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Rushion Interviews Award winning actress, Regina Taylor talks being Michelle Obama's mother. | Mother & Daughters create The Fears Group at Morgan Stanley! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: guest is Gina Taylor, a two time in double a
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  Speaker 1: cp Image Award winning actress, playwright and activists. She plays
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  Speaker 1: the role of Marion Shields Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother in
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  Speaker 1: the ten week anthology series The First Lady, which appears
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  Speaker 1: on Showtime every every Sunday, nine pm. I've been watching
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  Speaker 1: it very very well, talked about in more detail. Mrs
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  Speaker 1: Regina Taylor's first film was the made for TV movie
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  Speaker 1: Crisis at Central High, which starred George Woodwood and when
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  Speaker 1: she portrayed one of the first black students to integrate
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  Speaker 1: the Arkansas school system. Taylor next going to praise for
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  Speaker 1: a role as Mrs Carter remember that drug addictive mother
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  Speaker 1: in the eighteen and nine Lean On Me with Morgan Freeman.
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  Speaker 1: Other film roles included Spike Lee's Clockers, a flyaway series
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  Speaker 1: which we would talk about, The Unit and Lovecraft Country.
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  Speaker 1: On today's show, will be discussing her career, longevity and
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  Speaker 1: the anthology series The First Lady. Please welcome to Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversation Masterclass the incredible Regina Taylor. How are you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm great you so much well. First of all, a
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  Speaker 1: career uh enacting. I mentioned because I wanted to mention
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  Speaker 1: your first role and then the current role because as
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  Speaker 1: a body of work. In between, there there's a testimonial
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  Speaker 1: to your skill set, but also the ability to not
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  Speaker 1: just hang around, but to be a part of the process,
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  Speaker 1: the creative process, to be able to make your make
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  Speaker 1: a name for yourself and a respected name for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But tell us how it all started for you, miss Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: I started out as a writer at the writing since
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  Speaker 1: I was a baby. Mother taught me to write children's books.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted me and she was a teacher, so it's
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  Speaker 1: very mindful that she wanted me to be able to
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  Speaker 1: write my own story right, my own narrative plays a
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  Speaker 1: little chocolate girl in the center of the story and
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  Speaker 1: bill worlds around her perspective. She thought that was survival
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  Speaker 1: to creativity. Uh, and to to start channeling that early.
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  Speaker 1: So I always wanted. I always wrote, always loved writing.
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  Speaker 1: Went into college as a journalism major, and uh, I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was my path until I took an acting
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  Speaker 1: class about a credit. It was just really always we
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  Speaker 1: talked about because doing the pandemic in the word pivot
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  Speaker 1: became a very popular term. You know, being able to
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  Speaker 1: make adjustment. You see your path going one way and
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  Speaker 1: then you pivot to make an adjustment. So you went
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  Speaker 1: to college. Journalism was your dream, your goal. You you
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  Speaker 1: dreamed of a life in that put an acting class.
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  Speaker 1: What in that acting class, m Regina Taylor made you
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  Speaker 1: go wow? Always it a series of things that happened
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  Speaker 1: once you took that class. But in the same way
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  Speaker 1: that I love I love books, I love uh writing
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  Speaker 1: because you get to immerse yourself into someone else's life,
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  Speaker 1: run to their skin, seat of their eyes, take that
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  Speaker 1: turning with them. I love books and I love writing
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  Speaker 1: for that. When I took that acting class and still
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  Speaker 1: am a very shy person, a bit timid and in public.
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  Speaker 1: So to be able to then give myself to another character,
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  Speaker 1: uh that I am again stepping into someone else's shoes,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the world with their eyes, I am speaking uh
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  Speaker 1: with their voice and still my own. Uh. That was
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  Speaker 1: very um challenging and it was exhilarating and it got
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  Speaker 1: me over my shyness a bit and uh just owning
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  Speaker 1: my voice in a different way. So that was that
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  Speaker 1: was very exciting. I still didn't consider myself an actor.
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  Speaker 1: That was like acting class one on one. What did
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  Speaker 1: it was? Uh Henry bonda Us at the school Southern
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  Speaker 1: Memphis University here in Dallas, Texas. And yeah and uh
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  Speaker 1: he was doing a live broadcast UM from the school
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  Speaker 1: for TV of the oldest living graduates. So he was
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  Speaker 1: right there on campus, right there in the theater department.
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  Speaker 1: I had finished a class and I was following him
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway because I was too shy to say hello. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And this agent saw me stalking him and came over said,
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  Speaker 1: are you an actress? I said sure, And she said
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  Speaker 1: there's this audition this weekend off of the freeway in
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  Speaker 1: Motel six. And she was like, do you want to
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  Speaker 1: go to this audition? I said, okay, because I'm no fool.
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  Speaker 1: I brought my biggest cousin with me. I'm Philip uh
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  Speaker 1: and made up a resume uh, took a polaroid to
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  Speaker 1: camera uh and and took a picture and went in.
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  Speaker 1: And I got the I got the job. It was
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  Speaker 1: starring Joean Woodward Crisis at Central High about the first
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  Speaker 1: to integrate the Arkansas school system, Little Rock nine right,
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  Speaker 1: and I played many jeans brown this real person. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I got to embody her spirit for the TV movie.
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  Speaker 1: So that was my first professional job. This opportunity came
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  Speaker 1: from following Henry Father down the hallway in school. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you took an acting class SMU University and audition and
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  Speaker 1: you went in. Did you get there? Was it a
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  Speaker 1: cold audition that you give your lives before you walked in?
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  Speaker 1: They yeah, if they gave me live lines? Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I read yeah. Wow. Now you know when you when
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  Speaker 1: you walk into that because you go from every funday,
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  Speaker 1: Now you're Joan Woodward okay, which is another incredibly talented
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  Speaker 1: actress in her in her time. Yes, and then you
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  Speaker 1: were talking about a very dramatic world which is historical
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  Speaker 1: but based what were you an emotionally at this part?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're still in school. What was happening here
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  Speaker 1: with you? Uh? Well, I was just very excited to
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  Speaker 1: uh get to have this experience, Uh was what it
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  Speaker 1: was about. But my first time on a plane to
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  Speaker 1: go from Dallas, Texas to Arkansas to the actual school
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  Speaker 1: where we shot was was very exciting. And as we
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  Speaker 1: were shooting, there are people who were watching the shoot
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  Speaker 1: living across the streets, some of them who were coming
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  Speaker 1: across and saying, oh, I was here the day that
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  Speaker 1: the military came in to escort these students into the
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  Speaker 1: school and I was going, this is real, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it really made last impression about how art social
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  Speaker 1: justice um can be bridged in the work through the work,
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  Speaker 1: and that's your entire career. So now we fast forward
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  Speaker 1: to First Lady, another role where you're playing somewhat the
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  Speaker 1: reality you're you're you're watching something play out in this series. Now,
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  Speaker 1: my takeaway in this series is that I you know,
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  Speaker 1: we always see the final product, you know, them making
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  Speaker 1: it to the White House. There's a there's a role
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  Speaker 1: that they played, there's a life there. So you really
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  Speaker 1: don't see you don't really don't peel back the covers
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  Speaker 1: of who were they were as a child, who they
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  Speaker 1: were as teenagers, how did they meet, what, how did
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  Speaker 1: a relationship come about? And this series does that for me.
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  Speaker 1: And I was and and and and it goes it's life,
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  Speaker 1: He's a person's life is layered in each episode and
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  Speaker 1: to time periods like an episode I's hold last night,
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  Speaker 1: all three of them got married on the same day
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  Speaker 1: in this particular episode, you know, and and So what
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  Speaker 1: was your take on this series when the opportunity came
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  Speaker 1: to you and then as you're watching the series play
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  Speaker 1: itself out, Yes, I think it's really a great series.
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  Speaker 1: And seeing these three powerful women, uh, from Michelle Obama,
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  Speaker 1: Betty Ford, Eleanor Roosevelt in these powerhouse actors, in these
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  Speaker 1: roles Viola Davis to Michelle Peiffer, Jillian Anderson. Uh, take
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  Speaker 1: on uh these roles and what it is to be
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  Speaker 1: a first lady. Definition of first lady keeps changing. You
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  Speaker 1: watched first steps into those shoes. Uh. And certainly with
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  Speaker 1: these particular women, UH, they are conscious women making a statement,
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  Speaker 1: going outside, pushing the boundaries of what the role of
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  Speaker 1: first ladies be. From Eleanor Roosevelt, uh speaking out on
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  Speaker 1: women's rights and rights of people across the board in
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  Speaker 1: her time, UH to um Betty Ford talking about health
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  Speaker 1: and mental health and physical health and her speaking out
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  Speaker 1: when people were mainly silent about the certain issues. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And with Michelle Obama embracing so many issues including being
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  Speaker 1: uh the issue of being a black woman as the
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  Speaker 1: first lady for the very first time in our country's history. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The challenges of each women, each woman is to have
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  Speaker 1: a voids one of being a woman and and challenging
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  Speaker 1: what the expectations, what the boundaries are and being a woman.
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  Speaker 1: UH continues to be uh, challenges that we face today.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really I think interesting how these stories interweed
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  Speaker 1: different times, different women and similar challenges. Mis I'm speaking
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  Speaker 1: to Mrs Regina Taylor, you know, one of the stars
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  Speaker 1: of the anthology series First Lady. This erin on Showtime
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  Speaker 1: every Sunday night at nine pm Easter to Standard Time
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  Speaker 1: and Pacific. The thing that my takeaway was that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you do have Jillian Anderson, you do have Viola Davis,
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  Speaker 1: you do have Michelle Peiffer, but the young actresses who
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  Speaker 1: played the roles, oh my, they were just so I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was. They threw me into the series. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you right now, even before I got to them,
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  Speaker 1: they drew me. If they if they didn't do their job,
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  Speaker 1: if they weren't magnetic, if they wasn't uh, they got me.
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  Speaker 1: They got my heart, they got my spirit. I feel
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  Speaker 1: for their lifestyle, their concerns, they're not being mentioned. I
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  Speaker 1: have to take a few moments with you and also
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  Speaker 1: allow you to speak on them, because to me, they're
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  Speaker 1: the key to the series because, like I said, we
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  Speaker 1: know who Michelle Obama is because we as a First
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  Speaker 1: Lady as well as Eleanor roles, but as a first lady,
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  Speaker 1: as as you know Betty Ford as a first lady.
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  Speaker 1: But that journey to be in that first lady is
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  Speaker 1: so important and they are fantastic. Can you expound yes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: each one because she goes uh in terms of seeing
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  Speaker 1: them as adults, uh in in the role in the
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  Speaker 1: White House and thing you do uh going back in
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  Speaker 1: terms of history John Bath Curtain, who were they before? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: And certainly speaking on Jamie Lawson and um who's playing uh,
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  Speaker 1: also playing Michelle Obama as she goes to high school
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  Speaker 1: through law school, uh college and you also have young
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  Speaker 1: Man de Niro um whood is Julian DeNiro who is
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  Speaker 1: playing at the young uh Mr Obama. How they met right?
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  Speaker 1: So it's so you know, it's like you know, black love,
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  Speaker 1: real love is uh. You know she was his boss,
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  Speaker 1: you know uh. And you know you know the thing
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  Speaker 1: about it is that we don't this we're called pivot
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  Speaker 1: that we talked about earlier in your career. You went
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  Speaker 1: to school as a journalist major and then actress. The
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  Speaker 1: acting bug hit you once you hear the class took
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  Speaker 1: a class in acting, and next time you know, you
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  Speaker 1: one of the most talented actresses in our era and
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  Speaker 1: in this situation, like she says, she didn't like public speaking.
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  Speaker 1: That's why she intentionally flunked a course, That's what she
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  Speaker 1: says in the storyline, so she wouldn't be validatory because
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  Speaker 1: she didn't want to make a speech. And then speech
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  Speaker 1: so and then she becomes one of the most pronounced
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  Speaker 1: speakers of our generation. That's really interesting. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: say it's important because what you see here was not
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  Speaker 1: what now in our final version. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: go high, you know when you go low, we go high.
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  Speaker 1: You know all those quotable statements that she said in
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  Speaker 1: our lifetime and become a leader not only for black
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  Speaker 1: women and but but but but our people, for people
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  Speaker 1: in general. Let you know why this series is important
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  Speaker 1: because you need to see how I started hi, I
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  Speaker 1: built momentum, and how the final product was able to
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  Speaker 1: play itself out because of that journey, correct, Miss Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. Um. We get to see ourselves foundationally where
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  Speaker 1: they come from. Um, Michelle Obamas. I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: her family, family ties that keeper rooted Chicago south Side, mother,
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  Speaker 1: bothered stable, uh and always also playing this role. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Marian Robinson seeing h the strong bond between Michelle Obama
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  Speaker 1: and her mother that she brought her into the White
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  Speaker 1: House with there to live. I was going, yes, yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. If they're facing new challenges, new terrain, uh,
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  Speaker 1: coming up against a major obstacles on a world stage.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to bring her mother with her at that
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  Speaker 1: instabilitate that backbone, not only for herself. When you play
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  Speaker 1: these roles, you know, these roles, these real life roles
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  Speaker 1: which you are playing here and you know and somewhere
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  Speaker 1: played a character that was built into Lean on Me
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  Speaker 1: when the Lean character was a real life role. And
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  Speaker 1: and then of course we talked about your first introduction
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  Speaker 1: in Crisis Central High. But then our flyerway the period. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: our fly Away was a period piece, but it's also
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  Speaker 1: based on a life, a period of how we were
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  Speaker 1: treated and how people a period of time. These pieces
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  Speaker 1: seem to be part of your signature. Do you go
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  Speaker 1: after these roles this Taylor or they just see U
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  Speaker 1: as this dramatic actress who can handle this body of work.
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  Speaker 1: I am blessed and blessed these roles that have come
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  Speaker 1: to me until their mind, and I am encouraged by
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  Speaker 1: this path Now whenever run though I think it was
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  Speaker 1: with any One to ninety three was the series of
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  Speaker 1: Our fly Away and reason it was important to me
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I guess what, there were many black
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  Speaker 1: people on TV and lead actors, of black leite actors
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  Speaker 1: leading in that role. When when someone brought that project
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  Speaker 1: to you, you know, do you do you? Are you
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  Speaker 1: aware of what's happening or you just just happy for
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity. I am happy for the opportunity and certainly
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh with these roles. I'll fly Away was
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  Speaker 1: my first TV series. Uh. And Friday Night, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was Aaron on Friday Night. I believe are you wanted?
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  Speaker 1: I got the script they said, you know, common audition
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  Speaker 1: and what I did bring with me. I brought my roots.
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  Speaker 1: I brought my family, I brought my my my grandmother.
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  Speaker 1: I brought myself fully to uh that audition where I
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  Speaker 1: come from. Uh. This was a black woman in the
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  Speaker 1: fifties in the South. I was shot in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: That was a housekeeper. And uh it was when I
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  Speaker 1: first read the script, I said, oh, well I know her,
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  Speaker 1: I I and I've experienced her. Uh, and I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen her fully embodied on the screen. Uh, that this woman.
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  Speaker 1: Usually at that time, what you saw was a stereotype
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  Speaker 1: of a black woman. Uh, what you saw were hands
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  Speaker 1: and not much beyond the hands, maybe the back. But
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  Speaker 1: with this it was it was very special in that
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  Speaker 1: you got inside her mind. You knew she had dreams.
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  Speaker 1: She and it was expressed every day, every every day
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  Speaker 1: she would write in her journal and was shared every
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  Speaker 1: week at the time of the show. So, Uh, you
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  Speaker 1: knew she had a mind. That's where you began. And
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  Speaker 1: then with that it expanded into not only is she
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  Speaker 1: the black woman in the white household? Um, and those
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  Speaker 1: relationships you saw her at home, you saw her her
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  Speaker 1: community as a woman, You saw her as a woman.
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  Speaker 1: She had boyfriend right right right right right right right right,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that. That that father, she had a daughter,
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  Speaker 1: She had a past, and she got embombed in the
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  Speaker 1: civil rights movement right as a foot soldier. That and
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  Speaker 1: that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why we'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Your life as a as an actress, as a person
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  Speaker 1: excites me when I had an opportunity to set up
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  Speaker 1: this interview because there's always a journey a story we
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  Speaker 1: try to tell, and your story has always been something
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  Speaker 1: that that plays out and it's layered. And that's just
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  Speaker 1: like I said, these are just some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: that movies and series that you've been impactful impacted our lives,
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  Speaker 1: especially in African Americans, because we look if we look
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  Speaker 1: for that role, we look for that mentor we look
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  Speaker 1: for that phase that it's relatable. You have been very
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  Speaker 1: relatable to us with that, with that statement I'm making,
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  Speaker 1: there's that pressure with that because you know, you said
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  Speaker 1: you're naturally shy, You're not forward as far as coming
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  Speaker 1: out and speaking randomly during this interview, I feel has
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  Speaker 1: to be something unique for me because I feel that
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  Speaker 1: you know, you don't step out there doing them all
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  Speaker 1: the time, but when you do them, you're fantastic at
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  Speaker 1: doing them. So that role that you play, that responsibility
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  Speaker 1: is it is it important for you to value what
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  Speaker 1: you bring into the table when you do interviews like this, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is absolutely. I try and be mindful and conscious
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  Speaker 1: with all the work that I do, but that's with acting,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's with writing, I have a sense of where
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  Speaker 1: it comes from. I have a sense of UH connecting
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  Speaker 1: with community communities through interviews or hands on work, mentoring, teaching.
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  Speaker 1: I'm constantly doing classes at different universities or high schools
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  Speaker 1: or UH through whatever channels are available or making those channels.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, I am UH. It has been
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful continues to be a wonderful career and being
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  Speaker 1: able to UH make those bridges between entertainment industry and
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  Speaker 1: UM the social issues that are important to me and
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  Speaker 1: UM continue to strengthen our community. You know when when
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  Speaker 1: I when I see the anthology series, because you plan
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  Speaker 1: a certain role, you're playing Michelle Obama's mother, but you
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  Speaker 1: also have these other tou plate How does that hows
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: that information delivered to you as an actress? Do they
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: give you the entire body of work to see how
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it plays out? You know, this happening with Eleanor Roosevelt's role,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: what's happening with with the Betty Ford's role? How's that
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: played out script wise? For you? Is that important that
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: you know what's happening in their lives so you can
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: understand what's happening in your role with Michelle Obama's character.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: They shot each of the women's stories and it's ten parts.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Each one had ten parts put together. So I did
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: not read, uh, the ten scripts for the other two ladies,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: only the ten scripts uh that involved Michelle Obama. Because
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it was really interesting because, like I said, as a viewer,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm seeing the final product. You know, I'm
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: watching Michelle Obama's role being layered in here, and then
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I'm watching Betty Forge and her characters, like you know,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: she I didn't know she was a divorced woman. I
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: didn't know she drink alcohol. I didn't know she smoked cigarettes.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that at least in the seas they
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: showed that they participated in premarital sect you know, and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: things like this. You know, it really was like I said,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that's the final product is what you get to the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: White House. And that's all right, but always know, these
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: people are human, and we tend to put him in
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the in the White House, and we started putting standards
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and not even that the every day person can live
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: up to. And that's why I was important to see,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: you know, Michelle say, you know, I don't like public speaking,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: But that didn't mean that she didn't eventually rise to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the occasion of being a public speaker. You can see.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: You know she was a daddy's girl. You know that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: You know she had a proud father, you know, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and had to deal with that. And remember the scene
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: in the hospital show. I write to check how much
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you're gonna cost to get my dad up front, front
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: of the line and get him out of this lobby.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You know, when you when you're reading these scripts and
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you're taking this information, what did you learn about Michelle
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Obama Retina Taylor? I've always known she was fierce, you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: know woman, right. We know that she stands for what
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: she believes in. Uh, she is outspoken? How did she
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: get that way? In studying forward this, I went through
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of video, but also her book was very
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: central where she outlines her past, her family, Uh that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the sources of strength in her life. Uh yeah, Uh
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I think. Um, I'm a huge and admirer believer in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama. Well, I think we all are. But guess what,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: we are huge admirers and fans of Regina Taylor. When
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I see you know, it's always fun when I see
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: somebody which I could I used the word legend. And
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I don't use the word lets loosely when I say
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that about you. When I can think a body of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: works that to vividly come into my mind, clockers that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that body worked by Spike Lee always stays in my
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: mind when I saw it in a movie theater. And
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and then you know the the Unit and Lovecraft Country.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: You know, all of them are different for you. All
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: them play our role and all of them leave a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: lasting impression, Miss Taylor, Is that your goal when you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: get on that screen to you know, when you lay
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: down the work that you want to leave an impression
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: on the on, the on, the viewers, on the people
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: who are seeing your work are just the work that
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you're participating in. My My goal is always to try
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and find the truth, right, uh, multifaceted truths of the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: characters that I play uh to uh in this body
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: right UM give insight to share who um we are
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: body work, who we are UH, and we are complicated,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: we are multifaceted. Week. We are both light and dark
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and how we make these journeys and a lot of
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: times we discovering this, uh, the the resilience of the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: human spirit. A lot of times in the characters they're playing.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Uh that that's always I'm always conscious of better moment.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I remember being a child and uh uh seeing a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: black person on the screen, and uh, you would hollow
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: down the street and say, oh, there's a black person.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: There's a black person. Come on, come on, come on,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: had to go see it, Sammon, David Jr. Come on, Yes,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Diane Carol, Oh my god, Beslee Tyson, Oh my gosh,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: um Flip Wilson. The list was short, you know, it
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: was just uh it, yes, thank you, thank And I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: got a chance to work with him. You know, I
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: remember as a child being going, oh my god, what
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a beautiful black man on the screen, and he's showing
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: us as us as us uh, fully and holy and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: unabashedly with no shame. They called me mr Tis, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: know you're gonna go. When he slapped that sheriff, Oh my, yes,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: it took our breaths away. Yes, yes, And I'm sure
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: some TVs went off forgets what we were cheering. We
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: were cheering in the community, Yes, yes, yes, yes, absolutely so. Uh.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: To to be able to work with someone like that,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: uh in a piece uh that was a Western uh
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: called a good day to die. Uh and then have
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: him as mentor and friend. Is is awesome and I'm
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: quite um. It's grateful, humble U in terms of of
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the journeys that I've gotten to take through the work
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that you've done well. Her journey is continues every Sunday night.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: It's called The First Lady, a tend Weeke anthology series.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You gotta catch it. Please go back to the First
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: when you catch it. But she's a multiple in double
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: ACP Image Award winner, she's a multiple Emmy nominated actress,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: she's an activist, she's a playwright. And I'm from Texas.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna claim you're okay, Houston, Texas, Dallas girl okay,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna win together. But more importantly, You're talent
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: will forever be stored on DVD, BC or digital. You
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: are brilliant. Please thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation. Ms.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Regina Taylor, Thank you, Thank you very much. If you
• 28:57
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• 28:59
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• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'm with Sean McDonald, I am your host. We'll be
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: right back with more money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the money Making Conversations Minute
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rushan McDonald's. Hi, Rashan McDonald's money Making
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Conversation with your Daily many of the inspiration. This week,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I sat down with the founder of the HBCU Change app,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Xavier People's, as he shares with what he believes is
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the motive of the black economic engine in America. You know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I think, first and foremost, I am a supporter of
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: all black institutions within the black eco system. I believe
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that it is paramount to our survival here in this country.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Where will we be without a use? What will we
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: mean without the Black Church? What will we be without
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: black banks? Uh? Those are the true motors of art
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: that allow us to drive in this country, might of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the many herbals that are grown out in front of us.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: If you want to listen to this, full interview with
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Xavier People's is available on money Making Conversation dot com.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: My next guest, they are here. I have two of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: them one uh two, as will be three in studio,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: but I have two in studio live. One is at home.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: She's she traveled worldwide and she came back a little sick,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: but I forgive her. My next guest is a son
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: your Fears and her two daughters, Raya and Ayana. Um M.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Fears is the vice president of Global Sports and Entertainment
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Director at Mortgage Stanley. Raya and Ayana are also financial
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: advisors and Morgan Stanley under the Fears Group umbrella. For
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: over eighty years, Morgage Stanley has been helping families and
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: people of all ages navigate their financial lives. Some just
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Team's works with families to understand how their money can
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: be used to accomplish their goals and help them plan
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: for their future so that they can enjoy all life,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: all that life has to offer. This is a family, Yes,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: this is a financial family that works together. Is on
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the show to talk about stock retirement and financial planning.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations master class. Sonya and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: incredible two daughters, Raya and Ayana. They are the Fears Group. Welcome.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for Sean. It's an absolute pleasure
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: to be here, to be back. Um, that's right, you
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: are returning. That's right. Bactic crew with you, right that's right.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: So just um, I love the fact that uh you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: saw it fit to bring me back, and I welcome
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: this opportunity. Well, well, before I get to your daughter,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: you know, we gotta talk, you know, because of the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: fact that you made an impact on my show, because
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of the fact that you know, a predominant black radio
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: station play music. You know, that's that's just okay, what
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: format you are all over this country. I had a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: relationship with Steve Harvey. We syndicated on music stations, so
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I'm well aware of the power of music. What we
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: lack is in financial literacy. And so I've been so
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: blessed or be on w C Okay where they actually
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: stopped the music allow me to do a show about entrepreneurship,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: financial leadership and community uplift. And then this hour when
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you came on the show, I feel you impacted some
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: people's lives because you gave them information. And this time
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you brought back your crew, your crew. Now I say
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't expect I expected rare, but then you brought
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: back another side crew that I knew nothing about. This
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: first HAF meeting there, So please introduce us to your family,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: which are your daughters and we're talking about how you
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: started this financial journey for you and then how was
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: it introduced to your daughters to make this a comfortable
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: communities that operates under the Fierce Group which is at
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley Floors. Your son, yea, thank you, thank you.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: So I've been in financial in this space UM for
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: six this is my sixteenth year UM. But really I
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: started even before this. I've been I've done mortgages, I've
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: done taxes UM. I always loved numbers. I wanted to
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: major in math in in in college, I have a
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: degree in chemistry. And so when I discovered the world
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of investing UM really to be a financial advisor and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and your previous guests said it before, it was a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: collision of all the things that I've done, you know.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: So again, I've been a business owner, so I'm an
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: entrepreneur UM doing taxes UM, doing mortgages and just being
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: able to my My goal was to be a personal
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: CFO for individuals and that is the thought that I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: had in mind. And this is that this his UM
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a passion for me because it is it's everything that
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I've done in one place. So it's it's a it's
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a natural thing so that's that's how I got into
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: this business, and this is how I realized this is
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: where I was meant to to be. Rhea Um, believe
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: it or not, she was to be an orthopedic surgeon.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: And last year in her emery and I'm gonna let
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: her introduce herself, she decided that Um, with a math
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and economist degree, she wanted to go into finance and
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: she put it out there. I said, well, if you're
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: going to apply to all these different companies, you might
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: as well apply to Mary Lynch. That's where I was
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: before Morgan Stanley, and she did, and that was the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: beginning of the fierce group before you before she said something,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: now use it. Then you moved over to Morgan Stanley. Yes,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: it had to be some doubt, some with some that
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: they say you comfortable making that move, that you questioned
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: people who did you seek out to say I'm comfortable
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: over here, but I see a bigger opportunity to over here.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It was one of the hardest decisions I've made, you know. So,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: so when you're somewhere where you think you're at the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: top of your game and it's really comfortable and you're
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: being embraced because you're getting the perks of the job.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: To make that decision to move, it's it's a hard decision,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: but it was a decision that I made for a
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: few um reasons. One of the most important reason was
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: my other daughter that's sitting here. I wanted all of
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: us to be together. I wanted to build a legacy
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: that she could be a part of, that Ria could
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: be a part of. And she really she tried out
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Bank of America Marylynch, but it just didn't work out
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: for her. So I made a decision that we're all
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: gonna do this together at Morgan Stanley. Okay, now you
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: can introduce it out there. Oh yeah, that's it. And
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and so Ayanna Fears that's my my other daughter, UM,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and believe it or not, totally um. Outside of financial world.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: She has a degree in health services. And that's just
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to say, wherever you start, this could be where you
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: end up. And it's an amazing career. This is uh
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: an opportunity for families anywhere to build a legacy that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you can start and you can have them finish. I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: used to tell people it's like running a relay. Okay,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: you start the relay and you'll run five hundred and
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: when you get to that end, you don't start over again.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You pass that baton where you left off. And that
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is what this industry allows you to do. You know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: as I've never heard your mama preach, I'm moving around
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: in my chair over here. As I said past time,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: it sounds that that's motivation. That's motivation about being successful
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: health to finance. How um so public health degree in
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: public health from Georgia Southern. And I always just had
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: like a big strong I always had a strong footing
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: with sciences. Um but I kind of I knew I
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: liked marketing. I knew I liked business. But I saw
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: my mother and she kind of was like, you know,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: like you should try And I'm like, oh, no, anything
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: you say me to do, I'm not gonna do it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: So I fought it for a while. I took so
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: many different positions, and that's what really it took was
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: me trying all those different positions and realizing it did
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: not fit. I did it to the best of my ability,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: but I personally knew that wasn't for me. Right. So
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: you are in studio, how are you feeling. I know
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: you're a little bit under the weather, but you're a trooper.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: You came on the show, tell us about how you
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: got into this world. Noticed because I know you wouldn't
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: drug into it. I knew you was inspired by this, uh,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: this wonderful preacher who's suddenly born herself into my studio today,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: your mom's sonya Uh yeah. So I So my degree
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: was in math and economics. I think decision being I've
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: always been good at maths economics was something that made
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: sense to me. UM. I kind of got to the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: end of my undergrid career and kind of started playing
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: with the idea of what would I be happy doing,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: what would make sense, what would what is something that
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: would engage me um and that would be excited to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: continue learning about UM and so I started looking at
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: things within the finance, within the finance field. UM. And
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I think even from being honest, even growing up, something
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: that was that my dad always told us UM the
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: importance He always kind of spoke about the importance money,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the importance of living within our means, but ultimately making
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: sure that we could afford the lifestyles that we wanted
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: for ourselves, UM, which kind of made us challenge, Okay, well,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: what do we want for ourselves? UM, and then how
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: do I get there? And so I played with for
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: a long time looking at things to be like, oh
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I like that, but that's not going to get me
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: where I want to beat UM. And so kind of
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: being able to have that month at early on, I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: think kind of helped made that decision very easy for
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: me and UM until it's for me. It's been since
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: seven years now within the finance industry, I'm enjoying it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: And the Fears Group was it always the Fears Group?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Did they start when you came over to mortgage Stanley?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Now the Fears Group started at Maryland's again. So the
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Feers Group started when Rhea Um came into Maryland innch
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and we formed a team, her and I. But before
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Um Rhea came in, I was there, you know, grinding,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and it's you know, I I won't um sugarcoat it.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: It wasn't easy. And so that's the thing, you know,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: to really understand that, you have to want it. I
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: used to say. And I used to say too. There's
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a a guy, black guy that was in the building
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and he owned his shoeshine business, and I used to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: go and talk to him in the evenings when I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: was leaving and or taking a break really and I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: would tell him they're gonna have to drag me out
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: of here kicking. I'm going to make it. And and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I was the second black female to graduate UM the
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: training program at Marylynch out of the Atlanta Bucket office UM.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: And you know, just to give you an idea of
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: what this industry is, UM, Marylynch have seventeen thousand plus
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: UM financial advisors. Of that seventeen thousand plus, there were
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: twenty five black female financial advice twenty five. I was
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: one of the twenty five. And when Rhea came and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: joined me, she was the second one of the twenty five.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: And you're are considered a full fledged financial advisor until
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you graduate the training program. So they get a lot
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: of trainees in, right, and so they could use those numbers,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: but it's a revolving door. They come in and they
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: go out. They come in and they go out to
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: make it through the training program, which is a three
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: and a half training UM three and a half year
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: training program, that's when you become a financial advisor. Twenty
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: five of us nationally across the country, So and real
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and I left, that was ten percent of all the
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: black female and financial advisors that the company had in
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the country. You know when you hear that at Yana,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: what words to your mind? I Well, not only hear it,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: but I saw it. So I sat in Merrill for
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: for a little bit, and I saw where people would
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: come in and I saw when they would leave, and
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: so I saw where there was the need for not
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: just a mentorship, but like an advocate, for somebody to
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: actually kind of walk them through and say like hey,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: you know, like I will help you or pull them
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: up the ladder just a little bit, because that's what
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: everybody else was doing for each other. You know, I'm
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: not trying to turn this into a gloom show because
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: it's by finances and money makes everybody happy when you
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: can get it. And they're passing out a lot of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: money out there with Kryptoe and bit corn, and you know,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: we do on a little downslide right now because it's
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: took a little hit there. But you don't run from
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: the stock market. You run to the stock market. You Okay,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: So how do you get in the stock market? And
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: the Fears group leadership financial Planning and so it it's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: getting into that training program and we want to encourage.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: So we want to tell um students that are in
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: middle school, in high school, we we want to show
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: you and um. When Ria was in the program, we
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: reached back to her high school and had a bus
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: load of students come in and we talked to them. So,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: you know, to to get the education, the information about
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: stocks and finance and really being able to build wealth.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: What does it mean? Financial literacy? Wherever you can get it.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: We host a program for financial literacy. There's a lot
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: of YouTube videos. Get it because learning about how to
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: manage money, what it means, to understand the stock market,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the capital markets, what it means to build wealth. It's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: important and we need to teach it. But I'm sure
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: that like it's gonna be real. There're stereotypes and we
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: in our community. You are black woman, a black person
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: in general, black person come in with their little money.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Do you get stereotypes? I trust the white person gonna
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: do my money right, and you won't do it right.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Do you get that stereo all the time, all the
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: time make you mad? You know, you have to understand
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: what you're dealing with, you know, so when you have
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I have a client that was an athlete, right I'm
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: in global sports and entertainment. And he was previously a
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: client that I did mortgages with. And he told me
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: because it took a while for me to convince him
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: to become a client in which I was managing his money.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And he said, most athletes, and they say it in
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the locker room, unless they look like someone that had
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: money growing up, they weren't gonna allow them to manage
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: their money, you know. And so people that look like me,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: um really is not someone that they equated to have
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: money growing up. So it's it's hard for them to
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: think that I can trust this person and this person
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: will understand what to do to help me grow my wealth.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: So you have to build that trust, right, And how
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: do you build that trust making the money? No, you
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: you educate them first, you know. So so it comes
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: to the credentials, right, I'm a certified financial planner. It's
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: not many of us out there that that's like that,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: and the the designations and the education and to be
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: able to sit down and talk to people about what
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: it means to manage your money, what it means to
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: invest your money. That's that's what it takes. People have
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: to get a sense that they can trust you that
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: you know what you're talking about, that you understand the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: seven life priorities, right, And that's what it takes, UM
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: to really help build trust. And that's what you have
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: to do. You have to build trust, but it takes
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: knowledge to be able to do that. And educating people
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to be able to do that awesome And I'd really
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: like to add to that. UM. I think another part
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: of it because I started in this industry when I
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: was twenty one years old, and so having that conversation
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: with people or why should I trust you at this
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: young age to manage and I think a lot of
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: times of stepping in a space and being proactive instead
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: of instead of reactive, and kind of stepping in a
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: space of acknowledging what you may think as a concern,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: kind of acknowledging, um, what it is you're there to do,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: why you're capable of doing it, and kind of being
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: comfortable and confident standing in Okay, this is who I am,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: this is what I'm here to do, and ultimately this
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: this is why I'm qualified. UM. And I think a
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: lot of times, especially women, we don't necessarily feel comfortable
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: or confident being taking that proactive stance, but that's definitely
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: a big part of it. We'll be right back with
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: don't run from the stock more kid, you run to
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the stock market. You do, okay, So how do you
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: get in the stock market? And the Fears group leadership
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: financial planning and so it it's getting into that training
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: program and we want to encourage. So we want to
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: tell um students that are in middle school, in high school,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: we we want to show you and um, when Ria
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: was in the program, we reached back to her high
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: school and had a bus load of students come in
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: and we talked to them. So, you know, to to
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: get the education, the information about stocks and finance and
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: really being able to build wealth. What does it mean
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: financial literacy wherever you can get it. We host a
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: program for financial literacy. There's a lot of YouTube videos.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Get it because learning about how to manage money, what
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: it means to understand the stock market, the capital markets,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: what it means to build wealth. It's important and we
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: need to teach it. But I'm sure that like it's
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: gonna be real. There's stereotypes and we in our community.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: You are black woman, a black person in general, black
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: person come in with their little money. Do you get stereotypes?
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I trust the white person gonna do my money right,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: and you won't do it right? Do you get that
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: stereo all the time, all the time make you mad?
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: You know, you have to understand what you're dealing with,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: you know, So when you have I have a client
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: that was an athlete, right, I'm in global sports and entertainment,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: and he was previously a client that I did mortgages with.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: And he told me because it took a while for
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: me to convince him to become a client in which
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I was managing his money. And he said, most athletes,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: and they say it in the locker room, unless they
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: look like someone that had money growing up, they weren't
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: gonna allow them to manage their money, you know. And
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: so people that look like me, um really is not
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: someone that they equated to have money growing up. So
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: it's it's hard for them to think that I can
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: trust this person and this person will understand what to
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: do to help me grow my wealth. So you have
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: to build that trust, right and how do you build
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: that trust making the money? No, you you educate them first,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you know, so, so it comes to the credentials, right,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: I'm a certified financial planner. It's not many of us
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: out there that it's like that, and the the designations
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and the education and to be able to sit down
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: and talk to people about what it means to manage
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: your money, what it means to invest your money. That's
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: that's what it takes. People have to get a sense
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: that they can trust you, that you know what you're
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: talking about, that you understand the seven life priorities, right,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: And that's what it takes UM to really help build trust.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: And that's what you have to do. You have to
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: build trust, but it takes knowledge to be able to
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: do that. And educating people to be able to do
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: that awesome. And I'd really like to add to that. UM.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I think another part of it because I started in
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: this industry when I was twenty one years old, and
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: so having that conversation with people or why should I
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: trust you at this young age to manage our money?
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of times of stepping in a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: space and being proactive and so every instead of reactive
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: and kind of setting a space of acknowledging what you
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: may think as a concern, kind of acknowledging, um, what
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: it is you're there to do, why you're capable of
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: doing it, and kind of being comfortable and confident standing
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: in Okay, this is who I am, this is what
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I'm here to do, and ultimately this this is why
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I'm qualified. Um. And I think a lot of times,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: especially women, we don't necessarily feel comfortable or confident being
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: taking that proactive stance. But that's definitely a big part
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: of it. Wowana newest to the crew, your thoughts well, um,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: everything that they just said, but more so the being
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: proactive because I am I've always been the youngest in
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: the room or the most what seems to be let
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: me answer this question, because you know you are the
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: youngest is to take away because you've had the conversation
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: to come back to the house and the breakfast table,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: at the dinner table, the frustrations, but you came because
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: you felt you had put a protection, you had mentorship
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: that would allow you to be successful. Is that why no?
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: I wanted it, Um, the protection, the mentorship that helped
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: a lot. But I'm not gonna do anything that I
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: don't want, and so I saw the life that I want,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: and I see the things that I want for it.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: And I know that this profession and all the knowledge
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: that I've been able to gain from just being a
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: uh fly on the wall to actually being a part
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: of it, I know that that's what I want for myself.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I love it, love it. We have a car Rosalind
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: in Marietta, Marietta, Georgia. Had Rosalind. You're on the call
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: with the Fierce Group and this is Rushian McDonald's host.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: How are you doing. What's your question? I'm good, Hi, Reshan. Um.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I had a question for all the ladies. Actually, um,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: do you guys do classes or like online training or
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: something like that? Do you where can I why you
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: guys or learned from you guys? Is it is it
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: just a class? How often do you do it? You know?
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Where can we find you? Oh? Thank you for asking.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: So I started UM uh Financial Literacy UM program online
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: for what I said, kids of all ages, you know,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: because it's it's targeted to kids. But when you're talking
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: about investing and budgeting and savings, its skids of all ages.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: We need to at fifty, at twenty, at sixteen. We
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: need all those skills. So UM that's something that UM
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: I will start back up and UM would love to
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: UM to give you that information. So again I'm with
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley and you can look yourself the Fears group
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: and I'll put it out there online. I'm on LinkedIn
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: and Facebook. UM with our financial literacy program that we're
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: starting again. What is financial literacy? Can you can you
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: help me with that question? Absolutely? Oh okay. So when
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: we talk about financial literacy, it's just understanding money right
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: and how money. UM, you can earn it, but how
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: can you put it to work right? And and and
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: it has a job to do, so what is that job?
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: And and then understanding what your cash flow needs are,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Understanding what UM an emergency fund is, Understanding saving and budgeting.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Financial literacy is all of that is understanding from step
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: one UM and saving UM and budgeting and saving for
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: that emergency UM to having those moneys to invest and
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: build your wealth. Understanding what a net worth is and
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: that it's liabilities and it's your assets and its assets
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: minus liabilities equals your net worth and we want that
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: to be positive. That's how we build wealth. So that
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: that's what financial literacy is because it's used a lot.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: It is and uh and again it's education as to
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: how you can participate. It sounds like I'm over where
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I aimn over whim when I hit the word financial literacy.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: You know, is it balancing your checkbook? Is it? Is it?
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Is it buying the c D? Is it is financially
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: to literacy tied to you know, buying a car, leashing
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the car, buying a home. It's so many layers because
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit more about that
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: because I just want I just want people to not
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: only feel comfortable with participating, because a lot of people don't.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: They just ignore and just go in the corner and
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: sit there and put a dance hat on their hands,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: say that's not my lane, and and never get back
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: into the lane. You know, they lose little money and go, oh,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I got burned. You know here that word burned, you know.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: And but this is a journey that I'm with with
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: money making conversations. Mastical has to bring talided in this case,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: a very talented family that that has is breaking walls.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: You may not know it, but you're breaking walls. You're
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: pulling down, you're tearing down walls only. You're tearing down walls.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: You're tearing down walls because of one thing. You you
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: came through and you did you delivered this amazing number
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: seventeen thousand in twenty five. You've got another caller. You
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: got the ladies calling in. The ladies are running the show.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just the host, Stephanie. How you doing, Stephanie? What
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: is your question for their fears group? And I, of
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: course I am the host. Ra Sean McDonald welcome, come
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: on making conversation masterclass. Thank you. Yes. My question is
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: when is a good age to start teaching your kids
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: about the stock market? Oh? I love that question. Um.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: I tell people all the time if you have a
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: child that, um, smile pretty and do chores in the house,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: you open a roth Ira for them and teach them. Okay,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: So you want to start teaching them as soon as
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: they can understand what money is period. Okay. I think
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: another good gauge is if if your child starts to
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: have a favorite store or favorite brands. Um, they like
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: their Jordans, they love them snipey, maybe they love to
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: go to Target. Um. I think that's a good way
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: to start to gain interest in the stock market because
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: they can start to kind of follow those companies that
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: they love and um, the companies that they frequent um
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: and kind of see what that means kind of start
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: to finish is that this Uh, that's a little sick
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: expert right there. That's just pipe there right there. Yeah,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: we don't hold that important information. She's really because she
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: said she came into the financial game at twenty one
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: years of age. Okay, So when you said, as soon
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: as they started talking and understanding, Okay, I have two
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: individuals who you raised. Uh, can you tell us when
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: you were when you were conscious about what the financial
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: world was into Yana, if you can follow up with
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: that reaction, because you were brought into this world, like
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I said, you would do and mortgage. You was doing
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: tax preparations. So you may not have been at a
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: uh Mary Lynch, but you were always tied to coordinating
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: financial financial education to real your your your turn to
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: tell us how you will introduced into the financial world
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: and when you bought into it, uh to the financial words.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: So um, like he said, my my dad was very
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: adamant that we made sure that we always put ourselves
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: where we could afford the lifestyle that we wanted. Um.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: And so I had my first job at sixteen, and
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: I have probably had a job since then. UM. And
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: then I think that's important is because when I got
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: to a point where it came time to start doing, um,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: applying for financial aid for college or kind of figuring
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: out figuring out why so much money came out of
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: my first paycheck. Um, it's like that I my mind's
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: kind of started to turn, and I I think kind
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: of stepping in that space and then kind of kind
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: of turning around and kind of seeing people be be
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: very vocal um about about companies kind of on to rise,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: like Amazon and Google kind of from an earlier age.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: I think it kind of put us in a position
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: or that put me in a position to allow my
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: curiosity to kind of turn into research, to kind of
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: turn into that further knowledge. UM. So you think I've
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: always kind of taken a place of being involved again
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: when it came to doing for financial aid, when it
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: came to doing my taxes, even though it wasn't it
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: wasn't much um, and even kind of opening like my
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: first accounts and realizing like, hey, you lost money because
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: I because you overdrew your account. Um. And so it's it's, it's.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: It was the requirement to be for me to be
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: involved in those which were seemingly small things. It might
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: have been things that were easy for my parents to
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: kind of fix and kind of knock out without my attention.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: That I kind of encouraged me to remain engaged your turn,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: um for me, I think the very first memory I
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: have is when we um. I don't remember my age,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: but Rie and I we had to go every Saturday
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: to this class for our church. And it was, of
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: course my dad's idea. My mom, you know, she's well
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: into all the finances, but my dad always makes us
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: go do the activities, makes us counter dollars or get
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: one dollar you have to save it, um. But we
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: had to do the stock market game at the class.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Every it was every Saturday or Sunday, and they basically
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: had us do what was It was like a board game,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: but then it was like a stock market simulation and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: it wasn't just it started off on the local level,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: and I think it went up to like a national
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: level if you you know, like the stock you picked
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: if it started doing well. And so that was like
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: the very first memory that I have of like really
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: taking any type of interest into the stock market. Um,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: but as far and health. Yeah, and then she came
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: over back when we talked about participating. We talked about
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: the wealth gap. You know, you do talk about you know,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: the jaw taxes and kin the wealth gap for black people. Clothes.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, Um, I I see it happening. Um. You know,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: I see more and more um, black people, young people
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  Speaker 1: interested in finances, interested in the stock marketing. Um. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to more and more people that has a Robin
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  Speaker 1: Hood account right and are trading on their own, and
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  Speaker 1: they're doing far and foreign exchange trading. You're you're seeing it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: What is needed on top of that is really understanding
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. You know. So they're doing it and
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  Speaker 1: they're interested, but let's talk about the steps, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and let's talk about what this really means. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to go back, um financial literacy. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So finance is in the middle of everything, and there's
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  Speaker 1: seven life priorities and I and I want people to
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  Speaker 1: really make note of this. There's home, there's work, right,
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  Speaker 1: there's health. We talked about health, um, there's family, there's leisure, right,
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  Speaker 1: and there's charity or giving those are the priorities finance
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  Speaker 1: touch every single one of those things, right, And and
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  Speaker 1: so that's what it really takes UM to to understand
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  Speaker 1: and that this is where we start, this is where
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  Speaker 1: we end. This is what we have to teach out
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  Speaker 1: to each out there. Wow, real, let's talk about I
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  Speaker 1: know we have a few minutes left and I want
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  Speaker 1: to kind of like go to you because you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: you came in at twenty one. We're talking about diversity.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how can we create diversity on Wall Street?
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  Speaker 1: Is that possible? Absolutely? I absolutely think it is possible.
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  Speaker 1: I think, UM, where Ayana and I are fortunate is
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  Speaker 1: we had that outlet, We had that resource UM that
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  Speaker 1: kind of already knew about the industry, that knew about
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  Speaker 1: the space, that was kind of willing to kind of
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  Speaker 1: share their knowledge. I think as we stand in a
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  Speaker 1: place now of social media being very present and just
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  Speaker 1: it is easier to access information, UM, I think there
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  Speaker 1: are more there are more and more opportunities becoming available
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  Speaker 1: for diverse individual success in that space. I think the
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  Speaker 1: biggest part of it, though, comes down to your networks,
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  Speaker 1: comes down to being comfortable asking the questions and kind
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  Speaker 1: of putting your name and they had kind of throwing
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  Speaker 1: what you want for yourself, the things that you're interested
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  Speaker 1: out to the people in your network platforms and UM,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you took time out of what is
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  Speaker 1: traditionally a music station to kind of provide that information.
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  Speaker 1: And if people of diverse individuals kind of take an
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  Speaker 1: advantage of this opportunity to say, hey, that is something
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested, how do I get involved? Then now puts
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: me in a position to make a recommendation or make
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  Speaker 1: a referral. If somebody comes to me and said, hey,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: they want to get into the finance industry. Um, because one,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: you don't know what you don't know, but to the
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  Speaker 1: majority of the people in the position they are and
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  Speaker 1: now is based off of the relationships that they have, UM,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to the work that they put in. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're willing to put in the work and you
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  Speaker 1: can kind of continue to build on your network and
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  Speaker 1: feel and feel confident and being I guess vulnerable to
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  Speaker 1: say hey this is where this is what I want
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  Speaker 1: for myself, I might not necessarily be there now. UM,
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  Speaker 1: is there any way you can kind of help me,
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  Speaker 1: or if it any way that you know somebody that
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  Speaker 1: can help me? I think that goes far and that's powerful.
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  Speaker 1: She can talk like you and that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank all three of you guys. Lady
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  Speaker 1: excuse me for coming on the show. Don't make this
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know I always invite you back every quarter,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: so you know, nothings out there. Two more quarters. So
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  Speaker 1: next time I'm on a real in studio and we're
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: gonna talk stock we gotta we got. We kind of
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: learned who the family is, who the fierce group is,
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• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the opportunity. Rashan, always a pleasure. You've
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  Speaker 1: spoke with founder and CEO of Ballows Food, Tiffany Neil.
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  Speaker 1: She explained the steps she took to start Ballows Food
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  Speaker 1: with twenty five dollars in her pocket. When I initially started,
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  Speaker 1: I started with maybe about twenty five dollars and some change.
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  Speaker 1: So I literally went to UM. Once I've decided that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do a pancake mix, I just went
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  Speaker 1: to like a Michael's or some type of store like that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly, and got like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: like packaging like I was already prepared, like canisters and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, and I just started sending those out
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  Speaker 1: to family, to friends, UM just to see, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I had something, but I wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: kind of what the feedback would be from other people.
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  Speaker 1: So you developed the mix in your kitchen I did.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to listen to this full interview with
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