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Magical Vacation Planners are MVP Parks, MVP Cruising and MVP Getaways founded by Jamie and JJ Eubanks. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: There we come. I'm not saying I'm a travel expert,
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  Speaker 1: but I have been on at least eighty cruises in
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime. I made all in the Caribbean and the
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  Speaker 1: Mexican Rear Era. I've been to Alaska. They experience with
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  Speaker 1: my family. I've done it as a performer because I
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  Speaker 1: should be a stand up comedian. And I go out
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  Speaker 1: there and get paid the cruise for free. And I
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  Speaker 1: bring my buddies out there and they were cruised for
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  Speaker 1: free because they just stayed in my room. All they'll
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  Speaker 1: do is pay for the airline ticket and we had
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  Speaker 1: a great time. Seven day cruises Well, my guests founded
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  Speaker 1: Magical Vacation Planner in two thousand and six and it
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  Speaker 1: has been successful non stop. There Jamie U. Banks and
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  Speaker 1: a husband, Jju Banks, a former professional basketball player. Today,
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  Speaker 1: MVP is a powerhouse company that provides, through their independent contractors,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best vacation planning services in the industry
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  Speaker 1: and authorized Disney Vacation planner. MVP operates through three branches,
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  Speaker 1: MVP Parks, MVP Cruising and MVP Getaways. Magical Vacation Planners
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  Speaker 1: thrives to provide an exclusive and magical, stress free vacation
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  Speaker 1: planning service and no additional spense. That's what right there
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  Speaker 1: is really important. They're gonna give your first class, no
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  Speaker 1: extra for first class. Actually gonna give you platinum and diamond,
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  Speaker 1: no extra for platinum and diamond services they out there.
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  Speaker 1: MVP aspires to become a household name in the world
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  Speaker 1: of travel through perseverance, innovation and integrity to continue to
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  Speaker 1: impact lives for years to come. Magical Vacation Planners currently
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  Speaker 1: develop an HBCU program. Please work with the Money Making
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  Speaker 1: Conversation Master Class. I'm gonna call my friends Jamie and
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  Speaker 1: jj E Banks, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Team?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, hey, thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's really great because, first of all, I
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  Speaker 1: I just came from I did one of those Viking
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  Speaker 1: type cruises over in years. I was in a buda
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  Speaker 1: past and went up the river and I ended up
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  Speaker 1: in Munich, and I was relaxed the entire time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: technology allows you to reach people, but it's still I
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  Speaker 1: was relaxed. Talk about the significance you know, just in
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  Speaker 1: my community, my community, when my community, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: African American community. You know, we tend to we tend
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  Speaker 1: to live a life of stress. What does a vacation
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  Speaker 1: do for an individual when they take a vacation, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's one day or two days, or a week or
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  Speaker 1: a month, talk about the vacation experience, JJ.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for for for me, the vacation experience really just
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  Speaker 4: it takes you to a whole different place. It takes
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  Speaker 4: it eliminates that stress, It eliminates the hassle. You can
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  Speaker 4: just get away. You know, you and I have talked
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  Speaker 4: many times before, and we talked about how it really
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  Speaker 4: it's it's cultural right, you know, where you're able to
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  Speaker 4: travel and experience how other people live and see things
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  Speaker 4: that that's not your norm, so it's just a great
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  Speaker 4: thing to do. It really changed your whole world. I
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  Speaker 4: think travel changes lives completely. You view and you see
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  Speaker 4: things totally different when you're able to get out and
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  Speaker 4: travel outside of what you know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Jamie, the travel industry was shut down
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  Speaker 1: by COVID. Now the bricking records traveling today? What do
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  Speaker 1: you think? Okay, let's talk about why is there such
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  Speaker 1: a big comeback?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: When I travel, I still wear a mask when I
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  Speaker 1: get on the plane. I still wear masks when I
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  Speaker 1: get on the plane, and I'm very comfortable. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable because you know, air circlar on the
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  Speaker 1: plane anyways. So now I really have an excuse to
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  Speaker 1: put it on because I always I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: much I've travel because I'm like a diamond on Delta
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  Speaker 1: and all these different airlines and all these because I
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  Speaker 1: traveled so much via the airway. Air How why is
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  Speaker 1: travel so on fire right now? Jamie?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think there was a lot of pinned up demand,
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  Speaker 5: and what we saw was, you know, we really didn't
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  Speaker 5: get to travel for a year two years, you know,
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  Speaker 5: so people like they we said at home and we
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  Speaker 5: just dreamed about where we wanted to go. It's like
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  Speaker 5: you really couldn't go to Europe easily on the cruise
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  Speaker 5: lane was shut down for almost two years, and once
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  Speaker 5: that reopened, there was a lot of restrictions even once
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  Speaker 5: it did open up, but we were like, just tell
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  Speaker 5: us what we need to do. We're you know, we're
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  Speaker 5: we're here, We're gonna We're going to get through this.
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  Speaker 5: And we're just now even on cruising, we are just
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  Speaker 5: now past that phase of all the restrictions and all
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  Speaker 5: the things that came along with with that COVID the
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  Speaker 5: pandem where where the industry was shut down. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: that's unheard of for the cruise line to be shut
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  Speaker 5: down for so long. And those companies they held strong
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  Speaker 5: and they held in there and they you know, they
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  Speaker 5: lobbied to to be able to open back up and
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  Speaker 5: do it safely. You know, I think that there's there's,
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  Speaker 5: like like you said before, we work in Parks, Cruising
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  Speaker 5: and Getaways, and it's really it's really interesting to see
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  Speaker 5: how Parks was the first one to come back because
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  Speaker 5: you know, it was easy. You know, it's open air.
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  Speaker 5: The restrictions weren't as you know, as long as you
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  Speaker 5: were okay wearing a mask, you know, you could come
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  Speaker 5: to the parks at Disney and at Universal here in Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: You know, then then Europe and the Caribbean. Caribbean really
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  Speaker 5: never shut down, but there was a lot of there
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  Speaker 5: was a lot of uh steps that you had to take.
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  Speaker 5: And JJ and I like when these places opened up
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  Speaker 5: or we were able to travel there with some of
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  Speaker 5: our agents. I mean we were there, we were doing
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  Speaker 5: the test.
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  Speaker 6: I know that.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was Antarctica when the cruising open and
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  Speaker 5: we went to Antarctic. I think we had to take
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  Speaker 5: like like seven tests or something it was. But we
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  Speaker 5: were like, you know what, just tell us what we
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  Speaker 5: want to do. And so JJ and I we we
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  Speaker 5: were you know, we wanted to be the first ones
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  Speaker 5: to go out there and say it's it's okay, like
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  Speaker 5: it's there is a little bit of you know, of
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  Speaker 5: the unknown that's there. But I think that people then
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  Speaker 5: started seeing other people travel and seeing that it's okay,
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  Speaker 5: and so then they're like, okay, well, you know, now
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  Speaker 5: I want to travel. And so this year seems to
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  Speaker 5: be the year that a lot of people are traveling overseas.
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  Speaker 5: JJ and I we took We took our niece and
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  Speaker 5: two nephews to Europe last summer, and like JJ said,
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  Speaker 5: like it just opened it up. But traveling, you know,
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  Speaker 5: kind of at the during a pandemic was something. But
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  Speaker 5: to expose them, you know, ages eleven, thirteen, and fifteen
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  Speaker 5: to Europe when they've never traveled outside of the United
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  Speaker 5: States was just such a gift. But I think that
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  Speaker 5: the pandemic just sitting back and not doing anything and
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  Speaker 5: seeing things. You know, we were watching a lot of videos.
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  Speaker 5: It's you just depend up. Demand was there and people
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  Speaker 5: just wanted to They want to go. So this year
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  Speaker 5: travel is back. It is in full swing.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're talking to the owners of Magical Vacation Planners
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  Speaker 1: and the dream that started in two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 1: Now my intro I talked about you being a professional
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  Speaker 1: basketball player. Now that mean athleticism. Athleticism has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with travel other than the fact that I'm you
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  Speaker 1: traveling in Europe and being an MVP in all these
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  Speaker 1: different countries because you're a hoop man. The reason I
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  Speaker 1: say it was a hoop man because he scored one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and one points in a game. Now you got
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  Speaker 1: to be in shape just to shoot the ball one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and one times to get that amount of point.
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  Speaker 1: And I say, I shot it one hundred one time,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, shoot enough free throws, three pointers, two points,
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  Speaker 1: driving to the lane, pulling up a jump shot. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what were you doing when he was on all these
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  Speaker 1: points all these years, Jamie?
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  Speaker 7: I tell you, I'm a blindside.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you weren't doing nothing, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you weren't throwing up jump shots and slam dunking and
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  Speaker 1: blocking shots. What were you doing? The CULTI faith the
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  Speaker 1: bus direction.
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  Speaker 5: This was not the direction that I thought this was
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  Speaker 5: done because because I missed the first like seventy six points,
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  Speaker 5: because I was in the stand talking to one of
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  Speaker 5: the other basketball players not paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: You know how much talking you gotta be doing this
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  Speaker 1: stance to miss seventy six out of one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: one points, Okay, you you.
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  Speaker 7: Know I shame on you.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on you. And then here's the part about it.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody had to tell her he was at seventy six. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: she's missed the whole one on one.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I was worried about what we were doing after
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  Speaker 5: the game. Who were gonna hang out with I love it,
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  Speaker 5: I love it. I was not paying attention.
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  Speaker 4: I can't say she's my biggest pan because you know,
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  Speaker 4: what she was really focusing on is all she cares
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  Speaker 4: about was the last two minutes right right right right
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  Speaker 4: of the game, if we were gonna win, or if
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna lose, because we never went out to eat,
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  Speaker 4: if our team lost, because I never wanted the fans
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  Speaker 4: to ever question what was the reason we lost?
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  Speaker 5: They would say, why did you lose? I'm like, nobody
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  Speaker 5: goes out of.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm gonna tell you something. I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you some j She says something really key to the
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  Speaker 1: She said she was planning. So I'm gonna say that
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  Speaker 1: that was right. That was like the start of them
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  Speaker 1: because the name of the company is Magical Vacation Planner,
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  Speaker 1: so she's always been planning along the way.
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  Speaker 4: So absolutely so.
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  Speaker 1: So in two thousand and six, how did you guys,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people want to get into the
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  Speaker 1: travel business, a lot of people have travel agencies, want
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  Speaker 1: to expand how did you guys build this brand, Magical
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  Speaker 1: Vacation Planner.
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  Speaker 4: Well, one of the reasons, you know, when we were
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  Speaker 4: away planned over in Europe, and it was mostly in
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  Speaker 4: Europe when she developed this, you know idea. She went
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  Speaker 4: to college and studied business marketing and travel and tourism. However,
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  Speaker 4: when we were away, you know, she really didn't have
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  Speaker 4: very much to do. She was a domestic goddess. I'm
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  Speaker 4: telling it. She took her of our home and she
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  Speaker 4: did and she did that very well. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: when I was going to practice, or when I was
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  Speaker 4: going to plan a game, or if I was on
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  Speaker 4: you know, a television show or whatever it was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I had so much engagement with other people. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I interacted with other people while she was at home
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  Speaker 4: with our daughter, you know, not being able to speak
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  Speaker 4: the language, you know, you know, wherever we were at,
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  Speaker 4: and we were in Italy at the time, she couldn't
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  Speaker 4: speak the language, so she didn't get out very much.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, what she really looked forward to was
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  Speaker 4: the times, you know, either after the game when we
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  Speaker 4: did win and we went to go out with other Americans,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to a restaurant, or she you know, looked
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  Speaker 4: and dreamed about Disney, you know, and taking vacations. You know,
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  Speaker 4: whether what we're gonna do at Christmas time, what we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna do at springtime, you know, and when the season
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  Speaker 4: was over, she thought about all of these things. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't never know. I never knew that, you know, she
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  Speaker 4: had such a passion. And when we twenty years after
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  Speaker 4: our marriage, when we moved to Florida, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: up sitting up in the attic, you know, going through
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  Speaker 4: every box, page by page. I never threw anything away
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  Speaker 4: unless I read it right. And I find this report
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  Speaker 4: that she had done back in college about becoming, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a travel advisor or sales person with the Walt Disney Company.
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  Speaker 4: This is something that she wrote way back in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: ninety one. And I find this twenty years in to
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  Speaker 4: our marriage. Wow, you know, and right down in our
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  Speaker 4: office today it is plastered on one of our biggest
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  Speaker 4: walls in our office. So I think that was kind
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  Speaker 4: of wouldn't you say? That was kind of the start
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  Speaker 4: to Yeah, it.
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  Speaker 5: Was just kind of destiny, almost like a full circle moment.
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  Speaker 5: And so when you retired, I like, I tried to
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  Speaker 5: get a job and and everybody's like, oh, We've got
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  Speaker 5: a really big gap. So it just looked like I'd
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  Speaker 5: been staying at home not doing anything. I did finally
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  Speaker 5: land a job at a bank, and and I said,
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  Speaker 5: whenever I got there, I was like, well, can I
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  Speaker 5: you know, will I be considered for promotions again? I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to stay here forever. I've got to you know,
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  Speaker 5: I've got a degree, I've got a lot of experience
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  Speaker 5: and you know, in meeting people, traveling the world. And
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  Speaker 5: I was bypassed by three three promotions and on the
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  Speaker 5: last one I finally said, they didn't even post the
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  Speaker 5: last one. And I finally said, am I doing something wrong?
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  Speaker 5: You know, because like you know, that's our first thing,
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  Speaker 5: is like what am I doing wrong that I'm not
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  Speaker 5: being picked? Like did I upset somebody? Did I?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 5: We second guess ourselves. And the president was really nice.
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  Speaker 5: He's like, oh, no, everybody loves you, like they love
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  Speaker 5: coming in, They love you know, they actually everybody wants
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  Speaker 5: to go to your counter because they enjoy talking to you.
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  Speaker 5: And I said, why I've been passed up for so
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  Speaker 5: many positions and this last time I didn't even know about.
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  Speaker 5: And he said, well, this person had a family. I said,
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  Speaker 5: I have a family. He said, yeah, but you have
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  Speaker 5: JJ And I said, so basically, I'm going to not
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  Speaker 5: move anywhere because I have a successful husband. And he's
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  Speaker 5: like no, and I was like no, I mean I
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  Speaker 5: hear you loud and clear. And so I went home
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  Speaker 5: and I asked JJ. I said, you know, like I'm
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  Speaker 5: I'm really frustrated, and I'm not really a quitter, like
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  Speaker 5: I don't I don't like to quit, right, but this
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  Speaker 5: was it was a dead end job. Like if that
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  Speaker 5: would be the true definition of a dead end, you know.
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  Speaker 1: That's I always talk about people afraid of change, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a moment that you took it upon yourself, discussed
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  Speaker 1: it's going to discuss with JJ and say, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is not going to work for me, and both of
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  Speaker 1: you guys agreed. Change is necessary. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: so many people are sitting their jobs right now, frustrated, upset, raid.
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  Speaker 1: What's the next step When I come back, We're going
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  Speaker 1: to discuss more because because I always tell people what
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  Speaker 1: you do between the ages of eighteen and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: is what if you realize what you're doing right then
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  Speaker 1: is what you should be making money with when you're forty,
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  Speaker 1: fifty and sixty. And that's what you're doing now of
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  Speaker 1: something you were when you was in college. You know,
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  Speaker 1: put aside that was a dream. That's when you was
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  Speaker 1: a dreamer. That's when you advocated for your own personal beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: You put it aside and realize and fortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 1: JJ found it and guess what, we're living the life
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  Speaker 1: of the Magical Vacation Planner. We'll be right back with
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  Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversation Masteric class. Their dreamers. Everybody there
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  Speaker 1: dreamers and they're following their dreams. We're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of things. These dreams can be yours too,
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  Speaker 8: Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashaun McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. We're talking to the founders of Magical Vacation Planner.
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  Speaker 1: They are three branches MVP Parks, MVP Cruising and MVP
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  Speaker 1: Getaways JJ. How can one get in touch with you
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  Speaker 1: and Jamie regards to information about vacation getaways based on
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  Speaker 1: parks and cruising and cruising.
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  Speaker 4: Well er, You can go to Magical Vacation Planner dot com.
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  Speaker 4: That's our website. However, our product is delivered and distributed
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  Speaker 4: through our travel advisors.
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  Speaker 6: So one of the.
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  Speaker 4: Things here at our company what we do is we
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  Speaker 4: help people grow buss and we make sure that they
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  Speaker 4: understand and they learn how to grow a business. And
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  Speaker 4: we would like our leads and everything to go to
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  Speaker 4: our advisors. So if you go to our website and
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  Speaker 4: look up Magical Vacation plan dot com and you send
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  Speaker 4: the lead in, we will then send that lead to
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  Speaker 4: one of our advisors and they'll reach out to you
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  Speaker 4: UH and be able to accommodate you that way.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying that you not only are vacation planners
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  Speaker 1: will get away parks and cruises, but you also train.
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  Speaker 1: Is That's what I'm hearing. You train individuals for this
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  Speaker 1: type of business.
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  Speaker 4: That is That's exactly right. So you know, one of
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  Speaker 4: the things that we take on here what we do
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  Speaker 4: is and I'm going to touch on this for Sean
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  Speaker 4: just a little bit. When I left basketball and I
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  Speaker 4: went into the and I got into the corporate world.
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  Speaker 4: One of the first things jobs that I took I
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  Speaker 4: was a corporate trainer developed training for a major contract company. UH.
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  Speaker 4: And when Magical Ducation Planner decided to grow, we knew
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  Speaker 4: that training education would be a major piece to this.
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  Speaker 4: So UH, Jamie had already put the platform together where
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  Speaker 4: she wanted to grow and bring some of her started
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  Speaker 4: with some of her friends along the way, but we
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  Speaker 4: knew that we need to get them up to speed,
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  Speaker 4: educate and train them. So we developed a very strong,
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  Speaker 4: comprehensive educational program where we bring people in and we
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  Speaker 4: teach them how to grow business now.
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  Speaker 1: And what that being said because I talked that in
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  Speaker 1: the intro about HBCUs, that's level of diversity because you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the industry of people of color is not a
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  Speaker 1: dominant look. And you know, I knew people who try
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  Speaker 1: to get into business talk about that that that wall
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  Speaker 1: and the wall of opportunity that you're breaking down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so when I got into this side of the industry,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm going to say that you don't know
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  Speaker 4: what you don't know. You really don't know. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the opportunities that can come out of a business like this,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you owning your own business, the the feeling
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  Speaker 4: and the the the pride that you gain from owning
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  Speaker 4: something and something becomes yours. When I was attended a
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  Speaker 4: lot of on the you know, the meetings that I
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  Speaker 4: was going to, I didn't see a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: that looked like me. So it wasn't a lot of diversity, uh,
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  Speaker 4: in the industry and still not a lot of diversity
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  Speaker 4: in the industry, so it's very underrepresented. Uh So one
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  Speaker 4: of the things that I'm looking to do is to
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  Speaker 4: educate you know, uh, students that inspire to you know,
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  Speaker 4: grow a business to uh someone to inspire them to
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  Speaker 4: who if they want to travel the world and they
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  Speaker 4: want to learn and own a business. You know, that's
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  Speaker 4: one of the things that I'm you know, Magical Vacation
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  Speaker 4: Planner is inspired to do.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, now you know, the whole dream, the whole
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  Speaker 1: aspirational thoughts came out of of Jamie's head. Jamie, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask you a question, what makes a good MVP agent?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that is a broad question because I think one
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  Speaker 5: of the things that I have to say is that
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  Speaker 5: we have we have people from all walks of life,
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  Speaker 5: right and I think this is going to surprise you.
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  Speaker 5: We have we have nurses, we have teachers, we have pharmacists,
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  Speaker 5: we have doctors, we have lawyers, we have stay at
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  Speaker 5: home moms.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of So you're telling me that Rashwan,
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  Speaker 1: just just forget about this. Do people people are lawyers, nurses, doctors,
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  Speaker 1: people who are this is not a stay at home mom.
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  Speaker 1: There are people out there who have full time job,
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  Speaker 1: professional jobs who are m VP agents. So there are
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  Speaker 1: people who are listening to this show should like tick
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  Speaker 1: the blinders off their their their heads and go, look,
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  Speaker 1: there's an opportunity to make additional money travel the world.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're offering in this particular interview to people
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  Speaker 1: who are listening.
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  Speaker 4: Correct and Rashan you taking eighty cruises, you need to
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  Speaker 4: come on board. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'll tell you some brother, Well, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just get sidetracked at the buffets, man, the buffets. I
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  Speaker 1: am a king of the buffets.
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  Speaker 8: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I my family go in those little those little day
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  Speaker 1: crew though they they walks around the island. Just put
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  Speaker 1: me in front of the buffet. I'm good all day, brother,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good all day.
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  Speaker 5: I love it. Yeah, I think that the first few
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  Speaker 5: times that this happened, we had a nurse that she
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  Speaker 5: had gone to Indiana University for four years and when
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  Speaker 5: she said she was quitting nursing because she found more
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  Speaker 5: joy and she had she at the time she had
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  Speaker 5: two kids, and she said, this is not stressful. She
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  Speaker 5: loved it. She loved helping other people plan their vacations
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  Speaker 5: and it allowed her to stay at home with her kids.
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  Speaker 5: And I knew her mom and dad, and I was
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  Speaker 5: terrified of what they would think. And even to this
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  Speaker 5: day when I see her mom and dad, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I laugh and she's do you still feel terrible about that,
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  Speaker 5: don't you? And she said, I actually both of her
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  Speaker 5: daughters work for us, And she said, I just want
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  Speaker 5: you to know all I want for all we want
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  Speaker 5: for our daughters is that they are doing something that
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  Speaker 5: they love and they love doing this and both of
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  Speaker 5: them had college degrees, and you know, it's just it's
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  Speaker 5: eye opening to me. And especially the pandemic gave a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people thought of what they want to do.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they want to be a job that they
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: don't like. Do they want to make a difference? Do
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  Speaker 5: they want to do something that they love? And we
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  Speaker 5: saw a jump in people saying, you know, hey, I
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  Speaker 5: don't I don't want to have my nine to five.
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  Speaker 5: I want to do this all the time. I want
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  Speaker 5: to focus on this. I love this community, I love
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  Speaker 5: being a part of this. And you know, and they've
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  Speaker 5: made a career out of it. We have police officers,
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  Speaker 5: we have I mean, you name it, and we probably
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  Speaker 5: have it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have. We have people that are doing this
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  Speaker 4: part time. We have people that's doing this full time.
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  Speaker 4: We have people that's doing this just this supplement income.
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  Speaker 4: We have people that's doing this to pay off student loans.
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  Speaker 4: We have students that have you know, part time school,
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  Speaker 4: part time travel advisors. So you know, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 4: how much time you have, you know, because we have
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  Speaker 4: people that are all at different stages. We have people
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  Speaker 4: that's been here one or two years. The ones that
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  Speaker 4: is Jamie's referring to have been here thirteen or fourteen years,
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  Speaker 4: and they've made a living and a career out of this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell y'all some I'm mad at myself. I
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  Speaker 1: should have asked this question, like if the fresher will
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  Speaker 1: be my first question? Because now, JJ, you got me mad,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: got me thinking because I have been on Ady cruz
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  Speaker 1: is Man and the fact that I can make money
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  Speaker 1: and travel too and eat.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's like that's a magical vacation plan for me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, absolutely, And you're helping you know, family, friends, you know,
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  Speaker 4: even strangers create memories for their own family. It's when
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  Speaker 4: you get such a pleasure out of doing this, you
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  Speaker 4: know you're doing something good. You're helping somebody. You're eliminating
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  Speaker 4: the stress and the anxiety you know of planning and
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  Speaker 4: booking a vacation, right.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: So some people save up, you know, their whole life
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  Speaker 4: to take a vacation and they wanted to go perfect, right,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And you're the first point of contact to
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  Speaker 4: be able to do that, you know, for a family.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I want to tell you you guys are
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  Speaker 1: fantastic when I interview you, the energy, the information. As
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  Speaker 1: we close, JJ, how do we get in touch with
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  Speaker 1: you guys through your services?
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  Speaker 4: I don't let Jamie take that one because he's really
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: good at that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, since he said earlier, you can find us
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  Speaker 5: at www. Magical Vacation Planner dot com. But you can
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  Speaker 5: also find us on all the social media channels Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
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  Speaker 5: TikTok threads, now we are. We're on all channels. And
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  Speaker 5: if you just search Magical Vacation Planner and then you
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  Speaker 5: put by, I guarantee you'll find an agent that would
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  Speaker 5: love to help you with their vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Well that was fantastic, And next time JJ, I will
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  Speaker 1: be asking Jamie how to get in touch with you
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  Speaker 1: because she is fantastic. Thank you for coming on the show.
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  Speaker 1: And again you guys keep changing lives and keep and
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  Speaker 1: we want to hear more about that HBCU program because
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to bring that to young minds and let
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  Speaker 1: them start a business in college and when they graduate
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  Speaker 1: and get them options or they graduate their degree and
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  Speaker 1: have another another I always say a medium income, multiple
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  Speaker 1: forms of income. I always talk about that on my show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you and we'll talk soon. Okay, be the special
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  Speaker 1: because y'all are MVP.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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