Latest / The Steve Harvey Morning Show / Eric Thomas, Ed Gordon & Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds (Full Episode)

Transcript

Eric Thomas, Ed Gordon & Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds (Full Episode) · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Listening makes us smarter, more connected people. It makes us
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: better partners, parents, and leaders, and there's no better place
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: to start listening than Audible. Audible is where so many
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: inspiring voices and compelling stories open listeners up to new
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: experiences in ways of thinking. Audible members now get more
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: than ever before. Members choose three titles every month, one
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: audiobook plus two Audible originals that you can't hear anywhere else.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Members also have unlimited access to more than a hundred
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: audio guided fitness and meditation programs. Audible delivers best sellers, business,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: self improvement memoirs, and more, all professionally narrated by actors, authors,
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: and motivational superstars like Rachel Hollis, David Goggins, and Mel Robbins.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Audible members can also get free access to the New
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post delivered daily
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: to the Audible app. With a convenient app, members can
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: access Audible any time at the gym, while commuting or
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: on the go, and on any device will always pick
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: right back up where you left off. Audible also offers
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: free and easy audiobook exchanges. Credits you can roll over
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: for a year in a library you keep forever, even
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: if you cancel. Explore all the ways listening on Audible
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: can help improve mind, body and soul with entertainment, information
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: and inspiration. You can get titles from your favorite I
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Heeart talent such as Chelsea Handler, Danny Shapiro, Charlomagne, The God,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: and Bobby Bones on Audible. Start listening now with a
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: thirty day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: Audible originals are free. Visit audible dot com, slash I
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: heart or text I Heeart to five hundred, five hundred. Hi.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I'm your host, Sean McDonald.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: Great show Today, show by motivation, by small business, focusing
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: on opportunity to so how you can be successful. It's
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: not only in your small business, but in everyday life.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: That's what money making conversation. It's all about today's guests.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: A phenomenal line up. I say phenomenal. We quick these
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: of people who haven't changing people's lives for years. Get
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: all off. Dr Eric Thomas and blow No Man Eric
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Gordon from a journalistic and the media standpoint, and we're
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: gonna close it out with incredible music genius Kenny Baby
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Faced Edmonds all I gotta say is ready for this
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: two hour ride. I'm ready to give it to you.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what we're trying to do today. We're
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: trying to establish a brand by bringing on individuals like
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: doctor Eric Thomas, who has been known in many circles
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: and grew the famous e T the hip hop preacher
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: UH phenomenal Success. UH met him several times when I
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: was doing and UH producing Steve Harvey's mentoring cap in Dallas, Texas.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: He would come down and motivate the young people to
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: a path of success. Bringing on Ed Gordon is important
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: to me because of the role he's played in UM
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: delivering UM information from the media and also how he's
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: been able to reinvent himself so many times over the
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: years in the path of success. And the reason I'm
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: bringing on that when to tell his story in the
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: in the short amount of time and hopefully you can
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: use that information so you can be inspired. Secondly, I
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about the opportunity to be able to
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: communicate with Kenny baby Face Emmonds UM many several times,
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: seen it performed several times, but I really want you
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: to hear how great this guy really is. UM A
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: lot of people don't know because he's not. They just
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: they just think of these songs that you hear him sing.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Of his impact in the music industry today, you're gonna
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: hear an incredible guy who has delivered more than twenty
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: six number one R and B hits and eleven Grammys.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: It's amazing, It's amazing, amazing. So with that being said,
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: let's get the show roll along. My next guest is
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: the epitome of hustle, drive, determination and success. His words
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: impact tens of millions of people, which is domestic and
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: international tours. E t. The hip hop Preacher has become
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: a global phenomenon. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Doctor
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Eric Thomas. Money Making Conversation's gonna love it. Money Making Conversations.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: What I wanted to head when I thought I want
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: to make money? Well, give you try. First of all,
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: how you doing, Eric Man, blessed man, no complaints. Man's
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: a great season. Well, this amazing that. You know, look
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: at your success and it's a journey. And a lot
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: of times when people come on board and I don't
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: want to call them bandwagon people, but you know, people
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: find out about your journey as you go along when
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: you talk about your journey, because we don't have two
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: breaks with you, because I want to talk about your
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: two upcoming eventually Entrepreneurship series as well as the State
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: State Control series, and I think thats are important. I
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: want to take my time with you because I'm introducing
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: you to a lot of my fan base, because your
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: fan base follows you. So it took me seven years
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: to get my undergraduate degree, it took you twelve. Yeah,
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: that was a journey for me because I tell people
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: I wasn't ready to get a degree for were years.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: I didn't have the money to get a degree in
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: four years. Tell people your story. Yeah, I think for me, Um,
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: you know, like you said, I went to school because
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: my girl went to school, and so in the actuality,
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: I had graduated when I got accepted, you know, so
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: you know, my first two or three weeks of school,
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: I had already accomplished when I wanted to accomplish, you know.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: So I was going to class, and as you know,
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: I started dealing with difficulties of you know, like you said, finances,
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: um class, you know, schedule, class time. I'm gonna just
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: be honest. It wasn't worth me staying you know, I
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: was just like, it's not worked. It like I could
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: go make money, you know. And I had come, unfortunately
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: from a city where you know, education was really you know,
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: a high priority. People were working at four gym in Christman.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't even like I was getting the afflication
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: for being at school. You know, nobody was sending the
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: awards or nobody was saying, you know, sending the care packages.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: Nobody was putting money on my bill. It was like, oh,
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: you're in school. That's a good thing, but you probably
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna finish anyway. So you know, after
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: taking all of the video courses, I've done decent, so
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: my g p A was decent. But then when I
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: started taking real classes, it took u I guess you know,
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: you get probation, extending probation, final probation took a couple
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: of semesters before you know what, I'm saying that the
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: real deal. Holy to it, like you gotta go. And
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: it didn't bother because I was like, yo, I'm not
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: here to school, you know that I'm here for my girl,
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: you know, and then we end up getting buried. After
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: my freshman year, I was like, yo, you know. So
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: I end up leaving, started my career and speaking and
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: making good money speaking. You know, I wasn't freak, but
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: I was not money, you know, having nice part and
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: you know, me and my wife be able to just
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: like the past, Eric, you're starting to break up. Eric,
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: you're starting to break up a little bit. Okay, I'm sorry.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: Can you hear me? Now? I can clearly that. Yeah.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: So I had a pastor who said, look, man, it's
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: saying about getting a degree, Like you don't need no degree,
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: this is about finishing. Your father didn't finish anything. And
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you do you know my father what I'm saying,
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: how can you say? You know? He said, well, he
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: didn't finish. He didn't take care of you. You know,
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: he didn't finish that. So I don't want you to
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: have this habit of not finishing stuff. So he was like,
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: you need to go not for money, you know, not
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: for a degree, but you need to go so that
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: in your mind you started something, you finished something. And
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I got it, you know, So
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: I just went back because he told me to go back. So, yeah,
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: my my journey, man was I didn't go to school
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: for school. I was never a real academic kid. You know.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: I was always good with communication, good with my mouth.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: You know. I went out in the world man, and
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: start doing my thing. But like I said, at some
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: point when I had my son, I didn't want him
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: to be a high school dropout. Father had dropped out,
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: my grandfather dropped out, and I didn't want four generations
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: of drop out. So I just decided to go back
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: and get this degree so that I could be an
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: example to my son. Dr I'm calling your doctor because
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: you're a PhD. Dr Derick Thomas. When you when you
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: do do do just your Does your failures help in
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: motivating people to success? Yeah, I'm would be real man.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: I think sometimes in life, you know, people they don't
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: want to fail. But I think when you go through
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: life that you don't fail and like just a massive
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: success time, it's difficult to relate to common people. So
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: I think what my failures have done, even though I
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: didn't want to fail, I think what my failures have
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: done is give me a unique tone. There's a tone
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: in my points where people are like, yo, he's not
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: talking at me. You know, he's not a goodie two shoe,
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: He's not you know He's not acting as if you
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, he's better than me. He's speaking
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: to me as if he is me me. Why Yeah,
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: because I did fail. You know I'm saying. I didn't
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: take me twelve years. I did put a flunk a
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: lot of classes. I know what it's like to be humiliated,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: not want to call my parents what I'm doing, or
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: beat people back in my hometown like school, you have
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: finished yet, So I think my failure is actually connected
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: to people in a Ain't that when you have not failed,
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: you cannot connect with people. And I think that's important
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: because you you're letting people know life it's not perfect.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: And this is the This is getting back on the
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: horts talk. You know when you're hearts, throw you off,
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: get back on the horse. Now. You have too serious
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: that coming up, and I miss titled one of them.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: One is the entrepreneurs Shies Entrepreneurship series, Take Control You
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: Owe You, and the other one is which will be
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: in Detroit offic seven and then you also haven't Washington,
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: d c uh September two. To stay ready now now
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: I have two minutes lefting this break, and I want
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: to start on the entrepreneurship serious. I'm not asking you
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: to give your series away. Just tell people what to
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: expect and why are you doing that series and why
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: they should sign up. Yeah, I'm doing it because you know,
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are telling people you can only
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: make money if you sell real estate, you know, if
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: you sell cars, if you you know network marketing, you know.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: And I'm telling people you are brand and I want
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: to show you how to sell you. You you you
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: have a gift inside of you. You know. So if
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: you if you're not a traditional salesman, baby, it's because
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: you're not passionate about but I'm gonna show you that
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: you have a gift inside of you, and your gift
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: can make room for you. Now, it's interesting because they're
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: the narrative nowadays. I hear that a lot your passion,
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: your gift, you know, But doesn't that coup with a
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: plan doctor? Oh? Absolutely, And that's what we're gonna talk about.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: We're gonna show you how to get it out of you,
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna show you how to get it
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: to the people. You know, but we're gonna show you
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: how to do it consistently. So it's not a hobby anymore.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: That like you just said. Without that plan, it's definitely
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. We're gonna show you because a lot
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: of people are like, yoh, man, I got this dream.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: That's cute. You know, I got this big picture. I'll
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: see that's cute. But we gotta take that big puzzle
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: and we gotta break it down the manageable pieces, you know.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna show. People like, yo, yeah, but
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: start on the edges or something, or notice all the blue,
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: all the red, and start putting the orange together, you know.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: But take these little small steps, these little small winds,
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: and they create that bigger picture. So absolutely, we're gonna
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: break this thing down in twenty four hours and seven days,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: in thirty days, days days, you know. So some Eric,
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: the more you talk, man, the more motivating that voice gets. Man.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: You know, you know he's like, you're like, got in
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: the car. Now you're in the h O V lane? Now, brother, Yeah,
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: they opened me up. No, No, we're good, now we're
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: good now. Now the Detroit Show, let me just break
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: it down to everybody. What's really happening here. It's called
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: the entrepreneurship series Take Control, You Owe You, which I
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: laid like it because he's putting the on this on
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: you and you have and it's broken down into categories.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Come to learn the tone, the tools you need that's
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: one category. Monetize your gift that's one category. Create a
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: six figure income, expand your platform, increase the visibility, execute
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: on your ideas, stay self motivated. That's what take control.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: You owe you because really you're letting everybody. You're empowering
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: a person that comes to that entrepreneurship serious, correct, doctor, Absolutely?
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, I mean that's exactly what we're doing. Here's
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: what we're saying. Because most people think they got to
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: go buy program and I'm not saying that you know
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: that's that's not for some people. But you don't always
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: have to go buy something within you. You know what
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, It's in you. And that's why I say
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: you owe you. You owe it to yourself. You owe
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: it to yourself to stop, you know, letting yourself down,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: not reaching your full potential, not seeing the gifts that
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: you have. You can make money, like you could be
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: valuable to somebody else, like you could be a product
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Sneakers as a product, Pepsi, Coola, Lazy potential like you
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: got something in you. You have units insiety you and
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: we just want to show you how to identify that,
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: how to bring that out, like you said, how to
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: put a plan together so you can do that thing
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. Yeah, because a lot
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: of people do that, they forget that plan, you know.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: And I have a series that I created going on
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: a month now, it's called Faith in Business and being
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: that you are a pastor, that you understand that how
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: faith in business, how the roles der side and you know,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: connect connect And with that, with that being said, how
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: does that player role in who you are today? Faith?
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm saying, I'm saying, you know, at some point,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: we all have seen, you know, in our best days,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: where we could be, you know, in our best days,
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: we've seen what we're capable of. We've all dreamed and
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: you know, and people poured into us and said, man,
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: you could do this, and you could be that. You know,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: and that, and let me tell you something that is
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: so invigorating. That's what energizing. Then you go through life,
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You go through life and
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: and and and and something happens to your child or
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: I was just talking to a good friend of mine,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: you know, who got a divorce after you know, his
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: wife had a miscarriage, and he was just like, y'all
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: gonna be real. I just emotionally she went in the funk.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: She was depressed. I didn't know how to man, you
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: need faith to get through that kind of stuff. Cancer
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: my wife got and mess like, we needed faith to
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: know that this is not the end. This is just
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: the beginning. You know, when we was running the business
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: and we weren't making fifty six. We need to be
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: able to see in the dark what we saw in
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: the light. Going. Faith is important because it's the evidence
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: of things by seeing that. It's that hope. It's not
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: tangible where you can pick it up. Being in the back.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: That's saying like, yo, you saw it, didn't touch it.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: You touch it in your mind, you touch it in
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: your dreams, you touched in your soul. So so if
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: you just keep going one day, you're gonna touch you tangibly.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, for me, man, faith is everything because it's
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: the fuel that in the dark. It's the light, flickering
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: light and hope in the dark. That that that that
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: that when you don't have evidence, So yeah, man, faith
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: is so so critical to our success, ladies and gentlemen.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: He's coming to trot Detroit, Michigan. He's coming to Troit
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: August twenty seven. He's coming. Dr Eric Thomas is coming.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: This is just this the to two, the two two
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: is thought on the end of the day. But August
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, he's coming with the Entrepreneurship Series now to
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: observe your spot. Like the way he said, reserve your spot,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: not get a ticket. Reserve your spot. Go to et
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: inspires dot com, Ford Slash Events a gun again et
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: inspires dot com, Ford Slash Events. That is the Entrepreneurship Series.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Take control you oh you seven and Detroit. When we
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna talk about the the show and
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: wash it in d C. My man, Dr Eric Tomas.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: He rolling now, y'all, Y'll better come on back now.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I got him on, I got him on his toes.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I got him on his toes coming back from O
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: money making compas Dr Eric Thomas. So it's August okay, cool,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm back on the phone. He's still here's
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: a global phenomenon. That's what they say that a phenomenon.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: E t the hip hop Preacher, Dr Eric Thomas. Welcome back.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: How are you doing, sir man bless Man bless There
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: we go, there we go. Okay, I want to correct
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: something I gave out the wrong date. It's August twenty four.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: It's August twenty four in Detroit, Michigan. Again. Go to
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: et inspires dot com forwards last event to see this
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: incredible entrepreneurship series You owe You. It's an important opportunity
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: for you to learn how to increase income by taking
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: advantage of the skills that God gave you. That's what
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: this is all about. Yeah, yeah, my man, you got
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: another one coming up. That's what I like about you.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: You just keep rolling, keep building momentum, momentum, and you're
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: going down to d C, d C September two. That's
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: d C. Now that's a little bit different show than
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: you're doing in Detroit. Why yeah, yeah, yeah. And you
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: know it's because people need you know, everybody's different. People
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: are different stages of life, you know, and so we
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: need to meet them where they are to ask some
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: people who you know what I'm saying, they're they're not
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: making no money at all. And some people who have
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: six figures, seven figures in them and they let's just
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: be honest. They have not been exposed. Like I've been blessed.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: You know, I've gotten with Fortune five D companies. I've
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: been with Warren Buffet, Dan Gilbert. I have a relationship
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: with some of these guys, and I have access to
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: some of the most phenomenal mind some of the most
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: phenomenal skills, and they passed this stuff down to people
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: in their circle. And so I've been blessed to get
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: some of this information. And what I wanna do is,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I don't want to keep it to myself. I want
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to give some of the stuff I learned sitting in
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the room with Warm Buffet, some of the stuff I've
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: learned going through trainings with you know, the Quick and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Long CEO s uh, you know, being able to work
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: with the owners of the Cavaliers. Like, I want to
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: give away some of those secrets. And I ain't even
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: gonna say secret. People just have been exposed. And so
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: that some people are already making money, but they did
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a glass ceiling because they haven't been exposed to some
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of the next level stuff. It's funny. I was talking
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to a friend of mine. He was saying about to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: tax stuff. You know, man, I don't know if I
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: should do this or that. I said, look, it's a book,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: we're gonna read it. In the book, it's tax break.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: It's just the way American society is set up. You
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: don't have to be nervous, you don't have to work.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: They just they set certain things up for so once
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: you expose. And so I want to give those people
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: who are already doing their thing and they need to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: stay ready. They need to stay ready for the next
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: opportunity that they need to get to another level of influence.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: They need a little bit more impact, they need to
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: meet a different circle of influence. That's what this show
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: is all about, putting them in that position to stay
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: ready for what's next. You got something great now, but look,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: stay ready for that next you know opportunity that's coming.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: And and I mean that stay ready on a lot
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: of platforms like like like because I know I'm losing
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: weight because I know something about to happen for me
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: in the media. So I know I gotta lose that weight.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying, I know I gotta lift a
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: few weights because I'm about to travel a little bit more.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I gotta be ready to stay ready and I think
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: that when people need to understand stay ready, it's a
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: plan that you are saying that I want to be successful.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: That's what stay ready by. Everybody has that starting line,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: but a lot of people don't want to walk up
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to the starting line. And that's what stay ready is
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: all about. All he's trying to tell everybody who's listening
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to watching is this, you have an opportunity to be successful,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and things are preparing you to be successful, but you
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: have a general tendency to avoid it because guess what,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: there's work involved in preparation. There's work involved in taking
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: advantage of an opportunity. That's what stay ready is all about.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And it just birds me up when I run into
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: people who are talented, I run into people who say
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I'll never be I'll never be with I'm gonna be
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna be because they have not even taken
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the time to find out what they can be. They
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: have not taken the time to change their goals and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: their expectations. They have fallen into the narrative of I'm
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: gonna be what I'm gonna be, and stay ready. If
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you go to this thing, I walked into it, I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: was in I was invited stand in the back of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the room and guess what I thought. I was ready
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and I learned some things. That's the great That's the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: great thing about what he's telling everybody. Dr Eric Thomas
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: is telling everybody. Look, just come and grab some extra nuggets.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: You can go from four to five to six to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: seven figure incomes. Don't ever think you know enough. I
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: always say this, I wake up dumb. I tell people
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: all the time. I wake up dumb. So I am
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: willing to accept information. See if you wake up smart,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: did you will have a genial tendency to say, I
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: don't need to know anything else. I don't need to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: know anybody else. Engagement that would make me more successful.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Don't sell the standard, or I'll tell you what thing
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I'm teaching. My man at Amazon, Jeff, he was for
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: six hours the richest man in the world. Six hours.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You don't think he wanted to get back there. Ain't
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: that something? Six hours? You don't think he want to
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: get back? My man in Facebook, he on Instagram he
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: wants to buy moll stuff. It's Amazon, both Whole foods.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Do you understand what we're saying? This is what to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Stay Ready conference is about. It's about taking your level
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and en showing that what he's asking you do. When
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I say he, I'm talking about Dr Eric Thomas asking
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: you this, stay ready because there are opportunities out there
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for you that they are blessings. Understand faith in business.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Change your narrative to be opportunistic. Yeah, now, now here's
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the deal. You got more. You've got people on this show.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: They're a part of the show that are very important,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: starting with your host Willie Moore Junior. Who old does
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: he play? Yeah? So so Willie Moore? Is you know
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the guy I was sleeping in the basement, you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and sleeping in the basement Mary just in a just
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: in a funk like y'a'll not supposed to be here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Went from you know, being an R and B what
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: he calls himself a B list R and B didn't
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: make it to the A list and lost everything. But
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: there are people who think, like, yo, once I get there,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I'm there. It's not the truth. Once you get there,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: on me, you're gonna always be there. He started all
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: over again and reinvented himself. So so for those of
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you who need to reinvent yourself. You made it, didn't
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: make it as far as you thought you would. You
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: fail rock Bottom. He's gonna show you how to reinvent yourself.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Then you have David Chains. Yeah, David Shams was working
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: at the cheesecake factory. Yeah, we had a conversation. I said,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: David Man, come on, bro, you got take control the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Entrepreneur series. He was the first one I sat down
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: when and say you got something in you you need
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to sell you. You need to be selling dishes at
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the at the cheesecake fact you have you an entrepreneur.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: You need to be selling these teachers that you have
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: taking serious, stop doing it time, stop hustling and turning
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: into a career. And that's what David saying, Gonna show
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: you how to go from working a nine to five
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: job that you can't stand to create your own enterprise. Okay, cool.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: So you had Will in the basement, a very relatable
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: person who knows that person who kind of like what
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: do I go now? Then you raised to David Shan's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: who's working at nine You know, I don't like it?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: What are you working? Because guess what, it's a check.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Then you go to Jeremy Anderson. What is Jeffy Anderson
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: bringing to the table at the Stay Ready Conference, Washington,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: d C. September two. So here is Jeremy, a kid
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: who grew up man two parents, you know, grew up
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in a middle class, got caught up man videos and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to be something. He was at it
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: before you know it. He's selling drugs, you know, he
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: in trouble with the law, running you know, he running
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: with circles that he shouldn't be running with. And then
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: he end up getting a call from God and saying,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: come on something. Uh, I'm gonna need you to do
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: what I call you to do. Now he is married
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: kids in the school districts and going back to the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: prisons and youth contention center telling kids you'll find your
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: identity and you be you now. The last one. Johnson, Yeah,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Inkie Johnson, man, what can I say? You know? He
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: was man, Inky was Inky was a couple of weeks
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: from the NFL first round pick in the NFL, about
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to be a multi millionaire, you know, and got an
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: injury that was supposed to take his life. Kie Johnson
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: represents resilience, you know. Inky Johnson represents hard. Inkie Johnson
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: represents getting through whatever he's supposed to lost his life.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: But those of you were cancer, those of you were
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: chronic illnesses, those of you experienced last he looked, he
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: looked lost in the faith and created an enterprise and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: became one of the top speakers in the world. So
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: he just talked about overcoming any adversity and not making
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: any excuses for rising like Prez that boy, keep rising
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to the top. And with that being said, you have
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: two events coming up to you all go if you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: want to know about and go to et inspires dot
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: com Forward slash Events. You have the event coming up
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: this My next mution is August next tomorrow. You might
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: well saying, because you're gonna be You're gonna be in Detroit,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the entrepreneurship series where you're doing you,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: oh you. And then you have the Stay Ready, which
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I'll have motivates me right now because I walked in
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: on that, so I know what's happening, which stay Ready.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I saw a multicultural rule. You know demos, you know demographics, white, black, Hispanic. Yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you know. So that's what I love about your calling,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: your movement, your passion. You're affecting all races, all ages,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: because all ages and that's important for people to understand that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Don't set us time frame when you can be successful.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Don't don't do it. Yeah, and don't say don't think
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: your ministry is only for one for people. It's not
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: my man, Eric, I people special for you, man, Dr
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Eric Tom let me tell you something. We don't have
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: enough time. I got to get back. Hey, doctor, Hey,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you know what I love about myself money making conversations.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: It's because a lot of people, you know, they do
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it because they hear Ruean mcdong wants to me on
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the show. When they get on that they understand I'm
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: doing something different. Man, I'm doing something different. I'm changing
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the world with people like you. I'm changing the world
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: for letting people know that you have a dream. Come
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: on this show and here some part of your dream
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and use that to inspire you to be successful. Eric,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I love it. Ma, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get Key on the show, Jeremy on the show,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and Willie Moore on the show, and my man David
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: because their story need to be told. And we're gonna
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: keep reserving spots. Go to eat Inspire dot com, false
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: les fit. I'm on the phone, y'all. Dr Eric tom
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: et hip preture, he's a clothful for non y'all, say
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: what's your boy? Et? Listen to me? Everybody want to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: be a beast to its time to do what real
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: beasts do. Hi this Rashan McDonald. Welcome back to Money
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Making Conversations. Uh just finish an incredible conversation and interview
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: with Dr Eric Thomas. To make sure you make his
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Detroit Reserver spot this Detroit event as well as his Washington,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: DC event, please go to et inspires dot com forward
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: slash events if you want to reserve your spot. The
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: next gentleman about to bring on the show. It's a friend.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I'm calling my friend. I've known him many years. Our
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: next guest has been a contributing car sponsor for sixty
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: minutes to the Today's show dateline uh N double a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: CP Image Award winner and the Prestigious Journalists of the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Year war from the National Association the Black Journalists. It
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: ain't b J. Please work with the money Making Conversations.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Mr ed Gordon, it was having it. Mr McDonald, sir,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: First of all, how you doing it? I'm good man,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I am good and that's that that I always say
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that to you because your image is always at one
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: level and then your career and then you're out looked
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to change. Are it's always at at that same level
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: because you never say that that you satisfied. Is that
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that's just a burning part of your personality that you're
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: never satisfied. But that's a good thing to say. Correct
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: never satisfied. You know. One of the people and I
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: say this, and you know I have said this for many,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: many years. What's the people I learned and watched that
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: from was you, Rashaan. Rashaan has always been one of
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: those go getters who not only was going and getting
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: for himself, but I think the best leaders are those
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: who can inspire their team. And for years, Rashaan, I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: have watched you inspire motivate people. And that's really what
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it's about, because when you motivate people selfishly, you do
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: better for yourself. And I thank you for that compliment,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I really do, because you know me, I'm just I'm
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: just a guy. When I you know, it's not about
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: money in the in in in the process, because you know,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: we all want to make money. And I always tell
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: people that you know their things and you tell you.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: You said that to their things that you're gonna do
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: in life that you're not gonna get paid for, but
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: it pays off to get a check later on and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and and people don't understand that. Everybody want to check
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: up front. They were they're negotiating the deal with guess what,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: zero from zero equal zero zero. I learned though, Rashaan
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: it's often people who haven't made it over that hump
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: yet who will say I gotta get paid, I gotta
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: get paid because they're struggling often and I understand that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And what I try to tell people is we were
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: all there at one time, and at some point, those
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: of us who did make it over that hump made
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: that decision even though we needed it and we wanted it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And maybe phone bill was do re do, mortgage was due.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: There comes a point in time where you have to say,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I'm a bet on me, and that's what it's about.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And that's not because in the end, you know your mistakes.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: You know your mistakes, and if you bet on you,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you can fix your mistakes. And that's really important. And
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I watched I watched your career and you know, first
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of all, I'm a fan that's going and you have
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of fans out there because of the fact
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that when you speak, you know, as a voice, did
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you go, that's the going choking over there? You you
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you want to want them if hunting people for us,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the black people. You know what I'm saying, because because
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: you you said so many important things that we have
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to recognize that when you talk something important, it's got
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to come out of you, It's gonna come out of
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: your mouth. Now does that care a certain responsibility for you?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It does reshawn to some degree. You know. I still
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: see myself as this kid out of Detroit who was
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: two votes away from class clowning high school. But I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: don't always take myself seriously. But I also understood early
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: on and continue to understand what I meant to our community.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: You know, I have been able to forge your career here.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: This going on three decades now, and most of the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: people I started in my industry with who are African American,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: male and female, are no longer in it. They couldn't
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: ride that road long enough. And it wasn't their fault.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Had nothing to do with talent. We just don't get
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: opportunities as often as other folks in this industry. And
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: so the thing that I'm most proud of is with
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: older black people and young black males especially who have
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: come to me and say, oh, you know, I don't
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: normally watch news, but you make me proud or I
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: watch it because you give it. Um. I understood that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: responsibility and I've never taken it lightly. So for me,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I never represented just me or just my immediate family.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I knew whether it was talking to O J or
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: President or whomever, I knew that I was representing us
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and that was important to me. It is important to
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: us too, because there are very few people out there
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: who are representing us, you know they and you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: we have entertainers, we have athletes. I'm talk about presenting
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: us from a journalistic standpoint. We need deliver the message
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: back to us. You know, we feel that has credibility.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Now you have a show called Ed Gordon. It's on
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Bounce TV. And Bounce TV isn't like ninety five million
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: homes right now, So you got Bounce is really growing
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: a lot. And they came to me a couple of
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: years ago and talk what I wanted to do, and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: we really looked at it and it's kind of like
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a sixty minutes. It's a news magazine show. And uh,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: we just aired show number three is cut off quarterly,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and our numbers have been good, and uh, you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: we're really blessed that people have really wanted to jump
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: on and and and come on the show. We started off,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: We kicked it off with a profile of the mothers
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of the movement. Uh, Trayvon Martin's mother, Michael and so
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: many others joined us, and it was just so emotional,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: tears everywhere, viewers were crying. But it really was my
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: attempt to show that these women were more than just
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: um figures, you know, sometimes tragic tragic figure. Sometimes we
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: see it and we see somebody from a distance and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: we see them as an image. These were real women
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: who had lost their children, who somehow get up every
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: day and live their lives not only for themselves now
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: but the legacy and the memory of their child. Most recently,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: because we knew it was summertime, our last show, we
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: did profiles on the cast of Girls Trip, Ohmary Hardwick,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Michael Strong and Cedric and the Cedric the entertainer. And
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: we're talking about the age of Trump. You're bragging on
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the show. Now you're bragging on you know what it's about, Rashaun,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And you and I both know this. It's really about relationships.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I try to tell people all the time. You can
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: have all the talent in the world, you can have
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: all the money in the world, and money certainly helps
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and money will get doors open for you. But at
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's about relationships. Now that
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the interesting thing about is that when I when I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: look at what you're doing with the Ed Gordon. First
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: of all, I know that every time this show is
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: about the air, contact my office a week before so
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I can put you on the show, because that's what
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: this is all about, you know, Send me a social
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: media banner and I'll put it on my on my
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: on my social platforms. And that's what you're talking about, relationships.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And I know that you're on the show today because
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: we have a relationship that's exactly right, and we communicated
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: over the years. Now. The thing has always been out
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: there that we talked about is Daddy's promise. Yeah, man,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: we've been talking about that a long time. We've been
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: doing this for a long time. In fact, we getting
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: ready gearback up uh in a strong way uh this fall.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: But Daddy's promise came out of an article I wrote
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that's the magazine about my relationship with my daughter and children.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I thought, oh, I'd have a little boy and he'd
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: be a little ed and I go to this basketball
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: games and watch him, you know, push up on a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: little pretty girls. And you know, I lived through that
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: vicariously the way I used to, but I was giving
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a daughter. And you know, it has changed my life tremendously. Uh,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: it has made me a better person. And so we
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: started this initiative to not only salute the father daughter relationship,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: but really to tell men that we're important in the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: lives of our kids, and that we really have to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: start to make sure that fathers are involved in every
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: facet of life for our kids. You know, all of
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: us knows some man who, for whatever reason isn't involved
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: in his with his kids. Sometimes it's on the baby's mama,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: but quite frankly, sometimes it's on that man. It's a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: lot easier not to raise the child than to raise
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the child to run away from responsibility. That's exactly why.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: That's exactly right, that's exactly right. And so our goal
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: is to make sure even if you don't have a
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: good relationship with the mother, that you have a good
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: relationship with that child. And most importantly, it gave us
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to show that not every black man is
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: a delinquent father. We got a lot of and a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: lot more men are involved and aren't involved, and so
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: it's our way to salute them. Now, now, what programs
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: do you have coming up? A program do you have
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to do developing? Let me tell you. We're working on
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: a couple of documentaries as we speak. In fact, we
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: were shooting some stuff this weekend. We're taking a look
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: at what we call the Faith Project UH for for
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: African Americans. Faith has been such a strong UH light
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: in our lives and so I wanted to take a
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: look at how faith affects all of us and how
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: it is sustained in particular the African American community. We're
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: also working on something about how black folks UH love
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: to party. We've been doing that for a couple of
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: years now, but we've been putting that together and for
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the show in December get this Rush for the show
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and December for Bouncing, I'm doing a one hour special
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: called am I Black Enough for You? And what we're
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: doing it's going across the country talking to folks about
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: what makes us black quote unquote, So you know the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: debate we always have in our community about hair texture
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and skin color. You know, we're taking a look at that,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: but we're also taking a look at the idea of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: if you're a black Republican, are you considered black enough?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: If you're mixed, are you considered black enough? If you
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: grew up in the suburbs instead of the hood, are
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: you black enough? We just did a great segment. We
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: had one light skinned sister who's mixed. We had a
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: sister from Cameroon who's very dark. I put them together
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and they talked about how they sometimes have found that
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: they are beaten up in different ways, but it's exactly
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the same because it's based on their skin color by
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: black people. So, uh, trying to do that's the December show.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get us to look at the things
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: that we all talk about in the kitchen but don't
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: always talk about outside. And you do it better than anybody.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: So here's the deal down. So so my Money Making
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Conversation show, you know, it's on my Facebook page. I'm
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: not on I heart podcast platform now. So it plays
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: back on that. And so my reach is really strong
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: and it's growing and I'm just happy you came on
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the show. So i'd say that to you, is that
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you now have another outlet that you can count on,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: because I know this is how it works. You know,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: sometimes you won't get on the show, they won't put
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: you on the show. But know that you get on
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: this show. Anytime Ed Gordon calls Rachane McDonald's staff, you
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: can get on. So just let me know ahead of
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: time when your events are happening. I'm talking at national events.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: If you're doing a Daddy's promise, Hardy in New York City,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: come on my show and promoted. Man, I got listeners
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: and viewers in New York City. Okay, And so you're
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: here man, I'm welcoming you back to my home. Rahane
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: McDonald's open for the Ed Gordon business. Keep building that brand. Brother.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I love you, I've always respected you, my man. You're
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: truly real. Thank you are coming on money, man, me
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: say one thing before we go, And I think it's
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: important on the money make his side if I can
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: very quickly. People always will reach out and say to
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: successful people, hey, I got this plan. Hey, can I
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: call you? Hey? Will you taking my you know, will
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you take my tape? When you look at my book,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: when you look at my song, look at my TV show?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: And often those people won't take your call, look at
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: your tape. It isn't necessarily even because they don't want to.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: It's just because they got their lives to leave. And
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I want to tell everybody, the people who make money,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: who become successful, who make it to the top, all
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: face that same thing. But the difference is they didn't
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: get mad about it. They didn't get in a corner
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and pout about it. They found a way around it.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And I know, Rashaan, that you have done that, that
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I have done that, And I want to encourage those
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: who follow you, who listen to you, who watch you,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to make sure they do the same thing. Don't be distressed,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: don't sit in that corner. You uh the driver of
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: your dream, nobody else. So keep it that steering, willing,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and keep it moving. My man. I got another series.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm finishing my Faith in Business series and
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: wrapping that up. I have another series I'm starting to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: call Hey, I want to be rich too, and Ed,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I'd love to invite you back to share those those
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: nuggets that you just share because I'm creating another movement
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: and I want to grab the friends that are important
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: in my life to be part of it. You're you're fantastic.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling that nugget right there will get replayed,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: my brother, we're gonna we're gonna edit that down and
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: put some caption on it, and we're gonna put that
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: on my Instagram. All right, thank you, baby. Alright, Gordon
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and ladies and gentleman, check out this show on BOUSTV
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: ninety five million homes ed. Gordon, We've been right back
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: with more money making conversations. Don't forget Kenny baby face.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Eminence is coming up, Kenny baby faith eminence or if
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I get these lips out of the way, I can
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: talk HI this ra Sean McDonald, Welcome back to money
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: making Conversations. This break is gonna be follow up. This
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: called follow up break. I'll be following up with two
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: of my past callers listeners, viewers, my man Jason Gregory
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and also my man mostly Garcia. H Are they on
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the phone? Okay? Cool, Let's hear from a man Jason Gregory.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: How are you doing? Jason waere you at man. I
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: am great, sir. Thank you for having me back. Mr McDonald,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I greatly appreciate it. I'm telling you some Jason. Last
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: time you came on the show, you know, which was
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: a month ago, I sewed you to call back because
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: you was putting together your your go fund me campaign
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: about your film that you was doing. The film is
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: called Waking Up White, Yes, sir, tell us about that, well,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Waking Up White it's a it's an idea that I
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: had been touring around with for a while, and I
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: being in grad school now I found they decided to
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: go ahead and do something with it. And the premise
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: for the film is that an African American family wakes
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: up white one morning and they have three days to
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: determine if they want to go back to their cultural
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: roots or stick with the skin that they're in. So
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy to be in school right now and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: we're going into production with this film summer team. Now,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: this is your thesis film project, correct, Yes, sir, it
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: is okay? Cool? So what does that mean? I want
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to because I want people to support you, so I
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: want to give them this much information on why this
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: is important for you and how their assistance can help
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: you in turn not only create this film, but no
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: get your start in life. My friend. Yeah, I appreciate it.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah that in order for me to graduate, I have
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: to complete this thesis film. But even more importantly, uh,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: you know, as a kid, I was always the one
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: who do you remember the old Gatorade commercial. I want
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: to be like Mike, I wanted to be like Spike.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: It was it was always my dream to grow up
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: and going to the film industry. And when I got
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: my undergrad degree, I actually went into the advertising and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: marketing world and I did that for about fifteen sixteen years.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: So now I have an opportunity to go back to
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: grad school and pursue my true passion, which is filmmaking.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: And you're trying to get a Masses of Fine Arts
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: degree in entrepreneur digital correct, Yes, sir, entrepreneur Digital Cinema.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's everything that I'm doing right now.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: You know, with my current business, I manage it and
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: advertising and marketing agency here in Orlando, Florida, and I
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: just take a lot of those skill sets and I
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: applied them to what I'm doing with um with my
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: myself how can we help you my listeners, my viewers,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: how can he help you? Well? Man, I've been so
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: blessed and inspired just being on the phone this morning.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: A great you know coming behind you know Dr Eric Thomas,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and you know Ed Gordon. Uh my gud. I grew
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: up watching Ed Gordon is such an honor. Um. The
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: way that you guys can help me is is follow
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: my social media handles um at faith book. On Facebook
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: is just Waking Up White and on Twitter it's wu
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: W film f I l M. It's important that Jason,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: first of all, first of all, consider me a fan. Okay,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: thank you, I'm your fan. Because you're you're you're you're
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: moving forward, you're staying ready. That's what we talked about
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: with Dr Eric Thomas. Staying ready. You're planning your opportunities.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: You know, you dream to be like Spike. Now you're
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: trying to You said, I got another job, I'm hustling that,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: but I'm still getting my degree. That's why I brought
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: up at the top of my interview with Dr Eric Thomas.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: It took me seven years to get my undergraduate degree.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: It took him twelve years to get his undergraduate degree. Now,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: he's a doctor, Eric Thomas, I mean a laugh. I
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: laughed when you said that, sir. It actually took me
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: ten years to get my undergrad degree and four different colleges.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: And guess what that means That we're in the same club,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: which means that we don't give up. And we just
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: brought you back on the show. Was let you know
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I have a relationship with you that I want to
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: maintain now, thank you. I want to make sure that
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: you keep us posted because I think it would be
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: pretty cool man too, you know, because Money Making Conversations
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: is not going anywhere, So this is why I want
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: to do, Jason, I want you to be I want
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I want us to expose your journey on this show.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: So every couple of months, every month, man called in,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: let us know where you're at in your life so
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: people could talk, because you're one of the first people
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: that called in at the start of Moneymaking Conversation, so
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: we can share your journey of success and stand ready
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: and entrepreneurial success along the way, and hopefully that will
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: motivate other people. My man. That's all this shows us
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: about motivating or the plan. Yes, absolutely, absolutely, thank you, sir.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: It's you know, as I mentioned, it's it's a pleasure
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: to be on your show. I've I've been at this
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: for a while and I'm excited to really launch this
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: and in August sixteenth, of next August sixteenth, we are
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: actually gonna start our crowdfunding campaign. I would encourage you know,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: follow us to please go ahead and hit us up
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: on our social media sites, to to stay up todate
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: on the information. You know, with the crowdfunding campaign, there
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: will be opportunities, you know, to receive gifts or even
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: to receive producer credits anything like that. But you know,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: please follow us, help us with our journey. We want
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: to get this. We want to get worried out about
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: this cellf Okay, before you go, give out to Twitter
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: and Facebook handles one more time. Jason Sure, On Facebook
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: it's Waking Up White and on Twitter it is w
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: U w F as in Frank, I, l Emmas and Mary.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: You know I'm part of the club now, Jason, don't
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: don't forget me now, don't forget me that brother. I'm
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: in your shadow, sir. Thank you, man, ladies and gentlemen.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: This is Jason Gregory. Please follow him on Facebook Waking
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Up White and on Twitter, w W film we talked
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: soon Jason, Okay, stay in touch, Thank you up, appreciate you.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Next follow up calls my man. He's straight out on
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: HIO but now to my understand and he's in California
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: mostly see what's up my friend? Hey, Hey, Hey, what's
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: up my friend? How you doing? Mr? McDonald? First of all,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I want to apologize because you called me a couple
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: of times and because the interviews went long, I wasn't
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: able to get you on the call. Let me get
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: that apology out straight, because I value our relationship, Okay,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: and it's important that I say that to you because
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: of the That's how I've been all my life is
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: that I asked somebody to do and people asked me
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: to do things, and your time means something. So so
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: tell everybody what you're doing right now and so we
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: can stay in the loop. Like I told Jason earlier,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and like this show shows about about staying ready, I'm
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: gonna take that campaign that Dr Eric Thomas started the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: top of my show and we're gonna driving through the
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: whole show. Now you're staying ready. What's your stay ready?
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Playing right here? What's your narrative working right now, Moses,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: right right. Well, first let me say thank you for
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: having me on the show once again. Apology accepted. It
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: was not needing, man, I thank you, though, Um, I've
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: been really inspired. And let me let you know I too.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I try to tune it like every Monday as much
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: as I can, and I take notes. I do. I
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: take notes. When Verka was on the show and he
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: guys were talking about faith in business, I took notes. Um,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: even today, you know, Dr Thomas very Gordon, this is
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: amazing stuff. Um, and it's very inspiring. So I love it.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it right now, man, as
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: you were, I am in Los Angeles, I was in Ohio.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I was doing that, but I started to realize some things.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, my income is cap
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: my opportunities are capped. And I attended a mentoring session
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: with Missus T D Jake's and there was something that
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: he said, I feel like that has literally changed every
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: decision I've made ever since then. He says, you're not next,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: You're now. And he said that he says every time
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: you think you're next or you're the next one, he says,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: it gives you an excuse not to be great and
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: not to be ready. And you guys were just talking
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: about that staying ready right, always being hungry, and I
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: knew that that sport was that that was same thing
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: for me. So and then I'm starting to learn that
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: really there's no where, there's no sacrifice, there's no real value.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: So I had to sacrifice a lot making and making
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: this leap and jump to l A. I started read
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Jump the steep r book and I said, listening to you,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: some things just started to click in my in my
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: head and myself, I said, no, you have to do this,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: And I felt like I was treating my music career
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: as a part time dead thank you, And I said,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: it can't. It won't work that way. It can't work
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: that way. It can't, it can't. Most imna tell you why.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Because I worked at IBM and I was doing stand
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: up comedy at night. I had to quit IBM. That's
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: what you call sacrifice, That's what you just said. And
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are afraid to make that sacrifice
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: because guess what, it walks you into the unknown. See. See,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: you know when you have a regular job, you know
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: you're gonna go to the job. You offered a certain
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: time you're gonna go to launch, you might flirt with
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: somebody's the job. You might be mad at somebody with
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the job. You might show up later, you might calling
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: sick at the j all these things you can do
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: with that job. But you know, but when you meet
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: making sacrifices the unknown pop scene, do not be afraid
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: of the unknown Moses, I walked out there, man, you
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: can call it faith. I didn't have a plan. That's
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: what I'm telling people. Don't make the same mistake that
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I made. But when you're making a sacrifice, the plan
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: is that you're about to change your life. That you're
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: not next is now right. That's so true. That's so true, man.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate this relationship with you with it means
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: a great deal. Like the the the insight, the value
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: information that you provide me is priceless, man, It's very priceless.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: So I thank you, thank you for having me on
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the show. So what I have going on now in
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: l A. I've been on just about every tuesdays. I've
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: been doing what's called the Zen Lounge, which is through
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: your city. I know what's happen, Yeah yeah, uh, Teacher
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Campbell absolutely right there on the corner right there on
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the couch, just a bill board. Yes sir, yes, sir.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: So if if you can help me get the word out,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there tomorrow night. Um it's uh doors
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: open at nine. Listen you articulately promote yourself. Man, right
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: now on money making conversations, right now, all right, let's
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: get it, ladies and gentlemen. This is Moses, also known
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: as most sick hop rapper. Come see me tomorrow night.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Then lounge Lost, Ange and List and Sure Boulevard. Ten
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: dollars at the door for the Feller's ladies. You come
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: in free, Thank you for me. Come get a drink
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: and you have a good time. But come hear me out.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: I got good music, man, what shot knows? I have
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: good music. That's what I wanna do. I want to
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: put them music out there. I want to put a
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: hope into the city. I want to impact community. I
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: don't want to impact this world man, with the music
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I got to offer. And there's more to me the
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: music now speak all right, I just want to put
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: it all out here. Speak speak. Hey, Moses, you know
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: what I owe you. I owe you breakfast and dinner
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: two weeks I'll be out in a two weeks, so
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: my staff is gonna contact you so we can sit down, man,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: so we can see each other face to face. Okay,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: my brother, Man, I would y'all go check out my
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: man tomorrow night. Just following. Just understand, he's wanting, he's you,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: he's you, he's motivated. I'm just doing my job every
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Monday to inspire. Get ready, y'all stay ready, you're not
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: nexus now listen to Money Making Conversation. Moses, keep the faith, brother,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: keep the faith. We'll talk soon. Okay. Her skype is ready,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I hope. So Miss Louis, are you ready? Miss Louis,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: are you ready? Hold on about to bring you up.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I was just testing you. I'm just making sure you
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: can give me Welcome back to Money Making Conversations. Been
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: a fantastic show so far. It's only gonna get better
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: because my next kiss used to do this as a hobby,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: but she's decided one day to make this a career.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please work with the Money Making Conversation.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: The owner herb Eden Charen Lewis. How you doing, Ms Lewis,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: I'm doing well in yourselves. Fantastic and you're based in Atlanta, Georgia. Correct, yes, okay, cool.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Tell me about your business. My business is an all
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: natural handmade soap company. Um. Currently we only make handmade
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: bar soaks, so we do want to expand some more
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: herbal products. And the handmade bars are all vegan bars
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: made with plant based oils of coconut palm and shade
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: better and then they only have therapy the great essential oils,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: so you get that mind, body and soul um nourishment
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: not not miss Lewis. Okay, your small business and guess
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: what you're twenty five? Yeah, okay, I'm telling some twenty five.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I just graduate from college and then I didn't know
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: and I was working for five BM, so I really
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: was just doing the regular thing. You know. You go
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: to college, you go to world, you get mad, you
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: have kids. Now twenty five, you made a decision that, hey,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: it was something I was doing as a hobby, the knocking,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: to do it as a business. What pushed you in
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: that direction or what gave you the belief you could
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: go in that direction? Well, he's sitting right here, my husband,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: And actually the business started when two years ago, when
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I was twenty three, and um, I was doing the
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: hobby at first, and my husband already previously had his
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: own business and was very like entrepreneurial minded. So when
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: he found out, like when he saw that the hobby
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: was doing really really well that people were interested in
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the soap, he was like, you know, you need to
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: start a business. And I was looking at him because
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking, you know, it was just a hobby.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking of like starting a business. But um,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: he helped me definitely get started, and um has been
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: there along the way just helping the business grow and
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: we've just been seeing it grow. Let menage a couple
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: of questions in Miss Louis, because it's a couple of
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: things because I can see him in the in the
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: in the skype, and I'm not trying to bring him
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: on the call, but what happens there is and I
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: get this a lot. He's your mentor, I can say that, right,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: and that's important. And also he abody he can turn to,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: like you said earlier, for advice on your business. Correct.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: So so let's expound on that. Because you have a
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: built in mentor and you have a built in advisor,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: how important that is when you started your business two
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: years ago because a lot of people just jump out there.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: They don't have a plan and they don't have anybody
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: to turn to when things aren't going right. How important
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: does the role he played other Let's let's remove the
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: word husband out of the conversation. Let's just use the
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: word mentor and advisor. Hard role I'm important is that role? Um?
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: That role of course is very vital. UM. Just as
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: far as like, even with life, we always need guidance
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and different things. So UM, I always say, just even
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: with entrepreneurship, just to get out there and do it,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: like actually start doing something. But along the way, as
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: you can see to grow, and as you continue to transform,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: and you want somebody to help guide you, somebody that
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: you can go to. UM that's that has already you know,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: done that, done that business aspect or maybe even UM
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: like I talked to other soap makers as well, even
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: talking to people who've um already have had businesses as
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: soap makers, and even just UM, my husband, he's over
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: with my mentor. He's really good at marketing as well,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: so he's you know, he helps a lot with that side.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: And then I also learned a lot of things from
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: just watching him, Um, watching the things he's done with
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: his business and watching the things that he does with
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Urban Eating as well. Okay, cool, how do we get
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: How do we order your products? Um? You can order
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: the products online at www dot Urban eating dot com
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: s H E R D N E D E N
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: dot com. Okay, okay, now let's let's talk about something
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: you said earlier. Organic products. I hear that a lot
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: from people, you know, you know stores that they have
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: organic food. You know, it's no chemicals. How why why
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: is why is that such a big sale when it
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: comes to your soap product? Um, Well, we don't even actually,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: we don't even claim to be organic. We just claim
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: to be natural because a lot of um, I mean
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: really it's just a label. Natural makes people. Yea organic
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: you have to pay for that, like because it grows
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: a certain way. And we just claim to be natural, um,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: just because it's the earth to us as natural. So
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: all the products that we UM choose our earth made products,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: because that's why we just natural is our thing. Um.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Even before I started making soaps, like most people knew
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: me as a natural person. You know, I've every I've
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: done that with the natural movement and a lot of
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: people are moving towards natural products because our skin is
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: you know, it's from I mean, our bodies are composed
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: of earth made elements as well, so we have to
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: work with the earth, uh and use products from the earth,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: and these our skin and our insights. Now, when people
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: now your your your website you have, was that the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: website you gave out that you gave out earlier, was
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: that the way you can buy the product? That's the
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: website and then we have ours page. Okay, let's let's
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: let's let's start your selling some soap right now, miss Louis. Okay,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: let's start selling some soap. Okay, because I know husband
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: right next to you, he said, that's why we call
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: we we like you. We would like you, Rashawn. But
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: we're trying to sell some soap because I've been seeing
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: he go, okay, when is this brother gonna ask about
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: buying soap? So let's get out of here seat. I
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: know him, I know he know he messed with his
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: had a couple of times because he's trying to figure
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: out why you're talking to him. If you need selling soap,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: so tell me, tell me the different ways that you
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: can buy your product. Because That's what money making conversations
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: is about. It's about using your success story because I
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: wanted you on the show because you're young, and I'm
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: saying you're young and not that's not a negative because
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of people think they have to be thirty,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: forty fifty in order to start pursuing these opportunities. You
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: should start pursuing the opportunity when the dream comes to you,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: put a plan in place, put a support system around you,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: and you can be successful. Now you have Urban Eden.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Tell me the different ways that you can get your products. UM.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: You can get our products online of course through our
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: website and also through our social media and also today
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: we're UM is our last day of our five for
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: twenty five sell that were running, so if you go
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: check that out you can get five for twenty five dollars.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Also if you're in Atlanta, UM we do markets around
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: the city, so every Tuesday we're at Pont City Market
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: from four to eight and every Thursday we're at East
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Village from four to eight pm there as well.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: And then we also UM you can all always contact
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: us and we also try to do pick up for
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: meet up with you to get the soap. I like that.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: I like that. Give out okay, give out the website again,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: and give out the the social media account again. Okay.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: The website is www. You have to add the www
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: dot Urban eating dot com. And then our spacebook is
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: urban eating um, and then you can go on there
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: like our Facebook and also go to the website from there,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: and then our instagram is urban eating at Urban eating
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: as well without the apostrophe in it. Now because of that, Now,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: what's your special you have running right now? Are special
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: that we have running? Um? The last day is today's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: uh five dollars. Now, if you have to give anybody
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: some advice, that's a young entrepreneur, that's an entrepreneur period,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: what would you give them? Ms lewis Um. My favorite
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: thing to say is ain't nothing to it, but to
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: do it and also take it um one day at
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: a time, Like, be patient. It's a it's not a
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: it's not a race. It's not um something that's gonna
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: happen instantly, be patient, take your time, grow with it
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: and perfect your crass. Constantly work on yourself. Cool. I
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: really want to appreciate take the time. One thing I
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: wanted to say is that I didn't want to bring
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: your husband onto the call, but I do want to
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: interview him later, because you don't want people hear different things.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: I want to focus on urban eating. I want to
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: bring another business in and they're confused about what we're
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: talking about. But I do want to interview him because
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: he's another young entrepreneur. And then you've been you guys
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: being a couple in the fact you're doing things differently.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: That's a dynamic I want to exposed to my audience.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I want to congratulate you again. You know, keep me,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: keep me on your loop, keep me on your dial tone.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: You said, Rashan, could you promote something from it? Rashan,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: can I come on your show. I've reached out to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: you because you're special, because you have something happening that
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: everybody in America and the world need to understand. That
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: you have a dream that wasn't hobby, that wasn't hobby.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Then now you turned into a business, and it took effort,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: it took faith, and it took a plan. I would
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show. It's Louis. Thank
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you for having me. I appreciate it. Keep selling so
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: and big husband. We're gonna talk soon. Okay, appreciate well,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: be brought back and more of money to make conversations.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: If you're in the world of TV, film, documentary, digital social,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: you want to listen to my next guest because guess
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: what he has relationships with Kevin Hart and Karen Hard
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: is like a social media digital local. So if you
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: want to know some information, you want to hear some
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: advice here about this man and what he's doom. Please
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: come back from money making conversation, oh man, Nick Buzz
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: will be on the show with me straight out of
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: l A doing the ban with Sean McDonald money making conversations.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: We're joined it. I don't be inspired. Get a plan, y'all,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: get a plan. Stay right, We'll be back to more
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: moneymaking conversations my next guest. Welcome back to money making conversations.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: My next guest small businesses. You know it's about small business,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: about motivation, bout hearing different stories and different plans to success.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: My next guest has created more than seven hundred award
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: winning films, TV shows, web series and commercials from major brands,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: available all on all platforms, reaching more than eighty million devices,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: including Apple, TV, Roku, and Amazon. Please welcome to money
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: making conversations. My main Mr Nick Plus. You know the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: thing about is that when you said devices, because that's
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: why I wanted to bring you on the show, because
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: the fact that you're able to communicate with over eighty
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: million devices. We tave devices, were talked about some my phone,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: we talked about Apple TV, we talked about Real coul
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Amazon. How do you play a role
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: in all that? Nick? Well, at NBTV Studios, we're we're
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: looking at this as a direct to consumer approach where
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: you can use all of these devices and their various
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: features to create a new experience that's more interactive and
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: less subtrusive and really looking to redefine the experience of television.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have shown that over
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: the years they're more familiar with these devices, and there's
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of different features that each of them offer,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: and we're excited to bring an experience that really brings,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: you know, the TV to kind of the next level
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: advanced TV, if you will. Well, we know the TV
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: is already there, you know, like I said, I'm watching
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: on my you know, my smartphone. I used to have
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: had to have my laptop, you know, but now as
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: I'm adjusting my viewers my view and I'm cool with
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: looking at a small screen. So what is the what
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: is the limits? Are their limits? And what you're trying
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: to do when you're bringing this type of visual technology
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: to the world, Well, we think, you know, part of
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: the challenge I've seen is that, you know, there's a
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: lot of different devices, interfaces and everything has, you know,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: its own set up time. And I think you'd agree,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: even just from a consumer standpoint. You know, when you
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: when you have all Apple products, they speak well to
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: each other. When you have all Samsung products, they speak
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: well to each other. But then when you have a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: variety of products, it becomes more cumbersome to get your
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: phone to connect to your TV and your TV to
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: connect to you know, your your other O T T devices.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: And I think even the name quite frankly, you know,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: we use the term and in the industry O T
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: T over the top, but even that I don't think
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: does a great job of describing, you know, what this
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: new space really is. I mean the idea that people
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: are watching less commercials and everyone is looking for you know,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: very specific niche content as well as the big broad subject.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: The old were the top devices or the or the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: you know, essentially the the the digital version of cable
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: allows you to connect in a way that you don't
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: really get on any other platform. And what we think
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: is really the solution to this is to try to
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: standardize and to try to make it as easy for
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: the consumer as possible. The consumer experience has to be
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: number one. Now, you know, you said questions for me
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: to ask, which thank you, but one of them that
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: stood out was that was this question about to ask
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: you right now what can social video do to better
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: society in the world, explaining, well, I think, you know,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: obviously I'm a big fan of your work, and I
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: really you know, want to you know, compliment you on
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: not only the the initiatives that you've done in business
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: and entertainment and television, but also to really make the
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: world a better place. I think overall in society people,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: especially with social media and and all of the you know,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: the the kind of polarization of different topics, whether it
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: be politics or religion or or even just general pop
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: culture has really created an environ ment, uh that can
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: be very hostile. Uh. You know, there seems to be
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: you know, very far right and a very far left
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: opinion on just about anything. So I think part of
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: the the idea that social video has brought a democratization
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: of information and at the speed of light, you know,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: social video to me is also a tool that can
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: really help get things that may or may not be
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: covered by mainstream media, or things that may or may
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: not be obvious to people, out to to a greater
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: audience and to really make people aware of critical world issues,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: things that quite frankly, you know, as a society we
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: should be far more concerned about, uh than what was
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: on the last episode of the Kardashians. We need to
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: find a way to get it to people and get
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: it to people quickly. So I think it's almost creating
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: a citizens journalism approach to major major topics. And I
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: think that if we really, as a as a society
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: use social media for the impact of good as much
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: as we do to to share the latest gossip, we
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: we as a society can can actually create a better
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: environment for us and our children. Now that that's great
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: because you know, but that that's one side of the ledger.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: The other side is the entertainment, and entertainment dominates the
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: format of the platform that you involved whether he's whether
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: he's baking, or whether he's funny videos, or or whether
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: he's you know, exercise videos a thing like that. What
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: format is a dominant part of your production? What format
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: would you say? So, we're we're doing a lot in
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: very specific categories, like the world of spirits as an alcohol.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: We think that that's a very unique niche category. To start,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: we're actually launching a network on new Buzz TV all
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: about the world of craft spirits. I'm sure you've seen
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: that there's been an explosive growth and whiskey and bourbon
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: and a lot of different subjects that New Beer doesn't
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: exactly in beers and wines, and we believe that that's
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: an example of something that we can bring a real lifestyle, entertainment,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: story driven approach to. But we're also in a bling
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: commerce and that's a big part of what we're doing.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Um at n b t V is is essentially looking
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: at video as short form categories that range from spirits
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: to comedy, to science, to technology to entertainment, and really
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: looking at a way to create a connect a connection
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: to being able to buy what you see and to
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: not have interruptive advertising, to actually get away from the
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: thirty second sixty second interruptions that so many people today,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: especially in the connected consumer world, has come to skip
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: or ignore to do something else. And and part of
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: what I think makes this very unique is that we
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: work with major consumer brands as well as major celebrities,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: um and entertainment companies, and we really sit at that
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: nexus of advertising and entertainment. So we're hearing it on
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: the advertising side saying they want a more effective way,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: more entertainment driven way to connect with consumers, and we're
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: hearing it on the entertainment side saying, you know, people
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: are really, you know, kind of tired of the same old,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: same old. So I think this new front year allows
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: us to experiment and really try some new and unique
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: ways to to basically provide content to people that is
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: very targeted, high quality, and then has the ability for
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: you to connect directly with the brand. Now you've now
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: you've gotten him board with a fantastic I want to
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: call him my friend, brilliant comedian, brilliant social phenomenon, Kevin Harten.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: What is the business platform that you're creating with him
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: in the entertainment arena. Well, Kevin's a fantastic comedian, as
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, and a really great person. We've been working
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: with Kevin and a variety of capacities, mostly as it
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: relates to his branded and integrated content over the last
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: five years. And we've been working with Kevin throughout his
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: career and obviously watching him explode into a superstar. Uh
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: and and really you know somebody that that spans the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: social sphere in a way that I think very very
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: few celebrities can. And so we've been working with Kevin
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: on on some new things that he's working on, some
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: of which I can't get into. D can't yet, But
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: there's some big announcements coming from him, um in this
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: space that I think everyone will be really excited about.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: But let me ask you this now, when once the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: announcement has happened, can I bring you back on the show,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Nick too. It's we can talk about the process because
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: that's what because that's what people want to know. People
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: want to know, And I know a lot of times,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: like you said, when you're when you're planning deals, you
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: can't announce it for the deals that hit the screen
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: because that just ruins potentially everything advertisement opportunity, sponsor advertising
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: ratings opportunities and everything but the key is in your
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: world that you're creating. You're a creator, correct, Yes, yes,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: we we created. We actually have a talent management group
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: and we also distribute it. So for us, this is
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: the the the distribution platform of new Buzz TV and
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: the channels that will be launching is really the three
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: three sixty degree approach to coming up with big ideas,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: physically producing them, connecting talent to them, and distributing them
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: on on all platforms. Awesome, Well, man, Nick, I want
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: to apologize for the what we got this if you started, uh,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: because problems. I need to keep talking to you, man.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: So it's a deal. Here's a deal, man. You're gonna
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: get back on the radio again next month. Okay, next month, tomorrow,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: you know that, right, next month to mom. So so
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: with that being said, and I know some of these
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: announcements are gonna start happening next month. And uh. And
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: the great thing about it is that your brand your creator. Man.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: I've been creating all my life. Man. And the fact
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: that I like the way you talk because really you
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: you you like the fact that you can create something
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: and change people's opinions, change what they're gonna do that night,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: or change what they're gonna do that day. You keep
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: that attitude, man, and you can change the world. I
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: honestly believe Nick, I've been changing the world the last
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: twenty five years in my life, and I feel that's
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: what you're doing right now. Well, thank you, and I
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: I really you know, it's been my life submission to
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: make the world better than I than I came into it. Um,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: And I agree with you wholeheartedly. And I think we
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: need more positive energy and more and more united, you know,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: behaviors between each other. And I think we just quite frankly,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: to be nicer to each other and have more fun.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Because this is you get one shot at this life.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Let's make it. Let's make it a great one. Right Well, Nick,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: here's the deal, man, I'm gonna see you in person, Okay,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: I look forward to it. Well, thank you for having
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: me on. I wish you the best and keep up
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: the keep spreading the good word and the good vibes.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, my man. This is my man, Nick Buzzle
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: money Making Conversations. We'll be right back with more more
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: meeting Kitty baby Face Emmonds to welcome back y'all. Just
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: the last half hour of money making conversation. Thank you
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: for hanging in there. You've heard Dr Eric Thomas, the
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: hip hop Preacher, my Man, Ed Gordon. That show us
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: about motivating people. That show us about famous people, celebrities
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: telling you how they've been successful, how they are successful
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: to day, and how they will continue to be successful.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: The next guest, my next guest, I'm gonna just tell
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: you he's a musical geez. Let's just put it out
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: that he is a musical genius. He's an American singer, songwriter,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: and record producer. He's written and produced over twenty six
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: number one R and B hits throughout his career, and
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: he has over eleven Grammy Awards. Please welcome to money
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Making Conversation. Kenny, baby Face, Edmund, How are you doing,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: sir good man? How are you? I'm doing great. Last
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: time you saw me, I was running around your dressing
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: room at the Hoodie Awards telling you how great you were,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: and man, you were special, and you probably thought I
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: was crazy. Who I thought you were special? I appreciate that.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Now here's a great thing about it,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: because whenever I get a chance where I've had you
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: on the radio show, I just love to talk about
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: your career, Kenny, because of the fact that you're a
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: performer and a lot of people don't know because they
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: hear the music, but they don't connect the dots that
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: that that you wrote that song. Uh, is that important
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: to you or it is? As long as you get
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: to check it's all good. Um, you know, it's it's
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: I think it's important, but I don't. It's still not
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: something that I've run around talking about every day. But
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: you know, as long as ultimate, I think people are
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: starting to kind of put it together absolutely because you've
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: been on the you've been on the road. That's when
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: I put it together. It's it's it's it's really crazy.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: I just had Anthony Hamilton's on the on the on
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: the on the on My show, and we were talking
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: about one of his songs and I didn't know you
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: wrote that song, you know, and uh, you know, because
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: I was talking about a lyric was saying that, Uh,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: I thought that men God had it like that And
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: I said, that was an amazing lyric that that And
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: he said, man, baby Fris wrote the lyric. I go, huh,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: because when when? Because that's how because that is such
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: a natural thing that you do with your lyrics, you know,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, how do you what is the process?
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Let's Met's just slow it down. I don't want to
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: get excited because we got a lot to talk about it.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you made time to do my show because
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: of the fact that you are a genius. You are
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: a person that R and B hits, pop hits. You know,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: you cross all genres as a producer. What what what
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: makes Katy baby Face Emmon's tick? Well, you know you
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: mentioned like like with um with Anthony, like coming up
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: with that line, that line wouldn't it wouldn't exist without Anthony,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: meaning that when I hung out with him and was
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: just talking with him, is like that's how he talks. Yeah,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: So I just I just took up on people and
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: and and say what they would say. And uh, because
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: that's kind of like where you get it from. You
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: watch people and you hear you hear music and lyrics
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: all the time if you just watch and listen. Now
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: here's a great thing about it. I want to say.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Would you say that the Grammy is the is the
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: ultimate music award? Is that correct? And I say that, Uh, yeah,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's kind of like the Oscars, the Oscars
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: of music kind of like the No Question. It's like
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: the Oscars for a musician. Right, So, because you got
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: twenty six album as a producer, I only have eleven,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: mean eleven. You've got twenty six number one R and
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: B hits, twenty eleven grammars. Okay, I apologize now. To
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: get that means that there has to be a level
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: of consistency and trust. And when people come to you,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: do they come to you with any level of expectations? Um,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: they come, I think at this particular point they I
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: don't know if they come with thinking that then necessarily
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: going to get a hit per se. They come to
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: get quality, real song, um and so and and and
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: hoping that that ultimately turns into something. But I think
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: so the days of where people kind of just at
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: least coming to me, they don't. They're coming not coming
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: to me thinking they're gonna get this huge hit song.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: We come in search of a song. They're being said,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: because you were recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Fame right in June. Now, now when you was inducted
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: to that that that's like that that's that's that's that's
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: like the well he was on the thirteen using you
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: now you're into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. So those
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: are those equal? Or what means more to you? Songwriters
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: means more than the Hollywood start, no question? And why
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: is that? Because that's what I am on a songwriter.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily consider myself a star and consider myself
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: a songwriter. But you but you also a performer, and
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: that that's key too. So so when you're making that well,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: I guess what. I met you when you was performer
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: way back in the day. But now then you went
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: to become a songwriter, you know, and all that, So
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: what what what? What keeps that balance going? Because you're
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: a special guy. And I say that, and I hope
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not embarrassing you would I say that because of
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: the fact that you do incredible things with music. You
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: affect how people live their lives. Your songs come on
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: the radio and they change, they can change how I
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: feel in a given day. That's that's amazing to have
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: that quality, don't you think, No question. I mean, that's
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: that's how music has always affected me. And that's why
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: I love being a part of it. You know, I
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: love writing it. So it's it is certainly something that
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: that you feel proud of and and because of Because
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: of writing music and what I've done, it's it's put
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: me in situations, you know, with with amazing people and
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: people that I grew up you know, uh, listening to
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: and was a fan of people that I looked up to.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: You know, I've been able to be with those people
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: and you know, hang out with, you know, the likes
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: of Stevie wonder Er. I can call Stevie a friend
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: and and that's that's all because you know, it's really
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: because I listened to him and I learned how to
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: write music. You know, I learned what was important, the
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: importance of what you're doing. Now when you're on tour, now,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: that's when you you you you do a lot of
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: the songs that you've written, correct for other artists. Correct. Okay,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: That's when it becomes That's when it's just opened up
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: to me, how great you work. Let me just tell
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: your song. Let me just if you don't mind, give
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: me a couple of minutes, I'm go and we can
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: interact mong Tennis. Some of the songs that you're very
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: familiar with fans, listeners, watchers, don't be cruel, Bobby Brown,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: every little step you take, Bobby, Bobby Brown, Superwoman, Karen White.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: You know My My My by Johnny Gil End of
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: the Road, Boys, Two men, can we talk? Kevin Campbell.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: I'll make love to you boys. Two Men again, Red
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: Light Special, TLSE sitting up in my room, Brandy, you're
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: making me high. Tony Braxton XHL shoot, shoot shoot, come
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: on that song or the year? Oh my goodness man.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: And then you but then also you've worked with Eric
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: Clapton and you've worked with Madonna. Correct Yeah, how you know? Okay,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: here's the deal with my radio show, and like I'm
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: also I heart um podcast as well. This is what
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: it's gonna play back as well. Is that what I
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: was trying to say is that I don't want to say,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: because you're so talented, how do you break it down
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: to somebody trying to get in the field that you
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: have mastered? Kenny? I think ultimately what gets you there
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: our songs, Yes, sir, it's like you know, when you
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: write a good song, and when you write a great
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: song and it's a great melody and uh and and
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: the track feels good and everything feels good about it.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: People find it. So in our reality, you know, you're
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: a credit card. Is your songwriting? You know, that's what
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: gets you in the door. It's not I was writing.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: I've been writing songs on my life and so and
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: initially when I was writing songs, I wasn't writing the
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: right ones. I wasn't. I wasn't getting the attention because
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: I needed to. I needed to fix some things I needed.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: It wasn't catchy enough. It wasn't it wasn't touching people,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: and so I kept having to go back to the
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: you know, drawing board and start over again. And that's
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: and to this day, that's what I do. I'll write
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: songs and write work on them forever till I can
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: get them right. So it's, you know, whenever anybody's ever
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to figure that out. Ultimately, it comes
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: down to are you writing a great song? Are you
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: making something that everybody wants to listen to and everybody
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: wants to sing along with our group with whatever, for
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, And that's that's the key, and that
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: the key is that you also now working on a
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: new album. Correct, Yes, I am okay, what drives this
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: next album, but it most you know what thought of
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: it does anything trigger you to say, I gotta do
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: this album because I have something I want to say. Well,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm out on the road a lot, and
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: and I feel like new music is great when you
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: can have the right kind of new music. You can't
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: just cut music just for sake of I got a
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: new album. You gotta do something that you that you
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna that that people are looking for
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: and they want to feel and then they want to
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: have and they help them have a good time or
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: you know. So I think being out on the road
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: helps you figure kind of that out what your audience
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: wants from you and and and so that helps it
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: to that extent you could you could easily not try
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: to do any new music. And and a lot of
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: times people aren't necessarily ready to hear new music from
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: their their favorite artists. Um, yeah, because you pay the
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: ticket based on what you heard correctly, so so you know,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: so it's it is as much a thing today is
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: trying to write that right song that makes the difference
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: that they're open with it very healing and create create
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: new new space. Now I have to be honest with you,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to do that on a new
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: artist that hasn't had that shot yet, where people are
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: more willing to listen to because they may because they
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: haven't heard got anything from them. So so hence I
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: still write and do things for other artists to this
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: day and and and always will. And that's called multiple
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: strains of income. Correct, Yes, as long as you're doing
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: it with every with everybody else. The whole thing is
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: I always said I don't want to have all my
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: eggs in one basket. That's what love talking about. Hey, Kenny,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: I gotta go to break. Can you hang on because
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you a couple of more questions.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: By man, I'm on the phone with the legend, the
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: music genius who has multiple strings of income. We'll be
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: back with money making conversations. And I guess Kenny, baby
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: Face Adam's gonna talk about this tour his album, and
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: I got an idea, Let's go to Broadway, Babies the Broadway.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: I'm on the phone with my man. His credit sale
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: American song sing singer, songwriter, and record producer, calling the
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: incredible man, nice guy, but the hits that he created
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: over the years. Not only did he perform that, he's
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: written affect us every day when you hear Don't be
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: Cruel every little step by Bobby Brown, Superwoman by Karen White,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: or him singing It's no crime, Whip a Peel, that's
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: my song right there. I think that's what I fell
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: in love with, your baby, Whip a pill. And then my, my,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: my my, I'm talking about Johnny gil still making money
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: off that song. Into the Road Boards two Men, the
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: Bodyguard soundtrack, Come on now for the Cooler Youth. That's
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: when that that that's when you was really cool, Kenny
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: on that one. Can't we talk? Kevin Tavera, dude, the
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: do you do you get what some people say? Do
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: you ever hear about block? You said, man, but I
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: think what you told me was that you listen to
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: people and that helps you be creative. Is that just that?
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: Just that key? That's the care you just you just
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: listen to everyone, watch everyone, listen to everything, and that's
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: where you get. That's where you get the ideas, and
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: that's that's like when they say, you know when a
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: good a great actors when they listen to the other
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: person and you react naturally, not to the line of
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: what that person does, and that creates creates a great scene.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: Now when you when you put together music, when I
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: when I saw you, when I when I've seen you
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: on stage three times, and I've been fortunate enough to
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: book you one time, so I've come as a customer
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: twice to see you. And the beauty of that is
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: that I get to see an artist who's having a
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: good time. Man, and explained that experience of being on stage,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: because you look like you having a great time on stage. Man,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: talk to me about that. Well, I mean, you can't
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: help but that a good time when when when everybody
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: else is having a good time, you know that's uh,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: I mean that that's a big, big part of it is, Um,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: if you wouldn't be having a good time, the audience
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: looks like they having a good time, and you you're
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: gonna want to get off as soon as you can.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: But but I think when we go through through the songs,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: and you know, something else happens when you hit the stage,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: You've become something else from someone else. And uh, and
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: it's and the music takes over and and and the
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: the stories, the songs, the it's it's um, it takes
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: you back to a time and I watched it take
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: people back to their two special times in their lives
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: where they're in love or not in love, or whether
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: it was hurt or not hurt um and all those
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: things kind of make a difference. And so you know,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: at that particular point you're connecting let me, let me
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: as this is the music though, is we have that
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: strong digital world we live in now, today's social media
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: world we live now in now today? Has that changed
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: how you approach your music? Only it changes it in
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: the sense of you're maybe a little more aware of
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: how people talk and how people say things. People say
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: things differently, So so as you're writing not so much
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: for myself, but as I'm writing for someone that might
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: be younger than might because I'm gonna people. People ultimately
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: only go for songs that they feel that they think
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: are honest. So you can't give one song to another
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: person that that that it doesn't seem like their personality.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: It just because it doesn't feel real and and and
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: that's important to you. Correct, Yeah, well, because it's it's
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: important because if it's because you know, if people don't
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: feel like it's real and they're not gonna they're not
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: gonna like it, ask you just because it's just me talking. Okay, Kenny,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: is that when I see when I when I watched
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: when I went to your show, it was like watching
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: a collection of okay with you, the greatest hits, okay,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: your your greatest hits and other hits that you produced
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: and written over the years. Okay, I see a Broadway,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: I see Motown, I see Mama Mia. Is there any
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: talk or even cross your mind of taking your collection
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: of a maze using songs? And because they touched so
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: many emotions and they all tell stories to Broadway, There's
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: been a number of people that have kind of come
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: to me here and there, and I just haven't acted
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: on it yet because I haven't found the right the
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: hit or the right idea for um and uh. And
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: that's a lot of a lot of time that you
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: have to put into that to make that right. So
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: and if I'm going to do it, I want to
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: it's gotta be right. And it means that you have
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: to have time to put into it. Yeah. Cool, because
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: because because because it just seems like it's one of
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: the obvious pitches and I know what you're saying, don't
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: come to do something that's obvious. What what what's the plane?
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: What's the story? So it makes sense to me, If
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: it makes sense to me, and I got the time
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: to do it, and then guess what, I do it
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: because guess what, I'm a creative person and I know
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: and I understand my music history and my music legacy,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: but you want to put it out there right correct? Yes? Cool?
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Now what's coming up on these tours? Man? What we're
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: gonna see you? You're on the road a lot lately
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: at this month, the next month? What's going on? Brother? Yeah,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm out. I'm in Philly this Thursday, Philly and uh,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: I mean Brooklyn and uh Coney Island on Friday, and
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: then Columbia, Maryland on Saturday, and then I think next
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: week I got some more dates coming up. So I'm
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: kind of in and out. I always like to do
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: these like weekend warrior dates where you kind of go
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: in and out. So because I still do work in
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: the studio and I just finished doing uh Johnny Mathis
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: album and and now working on the album with myself
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: and still working with a new younger artists too, so
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: I gotta kind of kind of go in and out
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: hit hit and quit it. Now. You said, did you
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: say Johnny Matheis? I did. I'm atia something man. When
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: I come to l A. So always funny because I
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: stayed in the Commental Hotel when I come to l A.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: And I would get up, everything was always magical. Every
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: time I would get up and go work out in
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: the gym about six o'clock in the morning, Johnny Mathis
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: was always in there working out. Funny, always in there working.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: We're working there with two guys. It's always with two
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: guys in there working out. And I had a great
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: conversation with him, man. And and the fact that you're
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: telling me today you're working with it means that guess what,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: He's a machine and he has something today he has
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: to say. So when we look at somebody like Johnny Mathis,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: what when you start talking about music, because you see
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: you listen to them, what what what? What? What? What
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: are you trying to convey us? A writer for him? Well, unfortunately,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: the Johnny Mathis Project is an album that worked with
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: Claude David song where we put together uh songs of
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: the past in the past twenty years. So he's doing
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: the song, he's done, He's doing like I believe I
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: can fly. He's doing like he raised me up right,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: and he's uh so, he's he's done a collection of
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: songs about ten songs where he's singing any songs, any soundings.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: He sounds amazing, eighty three years old and still kicking
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: it and and looks great, sounds great. And that's that's
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: who and where I want to be at that age too. Well,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: look good. You know that you look good. Believe me,
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: it's an amazing man when I get to see because
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: all the people only see you as a star. That's
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: using it and you are man. You are, don't I
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: know you? You know you're You're a very humble guy.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: That's one thing I take away every time I've had
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of meeting you with you and being in
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: the room with you, is that you're very respectful for
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: the talent of the round. You. You treat your staff
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: one level. You know you don't. You don't sing about
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: anybody that's important to having the right people around your
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: like Susan, you know who's my contact for you, She's fantastic.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: It's important. Now you just want to let people know that,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: and you should let can you let people know the
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: importance of surrounding yourself with the right people. Well, I
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: think in business, you it's it's hard to be in
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: this business and and not step on Somebody's told at
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: some point, at some point you're gonna you're gonna have
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: a disagreement and things are gonna be aren't always gonna
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: go that way, But as long as you do it
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: respectfully and and you're you're honest about it and straightforward
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: about it, then then people will respect you. I pride
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: myself and being in this business as long as I've
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: been and not really have any enemies. Um, and that
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: allows you to return to places. Um, you have to
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: be careful if you if you're kind of like, you know,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: kind of stepping on everybody all along the way, then
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: then if if if and we all go through ups
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: and downs. You know, uh, nobody's at the top all
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: the time, so you know at some point that person
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: that you stepped on might be the person might help
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: you get to the next step. So um, so you
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: should always be careful of that. My man. Um, I
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: have a project I'm gonna bring to you, and I'm
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: running by Susan Susici side. Now we're gonna be done
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: with it because she's I don't I don't. I don't
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: buy pass who I talked to on a regular bation.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: But man, I want to I want to thank you
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: for taking the time. I know she's always been trying
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: to get us together and connect. We're connecting the radio.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: But I love to sit down person with you, just
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: to chop up some things, some visions I have. You
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: tell me some of your visions and see if we
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: can work together. Is that cool? Hey? Man? Thank you
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Please, uh, he's great. If you want
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: to get some of these tickets to see him on
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: two and go to take a nap, ticket master goes
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: ticket masters dot com right now, go to ticket masters
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: dot com. If you're not seen him on two, you
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: gotta see him on too. Amazing talent. You've heard a
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: wonderful man. Please nice round of the floyd from my man,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: Kenny baby Face Evans. Ye that's it, y'all. I gotta
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: talk about something special. Septem five K sickle cell Ron
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: Go to k Y and D dot com to learn more.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: Again five K sickle cell Ron. We're raising money and awareness.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: I have to sickle cell trade Junior here spaces from
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show. He has the sickle cell disease.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: We've been embracing this wonderful project by Tasha Evans, who's
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: us three. All three of us are hosting this five
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: K Sickle Sale run, run slash walk because I'm gona
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: tell you right now, I can't run, but I will walk.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: In fact, you might see me saying you all and
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: then when you come back, I'm in that same place.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: But I'm here to use my talents to be able
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: to convince you guys to come out there and support
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: an illnessness in the African American community. But somehow it's
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: been placed on the background. I don't know why. I
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: don't know. When I was growing up, they usually have
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: telethal I know for a fact, I should see Tell
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Thaws on TV when I was growing up. Somebody they've stopped.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: I guess what if We're gonna bring a wearing this
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: back again September right here in Houston, Texas. Go to
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: k y n D dot com learn more about the
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: five K Sicker Sale run hosted by Rashan McDonald. Here
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: Junior spates from the Steve Harvard Morning Show and Tasha Evans,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: thank you for listening to the show. This will be
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald blah blah. You need to check out the
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: wireless earbuds from Recon Raycon earbudy to start off half
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: the price of any other premium wireless earbuds on the market,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: and they sound just as amazing. Unlike some of your
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: other wireless options, Recon earbuds are both stylish and discreet
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: with no dangling wires or stems. And of course they
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: don't just look great, they sound great too, and they're
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: perfect for listening to all your favorite I heart radio
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: podcasts on the go. So go to buy Recon dot
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: com slash I heart to get off your order. That's
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: by Recon dot Com Slash I heart for off Recon
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: wireless earbuds. If you've been eyeing a pair, now is
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: the time to get an amazing deal one more time
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: by Recon dot Com Slash I Heart