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Tasha Cobbs Leonard Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is a Grammy and Billboard Award winning artists.
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  Speaker 1: She is also a Southern girl, a business woman who
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  Speaker 1: wears many minute hats. She's the most stream gospel artist
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  Speaker 1: in history and had the top selling gospel album of anden.
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  Speaker 1: She promotes her own tours, which I love to hear.
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  Speaker 1: We got to talk about that always being intentional and
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  Speaker 1: showing her platform and sharing her platform with others. She
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  Speaker 1: has over one million Instagram followers and over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million streams of her performances. Please welk up the money
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  Speaker 1: making conversation, Tasha called Leonard, Hey, that's a lot of lot.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's a lot. Why First of all,
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  Speaker 1: it is honored for me because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna share information to my listeners and on and
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  Speaker 1: the people who view me on my Facebook page about
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  Speaker 1: why it's important to be a businesswoman as well as
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  Speaker 1: a talent. Because a lot of people, I think the
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  Speaker 1: really uh that old you know statement that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just in here for the art has changed. We're
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  Speaker 1: in here for the business and the art. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: it has social media changed that or it was just
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  Speaker 1: always there, but social media just helped to get there faster.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I I believe both. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was always there. I've always been. My brother used to
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  Speaker 1: have his own going joke when I was I was
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  Speaker 1: very young, and he would saying, you are the richest
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  Speaker 1: person I've ever seen with no job. But I always
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  Speaker 1: found a way, even when I was younger, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to to make a means for myself outside of what
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  Speaker 1: my parents provided. I felt that it was very important, um,
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  Speaker 1: that I do something to provide for myself. And it
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  Speaker 1: started at a very young age. But I will say this,
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  Speaker 1: um with social media. Uh, back when I released my
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  Speaker 1: first independent project that a lot of people still asked
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  Speaker 1: about to this day. Honestly, you know, I did it all.
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  Speaker 1: I I started my own website, I put my own
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  Speaker 1: record on tune Core. You know, I did all of
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  Speaker 1: the groundwork and I will forever um respect those days.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that I am able to do what I
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  Speaker 1: do now because I did the groundwork then. And so
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  Speaker 1: I put that album out on my face. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: it was my Space, YouTube and iTunes, and that album
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  Speaker 1: just really blew my mind. I didn't think so many
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  Speaker 1: people would respond, and so honestly, yes, it's it's dual.
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  Speaker 1: I am. I've always had like this entreprepreneurs thing on me,
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  Speaker 1: but also social media helped me to push and to
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  Speaker 1: market my brand. It's really interesting because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people used to worry a blessing us faith or going
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  Speaker 1: out on faith, but it's also effort and also believe
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  Speaker 1: it in yourself and this is your vision because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people can tell you you're wasting your time.
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  Speaker 1: And I know I've heard that a lot of my career.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure if people have told you you looked
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  Speaker 1: this way, nothing's gonna happen for you. You talked this way,
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  Speaker 1: nothing's gonna happen for you. And why you put that
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  Speaker 1: on my space? Don't nobody know you? Don'tbody know you?
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  Speaker 1: And so and so? This isn't it amazing that you
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  Speaker 1: you you put your music, you're not known artists and
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  Speaker 1: hustle got it out there called on favors? And what
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  Speaker 1: did happen when you start seeing the views the plays?
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  Speaker 1: What was that? What was running through your mind when
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  Speaker 1: that was happening? You know what? And I think I
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  Speaker 1: have to go back to something you said, because that
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  Speaker 1: is so true about having faith. Yes, we have faith
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  Speaker 1: for the Bible also said that faith without work is dead.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have faith all day, but if you don't
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  Speaker 1: get up and do something, it's um. So I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you for saying that. But when I started seeing more
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  Speaker 1: and more people purchased the album, be interested in the
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  Speaker 1: album post about the album, it actually gave me more
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  Speaker 1: courage to do more. You know, when I started seeing
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  Speaker 1: people and how they were being blessed by what they
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  Speaker 1: heard or you know, what they saw from me, it
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  Speaker 1: gave me all of the ammunition I needed to say, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I need to get up and do a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm the kind of person you know, when I
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  Speaker 1: read that scripture that says faith with our works is dead.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that says get up and do something. So
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  Speaker 1: the more I see the faith working for me, the
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  Speaker 1: more I want to do. That's the kind of person
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  Speaker 1: I am. So I you know, they used to say
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  Speaker 1: this thing in church back in the day, Um, you
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  Speaker 1: take one step of God to take two. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: always about taking that first step and letting him do
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  Speaker 1: what he does, you know, after he sees me operating
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  Speaker 1: my faith. So that's just the way I think. So
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  Speaker 1: my response to people um being blessed by my album
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  Speaker 1: at first when it was it gave me all that
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  Speaker 1: I needed to keep doing more. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: important for you to say that, because I always tell
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  Speaker 1: people that. First of all, you're absolutely correct when you
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  Speaker 1: say by doing it yourself, you understand how far you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to push yourselves and also how far you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to challenge the people who say they want to do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing for you. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: because you have to get out the way personality. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: I do that, don't worry about it. That's how fairst
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna move. That's how fairst you're gonna move. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got this, I got this, I got this. And
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  Speaker 1: that's important because it gives you the confidence to say,
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  Speaker 1: I know how this is the how this is done.
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  Speaker 1: I know how much effort needs to be put in
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  Speaker 1: it for me to be happy. Now, if you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna put effort in to make me happy, that means
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  Speaker 1: that you satisfy, and you reach your satisfied, satisfying point
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  Speaker 1: in your life, then guess what I'm done with you.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody that's coming in the room, because that allows that
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  Speaker 1: that business had of yours to come on board. And
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  Speaker 1: I let me tell you some I always admire people
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  Speaker 1: like you who who get it at such an early age,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I admit that I am talented. I
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  Speaker 1: will admit that I see things uniquely, uh do a
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  Speaker 1: unique mirror or glass or a window, and and and
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to figure out things a lot faster than
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  Speaker 1: most people. But I didn't understand who I was an
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  Speaker 1: early age. I just knew people just people just told
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  Speaker 1: me I was talented. And people just told me that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: stop doing that, You're gonna be better than that. Stop that,
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  Speaker 1: stop being stupid, stop that. You know you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: better than People just protected me and told me just
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just kept me in live and then
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  Speaker 1: but your brother said, hey, he knew you, he knew
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  Speaker 1: you had a passion to be different. Absolutely, who pushed you? What? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Under this? I know it's all starts with the parents,
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  Speaker 1: But did you see something where you're inspired by something? What?
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  Speaker 1: What drove you? Wow? I actually came from a family
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  Speaker 1: of just ambitious people. You know, they're very talented. My
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  Speaker 1: entire family things that play instruments. You know, they're education educators.
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  Speaker 1: They believe in education. And doing what you're calling to do.
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  Speaker 1: So I had a family. It's good to have a
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  Speaker 1: family unit of people, and then that doesn't necessarily have
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  Speaker 1: to be blood. But surrounds tell people all the time,
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  Speaker 1: surround your people, yourself around people. Some of them may
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  Speaker 1: know who you are before you know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: And I always want to surround my people, myself around
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  Speaker 1: people who know more than me. If somebody told me
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  Speaker 1: the other day, if if you know the most in
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  Speaker 1: your circle of friends, and you need to get some
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  Speaker 1: new friends, because you have to have people in your
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  Speaker 1: life who are always sharpen thing you, always pushing you
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  Speaker 1: to be greater, always stretching you to do more. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have that person in your life, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of hit a glass ceiling where where nobody
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  Speaker 1: is stretching you, nobody's telling you, you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be You gotta have those people in your life who
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  Speaker 1: aren't always telling you you're great, who aren't always saying
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  Speaker 1: you're the best of the best, telling you that you
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  Speaker 1: know need to work on that, or you need to
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  Speaker 1: work on this. I am always very intentional about surround up,
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  Speaker 1: surrounding myself around those seaports, and I love it. I
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  Speaker 1: love it, Tasha. We're gonna go to the next break
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  Speaker 1: and we can come back. UM, keep that energy because
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  Speaker 1: you were right where I want you to. And we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the eye airline, the athletic, wereline, even more
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  Speaker 1: about your ability to be because brand yourself social, social wise.
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  Speaker 1: This was Sean McDonald's was Sean McDonald, the host of
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. UM, continue this interview with the Grammy
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  Speaker 1: and the bill Board Award and winning an artist. She's
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  Speaker 1: a businesswoman and I wanted to talk about that. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about the first break was really talking about, um,
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  Speaker 1: just the social side of branding, finding their abilities and
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  Speaker 1: getting themselves out there at the early age and believe
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  Speaker 1: it in ourselves and then working hard to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Now we want to talk about the business side of
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  Speaker 1: her that how did how did the the ability to
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  Speaker 1: make these choices, Like a couple of things they put
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  Speaker 1: into your bio to talk about was the eye wear
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  Speaker 1: and the athletic Okay, let's talk about the Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's uh the eye wear. It's called Fritz Eyewear,
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  Speaker 1: and it's named after my father. You know, I tell
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  Speaker 1: this story all the time. UM, we went through a
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  Speaker 1: very visible passing of my father. Um uh. It's been
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  Speaker 1: five years now, but during that time, I had just
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  Speaker 1: released the song Break Every Chain, and you know, so
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  Speaker 1: many eyes were on us, and he was just a
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  Speaker 1: great man. You know. I have no no bad memories
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  Speaker 1: and my father whatsoever. And I wanted to do something
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  Speaker 1: that honored him. And I also wanted to do something
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  Speaker 1: that stretched me beyond the music, you know, outside of
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  Speaker 1: the four walls of the church. And it's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not heard of a lot, but I really feel
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  Speaker 1: like all of my life that it was something for
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  Speaker 1: me to do in an entrepreneur aspect, and so I
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  Speaker 1: just reached out. You know, I was connected to um
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  Speaker 1: this group of people they have it's called the Eye
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  Speaker 1: Candy Creations and they help different um different entrepreneurs to
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  Speaker 1: help to launch their eyewear brands, and so I reached
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  Speaker 1: out with them. I didn't have much, but I knew
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do this. And that's another thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to stop right there. Always connect yourself with people
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  Speaker 1: who have an understanding of an arena that you may
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  Speaker 1: not have. You know, I needed to partner with them
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  Speaker 1: so they can help me understand what I was launching
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  Speaker 1: out into, and so I just started to have conversations
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  Speaker 1: with them, telling them, you know, what it is that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do. You know, they started giving me
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  Speaker 1: understandings of different materials that I were could be made
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  Speaker 1: out of. There's so much that goes into it, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't just sit around and try to teach yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, we can google some things, but most times
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  Speaker 1: you have to partner with people who have an understanding
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have so that they can teach you
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  Speaker 1: and train you. And so I partner with them, and
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  Speaker 1: I told them about my father, and if you look
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  Speaker 1: at any of the eyewear, you can kind of see
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  Speaker 1: glimpses of his personality within each of them. He used
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  Speaker 1: to end all of our church services by saying, love everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I always do and this,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the honest truth. We pray over every
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  Speaker 1: pair of the eye wear, and I prayed that people
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  Speaker 1: will see other people through the lens of my father,
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  Speaker 1: which is the lens of love. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's absolutely possible to infuse the God that
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  Speaker 1: I served within my businesses. You know, I believe it's
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  Speaker 1: possible to tie in the two, and so that's what
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  Speaker 1: I did with Fritz iware and we have the first
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  Speaker 1: collection which we completely sold out of it. Again, mind blowing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm pushing it, I'm stepping out there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: walking on faith, but I'm also walking you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's just blew my mind to
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  Speaker 1: people's responses and this eye where you know, you could
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  Speaker 1: put your prescription in them. I made sure that it
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  Speaker 1: was top of the line. I only believe in the best,
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  Speaker 1: the top of the line material. And it has been
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  Speaker 1: back this up tosh Okay. First of all, this is
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  Speaker 1: the iware line. They didn't come to you. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: come to you, right, you came to Okay and so
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  Speaker 1: so so Well, what has been the reaction because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't come to you and they've seen this tremendous response
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  Speaker 1: to your brand? M hm? Do you or do you
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  Speaker 1: approach this relationship differently or you just maintain status quo
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  Speaker 1: with him? Now that you realize, hey, I can dominate
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  Speaker 1: this field too, or I can be a brand, I
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  Speaker 1: could be an entrepreneuring this field too. How does that,
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  Speaker 1: I just that affect your whole approach to business? In
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  Speaker 1: that particular arena. You know what, I still believe in honor.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in respect. When I when I say I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna partner with somebody, I mean that. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be a person of your word. When you
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  Speaker 1: say something you know you don't get the knowledge, and
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  Speaker 1: then you go off and try to one up the
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  Speaker 1: people that help you get you know. So with that company,
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  Speaker 1: we are still in partnerships. You know, we still communicate.
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  Speaker 1: They're still helping me to push eyewhere, I still help
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  Speaker 1: to push I can be creations. That's how partnerships work.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, sometimes it's easy to try
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  Speaker 1: to get that crab mentality, but it's better to work
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  Speaker 1: hand in hand and create partnerships to help expand you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can do better. We can do better together. I
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  Speaker 1: don't if somebody got a song that says that, but
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  Speaker 1: it's the truth. We can do better together. Sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to break ground and when when you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do something different, it's good to partner with people
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  Speaker 1: who are also trying to do the same thing, and
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  Speaker 1: each of you respect each other mutually. It works and
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  Speaker 1: there's a mutual respect there that I just absolutely loved
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  Speaker 1: with our candy creation. So we're working on our next collection,
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  Speaker 1: which I am so excited about. This is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: crazy because you're funny to me, because you're you are
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  Speaker 1: a business woman. If you didn't do gospel music, you
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  Speaker 1: you're somewhere, You're gonna be somewhere successful. You always shut
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  Speaker 1: it down. This is what I think. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if it IBM real estate. Uh broken, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do because you you got that, you got a
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  Speaker 1: sense of the work ethic, you know. And then and
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  Speaker 1: then I also you understand relationships. You also understand that
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  Speaker 1: I will not walk into the room and be the
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  Speaker 1: smartest person by something I don't know. Yes, correct, you
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  Speaker 1: have to Sometimes you gotta learn to be quiet and listen.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes we just try to talk too much
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  Speaker 1: and prove how smart we are. But sometimes you need
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  Speaker 1: to walk in the room and be quiet and listen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna they used to call me, even at my labels,
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  Speaker 1: they say she's like a sponge. I will sit down
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  Speaker 1: and soak everything up, you know, to see how it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna help me become who I'm supposed to be. But
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  Speaker 1: what happened, But he said this the other day. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna leave this or having done everything I was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. I am. That's me right there, ras Sean
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  Speaker 1: McDonald with Sean McDonald, we're gonna be right next to
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  Speaker 1: each other. We're gonna be gray by gray baby, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna say on that done at all. Both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Just done it all, both of them. That's gonna be all.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna be written on all stones. Right there. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about this next time. I got six sisters, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I'm passed away, but I'm always have six sisters.
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  Speaker 1: Their look curvy, their look curvy. I'm gonna say, I
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  Speaker 1: love that look curving, you know, And so you got
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  Speaker 1: just live for curves. So so what, okay do you
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  Speaker 1: don't know? If I gotta ask you this question to
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  Speaker 1: develop an ethnic line, do you work out? I absolutely do.
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  Speaker 1: I have a trainer, I sure do. I know people
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  Speaker 1: don't believe big girls workout, but we can be healthy too.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm I'm wanting to push. I want I've
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  Speaker 1: seen so many curvy girls because I released this line,
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  Speaker 1: they have the courage now to stand up and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I work out, you know, yes, you know I do.
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  Speaker 1: I eat healthy, but sometimes some of us say used
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  Speaker 1: to say this back in the day, some of us
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  Speaker 1: just big bone girls. Absolute. But I believe you can
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  Speaker 1: be healthy. You can ask my doctor right now. I
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  Speaker 1: have no health issues whatsoever. I'm a curby girl and
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  Speaker 1: I believe and eating right. You know, I'm gonna eat
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  Speaker 1: me a piece of cake every now and then. But
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, you gotta stay with your regiment.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta make sure that you're taking care of your temple.
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  Speaker 1: God gave us one body, you know, He gave us
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  Speaker 1: one one life to live, and I you have to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you're taken care of it. And in terb athletics,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to push that. You know, the the honest
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  Speaker 1: story behind this is I was online um looking for
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  Speaker 1: Ivy Park, which is Beyonce's uh. She has an athletic line,
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  Speaker 1: and so every at midnight she will release these collections
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  Speaker 1: and they only do like a small portion of the
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  Speaker 1: plus side. And so if you don't get on right
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  Speaker 1: at midnight, you're gonna miss it. So every time I
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  Speaker 1: was missing getting the order, and so jokingly I said,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the Bible says you have whatsoever you say,
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  Speaker 1: and I said out of my mouth, I'm gonna create
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  Speaker 1: my own athletic wears just like that. It was a
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  Speaker 1: joke and I just threw it out there. But when
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  Speaker 1: you throw things out into the atmosphere, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: angels received it. And so I said it and I
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  Speaker 1: could not shake it. And so about three years ago,
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  Speaker 1: ago I started out with this product. And this is
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  Speaker 1: I started out in my trademarks did not go through
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  Speaker 1: way over after printing so many labels, and so I
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  Speaker 1: learned a valuable lesson from that, you know, So I
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