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Rushion Interviews How to save your feet with Dr. Yolanda Ragland |Celebrity menswear designer & grooms wear expert, Miguel Wilson! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. As he stated, I
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Speaker 1: am your host, Rashan McDonald. I recognize that we all
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Speaker 1: from planning or living your dreams. My next guest, she's
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Speaker 1: the doctor of defeat. She is the person that I
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Speaker 1: should have found when I was sixteen. She should I
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Speaker 1: said that she should have commented my life. Dr Eylonda
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Speaker 1: Raglan She's one of the top Bunyan and Hambletow surgeons
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Speaker 1: in the Northeast with over twenty years of medical experience.
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Speaker 1: She maintains her office on Park Avenue in New York
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Speaker 1: City and the Washington metro area and Booie Miller. The
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Speaker 1: focus of her practice is Bunyan and hamblet To correction.
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Speaker 1: Her trade secret ti Era Toe t M, which is
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Speaker 1: a technique leads patients with sound a ready feet. We
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Speaker 1: know summer is coming. Ladies. You know men too with sandals,
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Speaker 1: you know, getting out there scaring us with your feet,
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Speaker 1: leaving no visible scarring after their surgical procedure. Dr Raglan's
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Speaker 1: goals is to help women be successful by supporting them
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Speaker 1: with strong foundation. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
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Speaker 1: The incredible much needed Dr Elanda Raglan. How you doing,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Rashan, thank you so much for that glorious introduction.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing well? You know I would. I'll
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Speaker 1: be honest with you. Uh, I made mistakes with my feet,
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Speaker 1: Dr Raglan, And I know that's not the first time
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Speaker 1: you've heard this. You you went into a business where you,
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Speaker 1: like you said, you're the foundation of what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: Life is how you stand, how you walk, how you
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Speaker 1: present yourself when you walk into a room and a
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Speaker 1: lot of people are walking around with very painful feet,
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Speaker 1: Am I correct? Absolutely? Not only they're they're walking around
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Speaker 1: with painful, embarrassing looking feet. Um and uh. And so
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Speaker 1: what I found very early on in my studies was that, um,
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Speaker 1: especially African American women, they wanted to correct these problems,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't just want to get rid of the pain.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to feat to be beautiful too. So that
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Speaker 1: was my AHA moment, and I just decided that, no,
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Speaker 1: this is what I was going to do. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to focus on this core group of UH of African
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Speaker 1: American women or women of color, and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: hone my skills in correcting Buning's hammer toes getting rid
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Speaker 1: of those those unsightly corns. But I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: just get rid of him, and I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: just read you of the pain. I'm also going to
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Speaker 1: do it with an aesthetic result. This is a very
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Speaker 1: serious subject that we're talking about. I brought it on
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Speaker 1: to just talk about her career, but more importantly to
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Speaker 1: give an outlet because a lot of people, like I said, uh,
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Speaker 1: walking in pain and then walking in pain my father.
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Speaker 1: I always remember my father, uh you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, just being honest. Was I just see him
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Speaker 1: with these huge coins on his toes and U and
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Speaker 1: I when I look back now, I can only imagine
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Speaker 1: how much pain he was in because it was just
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Speaker 1: it was just just outrageously big. But he put his
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Speaker 1: shows on his shoes only walk out, and I'm she
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Speaker 1: was very uncomfortable. Correct, Yeah, but guess what rashan for men?
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Speaker 1: You guys, haven't you do have a little bit of
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Speaker 1: an option? I sold. I I sold shoes for many
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Speaker 1: years before I even thought about um becoming a docter
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Speaker 1: and so, and I sold men and women's shoes, so
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Speaker 1: men can get wider with even in your higher in shoes.
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Speaker 1: Women women, on the other hand, when you start getting
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Speaker 1: into these wide with the shoes, just become uglier and uglier,
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Speaker 1: so it almost becomes not an option for them. So um,
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Speaker 1: even though like you said, I'm sure you know your
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Speaker 1: father did experience some discomfort with the corns that he
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Speaker 1: had on his feet. He did have options where he
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Speaker 1: could go and get these shoes and at e with
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Speaker 1: or double e or tripoli or even a quat truple
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Speaker 1: e with where women just don't have that option, and
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Speaker 1: if they do have the options, just something that they
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Speaker 1: are not willing to do. They don't want to go there.
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Speaker 1: You absolutely are telling the truth. I wear a size
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Speaker 1: twelve shoe and I gotta and it gave me an
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Speaker 1: option to have a wide and I gotta watch you
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Speaker 1: and because I know if I get it tight, that's
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Speaker 1: what ruined that feet. When I was a teenager and
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Speaker 1: going into college, I will really tight, narrow shoes and
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Speaker 1: they were pointy toe, and I ignored the pain. I
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Speaker 1: ignored my shoe rubbing against rubbing up against the side
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Speaker 1: of my foot. I ignored the fact that my my
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Speaker 1: baby toe was collapsing and as it was collapsing underneath
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Speaker 1: because it was pointy toe, so it was rubbing up
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Speaker 1: against him. But guess what, everybody was complimenting me on
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Speaker 1: my shoes. Everybody those shoes shoes. Yeah, but did you
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Speaker 1: take it? Did you ever take your foot out of
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Speaker 1: the slipper? I'm telling doctor, I took it. Out and
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Speaker 1: put it right back in there because my ego was
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Speaker 1: being fed by people telling me it looked good, not
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Speaker 1: the pain and not not not the trouble. But I
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Speaker 1: really want to talk about it because your brand is
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Speaker 1: fixed your feet and the focuses on surgical corrections of
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Speaker 1: painful and embarrassing, you know, the formers, even bunnans and habitats.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell us how did you get in this business?
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Speaker 1: Because you know, we we we hear different professions. We
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Speaker 1: hear nurses, we hear you know, O, B G, y end,
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Speaker 1: we hear all different. But but to get into the
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Speaker 1: business you're in, how did that happen? And where did
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Speaker 1: you go to school? Well? Um, well, first of all
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Speaker 1: the school that I attended undergrad I went to University
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Speaker 1: of Maryland, and then I did five years in between
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Speaker 1: Maryland and I did a little interim before I went
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Speaker 1: to my dietary medical school. Um, I did some research
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Speaker 1: at the National Institutes of Health and I agentedmatology, so
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Speaker 1: I'm burst in skin. Um. And then and then that's
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Speaker 1: when I decided that yeah, you know, I'm going I'm
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Speaker 1: going to definitely move forward with medical school. And I
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Speaker 1: wound up at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine,
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Speaker 1: and then I did a rigor UH surgical UH program
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Speaker 1: with a with a hospital that is a wild cornell
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Speaker 1: Um Medical School affiliate. And then but but what really
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Speaker 1: tifted you in that direction? Because you have options? You know,
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Speaker 1: you're talented, you're educated, but what you know because everybody
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Speaker 1: has a charge to make it. Like I said, I
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Speaker 1: went to college and I wanted to be an engineer,
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Speaker 1: and then I drifted between different majors and I wound
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Speaker 1: up falling with my natural love and skill was mathematics,
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Speaker 1: and I minded on in sociology and I graduated and
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Speaker 1: that was really the right direction for me to go,
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Speaker 1: even though I thought engineer was the direction that I
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Speaker 1: wanted to go. Did you go in college? Would go
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Speaker 1: into college thinking about this direction? Or at what point
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Speaker 1: of the light bulb went out? And when I went
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Speaker 1: out and went above your head and said this is
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Speaker 1: where you should be pointing? Well, I knew I was
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Speaker 1: going to become a doctor. Um. Yeah, there was a
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Speaker 1: lot of things in health care I had experienced. So
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Speaker 1: I had experienced. Now what I looked back on it
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Speaker 1: was discrimination in the health care system. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: how to explain it back then, but now I know
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Speaker 1: how to articulate it. And that's exactly what was happening
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Speaker 1: to me. So I wanted to become a doctor because
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Speaker 1: I wanted to know what the doctors knew. Um, and
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Speaker 1: as I said, and undergraduate, I started doing research at
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Speaker 1: the National Institute's to Health in dermatology. So I thought
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Speaker 1: I was going to be a dermatologist and so um.
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Speaker 1: But I kept getting these applications from dietary school, not
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Speaker 1: knowing what it was. And I was and I would
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Speaker 1: throw away the applications and one of my friends stopped
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Speaker 1: by the lab as I was about to toss another
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Speaker 1: application in the garbage, and she stopped me and says,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Why are you throwing that away?
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Speaker 1: And I'm like what and she's like, that's medical school
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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, what is it? And she didn't.
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Speaker 1: She explained to me, you know, it's medicine of the foot,
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Speaker 1: and she kind of like broke it down from me.
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Speaker 1: She does, you know that there's hair, skin, and nails
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Speaker 1: on the foot, So if you want to stop specialize
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Speaker 1: in dermatology on the foot, you can do that. And
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Speaker 1: I thought that that notion was kind of cool, because
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Speaker 1: I like, I like the idea of having like a
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Speaker 1: niche practice. I like, you know, being you know, real
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Speaker 1: specific and being like that that top notch specialist. So
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Speaker 1: I thought I was going to specialize in dermatology revolved
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Speaker 1: around the foot. Then I get a to me. Then
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Speaker 1: I get into podiatric medical school and I realized there's
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Speaker 1: this whole sturgical aspect which is basically is we're doing
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Speaker 1: surgery of the bones, so it's basically orthopedic surgery. And
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Speaker 1: I was like, holy guacamole, we got chipps. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: my hands are very dextrous, I am very good at
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Speaker 1: reproducing results. And I and when I found out that
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Speaker 1: there was this whole, big, huge surgical aspect, I was
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Speaker 1: just like, this is what I want to do. Because
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Speaker 1: when I was living in the dorms, some ladies would
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Speaker 1: stop me all the time and say hey, hey, and
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Speaker 1: this is me as a student. I'm like a first year,
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Speaker 1: second year student, and was like, hey, can you get
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Speaker 1: rid of this this corn right here? But I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be done cosmetically because they had seen the results
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Speaker 1: of their friends or their mom or their auntsie or
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Speaker 1: their cousins, and they didn't want that results. And I
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Speaker 1: kept hearing this over and over again the route uh
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Speaker 1: throughout medical school. And then you know, and then I
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Speaker 1: started seeing what results looked like. UM, when I was
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Speaker 1: in my residency program, and I would compare what I
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Speaker 1: would see on Caucasian skin versus black skin, and I
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Speaker 1: would and I would see that those results did not
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Speaker 1: translate over to the black skin. Maybe we scar differently.
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Speaker 1: So I said, you know, youve got to think outside
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Speaker 1: the box. You know, there's gotta be a better way
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Speaker 1: to do this so we can get better results on
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Speaker 1: people of color. And so with my dermatological background, I
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Speaker 1: was like, okay, there are ways the future the skin um,
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Speaker 1: you know thinks more like a plastic surgeon working on
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Speaker 1: one space. I just said, there's gotta be you know,
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Speaker 1: different ways to clothes and maybe there's different approaches the
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Speaker 1: the scars aren't visibly noticeable to the eyes, maybe we
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Speaker 1: can hide the ours. And because I was afforded the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to be in such a great residency program and
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Speaker 1: scrub in with literally hundreds and hundreds of different surgeons,
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Speaker 1: I got to see people do things so many different ways.
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Speaker 1: So I journaled the techniques that I thought were the
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Speaker 1: most optimal, and then I put those things together and
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Speaker 1: then I put a little bit of my special sauce
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Speaker 1: on it, and and then that's how I came up
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Speaker 1: with my petty plastic Tierra too technique. UM, and so yes,
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Speaker 1: that's that's basically. UM, that's basically how I how I
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Speaker 1: came up with with the practice. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: I started to practice to target the specific demographic with
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Speaker 1: in mind, keeping in mind that the procedures are for everybody.
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Speaker 1: But I felt like this specific demographic was being dismissed.
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Speaker 1: They weren't being heard and they weren't receiving the services
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Speaker 1: that they deserve. Right right, We'll be right back with
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Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now,
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Speaker 1: when you when you talk about trying to do something,
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Speaker 1: I have to say this technique, was it the new technique?
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Speaker 1: Was it a technique that you figured out? And then
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Speaker 1: when you when you started a planet that that other
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Speaker 1: fellow doctors in your industry questioned that technique or felt
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Speaker 1: there was some type of fad or some type of
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Speaker 1: you know, hype thing that you had, you had you
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Speaker 1: put in place, what was the reaction? So you know, honestly, Rashan,
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Speaker 1: I don't really pay attention to what's the was the
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Speaker 1: there people with what they're thinking, because I know that
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Speaker 1: I am doing something with reproducible results with UH, with
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Speaker 1: high satisfy, with a very high satisfaction rate UM for
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Speaker 1: over fifteen years. So so when if I have maysayers
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Speaker 1: that don't understand my demographic and that have been giving
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Speaker 1: my demographic, the demographic that I'm targeting less than what
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Speaker 1: they deserve, and if they are snubbing their noses at
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Speaker 1: my technique, I don't have time to pay attention to that. UM.
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Speaker 1: What I do know is that my h that I
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Speaker 1: have taken, like I said, it's been UH. The everything
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Speaker 1: about the technique is not completely new, but there are
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Speaker 1: aspects of it that are completely new. So I've taken
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Speaker 1: like I said, dif are things I saw one person
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Speaker 1: do you think one thing this way? Another person do
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Speaker 1: something another way, and I combine some of those things together,
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Speaker 1: and like I said, then I put Then then as
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Speaker 1: I started perfecting the technique, I started changing things and
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Speaker 1: tweaking it and just getting it so that I can
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Speaker 1: get the best result possible for these patients. Here's a question,
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Speaker 1: Dr Ragle, because I grew up with six sisters. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm a female expert, but I had
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Speaker 1: six of them in my life, and I guess what,
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Speaker 1: they were very opinionated, and five of them were older
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Speaker 1: than me, so they did steer my my vision when
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Speaker 1: it comes to high heels, high heels safe to wear
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Speaker 1: all the time or is there a certain age less
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Speaker 1: weight limits for high heels? Talk about the high heels
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Speaker 1: phenomenon because they're not going away? Is a part of
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Speaker 1: the fashion culture? Is there? And uh, I wouldn't use
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Speaker 1: the word danger, but are they safe to wear all
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Speaker 1: the time? I was gonna talk about high heels like
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Speaker 1: like one would talk about alcohol. Where your eye heels responsibly.
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Speaker 1: So and I'm saying that you you should not be
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Speaker 1: in a pair of five in the lettos eight hours strength.
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Speaker 1: That's you know, that's bad form, that's bad decorum for
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Speaker 1: the flip um. But if you know, if you're having
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Speaker 1: a night out and you want to look extra and
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Speaker 1: you are able to tolerate walking around in those shoes,
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Speaker 1: why all means you? I think that express yourself. You know,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, you be you. Um, But like I said,
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Speaker 1: it's not something for you to stand around in all
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Speaker 1: day long for eight hours. If you're going to wear
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Speaker 1: heels like you should always bring pair of safety shoes
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Speaker 1: with you so that you can give your foot a
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Speaker 1: break from being in that declinated angle for so long. Um.
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Speaker 1: And and if you start to feel pain, like you
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be feeling pain, so like you were saying, you would,
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Speaker 1: you would feel the pain on the pinky toast, so
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Speaker 1: that pinky toast starts burning, it feels like it's about
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Speaker 1: to catch on fire. You need to come out of
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Speaker 1: them and get into your safety shop because that is
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Speaker 1: a point where your feet are literally talking to you
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Speaker 1: and telling you I need belief, Please get me out
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Speaker 1: of here. And that's that's true. What you're saying is
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Speaker 1: very true, very true. We ignore what our body is
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Speaker 1: telling us. We ignore our body talking to us. I
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Speaker 1: ignored it. And and that's why when I invited you
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Speaker 1: on the show. You know, my show is my main
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Speaker 1: conversation maskic life, because why do you have a foot doctor?
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Speaker 1: Because I know how my feet impact my life every day.
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Speaker 1: You know, because of my feet, I have to soak
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Speaker 1: them once a month, just just I'm not going into
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Speaker 1: any graphic details, but I have to take care of
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Speaker 1: my feet periodically to make sure that I can walk
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Speaker 1: into shoes that I now for myself. Because I'm smarter now,
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Speaker 1: I know about with I know about a round curve
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Speaker 1: toe area, something that I didn't do when I was younger.
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Speaker 1: Because I and my shoes still look smartly, they still
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Speaker 1: look sportly. People just still compliment compliment me on my shoes.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't know now what advice when you when
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Speaker 1: you when you when people come into your office, do
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Speaker 1: you become a counselor a person who give out an advice?
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Speaker 1: I know, because because they have to still take care
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Speaker 1: of their feet after you fix them correct. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I've become a little bit of everything. I'm I'm an auntie,
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Speaker 1: as sister, a best friend. I'm all and a counselor,
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Speaker 1: um their doctor, they're surgeon. I'm all of these things.
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Speaker 1: Because I wanted women to come to a safe place.
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Speaker 1: I wanted them to come someplace where they would get
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Speaker 1: really good information. They're gonna they're gonna get They're going
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Speaker 1: to be able to make a real good informed decision.
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Speaker 1: On whether or not they should move forward with surgery.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you if you even really need
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Speaker 1: to have surgery. So I've actually and this is how
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Speaker 1: you know, this is how I make my bread and butter.
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Speaker 1: I this is I do not have a general um
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Speaker 1: pedietary practice. I make my bread and butter by doing
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Speaker 1: those few services that we announced earlier. And so if
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Speaker 1: and and and I want to protect my patients from
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Speaker 1: going to a predatory doctor because some of these people
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Speaker 1: come in with their really great insurance. They don't even
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Speaker 1: realize how great their insurance is, but they might not
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Speaker 1: have anything that really needs to be done. And I
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Speaker 1: don't want them to have surgery regret. Or I don't
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Speaker 1: wants them to do a procedure that is at high
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Speaker 1: risk and they have and they really don't have symptoms.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to give my patients the best if I,
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Speaker 1: if I feel like you really need the surgery done,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do I will do the procedure. If
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Speaker 1: I feel like you really do not need the procedure done,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you that. Now. I've even had
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Speaker 1: a case where I tried to talk the lady out
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Speaker 1: of the procedure tried to. She's like, no, you're gonna
20:28
Speaker 1: come in here, You're gonna do everything. She basically told
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Speaker 1: me that, and I said, what I got frightened because
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Speaker 1: I thought she was going to go to somebody else,
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Speaker 1: and I thought that they were going She's gonna wind
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Speaker 1: up with the result that she wasn't going to be
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Speaker 1: happy with. So I said, you know, I basically told
20:45
Speaker 1: her to think about it. Call me back up. Here's
20:48
Speaker 1: my cell phone number, call me, text me. I'll if
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Speaker 1: I don't answer the phone, text me. And she says,
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Speaker 1: I still want to do it. And that's when I said, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll do it, you know. But then I read her
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Speaker 1: the Riot Act. You know, I told her what all
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Speaker 1: her risk was. She understood that. But really, if I
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Speaker 1: feel and I think that when I tell patients, hey,
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Speaker 1: look you really don't you really don't want to do that.
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Speaker 1: I'll do this thing over here. But you really don't
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Speaker 1: need to have this sun and done. It doesn't hurt
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Speaker 1: you just have a little slight bump over there. It's
21:21
Speaker 1: and you can fit into your shoes. It's not an
21:24
Speaker 1: issue for you. There's a lot of risk in buying
21:27
Speaker 1: in surgery. Why would you put yourself at that risk.
21:30
Speaker 1: And you know afterwards they say thank you doctor, thank
21:34
Speaker 1: you for being so honest. This is why I started
21:37
Speaker 1: this practice. I wanted to protect this this particular demographic
21:42
Speaker 1: so people would not take advantage of them, and so
21:45
Speaker 1: that they would get, like I said, the services and
21:48
Speaker 1: the results that they deserve. I'm speaking to doctor yunon
21:51
Speaker 1: the wragling about feet and then more importantly women feet
21:56
Speaker 1: of females who are out there trying to however, are
22:00
Speaker 1: trying to fix a problem that they created. This all
22:03
Speaker 1: self inflicted at times, sometimes it's not. But in this case,
22:06
Speaker 1: summer is coming. Dr ragling, what can women do to
22:11
Speaker 1: make sure they don't mess up? Or what can they
22:15
Speaker 1: do to keep their feet beautiful? Oh, you have to
22:19
Speaker 1: wear proper fitting shoes. So it goes right back to
22:25
Speaker 1: you know, does it hurt. If it hurts in the store,
22:28
Speaker 1: it's going to hurt outside the store. So can you
22:32
Speaker 1: say that one more time? Can you say that one
22:34
Speaker 1: more time? You heard me? If it hurts in the store,
22:38
Speaker 1: it's going to hurt outside the stone. That's what's gonna happen.
22:42
Speaker 1: So uh, they'll play around with it. Um Now, I
22:47
Speaker 1: would advise every woman and this is gonna, you know,
22:51
Speaker 1: future on. In the future, I'm going to create a
22:54
Speaker 1: pair of shooting stretchers. But every woman should have their
22:59
Speaker 1: own pair of shoe stretchers at home. And that's because
23:05
Speaker 1: you know, this way, you don't have to go to
23:07
Speaker 1: the shoe store. You'll you'll as soon as you get it.
23:10
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be breaking in the shoe. Your foot should
23:13
Speaker 1: not be breaking in the shoe. Allow the shoe stretcher
23:16
Speaker 1: to do that job. You can put you can get
23:19
Speaker 1: your you know, those nice beautiful Italian or French design shoes,
23:24
Speaker 1: you can put them in the shoe stretcher. Lets them
23:26
Speaker 1: sit in there for a week or so, and now
23:29
Speaker 1: they're broken in. It's like somebody's been walking in them
23:32
Speaker 1: straight for two, you know, two weeks straight and now
23:35
Speaker 1: they're broken at UM. So, like I said, the shoe
23:39
Speaker 1: has to be comfortable. That's the that's the most important thing. UM.
23:44
Speaker 1: Keeping your feet clean and dry, keeping UM, inspecting it daily. UM,
23:52
Speaker 1: making sure that you moisturize your foot daily. UM. Exfoliating
23:58
Speaker 1: all the all the horror of skin gently exfoliating. Quick
24:04
Speaker 1: question here, Dr Raglan, because I you know, I've seen
24:07
Speaker 1: women with band aids on the back of the heel
24:11
Speaker 1: on their toes. Okay, these are these are warning signs
24:16
Speaker 1: that this is a bad shoe. Correct. I think that
24:20
Speaker 1: these are warning size and signs that it's an ill
24:23
Speaker 1: fitting shoe. So a lot of times if you have
24:27
Speaker 1: those band aids, or if you have something that's in
24:31
Speaker 1: the back, it's probably because the shoe does not fit
24:34
Speaker 1: you properly. It's if you have to put a pat
24:37
Speaker 1: in the back. The shoe is too big. Your foot
24:39
Speaker 1: is flighting forward and the shoe was too big, and
24:42
Speaker 1: that's why you're getting the friction on the on on
24:46
Speaker 1: the back of your heel, or some ladies have something
24:50
Speaker 1: called the pump bump, and that could be a reason
24:54
Speaker 1: why now you have a pup bump. You might want
24:55
Speaker 1: to put something there that stops that friction from happening.
24:59
Speaker 1: Something called mole skin. You can get that from any
25:03
Speaker 1: drug store and that will stop the friction there. And
25:06
Speaker 1: and that that's something you know, that's just how your
25:10
Speaker 1: body has developed. But if you don't have a pump
25:13
Speaker 1: bump on the back of your heel and that foot
25:17
Speaker 1: that she was slighting off, you shouldn't have purchased the shoe.
25:19
Speaker 1: In the first place. Sometimes we just want to shoot
25:22
Speaker 1: so bad and we just buy the side up or
25:24
Speaker 1: the side down, and it's not worth it. And that's
25:28
Speaker 1: you know, I can't you know, as as a witness,
25:31
Speaker 1: as as I'm testifying right now, I'm testifying that she's
25:35
Speaker 1: telling you the truth from a male perspective. I did
25:39
Speaker 1: everything that she's saying incorrectly. I wore the tight shoot.
25:44
Speaker 1: I wore this shoe, you know. You you know, towards
25:46
Speaker 1: the teenage, I wearing size twil but I was wearing
25:48
Speaker 1: the size nine. I wore size tena words, and that
25:51
Speaker 1: when that was when I was in the level, I
25:53
Speaker 1: was wearing the size you know, it was a ten
25:55
Speaker 1: and a half. Okay, I slapped my foot in there,
25:56
Speaker 1: you know, and I did that. I let my foot
26:00
Speaker 1: stretch out. The shoe, you know, expanded, you know, as
26:03
Speaker 1: I got older than I I have shoe horns, and
26:06
Speaker 1: I put them in there, and that stretched them out,
26:07
Speaker 1: and I would let them. You know, I used to
26:10
Speaker 1: marinate in that shoe to get it right from my
26:14
Speaker 1: foot so my foot won't be screaming. And so now
26:17
Speaker 1: I live a comfortable life with my feet. But my
26:21
Speaker 1: feet have paid the price. And what you're trying to
26:24
Speaker 1: say to all the callers, who are all the people
26:26
Speaker 1: who have listening to this show is that do not
26:30
Speaker 1: get to rushan stage of life you know where, do not?
26:34
Speaker 1: You know, it's not worth it. It's not I have
26:37
Speaker 1: a life of regret. And the thing is, in this
26:41
Speaker 1: day and age, we have the internet, so you can
26:45
Speaker 1: literally scour the internet to find your size if needs so,
26:50
Speaker 1: we didn't have that back in our day, Rashan, we
26:53
Speaker 1: didn't have that. Mom. Just to let you know, you
26:56
Speaker 1: know where a certain brand of shoe and that's saw
27:00
Speaker 1: this shoe the other day. I'm gonna just let you know.
27:02
Speaker 1: This almost drifted back into old Rashan, our size twelve
27:08
Speaker 1: and it went it went up to size E level.
27:11
Speaker 1: I went, oh, that shoe looks so good. But I
27:15
Speaker 1: always remember that. Okay, Rashan, you're too old and too
27:18
Speaker 1: smart to get stupid again. And now, because I was
27:22
Speaker 1: almost about to fall into the old weald again, sizing
27:25
Speaker 1: down on a big foot, sizing down on the big foot,
27:29
Speaker 1: I want the listeners to all hear this too about
27:32
Speaker 1: shoes sizes. Ladies, all you ladies out there that like
27:35
Speaker 1: there is telling your European sizes, and those shoes sales
27:39
Speaker 1: people tell you a thirty nine is a nine. I'm
27:42
Speaker 1: telling you right now, it's a lot. Thirty nine is
27:45
Speaker 1: not a nine. A nine is a forty. Okay, it's
27:50
Speaker 1: the next number up. Those people don't know what they're
27:53
Speaker 1: talking about. I sold shoes. I know what I'm talking about. Okay.
27:58
Speaker 1: I sold shoes. When we used to measure your foot
28:01
Speaker 1: on the branding device, we sat down in stools and
28:03
Speaker 1: we put the shoes on your foot. Not these people
28:06
Speaker 1: that come and throw the boxes that you are run away.
28:12
Speaker 1: So I'm telling all of you when they come and
28:15
Speaker 1: tell you what thirty eight is the eight, they are lions.
28:22
Speaker 1: I just want a yes. They're also and in the
28:25
Speaker 1: same goes for the men's shoes as well. So all
28:29
Speaker 1: these people that are telling you don't buy the shoe
28:31
Speaker 1: just because of the size, by what fits, what feels
28:36
Speaker 1: right on your foot, don't get caught up in the number.
28:39
Speaker 1: It's just the number. Yeah, just some dr Young Raglan.
28:43
Speaker 1: I I so appreciate you coming on my show. Allow
28:48
Speaker 1: me to just you know, tell the truth about Rashawn
28:51
Speaker 1: and his feet. His magical feet there that's so magical
28:55
Speaker 1: when I take the socks off, they're rather terrifying. And
28:58
Speaker 1: I say that because of the fact that I was stupid.
29:01
Speaker 1: I I ignored the pain. I wore shoes that were
29:04
Speaker 1: smaller than what they should have been. Now I am
29:07
Speaker 1: happy with my life. I well quality issues that that
29:10
Speaker 1: allows me to gracefully walk the halls or gracefully drive
29:14
Speaker 1: my car. But I didn't have to pay the price
29:16
Speaker 1: if I would have just listened. That's all. And that's
29:18
Speaker 1: why I invited you on the show. Dr Raglan was
29:21
Speaker 1: to just let people know you are not You're not alone.
29:24
Speaker 1: So yes, first of all, I just wanted I will
29:26
Speaker 1: let people know everything. So first of all, I just
29:28
Speaker 1: want everyone to know out there, I am actually a
29:31
Speaker 1: Pegasus unicorn. I am arguably the only African American woman
29:38
Speaker 1: on this planet that has that caters to her sister folks,
29:44
Speaker 1: the practice that strictly focuses on correcting buns and hammertoes
29:48
Speaker 1: and removing corns with a cosmetic result. I am Dr
29:52
Speaker 1: Landa Ragling. My business is pick your Feet, UM you
29:56
Speaker 1: can find me. I'd like everybody to pull out their
29:58
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30:27
Speaker 1: can eradicate that. Dr Elonda Raglan, thank you for taking
30:30
Speaker 1: the time to come on Money Making Conversation master Class.
30:32
Speaker 1: You were brilliant as you are whenever I meet you.
30:35
Speaker 1: Thank you. You're wonderful when you are a person of
30:37
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. Thank you for coming on Money
30:39
Speaker 1: Making Conversation master Class. We'll be right back with more
30:41
Speaker 1: money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. You are now
30:47
Speaker 1: tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with
30:51
Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. Hi Rashan McDonald for Money Made Conversation with
30:54
Speaker 1: your daily minute of Inspiration. This week, got sat down
30:57
Speaker 1: with television and field producer and Harvard graduate A Leah
31:00
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31:03
Speaker 1: production company, Just the Rubble A Little Shares about spreading
31:07
Speaker 1: joy in her story about black people. Your smile. It's sunshine,
31:11
Speaker 1: young ladies, Sunshine tell us about that. Thank you very much.
31:15
Speaker 1: But I have to give all that credits to my mother.
31:18
Speaker 1: I think that she would say to me every day,
31:20
Speaker 1: every morning, smile and the world will smile with you,
31:23
Speaker 1: something that I've always carried with me. And you know,
31:26
Speaker 1: there are definitely situations where it is hard to smile,
31:30
Speaker 1: but I definitely try to bring that into all aspects
31:34
Speaker 1: of my life and especially in the stories that I
31:36
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31:40
Speaker 1: If you want to listen to this full interview with A.
31:42
Speaker 1: Leah Williams is available on money Making Conversation dot com.
31:45
Speaker 1: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
31:50
Speaker 1: My guest today on Money Making Conversation Master Class is
31:53
Speaker 1: Miguel Wilson. Is the founder and CEO that Miguel Wilson Collection.
31:57
Speaker 1: It would teach formal. Weare designed business for men and
32:01
Speaker 1: one of the only men's wear designers that specifically carries
32:03
Speaker 1: a wedding collection for grooms and grooms men. For twenty years,
32:07
Speaker 1: The Washington, d c Native design suits, sports coach trialsers,
32:11
Speaker 1: shirts and accessories for men with a long client list
32:14
Speaker 1: and include celebrities and other high profile people including Bishop T.
32:18
Speaker 1: D Jake's pastor, Jamal Bryant, hollybod Hollywood producer Will Packer,
32:23
Speaker 1: Rappers To Chain, and Walker Flocca, and We're Housewives of
32:26
Speaker 1: Atlanta husbands Peter Thomas, Todd Tucker, and Michael Sterling, just
32:31
Speaker 1: to name a few. He currently maintains four locations in Atlanta,
32:35
Speaker 1: d C, Miami, and New York City. Are also traveling
32:39
Speaker 1: around the world to accommodate his clients and providing his
32:41
Speaker 1: services virtually. Thank god they're zoom please walking with the
32:46
Speaker 1: money making conversations Masterclass, Miguel Wilson, How are you doing, sir? Well?
32:52
Speaker 1: First of all, high fashion Okay, um, you know if
32:56
Speaker 1: I've managed a guy who's a high fashion king, Steve
33:00
Speaker 1: Harvey for sixteen years, um, and so that was that,
33:04
Speaker 1: you know, his soup line and everything, and so he's
33:08
Speaker 1: just wanted to be dressed the immaculate and Taylor made
33:11
Speaker 1: clothes or part of his DNA. I've been blessed to
33:15
Speaker 1: be able to say I've been able to afford tailor
33:17
Speaker 1: made clothes in my lifetime. So that makes a difference.
33:20
Speaker 1: So what you being in the tailor made business. What
33:23
Speaker 1: is the difference from listening to my customers listeners, because
33:26
Speaker 1: this is a live show, what is difference between buying
33:30
Speaker 1: a tailor made suit and buying it off the rack
33:34
Speaker 1: in a store, in a quality store. Well, you can
33:39
Speaker 1: find quality. I sell quality suits in my stores every day. Okay,
33:43
Speaker 1: so you can buy quality. But it's something very special
33:47
Speaker 1: about a gentleman being able to be a part of
33:53
Speaker 1: the design and it's clothing. So to be able to
33:57
Speaker 1: choose the lapel, choose the savaig, choose the lining pockets,
34:04
Speaker 1: and then you know, even have your name inside of it.
34:08
Speaker 1: I just think that's a it's it'sn't it's you know
34:10
Speaker 1: what it is. The difference is one, it's more of
34:13
Speaker 1: an experience. I think going through the process of having
34:16
Speaker 1: a suit made is more of an experience. Um, there
34:21
Speaker 1: are features in a custom made untiler made suit that
34:27
Speaker 1: aren't generally available and off the rat So guys who
34:30
Speaker 1: have these suits made can generally identify a suit that
34:35
Speaker 1: was that was made based on these these qualities. So
34:39
Speaker 1: if you see, for instance, like functional button holes on
34:41
Speaker 1: the sleeves, things in the ship generally identifies as something
34:46
Speaker 1: that was you know, had to be made. Absolutely. You
34:51
Speaker 1: know when you when you when you talking about suits
34:53
Speaker 1: and clothes, people when they hear the word Taylor made,
34:56
Speaker 1: they're just running out of fear. I can afford that.
34:58
Speaker 1: I can't afford that. And and I tell people all
35:01
Speaker 1: the time because we're talking about men and we're not
35:04
Speaker 1: talking about women's fashion. And you know, I'm a I'm
35:07
Speaker 1: a I'm a guy who watches old TV, watches Westerns,
35:11
Speaker 1: and men fashions really don't change, you can correct me.
35:15
Speaker 1: You know, they kind of stayed the same. It just
35:18
Speaker 1: just gets updated a little bit. But you know, they
35:20
Speaker 1: were wearing button downs and the twenties and thirties and
35:25
Speaker 1: they were wearing two buttons and three button suit jackets
35:27
Speaker 1: and the Western's Western Western era and all that stuff
35:31
Speaker 1: and pop up collars and all that stuff. So, so
35:33
Speaker 1: what what makes fashion fashionable for men? I guess that's
35:37
Speaker 1: the question. Okay, So, so let's understand this fashion changes
35:43
Speaker 1: a little bit every single day. It doesn't move fast,
35:48
Speaker 1: but it's just like you took If you move one
35:51
Speaker 1: inch today, nobody really recognizes the inch, don't even realize
35:56
Speaker 1: you moved any But in the course of a year
35:58
Speaker 1: or two years. You know, you're down the street now
36:01
Speaker 1: and so now we see you moved. Okay, So fashion
36:05
Speaker 1: is the same way and that you if you were
36:08
Speaker 1: in fashion certain things today people will notice it as
36:11
Speaker 1: something that's in now and and and it's and it's
36:14
Speaker 1: not just the clothing. A lot of a lot of
36:18
Speaker 1: fashion is around the where it's one. So it could
36:22
Speaker 1: be the same things, but it's one differently. For instance,
36:25
Speaker 1: you mentioned Steve Harvey. You know, everybody still to this
36:30
Speaker 1: day kind of recognize when they see a baggy pair
36:33
Speaker 1: of pants on they say, it's like Steve Harvey pants now,
36:35
Speaker 1: although he doesn't wear those types of things today it's
36:38
Speaker 1: just ingrained and pep with mind that that's the Steve
36:42
Speaker 1: Harvey look for sale. Okay, so today you guys rid
36:46
Speaker 1: the pants, more European cut, slimmer plee. You know, we
36:50
Speaker 1: just do the deep pleas now we do no police.
36:52
Speaker 1: So while there are some similarities, there's always these subtle
36:56
Speaker 1: changes that that really separate something that's in style versus
37:01
Speaker 1: something that was previously in style. Right when you and
37:05
Speaker 1: I agree with that, I know that I know that
37:08
Speaker 1: you know a lot of ministers from talking about Steve
37:09
Speaker 1: harve in his fashion that a lot of it grew
37:12
Speaker 1: out of the fact that he was hosting showtime at
37:14
Speaker 1: the Apollo and uh and so ministers would wear his fashion.
37:19
Speaker 1: It really caught on. It became very popular and uh
37:23
Speaker 1: and like I said, that grew into the point that
37:25
Speaker 1: you know, Macy started carrying his shoe line and other
37:28
Speaker 1: people around the country start caring his shue line. Well
37:30
Speaker 1: what let's let's go back up a little bit because
37:32
Speaker 1: I jumped out real quick and ask you questioned by fashion,
37:35
Speaker 1: Mr Wilson, how did you get started in this whole
37:38
Speaker 1: game and in the early days before you became in
37:40
Speaker 1: high profile and and people trusted you to be able
37:44
Speaker 1: to deliver on these fashion based on the names that
37:46
Speaker 1: I mentioned when I mentioned the Bishop T d J's,
37:49
Speaker 1: you know Will Packer and then you jump over the
37:52
Speaker 1: rappers to change, which is a totally different fashion look
37:55
Speaker 1: and fashion style. But let's talk about how it all started,
37:57
Speaker 1: because it's all about promise when you start, but then
38:01
Speaker 1: you have to believe in yourself to make it happen.
38:04
Speaker 1: Story sir, Well, you know I would say this that
38:07
Speaker 1: one um, I've always had a passion for fashion. My
38:10
Speaker 1: grandfather and my father both for lack of better word,
38:13
Speaker 1: closed horses. Guys like to dress. They were closing and
38:16
Speaker 1: to this day they both think they dressed better than me.
38:19
Speaker 1: So and I make a living at it. But um so,
38:24
Speaker 1: you know, proximately in the nineties, I had a good
38:27
Speaker 1: friend of mine who actually I was having ice at
38:29
Speaker 1: my suits made and a friend of mine was in
38:32
Speaker 1: the business. Uh he wanted to start his own companies
38:35
Speaker 1: working for someone else and asked me to be a partner.
38:38
Speaker 1: And I invested and worked in the business for seven
38:41
Speaker 1: years and learned what I need to learn. And it's
38:45
Speaker 1: just trying to just went from one level to the
38:47
Speaker 1: one stage to the next, you know. So um the
38:51
Speaker 1: greatest you know, the transition from you know, just starting
38:56
Speaker 1: out or you know, getting the name out there and
38:58
Speaker 1: then really catapult to the next level where you do
39:01
Speaker 1: have the celebrities and people become more trusted names. You
39:04
Speaker 1: will is a result of a lot of trial and error. Okay,
39:11
Speaker 1: being in this business as long as I have, I've
39:13
Speaker 1: made pretty much every mistake a person can make. The
39:18
Speaker 1: thing is I didn't quit as results of mistakes. That's
39:22
Speaker 1: the first thing. Second thing is I changed because of
39:25
Speaker 1: those mistakes. One thing about me I tell my people today,
39:28
Speaker 1: I'm fine with you are making mistakes, mistakes is going
39:31
Speaker 1: to happen. What I don't like is the same mistakes
39:35
Speaker 1: being repeated. So when we have a mistake, we have
39:38
Speaker 1: to come up with solutions and ways to prevent it
39:41
Speaker 1: from being a mistake tomorrow. So this, this has been
39:46
Speaker 1: part of what I feel to be the trust that
39:48
Speaker 1: people gaining me is the fact that I think over
39:51
Speaker 1: a period of time we've been able to eliminate a
39:54
Speaker 1: lot of the mistakes and create you know, a high
39:57
Speaker 1: rate of quality service and quality products. We've lost some
40:04
Speaker 1: great um now. I know Andre Leon Tally. I interviewed
40:08
Speaker 1: him with Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I read his book
40:12
Speaker 1: Inspiring and Virgil, we just lost him. When you see
40:15
Speaker 1: talent like that leave your industry and then, uh, those
40:20
Speaker 1: are those mentors to you, are those people you look
40:22
Speaker 1: up to talk to us about that? Um. You know,
40:27
Speaker 1: I take a little bit from everyone, and you know
40:30
Speaker 1: I can. I learned from entrepreneurs and business so so
40:34
Speaker 1: so as as a fashion as I am, I'm also
40:36
Speaker 1: a businessman taken from you know, from the fashion standpoint.
40:41
Speaker 1: You know, my inspirations come from a variety of places.
40:44
Speaker 1: It can come from people that can't come from just art.
40:47
Speaker 1: It can come from traveling. Um. But I think I
40:51
Speaker 1: learned I learned a lot just talking to business people,
40:53
Speaker 1: and you know, through those conversations, sharing stories, you know, details,
41:00
Speaker 1: issues and problems and things how they handled it, I
41:03
Speaker 1: think has been a great part of the process as well. So,
41:07
Speaker 1: but you know, the thing I want to talk to
41:12
Speaker 1: about is that you know that because you mentioned about
41:14
Speaker 1: customer service is not making mistakes. Let's because you're dealing
41:18
Speaker 1: with fashion and this is something that somebody puts on
41:21
Speaker 1: it's gonna go out in public. And then you're dealing
41:23
Speaker 1: with high profile failing. They may be on red carpets,
41:26
Speaker 1: they may be on TVs, H entertainment tonight, maybe on
41:29
Speaker 1: a uh different different layered or restaurant or an event.
41:34
Speaker 1: And so your brand is not like something that doesn't
41:38
Speaker 1: get recognized and can be put on the spot. It
41:40
Speaker 1: can be means on social media, it can be it
41:43
Speaker 1: can be uh it can be a blessing and also
41:46
Speaker 1: a curse if it's done wrong. And so you know,
41:49
Speaker 1: you know, you know what I'm saying it. So when
41:51
Speaker 1: you when you're looking at fashion and individuals come into
41:55
Speaker 1: you for your brand, you because they're seeking your advice.
41:58
Speaker 1: I know I do. When I'm sitting down with someone
42:00
Speaker 1: who's designing something from or I might pitch an idea.
42:03
Speaker 1: They might go, uh, Shane, I don't think that's a
42:05
Speaker 1: good idea. How do you work that through the process.
42:08
Speaker 1: I know you're a trusted leader in fashion, but you
42:11
Speaker 1: also pitched ideas. How do you work their ideas of
42:14
Speaker 1: a client into your fashion talents to deliver the clothes
42:18
Speaker 1: that they want? That's a that's a great question. Um.
42:22
Speaker 1: You know, people come to me with ideas all the time,
42:25
Speaker 1: and realistically, I have to be able to see it.
42:30
Speaker 1: And you know, people come with ideas that are kind
42:32
Speaker 1: of way out there and yeah, but but I but
42:37
Speaker 1: if I'm not feeling it like then I will tell them,
42:41
Speaker 1: you know, this is I understand what you're trying to do.
42:44
Speaker 1: I'm I just can't see I don't have a vision
42:47
Speaker 1: for this what you're trying to do, or or I
42:50
Speaker 1: see it, I just don't like it, right, Okay? And
42:53
Speaker 1: I just I think being honest one of the biggest traits,
42:57
Speaker 1: the greatest traits a business person, and have its integrity
43:01
Speaker 1: and good character that when you say something, people know
43:05
Speaker 1: you mean it. In this it's from the heart. So
43:09
Speaker 1: I don't try to I don't say things to make
43:12
Speaker 1: I don't say anything just to make somebody feel good.
43:14
Speaker 1: I don't tell people what they want to hear. I
43:17
Speaker 1: tell them what I think and what I feel, and
43:20
Speaker 1: that that comes with people give you a lot of
43:23
Speaker 1: respect when they feel like you know, I can trust
43:27
Speaker 1: his opinion. Not all about the dollar, is about the
43:31
Speaker 1: honest relation, because you know, these people need to learn
43:34
Speaker 1: just about fashion, and like when I would sit down
43:36
Speaker 1: with a person like you, Miguel, first of all as
43:38
Speaker 1: trust and also I was thinking advice to okay, you know,
43:43
Speaker 1: I might be a person who might write to check.
43:45
Speaker 1: But I'm also kind of a little bit stupid too, okay,
43:49
Speaker 1: and so you have to educate me a little bit.
43:52
Speaker 1: So I appreciate what you're saying. And people need to
43:55
Speaker 1: hear him when he says that, because a lot of
43:57
Speaker 1: times people when they ask questions and ask advice, they
44:01
Speaker 1: really want the truth. They want to know. Now it
44:03
Speaker 1: might not be what they want to hear, Otherwise they
44:05
Speaker 1: would never ask the question, So it means you need
44:07
Speaker 1: to tell them something they need to hear to make
44:10
Speaker 1: them have a balance of reality. So if something that
44:13
Speaker 1: comes into your restaurant and they have an idea coming
44:16
Speaker 1: to your pitching an idea to you, and in the
44:19
Speaker 1: back of your mind, the average person walks over, I
44:21
Speaker 1: ain't want to hurt their feeling. Okay, right, there's the mistake.
44:25
Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt their feeling. You probably needed
44:27
Speaker 1: to hurt that person's feeling. Then they won't be embarrassed.
44:30
Speaker 1: They won't be opening the restaurant with no budget, with
44:33
Speaker 1: no business plan because you didn't step up to the plate.
44:36
Speaker 1: And I know because of you being a guy who's
44:39
Speaker 1: a designer, it took. At what point did you realize
44:43
Speaker 1: that this had to be part of the conversation to
44:47
Speaker 1: be honest, that's that's a very good question. In two
44:52
Speaker 1: thousand eleven, after bankruptcy and pretty much lost everything I owned,
44:59
Speaker 1: had to start over branch, and as I evaluated the loss,
45:06
Speaker 1: I realized that a lot of it was self inflicted
45:09
Speaker 1: and I really had no one to blame but myself.
45:13
Speaker 1: The economy and so forth was a part of it,
45:16
Speaker 1: but I made some bad decisions and didn't really run
45:20
Speaker 1: business right. So in rebuilding a new company. I knew
45:27
Speaker 1: that I had just changed in certain ways, and one
45:30
Speaker 1: of the ways was really, you know, just having a
45:32
Speaker 1: good character about stuff and and not putting a dollar first.
45:35
Speaker 1: And then let me give you example, I wouldn't intentionally
45:38
Speaker 1: doing I think a lot of business don't intentionally lie,
45:40
Speaker 1: intentionally mislead. But let me give an example. People will
45:43
Speaker 1: come used to come to me and say, hey, can
45:45
Speaker 1: you do this for me? Can you make this from me? Now,
45:48
Speaker 1: without me really knowing I could execute against it. I
45:53
Speaker 1: would say yes, and I'll just figure it and let
45:57
Speaker 1: me figure it out. And I had every intention of
46:00
Speaker 1: figuring it out and getting it right. But sometimes I failed,
46:04
Speaker 1: and as a result, you not deliver on the promise
46:08
Speaker 1: or the customers expectations. So too often we're getting these
46:13
Speaker 1: desperate situations and business where we make deals and situations
46:18
Speaker 1: to pay rent or to or to or to fix
46:20
Speaker 1: us a serious problem we have financially. But at the
46:24
Speaker 1: end of the day, we've messed up by our integrity
46:27
Speaker 1: and messed by character and messed up the potential for
46:30
Speaker 1: someone to refer to other people to do more business
46:33
Speaker 1: with us. So through evaluating myself and those types of decisions,
46:38
Speaker 1: I just made a decision that I'm making make any money.
46:40
Speaker 1: I don't have any money at this point. I don't
46:42
Speaker 1: have much, and so let me just operate, you know, uh,
46:49
Speaker 1: in a way that I know I can deliver and
46:52
Speaker 1: be good and great and great at what I do.
46:55
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
46:59
Speaker 1: with ru Sean mcdone donald. Now, let's return to Money
47:05
Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. He was talking about mentoring,
47:10
Speaker 1: which I which I which is a modern term in
47:12
Speaker 1: the sense that I know when I was growing up,
47:14
Speaker 1: I didn't have that word to my disposal. And the
47:17
Speaker 1: and the millennials, they in gen Z they understand the
47:19
Speaker 1: value of mentoring. And I also want to be able
47:22
Speaker 1: to say that that's the purpose of me creating this
47:24
Speaker 1: show was to create lanes where people can come on
47:27
Speaker 1: this show, either call on the show or or just
47:30
Speaker 1: hear interviews. Through mentorship, maybe they won't make the mistakes.
47:34
Speaker 1: Talk about your mentorship, sir, for what you do in
47:40
Speaker 1: this area as well. And you're right, millennials do understand
47:43
Speaker 1: it better than you know previous generations. Um. You know,
47:47
Speaker 1: knowledge is power, and you know sometimes you can learn
47:51
Speaker 1: the hard way. You can learn from others. I'm the
47:54
Speaker 1: hard way. I'm the hard way, Michael, I'm the hard way.
47:57
Speaker 1: But you know, so as a result, I have you know,
47:59
Speaker 1: many um I do fashion shows and things, have a
48:02
Speaker 1: lot of designers that participate that you can look at
48:07
Speaker 1: me as as a mentor and call on me for
48:10
Speaker 1: advice and questions stuff. One of the things, you know,
48:12
Speaker 1: I think a common mistake is that designers or people
48:17
Speaker 1: who intend to be designers and want to start a
48:20
Speaker 1: line or whatever, set it up based on just their
48:25
Speaker 1: own personal likes and dislikes and not with the customery mind.
48:33
Speaker 1: So I think that you need to if you're if
48:36
Speaker 1: you're in fashion, if you want to stand out in fashion,
48:39
Speaker 1: because there are millions of brands out there now, right,
48:43
Speaker 1: So how do you how do you segment yourself or
48:46
Speaker 1: separate yourself from everything else is there? You have to
48:50
Speaker 1: do something or have a particular purpose or client or
48:54
Speaker 1: a niche that you're focused on to really do that.
48:58
Speaker 1: So back talked to you. But when I filed bankruptcy
49:01
Speaker 1: and started had started over, one of the other things
49:04
Speaker 1: that then was identified a space in fashion that was
49:10
Speaker 1: unoccupied and that was serving grooms. So when I started
49:15
Speaker 1: that process, nobody was really doing it. Men's warehouse rental tuxedos,
49:21
Speaker 1: But nobody's really catering to men having not only great clothes,
49:26
Speaker 1: but a phenomenal experience. You know, women when they get engaged,
49:30
Speaker 1: their girlfriends yet bridle shop, they sit in Champagne. It
49:35
Speaker 1: is a party, right so, right, so so, and then
49:40
Speaker 1: they show up at the you know, they feel phenomenal
49:43
Speaker 1: to their wedding day because they know that they that
49:46
Speaker 1: they're wearing the most beautiful gown they've ever created for themselves.
49:51
Speaker 1: So men deserve the same thing, particularly in this day
49:55
Speaker 1: and age when so many of us are paying for
49:59
Speaker 1: the weddings. I've own pocket too. Unlike previously the fathers
50:04
Speaker 1: used to help out and so forth. You know, in
50:06
Speaker 1: the case today, so a lot of us are paying
50:08
Speaker 1: for it, and and truthfully it's probably the biggest party
50:13
Speaker 1: that most of us will throw their weight. So the
50:18
Speaker 1: man deserves, the groom deserves to look great, feel great,
50:22
Speaker 1: and you know, not be short changed after the you know,
50:28
Speaker 1: you know, you know, the fun part about that is
50:30
Speaker 1: that it almost like it's about time, you know, because
50:34
Speaker 1: that is true, is that the experience of going in
50:38
Speaker 1: getting that perfect gown. You know how many how many
50:42
Speaker 1: tuxis as I've rented, and it's just been uh he
50:45
Speaker 1: told me to come get that color in the corner,
50:47
Speaker 1: and I get it and get some ugly shoes and
50:49
Speaker 1: I go, okay, And that's really that's the experience. I remember.
50:53
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you the truth. I've I've done this
50:55
Speaker 1: several times, so it's always a hard pair uh pad
50:59
Speaker 1: leather shoes and uh fitting up a tux so that
51:03
Speaker 1: that somebody else has worn maybe four or five hundred
51:05
Speaker 1: times before I put it on. So what what I've
51:09
Speaker 1: done is looked at the total wedding experience for a
51:13
Speaker 1: man and recreated it. Okay, So it starts it's thank you,
51:17
Speaker 1: thank you. It starts off with the clothes, of course,
51:20
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day too, they got groomsmen,
51:22
Speaker 1: and I want them to come in from the moment
51:25
Speaker 1: you coming into our just want our showrooms. I want
51:28
Speaker 1: them to steal special like we are celebrating. You were
51:31
Speaker 1: celebrating this occasion. It's not just about the wedding day.
51:34
Speaker 1: It's about the process, and I want you to enjoy
51:37
Speaker 1: the journey along the way going to it. So we
51:41
Speaker 1: do a thing called grooms Lounge where we invite the
51:43
Speaker 1: groom to bring all the groomsmen in. We have champagne
51:47
Speaker 1: and cocktails and we do all the fittings and then
51:51
Speaker 1: we ended with our groast and toast of the groom.
51:56
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this is probably one of the
51:59
Speaker 1: most phenomenal things that I have come up with, because
52:07
Speaker 1: every week when these guys coming near, and I don't
52:10
Speaker 1: care where they're from around the country, but they get
52:12
Speaker 1: together and they're roasting and toasting. One guy is grown
52:15
Speaker 1: their friends, their brother and hear these brothers tell this
52:20
Speaker 1: man how proud they are of him, how much they
52:24
Speaker 1: love him, how much they support them. It's something that
52:28
Speaker 1: we don't see in America much often. You know, people
52:33
Speaker 1: tend to think that, you know, we kill each other,
52:36
Speaker 1: we do this, we do that. But one thing about
52:38
Speaker 1: that roasting toast in my stores every week, you see
52:43
Speaker 1: that brothers black men in particular, I love each other,
52:49
Speaker 1: that we support each other, that we have good fathers,
52:54
Speaker 1: good brothers, but also we love our women. Mm hmm.
52:58
Speaker 1: No know, it's it's society or or the media or
53:04
Speaker 1: to tell a story, it will be nothing like the
53:06
Speaker 1: reality that we experienced every single week in our stories.
53:11
Speaker 1: So it is amazing and um. But the thing is
53:17
Speaker 1: the groom and the groomsmen walk away feeling like they've
53:22
Speaker 1: just experienced something that was much needed and and just
53:27
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Because how often do we just tell each other,
53:30
Speaker 1: even though we might talk frequently, whatever, how long can
53:32
Speaker 1: we tell each other? Man, I love you and I'm
53:34
Speaker 1: proud of you. Bro, you're doing the great thing that
53:36
Speaker 1: you need some help whatever, you know what I mean.
53:38
Speaker 1: So this is this is a great time that will
53:41
Speaker 1: be remember every guy that goes through this, this would
53:45
Speaker 1: be one of the highlights of what you know. I'm
53:47
Speaker 1: getting I'm engaged, I'm getting married and may myself and
53:52
Speaker 1: I'm telling you a lot of the stuff that I've
53:53
Speaker 1: created for my grooms are the very things I want
53:56
Speaker 1: for myself. I'm gonna do a broom's lounge. There you go,
54:00
Speaker 1: there you go, I'm gonna do ropes and talks. I'm
54:02
Speaker 1: gonna have all these same things for myself and dropping
54:04
Speaker 1: on social media because if we all need to see it, Miguel,
54:09
Speaker 1: I'll tell you something. Man, You're you're inspired me. Man,
54:11
Speaker 1: Like I said, I really appreciate you coming on the
54:14
Speaker 1: show in fact that can you be a regular? Can
54:16
Speaker 1: you come back when you're about to do can you
54:18
Speaker 1: come back and make and mate? Because I want to
54:20
Speaker 1: talk about the polo team at at More House and
54:23
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. But what my big takeaway from
54:25
Speaker 1: you is that man, that's a love man. And what
54:28
Speaker 1: you're doing there's a passion and the desire to be
54:31
Speaker 1: the best, but not the best, because that's what people
54:34
Speaker 1: compete for. It's about it's about breaking stereotypes, about being
54:39
Speaker 1: uh living the lane of black excellence, and you're doing
54:41
Speaker 1: it in the lane of fashion. I'm talking to Miguel Wilson.
54:44
Speaker 1: Collections for locations support the whole principle of black excellence.
54:50
Speaker 1: And I appreciate you coming on Money madd conversations. One
54:54
Speaker 1: thing you know every week, I mean Splause in Atlanta,
54:58
Speaker 1: and these guys, these brothers to walk by a good sheet,
55:01
Speaker 1: have to walk by Rason. She had to walk by
55:03
Speaker 1: Tom Ford in all these places to get to my store. Okay,
55:07
Speaker 1: And the one thing I want them to do when
55:08
Speaker 1: you make their work, I want to make it worth while.
55:10
Speaker 1: And one thing we do is make each and everyone
55:12
Speaker 1: on them feel a love that you feel it's the
55:15
Speaker 1: place that you are honored and treat it well and
55:19
Speaker 1: feel great. Thank you. I thank you, Miguel Wilson. I
55:23
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Brother. We're gonna talk soon. May you get married? Righty? Right? Yeah? Okay, cool,
55:28
Speaker 1: I get on after that show. After I get married,
55:29
Speaker 1: we come on back on. Thank you. You've been listening
55:34
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55:39
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Speaker 1: her own personal journey. I'm a firm I'm a really
56:16
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56:18
Speaker 1: will come out on the outside. A lot of water
56:21
Speaker 1: is what they really make you drink, get you stay hydrated,
56:24
Speaker 1: your skin's gonna look good. But being happy on the inside, um,
56:29
Speaker 1: I think it comes out because people are always like,
56:31
Speaker 1: You're always so happy. I really try to maintain that
56:34
Speaker 1: because I like to be an inspiration to so many people,
56:36
Speaker 1: so I think that's what And when I look good
56:39
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