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Freeway Ricky Ross Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: heart or text I Heeart to five hundred, five hundred
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  Speaker 1: met this man, I'm gonna bring it up again. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I was UM producing and UH launched the Steve Harvard
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  Speaker 1: Mentoring Camp and Dallas, Texas right outside of Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: UH we would UH bring a hundred boars, a hundred
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  Speaker 1: plus boys clomb up to the camp in Dallas in
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  Speaker 1: a three day weekend where they would uh it was
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  Speaker 1: single boys who were households would laid by single moms.
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  Speaker 1: And he came in. He spoke that weekend's first time
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  Speaker 1: I got to introduction to this young man and we
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  Speaker 1: said down, I don't know if he remembers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's running into a lot of people, but I've been
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  Speaker 1: I've been getting Texas talking about his new career, motivational learning,
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  Speaker 1: how to get your financial gain right. Let just get
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  Speaker 1: these Texas on the regular basis. I told my Steff,
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  Speaker 1: I say, hey, I'm getting these texts from freeway Rick
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  Speaker 1: Ross about the motivational I said, I've seen this guys
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  Speaker 1: in twelve. Can we get him on the show. So
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  Speaker 1: my next guest is a prison reform activist, motivational speaker,
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  Speaker 1: and entrepreneur. He served a total twenty years behind bars,
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  Speaker 1: where six of the inmates are functionally irlliterate. He only
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  Speaker 1: served fourteen years of a life sentence. Today he speaks
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  Speaker 1: about the power of literacy wherever he goes. Please work
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  Speaker 1: with the money making conversation Freeway Rick Ross. I know
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  Speaker 1: you don't remember it, Freeway. You know, I know you
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  Speaker 1: don't remember it, but man, I tell you it was
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  Speaker 1: very enlightened when I met you, because, uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: you you were still finding yourself, you know, uh in
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  Speaker 1: regard to what was your path if I'm speaking, but
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  Speaker 1: you you remember absolutely I remember because you know you
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  Speaker 1: was angry. Uh you know you know and uh you
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  Speaker 1: was uh and I won't I won't say confused, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, like I said, that was like
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  Speaker 1: roughly three years from your from you being released from prison,
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  Speaker 1: and you were there to talk to these young men
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  Speaker 1: and you know, let them know the options there are.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of options out there, but the
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  Speaker 1: one option you're trying to get them to understand is
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  Speaker 1: that not your option. Correct. And I was going through
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff too. You know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw the documentary on Netflix, but my documentary
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix right now, because I'm one documentary on Netflix. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know I saw that you're talking a freeway cracking
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  Speaker 1: the system. Yeah, I saw. I saw. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit because I saw it, uh so
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  Speaker 1: twice because you know, when you run into people and
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  Speaker 1: you meet people, you know, I got to see I.
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  Speaker 1: I got to see the real person and you I
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  Speaker 1: got to see you, uh talk about some stuff where
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  Speaker 1: you were trying to take your life. And then I
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  Speaker 1: see this documentary because when I saw it, it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the I wouldn't say and you can
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  Speaker 1: stop me. It was like four four parts to me.
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  Speaker 1: It was the early part, you know, when you was
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  Speaker 1: trying to be attended. It was just like a typical
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  Speaker 1: teenager going through life. You know, you was a very
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  Speaker 1: talented tennis player. And then when you try to go
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  Speaker 1: to the next day in life, you know, you had
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  Speaker 1: to admit that you were illiterate. You could read, and
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  Speaker 1: that changed the course of your life. And then and
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  Speaker 1: then the streatment and then the street part. Then the
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  Speaker 1: second part was the you know, how do I how
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  Speaker 1: do I make money? And that's when the that's when
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  Speaker 1: the drug dealing start. And then the third part is
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  Speaker 1: when you really became a big time drug dealer. And
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  Speaker 1: then the fourth part is like when you got out
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  Speaker 1: of prison, what do I do? What do I? What
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  Speaker 1: do I do with my life now? And and the
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say the the, the the the
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  Speaker 1: the lifestyle consequences, it's what you live in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: part on and and and I thought it very powerful.
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  Speaker 1: What do you what is your take on it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you you you hit it right on the head,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and and that lad part, like you
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  Speaker 1: were saying, I have to deal with how do you
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  Speaker 1: deal with not having the resources that you once had?
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  Speaker 1: And and I don't know if you saw the documentary.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you saw the documentary, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a part in there where they came and they
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  Speaker 1: put me and my mom out of her house. Absolutely
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  Speaker 1: absolutely that was fraud, mortgage fraud. I was also dealing
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  Speaker 1: with homelessness, sir. You know, I mean pretty much what
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  Speaker 1: most of Black America is going through right now. You know, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Black America is having a really really hard time of
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  Speaker 1: uh quoting with everything that's going on now. When I
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  Speaker 1: bring this up to say that, you know, um, you
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  Speaker 1: know you you we talked about you know, Narcos is
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  Speaker 1: a very popular ship series on Netflix, and look at
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  Speaker 1: your lifestyle and none of it ever ends positive, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, And that's that's something we all need to
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  Speaker 1: get clear about that. What happens to the money? You know,
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  Speaker 1: because you you talk about making almost million dollars a
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  Speaker 1: day the government stay you generated was six million dollars
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  Speaker 1: of uh with your drug drug sales. What happens to
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  Speaker 1: the money? Where did he go? What? What? You know?
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  Speaker 1: You know what Mom always says, a fool and his
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  Speaker 1: money was so on the part and uh and she
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  Speaker 1: was telling the true literally you know, how to it was.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to experience that even though I had
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  Speaker 1: learned how to make money selling drugs, I didn't learn
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  Speaker 1: how to keep the money and and and and that's
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  Speaker 1: something that that we all have to deal with as
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  Speaker 1: as a race and as a society. You know, how
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  Speaker 1: do we keep the money that we make at any level,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's drug dealing or whether it's just you work
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  Speaker 1: at a regular job or yourn entrepreneur, basketball players, basketball players, boxers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we see them all, uh get money and
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  Speaker 1: then and then they wind up broke. Uh. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason for that is because you know, money don't come
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  Speaker 1: with instructions. And I that's why I started Money Making Conference, Rick,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: in my lifestyle, in entertainment especially, you can get here
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  Speaker 1: with a large summer money. You know, then also you
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  Speaker 1: can go down and you can hit with another laws
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  Speaker 1: cut the money. What do you do when you get
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  Speaker 1: that large sum of money to keep your career moving along?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you floss? You know? Do you just shine
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  Speaker 1: like you're doing good? Like when you're spending money you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be spending. And a lot of times that's what
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  Speaker 1: happens in life. And so when I talk to individuals
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  Speaker 1: where in your situation unique because you you you made
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  Speaker 1: your money illegally, but when you when you did it,
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  Speaker 1: you you spent it. And then by not planning quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote planning, but when you might not have it, you're
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  Speaker 1: a zero. And that consequences of going from first class
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  Speaker 1: the bottom class is tremendously saddening. And that's the guy
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  Speaker 1: I met and Steve Harvard mentary cap back in twelve. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's we're talking about that a little bit, so I
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  Speaker 1: can just let everybody know this is this is an
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  Speaker 1: uplifting interview. By the way, I just needed to be
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  Speaker 1: able to let everybody know your backstory so we can
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  Speaker 1: know where we're trying to do on this interview you
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that what you did that camp,
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  Speaker 1: I believe you change some lives. I believe you stop
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  Speaker 1: some people from making stupid mistakes at a very young age. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think I think I'm changing lives right
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  Speaker 1: now every single day. You know, I'm in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I'll be speaking to day here in New York,
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  Speaker 1: UH to a private uh business group. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: amazing that I'm getting an opportunity now. I just left Baltimore, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think four days ago, and I spoke to a
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  Speaker 1: group of men who and women who their business average
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  Speaker 1: two people, two hundred employees. So it was pretty big, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the big, pretty big company. And to see that I'm
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  Speaker 1: able to go in and speak to groups of that
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  Speaker 1: magnitude and to touch them and to explain to them. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the things that I'm trying to explain to uh,
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  Speaker 1: the everyday person walking the street is that we can
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  Speaker 1: uh grow if we do the right things. Okay, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to a rake. But Rick, when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to catch us up on Cornell what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. Norm See. I saw that song. I saw
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  Speaker 1: it that you know, my god, Yeah, because because you know,
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  Speaker 1: Cornell was really special in that and because he got it,
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  Speaker 1: he caught on real fast that he was doing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He got that fast and uh, and he's doing Cornell
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  Speaker 1: was one of the the lucky ones. Cornell I never went
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  Speaker 1: to president. Yeah, and we were right and we talked
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  Speaker 1: more with Freeway Rick Ross about his future and what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing to change lives after a devastating career as
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  Speaker 1: a drug dealer. Hi. Just for Sean McDonald listening to
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  Speaker 1: gotta give the title of renowned drug dealer Freeway Rick Ross,
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  Speaker 1: who harfersted millions as an unknown participant of Central Intelligence
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  Speaker 1: when you see and US Drug Enforcement Agency operatives who
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  Speaker 1: provided him with limited amounts of cocaine. It was said
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  Speaker 1: that his suppliers used the profits to pay for c
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  Speaker 1: I a spawn contra war against Nick Arwood leftist governments
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  Speaker 1: in the eighteen eighties. I saw that I watched the
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  Speaker 1: trial or the position given by all of the North,
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  Speaker 1: and I went, that guy gonna get off because he
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  Speaker 1: was sitting up there with that suit, don't looking like
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  Speaker 1: he was trying to save the country. And you found
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  Speaker 1: yourself in the midst of all that. And I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know it, did you, Freeway? I didn't. I didn't,
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  Speaker 1: But you know what to trying let's let's he could
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  Speaker 1: have really believed and he was trying to say the country.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes we get ourselves twisted and and and
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  Speaker 1: thinking that we can believe that we're doing right even
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  Speaker 1: though we're doing wrong. Now, a lot of people to
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  Speaker 1: say that you're doing a lot of wrong selling dry
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  Speaker 1: ups in the community. At the first one to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: but but but but we we make those kind of
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  Speaker 1: mistakes as human being. Absolutely so. Uh. You know the
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  Speaker 1: first thing I thought saw this serious, like I gotta
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  Speaker 1: I gotta find out what they're doing. And now Cornell,
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  Speaker 1: you know, good looking guy, former football player man I said,
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  Speaker 1: Cornell could have been like on any movie. He could
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  Speaker 1: have been an actor, good looking guy, got hurt football
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  Speaker 1: player and then he got into the drug game with you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Cornell is running one of the biggest anti gang uh
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  Speaker 1: organizations in the country. He's running a company called Unity One. Uh. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He was working with Pete Carroll from from US when
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll was at USC. They they started it and uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing pretty good right now. Okay, cool. Then you
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  Speaker 1: have Norm who works with the Jim Brown a mayor
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  Speaker 1: I CAM program, which is a really good program out
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  Speaker 1: of l A. What is he into Norman's Norman is
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  Speaker 1: doing as well? Uh. Norman is in the cannabis industry,
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  Speaker 1: the legal cannabis industry, and in California, you know it's legal,
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  Speaker 1: it's legal in Canty now. So so he's been too that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: who else did you say, Ali, Ali spen seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half in jail. Now, Ali was the coolest looking
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  Speaker 1: one in the documentary and in shades are said Ali
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  Speaker 1: still hanging in there? What is he was my partner
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  Speaker 1: We started getting out together, so he was he was
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  Speaker 1: my my actual partner. We started together. Uh he's selling
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  Speaker 1: cars now cool? And then and then also you had uh,
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  Speaker 1: you're your woman down with you Maryland who ally also
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  Speaker 1: had a daughter with her. So what did she into them?
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  Speaker 1: Rylands driving buses for uh, for the m p A
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  Speaker 1: for the bus system, city buses. So let me ask
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  Speaker 1: you this. So this special comes out, the special comes
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  Speaker 1: out freeway Cracking the System? Does it? Did it affect
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  Speaker 1: their lives? Negatively or positively? That that special came out?
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  Speaker 1: It's about you, but all of them were affected by it.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about that. Well, some of the history came
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  Speaker 1: out that people didn't really know about them because you know,
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  Speaker 1: they were really young when when they got into the
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  Speaker 1: business and they didn't go they didn't go to jail.
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  Speaker 1: They wasn't in the newspapers. Uh, So nobody really knew
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  Speaker 1: that background until intil the documentary came out. And someone
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  Speaker 1: was a little was a little worried about their background, meaning,
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  Speaker 1: but I assured them that, uh, what we were gonna
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  Speaker 1: be doing was gonna be educating so many millions of
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  Speaker 1: people that uh, that it was worth taking the risk. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I got. That that's that's important to say
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  Speaker 1: that because, like I said, because you can do this
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  Speaker 1: and it can be like self promoting, self hype. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the man, and I was really because you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that that that came across
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  Speaker 1: that this is this is a lifestyle at the highest
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  Speaker 1: level that you participated in and it was wrong. And
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  Speaker 1: now what are you doing now when you when you're
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  Speaker 1: going to like you did with Steve Harrid's mentory camp,
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  Speaker 1: you know, speaking to these young people because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that, hey, man, you did it and you made money.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're living in consequences. What what is the most
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  Speaker 1: what are the key strategy of the key terms that
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  Speaker 1: you try to get out when you speak to young people. Well,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most important things is to be a
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  Speaker 1: critical thinker. I like that I was critical thinking, but
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  Speaker 1: only to a certain extent. You know, I stopped you.
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  Speaker 1: I critically thought enough to figure out how to get
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  Speaker 1: into the drug business and make some money. But I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't thinking critically enough to know that I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be getting a life sentence without the postulary co role
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  Speaker 1: and that I was taking a chance on spending the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my life in prisons. Um, now, let's just
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about that though. Let's talk about that because
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  Speaker 1: life sentence. Your mom fell out in court. The other
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  Speaker 1: boy he just got seven and a half years, and
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  Speaker 1: you're walking around after getting a life sentence. This is
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  Speaker 1: important because I always tell people education is the key.
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  Speaker 1: It's the separating line between what you're doing do something
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  Speaker 1: in life, or you're not gonna do something in life.
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  Speaker 1: You educated yourself in jail and that was the turning
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  Speaker 1: point in your life, which also led to you getting
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  Speaker 1: out of jail. Correct. Correct, And it means to what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing right now, you know with what Without me
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  Speaker 1: learning how to read and educating myself, I never would
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  Speaker 1: have found it issue that eventually got me out of prison,
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  Speaker 1: and I never would have educated myself to to where
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  Speaker 1: I am now. I don't have a college degree nor
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  Speaker 1: a high school the puma, but I read over three
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  Speaker 1: hundred books. So what what what I say is that
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  Speaker 1: I have the skills to do the job, but without
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  Speaker 1: the degree. But you have people listening to you. That's
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  Speaker 1: more important, and that's important. That's why, that's why I
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  Speaker 1: have you on my show Money Making Conversation. You know,
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  Speaker 1: college campuses will hear this because I know what I'm doing,
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  Speaker 1: so you can you can have a degree and not
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  Speaker 1: know what you do. You know a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: they go to school and they go to school like
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  Speaker 1: I went to school. They just go to class and
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  Speaker 1: participate in class, but they don't learn the lessons. And
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  Speaker 1: what I found out now is that we have to
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  Speaker 1: learn the lessons and that the lessons is the most invaluable,
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  Speaker 1: the most valuable things. It's not the degree. Degree is
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  Speaker 1: not really valuable if you don't know what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: because there's only a matter of time before before people
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  Speaker 1: figure you out and find out that that you're not
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  Speaker 1: who you say, right right. I always tell people your
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  Speaker 1: resume that there's a truth resume and there's a hype resume.
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  Speaker 1: The hype resume. They're actually gonna find out the truth
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  Speaker 1: about that hype resume. The truth resume, it will stand
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  Speaker 1: its ground. Now, you want to talk about how to
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  Speaker 1: build wealth, financial wealth, That was a question that was
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  Speaker 1: submitted as part of the things I should ask you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that. How do you build for natural wealth? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the most important things is that
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  Speaker 1: you have to learn what it is that you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing you have to constantly look to improve
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  Speaker 1: your ability to to make money. That means every every
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  Speaker 1: single day, you have to improve yourself become better. It's
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  Speaker 1: like an athlete. If if you're athlete and and you
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  Speaker 1: don't make the lead, and the first thing I would
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  Speaker 1: do is go and start doing push ups. I will
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  Speaker 1: start running more, I would start exercising boards. Well, in business,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: if you don't make the cut, then you have to
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  Speaker 1: study harder. You have to learn more marketing skills. You
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  Speaker 1: have to find out what your competition is doing. Basically
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  Speaker 1: the same skill that I shoot the sales drugs. I'm
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  Speaker 1: now you think to to to to do my entrepreneur stuff,
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to tell you about some of
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  Speaker 1: the dreams I've been having. It if I people would
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  Speaker 1: think I'm crazy. No no, no, no no no. That's
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  Speaker 1: why You're on this show because you're not crazy. Because
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  Speaker 1: because I'm telling you it's true. Because I tell people
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Is that is that I come from
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  Speaker 1: fearth ward. I come from that that that life I
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  Speaker 1: just you know, I had the fortunate ability to teachers
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  Speaker 1: kept me straight, you know, they told me go to class,
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  Speaker 1: and so I went to I went to class, and
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  Speaker 1: I went to college, and people in college telling me
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  Speaker 1: I'm special and telling I got a math degree, and
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  Speaker 1: then I got then I gotta started working for IBM.
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  Speaker 1: So I know there's always that farking the road. And
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  Speaker 1: I always know that decisions are made and guided by
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  Speaker 1: people who are pushing you, either negatively or positively. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: And and in my case, positivity warn't out over negativity
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  Speaker 1: because in the end people underhear me very clear. To
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  Speaker 1: be successful in a positive lane is always harder. It's
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  Speaker 1: always hard, but in the end the success ratio will
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of fire. If you try to go easy,
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  Speaker 1: then guess what, it's fast. They're gonna come get you.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna come get you, and the consequences can determine
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  Speaker 1: your life. Really easy. It ain't really easy either. They
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  Speaker 1: think it easy. But if you want to be if
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  Speaker 1: you want to be where I was, it's a tough.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough way to go, that's the truth. Just
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  Speaker 1: spoke though, So again I'm hype. I just reality. You spoke. Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I would love to to to to
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  Speaker 1: to do more and we have. You have to invite
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  Speaker 1: me back on the show. But I'm here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on somebody else's time, right, I'm gonna tell you
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: some Rick looking at her. I would just let you
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: know this about yourself. Is that uh you know the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: fact that I'm getting texts about you on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going on the regular basis, let me know about
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: your brand. You're doing some smart things. I want to
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: invite you back on the show because I want to.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I want everybody understand we do whatever. Man, I like,
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  Speaker 1: I met you know Rick, check this out. I went
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  Speaker 1: and found you, Rick, I went and found you. Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So so no, no that I want you young man, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: But I also want to tell your story because I
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  Speaker 1: want to educate the people. Man. Uh, it's amazing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the success that I'm having right now, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmed and I'm in a space with where I feel
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  Speaker 1: so like so relieved. You know, It's like this is
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: what you've been looking for. All your life, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to share it with more people. But
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I had already made a schedule to be here in
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  Speaker 1: New York, and and and I got folk guts standing around. Hey, man, Hey,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: get out of here. Man. I want to thank you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk again sooner. I appreciate you taking the time.
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  Speaker 1: Get with my manager set up. He got a managing that,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Rick Ross, gotta managing that, all right, brother, You stay strong, man.
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