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Money Making Conversations Master Class on bragging, mentorship, and entrepreneurship ft James Bailey, President & CEO Of RICE (Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs). · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: If it come, happy, Happy New Year, Happy New Year
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  Speaker 1: So this is something that's not going away. It's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's here, and it's something that child allows to be depressed.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get down, don't let COVID win. Don't don't get
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  Speaker 1: let COVID win. I'm gonna keep my energy up because
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  Speaker 1: guess what. I'm on this show because people have given
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  Speaker 1: me the opportunity to speak to you every Tuesday. And
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  Speaker 1: when I speak to you, I want to let you
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  Speaker 1: know tomorrow is a better day. Today it's a great
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  Speaker 1: day because you're listening to me. Not only are you
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  Speaker 1: listening to me. But you're in a position to change
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  Speaker 1: your life. You can't. You can change your life. You can.
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  Speaker 1: You can stop your car, you can get out of
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  Speaker 1: your car, you can go inside another story, you can
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  Speaker 1: buy something, you can turn your television said, you can
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  Speaker 1: do anything you want. Those are decisions that you make.
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  Speaker 1: They may seem small to you, but there are major
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  Speaker 1: decisions because there are people like that who can't not
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  Speaker 1: make that same decision that you seem to believe. It's
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  Speaker 1: so simple, they can't do it. My show this year
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  Speaker 1: is about master classes Ty the radio show Anymore. It's
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  Speaker 1: a master class, a master class on helping you change
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  Speaker 1: your life. That's what money Making Conversations is about. You know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a busy week so far from me. Um
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  Speaker 1: in demand. That's a good thing to say. I'm in demand.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I was on Good Day Atlanta talking to sharing
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  Speaker 1: about how to change your life. Wow, we we do.
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  Speaker 1: This's to the top of the year. This is when
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  Speaker 1: you can reset. You can read what you've done in
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  Speaker 1: stills has happened, but you can kind of reset. You
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  Speaker 1: can kind of reset your goals. You can try to
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  Speaker 1: refocus yourself to be a better person. You can think
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  Speaker 1: about your relationship, think about your job, think about your investments,
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  Speaker 1: think about losing. Wait, that's what that new year allows
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  Speaker 1: you to do, to reset. So if you're resetting or
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  Speaker 1: thinking about resetting, call me right now. Let's let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: And what I don't want you to do is not
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  Speaker 1: call because it always annoys me about people who don't
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  Speaker 1: call it. I don't want nobody to know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about. Well, if you don't tell somebody what you're
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  Speaker 1: thinking about, if you know, tell somebody what you believe
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  Speaker 1: you want to have happened in your life's not heard
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  Speaker 1: by somebody, then guess what. It may not happen. But
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot of things you want to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: How fantastic James Bailey, He's going to be on the
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  Speaker 1: show today. But more importantly, this shows your show. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to understand, this is a master class. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying my life is right, but I'm saying this,
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  Speaker 1: Because right now, as I said earlier, COVID maybe winning,
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  Speaker 1: I mailed them out personally. It was a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have a lot of people called
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  Speaker 1: in on that show. It's probably our business your show
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  Speaker 1: over the year. But again that was the end of one.
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  Speaker 1: We have a new year. Two, let's getting rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new year and this time and this time
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  Speaker 1: of year, always talk about making changes in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Now you always hear me on this show when we
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  Speaker 1: start talking about making changes. I always tell people too,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a sense of purpose or gift, to
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  Speaker 1: always leave with your gift and don't let your age, friends, family,
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  Speaker 1: or coworkers stop you from planning a living your dreams. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: we let people stop us all the time, we really do.
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  Speaker 1: But what we really do the most, we stop ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We have a general tendency to use age as an
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  Speaker 1: excuse when pursuing our dreams. I welcome getting old. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand how you cannot welcome getting old if you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to achieve something like because that's the only way
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  Speaker 1: you can achieve your goal is to get old. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if you're eighteen, forty years sixty. You should
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  Speaker 1: never use age as an excuse. Today is your time.
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  Speaker 1: Today is your time, because when you have you, when
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  Speaker 1: you're eighteen, you're fourty years sixty. Those age groups that
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  Speaker 1: I've chose to right there mean meant something to me
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  Speaker 1: and should mean something to you because eighteen, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're getting out of high school. You know nobody's telling
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing it more so, you have to state
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  Speaker 1: in your life where you can start making those decisions.
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  Speaker 1: When you start making those decisions, it can change your life.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes in the era that I grew up in,
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  Speaker 1: if he was eighteen years old and you was in
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  Speaker 1: the room, as they say, full of grown folks. They
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  Speaker 1: tell you, step out the room, grown people talking. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we can't talk like that no more to our young people.
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  Speaker 1: We have to mentor our young people because technology is
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  Speaker 1: available to them now that you never had. I grew
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  Speaker 1: up with a rotary down telephone. It took me all
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  Speaker 1: night to die nine one one on the rotary dial telephone.
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  Speaker 1: You can actually speak nine one one now, So why
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  Speaker 1: are you going to tell a young person who wants
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  Speaker 1: to seek advice, who wants to listen to your wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: step out of the room. Grown people are talking. That's
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen year old person who I'm telling right now,
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  Speaker 1: reach for your dreams because technology is giving you an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to reach for your dreams. Now, a's a tricky
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  Speaker 1: age out here, the forty year old person. That's a
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  Speaker 1: tricky age, you know, because it's not thirty people. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people used to work thirty. It's that forty
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  Speaker 1: year old mark where you can really look at your
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  Speaker 1: life and go, I'm not happy. I can't make a change.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not with the person I want to be with.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in a relationship I want to be with.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make change. That's that forty year old mark.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold that thought, hold that fort ye old
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  Speaker 1: mark because I want to get Quentin from the West
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  Speaker 1: End on the call. Hey, Quentin, how you doing that?
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  Speaker 1: My friend? Happy New Year's ra Sean McDonald speak New Year.
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  Speaker 1: What you gotta say, Quentin? You know, Um, I love
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  Speaker 1: what you're talking about. I was just um looking at
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  Speaker 1: um Reverend Nike and Neville daughter talking about believing in itself.
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  Speaker 1: And what I've been wanting to do is is get
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  Speaker 1: my message out and talk to people more than physical space. HM.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm I'm looking for or a mentor. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have any suggestions out there for people that are
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  Speaker 1: looking to go in to new arenas and do something
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  Speaker 1: new but you may not know how to get started. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. When you use the word mentor,
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  Speaker 1: you first of all have to define who you are,
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  Speaker 1: and then when you sit down and talk with somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you can tell them your dreams accurately. See what. Because
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  Speaker 1: people are approached me a lot of times and saying
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  Speaker 1: they don't need a mentor, I don't know what that means,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know what you need. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you need, then I can't help you this
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  Speaker 1: radio show every Tuesday. You can call me every tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Quitting every Tuesday, you can call me and I mentor
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  Speaker 1: you right on this on these air words. If you
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  Speaker 1: know what you want and you have a plan to
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  Speaker 1: get there. My whole goal in life is to help
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  Speaker 1: everybody who calls me, everybody who listens to me, to say,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have a plan, if you're going out
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  Speaker 1: on faith, if you call me on faith, you might
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  Speaker 1: want to hang up the phone call because I can't
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  Speaker 1: help you on faith. But I can't help you shape
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  Speaker 1: your plan. I can help you uh project your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: I can help you accomplish your goals. So quittin the
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  Speaker 1: whole process of being able to get a mentor is
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  Speaker 1: to be able to be able to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: you want, and then you'll be able to connect with
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  Speaker 1: the people you want. I always use this phrase, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to be a doctor, you should not be
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  Speaker 1: talking to a mechanic. So if you have a dream,
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  Speaker 1: you will, and you know what you want, you will
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  Speaker 1: eventually get around the right people who can help you
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  Speaker 1: accomplish your dream. Does that make sense? That makes perfect sense.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely have a plan, um and I definitely shut
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  Speaker 1: down and wrote it out over three years ago. Um
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  Speaker 1: and I continue to update the plan. So I started
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  Speaker 1: a YouTube channel, Congratulations, speaking young men about how to
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  Speaker 1: remove life. And so I'm the next. Okay, now keep talking.
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  Speaker 1: Just I'm listening to you. I'm listening to your unvail,
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  Speaker 1: your dreams to my audience, telling them you have a
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  Speaker 1: plan in place, and I'm allowing you to recite it
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  Speaker 1: in public because I want to tell people about this
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  Speaker 1: is your this this is bragging. But and that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing because see a lot of people take the
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  Speaker 1: worry bragging and treat it as a negative. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you should be bragging about what you're doing. You should
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  Speaker 1: be bragging about your children, should be bragging about what
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  Speaker 1: you accomplishing your life, your career, your work, your product,
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  Speaker 1: your business. Is bragging because if you don't tell people
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  Speaker 1: what you do, then guess what corporations do it all
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  Speaker 1: the time. For when they advertise, that's bragging. When they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about f one fifty, that's bragging. McDonald's when they advertised,
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  Speaker 1: that's bragging, Target Walmart, that's bragging. But when we bragg
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  Speaker 1: or we talk about it, then people say you're bragging,
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  Speaker 1: you're stuck on yourself. Do not allow old terminology to
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  Speaker 1: stop you from accomplishing your dreams. Corporations have been bragging
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  Speaker 1: all their lives. We've accepted it, but when we try
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  Speaker 1: to do it, then people try to say we are
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  Speaker 1: being condescending with being self wish, we're not focused. You
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  Speaker 1: should start promoting yourself. Social media allows us to do that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: promote who you are, So continue to bragg, Quinn, tell
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  Speaker 1: us about what you got going on in your life. Okay, So, um,
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  Speaker 1: I was I'm a former school teacher, and I took
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  Speaker 1: a year to travel with my family, um around the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. I have four daughters. Um. I've
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  Speaker 1: been married since I was uh nineteen, So me and
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  Speaker 1: my wife did to be our sixteen year UM anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Um and pretty much. I started a company out in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I was raised in Riverdale, Georgia. Started the company had
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  Speaker 1: eleven employees at one point, um and so yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I have a master's degree in marketing. Um. I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing a lot of things, but I have not been bragging.
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  Speaker 1: So you see what I'm saying, and your story is compelling,
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  Speaker 1: it's I'm interested. I want to hear more because see
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  Speaker 1: what happens is and I want to just let people
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  Speaker 1: know that. That's why I encourage people to call. Such
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  Speaker 1: a blessing to me for for you to call and
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  Speaker 1: for to have such a perfect story for people to
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  Speaker 1: hear you. You know, you know, you know your life
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  Speaker 1: is a story, is a book, and what happens is
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  Speaker 1: we look at television, we look at streaming, we look
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  Speaker 1: at movies, and we see those stories and we don't
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  Speaker 1: think they are possible to be a part of our life.
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  Speaker 1: But my man, you are a story, You are a book.
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  Speaker 1: You are a wealth of knowledge. But if you don't brag,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't tell us who you are, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't tell us your journey, then gets what you have
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  Speaker 1: no value to me to make my life better. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what people don't understand. If McDonald start stop bragging,
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  Speaker 1: people will stop buying their hamburgers. If talking stop advertising,
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  Speaker 1: you think they're closed. If Ford stop advertising their trucks,
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  Speaker 1: you stop you buy somebody else's truck. So when you brag, Quentin,
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  Speaker 1: anybody who's listening to me, if you want to call
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  Speaker 1: in on my show and start bragging and letting people
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  Speaker 1: know about your products, let people know about your business,
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  Speaker 1: let people know about your career. That's letting people know
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  Speaker 1: how positive you are. That's what money making conversation is
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  Speaker 1: all about, Quentin. That's it. So um and yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: so what I'm looking to do now, My journey started
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  Speaker 1: basically from my friend passing away at thirteen years old
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  Speaker 1: in front of my face. And when I see my
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  Speaker 1: friend passed away, he passed away from and large heart, unexpectedly.
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  Speaker 1: And at that very moment, I realized that life end
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  Speaker 1: like right now. And so that's been my motivation to
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  Speaker 1: like live every day and and really go all out
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  Speaker 1: and um and and it put me on the spiritual journey,
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  Speaker 1: which is what I want to share with people. Um
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  Speaker 1: because this journey, what they said, with flesh, we got
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  Speaker 1: our having spiritual spiritual basically um before anything else. And
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  Speaker 1: so like I said, I'm just looking too. Didn't bigger
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  Speaker 1: platforms where I can put check the message out and
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  Speaker 1: really you know, connect with people out here that I
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  Speaker 1: know are looking for the message. And so I'm to
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  Speaker 1: do Quinn. I'm about to go to break. But every Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: just call me up Rashan. This is my this is
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  Speaker 1: my topic this week. This is my topic this week,
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  Speaker 1: so we can start getting helping you get your message
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  Speaker 1: out because you're trying to change lives, your brother, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to change lives, guess what you need help.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm help, I'm h E L P. I'm helped
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  Speaker 1: for anybody like you. So every Tuesday, brother, don't disappoint me, Quentin.
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  Speaker 1: Every Tuesday's first break can always be the break that
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  Speaker 1: people can call and talk to Rashan, because the next break,
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  Speaker 1: I got my man James Bailey coming on and all
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  Speaker 1: my guests will start coming on and we'll be taking
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  Speaker 1: cured questions for those and those people who want to
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  Speaker 1: ask them questions. But more important, Quentin, we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: next week quitting from the West Side. Next week, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Rashawn McDonald. My name is Rashan McDonald. If you don't
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: know what mean, you can google me. You'll find my
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: career is interesting. My career is us taking a lot
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: of incredible journeys and journeys that I didn't believe I
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: could even dream about what I did dream about them,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: and they happened because of the fact that I could
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: consider that possibility. That's what I ways tell people. Dream.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: If you dream, it becomes possible. If you talk about it,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: it can happen. Because if somebody hears your thoughts, if
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: somebody hears your dreams and they agree with it, then
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: they can help you make it happen. But if you
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: stay silent, if you stay, as they say, too humble,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: you are you are you following that path of people
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: telling you, oh, don't don't brag, don't don't. No, I'm
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: telling you you better brag. You'd be able to tell
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: people what you want. That's what social media is all about.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: That's why you've been giving this gift of TikTok and
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Instagram and Facebook and Twitter, because now you can promote.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You can talk. You know, you can tell people about
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: your sandwich. You can tell people about your brag about
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: your children. You can talk about your recovery from cancer.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: You can talk about your ability to be great. You
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: can talk about different things that are complished. You can
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: motivate yourself and motivate other fee through your life story,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: your telling. That's what bragging needs all about. Muhammed Elite
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: is the greatest bragger of all time. I am the greatest,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: he said, and guess what, to this day, we still
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: believe he is the greatest. And prime Time deon Prime
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Time is amazing. I can't read that. Oh James, there, okay,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: cool I'm gonna go to my next guest. I mean,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting on him. He's amazing, and I just
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: want to remind everybody that every Tuesday. This is the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: first master class session. We started today and the master
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: class session will continue all the way to June February four.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Every Tuesday will do two different topics. So don't go anywhere.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: You want to talk to us, please talk to us.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: But let's get started with My first guest of the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: year is my guests in the Shore is James Bailey.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: He is the president of the CEO of Russell Innovation
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Center for Entrepreneurs. RICE Right is an economic mobility unit
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: engine for the community, driving entrepreneurs and small business owners
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to innovate, grow, create jobs, and build wealth. The house
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: over fifty thou square feet of convening, meeting and innovative space.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I've been over there. Isn't the Brilliants right down the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: street from the restaurant that I go to all the time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let him talk to us about it because
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: of the fact that he's his his I want to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: say his brain child, but I gotta say it comes
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: out of his brain because I toured over there and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I was. I was blown away. In fact, it inspired
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: me to do what I'm doing now with thirty fifty
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: media when I want in bought the building the last
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: September of so let's bring to the show on money
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: making conversations my first guest of the year, Mr James Bailey.
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  Speaker 1: Hey James, how you doing? Sean? Man? If I knew
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I was the first guest of the year, brother, Well
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: you know something, James. You know I've been hunting you down.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I've been hunting down because I've been wanting to get
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: you on the show. Man. I started in September. When
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you start talking about entrepreneurship, I think what you're doing
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: at the uh at the rice is the is the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: is the right person to talk to it because you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: have a structure, you have a building and your place
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: that believes in it. Let's let's get a little before
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: we get into Let's get a little history, a little
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: background on you in your career. How did it all
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: get started for you that got you headed in this direction?
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: You know, brother, it's amazing the power of Rashaan. Do
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you hear echo? Brother? That could get back to you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Uh no, so I hear you very clearly sir, okay, Uh,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you know it's it's amazing the power of presence. I
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: started my first business at twelve. But because I did that,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: because my barber whispered in my ear son, you need
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to go find you something you love and go make
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: money doing it. Um. That one statement in my ear
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and there's a longer story for another time, literally shaped
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the travictory of my life. I saw everything different. Nobody
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in my life up to that point and talked to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: me about ownership. I had never heard the word entrepreneurship. Uh.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And my first business the thing that I love then
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: with steer car stereo equipment. So the age of twelve, brother,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I started my own car stereo equipment business. And uh
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: quite honestly, the only reason that I went to college
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: is because of that business. I was not the best student.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: In fact, I was a horrible student, Brandon gifted in kindergarten. However,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: my aspiration to be successful in business meant my need
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: for education cool became relevant and I took off AP
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: physics a calculus because hell, it would have been called
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: stem education back then. I was dealing with Holmes and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: wattage and installing in stereo. Um. So those way to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: great point average is actually raised my g p A
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: up just enough to qualify to go to the university
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in Georgia. So entrepreneurship throughout my journey. BRO started my
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: first business at twelve, I bought my house first house
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: at nineteen, made my first million at twenty four. But
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I did not have good money role models, so I
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: went from living in a ten thousand square foot home
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to being homeless. By the time I was uh, four
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: years later, I was helping grow a thirty million dollar
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: non profit in ten countries and now this latest thing
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that I'm a part of, the Russell Center. Uh. There
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: are very few times in life we get to be
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a part of something, you know out last year, uh,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and they're even rare moments where you get to be
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: a part of something that could potentially change the course
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: of history. And I think what we're doing at five
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: O four Fair Street, with the largest center in the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: world dedicated to growing and scaling black businesses, has the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: capacity to change the world. We know what you know
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I was just talking about. I don't know if you
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: heard the earlier part of the shows. By bragging, you
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: bragging and promoting and as black people, we do you
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: know we don't understand that because we were trying to
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: tend to humble ourselves and say, hey, don't talk, don't
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: promote yourself. You know you can't. You can't brag about
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: your success. You know that's gloating and you gotta be
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: able to market yourself. I know you. You took me
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: on the tour of this facility. I saw the early
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: stages when it when it wasn't complete. Now I saw
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the brilliance of it. I saw that and you and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you was telling me what we're gonna do this, We're
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: gonna do this, We're gonna have this location over here,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and you just walk me to room, the room, the room.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And if you didn't talk like that, James, about the facility,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I would not have been inspired by that. Talk about
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: how people mix message when you're trying to trying to
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: grow your brand, trying to talk about your business, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: then you can be met with oh you're just gloating,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Oh you just bragging? Are you just too much? You
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: know I've battled with that because and I think that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the words that escapes all of it is authenticity. If
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you are true to your brand, if you're true to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: your mission, if you truly believe in what you're doing
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and it comes off as authentic, I think you start
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to mitigate some of those kind of societal community issues
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: because people can feel the energy. They can feel that,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you know what, this brother right here is absolutely in
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: it for the right reason. Ain't bragging. He's just seeing
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a vision and I want to catch that vision. So
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I think that is one of the things that that
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: needs to be lifted up. And when we started talking
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: about entrepreneurship and small business, are you true to it?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And if you're true to it people who know Now
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: he's an interesting thing about it. Now, Rice or Russell
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Center invest in Black entrepreneurs, strengthens back, strengthens businesses, and
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: create community. Those three things I took out of my
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: you know, doing my research and everything about the center.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Now when I walk through that, how does one who's listening,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: how does want to get involved? And what type of
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: individuals come to your facility for success? You know, I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: sold HBCU model. I think the far too often we
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: start programs with the only goal in informative. We need
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: things that are focused on being transformative. And so I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: need to be able to help the guy that's leaving
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the post office after fifteen years and just wants to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: start out on this leaving all the way up. The
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: person is trying to scale a business north of fifty
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: or undred million dollars. So our big idea platform inspired develop, execute, accelerate, scale,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: allow somebody at the earliest stages of an idea. Who
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we're also there to help somebody at the later stage
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: of the growth in scale. UM. You know we we
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: we are because who we are, we had to cast
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a wide net to make sure that we're able to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: provide hope to people. Man, I mean, post pandemic, We're
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: gonna need more of the symbols of hope. We're gonna
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: need institutions to manufacturer, and we hope to be one
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: of those institutions. So we are currently UM Industry Agnostics.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: If you have a dream, if you have an ambition,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you want to start a business, you want to grow
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a business, we have a platform to help you do that,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: meets you where you are and help you get to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: where you're trying to go. You're really interesting. When I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: hear you talking, I hear about a the word entrepreneur. UM,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I have an idea what that is? I really do
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: but also know a lot of people don't have an
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: idea what there is, you know, because the word small
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: business pops into that word. That's not the same thing
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: as a small business owner and entrepreneurs. That's the same thing.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: What what what what what? Because there's there's so many
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: words out there, we get confused and you have so
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: many ways you can get a small business loan, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you can't get a small business loan. The PPP out there,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: they covidcame, that Kevi, we went that COVID back, got
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a free called Armacron. You know, it's like, what do
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: we go if if a person is trying to go
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: out there trying to break change, we realize that you know, unemployment.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: You know, people don't even want to return back to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: for their all week jobs. They don't They stayed at home.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: They don't want to go back. They feel as a
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: different life emotionally, they don't want to deal with the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: stress of what that company or that corporate world was
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: offering them. Now they want to be an entrepreneur. How
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: do they break that cycle and take advantage of the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: opportunities you guys are providing at the Russell Center. You know,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I see him different and everybody as their own finishing
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to what entrepreneurship is, what it's not. Um, I'm just
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a firm believer. Entrepreneurs and problem solvers and small business
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: owners are ones that can capitalize on opportunities. You know,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Entrepreneurs look at a landscape and see what's not there
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and they try to create it. They try to fill
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that gap in In my opinion, entrepreneurship is literally a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: problem met with an economic solution. Now you may involve
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: into becoming a small business owner. You've got a repeatable
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: business model, whether you're not just working on the business
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: for the business works for you. I think they're different,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and I think they're wired. You and I could go
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and buy Tim Popeye's franchises and we be in business
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and we make decent money, but we haven't solved a
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: big problems. And I think entrepreneurs are uniquely equipped to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: solve the big problems in society faces and they make
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: money doing it. Wow, we will be right back with
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: more money Making conversation with Rushan McDonald. You are now
• 28:01
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  Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. I sat down with my man Todd Delaney
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  Speaker 1: at the age of eighteen, he was focusing on pursuing
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  Speaker 1: his baseball career and was drafted by the New York Mets.
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  Speaker 1: During this pursuit, he realized there was a higher call
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: it on his life and left the world sports to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: pursue a career as a gospel recording artists. He is
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: revered as one of the influencers of the next generation
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of gospel music. Here's what Todd Delaney had to say.
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  Speaker 1: The crazy thing about so how much we put so
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: much emphasis on force in America, Like if you make
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it to the top of the sports, they think that's
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the greatest thing. But for me, impact, impact was the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: was the greatest thing. I said, Man, how can I
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: impact the world? Don't ever chase the dollar? You know
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying that it's not that it's not the dollar,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: chase the impact. How can you make an impact on
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: other people's lives and the money will chase you? And
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: so I'm in a really beautiful place right now. If
• 28:52
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• 28:54
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  Speaker 1: Now let's return to money making conversation with Rashaan McDonald.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to the president and CEO of RICE with
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs. Georgia bull Dog. At
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: least had to bring that up on you, this thing.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I could not when you said you went to Georgia.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't leave phone calls when I bring
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  Speaker 1: it up to Georgia bull Dog. How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling? It is the show to be
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  Speaker 1: national camp you, George bull Dog. We're gonna go on
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  Speaker 1: a record. See that's all I'm saying that you cannot
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  Speaker 1: be in this city and not because I remember when
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I met you. Man, if we half our conversation, Man
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: was about to George the bulldogs and to see them
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: about to about to do it, right, dude, take down
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  Speaker 1: that big bad Alabama next month. It's gonna be special. Brother.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't have said a better. Big Bad Alabama's conform
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to go down hungry. These dogs want to eat. And uh,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: it's just our time at a long time. If we
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: held up a ray you know, you know, I always
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: doing researcher about this big ideas model, and you brought
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it up in conversation, and we always talked about catchy phrases.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: We always talk about things that you know to get
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: people noticed. You. Now, if I just want to slow
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: down in this break and find out exactly what you
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: meant when you say big idea model, What exactly is
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that our big the ideas model. It's um when I
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: said I took a page out of the HPU book,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: is looking at how I can be a green freshman
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and not know anything and I start freshman year. I'm
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: not taking senior level of course because I am not ready.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: And if I don't master everything that freshman year, I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: don't become a sophomore. If I've not completed all of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: my court work, I don't graduate. So in our platform
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: we don't really believe in social promotion because I think
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: part of the issue is in the marketplace. Far too
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: often the programming is just based on time, not already
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and so inspired developed execute accelerated scale takes a company
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: from just a concept to to actually a concept or
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: like a curiosity concept, and then a company company to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: customers customers that you know, to scale, and so we're
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: moving someone along a continuum of engagement rather than just
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: a programmatic approach. But also, brother, I go, I want
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to say again from a model, if you, if you,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and I went out and talked to a brother from
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: more House or Howard or sister from Spelman and asked
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: them to talk for two minutes about their experience of
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: their their institution. Although they spent over two hundred thousand
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: dollars on their education, spent nine of their time in
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the classroom. When we asked them to talk for two
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: minutes about their time at Spellment, they're not gonna bring
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: up a single class they took. It was about the community,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the culture, the covenant of what it meant to be
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a more houseman or a spellboun woman. You wrapped that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: around the world class curriculum, World class instructors. Now you've
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: got something that's more than just a program, and it's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: exactly how we were building our big ideas. Platform do
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: not just to be about programming and information sharing, but
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: how can we be transformationals? Wow? Oh yeah, Roy? He
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: from Roy, You're still on the call on the line
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: from Stone Mountains. How you do on line with Roshan McDonald,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Mr James Bailey? How are you doing? Got a question
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: for us? Like you want that for comments? I'm good,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I have a sort of like a two
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: part question here. Um. Now, I just saw a quote
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: from Drake and this is kind of you know. Got
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: me is that you know what you all were talking about,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: you know the different things that you do, and you're successful,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and you know you have other people around and you
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: think you know you're you're talking about your success stories,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: but they feel like you might be brack. Now I might.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I worked like seven days a week, I'm always doing something.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I am an entrepreneur. I can consider myself and be
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, but I'm not the type of person. I've
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: heard the old sayings saying that you would have to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: find new friends if your friends can't educate you, if
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you're the smartest one in the group, or whatever the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: case may be. I don't like switching and you know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: getting new friends. I I like the friends that I have,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: but some of them just can't relate to my success.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And you know, not necessarily saying that they show it,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: but I feel like all the time when I'm talking
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: about things, I'm bragging about different things that I'm doing
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: in my life. So I mean, how do you do?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: What are you doing that? Chast'na right over to Mr
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Bailey because that's why I love his facility is the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: innovation Center because when you're walk into you're not bragging,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: You're talking to mentors, You're talking to peers. Isn't exactly
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: what you're doing over there is making people like Row
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: be comfortable. Am I correct? Bailey brother, It's all about
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: It's all about belongings and Roy, thank you for the question. Man.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: You know your friends or your friends and you know,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily described to the no new friends model
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: because you gotta find your tribe and this business. When
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you're an entrepreneur, it is a very lonely place. The anxiety,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the depression, the self esteem hits that you take. You
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: need to be fortified by people that you see it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you just need to hear somebody say, man, that's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: gonna work, or I believe or I see it, or
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I can help. And you've got to expand and be
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: willing to expand your network, because there an entrepreneur with
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: no network ain't an entrepreneurs that's gonna be around for
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: very long. And an entrepreneur that is willing to expand
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: that network to feel the needs to he or she
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: has is the one that's gonna prosper. Brothers, find your tribe,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and Rashawn is absolutely right, you know, keep your friends
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: on the outside of entrepreneurship that may not see it,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: but find this safe space to fail and fly where
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you can be surrounded by people that see it and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: think it like you. Brother, It's critical critical to your
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to your success going forward. I MEAs you this with
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: with with raw still on the call here, James, how
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: can your your facility, your center be an asset to
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: somebody like him? Can you help us that? Yeah? I
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: mean I think that wherever Roy is and wherever you are, brother,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: on your journey, we're able to look at a company
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: for where they are and then prescribe a pathway to
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: where they want to be, uniquely tailored to their growth trajectory,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: not just some other things. Maybe he doesn't want to
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: be the next Facebook or the next Google or the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: next Amazon. Let us focus on Roy the entrepreneur, Roy's business,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Roy's vision, and help fill in the gaps that will
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: help them get there. And you know, on top of that,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Rashan outside of the classroom date back to that HBCU model.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Part of the power of the HBCU model is it
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of the learning happens outside of the classroom.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: That's where you meet your best friend. That's where you
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: pledge your fraternity, That's where you meet the girl that
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: you fall in love with. That's where you find the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: people that stay with you for the rest of your life.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: And if we create this community and this covenant, entrepreneurs
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: like Roy get absorbed into it, they start to fill
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: those gaps of people that they need in their life
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to be successful. Yes, it did. And uh, the next
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: question was gonna be about getting intour you know, because
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes I'm staggnant and you know, I
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: think that I'm doing so and I just I really
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: need some mentorship to be able to help me with
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and guide me at this level. You know, James, I
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: started this show because you know, Monimating Conversation platform is
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: a mentoring platform. Because you go to my website monimating
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: conversation dot com, you see interviews like I'm doing with James.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: You can hear them and listen to the back and
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and it's broken down to different categories from entertaining to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: sports two to entrepreneurship. All these different directors and writers
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and all these different categories that you can listen Tobody speak.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: But I know I get that a lot of James
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: people asking for mentors where they can go. I can't
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: always answer that question. Can you assist? Can you give
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: some lane of some light to somebody like Roy on
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: what they can go to get mentorship? Yeah, it's part
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: of our platform. It's it's matching you with the people
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: that you need to be successful. And mentorship comes in
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of form. There's a higher level that I
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: call sponsorship, the people to believe you enough to not
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: allow you to fail. Um. So you know, Roy, if
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: it's if it's places like the Russell Center, or as
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: places like the Urban League, or they're in Atlanta, we
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: are uniquely positioned because we have so many organizations that
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: are working to help black businesses grow. I just urge
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you to have the courage to reach out and to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: raise your hand, to be vulnerable enough to say, hey,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I need help, as you've done on this called my
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: friends and saying I need a mentor to keep me focused,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: to keep me forward. Um, and you need that. You
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: need that tribe around you to keep you moving, brother,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And we'll be happy to help. If you go to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: our site Russell Center dot org. Uh, fill out the information.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Somebody from our office will reach out. Brother. I believe
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: we're bringing on new companies to stakeholders in February. Uh
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: so yeah, brother, we're here to help protecting my call.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I just tell Mr Bailey, Mr Bailey right here,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: he's a regular contributor. He don't know it yet, but
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: here a regularly contributor. Money may confortation, you know, Mr Awesome,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I look forward to it. You know, when we we
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: we we we we're you know the whole purpose of
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do here. And you're having used
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: my first guest because you know, if the people always
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: start out with these goals, I'm gonna you know, it's oh,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I can do some new resolutions. Now I can lose weight,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: or I can start a business, or I can I
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: can be a better parent, or a better husband, a
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: better wife, or better just a better person than there's
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a better business person. So that's why I felt I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: needed to launch with your voice, your unique sensibilities, to
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: let people know this is the top of the year.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: This is a moment where you can change things. But
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: don't forget. Whatever you did wrong in one gonna follow
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you into two and so. But that doesn't mean the
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: opportunities for change of success can be denied. You talk
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: to us in in in in some terminology, how your center,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: how your philosophy can get people rooted in sadness, rooting
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: in depression, rooted in doubt, to move forward positivity whether
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: you become what you behold. And if you're surrounded by positivity,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: you know, chances are you gonna rub off on you know.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: The thing that I do love about the Center is
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: this is think of a black man seventy four years ago,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Heavenly audacity and the Jim Crow segregated racist South to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: build a headquarter building. It's a full city, black wide
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand square feet, the courage that that entrepreneur had, Mr. H. J.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Russell Senior, that energy still lives in the building, man,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: and that building is gonna be here for fifty more years.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: So when you talk about falling and failing and flying
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and storing, we've always missed that that that common denominator,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: that thing that is always there to pick us up
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: when we fall or to celebrate us when we fly.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: And this is again more than just a building, more
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: than just a program for the Russell family and the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Russell family of businesses. This institution has been a beacon
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: the hope in this city for multiple decades and now
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to build on that legacy. Brother.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: So yeah, again, back to that surround yourself with with
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: with positivity, surround yourself with other people that are striving,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: that are growing, that are struggling just like you. It's
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the kind of community that's necessary for our community to thrive. Wow.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: When we come back on out that break, I want
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: to I want you to talk a little bit more
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: about the Russell family. We will be right back with
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• 42:22
  Speaker 1: with your host, Rashwan McDonald. I want to give away
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: five ideas I called five tips on improving your ability
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: to win. If you want to add to this a
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: little bit on the on the on the other side
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: of the break, please do, James, because you do. I
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: respect you. You know. Number one, Identify your strengths. That's
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: very key because a lot of people don't understand that
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: you might have a product that they liked that don't
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: mean that anybody else would like it. Identify where you
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: could use some improvement right there. That means criticism. See
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of people can't handle criticism. They can't handle
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: somebody coming up to tell them, Hey, you know, if
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: you worked a little harder at this, you can be
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: better if you if you if you study a little harder,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: you could be smarter. If you exercise a little bit more,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: you can be stronger. That's called improvement. Consider the benefits
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: of change. Change can be moving. Change could be a job.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Change can be a relationship. Change could be a mindset.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Change can be an ability to think out of the box.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: The fourth set specific goals. You know you talk about
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: this all the time at the Russell Center setting goals,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: and I hear that word all the time going out
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: on faith. I'm gonna tell you right up front, I
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: hate when people say that. I don't know how you
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: can be successful going out on faith if you don't
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: have a plan. And finally, be consistent, if you're not
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: consistent with who you meet, who you talk to, how
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: you always tell people if you If you have a
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: business and you ain't consistent on what time you open
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the doors, you don't have a business. I started this show.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: You know, my my company is like twenty miles away
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: from here. I close my shop up, all my employees
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: go I get my car getting traffic, I come here
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I'm trying to change your life. I'm trying
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: to change your life in a lot of different ways.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: And when I bring a person like change Bailey on
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to talk about centers that you may not know, like
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: you talked about the Urban League, you know, the Small
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Business Administration, you know, all these these are locations where
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: you can go for mentorship, you know, talking to strangers.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Because that's a lot of things people need to understand.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Is that my life that I live right now wasn't
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: tired the people that I knew. It was tied to
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: people who saw something in me and made sure I
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: ascended to what I they thought I could possibly be.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: So don't always expect it to be your pastor, or
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: your parents, or your wife, or your or your best
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: friend or your co workers. It could be strangers can
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: be your mentors. And that's why he mentioned the word
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Urban League, That's what I'm saying, small Business Administration, That's
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: why I mentioned Russell Center. You're gonna walk into a
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: building filled with strangers, and that's the community that he's
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: talking about, that community that the Russell Center is creating
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: over there. It's right you can. There's a stone's throw
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: from HBCUs. That's what he's talking. That's why he keeps
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: mentioning HBC using. It's right down the street from Mercedes Binds.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: If you make it right down MLK, you're gonna run
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: right into all those HBCUs, Marris Brown, Spellman, Clark, Atlanta University,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: you're gonna run into all of them. More House. But
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: if you keep straight, you're gonna run right into the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Russell Center. And it's a family that made the decision
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that what they got they want other people to at
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: least consider the possibility of achieving or having through entrepreneurship.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Tell us about that, Jay, and that's really why you know.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I wanted to tell your story, but I wanted to
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: close talking about the family that's enabling these changes to happen.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: In this great Signif Atlanta your turn, it's a powerful
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: leg It's hard to talk about world without talking about them.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're black at Atlanta and do existence,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: you have to think, permit sent Uh. He integrated the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce at the city and the state level
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: build half of our skyline. The brother had a pool
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: inside his house at thirty years old, where a young
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: dr King used to go swim and try to figure
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: out how he wanted to change the world. Um. And
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: even when we think about where the building is located, Uh,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: he built that building there intentionally. When you talk about
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: those schools that are right across the street, we four
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: years ago, you couldn't go to the University of Georgia,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: you couldn't go to Georgia Tech, you couldn't go to Emory.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: So when our when our students used to matriculate from
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: all over the world to go to these schools, he
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: knew that they needed to see the physical manifestation of
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: what was possible for people that look like them. So
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: he built his headquarter building intentionally on a hill directly
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: across the street from all of those schools, to be
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: a beacon and to be an inspiration. And we hope
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: to be that continuously for what we're doing right now
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: for entrepreneurs a small business owner. So the Russell family,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: even today after his death, h Russelling Company is the
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: largest black owned construction firm in the country. Their their
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: airport concession company, the Sensions International, is one of the
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: largest Semit countries. M a legacy that now has gone
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: into a third generation, and uh so it's a powerful legacy.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: But again, when I say you become much, behold Sean.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: We don't have enough examples of generational wealth to truly
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: aspire to, and the Russell family happens to be one
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: of those shining examples of black excellence and black wealth
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: and it stood the test of time and survived the generation.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: You know, the interesting thing about I'm gonna use the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: word frustration because of the fact that I know it's
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of people listening to this show as a
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: little I know, you encounter people on the regular people
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: regular basis, who want to who want to start their
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: own business, got this great idea, don't know what to
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: do with it. They hear the word entrepreneurship, but they
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: don't know what that means. They don't know what the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: definition of what that means. And when I say that,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I say Russell's Center, I know some people they're gonna
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: ignore it, just like they ignore anything else in life
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: that that's not an option, that's something that Oh I
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: wish I the word I wish comes become a dominant
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. How can we get more African
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Americans involved? That I guess that's the question I want
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: to ask you, and guess what, I'm not expecting you
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: to answer it correctly. But I know you are a
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: deep thinker. I know you encounter these questions a lot
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: more than I do. And you and you see more
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: people frustrated, and you see more dreamers than I do
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: sometimes because I just go to work and I come
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: here on Tuesday and I interview people who who called
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: me so talk about that whole journey because they come
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: through your door, James, and they you can see that
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: brightness in their eyes, that energy and their face. How
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: do you build on that as an entrepreneur somebody who's
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: seeking that dream? I mean one you got to decide.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: And this is the part that it is frustrated, brother,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: because that's the part you can do nothing about. If
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you're looking to go from good to great. Great takes
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: a certain amount of effort. Great takes a certain amount
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: of grit, a certain amount of commitment, a certain amount
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: of toughness. I love the tips that you gave before
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: the break. It has a certain level of humility to
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: attached to it. And you've literally just gotta make decision.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Do I want to be average or good? Or do
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I want to be great. And if you want to
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: be great, seeking out those organizations, those strangers that you
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: talked about, those mentors, those people, those places that you
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: need to be in that will fortify your greatness. Uh,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: that will sustain that self esteem, that will improve that
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: self confidence. Uh, and that will show you the way
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I mean. And and so for me, I have grown
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: to the point then let us focus on those that
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: want to be great, because I think the more of
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: those that we focus on, rather than taking some of
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: our energy for those that are just content with being good.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: If I get enough for Sean McDonald's out there, I
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: know that I got a better chance of inspiring the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: next Rasan McDonald from being good. Degree. And so, you know,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: focusing a lot of those energies on the people that
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: are saying I'm ready, let's go, and hoping that the
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: energy that we create with that that small nucleus permeates
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: into the community inspires others to make that leap. No, James,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: you know, we've we've seen how Mr George Floyd incident,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: how this America has that's changed. My wife and I
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: we we we look at television and we see diversity
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: casting in these movies and streaming. And we know four
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: or five years ago that was a white person, not
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: a black person. I know that for a fact five
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: years ago that there was rather tear down cheerios because
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: the little white kid woke up the black dad. Okay.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: So I know changes are happening, and changes have to happen.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: And what I've noticed is how the corporate As an entrepreneur,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: you know, you have the diversity suppliers at these major
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: corporations now and there's a shift now and then you
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: hear the terminology diversity, equity and lusion. Uh d e.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I how can we see these changes? And you've been
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, how can we guide young people or people
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: in the for these people in their sixties, because there
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: you can be sixty years old. You can still start
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: your own business. Don't think you can. Sixties the new forty, okay,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: and so let's make it work. So how do how
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: can we take advantage these shifts? James? And as we
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: close out this this this great interview with you and
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: advise people to contact you over to Russell Center for
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: more advice, more mentorship. You know, make the mistakes we
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: were in the moment, and I don't know how long
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: it's gonna last. There was this great awakening, uh, this
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  Speaker 1: great you know understanding, and this great of course to
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  Speaker 1: be more diverse, to be conclusive. But we can bank
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  Speaker 1: on that last thing forever. Our real goal right now
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  Speaker 1: is how do we take this moment and make a
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  Speaker 1: true movement. How do we grow the businesses that can
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  Speaker 1: hire our own people. We don't need the initiatives because
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  Speaker 1: we have a company for the people in our company,
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  Speaker 1: I mean people people from our community. I just think
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  Speaker 1: that we have this window in time for those of
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  Speaker 1: us that have the ability to go, for all those
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  Speaker 1: of us that have the ability to actually capitalize on
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to build relationships, to build structures and infrastructures, to
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  Speaker 1: build companies that can hire our people. We need to
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  Speaker 1: buckle up because there is no guaranteed that this level
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness is gonna last for the next decade. And
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  Speaker 1: so if there was ever an urgency for for black thinkers,
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  Speaker 1: black innovators, and black ideas, black business people, black dreamers
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  Speaker 1: to put that dream to work is right now. Because
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  Speaker 1: if we start freting our own infrastruction on companies, on platforms,
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  Speaker 1: our own manufacturers at that point, but then we don't
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  Speaker 1: need another George Florida. Wow, I'm tell m Aimes, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you were the perfect first guest of the year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make this an annual thing. You're gonna always
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  Speaker 1: be my first guest of the year because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you know so you know it's really you know,
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  Speaker 1: we were met and we have not reconnected, but the
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  Speaker 1: life gives you these different paths, and now we're reconnecting
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  Speaker 1: in the format. I feel it's gonna help thousands, especially
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  Speaker 1: thousands in the city of Atlanta, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: continue to drive people over to the Russell Center. But
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  Speaker 1: more important, I want to tell everybody mentorship is where
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  Speaker 1: you find it. You don't have to be anybody. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it can be a stranger who recognizes that you have
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  Speaker 1: a gift and a sense of purpose to change somebody
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  Speaker 1: else's life. Keep doing that, James, thank you for coming
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  Speaker 1: on money. Make a conversation. Brother, brother, I am you
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  Speaker 1: keep that's what you are. And uh, thank you. We
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  Speaker 1: talked to and tell out everybody at Russell I'm coming by. Man,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna eat and then gonna go over. I'm gonna eat.
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  Speaker 1: I even across streeting and THENNA walk on over. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: next time you have passed, I got your brother. Okay,
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