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Egypt Sherrod, Londell McMillan, Diann Valentine, Kierra & Harry Douglas · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: was on the whole right now. She's the realtor and
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  Speaker 1: CEO of the Atlanta based Egypt Sharad Real Estate Group,
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  Speaker 1: and you learn the secrets of success. My first guest,
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  Speaker 1: she's on the line right now, is a realtor and
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  Speaker 1: CEO of the Atlanta based each of Gerard Real Estate Group.
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  Speaker 1: Having saw hard in all time since New York City,
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  Speaker 1: Egypt to all Sean, come on, you know I, you
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  Speaker 1: know when you were doing mid days up there in
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  Speaker 1: w BLS and New York City. You just always we
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  Speaker 1: just we just talk all the time off air about
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  Speaker 1: how to just you know, create that brain and create engagement,
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  Speaker 1: keep motivating people to win and to see what you've
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  Speaker 1: done since that is amazing. Just you stay in the loop.
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  Speaker 1: You stay in loop. How do you stand in the shan?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what? I'm gonna just take you back
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  Speaker 1: a minute, because you know, God does amazing things that
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  Speaker 1: and we can't forget to really take inventory of where
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  Speaker 1: we started. And you're right. I remember the conversations we
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  Speaker 1: used to have when I hosted mid Days at w
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  Speaker 1: BLS and New York and I would come by your
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  Speaker 1: office because your office across from mind, and I would
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  Speaker 1: say to you, I'd say, with Sean, I need some invite,
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  Speaker 1: I need to know what to do next, because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we we have to have those men tools, those voices
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  Speaker 1: of reason, that little those of wisdom that we can
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  Speaker 1: consult with from time to time because we don't have
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  Speaker 1: all the answers. Right. I knew, I knew at that
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  Speaker 1: time I was following my passion and I had to
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people have true careers. One for
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  Speaker 1: me was radio because radio was you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: paying the bill, it was the job with benefits. It
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  Speaker 1: was the safety net for me. But I also had
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  Speaker 1: a passion for real estate. And anybody that has any
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  Speaker 1: bit of money will tell you that real estate is
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of wealth. They got their hands in it
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  Speaker 1: in some some fashion. Right. So I was while I
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  Speaker 1: was on the radio there in New York, I was
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  Speaker 1: also a realtor. Uh. And I was selling houses for
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  Speaker 1: some top celebrities and executives. Yeah. And I remember I
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  Speaker 1: tried to sell you one in New Jersey. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: did it, but but you know, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, God really just I remember one day
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  Speaker 1: I was on the radio, came on after Steve, and
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  Speaker 1: I got a phone call in the studio and they said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, are we hearing you talking about how you
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  Speaker 1: sell real estate too? Is that really your other career?
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  Speaker 1: Each of I said, yeah, Well who's this? Uh? It
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  Speaker 1: was a casting director who was captain television shows for
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  Speaker 1: h G t V. And I hung up on him
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  Speaker 1: because I thought it was a crank call. My s
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  Speaker 1: was laughing, I Forgi'll set that up. That's ridiculous. Stop
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  Speaker 1: playing games with me in my heart? Right, So I
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  Speaker 1: hung up on them. But but thankfully opportunities does knock,
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  Speaker 1: or in this case, ring more than once, because he
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  Speaker 1: called back at the front desk, and and that was
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday. On Friday, I was in to Rantum
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  Speaker 1: interviewing with the executives from production company or Monday, they
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  Speaker 1: offered me my first h G t V show and
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  Speaker 1: I filmed two hundred and fifty six episodes of that
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  Speaker 1: first one. So you know, it's kind of like when
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  Speaker 1: your passion, purpose and God. But the beauty of this
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  Speaker 1: conversation is that Um, but it's preparation because you know people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people want to get on these TV shows.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm always pitching TV shows and finding talent
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  Speaker 1: with credibility because see, let me just say it correctly,
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  Speaker 1: you're not just a pretty face on TV. You know
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  Speaker 1: your business, you know your passion and clear understanding of
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  Speaker 1: how to be successful in this lane. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't know that. A lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: know that that you were not just booked because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you're each of Gerard. You're a book
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  Speaker 1: because guess what, you know how to sell houses. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you have a clear understand you have a license to
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  Speaker 1: sell houses and so so that's important for people understand.
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  Speaker 1: So when I created this show, I wanted to created
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  Speaker 1: this show so people like you can come on and
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  Speaker 1: tell people, Okay, this is not by luck. This is
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  Speaker 1: something I work hard at what I do, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to I want to. I want you to explain
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  Speaker 1: to people that whole system of always prepared and yourself
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  Speaker 1: for success, because that's what this is all about. Because
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  Speaker 1: even when we were sitting down talking, you never were
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  Speaker 1: satisfied with where you were at Egypt. You was always
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. You was always not afraid of the next opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that? Well, I think part of it is
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  Speaker 1: I'm a scorpio, but piss ez girls were attracted to
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  Speaker 1: each other, all right there it is. I knew I
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  Speaker 1: liked you. Um so you know, Rashwan, I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in North Philadelphia. Um my mom, you know, single mom.
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  Speaker 1: My My father, my biological father that is, um you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was strung out on drugs and it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: part of our life. And I remember sitting in my
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  Speaker 1: grandparents some porch made a rest in peace, but I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting there at some port in the window looking outside,
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  Speaker 1: day dreaming, and I was creating way back when, as
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  Speaker 1: a little girl, what I wanted my life to be,
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  Speaker 1: because at that time it just wasn't. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: if I had continue used a route in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: where I was um and and the cycle I should say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, of getting pregnant early, which is what everybody
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  Speaker 1: around me in my neighborhood was doing. My mom had
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  Speaker 1: me when she was a teenager. If I continued that cycle,
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  Speaker 1: I would be right there doing the same thing generation
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  Speaker 1: after generation. So I knew even back then, at seven
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  Speaker 1: and eight years old, that I had to dream big,
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  Speaker 1: and I started to visualize. Now this is before Oprah
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  Speaker 1: came on television talking about vision boards and dream boards.
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  Speaker 1: I used to cut out pictures of right On magazine
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  Speaker 1: and Black Beast magazine. Now, mind you, Prince was my
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  Speaker 1: claiming to the universe that this is what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to manifest for my life. And so it started way
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  Speaker 1: back when when you ask why are you never satisfied?
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  Speaker 1: Because I knew that I wasn't at my end yet.
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  Speaker 1: I knew that I had not fulfilled the dream I
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  Speaker 1: have for myself or that God placed in my heart.
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  Speaker 1: So I was always forecasting to what's next. When I
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  Speaker 1: was right in the middle of it. Some people used
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  Speaker 1: to tell me, stop, it's not the roses girl, the roads.
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  Speaker 1: You're not enjoying the roses. And I was like, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing the next field the roses, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: I'll drive through neighborhood wealthy neighborhoods, and my wife go,
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  Speaker 1: why are you driving through this? Because they've got something
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  Speaker 1: I don't have. See, you know, if I'm happy where
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  Speaker 1: I'm at, and that that that goes back to if
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  Speaker 1: you're happy to being in the hood, you're gonna stay
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  Speaker 1: in the hood. If you're happy the house you're in,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna stand that home. If you're happy with the
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  Speaker 1: car you're driving, you're gonna stand. That's that old smell
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  Speaker 1: because you know what people have called me, Egypt talking
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  Speaker 1: I got Egypt Sharad real Estate's Okay, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: Egypt Sharad, she's a host of and executive news of
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  Speaker 1: h G t VS Flipping Versions and Pop Property Virgins.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just let you give your a little insight
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  Speaker 1: on what the show Flipping Virgins is. Property expert and host,
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  Speaker 1: Egypt Sharad gets down and dirty with first times who
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  Speaker 1: risk it all and unpredicted in the underpredicable world of
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  Speaker 1: flipping houses with real people, real steaks and high pressure. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now this is guy called me every year, Egypt said, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: and I got some high was this man? He? And
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  Speaker 1: he lives in Los Angeles. Let's go flip. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: flip him. I know you got some money. Let's go flip.
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  Speaker 1: Guess where Rashawn sits on the sidelines and goals I passed,
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  Speaker 1: I passed. Why do you pass? Because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. First of all, he's just a guy.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we're just a guy. No, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: he's asking for my money. No no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no no already, don't you go to agent. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you go there? First of all, he got the hook up,
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  Speaker 1: but I got the money or get that, dave me go,
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  Speaker 1: damn me go. And so but but it always sounds good,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds good. But then I hit this guy on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. Well, I'm in Atlanta, always talking about I
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  Speaker 1: got this hit showing and I can tell you how
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  Speaker 1: to flip home for to make you a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I go, okay, that sounds good too. I
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  Speaker 1: should be flipping home. So so when I booked you,
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, I got the real estate expert. She
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  Speaker 1: got two shows on TV. Come on this show and
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  Speaker 1: tell me what. Am I being stupid because I'm too conservative?
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  Speaker 1: Or am I talking to the wrong people? Tell me Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: help me out with the first show. Give us your
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  Speaker 1: take of flipping virgins. All right, So, so here a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, there's a lot of people were trying
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  Speaker 1: to feel the way you do. You're a little skittish
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  Speaker 1: about it, but for good reason. I'm not gonna sit
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  Speaker 1: here and glorify house flipping or real estate because just
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  Speaker 1: as much money as you can earn, you can lose
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know what you're doing. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: important thing is to study the craft first, and that's
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  Speaker 1: in everything in life and a business. So you want
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  Speaker 1: to understand the formula, the rhyman reason. You can't just
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  Speaker 1: walk up and say, oh, do the mugly houses, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna flip them. Number one, does the math make work? What?
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me? Does the math makes sense? Will this house
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  Speaker 1: sell for more than what what it's worth right now
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  Speaker 1: after you flip it. If the answers no, then it's
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  Speaker 1: not a good flip. I don't care how ugly or
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  Speaker 1: how cute it is. You can't get emotionally attached to
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  Speaker 1: the property. You gotta build a team. To where people
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  Speaker 1: lose a lot of money is with contractors when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to houses, because if you don't have a good team,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you're in trouble before you start. So you want to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: build a network of Tyler's, build a network of flooring stalls,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: build a network of h V a c technicians, everything
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that goes into a house. You want to have more
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: than one person you can call, because if you talk
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: to anybody who's ever renovated a house to flip the house,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: they'll tell you that you may fall in love with
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: one contractor today and they'll be the same one who
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: try to free you over tomorrow. So you need to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: pick up the phone and be able to call your second, third,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: fourth string in line now. Because see that's maybe the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: problem with it, me and him, because he never talks
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: about a team. He just talks about rashaw. I know
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: these houses we can buy and flip them because see,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: because you know me, my my, because you know I
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: bought used homes, I bought new homes. I build homes
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: from scratch. Okay. You know when you go into a
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: home just because it looks good on the outside, is
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: that old in there? Is it is? I remember I
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: bought my first home that I bought in Houston, Texas.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Somebody has stolen the air condition and unit. You know
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, so I bought somebody stripped
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: on the copper out of it. You know what I'm saying.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying so so so right there,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I go, Okay, I'm i'm, I'm. I signed all the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: paperwork moving the house. There's no there's no accrenditioning unit.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: So I called my real estate AGGO. Can't do nothing
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: about that. Brother, You signed all your papers. So I
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: had to spend like, you know, several thousands of dollars
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to put a unit on my house. So I know
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: what you're talking. So those are the factors that throw
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: fear into me. So so, but you have a show
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: where you're walking, you know, against virgins into this territory.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I'm never doing it, but who think they know what
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: they're talking about? Right, Let's be clear, Let's be clear.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: These are flipping versions. So your children are safe, Okay, absolutely,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: absolutely yes, because it's so many people now, I mean,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not resenting the wheel here. Everybody flip.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: There's any flipping shows on two D, and they just
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: think it's so easy because they see someone successfully do
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it in our episode. But what I'm teaching people is
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the good, the bad, and the ugly of flipping houses,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and how to protect your life's investment and sometimes you
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: your kids college education, you don't get ripped off, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: what to look out for. And a big one is
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: not only like you said, the mold and the h
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: K A C. It's the foundation of a house. If
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the foundations compromise, those are the things you can't see
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: when you just walk in. But I teach you what
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to look for and then how to make sure the deal. Yeah, termites,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: but sometimes if the deal looks too good to be true,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and often is the things you learned on my show.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna be back in this frainage. Let me
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: ask you this because this is, like I said, you
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: are needed for somebody like me. You know, I'm I'm
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: a guy who likes to make money, but don't like
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the invest in something I'm not as sure will be
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: a winner. So so you have that show that's the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that's the Flipping Virgins, and then you have Property Virgins.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: What is the difference between the two shows. Well, Property
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Virgins ran for jeez, what sixteen seasons, and that was
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: me me working in my realtor suit, teaching first time
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: homebuyers how confirmed it by the right first home for them.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Flipping Virgins is me and my investors to teaching the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: first time investors how to find profitable properties and flip
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: them for profits. Now you sound amazing to me right now, Egypt, Okay,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know that's a lot of
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: significant information. Do you do you do motivational speaking? Do
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you go out and do seminars? What do you do
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: with all that information? Because you have two dynamic shows? Well, Rochelle,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you know, coming from all those years in radio, you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: can't shut me up that quick. So yes, I go
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: out and I do motivational speaking everywhere. I teach seminars
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to make Honestly, I make seven figures a year just speaking.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: There you go, girl, there you go. See. I gotta
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: bring out to people, let people know who Egypt is.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Eachyp is not gonna be a person that doesn't take
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: advantage of all the talents that God gave her. You know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: she has the ability to talk, she has the ability
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to communicate. And then when you walk in these shows,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: these shows are just giving you a brand um authenticity.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I guess you'll say, because when you talk, you have
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a resume. Correct I do with Shawan? Can I just
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: say something in the middle of Alma's talking about me,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: how proud I am of you? How you continue to
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: reinvent yourse? Don't think you people like you. You are
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: such an inspiration to me. It reminds me never to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: rest on my laurels that just when I think I'm
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: getting there, time to flip the script, turn the page
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to a new chapter and challenge myself to do something new.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Like when I said, I don't want to just be
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a face in the box anymore as in the host,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I want to be the executive producer. Thank you, which
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: is how I went from hosting property versions to executive
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: producing my new show, which is in its third season.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You know, so thank you, thank you because I remember
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the first of all, I appreciate you saying that. You know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you saying that because I'm like you. People
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: tell me, uh, won't you stop a smell of roses?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And you know this is this is my next journey
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in my life, you know, to be able to communicate
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: with because I consider your friend and when I talk
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to you. This is all about connecting dots, connecting dots
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: by relationships, but doing it in a platform that hopefully
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: millions of people will hear, you know, whether it's in
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: my Heart radio podcast, on Facebook, on busy level am
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know. Also I'm distributing this shows to all the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: HBCU campuses. I want to be the millennial VARs eighteen
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: thirty four generational VARs because that's the entrepreneurship generation. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: so when I see people like you who are being
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: so successful, so dynamic, and so many different lanes. You know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: whether it's on radio, what you conquered, you were, you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: were very successful in radio, okay, and can go on
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: radio right now and still be successful now and TV
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: as a host now, as an executive producer, and then
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you're out there doing seminars and things like that. I
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: just want to help you continue to tell your brand.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: So if you ever out there doing a seminar, you
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: need to Terry Sean McDonald. You let me know so
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I can let everybody because that's the purpose of money
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: making conversation. It's brand relationships. Is communicating your success story
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to everyday people so they can walk in and and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and basically I'm saying that everybody I put my name
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: on Egypt Sharaw, I put my stamp, if my snap
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: me and anything, she's the real deal. Because it's it's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that that should not
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: be and that are taking money from people and don't
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: care and don't know what they're they're doing, and that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: annoys me. I go, okay, so I gotta figure out
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: how I can separate. Let me be the better business
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: bureau entrepreneurship. That's what you got. You. You're throw a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: couple of me my way, not passing it that girl,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I'm passing it girl. I just want to tell you
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you're just so wonderful. And I watch your TV. I've
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: seen this growth and guess what, I understand you have
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a fan every Sean McDonald and we're gonna continue this relationship.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: And believe me, I'm blessed mutual. The feeling is mutual
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: with Shane. And you know. Before I go, I just
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: want to say a few things for your listeners. It's listen,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: make a plan and work your plans, stick to your plan,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and then look around you. And if you're the smartest,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: hardest working person in your circle, you need to get
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a new circle. Thank you. Tell her about how to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: get to your social media. It's just my name Egypt
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  Speaker 1: Sharadi E G Y P T S H E R
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  Speaker 1: R O D follow me and I follow you back
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  Speaker 1: soon and I will be bugging you about your banners
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff because I'm telling you I committed
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• 25:27
  Speaker 1: or actually create that product or start selling products, the
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  Speaker 1: with their brand success. It's good to have a money
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  Speaker 1: making conversation with somebody that makes money. Let me tell
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you about the host of money Making Conversations, Rashean McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: He's a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: plus social media followers are female. He's a two time
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  Speaker 1: Emmy Award winner, three time n double a c p
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  Speaker 1: Image Award winner, sitcom writer, stand up comic former IBM
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  Speaker 1: executive and has a degree in mathematics. More importantly, Rashan
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  Speaker 1: McDonald will use his business and celebrity relationships to empower
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  Speaker 1: small businesses with information to succeed. Welcome back to Money
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Making Conversations. There's a show where I interview industry decision makers, CEOs,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: small business owners and celebrities and you learn the secrets
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of their success. My next guest sitting right next to me,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: she's live in studio. Let me just bring it out
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: down to TV hosts and personality love expert waiting, an
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: interior designer, author, creator of the Valentine Cuff. Please, Welcome
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations, Diane Valentine, Good morning, Thank you
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: for having me. Well, first of all, I'm excited your studio,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: my first studio guests in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you for
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: having fantastic And I'll be talking to that wonderful husband
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of yours in the second break a power couple conversations,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: which I love. I love. Really, you know we're gonna
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: get on the phone and I really I won't get
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: enough time to talk about that because I really like
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: going to the dynamics of you know, your life, his life,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and you know how you mix it because you have
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: wonderful kids are important. That's your legacy. When I had
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: my daughter and changed my life, it gave me a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: reason to possess a purpose because you're just out there
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: just doing your things. Yeah, but love expert read your book.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Let me just have everybody read her book, Going to
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Distance for Love. Who was out in the lobby and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: she went, you actually read my book? Yes, very impressive.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Those are the clips. Thank you. You have the show
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Tell me about your shell your TV show on Bravo.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: They premiered in January and I knew nothing about it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Now you know that he told me about his stuff.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: He tell everybody he t the TV premiere. You know
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you're laughing back there, but you know he didn't tell
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: me nothing about the premiere your show. He pitching ideas
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: about his life. Now you in my life, so you
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: could just separately, Thank you, thank you. Yes, we premared
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: in January. Is to Run for Love. We air on
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: day not Rome Texas, Rome, Rome, Italy. Right. Yes, yes,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: we are Sunday nights at nine pm on Bravo, right
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: after Real Housewives of Atlanta and the premise of the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: shows that I took five black women to Rome that
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: were struggling to find love in the US to date
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: exclusively Italian men exclusively attained Yes, okay, cool, Now how
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: did you find these women? I was I always like,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm a I'm a TV producer. All these
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: casting Okay, so you're based where Los Angeles? Los Angeles?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Where did the casting for these women happen? All over
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the country? Yes? Okay, however did you find these ladies?
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And can I ask you the age group of them? Sure?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Our youngest person on the show is twenty five years old,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Mercedes Young, and the oldest is fifty one? Who? Okay, cool?
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Now these are five women? Yes, okay, cool, y'all went
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: over to Rome. You actually went over there. Yes, they
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: lived together in a villa for five weeks. Five weeks okay, now, okay, now, okay,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: just kind of like a bachelor at type show kind
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of you kind of, but your stop. It's not an
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: elimination show, right, It's a show about helping women find
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: love and in the process, finding themselves. That's the key
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: right there. Yes, I have six sisters, so I can
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: talk about women. Win't gonna expert, but I can talk
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: so so you're wearing how many hats on this show? Host? Host,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: love expert, matchmaker, matchmaker? How? Because first of all, I'm
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: just tell you something about this young lady. You heard
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: all the credits, creator, innovator, entrepreneur, mother, you know, designer, valentine, call,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: who is you? I'm all those things? Why? Because you could?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Most people stop? You know, they stopped, They stop. That's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: too much. I'm tired, I'm tied. Why do you keep going? Girl?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: How do you do this? You know? The one thing
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: that I've been very clear about in my life is
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: that love is always going to be my ministry. Love
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: has always been the purpose of my life and what
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'm here to do. I never thought that I started
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: my career doing weddings and to work for a lot
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: of people in Hollywood, for sure, And I never thought
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that was it. I just always felt that wherever I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: was going, love was gonna take me there, Okay, and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: it has. It's not paying some bills, that's the beauty
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of it. So so in this process of being I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: gotta say this a love expert, yes, okay, because you
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: have to. You have to carry that level of that title.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Otherwise people won't listen to you can't say I'm kind
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: of a leg love it, right, this is what I do? Yes, Okay,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: when you when you take on that responsibility, what are
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: some of the problems of pitfalls or being a person
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: because you have friends, you have people running into you
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in your streets. Yeah, people want to you. You're you're
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: taking a very intimate side of life and exposing it
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in a books, on the radio, on TV. That's that's
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: your whole career here where the people were trying to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: put on a wedding dress or planning for a wedding.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: How have you been even to balance that that strong
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: emotion because not all love works. Love doesn't always work,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: but that you've got to understand that the core of
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: love is always good. It's always good. So I am
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: in people's lives because they want it. I'm in people's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: lives because they either want love, they're looking for love,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: they're asking me to help them celebrate love. So the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: fact that that is the gateway in which I come
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: into women's lives, it's all built around positive things. So
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: there is no negative effect with Diane Valentine. Okay, cool,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Now there's no negative effect now, which is what would
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: be basically your book. When I read the book, you
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: know you have these different situations. You gotta get this book, y'all.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Gotta get this book. Going to Distance for Love twenty
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: two tips, reaching ass. You gotta get this book because
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you know everybody knows my background. Steve Harvey, you know
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: we have a book. Act like a lady, Think like
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a man. Sold over three million books worldwide, translating their
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the languages. The second book was equally successful, took three
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: books to New York Times number one best seller. So
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: with that being, where were you when I was writing?
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Now again again, again again. I'm not gonna see his name,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: but we're gonna bring him on the air. Here. I
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: am over here, take it with the room and you right,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: New York Times. Just let you know this is what
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Number one New York Times Marketing and producing
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: an expert on my brand. Guru g r U Guru Diane.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I brought you on the show. Cup. See, we gotta
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: get a relationship. That's the purpose of money making conversations
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: because of the fact that people need to meet people
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: like you. Understand, how do you balance all these things
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: with no excuses? Because people people stop being successful because
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: they make excuses and the head out of me. Why
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: don't you make excuse you? Okay, your husband back there,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you're married, you got kids, a beautiful dog almost tall
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: as you, two other small ones. Okay, both of you
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: guys are here. And I know when I left, when
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I was in ro I worry about my one daughter. Yes, okay,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: how do you balance that emotion? Because you know you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: carry that child nine months You know you have an
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: equally stronger attachment than the man. You know, Yes, you know,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, and so so when you when
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you understand these brands and relationships, how do you say
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I have no excuses? Because you also said, uh, the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: steps for your children? Yea, as he is doing well.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You know, I think that my husband and I we
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: certainly work hard at being present in our lives. So yes,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I do wear a lot of hats, and I juggle
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of things, but I focus on trying to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: be a dred percent present wherever I'm at, like right
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: here with you, that's all I got. But when I'm
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: home with my daughter, on home with my grand babies,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: they're all I got to. So you can handle a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: lot as long as you're giving everything your full attention
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: when you're in it. I think people people get in
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: trouble when you try to juggle a lot of things
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and multitasks too much and things start falling apart. But
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: when you can be focused for small periods of time,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: then you can be successful. And you are successful and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: so on this show, because we was out in the
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: lobby talking, I was saying that, you know, whenever you
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: whenever you take people, because we know we have stereotypes,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and these African American women, now you taking them a room,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: they don't look like African American man they meet controversy, ensues,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: trolls started hitting your social media. You know they right,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: black old Black cry loves you. Being the same color.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: We should go to the same church, We should be
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the same height. You know, we should eat boby quep together.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? And also I feel
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that you should do a post show right after the air.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Right after the air. You're giving me another job. I
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: got you, I got you. You need to do a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Facebook Lita. You got you because you first of all articulate,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: be aful, knowledgeable host, and you have the facts. Yes,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. You know when I when I
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: think about the controversy that surrounds the show. This is
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: good controversy, Yes it is. It is I feel that
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: women are misinformed, particularly Black women, are misinformed because they
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: do not understand that this show is not about bashing
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: black men. I married a black man, Thank God, I
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: love him. I love everything about him. Right, So it's
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: not about bashing black men, but it is about being
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: a champion for black women because if you look at
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the sheer numbers, there's a disproportionate number when it comes
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to available Black women in the US and available African
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: American men and the black you know in the US.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: So those numbers don't lie. And the only thing that
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I'm saying is that we are worthy of love and
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to love and be loved and to be wise and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to be happy. And sometimes you've got to find where
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: love is and it might not be in your community,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and that's okay. Be does love. You should be willing
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to go the distance for love wherever it is. Now,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I'm telling I got a daughter, and in my mind,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you know, I I feel that I've instilled a man
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: version of who she should marry, which is a version
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: of me. But I also know, deep in my heart
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: she has to have a good life. She so she
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: needs to marry the person who's going to treat her right,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: give a respect fulfill her dreams, and willing to partner
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: fifty would equal respect. So that's what your show is.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: And so people, people, people bottle neck opportunities and see,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: just like you have different job opportunities, you have different
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: relationship opportunities. And this is a show that that you
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you've taken it back to a room where you've been
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: going for twenty years. Yes, so this is not something
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: they just they didn't pop you in the round and
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: this is not a good storyline. I've been traveling in
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the room, uh not just wrong, but all over Italy
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: for twenty plus years. And a lot of people don't
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: know this, but eight years ago my husband and I
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: got married in Lake Como, long before the show came about.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: So I have a love I have a long love
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: affair with Italy and and what I like to tell
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: people that there we are very well traveled, me and
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: my husband. I'm a bit of a travel snob. But
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that's another show. But I find that when I go
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to Italy, and that why I fell in love with
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: it is there aren't a lot of places around the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: world where as a woman of color, I feel so comfortable.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Right there is cultural relevance in Italy. There's a lot
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of similarities in our culture, and so when I go there,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I've always felt just so incredibly welcome and I felt
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: at home. Well, I'm gonna tell you something. You know,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: when I look at what you're trying to do, you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I am a fan because you can't be look at it.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I come from Field for Texas, Okay. Typically you know,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be just a guy who doesn't make it.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: You know, I did not really have a white student
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: throughout my middle school and my senior high school. I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: went to college when I had a roommate who just
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: happened to be a white surfer. That that opened my
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: eyes to so much. And then not to see the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: show what it's supposed to be about. This show is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: just to me. It's like, Okay, this happened. This is
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: show is happening in the room. Ladies. Ladies, if you're
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: sitting at home by yourself, waiting on your dream man,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: stop looking at color, look at opportunities. That's what this is.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: And and you're gonna do a post show because on
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Sunday nights, right after Real Housewives of Atlanta, come on
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: your comes your show. Okay, right after your show, We're
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: gonna go to Facebook and I'm gonna promoted. I'm held promoted.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Then you're gonna help promote. You're gonna do a post
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: rap show. Anybody you didn't like about the show. Anything,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: he wants to advice, you want point of live, They're
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: gonna be live now because you hate you, I hate you.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Be right back, Hey, Hey, and guess what this job
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I need paying? Give me everybody back for the husband
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: name and my man power couple. We'll be right back
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: with more from Masha McDonald's Money Making Conversations. As host
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: of money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald is uniquely positioned to
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: provide a step by step, easy to understand blueprint that
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: drives listeners to realize their dreams and aspirations. Until you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: do the business plan or incorporate or actually create that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: product or start selling products, the universe doesn't have to
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: deal with. Money Making Conversations is an innovative platform that
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: delivers financial literacy to help everyone with their brand success.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: It's good to have a money making conversation with somebody
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: that makes money. Let me tell you about the host
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's a social media influencer.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Of his seven hundred thousand plus social media of followers
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: are female. He's a two time Emmy Award winner, three
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: time n double A CP Image Award winner, sitcom writer,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: stand up comic, former IBM executive, and has a degree
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: in mathematics. More importantly, Rashan McDonald will use his business
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: and celebrity relationships to empower small businesses with information to succeed.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Money Making Conversations is a show where interview
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: industry decision makers, CEO, small business owners and celebrities and
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you learn the secrets of their success. Diane Valentine is
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: on the half of the power couple that I have
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: on the show today. He's been sitting in the back
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: of room. My next guest is the head of sports
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Marketing at Troy Car Media. Please welcome to Money Making
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Conversation the guy I've been doing a long time, and
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: help me throw the best part in the history of
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles at Hollywood and Vine. My man, Damon Haley,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Your Sean, really really appreciating my guy,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: My guy, well, thank you. First of all, When when
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I Am was on the show, you know, I knew
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: she was in town, and then they told me to
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: use the town, I would. I gotta have them both,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: you know. But I gotta show her love because you know,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: she has a career right now that is booming. In
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the show that follows, you know, Real Housewives of Atlanta
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: has an opportunity to win. Okay, so I gotta My
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: whole thing was to push you to death, you know,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: so make sure you win. But then I said, you
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: only win, you're uniquely winning because you're part of somebody
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: who's equally successful in his lane. And so you know
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: when I say big events, you know, Playball, Matchion, Hollywood
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: and Vine, this is stuff he's done with me, Steve Harvey.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, you know, imaginative. Um.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: If he had budget issues, he makes adjustment. Hey man,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: when you got that kind of money, okay, we won't
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: look at we're give rid of the dove. So we
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: give it to the dove and so so. So now
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: you're here at this new company. What is the difference
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: in your life right now? When I knew you and
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: what you're doing now as an individual, because again you
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: also always reinventing yourself. You also not a guy who's
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: just always smelling the roses looking at the next challenge.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: What makes you special, my man? Well, I think when
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: we first engaged, I had my own agency with a
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: business partner, and UH, that really ran its course. UM.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I did a lot of great things across the United States. UH,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: and at some point I said I just need to
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: take a step back and do something different, and I
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: actually began consulting. I've spent probably a third of my
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: time in China over the last five years or so. Uh,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: China in Shanghai. What does that mean? You're there in China?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I was there pretty much for five years from April
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: through August working on a project with with Nike, various
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: projects with Nike. UM I had an opportunity to go
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: down before World Cup and Olympics to work on once
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: again projects with Nike. So I began running big and
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: major productions, uh with an agency to just consulting UM
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: big brands and so now with Troika, I gotta call
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: this summer from the president. Uh. You told me you
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: contacted me when it was happening. Were talking about transition
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and I went, hey, man, do
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: it this. Yeah, I thought it was time. The big
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: beats on it were big data obviously, going from a
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: small small public small publicly health company UH to a
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: larger UH publicly health company, being part of that experience
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: and then given the keys to UM take the company
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: in a different direction. So that that excites me. I
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: like building things. That's that's your history because you're creative guy.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about this power couple here. Okay, you
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: know I've seen her when she's making these transitions in
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: her because they're all out in public. You know, whether
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: she's affecting people. You know, you're not re producers, you know,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: we're kind of like behind the scenes people. But she's
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: in front of the camera, just not the first time
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: she's been in front of the camera. How does that
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: play your Why does your role play in giving her
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: emotional support when it doesn't go right or criticism? How
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: does that role play in this relationship? Your role? I
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: think it's exactly where I need to be. I think
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: in order to fuel UM your significant other, you have
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: to be in one support. So UM I had a
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: big decision to make to kind of put the brakes
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: on what I was doing the last year to go
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: shoot with her. And it was an old wise guy
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: who told me, essentially told me to damon, Hey, you're smart,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: you can make a lot of things happen. But this
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: television opportunity and following up the housewives, this is huge.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: You should be there to give her every opportunity to succeed.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Uh And I am stat And that's exactly what I did.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Every night I was there to what Company, California? Wrong?
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: You know, I had to put my life on home
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: go follow my wife to wrong je Well you know,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: part of every day don't tell all the suffer days,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: but part of but but part of the turn power
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: is both individuals being powerful. So for me, it was
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: really a big sacrifice, you know, to say I'm not
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: going to do because I just mentioned I was going
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: to China, I was going to Brazil, New York. I
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: mean that's people asked me to make big things happen
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: over the summer. Multimillion dollar things happened, right, but this summer,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: but this summer um I went to our last summer,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I said, I went to room And so that's all
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I did. I was the boy toy, I was off.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I was management about the boy that ain't in the book,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: going to distance. It was a happy lover board to
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: were talking about keep that under the lady man to
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the gig guy, about the girl losing all our money
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: to this food, what you gave him her cold talk
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: about all that creep. But the ain't nothing about no
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: board told no man like I said, foot massages, shoulder rubs.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: That was my goal. That was that was what I
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: was there to do. When you do so, you and
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I'll tart. Looking at her show, Okay, it's following. He's
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: following the housewives of a laughing and a long root successful.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Get that, get them good numbers, get following, good numbers.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Just got a hold onto the numbers are build on.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: That's the goal, right. So when she told you about
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: this show, what were your thoughts? Oh? I was so
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: happy for um. Like she had shared, she's been on
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: this this Italy thing for a while. Uh. And then
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: we got married in Italy, which introduced me to it.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: But I saw it just meant a lot to us.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: But for her to just get a show it set
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: in Italy, that just said all is possible because I
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: heard her dreams for so long about about loving Italy
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: and doing a show and then too to help women.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I think Diane shared at the base of who she is,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: it's about love. So I've seen her do great wedding celebrations,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: make women very happy, families, mother in law's, the whole nine.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: But to have a woman be able to find something
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: she otherwise didn't think she found, or thought she lost
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: and would never find. I just thought it was a
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: great union. Uh, And once again it took her to
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: another level in terms of love expert. So love expert.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: What's the future for Diane Valentine. Well, we know it'll
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: be with love. We know that love is gonna take
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: me wherever I'm supposed to go. And I think that,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: you know, this show is going to be transformative for
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: black women. I think that black women are going to
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: see themselves in a fresh light and they're gonna start
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: believing that they really are worthy of love. We know
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: the reason I like to show it. Sometimes we need
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: uh to be given permission, correct, Okay, because we're restrictive
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: so much of what we cannot do, and we step out,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: we get the stairs. You know why he would you know,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: or she could do better than that. He can do
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: better than that same vice versa black man day now
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: that is ras get the same stairs. Okay, So when
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I when I listened to this show, to me, I'm
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: excited because we need permission to say it's all right.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: And I hope this becomes a signature show that launches
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: that movement. They who makes you happy? Yes, I agree.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I think that black men have have done it easier
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: and faster, um. And so I'm hoping that this conversation
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: continues and that that that women just find that it's
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: okay to love whoever loves you. And that's important. And
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: so so when I when I make that dam about
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: her doing the show post show, this is on her
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: own time after the show airs, go on Facebook Live.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: We was on the sofa in the lib and you went,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you did that damon head noob? Why did you do
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the damon head knob? When you know it's gonna take
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: up more of her time? I think, one, it's a
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: great idea to thank you, thank you baby, thank you baby.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: It gives her more voice because we know the editors
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: are telling the story from nine to ten, and so
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: afterwards she gets to tell her own story. Uh, and
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: as we've seen through social media and just some of
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: the feedback over the last four weeks, that her story
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: needs to be told, uh maybe a little differently than
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: than the editors have told it. So because because also
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: it's her brand. That's why I want to do it,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: because I think that once people people need to understand
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: you more. You know what I'm saying, your journey, you know,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: your books, your history, because this show only tells the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: small slice of you just being a love expert. You know,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: like I said, you're the person that starts with the
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: wedding dress, to the event planning, to the posts. You know,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: you and some of these people you may take relationships
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: with them for years and the good and bad of
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: those relationships. So I think this is just the next
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: stage of Diane Valentine and gets what you're not kicking.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Rashaan McDonald's the curb, I'm gonna be in your life.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: So we got a minute left, so you know, sell yourself.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: You know you around here right in New York Times.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Best we need to start, we need to start working
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: on book number three. I will do that for you
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: because guess for your gift and uh, Damon and I
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: haven't had a long relationship, and it's one of those relationships.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: He knows whenever he's called me, and we may I
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: talked to us a couple of years. I pick up
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: the phone, He's in my phone, He's in my dial
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: uh in my phone book, and I would talk. And
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: so my, my, my, My compliment to you is that
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I'm a friend for you. And when you make that
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: decision to go live, let us know and we will
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: post and support you socially to promote your brand because
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: it's all about you. It's all about your next level
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: of opportunities for you. Thank you, Thank you. Pick up
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Going the Distance for love can find it. Didn't believe it,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: She didn't believe it. Where can they get this book? Diane,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Valentine dot com a great power couple. I got another
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: power couple coming on the show later London on Dale
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: McMillan social media say, man, I got a checking clip.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Man I handle that when I get back. She said
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: that Valentine dot com we gotta produce on the sideline
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: that done radio did point. Thank you all for coming
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: on my show. Peace, Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the show that she has the secrets of success experience
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: firsthand by marketing and Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: know he's giving me advice to many occasions. In the
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: case you didn't notice, I'm not broke, you know, he'll
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: what he likes to do, it's what he likes to share.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Now it's time to hear from my man, ra Sean McDonald.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. Here we come. Come on now. I
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: appreciate y'all. I appreciate everybody who listens, who watches, who
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: follows money making conversations. My next guest is the chairman
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: of the north Star Group, executive publisher of Source Magazine,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: The Source Magazine and Jones Magazine. Please welcome the Money
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Making Conversation. Lon Dale McMillan, Hello, good morning, how are
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: you free? You know something? When I went to your
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: resume thank you for coming coming on the show, I went,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: why have I not met this young man before? We
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: we we've done so many things in twined together. When
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: I looked at your resume and so it's so excited
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to see have you on the show. To talk about,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: you know, the Source magazine, which you know I had
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to produce one of the shows that was
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: hosted by Monique way back on UPN and so I've
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: had a relationship with this magazine over the years. And
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: let me take him into explain everybody, if you don't mind,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: what the North Star Group is. The north Cub Group.
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  Speaker 1: I took this offline. Hopefully this is correct, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure it is. Came a few website is a private
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  Speaker 1: equity group of innovative marketing, media, talent, management and production
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  Speaker 1: companies that connects brands to consumers and the community through
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: our insights, resources and various platforms including digital, print, mobile,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: social media, and experiential. That is what the North Still Group.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a group that you started or how did
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: they come about? Lindale right? That is a group I started.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I started that business as an alter ego to my
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: law Yes, I know, because most people know me as
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: a business entertainment lawyer and and that is my primary
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I guess, um, I guess claimed to getting into business
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: where I've represented UH and managed prints. Um. But for that.
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  Speaker 1: In Michael Jackson's Stevie Wonder read the Franklin, Kanye West,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Little Kim so many, many artists in the entertainment industry,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Spike League, Wesley Snipe, so many. And as I was
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: representing them as a lawyer, I realized that there was
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: a need to put together business company to help them
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: with structuring their business UM and so I started that
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  Speaker 1: years ago and one of my clients happened to have
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: been The Source Magazine, and UM I wound up investing
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: in and then later taking over the Source Magazine because
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: the Sources the number one hip hop media brand in
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  Speaker 1: the world, and I wanted to be able to read
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: reconnected to the community UM and use hip hop in
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: a more positive way. And so I'm from the from
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  Speaker 1: the community, and I think that our community has a
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  Speaker 1: lot uh to offer hip hop, and hip hop has
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: a lot to offer the community, and I want to
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: make sure that hip hop is used in an enterprising
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: and inspiring way. So I so I acquired The Source
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  Speaker 1: Magazine and that's what the North Star Group is. With
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: that being saying you say reconnect, Why do you use
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: the word reconnect Because I think the hip hop commercial
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: culture has taken many of our most talented people away
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: from our community and ways that have left so many challenges,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: and we need to reconnect the art, the music, the
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: culture of fashion back to the community in a positive
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: way rather than once they get a hit record, they
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: make money, they leave the community, and we still have
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: all of these problems left in our community. And you've
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: got people talking all this talk that is not as
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: inspiring as we can make it. And so want to
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  Speaker 1: make it what it was intended to be when we
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: started hip hop in this culture which was supposed to
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: inspire people, educate people, and empower people. Okay, but when
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: you you're talking to Richard McDonald, ust me. Okay. I'm
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: what they call a marketing, branding guru. I'm a media force,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: social media influenza. I got a half million fan base,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: email fan base, UM radio show. How did you? How
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: do you get a person like me engaged into your process?
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Because I'm here to help. I'm here to spread the
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: word not for financial games. Because you're motivating me with
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: your with your vision. How can I help you? Well? First, first,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: you getting on me by understanding that there's a connection
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: and community service and commerce, So you should you should
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: find financial game because we need to produce products and
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: services that our community need to have and they will
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: pay for. We need to recycle our culture and our
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: dollars and our commerce in our community. How do you help?
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: You help by doing what you're doing right now, you
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: having we speak on your platform, spreading the word, getting engaged,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: contributing stories. Um, we have to see each other as
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: allies and partners in commerce and in culture, and you
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: have to just see how can you come to anyone
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: like So this is not just you and I to
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: your question, but this is to your listeners. When you
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: approach someone that may have something of value, identify what
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: you can offer to add value to something that's already
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: going forward, and then come up with a reasonable price
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: or return. So when you ask me what can you do,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: you can do what you do best and connect it
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: to what we do and then we figure out how
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: we can make too. Well. That's why that's why I
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: made I created money making conversations because of the fact
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: that I want to be a connector. I want to
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: be It's interesting that the brand of of the source
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: because we're gonna get to Jones magazine in a minute,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: but the brand of the source because it's it's an
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: age range. Now because in two thousand one, when I
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: was producing the show and on the upn and Monique
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: was hosting. You know that was dead on that eighteen
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: to thirty four audience. Now that audience has gotten older,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: who are fans of the Source magazine and then you
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: still have that eighteen to thirty four audience. Does that
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: make it difficult because the I feel the age range
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: of that of your brand is extended itself, or it
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter because you just focusing on a certain age group.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: I think it doesn't matter. It's all about how we
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: produce our content, because because it gives us an advantage
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: in one rous fact, because we do have the baby boomers,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: the people who are in there and at thirty five
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: to fifty five range who are aware. But it also
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: because of the content. You know, kendricle Mar last night
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: cleaned up. You know Mars cleaned up. You know, you
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: know they beat a lot of very very well known
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: people who were sitting there expecting to get awards. But
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: you know the content of this culture is young culture.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: So that's the content that we produced especially during throughout
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: digital or the Source dot com, through our Instagram, through ours,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: through all, through all Facebook and Twitter. You know, we've
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: got we've got platforms for people who consume music differently.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: So I think that because we the Source has always
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: been about discovering and promoting new talent, that always will
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: keep young millennials engaged because they're thirsty for an opportunity,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: So we want to help give them the opportunity. The
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: difference between us, though, is that we want them to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: curate it in a way that's not only like clever
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: and slick, but also inspiring and empowerful. Is not going
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: to just completely to denigrate and degrade our culture. I'll
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: tell you what I'm talking about. What that's what the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: north Star part of it is, right, you know, So
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: we we do everything with them with the north Star
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: land because we believe that you can still be heading,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: you can still have fun, you can still be lit.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: But also you don't have to actually take us in
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the gutter in the in the mix of everything. Well,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing interesting, because I can see
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: our relationship is going to stay together because your vision
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: mirrors of mine. I launched money Making Conversations and for
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: the entrepreneurship generation. Who is the entrepreneurship generation eighteen and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: thirty four millennials. I really want to be Uncle Roshan
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: to the millennials. I want to be their voice. And
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: so this platform right down, you know, relaunching in Atlanta,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: is on our Heart Radio podcast, and then I'm launching
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: it to all the HBCU campuses UH this year. And
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: so because I feel that that voice, the same voice
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: that you're talking to, they, like you said, there's a
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: thirsty noess about them that they want to be aware
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: of and be informed. Because if I see all these
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: things as you're doing, you know, Source three sixty four
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: day festival celebrate the seven pillars of hip hop. You know, music, fashion, dance,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: and art. You you got a three sixties man that
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you're working on. That's gonna be I think over the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: next five years, it's gonna be the leader. You know.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: When I was growing up, you know, it was Jet
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: magazine on my counter, you know, it was just it
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: was on my it was everything magazine. I see Source
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: being that that that new magazine will be on the tabletop. Correct. Absolutely.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: I think that the Sword has both the heritage and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: also the currency of now. Um, you know that we
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: can we can actually continue that motion. A lot of
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: people counted hip hop out that hip hop and to stay,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: we have to engage and re engage a lot of
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: people walked away from hip hop in our community because
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: it's not like what it used to be when they
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: were here. So I compare hip hop to like sports,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: you know, and I think the Source Magazine is the
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: vehicle that connected. You know, you have different generations of
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: different people who love different athletes and then uniforms and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: so forth. But it's here to stay. And I think
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: the Source is the vehicle to make sure that you
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: get it and you get it in a way that
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: is going to be authentic and that's going to empire
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: our community. We'll be back with more Jones Magazine. I'm
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: on the phone with Landale macmilland we'll be right back
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: more from John McDonald and Money Making Conversations. Let me
• 1:02:43
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  Speaker 1: He's a social media influencer. Eighty percent of his seven
• 1:02:50
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  Speaker 1: chairman of the North Star Group, executive publisher of Source
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: Magazine and Jones Magazine First Break. We talked extensively about
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: the Source magazine. But I'll be remissed. Eighty percent of
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: my social media followers are female. Uh seventy of my
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: fan club member which just reaches over half me, almost
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: half me our female. So the the becoming the pre
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: eminent guy for shopping for female is Jones Magazine. Tell
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: us about it, Lindale, Hey Jones magazine is just a
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: fantastic UM property of print and online digital UM that
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: that caters to women of color, UM, particularly African American women, UM,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Afro Latino women UM in their fashion, beauty and style. Right. UM,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: it's one that think of like in style. It's a
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: shopping mag it's not a social magazine talking about issues.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: This week by things talked about products. You know, it's
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: that it's that shopping guy that think Vogue and l
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: and in style our culture. Now, what drove the thought
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: process for creating this? What? What? What? You know? There's
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: always is like okay, we need this. Okay, I got
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: the fact we needed, but how does one drive it
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: to be successful? Okay? Well what drives it is that
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: women in our community are often the CEOs and the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: c epos of our of our communities, so they drive
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the most of the purchasing decision community. And secondly, our
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: women are black and brown women are beautiful, stylish, diverse,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: and we wanted to make sure that we had something
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: that focuses on their styles. There are there are other
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: major publications, including Essence, which I love and you know,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: my mother had a beauty salon. I love Essence, but
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: Jones is like the fashionable and beauty little sister of that.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: We don't get into all of the big social issues
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: and all of that. We deal with our fashion, style beauty.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: There's a place for everything, you know, and Jones is
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: that that beauty place where you can understand where to
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: get products, how much it caused you know, style. You
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: can see beautiful women um styling and profiling, and that's
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: what Jones is about, and that's that's that's how you
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: that that's an important part about being able to drive.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Do you have like I've had Tracy Edmands on the show,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: she talks about her health and wellness all right now?
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Website which health and wellness? Is that a part of
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: your brand bill out as well as when you talk
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: about style and shopping, is health and wellness? What about
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw these out? What am I baking?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: And you feel that those are not the generational thoughts
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: that you want to promote and Jones Magazine to your
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: female audience, or am I reaching too far? You know?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: We definitely keep health health involved because health is part
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: of fitness, part of lifestyle. So everything that's lifestyle, fitness
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: and looking good, you know, it's not about only what
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: we promote, you know, it's about what that, what that,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: what that brand is about. We don't profess to be
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: all things to every woman, just you know, or every
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: black and brown woman. We're very focused on fitness, style, fashion,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: and beauty and that's what we do. There are other
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: publications that focuses on other things, and we don't try
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: to do it all. We just do what we do
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: extremely well. And I like that. I like that you're
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: you're a gentleman who's talking with a lot of confidence.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: I said these events earlier. I want to slow down
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: for you to give me a little background on each
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: source three sixty What exactly is that to my audience?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Plus sixty is a festival and conference that focuses on
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: seven pillars are film, fashion, music, technology, sports, and business.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Business is important because in hip hop you're always talking
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: about hustle. Unfortunately, the hustle that a lot of the
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: guys are talking about hustles that have a criminal edge
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: to it. We want to create a hustle that is
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: lawful and also enterprising, and so we use the culture
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: of us, the film, fashion, art, technology and so forth
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: to kind of spread both community and business enterprises it's
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: our similar to like south By Southwest, you know, you
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: know when we were young you had Jack the Rapper
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: and all those times. Yeah, focusing on music in an
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: industry and now you've got technology which is driving so
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: much of how we do business that we have to
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: bring that home to our community. We have concerts, we
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: have films or previews, we have a panel discussions. For example,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: last year we had a huge panel discussion and went
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: very deep on the cannabis industry lawful Mary lawa, which
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: is going to be a multi trillion dollar business. We
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: as a people have gone to prison too much with
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: with cannabis. Now that's gonna become lawful. We now need
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: to be able to be entrepreneurs in that field. You know,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: we of all people should be the leaders of that industry.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: And so that's something for example that we looked at
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: and we focused on. We focus on film, music, fashion.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: We had a power panel with the former CEO b
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: Et Debate Lee and master Pace. Can you imagine master
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: p Is definately did on the days that's power brother,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: because because I like master because you know he want
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: to gradroom guys. You know, gradroot guys, us straight hustler,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: you know straight hustler. Now, now when is when is
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: this event it held? And where's it held? So they'd
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: only tell every year in the August of September in Brooklyn, Brooklyn,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: New York. This will be This will be our second,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: this will be our fifth year. And this year, this
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: year we're gonna start traveling it to other cities because
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: of the success of what we do. It's been, it's
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: been an amazing success. We've received citations from the Mayor's
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: office for the Brooklyn Well President. We've got mads from
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: other cities in Atlanta, in l A, Chicago, all over
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: North Carolina, Charlotte asking us to come and to actually
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: bring that positive spirit of hip hop culture which is
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: which is also now international. This is something that we
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: created as a community that has an international component, and
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: we need to create international business opportunities off of it,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: not just see it in a very limited way where
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: it's just music or it's not just in the strip
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  Speaker 1: clubs all over Yes, sir, yes, sir. Now, when I
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  Speaker 1: when I hear all these these are amazing things. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the phone with me, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you something that I'm a fan, and I say
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  Speaker 1: that to you, because that's why I created Money Making
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Conversation to give you another portal, another outreach. So you know,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: we talked about a little bit what I can do
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  Speaker 1: for you. I'm letting you know whatever you need for
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: me to do for you, I'm available to you because
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: I'm a connector that guy. You know I talked about
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  Speaker 1: Tracy amen As I talked about I got kier Kira Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Kiara Douglas on the show. She does fashion and
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  Speaker 1: dance here in Atlanta market. She's gonna be on the
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: show Wives and Girlfriends. You have all these individuals in
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: that entrepreneurial space who are doing philanthropists. So so when
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: I hear about it moving around, you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the beast right there. Man. I remember several years ago
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: when Sas Festival to approached me by doing an essence
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  Speaker 1: live because they were considering doing it in different cities.
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  Speaker 1: So for that thought process has never been done. I
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a big lift for you and
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: bringing it to a place like Atlanta, which has a
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: strong African American market, taken to a place like Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: which has a strong African American take it to d C. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be off the change in d C.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now, ec. So, so I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you d do come on my show, man,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: get me hyped. And I don't hear from you no more. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know everything. But I can find your brother, I
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  Speaker 1: can find you. Know. I'll be d M and you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be d M and you direct message in you
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  Speaker 1: come on, do all right, let's do it. Let's do it.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Team work makes the dream work. Absolutely. And I say
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: that to you, man, because when I hear what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're just like me. You know my degrees
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: in mathematics. I come from a corporate environment of IBM,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: and I love what I do because you're creative guy.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: You know, you just happen to be a lawyer, and
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: you're changing lives every day, man, either social through social media,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: digital or print. Right now, you're changing lives on my
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: radio show. So when I hear you know what, I'm
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: a lawyer, but I also owned my own law term.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: So I was an entrepreneur. My mother was an entrepreneur,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: owned beauty salon. And it's just in our DNA and
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: I think our community has to get back and helping
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: to create businesses that are of color. Whether you own
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: them or not, you have to be a part of
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: building them because you are building and investing in your community.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: And we have often chosen after benefiting of the civil
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: rights to not work in companies that are like us,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: and that has cost us dearly. Not to say that
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with working for other companies, but if
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: that becomes what we do for the most part, for
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: the most part, we're going to be relying on other
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: communities for our livelihood and we need to be able
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: to have more control over what we do, particularly from
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: from cultural accets that are created in our communities. I
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: want to say before we go, the source power theory
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  Speaker 1: is on news stands now and that's a business issue.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Focus on power. It focuses on being great at what
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: you do, entrepreneurship and having an impact. You know, in
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: life you look back and you'll you'll remember many things,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: but the things you remember most when you when you
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: close those eyes are your family and loved ones and
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: what impact you made or you didn't make it in life.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: I say, make an impact and make sure that that
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: impact benefits your family and your community and stop worrying
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: about what other people think and get to get to
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: this business. My man, give me that link so I
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: can promote it on my social media. We're gonna talk soon.
• 1:15:18
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• 1:16:24
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• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: already jumping um this Rashan McDonald, I'm the host of
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: money Making Conversations. I ran into them when Fox was
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: doing There's been an interview right before me and their
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  Speaker 1: power car and I it was the thing that because
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: when they came into the dressing room, you know, I'm
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: just sitting over there on my phone and asked him
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: they there, They said, well, we're on the Wives and
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Girlfriendship Atlanta. Go okay. And then I said, then then
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: you know Harry, Harry, Harry. I'm just saying his name
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: before I introduced him. You know, he's the he's the
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: the guy that goes out and talks to everybody. He's
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: the lead man in this conversation. He said, he said, Okay,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: how you doing When we came out there? You go,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: he said, you you you you do something with Steve Harve.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: I go, yeah, you said that might want to take
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: your number. I want to take your number. But then
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: I said to her chierro I said, I said, I
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: do a show called Money Making Conversation. I will become
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: the voice of the entrepreneurship generation, which is eighteen and
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: thirty four millennial. She said, that's us. That's up a
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: little dad, that's that's up time. That's us. Harry held
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: this place. He don't start talking what I'm saying, your
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: place because you've done radio phone, ain't you on that?
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: Let me introduce him because she's already she got the
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: camera rolling around. My next guest or a power couple.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: He's a professional football player. After spending seven years with
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Faculty, he is currently with the Tennessee Titans.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: He and his brother Tony had to bring it up.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Didn't know I knew him. Uh. They have a Douglas
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: Brothers Foundation. As a business is Douglas Property Enterprises. Not
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: His wife was also an entrepreneur. Just Dance Studio is
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: a dance studio specialized in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: and contemporary dance. Aerial Talent After Your Sister is a
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: talent the agency for kids that develops and provides opportunities
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: for young expiring dancers. Closet Couture is a women's clothing
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: boutique that provides an upscale shopping experience for the modern
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: day woman. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Harry and
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: Kia Douglas. Hi, thank you guys so much for having us.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited to be We're gonna talk about, you know,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: this TV show. But I got excited because you and
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: that United Age group or what I feel is the
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurship genervation and what what what? What excited me when
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: I was at the age of twenty when you decided
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: to start your own business, you know, you know I
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: was that was interested me. And we're gonna get to you,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: you know her here. Hey, hey, I'm on the end here.
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  Speaker 1: But you know is that, you know, always amazes me
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  Speaker 1: when people at that age get it, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: a clear understanding of this is what I want to do.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: How And I want I want you to listen. How
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: the age of twenty that you said, hey, I want
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: to start my own business. I know you did it,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: you know, you dancing all of that stuff. How did that?
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: How did that come into play? Well, I'll be honest,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: I'm very blessed I have a family that has like
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneurship spirit. Like literally, I think like almost all
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: of my family members on their own business or at
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: some point did. Um. So I was actually in college.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: I went to Georgia State University. So I was there
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: majoring in marketing and business. And my mom had a
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: corporate job. She was like a VP of her company
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: at the time, and she was a business consultant. So
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: she decided that she was gonna kind of retire early
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: wanted to open a business. And it was always a
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: dream of mine to open a business. Like I said,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: I had seen all of my family members do it. Um.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: So it was just kind of like, let's merge what
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: we love and take our business sense and do something
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: with it. Um. And for us, it wasn't about finding
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: a business that was going to make us money. It
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: was about finding a business that we thought, you know,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: would let us grow our passion and we could you know,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: so into other people. Um. And So for us, that
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: was dance because I've been dancing my entire life. My
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: mom has been a dance small you know, my entire life.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: And so that was just something that we wanted to do.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: And you know, I was just very lucky, um to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: be in a position to be able to do that
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: age while I was in college, Like I said, I
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: had my mom um, who was a business consultant who
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: knew you know, who knew the ropes of business and
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: what to do, and who was there to kind of
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: Earl's younger. Yeah, she's younger. So she was actually in
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: high school when I opened the business. Um, so it
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: started out with just me and my mom um, and she,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: you know, after she graduated, join the family business as well.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, which is very lucky to have that mentor,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: which is the aerial talent Agent. Yeah, it's area area. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know I corrected that. Okay, are I Talent and
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  Speaker 1: what you can't really tell the way it's written, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's her almost yeah, area, it's are I
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  Speaker 1: Talent Agency. Yeah, and that's something that's kind of new
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: for us. But we wanted to have the opportunity to
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: you know, provide these talented dancers that we see every
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: day with opportunities in the dance world. Okay, cool, Now
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: you got a very talented husband over there. I do.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm a very lucky woman. It is lucky because of
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: the age, you know, you don't know who you get.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: I've been married, but I'm lucky to you know what
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, because in the business that I live in,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: you know, you have all these so many things coming
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: at you, good and bad because you're an entertainer and
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: you're in entertainment, you know, being dancing all your life,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: and so Harry. You know, I remember, I remember back
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: back in the green room that you felt fortunate that
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: you married a woman of this caliber, even a little
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: shop moment of just seeing you, you felt this was
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: a blessing. Um for me, she was. She was so
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: different from all the other women. Man. She never let
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: me talk to her any kind of way. She had
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: morals and value, She had standards, um, believe it or not.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: She reminds me one of my mom. And I'm my
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: mama's boy, and my mom is yes, and she is
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: the holiest person on the earth. And my wife has
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: a strong I called him yesterday to talk to her.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: He didn't call her back in church. But like but
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: like like like people say, man, you always want a
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: man like your mama, similar to your mom, and she
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: was just different. Like I knew she was the one
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: early on. You know, I was just a little crazy things,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: you know, experience of things she did. But it's it's
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: such a blessing because, believe or not, she is the
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: calm one in the relationship. It's times when she tells me, well,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: I think you just need to calm down. It's not
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: that like, you know, it's not that serious. So she
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: she she she llows me out sometimes. Well, being an athlete,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: you know, you you're you're gonna be at an extra gear,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: you know, because you're constantly training and you have a
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: short window. You know what I'm saying. That's that's the
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: honest part about I felt when I was talking to
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: you and then your bio is that you always knew
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: there was there was life after football, you know. With that,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: with that understanding, what what preparations are you making? Um
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: I'll say with me was it started when I was
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: very talented brother named Tony. Didn't even know that. I
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: been a big fan of Tony, largest state first round
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: draft pick in New York Knicks, been following him for years,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: you know. So so when I read that, I went,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: you got to be kidding my brother, what I'm saying.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: You know, so because of the fact that you know
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: I I know a lot and I see a lot
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: and that's why that's when they came into the book.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: I go, y'all just on the stage. Y'all right, y'all
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: got stuck. Y'all stuck with me now. And I received
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: all my talents to give you guys an opportunity to
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: be successful, because that's my legacy, my legacy Guard is
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: given me. Since I was a teen, I've been helping
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: people like this. I just didn't know that you know
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And as I got over there, I
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: started building our Steve's career and I started asking what
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do. This is what I want to do.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: I want to be able to take some gifts to
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: God and giving me from a marketing and branding standpoint relationships,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: we're able to connect the doctor and show you guys.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: And I want to be the force of that millennial
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: group because you are my future. You're the people are
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: gonna pay the taxes, You're the people are gonna build
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: this country to the next level of greatness. And so
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: when I read about your brother, went again, just like
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: you were talking about that entrepreneurship, you know, the athleticism
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: of your life. And then y'are giving it back to
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: your foundation. Come on that it all started with my
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: mom and dad. Though we had that foundation. Man, I
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people gotta understand, Um, you don't
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't have both pairs in the household,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: but you can lean on somebody else. But it all
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: starts with that foundation. And I think me and my
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: brother and my sister, we had a great foundation with
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: my mom and dad and they built for us and
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: they instilled within us early on to giving back even
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: when they didn't have so much to always get took
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: community and help other kids out. Um. So that's me
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: and my brother. It was instilled into us. Okay, Now
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: you have the other other part of the Douglas property.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: What is that I actually started a year ago where
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: we uh we take home anything to do with that, No,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: she does, She got her home. Baby. You ain't got
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: no opinion about what he does. But I got three
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: businesses like the show this is my baby, my baby.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: But but but you got to be able to and
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: you know, this is your life, you know, y'all. Attractive couple,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: y'all y'all, and high profile, risky businesses. You know, I
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: would tell people I've been producing TV shows with guess
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: what they could be counsel. When you thank you about
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: that pay that car note, you know what I'm saying,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: And that's that's and so so you have property? She said,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: that's his, and then she dance. You know, the talent
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: agency and all that good stuff. You ain't nothing to
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: say about that. You ain't got the page. She didn't
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: ever come, and you go, well, she comes to me.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: She comes to me about advice because one thing we
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: share with you, we definitely share business with each other.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: I'm hard on her because why I see the potential
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: that she has to be great right now, you're kind
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: of like a mini manager. Yeah, Like I tell I'm
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: the guy to tell her things that she don't want
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: to hear. It's bad enough that all three of my
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: businesses are two of them are family owned businesses. So
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: you know, you constantly have mom in your ear, and
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: then you go home and and then you go home
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: and you have and I'm wrong with it. I keep
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: it real. I don't cut no corners. I don't shoot
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: the cod the TV show a little bit. I wouldn't
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: because we know we're gonna talk about the next break.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: But I want to really introduce the whole personality here
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: because I love when I get an opportunity to have
• 1:26:57
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• 1:34:50
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