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Dr. Iris Cooper Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My nextus is the founder of Glory Foods, Incorporated, a
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  Speaker 1: multimillion dollar food marketing company. She's recognized nationally as a
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  Speaker 1: business strategist and branding expert, having coached many startups to sustainability.
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  Speaker 1: A current venture. Just Ask Iris is an entrepreneur consulting
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  Speaker 1: coaching firm specializing in food enterprises that involved branding, finance, strategy,
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  Speaker 1: and other business topics. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation,
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  Speaker 1: Dr Iris and Cooper. Good morning everyone, Good morning, this
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  Speaker 1: is what Sean mcgon so happy to have you. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing and likewise I'm great, I'm great, and thank
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  Speaker 1: you for having me. Definitely let me ask you where
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  Speaker 1: are you at right now making this phone call? What
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  Speaker 1: city I am? I am in Dallas, Texas. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Texas boy, So you're in my country. Uh, Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be good myself. It's a big state night. Gotta
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  Speaker 1: be good. You gotta be really big and good. What
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  Speaker 1: tell me? What do you? Let's let's talk about. When
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  Speaker 1: I was running and I co created the Steve Harvey
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show, Glory Foods advertised to UH several years on
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  Speaker 1: the show, UH the Neighborhood Award. Joe were one of
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  Speaker 1: the key sponsors for the Neighborhood Wards that we did
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. So I'm very familiar with the product.
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  Speaker 1: I bought the product in stores. Tell us about how
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  Speaker 1: the whole Glory food concept started and then became a
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  Speaker 1: major player in the on the shelves of various grocery
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  Speaker 1: stores throughout this country. Well, it all started with UM
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  Speaker 1: four people that work together in the food business in
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  Speaker 1: the department store. I was the only semil and I
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  Speaker 1: was right out of the NBA program from Indiana University.
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  Speaker 1: Had been a banker for a few years. But UM,
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  Speaker 1: the guys came to me after we had worked together
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  Speaker 1: and said, Iris, we need your marketing expertise. We need
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  Speaker 1: to figure out a way to get soul food in
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  Speaker 1: the grocery stores because Ortega has the Hispanic market and
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  Speaker 1: Latoy has a Chinese market, but there's no soul food. Well,
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  Speaker 1: my mama was from Mississippi and I remember her spending
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  Speaker 1: all day keep cleaning greens, clipping them, massaging them, season
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  Speaker 1: and out of cooking. And I'm I'm not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I work every day, I got kids, I got stuff
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  Speaker 1: to do. I said, we got to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to X but I that process if if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have me involved, and and so they said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to do that, and I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have to find out how to do
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  Speaker 1: that because the woman in the eighties was not interested
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  Speaker 1: in spending four or five hours working on greens. And
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  Speaker 1: so I said, here's what we're gonna do. You all
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  Speaker 1: work on the technology. I'll work on the marketing and branding.
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  Speaker 1: And um I did marketing research. I looked into the
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  Speaker 1: process of breaching black women who were in the workforce
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  Speaker 1: at the time and created the work, the business plan,
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  Speaker 1: the branding. And then while I was doing that, they
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  Speaker 1: were working on how to preseason vegetables before they're cooked
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  Speaker 1: in a can, and then cooked them all together in
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  Speaker 1: a mass production fashion. And the next thing we know
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  Speaker 1: is we are in front of Kroger. My partner, Bill Williams,
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  Speaker 1: and myself and I did a presentation to the buyers,
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  Speaker 1: all men, no power point, no overhead projector not even
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  Speaker 1: a handout, and I was just talking about this niche
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  Speaker 1: of why we had to exercise the option right now,
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  Speaker 1: how powerful it would be and it would reach black
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  Speaker 1: women all over the country. And so after I asked
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  Speaker 1: for questions, all they said was, we're in We're going
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  Speaker 1: to send you in order, and let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: With Sean, it was just talk. We didn't hand the product,
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  Speaker 1: and we sat out in front of the Kroger regional
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  Speaker 1: office not knowing whether to laugh or cry because we
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  Speaker 1: had nothing. And so we were on an accelerated pace
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  Speaker 1: to come up with this product so we could deliver.
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  Speaker 1: So it took us two years to get through FDA
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  Speaker 1: approval with this new disruptive cooking process, and Kroger waited.
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  Speaker 1: Kroger waited for us. We debuted in Columbus, in the
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  Speaker 1: Inner City, and our next stop was Atlanta. Now now
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  Speaker 1: it was headquarters Square in Columbus, Ohio and right in
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  Speaker 1: the hood Columbus, Ohio. And how did the name Glory
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  Speaker 1: Foods come about? How did that name come about? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I knew it had to be a name that had
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  Speaker 1: some versatility and flexibility. It also had to resonate with
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  Speaker 1: the black community. And I don't know how many times
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  Speaker 1: we say glory in a in a week's time. We
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  Speaker 1: say it all the time, whether it's in reference glory,
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  Speaker 1: Gloria yesterday, glory to God. Yes. So that name, plus
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  Speaker 1: it was so flexible. It was in the movie with
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  Speaker 1: Denzel Washington, it was in so many hymnos and in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible absolutely, So when we got that name and
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  Speaker 1: saw that was available, we jumped on it. Well that
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  Speaker 1: was smart and uh so so so that was like
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  Speaker 1: you put there what they call the chicken before the
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  Speaker 1: call became first chicken. Yes, the train took off the train,
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  Speaker 1: so you got out there, miss fancy talker. Miss fancy
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  Speaker 1: talker went out there talking front of those mans, all
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  Speaker 1: those big old words, and they said, sold y'all. When
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  Speaker 1: I said, all grow grown African American people in front
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  Speaker 1: of the building, crime crying, happy, crying said, So with
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  Speaker 1: that being said, what is the next step in that,
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  Speaker 1: because you know this is a major we're talking about food,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about manufacturing, and you're talking about canning. You're
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  Speaker 1: talking about also the whole process of being able to
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  Speaker 1: make it taste good like grandma cooker, your mama cooked it.
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  Speaker 1: And also, did you guys already have lined up the
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  Speaker 1: selections yams, black eyed peas, pento beans, greens? Are you
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  Speaker 1: just had a couple of them? Because I know that
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  Speaker 1: it always has to be sampled out by, you know,
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  Speaker 1: by people just say this tastes really good. Tell us
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  Speaker 1: about that process. Well, Atlanta was the place that we
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  Speaker 1: went to test the recipes. I held a focus group
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  Speaker 1: with some of my contacts in the Atlanta market before
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  Speaker 1: we actually went with the product line, and I got really,
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  Speaker 1: really positive responses. So you have to do your marketing
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  Speaker 1: research before you jump out there and make that kind
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  Speaker 1: of investment. And after we got the feedback from Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and from Columbus, Ohio, which is a more conservative market,
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  Speaker 1: we knew we were onto something. And then we began
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  Speaker 1: to sample the product in various retail outlets. Um and
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  Speaker 1: just just to be clear, your path to commercialization is
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  Speaker 1: not going to be a straight line. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: have detours. You're gonna have detours, You're gonna have uh
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  Speaker 1: stumbled along the way. And fortunately we had My partners
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  Speaker 1: had strong food production background. I'm a marketing person, and
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  Speaker 1: so we combined our talents and we jumped over those hurdles.
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  Speaker 1: We went through ks and tunnels, but we finally landed
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  Speaker 1: in the spot that we wanted to. In the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: now let me be clear, Glory Foods Is was a
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  Speaker 1: marketing company. We didn't have the expertise for the the
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  Speaker 1: fixed assets to manufacture these products, so we subcontracted that
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  Speaker 1: out to other companies, and in two thousand and ten
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  Speaker 1: the company had reached seventy million dollars in sales in
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  Speaker 1: like thirty five states, and we sold it to the
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  Speaker 1: greens manufacturer. The lesson here is begin with the end
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  Speaker 1: in mind and was always to sell it um. It
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  Speaker 1: was started out to be a a family owned kind
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  Speaker 1: of business, just like so many food businesses. But as
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  Speaker 1: time went on, we realized that there was market value,
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  Speaker 1: industry value because this had never been done before. No
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  Speaker 1: one had ever preseasoned green or vegetables and then cook
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  Speaker 1: them in a mass production process. Nobody's done that. And
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  Speaker 1: let me just say that there were many vegetable companies
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  Speaker 1: that were very angry that we got our foot in
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  Speaker 1: the door first and outstanding. Like I said, I'm very
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the product because of the fact that for
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  Speaker 1: two years UH you advertise on the Steve Harvey Morning Show,
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  Speaker 1: that UH nationally UH award shows, the Neighborhood Awards, and
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  Speaker 1: so you guys had natural instincts about selling your brand
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  Speaker 1: to the community and putting it in a positive light
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  Speaker 1: in the community. I took that that was my big
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  Speaker 1: take aware about the Glory Fields brand, the whole marketing campaign. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you sold the product, it's always like you know,
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  Speaker 1: you sell your house. You know, you drive by your house,
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  Speaker 1: if they're still taking care of the yard like you
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  Speaker 1: took care of yard. You know, were there any um
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  Speaker 1: emotions still tied to it, how they were marking into
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  Speaker 1: the product, or how the product was still tasted like
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  Speaker 1: it was when you was part of it, or you
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  Speaker 1: just washed your hands and walked away. No, I will
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  Speaker 1: never wash my hands from Glory Foods because my my
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  Speaker 1: heritage are in those products. My mother's recipes are in
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  Speaker 1: the product. So never ever would I ever walk away
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  Speaker 1: from Glory. Now I don't own it anymore. But when
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  Speaker 1: when you start a small business, you always have to say,
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  Speaker 1: as I say, have the end in mind that either
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna sell it or you're going to transfer it
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  Speaker 1: to your heirs. Got to have that plan, and when
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  Speaker 1: it popped up in two thousand and ten, we owed
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  Speaker 1: it to our investors to take advantage of it. Well good,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to have this conversation about it because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you started something, and not many African
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  Speaker 1: Americans get to hear an individual who was part of
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  Speaker 1: a successful startup. And the thing I've been noticing lately
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  Speaker 1: that I'm seeing more and more young entrepreneurs in the business.
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  Speaker 1: Why is entrepreneurship important for black people? Are African Americans? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know how we were just don't put all your
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  Speaker 1: eggs in one bast You got to have a plan
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  Speaker 1: A and a plan B to sustain yourself. And my
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  Speaker 1: parents lived by that motto. And when we started asking
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  Speaker 1: for money, they started saying, you need to get a
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  Speaker 1: job and so right, right, And so I grew up
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  Speaker 1: with that work ethic. So my father was a caterer,
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  Speaker 1: part time. My mother was the first African American avon
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  Speaker 1: lady in Evansville, Indiana, And so when I grew up,
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  Speaker 1: I knew that I wasn't gonna let one source of
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  Speaker 1: income dictate how I was going to live my life.
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  Speaker 1: I was always going to have something else so I
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  Speaker 1: could pull out. And so that's why I've had five careers,
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  Speaker 1: because when one went away, I had something to pull
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  Speaker 1: out and jump on immediately. And I tell my students,
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  Speaker 1: because I teach it to university, don't get caught up
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  Speaker 1: in this is this is what I'm gonna do with
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  Speaker 1: my life, because you gotta you may have to change.
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  Speaker 1: When the economy changes, you may have to change, and
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  Speaker 1: that's important. I'm a firm believer of multiple strengths of income.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not plan A Plan B. That's been taking
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  Speaker 1: advantage of our talents that God gave me. And understand
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  Speaker 1: time management because you can do multilayers and that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the goal now, multilayers. And I want to make
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  Speaker 1: this comment about young entrepreneurs. The reason I know there's
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  Speaker 1: a proliferation of young entrepreneurs because I see them in
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  Speaker 1: spaces like spaces those are those are those office spaces.
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  Speaker 1: You can rent a office, you rent a day or
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  Speaker 1: an hour we worked. If you go on any of
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  Speaker 1: these buildings, you'll see a dominant amount of African Americans
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  Speaker 1: renting out these spaces because it's making giving them a
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  Speaker 1: shingle that they can hold. We'll be right back with more.
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  Speaker 1: Dr Aris and Cooper just asked Irish on money making
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  Speaker 1: conversations because the second half don't go in the where
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna tell you how, but you know how to
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  Speaker 1: save your career or your business won't close in five years?
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  Speaker 1: More money making conversations. How just ra Sean McDonald, you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to money making conversations on the phone as the founder,
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  Speaker 1: one of the founders of Glory Foods Income, which is
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  Speaker 1: a multi glory foods. Uh. Have you been any grocery store?
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  Speaker 1: Um so food in the can. I'd like to say
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  Speaker 1: I've tried it. Uh it's very good food. Uh, very
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  Speaker 1: good vegetables, you know, greens and black eyed peas and yams.
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  Speaker 1: It's all season two taste and there's a must It's
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  Speaker 1: a multimillion dollar food marketing company. Now she has another
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  Speaker 1: company that really brought on the show about and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about it in this break called Jess Ask Irish,
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  Speaker 1: please tell us about that format dr Irish and Cooper. Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 1: when I was in banking, I was challenged with working
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  Speaker 1: with a pretty much all male environment, and um I
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  Speaker 1: realized that the odds were against me for being able
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  Speaker 1: to really compete. So I made it my business to
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  Speaker 1: learn everything I could about financial services. I would go
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  Speaker 1: to meetings that I wasn't invited to. I would PLoP
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  Speaker 1: right down in the front row and try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what what's going on with foreign exchange and contract collections.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to know everything so that I could adequately
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  Speaker 1: go out and do what I was hired to do.
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  Speaker 1: And so when people would come into bank and they'd
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  Speaker 1: ask questions, I was always to go to person, just
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  Speaker 1: go ask iris show figure she'll find out. You'll figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. And so that kind of carried forward to
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  Speaker 1: a newspaper column as well as a radio show in Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always maintained because my parents told me that
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  Speaker 1: no one can take knowledge from you. If you are
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  Speaker 1: the most knowledgeable person in the room, you already have sustainability.
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  Speaker 1: So I just always have been a fan of learning
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  Speaker 1: and That's how the name came up. So if I
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  Speaker 1: want to a fan of learning, which is just ask Irish,
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  Speaker 1: how is it placed in social media? Is it the website?
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  Speaker 1: Just to tell my listeners and my fans are exactly
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  Speaker 1: the format of how they can communicate with you in
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  Speaker 1: the on the just ask Irish as j U S
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  Speaker 1: t ask which is a s k Iris which is
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  Speaker 1: her first name, I R I S. It's just asked
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  Speaker 1: dr i slash dot com. But if you email me
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  Speaker 1: at Iris at just gask Iris, I can make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you get to the website. UM and I focus
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  Speaker 1: now on helping businesses reach that fifth year in business,
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  Speaker 1: primarily food related businesses, but service as well and UM.
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  Speaker 1: I did that after receiving my doctorate in business in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, which UM provided me with time and
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  Speaker 1: resources to study small business for five and a half
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  Speaker 1: years globally. So I looked at all kinds of business models,
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  Speaker 1: different kinds of concepts, marketing strategies, what happens in failure,
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  Speaker 1: the family dynamic. I've spent a lot of time doing
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  Speaker 1: research and I came up with four themes that I
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  Speaker 1: just want to mention to your audience. UM as critical
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  Speaker 1: for sustainability UM. The first is knowledge and experience. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot have enough training or or or mentoring or studying
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  Speaker 1: UM when you're operating a business, so take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: every opportunity to learn something more about your craft. Number
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  Speaker 1: two work ethic and commitment. Don't say that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to spend four hours or eight hours. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: work until you get the job done period. If that
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  Speaker 1: means twenty four hours, you've got to do it. The
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  Speaker 1: third UM element is social capital. People will provide resources
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  Speaker 1: and tools that money can't buy. You've got to have
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  Speaker 1: a team of people that are supporting you. And if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have our understanding with your family, it could
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  Speaker 1: be deadly for your business. And then finally, opportunity recognition
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  Speaker 1: through creative discovery. Just an example of that. One of
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  Speaker 1: my client is Accelerated Laboratory Relocations. Started out as a
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  Speaker 1: typical moving company, but realize that businesses like universities had
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  Speaker 1: chemicals that had to be transported across country safely. And
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  Speaker 1: they saw that niche fifteen years ago African American owned
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  Speaker 1: company and now they are the number one company here
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  Speaker 1: because they saw that opportunity twenty years ago and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't Bobby quing you know, the car wash, because that's
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  Speaker 1: where we go. Yeah, that's okay, that's okay too, go
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  Speaker 1: for how we can. But you know what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: is that because you know, you're big on literacy, and
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  Speaker 1: I always want to push our people, especially people of color,
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  Speaker 1: that they're that when the age of technology and of
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  Speaker 1: age of augmented reality and social media is that we
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  Speaker 1: have to let people know that we are more than that.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where you get That's when you go and
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  Speaker 1: ask for a loan that's outside of that. They won't
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  Speaker 1: look at you like you're crazy. I look at you
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  Speaker 1: like you don't have credibility to move forward with that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to guess what they have a perception of. That's
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  Speaker 1: all you can do. And that's why I bring that up,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why I push on this show. We got
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  Speaker 1: to start broadcasting that we do more than that, we
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  Speaker 1: are capable more than that. We have to start opening
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  Speaker 1: the salon or nail shot. Because as we get we
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  Speaker 1: get we get singled into athleticism, we get singled into entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: we get single into close, we get singled into looks,
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  Speaker 1: we get we get negative responses and we start talking
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  Speaker 1: about high intelligence. We are how we can we're capable
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  Speaker 1: of leadership or we're capable of management. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're really big on with your with your with your adventure,
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  Speaker 1: just as Iris correct. Absolutely, because my parents were not
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  Speaker 1: able to finish their education because of economic conditions and
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  Speaker 1: just the whole process of having to work to feed
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  Speaker 1: the family. So it was paramount that I finished school
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  Speaker 1: and I believe that I was gonna take it all
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  Speaker 1: the way. I didn't go back to school until two
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  Speaker 1: thousand eleven to get my doctorate. And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was the oldest person in the class. No,
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  Speaker 1: a lady came across the stage on a walker with
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  Speaker 1: getting her doctorate. So as the world changes globally, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to change your perspective on your business. It's not
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  Speaker 1: competing with right the business down the street, it's competing
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  Speaker 1: with China. It's it's competition globally for those same little
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  Speaker 1: products or services. So, yes, knowledge is critical, and if
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  Speaker 1: you're not a fan of learning and thinking critical thinking,
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  Speaker 1: then maybe entrepreneurship is not for you. Maybe you should
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  Speaker 1: work for someone else. But if you want to rise
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  Speaker 1: above your circumstances, then you've got to have the knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: And that's so true. I always tell people who who
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  Speaker 1: complain about a for the all week job, Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: are not a person that should be an entrepreneur because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that you have to work six to eighty,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, sometimes twenty four hours to finish the task.
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  Speaker 1: If you're doing something for yourself, that should not be
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  Speaker 1: a time clock saying when you should stop. And I
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  Speaker 1: always tell people who are thinking about being coming entrepreneurs,
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  Speaker 1: the job that you work or is really setting the
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  Speaker 1: standards of how you should run your business because they're
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  Speaker 1: telling you you have to do something every hour, take
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  Speaker 1: a break, then do something every hour, and then have
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  Speaker 1: accountability of create reports on what you do. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna become an entrepreneur, just start writing down what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. And if you can't, if you doesn't feel
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  Speaker 1: out a day's worth of responsibilities for one day and
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  Speaker 1: you don't have you have nothing to do the second day,
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  Speaker 1: you might want to stay at that job you ad
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  Speaker 1: because you know that you've not set down and and
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  Speaker 1: itemized a list of organized thoughts to say, this is
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  Speaker 1: how I'm gonna run my business. This is what I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do with my day to day operations, and this
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  Speaker 1: is what I have to accomplish. And that's what you've
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  Speaker 1: been telling me. And this is an entire interview. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what, when my best ideas come to me,
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  Speaker 1: Ra Sean in the middle of the night, and I
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  Speaker 1: have a pad of paper by my bed, and even
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  Speaker 1: though I'm sleepy and tired, I have to get up
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  Speaker 1: and write it down. I know we have technology and everything,
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  Speaker 1: but start where you are. And so when I wake
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  Speaker 1: up in the morning, I got ideas that came to
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  Speaker 1: me in the middle of the night that I've got
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  Speaker 1: to got to implement or or launch the next day.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you've got to be ready when that idea comes.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely what a plan. And why is branding so important?
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  Speaker 1: Because you that's part of your your mantra when you
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  Speaker 1: were talking about what you do with full Food, any
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  Speaker 1: food enterprises, or any company that comes to you like
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  Speaker 1: the company does the chemical transportation across the United Days.
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  Speaker 1: Why is branding so important? Well, it's your it's your
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  Speaker 1: business is personality. You meet people in your life that
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  Speaker 1: you remember and others that you forget. It's because of
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  Speaker 1: their personal brand and as the same with businesses. You
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  Speaker 1: have to hear that message and see the vision that
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  Speaker 1: that company is presenting to you. Otherwise you won't become engaged.
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  Speaker 1: And so when when they saw the Glory Foods brand,
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  Speaker 1: that the label and the sunshine and read about it
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  Speaker 1: that resonated with black women. That was that personality coming
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  Speaker 1: through on the label. Another point, it's got to be consistent.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not there selling Glory food but you know
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  Speaker 1: people see me, you know, let's say, uh, drunk at
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  Speaker 1: a bar something like that, that doesn't it. How can
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  Speaker 1: you be right? Your brand is yours, the soul of
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  Speaker 1: your business, and people come to me and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: can you help me with this product or this product? Well,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: if it's something that I can't support or will diminish
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  Speaker 1: my brand, I can't be a part of it. And
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that's important that you know, because the entertainers they see
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  Speaker 1: your brand, the athletes they see a brand. Uh. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand once you once you take
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  Speaker 1: on social media handle, you are suddenly a brand. You're
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  Speaker 1: not an individual anymore. So anything you post on that
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  Speaker 1: will be a representative brand. People gotten smarter a little
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  Speaker 1: bit bore. I'll tell you about five years ago, everybody
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  Speaker 1: was stupid about the social media images of smoking. We
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  Speaker 1: parted outrageously and then trying to go back to work
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, like, what's wrong, what's wrong? What's wrong? All
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong? What's wrong? I can't. I can't be president
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