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Herman Moore discusses transitioning from NFL to entrepreneurship owning Golden Grooming Co. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: is a former NFL star, Herman Moore. Herman isn't the
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  Speaker 1: football player who now owns a business. He's a businessman
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  Speaker 1: who happens to be played professional football. Football is his
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  Speaker 1: playing career. That's something he did, Like everybody has something
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  Speaker 1: they've done in their past, what should you hold on
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  Speaker 1: to it? And he's made that transition as a very
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  Speaker 1: successful NFL analysts promoting products as Offender Center, Bond, I
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  Speaker 1: Love centabon business consultant, corporate and nonprofits. He has been
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  Speaker 1: trading cryptocurrency, which I know nothing about, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying he's an expert. Well, we definitely got to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that because that has been the top of my list.
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  Speaker 1: Is has been the headlines of every financial trade magazine
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Is Crystal Currency. And he
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  Speaker 1: is the founder of what all these products you see
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  Speaker 1: in front of me, Golden Grooming Company. I've had this
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  Speaker 1: product for about a month the schedule interview. But guess what,
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  Speaker 1: I've been sneaking and using it now. You know you
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  Speaker 1: kind of holding on to his products so good. This
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  Speaker 1: this little calm right here, I'm holding up. It sits
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  Speaker 1: on my desk because I have with everybody know, I
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  Speaker 1: have a nice little beer. I keep my beer tight.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The company's mission is to
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  Speaker 1: help black young men and adult men look and feel
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  Speaker 1: their best because we believe that when you look good,
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  Speaker 1: you feel good, and then when you also do good,
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  Speaker 1: please work with the money making conversation Herman more Leisure,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for having me. Hey, Herman, I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you man this like here because my staff there,
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  Speaker 1: we finally got her and I said, hey man, I
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  Speaker 1: I kind of know him because this little comb here
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  Speaker 1: sits on my desk every day, so at least for
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  Speaker 1: three or four time is on my face. And so
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  Speaker 1: these are the type of products that you have for
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  Speaker 1: golden grooming that makes everything accessible and makes it comfortable
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  Speaker 1: for a person like me can carry in your bag.
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  Speaker 1: I can, like this little calmer here, I can slip
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  Speaker 1: it into my top pocket and nobody would ever notice it. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: That's that's correct. What we look for is grooming is
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  Speaker 1: something that I think we all need to pay attention to,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you're looking at trying to make sure you
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  Speaker 1: present yourself as your best. And we we know that
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  Speaker 1: when you you feel good and you look good, you
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  Speaker 1: do good. I mean, that's just that's just a fact.
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  Speaker 1: And I think if we provide those products and we're
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  Speaker 1: not just products, but high quality products and an affordable
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  Speaker 1: price that allows us to be able to make an
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  Speaker 1: impact there. Well, you know the interesting thing about all
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  Speaker 1: your product because they sent me a nice little line
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  Speaker 1: from the brush too, like an off air. I shared
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  Speaker 1: a little secret with you. You have themselves small patch
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  Speaker 1: solid cologne, which I've never seen in my life. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we all know cologne's coming, a little squirt bottle, a
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  Speaker 1: little spray you have what what what made you think
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  Speaker 1: of this idea? Because I love it and again something
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  Speaker 1: else I care with me when I travel. So it
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  Speaker 1: really it makes me believe that you are afford thinking
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  Speaker 1: individual because you're thinking of things that a person like
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  Speaker 1: me who's super busy, who wants to stay groom but
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  Speaker 1: also likes to smell good but not I would like
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  Speaker 1: to use the word discreetly and also carried column necessary discreetly,
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  Speaker 1: but still have them available because they have high quality.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about this, uh, this small past solid cologne. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the solid cologne is a nice little product because when
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  Speaker 1: you typically use aerosol or you use a spray, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it that's being lost in the air,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, when you're trying to transition it from
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  Speaker 1: that actual packaging to your your body or your your
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  Speaker 1: fabric or wherever you you play Sir Colone with this.
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  Speaker 1: It's just an application that simply rub it on and
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  Speaker 1: it stays on pretty good. It really has nice sense
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  Speaker 1: and smells. We're gonna be coming out with a different line.
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  Speaker 1: So the solid cologne. It not only gives your further
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  Speaker 1: a longer yield in terms of the product, but it
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  Speaker 1: also gives you the convenience that you've mentioned, being able
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  Speaker 1: to take it with you wherever you want and if
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  Speaker 1: you want to, you know, just tap it in and
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  Speaker 1: refresh up a little bit. You can do that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I can't take credit for that. That is our our
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  Speaker 1: our development team, that is our our scientists and our
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  Speaker 1: chemists that we have that constantly of working on ways
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  Speaker 1: to provide better quality products and also just innovative products
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  Speaker 1: to the to the marketplace. Well, you know this is
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  Speaker 1: why I love it because of the fact you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: Because you've seen some people they spread in the air
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  Speaker 1: and they walk into the walk into the aroma of
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  Speaker 1: the scent or and sometimes when I have the aerosault,
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  Speaker 1: I have pointed towards me and then it hits sometimes
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  Speaker 1: on my clothes, not exactly where I wanted, And then
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  Speaker 1: I finally have control of my cologne. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: really like about it. If I want to put it
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  Speaker 1: on my neck, I want to put it on my wrist.
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  Speaker 1: I feel comfortable with that. I really really think that
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  Speaker 1: this is something I've never seen this before. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I have to bring it up at the top of
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  Speaker 1: our conversation, Herman, because of the fact that I know
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  Speaker 1: you're giving credit to somebody else for doing it, but
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  Speaker 1: you have to be the visionary and bringing it to
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  Speaker 1: the stores. Correct. Yeah, that's correct, and we we always
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  Speaker 1: look at also, um coming you mentioned earlier some of
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  Speaker 1: my earlier ventures like Centabon, and we looked at everyone
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  Speaker 1: had to have, for instance, like the cinnamon rolls, a
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  Speaker 1: big cinnamon role and you have to have the knife
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  Speaker 1: and the fork to eat it. Then we started getting
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  Speaker 1: into what was called Manys because we wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: something that was a little bit more portable and has
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  Speaker 1: a different functionality to it. That's no different. You have
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  Speaker 1: to constantly look at ways to improve and innovate within
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  Speaker 1: your product category or your service category, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: allows you to be distinguish yourself and differentiate yourself from
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  Speaker 1: the competition. But also you're you're also addressing a need
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  Speaker 1: anytime you can solve problems, and then also we can
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  Speaker 1: also eliminate waste and add profitability to our company, but
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  Speaker 1: also give a greater yield to the customer. You're giving
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  Speaker 1: a minute of mutually beneficial value back, and I will
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  Speaker 1: take credit and the fact that that is what we
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  Speaker 1: look for. That's what I look for all the time,
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  Speaker 1: because you want to make sure that you have a
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  Speaker 1: very balanced business approach. I would just tell you, man
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  Speaker 1: about centa bon I Woulder. I was just gonna say
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  Speaker 1: that as a credit, you know, but you're gonna just
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  Speaker 1: bring it up in our conversation. So now you because
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a desert nut. Everybody knows that about me.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have the minis and then you have the
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  Speaker 1: regular huge one. Does it sound like to get that
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  Speaker 1: right when they putting the putting the uh the cream
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  Speaker 1: on top? You know? I like it when you know
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  Speaker 1: it's hot. I'm just telling you, man, And so I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna just tell you it's the same Bard now the
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  Speaker 1: mini and the regular, but the regulars taste so much better.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you herman, for some reason, getting
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  Speaker 1: that big old piece of Bard and breaking it up
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  Speaker 1: and taking that fuck and separating it. You can't go wrong, man.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know the whole packaging about the minis,
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  Speaker 1: but those those giants I call giants since you have
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  Speaker 1: the minute now, but those are the way to go, man,
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  Speaker 1: The regular size are the way to go. I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you this. I can tell you're not eating many
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  Speaker 1: of those because those things packlock calories. Ever, don't let's
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  Speaker 1: just sound that was rolling with love and and we
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  Speaker 1: have that make sure that we know, hey, Sean's coming
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  Speaker 1: in and make sure his has got that extra icing
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  Speaker 1: on it and a glass of a glass of milk.
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  Speaker 1: Come on that brother, you you're gonna run me out
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  Speaker 1: that store. You're gonna run me out that store. And
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  Speaker 1: I I really you know, be let's go a little
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  Speaker 1: history because I'm a football's fan and so I know
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  Speaker 1: about your athletic abilities on the field. But we all
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  Speaker 1: know there is a time that you're gonna realize that
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  Speaker 1: you can't play anymore. You can, you can you can
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  Speaker 1: hear it every day. Average life, especially of football player.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe five years, five or six years of a full
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  Speaker 1: time NFL player. Now, when did you start transitioning mentally? Interesting?
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  Speaker 1: I want to be what is my life after football, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I started doing it. My career ended a two dollars
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  Speaker 1: and two and I really started making that transition my
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  Speaker 1: final year two thousand, two thousand one. I started reading
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  Speaker 1: for about a year and learning a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the industries that I wanted to approach. Understanding also was
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  Speaker 1: I going to basically start to a startup or was
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  Speaker 1: I going to take on a franchise system. And I
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  Speaker 1: chose to go with All Box et cetera, which was
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  Speaker 1: my very first franchise that I purchased, and then from
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  Speaker 1: there I ended up becoming the second largest cent A
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  Speaker 1: bond partner, owning all of Florida and all of Michigan stores.
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  Speaker 1: And doing that process, I assembled and put together a
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  Speaker 1: team that will help me with the operations because that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't my background. My background is in marketing and communications.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to make sure I've surrounded myself with
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  Speaker 1: those that would would give me the right advice. Now
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  Speaker 1: they're doing and the direction that they're leading you or
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  Speaker 1: not only learn the things that my employees were doing,
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  Speaker 1: in my team members, but also to show them that
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  Speaker 1: I was willing to put in the work. And by
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  Speaker 1: doing that, they saw I was an absentee owner. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and that that's really have been all about it. So
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  Speaker 1: on our point of sales systems which will allow me
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  Speaker 1: I've looked at what resources are available, including technology as
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  Speaker 1: being a platform and a foundation of that work. You know,
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  Speaker 1: an interesting thing about when I listened to you, your articulation,
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  Speaker 1: your professionalism. You just happen to play football, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I consider the magic Johns is a good friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine. And you know, even before he became a
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  Speaker 1: basketball star, he wanted to be a business owner. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be an entrepreneur, and he's and and he's
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  Speaker 1: shown it after his basketball life. Is ind that he's
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  Speaker 1: equally as a Hall of Famer in the business world
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  Speaker 1: as he has been on the basketball courts. What did
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  Speaker 1: it all start for you? This mentality to be an
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  Speaker 1: enter entrepreneur. Where did it start for? You know, you
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  Speaker 1: came from a single parent home. Talk about that upbringing
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  Speaker 1: that shifted you in this direction about where you are
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  Speaker 1: at today? It was always you know, it goes back
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  Speaker 1: to my my youth. I started out in school and
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  Speaker 1: in the news as of late in some areas. And Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're giving you you're already put at a limitation
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  Speaker 1: sometimes before you get started. I noticed when I went
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  Speaker 1: into a college or high school, I was always directed
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  Speaker 1: into courses that were really weren't challenging me. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: gonna they weren't going to stretch me or put me
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  Speaker 1: And quite often sometimes we start to buy into that.
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  Speaker 1: really interesting when I to hear you because you know
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  Speaker 1: the modern athlete. No, I said the modern after maybe
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the last and I put you that modern athlete group
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: because it was after two thousands that the mentality changed
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  Speaker 1: and it was all about you know, football and football
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  Speaker 1: in and players will just shot, you know what he
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  Speaker 1: was gonna do with the next step. Now we have
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  Speaker 1: the modern athlete who are planning after the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a classic modern athlete is Lebron James, a classic modern
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  Speaker 1: athlete is Magic Johnson, classic monthin that marthin and modern
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  Speaker 1: athlete is Steph Curry. You are a classic modern athlete,
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  Speaker 1: but you are earlier than them. So what who are
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: your role models? Herman to point you in the right
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: direction that you should be like this, that you should
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: be prepping for this, because you seem to have laid
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a great foundation for a future as an entrepreneur post football.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So being in Detroit, we are around a lot of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: very successful former athletes like Bennie Johnson UH owning and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: running a billion dollar enterprise, Dave being former basketball player,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: UH professional basketball player becoming a mayor as well as
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: having successful businesses. I watched Magic Johnson. I looked at
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: how he started to command his brand, and not just
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: on the basketball court, but what he starts to do
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in terms of getting the value out of that, not
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: just I'm gonna show up and be the face of something,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: but actually owning it. Um. That was that was impowerful
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and impactful for me to see Michael Jordan's going in
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and say, you know what, I'm gonna have a brand
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that runs a line if I want to stand in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the sports world that we have with the Nike, but
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my own brand that is just that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: is solely him, and it's gonna run parallel, but just
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: as powerful and more recognized than even that, and he
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: elevates like in my opinion, so it's it's those are
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the people that I can look at. And there's many,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: many more, I'm sure if I really start to think
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: back about it. But I said, you know what I
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: see people who have pet have paved the way out
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: of a profession like mind, and that you can talk
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: about entertainment, you can talk about actors and actresses, you
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: can talk about successful business people as a whole. But
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: if the playbook is there, you just have to be
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a student and willing to receive it. And I was
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: listening to tv ja'son one time and he talked about
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: how sometimes we run behind opportunities, sometimes we run ahead
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of it, but we gotta figure out a way in
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: which we put ourselves to where we're running parallel after,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: where we're not missing it, we're not there before we're
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: supposed to be, and we're not behind it, always never
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: being able to catch up. And I've tried to figure
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: out the position myself that way. And so you can
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: take all these things in and you have a recipe,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and but you gotta be willing to put in the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: work well, you know that the key is we was working.
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  Speaker 1: But also when I read on your history, it's always
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: about young people here, like even the Golden Groom, it
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: is about young people preparing themselves, looking professional, feeling good
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: about themselves. And then you have a new entrepreneursial program
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: or your foundation, tackle Life Foundation that you have you
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: launched already of what stages it of that foundation called
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: tackle Life, which is like tackling somebody, but tackling life
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: instead of a player on the field. So you're about
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: tackling life. And that's the foundation that is based on
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: talk about it. So a Tackle Life Foundation. I actually
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: started running it as a private organization in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine. UH then I be I got my UH
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  Speaker 1: foundation certified in two thousand sixteen. And the I've always
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: done camps. I've always done something that would try and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: bring empowerment or have a touch point with young adults
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  Speaker 1: to where we can still touch them and and influence
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: their foundational growth. And what I see is that you
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: have to be able to reach back and not it's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: not about what I do and what's appealing to me,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: but it's what does the world itself offer and how
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: do we extract those different abilities and the mindset from
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: individuals say who am I and how can I take
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: this this knowledge or this opportunity and apply it to
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: my vision in my goal. So everything that we do
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: has been around that. We've done programs from UH computer programming,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: so we designed websites and build um different types of
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: projects that require robotics. We also now are into e
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: gaming and eat sports, which is a big thing. There's
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: grants and scholarships, especially at HBCUs that are getting really
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: big into the sports and gaming platforms. We with this
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurship program. If you look at the African American community,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: there were very entrepreneurs. However, the failure rate is high
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: because we don't have access to not only the partnerships,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the revenue of the tools. When I go and I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: meet with these large manufacturers, the first thing I saw,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Rishan was that they mentioned they would love and I
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: won't name these big retailers, these are your major major retailers.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: They said, you know what, we we want the African
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: American products. We want the minority based products. But you
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: know what, the product quality isn't there, the labeling isn't there.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: They don't have the systems and the logistics to be
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: able to handle the workload or the capacity of the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: distribution that we need. They don't have these these things. Well,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: question I have for them is are you providing resources
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: through your manufacturing partners to afford them that opportunity and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: not many work? And then I looked at who we were,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and that's what spawned this entrepreneurship program to say, we
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: are a manufacturer. We're not relying on someone to help us.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We get the rock goods. We also, through Team eighty four,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: my parent company, we do logistics and transportation and procurement
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and all these things and packaging. So we know what
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: we'll do this ourselves. We'll create an entrepreneurship program to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: help us bring those young, aspiring people in who would
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: love to learn about manufacturing of products and services that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: we offer, and then we would team up with them
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to actually launch that vision and we're gonna create this marketplace.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: So we've already started this program under leadership of a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: person I brought in who has done a great job.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Her name is Christie's Abacar. She's our chief marketing and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: communications officer, but she also runs our program and we're
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: going we're on our way and we we already have
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: identified about four or five different companies or that we're
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: gonna start with youth. So we're very excited, very very
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: excited about and it costs them nothing, right, that's the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: beautiful thing. But it's not going to cost them any things. Well,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: let me let let's let's slow it down and talk
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: about it. Because you said a lot. But you mentioned
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: your communication director in your CMO, and we know the
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: name Tackle Life Foundation started in two thousand nine official
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen which it was officially recognized as a foundation.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: How does one is it a limit to the amount
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: of students young adults? Is the age requirements? What are
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the requirements for participating in the Tackle Life Foundation opportunities? Well,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: for the for that particular program, the Entrepreneurship program, it
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: starts with the age of eight team. Uh, we will
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: go below that, but you have to get parents involved
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and in your executing documents with them. So we're looking
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: at for those particular programs at a at a different
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: age group. We don't necessarily play a cap because people
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: could be entrepreneurial all their lives and UH, for us,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: we don't put restricts the limitations there and to qualify
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: for that. We've created a website that should be up
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: here in about a month that will start to open
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it up to the public. We put we pick a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: few groups to work with. We're working with juvenile Justice
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: system to work with some that are are incarcerated and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: or are getting out that need to have a place
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: in a VISION, so we wanted to start where areas
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of need would be there. We're also working with some
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of the youth organizations where we will hancel a a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: few that have VISION to come in and participate in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: our program. But we're gonna open us up and uh,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: if you qualify, that'll be great, but we will do
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you know, some contract manufacturing as well. I have to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: mention that for those that are looking for partnerships that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: will help them scale so they don't have to do
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: it out their house. Uh, so they can definitely reach
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: out to us, uh and and at that capacity, and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do as much as we can within our
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: means to to be able to help. Well, I would
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: tell you this, I want to know more and I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: would love to learn more be a part of this
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: for you. Uh, my talents. I've been doing this since
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I was eighteen years old, uplifting educating by my backgrounds
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: degrees in mathematics, my mind and sociology work five years
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: for IBM, so, I have executive training and I'm an entrepreneur.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So and hearing this for the first time on this show,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just let you know if you're looking for volunteers,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I always you know I'm available. I'm not just saying
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that because I'm on this show trying to getting good
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: good with you, because you already already got my grooming stuff.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I don't need you no more. But I just know
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that what you're doing is important, especially for men of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: color and uh and if if I'm in a position
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to help you, I will help you. Okay, I really
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: appreciate that, and by all means I will reach out
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: because I can't do it alone. So I appreciate that.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Cool. Well, I'm gonnaing to switch s gears
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to another subject that I know nothing about, but it's
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: making the headlans cryptocurrency. First of all, explain to my
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: listeners and views what exactly is cryptocurrency. Well, it depends
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: on who you're speaking with. There there are many of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: us who think that it is a decentralized service in
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the financial market that allows UH very steamless transactions and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the the the purchase of of just basically this this
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: coin that people think is just a phantom value, but
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: it is a way in which to be able to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: move M dollars around UH in a in a digital space,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: versus using FIAT, which is you know what we use now,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the American dollar, or something that is more physical and
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: tangible that's tied to a UM some type of collateral.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: But it's something that I think it's worth looking at.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned to you earlier, you know, I'm
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: not an expert on it, but what I've learned is
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I look at the value of systems, and I look
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: at blockchain technology, and I look at a way in
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: which you improve on some of the deficiencies that you
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: in the financial system. And that's what I think is grown.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Has pretty much grown quite a bit, and it's caught
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the attention of many of those in the financial space.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: But the regulations are a lot lighter UH than what
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: uh an unregulated than what you see in the central
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: banking system. But as those things get ironed out, I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: think there is a play here. I don't think it's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: going away. Well, I'm I'm pretty sure it's not. You
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: can put regulations there, but there's just too many places
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: in parts of the world, and it's a global participation.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: This isn't just about the United States. So for me,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I mainly just play around with some of the smaller coins,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: but I will find some that especially Ethereum. That is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: where I put more of my time in evert. Well,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: before I close, you know, we talked about the Golden Grooming,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: which I like. I said, this is at my desk
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: every day. I'm you know, I used this, all right,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I used this man makes me feel good. I like
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to believe it makes me look good. Okay, that about
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: coming from my dad right there, I'm grooming brother right
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: in front of you on this interview. Okay, and that,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: But more importantly, we talked about you, your your your
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: you're giving back. We talked about your ability to run
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a country from running run your business from state across
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: this country using technology. Now you're in the podcast world
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and you I'm a big fan of this deep deforce
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: uh sidekicker yours Loman's Brown. How did you why did
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: you decided to get into the podcast world with offensive
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Tackle Lomas Brown talking about is that you're former Detroit
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Troy Detroit Lions teammates. Yeah, so with moments, Uh, what
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a great, great guy. We ended up being teammates When
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I came in one he was probably the toughest guy
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: on me because lineman don't like for you to make
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: mistakes because if you drop a pass that could have
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: led to the yards closer to the end zone, that's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: fifty last yards they have to work off of. So, uh,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: they read me quite a bit, which made me an
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: all pro wide receiver and actually do my job. But afterwards,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: he is someone who is very much engaged in the community.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: He's very very philanthropic. Uh, he's just the nicest, nicest
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: guy you could ever meet. And because of that, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: wanted to figure out a space for him within first
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and foremost our company. So bringing him in as our
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: chief Diversity and Business development arm that was awesome. He's
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: done a tremendous job there. But then he and I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: both have been in media for over twenty years, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: having that background, we decided why not build a studio
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: in our office. Why not come up with our own
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: camera crew, our podcast equipment, and start to do our
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: own show. So we started a show because Loma is
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: always if you don't if you get to know him,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the first thing he had he will say when he
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: leaves a meeting, what you say next time we get together?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Less great bread? And so we decided to call our
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: show Breaking Bread, and uh from then on, we've been
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: having a blast. It allows us to talk about things
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: that are relevant to us, things that are relevant to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: our community and into our base of listeners and viewers.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: So that's uh, it's been fun, as you know, is
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: having your own show. It's liberating and it's rewarding because
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: it gives you a voice in a place. Um that
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: is again another channel on a platform that's supported to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: us that you know, we can we can go out
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and be ourselves. Well right, all right, I'm a fan
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of you. I'm a fan of Lomas. And uh, how
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: does one get talent on your show? Dudes? To do
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you have a booking agency that book to talent? We
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: just you know, you just call them out of the blue.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: And how does people get on your show? Man? It's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: just you and him talking all the time, y'all just
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: hogging all the information. How do people get on your podcast? Man?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Come on? And we're not gonna just hog it all
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: about ourselves. We don't make sure we get some other
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: people in there. They're like but but for now, it's
• 33:48
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