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A.D. Dolphin, Chef Jernard Wells, Laura Foos & More (Full Episode) · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: I'm live. I'm live. Listen, let's look at me. I'm live,
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Speaker 1: Mr ras Sean McDonald. It's Monday, September elevel. I'm live
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Speaker 1: back on the radio. Past two weeks because we had
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Speaker 1: Labor Day. I was gonna automatically take that vacation. Week
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Speaker 1: before that, that's where Hurricane Harvey came into town, shut
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Speaker 1: the city down, shut my show down, and shut the
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Speaker 1: station down. When I'm back live to day, we've been running.
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Speaker 1: We've been We've have been running back to back recorded shows.
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Speaker 1: So I know people want, where's we Sean McDonald, where's
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Speaker 1: my money making conversations, what's happening, what's happening, What's happened
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Speaker 1: when I'm back in, what's happening to them? Just giving
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Speaker 1: everybody the opportunity to spread the word of ras Sean
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Speaker 1: McDonald's back on the air, he's live. You know we
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Speaker 1: should a notification link out to my Facebook followers and
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Speaker 1: let them know dead tune in, watch share, spread the word.
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Speaker 1: We got cooking the day I'm back on there. I
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Speaker 1: just stated that. I just stated we've been running recording
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Speaker 1: shows for the past two weeks due to Hurricane Harvard.
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Speaker 1: But money making conversations it's back to give you the
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Speaker 1: information that will enable you to be successful in your
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Speaker 1: life and your career. Now, I'm not forgetting the other hurricane,
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Speaker 1: which is now a tropical storm that's Irma is still
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Speaker 1: very active because I do have listeners and people watch
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Speaker 1: my Facebook page in the Florida Georgia area because that's
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Speaker 1: where Erma is headed up and it is doing damage.
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Speaker 1: In My prayers out to all the families and all
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Speaker 1: the small businesses out there. They're trying to stay afloat,
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Speaker 1: trying to stay focused, trying to keep the head above water.
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Speaker 1: Now in Houston area, when Hurricane Harvey hit, we were
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Speaker 1: affected by it. You know, fifty seven inches of rain
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Speaker 1: hit Parlan, fifty seven inches of rain hit paraland Texas.
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Speaker 1: Now over my community fifty one inches. Then you go
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Speaker 1: out to Katie, I think it was like thirty two
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Speaker 1: inches of rain. So there was there still is ongoing
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Speaker 1: flood damage occurrent on Houston. Certain roadways in Houston are
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Speaker 1: still not open. But I'm not wanting to sit back.
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Speaker 1: I remember on Thursday morning, my brain was fried, Like
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Speaker 1: I said, what can I do? Because I was trapped
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta because they were not allowing people to fly
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Speaker 1: into the Houston airports. So I was just trapped in
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Speaker 1: the land of my family was trapped here in Houston,
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Speaker 1: and so I was frustrated. And I got this call
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Speaker 1: from this gentleman who is the founder and owner of
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Speaker 1: the Texas Black Expo, and he wanted to do something
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Speaker 1: in regards to helping out small businesses. I said, Okay,
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Speaker 1: what you wanna do? He said, can you can we
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Speaker 1: use your name, use your brand Rashan McDonald to assist
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Speaker 1: in some type of foundation drive or some donation drive
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Speaker 1: to assist small businesses who were damaged affected by Hurricane Harvey,
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Speaker 1: they said. He said, I said, I'm your man. Let's
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Speaker 1: do it, so through your donations. Because I went on
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Speaker 1: my go FUNDI page, we set that up and combined
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Speaker 1: it with his goal was now only if you go
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Speaker 1: to this website right now. We're still taking the donations.
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Speaker 1: But as of the date, as of this date right here,
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Speaker 1: we've given out fifteen one thousand dollar checks so far,
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Speaker 1: fifteen one thousand dollar checks to small businesses that have
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Speaker 1: been impacted by Hurricane Harvey do this high winds, its floodwaters,
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Speaker 1: and and my goal is a hundred So we're still
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Speaker 1: accepting donations. But here, all I'm just telling you is
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Speaker 1: that when you when you, when you, when you're feeling frustrated,
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Speaker 1: do something, don't let the system beat you up. And
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Speaker 1: I refuse to let the system beat me up. And
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Speaker 1: that's the system in this case was Hurricane Harvey, and
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Speaker 1: Herricane Harvey should It's one of those things. It's one
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Speaker 1: of the roadblocks you in your life. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: a speed bump, and sometimes it's a lot. It's difficult.
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Speaker 1: There's different levels of speed bumps, and some people go,
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Speaker 1: you don't understand Rashan just I do understand. I'm a
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Speaker 1: native Houstonian. You know, Hurricane Harvey is not my first hurricane.
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Speaker 1: It will not be my last hurricane. You know, I
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Speaker 1: have a home here in Houston, so I had concerns
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Speaker 1: about My mom lives here in Houston, my sisters and
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Speaker 1: my brothers live here in Houston, family members. I went
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Speaker 1: to high school in Houston. I went to college here
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Speaker 1: in Houston. I was employed in Houston. So I do
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Speaker 1: have a passion and a clear understanding of what goes
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Speaker 1: on in this city and the future of this city.
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Speaker 1: And I want to commend the mayor of this city
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Speaker 1: Sylvester Turner for doing a tremendous job. And you know,
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Speaker 1: because the first thing they do is look at what
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Speaker 1: he's doing wrong. And my, my people, he was doing
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Speaker 1: everything right because that young man, Sylvester Turner, our great
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Speaker 1: mayor of the City of Houston, did his thing. Of course, J. J.
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Speaker 1: Watt got to commend that that brother thirty one million dollars.
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Speaker 1: He stepped out there. Kevin Hart stepped out there. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people stepped out there. Eric Carr, my man
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Speaker 1: on the north side, even e construction, he stepped out
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Speaker 1: there con donations, you know, buying three boats, pallettes of water,
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Speaker 1: food for the underprivileged. Eric Carr. If you see that
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Speaker 1: young man walking down the street, pat him on the back,
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Speaker 1: take a selfie with him, because he is truly a
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Speaker 1: Houston hero. And may myself, I'm just Rashwan McDonald. I'm
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Speaker 1: just here every Monday to make you feel good about yourself.
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Speaker 1: Not just talking to the people in Houston. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to the people worldwide. That's what we do, worldwide communication.
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Speaker 1: I got my man to Da Henderson. He's handling the comments.
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Speaker 1: But guess what, I got my laptop open today and
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Speaker 1: I will handle your comments. So why should you why
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Speaker 1: should you be listening watching money making conversation Because I'm here.
5:43
Speaker 1: I'm doing a little bit different. I know. I started
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Speaker 1: the show celebrity after celebrity after celebrity after celebrity. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm really gonna start transcending or trans uh, changing up
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Speaker 1: a little bit. And it's a good little bit because
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Speaker 1: I want to bring in individuals that I feel you
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Speaker 1: can relate to. I used to start Power just to
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Speaker 1: give my name out there. Nice time to really start
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Speaker 1: hearing from the small entrepreneurs like you. People out there
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Speaker 1: who are doing the everyday hustle. You know, don't have
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Speaker 1: fifteen twenty million dollars twenties social media follows, just building
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Speaker 1: their brand step by step, mortar by mortar, idea by idea,
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Speaker 1: prayer by prayer, doing it every day. And so today,
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Speaker 1: let me just run down the type of guests that
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Speaker 1: I have on my show. I got my man a
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Speaker 1: d Dolphin. A d Dolphin is a health expert and
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Speaker 1: CEO of the Herbs. I brought him on the show
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Speaker 1: so he can tell you how he's His startup Idea
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Speaker 1: has now turned into a multimillion dollar health and wellness company.
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Speaker 1: Come on, now he had not. He had an idea
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Speaker 1: just like you, because you full ideas. And I've been
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Speaker 1: knowing him since two thousand and four, so we got
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Speaker 1: a little history. So it's not like I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: him developed these things. I remember when he first came
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Speaker 1: aim to the Steve Harvey Morning Show, you know, trying
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Speaker 1: to advertise locally in the l A market. And then
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Speaker 1: guess what he really had it. He just had an
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Speaker 1: idea and a little chump change back then. Then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden years later, check this out. Years later,
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Speaker 1: a decade later, he's not on advertising on the national
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Speaker 1: Steve Harry Morning Show, but he's also advertising on the
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Talk Show. That's what I'm talking about, taking
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Speaker 1: an idea and growing it to a brand that's nationally recognized.
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Speaker 1: That's why I got a d dolphin on the show.
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Speaker 1: That's why you should be listening to the show today
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Speaker 1: so you can hear how he did it, and he
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Speaker 1: will be able to tell you information about his passion,
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Speaker 1: how he turned passion into execution. That's the key. How
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Speaker 1: do you turn passion into execution? That is why I
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Speaker 1: have a d dolphin on the show. Then my next
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Speaker 1: guest he's a he's a person. I had to bring
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Speaker 1: back Chef Jernard Wales. Now when I had Chef Jenard
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Speaker 1: else in the show, he missed everybody elp when he
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Speaker 1: was telling everybody how he got this product on store shelves. Well,
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Speaker 1: I got him back on the show. If you don't
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Speaker 1: know Chef Gnard Wales, check this out. He's a Food
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Speaker 1: Network star. He's an ambassador for vost Water. And also
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Speaker 1: this Saturday, I created a partnership with him because on
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Speaker 1: my Facebook page, if you know, as you follow me
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Speaker 1: on on my fan fan page, you know, as I
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Speaker 1: do my dessert videos. Every Wednesday, I do the Baker Spotlight,
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Speaker 1: which a spotlight homemade baking Stars. If you're not familiar
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Speaker 1: with that, go to Rashan McDonald dot com and you
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Speaker 1: check it out. It's awesome. And then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: I do Rashaan Eats all these top restaurants around the country,
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Speaker 1: not only where I eat at, but also fans tell
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Speaker 1: me he was Sean, you didn't put this on Rashawn Eats.
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Speaker 1: And also but what was missing was cookie somebody cooking,
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Speaker 1: and so he would send me these videos. Richelle, what
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Speaker 1: about this video College Flower I said, okay, I don't
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Speaker 1: nobody that one. Then and then as to getting that
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Speaker 1: guy with my staff and we get to the conference
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Speaker 1: car and said, can he makes some adjustments? He was
9:12
Speaker 1: willing to make adjustments in his videos. And this past Saturday,
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Speaker 1: we launched on our Facebook. For my Facebook for every
9:20
Speaker 1: Saturday at nine am, you'll be able to see Chef
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Speaker 1: Grnard Welles videos outstanding. That's how you create a partnership.
9:30
Speaker 1: That's how you create a relationship. So may help him
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Speaker 1: build his brand through my Facebook and my social media world,
9:36
Speaker 1: so he'd be back on the show. Basically to turn
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Speaker 1: your dreams in the kitchen to money making conversations. And
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Speaker 1: then my favorite person of bringing back Laura foods. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something about Laura. Laura is the
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Speaker 1: only three time guests. That's right. I only started this
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Speaker 1: show May first. This is a third time. Now. She
9:54
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a studio today because she had
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Speaker 1: a conference, but the conference was canceled due to Hurricane Harvey.
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Speaker 1: So I will have her on the phone. I'm very disappointed.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let her know. I'm very disappointed that I'm
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Speaker 1: not having her in studio though, because she really wanted
10:09
Speaker 1: to co host with me today and her skill self
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Speaker 1: status phenomenal. She would show you how to multitask your
10:15
Speaker 1: way to financial success. Again, did you even that multitask
10:20
Speaker 1: your way to financial success? So right now I got
10:24
Speaker 1: how to start, how start up? How to turn your
10:27
Speaker 1: startup idea to a million dollar company, how to turn
10:30
Speaker 1: your dreams in the kitchen to money making conversations, how
10:35
Speaker 1: to multitask your way to financial success. Then I might
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Speaker 1: have Melissa Aliba. She's a life coach extraordinary. She's gonna
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Speaker 1: tell you how you are holding yourself back from your
10:46
Speaker 1: next big opportunity. Come on now, how you are holding
10:51
Speaker 1: yourself back? Because see that's called excuses. That's that's what
10:54
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put it right there, excuses excuses? How
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Speaker 1: you holding yourself back from your next big opportunity. And
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Speaker 1: finally on the show today, McGarr t Kane is back,
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Speaker 1: my backing baking expert from my sweet Heaven. She is
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Speaker 1: a gift for all my listeners and viewers. On Money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversation today, tears were going to break. Now cool,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna we were right and stop startling? Did that
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Speaker 1: big appreciation? Now I'm starts ladies and gentlemen. When I
11:28
Speaker 1: come back, I have on the air with me a
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Speaker 1: d DF CEO of the Earths how to take a
11:37
Speaker 1: start up and turn it into a multimillion dollar couple.
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Speaker 1: Tell everybody, Tell everybody out there. Moneymaking conversation is back,
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Speaker 1: and ra Sean McDonald is live. Welcome back to money
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Speaker 1: making conversations. My next guest I have for two breaks.
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Speaker 1: I'm too breaks because when he has something to say
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Speaker 1: and I want him to tell y'all because I I've
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Speaker 1: I've had personal conversations with him, members of his family.
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Speaker 1: He's come from an amazing family. My next guest did
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Speaker 1: not come from a family of doctors, health professionals, or
12:18
Speaker 1: even her books. He is born of a lioneage of entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 1: Please work on the money making conversations. Health and Wellness
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Speaker 1: Experts and CEO of w W dot d RBS dot
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Speaker 1: com a d doctor. Hey, how you doing, my man?
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Speaker 1: My man, I'm so happy to hear from you, because
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Speaker 1: you know, every time I hear from your energies at
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Speaker 1: a certain level, a D you know you gotta bring
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Speaker 1: it well. Well, I know, first we have I had
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Speaker 1: sched you for one break and I went you know
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Speaker 1: you have such an amazing life and your family is
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Speaker 1: an amazing family, and fortunately meet some of them and
13:02
Speaker 1: h and and that's been amazing journey in itself. When
13:06
Speaker 1: but then we want to talk about some of that,
13:08
Speaker 1: but I also want to talk about you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: I know you're not in the finish line yet, but
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Speaker 1: how the first all at all, and and and tell
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Speaker 1: us tell us what's your vision? First of all, tell
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Speaker 1: everybody what the herbs is. Let's get that out the
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Speaker 1: way first. Okay, Well, first of all, the Earb's is
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Speaker 1: an all natural herbal company. We have over four hundred
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Speaker 1: products and that word natural really means something to us. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Our products are one hun plant base and that's hard
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Speaker 1: to find these days because everybody's trying to make a
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Speaker 1: buck and put out a cheap product. And we went
13:42
Speaker 1: the other way. We said we're gonna put out a
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Speaker 1: quality product one percent of the time. And so with
13:48
Speaker 1: that being said, I remember we met way back in
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Speaker 1: the day on the l A Radio said with Steve
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Speaker 1: harv and I were doing local radio in l A. Right,
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Speaker 1: and you remember you came to the station. One of
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Speaker 1: the advertising you did advertise on the local filling and
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Speaker 1: That's why I said earlier the beauty of watching a
14:04
Speaker 1: relationship is that I saw you advertise, you know with
14:07
Speaker 1: a modest budget. You know, because we have a start up,
14:10
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a modest budget. But you saw the
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Speaker 1: the need to expand your the word about your brand.
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Speaker 1: And then and then to see you then you came
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Speaker 1: on board. You contact Rashwan, this team, we can work
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Speaker 1: a relationship on the national platform on the Steve Harvey
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Speaker 1: Morning Show exactly which made it national, which made it national.
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Speaker 1: And then then then I was in this past year
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Speaker 1: in seen he's Rashan, I want to come on the
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Speaker 1: talk show and then and please tell everybody each step
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Speaker 1: how to affect it your business and what was the
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Speaker 1: rationality for each room. I'm talking about locally when you
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Speaker 1: was in l A. Then went to the national platform,
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Speaker 1: and then we went to the TV right, so resign
14:52
Speaker 1: when we started off on radio, my brother has the
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Speaker 1: advertising uh business marketing degree. Um, we created this whole
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Speaker 1: platform that we weren't gonna do typical stuff that herbal
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Speaker 1: companies typically do, Like we weren't gonna try to be
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Speaker 1: inside the stores. We were going to create that people
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Speaker 1: to come back to us opposed to going to stores
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Speaker 1: and and doing all this stuff. So we just decided
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Speaker 1: to promote our own personal our own personal website. So
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Speaker 1: we started off locally, um, like you said, with a
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Speaker 1: modest budget. Um, we we've seen something there. We're just like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: if we do this on a bigger scale, like a
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Speaker 1: national scale, you might be able to see bigger, bigger
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Speaker 1: revenues as far as that coming in, bigger dollars coming in.
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Speaker 1: And it did just that. I mean the first of all,
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Speaker 1: when we first did the Steve Harvey National radio show,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you that you're talking about a business
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Speaker 1: that was probably making about m maybe about sixties a month,
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Speaker 1: you know when when we went national. And I don't
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Speaker 1: mind a numbers because I just think people really need
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Speaker 1: to hear real numbers and how certain things actually really drastically,
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Speaker 1: drastically affected our business when we did, when we went
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Speaker 1: to the Steve Harvey national platform, we went from making
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Speaker 1: sixty thousand a month to five dollars a day. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's the difference. And that's the difference now now listen,
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Speaker 1: But there was some along the way. You do question
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Speaker 1: that move, don't you? What what makes you go to
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Speaker 1: the next step. That's why I want people to hear
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Speaker 1: because I don't want to. That's why I gave two
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Speaker 1: breaks to you a D because I want your story, man,
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Speaker 1: and you're not you know. You know, let's put this way.
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Speaker 1: I'm having you back because you're an inspiration, because you're
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Speaker 1: that guy that i've seen build this brand out. You're
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Speaker 1: that guy that I have people who said, I got
16:48
Speaker 1: an idea? What do I do with the idea? And
16:51
Speaker 1: there's so many key steps. Well, first of all, you
16:54
Speaker 1: can't build these kinds of brands unless you develop relationships
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Speaker 1: with people like yourself. Because now only have you not
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Speaker 1: only have you been a really super good friend and
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Speaker 1: just gave me great business advice, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Like like that, it's important to be able to have
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Speaker 1: mentors like yourself, like a Steve Harvey and go back
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Speaker 1: and talk to them. But let me tell you about
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Speaker 1: some of our struggles that we did. They remember. I
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Speaker 1: remember we were trying we were doing radio with Kathy
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Speaker 1: Hughes and we were trying to really develop our platform.
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Speaker 1: And it was the first radio show that we were
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Speaker 1: kind of thinking about doing. Um My brother came to me,
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Speaker 1: he was like, it's gonna cost us twelve thousand dollars,
17:36
Speaker 1: and I told him, absolutely not, we are not doing it.
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Speaker 1: I like, twelve th dollars. What they're gonna do like
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Speaker 1: it is, that's never gonna work. So then so then
17:48
Speaker 1: he then he came back to me, He's like, Okay,
17:50
Speaker 1: they said they'll do it for eleven. I was like, man,
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Speaker 1: I'm not doing this for eleven thousand dollars. And then
17:56
Speaker 1: he came back to me. I was like, he's like,
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Speaker 1: they're doing for ten five five And next scene, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'd like, look if they get below ten thousand, I
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Speaker 1: give him a shot. Now, this is our very first
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Speaker 1: platform that we ever decided to be on. Very first,
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Speaker 1: very first like national platform prior to the Steve Harvey
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Speaker 1: National radio show, beside after local, so after we decided
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Speaker 1: to do local. So like I said, we're making like
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Speaker 1: about sixty thousand at the time a month, not just
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Speaker 1: doing local ads, you know, doing paper click ad words
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Speaker 1: and things like that. So, um, we did the national
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Speaker 1: platform with the Cathy Hughes radio station, and let me
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Speaker 1: tell you, we got a chance to see what it
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Speaker 1: would be like on the Steve Harvey which was a
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Speaker 1: much much a hundred times bigger than what we did
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Speaker 1: it on. We doubled our business overnight. We went from
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Speaker 1: sixty thousand a month to a hundred and twenty thousand
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Speaker 1: a month overnight that platform. My brother finally came to me,
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Speaker 1: He's like, they're doing for nine five. I said, forget it.
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Speaker 1: I said, let's go for it. We'll give it a shot.
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Speaker 1: And that's when gave me the impression like, Okay, you
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Speaker 1: know what, if we can get to a Steve Harvey
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Speaker 1: or just a bigger platform, we can really really do
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Speaker 1: something what you know with this business. And that's exactly
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Speaker 1: what we did. That's when after that, after we did that,
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Speaker 1: I think we did another plat platform with Jathie Hughes
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Speaker 1: on her and then after that we went straight to
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Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Show and begin going to work. Now,
19:35
Speaker 1: he's the funny part. I would just gonna let you
19:37
Speaker 1: know he he threw out the word mentor. But this
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Speaker 1: is a skilled negotiator because C. A. D Is leaving
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Speaker 1: out the part that you know, when he spends his money,
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Speaker 1: he likes to know how it's being used because whether
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Speaker 1: it's being used through a contest or it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: posted in social media or it's gonna be posted in
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Speaker 1: the news letter, or it's gonna be posted on the
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Speaker 1: whar website, or who's actually reading the live read And
20:04
Speaker 1: that's not the people need to hear that just you
20:07
Speaker 1: just don't go to a radio station or the TV.
20:11
Speaker 1: It's It's definitely a plan involved a lot more detail. Um,
20:16
Speaker 1: but yeah, we do. We want to know exactly what's
20:19
Speaker 1: going on, who's gonna read it, how it's gonna be used,
20:23
Speaker 1: who's gonna say it, because we don't do we only
20:26
Speaker 1: do live reads. We only do live reads. And we
20:30
Speaker 1: put in another wrinkle in there that I would tell
20:33
Speaker 1: most businesses if if the radio stations that go for it.
20:36
Speaker 1: What we did was we asked them, say, look, we're
20:39
Speaker 1: gonna advertise, we're gonna commit to you guys for the
20:42
Speaker 1: whole entire year. Can you guys give us an interview
20:46
Speaker 1: on the radio? There you go. Now that was really, really,
20:51
Speaker 1: really key for us because a lot of people don't
20:54
Speaker 1: know this. Those two radio interviews that we asked for
20:58
Speaker 1: throughout them up, which is complementary for the radio stations
21:01
Speaker 1: if you can get them to go for it. Um,
21:03
Speaker 1: it doesn't really it's not really part of the ad
21:06
Speaker 1: by if you can get them to go for those
21:08
Speaker 1: two days on that radio station, would literally pay for
21:12
Speaker 1: your whole entire campaign. And that was that was one
21:16
Speaker 1: of the big moves that we made. People didn't know
21:19
Speaker 1: what the numbers that we were really doing on those
21:21
Speaker 1: interviews and how it really affected our business. And it
21:25
Speaker 1: changed our business because we would run them in the
21:27
Speaker 1: beginning of the ad. So we're running day one, let's
21:31
Speaker 1: say September one week, We'll do an interview. Now after
21:35
Speaker 1: September one, all the listeners who heard that interview, um,
21:40
Speaker 1: they they will hear live reads from Shirley Strawberry or
21:44
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey throughout the weeks. Every every time they uh,
21:49
Speaker 1: they would reach back into their memory remember that interview,
21:53
Speaker 1: and here that ad. We were getting more and more
21:56
Speaker 1: people to purchase our clans. And then after or we
22:00
Speaker 1: know this, we was like, Okay, after about two weeks,
22:02
Speaker 1: it's the dwindle. So now we're gonna do another interview interview.
22:07
Speaker 1: We're gonna do our second interview, and we're gonna run that.
22:11
Speaker 1: Now we're getting more people, and then after that run
22:14
Speaker 1: the rest of the ads throughout the following month. And
22:16
Speaker 1: that was our formula and It worked on every single
22:21
Speaker 1: radio station that we took. We took that platform, that
22:25
Speaker 1: ad platform, and that format and took it to all
22:28
Speaker 1: those different radio stations and it worked every single time.
22:33
Speaker 1: Now here's the key to it. Everything that you're saying
22:35
Speaker 1: your product. You gotta have the product and you've got
22:39
Speaker 1: to be able to deliver the product. Tell everybody about
22:42
Speaker 1: why what's the benefits of cleansing with your product? Okay,
22:46
Speaker 1: so first of all, any any business, you gotta have
22:50
Speaker 1: a great product. You can't just have crap out there.
22:52
Speaker 1: So I always say make sure you have a good product.
22:55
Speaker 1: And the DearS for Nobody cleanses probably the best cleans
22:57
Speaker 1: out there on the market. The last team years, we've
23:00
Speaker 1: been the number one selling cleans online. Um Our Cleanses
23:04
Speaker 1: about cleaning out all your major limited channels. That should
23:07
Speaker 1: God bl out of your heart, your liver, your your spleen,
23:09
Speaker 1: your lungs, of kidneys, your drenal glands, you're blooding your
23:12
Speaker 1: skin is gonna flush out all the impurity along with
23:15
Speaker 1: that process. We always tell people you can't eat the
23:17
Speaker 1: same food that gave you the notion to cleans during
23:20
Speaker 1: your clans so therefore you gotta you gotta change those
23:22
Speaker 1: eating habits. So we asked people to eat a raw
23:25
Speaker 1: food diet, which means you only can eat fresh fruits, vegetables,
23:28
Speaker 1: raw nuts, and raw seeds throughout that process. And you
23:31
Speaker 1: do that for those twenty days, it will one dent
23:36
Speaker 1: change your life. And that's what we did. We started
23:40
Speaker 1: changing lives all over the planet because that that because
23:43
Speaker 1: I remember, that's how your campaign shifted. Remember when we
23:46
Speaker 1: was talking about it, how it really does change people's lives.
23:50
Speaker 1: They're out a little health and wellness, and that's really
23:53
Speaker 1: really important in your branding process. Correct, absolutely, But what
23:58
Speaker 1: we also know is when you have a great product
24:00
Speaker 1: and people have that great experience, they tell ten the
24:04
Speaker 1: twenty other people. And so just word of mouth alone
24:08
Speaker 1: really really helped us. But being on that radio station,
24:12
Speaker 1: it was like a megaphone lasting out this information and
24:16
Speaker 1: it really got people interested in cleansing and and it's
24:19
Speaker 1: totally totally wanted to present change our business. Wow. And
24:24
Speaker 1: and when you when you talk about this, we want
24:26
Speaker 1: to talk about the how television don't say that because
24:34
Speaker 1: I'm saying something. I see that commercial with UH with
24:37
Speaker 1: Roland Martin on social media and it just continues to
24:41
Speaker 1: give you love in the d earth world. Correct, let's
24:44
Speaker 1: talk about that social media commercial just just floating out
24:47
Speaker 1: there with Steve Harvey and it rolland Martin and it
24:50
Speaker 1: talking about the DAR brand. That's why I'll just tell
24:52
Speaker 1: you some my listeners on money making conversation because also
24:55
Speaker 1: you'll be able to hear this show. I'm picked up
24:57
Speaker 1: on all day. I heart radio podcast to as well.
25:00
Speaker 1: This is what it shows gonna go as well. So
25:02
Speaker 1: it has his legs here you talk to me live here,
25:05
Speaker 1: but it's going everywhere out to to the podcast world
25:08
Speaker 1: as well. I think what we gotta go to a
25:14
Speaker 1: break right now. When I come back, we're gonna talk
25:16
Speaker 1: about the TV. We're gonna talk. I want to hear
25:18
Speaker 1: a little bit about your your family, but more importantly
25:21
Speaker 1: a d I'm just happy to everybody hear who you
25:24
Speaker 1: are because you're fantastic, great human being. More importantly and
25:29
Speaker 1: outstanding entrepreneur. We'll be back more how he took an
25:32
Speaker 1: idea a startup to a multimillion dollar company. The CEO
25:37
Speaker 1: of the herbs dot com A D Dolphin will be
25:40
Speaker 1: right back McDonald. I'm back with my man, the CEO
25:51
Speaker 1: of w W dot D s and dog herbs dot
25:56
Speaker 1: com herbs from nest dot com. The CEO A D.
25:59
Speaker 1: Dolf D. We talked about how you started right l
26:05
Speaker 1: a name two point three to beat Steve Harve and
26:07
Speaker 1: I was out there learning how to do radio. And
26:11
Speaker 1: he talked about when you went over to when you
26:14
Speaker 1: went over the Cathie used went to her for it,
26:17
Speaker 1: and then when you got to us, you developed a
26:20
Speaker 1: shell of how we're gonna market our brand on radio
26:24
Speaker 1: and you held to that. Now the next big jump.
26:28
Speaker 1: And we talked about this at the Neighborhood Award. That's
26:30
Speaker 1: why it's so cool to his talk about doing television
26:33
Speaker 1: and we were sharing ideas because the great thing about
26:37
Speaker 1: I like what he said earlier. He gave you guys facts.
26:41
Speaker 1: And when whenever A D talks to me, he know
26:44
Speaker 1: I I tell him the truth because I don't like
26:48
Speaker 1: giving people misleading information, like telling them I pay this
26:51
Speaker 1: rate and in the rates, really I really paid seven thousands.
26:55
Speaker 1: I tell people I paid three thousands because it messes
26:58
Speaker 1: him up. Because you needed I want them to know
27:00
Speaker 1: real numbers. I want them to know how doing things
27:04
Speaker 1: right can really drastically affect your business. People need to
27:08
Speaker 1: hear real numbers, really events, real occurrences, how it really happened,
27:14
Speaker 1: and that's really important and and that's and that's so.
27:16
Speaker 1: So when we were sitting down talking about, you know,
27:18
Speaker 1: ways to expand, just I gotta set number here, how
27:22
Speaker 1: can I get the most and we started throwing out ideas.
27:25
Speaker 1: I said, do this, do this whole lot for this.
27:28
Speaker 1: So tell us about the experience of going on to
27:31
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey national were talked about the show this in
27:34
Speaker 1: native percent of the country. Okay, name in the opposent
27:37
Speaker 1: of the country, a well known mega talent, a global brand,
27:41
Speaker 1: and Steve Harvey and then you sitting on TV with
27:44
Speaker 1: him talk about that. Okay, So prior to that, prior,
27:50
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure they get the whole thing.
27:53
Speaker 1: Prior to that. What happened was when we started doing
27:56
Speaker 1: when we started sponsoring the Neighborhood Award, it was something
28:00
Speaker 1: and that happened at that moment, they instead of putting
28:04
Speaker 1: me amongst the other vendors, they put me on celebrity
28:08
Speaker 1: role then and my company and my company said, why
28:13
Speaker 1: why y'all putting us on a celebrity role? They said,
28:16
Speaker 1: because people because of the interviews they think he's a
28:21
Speaker 1: part of the show, which was something that just happened organically.
28:25
Speaker 1: I became a part of the show. So then that's
28:28
Speaker 1: when I started thinking. I said, okay, and me and
28:32
Speaker 1: you had that conversation about TV. I said, okay. They
28:36
Speaker 1: had called me and they said, we got an opportunity
28:38
Speaker 1: for you to be on TV. I'll take I said,
28:41
Speaker 1: I said, I'll take it. They said, we need for
28:44
Speaker 1: you to do this and that I don't know should
28:46
Speaker 1: I give? No, no, no, don't give. They need to
28:48
Speaker 1: learn some stuff on their own. That's gonna be in
28:51
Speaker 1: your book. That's gonna be your book. That's okay, you know,
28:57
Speaker 1: I know, you know. So they asked me. They they
29:00
Speaker 1: said they had an opportunity for me to be on TV,
29:02
Speaker 1: and I told him I'll take it. So I did.
29:05
Speaker 1: So I did the TV show and let me tell you,
29:10
Speaker 1: TVs wait, I didn't think TV could beat radio, but
29:16
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna tell you the difference. Okay, radio at
29:22
Speaker 1: the time that you were started, and and we was
29:24
Speaker 1: in eight markets that's basically in the southeast part of
29:27
Speaker 1: the country where the Steve Harvey Morning Show has its
29:30
Speaker 1: dominant president from New York all the way through Dallas, Atlanta,
29:34
Speaker 1: all the way down to Tampa, all that Memphis, Chicago, Detroit.
29:39
Speaker 1: So know that that's the part of the country that
29:41
Speaker 1: you were talking to on radio now TV. I just
29:45
Speaker 1: said earlier, you're now in ninety five percent of the country,
29:48
Speaker 1: which means you're in Seattle to Miami, you know, from
29:52
Speaker 1: Varmont to San Diego as well as middle of America.
29:56
Speaker 1: That's what you sat down on TV and that's the
29:59
Speaker 1: experience to tell everybody what happened. Well, okay, so we
30:03
Speaker 1: did the National Uh, we did the Steve Harvey Show.
30:05
Speaker 1: We went on there. We talked about a preacher that
30:07
Speaker 1: we had helped lose a hundred and fifty pounds in
30:11
Speaker 1: four to five months. Amazing story. He was trying to
30:15
Speaker 1: lose weight so he could be a candidate for his
30:18
Speaker 1: what to give his wife a kidney. He wanted to
30:20
Speaker 1: have the opportunity at least be part of the conversation
30:24
Speaker 1: to actually be a person that could save her life.
30:27
Speaker 1: So it was just something huge. We got involved. We
30:30
Speaker 1: helped he went from um three hundred and fifty three
30:35
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty something pounds to like two hundreds something pounds.
30:39
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact numbers, and sometime ago, so
30:42
Speaker 1: two hundred and something town, and he actually became a candidate.
30:44
Speaker 1: He was actually one of the people he could get
30:46
Speaker 1: his kidney's tested, so he can actually do that for
30:49
Speaker 1: his wife. But when we did the show, now, I
30:52
Speaker 1: don't mind giving out these numbers, and um, so when
30:56
Speaker 1: we did the show, what happened was and I just
30:59
Speaker 1: like I said, we were literally making twenty dollars a
31:02
Speaker 1: day already. So when we did to Steve Harvey National
31:06
Speaker 1: NBC TV Show, we went from that to making over
31:10
Speaker 1: a hundred something thousand dollars a day, just like that overnight.
31:18
Speaker 1: And it was like the first day we did over
31:21
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty easy. The next day we did
31:24
Speaker 1: an over a hundred thousands. The next day we did
31:28
Speaker 1: seventy thousand. So we could really really see the effects.
31:34
Speaker 1: And this is the beauty of it. So once I
31:36
Speaker 1: seen that, and I had already had that radio experience,
31:40
Speaker 1: and I said, guess what they felt like I was
31:42
Speaker 1: a part of the show. Oh, they ain't seen nothing yet.
31:45
Speaker 1: I told them, I'll take every TV opportunity that you got.
31:50
Speaker 1: I want them all, Give them all to me, give
31:54
Speaker 1: them all to me and just tell me what you
31:56
Speaker 1: guys need for me to do, I'll do it. So
31:59
Speaker 1: and and that to what happened. So then and now
32:01
Speaker 1: check this out. So now, since we're coming on the
32:04
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey TV Show, you know everyone at least once
32:09
Speaker 1: a month. I think last year I did over ten episode,
32:13
Speaker 1: so I don't sabook, but the everything, everything drastically changed
32:21
Speaker 1: because of that shift, because I said I've seen something,
32:24
Speaker 1: and I had already had that prior experience in radio,
32:27
Speaker 1: and so I had already attacked TV. I said, all right,
32:30
Speaker 1: give them all to me. So and so now we start.
32:34
Speaker 1: Then I hired a publicists, so now we became the
32:37
Speaker 1: health coach for the Steve Harvey TV Show. And then
32:40
Speaker 1: we flipped it. And now we went to all the
32:43
Speaker 1: other stations. All the other stations started letting us come
32:47
Speaker 1: on and talk about health and let us talk about clancy.
32:50
Speaker 1: And now it was crazy. So now I went from
32:53
Speaker 1: being in the office every day and doing radios at
32:57
Speaker 1: five in the morning to now being by coastal, flying
33:01
Speaker 1: over the all over the country, doing doing TV everywhere.
33:06
Speaker 1: So it's funny how just a few little moves and
33:12
Speaker 1: and daring to be different can really, really drastically change
33:16
Speaker 1: your business. But you know, the great thing about you
33:19
Speaker 1: that I like about j D. First of all, you're
33:20
Speaker 1: You're a handsome guy. You articulate. All these things are good.
33:24
Speaker 1: All these things are are pointing in the direction of
33:26
Speaker 1: why you can make these transitions. Everybody can't just jump
33:29
Speaker 1: in front of a TV camp. It's gonna be real. Now.
33:33
Speaker 1: God has blessed you with an opportunity and you're taking
33:35
Speaker 1: advantage of it. You know. And every time I've talked
33:37
Speaker 1: to you, you know, you've always been neatly dressed. You
33:41
Speaker 1: always had a style about you. And I say this
33:43
Speaker 1: to people because a lot of people don't understand that.
33:46
Speaker 1: People see all these things and then they teach things
33:49
Speaker 1: to you based on what they expect from you. You know,
33:52
Speaker 1: I always expected one from you, a certain culture, a
33:56
Speaker 1: certain style, and that's why I had to have you
33:59
Speaker 1: on the show over for two breaks. And here's the
34:01
Speaker 1: funny part when we can't, and I'm gonna bring you
34:03
Speaker 1: back to talk about your family because they need to
34:06
Speaker 1: hear that story. If you don't mind, If you don't mind, problem,
34:09
Speaker 1: because because because we're just talking about your brand and
34:12
Speaker 1: your journey and the trick moves that I've been trying
34:15
Speaker 1: to tell people that we and and and that's why
34:18
Speaker 1: I'm really making a shift to just letting everybody know.
34:20
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34:31
Speaker 1: check out the testimonials. It is the truth. You don't
34:34
Speaker 1: sell and do what he does on a regular basis
34:37
Speaker 1: if you're trying to do trick moves. But man, tell
34:40
Speaker 1: me I got one minute left with you. I can't
34:42
Speaker 1: believe we talked for two breaks and with this fact
34:45
Speaker 1: a d But tell everybody, uh a passing a goodbye
34:50
Speaker 1: motivational statement, Come on the a d well. I would
34:54
Speaker 1: say this, look, don't don't follow, don't be, but don't
34:59
Speaker 1: do the norm. Don't do the norm. They're to be different, man,
35:04
Speaker 1: start thinking differently, take a few chances, I mean, educated
35:07
Speaker 1: guests at what you wanna do, and then go for it.
35:11
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you anybody can be successful at anything.
35:15
Speaker 1: It's all about being persistent and consistent. That's it. For
35:20
Speaker 1: being persistent and consistent will change your life. I'm living
35:25
Speaker 1: testimony of that. That's the one thing I've absolutely learned.
35:30
Speaker 1: If you're consistent, and you're persistent, you can change your life.
35:35
Speaker 1: My brother, you will be back on the show. Thank
35:37
Speaker 1: you for taking the time to just tell what money
35:40
Speaker 1: Making Conversation is all about. It is about showing people's
35:43
Speaker 1: steps to success. About regular people and you regular people, man,
35:47
Speaker 1: you regular people, absolutely, but you're doing it in a
35:49
Speaker 1: big way. Again. This is the CEO of ww dot
35:53
Speaker 1: d herbs dot com. Check out the website. I know
35:56
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna boost you to a hundred thousand dollars
35:58
Speaker 1: a day, but guess what spreading the word baby, Hey d,
36:02
Speaker 1: I'm spending the word baby. Hey man, I appreciate you.
36:06
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, si after but a little to your man,
36:09
Speaker 1: keep going, keep selling them. He's the CEO. He's a
36:13
Speaker 1: healthy wildness doctor dee to fend. Come on now, coming
36:20
Speaker 1: up next, life coach extraordinary. Stop yourself. She's gonna stop
36:25
Speaker 1: you from stopping yourself. Melissa Alabam when we're rocking the
36:29
Speaker 1: roll we live. We're back on Monday. Come on now,
36:33
Speaker 1: you're the celebrity. You're the celebrity. Facebook b listen to
36:37
Speaker 1: me Money Making Conversation to be right back. He's giving
36:49
Speaker 1: me the finger that means I'm bad. Thank you, Darren's
36:53
Speaker 1: welcome back to money Making Conversations. You want to thank A. D. Darker,
36:58
Speaker 1: CEO of the earth herbs dot com healthy wellness expert,
37:04
Speaker 1: one of the leads and brand builders. He showed you,
37:06
Speaker 1: he told you how he built his brand. My next
37:09
Speaker 1: lady is gonna help you keep your brand and stop
37:11
Speaker 1: you from stopping yourself. My next guest is the founder
37:15
Speaker 1: of a global organization that connects, educates, and advocates for
37:19
Speaker 1: women of color and business. Please welcome to money Making Conversations.
37:23
Speaker 1: The CEO of Eliza Married Global Network, Melissa Melissa Aliba Melissa. Yes,
37:36
Speaker 1: I'm here. Thank you for having me. First of all,
37:39
Speaker 1: we're starting it off right. I'm not asking you. Can
37:41
Speaker 1: you see me? Can you hear me? So we're all
37:44
Speaker 1: we're already doing it right for the first time. For
37:47
Speaker 1: the second time in your interview, it was great seeing
37:49
Speaker 1: you last Friday. Before we get started, You're invited me
37:54
Speaker 1: to an event on Friday in regards to the the
37:58
Speaker 1: African American Museum and watch in d C. Tell everybody
38:01
Speaker 1: a little bit about that, and then we're gonna get
38:02
Speaker 1: in at your actual a view because I think it's
38:04
Speaker 1: important because you're invited me and people should be aware
38:07
Speaker 1: of what's going on in your participation in that tremendous
38:10
Speaker 1: uh engagement of being an ambassador for the Thank you
38:16
Speaker 1: so much, thank you for coming, and thank you for
38:18
Speaker 1: mentioning that the African American Museum of History and Culture
38:22
Speaker 1: is the first museum that is telling our story sitting
38:27
Speaker 1: on the National Mall, and it tells the story from
38:31
Speaker 1: Africa through slavery all the way to now. And it's
38:34
Speaker 1: definite amazing museum. So if you haven't been, you definitely
38:37
Speaker 1: want to go. As an ambassador, I get to travel,
38:40
Speaker 1: we get to host events, and I get to tell
38:42
Speaker 1: you about the amazing things that's happening there and to
38:45
Speaker 1: bring aboard more ambassadors who want to contribute money to
38:49
Speaker 1: continue the legacy. Okay, now why's it important that? Why
38:53
Speaker 1: is it an important day we contribute money? Because you know,
38:56
Speaker 1: it's a museum. Shouldn't the governmenty be paying for that?
38:58
Speaker 1: They built it? Absolutely? Absolutely so. The African American Museum
39:02
Speaker 1: of Historian Culture is a part of Smithsonian Museum. So
39:07
Speaker 1: what that means is is free to enter and only
39:10
Speaker 1: have of this funding comes from the government absolutely, and
39:16
Speaker 1: the other fifty percent to keep it running and keep
39:18
Speaker 1: the doors open every single day, Um, that comes from
39:21
Speaker 1: private donors. And one of my biggest beleas is is
39:24
Speaker 1: that we should be about us that represents us. Pay
39:28
Speaker 1: into so many other different things. Why not pay for
39:31
Speaker 1: something that's gonna represent us and tell the story that's
39:34
Speaker 1: never told in schools and never get that history. So
39:38
Speaker 1: that's the reason why I'm a part of it, because
39:40
Speaker 1: our legacy has to be told, it has to be continued,
39:44
Speaker 1: and our kids really need to know our true history.
39:48
Speaker 1: You are a life empowerment coach. Correct, that's it. Why
39:55
Speaker 1: why One of the things is I always tell people
39:59
Speaker 1: is to be great, right, and in order to be great,
40:02
Speaker 1: you have to go for what truly is your calling.
40:05
Speaker 1: And my calling has always been to inspire people to
40:08
Speaker 1: live their best life, to get the life that they
40:10
Speaker 1: truly deserve. And uh, that's how I do. I do
40:14
Speaker 1: that through life coach, and I do that through programs.
40:16
Speaker 1: I do that through speaking. UM, I do that by
40:18
Speaker 1: being on your show today and just telling people that
40:20
Speaker 1: you don't have to settle for the status quot you
40:23
Speaker 1: can break all the rules and literally go for the dream.
40:26
Speaker 1: They got his place inside of you. Okay, cool, since
40:28
Speaker 1: we since you said that, tell everybody how they can
40:31
Speaker 1: reach you, how they can contact you. Absolutely. You can
40:34
Speaker 1: contact me at Melissa at e m g N life
40:38
Speaker 1: dot com. You can find us on Facebook at Eliza
40:42
Speaker 1: Marry Global Network UM, and of course you can reach
40:46
Speaker 1: us on the internet at our website at www dot
40:50
Speaker 1: e m g N life dot com. Okay cool. Now
40:53
Speaker 1: here's the here's the beauty of talking to a person
40:56
Speaker 1: like you, because first of all, you know you're you're
40:58
Speaker 1: doing what you want to do in life, and you're
41:00
Speaker 1: getting paid to do it. That's the beauty. That's I
41:03
Speaker 1: think that's the goal of everybody in life, because a
41:06
Speaker 1: lot of people are doing jobs and making money and
41:08
Speaker 1: they don't like getting up in the morning, they don't
41:11
Speaker 1: like the people sitting next to them, they don't like
41:13
Speaker 1: the traffic that they're sitting in when they go to
41:16
Speaker 1: work or come back from work. With with all these
41:19
Speaker 1: what stops people from changing their life. And obviously I
41:23
Speaker 1: know you sent me some questions, but I gotta ask
41:26
Speaker 1: some personal generic questions like this because they have afford me.
41:29
Speaker 1: Because people need to know that basically, you're stopping yourself.
41:34
Speaker 1: Correct absolutely, absolutely, And I would say one of the
41:37
Speaker 1: biggest things that stopped us is our excuses. So, um,
41:41
Speaker 1: you know, when I tell people to live your dream,
41:44
Speaker 1: especially starting out, it's not gonna always be easy. It's
41:47
Speaker 1: a decision. So one of the things that I was
41:49
Speaker 1: a teenage mom. I had my daughter when I was nineteen,
41:52
Speaker 1: and one of the decisions I meant was not to
41:54
Speaker 1: quit my dream of going to school. Even though my
41:56
Speaker 1: grandmother said, hey, you have a daughter, now you need
41:58
Speaker 1: to focus on something else. I realized that in order
42:02
Speaker 1: to do what I need to do, I needed a
42:03
Speaker 1: college education. So I kept my friend's kids at night
42:07
Speaker 1: and they watched my daughter during the day. Like I
42:10
Speaker 1: figured out how to make it work right, So I
42:12
Speaker 1: allowed my could have been excused to be my reason.
42:16
Speaker 1: My daughter now is going to her senior year in college.
42:19
Speaker 1: She's a producer at the radio station, she has her
42:21
Speaker 1: own clothing line. She has learned from me not to
42:25
Speaker 1: let your excuses be it's the reason why you don't
42:28
Speaker 1: s see, but be the reasons why you shouldn't see.
42:30
Speaker 1: So that's what I tell people. Whatever your excuse is,
42:33
Speaker 1: we all have you know, illness, uh, the boor whatever
42:37
Speaker 1: it may be. We all have them. But allowed that
42:39
Speaker 1: to be the thing that fused you to go for
42:41
Speaker 1: your drinks because and I think that one thing I
42:43
Speaker 1: noticed you're willing to expose yourself, because I remember when
42:47
Speaker 1: you got up and spoke at the at the event
42:50
Speaker 1: on Friday for the African American Museum, is that you
42:53
Speaker 1: told everybody, I'm a single mall. You know. I think
42:56
Speaker 1: that's important that you wanted to tell people how to
42:59
Speaker 1: be successful. You have to be willing to share because
43:02
Speaker 1: certain things people consider flaws, and you want what people
43:06
Speaker 1: may consider flaws, you know, like damaged goods or things
43:10
Speaker 1: like that stop you. And when you said that, that's interesting.
43:14
Speaker 1: But as I said, it's interesting not because I've never
43:17
Speaker 1: heard that before. I said it was interesting because of
43:20
Speaker 1: the fact that it's important when you're asking people to
43:22
Speaker 1: do something for you, when you're asking for money, you
43:26
Speaker 1: have to tell them your story, and you have to
43:28
Speaker 1: also turn around and say the word sacrifice, and you
43:32
Speaker 1: use all those in the process. And that's what stops
43:35
Speaker 1: a lot of people is that they're not willing to
43:37
Speaker 1: be honest with what they want to do in life.
43:39
Speaker 1: They're not being honest about the effort that they want
43:42
Speaker 1: to put out in life, and they don't want to
43:44
Speaker 1: make sacrifices. What you said in the beginning of basically excuses, right, absolutely,
43:50
Speaker 1: we all have them. And if you're going to be great,
43:52
Speaker 1: and I say be great, meaning that we all have
43:55
Speaker 1: these gifts inside of us, you have to be able
43:58
Speaker 1: to dedicate at least of your time to that thing, right,
44:03
Speaker 1: And so in order to do that, when you get
44:05
Speaker 1: up in the morning, like I got up this morning,
44:07
Speaker 1: it's raining here, and my kids said, like my oldest
44:10
Speaker 1: she's she came home yesterday and she says, mon, where
44:13
Speaker 1: are you going? You know it's a storm, right, I said, yeah,
44:19
Speaker 1: it's a storm. But again, I already decided that today
44:22
Speaker 1: I was coming. I was working on the book, and
44:24
Speaker 1: I was gonna get that done. So its orders to
44:26
Speaker 1: be great, you have to do what you say you're
44:29
Speaker 1: gonna do, and you have to do that consistently, no
44:32
Speaker 1: matter what's going on around you. Now, with that being said,
44:36
Speaker 1: what frustrates you? And I want I want my viewers
44:39
Speaker 1: on Facebook at Rashaan McDonald dot com, my listeners on
44:43
Speaker 1: four in Houston if you download the app. What frustrates
44:47
Speaker 1: you too. You know, you consider out with a person
44:49
Speaker 1: they hire you, our company hires you, what is the
44:53
Speaker 1: number one rule that they break immediately? That just just
44:56
Speaker 1: pos you. Um. I would say with people that I've
45:03
Speaker 1: brought in is that they don't they they present themselves
45:07
Speaker 1: one way, did they change? So however you come to
45:10
Speaker 1: that company, however you come to your job. However you
45:12
Speaker 1: come to your clients being the very best, and do
45:15
Speaker 1: that consistently. You know. Another thing is people don't put
45:19
Speaker 1: blinders on. We're so busy looking at what other people
45:21
Speaker 1: are doing, especially like when I'm working with small business owners.
45:24
Speaker 1: It's very easy for someone to say, hey, this person
45:27
Speaker 1: has five d tho followers and I only have ten thousand,
45:30
Speaker 1: or this person has ten thousand and I only have
45:33
Speaker 1: to focus on what God has given. You. Don't look
45:37
Speaker 1: around when you're Yeah, when you're looking around, you you don't.
45:41
Speaker 1: You're not consistent to what you're called to do. So
45:43
Speaker 1: the hours that you've s been thinking about Susie or
45:46
Speaker 1: Joe Bro, you're not doing what you need to do.
45:48
Speaker 1: The person who stays the course, when that's just it.
45:52
Speaker 1: You win if you stay the course. That is so
45:55
Speaker 1: true and I have to say that because a lot
45:58
Speaker 1: of people, a lot of people want to look at
46:00
Speaker 1: the car that somebody drives, or the house when somebody
46:04
Speaker 1: lives in, or the tip they leave on the table.
46:07
Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. That at your code, then at
46:10
Speaker 1: your house, that at your tip. Stay in your lane,
46:13
Speaker 1: and be consistent, like you said, be consistent with the
46:16
Speaker 1: plan that you're trying to develop. And that's really what
46:18
Speaker 1: we're talking about. And then what and that's really what
46:21
Speaker 1: you say, And that's what I was just saying, is
46:23
Speaker 1: that that's why when you invited me. I remember I
46:26
Speaker 1: called just I made it into Atlanta because they the
46:28
Speaker 1: flights will open and allowed me to fly out of Houston,
46:31
Speaker 1: and I called you and I said, can I still come?
46:34
Speaker 1: And because I came there for the experience, because that's
46:38
Speaker 1: how you gain information, That's how you don't don't don't
46:41
Speaker 1: don't just bother yourself into your world of information. It's
46:44
Speaker 1: so much more information out there you can gather by
46:47
Speaker 1: going to events, create new relationships, and expose yourself the
46:51
Speaker 1: information that you would normally have if you didn't go
46:53
Speaker 1: through the experience. Correct. Absolutely, And I just appreciate you
46:58
Speaker 1: for coming. I think that's another point that you you
47:01
Speaker 1: brought stepping outside your conference zone. You know, I know
47:05
Speaker 1: you used to just be you know, with celebrities for
47:07
Speaker 1: ducers and all the truth. I'm used to that, yeah,
47:15
Speaker 1: because and all of these different things, UH fundraises with Obama.
47:20
Speaker 1: But you said, hey, um, this young lady is doing
47:22
Speaker 1: this and I want to support her and I and
47:25
Speaker 1: you did that, and I so appreciate that you got
47:28
Speaker 1: to step outside your conference zone as entrepreneur, and you
47:31
Speaker 1: have to do things that you wouldn't normally or typically
47:35
Speaker 1: do to make it because you never know where your
47:37
Speaker 1: next opportunity is going to come. I always tell people
47:40
Speaker 1: that you never know what relationship that you're gonna build,
47:43
Speaker 1: and that relationship is going to be the thing that
47:45
Speaker 1: catapults you into what you're always supposed to do. Okay,
47:48
Speaker 1: but listen, tell about some of your upcoming agendas that
47:51
Speaker 1: you have coming up so we can follow you. Absolutely.
47:54
Speaker 1: So the radio show is starting um and we're gonna
47:58
Speaker 1: be working and talking to entrepreneur works on all sorts
48:01
Speaker 1: of businesses. That launch is on September the sn It'll
48:04
Speaker 1: be on wed SDACE on Theliza Mary Global Network page
48:08
Speaker 1: and also you can find it on stream at e
48:11
Speaker 1: m g N Radio dot com. Awesome, but listen, you know,
48:17
Speaker 1: can you be a regular on my show? Can you
48:18
Speaker 1: do that for me? Absolutely? You're my life coach is strong.
48:22
Speaker 1: I can't bring no more than life coach on the show.
48:24
Speaker 1: But you know, so I might get a male, but female.
48:27
Speaker 1: You got it on lock Is they good? That's good?
48:30
Speaker 1: You know I have that on my board. Tell everybody
48:33
Speaker 1: how to reach you on that website here, yes, uh
48:36
Speaker 1: www dot Melissa Alava dot com, pash teg Rashan and Melissa,
48:41
Speaker 1: you're about to do this. There you go, girl, and
48:43
Speaker 1: you stay strong. I appreciate you inviting me. I appreciate you.
48:48
Speaker 1: You know. The great thing about what I'm doing with
48:50
Speaker 1: this show is that cultivating relationships and hopefully I'm building spirit.
48:54
Speaker 1: I'm building spirit that you can do with spirit. Spirit said, Hey,
48:58
Speaker 1: let you know that there are people out there that
49:00
Speaker 1: are willing to help you put that next step on
49:02
Speaker 1: that ladder because you could only go up if you
49:05
Speaker 1: step forward. And that's all this money making conversations about Melissa.
49:09
Speaker 1: I feel blessed to have you on the show. Thank you,
49:12
Speaker 1: and guess what keep me posted? Girl? Okay, yeah, we'll
49:15
Speaker 1: be back, Bye bye, coming back. The girl from DC.
49:22
Speaker 1: This this girl you cannot miss. She's incredible. Laura Foods,
49:27
Speaker 1: She's coming up. She's incredible, She's incredible. I'm back. I'm back.
49:39
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation is live. Two weeks we were on vacation,
49:44
Speaker 1: one because of the Hurricane Harvey, two because of Labor Day.
49:49
Speaker 1: But you know you gotta rebuild that movementum. You know
49:51
Speaker 1: people you drop off the scene and they go, he
49:54
Speaker 1: is he all I hear is repeat. I didn't heard
49:56
Speaker 1: that paddler bear any of you before. I didn't heard
49:59
Speaker 1: that eight and a a half away. She talked about promoting
50:02
Speaker 1: dates and may in the interview in September. That don't
50:06
Speaker 1: make no sense, Rishan. I thought you were here for us.
50:09
Speaker 1: You ain't even live no more. This is a bunch
50:12
Speaker 1: of crap. I'm not gonna listen no more. Guesse, what
50:16
Speaker 1: building momentum? I ain't going nowhere. I'm back, I'm back out.
50:20
Speaker 1: Money to Make Conversation is live again. My next guest,
50:25
Speaker 1: I'm mad at her. I'm gonna just tell her right
50:27
Speaker 1: now and shear the cane show the phone. Okay, I'm
50:30
Speaker 1: gonna just let her know right now Cheers was supposed
50:32
Speaker 1: to be in studio with me. She promised me on
50:35
Speaker 1: separ Timuty and lovel Rashan McDonald, I'm coming down to Houston,
50:39
Speaker 1: Texas to do two breaks with you because I'm gonna
50:43
Speaker 1: tell you just the third time she's been on my show, Everybody,
50:46
Speaker 1: the third time. I always started this showing may that's
50:50
Speaker 1: how talented that she is. I'm gonna tell you somethingbody,
50:53
Speaker 1: My next guest is one of my all time favorite.
50:55
Speaker 1: Her speaking topics include finances, taxes, business startup, death care,
51:05
Speaker 1: co parenting, divorce, and living a big life. Please welcome
51:10
Speaker 1: the money making Conversations from the DC area. Laura Food. Hello, Hello,
51:18
Speaker 1: Hell Laura, my girl doing. I'm doing great and I
51:24
Speaker 1: certainly wish I was there, but as as as you know,
51:28
Speaker 1: as I was explaining, because of Hurricane Harvey, my corporate
51:32
Speaker 1: office is under nine feet of water and not effected
51:36
Speaker 1: to be back in our offices until probably November. So
51:40
Speaker 1: unfortunately they canceled UM the conference, so I was not
51:44
Speaker 1: able to come. So thank you for still having me
51:47
Speaker 1: on the phone, because I always love UM to call
51:49
Speaker 1: in and talk with you and always have a great
51:51
Speaker 1: time with you guys. Absolutely uh Laura. First of all,
51:57
Speaker 1: you're very, very talented. Let's go and get that out
51:59
Speaker 1: the way. Much this is this is the reason she's
52:04
Speaker 1: on my show. First of all, she's challenged, she's small,
52:07
Speaker 1: and she can talk. A lot of people understand that
52:09
Speaker 1: that that third one I said, she can talk. You know,
52:13
Speaker 1: this is the type of person that you know, I
52:15
Speaker 1: have no problem during two breaks with her. You know,
52:18
Speaker 1: I just shut it down, let her just start talking.
52:21
Speaker 1: Probably just talk to myself. I know you got to
52:23
Speaker 1: steal set for that. But I brought you on the
52:26
Speaker 1: show because of the fact that of all the people
52:29
Speaker 1: that I can bring on the show. And when we
52:31
Speaker 1: got to start doing Q and age with you, how
52:33
Speaker 1: people call in if you don't mind, because because you
52:37
Speaker 1: you you're all an expert. You you're and you're confident
52:40
Speaker 1: enough to know if you don't know, you're gonna find
52:42
Speaker 1: out an answer. And so when you send me a
52:44
Speaker 1: resume and you have all these speaking topics, and let's
52:47
Speaker 1: let's briefly just briefly say when I when I what
52:51
Speaker 1: do you know about finances? When I'm just gonna throw
52:53
Speaker 1: it out like that, and you just give me a
52:55
Speaker 1: quick synopsis so people get a sense of who you
52:57
Speaker 1: are and your brain. Okay, uh, well, well, and I
53:02
Speaker 1: started my career very very young, and fortunately so I
53:07
Speaker 1: do have a background and accounting background which I have
53:11
Speaker 1: used all the time. I knew when I wanted to
53:13
Speaker 1: start business that I could go to school and get
53:15
Speaker 1: a degree in accounting because any business or anything that
53:18
Speaker 1: you're passionate about, someone has to handle the money and
53:21
Speaker 1: the finances. That's the backbone of any business in any area. UM.
53:26
Speaker 1: So I did go to school for accounting. Then, as
53:28
Speaker 1: I said, I did start my corporate career when I
53:31
Speaker 1: was eighteen now forty one, so I've been in that
53:34
Speaker 1: corporate career for twenty two years. I'm a business finance manager,
53:38
Speaker 1: so I oversee forty two locations in the Washington Baltimore,
53:43
Speaker 1: Virginia area. Um as well as you know, my corporation
53:46
Speaker 1: is enter you know, an international company, as well as
53:49
Speaker 1: then the finance. Um as I got more and more
53:53
Speaker 1: into finance that I grew to have a passion for taxes.
53:59
Speaker 1: Don't you just don't jump a lane. I gotta set
54:01
Speaker 1: you up. I told you talk too much, but you
54:04
Speaker 1: talented though. Okay, now now here's my next question. What
54:08
Speaker 1: do you know about taxes well. In taxes, I mean,
54:11
Speaker 1: of course, you can look up my name, Laura Foods.
54:13
Speaker 1: I'm on the I R S website, so I'm a
54:16
Speaker 1: licensed tax preparer. I can do taxes UM in all
54:20
Speaker 1: the states. We I do personal taxes, I can do
54:22
Speaker 1: small business taxes UM. And I just thought it was
54:25
Speaker 1: important and now I'm even getting more into educating people.
54:29
Speaker 1: A lot of people know me for doing on my
54:31
Speaker 1: Facebook page tax tip Tuesdays, because I found in taxes
54:35
Speaker 1: people really don't have to understand taxes. They just go
54:38
Speaker 1: to somebody and do it, but do not understand why
54:41
Speaker 1: do I owe or why do I get a refund?
54:43
Speaker 1: So that's how I've gotten so passionate about taxes UM
54:47
Speaker 1: because people just don't seem to understand it. And a
54:49
Speaker 1: lot of preparers don't educate their clients. Now, hopefully my
54:52
Speaker 1: clients I don't provide them too much education and they
54:55
Speaker 1: leave me and start going to do their own UM.
54:57
Speaker 1: But I want my clients to be educated, you know,
55:00
Speaker 1: and I want to and I prepare them all year long,
55:02
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to just interact with them at
55:04
Speaker 1: tax time. We want to interact all year long. And
55:06
Speaker 1: that's what my tax tip Tuesdays are about. But next question,
55:10
Speaker 1: what do you know about business startup? Oh my god,
55:14
Speaker 1: don't do it now? Well, like I said, and most
55:19
Speaker 1: of us know of Salon Couture for the Neighborhood Awards.
55:23
Speaker 1: We were very fortunate to be recognized by d C
55:26
Speaker 1: and then across the country four times for best Mail
55:29
Speaker 1: Salon and then one time for best Beauty Salon in
55:32
Speaker 1: the country. Um. And that's because, like I said, we
55:35
Speaker 1: were four young women that had a dream. Of course,
55:37
Speaker 1: now you can't have a dream, but you do have
55:39
Speaker 1: to have some cash saved. Um. And we went from
55:43
Speaker 1: you know, we have a brick and mortar business. This
55:45
Speaker 1: is not just an online business. So I think that
55:48
Speaker 1: those are two completely different things. You know, when you
55:51
Speaker 1: were a brick and mortar business. There is a lot
55:53
Speaker 1: that goes into starting a brick and mortar business. I
55:56
Speaker 1: probably know more than I ever wanted to know. A
56:00
Speaker 1: out d t us and a heavy up for the
56:02
Speaker 1: electrical panel box and the plumbing, you know all of
56:05
Speaker 1: those things. Um. But so yes, And this year in
56:08
Speaker 1: October we are celebrating ten years um that clon CoA
56:13
Speaker 1: tour has been opened. And then in this past October.
56:16
Speaker 1: We just opened a beauty supply store, which is right, yes, yes,
56:24
Speaker 1: and then my tax office is two doors down from that,
56:27
Speaker 1: so I'm just taking over the shopping center. Nothing wrong
56:30
Speaker 1: with that. Nothing wrong with that. Told you have a
56:31
Speaker 1: big personality, So I pretty much one day it's just
56:34
Speaker 1: gonna be a bill board above. Now what do you know?
56:39
Speaker 1: That would be nice? Let's go the next topic. What
56:41
Speaker 1: do you know about death care? Um? Well, my corporate career,
56:45
Speaker 1: which a lot of people don't know because it is
56:47
Speaker 1: a corporate thing, so I don't talk a lot about it.
56:50
Speaker 1: Or now I am going to begin to talk more
56:52
Speaker 1: about it on social media just from doing your show.
56:55
Speaker 1: We've talked about it and other people asking about it. UM.
56:58
Speaker 1: But very passionate about this business as well because it
57:02
Speaker 1: impacts a lot of families financially, UH and the death
57:05
Speaker 1: care industry. What I what I do is we talk
57:10
Speaker 1: to families about pre arranging so that we don't have
57:13
Speaker 1: go fund mese everywhere, excuse me. And it's just educating
57:18
Speaker 1: families that they are able to take care of these
57:21
Speaker 1: arrangements ahead of time, and then we educate them about
57:24
Speaker 1: how they're able to do that. So I do know.
57:26
Speaker 1: And like I said, and I've been in that industry
57:28
Speaker 1: for twenty two years so have a lot of knowledge
57:31
Speaker 1: on the death care industry. Unfortunately, what do you know
57:35
Speaker 1: about co parenting? Well that now that that could be
57:40
Speaker 1: a whole that could be a whole show right there. Um.
57:43
Speaker 1: But most of the people in the d m V market,
57:45
Speaker 1: or if you follow me on social media, know that said.
57:47
Speaker 1: The kid is my reason, she's my why, she is
57:51
Speaker 1: my everything. Um. I became a you know, a mother
57:54
Speaker 1: at a very young age, and we thought we were
57:56
Speaker 1: doing it the right way. Um. And I did get
57:59
Speaker 1: married when I was twenty two. And unfortunately, when you're
58:03
Speaker 1: young and you don't know any better than you know,
58:05
Speaker 1: sometimes that doesn't always work out. Um. But what what
58:09
Speaker 1: I do try to teach people as far and anyone
58:12
Speaker 1: that I can talk to as far as co parenting,
58:14
Speaker 1: you know, is I love my daughter more than anything
58:17
Speaker 1: or anyone, and and her relationship with her father is
58:21
Speaker 1: very important to me. So we do not we don't argue.
58:25
Speaker 1: And of course it's never enough money involved. You know.
58:28
Speaker 1: I would like to have more money coming in or
58:30
Speaker 1: more child support and all of those things. But my
58:32
Speaker 1: key focus has always been on her. So, yes, we
58:35
Speaker 1: do still do Christmas Is together, we do the birthdays together.
58:39
Speaker 1: I'm very good friends with his you know, when he
58:42
Speaker 1: got remarried and his fiance, I'm very good friends with
58:45
Speaker 1: them because we have to raise our children together. And
58:48
Speaker 1: I think that you learn to put your feelings aside
58:51
Speaker 1: or your emotions aside for the best interests of your children. UM.
58:55
Speaker 1: So that's why I do talk to people about how
58:57
Speaker 1: do we do this the right way so that our
59:00
Speaker 1: wildren are a good and a good environment and healthy environment.
59:03
Speaker 1: They're allowed to love both parents. Um, and even when
59:06
Speaker 1: they get remarried, you're allowed to love those parents as well. Okay, cool.
59:10
Speaker 1: Now there are two more topics I want to bring
59:12
Speaker 1: up because I want to bring them up because I
59:15
Speaker 1: want to be able to in the second break, because
59:18
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about your brand, because
59:21
Speaker 1: I think that you're you're such an an exceptional talent.
59:27
Speaker 1: And I gotta say this right now. If you can
59:29
Speaker 1: see me, you would see I'm blushing right now. That's
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Speaker 1: know you can raise them and you can bury them.
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Speaker 1: You know you can. You can, you can. That's very
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Speaker 1: important in that process. And you can tell people how
1:00:14
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1:00:17
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Speaker 1: And I feel and I'm not saying, you know, and
1:00:24
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1:00:25
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1:00:27
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1:00:31
Speaker 1: me and you and the relationship that we're developing is
1:00:35
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1:00:39
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1:00:42
Speaker 1: talked to, anybody I talked to on the regular basis.
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Speaker 1: It's really funny because because I used to see you
1:00:47
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1:00:49
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1:00:53
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1:00:55
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1:01:04
Speaker 1: You know, co workers, she said, are partners, business partners,
1:01:08
Speaker 1: co workers, and they're getting mad. We're working for you now.
1:01:11
Speaker 1: You know people people turn on your fast and we
1:01:14
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1:01:17
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Speaker 1: L fourteen in Houston, Markham I called out for a
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Speaker 1: thank you. I wish I was there in the studio
1:02:40
Speaker 1: they do. Don't give me that. I don't hear none
1:02:42
Speaker 1: of that lauda because I'm glad you're not here, because
1:02:44
Speaker 1: I probably couldn't push you out the show. You know
1:02:46
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, I was gonna say if I
1:02:48
Speaker 1: come live like I need the whole two hours. You
1:02:52
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, he'd be embarrassing because you know,
1:02:55
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1:02:58
Speaker 1: you you you you know to be a successful as
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Speaker 1: you are and do all the things that you've done,
1:03:02
Speaker 1: You're stubborn, So I know it's gonna be a battle
1:03:05
Speaker 1: to get you out to say I wouna be staying
1:03:07
Speaker 1: for the whole too. Well, I gotta call in from
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Speaker 1: the d C area. Uh, Sassy, are you on the line? Sassy?
1:03:14
Speaker 1: Are you on the line? I am here. How y'all doing? Hey, Sassy,
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Speaker 1: you have a phone call or you you called in
1:03:19
Speaker 1: and have a question for Laura? I do, Sassie, how
1:03:24
Speaker 1: are you? Thank you for calling in? Good? Good, good.
1:03:28
Speaker 1: Lord's on my favorite people on the planet, and I
1:03:30
Speaker 1: am the blessed to have some inside and knowledge UM
1:03:33
Speaker 1: that I want her to share with all of your
1:03:36
Speaker 1: other listeners. So my question for you, Laura, that I
1:03:39
Speaker 1: hope you can um it gives them kind of inside
1:03:42
Speaker 1: the information is how do you overcome the fear of
1:03:46
Speaker 1: failure that's associated with starting and successfully operating your own businesses? Um? Okay,
1:03:54
Speaker 1: So good question. Overcoming the fear of failure? Well, I
1:03:58
Speaker 1: think when you are are UM, when you first determine
1:04:02
Speaker 1: your why, which for me my wife of course, was
1:04:05
Speaker 1: being a young single mother and having a child to
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Speaker 1: take care of. That I took on as a huge
1:04:11
Speaker 1: responsibility and just like anything else, just like with business,
1:04:15
Speaker 1: I had to make her successful and I had to
1:04:18
Speaker 1: make her the best baby ever. Um So I think
1:04:21
Speaker 1: once you take, once you determine what your why is.
1:04:25
Speaker 1: And then I found out early on my purpose, I
1:04:27
Speaker 1: know is to share my information and educate people about finances,
1:04:32
Speaker 1: whether it's personal finances, business finances. Then yet, um, have
1:04:36
Speaker 1: some of the things that I've tried not worked. Have
1:04:38
Speaker 1: I had some events where nobody shows up and there's
1:04:41
Speaker 1: two people in the room, or then you go to
1:04:43
Speaker 1: other events where there's a hundred people in the room
1:04:46
Speaker 1: or there's six hundred people in the room. Um, But
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Speaker 1: I think it is knowing that you have a purpose
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Speaker 1: and I have a why, and so failure is not
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Speaker 1: an option or like if you all watch my social
1:04:57
Speaker 1: media pages and I post my morning motivation every day,
1:05:00
Speaker 1: it is just what they say. I don't necessarily take
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Speaker 1: it as a failure. It is then talking to people
1:05:08
Speaker 1: and asking questions of okay, so what do I need
1:05:10
Speaker 1: to do? How do I make this better? How can
1:05:13
Speaker 1: it be better the next time? Because, as I said,
1:05:15
Speaker 1: my child school tuition has to be paid, so failing
1:05:18
Speaker 1: is not even an option. Um. But I do think
1:05:22
Speaker 1: one of the key things is I do try to
1:05:24
Speaker 1: make sure that I keep my core circle close and
1:05:28
Speaker 1: that I have good, motivating, empowering people around me who
1:05:32
Speaker 1: they keep me motivated because of course I have off
1:05:34
Speaker 1: seasons and I have bad days or you know, or
1:05:37
Speaker 1: even seasons where Okay, I'm done with this. Can I
1:05:40
Speaker 1: just work my nine to five and I don't want
1:05:42
Speaker 1: to do anything else anymore. Um. But when you have
1:05:44
Speaker 1: an empowering circle around you, um, they keep you going
1:05:48
Speaker 1: and they keep reminding you of your why. Um. So
1:05:51
Speaker 1: I think that, like you said, so that kind of
1:05:53
Speaker 1: sounds cliche, failure isn't an option. But once you know
1:05:56
Speaker 1: your why and your purpose, then I don't necessarily think
1:05:59
Speaker 1: you're failing. It's you know, getting it right or making
1:06:02
Speaker 1: it better. Yes, let me add Let me add to that, Sassy.
1:06:05
Speaker 1: On top of what the wonderful information you've just gotten
1:06:08
Speaker 1: from Laara is that a lot of people, you know,
1:06:12
Speaker 1: they don't plan and they because it's so hard. The
1:06:15
Speaker 1: number one mistake that most people making small businesses, they
1:06:18
Speaker 1: don't have a business plan. They have a great idea,
1:06:21
Speaker 1: but they don't have a business plan. And they look
1:06:23
Speaker 1: at ten dollars. If they charged ten dollars for a hamburger,
1:06:26
Speaker 1: they don't realize that, you know, you gotta pay for
1:06:29
Speaker 1: taxes on that hamburger, you gotta pay for the lettuce.
1:06:31
Speaker 1: To me, they don't realize that you might be walking
1:06:33
Speaker 1: away with three dollars. And so that's where the planning
1:06:36
Speaker 1: part comes into it, and also the consistency, and also
1:06:41
Speaker 1: make sure if you're going into business with everybody, with
1:06:44
Speaker 1: other people, you all have the same values. And I'm
1:06:48
Speaker 1: gonna just go I'm gonna slow that down. I'm gonna
1:06:50
Speaker 1: slow that down because you can't make up another person
1:06:54
Speaker 1: be like you. You have to accept them for who
1:06:57
Speaker 1: they are and then in their strengths. Okay, I can
1:07:01
Speaker 1: just shure you all the partners in Salon Couture are
1:07:04
Speaker 1: not alight, you know, because I can't nobody out talk Lord.
1:07:09
Speaker 1: They all they all know that. They all know that,
1:07:12
Speaker 1: they all know that, but each one of them have
1:07:14
Speaker 1: a tremendous strength and to what the number one mistakes
1:07:17
Speaker 1: people make. It's like they'll say, well, I'm here twenty
1:07:20
Speaker 1: four hours a day. What that's you If you decided
1:07:23
Speaker 1: to be at your job or this company twenty four
1:07:25
Speaker 1: hours a day, don't try to make other people do that. Now,
1:07:29
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get in business, know the person that
1:07:31
Speaker 1: you're getting in business with, so that way you you
1:07:35
Speaker 1: won't be blindsided or not. If they're doing something down
1:07:38
Speaker 1: the line that makes you upset, that's the number that's
1:07:42
Speaker 1: one of the number one problems. It's the same thing
1:07:45
Speaker 1: with your kids, with your wife or whoever you're dating.
1:07:48
Speaker 1: Do not try to force these people into your lifestyle.
1:07:52
Speaker 1: You volunteer for this. You you decided to leave IBM
1:07:56
Speaker 1: and go on the road and tell jokes. I can
1:07:58
Speaker 1: drag my mama out there. My mama name want me.
1:08:00
Speaker 1: My mom was happy with me being that IBM so
1:08:03
Speaker 1: I could guard my mama wind And hey, these folks
1:08:05
Speaker 1: ain't laughing in Kentucky, these folks they booed me off
1:08:08
Speaker 1: the stage. In Virginia on the fifteen people showed up.
1:08:11
Speaker 1: I don't think this man is gonna pay me. In Mississippi,
1:08:15
Speaker 1: they didn't ask for that. And so what it happens
1:08:17
Speaker 1: is a lot of people they try to put their
1:08:20
Speaker 1: burden of their decision on other people. Guess what happens
1:08:24
Speaker 1: when you do that, Your your crowd and supports shrinks.
1:08:27
Speaker 1: It's shrinks, and so when it shrinks, guess what all
1:08:31
Speaker 1: people see you as bad news? Are you begging for something?
1:08:35
Speaker 1: Are you complaining about something? Here's the number one thing
1:08:39
Speaker 1: when you are a leader. You cannot have bad days.
1:08:44
Speaker 1: When you are a leader, you cannot cry in public.
1:08:48
Speaker 1: When you are a leader, you have to let everybody
1:08:51
Speaker 1: know that the bullet you just shot, that you just
1:08:54
Speaker 1: got shot with, you're gonna keep on walking and you're
1:08:56
Speaker 1: gonna keep on walking because what you made the decision
1:08:59
Speaker 1: to leave people up that hill and back down that
1:09:02
Speaker 1: hill to victory. And that is really key. And what
1:09:05
Speaker 1: I'm saying to anybody who's listening, and especially to you know,
1:09:09
Speaker 1: and I know Laura's hearing me, She's gonna, yeah, yeah,
1:09:11
Speaker 1: I agree with everything he's saying, because guess what their days.
1:09:15
Speaker 1: I would tell people I have had tears in my
1:09:17
Speaker 1: eyes because I didn't want to get up. They have days.
1:09:21
Speaker 1: There are days when I didn't I wanted to call somebody,
1:09:25
Speaker 1: but I couldn't call them because I couldn't show that
1:09:27
Speaker 1: sign of weakness because they believed in me. So I
1:09:30
Speaker 1: had to do my research. I had to have relationships.
1:09:33
Speaker 1: There are people, they're CEOs, their presidents of companies, they're
1:09:37
Speaker 1: famous athletes, they're famous actors who called me for advice.
1:09:43
Speaker 1: Now what if I decided to tell everybody I'm stupid,
1:09:46
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know a darn thing you think they
1:09:49
Speaker 1: keep calling me because guess what, I'll have have shown
1:09:52
Speaker 1: a sign of weakness because that is not my brand.
1:09:55
Speaker 1: My brand is a brand of success. And if you
1:09:57
Speaker 1: called me, I will make you succe. That's for And
1:10:00
Speaker 1: that's really what this is all about. This is all
1:10:02
Speaker 1: what money making conversations is about. And that's why in
1:10:05
Speaker 1: the first half of this interview, I wanted to make
1:10:08
Speaker 1: sure people understood why I was talking to Laura. And
1:10:11
Speaker 1: I need Laura to understand who she is. See, see
1:10:14
Speaker 1: what happens with talented people. They tend to only they
1:10:17
Speaker 1: tend to. They tend to kind of like keep their abilities,
1:10:20
Speaker 1: you know, a very tight circle and only a few
1:10:22
Speaker 1: people know about they're listed out, but they don't really
1:10:25
Speaker 1: understand what they've listed out. And so I just wanted
1:10:28
Speaker 1: her for the first time, maybe maybe for the first time,
1:10:32
Speaker 1: for her to hear herself talk about herself, so she
1:10:35
Speaker 1: can take in the information that she's has because you know,
1:10:41
Speaker 1: you can go said, you know, I can, I can
1:10:42
Speaker 1: shoot them, I can. You know, look at Lebron James.
1:10:45
Speaker 1: Lebron James a class example. He has game show on,
1:10:49
Speaker 1: he has a TV show on, he has foundations, he
1:10:53
Speaker 1: plays basketball. You know, he's an entrepreneur, he has a
1:10:59
Speaker 1: sporting agent. See that's all I'm saying. He's embraced his
1:11:03
Speaker 1: ability to make money. Now when I look at Laura,
1:11:08
Speaker 1: when I look at her, she's she's feeling information. Now
1:11:12
Speaker 1: when we hang up this phone, she don't have a
1:11:14
Speaker 1: different conversation about herself. And I hope you do because
1:11:18
Speaker 1: you are a an enterprise young lady, and it's it's
1:11:22
Speaker 1: enough of people telling you how talented you are. It's
1:11:25
Speaker 1: time for you to really look at your website and
1:11:27
Speaker 1: say who am I and started watching yourself. And once
1:11:31
Speaker 1: you find out who you are, then your bread will explode.
1:11:34
Speaker 1: Does that makes this Laura, because right now, listen to me. Now, Finances,
1:11:41
Speaker 1: you didn't stumble when you talked about that, Taxes, you
1:11:44
Speaker 1: didn't stumble when you talked about that business startup. You
1:11:47
Speaker 1: didn't stumble. When you talked about that death care. You
1:11:51
Speaker 1: didn't stumble when you talked about that co parenting. You
1:11:54
Speaker 1: didn't stumble when you talked about that divorce. You wouldn't
1:11:58
Speaker 1: stumble when you talk about that living a big life.
1:12:01
Speaker 1: You will not stumble when you talk about that. You
1:12:03
Speaker 1: know why you won't stumble, because that's what you do, Laura. Okay,
1:12:08
Speaker 1: that's what you do. It's time when you hang up
1:12:10
Speaker 1: this phone with me today, it's time for you to
1:12:12
Speaker 1: make note of what I'm saying to you today. You
1:12:16
Speaker 1: are bigger than what you are. Not saying that you
1:12:19
Speaker 1: hunt don't have a perception of who you are. But
1:12:21
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know. I've been around a lot
1:12:24
Speaker 1: of famous people, a lot of great people called me
1:12:28
Speaker 1: and my wife go who just called you, don't worry
1:12:30
Speaker 1: bout don't worry about don't worry about this, all right?
1:12:33
Speaker 1: They called me to And I'm letting you know this.
1:12:37
Speaker 1: Your ability now is to build your brand out. That's
1:12:40
Speaker 1: why I had a d dolphin on the radio earlier. Today.
1:12:43
Speaker 1: I'm going to more and more people like you because
1:12:45
Speaker 1: I think I'll reach more people like you with your
1:12:49
Speaker 1: story to let them know that every day and ain't
1:12:53
Speaker 1: who you stopping for a selfie who's walking by you
1:12:56
Speaker 1: that you need to be stopping. They're gonna make you great, Laura,
1:13:00
Speaker 1: your special thank you. I was gonna say, I thought
1:13:03
Speaker 1: we were called it for questions or was this like
1:13:05
Speaker 1: my morning motivational speech to me? I appreciate that absolutely, absolutely,
1:13:11
Speaker 1: on time. Absolutely because you know what, because just the
1:13:14
Speaker 1: next level for your life, that's all I'm just saying
1:13:16
Speaker 1: this to you. You're about to go to the next
1:13:18
Speaker 1: level in life. And and that's why when I started
1:13:21
Speaker 1: money making conversation May first and here in Houston, Texas,
1:13:24
Speaker 1: took it off my Facebook page and I and I
1:13:26
Speaker 1: on a leap of faith, but with a plan and
1:13:29
Speaker 1: people like you, people I didn't even speak to, not
1:13:32
Speaker 1: because I would route person. It's just that I didn't
1:13:35
Speaker 1: understand my purpose in life at the time when I
1:13:37
Speaker 1: was walking past you or you were standing over there.
1:13:40
Speaker 1: Are you walking off the stage of a show that
1:13:42
Speaker 1: I created every year to uplive small businesses and people
1:13:46
Speaker 1: in the community. It'll be back, don't work good. Here's
1:13:51
Speaker 1: the beauty of life with me and you? Is that
1:13:55
Speaker 1: is that. I already know you're gonna be back on
1:13:57
Speaker 1: my show just one more time a fall. Definitely. We're
1:14:00
Speaker 1: gonna do a tax thing in the spring. Okay, we're
1:14:03
Speaker 1: gonna build that brand out, but more importantly, start figuring
1:14:07
Speaker 1: out who you are, Laura. I will give yoursell number,
1:14:09
Speaker 1: email address, whatever you do. I want you to your start,
1:14:12
Speaker 1: young lad, a year of Laura. Now. If you if
1:14:15
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1:14:18
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, yes, my friend, I'm glad this time.
1:14:24
Speaker 1: So y'all can't see my place right now, big tim,
1:14:28
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1:14:30
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1:14:32
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1:14:38
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1:14:40
Speaker 1: Let let let me shine hear your story, let me
1:14:43
Speaker 1: let me understand why you why why are you not
1:14:47
Speaker 1: making it to the next level? Laura? I took two
1:14:50
Speaker 1: breaks with you so much. This is this, This has
1:14:54
Speaker 1: been the Lara Fews hour. You know, if you didn't
1:14:57
Speaker 1: know who she is, now you know who she is? Right.
1:15:00
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Sassy, Thank you for calling it
1:15:02
Speaker 1: from the DC area. She's a fan girl. Yes, I
1:15:06
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1:16:47
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1:16:50
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1:16:53
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1:17:00
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1:17:03
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1:17:11
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1:17:14
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1:17:17
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1:17:20
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1:17:23
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1:17:27
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1:17:30
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1:17:34
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1:17:37
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Speaker 1: at Saturday morning nine am. So tell everybody about your
1:18:25
Speaker 1: support group. Chef, I think I got one of the
1:18:29
Speaker 1: most amazing teams in the world, you know, Man, I
1:18:33
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1:18:37
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1:18:42
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1:18:44
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1:18:48
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1:18:51
Speaker 1: most aggressive people that I know. When she che's determined
1:18:54
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1:19:09
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1:19:11
Speaker 1: And then not to mention man, my my beautiful wife,
1:19:14
Speaker 1: Tina uh Tina wales Man. I mean that she she
1:19:17
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1:19:21
Speaker 1: And you know how that is she she she trying
1:19:23
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1:19:25
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1:19:31
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1:19:35
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1:19:40
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1:19:43
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1:19:46
Speaker 1: within herself. Well, I'm gonna just tell you is that
1:19:50
Speaker 1: the beauty of our relationship. And what I'm just trying
1:19:53
Speaker 1: to do with this show is the show tell everybody
1:19:57
Speaker 1: you can get there, because other people have out in there.
1:20:00
Speaker 1: You know. It's just like you know, there's only one person.
1:20:03
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1:20:12
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1:20:24
Speaker 1: really need to understand that. And I think that people
1:20:27
Speaker 1: you know, because in your life, you know, you're an
1:20:29
Speaker 1: African American male, so you know you weren't born well,
1:20:32
Speaker 1: as they say, a silver spoon in your mouth. So everything. Man,
1:20:35
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I had a wooden But
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1:20:40
Speaker 1: something that you ate something that hey, I'm permiss I
1:20:43
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1:20:46
Speaker 1: so when you when you talk about the opportunities to
1:20:49
Speaker 1: be successful speaking of yourself personally, what jumps out the
1:20:53
Speaker 1: most man myself person is just having the ambition. Ever still,
1:21:00
Speaker 1: and I and my father, and he was an entrepreneur,
1:21:02
Speaker 1: my mother was, and they truly paved the way for me.
1:21:06
Speaker 1: And they taught me, regardless of what the circumstances was,
1:21:09
Speaker 1: is to dream. And that's what I did. I dreamed big.
1:21:12
Speaker 1: But what I wanted to do was I put a
1:21:15
Speaker 1: passion and work behind it. You know, everybody enough saying
1:21:17
Speaker 1: this truth fake but that works is useless. And I
1:21:20
Speaker 1: created a vision and a road mouth for myself. And
1:21:23
Speaker 1: I was determined I was gonna go further than my surroundings.
1:21:26
Speaker 1: When I talked about I said, man, I come come
1:21:29
Speaker 1: from a small town. The population I was always five
1:21:31
Speaker 1: thousand people. But it wasn't about where I was living.
1:21:35
Speaker 1: It was about where I wanted to go. And that
1:21:37
Speaker 1: was part of my journey. And and and going out
1:21:40
Speaker 1: and lunch and companies man and and I lunched. I
1:21:44
Speaker 1: lunched my first restaurant and I was sixteen years older
1:21:46
Speaker 1: son and the and the thing was much did because
1:21:51
Speaker 1: I wanted to buy a car going into my senior
1:21:54
Speaker 1: year school, and my father taught me how to cook man,
1:21:57
Speaker 1: and that's what started at all man, and so so
1:22:02
Speaker 1: so now here's the thing about it. Okay, there's a
1:22:06
Speaker 1: lot of people out there. I have a talented a
1:22:08
Speaker 1: young nephew who has Big six Barbecue, is a food
1:22:11
Speaker 1: truck in Houston, Texas. He makes his own sausage. He's
1:22:15
Speaker 1: just talented and and really it's really interesting, man, because
1:22:20
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Speaker 1: a different rude his sausage, like he's real tips. What
1:22:32
Speaker 1: what separates that? I gotta just ask you, as a chef,
1:22:37
Speaker 1: how how does you know? Because there's a lot of
1:22:39
Speaker 1: restaurants are you can walk a different restaurant. They they
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Speaker 1: got the best shrimp. You go, who the bad cooking?
1:22:43
Speaker 1: This is terrible exactly. And look who made that corn bread?
1:22:49
Speaker 1: And you can taste the meal. You know what I'm
1:22:51
Speaker 1: saying exactly. You know, it is not a cliche when
1:22:55
Speaker 1: people say that I'm cooking with love and from the heart.
1:22:59
Speaker 1: It's is all about how you're feeling and what you
1:23:03
Speaker 1: put into it. You know, whatever, whatever it is that
1:23:06
Speaker 1: you love to do in life, if you're doing it
1:23:09
Speaker 1: for the love of it. My thing is when I cooking,
1:23:12
Speaker 1: like the bother you're talking about with the sauces and
1:23:14
Speaker 1: the sauces, I can imagine that when we cook, we're
1:23:17
Speaker 1: not cooking for ourself, We're cooking for you. And that's
1:23:21
Speaker 1: the thing. I treat every meal as if it's my
1:23:24
Speaker 1: last meal, the same way what they say people who
1:23:27
Speaker 1: in the shows, they treat every show and if it's
1:23:29
Speaker 1: the last show. And you put it all out there, man,
1:23:31
Speaker 1: everything that I do, I'm doing it because I get
1:23:35
Speaker 1: the pleasure out of seeing your reaction on how you
1:23:37
Speaker 1: love and it is it is about a memoire. You
1:23:40
Speaker 1: you can't do it. And I tell people when I
1:23:43
Speaker 1: started off in this business, I just start off because
1:23:46
Speaker 1: I he I thought I was gonna be a millionaire's
1:23:48
Speaker 1: gonna be successful. I started. I'll because I love what
1:23:51
Speaker 1: I do and I love making people happy. And that's
1:23:55
Speaker 1: what it was about. So said, who are you your father?
1:24:01
Speaker 1: And then you mentioned your wife who you know your
1:24:03
Speaker 1: part time manager? You mentioned Mia, and then you mentioned Carlos.
1:24:07
Speaker 1: And then when you go out there the fans though,
1:24:11
Speaker 1: what your fans? What do what what what is your
1:24:15
Speaker 1: responsibility to your fans? My biggest responsibility to the fans
1:24:22
Speaker 1: is staying true Toil that That's what my biggest thing
1:24:26
Speaker 1: is to the fans, is staying true to him. The
1:24:29
Speaker 1: fans started loving me, man, I've been on Food Network
1:24:32
Speaker 1: all of nine years from Cutthroat Kids and Sheelf wanted
1:24:35
Speaker 1: Food Network start Judge and Chop Jr. And the thing
1:24:39
Speaker 1: is they kept bringing me backwards because the fans desired
1:24:42
Speaker 1: and loved the character of who I was and what
1:24:45
Speaker 1: it was was the originality. And when you say, okay,
1:24:48
Speaker 1: the everyday person, regardless of how big I get in
1:24:51
Speaker 1: show business, I'm still Denard at the end of the
1:24:54
Speaker 1: day a k a. The self love man, and and
1:24:57
Speaker 1: what it's about is given the people what and glove
1:25:01
Speaker 1: and the fact because at the end of the day,
1:25:03
Speaker 1: I have to always keep it in my mind by
1:25:04
Speaker 1: staying humbling, making sure that I remind people I wouldn't
1:25:07
Speaker 1: be where I would where I am today if it
1:25:10
Speaker 1: wasn't for God and the fans who love what I do.
1:25:13
Speaker 1: Right right, Okay, We're gonna go to a break. Hang on.
1:25:17
Speaker 1: I know I only put you down for one break.
1:25:19
Speaker 1: Hang on, come back we're gonna wrap this up a
1:25:21
Speaker 1: couple of courses. I gotta ask you then, I want
1:25:23
Speaker 1: to introduce you to one of my favorite bakers here
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1:25:30
Speaker 1: We're right back with more money making conversation. Got the
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1:25:44
Speaker 1: What you're cooking this week? Man, we got some several
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Speaker 1: been right back with more money making conversation. They told
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1:25:59
Speaker 1: They talked just with Sean McDonald. This is the final
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Speaker 1: break mighty made conversations coming right up following me. It's
1:26:10
Speaker 1: Tiffany Smith down in the local market KLDL Fortnight, my man, chef.
1:26:18
Speaker 1: Now you now, Chef, you know I'm gonna just tell
1:26:20
Speaker 1: you this, man. You know you you you know this
1:26:24
Speaker 1: is a good thing because see, this is how you
1:26:26
Speaker 1: create relationships. You know, how to stay in front of
1:26:29
Speaker 1: people what I'm saying, because you you know, you were
1:26:32
Speaker 1: sending me videos of you cooking, and then I didn't respond,
1:26:37
Speaker 1: and you follow up, go you didn't like it? When
1:26:39
Speaker 1: we're seeing you another you know, you know which which
1:26:45
Speaker 1: is good because that man, that means that you're putting them,
1:26:48
Speaker 1: you're willing to put the work in to build your
1:26:51
Speaker 1: brand and create your relationship. And and this is this
1:26:55
Speaker 1: is very important. And this is what I hope people
1:26:57
Speaker 1: are starting to take away when they're listening it to
1:27:00
Speaker 1: this show, is that be willing to make an adjustment
1:27:04
Speaker 1: if it gives you the opportunity to win. Because you know,
1:27:11
Speaker 1: we got on a conference call my producer, uh, Samantha Taylor,
1:27:16
Speaker 1: and I've gotta call him and Mia and we in Samantha,
1:27:19
Speaker 1: who he don't know at least at least he know me.
1:27:22
Speaker 1: You know, he knows me, so he could probably take
1:27:24
Speaker 1: a hit from me. But then he got this unknown
1:27:27
Speaker 1: person and looked at his video giving him notes and saying, well,
1:27:30
Speaker 1: you now, it's a little too fast here and I
1:27:34
Speaker 1: can't read the text. The text needs to be white,
1:27:38
Speaker 1: and I think you need to be you know, you're
1:27:40
Speaker 1: moving too too quick when you're cooking. And I don't
1:27:44
Speaker 1: even know she can cook, first of all, you know,
1:27:46
Speaker 1: so we got a person who giving him notes. We
1:27:48
Speaker 1: don't even know if they can cook because she's she's
1:27:50
Speaker 1: petite inside. When petite people don't really eat, and so
1:27:55
Speaker 1: you know that, you know they eat. Petite people get
1:27:57
Speaker 1: on my nerves, you know, talking about they eat a lot.
1:28:01
Speaker 1: You know, all they do that one little burst of eating.
1:28:04
Speaker 1: I told you I could eat. Okay, follow hm around
1:28:06
Speaker 1: for a week. That was a whole meal. You know,
1:28:08
Speaker 1: I'm saying and so and so. I say that to
1:28:11
Speaker 1: say that, you know, you're wanted to take these notes
1:28:14
Speaker 1: and make these adjustments. And then Leslie, who you really
1:28:17
Speaker 1: don't know, my technical guru. She said, well he misspelled tablespoon.
1:28:24
Speaker 1: You know, she said, I like the video, but he
1:28:29
Speaker 1: misspelled tablespoon. And so you're taking all these hits right
1:28:33
Speaker 1: from all these unknown people. I ain't saying the words.
1:28:36
Speaker 1: I was just letting people do their thing. You can't spell,
1:28:42
Speaker 1: told you can't cook. But you you're hanging in there
1:28:46
Speaker 1: because all you see his opportunity. You're telling everybody I
1:28:49
Speaker 1: don't care what they say. Long as Mr McDonald said
1:28:53
Speaker 1: he gonna post my video, I'm riding all this out.
1:28:56
Speaker 1: So telling people tell my listeners in my viewers why
1:28:59
Speaker 1: that was so important that they need to understand when
1:29:02
Speaker 1: people criticize you or critique your work, don't take it personal.
1:29:07
Speaker 1: You never can take the person you know. It's it's
1:29:12
Speaker 1: constructive criticism. And that's that's what it is that it builds.
1:29:17
Speaker 1: It builds you up. It built us up to the
1:29:20
Speaker 1: platform where we were. And I learned a long time ago.
1:29:23
Speaker 1: If somebody is saying something to you in this industry
1:29:26
Speaker 1: and you you're trying to build a business and a brand,
1:29:28
Speaker 1: I'm a spunge. And that's what I suggested people don't
1:29:32
Speaker 1: take it to heart, taking and learn from me because
1:29:35
Speaker 1: I put in my mind was the people that are
1:29:38
Speaker 1: giving me the advice and that are giving these different tools,
1:29:41
Speaker 1: they have been there and done that, and that's where
1:29:44
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to. And that's where I want
1:29:46
Speaker 1: to maintain. And did so so absorbed and what I
1:29:50
Speaker 1: learned to do with adapt, adapt to change and adapt
1:29:54
Speaker 1: fad when w ain't got time, Man, if he's sitting
1:29:57
Speaker 1: around and I'm talking to try to think about what
1:30:01
Speaker 1: I need to do, I need to hear what you
1:30:02
Speaker 1: guys are saying on it immediately. Cool. Let me tell
1:30:08
Speaker 1: you something, my friend there's a lot of cooking shows
1:30:10
Speaker 1: out there. How does a person sitting at the house
1:30:17
Speaker 1: get on these shows? Man? I'm just how do how
1:30:20
Speaker 1: do you know? You'll tell you? You know, you turn
1:30:22
Speaker 1: on man. They got people thinking their own cooking videos.
1:30:26
Speaker 1: You've got people on the Food with Net word the
1:30:28
Speaker 1: Cooking Network, that people on the they're people cooking on TV.
1:30:31
Speaker 1: They shouldn't be cooking. Okay, let's stop bading. It's some
1:30:34
Speaker 1: people out there cooking on TV. They shouldn't be cooking,
1:30:38
Speaker 1: but somehow they got on TV. How does that work? Man?
1:30:41
Speaker 1: Like she's a comic, I know how that works. You
1:30:44
Speaker 1: know you you keep being funny, Keep being funny, keep auditions.
1:30:47
Speaker 1: Eventually you can understand you're funny. Now, everybody can do
1:30:50
Speaker 1: a hamburger. There's a lot of people out there, can
1:30:52
Speaker 1: do a steak. There's a lot of people out there
1:30:54
Speaker 1: can do tacos or barbecue. How does a person get
1:30:59
Speaker 1: on TV they can cook? First of all, you gotta
1:31:03
Speaker 1: have a culinary point of view. That culinary point the
1:31:06
Speaker 1: culinary point of view is what's your ain't gonna you
1:31:10
Speaker 1: can't go on there. If you notice everybody's on the
1:31:12
Speaker 1: cooking that they're cooking a certain specific thing, a certain goal.
1:31:16
Speaker 1: That's your style. You gotta have that. You can't be
1:31:18
Speaker 1: all over the board. That's the thing. The second thing
1:31:22
Speaker 1: is because they these people on the nereways, they've got
1:31:25
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people, some men their information and
1:31:28
Speaker 1: the keys figure out what's unique about you and hone
1:31:32
Speaker 1: in to make that shine. Hey, you gotta country acting
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Speaker 1: and they love here that in New York gay focus.
1:31:38
Speaker 1: Don't talking country y'all y'all out. And learned to connect
1:31:51
Speaker 1: with the power of people. And that's what I did,
1:31:54
Speaker 1: you know. I learned to connect with the producers and
1:31:56
Speaker 1: the talent scouts, and I kept put in my self
1:32:00
Speaker 1: self in front of them because persistency is key. And
1:32:04
Speaker 1: I keep telling people that if it's something that you desire,
1:32:08
Speaker 1: wanting like you never stopped. You never stopped, You keep
1:32:12
Speaker 1: hammering at regardless of how hard it may sing. Man,
1:32:15
Speaker 1: there were time of years when I thought, hey, I
1:32:18
Speaker 1: would be at the bottom of the barrel and then
1:32:20
Speaker 1: by be staying the funny people my phone started ranging
1:32:24
Speaker 1: they Hey, we want you to do this, and and
1:32:26
Speaker 1: I was say yes, man, I said, I wasn't turning
1:32:29
Speaker 1: down nothing but my collar until I guess I need to. Hey,
1:32:34
Speaker 1: they put me on the show like cutthroat kitchen man.
1:32:36
Speaker 1: They had me cooking on the water. They had me
1:32:39
Speaker 1: run around with all counter donut rings on there, and
1:32:42
Speaker 1: I went and I dominated because why. The reason why
1:32:46
Speaker 1: is I wasn't just sitting at home sitting the videos.
1:32:49
Speaker 1: I was still working on my skill and my knowledge
1:32:52
Speaker 1: because this was like a comedian. A comedian works on
1:32:56
Speaker 1: his talent. He works on what he's got his punchline.
1:33:00
Speaker 1: You don't get out there and shoot. And I wanted
1:33:02
Speaker 1: to people one of those guys if I knew this
1:33:04
Speaker 1: is the way I want to go. I want to
1:33:05
Speaker 1: get the fund that camera just shoot from me here,
1:33:09
Speaker 1: my man, brother, I want to thank you for calling
1:33:12
Speaker 1: on my show today. We are partners. You know that.
1:33:16
Speaker 1: Now you know this, this what's happening on my Facebook page, y'all.
1:33:22
Speaker 1: I got the Baker spotlight. That means that you can
1:33:25
Speaker 1: if you think you know somebody that can bait, they
1:33:28
Speaker 1: can send it to me. I post a picture of
1:33:30
Speaker 1: your recipe, picture of your cake, and give you credit.
1:33:34
Speaker 1: Just go to w W dowt do Rashan McDonald dot com.
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1:33:40
Speaker 1: you see Baker Spotlight. I got Rushaan Eats all the
1:33:44
Speaker 1: top restaurants that I go to, a restaurants you know about.
1:33:47
Speaker 1: I posted my my website really cool. I got ten
1:33:50
Speaker 1: pictures from each restaurant, so you get a sense of
1:33:52
Speaker 1: they men you. Then all of a sudden, I got
1:33:55
Speaker 1: my dessert videos. My dessert videos which are outstanding, outstanding.
1:34:02
Speaker 1: Every Wednesday I launched those usually get a hundred thousand
1:34:06
Speaker 1: and one I have on lunch on Sunday, my Carl
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1:34:13
Speaker 1: And then not on Saturday, I've added cooking. I've added cooking.
1:34:20
Speaker 1: So my man, chef Jeff welles Jan it's give me
1:34:25
Speaker 1: Jen Wales Chef Jenard Wales will be on there every
1:34:28
Speaker 1: Saturday at nine am Eastern Standard to video released telling
1:34:33
Speaker 1: the world about how to cook my man. I want
1:34:36
Speaker 1: to appreciate you. Probably not, I do appreciate you. Appreciate
1:34:40
Speaker 1: you coming into the McDonald fold as a talent, and
1:34:44
Speaker 1: we don't keep building this brand. Brother? Is that alre you?
1:34:47
Speaker 1: That's all right with me? Hey, ain't nowhere to go
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