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Interview of the Week: Ryan Morgan, goes from incarceration to Founder & CEO Aqua Equity Water · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: on that. You see all the stars. Man, you on
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  Speaker 1: the show. Now, Ryan, You're on the show. Brother, you
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  Speaker 1: My next guest, I would like to believe it's an
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  Speaker 1: industry decision maker. He makes change. His name is Ryan Morgan.
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  Speaker 1: While being a rested on that on the bank floor,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been to those banks in l A. L
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  Speaker 1: A is one of the biggest bank. They called l
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  Speaker 1: A bank rob capital, bank robbery Capital, Ryan promised himself
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  Speaker 1: while he was laying there. This was not the end
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  Speaker 1: of his story. When he got out of the prison
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  Speaker 1: and his mid twenties, Ryan had a plane. He attended
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  Speaker 1: Laney College in Oakland, then went on to play football
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  Speaker 1: at the prestigious University of San Diego under my man
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  Speaker 1: who is now the Michigan head coach, Jim Harball, before
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  Speaker 1: before receiving his NBA from Concordia University. Since then, Ryan
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  Speaker 1: has spent the last twelve years in the alcohol beverage
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  Speaker 1: industry while working for two of the largest suppliers on
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  Speaker 1: the globe, where is mostly recently for net sales. Himself,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Morgan thirty four million dollars he invested at least
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  Speaker 1: temperacy his profits to the Watts community, to his nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: the first time. We're definitely gonna reconnect when I go
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  Speaker 1: out in l a Ryan Morgan, how are you doing, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fantastic man. Pleasure to be here, Sean, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for having me. Well. First of all, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: always a journey. You know, I come from the inner City,
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  Speaker 1: and I always uh tell people that, you know, mistakes
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  Speaker 1: are left and right decisions. You know, you go left,
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  Speaker 1: this is a decision, you go right. Nobody just can
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  Speaker 1: stand in the middle and just you live your life.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta make a decision. And sometimes the decision we
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  Speaker 1: make can come with consequences, good and bad, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: And I know that. Uh. I look back in my
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  Speaker 1: college life and I did some silly things that if
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  Speaker 1: they're if they're the right people would have caught me out,
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  Speaker 1: probably would have had a different record. But the right
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  Speaker 1: people didn't catch me, and I was fortunate and blessed
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  Speaker 1: in your situation. You participated in the bank robbery which
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  Speaker 1: led to you being arrested. Tell us about that during it.
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  Speaker 1: Because so many of our African American youth getting these
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  Speaker 1: bad situations and unfortunately can't come out of it. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have mentors who help them get out of that
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  Speaker 1: or right them along the way. And that is part
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  Speaker 1: of your story. But let's go back to the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that led to that point where you were arrested
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  Speaker 1: for robbing the bank, attempting the robber bank. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're sean. I just want to say, like, to your point,
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  Speaker 1: there's a saying in the neighborhood that if you knew better,
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  Speaker 1: you would do better. Yes, and that speaks to us.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of talented black men and women,
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  Speaker 1: black and brown men and women coming from inner cities. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just a lack of opportunity and lack of nohaw, know how,
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  Speaker 1: a lack of the right channels for success. So you
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  Speaker 1: knew better, you would do better. So I think my
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  Speaker 1: story reflects that. Yes, this nineteen U two weeks after
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  Speaker 1: my nineteenth birthday, Uh, in that summer, just one year
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  Speaker 1: out of high school, and kind of this h inner
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  Speaker 1: city Uh started out inner city typical story, kind of
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  Speaker 1: one ft in the neighborhood, UM, one ft in sports. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So by the time that I graduated high school, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was knee deep and gang banging and selling drugs
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  Speaker 1: and whatever way to hustle to make money. And so
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  Speaker 1: I find myself, you know, two weeks before I turned
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  Speaker 1: nineteen on the floor of a bank we attempted to
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  Speaker 1: rob and right then and there, you know, with the
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  Speaker 1: guns to my head and the police, I just kind
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  Speaker 1: of saw my life kind of flashed before my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Um and it's had this kind of sick feeling like
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  Speaker 1: this can't be it. Like I knew there was more
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  Speaker 1: in me, and I wanted more for myself, and I knew,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my family wanted more for me. And so
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  Speaker 1: I promised myself that I was gonna make this story.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna make this, you know, limits turned into lemonade,
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  Speaker 1: and this wasn't gonna be the end of my legacy.
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  Speaker 1: But but in the part of making that decision, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your decision that you made on that being on the
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  Speaker 1: floor came with consequences so that you couldn't control, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and also unknown because you're about to go into environment
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty intimidating. So two things I gotta ask you,
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  Speaker 1: Being that you was tied to sports, there was an
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  Speaker 1: avenue of positivity, but then the gang banking, because I
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  Speaker 1: want to underto a clear understanding, because I've never participating
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  Speaker 1: in the game, what attracted you to the gang participation
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  Speaker 1: and what held you in that position? To be in
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  Speaker 1: a position where you were robbing a bank. Yeah. So um,
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  Speaker 1: and my story kind of weaves into why I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the Watch community now. It's it's a story of generational
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  Speaker 1: kind of cycling passing down. So Um, I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in San Bordino, which is uh inner city much like
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  Speaker 1: Watts or Oakland, a lot of projects, a lot of poverty,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore a lot of the gangs, and so my
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  Speaker 1: uncle's were involved in it, and you know, I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: up to them, and it's just in that inner city
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  Speaker 1: environment back then. It's getting better now, but we still
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  Speaker 1: have work to do. A lot of the male role
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  Speaker 1: models where individuals involved in gangs or drugs or some
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  Speaker 1: type of criminal activity, and as a young boy, you're
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  Speaker 1: looking up and seeing that as an example of what
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  Speaker 1: manhood is. There's a mis education and so you're falling
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  Speaker 1: those steps and you have a work mentality thinking that Okay,
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  Speaker 1: to be a real man, I gotta do X, Y
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  Speaker 1: and Z following the example of these basically criminals. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's it was really easy to to get
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  Speaker 1: pulled into. Um. You you you feel like you're in
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  Speaker 1: the inner city and it's a it's a misconception, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're trying to suppose that bring truth
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  Speaker 1: in life. But you feel like you have limited options
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  Speaker 1: to where either to make money, I gotta play sports,
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  Speaker 1: but where I gotta do some illegal hustle because I
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  Speaker 1: don't have another realistic avenue for me to help get
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  Speaker 1: out of this poverty uh and its hardship in its
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  Speaker 1: inner city. And so I bit into that line. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's why I had one foot in sports, which
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  Speaker 1: is was typical for a lot of males in the
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  Speaker 1: inner city. And then you got that pool. You're in
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  Speaker 1: your environment, you surrounded and so I'm getting pulled by
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  Speaker 1: my environment to do that. And so that was that
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  Speaker 1: duality where I found myself, you know, on that on
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  Speaker 1: that bank floor. And it wasn't the first time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had done something you legal, So it was a
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  Speaker 1: build up a beak. And I'm saying my life reason
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  Speaker 1: the reason about Ryan. You know, you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: putting you on the front street. We're just telling the
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  Speaker 1: story about that moment because like I said, we all
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  Speaker 1: have a journey to get to that that compromising moment
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  Speaker 1: where you understand that this is not the direction I
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  Speaker 1: can continue to live my life. But I also one
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  Speaker 1: of the people know and you can recover, you can't
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  Speaker 1: make change, because so many people, when they make mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: they let their mistake overwhelmed them. They make their mistake
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  Speaker 1: prevent their dreams from happening because they feel that I
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  Speaker 1: can't recover. And one of the reasons I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: bring Ryan on the show a show that he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the many examples of people who have been roadblocked,
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  Speaker 1: who have been positioned in a high state of negativity,
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  Speaker 1: but they were they were they were able to come
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  Speaker 1: out of it by setting a plan in place, because
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  Speaker 1: you just can't dream your way out of it. You
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  Speaker 1: have to have a plan. And that plan when you
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  Speaker 1: got into prison, because you were in prison, how did
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  Speaker 1: that start leaning into the direction of getting back into
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  Speaker 1: athletics and how did you stay in shape? Because when
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  Speaker 1: you came out, you attended Laney College in Oakland. Yeah. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: for me, education was big and I believe that to
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  Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean you have to get education from college.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that's the route I went. But um, knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: education is going to help open up a lot of
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and avenues open up your mind and help you
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  Speaker 1: make better choices and help you understand why you where
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  Speaker 1: you're at and why. Uh so. Uh Fortunately in the
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  Speaker 1: federal prison system that I was in, they offered college courses,
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  Speaker 1: UH continuing adult courses, adult education courses, so I took advantage.
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  Speaker 1: Um I wanted to. I've always been a curious mind,
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  Speaker 1: and uh it just I'm thankful that it kind of
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  Speaker 1: clicked early. Um when I was in prison that education
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  Speaker 1: took every college course, every adult continued education course available.
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  Speaker 1: They had UH courses in finance, the Spanish, heating, denilation,
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  Speaker 1: a natural talent that was sports. And I'd say natural
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  Speaker 1: talent because you was able to build on that which
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  Speaker 1: led to you play at college football at the University
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  Speaker 1: of San Diego. So I don't want to miss any
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  Speaker 1: steps of this conversation because we all know in a
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  Speaker 1: journey it's never overnight. I always tell people, you go
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  Speaker 1: and get cast. You know, there's a lot of rejection,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of frustration. Talk about that rejection. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about that frustration, and talk about people holding your past
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  Speaker 1: against you and preventing you from living the positive future. Yeah, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: well I had when I was in prison. I went
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  Speaker 1: there right after high school, and I was a talented
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  Speaker 1: football player in high school. Uh, I could in a
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  Speaker 1: scholarship if I wouldn't have went the criminal route. But
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  Speaker 1: so I had these dreams about playing football while I
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  Speaker 1: was in prison all the time, like haunting me. And
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  Speaker 1: I knew if I didn't go out there and play
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  Speaker 1: after I got out at five, that it was gonna
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  Speaker 1: bother me for the rest of my life and it
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  Speaker 1: was tied into my educational journey. So, um, actually was
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  Speaker 1: going to junior college for about a year, uh doing
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  Speaker 1: uh fitness training and you know, had the physique. So
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  Speaker 1: I got recruited just walking on campus, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: my classes, and uh, thank god I did. So. I
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  Speaker 1: played for for Laney College, uh coach being. They just
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  Speaker 1: did a Netflix special on Laney College coach being. So
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  Speaker 1: it was the first year there and I caught the
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  Speaker 1: attention with coach Hardball and it was his second year
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  Speaker 1: University of San Diego, and it's one of the best
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  Speaker 1: decisions of my life. Thankfully. I was focused on my
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  Speaker 1: studies at a three point six six prestigious universities, so
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  Speaker 1: you've gotta have great grades to get there. Uh they
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  Speaker 1: accepted me, and um, I got my degree in marketing
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  Speaker 1: and it really just set my path straight. I mean
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  Speaker 1: the connections I made, um, you know what I learned
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  Speaker 1: there and then um, just the opportunities that it opened
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  Speaker 1: up for me were incredible. You know you was there
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  Speaker 1: with was the quarterback Josh Johnson. Was you there when
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  Speaker 1: he was there? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, my boy. Yeah, we'st open. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch cousin. Oh, you know, my whole thing is
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  Speaker 1: that when I look at the opportunities that that come
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  Speaker 1: me away, and I'm excited about you, the dreams, and
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  Speaker 1: then the fact that I like you because you're a
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  Speaker 1: good looking guy and and so you know, and to
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  Speaker 1: be a good looking guy, I'll take that. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a good looking come on. You know you
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you walked through campus. They knew you was,
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  Speaker 1: they knew you were physically fit. I wanna go campful.
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  Speaker 1: They said, what class, sir? What class as you It's
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  Speaker 1: interesting with how you say that, because you know your
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  Speaker 1: first San Diego you might not notice. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not a diverse campus. Most of the black
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  Speaker 1: and brown people that go there are playing sports. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just being real. So when I got there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm yoked up big. You know. I was eight when
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  Speaker 1: I got to University of San Diego, so I was
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  Speaker 1: always looked at like this. There was a story and uh,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: like you know about me and uh mystique. So I
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: think the world got out like we got this guy
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: on campus who did a bid in prison and you know,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: from the hood. So I was kind of like they
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: called me O G Triple O G around campus of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: knew me before, knew then. Just you know, it was
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: rare for somebody to be on that campus for my
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: background for sure. That that's what we always talk about background, Ryan,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you know, and we talked about the future. Now you
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: know our qua equity, equity, you know water, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: we we know California, so you know it's a it's
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a heat wave going on. Let me ask you this
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: first of them. When you when you see the heat wave,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: does that me revenue in your mind? You know, people
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: gonna be drinking water? How do you treat weather in
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: your in your line of business? How do you cheap
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: weather in your life? Need transition because I see heatwave,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I think my air conditioning bill is gonna be I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: need to transition. But you're right, uh with the heat.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: So we have a unique route to market and and
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: kind of customer base. UM. Being know, we launched our
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: product in March, right at the height of the pandemic.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: We had to pivot on how we were gonna get
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a route to market and our points distribution. Uh, So
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: we changed from going to traditional retail route to focus
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: on corporate customers. UM just by you know, being in
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Watson and UH contributing to the community outreach programs. We
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: UH caught the attentions in the word of mouth, got
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: out to several producers UM directors UM in the Hollywood industry,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Malie of Matsukus being one of the first, and she's awesome.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: She got us into Warner Media Studios. UM. So we're
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: official vendor and they're a great customer. But we're picking
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: up corporate customers like Kaiser, Permanente, GM, Cadillac, and we're
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: able to sell them larger quantities UM and have them
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: as a longer, long term customer as opposed to a
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: retail customer. They support our mission and TV outreach we do,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: so you won't see us in a traditional retail store
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: as much. UM. We sell mostly UH online to too.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: To our our customers UM are residential customers, but our
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: main focuses are corporate customers because they got the money
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: to help support these these projects in the mission that
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: we have our core equity. You know, it's water, that's
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: what you know. It always amazes me that you know
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: you have all you can go in the store. You
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: see all these different bottle brands of water. We're just
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: talking about water in general. One, what the French rates
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: water from just tap water? Well, educate us on their
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: own water process for us, right right, not a great question.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So it all depends on what your water source. Obviously,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: certain parts of the country you're gonna have better uh
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: natural water sources, whether that's a spring on the ground
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: water table. Um. So what we have is too offerings.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: We have a pure mount of spring water out of Tiger, Georgia. UM.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: They have some of the best smooth, the taste of
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: spring water California. A lot of people are apprehensive about
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: spring water, so we were very careful and picking the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: right one. And then we have an electrolyte and enhanced water.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: What that means is the water is purified through reverse
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: osmosis and then we add calcium, magnesium and potassium for
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the electrolytes to keep you hydrated um or rehydrated faster.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So those are two main offerings UM. And I mean
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: it's very simple. You know, RAI up a great point.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You know, you can get water from a tap. But
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: so what we say is that we're not really selling water,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: we're selling the good works in the mission uh that
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: we do and bringing people, bringing our customers in that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: can't physically be there to be a part of it. Well,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that's important. I'm talking to Ryan Morrigan. You know. Our
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: equity is his line of business, you know, but his
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: company operates on three pillars, and we want to talk
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: about those three pillars. Want his community, one his environment,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and want his education. Now, it's always important to have
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a direction, and you're motivated by your past to have
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: a brighter future. And I want to go immediately down
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to one we and to continue that conversation because I
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: think education has changed my life. You know, I didn't
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: have an education, then I wouldn't have direction in life.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So I always tell people if you just go to college,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: just go to college for the experience, because I like
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: high school. You have options in college. You know, you
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: don't have to take a course. It's just because that's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: part of the curriculum for you being a junior, senior,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a freshman in college in high school. So college have
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: impacted you. Educate ocasionally talk about that and then talk
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: about why it is one of the pillars with you'll
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: watch Community Core. Yeah, absolutely, thank you. So you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: college is one of the best experiences of my life,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: not only because of the knowledge and education, but the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: connections and two of my co founders um I met
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: in college. We played football together in for San Diego,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: UM and part of that was that bonding experience creative
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: in college. So yeah, I do recommend individuals to seek
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: out of college UM that that's accessible and and you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: know that you don't have to go into debt for
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: get that education. You have a great experience. UM. So.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You know our three pillars community, UM, environment, education. The
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: education pieces huge because UM, I realize how it can
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: change your life and a lot of people in the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: inner city that we deal with, they still don't know UM.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: And so we want to open up opportunities which education
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: can do UM and sparked the next generation of innovators
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and entrepreneurs coming out of the wast community. And you know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: we have an entrepreneur training program to do that that
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: we work with our nonprofit partner uh SO. It's actually
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: great foundation. UM. They are connected to the l A
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: City Mayor's office uh SO grid Foundation that operate in
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: thirty two locations and then they have a a STEM
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: lab in the Nickerson Garden Housing development, which is the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: largest housing development west of the Mississippi largest in the state,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and so at that STEM Lab we have an entrepreneur
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: training program that is essentially a college course where you're
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: gonna get the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Um, you're gonna build
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: out a pitch deck for your business idea. You're gonna
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: get that practice of elevator pitching, pitching in front of
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: a panel, and then we we have basically a grant
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: award for the top three students to help them get
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: started on their entrepreneur journey. Three thousand for first place,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: two thousand for second, and a thousand for for third place.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: We bring in guests entrepreneurs every class to to share
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: their experience and their best practices so that our students
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: can get different perspectives and they can take from each
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: entrepreneur and weave that into their own business plan. In Mansett,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: look at your children's eyes to see the true magic
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: of a forest. It's a storybook world for them. You
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: look and see a tree, They see the wrinkled face
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of a wizard with arms outstretched to the sky. They
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: see treasure and pebbles, They see a windy path that
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: could lead to adventure, and they see you. They're fearless
• 24:43
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• 24:47
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• 24:52
  Speaker 1: AD Council. What grows in the forest trees? Sure you
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: know what else grows in the forest? Our imagine they
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a sense of wonder and our family bonds grow too,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: because when we disconnect from this and connect with this,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we reconnect with each other. The forest is closer than
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you think. Find a forest near you and start exploring.
• 25:17
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• 25:24
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• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that Smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: but I'm filling in because there's a lot more to report,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like when they're parched or windy conditions out there. You've
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: gotta be extra careful with things like burning yard wage.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: After all, wildfires can start anywhere, even in your neck
• 25:45
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• 25:47
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• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Forest Service, your state Forester, and the AD Council. M.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I actually just like I've seen that the the Entrepreneur
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Training program, shodn't watch. It's at the Nickerson Art and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Stem Lab Saturdays only on Saturdays. I know you have
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Zoom and you have Saturdays because I love the I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: love the you know, talk for you or be one
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of your mentors, or be one of the people you
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: like to invite in and talk because that's part of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: my my mantra as part of my gearback. You know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: it's time. You know, God He's given me the ability
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to live a long life. I have to give back
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: these gifts and share it with somebody. So you can.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: You can council me in or ink me in as
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a reshout on a holding your to it. And I'm saying,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: hold you to that for sure, okay, because I definitely
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: want to do that. You know, because like I said, uh,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I know that l A was important in my life.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I lived there from nineteen ninety to two thousand five.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I know the impact is Steve Harvey and I had
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: on radio in the community. You know, when I hear
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: when I see Nickers and Gardens Man brings back so
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: many memories because those are legendary UH locations, housing locations
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: in this country. You know I'm talking about you garden.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: You go wow, you know. But I have to ask
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: this question here because of the fact that this is
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: what happens when you stand in eborhood so too long.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Now it's a core group of people that you gang
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: bang with. You know, someone probably got arrested with you
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: use on the floor that bank way back in the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: day when he was an eighteen years old any relationship
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: now do you know where they at or as like
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: all lives that live that life, it's been cut short,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, well what you know one of
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: was my family members. So he did time too. He
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: got caught up later on in the state and did
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: some time, and you know he's out and successful in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: his own right, so he's got his own story to tell.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: But um, so yeah, we keep tabs. And then another one,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: uh went off later on into prison and stay prisoned
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: for something else and got out and you know he's
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: got a family and kids, so you know he's got
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a great life too. So there's some some kind of
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: beauty um for those ashes right there. Because I want
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to bring out I don't, I don't what's that I said?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I do want to bring that up because that's a journey,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and you share those journeys with individuals and just you
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: know that what I'm just trying to get out of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: your story, Ryan, of course, you know the aqua equity
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: is that your your story has told so many different
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: ways by so many different people who don't look like
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you but share the same path. You know, I can
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: tell my innergty path. But again, when you when you
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: hit negativity, there's some positivity to come out of it. Now.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I wanted to explain to people that, you know, we
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: just was just we didn't have the mentors, we didn't
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have the tools, we didn't have the environment. But wow,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: if we'd have had that same opportunity that other people
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: are being blessed with, guess who we could have been.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: You know, we could have been We could have been
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. You know, we could have been the Reginald
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: lewis Is of the world. You know, we could have
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: been all these great people. And you are still great people, absolutely,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: And so that that's why it's important this interview. When
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I do interviews with an individual like that, it's your
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: inspiration to me because I know I know who I am,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I know what I am capable of doing. I know
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I'm capable of doing because people stop me Ryan, they
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: optmus to reach out, don't do that. They were mad
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: at me when I when I when I didn't follow
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the path of greatness that they saw in me, which
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: is off the frustration frustrating because that path that they
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: want you to travel, it's kind of hard. It's kind
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of hard, and it takes a little discipline. They were
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: involved in that. And that's why I want to go
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: back into the environment conversation, because the environment really is
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: how you package your water, because that's a path you
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: gotta follow rules, and a lot of times when you
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: follow rules, it can lead to frustration, especially when you're
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: trying to build your business model. And one of the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: second pillows in there we talked about education is environment,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna roll it up and talk about
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the community, how you're giving back. But I thought it
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: was really important to tell your story, man, not only
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the journey, but what you're doing now and how to
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: just structure thought process you turn around, not on your life,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: but the community of watch. Let's talk about it. Yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, so the environment piece, I talked about it
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: two ways. First, with our packaging. UH, so you kind
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of see the bottle behind me, aluminum bottle UM. We
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: especially in California, the single use plastic is a big issue,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and so we didn't want to contribute to a problem.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: We we wanted to help alleviate the problem. And there's
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: not a lot of bottle waters UH packaged in reusable aluminum,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: recyclable aluminum. So we went that way to kind of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: start a trend and and be first movers in this category.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But we felt it was really important to us that
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: our packaging being aligned with UH, you know, where our
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: heart is is to take care of the community, the environment.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So and then the other piece of the environment is
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: UM me showing up to the watch environment, to other
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: communities in that environment, UM and telling my story so
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that other kids or even adults that made mistake realize
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: that it's not over. It doesn't matter what happened yesterday.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Pick yourself up be the term ment to to to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: keep grinding, to keep working towards your goals UM and
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: you'll get there. People will help will help you. UM.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: But a lot of it is a mindset shift, and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that's what we're trying to spark, is UH that mindset
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: shift and open up there kind of thought process. Uh,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: two different opportunities instead of the traditional current environmental opportunities
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that are a cycled to prison or death. Right now,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the last one this community, you know, because we know
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: it's really how you've overcome a lot of things in life,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: dream dreams sometimes because the pandemic could have been a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: dream killer because you started this whole concept and march
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of a and then in cried several corporate customers such
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: as Wanta Media, kinds of permanented General Motors Corporation, and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: these are like, these are what we'd like to call
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: fortune five hundred companies. Okay, every time that logo appears
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: on the website that you have, it brings more credibility.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But it's the bottom line is the community made you,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: It raised you. Now you give it back to it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Talk to us. Yeah, I mean, I mean absolutely. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you know, I love Sabordino, I love Watson and Oakland
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: and Flint and these other black and brown cities industries.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I ain't even been there. And I can say that
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: because there's so many parallels. When I was in federal prison,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I got to be locked up around brothers, and you know,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: black and Brown Brothers were all over the country, and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I realized that, you know, we pretty much going through
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the same struggle. Um, and ghettos were designed right, So
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: it's not a surprise now to learn that there's some
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of the same struggles going on in Watts that are
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: in Oakland, that are in Cleveland, that are in Detroit,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: that are in Atlanta. So anyways, um, community. I love
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the resilience of the people in those communities. Um uh,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: their mindset, you know, how they find joy and happiness
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: with you know, very very little resources compared to you know,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: what they're aware of around them. So I love that resisentencing,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: that that fighting at people. So I'm there with them
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: to encourage them, to to help them and to to
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: show them away. Um, there's other leaders in there I
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: need to give a shout out to. You know, I'm
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the one here on this interview, but people in the community.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I've been there for ten twenty thirty years, Individuals like
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Donnie joe Bert Brandon, Silen Bailey sticks. Um, he just
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: got the key to the city in l A. But
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: they've been doing you know, major positive good works in
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the Watch community long before I got there. And me
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: connecting in the Opequity my co founders I got branded
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: that speech, J T. Rogan, Crystal Jackson. I couldn't do
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: it without a team. So us connecting with individuals like
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Donnie joe Bert and Brandon len Bailey sticks that are
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: already um in the community doing good works, it made
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it possible for us to basically be the fuel you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: or the turbo to to to their engine. So that's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: a big part of the community is finding a team
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and people are like minded with the synergy to work
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: together to solve problems. Well, Akwa Equity sayce April twenty
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: have donated with twenty dollars and cases of water, two
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: food drives, and various nonprofits. You're making the difference, Ryan Morgan,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I gotta see you soon, man, And again I want
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to step up my part. I want to be there
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: speaking to the students, these young people, these young adults,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to let them know that hey man, I'm not special. Uh.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: What I did was I followed the rules of life,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: which means you have to work hard, playing hard, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: have a dream based on the reality. And you live
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: so many different dreams, sir, and and you've been so
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: successful with so many different dreams that have come your way.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I wish you continue to sex success and I will
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: be seeing you because I promised you when my man,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: stephen A. Smith come to l A, you will be
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: meeting him. Okay, Irish, I look forward to me your man.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Have you out there with these good works. But come on, man,
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