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Kellita Smith, Nancy Flake Johnson, Megan Eddings & Rashaun Williams · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: guest is an award winning actress who was born in Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: and Lord knows, that's been four years of Chicago, so
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  Speaker 1: I know about Chicago and was raised in Oakland, California.
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  Speaker 1: Been there many times or were participating in the Oakland
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  Speaker 1: I could make black people laugh. So I had to
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  Speaker 1: go to Oakland and show everybody I can make black
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  Speaker 1: people laugh. Then they put me on Death Comedy Jam.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen her born in uh starting shows like Martin
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  Speaker 1: Living Single, first time My Man was on Sister Sister.
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  Speaker 1: I was a writer producer on that show, then the
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Fox Show. I the co executive producer and writer
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  Speaker 1: on that show. She is one of Hollywood's most talented
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  Speaker 1: and versatile actresses with groundbreaking comedic performances. Are starting in
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  Speaker 1: In the cut, please welcome to money making Conversations. My
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  Speaker 1: good friend hadn't saw a long time, which means I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talked to her in a long time. Kalita Smith,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. That's because I'm out here making money. There
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  Speaker 1: you go, I love Come on now, see that's a
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  Speaker 1: good actress. See they listened, They listened, and they react. Kalita,
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  Speaker 1: you are, you are. I'm a fan because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what people are my favorite, right
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  Speaker 1: you know people can say that. Okay, even before I
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  Speaker 1: knew her first of all, when she came on the set,
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  Speaker 1: when I first met on sister, sister, just a pro.
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  Speaker 1: Just come out to do her things. She works, and
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  Speaker 1: that's all you can ask for somebody, because first of all,
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  Speaker 1: they all but you knew right then there was something
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  Speaker 1: extra because people come through. I fortunately be blessed working
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  Speaker 1: with people like Gabriel Union, Kim Woodley, you know, toward
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  Speaker 1: top Henston. All of them have that gift. And she
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  Speaker 1: has that gift because I always say she's photogenic. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Lord knows, Lord knows who show I could take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pictures. I gotta I gotta pose a different angles, Kalita, Look,
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  Speaker 1: make it work for me. You know we do too.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then on the Jamie Foxx Show, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, its success has always been a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: In her career, awards have come our way in her career,
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  Speaker 1: and today she's on the show to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: show that is filled with a lot of people that
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  Speaker 1: I know, right, you know, it almost feels like a
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  Speaker 1: Parker Show reunion. Then my boy from a smart guy,
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  Speaker 1: so my life has been filled with and work with
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  Speaker 1: talented people. Tell us about your role on the end
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  Speaker 1: the cut, and then I'm gonna start, you know, happening
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  Speaker 1: out of what I know about the show because your
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  Speaker 1: boy been you gave me my job exactly. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: I mean listening in this conversation. All we're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: is just talk about people we know. So long story,
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  Speaker 1: long story, short sound indefinite. Uh bent. We hit me
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  Speaker 1: up and said, you know, uh Kalita's this. We're into
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  Speaker 1: our second season here we go to our second season
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  Speaker 1: in the cutting, can you come join us? And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yo, be yeah, but you know I'm out
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  Speaker 1: here in the apocalypse, so you can we can We
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  Speaker 1: scheduled this and he was like, yeah, I'm working around
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  Speaker 1: your schedule and I was like, you got it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: there And I was like all right, uh once again,
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  Speaker 1: who's on it? And then he said, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: Drrian Wilson, John Marshall Jones, Kenny Austin, Lord Hayes. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what words Listen, I'm there, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: So I get to play awesome character name and show
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  Speaker 1: and um she is the owner of the hair salon,
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  Speaker 1: which is um uh. Drian Wilson's character, Jay Weaver, is
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  Speaker 1: the proprietor of of a strip mall plaza. He happens
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  Speaker 1: to own the barbershop and the hair salon, and um,
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  Speaker 1: I get to work with some wonderful people. Um this
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  Speaker 1: season he well, last season we got married, and so
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  Speaker 1: this season we're showing black love and what it means
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  Speaker 1: you actually try to enjoy ourselves and balance out some
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  Speaker 1: of those things that we haven't worked out as people
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  Speaker 1: and come together as proprietors of um a business and
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  Speaker 1: watch ourselves grow into laughter, love and just we're just
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  Speaker 1: actually having a ball. That's what we're doing. Let me
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  Speaker 1: because we are thirteen episode in like ten days, which
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  Speaker 1: we shoots so fast and we got are we we
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  Speaker 1: can't even we can't even him and hot, but we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta have fun to keep it pushing. Yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: been to the studio and the fact actually when the
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  Speaker 1: last time I was studios, I say, about a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago, you actually were shooting the scene
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  Speaker 1: and I could we we didn't get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: talk because he's out there in Northridge, correct, right, and
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  Speaker 1: so and so I know Bentley as as a good
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  Speaker 1: friend that Bentley created the Modern TV series, also created
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  Speaker 1: the Jamie Fox series. He's wrote a pilot for me
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  Speaker 1: when I was recurring on Jamie five. Absolutely, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because he had a big development deal with one of
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  Speaker 1: brothers at the time. And yeah, my whole thing that
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  Speaker 1: even when she was reading the just just going over
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  Speaker 1: the description, the show is funny. He's just funny. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: of the how I came about and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: but you slipped in that little zombie a populist conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Guard out there fighting of zombie. So recently I bring
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  Speaker 1: was a drama because I can do both. Most of
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  Speaker 1: my accomplishments happens to be in the theater, so um
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  Speaker 1: in doing it, Um, I went and they let me
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  Speaker 1: know that it was um definitely about having to do
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  Speaker 1: um martial arts and fencing, which is something that I
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  Speaker 1: dabbled in or and um it's a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Lambkin, but it's a sense of mine, remember Sean
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  Speaker 1: lamp Absolutely absolutely, So you're saying that you're saying fencing right,
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  Speaker 1: own stunts in this which is probably what made it
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  Speaker 1: um more advantageous for me to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: a Could I say taekwondo? She said, I do hi kwondo.
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  Speaker 1: I took offense to that because she made me feel
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  Speaker 1: League of Greater Atlanta is a civil rights organization first
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do, and so each and every day
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  Speaker 1: headquartered in New York City. Here in Atlanta, we will
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  Speaker 1: of Greater Atlantis is two thousand and eight, and that's
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  Speaker 1: goal to empower the community and empower initiatives that will
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  Speaker 1: make a youth and adults and families in the African
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  Speaker 1: American community deliver a better life. Well, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: when I started in two thousand and eight, it was
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  Speaker 1: the year that Barack Obama was elected to press to
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  Speaker 1: the presidency. UH, and we were in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: what we now know as the Great Recession, and so
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  Speaker 1: I took the helm at a time when the Urban
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  Speaker 1: League and many of our partner organizations were needed. Most
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  Speaker 1: Blacks were disproportionately let go on jobs are small businesses
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  Speaker 1: um UH were definitely suffered without access to capital and markets,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was a challenging time. But the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Barack Obama was in office actually turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be an opportunity for the Urban League of Greater Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and many Urban Leagues across this country to gain access
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  Speaker 1: You know, things changed in oh eight in many many ways.
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  Speaker 1: The technological revolution took place. A lot of the jobs
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  Speaker 1: that black people used to have access to went away.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of black professionals were disproportionately pushed out, and
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  Speaker 1: into those opportunities for the benefit of our families and
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  Speaker 1: say this of the a CP and Urbanly What separates
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  Speaker 1: the conversation between you two. Well, here's what binds us.
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  Speaker 1: What binds us is we we understand as civil rights
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  Speaker 1: organizations how the country works. It works off a system
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  Speaker 1: partners as it relates to voter registration, voter education, voter mobilization,
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  Speaker 1: educating our people that we have to participate in the
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  Speaker 1: process so that we can gain access to opportunities. The
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  Speaker 1: distinction between us is that nub A CPS primary focus
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  Speaker 1: is on justice and civil rights and ensuring that our
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  Speaker 1: people maintain our freedoms. Then they are the champions in
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  Speaker 1: that space. Urbanly complements that work because we focus on
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  Speaker 1: direct service delivery to families to ensure that we support
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  Speaker 1: the fundamentals the ability to earn a living. Everything falls
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: apart Rashan. If you don't have enough income coming into
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: your household, how does the income come. It's either going
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to come through employment or it's going to come through
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: small businesses or business ownership. And so that's one of
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  Speaker 1: our primary focuses is to directly connect with community to
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  Speaker 1: help people earn a living. The sect an important thing
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  Speaker 1: is housing and homeownership and wealth building. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: have a roof over your head for the family to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: be stable, but you can't keep the roof over your
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: head if you don't have household income. So they're interconnected
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  Speaker 1: and related. We want our families to be healthy and strong,
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  Speaker 1: and so we help people access healthcare, mental health, all
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  Speaker 1: the basic things that if you're not healthy, happy and whole,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: you can't be successful at earning and keeping the roof
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: over your head. And then we help create jobs by
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: supporting black people to start and grow businesses. That's how
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: jobs are created in our community. That is how we
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: build wealth. And then, of course our youth. We have
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  Speaker 1: a special focus on older youth at the Urban League
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  Speaker 1: of Greater Atlanta. We start with high school kids to
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  Speaker 1: ensure that they have a solid foundation and graduate from
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  Speaker 1: high school ready for college careers in life. And we
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  Speaker 1: reconnect older youth who have high school diplomas or who
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  Speaker 1: have dropped out but are not on a solid path,
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  Speaker 1: and we embrace them to tap into their talents and
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  Speaker 1: their passion and their purpose. And so that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to help good. Now let's talk. You've broke
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  Speaker 1: down a lot of segments and I'm gonna go through
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  Speaker 1: in detail so we can we can get it. But
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: before we go into that, how does a person become
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a member of the Urban League. Okay, the Urban League
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: has two auxiliaries that are our volunteer corps. We have
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the Urban League Young Professionals their chapters throughout the country.
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  Speaker 1: I get sixty chapters. Anyone under forty years of the
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• 21:54
  Speaker 1: focus on four key things. They focus on supporting our
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  Speaker 1: work at the affiliate to help youth, adults and families.
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  Speaker 1: They serve as mentors, tutors, instructors, volunteers, um you. They
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: focus on professional development. They focus on um uh UM
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  Speaker 1: raise money, filling our gaps, and just being expanding the
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• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I want to break down a couple of areas that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: this is money main conversations and one of the things
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I always talk about it is entrepreneurship. And we talked
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: about entrepreneurship, which in itself is about small business. How
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: does because you know, I have Terry Dennison and on
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: from the SBA and so, and she was able to
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: give me vital information direction for people who are entered
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in general, loans and opportunity to educational scores is down there.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: When comes to the Urban League from an entrepreneurship standpoint,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: what do you have to offer? Okay, we have UM
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: training classes and coaching and so. We have a small
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• 23:42
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• 23:45
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  Speaker 1: they are free and all people have to do is
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  Speaker 1: You get to connect with people that are like you starting,
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  Speaker 1: but meet experts that can build your network at absolutely
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: mis jos ya ya, y'all your own money main conversation. Everybody,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: come on my show, Miss Johnson. Well, we've got thirteen
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: people right now that we've partnered with Amazing Stories Foundation,
• 24:37
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• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Thirteen people are out right now as we speak, working
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: on television and movie sets, gaining experience because we've cracked
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  Speaker 1: people into the money maker think nine billion dollars being
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  Speaker 1: made right here in our backyards, and not enough of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: our people can get in. It's a tight industry. You've
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: got to know people, you've got a network, you gotta
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: have skill set, and so you know, we want to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: open up as many doors as we possibly can. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling I've seen in this conversation the interview you
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: your passion and I believe has developed because you hear
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  Speaker 1: somebody on the or the end of the phone who's
• 25:31
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• 25:39
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• 25:40
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• 25:42
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• 25:47
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• 25:52
  Speaker 1: We partnered with the technical colleges, partner's businesses, we partner
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• 25:58
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• 26:03
  Speaker 1: We can't be divided. We gotta be united. Well, you
• 26:06
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• 26:20
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• 26:28
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  Speaker 1: about the host of Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: a social media influencer. Of his seven hundred thousand plus
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  Speaker 1: social media followers are female. He's a two time Emmy
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  Speaker 1: Award winner, three time n Double A CP Image Award winner,
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  Speaker 1: sitcom writer, stand Up comic, former IBM executive, and has
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  Speaker 1: a degree in mathematics. More importantly, Rashan McDonald will use
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  Speaker 1: his business and celebrity relationships to empower small businesses with
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  Speaker 1: information to succeed. But next year she's on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: She's hyped because I I met her. UH our relationship
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: by two years old. Now I met her. I was
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: hosting at leftoff competition in Houston, Texas several years ago,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and she was one of the contestants and she won
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  Speaker 1: leave ten thousand dollars at the time, and she used
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that ten thousand dollars to be a seed money to
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  Speaker 1: UH start a business. And she is the founder and
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: CEO of a Sale Lifestyle. I have her quotes at
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: my house. When she UH launched on her day, I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: purchased UM several items with a bought more. But she's extended.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: She's building her line because certain things I like to where.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: You know, even though I don't work out all the time,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I work out time I'm tasting about me. I don't
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: think I work out to the level of sweat. I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: do not go outside when I work out. I'm tom sorry, y'all.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I work out an air condition. I do the ceiling
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: fan is a up my head. I do work out.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at me. You go, he's in shape.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: That's all I need from you. You don't need to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: know how much I'm in shape. You need to look
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: at me and go, do you work out? I get
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that question a lot. Do you work out? See? That's
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: all I need. That's all I'm seeking, y'all and my
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: workout plan. Do you work out? And I go? Yeah?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: See she has a fitness apparel with anti stink fabric.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: That's what I wanna talk about this. And I don't
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: get to her anti stink stage. See. Well, if I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: do get there, I'm ready. Though. If I one day,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: y'all see me out that jog and in my yard
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and I'm stinking, I gotta clothes on, I won't be
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: stinking because I got on her clothes. About three and
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: a half years ago, she was tired of throwing where
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: her husband workout closed because they stalk. One day, she
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: threw away his favorite T shirt from college and he
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was not very happy. Been there, Been there, Been there.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: On May twent and four, this year was proclaimed in Houston,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Texas as Megan Eating Eddings Eddings Day and for all
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: of her for philanthropy in Houston. This date coinside with
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: launch of her a Sale Lifestyle please work back to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: money making conversations. The founder and CEO of a Sale Lifestyle,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Megan Eddings, thank you, laughing talking about your non stinky clothes.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: You don't sweat. Of course you're in shape. I mean
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: if if you ain't everything you bake, yeah, you wouldn't
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: look like you were in shape. But clearly you work
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: out too. I'm gonna tell you something. Here's my workout, Megan.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know. Now, I get up
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: at four fifteen every day, right, so about the first
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: five ten minutes, it really me asking why I'm up.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I'm there's a conversation about why am I up? I
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: staggered to the front of the house, you know, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: because I don't put the phone near my bed. Okay,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: it's in another room, so it's it's it's so, it's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: it's telling me. I've learned that technique, you know, do
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: not put any clock anything you can can stop your movement.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: You're moving far away, so I have to get up,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: go into the room, turn it off. It's in front
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: of the mirror. It's always in front of the mere
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: so I look at myself and go, okay, wow, this
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: is what you look like. This cannot walk out to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: do it. This look can not walk out to do it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Make it. I'm just gonna let you know that. Then
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I get down to the gym and I go to
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: turn on the news. By four thirty, by the end,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it's by four thirty. So I've wasted fifteen minutes trying
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to just staggering her. I don't drink coffee. I don't
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: drink anything that motivates me to any stimuli. And so
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: down there, turn on the news to find out about
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the weather because I gotta figure out what I'm gonna wear,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you know. So that's a big part of my day. Maker.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I gotta figure out what I'm gonna wear, you know.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: And then I started, did I start the workout program?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I do like I do stomach crunches. I do like
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: three sets each. That's it. Okay, that's it. Okay, air
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: conditioning room, Okay. Then I do some dips on the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: on the bench. I do three sets twenty each. That's it.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: That's it. I can just room. Then I go to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: another room. Okay, where have my actual equipment? I do
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: three sets of butterflies. That's it. That's it. Okay. Then
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I go to the treadmill ten minutes each ten minutes max.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: That's it. At three point five, that's it. That's it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: There there you go, perfect way to start today. I'm done,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: So anybody else, I walk out of that look in
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the mirror, I'll step on that scale. I walk out
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: in the streets. They go, your shape, I said, yes,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: doing those dips, my friends, I'm doing those depths absolutely.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You know, people feel the back of my ill. Do
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the dip so people can feel the back of my arm.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: They go, that's that's that's the that's the sign right there.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: If anybody trying to fake somebody like you in shape,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: just make sure the back of your arm is in
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: shape and your soul because people always touch you back
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: in your own by accidents. Who you work out here,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. But tell me, my friend, um
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: as life treating you as a as a small business owner?
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yees, small small business owner and esficially since
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: we last talk about, well, you know, I gotta support
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta support you because first of all,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you have a passion. I feel like we've been on
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the journey together. I've seen you after you warned the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. We spoke a little bit, and uh,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: then I brought you on the show and it was
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: still uh, you know, you were working on your patents,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and you start telling me Ra Sean started making these
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: trips to l A. Just started looking at what I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: want to do. You know because certain people that approached
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: you by buying your your your your your patent or design,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you said no. And so when you had the big
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: launch date, I'm on your email system because she she
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: markets very well, and so the big launch date and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I participated in that, and so but I do I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: don't want to start there. I want to start early
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: on so people can hear your journey because you're still
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: develop you're still marking, you're still trying to figure out,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you're still trying to add different up your the variety
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: of choices that people can get tell us about when
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you want it, and uh, the whole patent process. And
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: then we because we have two breaks because I'm gonna
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: bring you back to talk about the actually what's going
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: on right now? Okay, So yeah, yeah, for sure, thank you. Yeah.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: So the patent process that's just been uh, that's been wild.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I mean basically when I started inventing the fabric because
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I was tired of throwing away, you know, my husband's
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: sinky workout clothes. And I majored in chemistry. I saw
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a man, if there's a wheel, there's a way. There's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: gotta be a way to figure out fabric that doesn't think.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: In this day and age, you know when you're sweating,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: whether you're working out or not. I mean, I live
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas, so if you just walk outside, you're
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: probably gonna start sweating. Absolutely, And so did a bunch
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of research. There's a lot of cold calling. Basically, that
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: means that's go on the internet, find people that know
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: more than me about fabric and science. And I picked
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: up the phone and I call them and I would
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: ask a bunch of questions. I didn't really know a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: lot of the words they were saying because I didn't
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: know fabric science. So I was write down the words.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I'd get off the phone. I'd research the words since
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: so my next phone call, I found a little more intelligent.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Dot dot fast forward. I Yeah, applied for the fabric
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: patent last may like a year and a half ago,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and it's a patent pending in a hundred and twenty
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: countries right now. I've had some companies already approached me
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: UM interested in using my fabric, licensing it from me,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and at this point I've declined UM for for various reasons.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I'm really focused on the apparel right now. However, if
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: if if a certain company or two approaches me that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in, I'll be on the next plain tomorrow
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I'll tell me them. So, uh, just trying to you know,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: build a brand over here and not get to derailed,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: because as a startup you can only do so much,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you know, every day. Um. Yeah, the fabric's patent pending.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Uh right now. We just launched men's as you know,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: May twenty four and it's Houston has just been extremely
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: supportive of not only me and just Excel Lifestyle, but
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: just uh. I love to get back to the city
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of Houston as well. So that was really cool that
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: they proclaimed Megan ettings Day the same day that we
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: launched on Lifestyles because of just my commitment to giving
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: back to the city. I know that I've done business
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: deals with individuals, with companies and I went, but I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: should have asked for more or I should have asked
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: for this this clause that they would have protected me
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have to deal with with this headache
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: right now. And so you you're at the forefront. You
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: have a brand, you have a brand online right now
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: people are reacting to it. What what could Rashaan? Do
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you know? I do anything for you. I'm a big
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: fan of yours and I would you know. I've use
• 36:29
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• 36:33
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• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I post your items on my personal fan which almost
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: has almost a median followers, because I just feel that
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, you need to be have a relationship
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: they believe in you. What is your support system right now?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Oh in Rashan, thank you so much. You've been so
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: supportive since day one and I mentally appreciate that. Yeah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: my support system, I'm super blessed um. People can only
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  Speaker 1: want to help and it's been awesome with people, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people that have either a lot of connections or they
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  Speaker 1: have a skill set in something that I need. So
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  Speaker 1: many people and especially advisors, they become mentors and they
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  Speaker 1: just they just really want to help see me and
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: my team succeed. And whenever I succeed. We all succeed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's all a team effort for sure. Cool. Now, listen,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you've heard first of all, I don't want to butcher
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: your process. I've introded, So tell her about exactly about
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: your brand, uh, and and what what's available and how
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: they can reach you online or social media. Perfect? Yeah, yeah,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: thank you. So we're in ethical fitness apparel brand. So
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: ethical means no sweatshops to accomplish that everything is sourced
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and made, all the yarns, the fabric, the clothes here
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: in the United States. UM, so I can personally go
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: visit all the factories and make sure that people are
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: paid and treated fairly. And then I invented the anti
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: stink fabric. So we're starting with shirts right now for
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: men and women. Men can get either a tank tip
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: or a T shirt. Took various graphics on the on women.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Women were actually launching in the next couple of weeks. Uh,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: there'll be four different styles for women's all like tank tops,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: crop tops, really fashionable, super light thoughts, uh, anti stink fabric.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: And then in the future we're wanting to get into
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: pants and sports bras and just the whole fitness of
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: power line. You know, anti stink socks, golf shirts, et cetera.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: You now, now you say in the future, let's talk
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: about the launch of the women's line. I have a wife. Yeah,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: you know, I gotta go back online. She she likes
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: what I'm wearing. I totally what he wasn't ready yet,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: so it is there official date yet for her? Not
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: an official date. There's a couple of styles on our website,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Excel Lifestyle right now for pre sale. It's going to
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: be within the next two weeks. I'm working with a
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: PR company right now to see what date would be
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: the best to launch. But it will be about within
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: two weeks for sure. Okay, can you do me this favor?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Because she said she's just forget about Rashaan. Ever, Shan
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: made the big old speech about how he helped are
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: out and from all the stuff, and then it'd be
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: launched like she launched last time. Didn't come to me?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Did you come to me when you launched on May
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: twenty four? Did you come to Rashawn McDonald's and Rashaan
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  Speaker 1: McDonald May twenty fourth? Is is my day? My day
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  Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas? Can you post that on your social media?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Did you after this? Did you come to me? You
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  Speaker 1: know as system just let everybody know. Don't think that's right.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: So I'm just letting everybody know she failed in our relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like I got I got you? Say you
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  Speaker 1: have staff? I got stabbed. Rashaw's not doing this by
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: himself now that he and the people want to help
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: you in your brand. So are there any goals or
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: sale numbers or marketing numbers that you're trying to reach
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: this year? Because I know it has to be an
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: arc on what you trying to are you Are you
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: gonna set up any fitness tournaments or any workout tournaments
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: or any any you know in the psycho tournaments or what? What? What?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: What does something thing? Because you're innovative, you're you're you're
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: you're fun, and you have a lot of brands in
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the workout business. What do you have? What? What? What? What?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: What game plans do you have to get the word out? Yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: to get the word out, definitely a lot of pop
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: up shops because I like bringing the energy, bringing you know,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the excitement, and so basically partnering with fitness studios around
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the country to be quite frank, and not only having
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: a pop up shop with our clothes. But I like
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: to host experiences, whether that be like pull up competition,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: push up competition, think it more of an event, um,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: because that's the whole thing about Excel Lifestyle. Yeah, we're
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: selling fitness clothes really, you know, selling excitement and empowerment
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and positivity. So we have some pop up shops lined up.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I'd love to go to some of the bigger cities
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: New York City, Chicago, Miami, l A, get some lined
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: up there. I currently don't have any, um, so that
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: would be awesome. And then uh yeah, just pop ups,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: pop up shops, and then social media marketing and you're
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: on the email list and just kind of getting that
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: word out there. Now we got one minute left, please
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: uh rehash everything how we can reach you and tell
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: everybody about your brand or them clip this off and
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: put it on on social media. Because you know, I
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: can't depend on you, I really can't. I gotta do
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: this myself this time. I'm just I'm gonna do it myself.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: We're gonna tell everybody in as articulate manner that you
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: have developed because you're star. Now go, you have twenty seconds,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: all right, cool? You can find out my clothing at
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Excel Lifestyle a C C E. L Lifestyle dot com.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: That's our website that sells our clothing kind of tells
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: our story. You can find me on Instagram at literally
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: just act at excel Lifestyle or one word or on
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: LinkedIn and yeah, looking forward to hearing from you. Reach
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: out you have any questions at all, and I e
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: mentally appreciate all of your support. And you'll find her
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  Speaker 1: on Rashan McDonald at Rashan McDonald's seven sixty thou Facebook follows,
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  Speaker 1: Instagram follows, and your Twitter follows. You'll start my friend.
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• 45:14
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• 45:17
  Speaker 1: not for this not to be your only visit. Let's
• 45:19
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• 45:23
  Speaker 1: show has been great because it gives individuals who are
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: successful a voice, a channeler come in and just communicate
• 45:30
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  Speaker 1: And how it's accomplished our pass of success, you know,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: and and when I when I talked about that, Let's
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: start at the beginning with you. When you were trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out who you were? How did not who
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  Speaker 1: you look in your past to find out who you
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  Speaker 1: are in order to move forward. When you came out
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  Speaker 1: of the college, did you are you doing what you
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  Speaker 1: thought you would be doing? You know? No, I'm not um.
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  Speaker 1: When I came out of college. I'm from the South
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  Speaker 1: Side of Chicago, so I'm from a pretty rough neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: And the only thing I knew for sure was that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be broke anymore. But I didn't
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: understand anything about finance, anything about investment. So I was
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  Speaker 1: running away from something more so than running towards something.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, I was just trying to live life
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  Speaker 1: in some type of financially free environment as opposed to
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the restricted environment that I grew up in. So I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know it would lead me to hear. So I
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  Speaker 1: went to the one place that that everybody would go
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  Speaker 1: to if they wanted to learn about money, and that's
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  Speaker 1: Long Street. So I left more House College, went to
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Goldment Side, and that's when I learned about investing. And
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: all of my clients were billionaires, and I learned how
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: money moved and how people were out there winning, and
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I noticed that our community wasn't a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, And let me ask you this. We always
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: talked about Wall Street of money. Do you you ought
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: to be a participant in Wall Street? Do you really
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: have to? What is having money? Like? Say? How can
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you be a part of the game? Action? You know? What? What? What?
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: What allows you to be a participant? How much? Yeah? So,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: according to the government, if you want access to kind
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest and and and most profitable investment opportunities
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and in the private markets, you have to be what
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: we call an accredited investor. And accredited investor is somebody
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: that makes over two hundred grand a year or whose
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: network is more than a million dollars. So those investors
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: get access to the fastest growing private companies, which is
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  Speaker 1: how most people are making all the money. After a
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: company goes public, and it's a little safer. But that's
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: when the average investor, your mom and pop gets access
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to it. But by that time, it's slowed down a
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: little bit in terms of growth and uh and and
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: the profit margins are are still there, but it's just
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: not growing as quickly as possible. So and our world
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: is divided by accredited investors and non accredited investors. But
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Wall Street is really dominated by the big institutions. So
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: all of the pension funds, all the insurance companies, they
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: have a trillion dollars, they have billions of dollars, and
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: they're the ones that are making all of the big investments.
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  Speaker 1: And most people's retirement accounts are held with those firms,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: so they're kind of getting into it, but through someone else. Right.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: And so this is important because first of all, what
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I don't do the show is advised people where to
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: put their money. I just talked in general because because
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: people will hold you accountable. Were you told me that
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: where I put my mama on in there? My mom,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: not my daddy money, my mama money. And there, you know,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying is the cover of the little faux pause.
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  Speaker 1: So we were talking, like, for instance, when I invest
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I've always been a nervous investor. I got maybe like
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: tw and aggressive and the rest is a conservative. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: they're they're tuning's certain age groups where you should be
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: aggressive because you can recover and then can you break
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: down that little age group conversation about how you can
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: look at so what's interesting and your the money moves guy.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Your investment philosophy is exactly what billionaires do. So billionaires
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: mostly put um a big chunk of it. Let's say,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: you know, fifty in something very conservative like bonds right
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  Speaker 1: where they can generate some income, but then they go
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: all the way on the other end of these and
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: go to risky stuff like private equity where they can
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: double and triple their money. So your investments a lot
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: for you exact same as the billionaire's on Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: But what the average American does is if you're anywhere
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  Speaker 1: between you know, five years to ten years out from retirement,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: most of your money should be held in stocks, and
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: quite frankly, the SMP five hundred, you'll get on average
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: ten percent returns every years in the average for the
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: last one hundred years. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: If you are one to five years from retirement, you
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: want to be in mostly bonds because it's safer, right,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: and it's not as volatile, and you'll be able to
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: get your money back you know exactly how much you
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: know win. But in stocks it's gonna go up and
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: down every year. You don't want to have that volatility
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: when you're getting ready to retire, right. So the average
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  Speaker 1: allocation for someone who is five years removed from retirement
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: or more, it's mostly stocks. Five years or less it's
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: mostly bonds, and then as you get closer to retirement,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: it kind of goes more, you know, towards bonds away
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: from sto Absolutely the things about it is that down
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  Speaker 1: do you look at it? We're just having a general conversation,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: not trying to pin you down on any day. We're
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: just talking about different ways how I've done my money
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  Speaker 1: and how I still do my money. I've looked at it.
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  Speaker 1: Insurance policies, I'm that's low. What are your thoughts on those?
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Just your thoughts, not puning you down, because a lot
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: of people come to different ways to say, what can
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  Speaker 1: I do with my money? Where should I put my money? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So so um first and foremost, I'm not a financial
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  Speaker 1: the buser. I'm a venture capitlist invest in tech company.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: The world I live in is like investing in Airbnb
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  Speaker 1: and modify terrists and lifts Uber and stuff like that.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: But you know, but you know, but you know, Mr Willives,
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  Speaker 1: you could just say crazy question I'm getting so as
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• 51:52
  Speaker 1: money man, money mane. But I do think people should
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: have diversification. The way I get it to them is
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• 52:04
  Speaker 1: is when you have like a sixty five year old
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: white guy who only worked in finance, trying to explain
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  Speaker 1: because even though I'm thirty nine, I still presented myself
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  Speaker 1: second thing is I'm actually a practitioner. I do this
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• 52:43
  Speaker 1: also from the hood. I'm from the South Side of Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm I'm black, And those are things that helped
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  Speaker 1: me to relate to these guys and speak to their language.
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  Speaker 1: And then I either take them on tours of Silicon Valley,
• 52:55
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