 1: So see, that's what I love about you. You know
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Speaker 1: you you you tell this story is just so normal
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Speaker 1: to you. But Orange Beach, Alabama. I don't think going
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Speaker 1: to Orange be Alabama gonna do anything for anybody, but
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Speaker 1: tell us about this competition and why it was important
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Speaker 1: to go. So So it was important to go because
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Speaker 1: for one, I wanted to represent that not only had
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Speaker 1: the best chief sting, but I wanted to have the
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Speaker 1: best sand. And honestly, it was an opportunity for me.
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Speaker 1: You know, I was hungry. You know, I had to
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Speaker 1: fire in my belly for success. I was waiting for
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Speaker 1: my moment, and when I got picked, I was ready
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Speaker 1: for it. But to be honest, when I got there,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was a little discussion because I was
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Speaker 1: I was cooking on a barbecue grill. Now, mind you,
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Speaker 1: how do you make a cheese steak on a barbecue
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Speaker 1: grill because they don't have flat tops. So what I
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Speaker 1: had to do. I went to Walmart and got a
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Speaker 1: skillet and like a flat top, and I put it
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Speaker 1: over that gas grill and I got that thing hot
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Speaker 1: and I made them cheese steaks, just like I was
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Speaker 1: at Big Days. You know, I took my obscoles and
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Speaker 1: I pivoted, because that's the thing. When you don't pivot
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Speaker 1: when stuff happened, you're gonna sink. You're gonna give up.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm already at disadvantage, you know, to the
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Speaker 1: American society. I'm a black man that come from the ghetto,
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Speaker 1: so I'm supposed to be here anyway, you know. So
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Speaker 1: the way I was looking at it was, this is
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Speaker 1: my opportunity to make some noise for me and my people,
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Speaker 1: to show that I deserved to be here. And when
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Speaker 1: you say that, then the diversity it just competition, not much.
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Speaker 1: When you make a statement, I can't I can count
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Speaker 1: on my my, uh my fingers, how many blank people
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Speaker 1: was in this competition. And the probably was, um, maybe
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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand, you know, could have been could have been
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Speaker 1: no at a little less, a little bit more, I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure, but I know that it was a good
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Speaker 1: amount of people, you know, trying to qualify for this,
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Speaker 1: for this uh cooking competition. And honestly, I never forget.
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Speaker 1: I gave Bold Jackson a Dave's way, and I said,
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Speaker 1: I know I had a big shot because I knew
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Speaker 1: I was making this sandwich with you know, all of
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Speaker 1: my grand my blood, sweat and tears, all these years
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Speaker 1: of me working. I said, I ain't come here to lose, man,
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Speaker 1: you know, I came here to show out and show
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Speaker 1: on and honestly, and they called Derek Hayes, they said,
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Speaker 1: you know, top qualifiers, top ten in the world. And
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Speaker 1: when they called me, I was talking to somebody, and
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Speaker 1: because we was in this big facility, right and I
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Speaker 1: was looking at them like they just called my name,
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Speaker 1: and it was mind blowing because at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, you want to win, you want to get
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Speaker 1: to the mountain top, you want to get there. But
13:04
Speaker 1: when they really call your name, all your years of
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Speaker 1: your hard work and everything you've been through starting to
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Speaker 1: pan out. And honestly, it was emotional for me because again,
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Speaker 1: just like you said, it was at Orange Beach, Alabama,
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Speaker 1: and me as a black man, when anything at Orange Beach,
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Speaker 1: Alabama was a win for me on a barbecue grill,
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Speaker 1: onbecue grill on a barbecue was killing for Walmart exactly.
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Speaker 1: You know, man, That's how a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of my journey was built up of blood, swalling, tears
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Speaker 1: and getting it out the mud for real, because I
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Speaker 1: wanted people to see a real, authentic side of what
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Speaker 1: I was building. I don't want people to, you know,
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Speaker 1: see that anything it was given because I wanted them
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Speaker 1: to see that if the resources were short and they're
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Speaker 1: looking at me, they can do it too. Well. The
13:48
Speaker 1: beauty of this conversation that I'm having with you is
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Speaker 1: that I know that establishing your brand because setbacks a
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Speaker 1: part of your old growth. Now in twenty twenty, we
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Speaker 1: all faced the pandemic and that at that point we
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Speaker 1: didn't know what to do, and so you used to
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Speaker 1: word pivot early in your conversation, the word pivot, which
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Speaker 1: I think is really important this conversation. When we talked
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Speaker 1: to young oportuneers who have a goal setting plays this
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Speaker 1: is how I'm going to do it, and sometimes when
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Speaker 1: something interrupts that goal, they frustration sets in or they
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Speaker 1: throw their hands up. When COVID the country was set
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Speaker 1: down in the month of March, how did you react
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Speaker 1: to that and did you have a game plan? Dave,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this in the
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Speaker 1: most humblest way. My life was a pivot. I come
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Speaker 1: from West Philadelphia, I come from the jungle. I come
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Speaker 1: from Atlanta. Opportunity if you want it, because you got
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Speaker 1: to go get it. So when this happened in this pandemic,
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Speaker 1: of course, nobody ever seen this tragedy happened in the
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Speaker 1: world like this, But I knew the city I came
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Speaker 1: from from taught me how to pivot. So I wasn't
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Speaker 1: gonna quit. I was gonna find out a way to
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Speaker 1: help people while I was helping my brand be able
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Speaker 1: to grow at the same time. And the way I
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Speaker 1: was able to do that was I was able to
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Speaker 1: give a thousand plus meals to the community because those
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Speaker 1: same people that was going through those hard times for
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Speaker 1: the same people standing on my lines. And then I
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Speaker 1: wanted to help the healthcare workers, those frontline workers. Those
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Speaker 1: were the same people that was putting their life on
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Speaker 1: the line every day for people that I had COVID,
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Speaker 1: and we didn't really know how dangerous COVID was at
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Speaker 1: the time. So those people I wanted to help, I
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Speaker 1: f had forty plus hospitals in a month of COVID
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Speaker 1: the first month, you know, really, you know, we didn't
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Speaker 1: know what was going on. And I put my life
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Speaker 1: on the line just as well going in those hospitals
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Speaker 1: because I believe that it was a bigger papers that
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Speaker 1: they've seen an entrepreneur, a young black kid to come
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Speaker 1: from the GHET standing up. Some other people would stand up,
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Speaker 1: and then we will all stand up together and we
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Speaker 1: would reunite and be able to get our communities back
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Speaker 1: together in downtown. I was able to help out. I
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Speaker 1: donated twenty six thousand dollars to help businesses get back open.
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Speaker 1: So for me, it wasn't about making the money in
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Speaker 1: the pandemic pandemic, it was about helping others get their
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Speaker 1: doors back open, so that people could see what type
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Speaker 1: of person I was, and what I stand for and
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Speaker 1: what I represented, what I wanted out of my own self.
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Speaker 1: If you can look through a vision of me, you
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Speaker 1: can look through the vision of the community and we
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Speaker 1: can grow together. And that's what I was trying to
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Speaker 1: do where you did it. We'll be right back with
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Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You're
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Speaker 1: recognized by for twenty twenty one, next one thousand on
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Speaker 1: a read now again, you know that goes back to Alabama.
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Speaker 1: You know you got that. You're in a tent. You
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Speaker 1: know they call your name. Didn't know that was gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: You shocked. Now you're doing all this great work for
16:35
Speaker 1: the for the community. You know, like you said, now
16:37
Speaker 1: one point in your conversation where you're talking about selling,
16:40
Speaker 1: you're talking about uplifting, giving, giving given twenty six thousand,
16:43
Speaker 1: ere thousand, sandwich. You said. All about the drive is
16:46
Speaker 1: if I give, then they show support. It creates loyalty.
16:50
Speaker 1: That's a business model that corporations do all the time,
16:53
Speaker 1: and that comes from service. Now, service drives your business.
16:56
Speaker 1: Customer service is a high priority. It's it's how you
17:01
Speaker 1: communicate with your with your customer base. Correct. Yes, yes,
17:05
Speaker 1: but I think I think um with me, Um with me, um, sir.
17:09
Speaker 1: I think with me is people see that I'm real.
17:12
Speaker 1: They see the authentic side of it, like I'm not
17:15
Speaker 1: stripped it. You know, I showed my flaws. I showed
17:18
Speaker 1: my ups and down so that you don't make the
17:20
Speaker 1: same mistakes that I made. I'm not selling you food.
17:24
Speaker 1: I'm selling you hope and I'm selling you a dream.
17:27
Speaker 1: A kid like me believing they want to make a change,
17:30
Speaker 1: And when they see that, they put the food to
17:32
Speaker 1: the side for a second. They know I make good food.
17:34
Speaker 1: Everybody loves my food, but they also love the passion
17:37
Speaker 1: and the story that I'm putting out because there's so
17:40
Speaker 1: many other people out here in the world that need
17:42
Speaker 1: that help. You think about it, it it could be a
17:44
Speaker 1: young kid that looked just like me, thirty four years old.
17:46
Speaker 1: He might be in the hood, trying to get out
17:48
Speaker 1: of not being no selling drugs or a bad situation.
17:51
Speaker 1: He can go ahead and punch on Instagram and look
17:53
Speaker 1: at me and say, listen, I know this kid came
17:56
Speaker 1: from the same thing I came from. I could do
17:58
Speaker 1: it too. That's bigger than me than any money. That's
18:02
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me. You know, I could be
18:03
Speaker 1: walking in the market and somebody will walk over to
18:06
Speaker 1: me and say, hey, man, you don't even understand. You
18:08
Speaker 1: saved my life. You made me want to change, You
18:10
Speaker 1: made me want more out of myself. And I used
18:13
Speaker 1: the food to be able to step and stone and
18:15
Speaker 1: trigger that. I was told this once upon in my life.
18:18
Speaker 1: My aunt was bad on cancer in two thousand and five.
18:20
Speaker 1: Her name was Teresa Hennigan. She eventually passed away. But
18:24
Speaker 1: in the middle of this I went to a church
18:26
Speaker 1: with her and a pastor. He told me in my heir,
18:29
Speaker 1: he said, you're going to be a pastor. Now. At
18:32
Speaker 1: the time I'm playing basketball, I had who dreams to
18:34
Speaker 1: make it to the NBA. I said, I'm not going
18:36
Speaker 1: to be no pastor. A pastor is not about getting
18:39
Speaker 1: on the pulpit. It's about spreading the message. It's about
18:42
Speaker 1: giving a message so other people could receive. And right now,
18:45
Speaker 1: every day I spread the message. When these people out
18:47
Speaker 1: here seeing big they build these two locations, young black
18:50
Speaker 1: kid come from the ghetto, build multimillion dollar companies left
18:53
Speaker 1: and right right now, they get motivated by that. So
18:56
Speaker 1: for me, that's the biggest motivation for me. It ain't
18:58
Speaker 1: about the money. It's about the motivation for my people. Well,
19:00
Speaker 1: you know the interesting thing about it. You know when
19:02
Speaker 1: I saw you on the cover of Essence. You know
19:05
Speaker 1: usually you know when you're the cover of Essence, you
19:07
Speaker 1: know you interes elbow. You know what I'm saying, you know,
19:10
Speaker 1: Michael B. George, know what I'm saying. That's go, go go.
19:14
Speaker 1: That's it. Now he's smiling, y'all, y'all, y'all, Audio. I
19:17
Speaker 1: gotta tell you he's straightened up a little bit when
19:19
Speaker 1: I started talking about being on the cover of Essence,
19:21
Speaker 1: because Essence, like you know, because I'm older than you,
19:24
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's Ebony back in my day, that's
19:27
Speaker 1: Jet magazine back in my day. You know when you
19:29
Speaker 1: saw that, you left that on the coffee table. When
19:32
Speaker 1: when did it happened? Because you know that was an
19:34
Speaker 1: announcement about your brand, but it's even a bigger announcement
19:37
Speaker 1: for you because it wasn't entertainment driven your parent on there.
19:41
Speaker 1: It's about you as a person, what you do for
19:43
Speaker 1: the community. And you've been able to step out. Like
19:47
Speaker 1: you talk about your background, you come from humble beginnings,
19:49
Speaker 1: you come from Philadelphia, you come from a neighborhood like
19:52
Speaker 1: I came from a neighborhood where people steer or type
19:54
Speaker 1: your success you know, you know you're driving that neighborhood.
19:58
Speaker 1: Then people were questioning why you come out how exactly
20:02
Speaker 1: it's like you you you lucky like that, you like
20:06
Speaker 1: you don't belong here, like you don't You're like you
20:08
Speaker 1: don't deserve it. And I think, see, and that's what
20:11
Speaker 1: I'm trying to teach too. You know, I was asked
20:14
Speaker 1: this question yesterday. I was having a conversation and they said,
20:17
Speaker 1: why do you think our culture, you know, handle things differently?
20:21
Speaker 1: And the reason what that being is just to imagine
20:24
Speaker 1: if you was a kid on Christmas, right, everybody got
20:27
Speaker 1: this toy, but this one kid got the best toy
20:30
Speaker 1: that everybody wanted. That if that kid never was told
20:33
Speaker 1: how to share that toy, because he never had the
20:35
Speaker 1: resources to feel good about having anything that feel good.
20:38
Speaker 1: Then how can that kid ever know he's going wrong?
20:40
Speaker 1: When you win an environment of everything a certain way,
20:43
Speaker 1: that's what you're accustomed to. Now, what I'm trying to
20:46
Speaker 1: show different is, Okay, we stepped out of these boundaries
20:49
Speaker 1: of these inner cities, these lower lower income communities, and
20:53
Speaker 1: now we got social media outlets showing us when it's
20:55
Speaker 1: right from Rome. But the leaders that got the voice
20:58
Speaker 1: got to help out and say, let's now that we
21:01
Speaker 1: got the ball in our hands, let's stick together and
21:03
Speaker 1: change these communities out and give resources. Let's build community centers, centers,
21:07
Speaker 1: Let's build a financial literacy program so that when kids
21:11
Speaker 1: get to high school, and when they're about to get
21:12
Speaker 1: out of high school, they ain't lost on about a
21:14
Speaker 1: credit card or how they going to do their financial
21:17
Speaker 1: literacy or how they going to get through college. They
21:19
Speaker 1: know that spending over thirty percent on their credit card
21:22
Speaker 1: gonna mess they credit up. Before the bill cycle hit,
21:24
Speaker 1: they know that they can now you know, utilize their
21:27
Speaker 1: their capital before that bill cycle hit, so that now
21:29
Speaker 1: they're not getting put all outs for interest. So they're
21:31
Speaker 1: rotating this money making money they know how to get
21:33
Speaker 1: cash back cash rewards cards when they spending money to
21:36
Speaker 1: pit it in their savings account when it earns enough
21:39
Speaker 1: money to now move the money in this free money
21:41
Speaker 1: off of spending money. But we can't teach that, and
21:44
Speaker 1: we don't know that, and all we can know is
21:46
Speaker 1: what's going on these communities to survive. Like I said, well,
21:49
Speaker 1: I come from that in Philly. I was bored to
21:51
Speaker 1: just survive. And my day of living it was my
21:54
Speaker 1: dad survival. I ain't thinking about tomorrow. So I'm trying
21:57
Speaker 1: to teach my generation now, let's worry about tomorrow. Because
21:59
Speaker 1: when you got our kids, got to lead them set
22:01
Speaker 1: up for when you ain't here, you got to take
22:03
Speaker 1: care of them from the grave. You know what I'm saying.
22:05
Speaker 1: That's why we're doing as a life insurance initiative right now. Wow,
22:09
Speaker 1: you know I love as we progress through this interview, Derek,
22:13
Speaker 1: how you your energy your comfort zone with me has
22:16
Speaker 1: just picked up and keep transferring to an even more
22:19
Speaker 1: positive level. But the number one thing when I talk
22:22
Speaker 1: about and I meet individuals like you, because you're a
22:24
Speaker 1: self made person, Like I said, you're not ashamed of
22:27
Speaker 1: your journey now because at the beginning. I always talk
22:29
Speaker 1: about friends, family, and don't let anybody stop you from
22:33
Speaker 1: living your dream and stop you from planning your dream. Okay,
22:37
Speaker 1: when you talk about the community and the next step,
22:40
Speaker 1: what is Big Dave's future? How do you? How do
22:43
Speaker 1: you conceptualize that deal? Who do you? Because you know
22:45
Speaker 1: it ain't you no more than seven hundred and fifty
22:47
Speaker 1: scrabfoot shall gas station by yourself. You have to put
22:49
Speaker 1: a team around you. What does that team look like?
22:52
Speaker 1: So I'll teach so our listeners and our viewers can understand.
22:55
Speaker 1: When you grow, grow has to be surrounded by quality.
22:58
Speaker 1: You have to spend money to keep that qualities around
23:01
Speaker 1: you in order if you dream to grow. I like
23:04
Speaker 1: this topic right here because a lot of people, you know, um,
23:08
Speaker 1: they might tell me I'm too top heavy with the
23:10
Speaker 1: locations that I have. But the thing is, if you ain't,
23:14
Speaker 1: if you're ready, you ain't got to get ready. You
23:15
Speaker 1: know when that moment happens. So I'm about to open
23:18
Speaker 1: my third location in Jones Brow, Georgia. Hopefully you know
23:23
Speaker 1: the doors will open this summer. You know a lot
23:25
Speaker 1: is going through with the pandemic, so it's pushing a
23:27
Speaker 1: lot of materials back, you know, and a lot of
23:29
Speaker 1: stuff is on hold. But in the midst of in
23:33
Speaker 1: the midst of everything that I'm done with my brand,
23:36
Speaker 1: I'm about to pay eight rows in the market where
23:39
Speaker 1: you're about to be able to go and your nearest
23:41
Speaker 1: stories and be able to make your own eight rows
23:43
Speaker 1: whenever you want big days. And that's gonna be a
23:45
Speaker 1: big thing for me because that's a dream of mine.
23:47
Speaker 1: Is going to market. I'm coming out with the new
23:50
Speaker 1: Big Dave seasoning. You're gonna be able to come in
23:52
Speaker 1: Big Dave Stories and you're gonna be able to pick
23:54
Speaker 1: up the same season and we make the product with
23:57
Speaker 1: So when you want to become your own Big Dave
23:59
Speaker 1: at home, you do it. You know, I just want
24:03
Speaker 1: for me, like philanthropy is a big thing for me,
24:06
Speaker 1: you know, building this brand. I love it just as
24:09
Speaker 1: much as I love, you know, the restaurant space. I
24:11
Speaker 1: love talking to people because, for one, I know that
24:17
Speaker 1: I'm giving them real game that I've been through in
24:19
Speaker 1: my life to help them change theirs. No, I don't
24:21
Speaker 1: think I know everything but me at thirty four years old,
24:24
Speaker 1: I was blessed in a lot of ways that you know,
24:26
Speaker 1: a lot of people may not have got to yet,
24:29
Speaker 1: and I can now help them when they get to
24:31
Speaker 1: this situation in their life. They're not making those same
24:33
Speaker 1: mistakes I made. Now, let me tell you something, Mistakes
24:36
Speaker 1: costs in a business. Right when you're in business, mistakes costs.
24:40
Speaker 1: It costs. When I mean it costs. It's more than money.
24:44
Speaker 1: It hurt you in the finance side. But scaling the business,
24:47
Speaker 1: you need your CRRO to be good, your COO to
24:51
Speaker 1: be good, your GMS to be good, your assistant managers
24:55
Speaker 1: to be good, your fry cooks, your grilled cooks. Everybody
24:58
Speaker 1: is a is a motor that works to able to
25:00
Speaker 1: operate this vehicle, and without that, you can't scale. And
25:04
Speaker 1: it took me years to really be able to get
25:06
Speaker 1: that together because, like I said, I love heart, so
25:10
Speaker 1: I see the best out of people. Sometimes they dont
25:11
Speaker 1: seeing themselves. But I was also told this by multiple
25:15
Speaker 1: different billionaires and this was my blessing. Right, you know,
25:18
Speaker 1: you're never going to scale if you don't get thick
25:21
Speaker 1: skin to be able to do it because these same
25:24
Speaker 1: people aren't gonna be with you. The ones that belong
25:27
Speaker 1: what you're gonna be with you because they want to
25:29
Speaker 1: better themselves along the journey. But the ones who just
25:32
Speaker 1: tagging along and the business is growing and they're not growing,
25:35
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna eventually have to leave them or
25:37
Speaker 1: the business is going to leave you. And if the
25:39
Speaker 1: business leave the CEO, you know what happens after that
25:41
Speaker 1: goes It goes down the dream And and that's what
25:45
Speaker 1: I'm not building. Like I told you, this a highness
25:47
Speaker 1: to my father, I know, and the end of this
25:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna building. I'm building a billion dollar business. I'm
25:52
Speaker 1: gonna have big days everywhere. After Jonesborough, we am gonna
25:56
Speaker 1: leave the state because I feel like it's enough big
25:59
Speaker 1: days right now the state of Georgia. UM And I
26:02
Speaker 1: don't want to oversaturate the market. I want people to
26:04
Speaker 1: really um continue to love the brand the way they
26:07
Speaker 1: love the brand. UM and I want to keep on
26:09
Speaker 1: setting the bar high and setting the culture and what
26:12
Speaker 1: I got going on outside of you know, just the
26:14
Speaker 1: big Davi's brand. You know, me and Pinky we jumped
26:17
Speaker 1: in real estate heavy. We're buying up a lot of
26:19
Speaker 1: real estate right now. And the reason why we're doing
26:22
Speaker 1: that is because we're trying to build up these communities.
26:24
Speaker 1: So when stuff ain't looking right in these communities. Which
26:27
Speaker 1: better to say it. It's people that look just like
26:29
Speaker 1: the people that's from these communities building them up, and
26:32
Speaker 1: ain't developers tearing them up and moving them out. You
26:35
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, right, We're gonna keep them. We're
26:37
Speaker 1: gonna keep them in, We're gonna give them jobs. And
26:39
Speaker 1: the way we're gonna do that is all these companies
26:41
Speaker 1: were building. Love it, you know some Derek. First of all,
26:45
Speaker 1: when Jones burd opened up, you better contact me. Okay,
26:48
Speaker 1: I got you because I want to be there. Like
26:50
Speaker 1: I said, I'm right down the street from your location
26:54
Speaker 1: over there, Brand Mark, I'm right now, that's where you at.
26:57
Speaker 1: I'm right down the street from that. And so my
27:00
Speaker 1: staff supports it. First of all, a joy they talk
27:04
Speaker 1: to you. Your passion, your information, your gift, man, your gift,
27:09
Speaker 1: and a blessing your entrepreneurial spirit. You are what America
27:12
Speaker 1: is built on, a land of opportunity. You know, we
27:16
Speaker 1: should never be denied based on the color of our
27:18
Speaker 1: skin or the education that people perceived we don't have.
27:22
Speaker 1: You are the person that I bring on the show
27:24
Speaker 1: to educate my audience that anything is possible and I
27:27
Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming up Money Making Conversation
27:29
Speaker 1: master Class. Thank you man, and I thank you for
27:32
Speaker 1: having me, and I want to release one more thing. OK,
27:35
Speaker 1: people listening, So it's not about how you start. It's
27:41
Speaker 1: not about what's gonna happen in the middle of that race.
27:45
Speaker 1: You shoot, get untied, your soul, getting messed up, your
27:48
Speaker 1: sneak and fall off. Just finish the race. Don't worry
27:51
Speaker 1: about the place you're gonna be in because as long
27:53
Speaker 1: as you finish the race, the job is done. And
27:55
Speaker 1: when a job is done, guess what you can say
27:57
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. I finished the man
28:00
Speaker 1: because I wasn't worrying about the race. You know what
28:03
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So at the end of it all, you
28:05
Speaker 1: gave it all you got. As long as you give
28:07
Speaker 1: it all you got, and you finished that line as
28:08
Speaker 1: long as you crossed it. Be proud of yourself and
28:10
Speaker 1: your journey, and stop sizing and stuff up to other people,
28:13
Speaker 1: because guy got everybody journey for themselves to be able
28:16
Speaker 1: to better other people. You don't know. It may feel
28:19
Speaker 1: like that man or that woman got that success of
28:21
Speaker 1: a night, but you don't know what they've been through
28:22
Speaker 1: to get that success. Absolutely, it's not attract meets of marathon.
28:25
Speaker 1: So I always remember that. I love it because I
28:27
Speaker 1: always tell people that, you know, don't look at that's
28:30
Speaker 1: the old it's saying, don't look at somebody else's y'all.
28:33
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to explain the word. I finished,
28:36
Speaker 1: versus I quit. I quit you out to explain it.
28:39
Speaker 1: I finished me and I made maximum effort to get
28:41
Speaker 1: the job done. That's all you're saying. And I love it. Brother.
28:44
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk in person because I want to sit
28:46
Speaker 1: down and just chat with your time man, because you're special. Again.
28:50
Speaker 1: I've had Pinky on the show. Both of y'all are special.
28:52
Speaker 1: But congratulations. You know, mister Jews ever a Big Dave's cheesecake.
28:57
Speaker 1: You know, mister sexy, mister sexy, mister look got the
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Speaker 1: te fall out there, you know, forty three tattoos straight
29:03
Speaker 1: out of Philly, Big Dave. Gee, thank you, bro, keep
29:09
Speaker 1: doing your thing. I see you being the kitchen whipping
29:10
Speaker 1: up your recipe. Chee steak man. I love it, man,
29:15
Speaker 1: stay strong, steak man. Thank you man. All Right, we
29:18
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29:27
Speaker 1: Derek Man, a super super great interview. Brother, You're a
29:30
Speaker 1: special man. Okay, hey man, it was good talking to you.
29:33
Speaker 1: I could have talked to your father. Brother. Well, hey, listen,
29:35
Speaker 1: I'll be saying you whip up on your page. I'm like,
29:37
Speaker 1: I see you going on Buba drop out. I'm gonna
29:39
Speaker 1: let you know when I come back. So sit down, man,
29:42
Speaker 1: Let's sit down. Let's talk. Man. Okay, stay strong. Thank you, bye, bro,
29:45
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Speaker 1: shut up. At some point they don't. They ain't working
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Speaker 1: no more. Including a fifteen year old quest for independence
33:10
Speaker 1: and a driver's license, eleven year old ten year old
33:13
Speaker 1: twins developing their first questions for your triple starting preschool
33:17
Speaker 1: plus party training. I saw them all sitting on the
33:19
Speaker 1: taller a trip to Disney Disneyland. Imagine all of them
33:23
Speaker 1: down at Disney Legends. They just they made the line long.
33:26
Speaker 1: As soon as they walked up, fast pass, they are passed.
33:28
Speaker 1: They are a fast pass killer. New health issues and
33:32
Speaker 1: more in the midst of the regular chaos of raising
33:34
Speaker 1: childing do the Recods also in the brick of a
33:37
Speaker 1: big decision moving cross country to South Carolina. I know
33:41
Speaker 1: about the low country, great food down there. Okay, Karen's
33:44
Speaker 1: extended fander down there, you know southern route. You know
33:46
Speaker 1: she try to go back down there, you know, swoopy
33:47
Speaker 1: tad pot Now they could stop no matter what lies
33:50
Speaker 1: ahead that the Recods, We're facing together. This is how
33:53
Speaker 1: you get. This is the whole part about it. This
33:55
Speaker 1: is written by TV folks. We'll face it together, doubling
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Speaker 1: down on all the love it's fun it takes to
34:01
Speaker 1: raise this unique family. Please welcome to Bundy Make Conversations
34:04
Speaker 1: master Class. Karen and Dan do we call I love it?
34:13
Speaker 1: I love it? You know? You know? And when I
34:16
Speaker 1: first heard about the show coming on, you know it
34:18
Speaker 1: because people look at it anything that's unusual as a novelty.
34:23
Speaker 1: That's a novelty. And so let's go back to and
34:26
Speaker 1: you you know, you guys didn't do this to be
34:28
Speaker 1: to be some type of this word like a shell
34:31
Speaker 1: freak show or novel or novelty. So who contacted you
34:36
Speaker 1: and who had to convince who to do the show?
34:40
Speaker 1: I don't think it was any convincing. Both Karen Back
34:45
Speaker 1: and we discussed it, you know, we talked about what
34:47
Speaker 1: we would do with such a platform and how platform
34:51
Speaker 1: would look, you know, and we wanted to make sure
34:54
Speaker 1: that no matter what, we stayed true too, of course,
34:57
Speaker 1: who we are, and we wanted to too many people
35:01
Speaker 1: that may be facing some of the challenges in which
35:03
Speaker 1: you would watch on our show, right, and so then
35:06
Speaker 1: you see on our show it's real, it's us, it's
35:08
Speaker 1: a life, and we're showing how we navigate through those
35:12
Speaker 1: many challenges. We're just a large family, no different from
35:15
Speaker 1: anyone else except the fact there's so many of us. Yeah. Well,
35:18
Speaker 1: you know I come from a large family, six sisters,
35:20
Speaker 1: two brothers, and there is a difference. You know, it's
35:24
Speaker 1: it's feeding a big family, you know. Feeding that's because
35:27
Speaker 1: you know it's like you have to wait in line
35:29
Speaker 1: for the food. You have to like this, no getting
35:31
Speaker 1: around it, okay, you know you have to get to
35:34
Speaker 1: make enough food. People are And I was just a
35:36
Speaker 1: two other story because I came from fifth Ward and
35:39
Speaker 1: I went to college and we come from you know,
35:41
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say impoverished, but we wasn't wasn't middle class,
35:46
Speaker 1: and so I would I was, I was still in college.
35:49
Speaker 1: I was always used a spoon. I wouldn't even a
35:51
Speaker 1: spoon all the time. In fact, if you gave me,
35:53
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even use a knife to cut I use
35:55
Speaker 1: a spoon to cut my sandwich. And friends, wo, hey, dude,
35:58
Speaker 1: you know it's a knife and from my my ain't.
36:00
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. Because when you don't
36:03
Speaker 1: have a lot do you was available? It becomes normal
36:06
Speaker 1: because normal and I'm not saying you guys live that life,
36:09
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, is that you make adjustments to
36:13
Speaker 1: be able to provide for you. Like I thought that
36:15
Speaker 1: was normal, and I lived a great life. I grew
36:18
Speaker 1: up a great child in that large kid environment. And
36:21
Speaker 1: so what a justice have you guys made so your
36:24
Speaker 1: children can be as normal as possible in an environment
36:28
Speaker 1: with fourteen kids? That's a good question. What do we
36:33
Speaker 1: do to make it normal? Is you know, children follow
36:36
Speaker 1: the head right with the parents. So I think the
36:40
Speaker 1: thing is she and I had a great understanding as
36:42
Speaker 1: to what we wanted in life, where we expected to go.
36:45
Speaker 1: We talked about having a lot of children. We just
36:48
Speaker 1: didn't anticipate having all these multiples. That right, right, that's
36:52
Speaker 1: a surprise, God, trich God. But we did understand and
37:00
Speaker 1: the assignment to the degree of we said, and we
37:04
Speaker 1: actually talked about how we wanted to parent, what type
37:07
Speaker 1: of relationship we wanted to have with our children. And
37:10
Speaker 1: so from having said that, thank god I got into
37:13
Speaker 1: real estate very very early, and that those were the funds.
37:18
Speaker 1: The funds were available to allow for she and I
37:21
Speaker 1: to be at home with them. That's the biggest blessing
37:24
Speaker 1: that we were able to give our children is we're
37:27
Speaker 1: both at home parents because we look the income that
37:31
Speaker 1: would sustain us being able to be at home. My
37:33
Speaker 1: wife specializes in early childhood education. So with that being said,
37:38
Speaker 1: she's a teacher, and then mine teaching them in life
37:41
Speaker 1: and the streat mentality. I grew up in a very
37:44
Speaker 1: hard area like yourself, and so educating on so many levels,
37:49
Speaker 1: and she and I giving them the level of education
37:52
Speaker 1: that we did as being important such as financial literacy,
37:56
Speaker 1: right you know these this wasn't talked to me in
37:59
Speaker 1: school about read it and why you need to read it,
38:02
Speaker 1: an interest rates. And so having said that, we were
38:05
Speaker 1: able together to put together such a plan, and I mean,
38:08
Speaker 1: I'm able to see it now hindsight being twenty twenty
38:11
Speaker 1: A great plan that she and I put together, and
38:13
Speaker 1: so answering your question as to how did we prepare
38:18
Speaker 1: for such a large family and making those provisions, because
38:22
Speaker 1: we started from the ground up, baby, and we built
38:24
Speaker 1: this thing the right way, you know. And it's important
38:27
Speaker 1: to have two heads communicating, you know, communicat especially with
38:31
Speaker 1: the family in this side. And it's equally important to
38:33
Speaker 1: have the male's participation, especially on the feet of the
38:36
Speaker 1: girl's side. The daughters and I play a role. I
38:39
Speaker 1: can tell if my absences in my daughter's life, if
38:42
Speaker 1: the world, she would be a different person because she
38:44
Speaker 1: respects the process and that's the process, you know. Whoever,
38:47
Speaker 1: how I treat her and raise her, it's the type
38:49
Speaker 1: of man she may marry or date, you know, based
38:53
Speaker 1: on the value she see. Well, Daddy treated me like this,
38:56
Speaker 1: or Daddy didn't give me Christmas prayers, or Daddy didn't
38:59
Speaker 1: think much of my birthday, then gets what the man
39:01
Speaker 1: in my life? Okay, if he does the same thing,
39:04
Speaker 1: and that could be like you know, parental abuse in
39:06
Speaker 1: the sense. To me, I always tell people what you
39:08
Speaker 1: would you teach your child because they come in the world.
39:10
Speaker 1: Like I always the blessing of this shows me is
39:12
Speaker 1: this is that And I'm talking to Karen and theco
39:16
Speaker 1: and U doubling down onto the RICO. So okay on
39:19
Speaker 1: TLC is that these kids didn't ask to come into
39:23
Speaker 1: this world. And I always tell me that's why, that's
39:24
Speaker 1: why I see parents and the child abuse. I just
39:28
Speaker 1: it angers me. It angers me and when it come
39:32
Speaker 1: into this world, that's a responsibility with each case, Like
39:35
Speaker 1: you said, you didn't expect multiple child children being born
39:38
Speaker 1: at each time. You once you recognize that, you knew
39:40
Speaker 1: you had to plan for that. So as each situation
39:43
Speaker 1: happened emotionally, what did that do for you? The motivation?
39:47
Speaker 1: Because you know you are kids over here, okay, and
39:50
Speaker 1: normally when you're pregnant you're bringing one child. Additional child
39:53
Speaker 1: in the world, you bring multiple How does that? How
39:55
Speaker 1: do you balance that conversation Karen as a mother in
40:00
Speaker 1: regards to these additional kids that you bring on and
40:03
Speaker 1: being able to maintain that love balance it is. That's
40:08
Speaker 1: a really good question. You know, I first start with
40:11
Speaker 1: this was a you know, we asked when drink. When
40:15
Speaker 1: I sat down, I had that first, you know, initial
40:17
Speaker 1: conversation and the question is asked, how many children you want?
40:21
Speaker 1: You know, it was how many? Ever got how many
40:24
Speaker 1: God blesses me to have? And I feel as though
40:28
Speaker 1: with each pregnancy and when the multiples especially started to
40:33
Speaker 1: come along, we were extremely grateful. But we also looked
40:37
Speaker 1: at it as God believed them. And this is we
40:41
Speaker 1: want to make sure that they contribute to society. Want
40:44
Speaker 1: to raise them in a way where they are positively
40:47
Speaker 1: contributing into society. So the justice that we make is,
40:51
Speaker 1: you know what God gave you, all gave you us
40:55
Speaker 1: for a reason, right, and he knew that He knew
40:59
Speaker 1: that you were you were all well all tell our mustiples,
41:02
Speaker 1: you were so special A God made a partner right
41:08
Speaker 1: here on a higher accord and you have to answer
41:12
Speaker 1: that call. And it's our job to nurture you and
41:15
Speaker 1: to figure that out, and that to help find your
41:17
Speaker 1: place and like you said, your purpose and your gifts.
41:20
Speaker 1: And we they go by without reminding them that you
41:24
Speaker 1: are here for a reason. Let's let's find your special
41:27
Speaker 1: gift and let's share it with the world. Right and
41:30
Speaker 1: then being the responsibility because you know that, then you
41:32
Speaker 1: know the era we live in. And you know, look
41:36
Speaker 1: at television, the George Floyd's situation, the pandemic, and and
41:40
Speaker 1: this this is not the world we grew up in. Okay, technology,
41:44
Speaker 1: you know your children and they don't. You have to
41:47
Speaker 1: tell them about the version B. You have to keep
41:48
Speaker 1: them off their cell phone. You know what I'm saying.
41:50
Speaker 1: You know, so you don't want to learn the wrong way. So, Derek,
41:53
Speaker 1: as as as as the man as to being able to,
41:57
Speaker 1: you know, certain things you can't control? What what as
42:01
Speaker 1: as the father? What responsibility in this new era? Because
42:05
Speaker 1: you got fourteen of them? Okay, it's bad enough trying
42:07
Speaker 1: to keep two under control or one under control, but
42:10
Speaker 1: fourteen of them, okay, and then you got some of
42:12
Speaker 1: them that think they know warn you when they hit
42:14
Speaker 1: that age that's where they had on the show in
42:16
Speaker 1: the third season. How's your dad? You know, you maintaining
42:20
Speaker 1: that when you're not losing the rest of your head
42:21
Speaker 1: because somebody's turning great, it's probably about to take over.
42:24
Speaker 1: It's about to take over this season, You're about to
42:26
Speaker 1: take over. That's why I got to add on right now,
42:30
Speaker 1: my brothers, that's what the head is on right now. Okay,
42:33
Speaker 1: hear me, but no, everything right on the um. It's
42:40
Speaker 1: very important that we set the tone and the standard. Yeah,
42:44
Speaker 1: the tone and the one of the very first things
42:47
Speaker 1: we do with all of our children. We remind them
42:49
Speaker 1: of their importance and we let so that we validate them.
42:53
Speaker 1: Only topic can validate them. No one in the street,
42:56
Speaker 1: no one outside of this home has the authority need
43:00
Speaker 1: to validate them. That's one, right, And when we validate them,
43:04
Speaker 1: we validate them with greatness. Uh. And in order for
43:07
Speaker 1: us to change the trajectory in which we see as
43:10
Speaker 1: some of the things go right now within the world,
43:13
Speaker 1: we have to set a standard of greatness in the
43:16
Speaker 1: mind of our youth. Because once that standard has been
43:20
Speaker 1: properly placed, they won't be so quick to throw their
43:23
Speaker 1: lives away. But something that appears to be great in
43:27
Speaker 1: that moment, right, That's one of the key things is
43:31
Speaker 1: having something worth having, something worth fighting for right, Well,
43:36
Speaker 1: were then life to prevent you from making a very
43:39
Speaker 1: bad decision without right right? You know? The interesting thing
43:43
Speaker 1: about is that you know as they get older, and
43:48
Speaker 1: because you have kids watching kids, okay, they see them
43:51
Speaker 1: they're older, can get away with Okay, now you this
43:54
Speaker 1: upcoming third season the drivers license, the independence. So so
43:59
Speaker 1: when talking parenting, now you know parenting, won't on't want though,
44:03
Speaker 1: you know, just because you see that happened, I don't
44:04
Speaker 1: mean it's gonna happen for you. Or they said, well
44:07
Speaker 1: he can do it or she can do it. Why
44:09
Speaker 1: can't I do it? How are you dealing with that?
44:11
Speaker 1: I see this? She gets away with that, he gets
44:14
Speaker 1: here with that? How are you getting here with that?
44:15
Speaker 1: How are you controlling the yin and the yang in
44:17
Speaker 1: the house from these kids saying that you favorite him?
44:21
Speaker 1: You did even do that. I can't do that. I
44:23
Speaker 1: want to go that. I'm old enough. Respect me. Oh
44:27
Speaker 1: it's coming up now. This is this season three, this
44:29
Speaker 1: season three, now, this season three, now, Karen, because I'll
44:33
Speaker 1: be watching the show, because here's the funny park. When
44:35
Speaker 1: y'all sitting that sofa, care you'd be looking lively. Then
44:39
Speaker 1: he'd be on that sofa time, git me sit, git
44:43
Speaker 1: me laying back on that sofa. He be looking like
44:46
Speaker 1: he about twenty five years older. He'd be so time.
44:49
Speaker 1: You don't know, I'd be laughing up my wife looking
44:51
Speaker 1: at it. Boy, he tied, he tied. He don't care
44:54
Speaker 1: about the cameras no more, he had forgot their own.
44:57
Speaker 1: Chara still trying to sit up right then here, I
45:00
Speaker 1: just I'm on this so for y'all, Honey, supposed to
45:04
Speaker 1: get my seat away? Hey, hey, hey, you know I'm
45:09
Speaker 1: telling the truth, Jimmy, she may chain that camera. Pose
45:13
Speaker 1: she staying um right on that sofar you see you
45:16
Speaker 1: right there? The boy he can sofa. You leaned back.
45:21
Speaker 1: Oh he missing as a beer. It's only missing as
45:23
Speaker 1: a beer. It's beautiful. I love it because of the
45:30
Speaker 1: fact that that's why I was so excited to talk
45:32
Speaker 1: to you guys, because it's such a real image of
45:37
Speaker 1: familihood and the fact that I come from that large
45:40
Speaker 1: family environment. I know you know when and I'm not
45:43
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to place you guys, because lord knows,
45:46
Speaker 1: my parents were not in the real estate. My dad
45:49
Speaker 1: was a truck driver, third grade education, my mom graduate
45:52
Speaker 1: from high school. That's that's the life I drove, Race,
45:55
Speaker 1: not the life that your children are raising it. But
45:57
Speaker 1: it didn't stop me from being great, stop me from
46:00
Speaker 1: dreaming and realizing that the impossible as possible. And that's
46:04
Speaker 1: where we're here on this show all the time. But
46:06
Speaker 1: as parents tell us, a little bit of what's coming
46:08
Speaker 1: up this season because I don't want to give away
46:10
Speaker 1: all the tricks. But it's an interesting season because of
46:14
Speaker 1: the fact that it's kind of like a coming of
46:16
Speaker 1: age because you knew you did the first season, and
46:19
Speaker 1: you learn some things the second season. Not. The kids
46:22
Speaker 1: kind of know, they know what they know what's going
46:26
Speaker 1: on now, and they're kind of pitching a little bit
46:28
Speaker 1: of ideas too, Well, why can't we do this? So
46:31
Speaker 1: so Daddy talk about controlling this family, holding them down,
46:35
Speaker 1: keeping them ship ship shape for season three. The ship
46:40
Speaker 1: shape is something we put in place years ago. Thank god,
46:45
Speaker 1: you've seen regarding our children on Dubbing Down with the Dricos,
46:49
Speaker 1: which is on TLC and you can stream us a
46:51
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus D I ain't about to say goodbye now,
46:55
Speaker 1: say it's a goodbye. That's a goodbye right there? You
46:57
Speaker 1: know you're saying all the credits and there thing. Uh
47:01
Speaker 1: we on TLC doubling Down with the Ricos. Okay, continue,
47:07
Speaker 1: let me talk to you, Let me talk to you.
47:09
Speaker 1: He gonna keep talking like that, Karen, is she gonna
47:11
Speaker 1: talking like you know? He? You know, here an announcer,
47:14
Speaker 1: Where where's this fun guy? I see on TV he
47:17
Speaker 1: just went in pr mode. U on TLC is a
47:20
Speaker 1: family or in his show doubling Down with the Dricos,
47:24
Speaker 1: he changed his voice and everything where that guy on
47:27
Speaker 1: the so for tied, that's the guy I want to
47:30
Speaker 1: talk to. I gotta make it ready for those viewers
47:33
Speaker 1: of yours is they may not know And so it
47:36
Speaker 1: had been a minute since the last time you said it,
47:38
Speaker 1: So we'll continue, sir, I apologize. I apologize, don't worries
47:47
Speaker 1: so anyway, as I was saying, doubling down every plus.
47:54
Speaker 1: But one of the things you'll see is you'll see
47:57
Speaker 1: how we uh deal with the esoterics of having two
48:02
Speaker 1: year old babies that are being trained and sixteen year
48:06
Speaker 1: old who wants to drive now yes, and who's still
48:09
Speaker 1: talking about dating, and that's in between there, that's going
48:14
Speaker 1: through the many stages. I think one of the things
48:16
Speaker 1: that's so unique about our show is that we had
48:18
Speaker 1: and about our family is that we have so many
48:21
Speaker 1: different ages that we have to cater so much going
48:25
Speaker 1: on constantly, all at one time, and thank god we
48:28
Speaker 1: both have each other. I don't know how we would
48:30
Speaker 1: naviget yeah through it, and we definitely let our children
48:33
Speaker 1: know that just because one person is doing something doesn't
48:37
Speaker 1: mean that you get to do something else, Like we
48:40
Speaker 1: have to find you know, they'll say, well, like how
48:42
Speaker 1: you said earlier, you know what this one's trying to drip.
48:44
Speaker 1: I want to get understand when's right when you're not
48:46
Speaker 1: ready yet, you're not ready to the various reasons, and
48:50
Speaker 1: we explain it to them and it goes back to
48:52
Speaker 1: read directing them about what they are, you know, what
48:56
Speaker 1: they should be doing, what they should be learning, and
48:58
Speaker 1: just nurturing talents that they have. You know, Darien is
49:02
Speaker 1: of an age whereas she is, you know, eager to
49:04
Speaker 1: learn to drive, and that's what Poppy and I are
49:06
Speaker 1: going to be doing to make sure she learns. And
49:07
Speaker 1: when you get to that point will also help you, um,
49:11
Speaker 1: you know, get your driver's from middle license on. However
49:14
Speaker 1: that is at that time. But meantime, let's focus on
49:17
Speaker 1: something else right now, and so you know, we make
49:20
Speaker 1: sure we we we close that up real quick with that.
49:23
Speaker 1: Oh well, they get to do it, okay, So she
49:27
Speaker 1: got that tone though she heard it. Oh well, yeah,
49:32
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. We'll be right back with more money Making Conversations.
49:37
Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making
49:44
Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You know, the thing about
49:49
Speaker 1: it is that you know, this is TV, so there's
49:53
Speaker 1: entertainment that's editing. You know, people create situations, but the
49:57
Speaker 1: bottom line is just being making sure you're you're don't
50:00
Speaker 1: get damaged by the process. You know, this is you
50:03
Speaker 1: know that that's the key because like I will tell you,
50:05
Speaker 1: they can stop to show the bar, you know, but
50:07
Speaker 1: you still gotta be great parents. You still got to
50:09
Speaker 1: provide for them. And and that's what I love about
50:12
Speaker 1: the show because this is not this is something, this
50:15
Speaker 1: is a tool and show people that they can parent.
50:18
Speaker 1: But one thing that I wanted to talk to people
50:20
Speaker 1: who hadn't saw the shows, and you should watch the show,
50:23
Speaker 1: tell them how you you you know they have the
50:25
Speaker 1: chores with the kids, how you have the scheduling, the
50:30
Speaker 1: mills and everything. So they get the sense of the
50:33
Speaker 1: level of professionalism that goes into because this is this
50:36
Speaker 1: is a job. Okay, this is a job. Don't get
50:38
Speaker 1: a chore. Now, you can't come in there and problem
50:41
Speaker 1: with fourteen kids. You can't in problem with fourteen kids.
50:44
Speaker 1: And so because if they do it the kids to
50:47
Speaker 1: see it that the kids are smart. They see things
50:49
Speaker 1: that you they remember things that you may have thought
50:53
Speaker 1: they didn't even see. And so how does how does
50:56
Speaker 1: the chores the chores and happen, and how does the
50:59
Speaker 1: whole of the meals and getting them up and getting
51:03
Speaker 1: them ready at work, Because like you said, you have
51:05
Speaker 1: different age groups, so different age group of me, you
51:08
Speaker 1: have to treat them all differently. Yes, yes, so mommy
51:12
Speaker 1: works with getting them up in the morning. Again, mommy
51:15
Speaker 1: does the homeschooling, so she works them up setting that up.
51:18
Speaker 1: And then I'm the cook in the house, so I'll
51:21
Speaker 1: start getting their breakfast together and their lunch and of
51:24
Speaker 1: course dinner. But of course I'm doing it, you know,
51:26
Speaker 1: as a day progresses, and every child, every human being
51:32
Speaker 1: in this house has a responsibility to the house right,
51:36
Speaker 1: no pree ride. And that's for many, many, many reasons
51:40
Speaker 1: why we do that, because we're teaching them how to
51:43
Speaker 1: work with the team, and we are their first team.
51:47
Speaker 1: And so saying that even the younger babies will go
51:50
Speaker 1: put trash, and you know something in the trash, we'll
51:52
Speaker 1: get a diner or full up where everyone is doing something.
51:57
Speaker 1: And it also creates that camaraderie amongst the family. And
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Speaker 1: so there's so many different levels to this thing. I
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Speaker 1: mean this this conversation is not even long enough for
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Speaker 1: us to have it for me to catch you up
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Speaker 1: on all the things that we do. But mommy has
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Speaker 1: a great system. I just you know, they're homeschool to
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Speaker 1: do a wonderful homeschool blended program. So they're everyone is
52:18
Speaker 1: you know, up by seven thirty, um, in front of
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Speaker 1: their laptop. Two start school at nine, School is over
52:27
Speaker 1: at twelve. We start homework. We're done by three, and
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Speaker 1: then by five dinner is um getting in our belly.
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Speaker 1: That that family time. And then by thirty everyone is
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Speaker 1: in the bed. And so when we try to do
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Speaker 1: as much as we can throughout the day and coordinate
52:45
Speaker 1: effective communication, texting each other, Hey I got disappointment, I
52:49
Speaker 1: got that one or this one. You know, we're constantly
52:51
Speaker 1: talking about that, and then um, we try to have
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Speaker 1: a little mean time at night, which ends up probably
52:57
Speaker 1: watching us the television, the night news watching us, but um,
53:02
Speaker 1: and we just try to get that that time like
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Speaker 1: that you threw that in y'all just and fell asleep
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Speaker 1: in front of television. See I do that look watching us.
53:09
Speaker 1: I do that. Look, that's that's a grown folks were
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Speaker 1: tied line watching us, news watching us. Don't care, don't try.
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Speaker 1: I'm a whole school care you can't slip them lives
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Speaker 1: back as a whole school and like me now news
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Speaker 1: watching us. We know we we tried, but wake up
53:26
Speaker 1: is old school. We wake up just the flag and
53:29
Speaker 1: beyond back in the den in the sixties, you know,
53:35
Speaker 1: one of the key promotional moments of you guys, go move.
53:38
Speaker 1: It's promoting the fact that moving to South Carolina, which
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Speaker 1: I love South Carolina by the way, Charles to South
53:44
Speaker 1: Carolina is one of my favorite city, low country everybody,
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Speaker 1: good food, good people, good atmosphere. And that was that
53:53
Speaker 1: a planned part or was it three years ago? Was
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Speaker 1: that a played decision to move or how did that
53:59
Speaker 1: come about? Well? I lost my grandmother. Um, I lost
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Speaker 1: my grandmother and my uncle within six months time period
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Speaker 1: and COVID and that was just a lot. And you
54:14
Speaker 1: already know when someone passes as a way of course
54:16
Speaker 1: it you know, death mix the living reflect on their
54:19
Speaker 1: life and the life. And so when that happened, I
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Speaker 1: had a conversation with Drico and just talked to him
54:26
Speaker 1: and let them know that, you know, we're far away.
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Speaker 1: My children don't really know a lot of my side
54:30
Speaker 1: of the family m due to the fact that we
54:33
Speaker 1: live so far away, and I wouldn't mind moving closer home,
54:37
Speaker 1: but it had to make sense. So that's when I,
54:39
Speaker 1: you know, brought about the business idea to Drico and
54:44
Speaker 1: Um and we just started talking about it. And Drico,
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Speaker 1: who's a phenomenal husband, I had a recent stroke scare
54:51
Speaker 1: on last season, and he was like, you know, whatever
54:54
Speaker 1: you want to do, baby, I'll do it. You know.
54:56
Speaker 1: He was just one of those those moments where we're like,
54:59
Speaker 1: oh my god, think died and it wasn't a stroke
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Speaker 1: and ended up being a muscle spasm and talking about that,
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Speaker 1: and that's how it came about, you know, just do
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Speaker 1: we move back home or how do we do this right?
55:13
Speaker 1: And then when you make it the move because you
55:15
Speaker 1: know you're still these are the decisions they made together,
55:18
Speaker 1: but they still impact you. Could they make your mind
55:21
Speaker 1: role because that wasn't a part of your process because
55:24
Speaker 1: you know, you're carrying me in a planners. You know,
55:27
Speaker 1: we're playing stuff and you know it's like driving with
55:29
Speaker 1: no direction. We'll just keep driving and try to get there.
55:32
Speaker 1: And so so when this plan in his mind, he
55:35
Speaker 1: had a plan. So she brought this plan to you,
55:38
Speaker 1: how did you you know, processing in your brain and
55:42
Speaker 1: said this, this is something that good for the entire family.
55:45
Speaker 1: Is something we had to do because this is the
55:47
Speaker 1: woman I love, and and the and the mother my
55:50
Speaker 1: fourteen kids. Absolutely so, m that's a very good question,
55:54
Speaker 1: one of them things one of my makers terms of course,
55:57
Speaker 1: as you just said, this mother of my children and
55:59
Speaker 1: that's her husband. I have a respond to listen to
56:03
Speaker 1: what you know she wants to do, try to put
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Speaker 1: it in a forum that works for everyone. Right. So,
56:10
Speaker 1: but at the same time, you know, we're having pushed
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Speaker 1: back from you know, some of the other family members,
56:14
Speaker 1: like some of the children said, I have Eric and Gig,
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Speaker 1: they're not really into doing it. So the job is
56:21
Speaker 1: trying to find that happy spot in the middle. And
56:25
Speaker 1: then remember I'm a businessman, so I'm an investor. That's
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Speaker 1: how a family And so when she mentioned it, I
56:32
Speaker 1: thought it was a very good idea from a financial perspective.
56:35
Speaker 1: If we're able to secure the financial backing, if we're
56:39
Speaker 1: able to funding from the right investors, I could see it.
56:43
Speaker 1: They're very lucrative. So for me, I was torn with
56:47
Speaker 1: I want to stay here in Vegas, but this is
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Speaker 1: a very lucrative opportunity for us to create something great
56:54
Speaker 1: for our family, and I love her for having such
56:57
Speaker 1: a great idea. So of course it's battling, and that's
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna see is the battle between I want
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Speaker 1: to do it for the financial freedom that it would
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Speaker 1: give us, yes, sir, But time I'm torn between one
57:09
Speaker 1: of the state bakers, myself plus the rest of the
57:11
Speaker 1: family want to stay here and we'll be able to
57:14
Speaker 1: find enough financial securing or backing to make such a
57:18
Speaker 1: thing happen. So there's a lot that has to get
57:21
Speaker 1: figured out that we still have not figured out. Okay,
57:23
Speaker 1: let me say that right still, but there's a lot
57:27
Speaker 1: to deal with. And you know, as being as she
57:29
Speaker 1: and I we're the heads of the house, right so
57:31
Speaker 1: we have always been on one chord at some point.
57:34
Speaker 1: So we're we're working that thing out. Yeah, we're getting
57:37
Speaker 1: the stay workout, but you're gonna have I got to
57:40
Speaker 1: wrap it up there. They little think out the little
57:42
Speaker 1: chat when it gets popped up on the screen. Five minutes, y'all,
57:45
Speaker 1: got it. Yeah, y'all been talking to it long. Y'all
57:47
Speaker 1: been having a good time. You know. Usually they didn't
57:49
Speaker 1: threat me like I can't talk to y'all. Now they're
57:51
Speaker 1: telling me that I got to stop talking to y'all.
57:53
Speaker 1: You know. That's how they're doing when you're having fun
57:55
Speaker 1: the care But I love y'all. I don't want to lose.
57:58
Speaker 1: And if you privilege because I want to be back
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Speaker 1: for season four with the doubling Down with the Rico
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Speaker 1: and on t let me get that voice right for
58:09
Speaker 1: you know, could be like the you know we're on
58:11
Speaker 1: TLC show, Doubling Down with the Drico's a fan favorite series,
58:15
Speaker 1: is air in season three and uh, we'll be going
58:18
Speaker 1: through all type of things and kids, you know, trying
58:21
Speaker 1: to get drivers licensed China. The fifteen year olds just
58:23
Speaker 1: out of control. But you know I'm Pops over here.
58:26
Speaker 1: You'll mess with pops mom over here. She got the
58:28
Speaker 1: four year old trip list, you know, the preschool and
58:30
Speaker 1: got potty training and all this stuff. But going to
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Speaker 1: Dissy Landing, I gotta move either from Vegas, South Carolina
58:36
Speaker 1: fighting off the mosquitoes down to South Carolina. Have y'all
58:38
Speaker 1: been in South Carolina, Mosquito, the Biggest Birds. I love you.
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Speaker 1: I want to thank y'all for coming on this show
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Speaker 1: and I will support this man. Y'all fun. You've been
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