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Robert Townsend, Donatella Arpaia, Sonia Jackson-Myles & Megan Eddings · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest is celebrating her birthday today. You know
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Speaker 1: shout out. My next test is a motivator, speaker, corporate consultant,
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Speaker 1: and executive coach. She is the double a CP Image
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Speaker 1: Award nominated author for the book The Sister Accord fifty
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Speaker 1: one Way Is to Love Your Sister. She's taking a
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Speaker 1: powerful global platform on sisterhood to now focus on exploring
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Speaker 1: positive relationship within families with her new book, fifty one
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Speaker 1: Way Is to Love Your Children. Please welcome to Money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversation the founder, President, and CEO of The Accord Group,
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Speaker 1: Sonya Jackson Miles. Hello, good morning, good morning, good morning
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Speaker 1: the Sorority girl. You know family mother too. Straight out
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. Birthday girl. I'm not carefully from to day
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Speaker 1: and you look beautiful. You look beautiful. And those kids
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Speaker 1: are about to catch you. Two boys about to catch
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Speaker 1: you now, so you better you start sprinting because they're
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Speaker 1: about to catch you. Thank you so much for having
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Speaker 1: man absolutely thank you for being on my show. You're
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Speaker 1: an amazing person of our relationship ship started several years
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Speaker 1: ago at the Disney Dreamers Academy with Stephen Deep harved.
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Speaker 1: I found it with the Disney and fly one hundred
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Speaker 1: kids uh from around the country. Um, boys and girls.
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Speaker 1: Unlike the Boys Camp, we had which was only featuring
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Speaker 1: uh males. This camp feature boys and girls and parents
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Speaker 1: could live in the body, father could be in the household,
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Speaker 1: and it was really an enlightening experience. Uh tell the
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Speaker 1: people why you did that. The Disney Dreamers Academy, Oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, it was. You know. When I first met you,
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Speaker 1: I was an executive at Procter and Gamble, and you know,
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Speaker 1: just wanted to ensure that I was spending time doing
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Speaker 1: the things that brought me joy. As executives and leaders,
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Speaker 1: a lot of times we don't even know what brings
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Speaker 1: us joy, and so I wanted to make sure that
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Speaker 1: I could participate in a program that really aligned with
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Speaker 1: my core values. And when um the leaders over at
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Speaker 1: us and said, hey, we have something that we think
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Speaker 1: the Sister Accord would sit very nicely into, I said,
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Speaker 1: sign me up. You know I heard about what you
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Speaker 1: all were doing. It was such and it is such
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Speaker 1: an amazing program that's transforming the lives of the parents
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Speaker 1: and the students. Before we get into the fIF doing
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Speaker 1: Ways to Love your your children. And I want to
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Speaker 1: tell everybody, this book is like a you know, it's
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Speaker 1: a it's a you're watching online. I'm holding it up. Um,
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Speaker 1: this book is like a it should be on my table.
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Speaker 1: So this is a request. I need a bigger version
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Speaker 1: of this and I'm willing to pay whatever that charges
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Speaker 1: because the pictures are amazing. And I hope you're posting
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Speaker 1: some of the motivational quote of the culture along with
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Speaker 1: the photos online and if you do, let me let
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Speaker 1: me know so I can share them on my Facebook
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Speaker 1: page because they're they're so personalble, they're so incredible, and
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Speaker 1: they're so inspiring. And that's and it's all tied to
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Speaker 1: your children. I have a one year daughter. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't care what I'm doing, what i'm business meeting,
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Speaker 1: I'm in. When she calls, I pick up the phone
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Speaker 1: because I know she had a point in her life
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Speaker 1: where I don't want, you know, her making a decision
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Speaker 1: because the reason she calls. She called me for a reason,
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Speaker 1: gonna call love your dad. But there's a reason she's
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Speaker 1: calling and what you need, baby girl. And and so
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Speaker 1: that's why I really love this book that you put
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Speaker 1: out because I know children are the key. And when
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Speaker 1: I see situations with children that don't go well, you know,
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Speaker 1: where children are being abused, I always say they have
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Speaker 1: to be here. These children that ask to be here,
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Speaker 1: they are blank slates. All they know is instant love.
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Speaker 1: All they want is to to get what you can
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Speaker 1: teach them. And they hold onto those values and those
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Speaker 1: those those moments that you share with them emotionally. And
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Speaker 1: that's why love is real big on her book, Ladies
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Speaker 1: and Gentlemen's real bigness. It's like Valentine's love on this
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Speaker 1: book is So before we get into a book, let's
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Speaker 1: talk a little about employee engagement that you do in
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Speaker 1: your consultancy, which is the sister of card uh d
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Speaker 1: b A, the core group UH Employment and Employment, Employee
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Speaker 1: engagement and team building. Yes, well there are statistics. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna blow you away with this one. You probably
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Speaker 1: already know this, but um, you know research shows that
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Speaker 1: up to eighty five to nine percent of in U
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Speaker 1: and the US of employees in a company are disengaged.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear? Did you hear that? Absolutely? And I
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Speaker 1: believe that. I mean, think about why you can't meet
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Speaker 1: your profitability targets, think about why your efficiency isn't there
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Speaker 1: and your preductivity if employees are disengaged. And so I
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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time with companies helping them understand
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Speaker 1: the kinds of cultures uh that they can establish. To
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Speaker 1: really engage employees, have people understand what their role is
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Speaker 1: in the company very clearly, because I believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: a lot of times people aren't really clear about their roles.
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Speaker 1: But give people some opportunities and some tools to really
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Speaker 1: bring their gifts to the table be engaged. Loneliness in
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Speaker 1: the workplace is real, particularly if you think differently uh
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Speaker 1: than your colleagues or your boss, or you you look differently,
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Speaker 1: it can be a very lonely place. And so employee
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Speaker 1: engagement just is about getting these cultures right so that
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Speaker 1: everyone can win and everyone can be engaged, all hands
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Speaker 1: on deck. And then team building. I spend a lot
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Speaker 1: of time with my great leaders have great relationship series
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Speaker 1: where I am talking thing about how teams can come
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Speaker 1: together across the company. It was interesting that you were
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Speaker 1: talking about disengagement. I had a very talented entrepreneur on
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Speaker 1: the phone on the show, came in my studio live.
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Speaker 1: He has a book called leader Farming. For his book
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Speaker 1: is about trying to cultivate uh you know, play on
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Speaker 1: words farming, farming leaves developing leaders, and in that book
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Speaker 1: he was saying, and he's a franchise owner for a
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Speaker 1: Chick fil A, and he was talking about he was
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Speaker 1: talking about the millennial population because their whole that's what
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Speaker 1: this whole book is about, trying to engage this population,
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Speaker 1: because this is a population that says, you will work
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Speaker 1: for me. Okay, I'm an entrepreneur, you will work for me.
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Speaker 1: So they really struggle with this whole loyalty and how
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Speaker 1: long I'm gonna be here, how long I should be
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Speaker 1: there at this job because this is not a long term.
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Speaker 1: I'm not here at this location to get the gold Watch.
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Speaker 1: I'm here at you like sustain a level of income,
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Speaker 1: get my real goal and put active and get out.
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Speaker 1: And he said that that the struggle is trying to
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Speaker 1: get that that that mentality that I'm only your short term,
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Speaker 1: maybe through college, maybe just six months. I get my
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Speaker 1: feet right and I get this app up and rolling,
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Speaker 1: get this whole idea and digital that I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: put out that rolling because social media has changed that flatform,
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Speaker 1: that platform of engage me because you have people out
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Speaker 1: there who have developed their own brands that you've hired,
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Speaker 1: and they feel that their brand is really more important
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Speaker 1: than you hiring them. Absolutely, absolutely, And I spent a
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Speaker 1: lot of time with millennials because you know I told
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Speaker 1: you on twenty one, right, and so I you know,
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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with them. I understand them,
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Speaker 1: and I wish that I had my generation had a
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Speaker 1: little more of of how they think about things, because
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Speaker 1: we just accepted stuff. It could have been raggedy and ratchet,
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Speaker 1: but we still except absolutely. Now tell us about that.
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Speaker 1: I like that, So tell us about the fifty one
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Speaker 1: Ways to Love your children. Why did you write this book? Well,
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Speaker 1: it's interesting. So um one of my programs that has
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Speaker 1: been incorporated into Disney Dreams Academy is my dream Walking program,
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Speaker 1: and dream Walking is my attempt at solving helping people
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Speaker 1: overcome dream phobia. Now, I created the word dream phobia,
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Speaker 1: So the definition is, um, you know, the ridiculous and
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Speaker 1: absurd fear of playing full out in life because you
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Speaker 1: are more concerned with stayings small to please other people,
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Speaker 1: or staying or playing it's safe to please yourself. I
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Speaker 1: was playing it safe kind of girl for many years,
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Speaker 1: and so I wanted to help people understand the process
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Speaker 1: of how I brought my dream to life, taking my
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Speaker 1: dream from my heart, to my head, to my hands,
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Speaker 1: and to my feet. And so dream walking, um was,
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Speaker 1: you know, a big part of it. It is a
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Speaker 1: big part of Disney Dreaming Academy and for my consult
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Speaker 1: and see, and I wanted to really address the things
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Speaker 1: that are dream killers, that get in the way of
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Speaker 1: people really operating in what they've been called and created
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Speaker 1: to do. And that's um what fifty one Way to
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Speaker 1: Love Your Children is all about a lot of the
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Speaker 1: stuff that we carry as adults happened to us in childhood.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of times parents don't even realize it.
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Speaker 1: It's what they say and what they don't say, it's
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Speaker 1: what they do and what they don't do. And so
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Speaker 1: I wanted to start a conversation about how we must
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Speaker 1: invest in love and take care of our children, because
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Speaker 1: in so many instances, if you turn on the news,
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Speaker 1: you'll see the opposite happening. Our children are dying at
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Speaker 1: the hands of their parents, are being abused, neglected, And
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Speaker 1: so I wanted to use my voice and my platform
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Speaker 1: to really talk about what we were going to do
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Speaker 1: about it. And it's important that you did it. Here's
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Speaker 1: a statement that I love about the book, or throughout
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Speaker 1: the book is First of all, the photos are so
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Speaker 1: emotionally charge. I told you when I saw you in person,
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Speaker 1: I would okay, I love this book. And then you
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Speaker 1: have little sections where you can just write notes. And
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Speaker 1: that's the part she's talking about when you get memories.
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Speaker 1: What were you doing when you're we're a teenager? What
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Speaker 1: do you remember about your childhood? So you can implement
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Speaker 1: these these emotional or these memories into raising your child
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Speaker 1: to day or what things what what? What? What failed you?
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Speaker 1: You fail failed you that you can fix Because I
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Speaker 1: have a statement, always tell people that what you learn
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Speaker 1: in your twenties, I ways tell people you won't know
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Speaker 1: about your life you want to play in your future.
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Speaker 1: I always feel you have to look back in your past.
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Speaker 1: That's a defining moment in your path that allows you
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Speaker 1: to move forward. But if you set up and say
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna figure it out right now, I don't think
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Speaker 1: you can have long term success. So I tell people
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Speaker 1: what you learn in your twenties, whatever you skill you
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Speaker 1: learning your twenties is what you're gonna be making money
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Speaker 1: with in your forties and fifties. At thirty year thirty
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Speaker 1: year period of growth is by the gaining that experience,
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Speaker 1: so you can't make money. So when I read this
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Speaker 1: book and I was able to see those little chapters
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Speaker 1: of those markings, this same hey write something about what
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Speaker 1: happened to you, I went, she got it, she understands it.
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Speaker 1: And this this is something I just need a bigger version.
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now. All right, brother, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna you know, I write that check seriously because this
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Speaker 1: book is so beautiful. Because I got this giant book
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Speaker 1: with Will Smith, all these celebrities. These are everyday people
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Speaker 1: and when you walk into my home, I would love
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Speaker 1: to be to put a big version of this book
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Speaker 1: next to it because these are everyday people talking about
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Speaker 1: loving their children, experiencing their lifestyle in a very relatable fashion.
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Speaker 1: Tell us where we where we get the book, tell
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Speaker 1: us about the work, and get the bookfore we get
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Speaker 1: out of here. So right now, um we you can
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Speaker 1: because that was the podcast that I turned to. Read
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Speaker 1: So I said, all right, it's not just me. So
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Speaker 1: the first thing I tell everybody is you're not alone.
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Speaker 1: where you are. But I tell everyone, we all have fear.
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Speaker 1: You're not alone. So just kind of push that fear
19:36
Speaker 1: aside and just start taking small steps each day. You
19:39
Speaker 1: don't have to quit your job overnight, but just kind
19:41
Speaker 1: of keep taking small steps and eventually it becomes easier
19:44
Speaker 1: and the fear kind of dissipates. Now with that being
19:48
Speaker 1: saying miss enthusiastic, miss miss you know positivity, because my
19:56
Speaker 1: store was very similar. Okay. I worked at I b M,
20:00
Speaker 1: my degrees in mathematics and very successful. People felt I
20:04
Speaker 1: was right on right where I was supposed to be.
20:06
Speaker 1: And I told him, hey, I want to be a comedian.
20:08
Speaker 1: I'm gonna resigned to be a comedian. I'm gonna I'm gonna.
20:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk away from this world that everybody told
20:13
Speaker 1: me I need to be I need to continue in.
20:16
Speaker 1: And when I made the decision, I made the decision
20:18
Speaker 1: one year prior to leaving IBM, and I remember I was,
20:23
Speaker 1: I was, I was crying. I always had tears in
20:26
Speaker 1: my eyes because even though this I knew this was
20:28
Speaker 1: right for me, I didn't really know the future now, IBM.
20:33
Speaker 1: I kind of figured right, go to work every day,
20:35
Speaker 1: five days a week. I was gonna get my vacation time,
20:37
Speaker 1: gonna get my sick days. I had medical benefits when
20:40
Speaker 1: I invested in my stock portfolio. They're mad. So that
20:43
Speaker 1: was pretty clean. That's pretty clean. You know, you can
20:46
Speaker 1: you can understand those rules. But when you say you
20:48
Speaker 1: want to walk away from that to the unknown, do
20:51
Speaker 1: you what do you do with your medical benefits? How
20:53
Speaker 1: do you get that? Okay? I went Cobra, So that
20:56
Speaker 1: called me down. Okay, I had you know, I didn't
20:59
Speaker 1: have to for once and my retirement went away, and so, okay,
21:03
Speaker 1: what does afforded our work week when you're working for yourself?
21:06
Speaker 1: I had to figure that out. That was the key
21:09
Speaker 1: right there. What does a forty hour work week when
21:12
Speaker 1: you're working for yourself? That's where the fear comes in.
21:16
Speaker 1: And that's when I had to establish lanes of discipline
21:19
Speaker 1: for myself where I had just set the same rules
21:22
Speaker 1: that the forty all week jobs set for me. When
21:25
Speaker 1: I worked for the house a week, I got up
21:28
Speaker 1: the same time every day. I made a commitment to
21:31
Speaker 1: be doing something at a scheduled time every day, which
21:34
Speaker 1: I do. And so once I started putting in place,
21:38
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I started moving forward in
21:40
Speaker 1: a more positive and much more controlled environment. Because guess what,
21:44
Speaker 1: I had rules in place about how to be successful
21:48
Speaker 1: and rules in place about how I can extend this
21:51
Speaker 1: opportunity by prop through proper planning. That a lot enabled
21:55
Speaker 1: me to overcome my fear. Megan, Oh yeah, and I
21:59
Speaker 1: shall laughing. I mean to go from a successful career
22:02
Speaker 1: at IBM with a MAS degree to a comedian. I
22:06
Speaker 1: mean that, I'm sure you had fear, And I'm sure
22:08
Speaker 1: some of the people even closest to you in your
22:10
Speaker 1: own life thought you were nuts for doing it. Absolutely absolutely.
22:13
Speaker 1: But you know, but you know, they see me on TV,
22:15
Speaker 1: they see the names and credits. You know, they always
22:17
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna happen. They always knew. But I
22:21
Speaker 1: didn't even know. I'm just letting everybody know. I didn't
22:23
Speaker 1: even know. But I knew that working where I was
22:26
Speaker 1: at was not gonna was not gonna satisfy me. I
22:29
Speaker 1: could see the end of the road. I could see
22:30
Speaker 1: I could see that darkness, and I could see the
22:33
Speaker 1: light coming at the end of the tunnel, so I
22:35
Speaker 1: knew I could see it. When I became an entertainer,
22:38
Speaker 1: there was no light at the end of the tunnel tunnel,
22:40
Speaker 1: but there was also no point of saying I should
22:43
Speaker 1: go in any direction. So for the first time of
22:45
Speaker 1: my life, I said, you know, I'm gonna take advantage
22:47
Speaker 1: of every talent that God gave me with no restrictions.
22:51
Speaker 1: And that's what when you're working for the our job,
22:54
Speaker 1: it will restrict you because you're only gonna do what
22:57
Speaker 1: they allow you to do. So that's what locks people in.
23:01
Speaker 1: That's why entrepreneurship is so big nowadays, because it's designed
23:05
Speaker 1: to you being able to do what you feel comfortable doing.
23:08
Speaker 1: I look at people all the time and tell them,
23:10
Speaker 1: if you're afraid being successful, and my number one quote
23:14
Speaker 1: is stop reading success stories and start writing your own
23:18
Speaker 1: success story. That's very important to understand. And so when
23:22
Speaker 1: I when I wanted you to come on the show,
23:24
Speaker 1: I just felt your story was was every day. It
23:27
Speaker 1: was an everyday story in your life. How you grew
23:30
Speaker 1: up was an everyday story. Just an ordinary family, just
23:34
Speaker 1: an ordinary young lady who went to college, got a
23:36
Speaker 1: degree like you supposed to, and you but you wouldn't fearless.
23:40
Speaker 1: You saw an opportunity and used way away from the
23:43
Speaker 1: East coast. You came down here not being afraid to relocate.
23:47
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, when at ultimate ultimate
23:50
Speaker 1: test of what you want to do with your life,
23:53
Speaker 1: you said, you know something, I want to be an entrepreneur.
23:56
Speaker 1: That's why you wrote that book, and that's why you
23:59
Speaker 1: should read that book. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, and
24:04
Speaker 1: you know, and I tell everyone when you've done your
24:05
Speaker 1: own job, you know, number one, what's that quote that
24:08
Speaker 1: someone says, like, you know, entrepreneurs work eighty hours a
24:11
Speaker 1: week for themselves, didn't have to work fourty hours a
24:13
Speaker 1: week for someone else. Um Like, so true, so true.
24:16
Speaker 1: But you know, if you're successful in your day job
24:19
Speaker 1: like you were, you already had the tools, you know
24:22
Speaker 1: to be successful. You just had to tap into new
24:24
Speaker 1: tools to be successful. What kind of different tools? Ish?
24:27
Speaker 1: But you had the hustle because you know it was
24:30
Speaker 1: already in you. Um. But yeah, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs today versus
24:34
Speaker 1: probably I don't know, it's twenty years ago, but I'm
24:36
Speaker 1: not gonna say it's easier. But there definitely are easier things.
24:39
Speaker 1: The one thing I've found glaringly when I started this journey,
24:43
Speaker 1: or the amount of people just like yourself for Sean
24:46
Speaker 1: that want to help. I mean, people truly want to help.
24:49
Speaker 1: So it's important to surround yourself with that positive, you know,
24:53
Speaker 1: positive community, people that have done it before you and
24:55
Speaker 1: I you'll be amazed that you're not you know, you're
24:57
Speaker 1: not in it alone. If you just kind of put
24:59
Speaker 1: yourself out there. Yeah, you're sending a question that kind
25:02
Speaker 1: of you know, I asked by a guest always sending
25:04
Speaker 1: questions and statements their life for me to ask them.
25:06
Speaker 1: One that stood. If you said your belief is that
25:09
Speaker 1: one person can change the world, talk to me, Megan,
25:14
Speaker 1: oh Man, I say that all the time. I mean
25:18
Speaker 1: we've all read stories, you know, etcetera, etcetera about you know,
25:21
Speaker 1: one person literally who's changed the world. But I believe
25:24
Speaker 1: one person can't because everyone has everyone has something or
25:28
Speaker 1: multiple things that they are you know, passionate about and
25:32
Speaker 1: my my personal thing, and I believe everyone needs to
25:35
Speaker 1: have or not needs to have, but it should have
25:37
Speaker 1: the legacy they want to leave because we are all
25:40
Speaker 1: going to meet our maker someday and when someone standing
25:43
Speaker 1: up there giving your eulogy, you know, what is the
25:46
Speaker 1: one thing that you want people to say about you?
25:48
Speaker 1: What is the legacy you want to leave? And kind
25:51
Speaker 1: of once you know that legacy, every decision for the
25:53
Speaker 1: rest of your life should be pretty easy. And the
25:55
Speaker 1: legacy that I personally want to leave is to bring
25:58
Speaker 1: joy and positivity and to touch people's lives in a
26:00
Speaker 1: positive way. Um. You know, because of the way our
26:03
Speaker 1: world is going. You know, it's a lot of negativity
26:06
Speaker 1: being shown on the media, a lot of things from reading,
26:08
Speaker 1: a lot of things happening that that shouldn't be happening.
26:11
Speaker 1: So people need a dose of positivity in their life
26:14
Speaker 1: and let them know that someone has their back day
26:16
Speaker 1: and day out. And through Excel Lifestyle and the mission
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26:24
Speaker 1: You are so good, Megan Eden, You're good. You're really good. Uh.
26:28
Speaker 1: She's from Rhode Island, made her way through the Virginia
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26:40
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Speaker 1: going in the business because they have a talent. They
28:06
Speaker 1: have the talent, but they don't have the terms. And
28:09
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Speaker 1: Am the noon on BIZ eleven Nighty My next guest.
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Speaker 1: A lot to say about this young man. It's a comedian, actor, director,
28:37
Speaker 1: television producer, filmmaker. He rose to fame with the critically
28:41
Speaker 1: acclaimed film Hollywood Shuffle, a satire depicting the trials and
28:45
Speaker 1: tribulations of black actors in Hollywood. He is a new
28:49
Speaker 1: documentary film out, making The Five Heartbeats, about his journey
28:53
Speaker 1: to making the blockbuster iconic film The Five Heartbeats. Please
28:57
Speaker 1: welcome the Money Making Conversation. The incredible Robert hounsing, thank
29:01
Speaker 1: you so much for having me. Boys, just go. You
29:09
Speaker 1: just gotta know how much I love him whenever you know,
29:11
Speaker 1: when you you know how important he is to my career.
29:14
Speaker 1: This is the first time and every time I see him,
29:16
Speaker 1: always hugging and saying, man, you know, you're the reason
29:19
Speaker 1: I'm where I'm at. He stopping to show stop it.
29:22
Speaker 1: And I don't laugh this off now because he knows.
29:25
Speaker 1: Because what happened was in the eighteen when I was
29:27
Speaker 1: finished doing Steve showed me and the Boars and ABC.
29:30
Speaker 1: I was. I didn't have no agency. I was just
29:32
Speaker 1: out there, just basically wild it out in the l a,
29:35
Speaker 1: you know, as a comedian, and he hired me on
29:37
Speaker 1: his very popular w B show The Parenthood as a writer.
29:41
Speaker 1: If he does not hire me as a writer, I
29:43
Speaker 1: have no foothold in the writing business. Because he knows
29:45
Speaker 1: how difficulty is for African American writers to even especially
29:49
Speaker 1: back then, an opportune to the right. And I always
29:52
Speaker 1: look at him and I thank him. I said, man,
29:54
Speaker 1: thank you, brother, because I wouldn't be interviewing him right
29:57
Speaker 1: now because that's his that's his m old. He gives
30:00
Speaker 1: people an opportunity and that's why he's had such longevity
30:04
Speaker 1: and such positivity in this business. And that's why I'm
30:07
Speaker 1: happy to have you on my show man just to
30:09
Speaker 1: help you out. Well, Brank you so much. I just
30:12
Speaker 1: want to get this word out about the documentary. But but,
30:15
Speaker 1: but here's the thing, you know, because you know, you
30:18
Speaker 1: are the architect of designing and creating and building on
30:22
Speaker 1: stuff from a business perspective on the way down. So
30:25
Speaker 1: my whole thing is, uh, this is my new documentary.
30:29
Speaker 1: It's about the Five Heard Beats. People you know, over
30:32
Speaker 1: the years love the Five Heartbeats. Over two hundred million
30:35
Speaker 1: clips have been shared worldwide from this film, and so
30:39
Speaker 1: people ask me all the time about doing a sequel
30:41
Speaker 1: or something like that. I could never figure it out.
30:44
Speaker 1: But sometimes the stories behind the scenes are more you know,
30:49
Speaker 1: exciting sometimes in the movie. And this documentary is a
30:52
Speaker 1: roller coaster ridd about how I made The Five Heart Beats.
30:55
Speaker 1: I saw close to ten thousand actors and open calls
30:59
Speaker 1: to to to the side on the four guys that
31:02
Speaker 1: would be in the film. It is my journey with
31:05
Speaker 1: the Temptations. Because a lot of people don't know that,
31:08
Speaker 1: you know, initially they think it's the Dells, they think
31:10
Speaker 1: it's the Temptations. In the documentary, I set the record straight.
31:14
Speaker 1: But it's a roller coaster ride. And it's like having
31:16
Speaker 1: a front row seat on the set watching this movie
31:20
Speaker 1: be made. And so I'm really proud of it. And
31:22
Speaker 1: it's one night only Fathom Events. If they want to
31:24
Speaker 1: get tickets, they can google Robert Townson dot com making
31:27
Speaker 1: the five heart beats. But I'm just excited to talk
31:29
Speaker 1: to you, so thank thank you again for having me. Okay,
31:32
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a lot though. You can you
31:34
Speaker 1: can slow down the energy because you get off the air.
31:36
Speaker 1: I got you for a minute. I got my man,
31:38
Speaker 1: Robert Townson. So I know you've been doing a lot
31:40
Speaker 1: of quick I can hear that little quick tone. Thank you. No, no, man,
31:46
Speaker 1: you're not going anywhere with my friends because we got
31:48
Speaker 1: to talk about this and got more detail. But also
31:51
Speaker 1: that career man, that that it's really influenced so many
31:53
Speaker 1: people today. But I want to let you know about
31:55
Speaker 1: what Sean McDonald's doing right now for Robert Hownson. You know,
31:58
Speaker 1: I got the link and I got the social media
32:02
Speaker 1: post is on all my money making conversation platforms, which
32:05
Speaker 1: is Facebook, which is Twitter, which is Instagram, is going
32:09
Speaker 1: up on all my That's the only that's already updated today.
32:13
Speaker 1: Also will be updated on my ra Sean McDonald fan Club,
32:17
Speaker 1: which is on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, you know. And
32:21
Speaker 1: so with that being said, that's I got almost a
32:23
Speaker 1: million followers. So believe me, my friend, I'm doing my part.
32:27
Speaker 1: And guess what I'm putting boost. I'm buying some boost
32:30
Speaker 1: on these posts so we can just get it out
32:32
Speaker 1: even further, because you don't sometimes they just sit there
32:34
Speaker 1: put that boost on that. Brother. You know, I love it.
32:38
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it because that's what we're
32:40
Speaker 1: supposed to do, Robert. That's what we're supposed to do. Man,
32:42
Speaker 1: we suppose your friend, you know. And and and that's
32:44
Speaker 1: what social media is a big game changer when we're
32:47
Speaker 1: out there trying to get our brands out there, and
32:50
Speaker 1: the only way it's gonna happen. So when they called
32:52
Speaker 1: me and say hey, Robert Towns and uh want to know,
32:55
Speaker 1: you know, people trying to get the different media out let,
32:57
Speaker 1: Let's say, come on, really, Robert Townson, Okay, we booting
33:01
Speaker 1: somebody off the Monday Show, were booting somebody off the money.
33:06
Speaker 1: Thank you, my brother, I love you. And so so
33:10
Speaker 1: let's talk about this, Robert, you know, about the five
33:12
Speaker 1: hearty because my program direct he went, that's my favorite
33:15
Speaker 1: movie and my favorite movie, and so why is it
33:18
Speaker 1: and then both of them project manager raised finger that's
33:22
Speaker 1: my favorite movie too. Uh. You know, I think people
33:26
Speaker 1: love The Five Heart Beats because there's some some themes
33:28
Speaker 1: in that film that I think resonate with a lot
33:31
Speaker 1: of people. You know, it's the rags the richest story.
33:34
Speaker 1: It's friendship, it's forgiveness, and at the end of the day,
33:38
Speaker 1: it's family. The five guys are at that you know,
33:40
Speaker 1: barbecue together and they're still friends and they're still with
33:43
Speaker 1: their women after all those years, and so I think
33:46
Speaker 1: it really gives people hope. And you know, and Eddie
33:50
Speaker 1: King Jr. His story, you know, to go from you know,
33:53
Speaker 1: being a drug addict and kicked out of the group
33:55
Speaker 1: to finding God and getting his salvation. I think all
33:58
Speaker 1: of those things resonate with the audience. I know, he
34:01
Speaker 1: got kicked out because you know, he would looking good
34:03
Speaker 1: and had all the women, he had the vos, all
34:05
Speaker 1: the women. That's my favorite character because it wasn't it
34:09
Speaker 1: wasn't too far away from the real dude. Well, you know, here,
34:13
Speaker 1: here's the thing in the in the documentary, I talked
34:15
Speaker 1: about meeting uh, David Ruffin and and talk about you know,
34:19
Speaker 1: how David Ruffin really influenced me. And I met with him.
34:22
Speaker 1: And when I met with him, he was strong out
34:24
Speaker 1: And I told Keenan. I said, Keena, because Keenan co
34:26
Speaker 1: wrote the script with me. I said to Keenan, and
34:28
Speaker 1: I said, Man, we gotta help this brother. Let's still
34:31
Speaker 1: make him technical advisor, but we're gonna get him in
34:33
Speaker 1: rehab and we're gonna you know, we're gonna pay for it.
34:35
Speaker 1: And then you know, it didn't happen because he passed away,
34:38
Speaker 1: but it was just you know. So so the documentary
34:41
Speaker 1: is really the journey, you know, because it's my love
34:44
Speaker 1: of Motown and Detroit and I'm from Chicago, but it's
34:47
Speaker 1: all that great music and so you know, it's really
34:51
Speaker 1: I think it's a beautiful journey of an artist, you know.
34:53
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's ever been a documentary about
34:55
Speaker 1: a film a black filmmaker who tells his story and
34:58
Speaker 1: tells and tells it honest and tells it with this
35:00
Speaker 1: level of passion. So you got this idea and you're
35:03
Speaker 1: in five hundred theaters, how do you get your idea
35:06
Speaker 1: to five hundred theaters and then only one particular night
35:09
Speaker 1: that which means it's event. This is an event tonight, everybody,
35:12
Speaker 1: this is an event. Your your part of something special,
35:15
Speaker 1: is something unique. How did that come about? Well, you
35:18
Speaker 1: know the thing for me, you know, I know your
35:20
Speaker 1: show is about business and being an entrepreneur, and I
35:24
Speaker 1: understood that there is an audience out there that loves
35:26
Speaker 1: the five hard beats. So I went to Fathom Events
35:29
Speaker 1: and I pitched my vision because they haven't done a
35:32
Speaker 1: whole lot of events, you know, surrounding content for African Americans,
35:36
Speaker 1: so this was the first time and I just kind
35:39
Speaker 1: of looked at a lane and said, hey, I think
35:42
Speaker 1: there's a big audience for this, and you know, I
35:45
Speaker 1: want to see and test the frequency. I think we
35:47
Speaker 1: can make some money on it, and um they I
35:50
Speaker 1: did the numbers and broke down my power point how
35:53
Speaker 1: many markets, how many times it plays on television? The
35:57
Speaker 1: Twitter followers, the Instagram followers and people, they heard the
36:01
Speaker 1: pitch and they said, wow, we've never done anything like this,
36:05
Speaker 1: and then they saw the documentary and then once I
36:07
Speaker 1: posted one time, I think we got close to a
36:10
Speaker 1: half a million people that were engaged with one post.
36:14
Speaker 1: So then it's just been growing and growing and growing
36:16
Speaker 1: and just getting the word out. So I think as
36:19
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, you know, you gotta find a lane. You
36:22
Speaker 1: gotta look at the lane, and then you know, you
36:25
Speaker 1: take a piece of content like the Five Heart Beats
36:27
Speaker 1: and say there is still an audience for this film,
36:30
Speaker 1: and and it all just kind of lined up. They
36:32
Speaker 1: saw the vision, and uh, I think the documentary is
36:35
Speaker 1: really good and I'm excited for people to see that. Robert,
36:38
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. You amazed me, man um Uh.
36:42
Speaker 1: When I look at my life, You've played so many
36:44
Speaker 1: important roles before I knew you. Because here's something really interesting.
36:47
Speaker 1: When the Hollywood Shuffle came out, I was doing radio
36:50
Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas, and he had assistant who I still
36:54
Speaker 1: love to date, Charlie Jordan. She was on my show
36:57
Speaker 1: and I contacted Charlie Jordan. I said, this movie. I
36:59
Speaker 1: love this movie. What can I do to help promote
37:02
Speaker 1: this movie? Because you just struck a nerve. You know,
37:05
Speaker 1: you struck a nerve back then, you're struck in a
37:07
Speaker 1: nerve today. How you because you you know how to
37:10
Speaker 1: connect emotionally with your fan base. That's a gift. Talk
37:15
Speaker 1: to me about that. You know, I love what I
37:20
Speaker 1: do and I love my craft, and so when people
37:23
Speaker 1: look at something that I've created, I've gone through at
37:26
Speaker 1: least rewrites on any if you if you look at
37:30
Speaker 1: the Five Heartbeats or Meteor Man, or working on stuff
37:35
Speaker 1: like Baps with halle Berry or Holiday Hardwood being Rains
37:38
Speaker 1: and Alfrey Woodard, I really take time to really develop
37:42
Speaker 1: the material and make sure it's right. And I won't
37:46
Speaker 1: stop until I find I get perfection. So you know,
37:49
Speaker 1: I I believe in. I believe to me in life
37:52
Speaker 1: and business and anything in life, You've got to go
37:54
Speaker 1: to the extra mile. So I think when people see
37:56
Speaker 1: anything I create, they know I've gone the extra mile. Okay,
38:01
Speaker 1: it's the years media man, Yes, sir, I saw this movie.
38:05
Speaker 1: Been a fan, been a super fan this movie. Why
38:09
Speaker 1: isn't this show Disney. Why isn't this show now? Why
38:13
Speaker 1: isn't this show on Amazon Prime? On Netflix? Please help
38:18
Speaker 1: me with this show. I love this show. Medior Man. Well,
38:22
Speaker 1: you see you speak in life right now, so it's
38:24
Speaker 1: probably gonna happen, you know, because you don't. Here's the thing,
38:27
Speaker 1: I never have repeated myself everything I've ever created, was
38:30
Speaker 1: unique and different. This is the first time, with this
38:32
Speaker 1: documentary on the Five Heartbeats, that I'm revisiting any kind
38:36
Speaker 1: of body of work that I've created. So I think that, um,
38:41
Speaker 1: you know, I may do a reboot of of media
38:43
Speaker 1: many There's so many ideas in my brain that I'm
38:46
Speaker 1: trying to get out, you know that I'm getting now,
38:48
Speaker 1: not trying, but getting now. And I think that right
38:51
Speaker 1: now that that's kind of where my head is at,
38:53
Speaker 1: just creating new art. Well, I'm Jesus um just the
38:56
Speaker 1: first black superhero family the media. And if you haven't so,
39:00
Speaker 1: if you have not seen this movie, please watch this movie.
39:03
Speaker 1: It's very entertaining, still very super relevant today. It was
39:07
Speaker 1: a black Panther before Black Panther. Let's gonna be real,
39:09
Speaker 1: It's gonna be real. And and there's a lot of
39:12
Speaker 1: famous people in this a lot of famous vossovers in there,
39:15
Speaker 1: Chris Tucker name one. It was voicing a lot of
39:18
Speaker 1: things and that very open that I've seen the movie
39:20
Speaker 1: in years, and I still remember how impactful that movie is.
39:23
Speaker 1: Because three movies this young man has done, I say,
39:26
Speaker 1: young Robert Townson. Hollywood Shuffle made an impact over Richard's life. Wanted.
39:31
Speaker 1: I wanted he He made me want to be a
39:33
Speaker 1: promoter because I was trying to find him so I
39:35
Speaker 1: could promote his product. Okay, then he comes back with
39:38
Speaker 1: media Man. When I was writing on the show, that's
39:40
Speaker 1: when he came out, you know what I'm saying. And
39:41
Speaker 1: so I was like, wow, this is so you know,
39:45
Speaker 1: this is a good storytelling because it was so relatable
39:49
Speaker 1: about an actual family. There were superheroes that but but
39:53
Speaker 1: they had these skills, but they still have to deal
39:55
Speaker 1: with the family issues, which is kind of like black
39:57
Speaker 1: lightning there today. I'm just letting you know this. Sh
39:59
Speaker 1: he done it, and everybody's kind of like replicating what
40:01
Speaker 1: he's done. This show now it's really black lightning. Okay,
40:05
Speaker 1: media Man, Well that you're talking about up up in
40:08
Speaker 1: a way, Audsity, up up in a way. I had
40:10
Speaker 1: the superhero family. Medior Man was me with my powers
40:14
Speaker 1: by myself. That's right, that's right, that's right. That's I apologize.
40:19
Speaker 1: I apologize, No, no, all good, all good, But but
40:22
Speaker 1: you know what they got me getting ready to go
40:24
Speaker 1: on television. I might have to walk out of here.
40:27
Speaker 1: I just gotta give you heads up because I'm doing
40:29
Speaker 1: kt l A. Okay, okay, okay, cool. When you don't worry,
40:32
Speaker 1: just talk to me about your director secment. Episode of
40:35
Speaker 1: Love Is and Love Is for Oprah's Network and we
40:38
Speaker 1: just got picked up for another season. It's created by
40:42
Speaker 1: the the amazing Mara brock a Kill and uh, I
40:46
Speaker 1: just had It'll make you fall in love. If you
40:48
Speaker 1: haven't seen the show, it's it's about her, her relationship
40:51
Speaker 1: with her husband, and it's it's freaking amazing. And then, uh,
40:55
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I'm reoccurring doing a reoccurring
40:57
Speaker 1: character on Black Lightning and I'm directing of the episodes.
41:01
Speaker 1: So your instincts are right again, Rashaan. So it's it's
41:04
Speaker 1: like lovely lovely. So you're you're recently given the Icon
41:08
Speaker 1: Awards Association in America. Icon Talk talked to us about
41:11
Speaker 1: that before you get out of here. Well, you know
41:14
Speaker 1: the thing is that, uh, this organization, you know, was
41:18
Speaker 1: honoring different people they honored, you know, I just felt
41:21
Speaker 1: really honored because, you know, the highest because Harry Belafonte
41:25
Speaker 1: was honored at the same time with me, So it
41:28
Speaker 1: was just you know, my body of work. I shared
41:32
Speaker 1: the evening with them. But I just felt like I
41:34
Speaker 1: still got a lot of work to do. Like when
41:35
Speaker 1: you say young man, I still feel it feel really young.
41:38
Speaker 1: Like Black Black Enterprise gave me an award and I
41:41
Speaker 1: kind of a ward the other you know, like a
41:43
Speaker 1: few months back with John Lewis, and I was like,
41:46
Speaker 1: I can't be in the room with John Lewis. This
41:48
Speaker 1: man is still fighting the good fight. So I gotta
41:50
Speaker 1: step up on my game and do a lot of work.
41:52
Speaker 1: But but I just want to say thank you for
41:54
Speaker 1: taking all this time. I don't mean the rush they
41:56
Speaker 1: got running me into the studio now, but I just
41:58
Speaker 1: want to say to today. I just wanna let the
42:02
Speaker 1: fans know, if you're a fan of The Five Hard Beats,
42:05
Speaker 1: go to the theaters today one night only. It is
42:08
Speaker 1: making the Five Heard Beats and you won't be disappointed.
42:11
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful journey with a filmmaker and how I
42:14
Speaker 1: made that movie, the ups and downs, and it will
42:16
Speaker 1: inspire you. And if you're just an entrepreneur, because I
42:19
Speaker 1: know that's what this show is about, you'll see, you know,
42:22
Speaker 1: a muscle being used like never before to create something
42:25
Speaker 1: out of nothing. So thank you, thank you so much
42:28
Speaker 1: for having me. My brother, I will talk with you.
42:29
Speaker 1: Let me keep promoting. Do your think everybody high. We'll
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44:31
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Speaker 1: everybody know I love food. Everybody know I love food.
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Speaker 1: My next guest is an iron chef judge. She's a
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Speaker 1: celebrity chef, Today's Show contributor, restaurant here, cookbook author, proud wife,
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Speaker 1: making conversation to founder a Provo pizza bar, Donna Teller
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Speaker 1: or Paya Hello, Hello, how you doing down? To tell?
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Speaker 1: That's a beautiful name. By the way, that's just I'm
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Speaker 1: just telling that that name, you know, something like my
45:13
Speaker 1: name is Roshan. I think I got a pretty cool name.
45:16
Speaker 1: But Donna Tella, Donna Teller though, Donna, that that's a name.
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Speaker 1: Bo They got some money associated with that name. Success
45:23
Speaker 1: had to go with that name. Yeah, growing up everyone
45:29
Speaker 1: makes fun of me. But now now I'm laughing at that.
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Speaker 1: Go on now because that name was associated with money. See,
45:34
Speaker 1: if I know you young, I would have told you, girl,
45:37
Speaker 1: you're gonna make some money with that name. The people
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Speaker 1: there about rihardshan Rishaw McDonald man that name. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: I'll be in New York this weekend, Labor Day weekend,
45:51
Speaker 1: and you got this restaurant. We're gonna talk about a lot.
45:53
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about a lot because I want to
45:54
Speaker 1: talk about that transition you made as a lawyer, because
45:57
Speaker 1: you know where I go. I go through these bios
45:59
Speaker 1: on Money Made Conversation, and I got you for two breaks,
46:02
Speaker 1: which I think it's very fortunate because I know you're
46:03
Speaker 1: very busy, and I always talk about these transitional moments,
46:07
Speaker 1: how you live a balance life, and and and You've
46:10
Speaker 1: done so many unique things with your life that I
46:12
Speaker 1: gotta get the story out. But first, Rashan McDonald's gonna
46:15
Speaker 1: be I'm ribbing in h New York on US Sunday morning,
46:20
Speaker 1: so I gotta go check in. You know wantlet you're
46:21
Speaker 1: check in the hotel of the three pm. Okay, So
46:24
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw my luggage to the to the Beilman,
46:27
Speaker 1: and at noontime, I'm gonna get me some pizza. Let
46:33
Speaker 1: me tell Let me tell you some about Rashan McDonald.
46:36
Speaker 1: I love Hamburgers. I can't get enough of Hamburger. I mean,
46:39
Speaker 1: I cannot get enough of hamburg and I cannot get
46:42
Speaker 1: enough of pizza. Lord have mercy. I just love me
46:46
Speaker 1: some pizza now now, I was happy about getting you
46:49
Speaker 1: on the show because your show, because you're an artisan.
46:53
Speaker 1: When he comes, that's a that's a certain style of
46:55
Speaker 1: pizza that you do. That's correct. This is this is
46:59
Speaker 1: not your every pizza. My father was born in Naples,
47:03
Speaker 1: which is the birthplace of pizza, and I studied with
47:06
Speaker 1: master chefs in Naples on how to make pizza. And
47:08
Speaker 1: I've created a very unique type of pizza with um
47:13
Speaker 1: ancient grains, and we do a slow rise, so we
47:16
Speaker 1: let our dough rise over three days, so we use
47:19
Speaker 1: very very little used which makes a very light and
47:21
Speaker 1: digestible dough. And we use premium toppings, nothing but the preservatives,
47:27
Speaker 1: fresh tomato sauce, fresh the best mozzarella from Italy Galbani.
47:32
Speaker 1: So we really take pride in in our pizza and
47:36
Speaker 1: most importantly, it is delicious. That's important. The brand of
47:42
Speaker 1: social media play in your personal life and your professional
47:45
Speaker 1: life and getting the word about all about your brand.
47:47
Speaker 1: How important to social media? Yeah, I mean it's it's
47:50
Speaker 1: it's full important. It's how the young people communicate to
47:55
Speaker 1: all and we help to keep keep up with it.
47:57
Speaker 1: I started. I mean, how I got into such TV
48:00
Speaker 1: is because when I first opened the restaurant. I didn't
48:03
Speaker 1: know anyone I had. I didn't have the same soft
48:06
Speaker 1: fighting now a well being budget, and night was just
48:08
Speaker 1: all gross fRoots and know how to get the world out.
48:10
Speaker 1: So I started on local TV and then I always
48:14
Speaker 1: was with technology and I was one of the first
48:17
Speaker 1: people in about them to use UM the open table
48:20
Speaker 1: system which is now everywhere, because I didn't think people
48:24
Speaker 1: are actually gonna make reservations where I wanted to. You know,
48:28
Speaker 1: if you came into my restaurant, it's all about personal service.
48:31
Speaker 1: If you have your favorite table and your your favorite meal,
48:35
Speaker 1: and if I make you feel like a million bucks
48:37
Speaker 1: from you come in, I know I'm I'm gonna get
48:39
Speaker 1: you and have a customer for life. So on social
48:42
Speaker 1: media hit two, it's so important everyone from in the
48:45
Speaker 1: case to social media, the bad and the ugly. You know,
48:48
Speaker 1: everyone thinks the critic too, and a lot of people
48:50
Speaker 1: don't know about when they come and they they criticize
48:54
Speaker 1: things that they don't know about. UM. But I think
48:58
Speaker 1: it's I think it's great. Uh, it's it's the wave
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Speaker 1: of the future. It's not going anywhere. That's how we
49:02
Speaker 1: communicate today. UM. It's really interesting on top of it.
49:07
Speaker 1: It's really interesting when I I love who you are.
49:10
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you are a decision maker
49:13
Speaker 1: in your personal life even though people are telling you
49:15
Speaker 1: you should do this. That's a mature decision that you
49:18
Speaker 1: made at twenty six years of age. But now you
49:20
Speaker 1: have such a great balance life. You're a wonderful husband,
49:22
Speaker 1: your your mother. How does that balanced life play a
49:25
Speaker 1: part in your life with all these yes, sure, I
49:30
Speaker 1: I agree. You know. Um, money is not my god,
49:35
Speaker 1: it's it's it's money. I think it's important that balance life.
49:40
Speaker 1: It's so importanting and actually I'm feeling heavy because I'm
49:43
Speaker 1: pregnant with twins as we speak. So, um, I met
49:48
Speaker 1: my husband later in life. He's a he's a whole.
49:52
Speaker 1: But it's it's really really important to choose that balance
49:58
Speaker 1: in your life. And if you it's it's only work
50:01
Speaker 1: all the time. And for me, it was worked for many,
50:03
Speaker 1: many years, but I still managed to work. But I've
50:06
Speaker 1: changed the definition. I used to have high end dining
50:10
Speaker 1: restaurants and I moved into upscale quick service because I
50:14
Speaker 1: wanted to scale and create a platform but still have
50:18
Speaker 1: time to be home with my family. So that was
50:20
Speaker 1: a decision based on my personal life too, because I
50:25
Speaker 1: want to Yeah, you can't. You can't mess up being
50:27
Speaker 1: a parent, you know, you can't. You don't have a
50:29
Speaker 1: duel over there with that. So, um, I wanted to.
50:34
Speaker 1: I wanted to strike the balance. But I'm still a
50:37
Speaker 1: woman that needs to work and that's driven and creative,
50:41
Speaker 1: and I think that's important for my son to see
50:43
Speaker 1: as well. So I think it's yeah, you gotta just
50:47
Speaker 1: gotta keep that in mind constantly. Um, and I'm able
50:51
Speaker 1: to um turn it on and off bee that business
50:54
Speaker 1: person and then trying to be the mom and and
50:57
Speaker 1: try and you have to be just very highly organ efficient.
51:02
Speaker 1: And you know you're about to go from tweening, you
51:08
Speaker 1: got to go about to go from mom the super mom.
51:10
Speaker 1: Now you know that. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
51:14
Speaker 1: it's happening. I'm still in shocked. Well, well, I think
51:18
Speaker 1: it happens because you know, first of all, God plays
51:21
Speaker 1: is rolling all this and you want it, you know,
51:24
Speaker 1: you you you know, like you said, you can't do
51:26
Speaker 1: a do over, and and that's important that you said. Like,
51:29
Speaker 1: I have a daughter, she's twenty one, and I know that,
51:32
Speaker 1: you know, when she called me and said Dad, I
51:34
Speaker 1: love you, Dad. Could you help me? Dad? What about this?
51:37
Speaker 1: That is so cool to me? When you when you
51:40
Speaker 1: get to that stage, you're gonna really appreciate it's the best.
51:43
Speaker 1: You know, it's the best that you know. All you
51:46
Speaker 1: want in life is like your dad did for you.
51:48
Speaker 1: He just wanted your life to be better than his life.
51:50
Speaker 1: He was an immigrant, Okay. And then you've done those
51:53
Speaker 1: things you've done, You've exceeded his expectation. Even like you said,
51:55
Speaker 1: your son his son or restaurant on it. When you
51:58
Speaker 1: were sitting down and this, this idea, this is what
52:01
Speaker 1: I want to do in my life came about. And
52:03
Speaker 1: so when I when I think about all these things,
52:04
Speaker 1: and I think the fact that you said, Richard, look,
52:07
Speaker 1: I was successful over here, but I didn't needed the balance.
52:09
Speaker 1: So I went to a different style of restaurants of
52:13
Speaker 1: serving serving your community in the food world because it
52:16
Speaker 1: fits your lifestyle better. And that's what that's what the
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Speaker 1: restaurant a gram Sister station. It fits your lifestyle better.
52:22
Speaker 1: But it's also amazing food and it's healthy food, absolutely food.
52:26
Speaker 1: Because I want to let me just say something right
52:28
Speaker 1: quick through there's a lot of people run way. They
52:30
Speaker 1: hear the word healthy. You know what I'm saying, No, no, no, no, no.
52:34
Speaker 1: Great food done the right way. You know, she's the
52:38
Speaker 1: right way. You know the dough. You know when I
52:42
Speaker 1: stay healthy, I'm saying, like, for example, give you an
52:45
Speaker 1: example mastarella. People don't realize Americans look for the whitest
52:49
Speaker 1: mazzarella out there. That means there's constans in it. That's
52:53
Speaker 1: what it means when you I'm talking about healthy. Just
52:56
Speaker 1: start getting the best chemicals and knowing the difference. And
53:04
Speaker 1: and so for me, I researched and I used the
53:06
Speaker 1: best products, whether it's from Italy or New York. I
53:10
Speaker 1: give the people the best product and they know it.
53:13
Speaker 1: Tastes that are all at junk folding and preservatives that
53:18
Speaker 1: are cheaper, and then you feel like gross afterwards. Honestly,
53:23
Speaker 1: it's delicious. Just tell everybody when they can find it.
53:26
Speaker 1: And then I'm a wrapping up with Roshan McDonald. Stop
53:28
Speaker 1: tell everybody, Donna Tellizzarro. The pizza bar on the lower
53:34
Speaker 1: level Concourse in the corner. It's right across from Magnolia
53:37
Speaker 1: Bakery and ground from Prato. Now ra Sean McDonald will
53:41
Speaker 1: be there this Sunday. Labor day weekend and you'll see
53:45
Speaker 1: an African American man. Please don't come near him because
53:48
Speaker 1: it's table with food. The food. Okay, don't mess with
53:50
Speaker 1: me taking my picture wanting to go. Are you that?
53:53
Speaker 1: Are you that baking guy? No, don't do that. Please
53:56
Speaker 1: don't do that because with Sean McDonald's eating with Sean
53:58
Speaker 1: McDonald gonna have his meat lover's pizza because it would
54:01
Speaker 1: be a square because she told me it comes to
54:02
Speaker 1: square and the meat them and the saut is gonna
54:04
Speaker 1: be to the edge because artisanal pizzas normally don't do that,
54:07
Speaker 1: but at provar Pizza Ball they do it like that.
54:10
Speaker 1: Then Roshan gonna tell wait for your excuse me, give
54:13
Speaker 1: me a strong bowlie I wanted to go, and then
54:16
Speaker 1: I want to cannoli for my dessert, and I'm gonna
54:18
Speaker 1: get those meatball because it's been recommended by the owner.
54:20
Speaker 1: That's what we do with Provo Pizza Ball. First left,
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Speaker 1: lower level, Grand Simple Station. Rashan will be there and
54:26
Speaker 1: you can be there every day down to tell her
54:28
Speaker 1: congratulations on your twins, congratulations on your life, appreciate your
54:32
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