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Wendell Holland Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is a five beta Kappa graduate a
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  Speaker 1: More Halls College that's right here in Atlanta, Georgia. This
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  Speaker 1: is just so appropriate. Alumnus of University of Pennsylvania Law School,
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  Speaker 1: way up No South and North, and on May twenty
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  Speaker 1: three this year, he wants a vival Ghost Island season
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  Speaker 1: thirty six. Now that's something that I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I do that he did, and we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: how a board five beta capital you know he's smart,
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  Speaker 1: not you know he's smart went to an island and
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  Speaker 1: hung out there half naked for for a whole season.
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  Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation when Holland. No,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing window, man, I appreciate it when when
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  Speaker 1: you based there right now, Philadelphia, man, Philadelphia born and
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  Speaker 1: raised except for school and except for survivor. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: you were born and raised there, but you came to college,
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  Speaker 1: came down to Atlanta for college. Yeah. Man, I had
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  Speaker 1: to go to the best you know, I had to
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  Speaker 1: go to the best school. So I had to come
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  Speaker 1: to the a town and get my get my education
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  Speaker 1: that more, get that good southern food, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: that good Southern food on. And you went back up
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  Speaker 1: the Philly home of the Super Bowl champions for Philadelphia Eagles. Yes, yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: And you're a champion. Now let's talk about your world champion,
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  Speaker 1: the city's world champions. You know, you're fighting for baseball,
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  Speaker 1: your your basketball team. So Philadelphia is winning a city
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  Speaker 1: of winners, and you represent the thinking. That's what you
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  Speaker 1: represent that. You know, my boy Kevin Hart, he's a winner.
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  Speaker 1: He from Now they gotta put you got the Rocky
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  Speaker 1: statue downtown, you know right there. I hope he took
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  Speaker 1: a selfie with that. When you wanted to survive or
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know I did, you know, I did,
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  Speaker 1: I have a good I have a good fixture right
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  Speaker 1: next to the rocky statue. So so let's talk about it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you did Survivor thirty six season thirty six season of Survivor.
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  Speaker 1: You have been wanted to do this show for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Tell us why? So? I've always been um
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  Speaker 1: kind of a well growing up, I like to build
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  Speaker 1: like treehouses and you know, play around in my parents backyard.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess about ten years ago, I started watching
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  Speaker 1: this show Survivor, and I'm like, man, it's it looks
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  Speaker 1: like a difficult show, but it looks like a show
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  Speaker 1: that I could put all of my talents two And
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  Speaker 1: it looks like a show I could do pretty well
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  Speaker 1: at because I'm I was pretty smart, pretty athletic, I
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  Speaker 1: played a lot of sports, pretty social, have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of friends, and I'm like, man, this game requires all
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  Speaker 1: those abilities, so maybe I could maybe I could try
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  Speaker 1: my hand at it. Okay, cool, So so let's let's
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  Speaker 1: let's the stage has been said. We know he's smart
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  Speaker 1: Phi Beta Kappa at the incredible Marehouse College and Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: George y'all, okay, low school at University of Pennsylvania. He
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  Speaker 1: talking to Okay, we know, did you get around. So
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  Speaker 1: now he's been wanting to do this for like ten years,
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  Speaker 1: so he was looking at you. So there was a
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  Speaker 1: planned action. You you just like didn't stumble up on this.
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  Speaker 1: So were you rejected several times? Did you apply several times?
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  Speaker 1: Explain tell us about that. So at Morehouse I learned
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  Speaker 1: the same proper preparation prevents port performance. Right, So I've
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  Speaker 1: been watching the show for years and wanting to get
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  Speaker 1: on the show. So as I watched it, I was
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  Speaker 1: taking notes for years on strategy, how I would play,
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  Speaker 1: how I will react to certain situations, what have you?
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  Speaker 1: And I started started up planning I'd say like seven
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and over the years I sent in many
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  Speaker 1: application videos, I went to live constings. I never got
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  Speaker 1: it through. Like when I was out of law school,
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  Speaker 1: I was clerking for a few judges in Philly. I
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  Speaker 1: never got it and had my shoeing turn on. I
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  Speaker 1: was clean cut then and I never got it. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally I take this career path change and I
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  Speaker 1: started my own company, and I grew out an friend,
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  Speaker 1: I got my beard, I'm kind of living my full life,
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  Speaker 1: and they finally say we want this version of when
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  Speaker 1: we want you to come on the show, so that
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the preparation and also the persistence
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  Speaker 1: and me not giving up and me continuing to apply
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  Speaker 1: and apply and apply. Well, I think also the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you made a statement there a transition. I feel
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  Speaker 1: you became who you are today. You know, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you didn't come in there, come into okay,
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  Speaker 1: this survival. You're on the island. You said you were
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  Speaker 1: coming in that clean cut. That's a look that don't
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  Speaker 1: work on that I because you're pulling off your clothes.
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  Speaker 1: The tide going somewhere, it's not gonna stay on you,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So so that look right there.
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  Speaker 1: They said, well he we like him, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: really think he get it because they want you to survive.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm a big fan of these shows. Another one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite shows, Naked and Afraid. I love that show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I love that show. Now you you get on
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  Speaker 1: that show window now you're going to I think, trying
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  Speaker 1: to start a fire, and know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 1: so so I appreciate the fact that you're showing everybody
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  Speaker 1: that even in this television show, you had to put
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  Speaker 1: in preparation, you had to examine and have a plan
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  Speaker 1: of action. And the key thing you said was persistency.
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  Speaker 1: And also what you said was key to me and
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  Speaker 1: hearing this process is that you made a transition in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Let's talk about that, because you're doing everything
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  Speaker 1: that people tell you to do. I used to work
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  Speaker 1: for IBN before I became a stand up comic, and
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  Speaker 1: did I left for stand up comic. I became a
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  Speaker 1: sitcom writer when I love a sitcom right. I became
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  Speaker 1: a television producer. Then I became a manager of talent.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a lot of transitions. And people always tell me, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know how to reinvent yourself, and I just tell people,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to step out there. Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: your personality window. I can't be afraid to stay out there.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be afraid to take risks and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: take a leap of faith. Um calculated risks though, like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just I'm not just doing something off of
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  Speaker 1: a whim. I had UM when I was clerking for
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  Speaker 1: a few judges in Philly. I was in civil courts,
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  Speaker 1: when I was in family court, and I needed a
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  Speaker 1: bed for myself and on my salary, I put the
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  Speaker 1: point of these nicer, high end beds that I really
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  Speaker 1: that I really wanted. So I decided to build my
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  Speaker 1: own bed um and it was a It was a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful piece of furniture, and I was like, man, I
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  Speaker 1: have a gift right here. This is something that I
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  Speaker 1: can do. And then at the time, I started building
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  Speaker 1: more beds on the side. While I was still clerking
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  Speaker 1: and working hard, you know, nine to five, I started
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  Speaker 1: building beds and other kinds of furniture and selling it
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  Speaker 1: on the side. So I'm like, you know what, this
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  Speaker 1: is something that fulfills me. This is something that I
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  Speaker 1: love doing. I'm using my creative um gifts and I'm
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  Speaker 1: being entrepreneurial, so maybe this is something Maybe this might
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  Speaker 1: be my pen So then the final Jewish that I
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  Speaker 1: clerked for retired in UH, and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: this might be the perfect opportunity. Um, my opportunity finally
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  Speaker 1: met my preparation my building this business on the side,
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  Speaker 1: and so finally I decided to go full force and
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  Speaker 1: create this furniture company where I can have a creative outlet.
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  Speaker 1: I could be the artist that I truly am in size,
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  Speaker 1: be the entrepreneur that I am. And UH and do
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  Speaker 1: what I love, you know. So this is a big
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  Speaker 1: old this is an extreme change. Okay. And first of all,
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  Speaker 1: how did you build a bid man? Do you throw
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  Speaker 1: that out there like you know, like you know, like,
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  Speaker 1: uh see, I built a rectors sense, I put together
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  Speaker 1: hot wheel tracks. You know. I've glued together some airplanes.
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  Speaker 1: You're sitting up here talking about you know, I built
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  Speaker 1: my band like what playing? What are you going online
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  Speaker 1: to find out how to build a b So okay,
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  Speaker 1: I've always been good with my hand. Let's start off.
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  Speaker 1: I should have said that first. I've always been good
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  Speaker 1: with my head, would been able to kind of build things.
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  Speaker 1: My dad. Uh my dad is an attorney. He's a
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  Speaker 1: retired attorney, but growing up he always had me helping
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  Speaker 1: him do things like frame out the basement drying, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I've always been handed and um and so I
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  Speaker 1: I found all these random pieces of wood and different
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  Speaker 1: things that I kind of pieced it together to make
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  Speaker 1: what I call this like patchwork style headboard with like
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  Speaker 1: many pieces of wood, and then I stayed the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And that has been my aesthetic as far as my
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  Speaker 1: as my pieces has been like kind of patchworky. We
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  Speaker 1: used reclaimed wood and we learned with So there's like
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  Speaker 1: this reused element, it's recycled element, this uh environmentally friendly
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  Speaker 1: econstantly element to my company where we uh we take
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  Speaker 1: you know, what might be considered junk, like well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: carry down a barn well then transitioned a really good
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  Speaker 1: which is really really good strong would have survived the
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  Speaker 1: weather and all that good stuff. So so we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hold his thought. I hope you enjoying this interview. I'm
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  Speaker 1: loving you, dude. Man, I'm loving it. Man. I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the phone with a champion. He's from the City of Champions, Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: home over Kevin Hawk, the Eagle, the Sevy six, the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back. More money man comes the
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  Speaker 1: keep winning everybody. I just with Sean McDonald. You're listening
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  Speaker 1: to listening to money making conversations. My guest is a
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  Speaker 1: Phi Beta Kappa graduate or more House College that's based
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Georgia, where I My radio show is based
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  Speaker 1: out of Atlanta, Georgia, HBCU grad. You know, my radio
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  Speaker 1: show airs on HBCU campus across the America. So they
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  Speaker 1: were tying everything in on this show. Plus he's h
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  Speaker 1: he attended the University of Pennsylvania law school. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he uses a practicing he was practicing law when he
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  Speaker 1: you know, he was doing his own thing. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: he was able to make a tra transition. And we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about that. And I love the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're saying to Richard, and that's why it's important that
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  Speaker 1: you have role models. And if your role model happens
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  Speaker 1: to be a parent, is even better. And that was
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  Speaker 1: a person that laid the foundation for who you are today,
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  Speaker 1: your dad by allowing you to do some other things,
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  Speaker 1: besides the fact that, like you said, he was a lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: and and and so, but they didn't stop him saying
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  Speaker 1: that that's all I want to do. And that kind
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  Speaker 1: of opened your mind. So I have to ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: Now you are there successful laws and then you people
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  Speaker 1: always think you're crazy anyway. You know, first of all
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  Speaker 1: your law, you're now you're making furniture. Now you want
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  Speaker 1: to go over here and do survival? What was that?
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  Speaker 1: What was that conversation life when it hit the streets?
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  Speaker 1: Mr black Man, Okay, so so my time, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you know, my parents had had known that I've been
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  Speaker 1: watching this show and kind of a plane. But they
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  Speaker 1: see me, know, you know, practicing, make it fun outside
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  Speaker 1: and doing these things. But don't think they really thought
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  Speaker 1: that I would actually get on, let alone get further
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  Speaker 1: and a lit a little word game. So um I
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  Speaker 1: I when I finally got the call that I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be on the show, I told me. I sent
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  Speaker 1: an email to my my mother, my father, and I
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  Speaker 1: have an older and their younger sister. I said, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: all this work finally paid off. You guys know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been applying and applying for Survivor, and I finally I
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  Speaker 1: got the call I'm going out on the island in
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  Speaker 1: two months. And they were they were pretty shocked. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe this is really happening. They knew that
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  Speaker 1: I had a final casting in l A. They knew
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  Speaker 1: I was slown out there, but I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they really thought that I was really gonna make it,
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  Speaker 1: And so they were pretty shocks. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: they know the pushing I am. They know that I'm
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  Speaker 1: good at like. I'm a hustler. I'm gonnat navigating different situations.
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking to different people. I'm pretty athletic, I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty smart. They're like, we know, wherever we put you,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna be all right. You're gonna ride.
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  Speaker 1: So that they yeah, you're gonna ride exactly. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think that. You know, in the game of survivorance,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot to you, but it's also a lot
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  Speaker 1: of luck. In my seaf there was a lot of God.
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  Speaker 1: It was God's plan for me to get through a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things. And I found my way to the top.
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  Speaker 1: I found my way to the end, and I got
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  Speaker 1: it done. Let's talk about because you know you you okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're flowing to the island. Let's get let's get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about that experience a little bit because you
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  Speaker 1: tell us about that that that moment they you know,
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  Speaker 1: they say, hey, game on. Yeah, yeah. So I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: thirty four years old, I'm in I'm in alright shape.
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  Speaker 1: Um I get out to this island. I'm looking around,
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  Speaker 1: man young like clady, and they're looking guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of guys are in their twenty tiptop shape,
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  Speaker 1: powing them and stroder than me. And I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: this this is gonna be this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: battle I'm gonna have to find a way. I can't
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  Speaker 1: just muscle my way that. I gotta use something else.
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  Speaker 1: Like I used my brain, I gotta use my social game.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta use my knowledge of the game of survivor. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So when I got out there, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: a little intimidating at first. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I know my abilities. I'm confident in my abilities, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, put me. Put me in
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  Speaker 1: a challenge where I gotta shoot something into a basket.
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  Speaker 1: Put me in a challenge where I have to swim
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and then jump out and do a puzzle.
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  Speaker 1: Put me in these challenges that require a little more
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  Speaker 1: than just just strength, and I know I will. I
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  Speaker 1: know I overcoming. I know and I will succeed at it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it seemed like that That's pretty much what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Like like my team I was, I was put on
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  Speaker 1: a good tribe to start, so as a team, we're
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  Speaker 1: pretty cohesive. But for a couple of people beefing with
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  Speaker 1: each other, you know that that that will happen. But
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  Speaker 1: we want a lot of the challenges. So if you're winning,
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  Speaker 1: that means you're not going to turn to the council.
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  Speaker 1: That means people aren't getting voted off your tribe. So
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  Speaker 1: if I just keep winning, I'm not gonna go home.
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  Speaker 1: But then so basically through the merge until the merge,
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  Speaker 1: the merges were full trying to come together as now
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  Speaker 1: a totally individual game. But up through the merge, I
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  Speaker 1: only saw one tribal council, which means I could have
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  Speaker 1: only been voted out one time because we just kept winning,
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  Speaker 1: and based on my social play, they didn't vote me
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  Speaker 1: on that night whatever, we woted someone else out. But
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  Speaker 1: then after the merge, by that time, a few of
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  Speaker 1: the big dogs are already eliminated, and I had been
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  Speaker 1: playing kind of a low key game, and I was
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  Speaker 1: ready to turn things out because now it's an individual game.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's trying to spread to the end. So dance
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  Speaker 1: really turn things up. Despite the fact that some guys
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  Speaker 1: were bigger or stronger, some people might have been smarter.
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  Speaker 1: I think I had the total package out there, you know, mental, physical,
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  Speaker 1: and determination. That's what you had. That's a total package.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout your whole story you was talking about you was
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  Speaker 1: always thinking out there. He was always thinking, always always
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  Speaker 1: What kept thinking out there was becise I'm a builder,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd like to fidget with things. I was out there,
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  Speaker 1: I take myself out of a situation. I go build something.
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  Speaker 1: I go I keep my mind working. I go a
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  Speaker 1: crab trap that's real intricate, that takes me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a few hours to do. Or I go build a
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  Speaker 1: swing set for everyone to keep them happy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the guy that people love to be around because
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  Speaker 1: he's building cool stuff and he's making camp life a
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  Speaker 1: little a little nicer. Yeah, they're building disney Land out there.
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  Speaker 1: Disney Land out the survey. I love it. So what
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  Speaker 1: was the prize money for? What was the prize money
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  Speaker 1: and what what did you do? Man? Man? So the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: prize money was a million dollars, and um that was
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: that was a great tex to get. But what I've
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  Speaker 1: done is, um I talked to my father. We we
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  Speaker 1: fielmed like a year ago and then it took like
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  Speaker 1: non months to air. So I kind of I kind
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  Speaker 1: of had a good feeling that although they revealed the
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: win live, you know, at the end of the season,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I had a good feeling that I had won. So
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  Speaker 1: I went home and I told him one person. I
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  Speaker 1: talked to my dad and I said, hey, Dad, I
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  Speaker 1: s in I might I think I might have got
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  Speaker 1: the job done out there. Can you give me some
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  Speaker 1: advice on how to invest this money, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be one of these guys that gets a
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: big check and and blows it. So he took me
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  Speaker 1: to his financial planner. Um. They it's like an investment
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  Speaker 1: group called the Pennsylvania Trust. And he kind of introduced
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: me to those guys. So then finally thought sports. And
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  Speaker 1: when I finally win and get the check, I went, um,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I took the million dollar check right to this company
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  Speaker 1: and I invested it. And so now I am fully
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: invested in a diversity stock portfolio. It shouldn't it shouldn't
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: stocks just watching it roll up that stock markets right now?
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. And so in in April. In April,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a big hit and I gotta pay
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the about four tax. But that's a big hit. But
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: until then, at least that that amount of money is
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: still gonna accrue interest. So I go talk to a
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: tax planner, get the fine benefit plan. The fine benefit plan.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: You can take that FOLLEL hundred and put it in
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: there and you don't pay them nothing. Okay, okay, just
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: just think this out. A lot of people think you
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: gotta pay taxes and everything, and if they're there, they're
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: strategic strategic angles of this is legitimate. I don't. I
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: don't give our bad advice to my show unless it's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a lifestyle that I participate in. But don't feel that
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you can give away that whole four hundred thousands. Okay, alright,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: so define benefit plan. Okay, it's something you have to
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: keep up going. But you you you got a business,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: you got a charity engagement you're dealing with, So just
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: just don't do it. Just don't give it away like that. Okay.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I'm glad, okay, because we're friends now because I love you, man,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I really I say that, man, because your energies right,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm I consider your friend. Now, let's talk about
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a couple of things before we wrap this up. Give
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: another shout out about your furniture business, and then I
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: want to talk about your charitable causes. Wrap this guy. Yes, So, um,
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  Speaker 1: my my company is called BEV Unlimited. That the e
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: V Unlimited. Um BEV is just a childhood nickname of mine.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And you can find that on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, at
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: BEV Unlimited and my own personal page. Obviously. My name
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: is Wendell Holland. You can find me on Instagram, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: Twitter at Wendell Holland. To the company. We are filling
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Phildelphia based custom furniture company specializing and reclaimed the wood
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and we deliver up and down the East Coast all
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the time, when Atlanta all the time. UM, when we
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: shipped across the nation. Man, I'm I'm you know something.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I'm being Philly probably about three weeks. I'm gonna come
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: see you, Okay, because I gotta. I can go online,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: but I just gotta dap you up. Man, take a selfie,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: go with the little Philadelphia chiefe Steak. We gotta do
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: some things again. Now tell us about your your your
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: community and devas. We got one minute left, wrap us
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  Speaker 1: up on the note. Okay, yeah, well I just start
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: back from Jamaica. UM. A couple of days ago, I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: was doing the a charity event out there. Every year
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I host a basketball cap out there in Treasure Beach.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: We brought fifty coaches from the U S out there
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and we coached eight hundred kids out there and basically
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: we brought we raised so much money we brought baskets,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: we brought sneakers, short shoes, and we spent these kids
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: for the whole week, eight hundred kids. And uh, this
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: is something I do every year. It's the p mb L.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: That's Philadelphia Men's Basketball League Treasure Beach Basketball Camp. And uh,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: you can see I have a link on my bio
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: on my Instagram for that if anyone wants to donate.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: But also I do stuff here and Philly. I love
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: talking to children and just motivating people and run done
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: though that they can follow a non traditional path. They
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: can do what they love, they can follow their passion
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and they can be successful. My man, you are a champion.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Will Smith is a champion. He's from Philly. Kevin Hard's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a champion. He's from Philly. Super Bowl champion. Come on here, brother,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: keep winning, man. I appreciate you calling it on money conversations.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I always tell people to keep winning. You are a winner.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time. I appreciate you. Sorry, alright,
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