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Rushion Interviews Kym Whitley, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Shaun Robinson, and more celebrating Money Making Conversations Master Class' 5th Anniversary! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me
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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,
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Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know, he'll be interview with celebrity CEOs,
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do,
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Speaker 1: it's what he likes to share. Now it's time to
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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald. Money Making Conversations. Here
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Speaker 1: we come. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
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Speaker 1: As Stephen A. Smith stated, I am your host, Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: Guess whatever, But I've been broadcasting live every Tuesday on
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Speaker 1: w CLK for a whole year. But I started the
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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass format way back in twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Thus today, and I've been promoting and telling everybody, And
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Speaker 1: I got a lot of special guests on the show
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Speaker 1: today helping me celebrating. We're celebrating five years of informative,
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Speaker 1: uplifting and motivational guests. Every week. We're encouraging people to
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Speaker 1: exceed the expectations by believing in themselves. That's right. Five
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Speaker 1: years today I've been I sat behind this mica with
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Speaker 1: an idea. I just wrapped up manager Steve Harvey, and
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a voice. I didn't know what I
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Speaker 1: wanted to do with my brand and don't know what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do with my career. But I knew
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Speaker 1: one thing that I always did since I was eighteen
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Speaker 1: years old was inspiring people to look beyond myself personally
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Speaker 1: and encourage people to understand that your dream is as
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Speaker 1: hard as you want to work for it. So people
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Speaker 1: always talk about their purpose and gifts. If you have
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Speaker 1: a gift, leave with your gifts and don't let your friends, family,
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Speaker 1: or co workers stop you from planning or living your dreams. Now,
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Speaker 1: after all that, I got two guests on the phone
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Speaker 1: that I want to bring up. Now, let's get this
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Speaker 1: celebration started. My first guest. It's gonna be a long
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Speaker 1: speech now because they got a lot of things happening
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Speaker 1: on money making conversations. Masterclass or Grammy nominated Jazz Duel
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Speaker 1: for their album The Bailor Project Generations. It's their second album, Generations,
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Speaker 1: released in one earned the Duel is first n double
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Speaker 1: a CP Image Award win for Outstanding Jazz Album Vocal
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Speaker 1: and it's fourth Grammar nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
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Speaker 1: That's Generation and Generation. If you hadn't heard, there's a
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Speaker 1: cultural anthology routing in everyday life. I listened to it
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Speaker 1: all the time because I have like a forty five
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Speaker 1: minute ride a lot of times a coming to the station.
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Speaker 1: That traffic Atlanta just be building up, and so I
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Speaker 1: just dropped in Generations And guess what, I don't worry
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Speaker 1: about traffic or nothing. I enjoyed my ride. Generations when
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Speaker 1: they've dropped became the number one Jazz vocal album on
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Speaker 1: Jazz week Radio Charts and the Standards. Song We Swing
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Speaker 1: the Cipher was named among MPRS Music one hundred Best
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Speaker 1: Songs of one. It gets even better now because they're
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Speaker 1: on the call. They're waiting for me. We have this
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Speaker 1: upcoming big event. Maybe you've heard about it on w
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Speaker 1: c OK. The Jazz Music Award, Marcus and Gene of
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Speaker 1: the Baylor Project have three nominations, Best Mainstream Album, Best
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Speaker 1: Vocal Performance, and Best Dual Group. A Big Band. Please
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Speaker 1: welcome to my five year anniversary money Making conversation, master class, celebration,
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Speaker 1: Marcus and Jane Baylor. Come on now, come on now.
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Speaker 1: Oh I love it, man, I'm so happy. We we
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Speaker 1: talked about this because we're don't drop another damn on there.
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Speaker 1: They don't know why we're happy over everything. But first
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Speaker 1: of all, you know, it's the first time we were
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Speaker 1: doing the Jazz Music Award w C okay doing it
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Speaker 1: over a carb Energy Center October twenty to get three
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Speaker 1: Best Mainstream Album, Best Vocal Performance. And this is fans
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Speaker 1: reaching out and industry leaders reaching our best dual group
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Speaker 1: of big band Okay, my stok too, I got Marcus
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Speaker 1: and Jeane. So ladies, first, Gene, tell me about how
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Speaker 1: you feel about this. We feel amazing. We're excited, we're honored,
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Speaker 1: we're blessed to be a part of the first Average
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Speaker 1: Jazz Music Awards that's highlighting jazz um and we're just
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Speaker 1: like thrilled to not only have been considered for three
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Speaker 1: nominations but also the part of the live performance. Uh,
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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Oh, she's just gonna she's gonna drop
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Speaker 1: it before you even talk, Marcus. That's how she do,
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Speaker 1: That's how you do. It's a celebration, we were not
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Speaker 1: gonna make it do the Hey Marcus, you know when
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Speaker 1: you when you when you when we talked, you know,
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Speaker 1: one of the beauty of your you were so inspiring
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Speaker 1: because you understood and nut saying Jeane didn't. But you
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Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't get the fact about
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Speaker 1: the amount of hard work that you have to engage
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Speaker 1: yourself in to pursue your dream and also, uh, sometimes
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Speaker 1: your dream changes and a lot of people to understand
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Speaker 1: do you have to sometimes be fluid and go off
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Speaker 1: track to get back on your dreams because you didn't
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Speaker 1: start with the Beata project. You know you St. Louis
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Speaker 1: doing your own things. So can you tell us the
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Speaker 1: significance of a show like the Jazz Music Awards being
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Speaker 1: a national platform being hopefully one day our vision at
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Speaker 1: w CLK has to become our version of the Grammys,
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Speaker 1: our version of the Billboard Awards, our version of all
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Speaker 1: these great award shows out there, and it's based in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: Tell us about their emotional take on the Jazz Music Awards, Well,
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Speaker 1: what's amazing about it is, First of all, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: speak y'all are the first in terms of that I've
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Speaker 1: seen in my time of doing this on the level,
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Speaker 1: and you all our leaders in this and so it's
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Speaker 1: such an honor to be a part of this, whether
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Speaker 1: it was the first year, the second, third, or fourth
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Speaker 1: or fifth year, it's celebrating music that's born in our
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Speaker 1: that's rooted in our culture and in our history as
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Speaker 1: a people, as Black people in this country. But of course,
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Speaker 1: you know, the music stretches abroad and stretches through throughout
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Speaker 1: the whole entire world, but it was birth in the
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Speaker 1: black community. And so I'm just excited about that. And
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Speaker 1: it's given love to all the different sizes of jazz music,
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Speaker 1: straight ahead, smooth jazz, and I'm sure over the years
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Speaker 1: it's going to continue to keep expanding and just embracing
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Speaker 1: as like you all are doing, and just embracing the
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Speaker 1: music as a whole. And I and we just love
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Speaker 1: this because it's on the level and it's bringing in
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Speaker 1: some of the greatest artists in the world. So I'm
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Speaker 1: we're honored. Well, you know, the honor is mine because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that you know, on this anniversary, I
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Speaker 1: wanted to bring in people who hit home for me
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Speaker 1: and and and you too when you came on my
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Speaker 1: show it was kind of like family. And I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: one of those guys who know I'm a jazz I
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Speaker 1: find jazz, you know. And then because Jason doesn't always
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Speaker 1: find me because I don't know where to go, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'll be listening to great music and go, wow, what
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Speaker 1: is that? And that's why I found your music. Like
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Speaker 1: black Board, that's my song, you know, black Boards my song?
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Speaker 1: You know that that that's my song, Jeneen, that's my
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Speaker 1: song black Board that's on that's on that generation's album.
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Speaker 1: If y'all don't know, like I told y'all, when I'm
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Speaker 1: driving to w C Okay every Tuesday, I put on
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Speaker 1: my song my my Drop, my Pandora Generations, and I'm good.
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Speaker 1: I'm good all the way in. And so when I
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Speaker 1: when I look at that, and then we go over
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Speaker 1: to gene because you dropped it. Anyway, we might will
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Speaker 1: to tell the world that opening opening the Jazz Music
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Speaker 1: Awards will not only be the Bailor Project Starry Marcus
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Speaker 1: and Jeane is gonna also be just me a horn
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Speaker 1: and Diana reads talk to me, jene first, come on,
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Speaker 1: come on, come on gee, talk to me. Said you
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Speaker 1: said you just gonna get out there and throw out
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Speaker 1: a little nugget before I even talk to Marcus, tell
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Speaker 1: us about jumping on that stage because because you know something, Marcus,
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Speaker 1: I love her, but you know she'll tried to jump
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Speaker 1: in front of you and get the last wing on
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Speaker 1: on fried chicken. What I'm saying, that's her? No, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at that. No, I'm looking at that fried chicken wings.
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Speaker 1: She'd go over there. How you doing every show? And
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Speaker 1: then reached forward and Jesus tell us about that performance
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Speaker 1: being the opening act for the Jazz Music Awards, which
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Speaker 1: take place at the carb Energy Center October twenty second. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know the beauty of being because y'all gonna be
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Speaker 1: busy nominations. I'm I don't know the score, but I
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Speaker 1: like to believe, you know, so love gonna be shown
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Speaker 1: in the nominations too. But y'all, y'all. Stepping on that
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Speaker 1: stage is hosted by a girl, d Deep Bridgewater. She's
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Speaker 1: one of the hosts. It's been announced for the Jazz
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Speaker 1: Music Awards. So, but it's all about introducing that first act.
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Speaker 1: We swing give us a little people who don't know
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Speaker 1: about what we saying. Why is that is that beat?
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Speaker 1: You know that Cotton Club to come into hall and
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Speaker 1: beat that beat then make you just rock side aside
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Speaker 1: and snap your fingers, snap your fingers, snap your fingers. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you come with Jane floor is yours. We Swing.
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Speaker 1: I think you dropped the Obama because I didn't know
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Speaker 1: we were opening. So that's so dope, and I think
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Speaker 1: it's a great way to the perfect way to open. Like, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is the Jazz Awards and we swing. Swing is
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Speaker 1: you know, the essence of jazz music's foundational. It's UM
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Speaker 1: one of them things where you know, sometimes sometimes we
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Speaker 1: move in and out of it and away from it,
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Speaker 1: but we always come back to it. So I'm honored
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Speaker 1: to have UM a legacy artist, UM like Diane Reeves
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Speaker 1: join us and jazz Mia, who is like our baby sister,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and killing the game UM
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Speaker 1: three different generations, which really represents the album that it
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Speaker 1: was each it on generation. So UM, you know, we're
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Speaker 1: just looking forward to we We and UM. I believe
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Speaker 1: or and Evans is gonna be there. I believe he
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Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna help us swinging about it there. We
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Speaker 1: had to throw his name in there because Evans is
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Speaker 1: the person he's one of the nominees. But he introduced
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Speaker 1: me to Jane. That's how I met Jane. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: all right now, and I used to get taken this
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Speaker 1: whole personal. Now I gotta slide up to the mic now,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know St. Louis meet New Jersey. You
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Speaker 1: know St. Louis, Missouri meet New Jersey. Okay, Mitt west
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Speaker 1: mes East Coast. Yes, so we're gonna be so on
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Speaker 1: that stage. You know the interesting thing about it when
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Speaker 1: when we we we spoke, and I'm gonna tell you
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Speaker 1: all something, it was it was it was because you
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Speaker 1: never and I gotta I'm blessed to have a podcast
10:49
Speaker 1: and as uh and um, we're popular. And when your interview,
10:54
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just be honest with you. When your interview
10:56
Speaker 1: aired on my podcast, it was in the first quarter,
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Speaker 1: it was the top downloaded interview on my podcast. Your kid,
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Speaker 1: I kid you not kid you not so. And so
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Speaker 1: that let me know that a lot of my fan
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Speaker 1: base or into jazz and so because you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: jazz is such a relaxing sound. And so I told
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Speaker 1: my staff and they said, Richard, and I said, uh,
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Speaker 1: they said, the Baila Project interviews your top download for
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Speaker 1: the quarter. I knew it. I knew it jumped up
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Speaker 1: when the interview when it dropped, because what I do
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Speaker 1: is when it airs on w C. Okay, the following week,
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Speaker 1: I aired on my national podcast and Chid Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: went crazy. Everybody loved baby prodject That is crazy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's good, That's that's awesome. Thank you so much. Well,
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Speaker 1: I I gotta speak the truth because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that when you when you look at the you know,
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Speaker 1: because then that the interview, Marcus, you dropped so many
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Speaker 1: nuggets in the second half of that interview, by life,
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Speaker 1: by not giving up, by motivation and h and also
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Speaker 1: realizing that, like I said earlier, just because you have
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Speaker 1: a dream doesn't mean that you when when you hit
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Speaker 1: a detour, that you give up on it. And if
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Speaker 1: you give up on it, you know, makes you understand
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Speaker 1: you have people around you that can pull you back
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Speaker 1: to your dream. And you you spoke like that, and
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Speaker 1: I've never heard that. And I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: our listeners not only were World World fans of the
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Speaker 1: music and became fans of the Bailor Project, which stars
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Speaker 1: Marcus and Gene. Of course, you know what is that
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Speaker 1: driving force that keeps you focused and and also drop
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Speaker 1: some nuggets on uh what what not only who you
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Speaker 1: are and but also what you guys represent as a couple. Wow. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'll start off by saying, as far as I mean,
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Speaker 1: first of all, just being you know, really big and
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Speaker 1: able to just really keep your focus and like I'll
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Speaker 1: be honest with you, like even right now, as as
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Speaker 1: we've been blessed to be successful in different areas, something
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Speaker 1: is constantly reminded me, even just living everyday life on
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Speaker 1: social media because you can see so many people doing
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Speaker 1: great things. But I even started a mantra that I
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Speaker 1: would say to myself focus the bell of project focus,
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Speaker 1: the bell of project focus, the bell of project because
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Speaker 1: I'll see so many outside things and you start looking
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Speaker 1: at oh man, I want to do that. Oh man,
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Speaker 1: I think we should do that. No, stay on your
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Speaker 1: path and on your journey, because I'm realizing that all
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Speaker 1: these things will come in due time. And just like
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Speaker 1: even just to throw just even a crazy plug like
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Speaker 1: while we're on our I think we we we spoke
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Speaker 1: to you first quarter and right after that was the Grammys.
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Speaker 1: We were completely drained. And that's what you call staying
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Speaker 1: on your path. And on your journey, we get called
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Speaker 1: for this. We gotta called for this gig to uh
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Speaker 1: A private gig which is was for three nights, um
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Speaker 1: three nights. They literally built a jazz club just for
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Speaker 1: us to play. And and I'm thinking to myself, bad,
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Speaker 1: I'm so tired, and they said, no, we want to
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Speaker 1: style you guys. We want to do this and do that.
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Speaker 1: It's a whole other world that we never was exposed to.
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Speaker 1: We show up to this place and it's the most
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Speaker 1: amazing jazz club built just for us to play, only
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Speaker 1: for them to tear it down when we finish. That
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Speaker 1: we ever seen something said you know, you guys need
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Speaker 1: to record this because you never know. All I have
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Speaker 1: to tell you is that we recorded this UH particular
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Speaker 1: particular three nights and within two or three months flipped
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Speaker 1: a live album end up coming out which is just
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Speaker 1: dropped three weeks ago called Live at Apparatus. And of
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Speaker 1: course I'm giving the plug, but I'm just saying all
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Speaker 1: that to say, when you stay on your path and
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Speaker 1: on your journey, certain things just come your way that
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Speaker 1: you just would never think. And there's something else I mean,
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Speaker 1: we have to talk to you make next year again
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Speaker 1: because that's something else that we just did last week
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Speaker 1: that I can't believe what just happened, But we can't
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Speaker 1: shure that now. So I'm just saying it's important to
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Speaker 1: stay focused on your path and on your journey. That
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Speaker 1: is extremely, extremely important because it keeps you to half
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Speaker 1: You almost got a half tunnel vision, especially with so
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Speaker 1: much happening right now in the world social media and
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Speaker 1: you know, and all these things. And then last thing,
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Speaker 1: I'll say, get around people. Get around people that are
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Speaker 1: that that that that that that pushes you. Like for instance,
15:35
Speaker 1: one last thing out of all this. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you've heard of the Emmy Award winning Adam Blackstone
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Speaker 1: just dropped the brand new album called Legacy. Do you
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Speaker 1: know we literally just recorded that session about three weeks ago.
15:48
Speaker 1: I don't know how we made it happen. The album
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Speaker 1: just dropped. A set niece was last night and this
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Speaker 1: album is like, it is amazing. It's Who's Who on
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Speaker 1: there all the way from Kirk Anything to Marry Mary
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Speaker 1: to Jasmine Sullivan too. I mean, you name it, Who's Who,
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Speaker 1: Queen Latifa and we're featured on the track on this album.
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Speaker 1: The Billy Project uh Old Leslie. Yes, so yes, So
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Speaker 1: I'll just say that to say and I'm gonna transition
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Speaker 1: is over to the wife because I can go all
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Speaker 1: day on this on the married couple's baby. What do
16:23
Speaker 1: you have to say? He did, he did ask us
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Speaker 1: a question. He teach your question against us. Again, I'm changing,
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Speaker 1: I'm changing market. I gotta go, man, you know, I
16:32
Speaker 1: got I got, I gotta locked this down. Man. Again,
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Speaker 1: I want to bring y'all back so Jeane can talk.
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Speaker 1: Because Jeane, I'll talk to you last us. I realized
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Speaker 1: you probably it was prepared to I'll talk her this time.
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Speaker 1: But again, but again I'm telling the truth. You just dropped.
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Speaker 1: The Evening Live apparatus is out now. You gotta check
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Speaker 1: it out. But what I want to do is, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just shouting out my celebration. I want to come
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Speaker 1: back to another forty five minute interview with you guys
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Speaker 1: next month. So we said out and talk before the
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Speaker 1: the the Jazz Music Awards. We just October twenty second.
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Speaker 1: I do want to congratulate you on the three nominations.
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Speaker 1: I want to congratulate you and taking the time to
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Speaker 1: be the opening act for the Jazz Music Awards again.
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Speaker 1: October twenty second, Stay blessed and we're gonna talk soon.
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Speaker 1: But remember, I want you all to come back on
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Speaker 1: the air with me. We're gonna do video, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna do a video, gonna drop everything October next month
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Speaker 1: for forty five minutes. Is that a deal? Yeah, And
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Speaker 1: we're coming down there to the Atlanta to eat some
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Speaker 1: chicken with you. So I'm I'm gonna work out so
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Speaker 1: we can do that absolutely and I can still look
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Speaker 1: good at the outfit with the world the chicken. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go to Slutty Vegan. I love you. Thank you
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Speaker 1: all for coming on the show. The Baylor Project opening
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Speaker 1: act for this year's Jazz Music Award October twenty second,
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Speaker 1: cop Injugy Center. Come on, y'all, we'll be right back
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Speaker 1: with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now
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Speaker 1: let's return into Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: My next guest is an award winning urban inspirational star,
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Speaker 1: a standout performer, artists, and pastor who has become one
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Speaker 1: won six of them this year, including Artists of the Year.
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Speaker 1: He's warned that two years in a row. Ambassador for
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Speaker 1: September thirty. This week he'll be featured in Cure sheer
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Speaker 1: It's new single Miracles. He's also a senior pastor and
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Speaker 1: found a Rock City church and Birmingham, Alabama. They call
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Speaker 1: it to Ham. Please welcome to my five year anniversary
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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation, a masterclass Celebrations show Pastor Mike Jr. Hey,
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Speaker 1: big bro, you had me like, man, who is this? Come? No? No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: don't don't you go there? You look at it. I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you something like brother. You know the reason I
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Speaker 1: love I had to bring you back on the show
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Speaker 1: for my five year because so many, so many people
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Speaker 1: This is where I should be, This what God told
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Speaker 1: me my journey should end, should begin and in here
19:41
Speaker 1: and I can be as big as I want to be.
19:43
Speaker 1: Talk about that first off, man, I just want to
19:46
Speaker 1: tell you thank you again for giving me such an
19:48
Speaker 1: awesome opportunity to be on your podcast, to be on
19:51
Speaker 1: your show. Um, it's it's just humbling, man. The relationships
19:55
Speaker 1: God that's giving me celebrating five spiritually five in a
19:58
Speaker 1: number of grace and favor and your life and your
20:01
Speaker 1: influence is the uh, the model that God is still
20:03
Speaker 1: favoring people. Of course, Man, from the moment I remember
20:07
Speaker 1: walking in my city. Uh, we're told if you want
20:10
Speaker 1: to be successful, you got to go to Atlanta or Nashville.
20:13
Speaker 1: Birmingham is in the middle, directly in the middle of
20:17
Speaker 1: Nashville and Atlanta. Historically, everything that was taken to Atlanta
20:21
Speaker 1: was brought to Birmingham. But because of racism and division,
20:24
Speaker 1: they didn't want the city of Birmingham to be progressive
20:27
Speaker 1: for African Americans. So there's sort of this death and
20:31
Speaker 1: this craft mentality just hovering over our city, and people
20:34
Speaker 1: often have to say if you want to make it,
20:36
Speaker 1: you have to leave. But I'm just proof that you
20:38
Speaker 1: can bloom where your planet. Man, and somebody listening right now,
20:41
Speaker 1: you're pregnant with vision, but oftentimes it's aborted by lack
20:45
Speaker 1: million dollar dream on a hundred dollar budget. And what
20:47
Speaker 1: I've discovered man, that uh, what you have to do
20:51
Speaker 1: is to maximize every opportunity where you are. Here's the
20:53
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. If I was in Atlanta, I would just
20:57
Speaker 1: be an ordinary guy. But because God's blessing me from Birmingham,
21:01
Speaker 1: sometimes where you are to your advantage, you know. So
21:04
Speaker 1: for me, Man, if you're listening right now, make sure
21:06
Speaker 1: number one, before you relocate your life, you pray and
21:09
Speaker 1: ask God this is where you want me to be.
21:11
Speaker 1: The number two. I'm just a firm believer that what
21:13
Speaker 1: God has for you to being from Birmingham, New York,
21:16
Speaker 1: Dallas and l A, it's gonna find you. Okay. First
21:19
Speaker 1: of all, I just got correct him because you're a Lollo.
21:22
Speaker 1: That's why I like Pastor Mike Julr. You know, if
21:24
Speaker 1: you're humble, he gonna go. If I was in Atlanta,
21:27
Speaker 1: I'd just be a regular guy, would nobody know me?
21:30
Speaker 1: Did you hear he's saying that? Read back to credits here,
21:34
Speaker 1: let me read back to credits. Eleven times Stella Award winner,
21:39
Speaker 1: six of them this year, two years in a row,
21:43
Speaker 1: Orders of the Year, Ambassador for two World Game, Super Bowl,
21:49
Speaker 1: gospel performer got a single coming out with Kresher, who
21:54
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite people by the way. Yeah,
21:56
Speaker 1: and then he goes, should them and tell us on
21:58
Speaker 1: my show if I was in Atlanta, nobody would know whoever?
22:02
Speaker 1: He well, why do you change your voice? Why do
22:05
Speaker 1: you change you? No? You get I'm just hon it, man.
22:10
Speaker 1: I mean it's an from the bottom of my heart. Man.
22:13
Speaker 1: I I just firmly believe that the opportunities of the
22:16
Speaker 1: lifetime must be seened within the lifetime of the opportunity.
22:19
Speaker 1: And so many people are gonna miss their moment waiting
22:22
Speaker 1: to move when maybe you just need to bust a move,
22:25
Speaker 1: not maybe physically, but mentally strategically. Man. So for me,
22:30
Speaker 1: that's what I'm all about and what I've discovered to
22:32
Speaker 1: And I heard Steve Harvey say this and then bless
22:34
Speaker 1: my life. He said, God has a way of pushing
22:38
Speaker 1: you when you won't jump and I for me, Man,
22:42
Speaker 1: I just made a decision to jump right here from Birmingham, Alabama.
22:45
Speaker 1: Big went number one, I got it went number one.
22:48
Speaker 1: Both of those songs were produced by people right here
22:50
Speaker 1: in my city, people who said, ever give a chance
22:53
Speaker 1: to if? I said, Hey, what if we come together
22:55
Speaker 1: and do this? So I'm excited, man, I can't wait
22:57
Speaker 1: to see what God does next. I know that you know,
23:01
Speaker 1: you're calling in and showing me some love. And it's
23:04
Speaker 1: not the typical loan interviews that we do. But I
23:06
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta talk about this the single ministry because
23:10
Speaker 1: of the fact that I got it. You know that
23:13
Speaker 1: crossed over the RB charge peaked and I seventeen one.
23:17
Speaker 1: But you know, every we always here by family, love
23:19
Speaker 1: and couple and everything. Then but you stepped away, you know,
23:22
Speaker 1: you said, what about the single people? Which w seems
23:25
Speaker 1: to feel like if you're not mad, there's something wrong
23:28
Speaker 1: with you being single? What was the vision behind that,
23:31
Speaker 1: Pastor Mike Jr. That right there, man, like, and here's
23:35
Speaker 1: the blessing. Man, I had the preface. I had the
23:38
Speaker 1: privilege of being a pastor's kid, so I would sit
23:41
Speaker 1: in church Sometimes I ask myself, why then I would
23:44
Speaker 1: go home and see my dad's reasoning. And so one
23:46
Speaker 1: of the things that did was it counted, for lack
23:48
Speaker 1: of a better terms, it allowed me to become a
23:52
Speaker 1: leader who still had a Pew mentality in a sense
23:55
Speaker 1: of what's good for the people. And I never forget
23:57
Speaker 1: I'm sitting at home in quarantine, and all I could
24:00
Speaker 1: think about was everybody who was quarantined and alone. And
24:04
Speaker 1: I started hitting up some of the singles at my church,
24:06
Speaker 1: literally just going down the road, and one by one
24:09
Speaker 1: I was hearing them say, past time you at home.
24:11
Speaker 1: At least you're at home with your kids, at lash,
24:13
Speaker 1: you're at home with your wife. I'm over here, locked
24:15
Speaker 1: up by myself, and sometimes the worst person to be
24:18
Speaker 1: with is yourself. So to find a way to normaltcause
24:22
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is, it's certain things we
24:25
Speaker 1: have to stop doing in the culture. We always said,
24:27
Speaker 1: we know. Grandmama was married fifty years, she was miserable
24:30
Speaker 1: forty five of them. She said, feel like you had
24:33
Speaker 1: a way out. So just because you have somebody doesn't
24:36
Speaker 1: mean you have somebody. So what I'm trying at singles
24:39
Speaker 1: to realize all over the world is you're not looking
24:42
Speaker 1: for somebody to complete. You be complete before they come.
24:46
Speaker 1: And I believe if we can change that narrative, because
24:49
Speaker 1: so many women are waiting on a night and shot
24:51
Speaker 1: at armor and keep going home with foods wrapped in timfoil.
24:54
Speaker 1: If we ain't careful, we're gonna be pressuring our young
24:58
Speaker 1: generation that if Mary is not the answer, they will
25:01
Speaker 1: never be fulfilled when their life. Life just doesn't work
25:04
Speaker 1: that way. Jesus Paul. They both accomplished so much and
25:08
Speaker 1: neither one of them were married because they're assignment dictated
25:11
Speaker 1: that they need to be flexible, sometimes being a relationship
25:14
Speaker 1: as a burning So I wanted to do a product
25:16
Speaker 1: that gear towards singles to let them know, hey, I'm
25:18
Speaker 1: not here with you. That album went on to win
25:20
Speaker 1: an Album of the Year. Um, so I'm excited. I'm excited, man,
25:25
Speaker 1: it was a great album. Well, you know, I'm excited
25:26
Speaker 1: that you took the time to call my show and
25:29
Speaker 1: be a part of my celebration and more important than
25:31
Speaker 1: the humbleness. And you know we were in Itto the
25:33
Speaker 1: Music Show and you when you turn to your boys,
25:35
Speaker 1: said that boy right there, Rashard McDonald, here the truth.
25:39
Speaker 1: You know, when you said that man, I just laughed
25:41
Speaker 1: at myself. I said, wow, because I'm just I'm just
25:44
Speaker 1: being rash. I'm just being Rashaan McDonald. And when I
25:47
Speaker 1: see greatness, I'm acknowledge it. I'm gonna be humbled and
25:50
Speaker 1: never remind them, because sometimes people like you pastor Mike,
25:53
Speaker 1: got to be told and reminded because you're so in
25:56
Speaker 1: the grind what you're doing and how you impact and people,
26:00
Speaker 1: and sometimes that the war can be hidden because you
26:02
Speaker 1: just put a little chief and going to the next
26:04
Speaker 1: you You your mind is next year, what were you
26:07
Speaker 1: gonna do next year? You're not sitting around, you know,
26:09
Speaker 1: in your bedroom or your living room with all your
26:12
Speaker 1: your wards around you. You respect the fact that God
26:15
Speaker 1: gave you that journey, but he got plenty more for you.
26:19
Speaker 1: That's the blessing of this relationship that I had with you,
26:21
Speaker 1: my young friend. Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I appreciate it.
26:24
Speaker 1: It means the world to me. And I just want
26:26
Speaker 1: to speak blessings and life and more resources influenced favor
26:30
Speaker 1: and connections that the next five years to be better
26:32
Speaker 1: than the last five years. So I'm excited. Well, you know,
26:35
Speaker 1: my boy Rickey Smiley, he dined in Birmingham. So I
26:38
Speaker 1: came down that a couple of couple of times. Now
26:41
Speaker 1: next time I come down there, I gotta make sure
26:43
Speaker 1: you and I are connecting all three of us. Go
26:46
Speaker 1: get some bothered. That would be good. Let me know,
26:48
Speaker 1: b bro. Okay, thank you for calling on my show.
26:51
Speaker 1: That was Pastor Mike Jr. A blessing and uh and
26:54
Speaker 1: the start is on right living right down the street
26:57
Speaker 1: twenty west. We'll be right back with more Money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. You are now tuned into
27:05
Speaker 1: the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. Hi,
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Speaker 1: ra Sean McDonald for Money Making Conversation Masterclass with your
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Speaker 1: daily mending of Inspiration. Reachail I spoke with Southern Black
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Speaker 1: Girls Woman Consortium visionary founder and co founder Black Voters Matter,
27:21
Speaker 1: Latasha Brown. She explains how being active in the community
27:24
Speaker 1: provides pushback and reduces harm within the community. We say
27:28
Speaker 1: when when when When we're telling them about why they're voting,
27:31
Speaker 1: we'll saying you're not You're not voting because you want
27:34
Speaker 1: to get some political party in our office. What you're
27:36
Speaker 1: voting for is you're voting for yourself. That you have
27:39
Speaker 1: to use every until your community has everything that it needs.
27:42
Speaker 1: You have to use every single tool available to you
27:45
Speaker 1: to actually push back to reduce the harm in your
27:47
Speaker 1: community and make sure you're holding folks accountable, but also
27:50
Speaker 1: to literally be able to advance an agenda that's gonna
27:53
Speaker 1: support your community. And that's real. Whether you vote or not,
27:56
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna be elected. If you want to listen to
27:58
Speaker 1: this full interview with Natasha Brown, it's a vay Low
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Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation dot Com. Now let's return to
28:04
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Because I got
28:08
Speaker 1: a quick call in Caller Coma and Thomas from Atlanta. Thomas,
28:12
Speaker 1: you gotta shout out for the five years celebration. What's
28:15
Speaker 1: happened my brother, Roshan is Thomas. I've been saying its
28:19
Speaker 1: frame the spear of mac. Best to get through on
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Speaker 1: the line on this fifth year anniversary with all these
28:27
Speaker 1: heavy hitters and v ips and the house, I have
28:29
Speaker 1: no idea if I just want to tell you congratulations, brother,
28:32
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. Counsel Mike, I love you.
28:35
Speaker 1: You met you continue to inspire me brother. That song
28:38
Speaker 1: I want to win big sir, Yes, sir, yes, Hey, Thomas,
28:42
Speaker 1: I owe you a visit. More importantly, man, you inspire man,
28:45
Speaker 1: I owe you another visit back on the show. You know,
28:48
Speaker 1: because of the fact that so many people called and
28:50
Speaker 1: were inspired by what you're doing as an entrepreneur, following
28:53
Speaker 1: your dreams, not in the craft that you mastered, but
28:56
Speaker 1: educating yourself to understand the opportunity as a business person.
28:59
Speaker 1: That's I was important. That's why I'm doing this show
29:02
Speaker 1: inspiring young entrepreneurs like you, to give you a varce
29:05
Speaker 1: because you, truly, Thomas, are the stars of the community.
29:08
Speaker 1: You pay your taxes, you move forward with our community.
29:11
Speaker 1: You're positive influence and also you show us the way
29:15
Speaker 1: that there's different things you can do in life to
29:17
Speaker 1: be successful. Keep doing what you're doing. And guess what, Yes,
29:21
Speaker 1: I got heavy hitters. But in the community, Thomas, you're
29:23
Speaker 1: heavy hitter too. Okay, but I appreciate. I'm a humble
29:26
Speaker 1: congratulations of pie, piece of blessings of you both. I appreciate. Now,
29:31
Speaker 1: my girl, my next Gifts is an Emmy Award winning journalist,
29:34
Speaker 1: television personality, author, producer, philanthropist. Because really, you know, when
29:38
Speaker 1: she comes on my show, we always talk about her television,
29:41
Speaker 1: we never really get into what her program really is
29:45
Speaker 1: besides being in a wonderful HBC. You graduated spelled Me University,
29:48
Speaker 1: which is right around the corner at Clark Atlanta University.
29:51
Speaker 1: She established SEAN which is s h a u N
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Speaker 1: s h a u N Foundation for Girls with Nurtures
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Speaker 1: and supports underserved to represented girls and young women in
30:02
Speaker 1: the areas of STEM Health, art Unity neighborhoods. Please welcome
30:07
Speaker 1: to my five year anniversary celebration, the one and only
30:11
Speaker 1: Sean Robinson. How you doing, Sean. Happy anniversary to you, you,
30:18
Speaker 1: Happy ay, Happy anniversary to you. You know we we
30:23
Speaker 1: met in l a O over twenty twenty some years ago.
30:27
Speaker 1: We just leave like twenties something years ago. And uh
30:30
Speaker 1: and you know about how long ago it has been.
30:33
Speaker 1: It has been quite a two decades. Yes it has been, Yes,
30:37
Speaker 1: it has been. And I've seen you grow as a
30:39
Speaker 1: talent from in front of the camera to the behind
30:42
Speaker 1: the counter. Is that coutive beducing you know? But but
30:46
Speaker 1: when you came in l a talent was your priority
30:49
Speaker 1: just being account which wanted to be in the host
30:51
Speaker 1: because that's what you did in Detroit until you was
30:53
Speaker 1: just marrying and minding that numbers one skill set. What
30:57
Speaker 1: what came into your life that made you realize that
31:00
Speaker 1: you can do more behind the camera to show well,
31:03
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I was. I was so excited
31:07
Speaker 1: to get the invitation to join you today because it
31:11
Speaker 1: has been quite a long journey. And you know, Rashan,
31:14
Speaker 1: I've worked in five television markets, UM, you know, not
31:18
Speaker 1: only my hometown Detroit, Michigan, and I worked in Miami, Milwaukee, Austin, Texas,
31:26
Speaker 1: UM and and my parents and grandparents always taught me
31:32
Speaker 1: that if God gives you a platform, use it to
31:34
Speaker 1: get back. And I was raised in the church and
31:36
Speaker 1: my my family was all philanthropic. And when I say philanthropic,
31:41
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily mean like the UM you know, not
31:45
Speaker 1: like they had a non big nonprofit or that they
31:48
Speaker 1: were able to give, you know, lots of money weight.
31:51
Speaker 1: But they did it with their time and their energy
31:54
Speaker 1: and and counseling young people and giving time to their
31:57
Speaker 1: church and their community. Those are the real philanthropists I think,
32:01
Speaker 1: in our in our society. And so they just always
32:04
Speaker 1: instilled in me UM that you you know the reason
32:09
Speaker 1: that we are here is to help other people, and
32:12
Speaker 1: so I've always wanted to have a nonprofit. I've always
32:15
Speaker 1: you know, worked in the nonprofit space, and so UM,
32:20
Speaker 1: seeing the struggles that our young women face growing up,
32:25
Speaker 1: it made me very passionate about just wanting to where
32:29
Speaker 1: can I use my voice to this and it was
32:31
Speaker 1: with underserved and under represented girls and those are predominantly,
32:35
Speaker 1: as we know, girls of color and black girls. And
32:38
Speaker 1: so UM, I'm I'm really thankful to be in this
32:42
Speaker 1: space and the and to be able to say that
32:45
Speaker 1: we have helped so many girls, um since the beginning
32:48
Speaker 1: of the Sean Foundation for Girls. So and thank you
32:51
Speaker 1: for always promoting what we do and helping people know
32:57
Speaker 1: the mission that we serve and help elevate our platform too.
33:00
Speaker 1: Well you know your black excellence, you know in the
33:02
Speaker 1: HBCU grad But more importantly, you know when I transition
33:06
Speaker 1: and uh stop managing Steve Harvey and started developing this idea.
33:10
Speaker 1: You're one of the first people I called, Sean said
33:12
Speaker 1: when you come on my show, would you support my vision?
33:15
Speaker 1: Will support my dream? And you didn't hesitate. And that's
33:18
Speaker 1: why you know when I when I sit up here
33:20
Speaker 1: and want to celebrate, you celebrate with friends. You celebrate
33:22
Speaker 1: with people who support you, people who believe in you,
33:25
Speaker 1: and you've always believed them in, just as I've always
33:28
Speaker 1: believed in you. And that this call in a lot
33:30
Speaker 1: of ways, is to say thank you for people like
33:32
Speaker 1: you and other people who have called in today, and
33:35
Speaker 1: we'll be calling in today to say, while this journey
33:38
Speaker 1: of trying to be successful or trying to achieve longevity
33:42
Speaker 1: is really only achieved by having people in your life
33:46
Speaker 1: who support you. Correct. Yes, And you know, I think
33:50
Speaker 1: that because of the business that we've spent so many
33:53
Speaker 1: years in and still are in entertainment business, a lot
33:56
Speaker 1: of it is just, um, you know, it is instilled
34:01
Speaker 1: in you to get more, to get more, to get more.
34:04
Speaker 1: It's all you know, how how many shows can I get,
34:08
Speaker 1: how much money can I get? How many how much
34:10
Speaker 1: you know, how big is my audience? All of that,
34:14
Speaker 1: and and it's easy to get caught up in that
34:17
Speaker 1: and think that that's why we are here to just
34:20
Speaker 1: get more stuff. Um. But you know, when you have people,
34:25
Speaker 1: and and when I first came to Hollywood, that was
34:29
Speaker 1: you know, that was a real shock to me because
34:31
Speaker 1: many relationships are transactional. That people are in relationships or
34:35
Speaker 1: they just want to meet people because it helps benefit them.
34:39
Speaker 1: But then you hope to find a community like I
34:41
Speaker 1: have found with you and so many other people, that
34:44
Speaker 1: it is about helping each other, and not only helping
34:47
Speaker 1: us each other succeed in our business ventures, but helping
34:51
Speaker 1: us realize our dream so that we can help other people.
34:55
Speaker 1: And what you do, you're giving back and helping us
34:58
Speaker 1: become better and helping us live our lives better. I
35:01
Speaker 1: mean that you know that is is uh that that's
35:05
Speaker 1: so important that we help each other because we're kind
35:08
Speaker 1: of all angels in this in this in this in
35:12
Speaker 1: this realm, and so uh yeah, yeah, I'm just thankful
35:16
Speaker 1: to have your friendship. And I see all the things
35:20
Speaker 1: I hope you see all my clapping emojis absolutely absolutely
35:23
Speaker 1: absolutely I want to learn how to bake like you
35:26
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna tell you something happening. I want to
35:31
Speaker 1: I want to tell you about something happening. But more
35:33
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for taking the time to
35:34
Speaker 1: call in on my anniversary show and and no doubt
35:37
Speaker 1: supports you and every every lane of opportunity you got
35:39
Speaker 1: out there. But Sean Robinson HPCU grad straight out of Spellman,
35:43
Speaker 1: straight out of sort knowing over twenty years, two decades,
35:47
Speaker 1: and you're still looking fantastic, keep winning. I appreciate you,
35:51
Speaker 1: appreciate Bye bye. My next guest. You thought I knew
35:56
Speaker 1: her a long time, Sean Ross. This next guest I
36:00
Speaker 1: known a long time. The fact I got on my show.
36:05
Speaker 1: Let's be know, this is an anniversary. This is a
36:07
Speaker 1: big anniversary. You know, Tasha Mac, you know Stevehi me.
36:14
Speaker 1: You know every time I look up, you know, to
36:17
Speaker 1: get money out of my pocket because my wife always
36:20
Speaker 1: tells me, you gotta donate, you gotta say the kids,
36:23
Speaker 1: you got your laughs. She's the one and on it.
36:27
Speaker 1: Wendy Robinson, straight out of a species you Howard University.
36:33
Speaker 1: Come on, Wendy, thank you for calling in on my holiday,
36:36
Speaker 1: on my on my celebration show. Girl. I cannot stop laughing. Okay,
36:42
Speaker 1: first of all, I gotta say, do not thank me,
36:46
Speaker 1: because I have to begin with thanking you and congratulating
36:50
Speaker 1: you from the bottom of my heart. You have been
36:53
Speaker 1: there and it's just so interesting. I was just listening
36:55
Speaker 1: to Sean Uh finished her conversation. So I guess is
36:59
Speaker 1: the day of the Robbie girls just shedding light and
37:01
Speaker 1: love you know, I'm so proud of you, and I'm
37:04
Speaker 1: just so humbled, and I'm so grateful, and I'm just
37:07
Speaker 1: so excited for every opportunity that is coming your way.
37:11
Speaker 1: How are you well, I'm doing first of all, I'm
37:14
Speaker 1: doing great and and and I really you know, it's
37:17
Speaker 1: just a gearback show because of the fact that when
37:21
Speaker 1: when you know, we all came to Hollywood just trying
37:24
Speaker 1: to find out dreams, and you know, when the opportunities came,
37:27
Speaker 1: we got it, and we were from fortunately have a career.
37:30
Speaker 1: We've had. We have careers in Holly and but you
37:34
Speaker 1: along the way The Amazing Grace Wow. Yeah, yeah, my
37:42
Speaker 1: boy Tracy, he's no longer with us. Y'all. Y'all saw
37:46
Speaker 1: a dream the a GC Amazing Grace Conservatory Stories nine seven. Okay.
37:52
Speaker 1: I went to Hollywood ninety two four. Okay, so way
37:56
Speaker 1: back then. She had this vision when when it really
37:59
Speaker 1: we aren't making have much money, We wasn't making no
38:03
Speaker 1: money out work. You've been in this business longer than me.
38:08
Speaker 1: Absolutely kill everybody about them A c Wow. Where do
38:13
Speaker 1: I begin. I'm just going to start from the heart
38:15
Speaker 1: because I was born and raised in South central l A.
38:18
Speaker 1: Many people don't know. Yeah, so I was there. So
38:21
Speaker 1: Hollywood has always been a dream, but it just seems
38:24
Speaker 1: so far away from me. And um, you know my mom,
38:27
Speaker 1: you know, she was a nurse. My dad was a
38:29
Speaker 1: maleman and a janitor. And I was just, you know,
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Speaker 1: over Zella's child that just had all of these dreams
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Speaker 1: and wanted to do it. But they just didn't know
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Speaker 1: how to get me into the business at the time,
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Speaker 1: so they just put me in classes and training. And
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Speaker 1: then one thing led to together and I went on
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Speaker 1: to Howard and I came out of Howard and I
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Speaker 1: I couldn't get a job, I couldn't get an agent,
38:47
Speaker 1: I couldn't get any eyeballs or anything to look at me,
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Speaker 1: and all I knew and I just had to believe
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Speaker 1: in my gift. And I met Tracy Lamar Coley, who
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Speaker 1: was a More house man, and we met on the
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Speaker 1: road because that was at the time before Tyler Perry,
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Speaker 1: where we would go on the road and tour and
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Speaker 1: do plays with Shelley Garrett. I won't even know if
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Speaker 1: you and I had this conversation, but Shelley Garrett I
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Speaker 1: was in beauty shops and we toured for like two
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Speaker 1: years and then I met Tracy in the gospel play
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Speaker 1: with Mike Matthews. Anyway, cut short two. We finished the
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Speaker 1: tour and ended up teaching at Marla Gibbs Performing Arts
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Speaker 1: School in South l A. It was called Cross Boats
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Speaker 1: Arts Academy, and we did a summer there. I taught
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Speaker 1: dance and he taught boys. And she closed her doors
39:35
Speaker 1: and it was like eighty some odd kids and it
39:38
Speaker 1: was like, but Marta, and you can't close your doors.
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Speaker 1: You know, were in the middle was what's going on?
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Speaker 1: She was like, you know what, it's just too much baby.
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Speaker 1: If you and Tracy want to take this on, she
39:48
Speaker 1: gave us the blessing, and she gave us the wherewithal
39:51
Speaker 1: and we put our heads and our hearts together and
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Speaker 1: we created a curriculum. We found the location, and it
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Speaker 1: has become more than we could have ever dreamt, more
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Speaker 1: than we could have ever even imagined. So that was
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Speaker 1: in nine six. Because we started as all God's children,
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Speaker 1: but we didn't have the business mind. We were two
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Speaker 1: artists without the business mind. So we learned a huge lesson,
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Speaker 1: lost a lot of money. We had a third partner.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna go there because the lesson is
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Speaker 1: so deep. And then back how we became. We kept
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Speaker 1: the acronym all God's Children a g C and became
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Speaker 1: Amazing Grades Conservatory because once was blind, but now she
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Speaker 1: how to run a business. So I'm keeping it real one.
40:36
Speaker 1: And that was in seven and we started as a
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Speaker 1: passion project is now just blossomed into something. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: efa ray what she is doing asking standers, Ryan Nicole Brown,
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Speaker 1: the alumni, you know, I want to say to how
40:56
Speaker 1: your seeds should exceed to you And that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: the and I are doing right now, and they are
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Speaker 1: really coming back and creating something beyond you know what
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Speaker 1: Tracy and I ever dreamt the time. So it's just
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's the golden goose that laid the
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Speaker 1: golden egg, that laid the golden egg that just continually
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Speaker 1: just goes and grows. And it's just it's been life changing,
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Speaker 1: it really has. And you has you saw it when
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Speaker 1: nobody else saw it, and you every year you were
41:29
Speaker 1: like how much of the scholarship you always you funded
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Speaker 1: at least ten scholarships. And then when we were on
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Speaker 1: a real low, you came in at a time right
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Speaker 1: before and you just gave us a lumpum. I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: You gave was that six or eight thousand dollars check?
41:43
Speaker 1: And I was like Lord Jesus and just but just
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Speaker 1: knowing that there are angels out there and you being one,
41:51
Speaker 1: You're such a beacon of light. And you know, it
41:55
Speaker 1: wasn't even about the money. Well it was about the money,
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Speaker 1: but it was the belief that you had in a
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Speaker 1: dream that I mean, you're you're one of our angels.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, you know what I mean, you electacy with that,
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Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, because there was times it
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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, am I crazy, what is this we're doing?
42:16
Speaker 1: You know, and trying to run a career in the
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Speaker 1: business that is you know, so inconsistent, but in building
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Speaker 1: the businesses. Now I twenty fifth anniversary, so I mean
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Speaker 1: shout out to you because you are definitely you were
42:31
Speaker 1: the roots of that tree that is just giving and
42:34
Speaker 1: giving and giving for the truth that it is burying.
42:37
Speaker 1: You have a big part of that. And I'm just
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Speaker 1: so grateful for you and your anniversary. But Sean McDonald,
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Speaker 1: you are big. I appreciate it all. You know. The
42:45
Speaker 1: thing about it, I know I've run it out of time.
42:47
Speaker 1: They talk about Rahan. You're over talking here, but I
42:50
Speaker 1: just wanted to win this talking. I'm gonna be quieting.
42:52
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no, because I could go on.
42:55
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna tell everybody that much. I'm giving
42:57
Speaker 1: it all. I know you're gonna go there and every
42:59
Speaker 1: the people gonna looking for me for donations. I'm sorry,
43:02
Speaker 1: but again, you know, I just want people to hear
43:05
Speaker 1: that side of you on my anniversary show, you know,
43:07
Speaker 1: because we know just to start power, the film power.
43:11
Speaker 1: We know the sitcoms, the movies, the plays, the tours,
43:15
Speaker 1: but that whole a g c that's the beast. I'm
43:19
Speaker 1: just I'm just a guy who feeding the fire and
43:21
Speaker 1: I will not Wendy let that fire go out. And
43:24
Speaker 1: my wife won't let it go out either, because she
43:27
Speaker 1: believes in many You guys are amazing. What a power
43:31
Speaker 1: couple with a power team. And I'm sorry, I didn't
43:34
Speaker 1: even mean to talk about amounts because it's now, that's
43:37
Speaker 1: all good, it's all good, it's a favor. It's just you.
43:40
Speaker 1: You believe in a dream, you know, and when people
43:44
Speaker 1: believe in that dream and come together, they say communities,
43:47
Speaker 1: common unity. And you were so much a part of
43:49
Speaker 1: that and thank you for being a part of our village.
43:52
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thank you for calling it on my anniversary, Wendy,
43:57
Speaker 1: appreciate you much. Love Now all your visit. When I
43:59
Speaker 1: come in l A, I just every time I come
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Speaker 1: to I don't call. It has to stop. Next time
44:03
Speaker 1: I come, I'm calling you. Okay, and you're coming to
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Speaker 1: the school. Okay, I appreciate Okay, I will do that.
44:10
Speaker 1: I love you. Bye bye, Okay, bye bye. We'll be
44:15
Speaker 1: right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now,
44:23
Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: My next guest is a celebrated comedian, actress and HBC
44:32
Speaker 1: you graduate. I've had three HBCU interviews. I had Sean Robinson,
44:36
Speaker 1: she from Spellman Randy with Carol Robinson. She's from Howard
44:40
Speaker 1: Now Kim Whitley, she's straight out of fists Now. This
44:44
Speaker 1: week I got a little notice from her that she
44:48
Speaker 1: looked at my TikTok account and the Taco Castle role.
44:53
Speaker 1: She made it fitted to her amazing son and he
44:56
Speaker 1: was happy. Please work with the Money Making Conversations Master
44:59
Speaker 1: Class five. Your Anniversary and we will be mentioning all
45:02
Speaker 1: of her exploits. The one and only Kim Whitley, How
45:04
Speaker 1: are you doing, Kim? What you're doing? You? No? Not Kim, Kim?
45:17
Speaker 1: Can you know you've been you? You know, we go
45:18
Speaker 1: all the way back to parenthood. You know when you
45:20
Speaker 1: your first gig, you was a clown. You know he's
45:23
Speaker 1: a pretty cute clown. First of all, I know, No,
45:26
Speaker 1: you're gonna You're gonna fix everything. Let's talk about I've
45:30
Speaker 1: been knowing this one law. Sean Robin said, yeah, I've
45:33
Speaker 1: been listening to everybody. I've been knowing this one real law.
45:36
Speaker 1: You've got to tell them who you've been knowing the
45:37
Speaker 1: longest right here, just w C. Okay, that's the NPR.
45:47
Speaker 1: You can't be using them extra words out there that okay,
45:51
Speaker 1: ain't podcast. And then we're on the podcast I've known.
45:54
Speaker 1: There's there's a public where you go. Not Kim, now him.
46:01
Speaker 1: I have been knowing you a long time. But the
46:03
Speaker 1: beauty of it is that you continue to reinvent yourself.
46:08
Speaker 1: You continue to understand the power relationships. And every time
46:14
Speaker 1: I see you, your energy is always up. And we
46:17
Speaker 1: know Hollywood can drag you down, but you always maintain
46:21
Speaker 1: that high spirit. And now you know Sary Ship, but
46:25
Speaker 1: that's our girl. She's now a daytime talk daytime Sherry's Park,
46:29
Speaker 1: and you've been doing Funny Mama's with her for years,
46:31
Speaker 1: that podcast Funny Mama. Then you got your own show,
46:37
Speaker 1: Kim on audible. Tell me about that. Oh look at you, right,
46:41
Speaker 1: she said to that list. I do men. Lenaway started this,
46:45
Speaker 1: uh a few years ago. You're just gonna throw our
46:48
Speaker 1: lean away name, like it's a throwaway name. That's what
46:51
Speaker 1: you're going through that I did, so I did. I
46:56
Speaker 1: did really, writer Lena Rate, so um, you know, we
47:03
Speaker 1: we started this as a TV show with Amazon, and
47:09
Speaker 1: Amazon did some changes and so we were like, we
47:12
Speaker 1: don't want to let it go. Len It was like,
47:14
Speaker 1: this is a great story. So it became like I
47:16
Speaker 1: like to say, like a radio theater audible uh theater.
47:21
Speaker 1: So it's a they called it. The podcast was really
47:24
Speaker 1: a audible theory. And it comes out with the name
47:28
Speaker 1: Kim k y m my name, and it's really uh
47:33
Speaker 1: pictition kinda of my life with Joshua, how we did
47:39
Speaker 1: raising Whitley. But I think the story of comedian getting
47:44
Speaker 1: my baby boy and all the Shenaniicans that go with it.
47:48
Speaker 1: So that comes out actually October twenties, so very excited
47:51
Speaker 1: about We're good. I'm very I'm very you know, like
47:54
Speaker 1: you said then. Also, you've always been the ambassador. You know,
47:57
Speaker 1: we watch an ambassador, you know, because you know, I
48:00
Speaker 1: remember when you Kim, you know Kim, you know she
48:03
Speaker 1: was talking about what she called one thing. You know,
48:04
Speaker 1: I was talking to Oprah again like she dropped that
48:07
Speaker 1: little Lena weight like it was you know, ordinary people.
48:10
Speaker 1: I was talking to Oprah overtold me that it recommended
48:12
Speaker 1: to that duc. Now you just be dropping these big
48:15
Speaker 1: names around, but you an't like you know, you just
48:17
Speaker 1: record or you just bigger than Rashaw now or Rashaw
48:21
Speaker 1: don't know who we talked to. Now. I need to
48:23
Speaker 1: show you a little bit more respect. What's going on camp? Okay?
48:26
Speaker 1: Because I have known your long time. Yes, first of all,
48:29
Speaker 1: happy anniversary five years. I think I was on the
48:34
Speaker 1: first year. You were a lot of people, Yeah, a
48:37
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand that you have been behind
48:40
Speaker 1: a lot of them, you know. And how we move
48:43
Speaker 1: in this business, how we talk, how we think in
48:46
Speaker 1: this business, how we dressed in this business. Um, that
48:50
Speaker 1: even with Sherry. You know, you gave Sherry some late advice.
48:53
Speaker 1: You know, she called me to tell me you gave
48:55
Speaker 1: all the advice. I said, first of all, he was
48:57
Speaker 1: my friend. First I got left. I was like, oh
49:02
Speaker 1: he called you, okay, but he was my friend first.
49:04
Speaker 1: So first of all, thank you for that. You know
49:08
Speaker 1: that you that all the things that you've done for
49:11
Speaker 1: us and pouring into our career. First of all, thank
49:14
Speaker 1: you for that. I want to make sure I mention that, well,
49:17
Speaker 1: you know the go ahead, we know the thing about it,
49:20
Speaker 1: because you're telling me I got to run it out
49:22
Speaker 1: of time here, so I gotta say goodbye here like
49:25
Speaker 1: fifties seconds. But the thing about the cameras that yes,
49:28
Speaker 1: you were my first guest on my money making conversation platform.
49:32
Speaker 1: You didn't hesitate. I called you or called you in
49:35
Speaker 1: my phone. So Richard, when you want me to call
49:36
Speaker 1: in and I just think that I just want to
49:39
Speaker 1: say thank you. I want to say thank you because
49:41
Speaker 1: sometimes there's dark days and you don't know who to call.
49:44
Speaker 1: And this is ain't the ghost supost The theme here,
49:46
Speaker 1: This is about calling people who respect you, believing you,
49:50
Speaker 1: and you can depend on and you've always been there
49:52
Speaker 1: for you, for me. That's why I wanted you to
49:54
Speaker 1: be the last person on the show so I can
49:56
Speaker 1: let everybody know this is a journey. But when the
49:58
Speaker 1: journey end, you to be talking to a friend and
50:01
Speaker 1: Kim Woodley, you truly, truly are one of my best friends.
50:05
Speaker 1: And I want to say thank you, Oh my goodness,
50:08
Speaker 1: and I received that and you are truly one of
50:11
Speaker 1: my best friends and cheer leaders. Thank you. We talked,
50:14
Speaker 1: so I appreciate you. Love you. Okay, you've been listening
50:20
Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Always remember
50:25
Speaker 1: to lead with your gifts. Money Making Conversations Masterclass is
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Speaker 1: tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with
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Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. Hi Rashan McDonald for Money Making Conversations Masterclass
50:44
Speaker 1: with your daily minute of Inspiration. This week I said
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Speaker 1: down with in Double a CP Award winning actor Omar Dorsey.
50:50
Speaker 1: He explains why it is important not to compromise your
50:53
Speaker 1: art for the sake of short term success. There have
50:56
Speaker 1: been times in my career while I stepped back when
50:59
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, let me figure out exactly
51:02
Speaker 1: what the next phase of my career is gonna be.
51:05
Speaker 1: And if it takes time for me to do whatever
51:07
Speaker 1: I need to do um and take six months or
51:10
Speaker 1: a year, uh, then I'll do it just so I
51:13
Speaker 1: can be seen in a different light. You know. About
51:16
Speaker 1: that time was the time I just stepped back and
51:18
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna change agencies and managements because I
51:21
Speaker 1: said I had a vision for myself that with much much,
51:24
Speaker 1: much further than just you know, playing big parts. Right,
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Speaker 1: If you want to listen to this full interview with
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