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Yolanda Adams, Phil Thornton, Dyana Williams & Atron Gregory · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is a industry of friend and a
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  Speaker 1: personal friend. Uh. He's a music industry executive, television producer
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  Speaker 1: and senior vice president and general manager of r c
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  Speaker 1: A Inspiration. Inspiration is the number one label and gospel
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  Speaker 1: music home to Kirk Franklin. That's my man, Fred Hammond,
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  Speaker 1: that's my boy, the Walls Group, Landra Johnson, and many
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  Speaker 1: many Moore. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation. I call
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  Speaker 1: him a visionary. Please welcome Phil Thornton man. I'm honored man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, thank you for that compliment. I know I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed lunch and that means that once this calls down,
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  Speaker 1: I missed your smile of phase out it to you
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  Speaker 1: in l A when you're being honored in the Legends
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  Speaker 1: Award ceremony and UH good friend about Kelly Rowland's UH
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  Speaker 1: brought you on stage and many more good people could
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  Speaker 1: bring you. I was just happy I was there to
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  Speaker 1: to see you being on it for that tell us
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  Speaker 1: before we get started, because it's all about music, it's
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  Speaker 1: all about a body of work. What it felt like
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  Speaker 1: to be be honored at that at that ceremony, it
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  Speaker 1: was humbling. It was I couldn't believe it. Just to
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  Speaker 1: be in the room filled with so many people that
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  Speaker 1: I've known since my journey in this business and starting
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  Speaker 1: at twelve years old. Just to be in that room
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  Speaker 1: and the field that love, just it was humbling and
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  Speaker 1: just grateful and just I couldn't even believe it. I
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  Speaker 1: always I couldn't even remember my speech right right. It
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  Speaker 1: was just overwhelmeding. It was overwhelmed. Well, it was happy
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that I know I was blessed
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  Speaker 1: with that honor and it was unexpected, and that those
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  Speaker 1: are the type of artists you you appreciate more because
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  Speaker 1: you know you're just working hard. Okay, Phil, And then
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  Speaker 1: somebody tapped you on the shows. You know something we
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  Speaker 1: noticed that you know thise what you're doing and and
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  Speaker 1: it's a blessing. We want to bless you by honoring
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  Speaker 1: you and telling the world what we think about you.
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  Speaker 1: And we also know that the celebration always benefits go
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  Speaker 1: to charitable donation to help out people who have not
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  Speaker 1: been successful in business, all have fallen on hard time.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a dual honor. You get honored, but also
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  Speaker 1: we celebrate by honoring individual creating incomefort and individuals who
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  Speaker 1: are suffering or not doing well at that time. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a double edge celebration. Absolutely, absolutely, man. And
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  Speaker 1: to my you know, my understanding, we raised a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money that night, and which is I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: a path to goal, which was the blessing in it all.
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  Speaker 1: So that was great to hear that. So yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: know we do. Just we're going into the third quarter
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  Speaker 1: and when we were started out the year smiling, then
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic hitt and uh now we're into this civil arrest,
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  Speaker 1: which is understandable as an African American man, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna let people know one out of one thousand black
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  Speaker 1: men and black boys who have stopped by the police
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  Speaker 1: are likely to be die. That's a statu of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't know. Over their store in Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles time, that's two point five times higher than white men.
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  Speaker 1: That happens to white men and white boys when they
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  Speaker 1: stopped by the police one out of one thousand, and
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  Speaker 1: people wonder why we are concerned about police brutality. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: concerned when police stop us as black individuals, especially black men.
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  Speaker 1: And just let's just talk about your business from a perspective,
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  Speaker 1: starting with the pandemic when it hit, some changes you
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  Speaker 1: had to make in the whole circle of communicating people,
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  Speaker 1: your personal life, your business life, phil you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that time didn't make hit. This is uh in March,
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  Speaker 1: we're actually on you know, past the day market than
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  Speaker 1: quarantine and social distant thing at Sony Music, so we
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  Speaker 1: know our meetings have been converted to all Microsoft Teams meetings,
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  Speaker 1: so we're still getting some faith time, but it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a little different. Uh, you know, we were staying all
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  Speaker 1: of our meeting agenda than data and sales everything by
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  Speaker 1: way of the share feature called Microsoft Teams. But it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's been quite a transition. But we've still been
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  Speaker 1: grateful to release music videos and songs because some music
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  Speaker 1: videos we had already in the can and then somebody
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  Speaker 1: actually created over during the pandemic. But we're getting very
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  Speaker 1: responsible with the very limited crew and social distance things.
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  Speaker 1: We've still been recording songs and albums. He's still have
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  Speaker 1: been recording music videos, one of which is Kirk Franz's
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  Speaker 1: new video which just came out called Strong Guys. So
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  Speaker 1: we actually captured that over the pandemic. So can you
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  Speaker 1: get that video to it so I can put it
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  Speaker 1: on my social media and my newsletter because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know the name. Brother, you know me, I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: marketing Google. You will have it in your inbox shortly,
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  Speaker 1: my boy, you're my boy. You're talking about Kirk a
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  Speaker 1: new song come yeah, definitely comly and and and it's
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  Speaker 1: so timely reshound of what Kirk's talking about. This song
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  Speaker 1: is called Strong God and he's speaking about some of
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  Speaker 1: the social injustices, you know, to our country and just
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  Speaker 1: everything happening and he pressed depends there and it's a
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  Speaker 1: really profound, such a powerful song. Um in pouns video
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  Speaker 1: absolutely well. This month is Black Music Month, um i uh.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to Diana Williams. I called her the mother
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  Speaker 1: of Black History, of the brand Ambassador of Black History.
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  Speaker 1: She's uh, she's incredible. I always tell her, I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we won't see it like like with you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see her enough. And this is gonna change
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  Speaker 1: in the third and four quarter this year because we
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  Speaker 1: want the mission to change the game. And she was
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  Speaker 1: telling me about the the Hall of Fame at the
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  Speaker 1: museum that's opening in Nashville in the Labor Day weekend
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  Speaker 1: or that month of labor the month of September. But
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about Black History Month, the importance of it,
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  Speaker 1: the importance of black music period well as if it
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  Speaker 1: was as a black man and as an executive at
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  Speaker 1: a major record company, I celebrate I celebrate black music.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's just my edition. But we're gonna put extra
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  Speaker 1: emphasis on black music. You know all about that, I
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  Speaker 1: mean black music. But when you think about black music
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  Speaker 1: and black musicians, it is they are the basis of
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  Speaker 1: all genres of music. When you think about R and
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  Speaker 1: B blue hip hop, blue boll let's go back, R
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  Speaker 1: and B, bloom, jazz, gospel, like, so many genres of
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  Speaker 1: music were derived from just those initial genres of music.
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  Speaker 1: Those are rock and roll country like, those are created
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  Speaker 1: by black individuals. And so this is a month where we,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just salute and honored them. I did an
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  Speaker 1: I D piece and Billboard last year about the importance
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  Speaker 1: of black music, and they continue important not only about
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  Speaker 1: black music for black executives, and that's another thing in
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  Speaker 1: the other areas because we also need people in the
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  Speaker 1: board rows and that these companies to reflect the music
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  Speaker 1: that we're releasing at the director companies. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was really important because, like you said with Kurt Franklin,
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  Speaker 1: it's timely. Music is timely because music plays a major portion,
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  Speaker 1: a major part in protests, made a part of inspiring people.
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  Speaker 1: Music music, music is emotionally driven and that that emotion
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  Speaker 1: can turn into activation, which you can turn into change.
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  Speaker 1: So so being a guy who's been in the music
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  Speaker 1: business and because you're an inspiring figure, you know you
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  Speaker 1: know that you know that you said something you've been
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  Speaker 1: wanting to do since you're twelve years old? What what?
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  Speaker 1: What those the natural instincts of music that affects you
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  Speaker 1: feel music? Just you know, I listened to what I'm happy,
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, I listened to her when it's
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  Speaker 1: trying times and we're going through a crisis like we're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with, whether it's the pandemic or some of these horristic,
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  Speaker 1: you know, traumatic events that we've witnessed. I've heard about
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  Speaker 1: seeing the videos for brother George Floyd and Amada Arebury.
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  Speaker 1: We saw those videos. We saw and heard that audio. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like when I think about the Civil Rights movement,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the actual movement itself, music was such a
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  Speaker 1: part of that time. But it's such as you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I think about you know, the the Curtis May
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  Speaker 1: films and the James Browns and Marketing Gage, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like a lot of these an these brothers,
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  Speaker 1: they were speaking to what was happening during that time,
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  Speaker 1: and to me, it's no difference. So to me music
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  Speaker 1: when I listened to those songs, I was listening to
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  Speaker 1: market Gay actually, uh yesterday and I'm in Dallas now,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, literally I was in my hotel just
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  Speaker 1: vibe and out and I'm like, man, just somethings haven't changed,
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  Speaker 1: but it's getting the lyrics still, they're still here and
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  Speaker 1: that's all present. But it's just makes me think about
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  Speaker 1: that time and how to cope and get through what
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  Speaker 1: we're dealing with now because we've seen this. My ancestors
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  Speaker 1: have seen this, my parents, my grandparents, my family, they've
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  Speaker 1: seen this before because they made it on the other
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  Speaker 1: side and so were we. But music is a source
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  Speaker 1: to getting to the other side and coping and hoping.
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  Speaker 1: You still distressed and just the anxiety. But yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's music for me. Wow, brother, brother, there's also many
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  Speaker 1: of us. Dan Marvin Gaye, I got to I've got
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  Speaker 1: chills when you said that. Don't Larry think about those Larry,
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  Speaker 1: They still of us dying. Okay, if you play that
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  Speaker 1: song right now on top of George Floyd, you play
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  Speaker 1: that song right now on the on Aubrey, you play
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  Speaker 1: that song right now on top of Brianna Taylor, you
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  Speaker 1: play the song right now on Anybody that's black in
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  Speaker 1: America will understand what that is. People who may not
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  Speaker 1: just hear this good music, we hear that as an
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  Speaker 1: anthem of truth in our community. And that's why, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's why. That's why when when the whole concept of
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  Speaker 1: Black Music Month and the month of June was being recognized,
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  Speaker 1: I felt it was important because sometimes we need to
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  Speaker 1: take a moment and say, this is why music, This
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  Speaker 1: is why music makes a difference. You know, you're this
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  Speaker 1: is why we're we're special to us, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: it's important that I'm talking about it and you're you're
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  Speaker 1: being a person that delivers that content and knows how
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  Speaker 1: it affects people, not only just in record sales, but
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  Speaker 1: how they get up, how they live there to day,
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  Speaker 1: how they celebrate weddings and birthdays and parties. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know that when I was driving phil when I
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  Speaker 1: was I drove from when the pandemic immediately hit. I
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  Speaker 1: I didn't fly. I drove from Atlanta to Houston, where
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  Speaker 1: my family was at and so I loaded up by
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  Speaker 1: the hundred and fifty of my best songs. You know
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I didn't load up no talking book,
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  Speaker 1: no audio book. I loaded up a hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: of my best songs that I hit the role brother,
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  Speaker 1: But that's how he's told to do it, because they
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  Speaker 1: just hold to you. The times goes the way because
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  Speaker 1: you think about those weddings, celebrations, You think about those
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  Speaker 1: cookouts and barbecues, you think about those birthday parties. Like
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  Speaker 1: songs are soos anonymous again and a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: created by our very own people, all black people. Like
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  Speaker 1: he's an individual that has seen some of my steps,
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  Speaker 1: some of my walks, of my accomplishments and been inspired
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  Speaker 1: by it. And then I appreciate that every time he
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  Speaker 1: complishment and compliments me about it, because that means I
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  Speaker 1: gotta work harder because I'm not through, Phil, I'm not through, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: far from it. We we we can't tell him right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I know where it works on the project. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be through until we do. Hey, man, don't get
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  Speaker 1: me mad man. Just pandemic got me stopping, the stopping,
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  Speaker 1: the stopping. But we're gonna get out there. Man. Now
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  Speaker 1: you're on the board of the National Museum of African
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  Speaker 1: American Music. Tell us about the museum. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: super excited about the National Museum of African American Music,
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  Speaker 1: which will be via Nashville, Tennessee opening. We're looking at
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  Speaker 1: the September opening. The pandemic has really impacted our you know,
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  Speaker 1: opening grand opening plans. But it's just all things black music,
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  Speaker 1: RV chad, hip hop, breat game, gospel, uh you you
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  Speaker 1: naming and just and just. It's a really one destination
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  Speaker 1: a locally don't fit and Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee, directly
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  Speaker 1: across the street from Bridgetown Arena and on the other
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  Speaker 1: entrance space in the Rhyme and Auditorium. Perfect location, but
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  Speaker 1: celebrating all things black music. We got the fact in
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  Speaker 1: there you've got music, interactive activities. To me as a
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  Speaker 1: movie going and feeling the room, I mean, it's it's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Now now I know exactly what Bridge Stones that I
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  Speaker 1: threw a lot of concerts and Steve Harry not winning
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  Speaker 1: there and so that bad bar several times. Now, how
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  Speaker 1: did y'all get that location right there? Because that's a
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  Speaker 1: prime real estate location. You're not buried at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the corner, around the corner. Can nobody see you
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  Speaker 1: right in? You're in a primary fifty six thousand square
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  Speaker 1: feet dedicated to preserve it, educating, sublebrating African Americans in
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  Speaker 1: their music. Come on, talk about how do you get that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you you're on the board? You got some
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  Speaker 1: inside information? I got I got a little you know,
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  Speaker 1: originally the actually the location we're gonna be on Jefferson Street,
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  Speaker 1: and if you knew that, but retinally was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on Jefferson with the iconic icon Street, but we ended
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  Speaker 1: up going downtown with the new development. Because the city
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  Speaker 1: of Nashville and the state of Tennessee, I gotta say
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  Speaker 1: they've been extremely supportive of this whole you know, the museum, uh,
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  Speaker 1: financial and otherwise, and everyone thought, why I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have this tucked away from where we can actually
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  Speaker 1: put it prime real estate as far as this new
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  Speaker 1: Fifth and Broadway development that you know they just build
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  Speaker 1: brands backing new and just to have it in the
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  Speaker 1: heart of the city because just you know, increase that
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  Speaker 1: foot traffic. And again, you can't get no better location
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  Speaker 1: than the rhyme And I said, Bridgetone and some of
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  Speaker 1: the other you know, bars and everything down there. But
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be restaurants in there in this whole new development.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like I mean, like the fifty six thousand
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  Speaker 1: square feet um just is in Again there's an educational component,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm loving that it's about music and it's prime location.
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  Speaker 1: That that's prime real estate right there with Sean you
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  Speaker 1: alread you know, come on now, the thing that this
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  Speaker 1: what I like about it because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you want to, like I'm trying to do now during
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  Speaker 1: this civil arrest, I'm educating people and it's important. So
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  Speaker 1: if you educate people there know why you're frustrated while
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  Speaker 1: you're why there's a need to be upset and maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're joined the upset team, okay instead of the confused team.
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  Speaker 1: But the whereas it means that other other other than
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  Speaker 1: African Americans will be able to, oh what's that and
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  Speaker 1: walking there and comfortably enjoy the experience because the National
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  Speaker 1: Museum of African American History and Culture and DC is
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  Speaker 1: off the chain. You can't even get in any place.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the goal of what you guys are trying
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish with the museum in Nashville. Correct, absolutely, and
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  Speaker 1: where I can't wait to people stearing me it's I've
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  Speaker 1: seen all the schedules that I actually did a hard
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  Speaker 1: hat tour recently. It is phenomenal. Now it's a free
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  Speaker 1: admission or donations. How how does that work as far
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  Speaker 1: as the entry, Yes, sir, yeah, there will be uh
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  Speaker 1: you can purchase tickets for the attend the museum, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah they'rey ticket in group fails develpable. Awesome, that
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  Speaker 1: is that's important to say that. Now has a I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm talking in June, just just turn June and
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  Speaker 1: September as potential. Has a lineup been set yet or potential?
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  Speaker 1: This is what we're gonna do on the inaugural day
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  Speaker 1: of the event because you know, President Obama was at
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  Speaker 1: the inaugural event and uh for the African American Museum.
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  Speaker 1: So what is that opening week opening day looking at.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have it on your agenda yet, you
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: can tell me. But I'm just trying to get some
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: sneak sneak sneak peak information from our listeners, you know.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: And originally, you know, before the pandemic, we had this elaborate,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: bigger grand openings for September, but due to the you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the current circumstances, we're reevaluating everything to see what makes sense.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: But I will tell you that said, we have the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: huge gonna be a huge celebration either way, even though
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: we have to move the actual grand opening celebrations back
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: in two months. We've got some big, big, big names
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and even for our legend gala that we host, you know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Anny Lee Dan Williams when you mentioned earlier, the co
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: founder and mother Black Music Monk, She and I, you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: co chair the you know, the alleged gale a couple
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: of years ago, and so we're actually gonna co chair,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: uh the next one and Honor I'll tell you, one
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: of the biggest artists in the world. That's all I'll say.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Either right there, well, I know, come on now the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: biggest artists, Come on, now, we got who it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not even gonna mess with you like that,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna because because it's only one. You know, Michael
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Jackson dead. Okay, she she left out there by herself.
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  Speaker 1: That I'm just gonna say. I just said one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest artists. Everyone. I love it. I love talking
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to you. Now. Let's let's talk about what are some
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: of the ways in your eyes you see music industry
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: changing over next several years, because you know we have
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: We've seen how labels and people are dropping their own music,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the digital growth of digital and everything as far as
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the music injury concern. What do you see now with
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the music industry over the next several years, Pheel, I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: see the increased growth of our independent labels. I think
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: we're gonna see even more. We've seen them a huge
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: ride already, but I think we're gonna see more uh
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: indie labels popping up and just having more strategic partnerships
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: with majors. There always be a place of major record
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: labels because that the added services and the value they
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: add with you know some of the accountant on the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: sink licensing level. There's a lot of diet that majors asked.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: So I still see may just having a place. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: just think the relationship will change where I think we're
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: gonna see a huge increase of independent labels and artists
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and produce your only I think we're gonna be a
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: big rise of the right right. I know my intro.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I just spoke to Nerica. I said music industries, academic,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: television views and all that stuff. But tell us about
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: some of the artists that you you you manage, and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: some of the people you've had at your label that
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you work with. So people here to clear understanding feel
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of your body of work and why I'm so how
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and you you know your accomplishment at such a young age,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and your your television features that you've been out to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that you pitched and as well as Adam executed. Tell
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: us about a little bit more in detail, and uh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you know the floor is yours, as they say. Fail
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: well on the on the management side, you know I'm
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit older than I look, but you know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I um, I've managed everyone from Faith, Evan, you Candy,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: lot of more to the group as w V. You know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I was then you don't want to reuniting them in
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: they years back and work at them. So I worked
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  Speaker 1: at a wide range there. I've managed actors, you know
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Mac Wild, I had worked with Michael B. Jordan for
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: a brief stead. I mean, I've worked with a wide
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: range of talent in addition to producing some of you know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: great TV shows for Lifetime. I didn't Surviving Content movie
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that was you know, Biopico, mich Lay. I've also done
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you know, the R and B DVA series in the
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  Speaker 1: Man's World on for BT and TV one. Those shows
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  Speaker 1: have lived on, but yeah, just you know, those are
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: just some of the arts. And then on when I
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  Speaker 1: worked at my previous company E one, you know, I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: worked with the life of Leila Hathaway. We won three
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Grammys together for her live album and as you know
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: nine Weeks to nine Weeks the number one with the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: song Angel, but also had the large you're working with
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the iconic Shirley Caesar. It was instrumental. I worked with
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: my family over at W and w uh you know
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you want to secure her her star on the Walk
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of Fame, how Walker that was so again again, I've
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: worked with some of the best the best, and I'm
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: completely grateful. I would do it again again. Just great
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: to have all these different touch points for people on
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: TV music. Um, it's incredible. We know. Well. The thing
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: about it is, you know I've been fortunate to slide
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: alone that same run, and you know, being a talent manager,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: which is a whole different langue, and being a television
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: producers a whole different lane. Drop to CD with my
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  Speaker 1: man Osley with Ron Ron Osley back in the day
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: when he was over the Island Records. So each genre
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: called for a different hat. How do you manage all
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the different hats and maintain your sanity? My team, my
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: team in each area with each venture and each relationship,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: whether it's an artist I'm managing, whether it's a TV
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: show I'm producing, so, whether it's my bird day of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the label, it is the team in those respective areas
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that I rely on and trust and support because I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: may have the initial baby, you know how, we may
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: have that initial idea, so we're nothing about the people
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to help with execute this. So I gotta I gotta
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: give credit to my team. I could not do it. So,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: whether it's my production crew on one of my TV
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: or film for or again my artists that I mean
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: manage all of the day to day people be accounting
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the alternity, the systems like we couldn't do without them.
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  Speaker 1: So that that's is how I'm able to balance and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: juggle at all. And it is a juggle. But I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: also making sure I'm getting making time for me as well,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: my mental, my physical, my just my overall standards. So
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that's important too. Awesome, awesome and closing, you know, you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: know gospel music, does gospel music get the respect it
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: gets as far as uh, you know, you have pop,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: you have R and B, hip hop and all these
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: genres kind of like explode and and and in the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: industry is for its video or views as far as sales,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: what in gospel has influences influences at all? You know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's the it's the basis of everything happening pop, so
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: R and B all at hip hop? What what do is? What?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: What are your what is the state of your thoughts
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: about gospel music as a genre when you talk about
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: music and in you know what gospel has gone back
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  Speaker 1: and when you think back to the to the seventeen
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth century, Mary gospel has been around. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those beginning John is the foundations of what we call
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: American music to this day. Actually, actually during the pandemic, gospel,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: interesting enough, was one of the few joals that we
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: saw an increase in streaming en downmod that that that
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you know, so that that is a testament to the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: longevity and no gospel it's not going anywhere. I mean,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: we just did a verse this online stottle with a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: celebration should I say, were Kirk Franklin and Fred Hammond,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you know, just a you know, a little while ago,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and just to see the outpouring of love and support
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: from everybody from Kerry Washington to Snoop Doggs just literally
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: part of this celebration and just to see the members
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and people celebrating with some gospel music on the big stage.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And so gospel absolutely, I think it's gonna get better.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Some of these new artists, uh in the marketplace, like
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: your tarent Hawthorns, you're Travis Green and Johnson mcgremold's this
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the bright spot, it's the bright Stoctor Gospel going forward.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna continue to celebrate with Kirk Branking and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you're lying to Adams So I'm married Mary and the
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  Speaker 1: people we know them love, but we're also gonna pay
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: it for. But I think the future looks extremely bright
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: for you like that. And you said, Travis Green, I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: love that young man. Craiz, I love that young man.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: You know it's a beautiful thing. Uh as usual. I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming on the show. You
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: owe me Kurt Franklin's video and you over and each
• 24:28
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• 24:38
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• 24:42
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  Speaker 1: I'm driving people this website. I went to website, got jealous.
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  Speaker 1: Was not the only jealous because I'm beautiful to look
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  Speaker 1: but how beautiful you look? Going like, hey man, I
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  Speaker 1: need to need to work with her. Please. Walking to
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  Speaker 1: money making conversations the mother of Black music, Mom Deanna
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  Speaker 1: williams Son. Thank you for that beautiful introduction, and you
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  Speaker 1: got me over here blushing and I don't think come now, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the website now. You know, got an
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  Speaker 1: arms phone, he got that little great flash. Is the
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  Speaker 1: refinement and communication. Because when people come to my show, Dianna,
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  Speaker 1: I do my research. I was just like, you know,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: they'll send me like five to ten questions like, oh
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that's cool, that's cool, let me give me five that's
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  Speaker 1: some more stuff. And so, so what you are a
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  Speaker 1: branding expert, that's what you do. And so I always look,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I always look at people and said, what
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  Speaker 1: definitely what they do? Like some people say they do
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  Speaker 1: social media that go to them and they have no followers.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I go, okay, okay, if they cannot building their brand,
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  Speaker 1: how they're gonna build my brand? And so so if
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  Speaker 1: you're an influenced person, if you're a branding expert, a strategist,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and I go to your website and I go and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that's what I do. I go, Wow, this is hot,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and I just grow down, you know, just coming down
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  Speaker 1: you're absolutely necessary to need for effective communication. You know,
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  Speaker 1: pit Bull Alan iverson. She let you know as a
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  Speaker 1: versa of the roster that she deals with here, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: then she come down here with her hand on your hand,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: underneath her cheen a little you know, a little pensive
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: look of success. You know, you know, got the got
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  Speaker 1: the Empire State building, the aerial shot on the corporate roster,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and you know she's not just dealing with talent. She
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: has fortune five hundred companies on her roster. And it's
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: just a beautiful thing that you're doing. Tell us about
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: this website before we start talking about anything else, because
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I've walked everybody through this website participation. Did you have
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: involved in this, Dianna, the floor is yours to talk
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: about your website, your website Influence Entertainment dot com. Yes
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: it is. Thank you. I have to give credit to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: like Star Media Group who designed it, and also my
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: VP Sarah Dennis Whiskey, who keeps it updated. And these
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: are people that I've had a good fortune of working
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: with over the past twenty six years. I've coached CEOs
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: of record companies. I've coached Kathy Us, the CEO of
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  Speaker 1: Urban One, tons of artists, athletes, business leaders, thought leaders,
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  Speaker 1: And it is just my passion and it is what
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  Speaker 1: it is, the divine that I've been given. It's just
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: a blessing to be able to help other people recognize
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: their strengths and weaknesses. And in that process it's allowed
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: me to grow as a professional, as a mother, as
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  Speaker 1: a woman, as a member of my community. So I
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  Speaker 1: love what I do, and I do what I love well.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's really important because you know, we we
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: met through an interview, then we met again at the
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles when he was being honored UM and the
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  Speaker 1: Legends Foundation with I was honored several years ago. And
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the blessings I keep it on my
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  Speaker 1: It's one up there with Miami, is up there with
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: my My Image Awards, is up there with every reward
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I got. I got my Legends right in the middle,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: because they're a beautiful placque that to give you beautiful
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you when somebody honors you like that, Dianna,
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  Speaker 1: tell me, tell the walkers do the steps of that,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: because that's a that's about a legacy. That's about trust,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that's about relationships, that's about people saying you your accomplished
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: things in life in the entertainment world, that's unique. And
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: more importantly, you give back may not only be financially,
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  Speaker 1: but you give back because you don't just ignore other
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  Speaker 1: people's you know, flaws, other people's missteps. You're there to
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  Speaker 1: support a mentor talk to us about that absolutely well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can speak volumes to this. With the
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  Speaker 1: awards that you decided, your multiple Emmys and then double
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: ad tons of awards. You don't do the work for awards. However,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: when your peers and your community acknowledges that you have
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  Speaker 1: been super serving, you feel good. The event that you're
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: referring to is the Living Legends Foundation. In October and
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, I had the esteem honor of receiving a
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  Speaker 1: Lifetime Achievement Award. I've been working in the music industry
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy Three's when I first got my my
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  Speaker 1: check on an ongoing basis. I was on the air
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  Speaker 1: at ninety s point three w h U R. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you're very familiar with my favor one of mine
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  Speaker 1: as well. Min gave me my start, Bob Nighthawk, Terry
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  Speaker 1: uh and so you you when you get those kinds
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  Speaker 1: of recognition, you just feel good. It's something that you
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  Speaker 1: can go like my mother, my children, my family and
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  Speaker 1: friends and say your support of me, my endeavors my
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: time away from you, traveling to be with my clients,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: going all over the world. This is this is some total.
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  Speaker 1: This is the bottom line. So you know, like you,
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  Speaker 1: I have many, many awards, but the greatest award for
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  Speaker 1: me is the love, recognition of love and appreciation that
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  Speaker 1: I get from you. And I have to agree with
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: that because of the fact that I always tell people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you might not like me, but as long
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  Speaker 1: as you respect me, we're good. Because I fight for respect.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I fight for respect, fight for respect for my client
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: or any product I represent. It's about respect because in
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the end, wanting to be like it's cool, that's all right,
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think that. I don't think your left
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  Speaker 1: legacy can be built on wanting to be liked. But
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  Speaker 1: your legacy can be built on what you accomplished and
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  Speaker 1: how much people respect you. And that's and that's where
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  Speaker 1: we're I'm leaning towards this conversation about all the people
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  Speaker 1: who have come to you for advice. Welcos do that
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  Speaker 1: step because you know, I've had my success with a
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  Speaker 1: limited amount of people. I know a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people have I've not managed them
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  Speaker 1: or put them on my roster, and they come to
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  Speaker 1: me advice. I get taxed, I get phone calls, I
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: get emails. But you they've come to you and say, hey,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: you are the one. How did you make the transition
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  Speaker 1: to that role? An excellent questions? So I started in
• 33:35
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in the Bronx and Harlem in Manhattan,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and Frankie Crocker, who was then the Dean of Black Radio,
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  Speaker 1: hired me a w BLS, which remains much like w
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  Speaker 1: voice the Clarion Voice in the black community and other
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  Speaker 1: communities as well. Uh Skip Dillard is the current program director.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, yes, he's I love him. He has just
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  Speaker 1: he's just such a he's just so accomplished and wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: But I one day I was I took a break
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  Speaker 1: from radio and I started managing an artist by the
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  Speaker 1: name of Gary Taylor. He's a songwriter, producer who wrote
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  Speaker 1: Just Gets Better with Time for the Whispers, he wrote
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  Speaker 1: Good Love for Nita Baker. Just a very talented writer, producer, artist,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and Sharon Haywood was the head of the record label
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: at that point the Black Music Division took me to
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  Speaker 1: lunch engage. She said, you know, Dianna, I've been watching you.
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  Speaker 1: Artists seemed to like you, and you seem to be
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  Speaker 1: able to communicate with them. You should do artist development.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, really, Sharon, and had never considered it.
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  Speaker 1: And then at that point I just started doing Explorer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Sharon Aaron Wood. Sharon Wood suggested. But my
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: first job came from Jimmy Damn and Terry Lewis's record label,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and I coached a group named Solo and from that point, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: my phone has not stopped ringing. I have never advertised
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  Speaker 1: I do not solicit and after Solo, I've worked with
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  Speaker 1: Vertical whole Angie Stones group that I've worked with d' angelo,
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  Speaker 1: who to this day is my closest confidante, best friend,
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  Speaker 1: you know, beloved, cared for him deeply, and like I said,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the flden just hasn't stopped ringing. So I'm typically hired
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: by publicists managers. In some cases I've had artists, um
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and then again, as we discussed the outside of our conversation,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I've worked with athletes and worked with Roy Jones Jr.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: When he was heavyweight boxer. So it's been a mix
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: of people that I've had the opportunity to work with.
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  Speaker 1: And I discovered that it was a passion. I relish
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: seeing people accomplished their dreams. I would really do and
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love to see people be successful.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: It's really it's really interesting because you're telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And I will just tell you if you ever try
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  Speaker 1: to get in this business and as a as a
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  Speaker 1: a person who sits down there, all these individuals want
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  Speaker 1: is the truth. But how you tell them the truth
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: is the key, but also also the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to tell them sometimes actually how
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  Speaker 1: it is because I talked to him all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I said, when you were represented a bout William Mars
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  Speaker 1: or I C M or c A. They got ten
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• 36:42
  Speaker 1: anywhere from five to ten commission. So that means that
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  Speaker 1: you're just a call note, the house note or whatever.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Now she'll tell you herself. She's on the end. When
• 36:53
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• 36:56
  Speaker 1: they're talking about Sean McDonald. The ages know where to
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  Speaker 1: be fine, they know where to be found. Then you
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: know when he frustrated, when things don't go right, they
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: come to After the agent doesn't talk to you, they
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: come talk to you. They come talk to me. And
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: that part of the conversation really grows you as an individual.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: And if we reflect on what we've done in our lives,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: what do you think you've taken the way the most
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: from giving people advice? What what nuggets have you brought
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: back into your life? I guess the question I'm trying
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: to ask you, Dianna. Absolutely But you know you're absolutely right,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: because with every client that I work with, I glean
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I learned, I applied to my own situation. I take
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: away some of the values and the and the lessons.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Last night I worked with a gospel inspirational gospel artists
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and I told her. At the conclusion of our session,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, I've now you've ben give me. I've
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: been lifted and inspired by what you have shared with
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: me and your journey. And so it is constantly a
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: learning process for me. I am not empirical. I do
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: not know at all, but I do know a lot.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I was a college dropout. I went back to Temple University,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: got my degree, and it strengthened me as an artist
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: development media coach. So she's a person that it's very
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: few people who have come into my life because I'm
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a real solo person. If yeah, I really um, I
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: think all the time. I would tell people that are
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours in a day, learn to use every hour.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I'm that type of person. I go to bed and
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I actually know what I'm gonna do when I get up.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: That allows me the motivation to get up. And so
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: when she interviewed me, I would say, I would call
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: this industry love. I just fell in love with her energy,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: her vision. Well, she's accomplished because she's so humble, and
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: that's a that's a quality that I have. You know
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, you've done a lot, Rashaun, you
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: don't you don't hype yourself enough. Well, I don't have
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: time to be hyping myself because I have of many
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  Speaker 1: other things I want to do. That's a that's an
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  Speaker 1: accomplishment I have achieved now one of the you're not
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: leading with the ego. That's what I would say that
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you're not leading with your ego. When you with special people,
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• 39:15
  Speaker 1: know that's in there. You know that's in the book. Now,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I don't leave. I don't need to tell people my resume.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I don't need to go to the mountain top and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: tell people I'm standing on top. They can see me,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: they can see you there exactly. Black Music Month, Okay,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: when did this start? June Black Music Month was started
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. It was actually June seven, nine
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: seventy nine. On the Law and of the White House.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Then President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalind hosted, oh
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: proximately three hundred music industry leaders. There was a concert
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: of performance with Chuck Berry, uh Sarah Powell, who was
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: a classical singer. Dexter Onesell led the MFSB Orchestra. Umble
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and Champagne King performed as well. It was a great
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: day and it was a picnic on the lawn with
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: tons of very accomplished black folks, and so that was
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: the very first celebration, and it was done at the
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: encouragement of the then Black Music Association that was founded
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  Speaker 1: by my ex Kenny Gamble, who's one of the architects
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  Speaker 1: of the Sound of Philadelphia Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: multiple Grammy Award winner. So we went that day and
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: it was a beautiful event that celebrated not just Black artistry,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: but American music, which is why it is important for
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: us to celebrate June Black Music Month as an opportunity
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: for us, a concentrated month for us to recognize the
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: contributions of people in the past, this generation of music makers,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and the ones to come. And I'm not just talking
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: about the artist on the mic. I'm talking about the songwriters,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the producers, the engineers, the people in the pressing plants,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: folks who work at Apple Music, Spotify, Title, the streaming
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: digital services, any and everybody involved in the production of
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: music and its consumption. Rashan, I'm talking also about consumers,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: so anybody who loves black music. And I might add
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: that while it's a concentrated period of time for us
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: to celebrate American music made by black folks. It's something
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: that we celebrate every single day of our lives, starting
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: when you heard your mama's heart beat. It started then
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: and it will continue until your very last breath. Really,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: because we consume huge quantities of music. Absolutely, it's really
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: interesting because Uh, music plays such an important role in
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: my life. You know, I'm fortunate uh to understand music
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: of the sixties and seventies, eighties, and each decade is
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: a transition. You know, went from the sixties that pop
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: sound of the Temptations, four Tops, dihind the Ross that
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the music shifted us, you know, shifted us. And then
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: and the funk landed, you know, in the seventies, the
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: funk landed. Then I went into the you know, the disco,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and then the then then the New Edition dragged me
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: out of the pulled me out of it, and pulled
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  Speaker 1: me out of this goal, you know, and uh, and
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: then and then we came into with Steve and I
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: started doing radio in two thousand, you know where you
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: know fusion, you know Jill Scott, you know, Kim, Alicia Keys, Uh,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Charlie Wilson, came back and the rapp of course was running, running,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: rampant all that time, but I was, I was. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: was driving the other day and I have this like
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: like two songs I have on Pandora. I was just
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: on my love playlist and I realized that there are
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: songs that I relate to that and I think about
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the person that I'm with are experiencing that moment where
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: and I go, you know something, I bet you this
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: song doesn't even mean that much to that person that
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about when I hear this song. And that's
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: what music is to me and to everybody. It's that
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: moment that's important to you when you hear it again
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: or you heard it for the very first time. It
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: might not be important to you, Diana, that same song,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: and we may be and I may be thinking about
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: you in that song. I might think think about that
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: where we were dancing, what we were eating, or club
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: we were in. But that's when I think about black music,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Mont That's what I think about. I think about the emotion,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: the memory that is important to me. You know, it
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: might not be important to you, but the music is
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: important to everybody because everybody has that same moment tied
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to some song. That's what. Well, here we go. So
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: there you go. So you're talking about the feeling, the
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: kinetic energy that music gives you. It has been proven
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: through myriads of scientific studies that music, when it's processed
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: by the brain, releases certain chemicals that make us feel good.
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  Speaker 1: So music, it is a healing force. I mean, I'd
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: rather listened to like you were talking about the Temptations,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite groups, rather than take
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: some medicine if I'm feeling damned, I'd rather get up
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and dance because it's going to release endorphins in my body.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: So music is one a universal language too. It is
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: a healing force provided to us by Almighty God. And
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I respect what everybody believes, but that's what I believe.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: And the other thing that we need to discuss is
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: that it is one of America's greatest financial exports around
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the planet, to the tune of not that hundreds thousands millions,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: but billions and many billions of dollars. Last year, the
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: music industry generated apostim at twenty billion dollars. And I
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: need to go on the record here now and say
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: much of that generated by black people we don't get
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: to participate in the ownership as much as we ought to,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: But we are generating billions of dollars from just the
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: sales of music. And then on top of that, our
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: music influences culture. Look at it across the board commercials.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I was watching a TV commercial the other day and
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: they were using Miles Davis music. I was like, look
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: at this from Kind of Blue. Miles has been dead
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: for years, but look to his music and it invoked
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: a certain kind of feeling when I listened to it.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: So music is used to sell everything from cars, to soap,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: to cereal, you name it. Music is our music is
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: a money generating you're talking about money making. Black music
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: is a money making entity and one of our greatest
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: exports globally. You know. Now you on the board or
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: you know a board member of the National Museum of
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: African American Music, which is being built in Nashville. That so,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: where are we at with that? And the real is
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: going to happen? Oh? I love this museum. It is
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: It is the combination of all of my work as
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: a music activist in the industry for many years. The
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: museum is very close to being finished and we are
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: no different. We've been impacted by the pandemic that we
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: are all currently going through. However, we're anticipating that it
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: will be finished. We're looking to do our grand opening
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: in the fall near Labor Day, and it's in fact
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: things have not cleared up and there's you know, we're
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: going to put measures in effect that will allow people
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  Speaker 1: to be able to come into the museum. However, if
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: that does not happen where we cannot physically have people
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: come in yet, we are going to do a virtual opening,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: a soft opening, and of course as con progressives and
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: it's safe for human beings to congregate, then of course
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: school will open. But this is a museum and endeavor
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: that started two thousand two and has been going on
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: ever since. Sixty million dollars raised. We only have a
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: few more million dollars to raise to finish things, but
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: it is um I am also the chair of the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Music Industry Relations Committee that consists of people who are
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: movers and shakers in the music industry who share our
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: cultural value and want to get the message out not
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: just to America but to the world at large that
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: African American black music is a cultural gem and also
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: an economic Engine. So I'm excited to be on the board.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: It's led by Henry Hicks. He's the CEO and president.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: We have an esteemed group of people on our board
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: who were religiently to preserve, promote and protect our music
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: and culture. So I'm inviting you now, Rashan, You've gotta
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  Speaker 1: come bayay Yes's Broadway at the heart of downtown Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: across the street from the original Rymans facility. That when
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: courage isn't to discover the central role of African Americans
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  Speaker 1: that played in shaping and creating all genres of American music,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: beautiful put in asta good, good question. Okay, I let's see.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I want to say maybe six seven years ago, I
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: got a letter from Henry Hicks, was the CEO of
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: the museum, telling me about this effort. And when I
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: saw Nashville, I must tell you, I got an attitude.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I was like, Nashville, that's country. What what what what?
• 48:43
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• 48:46
  Speaker 1: meet with you? And I said yes, I was polite,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: sat with him head dinner, and after that dinner, I
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: told them sold I'm there. And at first I became
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: a member of the advisory board and started dipping my
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: toe in the pond to get to know these people
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and see the movement. And as time progressed, I did
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: two fundraisers I co chaired with Phil Thoorton, who is
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: the r inspiration feel very good friends as well, and
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: we chaired too, and thence to Galas and raised money
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: for the museum, honored Charlie Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Mona Scott
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Young Yalanda Adams, keb Mo. It was a beautiful evening,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: but I decided to to put my energies into this
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: museum and started learning about the musical history of black
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: folks in Nashville the first major ambassadors of Black music
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: around the world with the disc Jubilee Singers out of Nashville, Tennessee.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: So what I didn't know as much as I knew
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: about black music, I don't know at all. But I
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: learned that Nashville was a center of music, not just
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: in the gospel arena, but all genres of musical So
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: so anyway, the civic, the government, private sector all came together.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Initially this was going to be a Black history museum,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: but it changed over the years. And again, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: sixty million dollars later, and as you've seen from going
• 50:12
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• 50:19
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• 50:29
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• 50:32
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee Music City. Thank you, Thank you. She is an endedman,
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  Speaker 1: speaker and CEO of influence entertainment. Thank you Diana Williams
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  Speaker 1: for coming on money making conversations Lashan. Thank you for
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: all you do to lift our culture our economic engines.
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  Speaker 1: She's a Grammy winning a Grammy Award winning gospel superstar
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  Speaker 1: who is abundant with love, faith and wisdom. She has
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  Speaker 1: on the show to talk about her You're Landa Adams handbags.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're Landa Aldam's bath and beauty line. Please welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to money making conversations. My friend, you're Landa Aldams.
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  Speaker 1: Well you're we're happy to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: My staff when we were going through the book of
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  Speaker 1: this d is Landa Adam times what you mean? He said,
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  Speaker 1: You know, every year by May Dams on this show
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  Speaker 1: because you helped me launch my show in twent seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: And every year you come on the show and my
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  Speaker 1: my listeners love you. They they the ones they don't
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  Speaker 1: know you become fans of yours and uh and just
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  Speaker 1: show how much I you know, we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: Adam's handbag in a minute. But this week every nine
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  Speaker 1: Am I sent my um my newsletter out to my fans.
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  Speaker 1: I got over the eighty thousand fan club members and
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  Speaker 1: and your and your link was the most clicked link
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  Speaker 1: in the newsletter for the handbags. And they're beautiful too,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they are amazing handbags. Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: that right quick. Well, first of all, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: am a girly girl. I grew up with a girly
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  Speaker 1: girl is a mom and a girly girl as a grandma.
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  Speaker 1: So my grandma's were a girly girl. So, uh, we
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  Speaker 1: always met the handbags, the scarves, the gloves, the shoes,
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  Speaker 1: everything was you know, you had a you had a
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  Speaker 1: specific thing that with with a specific thing. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the older I got, you know, the more prosperous I got,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to buy some things that you know,
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  Speaker 1: costs a little money. And then I'm started figuring, I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, I'm giving all these people all this money.
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  Speaker 1: What about my fans? Because people always ask me who
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  Speaker 1: are you wearing? Who was that buy? And I I
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  Speaker 1: started thinking, now my fans can't buy a All of
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  Speaker 1: my fans, I'll say, I can't buy a six d
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  Speaker 1: dollar bag. But what if I could give them the
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  Speaker 1: same quality, uh, and the same fashion, the same design,
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  Speaker 1: the same classic styles at a fraction of the price,
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  Speaker 1: and then they could take a piece of your loan
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  Speaker 1: to home with them, or you know, ship it to
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  Speaker 1: a loved one or whatever. And that's pretty much how
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  Speaker 1: it happened. And of course, you know, we are surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by amazing people who do all types of things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no sense of me trying to reinvent the wheel
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  Speaker 1: if someone has already success done it, and that's one
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things that you have taught so well.
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  Speaker 1: When you know someone who does something, merge with them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, do a joint venture or
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  Speaker 1: something like that with them so that you come you
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  Speaker 1: both come out on top. And we talked to the
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  Speaker 1: manufacturer and they were like, oh, of course, we love
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  Speaker 1: you and we think that that would be a we
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  Speaker 1: would have a great synergy there, because synergy is very important.
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  Speaker 1: You know, both sides are doing something that uh makes
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  Speaker 1: both of them happy and making money at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: It really is about that. You know. Let's let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the collection, because I got it pulled up because
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  Speaker 1: I got I got six sisters and I'm gonna buy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna tell you somebody I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to announce you will get a little
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  Speaker 1: little surge from the McDonald name because the clutches are outstanding,
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  Speaker 1: the cross bodies outstanding. Everything bag is out standing. The
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  Speaker 1: leather handbags, the Neon or the Neon bags are beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and the toach, the shoulder bags, the satchels.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the wallets. It's just how much involvement did
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  Speaker 1: you have in the whole putting together the collection, Yalanda, Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. I'm always hands on because I want
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  Speaker 1: no Number one, I want to know what my customer
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  Speaker 1: is getting right. That's first thing. I will never put
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  Speaker 1: out a product that I don't use and carry myself.
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  Speaker 1: When you see me show up to anything, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: a red carpet or whatever, if I have a bag
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  Speaker 1: in my hand, it's the Y bag. Love that why
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  Speaker 1: a bag? I love that you go you see me
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  Speaker 1: going to church, it's a Y bag. If you see me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, out having dinner, well before the pandemic bag.
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  Speaker 1: And and again I know that the quality of these
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  Speaker 1: bags are so amazing because these the manufacturers. The same
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  Speaker 1: guy who does um bags for Bergdoff does bags for
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  Speaker 1: uh Macy's and blooming Dell's and all of those places.
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  Speaker 1: So that was definitely important to me. Next was the
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  Speaker 1: design and the fashion flags be on point with what's
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  Speaker 1: out there right now, because I want anybody saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I like her bags, but you know they're
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  Speaker 1: like about you know, or nice in the nineties. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we are on par with what what happened during fashion
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  Speaker 1: week every twice a year, so you'll you'll never see um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, unless it's a classic bag like the tailor bag,
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  Speaker 1: like the Boss Lady bags. Uh that you know, those
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  Speaker 1: are classics that can you can get them at any time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those are great. But I am not going
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  Speaker 1: to you know, as flowers are in like they were
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  Speaker 1: last season, I am not going to not have bags
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  Speaker 1: without flowers. We know, thank you. You know. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful thing that I'm talking to. Landa Adams Um. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows her from her career as a singer. She but
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  Speaker 1: I've known her as a motivational person as an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 1: That's the side of her always. We always speak about
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  Speaker 1: when she comes on money amazing conversations because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you know, and I love when you threw
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  Speaker 1: out the word why a bag? You know, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's brand into the max right there, breaking it down,
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  Speaker 1: making the initials mean something and like and the the
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  Speaker 1: quality is what I'm just looking at it because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I know I can see you walking
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  Speaker 1: with that bag and looking normal, looking like it's part
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  Speaker 1: of your style. That's what I loved about it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why when I'm looking at it now, I'm going wow,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but I don't feel like intimidated. If a
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  Speaker 1: person who wasn't land the albums with this bag, they
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: would look natural and they would look dressed up or
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  Speaker 1: depending on what they want to want to satural they
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  Speaker 1: want to water, they want while they want to should
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  Speaker 1: bag the one throw. Over All, these different options really
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  Speaker 1: makes for like people, a person who really can can
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  Speaker 1: actually buy the collection. Yes, they actually can. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: and it's reasonable enough that you can buy more than one.
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  Speaker 1: And it's you know, if you want the higher end bags,
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  Speaker 1: we have those, but we I refuse to make them
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  Speaker 1: higher than you know, a certain amount because uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just think I want to be cognizant of where
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: everyone is in their life. And here's the foresight of this, Rashan.
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  Speaker 1: You and I had no idea that this pandemic was coming, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so where a person cannot afford a thousand dollar bag,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: five hundred dollar bag, a two hundred dollar bag, they
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  Speaker 1: can go to the website and they can they can
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  Speaker 1: look at it and say, WHA's this is? This bag
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  Speaker 1: looks similar to that twelve hundred dollar bag, right and
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: looking good looking good yes, and nobody would know the difference.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about it is that that's why when
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  Speaker 1: when I brought you on the show, I want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure people know I'm engaged. I'm not just bringing
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  Speaker 1: you on the show to talk about it. And I
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  Speaker 1: like to believe you. I grew up with six sisters.
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  Speaker 1: You though, I have a sense of that fashion of
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  Speaker 1: what my sisters wore or where, and I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment business assists of what that price line that
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  Speaker 1: you and then then I've entertained everyday people, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what it calls about, everyday people being able to reach
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  Speaker 1: it to their budget. And but when you go to
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  Speaker 1: the website, when you go to there and watch these bags,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna buy something. I'm gonna just tell you, if
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: you don't want to buy something, don't go to the
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  Speaker 1: website because it's gonna pull you in like it pull
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  Speaker 1: your ball in. And now I'm six deep with my sisters.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the things that you have always been
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  Speaker 1: so brilliant in and you've always taught me that you
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  Speaker 1: always find the price point that the people who follow
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  Speaker 1: you know. I I love ten thousand dollar bags. I
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  Speaker 1: don't own a ten thousand dollar bag because I think
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  Speaker 1: that you know, I'd rather have ten thousand dollars worth
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  Speaker 1: of stock, right right right. But you know, my thing
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: is how many of my fans and family as I
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: call them, would really invest because that's an investment in
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars as opposed to let's say, uh, absolutely absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I have to agree, and I'm just gonna stop people
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  Speaker 1: like that, people out that buying these knockoffs. You you're
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: spending more on bad knockoffs would for quality. Y back there,
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  Speaker 1: There you go, There you go, And you've always taught
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  Speaker 1: there's there's more security and numbers than just the you know,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: the branding, and we know branding is awesome. We know that, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I would rather have I would rather sell ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: bag at their price than to sell to at ten dollars.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. We're on the same
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  Speaker 1: page with money Making conference. We're speaking to your Landa
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  Speaker 1: Atoms Landa. Let me describe this. We're gonna transition to
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the next product that she she's she's out there selling
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  Speaker 1: us an entrepreneur over the years. It's called simply your Landa.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bath and body collection. Let me read this.
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  Speaker 1: Through the creation of the Simply Your landa collection, she
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  Speaker 1: aims to improve the lives of others by improving the
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  Speaker 1: skin through products from high quality knows what I say,
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  Speaker 1: high quality and greenings as long as it says. My
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  Speaker 1: passion for creating this line stems from the same passion
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I possess when creating music. Is all about being spiritually,
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  Speaker 1: emotionally and physically well. Yeah, balance, You have to have
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: balance in your life. And our our largest organs our skin.
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  Speaker 1: And it's usually the part of us that we do
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: not take care of the most right, you know, and
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: that's from the top of your head to the souls
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  Speaker 1: of your feet, as they say in the church. Absolutely absolutely,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: you know, it's really about you know, we spend a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: lot of money when it's too late for our scared
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: you know. And and and one of the things I
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: want to talk about for some reason, early on and
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: when I was in high school, you know, I understood
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  Speaker 1: my face, so I understood, you know, all these skin
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: I understood, you know, uh, pores and getting dirt out
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: of my pores, washing with cold water, washing with warm water.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Warm water opens your pores, cold water ice closes your pores,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: and what the reason I want to bring up this
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  Speaker 1: about is that we're as African Americans and we know
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: what we're dealing with in these pandemic times. You know,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll we'll we'll be we're higher victims of the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. And it starts with care, and it starts
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: with spending time. And again we come into a product bathroom,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: your bathroom body collection where guess what the price point
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: is very reasonable? Talk about that. Well, here's the As
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  Speaker 1: I got older, I realized that my skin and my
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: body were changing. Uh. You know me, I am a
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  Speaker 1: health nut. I have always taken care of myself nutritionally,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: spiritually and physically. And I found that the products that
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  Speaker 1: I was using they were costing a lot of money
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: and I was not seeing the results that I wanted.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: So I got with a friend of ours and UM,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I've been thinking really hard
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: about creating my own bath and bodyline. You know, that
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: was what we had the candles at first. And it
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, if you do that, I
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: will be a part of your your team. And um
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: we got with a scientists who was privy to some
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: of the really higher in um cosmetics and and and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: and pharmaceuticals and skin suticals and all of those things
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: that nerd sure the skin. And I told him, Hey,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: this is the thing that we have to do. We
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: have cleansed the skin, but we have to leave a
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: seal of moisture in there so people don't have to
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: continually use the too flay, you know, over and over
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: and over again during during the day, because people don't
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: have that kind of time. They get in the shower,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: they get out of the shower moisturized, they're headed to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: work or headed to wherever they're going to go. And
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: so you you know, I know all these influencers are
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: doing a lot of things right now. I mean, but
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: they're at home in front of cameras. So there are
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: real people, more than eight billion in the world, that
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: have a whole bunch to do that really don't have
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: that kind of time. And I said, so I need
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: I need a body wash, I need a body soothflay,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: which is a moisturizer, and I need a body oil
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: because there are some people who can't do you know,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: the southflay for whatever reason, but they hand do the oils.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: And I said, I definitely need a price point where
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: all my people can get it, but it has to
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: be so amazing that uh, they'll come back each and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: every time. And we have the love and the chocolate
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: that have been I mean, we've been doing the bodyline
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: since two thousand and twelves, right, we know it's really
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: interesting because I'm gonna talk to the men here, okay,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: because we always jump out there with the elbows asher
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: and the ankles look like they're cracking on our you know,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: we don't. You know, I'm gonna tell you this. I
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: look really bad. The other day. My wife had to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: check me where you're going? Where are you going with
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: no socks? Where are you going with no socks? And
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: so and so that's what Let's let's go back to
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: the body all. Okay, So let's have you know we
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: our ski and God gave us our bodies, okay, and
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: we all it's gonna naturally deteriorate, but it doesn't have
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: to naturally deteriorate fast if you take care of If
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: you take care that's right, And that's what this that's
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: what this call is about. It's about it's about taking
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: care of you. And and you have a product from
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: a stylish standpoint. You can go out there from a
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: fashion standpoint, take care of your budget, take care of you. Look,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: now we're talking about the physical side of you. When
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: you're walking out there. How you how you wash down,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: how you put all on your face Like I have
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: a ball head. So you know, I slapped that body
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: all on my head, okay, and so because that's what
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: it does for me. Because I was walking out the door,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: you know, I was just shaving and then put a
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: put a toel and white dry off the top. But
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: guess what it would kind of like start looking like
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: it was cracking up there, you know, until I started
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: putting the body all on it. That I'm just being
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: honest with you, Landa. I use your products because your
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: products make me feel better and look better. Thank you
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: so much. And that is you know, that's our intention.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Our intention is not just you know, to be in
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: your life for just the sale. You know, we want
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: to know how you feel about it because that's one
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: of the things that we say, it just feels better,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: you know. Um. I knew that as we move into
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: these um these times where the sun it's uh, it's hotter,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: it seems like the sun it seems like the former
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: uh climate. Uh, it stays with us longer than the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: winter and longer as fall. You know, you have to
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: have something that combats that. And so when men are like, well,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: what about a men's product, Well, that's what the chocolate
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: is for, you know, the chocolate men. You know, and
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: and I have some brothers who use love as well,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: because they say it reminds them of, you know, a
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: softer kind of smell that they don't have to worry
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: about whether it will clash with their cologne. Chocolate is
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: not going to clash with your cologne. I wanted to
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: make sure that you could layer this product product male good,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: feel good, nourish the skin, cleanse the skin, and then
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: you know, and and get out there and do your
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: thing in the world. Well you're doing that. That's That's
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: why I'm just letting everybody know that. Just because you're
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: on a line that says female products, Okay, these products
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: are available for everybody, especially ben and we're we're all
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: wards out there searching. Stop searching. Let's go to get
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Lane of atoms. She got it. She got product over
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: here that allows you to to take care of you.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, the elbow where where men fail.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: We fell on that elbow, We fell on those ankles
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: and ankles, but we die and they're told we forget
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: all of our toes and that's why we get bad.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: That's why told look bad in the summer. Summer's coming.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: Start getting those toes right by getting the right product.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: And you're Lyn. I wanted to bring you on the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: show just to talk about that because of the fact
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: that I support you. You know, you don't have to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: You don't have to ask me if if you would,
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  Speaker 1: if you would not have done my interview today. And
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  Speaker 1: when when um, when the pandemic started, I talked to
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  Speaker 1: first because she was so used to, yeah, the camaraderie
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Thank you for for extending this invitations
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on on multiple varieties of genre. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, first of all, you know, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: when you when you when you meet your talent to
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  Speaker 1: I know that I managed Steve Harvard currently managed to
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  Speaker 1: manage Steve hard from two thousand officially from two thousands
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen, I currently managed Steven A. Smith. So you're
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  Speaker 1: a talent, and so as as a talent, as a manager,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a lot, especially when you're dealing with personalities
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  Speaker 1: and it's tying to I always tell people, yes, kind
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  Speaker 1: of stay ahead of the ignorance when you're managing people
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  Speaker 1: out there and they can just start posting. So back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, you got to do a press conference,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you want to come out there, just
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  Speaker 1: start talking. Today they just wake up, not even wake up,
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  Speaker 1: they just roll over in bed, just start type. And
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  Speaker 1: which means as a talent, talk about what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to be a manager, but more important, what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to be a manager, and not trying to put you
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  Speaker 1: on the spot. But you've had so many diverse, so unique,
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  Speaker 1: so many different new, unique talents. Talk about that experience, Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I'd like to say, um, I watched
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  Speaker 1: First Take every morning, so I appreciated. But but but
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  Speaker 1: but to answer your question, what it takes to be
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  Speaker 1: a manager, and so the words with artists is to
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  Speaker 1: really understand them, to talk to them, to get to
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  Speaker 1: know them. Not not just handling their business. Handling their
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  Speaker 1: businesses it's really the easy part, but getting to understand
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  Speaker 1: who they are, how they operate, what they think, being
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  Speaker 1: able to understand what's important to them, and not not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily what's important to business or what's important to you,
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  Speaker 1: but what's important to them. Because now, I mean, I've
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  Speaker 1: managed Shocked shot g for what thirty years, and just
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  Speaker 1: recently he said, he said to me, I trust you,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, wow, that that was something because I
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  Speaker 1: know what's important to him. I know if someone comes
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  Speaker 1: to me and wanting to do something, I can almost
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  Speaker 1: tell them yes or no without going to him. But
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  Speaker 1: think you know what the answer is, it's it's not
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  Speaker 1: your place to make that decision. Is that their place
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  Speaker 1: to make, that their decision. So it's it's really really
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  Speaker 1: thinking is, regardless of what you think, you may know
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  Speaker 1: about what their thoughts are, because their thoughts can change
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  Speaker 1: important to know what they want. But it's always important
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  Speaker 1: to take everything to man. There is nothing I don't
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  Speaker 1: take to to them and because of that I have
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  Speaker 1: I have their trust. We don't always agree, and that's
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  Speaker 1: okay because at the end of the day, is their
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  Speaker 1: important to say that because and also you gotta have answers.
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  Speaker 1: What you can't you is manage somebody and keep saying
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  Speaker 1: I don't know or let me let me check. You
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  Speaker 1: really have to be on top of your game. Correct. Oh, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: you have. You have to go. You have to go
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  Speaker 1: Steve always, he's always you know everything. I go, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a problem because you're gonna ask me. So
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  Speaker 1: that means that you know, because people always ask me,
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  Speaker 1: ro do you watch you watch television that much? I go,
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  Speaker 1: I watch a lot, I read a lot. I just
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  Speaker 1: know that I can't shut down because as a manager
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  Speaker 1: your information, you have to be a trail player you
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to advise. You have to be
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: able at least have a conversation by so many different layers,
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  Speaker 1: especially based on the type of talent that you're representing.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really the key to all of this, and
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  Speaker 1: so is that you have to be I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to say you have to be super smart, you just
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  Speaker 1: have to be knowledgeable. Yes, knowledge well, and that's and
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what you're saying. You have to you have
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  Speaker 1: to read a lot. You you have to consume a
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  Speaker 1: lot of information, whether it's whether television, radio, podcasts, now, um.
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  Speaker 1: You know. For for myself, I've been around a long time,
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  Speaker 1: so I've been on a huge learning curve over two
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: or three two or three years with this whole digital age,
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  Speaker 1: and it changes daily. It literally changes daily. So the
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  Speaker 1: were having a specific conversation about some type of marketing
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  Speaker 1: the time we're off the conversation, it may have changed already.
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  Speaker 1: It really really really telling the truth there. For a fact,
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  Speaker 1: when the emails, you know, we grew up in the
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey that we was we had a deal. We
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  Speaker 1: thousand seven and WBLS up there in New York, and
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  Speaker 1: seven and two thousand nine was when, you know, social
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  Speaker 1: like a nine hundred thousand fan club email base, so
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  Speaker 1: that was working for me. That was working for me,
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  Speaker 1: his social media, and I grew on social media so
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  Speaker 1: much that it competed with Dr Phil you know, Katie Curic,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: all our competition. The only person that was beating us
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: in social media at the time was Len Degenerous. And
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: so so that's what you're saying right there, you're saying, Rahan,
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  Speaker 1: you know you not only have to know what you
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  Speaker 1: need to know right now, you have be willing to change.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: And also when you change, you have to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to see what what that what that change is going
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: to impact your your customers. So when Shock said he
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: trusts you, that says a lot because guess what, it's
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of things that are going on out there
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: that can question him. Whether you're up to date or
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: whether you are you on point? Are you start? So
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: you still wired into the changes. That's a blessing man,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: that's a compliment to your talents. Well, well, thank you,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: and you're absolutely right. You do have to change, change,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: adapt and grow. And when you don't know something, don't
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: be afraid to reach out and ask. I mean, I
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: consult with a lot of different people in a lot
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: of different areas because it's it's you know, there's so
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: many things that are going on, whether whether you're dealing
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: with the law, what you're dealing with with uh UH
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: ledgers and accounting, whether you're digital dealing with the digital media,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: digital media and social media. You have to be willing
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: to to know. Also, you have to be willing to
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: reach out to people who know more than about something
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: that you do. That's that's important, and that's important as
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: a manager. You cannot be afraid to not know when
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: So when you go back to your client, you say,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: I can share this information with you. This is what
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: I've found out because I've reached out to someone who
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: knows what they're doing. They work on this every day,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: because we can't work on every little thing every day,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: so we have to reach out to people. But you know,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: the interesting part about your career and the brand Atrian
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: that you've produced is that, I know, man, when you
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: have black talent, a lot of people don't want to
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: mess with your talent. You know, they either have reputations
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: or they feel that they have limited growth potential or
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: and then as you grow that brand and other people, oh,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: I see now start to try to take advantage of
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: their relationship or manipulate the relationship to their advantage. And
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: then we have black music, mom, you know, which we
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: know to recognize the role that black music. When you
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: here little Richard his death recently, and and you you
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: reread the Franklin and all these legends that are out
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: there that are pastors and they're still alive. The Paddle
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: La Belle is the old J's, you know, all the
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: individuals still like that producing great music. What's the important
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: of June being Black Music Month before we go to
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: the next break? Well, you know, I think it's important
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: that we focus on black music. But as I really personally,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: I don't like Black Music Month. I think every every
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: month should be black mule, absolutely absolutely, you know, you
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: know um especially I think it was last year rap
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: took over, which is a print primarily black art took
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: over all of music as far as as far as value,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: as far as amount of sales and streams, et cetera.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: And so you know, I think it's important to have
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: focus and take time so everyone focuses on it. But
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: I think you need to focus on it all year round.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: I think they need to needs to be events all
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: year round focusing on black music. So Tupox corp Um
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: like reason, why why do the wish? Why do you
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: say that he's one of the greatest uh political speeches,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: socially rap, socially conscious rap, uplifting rap. I consider Brenda's
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Got a Baby one of the great one of the
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: all time great rap songs. Keep your head up, Um,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: how do you like it? One of the great party songs? Um.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Just just just an array of music and talent from
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: a young man who left this world far earlier than
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: we that I wished or anybody would have liked to
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: have seen. So just talk to us about managing of
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: talent as unique. He was an actor, poet, and uh
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: a vision area. Talk to us right quick, Atrian, Yeah,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: I think that or that that that's a lot. And
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: he was actually all of those things. And he came
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: from a panther family, as as some people may know,
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: and so they they spent a lot of time studying
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: and learning and teaching him. So he had a wide
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: variety of of ways of looking at things. That's why
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: you could have Brent's got a baby, you could have trapped,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: you could have how do you want It? You could
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: have all those different songs, you know, and and then
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: in this time and it's just so interesting to me
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: because I remember when Tupac was accosted by the cops
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: and and experience that we had then and and you know,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: he was accosted by the cops. He was slammed on
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: the ground, he was beaten up, handcuffed, and then we
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: had to go to court to prove prove a jaywalking ticket.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: At jaywalking ticket, that's and you know, black young men
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: really have to understand that the power of the police.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: And I know they're trying to change some of that
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: now and and and it absolutely needs to be changed.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: But the cop came over to Tupac and said, hey,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: he walked across street, you're jay walking, And Tupac, being expressive,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: was just moving his hands and saying, why are you
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: asking me about this? Where you asked me about this?
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: And the guy didn't like a young man standing up
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: for himself. But that's what that's what a panther kid does.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: And Tupac was absolutely a panther, black panther kid from
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: from from that space. And so I just think it was,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: you know, important that his family taught him what what
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: they taught him so that so that he could then
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: go on and be who he was able to become,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: you know, through through a lot of people's support and
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: including myself. That's amazing. Now, I was looking to do
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: your bio and your catalog and information and different names
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: popped up. A name popped up that may be the
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: same name I know, and I love this young lady
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: deaf Stephanie Frederick. Yes, yes, st Stephanie Frederick is an
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: awesome person. Actually spoke to her this morning. Um she's
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: executive producer, producer. Um. Year years ago she was a
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: on air. Um. Uhston Texas. I'm from Houston, Texas. Yes
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: and um yes, Stephane. Stephanie is absolutely great. She has
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: she has a great company, F g W Productions. Uh.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: They do a lot of things. Even when when she
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: does the Oscars. Every year that Stefinitely does Oscars, she
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: brings a young person to just tell her. How many
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: people do that? Just hang out with her and experience
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: that experience of experiencing the Oscars, what it's like to
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: work in that world, what it's like to be on
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: the red carpet. I mean, how many people do that
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: within their company. I mean I think that's just incredible. Oh.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: You know I've been knowing stefanitely. Uh when I have
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: to go way back to like ninety two when my
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: comedy club, hip Hop Comedy stopped and she used to
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: come there, and you know, she was on Fox News
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: at the time, and you should tell me I could
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: be great, I could be special. So I know the value.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: I know that person that you're talking about how many
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: people not many? And I know that you know she
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: she's a firm believer of paying it for and she
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: does not allow a male dominated industry to stop her
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: from being great. And that's when you and I just
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: had to bring that up. I saw you one of
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: the one of the individuals, one of the people on
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: your roster. And that's important that you again another diverse
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: roster again. You don't hang and say this is who
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: I can only be. I can be more. Now let's
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: talk about mellow moods. What exactly is that mellow moods? Well, so,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: so what happened a few years ago, Just to give
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: me a little quick history. I um, I started putting
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: out some more rap records again and realize that I've
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: gotten a little older. I don't you know, I'm not
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: anymore go hang out in the clubs. But I love music.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: It's just my love. That's what I do. So I
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: wanted to find something that I could do that was
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: that was good and that brought peace and harmony to people.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: Because I'm not a little older. You know, I need
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: I need to wake up. Listening to park And and
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: Stanley Clark and a lot of other you know music
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: that I like to listen to digital underground, but in
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: the evening, I need something to go to sleep to.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: So it's all. It's all to go to sleep. It's
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: all to go to sleep. It is so so Melo
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Music is a collection of three pianists that and and
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: African American pianists. And I went to them and they're
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: all jazz pianists. They're they're either teachers or or touring musicians,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: and I said, I want you to do something it's
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: a little different for you, play a little less notes, um,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: and something to relax to. And no one in our
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: culture is doing this that I that I've found as
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: as an executive producer, as a company or as pianist,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: because everyone wants to show how good they are. And
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: they're awesome pianists. I mean one of one of them
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: is the pianists for the count Basis for what is
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: now the count Basie Orchestra, So I mean they're awesome pianists.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: So I just have them play a few less notes
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: and play something that's nice and relaxing for people. And
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: um the name of the groups of Silver Piano Group
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: because it's a collection of artists, and I'm putting different
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: artists in there as we speak. I have a young
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: lady that um is working on her Masters in classical piano.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: She just did something so um she'll be on our
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: next album that will be August, coming out August thirty one.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: So you know, I'm just working on doing something just
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit different, little little pieceful, especially in this time.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: We really need that. And um, you know that that's
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. Well, you know they always tell people,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: you know, what is your legacy? You know, because you
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: know we're getting this business adren and and you know
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: we want to be success. We want to make money.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: First of all. Our goal is to make money. And
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: then after you when you look at your body of work,
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: it's fantastic body of work, and go, what am I leading? Man?
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: What is my voice? Is the that is my voice
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: being heard? Are am I leaving a part of it?
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: And that's what it sounds like you're doing with this
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: particular project because of the fact that it's not a
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: one off, it's ongoing. Correct, Absolutely, it's ongoing. We put
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: our first album out several weeks ago. Our second album
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: is coming out at the end of August, and we
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: have three singles before that, and like you said, it
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: is legacy. I started with World Class Wrecking Crew the nine.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: In the nineteen I worked. I was the tour manager
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: for n w A. You know, put the Digital Underground
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: records out, the two Pac records out, MC smooth, and
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: some in some other work records. And you know, now
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: now as I'm a little older, I'm doing something a
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: little different. But that's all right. But that's all right,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: And don't forget I'm the executive producer of Salley Clark's
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: last two albums. So so you know, I work on
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: a wide variety of music. You know, I work. I
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: work with Stephanie, as you mentioned earlier, and you know,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to have that wide variety as
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: you grow and as you change, because everyone grows and changes,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: and you know, running around in the clubs is not
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: not the same as it was for me thirty years ago, right,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: And I want to think that absolutely, and I want
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: to make a note about that because that's why I
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: brought up Stephanie Frederick. Because Stephanie Frederick is a is
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: a content creation, she's video, she's vision. You know, it's
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with music. You know, music can be
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: induced introduced into her work. And our clients include Universal Pictures,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Disney. That lets you know the
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: body of work that that you are, that you have,
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: you have, the you have, you know this this this
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: the solo piano project that you have right now that
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: that's going to called the Solo Piano Group Project and
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: it's out now May eight then in August roughly. I
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: want to ask you, with the pandemic going on in
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: zoom uh streaming being so popular, have you done anything
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: with the team through using zoom or anything with the
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: pandemic times that that could be uplifting and motivating for
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: the people to who we are locked in us still
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: basically locked in win the new normal right now with
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: this COVID nteen. That doesn't mean our lives are going
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: to change. Yeah, So UM, I do it. I talked
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: at USC every year and and this this year we
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: did a Zoom talk with with the class this is
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: the business class, and so I did that. Um, we
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: are having the solo pianists record and then and then
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: we do a zoom with them as well. So so
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: even though they can't play live right now people can
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: still see them through through Facebook and all the other
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: modalities you YouTube and Instagram and all of those, and
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: so um, we are doing that, and we're looking at
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: doing some of some other things like that, maybe doing
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: a bigger, bigger concert and and we're also look looking
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: at doing some uh some talks myself and some of
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: some of the other people that have worked with over
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: the years, just doing question and answer session. So we're
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: looking at doing a lot of different things. I mean,
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: the world has changing, and even when it does go
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: back to some type of normalcy, I think Zoom and
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: these these opportunities are going to be there because what
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: that gives is people from all over the world a
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: chance to see here and talk to you know, myself, yourself,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: and and and and others that they may have interest
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: in that they may never get to see, you, may
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: never come into their city, but if they have Internet,
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: they can hear them and they can see them. And
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: I think it's a very good outlet for for all
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: of us. You know that, not not only the content creators,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: but also the listeners and viewers as well. Awesome. I
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: appreciate your Atrian. I want to thank you for coming
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: on Money making conversation. Anyway, We'll get in touch with you.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: Anyway we can buy this album, get involved social media.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Tell us about the Solo Piano Group. It came out
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: May eighth, uh developed you know from the Solo Piano Group.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: The name of the album is Mellow Moods May eight
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: by the Solo Piano Group. Anyway we can reach out
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: socially or digitally. How can we reach out? Yeah, so
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: so I'm on Instagram, I'm on all platforms Solo Piano well,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: first of all, Solo Piano Group. Solo Piano Group is
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: on all platforms, um from Instagram to Facebook, YouTube, everything.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: I'm on all platforms. You can reach me on Facebook, Twitter,
• 1:41:23
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• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: it's Facebook or or Instagram or Twitter might be a
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• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, we'll talking soon. When I remember I
• 1:42:12
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