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Rushion McDonald's 2022 New Year's Master Class on his Money Making Conversations Guide to Success! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Reclaim your Saturday's under god junk and too smiling happy
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  Speaker 1: by marketing a Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know
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  Speaker 1: Now it's time to hear from my man, Rashan McDonald
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  Speaker 1: money Making Conversations. Here we go working with Money Making Conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host with Sean McDonald. If you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: That is why I'm here, that is what I want
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations. It's a new year, and it's this
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  Speaker 1: time of the year we always talk about making changes
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  Speaker 1: in our lives. That's why I always talking about if
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  Speaker 1: you have a gift or a passion, lead with your gifts.
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  Speaker 1: If you have a gift, don't let your age, friends, family,
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  Speaker 1: or co workers stop you from planning or living your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: Hear me on that, stop it. Stop letting other people
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  Speaker 1: make decisions for you. Follow your dream, follow your path.
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  Speaker 1: But you all have a general tendency to use age
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  Speaker 1: as an excuse with pursuing our dreams. Welcome. I welcome
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  Speaker 1: getting old, y'all so I can reach my goals. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: that crazy? I'm saying it publicly. I welcome getting old
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  Speaker 1: so I can reach my goals. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: you're eighteen, forty, or sixty, and each one of those
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  Speaker 1: age groups means something. Eighteen years old, tend to tell
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  Speaker 1: people they're too young. You're trying to jump the lines.
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  Speaker 1: Be patient. Forty years old, you get to that point
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't done any of your career goals or
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  Speaker 1: met the right person of working the right job, you
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  Speaker 1: tend to shut down. You tend to get depressed. You
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  Speaker 1: can't think that your life can't go any further, can't
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  Speaker 1: get any bigger, can't get any better. And when you're sixty,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason in your mind, you're trying to retire.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to quit on life. You're trying to give up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll stop it. Stop using age as an excuse. That's
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  Speaker 1: my whole platform for money making conversation, and this masterclass
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  Speaker 1: series that I'm bringing to you every week is to
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  Speaker 1: tell you stop it. Put down that mirror and stop
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  Speaker 1: looking at it, stop holding yourself back. I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you information on money making conversation every week that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: help you. I'm gonna interview people that's gonna help you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be gonna specialists. They're gonna help you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna interview you, I'm gonna take questions and answers. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna help you be a better person, be a survivor
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  Speaker 1: because these times are rough nowadays, these aren't normal times.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to think differently, be differently, act differently,
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  Speaker 1: and get information from sources that care about you. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what I do on Money Making Conversation. That's who
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  Speaker 1: I am ra Sean McDonald. I don't care if you
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  Speaker 1: somebody tells you you cannot be successful. If you have
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  Speaker 1: a plan in place, you can. Today is your time.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to start reading other people's success stories and
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  Speaker 1: start writing your own. Twenty two New Year's resolution for
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  Speaker 1: me for Money Making Conversation to you is don't let
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  Speaker 1: your age be an excuse. Today we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 1: a number of things on this one hour show. The
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  Speaker 1: show will have no interviews, will have no guests, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm interviewing you. I'm talking to you about your opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: I'm using this show. I'm using the tie that I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving you right now to put you and point you
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction to be successful. In two, the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic is not going anywhere. You can't Stay Locked Up
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  Speaker 1: eighteen forty sixty. This is the subject we're gonna talk about.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to stop making these mistakes. I'm anna list
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  Speaker 1: of mistakes you need to stop making. How to make
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  Speaker 1: money with your brand. I got a great scenario that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna help you see that you can be special, but
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  Speaker 1: you gotta stop being this in order to be that.
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  Speaker 1: Methods that will help you win when these strategies that
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  Speaker 1: will keep you focused. I'm gonna help you outline your
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  Speaker 1: plan to success. More importantly, I'm gonna help you know
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  Speaker 1: your value steps to grow your career. Don't let your
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  Speaker 1: fears hurt your career and other lords. Stop stopping yourself.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. That's what these master classes.
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  Speaker 1: Every week, I'm gonna deliver the hour of master classes.
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  Speaker 1: Some of your interview related some of the nuggets like
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  Speaker 1: I'm dropping right now on you stop stopping yourself. I
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  Speaker 1: can say it now. It's the top of the year.
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  Speaker 1: This when we all make changes. That's when I eat
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  Speaker 1: my black eye peas on on on New Year's Day
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  Speaker 1: for that blessing. So I make sure I get some money.
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  Speaker 1: All those superstitions come into place. But you know the
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  Speaker 1: biggest superstition that you have to have is consistency. The
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  Speaker 1: biggest superstition there to have is believe in yourself. The
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  Speaker 1: biggest superstition you have to have is to have a plan.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we're talking about today. So welcome to
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation. Let's get this show started. Two news resolutions.
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  Speaker 1: My number one resolution is this, don't let your age
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  Speaker 1: be an excuse. Don't let it be an excuse. Don't
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  Speaker 1: let it stop you. Don't let it and hamper you,
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  Speaker 1: because so many people have been pigeonholed in to believe
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  Speaker 1: in that they have to reach a certain age. If
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  Speaker 1: you haven't accomplished certain things, if you're a graduate from
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  Speaker 1: college at twenty two, if you're in the method, if
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  Speaker 1: you ever met the right person at twenty four, if
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  Speaker 1: you hadn't gotten married at eight, if you don't have
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  Speaker 1: your kids by thirty five, then you're not living the
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  Speaker 1: perfect life. There's no such things as the perfect life.
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  Speaker 1: The life you're trying to live is your life. Your life.
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  Speaker 1: Are being able to win and win the conditions that
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  Speaker 1: are available to you. Today we are living in a pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was over. I thought was going to
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  Speaker 1: be at one. I was. I was, I was ready
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  Speaker 1: to drop the mask. I was ready to roll out
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  Speaker 1: there and guess what, a new one popped up on us.
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  Speaker 1: So we know now that we have to be cautious.
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  Speaker 1: I put new rules in place in my office in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: telling all my staff that if they walk under their office,
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  Speaker 1: they have to wear a mask. If they are together
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  Speaker 1: in the office together or standing around, they have to
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  Speaker 1: be wearing a mask. We are a creative agency. That's
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  Speaker 1: why we have to work with either one would like
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  Speaker 1: to believe what can you do at home? Not? If
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  Speaker 1: you're creative, you have to be in a position where
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  Speaker 1: you need to collaborate, and that the marketing agencies you
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  Speaker 1: have to collaborate. And that's what we're doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of collaborations. But let me talk about not me, let
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  Speaker 1: me talk about you. Let me talk about some things
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be able to do in twenty
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  Speaker 1: two that's gonna make you successful. Today we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about it's time to stop making these mistakes. How to
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  Speaker 1: make money with your brand. Aid should never be an excuse.
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  Speaker 1: I'm bringing that back up again. Methods that will help
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  Speaker 1: you win in twenty two winning strategies that will keep
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  Speaker 1: you focused. In two, I'm gonna help you outline your plan,
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  Speaker 1: know your value. I'm gonna tell the story that I
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  Speaker 1: that helped me out and made me survive for five years.
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  Speaker 1: That IBM knowing my value or creating value. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people understand they get frustrated while they're not
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  Speaker 1: getting promotion because they have not created value. To get
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  Speaker 1: a promotion or created value for somebody to want to
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  Speaker 1: come in and buy your product, you have to create
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  Speaker 1: an interest. It works in so your media, it works
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  Speaker 1: your life, it works in dating, it works in relationship,
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  Speaker 1: it works with your raising your kids. If you have
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  Speaker 1: respect and people feel a need to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of that product or be a part of that life,
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  Speaker 1: a part of that situation, then guess what you're win
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  Speaker 1: with that steps to grow your career or your job
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and don't let your fears hurt your career. I'm
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  Speaker 1: also giving away a free money making conversation God Success.
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  Speaker 1: It's a digital booklet that I created. It's called Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations God to Success. If you email me at
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  Speaker 1: info at Rushan McDonald dot com, info at Rashan McDonald
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  Speaker 1: dot com that I will send you that guy to success.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get started. Let's get started out. Okay, here,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about this right here up front. Are
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  Speaker 1: giving you the topics again. How it's time to stop
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  Speaker 1: making these excuses. How to make money with your brand
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  Speaker 1: age and never be an excuse. Methods that will help
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  Speaker 1: you win when your strategies will keep you focused. Outline
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  Speaker 1: your plan for two. How to know your value or
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  Speaker 1: create value for you or your product. The key to
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  Speaker 1: success is communication. Consistency builds your business. Steps to grow
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  Speaker 1: your career. Don't let your fears hurt your career. Stand out.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta start with this number one topic because if
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  Speaker 1: you don't make change, that's what the first part of
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  Speaker 1: the year has to be about. Making change. If you're
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  Speaker 1: not willing to make change, there's gonna be a problem.
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  Speaker 1: And for now, I gotta tell you this, right now,
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  Speaker 1: you have to stop making these mistakes. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: make change, if you want to have a better life.
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  Speaker 1: For two, and you've been frustrated in if you've been
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  Speaker 1: frustrated your whole life, you have to stop making these mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: And I made these mistakes. Number one, you have to
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  Speaker 1: get a hobby. If you're running through life with no hobby,
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  Speaker 1: then guess what it will lead to frustration. My hobby
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  Speaker 1: right now, baking and cooking. I didn't have that hobby
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  Speaker 1: to Steve Harvey pranked me on his talk show in
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  Speaker 1: two twelve. I was just going through life like a
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  Speaker 1: little little ratting wheel, just working, just working, just working,
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  Speaker 1: no downtime, no down tip because I don't drink or smoke,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't have any liquids or anything that slowed
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  Speaker 1: me down. So my mind was always constantly moving in
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  Speaker 1: the direction pounding, pounding, pounding. Now I can share my
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  Speaker 1: hobby with people. I put it on social media. People
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  Speaker 1: say it all the time. They would say, Ri Shan,
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever, you well, how how do you stay
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  Speaker 1: like that? You don't get fat? Because that's my hobby.
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  Speaker 1: But again, if you're gonna have a hobby, what you
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  Speaker 1: have to realize health matters. Health matters. I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to a good friend of mine, Stephen A. Smith, who
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  Speaker 1: was right now battling COVID COVID the teen and and
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  Speaker 1: I would tell you, you know, he and I both
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  Speaker 1: we talked all the time. You know, yes, I do
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  Speaker 1: manage him, but he's like a little little brother to me.
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  Speaker 1: He's like a good friend of mine. And he told me,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Rashan, you know, you know, I my advocate
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  Speaker 1: of the mask and an advocate of vaccination and all that,
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  Speaker 1: But he said, I still was slipping. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: wear a mask. Sometimes I dropping unerneath my nose. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was tapping up people coming in, hugging them when
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  Speaker 1: I shake their hands. So I was getting relaxed. In
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  Speaker 1: the age of the pandemic. You cannot relax. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: assume that the person you're talking to doesn't have symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: are is not carrying the virus, the covid nati virus
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  Speaker 1: or the armicron virus, whatever is out there. Now we
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  Speaker 1: have to be smart about that. But beyond that, let's
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  Speaker 1: go back to just being healthy period, eating the right thing,
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  Speaker 1: high blood pressure, calming down. Because as African Americans, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming I'm talking to ninty five percent of my
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  Speaker 1: listeners or viewers of African Americans, we eat. It's finally
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  Speaker 1: here the season of celebration. And no matter how you
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  Speaker 1: celebrate with family and friends, whether you're preparing for Reis
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  Speaker 1: Magos or Karamu lighting the Manura, are going to midnight Mass.
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  Speaker 1: Coals has just what you need to make those traditions special.
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  Speaker 1: Plus you'll find gifts for all your loved ones. Send
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  Speaker 1: warm wishes with cozy fleeces, sweaters, loungeware, blankets and throws.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible were terrible eaters. That's why when COVID eighteen came out,
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  Speaker 1: Who's victimimized the most African Americans? Who's victimized the most
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  Speaker 1: elderly people? People whould compromise immune system? Now the elderly people,
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  Speaker 1: you can give them a pass age is compromising their
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  Speaker 1: immune system. But African Americans weight was compromising our immune system.
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  Speaker 1: Eating habits were compromising our immune systems. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: we live in close quarters compromising our immune system. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that we generally use public transportation was compromising our
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  Speaker 1: mune system. So basically our lifestyle, there are a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things that we may not be able to change.
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  Speaker 1: We may not be able to change the transportation, and
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  Speaker 1: we may not be able to change our ability to
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  Speaker 1: We may not be able to change where we live.
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  Speaker 1: But we can change our weight, and we can change
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  Speaker 1: how we eat. We can do that, So know how
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  Speaker 1: you eat, know what you need to do. I just
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  Speaker 1: came off vacation with my family. Here's a here's an
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  Speaker 1: injury your story. When I started managing Steve Harvey and
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, I didn't take a vacation to two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and two because I was afraid. I was afraid that
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  Speaker 1: if I stopped that everything that I was accomplishing was
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  Speaker 1: a stop too. That's a lot of people like that
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  Speaker 1: out there. They're afraid that they jump off that wheel,
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  Speaker 1: then all the success or somebody would jump in front
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  Speaker 1: of them. Fear. There's not even fear of failure, it's
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  Speaker 1: just fear. It's a fear that you are manufacturing two
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  Speaker 1: years so needless to say. I was stressed out, I
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  Speaker 1: had a bad cough, I was losing weight with little
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  Speaker 1: hair I had on my head at the time, was
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  Speaker 1: getting thinner, but I was afraid to jump off that wheel.
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  Speaker 1: So finally I had to jump off. When I jumped
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  Speaker 1: off that wheel, I had to go on vacation. So
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  Speaker 1: now I do take vacation. I do spend time with
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  Speaker 1: the family. The family means something to me more then Hi, honey.
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  Speaker 1: I'm home talking to my daughter, my daughter and telling
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  Speaker 1: her I love her and making sure to ask her
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  Speaker 1: about her grades. I spend time with them. I just
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  Speaker 1: spent time with them this past weekend. Leave the week
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  Speaker 1: before Christmas and New Year's went on a vacation. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're saying that you don't have time for vacation,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you you are a fool. You better make time.
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  Speaker 1: Be to make time for yourself. They make time for
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  Speaker 1: your family. They'll make time to relax your brain. So
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  Speaker 1: now we went through no hobbies. You gotta get a hobby,
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  Speaker 1: went through poor health. We talked about change. You're eating habits.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about dropping some weight. It can be done.
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  Speaker 1: These are things you can control. Now we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: no vacation. You gotta start taking vacation. Now. Let's move
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  Speaker 1: on to something that's really important. Dating time. Dating time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time to date. I ain't got time
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  Speaker 1: to be fine, No, I ain't got tiving. Let me
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  Speaker 1: just okay, we'll tell you some high works. When you're
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  Speaker 1: in high school, there's a lot of options. When you
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  Speaker 1: get in college, it still seems to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of options. When you get out of college, it drastically
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  Speaker 1: changes the options because you just don't see people. You
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  Speaker 1: can possibly they just walking around on campus or just
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  Speaker 1: walking around your high school. They may be walking around
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  Speaker 1: the job that you're working at. Maybe not because they
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  Speaker 1: might be married. They may be already taken care of,
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  Speaker 1: married by somebody else. So that cuts into your dating time.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you have somebody who wants to date you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm too busy. My job becomes a priority. No, it
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  Speaker 1: cannot be that way, because it's gonna cut into your
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  Speaker 1: family time. See, no dating time and no family time
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  Speaker 1: are the same problems. No dating time, no family time.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be able to deal with both. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: be able to understand that. You gotta be able to
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  Speaker 1: take care of Hey, I'm telling you something. We stopped
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  Speaker 1: talking right now. If you don't believe what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you listen to money main conversations. This is
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter. I'm trying to tell you. What you
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  Speaker 1: need to do to change your life is you. You
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  Speaker 1: have to look in the mirror. You have to put
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  Speaker 1: down that stop sign. When I wake up every morning,
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  Speaker 1: I look in the mirror. You know, when I see
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  Speaker 1: I see a person who's tired. I see a person
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  Speaker 1: who did want to get out of bed. That's me.
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  Speaker 1: That's me. I'm just like you. I say, I get
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  Speaker 1: up at fourth third every morning, but that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: I want to get up. I look in that mirror
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  Speaker 1: and I am not a happy camper. But I am
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  Speaker 1: a happy camper because guess what, I can look in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror and see myself and recognize the person I see.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people aren't waking up. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that are in hospitals. So count your blessings,
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  Speaker 1: understand your blessings, and appreciate the fact that you are
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  Speaker 1: getting up. Use it with your own physical tools, walking
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  Speaker 1: through the house through your own physical tools. So enjoy
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that moment again. I gotta go back to something we
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: need to talk about not capitalizing on your success. What
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: does that mean? What's what does that means mean? Let
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: me tell you the IBM story, because my degreers in mathematics,
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  Speaker 1: my mind and sociologist, and I was that IBM when
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  Speaker 1: IBM hired me. They hired two white guys this way
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  Speaker 1: back in three three nothing wrong. Well, no, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: telling you the truth, you know. And when I sat
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  Speaker 1: down with my supervisor, he asked me, Rashaan, what are
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  Speaker 1: your goals and expectations? What do you want to what
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  Speaker 1: do you what do you want to accomplish the IBM.
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  Speaker 1: I told him I didn't know. I told him I
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  Speaker 1: get back with him. Okay, Well, as time has it,
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  Speaker 1: the two white guys they were getting opportunity to said,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't kidding. I'm huddling around with the other black
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  Speaker 1: people that I bem mad. Look at that man they
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  Speaker 1: started with me, and look at them. They already going
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  Speaker 1: out of town on trips. They are already walking into
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  Speaker 1: the meetings they go Rashan, didn't he talk with you?
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  Speaker 1: So people starting to drop these ideas in my head
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  Speaker 1: that is that the problem is not me. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is to established me. The problem is, you know, white
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  Speaker 1: people holding me back. So I went in the room
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  Speaker 1: talked about supervisor because I was huffed up by then.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I ain't saying I didn't break it down
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  Speaker 1: into black and white, but I just went in there adamant,
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  Speaker 1: how do why? How does Bill? But that's how I did?
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  Speaker 1: Talk like that? How does Bell and Jimmy do things
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not able to do? My supervisor? Close the door.
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  Speaker 1: It's Rashan, he said, let's le let's walk here for me.
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  Speaker 1: At here, he said, I like the way you draft, Rashan.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm working at my BM, not just in eighteen three.
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  Speaker 1: I like the way you draft. He said, you got
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  Speaker 1: the little pointy toe shoes. Zo got your little flannel
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  Speaker 1: shirt on. Okay, you're you know you're your your coat
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  Speaker 1: and your jacket don't match. You got a blazer on.
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  Speaker 1: And he walked me down the wall. There's these pictures
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  Speaker 1: on the wall, and i'd be and he said, I'm
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: not saying anything, but does anybody on that wall dressed
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  Speaker 1: like you? And what ain't by race? He said, does
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  Speaker 1: anybody on that wall dressed like you? I said no
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  Speaker 1: and just walked away. He said, not come back to
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  Speaker 1: my office. He said. Secondly, okay, I asked you when
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  Speaker 1: you started, what were your goals and what did you
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  Speaker 1: want to accomplish at IBM and what did you tell me?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me? He said, no, no, I'll tell you. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote it down right here. You said, I will get
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  Speaker 1: back with you. What you said, right, he said, I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: wrote it down right here, I will get back with you. Well,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting with Sean. So when you're gonna get
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: back with me? Uh, okay, okay, I'm getting back with
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  Speaker 1: you now. He said, how about tomorrow? So I went
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  Speaker 1: home and I said, because it was about me now,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: not capitalizing on my success. Because IBM gave me a job,
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to be successful, I wasn't capitalizing on it. I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting around there being cool, dressing cool, telling everybody
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  Speaker 1: I worked for IBM. But I wasn't accomplishing anything, accomplishing
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  Speaker 1: anything that I could be at IBM. I want to
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  Speaker 1: The suit store bought me three suits. No from the
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  Speaker 1: nine dollars. I'm talking about a three now, ain't nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I was sharp and I went back in from me
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  Speaker 1: a brown suit, gray shoo in the blue suit brought
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  Speaker 1: me some conservative wing tips shoes from floor shine, went
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  Speaker 1: back in the next day, white shirt. My supervisor and
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  Speaker 1: my other fellow co workers didn't even recognize me. They
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  Speaker 1: s is what's growing over here. This is when I realized,
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  Speaker 1: right in the end, right there, you have to set
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  Speaker 1: your own standards. If you want to be liked, If
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  Speaker 1: you do any things in life because you want to
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  Speaker 1: be like, then those are not standards. Standards are things
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  Speaker 1: that people notice. Standards are things that when you do it,
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  Speaker 1: people compliment to you about it or they ask you
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  Speaker 1: about it. That's what standards are. They make you adjust,
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  Speaker 1: they make you aware. So finally I walked into IBM,
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  Speaker 1: and I had standards. And we're live here outside the
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  Speaker 1: Perez family home, just waiting for the and there they go,
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  Speaker 1: almost on time. This morning. Mom is coming out the
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  Speaker 1: like dad has the bags. Daughter is bringing up the rear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh but the diaper bag wasn't closed. Diapers and toys
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  Speaker 1: are everywhere. Oh but mom has just nailed the perfect
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  Speaker 1: daughter who looks to be about nine or two and
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  Speaker 1: has secured herself in the booster seat dead zips the
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  Speaker 1: realize her coffee cup is still on the roof of
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  Speaker 1: the ad Council. I've been walking to IBM. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have standards. I was just getting along. I was just
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  Speaker 1: being rashot Ko mo d fly life of the party.
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  Speaker 1: When I walked in dressed like I worked for IBU,
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  Speaker 1: I accepted as the standards of IBM. And by accepting
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  Speaker 1: the standards of ib M, they've raised the expectations of me.
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  Speaker 1: They saw value in me, and my career took off.
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  Speaker 1: Every two months they were sending me to Atlanta because
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  Speaker 1: I was based in Houston for management training. Management training.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually, of course, I realized that Abbia was not
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  Speaker 1: the career that I wanted because I wanted to pursue
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  Speaker 1: a career as a stand up comedian. But I'm just
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  Speaker 1: letting you know that did not stop me from challenging
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  Speaker 1: myself and being the best that I could be at
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  Speaker 1: the time that I needed to be. So when I
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  Speaker 1: tell you not capitalizing on your success or your opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to be great, that's an example of that. Right there,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I was allowing clouds of racism, clouds of uh, they're
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: doing me wrong, clouds of you know, some dude, they're tripping. No, no, no, no,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald's was tripping. That's the problem. And here's another
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  Speaker 1: story I want to share with you in two under
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  Speaker 1: stop making mistakes. Stop making these mistakes fear of getting
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  Speaker 1: your business relationship in writing? Whoa, whoa? Come on, come
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  Speaker 1: on now, come on now, come on now, I testify.
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  Speaker 1: Let's testify. So afraid to get it in writing because
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  Speaker 1: you're afraid it's gonna go away. But I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. If you don't get it in writing, it's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: gonna go away. If you don't get it in writing,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it's not legitimate. If you don't get it in writing,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you cannot apply a business plan to it. Whoa alert
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  Speaker 1: Alert Alert Alert fear of getting your business plan in writing? Wow,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: how many of y'all out there dealing with that same
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: problem in business with somebody renting on the hook up,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: got employees working for you on the side, don't have
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: real insurance? Come on now, because you are afraid to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: get your business relationship in writing, afraid to let the
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  Speaker 1: city know that you in business, so you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a certificate on the wall. If you want to be
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  Speaker 1: successful in life, everybody, as an employer or employer, as
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a small business owner, it has to be in writing.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be written down. It has to be
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  Speaker 1: a point where you believe you can be what you're
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: dreaming of can be accomplished. So that leads me to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: my next section of conversation here, how to make money
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  Speaker 1: with your brand? Whoa brand? What does brand mean? What
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: does brand meet? Boy? That word has been tossed around
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  Speaker 1: brand brand brand, brand, b r A n D b
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  Speaker 1: r A n D brand brand brand. I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you something about being the brain. In two thousand I
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: took over managing Steve Harvey. Two thousand, I told Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harvey that I wanted to model his career as a brand.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to treat him like a corporation, treat him
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  Speaker 1: like a business. He said, what do you mean? I said,
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  Speaker 1: why why can't you, Steve Harvey, have the same rules
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  Speaker 1: as an IBM, as a Disney, as a foid. Why
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  Speaker 1: can't you have the same standards, the same stipulation. Why
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  Speaker 1: can't you be a brand? Because those are recognizable brands.
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  Speaker 1: That was before social media, that was in two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Because I felt at the time that Steve Harvey could
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  Speaker 1: cross over. I feel at the time that Steve Harvey
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  Speaker 1: was was a brilliant talent and he is still today
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  Speaker 1: a breath of town. Look at what he's accomplished in
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: his career and look how much he has crossed over.
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  Speaker 1: Because I started marketing him and treating his brand like
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  Speaker 1: a business. I started having the same rules, the same
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  Speaker 1: level of expectations. Because see what happens is I always
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: tell people we're living in the Mohammed Ali era. Peopriginal
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  Speaker 1: Mohammad Alia, the Mohammed Ali era. You know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: That means. That means that you can shout out your greatness.
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  Speaker 1: That means that you, my friend, can make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: That means that you can be great. That means that
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  Speaker 1: you can be special. That means that you can do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to do when you want to do it,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: because social media allows you to do it. If Coca
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  Speaker 1: Cola can see they're the best soft drink. If McDonald's
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: can say they've got a great hamburger, if five guys
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: can say they got great fires, if Ford say they've
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: got a great truck. Why can't you say you're the best.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Why can't you shout out your greatness? Why can't you
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: be prime time? That's the world we're living in. How
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  Speaker 1: to make money as your brand, first of all, you
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  Speaker 1: have to tell people have a brand. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have a product. First of all, have
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  Speaker 1: to have a business. First of all, we have to
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  Speaker 1: open no time. You have to close at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: You can't open up when you want to close when
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  Speaker 1: you want to. It's called consistency. That's what the brand
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  Speaker 1: is all about. That's why every day, if Steve Harvey
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  Speaker 1: does not turn on the mic a six am Monday
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  Speaker 1: through produd Monday through Friday, that's a problem. That means
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: his brand is off or something's wrong. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: brand is. So when you show the work. If somebody
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: tells you to show up at work at eight and
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you show up at work at eight oh five, then
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: there's an inconsistency in your brand and people are gonna
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: start looking at you as a something they can't trust.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Because you are a brand. You are a product. You
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: are a walking, talking product. Everything you do in this era,
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  Speaker 1: in the age of social media, you are a brand.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand, when I saw Steve Harvey as a brand,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't have social media. But today, because of social media,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: because of accountability, because of cell phones, you are on
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  Speaker 1: a twenty four hour o'clock nowadays. It used to be
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  Speaker 1: when I was growing up, when you love home. If
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  Speaker 1: they didn't call you, you you didn't get that called to,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you got back home, and then they had answer machine.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: You answutely listen to playback your messages. You find out
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  Speaker 1: who called you. Now then they went to pages. Okay,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: then pages they could page you. Now cell phones allow
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you to have a twenty four hour lease. Now because
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of the pandemic zoom called virtual meetings actually more taxing
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: before when you were working regular hours because there's no time,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: there's no downtime, just one meeting after next meeting, after
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: next meeting, after next meeting, and you're always up at
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  Speaker 1: this level. That's the era we live in. That's your brand.
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  Speaker 1: So in order to be successful with that brand, you
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  Speaker 1: got a lot harder to make money with your brand.
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  Speaker 1: How to make money with your brand? Let me just
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: let me shout out this little simple story about making
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  Speaker 1: money with your brand. Listen to me this. There's a
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  Speaker 1: there's a very simple story I would tell peop about.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you look like somebody don't mean you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to make the same amount of money. Just because you
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: look like somebody doesn't mean that people see you the
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  Speaker 1: same way. Just because you look like somebody doesn't mean
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: that the people expect the same things from you, then
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: they expect from the other person to see. Look for
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  Speaker 1: your children's eyes to see the true magic of a forest.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: It's a storybook world for them. You look and see
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a tree. They see the rink of face of a
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: wizard with arms outstretched to the sky. They see treasure
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  Speaker 1: and pebbles, They see a windy path that could lead
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  Speaker 1: to adventure, and they see you. They're fearless. Guide is
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  Speaker 1: this fascinating world? Find a forest in your you and
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  Speaker 1: start exploring and discovered the forest dot orgon brought to
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  Speaker 1: I call it the chicken versus the eagle. All brands
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  Speaker 1: are not created equal. So if you look like somebody
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you're going to get the same amount
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  Speaker 1: of money. I'm gonna get your same monitor aspect are
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: gonna be treated the same way. And that's a classic
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: example a chicken versus the eagle. They both lay eggs
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  Speaker 1: and both are covered with feathers, but these two creatures
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  Speaker 1: evoked two different levels of respect. The eagle is proud, noble,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and lauded by his peers, while the chicken is something
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: you'll find on the line and the launch buffet. When
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  Speaker 1: it comes to life, why would you want to be
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  Speaker 1: eating like the chicken when you can shot like an eagle.
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  Speaker 1: Hear that? Hear that? Okay, there's a lot of chickens
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  Speaker 1: out there. Look look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look,
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  Speaker 1: just pecking, pecking, pecking. For many of you out there,
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  Speaker 1: you're living your lives and the chicken coop when you
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: don't even know it. This can ain't from a bad
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  Speaker 1: relationship to disrespectful kids, to a terrible job, to provide
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  Speaker 1: no opportunity for success or even to an uncomfortable lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the chicken coop can be. I'm just using
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  Speaker 1: an analogy to your life to a chicken. And nobody
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  Speaker 1: wants to be a chicken, but we all be coming
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  Speaker 1: a chicken. I was a chicken at one time. I
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  Speaker 1: was just going through the motions. I was a chicken
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  Speaker 1: at IBM when I was winning the pointy toe shoes
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  Speaker 1: or you know the sexy shirt, you know the non
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  Speaker 1: matching coat and jacket. I was a chicken. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. I was getting a check going home. I
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  Speaker 1: was never gonna be promoted. I was never going to
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  Speaker 1: be uh putting in front of anybody to speak publicly.
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  Speaker 1: I was never going to be the voice of IBM
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  Speaker 1: because I was a chicken. The only people who run
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  Speaker 1: for president of Eagles, people who achieve respect. All the
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  Speaker 1: people who who who are acknowledged for theirs are Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: They don't acknowledge chickens. People eat chickens. Yeah, what always
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to find out the breast, the thigh. That's
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  Speaker 1: only want from chickens. You don't want to be a chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Like the chicken. That doesn't matter how many eggs you lay,
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  Speaker 1: whether you lay them in the day at night, you
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  Speaker 1: always expected to lay eggs, which means the work never stops.
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  Speaker 1: There's no extra pay, no extra love, and most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: no extra happiness. You never wake up with a plan
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  Speaker 1: to be successful and always pecking and scraping at the
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  Speaker 1: dirt define your success. I'm preaching now, y'all because I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: tired of us understanding that we have devalued ourselves because
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: we're huddling up with other chickens. And nobody wants to
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: be the eagle because you know why. It takes work,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: because you have to get up on time every day
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to be an equal. You have to look a certain
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  Speaker 1: way to be an equal. You have to have people
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: put expectations on you to be an eagle. There's pressure
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  Speaker 1: to be an eagle. But guess what you want to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: be an eagle? You want that. You don't want that
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: job that has no extra pay, new extra love, and
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  Speaker 1: most important to no extra happiness. Wow, when you're chicken,
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  Speaker 1: you never wake up with a plan to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's just terrible. But this is a
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  Speaker 1: completely unlike the eagle. I ain't said much because you
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  Speaker 1: know something, I've been talking about the chicken, this whole
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: conversation about your chicken. You know why, because when I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: get to the eagle, I don't have much to say
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: because it's so well respected. Sores through the air get
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: respect for any chicken. They've comes by, chicken or run
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: from an eagle. Any creature that comes across the eagle
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: is aggressive with their hunt for success. The eagles goal
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: is to fight to keep it place in the game,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and they keep winning. Wow, that's what an eagle is.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: But you cool with being a chicken. You're cool with
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: laying them eggs. You're cool with going to work, laying eggs,
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  Speaker 1: getting off work, coming back to next day, laying some
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: more eggs. And I don't care if you lay a
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: dozen eggs that day or two eggs that day. But
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I can assure you you keep laying those two eggs,
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  Speaker 1: you will be laying eggs in that office no more.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: They're gonna keep pushing you. You love dozen't they want
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  Speaker 1: two dozen because they see you as a person they
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: can replace. People don't look to replace eagles, but they
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: do look to replace chickens. You don't want to be
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: a chicken. You're gonna be something that people expect you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to be. You want to be. That's what chickens are.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And when people think like chickens and lie, guess what
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  Speaker 1: they start doing. They start using ages and excuse as
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to why they are chicken. Well, i'm forty, i'm fifty,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sixty. You don't know if I want me, I
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: don't want nobody. My children get on my nerves. My
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: man get on my nerves, my woman get on my nerves,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: my mate gets on my nerves, my friends get on
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: my everybody gets on your nerves. Because you're just full
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  Speaker 1: of excuses. But the number one excuse that you always
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  Speaker 1: pull out of the bag is age. You know why,
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  Speaker 1: because you're planning your death. I want you to stop
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  Speaker 1: planning your death and start planning your success. Don't act young,
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  Speaker 1: when you hit fifty years of age, turn that experience
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  Speaker 1: into cash. Stop reading success stories and start writing your own.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I said at the top of every one
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  Speaker 1: of my Money Making Conversation episodes. Stop reading success stories
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  Speaker 1: to start writing your own. Methods that will help you win.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to start a business. The key is
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  Speaker 1: it's not even about the business. How to maintain a
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  Speaker 1: balanced life. You want to market your brand successfully and
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  Speaker 1: you want to increase your worth. That's what this is
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  Speaker 1: all about, y'all. That's what this is all about. Methods
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  Speaker 1: that will help you win. If methods that will help
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  Speaker 1: you win. If you want to win start a business,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have a balanced life. You want to
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  Speaker 1: market your brand successfully. And when did I say about
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  Speaker 1: your brand If you want to have a brand commons responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: When you do take on the responsibility, then you're able
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  Speaker 1: to increase your worth. If you increase your worth, then
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  Speaker 1: your value means something. What are some of those winning
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  Speaker 1: strategies that will help you keep you focused? Wow? You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm at the point of this conversation in
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  Speaker 1: two this episode is about you. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: interviewing Brish of TV Jakes, I'm not interviewing sas you're entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not interviewing Stephen A. Smith, I'm not interviewing Tambla Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not interviewing anybody. I'm interviewing you. That's who you
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  Speaker 1: Because if you want winning strategies that would keep you focused,
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  Speaker 1: build a mindset for success. What does that mean with Sean?
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  Speaker 1: That means that you have to have a plan in
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  Speaker 1: place that works for you, not your friend, not your cousin,
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  Speaker 1: not your wife, and not your husband, not your mate.
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  Speaker 1: That works for you. That mindset works for you. How
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  Speaker 1: you dress works for you. I mean when I was
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  Speaker 1: writing in Hollywood, you know, when you're in the writer's room,
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  Speaker 1: you can dress any kind of way, short pains, wrinkle
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  Speaker 1: t shirts. Every day. I wore a suit and tie
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  Speaker 1: and a vest. I always have my vest off. I
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  Speaker 1: they used to nickname. Chris Benson used to call me
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  Speaker 1: very talented comedian actor. Right, he just called me vest.
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  Speaker 1: The e s t vest. If he sees me today,
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  Speaker 1: he said it was a vest because you know, that
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  Speaker 1: was That's what everybody knew because Rashaan has standards. I
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  Speaker 1: had a brand, and when you have a brand, you
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  Speaker 1: create ways that I'll perform the competition of people recognize you.
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  Speaker 1: So people recognize me because they saw certain levels of expectation.
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  Speaker 1: They respected the way I looked and where I carried myself,
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  Speaker 1: and I marketed that I marketed. I would go to
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  Speaker 1: different shows and people will let me on set because
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  Speaker 1: of the where I looked, because they felt I was important,
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  Speaker 1: They felt I was I was going someplace because of
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  Speaker 1: my brand. Should When you have a brand, people don't
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  Speaker 1: look at you like you shouldn't be there. When you
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  Speaker 1: have a brand, people welcome you because they feel you
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  Speaker 1: should be there. That's all I was doing with my brand.
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  Speaker 1: But more importantly, when you have a brand. When you
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  Speaker 1: have it, you have to outline your plan. And this
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  Speaker 1: is five quick steps and outlining your plan one set
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  Speaker 1: of goal. Make that plan, get to work, stick to it,
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  Speaker 1: reach their goal. That's it. Set a goal, make their plan,
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  Speaker 1: get to work, stick to it, reach their goal. Some
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  Speaker 1: That's their goal. They plan. An accident is by graduating
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  Speaker 1: from college. When they graduat from college, they're good. They're
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  Speaker 1: good a job. When they graduate job, they stick to it.
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  Speaker 1: If they have aspirations they become a manager, supervisor, or
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  Speaker 1: vice president, and that may be their goal, but everybody
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  Speaker 1: has a different goal to that process. In fact, that
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  Speaker 1: school to graduation. Set the goal make the and get
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  Speaker 1: to work stick to it, which the goal could be.
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  Speaker 1: Graduation is however you want to lose that use that.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm telling you the outline your plan, it's however
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  Speaker 1: you want to use it. But you gotta have a plan.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be able to outline and when you're
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  Speaker 1: your plan right down your goals, create a vision board
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  Speaker 1: and eliminate bad habits when you build your plan. You
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  Speaker 1: have to have all these things in place in order
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  Speaker 1: to win. And there's nothing wrong with working twice as hard.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes as entrepreneurs and employees, we undervalue ourselves. Having this
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  Speaker 1: mindset can diminish your brand and create missed opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: excel in the business. Well, the key to any level
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  Speaker 1: of success is communications. Communication begins with listening. Success in
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  Speaker 1: business is greatly impacted by the way you communicate, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to learn to communicate with people, not at people.
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  Speaker 1: I was a big shouter. I was a big screamer
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  Speaker 1: and one of the biggest mistakes in our life when
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  Speaker 1: show people respect when they talk back to me and
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  Speaker 1: know everything and get to what you find out you
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  Speaker 1: don't know that much at all. And when you're doing
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  Speaker 1: all this truth is built through consistency. Consistently promote your brand,
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  Speaker 1: consistent delivers value to your customers. This is really what
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  Speaker 1: this is all about, y'all. I want you to stand out.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to respect your employees. But more important,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to do is put down your stop
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  Speaker 1: put down your stop sign so you can start winning.
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  Speaker 1: Please do that for me. This is ra Sean McDonald.
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