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Faith and Business: Built their business teaching their teen boys about entrepreneurship and created a snow cone company. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: supervision at a large financial services firm to launch a
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  Speaker 1: small business called Snowy Atlanta. Snow Wee Atlanta. They serve
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  Speaker 1: mouthwatering shaved ice cream icecu meil, I want to say
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  Speaker 1: ice cream lover. They serve mouthwatering shaved ice that you
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  Speaker 1: can top with many different flavors. Already sounds good. Please
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  Speaker 1: welcome the Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Marcus Sony Marcus, did
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  Speaker 1: I say your last name? Correct? Sonya?
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  Speaker 3: Very close?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Cool? You know it's it's in I E r
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  Speaker 1: You know he won them brothers, man. You know I
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  Speaker 1: know I though, Man. You know I'm Rashan rishe rich.
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  Speaker 1: You know Rashon. People say, is that Russia knows Rashan
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  Speaker 1: Little layer Marcus how you doing, brother, Tell me about
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  Speaker 1: this business man. You went from the corporate world and
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  Speaker 1: now you're doing shaved ice.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The first time I experienced shaved ice, I was in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans and they have this place in New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: where people will line up around the corner to get
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  Speaker 1: this shaved ice. So what exactly is shaved ice? Help
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  Speaker 1: me out with that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, first of all, thanks for having me on
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  Speaker 3: your show. Appreciate honor to be on the show. So
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  Speaker 3: shaved ice originated in Hawaii. So it's a way to
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  Speaker 3: shave ice in a fine, almost snow like manner, and
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  Speaker 3: you get to top it with different flavors of your choice,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just it's fantastic in the summertime or even
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  Speaker 3: in the winter time. We have learned, right, So.
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  Speaker 1: Like that I've had this now, you know, growing up
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  Speaker 1: because I'm from the hood. Now, I had a version
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  Speaker 1: of this. You know, they they beat up the ice.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't shaved and then they put that that that
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  Speaker 1: yellow in that red and grape you know. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was happy, brother. They weren't ice cream, but it
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  Speaker 1: was icy, but it wasn't saved ice. I was just
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  Speaker 1: happy that guy going in the back and he'd just
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  Speaker 1: be breaking up that ice man and getting it as
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  Speaker 1: fine as he could. That's the version of shaved ice
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  Speaker 1: that I grew up on.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yes, well, I was gonna say, we have a
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  Speaker 3: machine that does it a lot better than that guy
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  Speaker 3: in them. And what makes our product really unique that
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  Speaker 3: you get to create your own version. Right, So instead
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  Speaker 3: of just having one or two flavors that you can
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  Speaker 3: select from, you get to dispense the flavors yourself. So
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  Speaker 3: you get to put as much as little and make
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  Speaker 3: any combination that you would like. Which has been a hit?
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  Speaker 1: Now you now you say it's you know it originated
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  Speaker 1: in Hawaii? Where did you have an experience that you
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  Speaker 1: went this? I liked it. This is something I want
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  Speaker 1: to not so much to be an entrepreneur, but it
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  Speaker 1: became a flavor that you are deserve, a go to
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  Speaker 1: for you. What were you when you first experienced it?
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  Speaker 3: So I grew up in Loasayete, Louisiana, and similar to
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  Speaker 3: New Orleans, we had a snowball this collumn there snowball
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  Speaker 3: stand on every other corner. So growing up, it was
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  Speaker 3: a part of life going to the snowball stand anytime
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  Speaker 3: you had some extra money because I grew up in
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  Speaker 3: the hood too, So anytime you had a few extra nickels,
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  Speaker 3: you would take wall stands and just have have the
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  Speaker 3: best time.
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  Speaker 1: And it was because they had that old machine, that
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  Speaker 1: old see see he has he has that modern machine.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus has that modern machine. Bless him. He he's a
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  Speaker 1: the entrepreneur and everything. But the machine he grew up
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  Speaker 1: on that was that old ice machine. Boy, it's shaved.
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  Speaker 1: It's so fine, that big old thing sitting in the back. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it would just be they put a block of ice
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  Speaker 1: on top and they just shaving, shaving. Am I telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you the truth? Correct?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we were going to the same place for sure,
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  Speaker 3: on very similar places. Absolutely labor intensive and uh it.
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  Speaker 1: Was labor intensive. And but boy when you got it,
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  Speaker 1: man and they and you go, you go, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: want to I want the grape, I want the strawberry.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get three flavors? I get? I always got
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  Speaker 1: the three flavors. Man, I got the lemon, I got
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  Speaker 1: the strawberry, and I got the grape. And then I eat.
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  Speaker 1: Then I got to eat, and then my lips, my
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  Speaker 1: lips would be all the colors. It'd be grape on
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  Speaker 1: one side, my tongue would be red boy. I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just bringing back memories, man, because that's what you served.
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  Speaker 1: You served memories.
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  Speaker 3: Right Marcus, Absolutely, absolutely, So this is a byproduct for
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  Speaker 3: servant smiles. We always say we give away the shade ice,
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  Speaker 3: but we sell you the smiles. It's the experience that
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  Speaker 3: we work hard to create. And just a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about why that experience is so important. When I was
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about my background, when I was three
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  Speaker 3: and a half years old, my father passed away and
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  Speaker 3: I was the baby boy of five children that my
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  Speaker 3: mom and dad had, so I was that oop's kid
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  Speaker 3: after thirteen years from the last kid I was there.
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  Speaker 3: My mom or dad would never admit it, of course,
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  Speaker 3: So we would go to Borton's ice Cream in Lafayette, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 3: or we would go to a snowball stand and he
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  Speaker 3: would sit me on the top of the car with
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  Speaker 3: my ice cream snow cone. And I always remember, even
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  Speaker 3: at a young age, how special that family time was.
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  Speaker 3: And by my dad being taken away so early in
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  Speaker 3: my life, I always had a void. And by starting
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  Speaker 3: this business, I realized I'm able to create those moments
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  Speaker 3: every day, wow, hundreds of times a day. And I
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  Speaker 3: get to watch families thank you so much. I get
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  Speaker 3: to watch family do what we did. And it's a
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  Speaker 3: special feeling that you can't buy. You just can't buy
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  Speaker 3: it when you experience a father or a father and
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  Speaker 3: mother and kids after baseball game or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 3: having that moment together. Because with the connection of phones
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  Speaker 3: and iPads, we always have a device in our hands.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're eating shaved I you need both hands.
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  Speaker 3: You need one hand for the cup of shade ice
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  Speaker 3: fantastic flavors, but then you lead your other hand or
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  Speaker 3: soon and that means you can't have a device in
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  Speaker 3: your hand. So those two to five minutes, it's an
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  Speaker 3: organic connection between a family members and it's magical because
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  Speaker 3: those moments we just don't get very often.
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  Speaker 1: Now, wow, we're talking to Marcus Sanie. You know he
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  Speaker 1: owns a small business in Atlanta, Georgia called Snowy Atlanta. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I Rader's resume. He has a business degree and he
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  Speaker 1: went to an HBCU in bad Ruge Southern University. He's
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  Speaker 1: a jaguar. He's a jaguar. Everybody blue and gold. Now
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to be just a career man, a forty
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  Speaker 1: hour week guy. Now you're an entrepreneur. How went the
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  Speaker 1: people you work in eighty hours when you used to
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  Speaker 1: work for it? Okay, now what made that shift in
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  Speaker 1: your mind to say, you know something, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be an entrepreneur. I'm successful at being a corporate person.
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  Speaker 1: But what started making that shift for you? Because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people listening to this show or where
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  Speaker 1: you were at and don't know, don't do their fear
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  Speaker 1: and I know faith played a major role in your decision.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's a great question. So, very successful career at
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  Speaker 3: a very large financial services company, getting to the point
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  Speaker 3: of a vice president. As you mentioned, what but what
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  Speaker 3: I would see in corporate America was how quickly that
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  Speaker 3: job to be taken away from you? And there aren't
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  Speaker 3: many weeks that go by that I don't speak to
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  Speaker 3: someone I know who hadn't been laid off from a
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  Speaker 3: really good job in corporate America, jobs that they thought
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  Speaker 3: they would retire from, jobs where they were treated very well,
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  Speaker 3: performing very well, and then one day you get a
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  Speaker 3: call saying, Hey, don't come into the office today. You've
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  Speaker 3: been downsized replaced whatever fancy word you want to use.
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  Speaker 3: So I always mentioned to my wife that I never
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be in that situation. I wanted to work
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  Speaker 3: toward moving away from that situation and being more self reliant.
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  Speaker 3: So five years ago is when I took the leap
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  Speaker 3: and I said, you know what, I'm going to start
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  Speaker 3: snowing Atlanta. Now. I worked my corporate job along with
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  Speaker 3: building this business for five years. So some of the
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  Speaker 3: advice that I would share with your listeners, it's not
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  Speaker 3: easy to just jump out and start your entrepreneurial path
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  Speaker 3: without maintaining what you do currently. Some people can. Some
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  Speaker 3: people have the financial back end and that's fantastic. But
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  Speaker 3: for me, I needed to work both jobs well the
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  Speaker 3: job and follow my passion at the same time until
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  Speaker 3: it became obvious that, okay, this is really a real business.
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  Speaker 3: And I looked at my wife and I said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting one more bonus check and then I'm jumping
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  Speaker 3: out the plane. I'm gonna get one more bonus check
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  Speaker 3: and then I'm jumping out. That's the Barb's phrase. I'm
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  Speaker 3: jumping out the plane, and I feel comfortable about what's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen afterwards. So that was my lead.
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  Speaker 1: Cool, So it's five years period started your idea, Are
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  Speaker 1: you working full time basically starting actually becoming the full
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  Speaker 1: time road doing weekend stuff? Where was your company at
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  Speaker 1: at that point? Did you have a food truck or
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  Speaker 1: were you just doing weekend stuff? Did you have equipment?
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  Speaker 1: Where were you at when you jumped out that plane?
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  Speaker 1: As far as assets.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, initially are after or after five years?
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  Speaker 1: After five years?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? So after five years we had developed six different
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  Speaker 3: units that included two vans, and we have four stationary
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  Speaker 3: units that well, one lives at our minor league stadium
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  Speaker 3: here at coopray Field, to one at Striper's and then
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  Speaker 3: replaced the other ones at other parks and at other events.
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  Speaker 3: So we were positioned well enough at that point. After
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  Speaker 3: five years, we had leased the space for all of
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  Speaker 3: our equipment to live in and the business was continuing
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  Speaker 3: to grow organically, word of mouth. We were just growing.
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  Speaker 3: We were growing, and God basically had a conversation with
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  Speaker 3: me and he said, Okay, it's time. He said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's time to do it. And that's where the faith
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  Speaker 3: part was huge, because I didn't know. You can't read
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  Speaker 3: the future, and that's where faith comes in. And after
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  Speaker 3: taking that leap, I could feel God in my spirit saying,
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  Speaker 3: oh you trust me, you really do. And then he
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  Speaker 3: just started laying out the next steps. He started putting
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  Speaker 3: people in my path. For Sean that it's no way
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  Speaker 3: I could have had the people lay a path out
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  Speaker 3: the wads and laid had it not been Forgot himself
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  Speaker 3: putting his hands on my shoulders. That's what I feel.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I feel you're stating it accurately, but I also
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  Speaker 1: want to put in this man had a business plan. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he had a business plan, y'all. You know he didn't
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  Speaker 1: jump out there year one. He started putting together a
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  Speaker 1: business plan. That's why I asked him, when you left,
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  Speaker 1: when you made that jump, that leap leap of faith
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people use that word leap of faith.
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  Speaker 1: Where were you at? Man? Say, I got six six vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: That was at the minor league stadium. I was leasing
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  Speaker 1: that spaces all while he was maintaining his full time job.
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  Speaker 1: So there was a plan in place. Now he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you actually why he started this company. He has
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  Speaker 1: two young boys. They're not young no more because they're hardworking.
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  Speaker 1: But this is why he actually started this business. We
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  Speaker 1: come back from this break, You're gonna hear why my
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  Speaker 1: man Marcus son yek HBC you Graduate Son University left
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  Speaker 1: ye had board is doing so good in the ice
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  Speaker 1: shaving business.
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  Speaker 1: VP of Field Supervision and a large financial services HBCU
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  Speaker 1: graduate a small business called snow Wee son Wie Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: They serve mouth water and shaved ice that you can
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  Speaker 1: top with many, many different flavors. We've lived those moments,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you how I met this young brother.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the n NMSDC conference that was in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: Big O' conference, and I saw a person I had
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  Speaker 1: sat in a long time. I thought that was Magic
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  Speaker 1: john and it wasn't Magic Johnson. A good friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine named Donovan, and he walked past me and then
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  Speaker 1: he stopped and talked to Marcus, and then I still
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  Speaker 1: didn't really recognize him at all, and then he waved
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  Speaker 1: back at me, and then we came over, and that
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  Speaker 1: is how I met Marcus.
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  Speaker 3: Correct Marcus, that is exactly right. So Donad was a
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  Speaker 3: good friend of mine and we saw you in the
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  Speaker 3: distance and Donovan he said, is that Rashon? And I
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  Speaker 3: looked at Donov and I said, you know Rashan and
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  Speaker 3: he was like, man, that's my buddy, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, right. And so he walked up
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  Speaker 3: to you. You guys greeted each other that you've been
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  Speaker 3: knowing each other.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that was And I didn't recognizing that magic list
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  Speaker 1: and we were just laughing about it. And and and
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  Speaker 1: so when I told Marcus, I told Marcus, I want
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  Speaker 1: you on my show. He went really, yeah, your entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: I want you on my show. He said, you're kidding, right,
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  Speaker 1: I said, come on, brother, And that was just last week,
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  Speaker 1: and now he's on my show today. That's how important
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  Speaker 1: this relationship is. Why this show is key because individuals
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  Speaker 1: like him. But when he told me his story about
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  Speaker 1: financial literacy, the reason this business is here to create
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  Speaker 1: financial literacy and currency respect for his boys talk to
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  Speaker 1: us about that.
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  Speaker 3: Marcus, absolutely absolutely, But before I do, I just want
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  Speaker 3: to mention the way we met. That's God's hands on
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  Speaker 3: this thing, right, because I'm not supposed to meet you
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  Speaker 3: in that way. It's just God moving. But my two sons,
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  Speaker 3: So in twenty nineteen, I had a seventeen year old
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  Speaker 3: and a fourteen year old, two boys playing competitive baseball.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, one played Division one baseball and the others
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  Speaker 3: actually a top rated cheer athlete at David University. But
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  Speaker 3: they were both in baseball at the time, and we
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  Speaker 3: were buying bats for three and four hundred dollars and
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  Speaker 3: gloves for two three hundred dollars. And I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they understood that where money came from. That you have
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  Speaker 3: to go to work, and that little machine we go
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  Speaker 3: to and get money out of, you have to put
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  Speaker 3: something in there. And these little magic cards, these credit
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  Speaker 3: cards are you really have to pay bills? So I said,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, I have two fantastic boys. It's time
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  Speaker 3: for them to really understand business and to learn how
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  Speaker 3: to earn money, how to save money, how to invest money,
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  Speaker 3: how to give money away in a charitable way. So
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  Speaker 3: I said, you know what, We're going to start to
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  Speaker 3: save Dice business and they were super excited. I said, guys, look,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be entrepreneurs in this business. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to do it together, and the money we make, we'll
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  Speaker 3: get a chance to divide it up and you'll earn
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  Speaker 3: money now so you can buy the things that you want. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And so yes. So that was why, because I felt
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  Speaker 3: like they needed to understand how money worked, and that
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  Speaker 3: was the best lesson. Once they learned that lesson, if
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  Speaker 3: Snowy Atlanta didn't do anything else but teach them and
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  Speaker 3: the hundreds of people who've worked for us along the way,
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  Speaker 3: how to earn money, particularly young people who never had
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity to be in a business, and to see
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  Speaker 3: a business owner that looked like me. I remember going
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  Speaker 3: to a school, never forget this, an elementary school, and
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  Speaker 3: this young black kid, young man probably in the third grade,
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  Speaker 3: and he looked up at me he said, is this
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  Speaker 3: your business? I said, yes, sir, it is. He said wow.
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  Speaker 3: And the impact right there. Who knows what that is?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what that will be? But I was able
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  Speaker 3: to spend a minute with him to say, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: can have one like this. He said, I can. I said,
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  Speaker 3: of course, if you do well in school, if you
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  Speaker 3: listen to your teachers and your parents and work hard,
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  Speaker 3: why not you can do this too. So I realized
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  Speaker 3: that it was a deeper calling. And I still feel
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  Speaker 3: like that deeper calling on what I'm doing, and I
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: don't even know what it is yet, what it all
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  Speaker 3: is yet. I'm just trying to be obedient and do
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  Speaker 3: what I think God wants me to do in this business.
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  Speaker 3: So well, we'll tell you some market that answers it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely well, it's trying to make that big announcement man,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: about what's going to happen to your business in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. I'll give you a week drum roll, but
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you don't need that. Tell everybody a big contract you
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: got coming out for twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. So one of my goals was to
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  Speaker 3: expand with the Atlanta Braves and just didn't know how
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  Speaker 3: that was going to happen. And what I realized was
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  Speaker 3: that I didn't have to know how that was going
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  Speaker 3: to happen because it was already being ordered by higher power.
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  Speaker 3: So we are literally in the contract phase of figuring out, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: where's Snowy going to be in Truest Park for the
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta Braves. They're building some new areas there, so the
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: particulars we don't have ironed out. But twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 3: you will see snowy Atlanta in Truest Park for the
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta Braids. So I'm just super excited.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you know, you know, I go back to this story,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: unfortunately delivered that sad story about the early death of
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: your dad, and I think about now that your son's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: You built this business to inspire your son to understand
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  Speaker 1: financial literacy, and now you are that young kid. Now
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you for a fact that kids remember.
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  Speaker 1: I remember stuff. I remember. I remember things all the
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  Speaker 1: way back to my sister sticking me with a diaper,
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  Speaker 1: a diaper pan, Okay, I remember that. I've dad. I
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  Speaker 1: remember stuff now and uh so uh. But the reality
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  Speaker 1: is is that you're representing a community. A lot of
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: people say, is it's not normal, But it is normal.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the whole thing about this conversation. That's the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: reason I have this show, Money Making Conversation, masaclict so
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  Speaker 1: people can hear about you, hear about how you're translating
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  Speaker 1: and creating legacy, Hear about how your brand is being
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  Speaker 1: accepted at one of the more prominent sports brand in
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the country. That's the lane break. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: something over Atlanta. If you guys know anything about Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: they don't need no vendors at Truest Park. That stadium
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  Speaker 1: is sold out every game. It is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most incredible a life experience of the whole layout, the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: way I've created is like a giant eat eat a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: throng and festival around outside and inside that facility. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you make a decision to go like that, what's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the next steps in your life with your business, with
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: your sons, with your wife, and how you're moving forward
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: with the business of Snow Atlanta Marcus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeh No, that's a great question. I would say getting
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  Speaker 3: there will require discipline and being very consistent, which we
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: worked hard over the last five years to be And
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: that's something that I've always expressed to my kids that
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: nothing will come easy. Nobody owes you anything. You're going
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: to work for every You may not get everything you
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: work for, but you will work for everything you get,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and that's how it's brought up. So now going into
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  Speaker 3: Truest Park, the goal is to absolutely create a legacy.
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  Speaker 3: It is to create an environment. And I want to
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  Speaker 3: be a benefit the Truest Park because Truest Park is
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: not having me in there because I'm good looking, which
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I believe with everything in me
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  Speaker 3: that Truest Park they're having us in there because we're
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: going to add value. We're going to do something that
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: no one else can. We're going to create a product
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: offering that will be desirable to the masses. My goal
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: is for kids to want to go to a Braves game,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: not only to see the braves. That's important, that's why
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: you're going, But I want that other underlying reason to
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: be I'm going to go and get a snowy and
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to have an experience and I'm going to
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: get to make my own creation. And so it's the
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: product offering, it's how we're going to deliver it. And ultimately,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: again my goal is to even increase attendance at Truths
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: at Truest Park for the Atlanta Braves. I want I
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: want to I want to add value, right, I don't
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: want you to just have us in there. I want
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to add value. So at the end of it all,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: at the end of the year, in the three or
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: four years, they look back and we've become a staple
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and truist Park.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I know you do a lot of catering your food trucks.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Tell everybody how they can reach out to you, that.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Marcus, absolutely, So you can reach out to us by
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: going to www. Dot Snowing. That's s n O w
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  Speaker 3: I E A t L dot com again that snowyat
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: l dot com. Or our phone number is six seven
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  Speaker 3: eight three zero four nine five seven seven. And we
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  Speaker 3: do a ton of fundraising. We're at so many different
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: local high schools and elementaries for kids fun days. So
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: that's one of the pieces that brings George to me
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  Speaker 3: as well. When we get to write a check back
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: to a school or church, our nonprofit organization that's doing
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: something for the community, that's just that's just session good.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, Marcus, thank you man for coming on my show.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Until Donald it's going to air in Houston, Texas, So
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Donovan is going to listen when it airs in Houston, Texas.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: But appreciate your brother. Your story is humbling and your
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: story is outstanding, and you brought back memories for me.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So thank you for coming on Money Making Conversations Master
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  Speaker 1: Class Show. Sir okay, my pleasure. Thank you bye bye.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Keep your faith, man, keep your faith.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: We'll do, We'll do.
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