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Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Reginald Hudlin, Laz Alonso & Jamisa McIvor · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's to show that she
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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me
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Speaker 1: My next guest is a Grammy and Billboard Award winning artists.
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Speaker 1: She is also a Southern girl, a business woman who
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Speaker 1: wears many many hats. She's the most stream gospel artist
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Speaker 1: in history and had the top selling gospel album of
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Speaker 1: in twenty and eighteen. She promotes her own tours, which
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Speaker 1: I love to hear. We got to talk about that
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Speaker 1: always being intentional and showing her platform and sharing her
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Speaker 1: platform with others. She's over one million Instagram followers and
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Speaker 1: over one hundred million streams of her performances. Please walk
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Speaker 1: up the money making conversation, Tasha called Leonard, Hey, that's
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Speaker 1: a lot of lot, that's a lot, that's a lot.
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Speaker 1: Why thank you for having me here? First of all,
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Speaker 1: it is honored for me because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: you're gonna share information to my listeners and on and
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Speaker 1: the people who view me on my Facebook page about
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Speaker 1: why it's important to be a businesswoman as well as
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Speaker 1: a talent, because a lot of people, I think the
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Speaker 1: really uh that old you know statement that you know,
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Speaker 1: we're just in here for the the art has changed.
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Speaker 1: We're in here for the business and the art. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it has, so try to change that or it
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Speaker 1: was just always there, but social media just helped to
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Speaker 1: get there faster, you know what. I I believe both.
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Speaker 1: I I believe it was always there. I've always been.
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Speaker 1: My brother used to have his own going joke when
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Speaker 1: I was I was very young, and he would saying,
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Speaker 1: you are the richest person I've ever seen with no job.
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Speaker 1: But I always found a way, even when I was younger,
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Speaker 1: you know, to to make a means for myself outside
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Speaker 1: of what my parents provided. I felt that it was
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Speaker 1: very important, um that I do something to provide for myself.
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Speaker 1: And it started at a very young age. But I
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Speaker 1: will say this um with social media back when I
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Speaker 1: released my first independent project, but a lot of people
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Speaker 1: still asked about to this day. Honestly, you know, I
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Speaker 1: did it all. I I started my own website, I
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Speaker 1: put my own record on tune Core. You know, I
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Speaker 1: did all of the groundwork and I will forever um
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Speaker 1: respect those days. I believe that I am able to
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Speaker 1: do what I do now because I did the groundwork then.
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Speaker 1: And so I put that album out on my Space
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Speaker 1: at the time, it was my Space, YouTube and iTunes,
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Speaker 1: and that album just really blew my mind. I didn't
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Speaker 1: think so many people would respond, and so honestly, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's it's dual. I am. I've always had like this
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Speaker 1: entreprepreneurs thing on me, but also social media helped me
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Speaker 1: to push and to market my brand. It's really interesting
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Speaker 1: because a lot of people used to worry blessings faith
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Speaker 1: going out on faith, but it's also about effort and
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Speaker 1: also believe it in yourself and this is your vision.
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Speaker 1: Because a lot of people can tell you you're washing
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Speaker 1: your time. And I know I've heard that a lot
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Speaker 1: of my career. And I'm sure if people have told
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Speaker 1: you you looked this way, nothing's gonna happen for you, you
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Speaker 1: you talked this way, nothing's gonna happen for you. And
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Speaker 1: why you put that on my don't nobody know you?
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Speaker 1: Don'tbody know you? And so and so. Isn't it amazing
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Speaker 1: that you you you put your music, you're notknown artists,
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Speaker 1: and hustle got it out there called on favors? And
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Speaker 1: what did happen when you start seeing the views the plays? What?
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Speaker 1: What was that? What was running through your mind when
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Speaker 1: that was happening? You know what? And I think I
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Speaker 1: have to go back to something you said, because that
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Speaker 1: is so true about having faith. Yes we have faith
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Speaker 1: with the Bible also says that faith without work is dead.
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Speaker 1: You can have faith all day, but if you don't
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Speaker 1: get up and do something, it's gonna be them. Um.
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Speaker 1: So I appreciate you for saying that. But when I
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Speaker 1: started seeing more and more people purchased the album, be
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Speaker 1: interested in the album, post about the album, it actually
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Speaker 1: gave me more courage to do more. You know, when
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Speaker 1: I started seeing people and how they were being blessed
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Speaker 1: by what they heard or you know, what they saw
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Speaker 1: from me. It gave me a love the ammunition I
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Speaker 1: needed to say, Oh, I need to get up and
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Speaker 1: do a little bit more, because I'm the kind of
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Speaker 1: person you know, when I read that scripture that says
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Speaker 1: faith with our works is dead. To me, that says
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Speaker 1: get up and do something. So the more I see
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Speaker 1: the faith working for me, the more I want to do.
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Speaker 1: That's the kind of person I am. So I you know,
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Speaker 1: they used to say this thing in church back in
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Speaker 1: the day, Um, you take one step of God to
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Speaker 1: take two. So I'm always about taking that first step
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Speaker 1: and letting him do what he does, you know, after
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Speaker 1: he sees me operating my faith. So that's just the
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Speaker 1: way I think. So my response to people being blessed
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Speaker 1: by my album at first when it was it gave
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Speaker 1: me all that I needed to keep doing more works.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's important for you to say that
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Speaker 1: because I always tell people that. First of all, you
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Speaker 1: absolutely correct when you say by doing it yourself, you
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Speaker 1: understand how far you're willing to push yourselves and also
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Speaker 1: how far you want to challenge the people who say
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Speaker 1: they want to do the same thing for you. You You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because you have that it out
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Speaker 1: the way personality. Excuse me, I do that. Don't worry
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Speaker 1: about it. That's how fairst you're gonna move. That's how
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Speaker 1: fairst you're gonna move. Okay, cool, I got this, I
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Speaker 1: got this, I got this. And that's important because it
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Speaker 1: gives you the conference to say, I know how this
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Speaker 1: is the how this is done. I know how much
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Speaker 1: effort needs to be put in it for me to
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Speaker 1: be happy. Now, if you're not gonna good effort in
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Speaker 1: to make me happy, that means that you satisfy and
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Speaker 1: you reach your satisfied, satisfying point in your life, then
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Speaker 1: guess what I'm done with. You can somebody that's coming
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Speaker 1: in the room, because that allows that that business had
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Speaker 1: of yours to come on board. And I I tell
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Speaker 1: you sometimes I always admire people like you who who
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Speaker 1: get it at such an early age, you know. And
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Speaker 1: I admit that I am talented. I will admit that
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Speaker 1: I see things uniquely, uh dough, a unique mirror or
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Speaker 1: glass or a window, and and and I'm able to
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Speaker 1: figure out things a lot faster than most people. But
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Speaker 1: I didn't understand who I was early age. I just
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Speaker 1: knew people just people just told me I was talented,
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Speaker 1: and people just told me that he stopped doing that.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna be better than that. Stop that, stop being stupid.
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Speaker 1: Stop you know you're going to be better than People
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Speaker 1: just protected me and told me just you know, it
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Speaker 1: just kept me alive. And then but your brother said, hey,
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Speaker 1: he knew you, he knew he had a passion to
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Speaker 1: be different. Absolutely, Ye who pushed you? What? Well under this?
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Speaker 1: I know it's all starts with the parents, But did
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Speaker 1: you see something where you're inspired by something? What? What
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Speaker 1: drove you? Wow? I actually came from a family of
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Speaker 1: just ambitious people. You know, they're very talented. My entire
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Speaker 1: family things that play instruments. You know, they're educators. They
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Speaker 1: believe in education and doing what you're calling to do.
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Speaker 1: So I had a family. It's good to have a
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Speaker 1: family unit of people. And then that doesn't necessarily have
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Speaker 1: to be blood. But the Rock tell people all the
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Speaker 1: time the round your piece yourself around people. Some of
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Speaker 1: them may know who you are before you know who
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Speaker 1: you are. And I always want to surround my people
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Speaker 1: myself around people who know more than me if, as
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Speaker 1: somebody told me the other day, if if you know
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Speaker 1: the most in your circle of friends and you need
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Speaker 1: to get some new friends. If you didn't do gospel music,
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Speaker 1: you you're some You're gonna be somewhere successful. You always
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Speaker 1: shut it down. This is what I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't care if that ib am real estate uh broker?
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Speaker 1: You gotta do because you you got that, you got
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Speaker 1: a sense of the work ethic, you know. And then
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Speaker 1: and then I also you understand relationships. You also understand
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Speaker 1: that I will not walk into the room and be
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Speaker 1: the smartest person by something I don't know. Yes, correct,
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Speaker 1: you have to Sometimes you gotta learn to be quiet
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Speaker 1: and listen. You know. Sometimes we just try to talk
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Speaker 1: too much and prove how smart we are. But sometimes
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Speaker 1: you need to walk in the room and be quiet
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Speaker 1: and listen. I'm they used to call me, even at
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Speaker 1: my labels. They say she's like a sponge. I will
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Speaker 1: sit down and soak everything, you know, to see how
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Speaker 1: it's gonna help me become who I'm supposed to be happy.
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Speaker 1: But he said this the other day, I'm gonna leave
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Speaker 1: this or haven't done everything I was supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: I am that's me right there with Sean McDonald. With
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Speaker 1: it all, both of them. That's gonna be all that's
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Speaker 1: gonna be written on all stones. Right there, Let's talk
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Speaker 1: about this next time. I got six sisters. When I'm
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Speaker 1: passed away, but I'm always have six sisters. Their look curvy,
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Speaker 1: they look curvy. I'm gonna just say I love the
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Speaker 1: look curving, you know, and so you got this life
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Speaker 1: for curves, you know. So so what okay, do you
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Speaker 1: know if I gotta ask you this question to develop
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Speaker 1: an athletic line, do you work out? I absolutely do.
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Speaker 1: I have a trainer, I sure do. I know people
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Speaker 1: don't believe big girl workout, but we can be healthy too.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm I'm wanting to push. I want. I've
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Speaker 1: seen so many curvy girls because I released this line,
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Speaker 1: they have the courage now to stand up and say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I work out, you know, yes, you know I do.
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Speaker 1: I eat healthy. But sometimes some of us say used
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Speaker 1: to say this back in the day, some of us
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Speaker 1: just big bone girls. But I believe you can be healthy.
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Speaker 1: You can ask my doctor right now. I have no
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Speaker 1: health issues whatsoever. I'm a curvy girl and I believe
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Speaker 1: And eat it right, you know, I'm gonna eat me
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Speaker 1: a piece of cake every now and then. But for
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Speaker 1: the most part, you gotta stay with your regiment. You
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Speaker 1: gotta make sure that you're taking care of your temple.
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Speaker 1: God gave us one body, you know, He gave us
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Speaker 1: one one life to live, and you have to make
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Speaker 1: sure you're taken care of it. And and terb athletics.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to push that. You know, the the this
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Speaker 1: honest story behind this is I was online um looking
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Speaker 1: for Ivy Park, which is Beyonce's uh. She has an
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Speaker 1: athletic line, and so every at midnight she will release
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Speaker 1: these collections and they only do like a small portion
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Speaker 1: of the plus side, and so if you get on
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Speaker 1: right at midnight, you're gonna miss it. So that time
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Speaker 1: I was missing getting the order, and so jokingly I said,
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Speaker 1: and you know, the Bible says you have whatsoever you say,
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Speaker 1: and I said, out of my mouth, I'm gonna create
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Speaker 1: my own athletic wears just like that. It was a
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Speaker 1: joke and I just threw it out there. But when
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Speaker 1: you throw things out into the atmosphere, you know, those
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Speaker 1: angels received it. And so I said it and I
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Speaker 1: could not shake it. And so about three years ago,
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Speaker 1: now this one was a little different from UM for
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Speaker 1: I Wear because I had challenges. I had hurdles with
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Speaker 1: this one because you have trademarks and you have you know,
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Speaker 1: you have to go through manufactures. It was just a
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Speaker 1: little different for me. And so three years ago I
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Speaker 1: started out with this product. And this is really good
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Speaker 1: started out and my trademarks did not go through because
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Speaker 1: the logo that I had was too similar to another one,
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Speaker 1: and so I had to start all the way over
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Speaker 1: after printing so many labels, and and so I learned
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Speaker 1: a valuable lesson from that, you know, So I was disappointed.
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Speaker 1: I sat for a little while and I still couldn't
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Speaker 1: All right, he's special. Man. How did you come across
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Speaker 1: the story and how were you able to put all
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Speaker 1: of this, all of this footage together? Man, there's so
18:27
Speaker 1: many clearances you had to do to get all this
18:29
Speaker 1: stuff clear? Do I love that you went straight to
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Speaker 1: the business side. How the movie got me? Yes, man,
18:39
Speaker 1: I'm talking about I'm talking to people. You're watching this special.
18:43
Speaker 1: It's amazing the journey this young man had through his life. Okay,
18:47
Speaker 1: coming from the South, going to Chicago in l A. Presidents,
18:53
Speaker 1: you know the fact that he Um, but then I
18:56
Speaker 1: think I did not go business though, Reginald. Go Okay, uh, okay,
19:00
Speaker 1: that needs to be cleared. Okay, that needs to be clear. Okay,
19:02
Speaker 1: how did you get permission of that? That needs to
19:04
Speaker 1: because Stan Lathan sitting up in there, you know Lyon
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Speaker 1: Richie sitting up in there. You know l A read
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Speaker 1: Baby facing up in there. You know Jimmy jamm and
19:13
Speaker 1: Terry Lewis sitting up in there. It's just a list
19:16
Speaker 1: after listen, President Barack Obama sitting up in there. President
19:20
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton sitting up in there, talking about this man.
19:22
Speaker 1: This is what this special is about. And I'm leaving
19:25
Speaker 1: out a whole lot of names because guess what you
19:27
Speaker 1: need to watch and be stunned at this man's ability
19:31
Speaker 1: to be able to communicate at every level of our society. Reginald,
19:37
Speaker 1: how did you get this story and how did you
19:38
Speaker 1: get started? Well? Crazy enough, I met him at the
19:44
Speaker 1: beginning of my career in show business. Um. I made
19:49
Speaker 1: some little short films, and when I started doing music videos,
19:56
Speaker 1: all my music business friends would talking about Clarence Andre
20:01
Speaker 1: Horrendo Russell Simmons. They talked about plans like he was Zeus,
20:05
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like he was he was
20:07
Speaker 1: model Lympus level like you know. Uh, so I knew
20:11
Speaker 1: he was important. I knew he was at the top
20:14
Speaker 1: of the food chain. But then I get a call
20:18
Speaker 1: from George Jackson mckenry, who were black producers making movies,
20:24
Speaker 1: and Jason absolutely and George was a few years ahead
20:35
Speaker 1: of me in college. So he said, oh, I know
20:37
Speaker 1: this young kid, he just graduated. He's got a little
20:40
Speaker 1: student film called House Party. He's talented. So they called
20:44
Speaker 1: me out to l A for a meeting about a
20:47
Speaker 1: movie that was supposed to start Janet Jackson. And the time,
20:52
Speaker 1: Janet Jackson had just done her first album, uh you know,
20:55
Speaker 1: a control that really had broken out, and you know,
20:59
Speaker 1: the time was hot, coming off a Purple Rain. So
21:03
Speaker 1: they were like, let's do a movie with them together.
21:05
Speaker 1: So they brought me out there and Clarence met me
21:07
Speaker 1: at the airport, which I knew was a big deal
21:11
Speaker 1: because Clarence was the man. And so then they brought
21:16
Speaker 1: me to his house, which was in the beautiful home
21:20
Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills filled with the most amazing black art.
21:23
Speaker 1: It was like a museum. Uh. And then I'm looking
21:27
Speaker 1: around and then I see an Andy Warhol painting and
21:30
Speaker 1: I'm like, WHOA, that's that's stuff. You see a museum,
21:33
Speaker 1: and it's in this man's house. And then I met him,
21:36
Speaker 1: and he was everything everyone claimed to you was. He
21:39
Speaker 1: was wrong, he was real, He cut to it at
21:43
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, you knew he was the
21:45
Speaker 1: man that just made things happen. And then over the
21:49
Speaker 1: years and all my kind of show business, you really
21:52
Speaker 1: can't do too much without hearing Clarence names evoked one
21:56
Speaker 1: way or the other. Whether it's music, business, of politics,
22:01
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, Clarence is always up in there. Uh.
22:06
Speaker 1: So I knew I wanted to tell his story because
22:10
Speaker 1: we all respected him, our whole generation of books who
22:14
Speaker 1: worked entertainment, Black folks who worked in entertainment. I don't
22:17
Speaker 1: care if you're in the music business, movie business, whatever.
22:20
Speaker 1: You respected Clarence a Van And I thought, well, I
22:24
Speaker 1: want to tell his story. Clarence did not want his
22:27
Speaker 1: story told. He was like, I'm not writing a book.
22:29
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this. I'm not doing that. So finally,
22:34
Speaker 1: his daughter Nicole that will maybe not a book, maybe
22:38
Speaker 1: let's do a documentary. And he agreed to that, and
22:41
Speaker 1: then she asked and well, who do you want to
22:43
Speaker 1: make it? And he said, well call Reggie. I like
22:46
Speaker 1: Reggie and that you know boom. Now when you get
22:51
Speaker 1: that called, that's like a papal da, that's like a Vatican.
22:55
Speaker 1: You do go, yes, sir, you get on it. And
22:59
Speaker 1: but it's also but there's also some fear in that too,
23:01
Speaker 1: when you say, because you know, you know the body
23:04
Speaker 1: of work that you how do you do the beginning,
23:06
Speaker 1: middle of the end, because this is an incredible beginning
23:08
Speaker 1: because we could have stayed on the beginning when you
23:10
Speaker 1: got started, you know, gainst the relation background, that was
23:13
Speaker 1: a whole story yourself. You know, that's a movie really,
23:16
Speaker 1: you know, that's a movie really right there. So I
23:19
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23:20
Speaker 1: this interview, and I just got to talk about the
23:23
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23:26
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23:31
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23:33
Speaker 1: the host. What do you feel that you brought to
23:36
Speaker 1: the table that now makes this show. They must see it,
23:39
Speaker 1: must attend show, must attend show. Well, well, thank you.
23:44
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we worked hard on a couple
23:47
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23:50
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23:54
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23:57
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24:00
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24:03
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24:07
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24:11
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24:18
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24:22
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24:38
Speaker 1: a little more every year. How can we top ourselves?
24:41
Speaker 1: How can we make it better? So now people are like, whoa,
24:45
Speaker 1: you know what, I may or may not win that
24:47
Speaker 1: Oscar this year, but I know my family with the
24:53
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24:56
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24:58
Speaker 1: that at me, or may or may not get that grammy,
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28:43
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28:48
Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making Conversations. My man ain't saw
28:51
Speaker 1: him in a long time last Alonzo. Hey, Hey, what
28:56
Speaker 1: I'm doing? Good my friend. First of all, Man know,
29:00
Speaker 1: I know you. I know you have your faith, I
29:03
Speaker 1: know you. Your career is tied to hard work. Just
29:07
Speaker 1: just a blessing man to see the diversity oh your resume.
29:11
Speaker 1: That's what really impresses me about your performance schedule. Man,
29:15
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that a little bit? Thank you? Man. Yeah, Man,
29:19
Speaker 1: I mean I've always wanted to, uh dibble and dabble
29:23
Speaker 1: and do you know as film as well as TV.
29:27
Speaker 1: Uh Right now, TV is at a level where, uh,
29:30
Speaker 1: it's just as good and in some cases better than film.
29:34
Speaker 1: So you can really get a lot done in both
29:36
Speaker 1: mediums where you're reaching people in their own home theaters
29:40
Speaker 1: and at the same time doing stuff, you know, in
29:42
Speaker 1: a traditional sense, which is you know TV, I mean
29:45
Speaker 1: that film and having people come out and make it
29:48
Speaker 1: an event type of situation, which is what you know,
29:50
Speaker 1: Fast and Furious and Avatar. That's event type of films
29:54
Speaker 1: where people playing around, going to those you know, the
29:56
Speaker 1: Marvel movie things like that. We know, there's justest thing
29:59
Speaker 1: that anybody because I gotta mentioned because every time I
30:01
Speaker 1: don't care what it is. But I'm going to watch
30:03
Speaker 1: the last forty minutes of Avatar. I'm gonna watch it.
30:07
Speaker 1: I gotta see you die, man, get get shot off
30:10
Speaker 1: the back of that plane. You know, it's sad after
30:14
Speaker 1: you get that big old speech to my man and
30:16
Speaker 1: everybody rallying behind him. That movie, man, was that Was
30:20
Speaker 1: that a career changer for you or just on your
30:22
Speaker 1: resume because it just became so big and he became
30:26
Speaker 1: big to the world. Yeah, man, I mean it's still
30:30
Speaker 1: the highest gross and some of all time. Uh. The
30:35
Speaker 1: Avengers Endgame just re released trying to take us down.
30:39
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're not gonna do it. Thirty
30:43
Speaker 1: seven million sharp, bro, that's a lot to make up
30:45
Speaker 1: on the movie, man, because the thing about they did
30:48
Speaker 1: well though, that ain't nothing to you know that. You know,
30:51
Speaker 1: you can't take it away from him. They did a
30:53
Speaker 1: great movie too. I enjoyed it. I want to go
30:54
Speaker 1: see it absolutely. But um, but yeah, man, I think
30:58
Speaker 1: what I think even we were surprised, be honest with
31:00
Speaker 1: you about Avatar because I remember when we were filming
31:02
Speaker 1: this multi um, James Cameron would tell us, you know, uh,
31:06
Speaker 1: don't expect to beat Titanic. Told he said, our success
31:11
Speaker 1: or failure is not whether or not we beat Titanic.
31:15
Speaker 1: He said. The difference between Nothing Titanic was was you
31:18
Speaker 1: had a young you know, good looking Leonardo DiCaprio where
31:22
Speaker 1: high school girls were going out to see it, you know,
31:24
Speaker 1: five six times a week with all their girlfriends. You know,
31:28
Speaker 1: all the little high school girls. They were like, high
31:30
Speaker 1: school girls are gonna come out to see Blue People
31:33
Speaker 1: five or six times a week. And so so our
31:37
Speaker 1: expectations weren't to be in the number one spot. We
31:41
Speaker 1: just wanted to do a great film. Man. I think
31:43
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, when you stay focused on the craft
31:46
Speaker 1: and you stay focused on doing the absolute best. Yeah,
31:49
Speaker 1: you know, for me, it was this was my opportunity
31:52
Speaker 1: to do my Star Wars. You know, I wanted to
31:57
Speaker 1: be in Star Wars when I was a kid. I
31:58
Speaker 1: grew up watching Star Awards. That was the movie that
32:01
Speaker 1: I grew up idolizing. So when I got this opportunity,
32:03
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, this is my Star Wars. And so
32:06
Speaker 1: I was already happy to be in the film. Um
32:09
Speaker 1: once as I started for the first time, you know,
32:12
Speaker 1: we screened it and it was crazy because at the time,
32:14
Speaker 1: you know, Arnold Swartznaker was governor, you know, Steven Spielberg
32:18
Speaker 1: was at the screen and I didn't expect to see
32:20
Speaker 1: all these types of people at the screening. And I
32:23
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I hope I did a good job,
32:26
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And uh, and I was.
32:30
Speaker 1: I was pleasantly surprised. Man, Like, thirty minutes into the movie,
32:34
Speaker 1: I didn't care who was in there. I was so
32:36
Speaker 1: locked in. I was like, Okay, we really made something
32:39
Speaker 1: special here. That's when I started to really really feel it.
32:42
Speaker 1: You know the thing about it, I I I look
32:44
Speaker 1: at it because I know who you are, you know,
32:47
Speaker 1: as an as an Areen actor, and I know a
32:49
Speaker 1: lot of people who don't understand about it. It It actually
32:51
Speaker 1: will work to do those type of roles. Were you
32:54
Speaker 1: morphing into character makeup and all that stuff and blue
32:57
Speaker 1: screen and green screen, all kinds of stuff to be
33:00
Speaker 1: to accomplish those casts that's a lot of work, and
33:02
Speaker 1: that that means you have to be patient, you have
33:04
Speaker 1: to be polite, you have to be aware that it
33:07
Speaker 1: might it might be one, two, three, or four or
33:09
Speaker 1: five six takes to get it right. What holds you
33:12
Speaker 1: true to your craft when people see the success of
33:14
Speaker 1: your story? And I know the journey way back in
33:17
Speaker 1: the l A back in two thousands, you know, when
33:19
Speaker 1: Steve Harry and I were doing the radio and you
33:21
Speaker 1: were just just like everybody else. Man and I guess what,
33:24
Speaker 1: we're not comfortable. But you know, back then there were
33:26
Speaker 1: no options. It was just I had a dream, right,
33:29
Speaker 1: talk about that journey, right? Um? You know want for me? Um?
33:33
Speaker 1: You know the first partiest question when you talk about
33:35
Speaker 1: the transformation, that's what I pride myself on. You know,
33:39
Speaker 1: uh I didn't want to be one of these actors
33:43
Speaker 1: that played the same exact character every single movie where
33:46
Speaker 1: it really seems like they're playing themselves. You know, if
33:48
Speaker 1: you can imitate an actor, then they didn't transform, you know,
33:53
Speaker 1: they gave you what they always give you, whereas uh
33:56
Speaker 1: I wanted to always become a completely different human being
34:00
Speaker 1: in every single role, to the point where you don't
34:02
Speaker 1: recognize him where it's an unrecognizable person from me from
34:07
Speaker 1: Yann say, well, we do this new series called The Boys.
34:11
Speaker 1: Now you play the superhero in this series? Are you play?
34:16
Speaker 1: Are you playing a superhero in this series? Ah? So,
34:20
Speaker 1: here's the thing, man, it really defines on what It
34:22
Speaker 1: really depends on what you define superher because you know,
34:28
Speaker 1: I mean our superheroes good or our superheroes bad people?
34:33
Speaker 1: You know, having superpowers all of a sudden make you
34:36
Speaker 1: a hero or does it just mean that you're just
34:39
Speaker 1: a bad person with some superpowers? You know, those are
34:42
Speaker 1: the That's where our show is different from a regular
34:45
Speaker 1: superhero show. The measure happy because this is pretty deep
34:50
Speaker 1: what you just said here last okay, because you you
34:52
Speaker 1: step back on me. Hold up, now, what what do
34:55
Speaker 1: you mean a superhero? Because because you know our black
34:59
Speaker 1: panthera you know, not nine hours I would to avenge
35:02
Speaker 1: just na na na, so so I wouldn't. And saw
35:06
Speaker 1: some of the trailers and it was talking about like
35:08
Speaker 1: this just this company called Vote right, yeah, and they
35:12
Speaker 1: have these superheroes, but they're not nice superheroes. Correct. Well,
35:18
Speaker 1: what what it talks about is is superheroes really are
35:21
Speaker 1: just people. They're just human beings that have a little
35:25
Speaker 1: different power than you have. You know, your power might
35:27
Speaker 1: be the food on the table every night for your children.
35:30
Speaker 1: You know, your power might be, you know, to donate
35:33
Speaker 1: some bone marrow to somebody that needs it. Or your
35:35
Speaker 1: power might be to donate some blood, you know, somebody
35:38
Speaker 1: who's dying and needs a blood transfusion. Or trust me,
35:40
Speaker 1: you've got more power than the superman can if your
35:43
Speaker 1: blood saved their life or their mama's life, or the childlife.
35:46
Speaker 1: You know. So it really depends on how we define
35:48
Speaker 1: hero in this particular world. And the Boys, the so
35:51
Speaker 1: called superheroes are just people that still have They have
35:55
Speaker 1: all these great superpowers where we consider superpowers, but they're
35:58
Speaker 1: still insecure, they're still they still have uh, they still jealous,
36:05
Speaker 1: suffer from jealousy and envy, they still hate on each other.
36:09
Speaker 1: And so what we do as the Boys is we
36:14
Speaker 1: decide we're gonna pull the sheet down and we're gonna
36:17
Speaker 1: expose who these so called superheroes really are. And sometimes
36:23
Speaker 1: you don't need powers to be able to do that. Okay, okay, okay,
36:27
Speaker 1: but that's a danger though, if you don't have powers,
36:30
Speaker 1: trying to mess with people with powers correct, exactly exactly.
36:34
Speaker 1: We are a team of vigilantes that are gonna defend uh,
36:40
Speaker 1: what's going on right now because we have these people
36:43
Speaker 1: with powers that are supposed to be the good guys
36:46
Speaker 1: and we discover that they are also doing some pretty
36:49
Speaker 1: bad things. Now it says the powerness against the superpowerful
36:53
Speaker 1: as the Bars embark on the heroic quest to expose
36:56
Speaker 1: the truth about the Seventh and the company they work
36:59
Speaker 1: for called vow the multibillion dollar conglomerate that manages these
37:03
Speaker 1: superheroes and cover of all their dirty secrets. So how
37:08
Speaker 1: do you get involved? How do they recruit you into this?
37:11
Speaker 1: This this, I guess a vigilante team. Well, I'm gonna
37:15
Speaker 1: tell you, man. Like, after I finished my last series
37:19
Speaker 1: for NBC called Mysteries of Mysteries of Laura, I decided, okay,
37:24
Speaker 1: from from my next phase in my career, I want
37:27
Speaker 1: to work on stuff that really really speaks to something
37:31
Speaker 1: that's happening in society, something that really, you know, addresses something.
37:36
Speaker 1: And so the first project that I worked on after
37:40
Speaker 1: that series was a film by the name of Detroit
37:43
Speaker 1: that talked about the nineties that a Detroit riot, you know,
37:46
Speaker 1: and that was That was during the time when Kaepernick
37:49
Speaker 1: was kneeling and there was a lot of police violence,
37:51
Speaker 1: you know, on a daily basis, we would get bombarred
37:53
Speaker 1: with somebody got shot, and I felt like that was
37:56
Speaker 1: the type of project that I wanted to work on
37:58
Speaker 1: at that time. Um. After that, I worked on the
38:01
Speaker 1: film with Dion Taylor, Robert Frederick Smith, the brother that
38:06
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38:10
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38:11
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38:16
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38:20
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38:23
Speaker 1: sex trafficking, which we don't talk about it in US.
38:26
Speaker 1: I mean, Atlanta is the number one city where sex
38:31
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38:36
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38:39
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38:43
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38:47
Speaker 1: And then this this show came around and when I
38:50
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38:53
Speaker 1: in the same light of the type of projects that
38:57
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38:59
Speaker 1: not explosions for the sake of explosions. But you know,
39:03
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39:08
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39:11
Speaker 1: do regular people stand up against and resist that corruption?
39:17
Speaker 1: And I think if you turn on the news every day,
39:19
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39:23
Speaker 1: I felt like this project was timely, I felt like
39:25
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39:28
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39:31
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39:34
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39:38
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39:41
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39:43
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39:47
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39:50
Speaker 1: people who are different, they get treated different. That's all
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Speaker 1: X Men is about. That's really all about super That's
39:54
Speaker 1: all this is about people. People can can can throtade
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40:01
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40:05
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40:07
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40:11
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40:13
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40:15
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40:18
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40:22
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40:25
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40:28
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40:32
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40:39
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40:42
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40:48
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40:52
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40:56
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40:59
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41:01
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41:03
Speaker 1: You know, first of all, thank you for taking the
41:05
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41:07
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41:09
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43:17
Speaker 1: Hi This ra Sean McDonald. You're listening to money making conversations.
43:20
Speaker 1: It's always great to uh have new guests on my
43:23
Speaker 1: show also like my repeat guests because it shows us
43:26
Speaker 1: about motivation, that shows about giving it everyone. Give people
43:29
Speaker 1: a clear understanding that hard work is the top choice
43:35
Speaker 1: in order to achieve your opportunity. Faith is important. I
43:39
Speaker 1: think faith there's a motivator, but hard work is tied
43:42
Speaker 1: to faith. And so and I always tell people, when
43:46
Speaker 1: you have all those two things, what is your goal?
43:48
Speaker 1: What was your plan for being successful? And so I
43:50
Speaker 1: probably bring individuals on the show who have different layers
43:53
Speaker 1: of success, so you you know that success can be
43:56
Speaker 1: achieved in two different fields through different opportunities. And when
44:01
Speaker 1: you get it, when you get that shot at success,
44:04
Speaker 1: go forward. And also you should be prepared when you
44:08
Speaker 1: get that shot at success. I always tell people that
44:11
Speaker 1: the reason a lot of lottery winners go broke to
44:15
Speaker 1: say that they're not preparing themselves for that financial success.
44:17
Speaker 1: So when they get it, then it goes out the
44:20
Speaker 1: door because they wouldn't the mentality or the having nothing
44:24
Speaker 1: countering in place. You really, if you're gonna have played
44:25
Speaker 1: a lot of real on the regular basis, you should
44:27
Speaker 1: know who your accountant is gonna be. You know who
44:29
Speaker 1: you're gonna invest in. You should act like you're going
44:31
Speaker 1: to win. You should take meetings with different stock brokers. Look,
44:35
Speaker 1: I'm playing a lottery every week. When I win money,
44:38
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come to you. How do you think I
44:40
Speaker 1: should spend my money. That means that you have a
44:43
Speaker 1: plan for success. I knew that sounds extreme, but guess what,
44:46
Speaker 1: anything that you do on a regular basis should should
44:49
Speaker 1: be prepared in an extreme format. As it is, getting up,
44:53
Speaker 1: getting up, and getting out of bed. It's pretty extreme.
44:55
Speaker 1: I would like to stay in my bed, but guess what,
44:57
Speaker 1: I gotta get up. I gotta get up, take a shot.
45:00
Speaker 1: You know, I could eat my baby. But if I
45:02
Speaker 1: keep eating my baby, I'm eventually to get up because
45:03
Speaker 1: the big gonna get dirty. So know that anything you
45:06
Speaker 1: do in life is prepared to a different level of success.
45:08
Speaker 1: My next guest, she's young, she's years old, and I
45:13
Speaker 1: mean said she's she figured it out, and so it
45:16
Speaker 1: took me a while. I was still uh. I was
45:17
Speaker 1: seeing you're out of college, trying to figure out what
45:20
Speaker 1: I wanted to do, working at IBM and telling jokes
45:22
Speaker 1: at night, so you know, I didn't know what I
45:24
Speaker 1: was doing. My next guest went from making six dollars
45:27
Speaker 1: and fifty cents an hour to own at one point
45:29
Speaker 1: seven million dollars worth of properties. Like I stated early,
45:32
Speaker 1: she's a twenty five year old and she's a mother
45:35
Speaker 1: with an amazing testimony. Please work on to money making conversation.
45:38
Speaker 1: The CEO of Rosebuds Investment dubbed the millennial millionaire Jemisa
45:44
Speaker 1: like I for thank you, thank you. Then I think
45:49
Speaker 1: I need to take you everywhere. Well guess what I
45:51
Speaker 1: would mind. You know, I wouldn't mind following you. You know,
45:55
Speaker 1: you know I would say good things about you. All
45:57
Speaker 1: I needed to do was add some applause. So where
46:02
Speaker 1: are you calling me from? So I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm
46:06
Speaker 1: originally from Philadelphia and I just moved like to upstate
46:10
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania two hours away from your Pennsylvania native. Yes, okay, cool? Good.
46:18
Speaker 1: So what exactly is Rosebud Investments rolls Bus Investments is
46:25
Speaker 1: the company that I started, but I like to say
46:28
Speaker 1: that it's more of a lifestyle. So what happened is
46:32
Speaker 1: when I was about nineteen years old, um my grandmam,
46:36
Speaker 1: which is my dad's mom, she started to ask me
46:39
Speaker 1: questions about the house that she she lived in, Like
46:41
Speaker 1: if something was to happened to me. You know, what
46:44
Speaker 1: would happen to my house? What would happening you know,
46:47
Speaker 1: all of those things that I clearly didn't have to
46:48
Speaker 1: answer to. But what we did was we put myself
46:52
Speaker 1: on her d, which is called a dollar D transfer, right,
46:56
Speaker 1: so I think it cost about a dollar and then
46:59
Speaker 1: I did from insurance stuff and the title you know,
47:02
Speaker 1: that might have been three hundred. And that was fine.
47:05
Speaker 1: So remember I'm an eighteen years old at that time,
47:07
Speaker 1: I had one child, um, and that's when I was
47:10
Speaker 1: being the best casher in or. I got to talk
47:12
Speaker 1: to you guys about that, being the best cashier. But
47:16
Speaker 1: what happened that she did a dollar D transfer with me.
47:18
Speaker 1: She put me on her d, and it was fine.
47:20
Speaker 1: It literally meant nothing to me because this was the
47:22
Speaker 1: house that she had lived in my whole entire life.
47:25
Speaker 1: So I didn't understand the dynamics of what was done,
47:29
Speaker 1: just going through the process making grandma happy. You know,
47:34
Speaker 1: she's peace of mind. You know, Okay, I'm a team
47:37
Speaker 1: making it happy. Yeah, that's it, And I'm like, okay, great, whatever.
47:41
Speaker 1: So it's like you have a house at that point.
47:42
Speaker 1: At that point, I was a homeowner. But to me,
47:46
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know the dynamic. She still lived there,
47:48
Speaker 1: so I'm still looking at it like, you know, this
47:50
Speaker 1: is grandma's house. Um, she died, like I want to
47:54
Speaker 1: say a year after that. She may have known what
47:58
Speaker 1: was going on. I will say that she wasn't the
48:00
Speaker 1: healthiest person. She was overweight, and she had breathing problems
48:04
Speaker 1: like a co op dingy which started off as asthma
48:07
Speaker 1: but gradually you know, going So she wasn't the healthiest,
48:09
Speaker 1: which may have sparked that conversation that she had with
48:12
Speaker 1: me when she did it. Um, so she died, whether
48:16
Speaker 1: it was sudden, you know, was unexpected, she died, so
48:20
Speaker 1: she stanched away, and you now have this house in
48:22
Speaker 1: your home. So then this is the thing, it's in
48:25
Speaker 1: my name. Now that's when reality actually set in for
48:29
Speaker 1: me because it's like, okay, this was my house, but
48:31
Speaker 1: now and this is like my house house you mean,
48:33
Speaker 1: like the maintenance to taxes, like all of this is mine,
48:37
Speaker 1: right because remember her living there, I didn't have to
48:39
Speaker 1: do anything. She kept everything as is really you know
48:43
Speaker 1: whoa So at that point, um, that was my first
48:47
Speaker 1: brush with reality, like my first like okay, you have
48:51
Speaker 1: to be responsible, like this is something that you're gonna
48:53
Speaker 1: have to do. And at that point, I was pregnant
48:57
Speaker 1: with my second child. There's this little girl, um and
49:01
Speaker 1: if you ever have the pleasure of meeting her, the
49:03
Speaker 1: way that she is now is exactly how she was then.
49:06
Speaker 1: Meaning she gave me a run for my money the
49:08
Speaker 1: whole time. Right. So during this part of my pregnancy,
49:13
Speaker 1: my water bag rup shurety didn't break and had me
49:16
Speaker 1: on bed rest. She was putting me through the motions,
49:18
Speaker 1: and I did not have time to really, you know,
49:22
Speaker 1: do all of the things I end up doing anyway.
49:24
Speaker 1: So the first step after she passed away was I
49:26
Speaker 1: had to go through the family feud. Money tends to
49:29
Speaker 1: bring out the best verse of all people. So you
49:33
Speaker 1: have to keep in mind that I am her grandchild,
49:35
Speaker 1: but she has like ten grandchildren. Um, she also has
49:39
Speaker 1: children who are twice my senior, my father being one
49:42
Speaker 1: of them. That I have three uncles and I and
49:44
Speaker 1: they're all like older than much Olderance and you and
49:47
Speaker 1: you got the house, she gave it to me, uh listen.
49:54
Speaker 1: So that didn't go over too well with people. Um
49:58
Speaker 1: my grandmom's requests when she gave me the house, though
50:01
Speaker 1: they were really specific. One she wanted me to be
50:03
Speaker 1: the landlord of the house that was the family house.
50:06
Speaker 1: She didn't want us to sell it because that's all
50:08
Speaker 1: we had. I remember her saying, that's all we got.
50:11
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, So she wanted me to be the landlord.
50:14
Speaker 1: I'm responsible to anybody lived there. They went to pay
50:17
Speaker 1: me rent um. She didn't want anyone arguing over it.
50:20
Speaker 1: And that was pretty much it. Well, that was a
50:23
Speaker 1: request that she remained. But we know the arguments came. Listen,
50:28
Speaker 1: and that's what I was gonna say, Like, that was
50:31
Speaker 1: almost impossible what she was asking of. I mean, she
50:34
Speaker 1: knows who were related to That's why she gave it
50:36
Speaker 1: to me. You want them to pay me grandma. They
50:38
Speaker 1: don't pay me mine? Hello, Like so she she pretty
50:41
Speaker 1: much stepped me up. So with your company, Rosebud Investments,
50:46
Speaker 1: So so do you do you have clients? How does
50:49
Speaker 1: that work? Because we have two minutes left in this interview,
50:51
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we get that out about
50:53
Speaker 1: Rosebud Investments. Yeah, listen, I have a lot of clients
50:57
Speaker 1: all over New Orleans, Miami, and man to what happens
51:01
Speaker 1: is I hold your hand through the new investor process,
51:05
Speaker 1: and it's personalized. So I'll hope you create a step
51:08
Speaker 1: by step blueprint for yourself no matter where you are.
51:11
Speaker 1: If you have credit, no cash, I'll talk to you
51:13
Speaker 1: about leveraging your credit, purchasing properties with credit cards. If
51:17
Speaker 1: you have cash, no credit, I'll talk to you about
51:18
Speaker 1: building your credit. I even give my clients fourteen thousand
51:21
Speaker 1: dollars where from unsecure credit to boost their score. If
51:24
Speaker 1: you're somebody doesn't that doesn't have eyes or I'll talk
51:27
Speaker 1: to you about purchasing that six hundred dollar property you know,
51:30
Speaker 1: helping you shallotte for a few thousands. So now you
51:32
Speaker 1: have the capital to invest in your credit and you
51:35
Speaker 1: know to be able to build. I hope you create
51:37
Speaker 1: that foundation. I have helped hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
51:42
Speaker 1: of people become homeowners without the whole mortgage thing, the
51:46
Speaker 1: tax returns, the eight hundred credit scores. Like I help
51:49
Speaker 1: people from ground level because a lot of people they
51:53
Speaker 1: have a musical screwed. They think you need credit in
51:55
Speaker 1: a million dollars and you don't need that. You just
51:58
Speaker 1: need to be educated. So that's what I do. I
52:00
Speaker 1: educate you. I hold your hand through the process. I
52:02
Speaker 1: walked through the door. You get a house. You're happy.
52:05
Speaker 1: I'm happy, and we keep it going. We keep it going.
52:10
Speaker 1: And all this started because your grandmother had a vision,
52:15
Speaker 1: had a vision that you didn't understand. You was just
52:17
Speaker 1: a cashier at one child, the child on the way
52:21
Speaker 1: was given a house due to the sadness of our
52:24
Speaker 1: passing and all heck Bros Broke loose with the family.
52:27
Speaker 1: We got fifty three seconds left. How is the family
52:30
Speaker 1: treating you now? Oh man? I mean it's diffinitely being
52:33
Speaker 1: a millionaire. I totally had to move to our life.
52:36
Speaker 1: They respected, they respected, if nothing else, I mean they respected.
52:40
Speaker 1: I created a legacy. So Rosebuds Investments is actually named
52:44
Speaker 1: after my grandmother because her name is Roseum. I created
52:47
Speaker 1: an empire. I was able to reach back and retire
52:50
Speaker 1: my great grandma. Um. I came to live. They see
52:53
Speaker 1: me doing it, and they're no choice. I mean, you
52:57
Speaker 1: know they see me. They like they like I heard
52:59
Speaker 1: your interview. I saw you on the flat on my
53:01
Speaker 1: friend called me with it. Okay, cool, Well I gotta
53:06
Speaker 1: wrap this up. I want to tell you I want
53:08
Speaker 1: to get I want to promote your brand. I want
53:09
Speaker 1: to promote who you are. She's uh from from a
53:12
Speaker 1: cashier of a six fifties, six dollars and fifties an
53:14
Speaker 1: hour to only one point seven million dollars in property.
53:18
Speaker 1: A story to be told. Thank you for coming on
53:20
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53:23
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53:26
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53:28
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53:33
Speaker 1: and the killer those insane interest rate credit cards you
53:36
Speaker 1: have to use to pay for it. Here's a really
53:38
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53:40
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53:43
Speaker 1: dot com. The rates are great right now. Imagine finally
53:46
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53:49
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53:51
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53:54
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53:57
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54:00
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54:03
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54:06
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54:09
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