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Host of Magnolia Network's "Self Employed," Jonathan Morris discusses importance of relationships. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to podcast. My next
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Speaker 1: guest is Jonathan Morris. I'm gonna call him good Friends.
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Speaker 1: You straight out of Fort Worth, Texas, most to the
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Speaker 1: Magnolia Network series Self Employed. The show is streaming on
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Speaker 1: the Magnolia App and Discovery plus entrepreneur Jonathan Morris travels
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Speaker 1: the country to share the inspirational stories and new challenges
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Speaker 1: of small business owners and their journeys to building their
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Speaker 1: dream jobs. The show features entrepreneurs from a variety of
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Speaker 1: backgrounds and in for work. He owns a barbershop in
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Speaker 1: the hotel. We're gonna talk about all that, of course,
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Speaker 1: the TV show Self Employed, but we're also gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about building his dreams. Please working the money making conversations
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Speaker 1: for the very first time, Jonathan Morris, how he's doing, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: are you doing this morning? So? So you know got
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Speaker 1: fort Worth right there? Man, logo on your shirt on
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Speaker 1: my chest. Man, I want to wear for Worth on
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Speaker 1: my heart. Man. I love this. I love this city.
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Speaker 1: I love everything. I love most things about it. It's
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Speaker 1: a it's a it's a growing city. Like people don't
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Speaker 1: know what the the twelfth largest city in the nation
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Speaker 1: now quietly that I did not know. And if you
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Speaker 1: give me your perspective, like I'm from Houston, Texas. You
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Speaker 1: go up five north. You know we're fort Worth in Dallas.
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Speaker 1: You know, so Dallas is always the dominant market. You
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Speaker 1: have all it in fort Worth, Dallas and so now
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Speaker 1: he's telling me, Now Fort Worth is the twelfth largest city.
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Speaker 1: Now that's news to me. Everybody knows every everybody knows
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Speaker 1: our big brother, a big brother to the to the
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Speaker 1: east Dallas. Um for words, we're a little maybe a
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Speaker 1: little more understated a little bit, but we're doing I
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Speaker 1: think out. It's a lot, a lot of a lot
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Speaker 1: of good things happening in the city. Now, you know,
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Speaker 1: you're you're I brought you on the show to talk
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Speaker 1: about this new show on Magnolia Network called Self Employed.
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Speaker 1: Set us up a little bit about what exactly that
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Speaker 1: show is. Because of the fact that you are a
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Speaker 1: barbershop on I believe you've been you had that shop
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Speaker 1: about six years, correct years years, and so I'm fair
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Speaker 1: for me with that range because my brother, my younger brother,
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Speaker 1: he's in the DC area, he has four and so
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Speaker 1: so when the COVID hit, you know it really you know,
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Speaker 1: we was just talking about the opening because he couldn't
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Speaker 1: open because he was face to face a service oriented business,
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Speaker 1: and that you that was like five going into your
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Speaker 1: six year talk about how COVID impacted your business and
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Speaker 1: how did you recover from it? You know it, you
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Speaker 1: know in march of UM as the rest of the
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Speaker 1: world was experiencing. UM what this new uh, this new
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Speaker 1: hurdle that we were all facing together, UM was was
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Speaker 1: hitting us. The barbershop industry was one that was especially
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Speaker 1: hit our business. Like you said, we are literally face
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Speaker 1: to face UM and you know, inches away from folks face.
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Speaker 1: So when it comes to congregating, it was a no go.
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Speaker 1: So UM. You know, the toughest thing was sewn for
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Speaker 1: for for me as a business owner was the uncertainty
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Speaker 1: UM in dealing with it, not knowing you know, once
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Speaker 1: we closed, not knowing when we'd be able to open up.
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Speaker 1: And you know, as a as an employer, UM, and
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Speaker 1: having to go to my team, UM, of of of
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Speaker 1: a barber's and stylist who you know, this is their livelihood,
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Speaker 1: going to them and saying, hey, guys, not only UM,
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Speaker 1: do I not have a job for you in this moment,
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Speaker 1: I also don't know when UM, I'm going to But
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Speaker 1: if you hang on, you know, luckily for us, you know,
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Speaker 1: being a small team, you know, it's it's like a
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Speaker 1: it's like a little little family, you know, UM. And
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Speaker 1: we had to check in on each other and we
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Speaker 1: have to make sure we're doing okay. We went, we
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Speaker 1: went two months UM completely closed until opening back up
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Speaker 1: in May. And when we opened back up, we opened
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Speaker 1: up with a lot of safeguards, right. We wanted to
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Speaker 1: UM make sure that as we were inviting people back
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Speaker 1: into the space UM, we were doing so as as
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Speaker 1: responsibly UM as possible to to create a safe environment
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Speaker 1: for our for our for our customers, but then also
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Speaker 1: our our our staff. And so the community responded really well.
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Speaker 1: A lot of them came back to us um UM
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Speaker 1: and you know, we we we've been able to bounce back,
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Speaker 1: but we're still you know, very much UM in this
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Speaker 1: tricky space. As as small businesses, particularly ones that are
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Speaker 1: dealing based to space with the public. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to Jonathan Morris. He has a barbershop and
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Speaker 1: a hotel. We're gonna talk about that in a minute
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Speaker 1: in the fort Worth area fort Worth, Texas, as he
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Speaker 1: calls it. Uh. He's an entrepreneur and the host of
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Speaker 1: the new series on Magnolia app and Discovery Plus series
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Speaker 1: called Self Employed. Now, I bring up these different conversations
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Speaker 1: because everybody has a different role a different impact with COVID.
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Speaker 1: Like I would tell you something Johnathan, I didn't know
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Speaker 1: what to do, you know, and so when you were
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Speaker 1: servicing customers that closed, it had to be a little fearful,
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Speaker 1: but you had to move past the fear to run
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Speaker 1: your business. Are to operate your business carefully and uh safely. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I think that for us that was that was
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Speaker 1: rooted in how we communicated it our with our clients
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Speaker 1: and even how we communicated with our staff. Um that
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Speaker 1: you know, we were luckily to be be open again.
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Speaker 1: We're luckily, we're we're we're lucky to be able to
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Speaker 1: provide a service to our community. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: we understand that people are apprehensive, um, and we you know,
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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways want to hold their hands
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Speaker 1: through that and communicate with them that, you know, we
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Speaker 1: want to create an essay environment as we possibly could
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Speaker 1: given the circumstances of a global pante There was no
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Speaker 1: there was no there was no book written on how
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Speaker 1: to how to go about it, right. That's the same
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Speaker 1: part because like I said, I didn't know how to
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Speaker 1: open the door. I didn't know the podcast, I didn't
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Speaker 1: know how to say a load of people in public.
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Speaker 1: It was just really really a life of isolation and
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Speaker 1: then you're a people of person. I can tell your personality.
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Speaker 1: You're such you're so engaging, which is probably one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons you're the host of the new series. How
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Speaker 1: did they come about the whole self employed? Give everybody assists?
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Speaker 1: So I gave a you know, my cliff note of
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Speaker 1: what self employed is, what tell us what it is?
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Speaker 1: And how you became the host? Yeah? Sure, so you
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Speaker 1: know rus I, I I never set out to host
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Speaker 1: the television show. One day back in twenty nineteen, I
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Speaker 1: gotta I got a phone call from a good friend
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Speaker 1: of mine who owns a video production company here in
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Speaker 1: Fort Worth, UM, and he said, Hey, I've been meeting
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Speaker 1: with the Magnolia people and we kind of pitched them
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Speaker 1: on an idea of a TV show. Um. They like
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Speaker 1: what you're doing with your barbershop and Fort Worth UM
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Speaker 1: and we, uh, we started that discussion of what what
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Speaker 1: what this TV show could be, what it could look like.
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Speaker 1: And of course, you know, I told him, I say, listen,
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Speaker 1: I'm not an actor. I'm just an entrepreneur um and
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Speaker 1: and I love engaging with other entrepreneurs and learning about
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Speaker 1: their stories. And I find myself to be particularly inspired
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Speaker 1: by other entrepreneurs and people who are following their dreams, writing, writing,
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Speaker 1: writing there writing their own story. As you said, Um,
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Speaker 1: and you know, uh, we crafted this show where I
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Speaker 1: go around the country and I meet with people across
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Speaker 1: different backgrounds, who who who landed into entrepreneurship and becoming
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Speaker 1: self employed from all all walks of life, who are
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Speaker 1: running you know, all different sized businesses, right. Um, So
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Speaker 1: we traveled around the country and we sat down learn
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Speaker 1: their stories. You know, your personality really helps the series. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know you're meeting different people, but you engage in
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Speaker 1: you you you you have a welcoming personality and Junathan
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Speaker 1: and I think that really helps the series. Well you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, rich like, I'm just curious, you know, and
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Speaker 1: when I'm sitting down and talking with these these entrepreneurs,
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Speaker 1: you know, in a lot of ways, I can empathize
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Speaker 1: with a lot of the things they've been going through. Um.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, so long as they allowed me
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Speaker 1: I would want to ask, you know, ask folks even
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Speaker 1: small business owner, you know, you know, I'm I've been
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Speaker 1: over the last three years in the middle of you know,
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Speaker 1: working on this show. I've been working on my new business,
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Speaker 1: which is this small this twenty one room hotel and
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Speaker 1: Fort Worth And so you know, the more the more
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Speaker 1: platform or opportunities that I have to to tell people
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Speaker 1: share share this idea of of what uh you know
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Speaker 1: and in this in this, in in this regard what
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Speaker 1: a hotel can be in Fort Worth, Texas. UM to
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Speaker 1: that hotel because you know, you have a locally owned
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Speaker 1: boutique hotel and bar in for words and cultural district.
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Speaker 1: And you know, it's a lot of things I've done
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Speaker 1: in my life. I thought about doing a restaurant. I've
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Speaker 1: thought about you know, I've thought, of course, I was
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Speaker 1: a performing comedian, acting just a modeling, I managed talent.
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Speaker 1: But a hotel that I only stay in hotels. The
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Speaker 1: fact that you made the delete to want to be
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Speaker 1: an owner of a hotel and it's a boutique hotel
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Speaker 1: with a bar. Talk about that. Yeah, So you know,
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Speaker 1: the idea of a hotel for me came from, you know, traveling,
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Speaker 1: and when I travel, I like to connect with the city.
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Speaker 1: I like to connect with where I am. I want
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Speaker 1: to be um in in a in a place that
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Speaker 1: gives me a true sense of a place. Right um,
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Speaker 1: and as I looked around Fort Worth, the city that
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Speaker 1: I love, the city that my father, my grandfather, my grandmother,
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Speaker 1: my mom's called home for a very long time. In
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Speaker 1: this place where I, you know, ventured into entrepreneurship. I
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Speaker 1: look around and I don't see that place. I did
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Speaker 1: not see that place. Uh. And I said, you know,
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Speaker 1: I want to create this space that authentically UH says
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Speaker 1: something about this this this this little big town. UM.
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Speaker 1: And doesn't you know in a way that I would.
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Speaker 1: Obviously I've stayed in a lot of hotels, but I
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Speaker 1: never never owned one. And so UM, you know, I
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Speaker 1: ran into I was I was out. I ran into
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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. And this is back in
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Speaker 1: summer teen, just three years ago, and you know, we
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Speaker 1: were just catching up on our businesses and what's going on.
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Speaker 1: And I said, Alan, I said, I really want to
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Speaker 1: do a hotel. And so we started that conversation. UM.
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Speaker 1: And now Alan is my business partner in this project,
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Speaker 1: and we you know, we had to we had to
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Speaker 1: final location, we had to fund the funding, we had
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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, really put together what this, what
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Speaker 1: this could be. So over the last three years, that's
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Speaker 1: what we've been doing. Hotels. Trice UM is a twenty
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Speaker 1: one room hotel with a lobby bar that sits in
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Speaker 1: the Cultural district right across the street from the new
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Speaker 1: uh fourteen thousands see Dick the Arena, which is bringing,
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Speaker 1: you know, droves of people into the city, and so
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Speaker 1: we just want to be at a spare space we
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Speaker 1: can serve people who are coming to the city as
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Speaker 1: well as being honestly a cultural hub for for locals
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Speaker 1: as well. Okay, so you're you're you're so twenty one rooms, Okay,
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Speaker 1: So it's just there's a different atmosphere. So how our
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Speaker 1: big are the rooms? The room spaces? You're like, Sweets,
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Speaker 1: you have like all of the same size room. They're
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Speaker 1: double beds of kings. What are they? Sure? So we
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Speaker 1: have five different size rooms at the hotel. We have
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Speaker 1: one Sweets, we have one one the Presidential if you
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Speaker 1: if you will, doesn't have a living space and things
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Speaker 1: that we're around like five square feet on that and
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Speaker 1: then we have smaller Sweets all the way down to
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Speaker 1: like two hundred square feet. Um. So different price ranges,
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Speaker 1: different views of the city, but really comfortable spaces. We
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Speaker 1: wanted to create something that was not necessarily high luxury,
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Speaker 1: but was you know, had a utilitarian but a cool, comfortable,
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Speaker 1: welcoming feel um to attract traveler. The traveler that we
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Speaker 1: felt like was coming to Fort Worth wasn't able to
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Speaker 1: find the independent boutique hotel knibo Field. Well, you know
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Speaker 1: the interesting thing I'm talking to Jonathan Morris. He's the
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Speaker 1: host of self Employed on the Magnolia app. That's what
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Speaker 1: you can find and also on Discover, the Plus streaming network. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The reason I was just talking about this entrepreneurship because
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Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna host the show called self Employed,
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Speaker 1: you should know something. Okay, he knows the and one
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Speaker 1: thing he does know is the people business. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's in the he's a barbershop owner, hotel owner. If
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Speaker 1: those are two business you better know some people and
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Speaker 1: be and also be service oriented. Now when when he
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Speaker 1: when he talks about a hotel drives, it reminds me
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Speaker 1: of a New York hotel. And so because if you
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Speaker 1: if you go to New York City, it wasn't the
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Speaker 1: size that he said freaked me out. He said five
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Speaker 1: hundred square feet. The two hundred square feet Okay, cool,
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Speaker 1: I've been in the two hundred square feet. You open
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Speaker 1: that door, that's the bed. I guess what that that
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Speaker 1: you you're the TV right there, a little bit TV
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Speaker 1: right there. Bathroom right there. You know you're in that bed,
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Speaker 1: not that you're in there two d scrabfoot room not
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Speaker 1: to entertain, but to go to sleep. That's why I
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Speaker 1: read your after long night. You put you your hang
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Speaker 1: upboard everything and the thing about those whom they are.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna used the word cute from a standpoint
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Speaker 1: of everything's right there? Am I telling us the true? Jonathan?
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Speaker 1: You know I like to use the word concise. Okay, practical,
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Speaker 1: right right right right? Because you want to do you
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Speaker 1: want to create a space that you know you have
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Speaker 1: everything you need is affordable. Um And ultimately what we
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Speaker 1: want to do is we want to get people out
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Speaker 1: into our city. We want to get people absolutely absolutely
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Speaker 1: city to discover what FOS offer. Because that's why I
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Speaker 1: wanted to stop people, because people here at number two
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Speaker 1: hundred crap fee. That's well, look, I'm just tell you something,
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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald and stayed in many two hundred scrapfoot. When
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Speaker 1: you go in there, that's why I'm just preparing everybody.
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Speaker 1: When you go in there, when you open the door,
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Speaker 1: you will see the bed, you will see, you will
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Speaker 1: see the TV, you will see the restroom door. But
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Speaker 1: it's all good. Like you said, it's convenient. It's like
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Speaker 1: staying in a cruise ship if you've been the cruise ship,
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Speaker 1: but it's bigger and it's nice. Either we're out the
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Speaker 1: way without the way that you can work out and
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Speaker 1: you go about your business. But the beauty of that,
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Speaker 1: the establishing that, is that this personality is in the
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Speaker 1: cultural district of Fort Worth, which means it's tied to personality.
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Speaker 1: And so if you go to places that in New York,
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Speaker 1: you go to Chicago, you go to go to San
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Speaker 1: Francisco especially, you know, and you find those type of
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Speaker 1: hotels when you walk down the streets. I can, I can.
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Speaker 1: I can clearly see a hotel properties like that in
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Speaker 1: some level of risks, some more than others. Right, but
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Speaker 1: their stories about self imployed. We learned about their stories
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Speaker 1: right now, what the challenges are, and understanding how they've
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Speaker 1: to shed light on what it looks like for someone
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Speaker 1: dream and their dream work life of being self imployed.
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Speaker 1: I always I want to say that quote first of
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Speaker 1: a pretty profound quote, and I'm glad I had an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to read it during our interview, is that I
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24:45
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24:51
Speaker 1: hit hard. Everybody's talking about they don't want to they
24:53
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Speaker 1: working for the our weak job. But because of technology,
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Speaker 1: have you seen an age difference out there when you've
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25:04
Speaker 1: been just out there, and everybody wants to be successful
25:07
Speaker 1: because I know as as entrepreneurs, the female industry, that
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Speaker 1: the women have really become a dominant force as entrepreneurs
25:14
Speaker 1: and also lacks have stepped up their game as entrepreneurs.
25:17
Speaker 1: Tell us what you're seeing out there while you're doing
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Speaker 1: this show. I know you're not the expert five years ago.
25:23
Speaker 1: We can have this different conversation because you've have been
25:24
Speaker 1: everywhere all of this kind of talk about what you're
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Speaker 1: seeing now. Well. Um, one of the things that I
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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that we we we did before
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Speaker 1: we before we even started filming it, is I want
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Speaker 1: for a while. UM. And again I just hope that
25:53
Speaker 1: again people are able to see themselves and identify with that.
25:57
Speaker 1: But I do think that UM, particularly UM the demographics
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26:31
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Speaker 1: things that's going to be UH will have been a
26:35
Speaker 1: catalyst for it is more and more people UM stepping
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Speaker 1: out and and and pursuing their dreams, taking those those
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Speaker 1: those dreams from ideas to to reality. And that's through
26:47
Speaker 1: technology technology has been a different game changer for so
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Speaker 1: many people to pursue their dreams. But also the reality
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Speaker 1: is that the pandemic has made everybody see that there
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Speaker 1: is a finite opportunity. There's a window. If you don't
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Speaker 1: take that window, if you're happen with the when are
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Speaker 1: you looking through? Then you can change it. And you
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Speaker 1: can change it by putting forth a plan, rules in
27:06
Speaker 1: plays and winning with that. What is your bigger takeaway?
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Speaker 1: Because the beauty of me and I wanted to maintain
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Speaker 1: a friendship with you, Jonathan, and because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that you're so engaging and you you you you say
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Speaker 1: natural stories that a lot of people understand. Like he said,
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Speaker 1: well at eighteen, you know, I said I want to
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Speaker 1: and tween I get the phone call, they say, hey man,
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Speaker 1: we got this idea we want to pitch. None of
27:29
Speaker 1: this is like you know, he's one of these guys
27:31
Speaker 1: who walks through. He sees an opportunity, he grabs it,
27:34
Speaker 1: and he matures it. And that's what being an entrepreneur is.
27:37
Speaker 1: And I want to let everybody know that's why he's
27:39
Speaker 1: an excellent host, because he goes through life. But he's
27:42
Speaker 1: a planner and he's not afraid of diet as they say,
27:46
Speaker 1: multiple streams of income, or diversifying his portfolio because some
27:50
Speaker 1: people say, I'm in the restaurant business, that's all I'm
27:52
Speaker 1: gonna do. Now you're in the barbershop business, you're in
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Speaker 1: the hotel business. Now you're on TV as a host.
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Speaker 1: What drives that level of conference is to diversify and
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Speaker 1: trust your talents. A couple of things. Number one one
28:05
Speaker 1: thing I do a lot is it is just for me.
28:07
Speaker 1: I write down I did every day. Some of them
28:12
Speaker 1: are good ones, some of them are bad ones. Some
28:14
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Speaker 1: them will be balled up and thrown in the trash,
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Speaker 1: right and and but and that's that's just that's just
28:22
Speaker 1: kind of that's what I do. That's my my my
28:24
Speaker 1: method that works. That that works for me. Writing down ideas, um,
28:27
Speaker 1: writing down those dreams before they even become, you know,
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Speaker 1: a fleshed out plan. But also, Richard, I think you know,
28:37
Speaker 1: understanding and recognizing what opportunity looks like. UM. I think
28:42
Speaker 1: that a lot of times I hear of folks, you know,
28:46
Speaker 1: when they think about opportunity. The only thing, the only
28:48
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28:51
Speaker 1: paycheck and connect connecting to it, right. And a lot
28:54
Speaker 1: of times that that thing that opens up the next
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Speaker 1: door to the next door, to the to the picture
29:00
Speaker 1: that that that money making conversation. Uh. Sometimes I don't
29:05
Speaker 1: always got dollars attached to it. But I think that,
29:08
Speaker 1: you know, building relationships even just like you just said,
29:11
Speaker 1: you know that phone call that I got from a
29:13
Speaker 1: friend about a TV show that he was gonna that
29:15
Speaker 1: was a relationship that we had fostered for years. UM.
29:19
Speaker 1: Running to what is now my business partner, UM in
29:22
Speaker 1: the hotel, in the hotel project that brings the completely
29:26
Speaker 1: different skill set to the to the table than than
29:29
Speaker 1: I do. That's a that was relationship building, um, over
29:33
Speaker 1: years way before the thing that was the thing that
29:36
Speaker 1: the thing that people see you know came you know,
29:39
Speaker 1: came to fruition. And so you know, I'm a big
29:42
Speaker 1: believer in and fostering and leaning into relationships. UM. You know,
29:47
Speaker 1: I am not an expert and just about anything, but UM,
29:52
Speaker 1: I think that I have a hunger for knowledge and
29:54
Speaker 1: as a natural curiosity. UM. In a lot of times
30:00
Speaker 1: you know, for me, when I see that somebody else
30:03
Speaker 1: has done something, I kind of think to myself, well
30:05
Speaker 1: I could I could do that too. And so sometimes
30:09
Speaker 1: just it means finding the right people to connect with,
30:12
Speaker 1: to to to to to put yourself in the right
30:15
Speaker 1: position for the opportunity that leads to the opportunity that
30:19
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