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Stephanie Humphrey, Charles Gregory, Dr. D. Ivan Young, Kimberly & Amaya Smith · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: what you're willing to do? What am I willing to do?
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Speaker 1: I'm willing to achieve my dreams. I'm willing to uh
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Speaker 1: make the goals that I put in place happen. I'm
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Speaker 1: willing to walk away from the first goal that I
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Speaker 1: I'm cool with that because his goals change once he's
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Speaker 1: the show money Making Conversation is all about, being recognized
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Speaker 1: as a source of information source. And my next guest
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Speaker 1: is truly an information source um for more than a
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Speaker 1: decade as an engineer at lock Keed Martin right there.
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Speaker 1: You know they're not hiring there, They're just not hiring
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Speaker 1: anybody locked Martin. Before embarking on a career field with
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Speaker 1: entertainment and tech talk, she decided to combine her background
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Speaker 1: and technology with her love and entertainment to become a
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Speaker 1: tech lifestyle expert. You have seen her own such shows
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Speaker 1: as Harry Carnick Jr. Good Morning America News One with
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Speaker 1: my man Rolling Martin. And now she's on my show
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Speaker 1: please again, because she was on my show in twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations. Stephanie Humphrey, Hello, how
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Speaker 1: are you? It's been like eighteen month. I looked, I
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Speaker 1: looked at my records. I went, I had you on
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Speaker 1: in November of twenty seventeen. Now we can't do that.
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Speaker 1: I know now. I think I distinctly say in our conversation,
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Speaker 1: I like you, you said you like me, you said
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Speaker 1: we're gonna come to my shoreline, and we got what
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Speaker 1: a year and five four months? Listen, I don't know
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Speaker 1: how it happened. We didn't happen no more. I'm just
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Speaker 1: taking I'm not taking the blame for that. Put it
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Speaker 1: on you're now you know you're texting because if you
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Speaker 1: take me, you have to contact people. You know, you
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Speaker 1: got all that, you got all blame it on you.
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Speaker 1: But but but a great thing about it is that
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Speaker 1: you're back on my show. And and it's important that
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Speaker 1: you know I was looking to this show, uh Spider Fight,
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Speaker 1: a web show, Girls and Spider web show and as
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Speaker 1: a movie last night, and it was about this girl
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Speaker 1: tattoo tattoo with him, and so it was all about tech.
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Speaker 1: You know, she she was turning on cars, she was
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Speaker 1: turning on she was controlling uh, she was controlling cameras
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Speaker 1: when she walked in a room. And so I said,
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Speaker 1: this is perfect prep for my interview with Stephanie the
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Speaker 1: day because this is high tech maxed out. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she was stealing Lamborghinis. You know, she's going She knew
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Speaker 1: how to program. So she's a hack hacker and very
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Speaker 1: talented hackers. So when I when I when I talked
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Speaker 1: to you about tech, what level of tech are you
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Speaker 1: talking about? When I bring you on my show? I
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Speaker 1: focused mainly on consumer technology, so the stuff that most
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Speaker 1: people care about. You know, there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: different areas that you could focus on. There's the whole
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Speaker 1: looking valley with startups and who got funding and what
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Speaker 1: series they and series B. There's there's you know, um,
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Speaker 1: hardcore research topics in AI and um you know, things
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Speaker 1: like that. But I like to focus on the things
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Speaker 1: that nine percent of the population actually cares about. You know,
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Speaker 1: what phone should I get? What apps should I download?
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Speaker 1: To save some money or save some time? Or be
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Speaker 1: more productive during my day. What can I do with
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Speaker 1: my social media to not get fired? Or how can
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Speaker 1: I have a conversation with my children so that they
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Speaker 1: don't get jammed up on Instagram? You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Just those those those real world, everyday things, because you know,
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Speaker 1: technology is everywhere we look, It's infused into all of
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Speaker 1: our daily lives. It changes constantly. So I try to
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Speaker 1: be the person that keeps up with it so that
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Speaker 1: you don't have to. Well, you do a fantastic job
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Speaker 1: of First of all, let's faith. The reason I excited
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Speaker 1: me about bringing on the show the first time was
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Speaker 1: a similar path. You know, I worked at IBM. Then
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Speaker 1: I woke up one day and I want you to
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Speaker 1: know something. I want to go tell jokes. I want
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Speaker 1: to be a comedian, wanted something else. But it was
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Speaker 1: a lot of fear tied to that same thing with you.
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Speaker 1: You've been a Lockeed engineer, Okay, you know that's that's
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Speaker 1: the career Lockkeeed, an engineered Lockkeeed. That's where you want
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Speaker 1: to be. You know, that's where you want to be.
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Speaker 1: And so how did you And just listen for my
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Speaker 1: listeners and people who are viewing us, on moneyment on Facebook? What? What? What?
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Speaker 1: What enabled you to make that decision that I was ready,
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Speaker 1: that you were ready God? Because I wasn't ready, but
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Speaker 1: God was ready. Uh So when when when he called?
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Speaker 1: I answered? And I did have a plan. So when
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Speaker 1: when I made the decision that you know what, this
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Speaker 1: is not for me, I want to go out here
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Speaker 1: and try to do this other thing, I did come
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Speaker 1: up with a plan, and it took me. It took
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Speaker 1: me about two years to actually leave. From the time
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Speaker 1: I decided to leave to actually walking out the door
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Speaker 1: for good. It took like two years because there was
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Speaker 1: a plan that I had in place where I wanted to, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, rearrange my financial situation, save some money, you
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Speaker 1: know that whole thing, get some more of those outside
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Speaker 1: gigs under my belt, regular clients. So I knew I
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Speaker 1: would be moving into a situation where I already had
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Speaker 1: work lined up. So you know, that whole process took
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Speaker 1: two years. And but once it was done, you know,
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Speaker 1: it was like, all right, well, I've I've met all
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Speaker 1: the targets that I said, so now it's time to go.
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Speaker 1: And it still was not without a ton of fear.
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Speaker 1: You know that that day, um, that that was my
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Speaker 1: last day. You know, it was just like it was.
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Speaker 1: It was very anxiety written and and and scary. But
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Speaker 1: you know, at some point you really do have today
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Speaker 1: say it as cliche, but you really do just have
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Speaker 1: to step out on faith, you really do. I remember
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Speaker 1: when I resigned from my BM, I did a year
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Speaker 1: in advance, so because it's it's if you're gonna try
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Speaker 1: to do it right, and you gotta, like you said,
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Speaker 1: there's faith, but there's also a plant tied to the faith.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, that's the one year and your situated was
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Speaker 1: two years, you know. So so I felt my exit
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Speaker 1: was a little bit quicker to yours because I felt that, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm ann book up these comedy dates and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go out there and just start telling these jokes. And
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Speaker 1: that's what I did. I just book a series of joke.
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Speaker 1: I had a manager at the time, and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden when I resigned, and all a sudden,
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Speaker 1: he decided he's gonna stop managing me. So I was
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Speaker 1: so again again, you just never know, there's nothing guaranteed,
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Speaker 1: at least a lot of pretty much that was a
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Speaker 1: guaranteed check and IBM, that was a guaranteed check. And
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Speaker 1: that's why I wanted people to hear that before we
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Speaker 1: started getting into the tech. Talk about decisions, decision that
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Speaker 1: you make, and people are sitting on the they're sitting
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Speaker 1: on the fence right now. I don't like this job.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I loved IBM, you know, and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you enjoyed working in a key, but that
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Speaker 1: just wasn't you. It just wasn't me. And I and
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Speaker 1: I saw or or he showed me what else there
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Speaker 1: was out there, how I could make a bigger impact,
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Speaker 1: help more people. And it's like, once you see it,
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Speaker 1: you can't. It's like like the matrix, like once you
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Speaker 1: take the red pill, you know what I mean, you can't.
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Speaker 1: You can't go back to being you know, in the
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Speaker 1: dark and and and ignorant about things. So it's like
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Speaker 1: once i' so it, it's like, Okay, this is what
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Speaker 1: I gotta do. So let's just let's go. Let's go
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Speaker 1: and do it. Let's talk about all this technology that
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Speaker 1: you know, opening your garage door from your phone. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Internet of Things as they call it. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: what when when is too much? Too much? Because listen,
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Speaker 1: I don't have any of that stuff in my house
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Speaker 1: because it's because of the privacy issues. None of it
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Speaker 1: is secure enough for me for my comfort level. None
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Speaker 1: of it is secure enough right now to have in
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Speaker 1: my house. And it's they're all listening to everything you do.
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Speaker 1: When you think about how much information that Amazon Echo
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Speaker 1: that Alexa has about you and the fact that it's
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Speaker 1: always listening, and there's been so many issues where you
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Speaker 1: know it has sent something you said to the wrong
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Speaker 1: person because it was capturing your conversation without you knowing
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Speaker 1: and different they're just it's just I just don't think
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Speaker 1: the technology is uh stable enough uh to ensure my
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Speaker 1: privacy and my security in my home. So you should
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Speaker 1: know once you have like an Alexa room, you know,
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Speaker 1: you just just ruin what Alexa's in. You know there's
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Speaker 1: Alexa right and and listening to airy thing. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you just wanted to do something, if you just wanted
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Speaker 1: to do something like you know, by smart lightbulbs and
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Speaker 1: and and connect them to your apps so you can
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Speaker 1: turn your lights on and off with like something like
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Speaker 1: that is not super um risky, but you do want
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Speaker 1: to have um like the router that's in your house,
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Speaker 1: that the that whoever you have your Internet through. You know,
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Speaker 1: they brought that that little box into your house that
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Speaker 1: you connect your WiFi. UM, you want to make sure
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Speaker 1: that that password is really really strong because that's how
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Speaker 1: hackers get into all of those connected devices. Like when
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Speaker 1: you hear, especially when you hear about UM connected toys
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Speaker 1: especially and those baby monitors and babies room where people
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Speaker 1: have hacked those baby monitors and they're like watching your
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Speaker 1: kids or listening in on your kids and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: That's because the security of those devices is so um low.
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Speaker 1: That and then and then the security on your router
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Speaker 1: that that has your WiFi, your password on your router
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Speaker 1: isn't good, isn't strong, so they it makes it really
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Speaker 1: easy for them to get in. So you know, when
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Speaker 1: you when you have something like I said, as a
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Speaker 1: connected light bulb, maybe a nest thermostat, you know people
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Speaker 1: like those thermostats now that you can control, just make
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Speaker 1: sure that the password on the router that gives your
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Speaker 1: house it's Wi Fi is really really strong. Uh. I
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Speaker 1: know we run into closing out the show on time here,
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Speaker 1: but I want to share this story. Uh Stephanie UM,
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Speaker 1: when I got my arm my camera set on my house.
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Speaker 1: They had to go through. The tech guy came by
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Speaker 1: and they had to they had to find my house,
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Speaker 1: you know, through their system. And he went about, he
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Speaker 1: went through by ten homes. That's at you. That's not me, dude.
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Speaker 1: And I went I saw it like my tent home.
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Speaker 1: I saw a couple of pocket parking lots, a couple
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Speaker 1: of side some stories. So know that when you allow
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Speaker 1: people to turn on these cameras, they could come to
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Speaker 1: your house and just peeping tom if they want. And
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a convenience. We love it, but it's
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Speaker 1: but it's it's a risk to It's a risk too,
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Speaker 1: and and some people should understand that. So my all,
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Speaker 1: my all, my cameras face outside. There's no I don't
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Speaker 1: have a camera side of my house. You're not gonna
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Speaker 1: see me doing nothing crazy one day, you know, coming
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Speaker 1: to the door. Other than that, that's you can't see
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Speaker 1: what's happening inside the house outside. That got you unlocked.
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Speaker 1: That okay, that's def I think we run it out
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Speaker 1: of time here again. I want to bring you back
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Speaker 1: on the show just a year next year. This is
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Speaker 1: a crazy this is I'm just talking to you and
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Speaker 1: we've went through this like twenty minutes of talk time here.
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Speaker 1: This is amazing. So we know that our relationship is
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Speaker 1: eighteen Can I bring you on like every quarter every
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Speaker 1: couple of six absolutely, absolutely, whatever you need. Okay, good,
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Speaker 1: and first of all you've been consistent, and first of all,
18:17
Speaker 1: you know you under you understand the value of a
18:20
Speaker 1: relationship because you know that's what makes you successful long
18:23
Speaker 1: term and a lot of people don't understand that a
18:25
Speaker 1: relationship that you know, the old people tell you that
18:28
Speaker 1: don't don't mess up up, don't mess up there. You
18:30
Speaker 1: might have to come back and say hello, You might
18:33
Speaker 1: have to say hi, You might have to drive down
18:35
Speaker 1: that street again, might have walked through that front do again.
18:38
Speaker 1: Don't get kicked out the back because they won't let
18:40
Speaker 1: you in the front. No, mo, that's what that's what
18:43
Speaker 1: we're having the winning careers and you have a winning career.
18:46
Speaker 1: That when I when I talk about motivation that what
18:48
Speaker 1: did the reality check doctor come from? Doctor? Uh? Being honest?
18:54
Speaker 1: That I was having dinner with the producer from CNN
18:58
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and they were, you know, we were we've
19:01
Speaker 1: been talking to several networks over the last several months
19:05
Speaker 1: about where I put what where can I go? That's
19:09
Speaker 1: a good fit. And the lady said to me, she said, well,
19:12
Speaker 1: you know, we love what you do, but we don't
19:15
Speaker 1: know what to call it. I mean, what do we
19:17
Speaker 1: call it? And we set there for a minute and
19:19
Speaker 1: she said, you know, I've looked at videos a reader
19:23
Speaker 1: content she says this, that's like you just give people
19:25
Speaker 1: a reality checking right when she said it. The alarm
19:29
Speaker 1: went off, and I mean, this is I'm gonna tell
19:31
Speaker 1: you all. Don't do what I did. But my country
19:34
Speaker 1: behind Rashawn was tempting Daylen mack up under the table.
19:38
Speaker 1: I need you to file a trademark registration on the
19:42
Speaker 1: Reality Check Doctor, and it's been uh something that would
19:46
Speaker 1: Now we do have a trademark on it, and uh
19:49
Speaker 1: you know like that lady said people need to get
19:52
Speaker 1: you in one sentence and I think that's not a sentence,
19:55
Speaker 1: but it's a phrase and it works. I love it.
19:58
Speaker 1: But guess what, that's reality of how this business worked.
20:01
Speaker 1: Because you put it out in the in the usually
20:03
Speaker 1: it's just a space. Now to put it on the internet. Now,
20:06
Speaker 1: to put it on social media and it's not trademark
20:09
Speaker 1: or copyrighted. Somebody gonna do it now. You know, you
20:12
Speaker 1: put a little phrase, it sounds good, you better go
20:14
Speaker 1: online and turn that into a domain and on it.
20:17
Speaker 1: I remember that it was so funny when Steve Harvey,
20:20
Speaker 1: I was producing, I was using this show. He shouted out,
20:24
Speaker 1: I got my fan club named Steve Harvey Nation. He
20:28
Speaker 1: just said Steve Harvey Nation, and I said, Steve Stock,
20:32
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey nation. That's nameed my fan club before I
20:36
Speaker 1: was eight, within fifteen minutes of him saying that somebody
20:40
Speaker 1: bought the domain, and then I said, we want to
20:43
Speaker 1: We want a hundred thousand dollars if we wanted to buy. Yeah,
20:49
Speaker 1: so we had the name s H Nation. We had
20:52
Speaker 1: to call it s H Nation because somebody bought Steve
20:54
Speaker 1: Harvy Nation. So so don't say country when you talk
20:58
Speaker 1: about us under the table typing texting. Jay Len was
21:01
Speaker 1: a renowned trademark lawyer, and uh, that only does all
21:04
Speaker 1: my trademarks. She's outstanding. She wrote a book on trademarks,
21:08
Speaker 1: and so she's a person that you should go to
21:10
Speaker 1: if you're doing it. You know, you gotta tell people
21:12
Speaker 1: these relationships because every trademark I ever did with Steve Harvey,
21:15
Speaker 1: I did it through Jay learning Mac And so when
21:17
Speaker 1: he was talking about under the table texting and now
21:19
Speaker 1: he says, hey, our own reality check doctor, that's how
21:23
Speaker 1: you have to do it. I'm just letting you know,
21:24
Speaker 1: don't let it. Don't don't don't act like that's a joke,
21:26
Speaker 1: and that don't don't say it's a country or it's
21:29
Speaker 1: a business, and people will take away your dreams if
21:32
Speaker 1: you don't control them and put them in place on
21:34
Speaker 1: the right, on the right style. Now, when they said
21:36
Speaker 1: provocative teaching style, what does that mean, Dr Young? Well,
21:42
Speaker 1: being honest, man, I think that there's a lot of
21:47
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bs out there. And when I
21:50
Speaker 1: say bs, I mean with the bull left in the barnyard.
21:54
Speaker 1: And these people come out with all of these uh
21:59
Speaker 1: catch phrases, name it and claim it the law of
22:02
Speaker 1: attraction if you just visualize it, well, you visualize all
22:06
Speaker 1: you don't day longs, you don't get off your button,
22:09
Speaker 1: you know. And and then many of us we are
22:13
Speaker 1: so good at lying to not other people, even sometimes
22:17
Speaker 1: we allow to ourselves to them. Much so if you
22:20
Speaker 1: continue not being said the reality of of what it
22:27
Speaker 1: takes to make it, you know, like this show money
22:29
Speaker 1: making Conversations, That's just what this is. It's a money
22:32
Speaker 1: making conversation. And when I talk to people, and well,
22:36
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a Ted talker, if my
22:38
Speaker 1: best Ted talks of me just sitting up talking to
22:41
Speaker 1: her brother or sister one on one at an airport,
22:44
Speaker 1: in a gym or whatever. But the one thing that
22:47
Speaker 1: I wise people need is the truth. And when somebody
22:51
Speaker 1: tells you. I remember you said this is Steve said
22:55
Speaker 1: this in an interview one day, both of you that
22:58
Speaker 1: you know, if you tell somebody you're an actor and
23:00
Speaker 1: they said, well, where are you performing and you say nowhere,
23:04
Speaker 1: You're got no dog actor, you're lying. I mean, okay
23:14
Speaker 1: with Steve stated, but I know for a fact, man,
23:17
Speaker 1: that is if you don't have someone telling you you
23:22
Speaker 1: know what, man, you can't sing, you might be able
23:25
Speaker 1: to write some lyrics. Damn saying no singer. You may
23:28
Speaker 1: be great at writing a screw, but you're not no actor.
23:32
Speaker 1: And that's what I try to do in my practice
23:34
Speaker 1: and in my speaking is to get people to pull
23:37
Speaker 1: their heads out there butts and realize that if you're
23:40
Speaker 1: gonna make it out here, and especially in America or
23:43
Speaker 1: in the UK, or you know, anywhere on North American condent,
23:47
Speaker 1: you better bring it. And by being honest, transparent and authentic.
23:53
Speaker 1: But more than anything else, I practice what I preach.
23:56
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by giving someone an unfettered conversation.
24:00
Speaker 1: I'm Jason. You're listening to the Reality check doctor. That's
24:04
Speaker 1: Dr d Ivan Young. Are the Houston Texas um one
24:08
Speaker 1: of the true uh When I listen to listen to it,
24:11
Speaker 1: I always feel like I listening to Dr Field. Here's
24:13
Speaker 1: that Dr Field type tone. And I know that a
24:17
Speaker 1: talk show has to be any work. Come on, now,
24:19
Speaker 1: I saw you standing next to uh buying Allen in
24:22
Speaker 1: the photo on social media? It can you can you
24:26
Speaker 1: reveal anything to his doctor? Well, I can just say this,
24:30
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate to have a guy named David Pozi
24:33
Speaker 1: who is taking an interest in me. Uh. And and
24:36
Speaker 1: I think it was Byron Pits. I want to meet
24:38
Speaker 1: Byron Allen. So you're being prophetic because Jayleen and I
24:41
Speaker 1: were talking about Byron Allen yesterday, but you know it
24:45
Speaker 1: was Byron Pits I think from ABC's Nightline p anchor.
24:51
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we're talking to
24:52
Speaker 1: those guys. Uh. My publicist is talking to some people
24:57
Speaker 1: out in Hollywood. At the end of the day. Our
25:01
Speaker 1: number one goal is I need I would. I need
25:04
Speaker 1: to be somewhere where they're not gonna totally tell me
25:06
Speaker 1: what to do, and they're they're not gonna do a
25:09
Speaker 1: bamboozled thing with my content. Where one thing I've learned
25:13
Speaker 1: from you is remained true to your brand. So I'm
25:17
Speaker 1: not gonna do. I'm not gonna mention this person's name,
25:20
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna do something. What's wrong And you're
25:23
Speaker 1: crying and I made you trying. Now you're gonna be
25:26
Speaker 1: better type show. Anything that we're gonna do, it's gonna
25:29
Speaker 1: be transformational, it's gonna be real, and it's gonna be
25:33
Speaker 1: relatable to the American public. If we can't do it
25:37
Speaker 1: that way and maintain the integrity, I'll just wait because
25:40
Speaker 1: God's gonna open the right door. I don't want to
25:42
Speaker 1: go through the wrong one. Thank you, doctor, I appreciate you.
25:45
Speaker 1: Definitely gonna have you back on the show The Reality
25:47
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Speaker 1: My next two guests are best friends. They have the
29:18
Speaker 1: same last night. They're best friends who noticed a beauty
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Speaker 1: gap towards women of color and not too many big
29:25
Speaker 1: name retail stories care products that cater to women of color.
29:28
Speaker 1: Just spirit true. I have six so I'm kind of
29:31
Speaker 1: like an authority on women of color when you have
29:33
Speaker 1: six sisters. Okay, five of them, four of them older
29:35
Speaker 1: than me. So I've been seeing a lot of women
29:37
Speaker 1: of color in my life. The Brown Beauty co Op
29:41
Speaker 1: is the brown child of Kimberly and a Maya. Kimberly
29:43
Speaker 1: Hells from Philly, but called DC har home. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: to money making conversations. Kimberly and a Maya Smith, thank you,
29:51
Speaker 1: thank you for having our hang. You know, I had
29:53
Speaker 1: to get that out, you know, so both so we're talking.
29:56
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a couple of East Coast ladies. Yes
29:59
Speaker 1: you are, that's okay. Let me get to look at
30:03
Speaker 1: the voices. So Maya, can you can you say something?
30:06
Speaker 1: I'm a Maya, good morning, good to be on okay, Kimberly, Hi,
30:12
Speaker 1: this is Kimberly, good morning. A little bit more energy
30:15
Speaker 1: right there. Kimberly was way up there. You know she's
30:17
Speaker 1: on coffee. She's on coffee, alright, Maya. You know she's
30:21
Speaker 1: down there doing her thing. You know, how did you
30:24
Speaker 1: guys meet? First of all, let's get to the relationship,
30:26
Speaker 1: because it's a relationship that started with a friendship. There
30:29
Speaker 1: now as a business relationship, and it's always interested. I
30:32
Speaker 1: remember when I had my comedy club, I had family,
30:34
Speaker 1: and when you're working with friends and families, always a
30:36
Speaker 1: dynamic that can be great or as a dynamic be
30:40
Speaker 1: a struggle. In this situation has been very successful. How
30:43
Speaker 1: did you two meet? Sure? Well, it was about seven
30:46
Speaker 1: years ago. We met at a sorority meeting. We are
30:50
Speaker 1: both a K and yeah, yeah, so that at a
30:58
Speaker 1: graduate chapter meeting and at the time we were just
31:02
Speaker 1: you know, we were looking for a girlfriend that was
31:05
Speaker 1: interested in um, maybe happy hour or something, and it
31:09
Speaker 1: turns from a social just like let's need to a
31:13
Speaker 1: friendship to travel partners, and that blossoms and to best
31:17
Speaker 1: friends and then that turned into this now this new
31:20
Speaker 1: business partnership. Now, okay, first of all, I love the
31:25
Speaker 1: fact for something memorial, make sci fi. That's why I
31:28
Speaker 1: just dove right on it with just key week, you know,
31:30
Speaker 1: thinking I had to go and let you guys know,
31:33
Speaker 1: I know, I know the lingo yea, And so it's
31:37
Speaker 1: it's great because like I said that that sorority or
31:39
Speaker 1: fraternal relationship can create that initial bond. You have a
31:43
Speaker 1: similar call, a similar passion. You're about to community. You're
31:47
Speaker 1: about uh a certain everybody, every certain type of people.
31:51
Speaker 1: Pledge organizations usually leads to a professional lifestyle to have
31:55
Speaker 1: a level of academic accomplimation in college. Because everybody just
31:59
Speaker 1: can't pledge. We need to get that cleared up to everybody.
32:01
Speaker 1: You just can't walk up to I want to be
32:02
Speaker 1: a member of a K eight, you can't do that.
32:05
Speaker 1: And so so so, like I said, it initially started
32:08
Speaker 1: out to be in a social opportunity. What did what
32:12
Speaker 1: did the business aspect take off? Was it just to
32:15
Speaker 1: like minded, like minded individuals coming together I think Kimberly
32:21
Speaker 1: actually brought up the partnership initially, but we both kind
32:26
Speaker 1: of had similar ideas and started talking about our ideas together.
32:31
Speaker 1: Kim started a business online catering towards women of color
32:35
Speaker 1: featuring beauty products, and I had always wanted to start
32:39
Speaker 1: a natural hair product store where women could go in
32:42
Speaker 1: person and get products in store and get information and
32:46
Speaker 1: get community and learn about their hair. Together and then
32:50
Speaker 1: sort of chatting about our separate businesses, we realized, oh,
32:54
Speaker 1: this might actually make more sense together um. And I
32:58
Speaker 1: think Kim has talked about this before and other interviews.
33:01
Speaker 1: A lot of entrepreneurs think, oh, I'll just go it alone.
33:05
Speaker 1: I've got this great idea, I'll do it by myself.
33:08
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out, and they don't realize that they
33:11
Speaker 1: might have a resource in partnering with somebody else who
33:14
Speaker 1: has a similar idea, who's like minded, who can also
33:18
Speaker 1: share the burden and also share the financing um and
33:22
Speaker 1: also share the idea and creation of the business and
33:25
Speaker 1: so UM. I think Kim sort of generated the conversation,
33:29
Speaker 1: but when she mentioned it, I was like, Okay, that
33:31
Speaker 1: would make sense. And frankly, we're two businesses and one,
33:34
Speaker 1: so we also split the rent. So about when people
33:40
Speaker 1: is important. You know, retail is very expensive to get
33:44
Speaker 1: into a storefront, and so thinking about whether or not
33:47
Speaker 1: you can partner with somebody will help. UM will help
33:51
Speaker 1: with finances as well, and so uh, we just combined
33:55
Speaker 1: ideas and you know, lo and behold. We started in
33:59
Speaker 1: March of last year thinking about it, and by December
34:02
Speaker 1: we opened our own business. I'm gonna tell you something.
34:05
Speaker 1: Let me just give a little history on me and
34:07
Speaker 1: haircare women haircare because I started a hair caroline I
34:11
Speaker 1: thought I could. It was called Perfect Hair and and
34:14
Speaker 1: so I jumped out there with with the hairpieces Brazilian
34:18
Speaker 1: and uh, I thought that, hey, I'm popular, I got
34:22
Speaker 1: a popular brand. I should be able to sell. And
34:26
Speaker 1: we did sell, but it just didn't. It just didn't involved.
34:29
Speaker 1: And I want to say that because I felt that
34:31
Speaker 1: because we didn't have the relationship. And that's why I
34:34
Speaker 1: wanted to bring UM YouTube on the on the phone
34:37
Speaker 1: and talk about that relationship. Because I thought I had
34:40
Speaker 1: to model for success. I had the top hand to
34:42
Speaker 1: be able to talk about it. I had the finances
34:45
Speaker 1: to be able to fund it, and I brought in
34:48
Speaker 1: the top manager to manage it, but it was something
34:50
Speaker 1: missing in there. And then you said every Shan she
34:53
Speaker 1: had the background and it was all right to split.
34:56
Speaker 1: But also you guys had a common thought because this
34:59
Speaker 1: also was a path ship project. Correct. Yeah, yeah, and
35:02
Speaker 1: I were mentioned everything that you had. I'm like that
35:05
Speaker 1: we didn't have any of those things for the most part.
35:08
Speaker 1: But but what we did have and what we do
35:12
Speaker 1: have that you were hit the nail on the head,
35:14
Speaker 1: is that passion. Um, we're approaching us, you know one
35:17
Speaker 1: as business on us, but we're also approaching it as consumers.
35:20
Speaker 1: What is it that we want to see? And what
35:23
Speaker 1: did we what we're not seeing in the market that
35:25
Speaker 1: we knew ourselves, women that we know, women that we
35:29
Speaker 1: come across, what is it that they were wanting? And
35:32
Speaker 1: as we were creating what this store was going to be,
35:35
Speaker 1: we realized that we needed it to be more than
35:37
Speaker 1: just a retail space. It really needed to be a
35:40
Speaker 1: community space, a space where we are supporting other businesses.
35:45
Speaker 1: But we really brought our passion and consumers. We brought
35:49
Speaker 1: that to the forefront. Yeah. Because it was just money
35:51
Speaker 1: to me, you know, it was about seeing the opportunity
35:53
Speaker 1: to make money and I were just telling you not
35:55
Speaker 1: really understanding the brand, not really understanding the little things
36:00
Speaker 1: so that motivate women, to motivate put that your buyers
36:04
Speaker 1: to extend beyond. Just because it was the online you know,
36:08
Speaker 1: So we were online so we didn't have to we
36:10
Speaker 1: didn't open the store and anything. So I got a
36:12
Speaker 1: got a great website built out that we were ready.
36:15
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to point that out the individuals
36:17
Speaker 1: who listened to the shows that you can have all
36:19
Speaker 1: those tools, all those elements in place, but if you
36:22
Speaker 1: don't do the homework and you don't have the passion,
36:25
Speaker 1: it can equally fold up just as quickly as it
36:27
Speaker 1: was launched. True. Yeah, I think that's really right. And
36:32
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, every day that I'm in
36:35
Speaker 1: the store, I love being in the store, Like I'm
36:39
Speaker 1: almost like as bad as a consumer in my own store. Myself.
36:44
Speaker 1: I try to prevent prevent myself from shopping in my
36:47
Speaker 1: own store because I just I just have fun in there.
36:51
Speaker 1: UM And I think we created an experience that we
36:54
Speaker 1: always wanted to have. UM And we both really love beauty,
36:58
Speaker 1: and so it's not a hard dream and it's not
37:00
Speaker 1: a hard hard thing for us to do because it's
37:04
Speaker 1: something that we really both enjoy and that makes it
37:08
Speaker 1: that makes it that much easier. So basically built this
37:10
Speaker 1: on what you want, you know, this is what I
37:12
Speaker 1: want to experience when I walk in the store, and
37:14
Speaker 1: that's missing correct. Oh yes, yes, yes, I mean it's
37:17
Speaker 1: almost sounds kind of selfish, but yes, like what we
37:20
Speaker 1: want to see, you know, and like this earlier when
37:24
Speaker 1: she comes and she's so excited, I'm the same way too.
37:27
Speaker 1: So when I'm looking around, I'm just I want to
37:29
Speaker 1: shop there, Like I use everything that's in that store.
37:32
Speaker 1: We personally use it as well. So this isn't and
37:36
Speaker 1: that's another difference. This is not a store where it
37:38
Speaker 1: is where there's a disconnect, where we're selling products that
37:40
Speaker 1: we don't need ourselves, Like we use these products, and
37:43
Speaker 1: when you come in and ask questions, we're giving you
37:46
Speaker 1: a response based on our personal experience and our personal
37:49
Speaker 1: love for the products and the brand and the people
37:52
Speaker 1: behind the brand. We are very intentional on the brands
37:55
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37:59
Speaker 1: brand stories and we connect to the Brown founders, so
38:02
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38:04
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38:08
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Speaker 1: to it. Let me issue this. So when you're doing
38:23
Speaker 1: these demos, do you ever do Facebook live or periscope
38:26
Speaker 1: when you're doing these demos in your stores? Yeah? So
38:30
Speaker 1: we did. Yeah, yeah, we did do an I ke
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Speaker 1: live and we're going to continue to do more of
38:35
Speaker 1: that because that's hot. That's you know, because first of all,
38:40
Speaker 1: I wanted experience. Here's my whole thing is that you know,
38:44
Speaker 1: I'm a talent. I do camera. I still going television,
38:47
Speaker 1: so I'm always looking for makeup, you know, skin tones
38:50
Speaker 1: and things like that. So if I come into your store,
38:53
Speaker 1: I can go look look at my face? What what
38:55
Speaker 1: kind of code? Dog spot to make my bags to disappear?
38:59
Speaker 1: So I can walk into But if you can make
39:02
Speaker 1: I'm going, I'm there tomorrow. And so get that question
39:07
Speaker 1: every day, Okay when you get it from Rushan and
39:10
Speaker 1: McDonald because because either things. So when I walk in
39:14
Speaker 1: the store, I said high this Rashaan, Look, I'm doing television.
39:18
Speaker 1: How can you really make my skin blend? I got
39:21
Speaker 1: the ball head? How can I do this myself and
39:23
Speaker 1: I hire a professional? What would happen next? So? Yeah,
39:31
Speaker 1: if you're looking for UM a cosmetic product to cover
39:34
Speaker 1: something up, or if you're looking for a skin to
39:36
Speaker 1: your regiment, we're going to walk you through that. I'm
39:38
Speaker 1: gonna ask you questions about your skin type, what type
39:41
Speaker 1: prices are you currently using UM? So we can really
39:46
Speaker 1: tell our recommendations to something that we feel is going
39:49
Speaker 1: to work. So everything is tailored to you. Although you
39:53
Speaker 1: know we want to make that sale, I don't want to.
39:56
Speaker 1: I don't want someone walking out and then coming back
39:58
Speaker 1: to me it. Look, did you listen? We know how
40:09
Speaker 1: we Okay, guy talking bad about us in the streets. Okay,
40:15
Speaker 1: So you want to make sure that we are having
40:18
Speaker 1: a real genuine conversation and you want to sell, but
40:22
Speaker 1: we don't want to sell you something that we don't
40:24
Speaker 1: believe is going to work for you. Well, I love
40:27
Speaker 1: talking to both of you. Please tell me where you're
40:29
Speaker 1: located at in DC because I'm a DC every Wednesday.
40:32
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make a point of it to trying
40:34
Speaker 1: to drop out of your store. How on by We're
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40:44
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41:00
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41:03
Speaker 1: thank you guys for coming on, ladies for coming on
41:05
Speaker 1: the show. Accept and I'm not kidding. I'm in DC
41:08
Speaker 1: every week. I have an office down in the Navy
41:10
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41:13
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41:15
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41:22
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41:24
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41:26
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41:28
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41:31
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43:24
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43:26
Speaker 1: first of all, let's let's consider ourselves friends. Because I
43:30
Speaker 1: developed this show, um kind of you know, I stopped
43:33
Speaker 1: managing Steve Harvey, trying to find my voice and I
43:36
Speaker 1: almost two years ago I launched the show and it
43:38
Speaker 1: was just celebrity driven, all my friends and the injury.
43:41
Speaker 1: And then one day I told my staff, ago, what
43:44
Speaker 1: is this show? Why am I doing this show? And
43:46
Speaker 1: now that's the show about giving the voice to entrepreneurs
43:49
Speaker 1: that they can count on, they can trust that when
43:51
Speaker 1: they come on my show. And now that it's a
43:53
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43:56
Speaker 1: who are trying to travel the path that you've you
43:59
Speaker 1: you've built. That's very that's very good because people need
44:02
Speaker 1: that you know, we need mentors, and UM, you know
44:06
Speaker 1: I'm into mentorship because I I I'm educated as well. UM.
44:11
Speaker 1: I was educated for Soft Sheen Carson for like ten years.
44:14
Speaker 1: I was an artistic director with them as well. So
44:17
Speaker 1: I worked in research and development with MAZONI Soft help
44:21
Speaker 1: helped develop that product. So and I went around the
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Speaker 1: country teaching stylists. So I did that early in the
44:27
Speaker 1: early part of my career and teaching them different haircutting techniques,
44:31
Speaker 1: UH and how to use the product properly. For Soft
44:35
Speaker 1: Sheen AMAZONI and UH I helped to create a lot
44:38
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44:42
Speaker 1: Bo Care Free Curl. So I you know, I was
44:44
Speaker 1: instrumental in uh you know health health and yeah, exactly
44:49
Speaker 1: helping to UH to bring bring that into the forefront
44:53
Speaker 1: of the African American UH heritage for for for our
44:58
Speaker 1: culture as far as but the hair in thirty or
45:00
Speaker 1: five years, that means you went through a lot of
45:02
Speaker 1: different you know, the Afro, the bridge, the soft Sheen
45:08
Speaker 1: look exact that dominated. So what's what style now? The
45:12
Speaker 1: natural style that's the dominant tone. Even though you know
45:16
Speaker 1: people still out there getting perms and getting their hair straight.
45:19
Speaker 1: What what? What? What's happening now there in the world
45:21
Speaker 1: of hair in the world here. Now you know, it's
45:24
Speaker 1: the natural look, but you know, wigs are the thing now.
45:28
Speaker 1: It's like, uh, what's that rapper that I just got
45:32
Speaker 1: out of jail? Meek meek milk. You know, he's kind
45:35
Speaker 1: of complained about the wigs because the women are wearing
45:37
Speaker 1: all these lace weeks. These guys don't know that they
45:40
Speaker 1: have wings on because they look so real, you know.
45:42
Speaker 1: So you know when they get him in the in
45:44
Speaker 1: the room, in the bedroom, and they start wanting their
45:46
Speaker 1: hands in their hair, and then they start feeling this
45:49
Speaker 1: glue and all this stuff, and you know, they think,
45:51
Speaker 1: oh my god, what is this. So you know, it's
45:53
Speaker 1: like it's a lot of when wearing wigs because they're
45:55
Speaker 1: very convenient and they look good. They can make them sexy.
45:58
Speaker 1: What what made them? What made a transition? Because my
46:01
Speaker 1: mom wore with how it happened? Happened it? Um, you know,
46:06
Speaker 1: women have been wearing lace wigs since the thirties, and
46:10
Speaker 1: I've been actually doing lace weeks in the movie industry
46:13
Speaker 1: since the nineties early nineties, and it kind of caught
46:16
Speaker 1: on after I think tywer banks and be honestly kind
46:20
Speaker 1: of let the cat out of the bag because their
46:23
Speaker 1: their hairstyles put laces wiggs on them and they looked incredible,
46:27
Speaker 1: and women want to know, oh my god, a woman
46:29
Speaker 1: hair to look like that because it was blowing in
46:31
Speaker 1: the wind, you could see scalp and it looked like
46:33
Speaker 1: it was going out of this scalp. So they wanted
46:37
Speaker 1: that and so it created such a demand. So that's
46:40
Speaker 1: what people want now. And because when you put a
46:42
Speaker 1: lace wig on and you glue it on properly, it
46:45
Speaker 1: looks like it's going out of your scalp. Okay a male,
46:48
Speaker 1: so helping when you say the word glue it on,
46:51
Speaker 1: well you have to what they do. It comes with
46:54
Speaker 1: a very fine lace that you can see through, and
46:57
Speaker 1: they take one hair at a time and they when
47:00
Speaker 1: they do what you call ventilate. If we ventilate the
47:02
Speaker 1: hair through that lace so that it matches your skin tone,
47:06
Speaker 1: they died and they died to look at your skin toe.
47:08
Speaker 1: So when you when we glue it, it's a clear
47:10
Speaker 1: glue and it dries and it clear. It's clear and
47:13
Speaker 1: it and it's like it looks like your skin. So
47:16
Speaker 1: when we when we glue it to your like forehead,
47:18
Speaker 1: it looks like it's hair growing out of your skin,
47:20
Speaker 1: so it's it just mimics your skin and hair, so
47:24
Speaker 1: it looks like like like you might have gotten hair.
47:27
Speaker 1: Well you don't have. If you got and don't have edges,
47:29
Speaker 1: you can you can just have edges. Now, my next
47:31
Speaker 1: courtion will be can you wear that? Usually it was
47:37
Speaker 1: designed to wear it like put it on, take it
47:39
Speaker 1: off in the movie industry, but with the commercial success
47:43
Speaker 1: of these wigs, they've gotten so many different glues that
47:47
Speaker 1: you can wear it for a week to two weeks
47:49
Speaker 1: without taking it off. Now because they've made they've made
47:53
Speaker 1: better glues. They've got adhesives that that doesn't damage your's
47:58
Speaker 1: your skin and your hair and it doesn't you know,
48:01
Speaker 1: they've they've made make better goose surgical adhesives that will
48:04
Speaker 1: hold for like two weeks, and you just take it off,
48:08
Speaker 1: you know, go to the salon, have it removed, have
48:10
Speaker 1: your wig, shampoo clean the wig, have it reglued, and
48:13
Speaker 1: you set for another two weeks. We'll tell us about
48:15
Speaker 1: your wig collection. Okay, cool, Well you know my weird collection.
48:21
Speaker 1: What I did? I mean, everybody's doing wigs but you know,
48:24
Speaker 1: I wanted to do wigs that were, um going to
48:27
Speaker 1: be custom, and um, I like to do wigs that
48:32
Speaker 1: are custom hairline because sometimes the hairline on on the
48:35
Speaker 1: wigs that manufacturers make, they don't match our hairlines. They're
48:40
Speaker 1: sometimes they're like really straight hairlines, and they don't look real. Uh,
48:44
Speaker 1: they don't have widow speaks, they don't have the temple
48:46
Speaker 1: area is not matching, and certain things that these little nuances,
48:51
Speaker 1: it makes it not look real. And I I like,
48:55
Speaker 1: I like hair to look real. And so a lot
48:56
Speaker 1: of times what I do with some of my wigs is, um,
48:59
Speaker 1: I will eventually late uh kinky hair around the edges.
49:04
Speaker 1: And what I do is because you know, nobody's hairs
49:07
Speaker 1: bones straight, especially I especially black women. You know, they
49:10
Speaker 1: got they got edges and well it's baby hair or
49:14
Speaker 1: some of them, but some of them got edges. Now
49:16
Speaker 1: you know some of these women got edges. They got
49:18
Speaker 1: they got that who makes you stuff? You know, it's
49:21
Speaker 1: like jack, So you know you gotta you gotta do
49:24
Speaker 1: with that. And they have a lot of kinky textures.
49:27
Speaker 1: You know, some of these women got these kinky textures
49:29
Speaker 1: and they want to put this European hairy and it
49:31
Speaker 1: doesn't match. So I like using different textures, like using
49:35
Speaker 1: the kinky texture, like put kinky edges in, And what
49:37
Speaker 1: I do is I put them in, but I used
49:38
Speaker 1: the pressing home to press them, so it makes it
49:40
Speaker 1: look real there. So that's that's that's that's where I do.
49:43
Speaker 1: That almost feels custom. It is custom. So when you
49:47
Speaker 1: get those kinky edges and you put that presson home on,
49:50
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna look like, okay, it looks like
49:52
Speaker 1: your edges. You ain't gotta do the baby hand okay,
49:55
Speaker 1: because it's gonna look like you're real edges. And if
49:57
Speaker 1: you start to perspire them things, they're gonna start kicking
49:59
Speaker 1: out like you you know, it really takes it to
50:03
Speaker 1: another level. It makes it look more authentic. That's that's
50:07
Speaker 1: a vision. Okay. Now when when when you ever you
50:10
Speaker 1: start a vision, people always question, why are you gonna
50:13
Speaker 1: do that? Just what everybody else is doing? How did
50:16
Speaker 1: you walk through that? Well? You know what, it's just
50:18
Speaker 1: like I was doing. I've been doing weeks in movies.
50:21
Speaker 1: UM and I did UM this show with to Sheina
50:25
Speaker 1: Arnold and she was she was wearing a wig and
50:29
Speaker 1: the wig was so straight. I said, now I need
50:31
Speaker 1: this this this this week, like it's going out of
50:33
Speaker 1: her scalp. So I, uh, I wanted to skinky hair,
50:37
Speaker 1: and I ventilated some skinky hair around her edges and
50:39
Speaker 1: then I started to pressing and it made it look
50:41
Speaker 1: more real and I started to use that. Uh, it
50:45
Speaker 1: was a show, Um, it was my showtime. What was
50:48
Speaker 1: the show I did with her? It was? What was
50:53
Speaker 1: that show? Hime? It was Stars Survive's remorse? I did
50:58
Speaker 1: that with your show Survivor was Morris? I did that
51:01
Speaker 1: were And so she wore the wig and uh, basically
51:04
Speaker 1: I wanted it to look like her hair. And I
51:08
Speaker 1: was a fan of that show. Yeah, so you saw it.
51:10
Speaker 1: I saw it. I saw it. So what I did
51:12
Speaker 1: and she was always so I just wanted I didn't
51:17
Speaker 1: want it to look like a wig. And I did
51:19
Speaker 1: that for Erica ashe as well, So she had a
51:21
Speaker 1: wig on too, but it was a blond wig. So
51:23
Speaker 1: I did that for her too, so just so that,
51:26
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't want them to look like the
51:28
Speaker 1: regular Thank you, thank you very much, because I especially Eric,
51:33
Speaker 1: you know, I thought she just died her hair. Yeah,
51:35
Speaker 1: and that was a wig. Thank you. And then I
51:37
Speaker 1: also did did a wig on epayth the Murkerson when
51:40
Speaker 1: I did a Lack of Wanna Blues. I don't know
51:42
Speaker 1: if you remember that movie for HBO. Yeah, I did that,
51:44
Speaker 1: and that's what movie I've nominated for an Emmy four.
51:47
Speaker 1: And I wanted the texture to look like it was
51:50
Speaker 1: back in the day. I didn't want to look like
51:53
Speaker 1: a wig. I wanted to look like natural, you know,
51:55
Speaker 1: black woman's hair. So the textures I used for that wig,
51:59
Speaker 1: and then the the hair that I used, you know,
52:02
Speaker 1: it looked like it was pressed hair. So so we
52:04
Speaker 1: were talking about wigs. Okay, and you have a you
52:07
Speaker 1: have a location right shoot that the wig is online? Yeah,
52:15
Speaker 1: I have. I have a website. It's called the Renowned
52:18
Speaker 1: Weird Collection dot com. That's that's perfect for you, rewn
52:21
Speaker 1: Weird Collection. I would think of no other name now.
52:24
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you where I got that name from. Actually,
52:27
Speaker 1: my friend Vincent that's sitting over there. He started working
52:31
Speaker 1: me back when you first got out of beauty school,
52:34
Speaker 1: like maybe twenty five years ago, when I had my
52:36
Speaker 1: son on Lindbergh. He was he was one of my
52:38
Speaker 1: first workers. He had just got out of beauty school.
52:40
Speaker 1: So he worked with me. So I used to they
52:42
Speaker 1: used going to work and used I was very adamant
52:44
Speaker 1: about them coming on time. Where shirts and ties right,
52:47
Speaker 1: And so he started calling me. He called me the
52:50
Speaker 1: renown way back then, and he just kept calling me
52:53
Speaker 1: now every time you see me, said the renown, the renown,
52:55
Speaker 1: the redown. So this year, I said, last year, I said,
53:00
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna stalk calling myself the renow because
53:01
Speaker 1: he calls me that all the time. So I said,
53:04
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ahead and then on my name because
53:06
Speaker 1: that's what I love me and I love it. It's
53:08
Speaker 1: perfect because the thing about it, you know why it
53:10
Speaker 1: fits because you've heard it so long. It's part of
53:13
Speaker 1: your culture, that's your mentality, you know what. That's what
53:15
Speaker 1: he's spoken to my life. He spoken into my life.
53:17
Speaker 1: He kept calling me the renown, the renown, the renown.
53:20
Speaker 1: So I said, well, I'm gonna go ahead and receive
53:21
Speaker 1: that and either renew. Interesting thing about I've always tell
53:24
Speaker 1: people you gotta have people around who champing you, and
53:27
Speaker 1: that that's something I had to discover because you you
53:30
Speaker 1: gotta have people to tell you how great you are.
53:33
Speaker 1: People tell you how special you are you're doing is differently,
53:35
Speaker 1: and that's all he was doing exactly. He was speaking.
53:38
Speaker 1: You decided to listen. Yeah, he was speaking prophetic words.
53:41
Speaker 1: Stop stop stop exactly. He was speaking prophetically in my
53:44
Speaker 1: life and I didn't know it. You know, It's like,
53:47
Speaker 1: come on, that's why, that's why we have to speak
53:50
Speaker 1: prophetically over over our children, over everybody we meet. You
53:54
Speaker 1: want to speak prophetic things over them. Like in the nineties,
53:56
Speaker 1: I had a receptance with a computer most black people
54:00
Speaker 1: and they didn't have a computer. Absolutely, and I have
54:02
Speaker 1: kept up with technology. I learned how to program a
54:05
Speaker 1: MS dots. I taught myself how to do a computer.
54:08
Speaker 1: I can, I can get a book, and I can
54:11
Speaker 1: teach myself anything. I taught myself how to speak French.
54:14
Speaker 1: I taught myself how to I've recorded a CD. I myself.
54:18
Speaker 1: I set up a studio. I taught myself middie. I
54:20
Speaker 1: taught myself just by reading. I taught myself how to
54:23
Speaker 1: program ms dos. I do my own websites, I do
54:26
Speaker 1: my own sco congratulations because I once I read, I
54:30
Speaker 1: understand I can do it, you know, And I think
54:32
Speaker 1: the Lord just gave me so many talents. I used
54:34
Speaker 1: every tower he gave me. Well, well that's great because
54:36
Speaker 1: guess what. First of all, I thank you for coming
54:39
Speaker 1: on the show. It was a pleasure. I noticed that
54:42
Speaker 1: I promote anything you're doing. Thank you and know I'm
54:45
Speaker 1: a friend and a friend renowned one. Thank you. Make
54:49
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54:51
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54:53
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54:56
Speaker 1: on money man, pleasure. I had fun. Thank you so much.
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55:34
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55:37
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55:42
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55:44
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55:48
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55:51
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