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Manhood: Single Dad took his 3-year-old son to college classes with him. Now a Lowe's contractor and mentors HBCU students. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Hi, I am Rashaan McDonald. Our host a weekly Money
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  Speaker 1: today is a natural born entrepreneur and community leader. He
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  Speaker 1: is two successful companies we're going to discuss, and this
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  Speaker 1: journey from low income housing to academic entrepreneur and community
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  Speaker 1: community success is very motivating. That includes a full service
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  Speaker 1: home improvement and property management company. And he is the
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  Speaker 1: founder and CEO of Alpha Educational Consultants, Inc. Please welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Michael Woodwood.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Michael, I'm doing great. Man. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: tell you, every time you read that thing, it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like you're talking about somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Just stop that now. I would let everybody know Michael
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  Speaker 1: is a person that I you know, you meet people
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  Speaker 1: and you become inspired by their personality, their story, and
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  Speaker 1: I have to I interviewed them on one of my
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  Speaker 1: other platforms, and I said, Michael, Atlanta and everybody on
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  Speaker 1: the streaming platform we got to hear your story, man,
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  Speaker 1: because you are very impressive. Now. Now you started out
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  Speaker 1: in Florida, correct, tell us your story.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I started out in Miami, Florida, and a little
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  Speaker 2: part of the town of Miami called Liberty City, which
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  Speaker 2: is a lower socioeconomic part of this city. And from
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  Speaker 2: there I spreaded my roots out into Tallahassee, Florida, through
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  Speaker 2: Florida and m University, and then I eventually settled here
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  Speaker 2: in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: That's the cliffno version, You're just gonna just blow past
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  Speaker 1: all this other stuff. You know, he went from low
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  Speaker 1: income next year he had fam you now in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and he's a real estate tackle. Good night, folks, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: you do my audience like that. You go back, take
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  Speaker 1: your behind back delivery City. Go back, delivery City. Start
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  Speaker 1: talking about them pickle fed feats that you were eating
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  Speaker 1: as a kid. Come on now, talk to us.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I didn't know if y'all was ready.
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  Speaker 1: For all that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was gonna be part of your question.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know what I mean. But I mean I
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  Speaker 2: could go back and dress that, you know, to circle back.
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  Speaker 2: I started out in Liberty City and we were in
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  Speaker 2: the small part of the Liberty City called the Poking
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  Speaker 2: Bean Projects, that's the nickname. It was one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst projects in Miami. And my grandmother was the candy
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  Speaker 2: lady there in the Poking Bean Projects. And as Shaw said,
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  Speaker 2: we we we we sold out of that house in
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  Speaker 2: the project pickle pig feets, We sold clips you want
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  Speaker 2: to call them sludgy water ice, you know, depending on
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  Speaker 2: where you go in the country. I ain't got boogie now,
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  Speaker 2: I know people call it different things, but we called
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  Speaker 2: we called them frozen cups. And then of course you
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  Speaker 2: had all the nickel candies and penny cookies and all
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. So that's where I learned a
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  Speaker 2: little business. You know. I learned how to deal with people,
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  Speaker 2: treat people good, and you know, a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: I learned how to help people because even though it
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  Speaker 2: was illegal, we all know that that's still helping the community.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: But you're living in the food desk. Is though you're
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  Speaker 1: living in the food desert.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, exactly, you're in the food desert, and you know, so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I learned a lot from that experience, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, so many of those those attributes that I
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  Speaker 2: had or I learned, I still carry with me today.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Now, the interesting thing I bought you is that
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  Speaker 1: you spent some time in the military.
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  Speaker 2: Correct very brief.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Now I did get out.
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  Speaker 2: That was my ticket out of the hood, right, And
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  Speaker 2: my parents were poor. Well, I didn't think they could
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  Speaker 2: afford college, and you know, I wasn't enough with here.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't pay attention to all the financial aid stuff
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  Speaker 2: and the scholarship information. You know, I was busy chasing girls,
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  Speaker 2: and I worked, and I kept a pocket full of
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  Speaker 2: money and things like that, and that's that's what I
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  Speaker 2: focused on. So I had to pay the piper, so
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  Speaker 2: to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the interesting thing about you is that
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  Speaker 1: along the way in your conversation, you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: see your personality. You know, you never felt like where
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  Speaker 1: you was at and the slang way with me, I
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  Speaker 1: grew up in the hood. But all I have is
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  Speaker 1: just great stories about the hood, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I can just laugh and laugh and laugh. And so
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  Speaker 1: many times you just hear people when you go to
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  Speaker 1: the media talk about the hood like it's dangerous. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying any place is dangerous. Let's be real. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they are celebrities who go on trips, come back in
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  Speaker 1: their houses robbed. Okay, so so know that. But what
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you is that it just felt like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of love in your community. Talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in our community, we had a lot of love.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We had adults that made sure that the children were
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do what they were supposed to do. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you know, you see you know, miss Flag or mister
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  Speaker 2: Flag whatever, you know, neighbor, they sitting on a porch,
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  Speaker 2: they give you a couple of coins. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: went to your friend house and it was five thirty
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  Speaker 2: six o'clock. You just want to play ball, but Mama say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: come on in here. Were about to eat first, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So, you know, I grew up in that
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  Speaker 2: village concept. So even as an adult today, I have
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  Speaker 2: that village mentality that we're all together, We in this together.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, many times poor people they don't realize
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  Speaker 2: they're poor. Everybody in the same boat, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the way I was raised. Most of my friends
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  Speaker 2: were poor. We had a few peopeople that were outliers.
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  Speaker 2: You know that that parents did really, really well but
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  Speaker 2: the majority of my friends were poor. Even though you know,
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  Speaker 2: let me be clear, we did move out of the projects,
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  Speaker 2: but we lived a couple blocks away from the project.
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  Speaker 1: Right, We're still same black people. We're still so same
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  Speaker 1: black people. You know, everybody's still black.
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  Speaker 2: Man. That happened to me, brother, everybody's still black. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: shooting bad. But we did. We did what we had
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  Speaker 2: to do to survive. And so even when I went
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  Speaker 2: to college, anybody who knows me at FAMU, they would
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  Speaker 2: tell you they knew me for two reasons. One, I
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  Speaker 2: had a little boy I was walking around campus with
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  Speaker 2: all the time. You know, that was my son. I
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  Speaker 2: was a teen father, and I took them to school
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  Speaker 2: with me, so they knew me because of him. But
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  Speaker 2: they also knew because my house was always open. I
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  Speaker 2: knew how to cook, so I would cook for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of my friends, and and people at fam you
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  Speaker 2: that they knew that's what you do. You want to
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  Speaker 2: have good time, go over there. You know we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be watching the game, we're gonna be grilling, We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do those things because I had again goes back to
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  Speaker 2: that work ethic that I learned from grandmother and business,
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  Speaker 2: so I was able to get the higher paying jobs
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  Speaker 2: in college and most of my college friends, so I
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  Speaker 2: was able to afford to open my doors to different people.
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  Speaker 1: See isn't that story much better than the story you
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  Speaker 1: opened up with. Now let's go to the entrepreneurial side.
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  Speaker 1: You know when you first started getting into renovations and
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  Speaker 1: home ownership, and that started in your college days, correct, Correct?
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  Speaker 2: That started in my college days. At twenty years old,
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  Speaker 2: I bought my first piece of property. It was a duplex.
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  Speaker 2: I renovated one side and rented it out and that
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  Speaker 2: tenant paid the mortgage for me. So, you know, I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was a little ahead of my time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where most of my friends still lived at home with
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  Speaker 2: their parents and a few might have had apartments here
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  Speaker 2: and there. But I had a house, right house I was,
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  Speaker 2: And I went to community college while I had my house.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, I bought another house. And so
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  Speaker 2: about twenty three years old, I was on my way
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  Speaker 2: to just building a little real estate portfolio.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you know, you know, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: know our friends now, you know, come on now, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: come on brother, Look at your clothes, man, look at
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  Speaker 1: what you ride. Now, come on, man, what you doing, brother?
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  Speaker 1: Spend some of that money on you? Talk to us
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was about to get into. What a ride? No,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of the mistakes I made, and I
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  Speaker 2: tell people all the time, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 2: mistakes I made. I always had a new car every year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I probably had some kind of
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  Speaker 2: fixed a fixation on that new car. Sent So I
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  Speaker 2: bought a new car every year, you know. And I
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  Speaker 2: had a car, had trucks. I had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: vehicles like that. Had I not made those poor decisions,
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  Speaker 2: my portfolio would be would be better today, be a
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  Speaker 2: lot stronger. So when I teach young people about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: investment strategies and how to get rich quick, one of
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  Speaker 2: the first things I tell them is, don't buy stupid stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to have the latest automobile
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  Speaker 2: and the name brand clothes. Past that stuff up. You'll
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  Speaker 2: pass that up and build your real estate portfolio. Don't
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  Speaker 2: do stupid stuff. Don't go to the club and buy
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  Speaker 2: the bar trying to impress your frame. Those are the
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  Speaker 2: things you do. Those are the steps you have to
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  Speaker 2: take if you want to be rich in the end
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  Speaker 2: or you want to have a nice real estate portfolio
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  Speaker 2: where you can retire early.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, but you know it, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: but that's a young person. Like you said, you're taking
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  Speaker 1: care of your son and fam. You you know, you
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  Speaker 1: got a small real estate portfolio. But the only advice
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  Speaker 1: you got you gotta get that new cost smell. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta get that new cost smell. And I understand that. Man,
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  Speaker 1: when you you know something, when you come from that's
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  Speaker 1: basically when you come from nothing, and you really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if something drives you to at least make you feel
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  Speaker 1: good about yourself. So I'm not mad at you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mad at you. Weren't born with a self respoon
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  Speaker 1: and so along the way, you have to be able
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  Speaker 1: to satisfy your work ethic, your success. And those automobiles
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  Speaker 1: were goals setters for you. That's how I saw.
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  Speaker 2: It as because if.
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  Speaker 1: You could buy that, that means that you're winning. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're winning, that means that you can set new
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  Speaker 1: goals because along the way, you never stop moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to us about that, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, I had my cars, and I
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  Speaker 2: worked a little bit in corporate. I worked at law
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  Speaker 2: on law firms and going to work. I had a
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  Speaker 2: nice car, but I tell you my car didn't line
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  Speaker 2: up nearly as close to some of these lawyers I saw.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I had a nice little Lissa on top
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  Speaker 2: of the line, and you know I had a nice
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  Speaker 2: truck and all that kind of stuff. But then cats
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  Speaker 2: they drive it like ferraris and test the wolfsters, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, their admins are driving fancy cars. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: I can't live my life like this. I need to
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  Speaker 2: be on that level. What is it that they did
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  Speaker 2: to get where they are? And how can I get there?
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  Speaker 2: That was my billion dollar question?
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  Speaker 1: And what was your answer?
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  Speaker 2: I knew through education I can do it. I knew
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  Speaker 2: through education I can do it. And that's why I
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  Speaker 2: ended up at Florida and M University. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't necessarily take the road because my goal was
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  Speaker 2: to go and do architecture, finish architecture, and be a
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  Speaker 2: real estate attorney. And that's how I was going to
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  Speaker 2: get rich. That was my goal. And I ran into
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  Speaker 2: one of my great professors. He was coming home from
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  Speaker 2: his PhD up in Indiana, so we were only a
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  Speaker 2: year a year and a half apart in age, but
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  Speaker 2: he was finishing his PHDN. He was my professor, and
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  Speaker 2: he asked me. He said, why do you want to
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  Speaker 2: go to law school? I said, because I want to
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  Speaker 2: make some money. He said, well, do you want to
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  Speaker 2: make money? Well, at first I told him I want
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  Speaker 2: to make a difference. You know, we never tell a
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  Speaker 2: person the real truth. You can try to.
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  Speaker 1: Get I want to make a difference a law and order,
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  Speaker 1: a difference save my people, save my people, to.
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  Speaker 2: Be politically correct. He said, so do you want to
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  Speaker 2: make a difference do you want to make some money?
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, I kind of want to do both.
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  Speaker 2: He said, well, I'm gonna tell you. He said, unless
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  Speaker 2: you at the top of your law school, you're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be Johnny Cochran. He said, you're gonna end up
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  Speaker 2: down there at the county working one hundred plus cases,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred hours a week, and you're gonna be overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 2: He said, you can become a college professor, and you
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  Speaker 2: can make the same amount of money and work half
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  Speaker 2: amount of time. And and I did not believe him,
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  Speaker 2: but he gave me his book. He say, take this
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  Speaker 2: book and look at it. It's called Occupational Outlook Handbook.
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  Speaker 2: I took that book Home. But that book by the
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  Speaker 2: stickers and yellow pages. I know I'm telling my age here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, hopefully all your listeners know what the yellow
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  Speaker 2: pages are, but you know that book was sticking to
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  Speaker 2: yellow page. But any profession you can imagine if you
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  Speaker 2: looked it up, it gave you all the information for
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  Speaker 2: that particular profession. And that was the greatest probably book
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  Speaker 2: I ever read. And that's it was. It was just
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  Speaker 2: life changing.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I decided to do a career in
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  Speaker 2: education versus one in law.
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  Speaker 1: Cool that thought because the story of him becoming a
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  Speaker 1: Lows contractor. When we get back now, this personality has
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  Speaker 1: paid off of him over and over again. Michael Woodwood.
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  Speaker 1: This man is very special. He's risen through the ranks
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  Speaker 1: and he's telling the story on Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making conversations masterclass. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: my guest is a natural born entrepreneur and community leader.
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  Speaker 1: He's a full service home improvement and property management company.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Your company, well, my company was born out of some
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  Speaker 2: things I learned as a use. When I was young,
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  Speaker 2: I went to work with my grandfather. My grandfather was
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  Speaker 2: the head groundskeeper for or the head maintenance guy for
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  Speaker 2: the in Palm Beach where all the all the rich
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  Speaker 2: folks were, and so on saturdays, that's how we get
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  Speaker 2: my little hustle money is. I would go to work
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  Speaker 2: with him and he would teach me how to fix
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  Speaker 2: on houses or work on houses. Him and my great uncle.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they worked me all day man, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: from son up to sundown, give me ten dollars. But
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  Speaker 2: I was happy. I could go to the moves and
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  Speaker 2: hang out with my cousins and.
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  Speaker 1: All that you are telling you, you give you work
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  Speaker 1: a black kid today, that's up and down, and they
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  Speaker 1: will be fighting you.
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  Speaker 2: Right. There had to be some kind of child labor
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  Speaker 2: law by lot.
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  Speaker 1: Up Continue, sir, continue.
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  Speaker 2: So that's how I learned how to work on houses.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, my parents they would always let
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  Speaker 2: me test stuff up in the house and fix it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my dad was of the notion that if
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  Speaker 2: it's not broke, we're not gonna call anybody. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: try to fix it first, you know, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be good and broke by the time we actually have
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  Speaker 2: to call somebody. So I learned. I learned how to
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  Speaker 2: fix a lot of things at a young age. So
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  Speaker 2: that's how I was able to just you know, dive
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  Speaker 2: right into the real estate thing. So you know, as
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  Speaker 2: we continue along, I I would buy rental properties. Every
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  Speaker 2: few years, I'd buy another one, another one as I
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  Speaker 2: went through my career as an educator, and then eventually
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  Speaker 2: I rose to the position of assistant principle and I
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  Speaker 2: was making more money on my rental properties then as
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  Speaker 2: an assistant principal. So you know, many days I would
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  Speaker 2: be working at night painting, putting in floors, you know,
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  Speaker 2: renovating kitchens, things like that, and then I come to
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  Speaker 2: teach school kids the next day, you know, coach wrestling,
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  Speaker 2: coach football. But I'd be I'd be doing all those things.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how I really got into the business. And
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  Speaker 2: it came to a point where I made a choice,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I decided to leave the school system,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how I ended up starting Woodward Property Group.
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  Speaker 2: I left just to manage my business, my my properties,
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  Speaker 2: and then I would through social media just start posting
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  Speaker 2: jobs and people start calling it, you know, like hey,
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  Speaker 2: I saw that you did this job on one of
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  Speaker 2: your properties. You know, you renovate that kitchen? Can you
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  Speaker 2: do mine? Can you do my bathroom?
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  Speaker 3: Like that?
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's exactly how it started.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know, you want to loose top contractors. How
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  Speaker 1: did that come about? Because you know so many you know,
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  Speaker 1: minority businesses are trying to seek a relationship with companies
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  Speaker 1: like that. How were you able to pull that off?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Man? This is funny. I have to set this one
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: up for you because this what involves you. Actually you
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: didn't even know. And I found this out today when
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: I send out the marketing. I have a buddy and
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna drop his name. His name's Keith Fowler. Keith
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Fowler is a contractor. And you know he was good
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: at fixing stuff or renovating. He was better than me
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: because he did this. That's all he's done all his life. See,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I did this part time for twenty years, but he
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: did it all his life. So anyway, I ended up
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: doing some work for this guy that was a marketing
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  Speaker 2: district director for los and he liked my work on
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: his house and he said, hey, don't you want to
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: come work for loads? I say, I tried to get on,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: but you know, y'all never called me up. You said
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you was full. I wanted to be installed. He said, oh, no,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: you don't want to be an installer. You want to
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: do our kitchen in the bathroom design. I said, okay,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I'll come kitchen in the bathroom. You know how a
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: land is people talk, man, everybody just you know, say
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: they gonna do this and do that, and now don't
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: do nothing. But they called me up. Long story short,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: they called me up, and I go down in an
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  Speaker 2: interview and the guy asked me, not him, but another
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: guy asked me. He said, do you know how to
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: build kitchens? I said, yeah, I know how to build kitchens.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: You know I build bathrooms. Yes, I could be a bathroom.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Can you build high end kitchens? I'm saying in my mind, hey,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I ain't not a build no high end kitchen. And
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know what he talking about a high end kitchen.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You know. So my answer was, yeah, I could build
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: a high end kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we gonna.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Take you off. So I went to my buddy, who
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I know does high end kitchen because he does custom work.
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  Speaker 2: And he told me today that he did some work
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: at your house a number of years ago. When he
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: saw the marketing that I put out today about me
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: being on the show. He said, yeah, I've been there
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: with Sean McDonald's top about this pantry form. I built
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the pantry form.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And absolutely, absolutely, absolutely absolutely that's awesome. That's awesome. Tell
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: him a coffee. I may need his services again.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: No, you ain't call to him, no more to me,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: because you.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Because you're high end that, because you're high in that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: So I went to him. I said, look, Keith, I
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: got this problem, man, I got this account with Lows
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: and they want me to do a high end kitchen.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: But I don't know if I could do high end kitchen.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: He said, ah, man, don't worry about it. I help you. Yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I know. That's why I came to you, relationship relationships.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: So I got that contract and here and I did
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: so many kitchen man, it's just not funny. We did
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: so many kitchens to hidden kitchens, you know, like I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: told you from the projects, Man, I ain't never know
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: they had two hundred thousand dollars kitchens.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yes they do, Yes do. And I'm gonna tell you something.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: My wife loves that pantry. She loves that. That pantry
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: is beautiful. I'm gonna tell you, man, that loves she loves.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: That's our favorite. That's one of our favorite parts of
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: our house, that pantry. Just let him know that he
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: went in there. This a little narrow room that he Man,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: everything works in that little room, you know, walks away.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: It's one of them showcase rooms. You look, coming come
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: on in my pantry.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, I know it's good. He does great work, man.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But you know the thing about it, Michael, what
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the story I wanted people to hear that you're telling
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: people is that, first of all, you have not changed.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: You're the same young man that they pickle pig feet.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Now he got mad at me, y'all because I told
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: everybody I eat chiddlings. Then he gonna look at me
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: like I got a problem. You eat chitlings. Yes, I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: eat chitlings, But he eat pickle big feat. He also
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: eats with a pepmin stick in the middle. See Beman
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: stick in the middle. He is by this country as
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you can get. I don't know how you can get
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: that deep in Florida and be that country, but they
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: found the way down at Liberty City. But the beauty
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of him is that he has a massed of real
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: estate portfolio. He has a property management company. And I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: know we have a few minutes left, but I gotta
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: let everybody here about how you take students to HPCUS
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and you educate people about the students and young people
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: about the opportunities on campus. Out your doll out your pocket.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Tell us about that as we exit the.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Interview, Sir, Yeah, what I did was every year of
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: my twenty year career in the education, I took students
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: on college tours. We took students on summer programs which
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: would occur on different college campuses, and we teach a math,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: science technology so STEM programs. But one of the things
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I've learned from my tutoring service was that a lot
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: of students need to set foot on campus to understand.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Because I taught at Northcross High School, right I had
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: students that had never been to the AU Center, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: that was just unimaginable to me. But then I can
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: look back at my past being from Miami, I didn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: think college was possible for me. Yes, Fam, you came
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: down and they played in the Orange Bowl, and we
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: had the band that you used tocumb and had a
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: parade and all that. But going to college was just
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: a dream and college was far from me from Miami. Fam,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: you is, you know, a six eight hour drive from Miami.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: But these folks from North Cross not going to the
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: h I mean the Au Center thirty minutes down. So
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: we started off taking them there and then as we
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: grew with our men were in programmed. We met with
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the kids every Saturday and Sunday and we groomed them
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: for college so that their choices would be college, military,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: or trade school. Those were their their choices. So we
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: prepared them from middle school all the way through high school,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: and we met with them in the fall and in
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the summer. We took them to football games, we took
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: them on college tours, and you know, we had a
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: ninety nine point nine percent success rate. Every kid went
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: to college for our program, and the only one that
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: didn't go to college they went to culinary school. But
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: all of our kids went to congradulate. So that's what
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I did, and I've given every spring break and every
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: summer as an educated to those kids. We've had some
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: great times, some great buses.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Can you tell everybody about your website, your property management website,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: your renovation website. I got to close out to show, yes.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Sir, madam, what property dot com? What propertygroup dot com?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Is the website Woodwork Propertygroup dot com? And you can
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: find us there and now I will definitely return your call.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: We return calls the same day.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: My brother, You're special. I appreciate you coming on the
• 25:17
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• 25:21
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