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Entrepreneur: Cutting-edge healthcare company with a passion for serving families and individuals of all spectrums. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I am Rashwan McDonald, the host
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rashaan McDonald down here in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: interviewing Eric Thornton in this business firm, Care and life
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  Speaker 1: Sharing because we want to know the secrets to his success.
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  Speaker 2: Now yet two phones, two phones. Now, I've interviewed people
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  Speaker 2: all those counts.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I've interviewed foot doctors, tax for countin, pancake people.
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  Speaker 2: Barbara Barbara College. So I've had a variety of stem
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  Speaker 2: like a STEM atlant of women.
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  Speaker 1: So I've had a lot of people, never having anybody
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  Speaker 1: with multiple phone talk to me.
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  Speaker 2: How busy you are?
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  Speaker 3: Eric, Well, first borneo, I'm honored to be here with
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  Speaker 3: you with a legend here, but hey, the two phones.
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  Speaker 3: I got to be available for the clients, Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: have to be available for the clients as well as
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  Speaker 3: also on my staff listen, right, And so we're a
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  Speaker 3: business where we're we have a lot of touch points
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  Speaker 3: with our clients.
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  Speaker 2: So I have to make sure that if they call,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to ads. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about your business, your firm, care life
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  Speaker 1: sharing when.
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  Speaker 2: It's your starting.
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  Speaker 3: So we started in twenty nineteen, okay. And the reason
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  Speaker 3: why I started is because I wanted to actually make
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  Speaker 3: not only a better way in the entrepreneur I've always
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be an entrepreneur, yes, sure, right, I always
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  Speaker 3: had those aspirations, A man of high aspirations and that
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted to get in the business in which
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  Speaker 3: I can really be somewhere that I can help our people.
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  Speaker 3: And we normally help a lot of people that have forgotten,
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  Speaker 3: people that have developmental disabilities, a lot of our seniors
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  Speaker 3: that they need someone to help, right, And so I
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  Speaker 3: get a lot of fulfillment with being able to have
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  Speaker 3: and build a company that can really help our people,
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  Speaker 3: not only just in the Atlanta area Metro Atlanta but
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  Speaker 3: also great Georgia areas. Here in Georgia, we look we
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  Speaker 3: look forward to actually growing outside of this state as well,
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  Speaker 3: but Georgia is our most important I would say aspect
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  Speaker 3: right now in order to help you.
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  Speaker 1: Know around because let's a good little detail exactly because
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about helping you define certain lanes of people
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  Speaker 1: who needed your help.
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  Speaker 2: How does your company work? Yes, so our company works.
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  Speaker 3: We actually are a full service agile healthcare company. We
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  Speaker 3: actually we actually work specifically in a home in a
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  Speaker 3: home health care arena, so we're able to add uh
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  Speaker 3: provide skilled and unskilled nursing services.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And we normally work with we worked with the myriad
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  Speaker 3: of private clients, but a lot of our clients they
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  Speaker 3: are a part of the Medicaid system, all right, and
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  Speaker 3: so lower income. So what we'd like to do is
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  Speaker 3: we actually like to make sure we educate as well,
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  Speaker 3: so we're an educational company also. With these services that
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  Speaker 3: we're able to offer with us with our partnership with Medicaid,
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  Speaker 3: our clients actually received free home health care services in
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  Speaker 3: which we actually send a caregiver directly to the homes
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  Speaker 3: and we can really help that family.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is what we were talking about the
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  Speaker 2: educational parks.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people who have medicare may not know
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  Speaker 1: that they can have this service provided to them.
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  Speaker 2: How do you get that word to them? How do
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  Speaker 2: you like?
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, because there's so many people out there,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the community, in the community of color, which
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  Speaker 1: is our dominant Lane is African America. Definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because twenty nineteen, you see a need was just like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing a traditional forty all week job before you
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  Speaker 1: became an entrepreneur, or it was just a transition from
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  Speaker 1: another entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 2: Lane, Yes, no, definitely. So I was actually in corporate.
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  Speaker 3: I was graduate from graduate of Moorhouse College, and they
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  Speaker 3: prepared us immensely to be in the corporate arena. So
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  Speaker 3: I worked at as a vice president at a bank,
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  Speaker 3: and I said, hey, I wanted to have more fulfillment,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in my life, to be able to help
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  Speaker 3: the community.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was.
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  Speaker 3: Actually thinking about different you know, businesses, and you know
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  Speaker 3: obviously different verticals within those businesses, and I said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is h something that resonates with me.
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  Speaker 3: Always always had and a stude fondness for people with
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  Speaker 3: you know, developmental disabilities. This is something in my heart
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  Speaker 3: there that always wanted to serve in that capacity. So
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  Speaker 3: I thought that this would would be a great marriage
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  Speaker 3: in some of the skills that I had, and also
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  Speaker 3: me going full throt onto my entrepreneur Community House College.
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  Speaker 2: Were you like, were you engaged? Like, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: play a fraternity.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you know, only the best fraternity, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: that's Omega Sout five fraternity incorporated by way of side
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  Speaker 3: Chapter More House College and Spring in two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 3: and we actually celebrated nineteen years in the fraternity.
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  Speaker 2: Another compere I looked up to you now, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But but in there, you know, obviously we were in
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  Speaker 3: the community, right right, Uh, but that's where the seed
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  Speaker 3: was planted. Yeah, definitely, definitely, And also too, I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to you know, not let this be remiss as well.
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  Speaker 3: One of my really good friends in middle school, and
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  Speaker 3: his name was Kyle Suffer with you know, with the
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  Speaker 3: developmental disability. We become really great friends, right and you
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  Speaker 3: know I was just always always there with him, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, he was wheelchair bound, and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: always always thought he was one of the strongest people
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  Speaker 3: that I know, I mean people don't have to have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with this on a regular basis. We I
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  Speaker 3: think this sometimes and oftentimes we don't really express our gratitude,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to the Creator to be able to have
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  Speaker 3: all of our functions, and so I thank God for
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  Speaker 3: that every day. But also I wanted to be someone
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  Speaker 3: that could go into this this community. And also to
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  Speaker 3: one of my one of my really good friends, Brad Jiles. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he actually introduced me to the home healthcare industry, and
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  Speaker 3: I always would be thankful for that brother, for introducing
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  Speaker 3: me to this.
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  Speaker 2: Land of opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I know that you know I'm talking to you
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  Speaker 1: Eric okay in front of me. But I know you
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  Speaker 1: got to have a right or left hand person. Who
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  Speaker 1: is that person? I'll tell you I do.
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  Speaker 2: I have both right and and that is first and
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  Speaker 2: foremost my wife.
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  Speaker 3: She's been phenomenal or has been phenomenal in uh just
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  Speaker 3: being that support system that was there. I also have
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  Speaker 3: two other people that I would like to mention. One
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  Speaker 3: is Tsanamic Kenny. She is literally like my right hand.
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  Speaker 3: She's the vice president of our client care and she
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  Speaker 3: has been phenomenal. And not only is this our client services,
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  Speaker 3: but also just being there and uh just being there
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  Speaker 3: going beyond here with our clients and just building relationships.
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  Speaker 3: She has been just phenomenal. And then also Tia, Tia
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  Speaker 3: is our head of nursing. And when I tell you
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  Speaker 3: she believed in me from the beginning, that sister is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, phenomenal. And I worked with pretty much all
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  Speaker 3: of all of our staff is there is black women,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and they, when I tell you, the most
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  Speaker 3: amazing and helping the growth with firm care life sharing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm honored to have them on the staff.
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  Speaker 2: How did you come up with the name firm care
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  Speaker 2: life share? Firm care life sharing is kind of a mouthful. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting, firm care we have life yes, me have sharing.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not so much as a mouthful. Each each
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  Speaker 2: one of the levels says something yes.
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  Speaker 3: So I've always been a big proponent of acronyms, So
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  Speaker 3: firm is a acronym. It means foundations in real moments, all right,
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  Speaker 3: Life sharing is or will care firm care Life Shares
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  Speaker 3: obviously we're providing care to our community, right, providing that
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  Speaker 3: foundation in real moments where we're also providing that care
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  Speaker 3: to our community.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Life Sharing is also I wanted to pay homage to
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  Speaker 3: the person that introduced me to this business and my
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  Speaker 3: one of my actually my friend Brad, which is also
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  Speaker 3: he's kind of like a brother to me as well.
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  Speaker 3: His company's name is g h our Life Shared. I said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you kind of paved the way for me
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  Speaker 3: to get into this business as a mentor, and so
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  Speaker 3: I want to, you know, I want to give back
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  Speaker 3: to you. And so the Life Shared the actually was
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  Speaker 3: a pretty much a shout out to him, and so
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  Speaker 3: I actually put all of that together.
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  Speaker 1: Oh cool, cool, Well, congratulations on the concept because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, I think it's important people understand that
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  Speaker 1: that name has to People ask you that the interviews
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  Speaker 1: and if you don't have a rational reason that said.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just flip the cone.
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  Speaker 1: It has to have some emotional attachment because it drives
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  Speaker 1: the longevity of a brand.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you come up with Google? Why did you
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  Speaker 2: come up with this Apple?
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  Speaker 1: Or IBM or all these very tesler, all these popular
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  Speaker 1: there's a reason for those names, and there's a reason
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  Speaker 1: that you give her here for your day. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at your company, I went to the website
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  Speaker 1: and COVID testing at the top of the line. So
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  Speaker 1: over seventy thousand COVID testing. Now, your company started in
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, yes, sir, COVID is in twenty twenty. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so talk about so there had to be a shift
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  Speaker 1: in home care because COVID screen. COVID just shut down
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  Speaker 1: the countries as the world, right, right, So how did
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  Speaker 1: you make that? Then took COVID test and then what
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  Speaker 1: applications did you have to put in place to be certified?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, well, obviously a really great question.
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  Speaker 3: First and foremost, I definitely want to shout out to
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  Speaker 3: the Atlanta University Center, right consorting them there, So the
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  Speaker 3: a U c C, which in encompasses of Spellman Clark,
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Morris Brown all right, just
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  Speaker 3: being somebody from Morehouse College. And first and foremost I
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  Speaker 3: had a phenomenal time there. I was in leadership there
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  Speaker 3: and first and foremost the staff. I was able to
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  Speaker 3: really build a relationships with my professors and also just people,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all a lot of the staff within the
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta University Center and doctor Tredwick believed in me, and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the staff member members believed in me.
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  Speaker 3: At Morehouse, I was president of my class sophomore year.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously a.
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  Speaker 3: Member of Omega Soft File Fraternity Incorporated, in which I
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  Speaker 3: served as keeper of finance as well as Vossile is
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  Speaker 3: also there. So I had to really be able to
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  Speaker 3: you know, really sync with the staff, and they had
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  Speaker 3: to know that, hey, Eric is a man of integrity, right,
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  Speaker 3: a man that really had those and embodied those cardinal principles.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that that served me down the lawn, right,
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  Speaker 3: And so I was able to come they gave me
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  Speaker 3: a call.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it was.
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  Speaker 3: That it wasn't a long time as far as the
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  Speaker 3: distance and when they needed to have these services, so
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  Speaker 3: we had I had to really pivot right. We were
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  Speaker 3: doing home health care, and the world kind of fell
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  Speaker 3: fell out right with COVID. I also really really really
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  Speaker 3: want to thank my mother. My mother came on. You
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  Speaker 3: said they gave you a call? Yes, you get your mom.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm trying to get the patterns. So COVID, did
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  Speaker 3: they gave your company a call? You had to pivotes. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you also said that you do a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of contracting out right, So talk about how did that
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  Speaker 1: come about when the call was made to you and
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  Speaker 1: you had to make a decision based on finances.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so that was a leap of faith, all right.
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  Speaker 3: That story is truly amazing. I'm thankful to God that
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  Speaker 3: he had me in a position there so I was
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  Speaker 3: able to get a call. I wasn't the first company
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  Speaker 3: or the second company to get this call, right right,
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  Speaker 3: all right, right, So so I had to really have
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  Speaker 3: a belief in myself. I mean, firm care life Share
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  Speaker 3: is an agile company. We look to be as a
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  Speaker 3: small company. Obviously, we look to be able to uh
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  Speaker 3: make decisions in order to really put our you know,
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  Speaker 3: our up any an interest in order for our purpose, right.
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  Speaker 2: And that's to be able to.
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  Speaker 3: Serve our clients and communities in an exceptional way.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was able to get the call.
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  Speaker 3: They actually needed COVID testing centers for more else spelling
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  Speaker 3: and Clarkland.
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  Speaker 2: And University book be built out.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously this is new, right, Lots of people didn't have
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  Speaker 3: the or companies I actually say didn't have the bandwidth
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  Speaker 3: to be able to actually create this. We were able
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  Speaker 3: to actually come in in three weeks. We were able
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  Speaker 3: to put together the cases of the plan there in
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  Speaker 3: order to build out these COVID testing centers. That's why
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  Speaker 3: I really wanted to thank to thank my mom Maryland,
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  Speaker 3: and she actually we came together. We were able to
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  Speaker 3: actually not only order the supplies and the PPE, but
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  Speaker 3: we were also able to staff in building a staff
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  Speaker 3: of close to almost I would say, seventy different members
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  Speaker 3: seventy different contractors that came in to firm Care Life
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  Speaker 3: Sharing to work at these COVID testing centers. And when
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  Speaker 3: I tell you, it wasn't a test for the week.
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  Speaker 3: At heart, I was still working a job as a
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  Speaker 3: vice president. I was staying I was staying up to
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  Speaker 3: you know, three and four o'clock in the morning, and
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  Speaker 3: still had to be in that office at seven, you know,
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  Speaker 3: eight o'clock am.
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  Speaker 2: Right. But we were able to do that, right.
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  Speaker 3: We were able to negotiate with the CFOs and with
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  Speaker 3: the AUC Consortium in order to get contracts in places.
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  Speaker 3: We did so well that once we were able to
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  Speaker 3: actually start with the COVID testing and staffing the testing centers,
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  Speaker 3: we actually said, hey, you're doing it so well, we
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  Speaker 3: trust you, we want you to do the data entry also, okay,
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  Speaker 3: all right, And so I really wanted to also shout
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  Speaker 3: out to Care Guaranton and with the Morning School of Medicine,
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted to definitely shout out to doctor Treywick
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  Speaker 3: with more House College and the whole AUC Consortium for
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  Speaker 3: Believing and we did such a phenomenal job. And this
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  Speaker 3: is back in twenty twenty one, the fall of twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one, to say, hey, you did a great job,
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  Speaker 3: Eric and firm Care Life Sharing. We want to bring
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  Speaker 3: you back for you know, the next semester. And so
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  Speaker 3: we were just able to grow and knowing and coming
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  Speaker 3: from that environment, it actually prepared me to be able
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  Speaker 3: to deal with the student's falculty and staff but mainly
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  Speaker 3: give them amazing services to be able to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that they loved what he did.
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  Speaker 2: He said the first of all, when I started talking
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  Speaker 2: about secrets to.
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  Speaker 1: Success, what pops out in your conversation over over again
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  Speaker 1: a foundation that was given to you at more House
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  Speaker 1: and that whole.
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  Speaker 2: You know center, which includes like you said, Maris Brown
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  Speaker 2: spelled Clark and Mount University. More can't forget more Haut
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  Speaker 2: medical Marge, people met from the Deil. It's good of
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  Speaker 2: letters and.
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  Speaker 1: Also relationships that what really is your secret to success?
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  Speaker 2: Relationships?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think you know obviously, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I put God first because it's the positioning we never know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even positioning for here, you know, to be interviewed,
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  Speaker 3: you know from a legend like yourself. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: think that you know, it's a purpose in every way.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, relationships are the most important because and also integrity,
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  Speaker 3: right keeping your work, bring somebody being somebody that you know, hey,
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  Speaker 3: is he going to show up?
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  Speaker 2: Is he going to come through for us?
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  Speaker 3: Can we depend on this person seriously to have the
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  Speaker 3: integrity in order to you know, follow through on what
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  Speaker 3: he's saying. And that's what I always want to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just remembered, remembered.
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  Speaker 2: By right now.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always that moment you start a couple, leasy,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing double time, you're talking about rashon them, over
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  Speaker 1: doing COVID testing the movie. We're still working at the bank, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: staying up to three o'clock to get off.
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  Speaker 2: In seven thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, What were the highs and lows of this
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  Speaker 3: transition into being an entrepreneur, successful, competent life firm, care
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  Speaker 3: life sharing. Yeah, so I would say the highs and
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  Speaker 3: it really gave me an immense amount of confidence to
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  Speaker 3: be able to execute on a large scale like that
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  Speaker 3: with the you know, morales More School of Medicine, CLARKLANDA University.
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  Speaker 3: It spelled me to be able to provide, build those relationships,
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  Speaker 3: to provide you know, that COVID testing. But also I
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  Speaker 3: would say, is building this home healthcare business. It's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not for the week. I didn't. It took me
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  Speaker 3: almost Obviously, there's a planning period in which I said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I want to get into it. Twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 3: is when we you know, actually got actually got into
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  Speaker 3: it twenty twenty Right, we operated three years at a
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  Speaker 3: loss and then you know, twenty twenty one and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and being.
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  Speaker 2: In that positioning that was extreme high for me.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And so you talked about, you know, obviously the loves, right,
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  Speaker 3: because the lows, the highs are phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: The lows character building.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the failures, you know, as much as I hated
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  Speaker 3: the failures actually created that. That's the character building building
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  Speaker 3: to actually see if you're resilient en right, right, because oftentimes,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm only speaking for myself, when I got the
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  Speaker 3: extreme highs there, I was just sitting on you know
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  Speaker 3: this being high horse. I got a little complacent and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we built the company to you know, a million dollars
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  Speaker 3: plus in revenue, right, And I was like, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm you know, hey, I'm riching that right, right, And
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  Speaker 3: so I wanted to I started looking at that as
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  Speaker 3: an entrepreneur, you know, and I hit and you know,
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  Speaker 3: one of the biggest pitfalls in my life because I
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  Speaker 3: started looking at you know, the money following the money,
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  Speaker 3: following the money, and not the play and and specifically
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  Speaker 3: what I asked I prayed and asked God for and
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  Speaker 3: so I trusted you know, some another platform or something else.
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  Speaker 3: And by investing my money more than I trusted my
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  Speaker 3: own plan. That that led to an extreme loss that
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  Speaker 3: led to me really you know, having a lot of
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  Speaker 3: like tearful, tearful you know nights and tearful days. I
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  Speaker 3: have a beautiful family, amazing wife and also to trusting
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  Speaker 3: wife because when I told my wife when that much
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  Speaker 3: I lost, you know, I don't know, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you know, a lot of won't a lot of
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  Speaker 3: them will stay for that. But my wife trusted me
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  Speaker 3: someone missingly she said in one said it's.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta get it back.
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  Speaker 3: And that spoke so much you know, life in to
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  Speaker 3: me because I was I was actually you know, really
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  Speaker 3: at a lower at that top, you know, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted her.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, hey, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, you know, I'm gonna have you quit your job,
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  Speaker 3: you know, But she said, hey, you know, she just
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  Speaker 3: kept on asking me, kept on kept on asking me,
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  Speaker 3: and I said, hey, you know, babe, I'm not able
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  Speaker 3: to you know.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what happened. Full transparency.
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  Speaker 3: And so again a big, low, big load for me,
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  Speaker 3: but that load taught me extremely resilience.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate to understand, yes and very important to
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  Speaker 1: people because I want people to see these interviews and
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  Speaker 1: also maybe see a part of their life they're up
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  Speaker 1: there down and also a lot of people in these
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  Speaker 1: interview in the interview process, the reality is, man, these
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  Speaker 1: stories are set. Yeah, you may be baking cakes, you
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  Speaker 1: might be we model the house, but it's still the
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  Speaker 1: same journey, definitely, you know. But the one that steps
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  Speaker 1: out is that you gotta have backup. You gotta have
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  Speaker 1: people who believe in you. And you've said that already
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  Speaker 1: that your structure, that's structure that's in place.
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  Speaker 2: But believe you.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the five year plan from now? What is
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the future that holds for firm care life sharing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the future that we have here is that we
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  Speaker 3: want to grow in all fastest of health care.
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  Speaker 2: Health Care is an extreme extreme need.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have a lot of you know, the generation,
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  Speaker 3: especially you know, the baby boomer generation. They're living longer,
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  Speaker 3: which is a phenomenal thing. Is there However, help is
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  Speaker 3: needed in all aspects. Right, this is a the healthcare
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  Speaker 3: space is a trillion dollar, multi trillion dollar space.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the spaces that.
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  Speaker 3: Grows are you know, not only you know in the
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  Speaker 3: United States of North America, but everywhere everywhere is in
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  Speaker 3: need of this. And we want to be one of
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  Speaker 3: the companies that not only be not only is like
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  Speaker 3: the premier home health care company, but we want to
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  Speaker 3: grow to that large that large business and multi.
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  Speaker 2: Multi million dollar business.
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  Speaker 3: We want to be able to employ so many people
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  Speaker 3: here in the Georgia, in the State of Georgia, but
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  Speaker 3: all over all over the US. Right, we want to
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  Speaker 3: move into all different types of you know, health care verticals.
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  Speaker 3: We want to move into provide a personal care homes, right,
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  Speaker 3: we want to provide transportation services, we want to be
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  Speaker 3: able to provide you know, adult daycare services. But mainly
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  Speaker 3: what we want to do in that five years is
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  Speaker 3: we want to solidify ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: As one of the premier home health care.
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  Speaker 3: Services health or home health care companies here in the
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta metro Atlanta and Greater Georgia area.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Oan, thank you for allowing me to come on,
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  Speaker 2: come on, coming to.
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  Speaker 1: Your building man, to come into your world, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And you being at the forefront of that thought process.
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  Speaker 1: Sharing your child relationship, lets we know this is an
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  Speaker 1: honest business that's built on a relationship that has a
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