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Rushion interviews Latosha Brown, Founder & Executive Director of Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium | Rapper, model, actor, and multi-entertainer J Young MDK! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's to show that she
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  Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and
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  Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's given me
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  Speaker 1: advice on many occasions in ocasion didn't notice I'm not broke.
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  Speaker 1: industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do, it's
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  Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here we come.
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  Speaker 1: My guests today are Latasha Brown Southern Black Girls and
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  Speaker 1: Women's Consortium visionary founder and co founder Black Voters Matters
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  Speaker 1: and Malika Rogers Southern Black Girls, Southern Black Girls and
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  Speaker 1: Women's Can Sort Them, Executive director the Southern Black Girls
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  Speaker 1: and because Women's Consortium, which is speed Southern Black Girls
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  Speaker 1: is a collection of black women. I have six sisters,
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  Speaker 1: so I know by black women in philanthropy, activision and
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  Speaker 1: girls work who hold deep roots and moves and building
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  Speaker 1: models for success. Please work with the Latasha Brown and
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  Speaker 1: Meliko Rogers to money Making Conversation Master class, Ladies, how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing really, we are wonderful and we were
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  Speaker 1: extremely blessed. We're on this show with you. We want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about making money and moves. Well, I usually
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  Speaker 1: get it now, usually get them on split screen. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't have them on the split screen today? Because I
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  Speaker 1: won't see him at the same time? Now, say not
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  Speaker 1: get you one at a time when you talk, then
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  Speaker 1: you pop up when you don't talk, I don't see you.
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  Speaker 1: Can we can we get that look for me because
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to. I want to be
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  Speaker 1: stare both of y'all and and just reaction, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but both of you guys are both the ladies excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: are based in Atlanta, Georgia. Why well, Maliki wanna start? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: my I grew up here in Atlanta, but the work
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  Speaker 1: is um The work isn't based in Atlanta. The work
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  Speaker 1: is based all across our toil states. We just happened
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  Speaker 1: to call Atlanta home, and I've called Atlanta home for
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  Speaker 1: my You're a land of native too, I am not.
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  Speaker 1: I am an Alabama girl. I'm a deep deep South.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna country to Alabama. They gave me the big
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  Speaker 1: cities in Alabama. So what little city you from? I
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  Speaker 1: am from summer Alabama Mobile. I spend part of my
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  Speaker 1: life at Mobile on the coast, and then part of
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  Speaker 1: my life, the majority of my life in little city
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  Speaker 1: called Selma, pretty famous city city, a little city called Selma, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're not looking at Malika and I look at you, Latasha,
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  Speaker 1: I see energy, I see enthusiasm. But when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about the black woman, you know, I was working on
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  Speaker 1: the project and I was just talking about how black
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  Speaker 1: women came out of slavery and the white women complaining,
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  Speaker 1: but they were still above black women because black women
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  Speaker 1: considered slaves and at the time, you know, they can
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  Speaker 1: be raped, they can be passed around. But and then
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  Speaker 1: black men will consider slaves as well. But but black women,
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  Speaker 1: I think I always had a two step, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because women in general consider secondary anyway in general. But
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  Speaker 1: somehow today black women are the number one or the
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  Speaker 1: fastest growing entrepreneurs in America. Why is the Latasha Because
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother to say, what don't kill you make you stronger?
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  Speaker 1: And I think because black women have literally said at
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  Speaker 1: this intersection of racism and sexism, that we've had to
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  Speaker 1: find a way when it seems like there was no
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  Speaker 1: other way. And so for many of us entrepreneurship. Many
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  Speaker 1: of us have created jobs, not because somebody left us
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  Speaker 1: and inheritance or not because we got some there's some
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  Speaker 1: big money downfall, you know. Some of us created a
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  Speaker 1: business because we had to survive. We had to survive
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  Speaker 1: for our families. We had no other income. Some of
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  Speaker 1: us couldn't find jobs or were discriminated from find a job,
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  Speaker 1: and so we had to use our skills and our
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  Speaker 1: talents um to really be able to get us through
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  Speaker 1: so that we could take care and provide for our families.
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  Speaker 1: Many of us literally saw a gap of a need
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  Speaker 1: in our community, and so we were led as nurturers.
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  Speaker 1: We were led to literally create a business. I had
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  Speaker 1: a sister that came over last night who is as
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  Speaker 1: a nurse. She's a licensed nurse and she does I
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  Speaker 1: V therapy around vitamins, and she talked about how she
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  Speaker 1: worked for a doctor, but also that she saw the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to start her own so that she could actually
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just her administer, and she could actually administer information.
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  Speaker 1: She could share her own experience and she could provide
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  Speaker 1: that nurturing space so that we could actually be able
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  Speaker 1: to get this these these additional vitamins. I'm saying that
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  Speaker 1: because I think what we see in terms of entrepreneurship,
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  Speaker 1: we see women, I mean, some of us going to
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  Speaker 1: business because we're trying to get We try to make money.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we all want to make money. With some
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  Speaker 1: was like, listen, I can use my skills instead of
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  Speaker 1: just making money for other people, I can make money
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  Speaker 1: for myself. But but I do want to say that
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  Speaker 1: our approach to entrepreneurship has been very different from our
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  Speaker 1: white counterparts. You know, our approach shop to to entrepreneurship
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  Speaker 1: really has been informed by some of the struggle in
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  Speaker 1: our community that we've had to create businesses because it's
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  Speaker 1: the irony is that while black women are the fastest growing,
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  Speaker 1: we have the largest numbers of entrepreneurs in the country
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  Speaker 1: in terms of percentage wise. Percentage wise, we're entering college
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  Speaker 1: more than anybody else in the country. Right in terms
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  Speaker 1: of voting, we vote more than anybody in the country.
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  Speaker 1: So we basically if America said that you got to
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  Speaker 1: go to school, get your education, start your business, and
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  Speaker 1: and use your civic responsibility, we've done all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Then why is it that economically we're still at the bottom,
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  Speaker 1: and that actually, I think our work exposes the deficiencies
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  Speaker 1: and the racism and the sexism that is embedded in
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  Speaker 1: all of these systems, but it also really elevates how
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  Speaker 1: bad sisters are and how determined we are, and how
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  Speaker 1: resilient we are, and that in the midst of it,
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  Speaker 1: because what we see is even when we're starting businesses,
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  Speaker 1: our businesses don't receive the kind of investment that other
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  Speaker 1: businesses receiving. That when we're actually creating these opportunities, that
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  Speaker 1: that that was that mother that um started a daycare
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  Speaker 1: in our home one that daycare maybe, but may have
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  Speaker 1: started because she needed to have her kids and sheet
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  Speaker 1: somebody else like baby, can you keep care of my baby?
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  Speaker 1: And somebody else needed somebody to take care of their children.
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  Speaker 1: And it grew out of us responding to a need
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  Speaker 1: in our community. Not just this, not just a desire
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  Speaker 1: of regardless of anything, I'm just gonna gonna make money
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  Speaker 1: because it's good to make money, right, we all want
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  Speaker 1: to make I won't folks to make money. This whole
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  Speaker 1: existence of the Southern Black Girls and Women's Consortium is
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  Speaker 1: for us to help get money and investment in our communities.
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  Speaker 1: But that cannot be at the expense of harm in
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  Speaker 1: our communities. And sometimes we've actually seen people approach this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make money, even if that means I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: sell somebody out, I'm gonna step over, I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: things that are unethical. You know, what we're saying is
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  Speaker 1: that the way that you create abundance is that when
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  Speaker 1: you are making money or you're creating those you're creating
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  Speaker 1: to tap into the full wealth of who we are.
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  Speaker 1: That's our gifts, that's our talents, that's also our treasures.
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  Speaker 1: But when we combine that, it ain't no stopping us. Now, Molika,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you now they actually moved her out
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  Speaker 1: of sell More because she can talk. She talked, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know I can see right now she
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  Speaker 1: is like a two questioned person. You know, you asked.
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  Speaker 1: Of course she gonna give five minutes now, so so
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna squeeze on the question into you. But Lenka,
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  Speaker 1: before I come back to Hub, because when I come
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  Speaker 1: back to Hub, it's gonna be by five to ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Fo I come back to me, don't feel back. But
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  Speaker 1: you know this already. You know this already. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: say that? Right? Do you say to you about to
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  Speaker 1: say something again? Right when you talk, she's about to
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  Speaker 1: say something. Just keep smile, now, Lenka, you sent me
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  Speaker 1: straight early in the interviews that a little strong black women.
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  Speaker 1: She said, we're just not in Atlanta. Were in twelve states. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Executive director, tell us about the what the consortium is
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  Speaker 1: and what states and why is there that growth in
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  Speaker 1: those twelve states. We are the Southern Black Girls and
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  Speaker 1: Women's disc at our bay. We are I foundation. We
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  Speaker 1: invest in black girls and women in the South, and
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  Speaker 1: we do that because there has been a gap. And Milka, now, Latasha,
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  Speaker 1: you on the screen. Now, you can't be looking at
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  Speaker 1: your little iPad or your phone. People looking at us
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  Speaker 1: because you're gonna be on national TV and people Donna say,
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  Speaker 1: she ain't even listening to none of y'all. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do you wrong. Now we're gonna d
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  Speaker 1: it this little pot that so act like you care
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  Speaker 1: about us. Now, did you ain't talking? Now? Look at
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  Speaker 1: see her because she talking? Because she talking. She she
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  Speaker 1: shut us down, Malika, she shut us down. No, I
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  Speaker 1: did not. I would never shut Malika down, my brother.
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  Speaker 1: But I was not on the screen when I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to sneak and look and respond to this. I
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  Speaker 1: can see you right now. I see you right now.
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  Speaker 1: See you look at that screen. Look behind me, y'all
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  Speaker 1: at screen. Put that shot on it so she can
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  Speaker 1: know that she on the big Now I see it now,
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  Speaker 1: then you see you always. I fixed it at first,
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  Speaker 1: y'all solo. But I like to look at both beautiful
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  Speaker 1: women at the same time. I love black excellence. Okay, now, Malika,
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  Speaker 1: you sent me straight. You said, I said, we just
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  Speaker 1: you said, We're just not in atlant We're in twelve states. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I took a step back because I knew that. But
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  Speaker 1: I know you're gonna come too hard at the early
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  Speaker 1: part of the interview. Tell us about the but but
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  Speaker 1: what exactly you guys are representing in the organization and
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  Speaker 1: why twelve states? Because I'm sure is growing so at
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  Speaker 1: our base. The Southern Black Girls and Women's Consoration is
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  Speaker 1: a foundation supported to invest created to invest in black
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  Speaker 1: girls and women across the South. We are founded by
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  Speaker 1: Latasha Brown and four and three other women who have
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  Speaker 1: long histories and professional experience, professional excellence in philanthropy. They
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  Speaker 1: lead the Appalachian Community Foundation, the Fund for Southern Communities
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  Speaker 1: in the Black Belt Community Foundation, and what they knew
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  Speaker 1: over the years of experience is that there was a gap,
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  Speaker 1: I might even call it a chasm of funding where
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  Speaker 1: they're out of the nearly five million dollars invested in
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  Speaker 1: the South, black girls and women were only receiving about
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  Speaker 1: less than one percent, excuse me, receiving less than one percent.
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  Speaker 1: And with that piece of information, the four organizations and
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  Speaker 1: the leadership of Latasha and the four other leaders in
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  Speaker 1: this group, So there's that's not acceptable. It's not acceptable
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  Speaker 1: in the face of that of Americans who identified black
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  Speaker 1: as black live in the South, and those people are
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  Speaker 1: black women. And so when you want to look at
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  Speaker 1: what we can do for our country, for our nation,
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  Speaker 1: for the South, we are investing here. This is smart money.
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  Speaker 1: Investing in black women and black girls in the South
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  Speaker 1: is a smart investment. So we took it on ourselves
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  Speaker 1: to do this work. And we are in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and now
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  Speaker 1: East Texas State now you know I'm from to Texas,
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  Speaker 1: so I I claim I claimed all parts. So you
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  Speaker 1: have to go through uh East Texas to get to
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  Speaker 1: my hometown of Houston, Texas. Now, now when I went
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  Speaker 1: out of Latasha, you know your your your gift to
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  Speaker 1: your gift is communication. That's obviously you know the Guard
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  Speaker 1: is giving you that blessed blessing. Now when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about where we're at in life today, because we have
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  Speaker 1: Stacy Abrahams, you're running for the governorship for the second time.
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  Speaker 1: That's black women. We are now now so much so
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  Speaker 1: at one time I could just talk about George and
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  Speaker 1: people go, he did talk about George. But now it's
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  Speaker 1: a national referendum, and then you're tied to black voters.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us the important role that you're playing because what
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  Speaker 1: you do here does impact the entire country. Yep. So,
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  Speaker 1: I am co founder of the organization with Cliff Alright
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  Speaker 1: called Black Voters Matter Fund and Black Voters Capacity Building Institute,
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  Speaker 1: and it was created out of need of in the
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  Speaker 1: same spere aerative of southern Black girls. We want to
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  Speaker 1: get resources on the ground directly to grads FROO organizations
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  Speaker 1: to build their capacity so that we could actually fight
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  Speaker 1: for power in our communities, and so we've been doing that.
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  Speaker 1: We work in twelve states. We put money on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: We actually provided support, We shift the narrative. I always said,
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  Speaker 1: you can understand that three three buckets we put money.
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  Speaker 1: It's money, it's mobilization and its message, right, having a
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  Speaker 1: message that centers black people, mobilizing resources and folks to
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  Speaker 1: go to the polls and actually put money on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all sent around not elections, but how do
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  Speaker 1: we build power in our communities. Now with that being said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this this country really it has become divided,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I think Trump has played a huge
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I think that we've always kind of hidden
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  Speaker 1: their racial issues were in existing this country, but now
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  Speaker 1: it feels like they is obvious. It's obvious, and it's
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  Speaker 1: overt in a lot of ways. As a person trying
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  Speaker 1: to get the black electric motivalized, what what words of
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  Speaker 1: encouragement or how do you do how do you get
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  Speaker 1: the black voter mobilize? You know? Part of what I
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  Speaker 1: think that we have to do the whole purpose of
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  Speaker 1: white supremacy is to make you feel like you're less
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  Speaker 1: stand and so part of what we see is we
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  Speaker 1: go through and we see these systems, but every single, every,
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  Speaker 1: every aspect of our lives is impacted by public policy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't be born without without some policy
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  Speaker 1: impact in your life. You can't even die and your
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  Speaker 1: family get the death certificate to get the insurance right.
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  Speaker 1: All of that is controlled by policy. And so what
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  Speaker 1: we tell people to change the frame that when folks
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  Speaker 1: tell us that they don't trust this system, that the
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  Speaker 1: system works for those who have resources that their works
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  Speaker 1: and favored white folks, we say, you're right, you're right right,
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  Speaker 1: We say when when when we're telling them about why
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  Speaker 1: they're voting, we're saying, you're not You're not voting um
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  Speaker 1: because you want to get some political party in our office.
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  Speaker 1: What you're voting for is you're voting for yourself. That
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  Speaker 1: you have to use until your community has everything that
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  Speaker 1: it needs. You have to use every single tool available
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  Speaker 1: to you to actually push back to reduce the harm
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  Speaker 1: in your community and make sure you're holding folks accountable,
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  Speaker 1: but also to literally be able to advance an agenda
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  Speaker 1: that is gonna support your community. And that's real. Whether
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  Speaker 1: you vote or not, somebody is gonna be elected. And
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  Speaker 1: the question is if anybody's gonna make a decision about
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  Speaker 1: me and my family, I need to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of that process. So what we tell people is we
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  Speaker 1: tell folks that focus on what centers you in your community,
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  Speaker 1: and you use everything that God has given you to
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  Speaker 1: actually push towards that. That's why some folks have started
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  Speaker 1: a business with less than five dollars in their checking account.
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  Speaker 1: There's some people that have actually taken taken what little
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  Speaker 1: they had and turn that into millions. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: use whatever seeds you have, that seed of hope to
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  Speaker 1: grow the kind of trees that you want to have.
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  Speaker 1: And so our work in the black community, it's not
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  Speaker 1: about what the numbers are for folks to vote on
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  Speaker 1: how many people registered, is about how are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: use our collective power different aspects of power, our economic power,
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  Speaker 1: our social power, our cultural power, and our political power
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that we're going to advance our community.
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  Speaker 1: So America could be the America we design, we deserve.
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  Speaker 1: Because while we're saying that it is more divided, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that in some ways what we're seeing is we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: the rise of white supremacy. But I would say the
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  Speaker 1: division has always been here that black folks have never received.
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  Speaker 1: That there's always been a a a a wealth gap
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  Speaker 1: within our community in terms of the half and half
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  Speaker 1: not Sixty one percent of Black people live in poverty,
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight percent of Black women live are working of
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  Speaker 1: hourly wage jobs. All of those things have to change
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  Speaker 1: and shift so that we can actually have the resources
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  Speaker 1: we need in our community. We'll be right back with
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  Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. That's
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  Speaker 1: round two. Molika, thank you. You know when I um
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  Speaker 1: it says you're on a mission. The organization is to
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  Speaker 1: raise a hundred million dollars. Now that's to show you
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  Speaker 1: the money mission. And you can have passion and I
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  Speaker 1: love I always tell people marketing guru, all right, I
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  Speaker 1: know the marketing brands up, but do you have to
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  Speaker 1: have an angle? You have to have a motivational moment
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get people. Because you look Trump
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  Speaker 1: out there. You know he's getting money left and right
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  Speaker 1: because he got his angle. You know he's tapped into
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  Speaker 1: his base. What base have you guys tapped into? And
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  Speaker 1: what is your angle? And I'm not saying angle is
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  Speaker 1: a negative, because every every marketing, successful marketing has an
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  Speaker 1: angle to be able to consider that one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars as a possibility. So there are a couple of
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  Speaker 1: uh there are a couple of foundational spaces where we
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  Speaker 1: where we make sense. We've tapped into the network of
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  Speaker 1: black women that are already doing this work. We have
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  Speaker 1: networks of hundreds of organizations, thousands of millions of women
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  Speaker 1: and girls who that who we talked to, because we
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  Speaker 1: are actually out there trying to identify who is doing
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  Speaker 1: the right work, the good work, and how do we
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  Speaker 1: invest in network? So our base is pretty broad across
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  Speaker 1: these twelve set states. Our angle is exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: shared with you earlier, is that when you make an
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: investment in these black women and girls, you make an
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: investment in this country. I'm not the first one to say,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: but an investment in the South is an investment in
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: this nation. In investment in a girl is an investment
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: in this nation. You grow this country. And so it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: not a hard message to con conceive of that this
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: is money well spent, This is money well spent. The
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: South is a seed of activism. Let me think about
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: all the things that have been tried to oppress people
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: in the South. We absolutely simultaneously then think about all
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: of the people in the South who said, you can't
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: try this here, it won't work here. We're coming for
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you here. And this if we want to make sure
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: that this country has a series of activists and leaders
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: who are always at the ready, an investment in girls
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and women make sense. Well, you know the interesting thing,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: because we all know the subject of money, Latasha, what
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: exactly is the Black Girl's Dream Fund. Black Girls Dream
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Fund is one of four funds that we've created. It
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: is a hundred million dollar initiative over the last next
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: ten years. Our goal is to raise and to give
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: out and invest over a hundred million dollars to organizations
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: that serve black women and Black girls. And so what
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: we are excited is with the Black Girls Dream Fund
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: is that we funded. We've already provided in this spring
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: two point two million dollars. So it was seventy one
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: organizations that we wrote grants to and so we will
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: continue to do that. We have three other funds that
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: will come online that we're launching towards the end of
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the year that we're super, super excited about But the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: whole purpose of that fund is to invest in those
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Organs nations that are working at center black girls and women,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and so they helped them to build their capacity. We
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: believe that if they are stronger, then the movement to
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: actually change um change the conditions of black girls will
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: be stronger. It's a way for us to build out
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the ecosystem of support for black women and girls. Wow,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. I have a daughter, you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and so I always I'm motivated by women who pushed
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the narrative. And that's what you're doing because sometimes you not.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you can never sit back, Because you sit back,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: you're just gonna get passed up. And that that's the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: number one thing I get from my conversation is that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: because I definitely want to invite you to my w
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: C Okay show, I'll do it Tuesday, because I just
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I want to be like you said you we all
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: can contribute in different ways, and my you have a newsletter,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of social media, of a radio show. This is just
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: an extension. But y'all, y'all dominating in Georgia. I gotta
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: let the Georgia people know, you know, it's all right
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: for them to know your Milwaukee, in Chicago or d C.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: But we we need to lock this down in in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So we're gonna get and then let me
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: let me say this too, that many of us, all
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of us who are working on this, will come out
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of our pockets. And so there is while the large necessary,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the large foundations and corporations we invest them, we want
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to have more corporate partners. Individual If it's five dollars,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: if it's two dollars, you don't know how much it
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: means to us to be able to get those small donations,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: because sometimes that's the message that says, we believe in you,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We believe that we can do this, we can take
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: care of us. And so people who want to donate
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to us, they can text us. They can text black
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Girls black girl to six six eight six six. That's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: black girl to six six eight six six. LL get
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a donation, um Donation League, send us five dollars, ten dollars,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a hundred dollars, a million dollars. But generally those donations
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: are the donations that send us affirmations that you're in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: this movement with us and you believe in that. Well,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you know, that's what people think Maliko, They think that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: they you know, you know, Trump not getting up to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: two and in fifty million dollars, he can five dollars,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: one dollar, ten dollars, a hundred dollars, twenty dollars. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: so we as donors need to understand it's not how much,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: it's how much, but doing something, and a dollar adds
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: up to another dollar. And then all of a sudden,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the momentum grabs and the Galvinizers the organization and guess what,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you start bragging about your dream but possibly coming true.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Now you have no you have no. This this bus tour,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna come back to human. You know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: this bus tour in the South. You know, first of all,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: whenever a lot of people don't know, the South is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: just beautiful to me. It's a beautiful culture, is a
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: beautiful food, It's beautiful people, beautiful music. So when you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: start talking about I get a little jealous. Is this
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: just for for young ladies? This bus tour, it's a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: family affair now, without question, it is the prettiest, pinkest
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: bus in America. That I grew up with six sisters
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: like pinking all in my life A long time Okay,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: well good, because this is more pink than you can shoot.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Were definitely it is. But it is a family affair.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Everybody is welcome. I bought my eight year old son
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: this weekend and we kicked off the tour in Atlanta.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: We're head into Elaine, Arkansas and Little Rock this this
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: coming weekend. So absolutely everyone is welcome. And what we
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: wanted was to give families that young girls and young
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: women in particular a journey to joy. So they get
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: a little passport and they get a chance to visit
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the journey to to joy and the journey to fun,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and the journey to stem and the cosmetic chemistry. They
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: get a chance to experience as many things as we
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: can put together for them on this tour. And I'll
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: tell you that we had more than three hundred girls
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and women in Atlanta that didn't want to leave. We
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: actually had to tell them the event was over. Incredible experience.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: This is an incredible experience, and because we've all been
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: away from each other for two years, this is the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: perfect way to give ourselves a moment to smile at
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: each other. To wreck ignizes the fact that joy is restorative.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: To take some time to actually share stories with each
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: other because our mental health and self care is important.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: This is an important event. It's a lot of fun,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: but it actually does help restore our souls. So it
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: started Saturday, August and then ends September. Why that window,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: why why that particular window of travel for the tour.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: So September six is actually the um if you would remember,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and those of us who are history buffs may remember
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that that is the commemoration of the bombing at the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: sixteen Street Baptist Church with the four little girls. And
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: so we always try to make sure that at Southern
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Black Girls and Women's Consortion, we take a moment to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: mark that that moment in our lives UM to make
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: sure that we remember those young women, remember their sacrifice,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and remember that black girls have been given to social
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: justice movements for years and that their lives were not
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: in pain. So that date is August. It started August twining,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: but it ends September sixteen sept And I wonder if
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they gave me some bad information, Lake, I said, I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: think I've reading seventeeth there, but I got to come back.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I was just I was speaking specifically to the day.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Let me go, like I gotta close the show with
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the mouth the wonderful the articulates straight out of slum.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You know, visionary founder co founders. He got two co founders.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: She got on my show here, the one and only
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Latasa Brown. You started this and then three other ladies
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: had the same vision. You brought home with Lakas during
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a wonderful job as the executive drect What is the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: ultimate goal? Because it ain't something going to happen in
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the year. This is a jouranis a legacy campaign You've
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: created here like I could believe it, but Dr Martin
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Luther King created It's a legacy campaign because we're always
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: going to continue to fight. We're always gonna have obstacles.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: We know we have obstacles. How will we be able
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to come overcome it with your organization? So you know,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I am really clear that when God gives a vision,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he gives a provision. This is a vision that God
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: gave me. I was in the shower. The vision came
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: so strong, so hard. A matter of fact, I had
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: a whole another job that I jumped out of the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: shower and created um and start writing down what was
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: coming to me at the time. And so I'm raising
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that because I think part of what we also uh
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: don't do enough of is happening into our spiritual gifts
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and know that literally, if we follow we're in alignment
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: with that we can create the vision that God gives us.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And the vision for me wasn't about the organization, it
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't about the money, it was how to create that
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that I was so excited that God would tap me
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: as one of his many, many people that we could
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: act have the audacity to believe that we could create
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the kind of environment that could be that people, women
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and girls could feel healthy and hold that we could
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: actually staying in the space of abundance. That our abundance
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: wasn't determined by the stock marketing, determined about about check
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: them out. But my abundance is what God has given
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: me and put in me that we could actually create.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: We can use our innovation to actually address some of
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the problems. That we didn't need anybody to come in
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and look at us as victims, but in fact we
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: can actually share out of our abundance, our abundance of spirit,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: our abundance of joy, our abundance of thoughts, our abundance
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of creativity. And we've seen where the world has has
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: has actually benefited from that and has exploited that. And
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: so but what best way to do it is to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: lead and create a vision that literally all of us
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: collectively could be a part of that if we change
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the life of a black girl, I am convinced that
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: if we change your life, a little black girl, we
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: will change the world. And so that is my vision.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: My vision is that black girls will recognize that they
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: are already whole and complete and there's nothing left to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: do but just operate in the in the gifts and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the talents that God has given them. Well, thank you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: for that. You know that I won't say sermon because
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: if you you're you're you're a talker, you're a gifted speaker,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: You're you know what to say and know how to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: say it. But I want to add this um on
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: every Wednesday my news so I have sixty or six
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: thousand fan club members receive a newsletter at ten am.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: If you have any banner about the tools, we have videos,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: fantastic videos, and least get it to me today so
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: it can go out to my fan base tomorrow. Ten
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: o'clock is gone. We were like, we're professional over here,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: not ten fifteen. I'm they were creeping. One day they
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: did ten fifthdnswer who time y'all tell it this ten
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: am at this company. So please get that information today
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: because I like to my fans to know about it,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and I like to know about it because I like
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to surprise y'all one of them stops. Okay, I wonder
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: so much. I love the South, Chail. You can't. You
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: can't run a brother out to the South, okay. And
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I love your energy. I'm a fan and and I'm
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: very seriously y'all hear me on my show. I'm inviting
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: them Blika Latasha over by the build and we're gonna
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: have a down hore. We're gonna capture on video, putting
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: on TikTok and just let everybody know we're gonna and
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: we know we might even do a fundraiser too. We're
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: gonna get something rolling around here. Let's get these folks
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to know why they're watching us eat. Give us a dollar,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: give us a dollar. Long we eat, y'all keep giving
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: us some dollars. But more importantly, get that information so
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: we can let everybody know about this tour nationwide. Okay,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: thank you so much. It was awesome. I love both
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of y'all. Y'all got, like you said, family, I feel
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: like I'm talking to family. And when you're talking to family,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you can talk to him for a long time because
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: guess what, You're gonna start eating and I love to eat.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: By y'all. We'll be right back with more Money Making
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. You are now tuned into
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the Money Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. Hi,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm Rashan McDonald for Money Making Conversation Masterclass with your
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: daily minute of Inspiration. This week, I say that with
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning TV and film producer, entrepreneur, executive producer
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of College Hill Celebrity Edition on BT Plus Tracy Edmonds.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: She talks about the importance of acknowledging our accomplishments and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the power we hold. You know, the other thing that's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: important is to know where you came from and also
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: feel empowered. You know that you're black. You know, while
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it's important to know the history of slavery and the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: challenges and the obstacles that we've had to overcome as
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: a race, it's also important to know the accomplishments that
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: we've made as a race. You know, learning about all
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: those contributions that African Americans have made really helps you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: feel empowered as an individual. If you want to listen to,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the full interview with Tracy Emonds is available on money
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Making Conversations dot com. Now let's return to Money Making
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. My next guest is Jermaine Carter,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: otherwise known as Jane Young, a Million Dollar Kid m
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: d K. He's a rapper, mild Marvel was bet to me.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: That's the show actor and multi entertainer when he's not
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: spending time being a proud father. Is to see you
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: or before I go Hollywood a full service management, marketing
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and entertainment company. You can catch Jermaine on tour. You
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: can catch him on YouTube, showcasing live performance with Jamie
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Fox and Snoop Dogg, or performing hits on stage with
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: some of my comedy friends. Gary On's a Country Wayne. Please,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass the one and only
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Jermaine Carter. How are you doing, sir? Hey? What's going on? Boss?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: How are you doing? I mean, first of all, that
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: intro was thank you for that intro that I started
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: looking like, wait, who's he talking about? So talk about
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you for that intro um And I'm just excited to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: be here. Um done a little research on you, Willie,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of research search on you. So just excited
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to be a part of this, this interview and everything
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that you guys got going on over there. Well, you
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: know this is about you. You know it's about because
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I try to take the interviews and just show people
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that you're just a regular person. God is giving you
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a talent and instead of running from it or instead
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of being afraid to step out there and be different,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: you are doing it. But it still comes with bomps,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: it still comes with excitement, still comes with celebration, but
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it still is a journey and you have not stopped dreaming.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And that's what this interview is about. And so you're
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: young guy, You're out there and you're meeting talented people.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Are I mentioned a lot of famous people in this
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: in your intro? How does that correlate with what you
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: trying to do so you can make sure you you
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: develop your name your brand Germain. Um, Well, first of all,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I named my company years ago before I've ever been
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood. I named it before I go Hollywood, so
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that already lets you know, like my mindset um. And
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: my first album was called Now or Never, so that
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: lets you know my mindset. I'm always one of those
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: types of people that look at the glass it's half full,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm always that type of person that want to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: surround myself with greatness, surround myself with positive people, surround
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: myself with people that's head it in the same direction
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: as me. Are people that's already there um to the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: destination where I'm trying to get. So so they become
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: mentors in a way for you when you see them,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and they can tell you. Because one thing I love
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: about the younger generation because a lot of y'all get
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: wraps because you know, people say, y'all want to take
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: it easy, y'all, y'all lazy, y'all don't want to work
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: hard for I say, y'all, take advantage of technology. You know,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I grew up. I was born the rotor Vidale telephones
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: was out there. Okay, you born in the internet, the
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: social media video phones. You should take advantage of that.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: How do you take advantage of it through social media
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: outside of the relationship that you meet physically. Well, I
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: would say with the social media thing, it's just that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: it's like the whole world is available to you. Like
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you said, like maybe when you were doing it, you
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you probably had you had to physically do everything right,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: so you you had to go meet people at a party,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: probably within your city. You probably wasn't meeting people in London.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: You weren't meaning people in Asia, you weren't meet people
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in Africa. But now, um, which is a huge advantage,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: And so anyone that's not taking the advantage of that
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: is Yeah, I don't know what to tell you, but
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: it is a huge advantage because now I could get
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on this phone, like we're talking right now, You're in
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: a complete different city, complete different state, completely you know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you like somewhere completely different than me. I'm in Los
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Angeles right now, But somehow we're conducting this dope interview. Um,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: just based off of this phone and based off of technology.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: So we go the same way with creating fans, creating customers,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: creating anything. Um. You you definitely have the advantage nowadays.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: But with it being in the advantage, it becomes a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: disadvantage too because at the same time everyone's doing it
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: versus if you are a hustler back in the day
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and you're doing something back in the day, you might
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: have had a couple of people to compete with. But
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: now in me twenty two, you have the world. If
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the grandma decided to pick up the phone because she's
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: want to do a rap, and then she could without
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: just like you could throw it out and people pay
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: attention to that quicker than they made pensions in your stuff,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you know, because I really, really, you know something, Just
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: tell you something, Germain. I've interviewed a lot of people,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: but you hit it dead on the nail right there.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Because of the fact that time allows me. Like I said,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I remember when I started doing pause parties, you know,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: passing out my flies and all that. Now fast forward today.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: You know, somebody post on social media, they got followers.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: It's in New Zealand, it's in Canada, it's in Brazil,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: it's wherever that feed takes that brand. But that can
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: be scary too, because I just read where you know,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you know, the star of the Spider Man series. You
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: know he's taking a mental break from his social media
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: because of what he reads on a constant basis. How
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you deal with social media because we're seeing more and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: more people, especially people of color, acknowledging the mental stress there.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Used to be that we would never tell we have
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: we this. Black people always hide that and hold that
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: back in. But mental stress is a real big problem
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: talk to us. So yeah, um, I mean as as
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: far as me, I try not to, Like I said
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a little earlier, like I'm a glass half full type
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: of person. So the biggest thing, like with this with
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: social media, is just knowing who you are and knowing
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: what you're there for. You have to know who you are.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: If you don't know who you are, you you're gonna
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: have problems in life period because someone could tell you're
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: something else and someone could say you look ugly, are
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you stupid? Are you you you're broke? Are you like
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: our look at you because of the color your skin,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and you will feel insecure about that. But once you
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: know who you are, you know what you represent, you
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: know what you stand for, then at that point it's
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: harder to you know, I'm not saying it's easy because
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: we all go through it, right Like, we all want
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: validation sometimes from other people, and that's where we get stuck,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: where we want that other person to say we look good.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: We want that other person to say, and in Spider
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Man's case, oh, you did an amazing job on that movie,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: or you're this or you're that. But unfortunately success come
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: with hate, you know what I mean? And and that's
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: just how it is like no matter what it is like.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Imagine like you could be the person that's trying to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: start a barbershop, you know, and and you you you're
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: gonna have friends and family that don't support it, or
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: they're gonna try to limit you to what you could do.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: They're gonna try to be like, oh, I don't know,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you sure you're gonna do a barbershop. You know, they're
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: not They're not successful like that at the percentage of like,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: they're gonna feed you different things to detroy you to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to to make make you pretty much go away from
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: what you're trying to do. And this happens all the time.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: So um, you just gotta be strong minded, know who
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you are and know where you're headed, no where you're going,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and not allow no like to slow you down or
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: stop that. I'm talking to the CEO before before I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: go Hollywood. Jermaine Carter a kid and Jay Young the
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: million Dollar Kid, you know, I said earlier, he's a rapper,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: he's a model, he's an actor, multi multi entertainer. But
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: more importantly, he's an entrepreneur and a businessman. And that's
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: really where the new model is nowadays, because you used
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to go out and people just with performers. Now we
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: have your entrepreneur. What allows you to be able to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: be at our business person? Is it because you want
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: to understand how to maximize your income and opportunities versus
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: just being a town. Well with me, I always believed
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: that I want to equity in anything I do. Like
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: since I was kid, all of the people that I admired, well,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you know, starter is just admiring the talent. But then
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I started looking behind the scenes, like, okay, who's involved
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: with this? Like and I saw the people that literally
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: had generational wealth and the people that chance kids kids
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: were getting fed off it with the owners, the people
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that owned the publishing with music, the people that own businesses,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: that owned real estate, that owned McDonald's, that owned whatever.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Those were the people who were able to take care
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of their families for the long haul, you know, and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: always thought about it. I know, and I love my
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: mom My mom took very good care care me as
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: a kid, and um and and everything. But always when
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I when I grew up, I had nothing and I
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: had nothing to inherit. You know, like I'm the first
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: person that had this mindset that started from ground zero,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: so I didn't I don't want my kids, kids kids
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to have to do that. So I have to be entrepreneur.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I have to have to have equity and everything I do,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I have to be able to one day, UM make
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: their life easier than mine. And I feel like that's
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the goal for everyone, UM is to make sure that
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: your family's life is easier than yours. That's we're put
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: here to do. We'll put here to enjoy ourselves, put
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: here to take care of our family and make sure
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: that your family's life is better than yours are they
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: have a better start. If I started at ground zero,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: which I did, I should be able to least uh
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: pass my kids down ground five or ground ten. So
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: they started a tend instead of the zero. And that's
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: where and that's what's been happening to the Royal families
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and are to to uh just different races. They've always
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: been able to leave their kids something, whether it's a house,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: whether it's a little bit of money, whether it's some stocks,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: whatever it is they left from something, you know, another brand.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing for, you know. I it was interesting.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: My life has been interesting because I remember when I
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: look at you being a multi talented individual. I remember
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: in October one that was a that was a day
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: for me because I really I had a talk with
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: myself and it was motivated by my belief in my faith.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Was that I asked hard, if he allowed me to
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: just to maximize all my talents, did I would give?
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I would not I will not cheat the gifts. And
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: when I see you a model actor, you know, rapper,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you know, entrepreneur, a businessman. When you look at maximizing
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: your talents, how do you do that? Jermaine? How do you?
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: How do you decipher and monitor and multitask all that
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: not just in a daily basis, but a weekly and
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: a monthly basis. I think the biggest thing for me
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: is passion. I just have a passion for it. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: don't do anything that I don't love, you know, like
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I could do I'm pretty sure I'm one of those
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: types of people that could do anything I want to do,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Like there's nothing I can do if I put my
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: mind too. But I'm not gonna put my mind that everything.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I'm only gonna put my mind to things I genuinely love.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I love music, so that's why I do it. I
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: love acting and film, that's why I do it. I
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: love hustling, That's why I'm an entrepreneur. I just have
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: a passion for. Like, that's the things that make me happy. Now,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: if it didn't make me happy, there's things I've tried
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: that was like mm hmm, yeah, that's not for me,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: you know. But if it wasn't, the fact that I
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: couldn't do it, well, it's just I just didn't have
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: a passion for And that's not what I lay. I know,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: if I don't love something, I'm not gonna do it
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: well because I'm not gonna give it my all. So
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like one of the biggest things to begin
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: with is finding your passion. What do you love to do?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: So if you find something that you love to do
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: that you will do for free, although you want to
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: make money eventually, but you would do this thing for free,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: then that's your passion. And then you wake up and
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you're smelling and then bring you joy and bring you happiness.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: That's your passion. So that's something that you will naturally
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: excel in because you already love it to begin with. Now,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: if there's three things, then I always say, don't put
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: your eggs in one basket. Do all three, you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: like and see what's for you. And then maybe two
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: of them get weeded out and you're only do one
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: thing or maybe one thing to work for you at
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the moment. And then he transitioned then other things like
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: sometimes music works for me, and then and film's not
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: going on, and then I do that, and then a
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: film opportunity comes up, So now I'm doing film, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: then I'm doing film, and a modeling opportunity comes up,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: So now I'm gonna do modeling. I'm gonna run with
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the opportunity at the same time, while I'm still doing
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: everything and going in the right direction. You know, my
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: career path. I love it. I'm speaking to a Jamaine card.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: How did how did m d K? Million dollar kid?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: How did you get How did that become part of
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: your brain? How did that become part of your brain?
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Because I love it well. When I when I was
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: when I was a little kid, they used to tell
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: me I look like a million dollars and I love
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: so I went from I was I was just Jay
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Young at the time and um and I had a
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: friend also who used to call itself a million dollar
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: man based off of Ted d Beyonce the wrestler, right right,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: So I kind of got that name from I was
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: thinking of Anna like an extra name, like an A
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: K A. And he was like, man, you look like
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: a million dollars. So on set of calling myself a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: million dollar man, I went with the million dollar kid,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and then eventually I nailed it down to J Young
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: M D K instead of being like J Young the
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: million dollar Kids, so it became M D J. Well.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I first off, just to reviate that, we'll be right
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: back with more money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations master Class with
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. When I when I throw out these famous names,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and then you know, your stage with Snoopy on stage
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: with you know, we know his career, one of the
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: ogs of Wrap. You know, Dion stage with the Oscar
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Winner and Jamie Fox. Then you're on stage with Cartion Wayne,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: then your stage with Gary on that's a lot of
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: different people you're hanging with. Man, that's a lot of
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: different you know, uh brands, how do you? How do
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: you float like that? Come on to ain't talk to us?
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: You know what's so crazy? Every since ever since I
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: was young, I'm a master networker. Like I've mastered networking. Right,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: This is what I've always tell people. If Obama was
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: in my city, somehow I would end up at the
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: party where Obama was gonna be in a section with Obama.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: It's just like that's just my life, Like every single
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: time is just you attract what you know. You're just
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the energy, it's the hustle, it's what you attract, you know.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Um So it's just always worked like that for me.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I've never been afraid either. I've never been afraid. I'm
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: the person that when I see something and people are like,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: oh wait, that's jay Z, don't go over there, because
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: you know that's exactly where I'm gonna go. I'm going
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: directly to what I'm trying. I'm not afraid to hear now.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: And that's important because people know in fear kind of
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: married itself, you know, because of people don't want to
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: make that transition. Don't want to because of fear of rejection,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: fear what people might think of him. That is a
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: that is an incredible leap for a young person. And
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: how do you make that leap? And then with people
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: question you, Jay, how do you resist? Uh? Not been
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: falling victim to their questioning, our doubts because their doubts
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: and their doubts like I'll believe that And go back
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: to when you say believe in yourself, Like, um, Tom
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Brady know if he throw the ball that he know
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: how he This is what I would say, not even
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady And he's a he's a going and football right.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: But let's go to Steph Curry for example. Steph Curry
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: could close his eyes and make the shot. Why because
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: he put in that much work to practice that hard.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: It's not the game. It's not because of the game.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: It's because of the practice. He knows what he's He
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: know the hours he put in, He know the work
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: that he put in. So by the time he gets
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to you and he makes the shot or he shoot
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the shot, he knows what's gonna go in. So he
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: can't He don't have time for people to be like
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: you imagine, he was very small coming out of college,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: people like he would never work in the NBA, and
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: he ended up being a person that transformed the whole
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: NBA to where everybody want to shoot threes. Now everybody's
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: shooting threes from half court. And that's that's based on
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: the simple fact that he practiced, and he practiced, he
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: became confident and confidence, you know, like you get confidence
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: with with with practice. You know you're good. So nobody
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: else have to validate that you're gonna be good. Are
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: you gonna be okay or nothing? You just you work,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: keep working on yourself, put your head down, go straight,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: don't worry about what people say. You know, when people
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: say bad things about you, don't listen to them. People
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: say great things about you. Listen to it a little bit.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: But just keep working, working. Now, Now we're you know,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: we got the pandemic out there, we got the George
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Floyd's situation. But here's my man, Jay Young. In twenty
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: he made history being the first artist to release a
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: four rap album and r B album on the same day. Now,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about. How you continue to push
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the limits. Now when this idea came to you, that's
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I always telling about when I'm saying that, you know,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and it's not a negative statement, but people were pushing, go,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: that's crazy, why do that final final lane? You're trying
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: to do too much? Because I'm sure all those statements
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: came at you, but you did it anyway, What did
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: you gain by doing that? Well, first of all, I
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: heard that all my life when it comes to that
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: you're doing too much because I'm I was an athlete first,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: so I played football, played on both sides of the
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: ball um, I played wide receiver, I played defensive back,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: running back, everything, So I was already I've always been
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: used to being a slash type of player, you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: like playing on both sides. So that that helped me
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: going into regular life when it comes to doing other things.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: So naturally, I just love to feel challenge like so,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm always thinking of what's the next thing that
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: nobody else has done? Are very few have done? You know?
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: So that that's how at the time I was doing
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: a thing called fifty Songs fifty weeks. That was when
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I was released one song every week for fifty weeks.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: So while dropping a lot of music dropping weekly, I
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: was like, man, I might as well put together a
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: full body of work, you know, and and the beauty
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: about the fifty songs fifty weeks, and you didn't know
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: what you're gonna get. I was dropping rap records. I
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: was dropping on the records. You just didn't know. You
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: had to tune in to see what you can get.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: So so I said, you know what, Let's drop two albums.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: First of all, one could be R and B, one
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: could be rapped, since I'm releasing a lot of a boat.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: And I was like, wait, let's drop it on the
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: same day, because nobody's ever done that. I mean, they're sure.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: There's been double albums, like Tupac All Eyes on Me
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: was the first double album, but it was a double
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: rap album. It wasn't like one R and B album
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and one rap album, like two different genres. So I
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: was like, Okay, that would be cool. Because I'm already
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: doing something called fifty songs fifty weeks, why not do
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: two albums one day. And that's how that happened. And
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: the reaction was, I mean, every news outlet, everybody picked
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: it up. And it was happening during the pandemic at
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: the same time, when a lot of people weren't really
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: they were signed with labels, and that go back to
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: your independence and your equity and your ownership. Because I
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: was able to decide what I wanted to do and
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: when I wanted to do it. I didn't have to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: wait for a label to say, nah, it's a pandemic. Um,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: we're not gonna allow you to drop music, you know.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: So I was able to on my own say I'm
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: gonna release as much music. Okay, Now I'm gonna drop
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: two albums on the same day. Okay, Um, a couple
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: of months later, I want to release another album to
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: make it three albums within three months. Like you know,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: it was just whatever we wanted to do. I'm talking
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: to the CEO or before I go Hollywood. Now now,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Jamie foxxx new movie on Netflix Day Shift. This is
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: what we're talking about, right, Okay? Now I saw it
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: this I saw it Saturday. Okay, Look, I loved it.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: And to my understanding, you got some news and they ship.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yes, sir, so they ship. First of all,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: you haven't seen it yet, make sure you go to that.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: First of all, it's the number one movie in the world. Literally,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: it's a hundred and fifteen countries, is number one in
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: right now, and they straight it's a hundred and ninety countries.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: If I'm gonna get if we're gonna talk about Jamie,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: let's talk about it. The number one movie on Netflix. Okay,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: this is the second number where there the number one
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: ship calm here the number one moving for that. Now
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: it's a hundred nine countries. My man, Jay Young, I'm
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: interviewing it right now, bowling with some music and Day Shift.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: If you don't just watch Day Shift, stop what you're
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: doing right now. Snoop in it, Franco in it. It's
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: ballers making good. Whoa uncle? Snoop in that thing? You
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: you you gotta go see it. Um so yeah, speaking
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: to that. So you see this right here. BSB actually
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: is right there. So that's the name of our group,
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Fox and my guys Sam. So what we did is, um,
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  Speaker 1: because Man, I really appreciate this interview. I love your energy,
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  Speaker 1: and I want this relationship to continue. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to I want to ship before as we close out, man,
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  Speaker 1: because violences. You know, you know, I grew up in
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  Speaker 1: the whole rap when it's first exploded, and it seemed
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  Speaker 1: to calm down. But now it seems like every time,
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  Speaker 1: at least every month or every quarter or young rapper
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  Speaker 1: is becoming a victim of senseless violence within the rap
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  Speaker 1: community on stage, you know, at the house, at their apartment,
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  Speaker 1: in the streets. What is happening there? What am I missing?
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  Speaker 1: What information? Could you can tell me? They can help
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  Speaker 1: me out? You know, it's it's so much. It's I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's so much, you know, me being from Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: living in Atlanta. Um, like I see it firsthand, Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing people get locked up, I'm seeing people get killed.
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  Speaker 1: I know friends has gotten killed. I feel like, not
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  Speaker 1: even just music right now, the state that we're living
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  Speaker 1: in definitely an American man, as a young black American,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's bad. It's bad. You know, like everybody
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  Speaker 1: everybody determined knowledgy and the raps and everybody talking about
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  Speaker 1: my ops ops, I have to go kill this person.
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  Speaker 1: No that's not your ops. But um, everybody everybody's like
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  Speaker 1: and and also you have to think about the record
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  Speaker 1: labels that's actually promoting this stuff. I mean you can't
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  Speaker 1: you can't say anything about the LGBT community or you
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  Speaker 1: will be canceled. But you could go. You can talk
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  Speaker 1: about killing the Black Man and it's gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: number one song on the radio. So what is what
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  Speaker 1: messages that sending to us? And you've got all these
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  Speaker 1: people who are coming from poverty, who have nothing, who, um,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: who Who's who's promoting a certain lifestyle and and getting
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  Speaker 1: rich off of it. But maybe it's one or two
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  Speaker 1: people or tem people out of the city that got
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  Speaker 1: rich off, then there's thousands of people that's getting killed
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  Speaker 1: off of it, you know, for the same lifestyle that
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  Speaker 1: that we're promoting. But it's just I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the state because I'm not involved in that type of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but I do see it and I just feel like
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  Speaker 1: the promotion of it, the promotion of it, it sounds cool,
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  Speaker 1: but it's real stuff Like this is the craziest generation
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  Speaker 1: of music ever. I remember when when you had like
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: the jay z s and all these people talking about
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: they talked about things they used to do that they
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  Speaker 1: were over now that they weren't doing. This is a
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  Speaker 1: generation that's like I slid on my I went shot
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  Speaker 1: am I killed them, and they really did it, and
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  Speaker 1: they're really doing it at the time when they're saying it,
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  Speaker 1: it's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Um.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: But and and how do we fix it? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know completely. I'll be lying if I said I know
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  Speaker 1: how to fix it because it's been so many years
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: of gangs going at each other. This person killed that person.
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  Speaker 1: Now this person has to get revenge and the other
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  Speaker 1: person now they got to go get revenge and now
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  Speaker 1: they're back at it again. It's just like it's crazy
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how it stops. I don't know. Um, well,
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  Speaker 1: I know I know how it stops. It stops with
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  Speaker 1: this conversations, you know, and also with us and with
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  Speaker 1: us us you know, you know the answer. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: you know you you're so articularly you're you're very smart.
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  Speaker 1: You you you're educating me. Okay, you know I would
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  Speaker 1: from this interview. But how it stops really is is
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: a respect and being humble and being willing to walk away.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: And that's a problem. You know, people don't want to
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: walk away, and then people want to issue threats and ultimatums,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and then people are challenging them, unfortunately, challenging them with violence,
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  Speaker 1: and that just leads us to go why. But more
• 55:47
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